On the turtle--Timon of Athens, Act III, sc. v, 97-107, a military man (Shakespeare's half-ahistorical "Alcibaides") just banished from Athens says this to the corrupt Senators:
Banish me!
Banish your dotage, banish usury,
That makes the Senate ugly.
And in his next line:
Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live
I’ve always believed some Americans WERE dying of Covid in the weeks and months before the first CDC “confirmed” Covid deaths in America. My analysis of mortality data from Michigan in the age cohort 75 to 84 supports this hypothesis.
Also, the spike in all-cause deaths beginning in April 2020 is eye-opening. This makes one wonder what changed after mid-March? Did the virus, all of a sudden, become more contagious and lethal or do other factors better explain the massive spike in all-cause deaths?
Check out NYC mortality for the best example of this, IMO. No spike until they started throwing covid patients into nursing homes, and the spike lasts until they stop throwing covid patients into nursing homes.
That's got to be one of the most shocking and huge un-reported/acknowledged scandals ... of all time.
It's worth noting that people were dying from Covid months before the lockdowns. My guess is that many officials at hospitals must have figured this out and have intentionally NOT investigated possible early deaths. Think of how just one "confirmed" early Covid death (from, say, December 2019) would completely blow up the entire Covid narrative.
If someone died, say, in late December 2019. It was proven that he or she did have Covid. This person would have been infected in probably early December. That blows up the official timeline. And, if this was confirmed or acknowledged, only a dunce would think the same thing didn't happen at hospitals all across the country.
Grandview Medical Center in B'ham treated Tim McCain for 28 days in early January. Doctors, nurses and administrators must know he had Covid ... and have covered this up for 3-plus years. I tried to get someone from the hospital to talk to me about Tim's case - no one would talk to me, although Tim gave them permission to discuss his case. They know how explosive "confirmation" of his case could and would be.
I wonder what else Cuomo did. And obviously with someone's approval and/or orders. "Rachel" Levine moved his mother out of a nursing home in PA (I think) before it blew up there. She has the post in DC as a reward. Same for Ketanji Brown Jackson. I saw this in one of Dr Malone's 'Stack posts. Rewards for services rendered.
Good work and I am super impressed that you are making a go of it full-time. You are very inspiring. I am still in the in-between stage. It's really hard because I am banned from social media (even range banned by back-door law enforcement- VPNs are not that useful) and my reach is very limited.
Other than not sucking, do you have any tips? (Not the fake Substack 'growth tips' but real tips).
It's extremely difficult being banned from social media, but you'd almost certainly be throttled on Twitter/FB anyway. The only real path forward (IMO) is to keep at it and naturally attracting an audience. I don't recall seeing Ko-fi links on your posts, so many add that option? (I'm sort of surprised how many people use it instead of subscribing...maybe it's the recurring subscription fee?) Also maybe you can utilize Notes a little to reach some people that you wouldn't normally?
But also to be fair, I'm a pretty hardcore minimalist due to circumstances in my past. I'm still a decent way under the 'poverty line', and if I had 'real' bills then things would be a lot more difficult. (And I still spend some time on "beer-money" type sites where you can earn a little cash on surveys or whatever - every little bit helps!)
Lastly, if you have a guest post that you want to publish here, just let me know!
Those kittens are kitty-helpers! You know - it's like when your three-year-old helps you... You can't say no, even though they'll destroy the house while they're helping you! My cousin says the lab with the sticks is typical. Excellent trick the kids played on the teacher! The Olive Garden meme was hilarious. It takes forever for enough cheese to accumulate. I feel bad for Mitch but not so bad that I couldn't laugh at the meme! A belated thank you for another Pawsitivity post, SC!!
Your cousin is right - we had a German Shepard/Labrador Retriever 50/50 mix (45 kilos/99 pounds) and he'd bring back sticks, uproot bushes and small trees, or drag spare tires and try to get me to hoist whatever it was for him to chase. Very stubborn - if the thing he tugged at gave at all, he'd keep at it. If I wouldn't throw a particular stick, he'd get another and another and another.
Made chopping firewood a tad difficult sometimes, it did.
His mate, a mix of eight different breeds, would not. When training/playing fetch, she'd invariably fetch the closest stick rather than the one you threw. She looked like an English Shepard built like rotweiler.
What a pair! My mom's dog is a terrier mix - very smart and very stubborn. He will get a favorite toy out of his basket, shake it like a maniac, and then run. You're supposed to chase him but I'm not crazy enough to catch him. He bites! He likes for us throw toys for him but he won't bring them back.
I think they said it like that because I always answered any questions (well, not personal ones obviously) as best I could, and also tended to settle teacher/stuent disputes about what was the actual facts of a matter this way:
"Ok. We can't spend the entire class ebating this. You and I, we'll both look this up as homework for next week, deal?"
