What government tells you what you must do to yourself even against your will and how you will raise your children?

Communist China!

Welcome to the new world where the collective is controlled by the few. Gene Roddenberry gave you some insight into the eventual extreme of that in the future—the Borg.

However if we are going to go down this path where is the mandatory exercise regimens and restricted opportunities until you get your weight and diabetes under control? After all these are things that kill you when you get COVID if you bother to read the CDC data on comorbidity issues. Not to mention these are indicators in a number of other fatality causes such as heart disease and CSV etc.

What I saw yesterday is an administration that is so incompetent they would sell everyone out to stay in office. This is the modern Democrat party or should we say the modern Communist Democrat party.

I am amazed that some of my Democrat friends are so buried in their own victimhood or trying to be woke for other’s invented victimhood that they cannot see where this is going. 

This is a good read and an eye opener if you were not already aware. Maybe print it and hand it to the next liberal who lectures you about structural racism so they can understand they and their Democrat party are the problem.

Exactly what I have been saying about the racism in the public education establishment in Oklahoma. 74% of those children in Tulsa or Oklahoma City public schools that have received a F rating two years in a row are minority children. Where is the outrage at this failure to address the concept of equal opportunity. Former Governor Frank Keating led a charge last session to let the party of Lincoln put an end to one of the last bastions of structural racism by allowing those children from low income families trapped in those schools to use their state funding to attend a private school of their parent(s) choosing. Rural Republican legislators and Democrat House leadership killed it. If you are a rural voter inform your representative you will not stand for this racism and that you will support them when the racist Oklahoma Educators Association (the Oklahoma’s teachers union) attack them. 

Dr. Jason McElyea a licensed Oklahoma physician invented a story to bad mouth both rural Oklahoman’s and a preventative and treatment for COVID.

Why isn’t this guy’s license to practice medicine being restricted while his mental health to practice is being investigated after he invented facts about medical treatments for individuals that received national coverage?

This demented man may have damaged the ability of some to obtain what has proven to be an effective preventative AND, if given early, has been reasonably effective against the COVID virus as testified to by actual doctors treating actual COVID patients. These sort of false stories sow distrust of a product with the public and some uninformed practitioners who may not have seen the retraction.

Yet the NBC affiliate in OKC KFOR has not taken this nut job’s fabrication off its website. 

A must read and data for a REAL discussion when someone in your circle has been drinking at the liberal fountain of climate misinformation.  

This article does not note that in the last year when travel, some industrial input and many other ‘normal’ CO2 creating activity according to the weather experts in Hollywood, and the MSM have been minimized NO change in the CO2 has occurred.  

Maybe—and I know this is hard for liberals to digest— man made issues are really minimal and we are just going through the sort of NATURAL climate changes that have been going on for billions of years.

The current CDC data on fatalities by age group which includes the new delta variant.

“COVID-19 cases among children have increased exponentially since the pandemic’s recent low-point in the early summer, with case rates going up more than tenfold for the 5-11 year and 12-15 year age brackets since early June. However, the death rate among pediatric cases remains below 0.01 per 100,000 people, compared to 0.19 for ages 50-64, 0.31 for ages 65-74, and 0.89 for age 75 and above, according to the CDC.”

It needs noted that even with the more contagious delta variant the comorbidity issue remains as the largest indicator of outcomes. Exercise, diet to control obesity and diabetes and practice good hygiene appears to be as important as vaccines to preventing death from COVID or its most recent variant.

When will we hear all these supposed medical experts start insisting we all need to be on a regular exercise routine and within a reasonable range of our BMI? Maybe we should limit the activities like travel and being out in public to “flatten the curve” for those with any of the high risk comorbidity issues?

Of course I would never advocate that but maybe those in the vax and mask mob—many of which are not in compliance on exercise or within two stone throws of their BMI—should consider the slippery slope their blind endorsement of government control of personal health decisions is on. 

A question for the legal minds on here.

The government has absolved big Pharma from any liability from the short term effects of the vaccine including the deaths and other issues that have occurred in a small amount of cases and any long term effects should they emerge on a larger scale.

However, are employers who require the vaccination to keep your job similarly protected?

