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ABIM Revokes Certification of Dr Peter McCullough

Golly gee, the same organizations that went along with the declaration that ivermectin was dangerous horse dewormer may have expressed disapproval of a doctor for disagreeing with the COVID narrative? Anyone who is still falling for that sort of thing should just go kill himself. And by kill himself I mean he should go out and get another COVID booster shot.

Cucker Tarlson is often confused. You can tell by his George Bush-like monkey face during interviews.

He's not confused. It's a game he plays. He asks, "Why would he do that?" with a look of pure bewilderment when he knows damn well what the answer is.

He vetoed it and said he would call for a special session of the legislature in September to take this up again as a regulation that keeps THC products from people under 18 years of age, rather than it being an outright ban.

I agree with the effort to keep this stuff away from people under 18 years, barring REAL medical need. Really, it would be best if no one did serious pot under the age of 21, because the brain is still developing, and weed does seem to affect that development, from my observation, but I don't know how you do that without having the authoritarian drug war we have now.

However, there simply isn't a logical reason to keep this from adults. For Pete's sake, it's a plant that can be easily grown in your backyard and would be a fine substitute for alcohol. Are we a free country or not?

Okay, now I get it. You're just a low-effort troll.

lol Told ya

I have been re evaluating my tolerance for gay males in the community. The level of approval of “gay” lifestyle has reached the point where it is no longer viewed as an aberration but just part of the normal range.

Homosexuality, throughout history, was mostly an individual problem. A man had his desires for other men and he either acted upon it or he didn't. If he acted on it, he might suffer health problems because of that behavior, or other problems due to the ridiculous levels of drama and whatnot associated with that sort of lifestyle. But it remained a problem with him and others who participated.

When society was duped into accepting homosexuality as "normal", then it stopped being an individual problem and became a societal problem. People who would never have had anything to do with homosexuality were suddenly surrounded by it. It infected every aspect of society due to its inclusion as a "protected class".

The behavior is naturally repugnant to most people, so it requires a certain level of militancy by supporters to enforce its acceptance. The result is what we have now: a cancel culture that ruthlessly punishes any criticism of a very obviously unhealthy behavior, and a promotion of homosexuality to the point where the easily influenced younger generations believe it to be "cooler" than being straight. There now exist legal consequences for making any attempt to limit your exposure to homosexuality.

The gummies and vapes are probably more addictive than the pharma products.

You're an extremely low effort troll.

Alcohol has destroyed many lives, but no one gets mad at politicians for keeping it legal and taxing it.

Oh, it's worse than that. We actually tried making alcohol illegal (took a Constitutional amendment by the way, which a lot of people like to forget), and all that did was give rise to organized crime. But hey, maybe this round of micromanaging people's private business will work out.

We need a posting catetory called “People Who Think They Are Smarter Than Trump”.

We should also have a posting category called "people who think Trump is never wrong". It would contain some very interesting discussions.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced

“Please: NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts.”

The no profanity rule has slipped a bit, I've noticed, but at one time it was a little ridiculous, probably owing to some of those "old biddies". I got called out rather severely years ago for using the word "crap".

The no personal attacks rule hasn't been enforced since I've been here. If anything, it has improved somewhat, because we used to have certain boomer gangs that would call in their reinforcements if they had a disagreement with someone, and suddenly you'd have several people instead of one calling you an idiot and then virtually high-fiving each other, probably from their rascal scooters. We don't seem to have that anymore.

That said, I'll still make it a point to donate. I usually do $100 at a time.

Why are all your examples of why women shouldn’t be involved in leadership positions involve psychical strength?

Because there are always some people who are so brainwashed by the propaganda of the last 60+ years that they refuse to believe that differences between men and women exist. Examples of GENETIC physical differences are the easiest way to demonstrate that there ARE, in fact, innate differences between men and women. That's the starting point for the deprogramming.

Of course, because the programming is so strong, the next step is when the brainwashee says "Well, that's just physical differences. But there is no reason to believe they are different mentally." So then you have to bring up the concept of sexual dimorphism, which is too hard for some people, but point out that a simple demonstrable genetic mental difference between men and women is the dominance of left brain (logic) and right brain (verbal). Men have the logic one and women the verbal one. There are oodles and oodles of scientific evidence to show that women dominate in the right brain stuff, and men the left, but the easiest real life example is the amount of speaking women do versus men, and what they speak about. Anyone who has lived in the real world long enough knows that women tend to talk a LOT more, and about different subjects than men. This is across races and cultures.