Used to do it that way because I always hated as a kid how adults would just shut-down any argument with "grown-up fiat", and most students would ratherd rop the matter than get extra homework... colour me cynical, or something.
As to the event: the older colleagues just chuckled and slapped me on the back and such. The young breed looked liked the offspring of Redditors and Tumblerinas.
I took a 4 day weekend from work. I can't really afford it, but had some home projects that were getting stalled out if I relegated them to only after work or regular weekends.
It was very profitable, got a bunch of painting done, new wallpaper and trim stained to match the rest of the 'wood' in the trailer. Its still a fucking mess, but I'm feeling better. Another good push and that's one project down.
And I got a 'deck/boardwalk' made out of good pallets from work sealed and installed as well.
Labor day, indeed.
PS. thank goodness the hardware stores were open, I probably dropped a couple of hundred on trims, stain, sundries and a freaking angle grinder I needed to get a glued in screw flattened out so I could paper over it....
My thoughts on Scout. He's either a friend or relative of someone there at that home or has a need to help folks over the rainbow bridge for humans, in a past life. Just my thoughts.
Okay, you beautiful Screamers - I just donated $30 to SimCommander, via ko-fi, to help with initial Resistance Kitty button-printing expenses. If other loyal followers could also chip in a small amount - even 5 or 10 dollars- he could get this grand venture off the ground!
How fun would it be to see on the news a protest in say, Toronto, or Beijing, with thousands of people wearing a Resistance Kitty button, and you could say, “I started that!
The fur flying video drew my cat into the room to see if there was a fight that needed breaking up. She is a 16 lb Norweigan Forest Cat who everyone thinks is a Maine Coon.
On the turtle--Timon of Athens, Act III, sc. v, 97-107, a military man (Shakespeare's half-ahistorical "Alcibaides") just banished from Athens says this to the corrupt Senators:
Banish me!
Banish your dotage, banish usury,
That makes the Senate ugly.
And in his next line:
Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live
Only in bone, that none may look on you!
I would like a Point and Laugh Kitty, and/or La la la kitty. Ignoring and/or mocking them is the balance I keep for my own pawsitivity.
I happily admit I am one of the 7% who chose angry kitty😁
Angry Kitty will be appropriate at least 7% of the time!
Thanks as always for your support, SC!
I’ve always believed some Americans WERE dying of Covid in the weeks and months before the first CDC “confirmed” Covid deaths in America. My analysis of mortality data from Michigan in the age cohort 75 to 84 supports this hypothesis.
Also, the spike in all-cause deaths beginning in April 2020 is eye-opening. This makes one wonder what changed after mid-March? Did the virus, all of a sudden, become more contagious and lethal or do other factors better explain the massive spike in all-cause deaths?
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/michigan-data-is-telling-us-something?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Check out NYC mortality for the best example of this, IMO. No spike until they started throwing covid patients into nursing homes, and the spike lasts until they stop throwing covid patients into nursing homes.
We literally killed people with our response.
I believe they knew exactly what they were doing. And kept doing it. Premeditated murder.
Every day that passes it's harder and harder to come to any other conclusion. We passed 'incompetence' in May 2020.
That's got to be one of the most shocking and huge un-reported/acknowledged scandals ... of all time.
It's worth noting that people were dying from Covid months before the lockdowns. My guess is that many officials at hospitals must have figured this out and have intentionally NOT investigated possible early deaths. Think of how just one "confirmed" early Covid death (from, say, December 2019) would completely blow up the entire Covid narrative.
If someone died, say, in late December 2019. It was proven that he or she did have Covid. This person would have been infected in probably early December. That blows up the official timeline. And, if this was confirmed or acknowledged, only a dunce would think the same thing didn't happen at hospitals all across the country.
Grandview Medical Center in B'ham treated Tim McCain for 28 days in early January. Doctors, nurses and administrators must know he had Covid ... and have covered this up for 3-plus years. I tried to get someone from the hospital to talk to me about Tim's case - no one would talk to me, although Tim gave them permission to discuss his case. They know how explosive "confirmation" of his case could and would be.
I wonder what else Cuomo did. And obviously with someone's approval and/or orders. "Rachel" Levine moved his mother out of a nursing home in PA (I think) before it blew up there. She has the post in DC as a reward. Same for Ketanji Brown Jackson. I saw this in one of Dr Malone's 'Stack posts. Rewards for services rendered.
SC - Three DJ kittens and a persistent Scout, it doesn't get any better. Keep up the excellent work Mr. Mulder.
G's been out galivanting (shocker, I know), but we're gonna get a shot of him sooner or later :)
Whadda bout B!!!
Not sure, she might be hanging out with him!
Good work and I am super impressed that you are making a go of it full-time. You are very inspiring. I am still in the in-between stage. It's really hard because I am banned from social media (even range banned by back-door law enforcement- VPNs are not that useful) and my reach is very limited.