CDC data confirms that no one knows what stops, prevents or causes the outbreaks with enough certainty to force anything on anyone currently.

For instance Logan County—my home county of over 50,000 population—did not mask mandate and has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the state yet has a lower or nearly the same daily infection rate as most of the high rate of vaccination counties including those that were full mask mandates! This includes counties that butt up against Logan like Oklahoma County. Our death rate has been well below the per capita national rate too.

Outcome data is usually THE DATA for drawing conclusions. Lab studies may not cover all the exogenous variables which is why market surveillance, which occurs AFTER FDA approval, is the last step in the FDA process. MANY drugs and food additives have been withdrawn after approval when market surveillance revealed long term problems.

So far there is NO CONCLUSIVE science on masks or the vaccine or the combination of the two as a panacea so anyone telling you to “follow the science” is uniformed. 

This is pretty large sample size. Remind me again why we are forcing children with out comorbidity issues to get vaccinated when their rate of side effects has been so high and their risk of death so low.  

“The observational study of more than 700,000 Israelis, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed, compared three groups: those who hadn’t been infected and received two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, those who had been infected and were completely unvaccinated and individuals who were previously infected and received one dose of the vaccine. The researchers found that uninfected vaccine recipients were 13 times more likely to experience a breakthrough infection than those who were previously infected.”

“It’s a textbook example of how natural immunity is really better than vaccination,” Charlotte Thålin, a physician and immunology researcher at Danderyd Hospital and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, told Science Magazine.“  

Ok vaccine mandate Nazis lets see your reaction to FACTS that are not anecdotal nor of a small sample size. I would note that Cleveland Clinic’s study supported natural immunity yet Fauci the Fraud ignored it as he presses for mandated vaccinations of everyone.  

When someone says follow the science ask them to produce their "science”.

The failure to properly structure the pull out has so many repercussions and this is just one more. The selling out of allies will harm the US for decades. Who would work with or trust the US after this debacle? Biden/Harris own this but they seem to be oblivious to even the fact it is a complete and total disaster. If anyone still supports this administration after the video of Biden checking his watch while caskets of those Marines killed in the airport bombing were being unloaded at Dulles I have to wonder about what you value in a leader. 

I have not commented on the market in awhile but there are reasons to be uneasy. Earnings reports and consumer spending data seems to be driving the market yet the big money seems to not be participating. Market volume and breadth is low which leads me to ‘wonder’ if the new avenues to invest like Robinhood have brought more individual investors into the market.

Individual investors tend to be less sophisticated but in the internet age I would argue there are many working with a million or two that are not only data knowledgeable but have developed fairly sophisticated approaches to their trades. However, I suspect that they are reading the earnings reports differently than the investment managers. To me pent up demand by consumers who have been living in near martyrdom is driving those positive fiscal data sets and will not be an on going support for earnings.

All that being said, history says that a large correction is somewhere in the near future. Excluding the Great Depression average days between 5% drops is only 179 days yet we are double that currently. Conversely, the market has not had a large upside move in quite awhile too. Certainly the pandemic economy is a variable that has not been in existence before but at some point that becomes either a norm that we live with or it finally is beaten. Either way that should imply a return to fundamentals.

The lagging unemployment numbers, inflation and this administration’s international and domestic economic policies give me some pause as an individual investor. Over that last two months every time I hit a 52 week high I liquidated that stock or fund. As of today 70% of my stock funds currently in money market accounts waiting. I was fortunate enough to have sold at levels where I have only lost a little gain with about 1% in a few cases and almost none in others. If you look at the last two months the movement has been around a rather flat plane for the market at large.

It is not about fleeing out of fear but shopping for those easy—and relatively risk free— corpus builders. For example a million dollar investment account held in a total market or S&P 500 fund that sells and holds in cash makes a quick $50,000 by buying back into the market with a 5% drop when the market returns to its previous level. As close to a certainty as you will get in playing the stock market. IMO it is not a matter of if it drops but when and historically the longer between 'market adjustments’ the greater the drop.

My FB friends can take my comments for what you paid for them. But as the boomer generation leaves their earning years and are left to live on their retirement the investment accounts are so important to our standard of living. You can’t have enough information to work with so add my $.02 to your data base