So, we can show that there are, indeed, genetic mental and physical differences between men and women quite easily, and thus that it is perfectly logical to infer that there are even more genetic psychological differences that we can't as easily point to, but that manifest themselves in ways that clearly affect positive leadership abilities. But that sort of thinking would require male left brain dominance, so...

Not really. It all comes from the same place.

Sure, Jan.

Say, why is it that we don't put women in combat roles in the military? Or require them to register for the draft? For that matter, why do we have separate categories for men and women in sports? Why not dissolve the WNBA and make them try out with the NBA? Does it all come from the same place as demanding a woman be your servant in the kitchen?

Man, throughout human history, we've been such fools. Good thing we are in this utopian era of enlightenment.

We men folk need someone to cook and clean and not question us the way god intended.

Maybe, maybe not. But there is a huge difference between recognizing that men are generally better suited for community leadership, especially at a national level, and demanding that women stay in the kitchen.

This creature is the classic “poster woman” for why the Founding Fathers didn’t want women involved in government/politics....and the reason had nothing to do with “sexism”.

The term "sexism" has been warped into some vague sense of hatred for women, but really, it's just recognition that there are differences between the sexes and recognition of what those differences are. In that sense, there is nothing wrong with "sexism". In fact, "sexism" is the rational point of view, while sexual egalitarianism is completely delusional. "Sexism" is why we don't want males to compete with females in sports, or undress in their locker rooms.

The Founding Fathers recognized that some of the differences between men and women rendered women less suitable for governance. That is "sexism", but also rational.

Hell if I know

The flip-side of AI creating fiction that seems truthful, is that what is truthful is too easily dismissed as fake.

Absolutely this. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that this woman did leave things like this. The easiest way to discredit them would be to release AI-generated versions of it so that no one believes the real thing.

The libertarians who said that legalizingit will take all the profit out of illegal and make that go away, and that use was widespread and couldn't get worse? Well, it got worse.

I see the increased and more brazen use of marijuana as a general symptom of the degradation of society rather than the cause. We are seeing all aspects of society crumble, not just the marijuana culture.

For example, in the days when we had a halfway decent society still, before the mass invasion of illegals from the third world and the commie brainwashing of entire generations, weed smokers would have the sense and decency not to smoke in ways that would bother other people, in the same way that cigarette smokers wouldn't light up next to you and blow smoke in your face. In most places now where weed is legal, public smoking of weed is still illegal, but people do it anyway because they are a-holes, and the cops don't bother ticketing them for the same reason they don't drag homeless tents off the downtown sidewalks.

Also, states made weed legal and then regulated and taxed the hell out of it, leaving the door wide open for a blackmarket, so you get the downsides of legalization without the upside.

Heard a lot of callers on local radio saying they were vets and can't live without THC for their physical and mental pain.

Marijuana has proven anti-inflammatory properties, and the THC can really help with anxiety (as long as you don't do too much at once, of course). So most pain caused by inflammation, which is a whole hell of a lot, can be reduced using marijuana. And, while there are always downsides, the nice thing about marijuana is that it is not physically addictive.

For those who don't already know that the modern medical establishment is full of hacks and pharmaceutical shills, the medical establishment will gladly ridicule the use of marijuana as a pain reliever while wholeheartedly prescribing opioids like vicadin for simple pain, thereby quickly turning their patients into drug addicts.

The Army/Military did great in whipping them. Then the State Department *IDIOTS* came in and screwed everything up, taking a solid "win" and turning it into a disaster.

That's been our MO since Vietnam.

What evidence would you accept Iran is preparing to use a Nulcear bomb?

Honestly, I would accept Trump simply saying "We have irrefutable evidence that Iran has a nuclear bomb/is just moments away from having a nuclear bomb." But as far as I know, we haven't got that. We've only gotten "Iran must not have nuclear weapons!" or "I think they've been working on a nuclear bomb."