Other than not sucking, do you have any tips? (Not the fake Substack 'growth tips' but real tips).
It's extremely difficult being banned from social media, but you'd almost certainly be throttled on Twitter/FB anyway. The only real path forward (IMO) is to keep at it and naturally attracting an audience. I don't recall seeing Ko-fi links on your posts, so many add that option? (I'm sort of surprised how many people use it instead of subscribing...maybe it's the recurring subscription fee?) Also maybe you can utilize Notes a little to reach some people that you wouldn't normally?
But also to be fair, I'm a pretty hardcore minimalist due to circumstances in my past. I'm still a decent way under the 'poverty line', and if I had 'real' bills then things would be a lot more difficult. (And I still spend some time on "beer-money" type sites where you can earn a little cash on surveys or whatever - every little bit helps!)
Lastly, if you have a guest post that you want to publish here, just let me know!
Those kittens are kitty-helpers! You know - it's like when your three-year-old helps you... You can't say no, even though they'll destroy the house while they're helping you! My cousin says the lab with the sticks is typical. Excellent trick the kids played on the teacher! The Olive Garden meme was hilarious. It takes forever for enough cheese to accumulate. I feel bad for Mitch but not so bad that I couldn't laugh at the meme! A belated thank you for another Pawsitivity post, SC!!
Your cousin is right - we had a German Shepard/Labrador Retriever 50/50 mix (45 kilos/99 pounds) and he'd bring back sticks, uproot bushes and small trees, or drag spare tires and try to get me to hoist whatever it was for him to chase. Very stubborn - if the thing he tugged at gave at all, he'd keep at it. If I wouldn't throw a particular stick, he'd get another and another and another.
Made chopping firewood a tad difficult sometimes, it did.
His mate, a mix of eight different breeds, would not. When training/playing fetch, she'd invariably fetch the closest stick rather than the one you threw. She looked like an English Shepard built like rotweiler.
What a pair! My mom's dog is a terrier mix - very smart and very stubborn. He will get a favorite toy out of his basket, shake it like a maniac, and then run. You're supposed to chase him but I'm not crazy enough to catch him. He bites! He likes for us throw toys for him but he won't bring them back.
Goldarn students! I can relate to that poor teacher...
My last class when they heard I was quitting, burst into the teacher's lounge to complain:
"Nooo! You can't quit! You're the only one who knows anything!"
That went down like surströmming among my soon-to-be-ex-colleagues.
I can just imagine a room full of teachers hearing that......
I think they said it like that because I always answered any questions (well, not personal ones obviously) as best I could, and also tended to settle teacher/stuent disputes about what was the actual facts of a matter this way:
"Ok. We can't spend the entire class ebating this. You and I, we'll both look this up as homework for next week, deal?"
Used to do it that way because I always hated as a kid how adults would just shut-down any argument with "grown-up fiat", and most students would ratherd rop the matter than get extra homework... colour me cynical, or something.
As to the event: the older colleagues just chuckled and slapped me on the back and such. The young breed looked liked the offspring of Redditors and Tumblerinas.
I’m going to hell-laughed SO hard at the MM meme. On the floor laughing- tears!🤣😂
At least I'll have company......... ;)
I took a 4 day weekend from work. I can't really afford it, but had some home projects that were getting stalled out if I relegated them to only after work or regular weekends.
It was very profitable, got a bunch of painting done, new wallpaper and trim stained to match the rest of the 'wood' in the trailer. Its still a fucking mess, but I'm feeling better. Another good push and that's one project down.
And I got a 'deck/boardwalk' made out of good pallets from work sealed and installed as well.
Labor day, indeed.
PS. thank goodness the hardware stores were open, I probably dropped a couple of hundred on trims, stain, sundries and a freaking angle grinder I needed to get a glued in screw flattened out so I could paper over it....
I'll give you my address if you want to have another productive weekend putting a house together. haha
My thoughts on Scout. He's either a friend or relative of someone there at that home or has a need to help folks over the rainbow bridge for humans, in a past life. Just my thoughts.
I wonder if his person died there.
Okay, you beautiful Screamers - I just donated $30 to SimCommander, via ko-fi, to help with initial Resistance Kitty button-printing expenses. If other loyal followers could also chip in a small amount - even 5 or 10 dollars- he could get this grand venture off the ground!
How fun would it be to see on the news a protest in say, Toronto, or Beijing, with thousands of people wearing a Resistance Kitty button, and you could say, “I started that!
Hit the Ko-fi button to donate!
Done!
Great one, Sim! Scout is one giant, furry blessing at that residence home. Kittens too cute and I’ve seen “fur fly” many times! 🐾🐾
I think you should give us a weekly update on G and Bonnie on Mondays, too!
I'll see if I can get a couple pictures :)
Yay!
Love those kitty d.j’s!
A whole new spinning to "spinning tunes".
The fur flying video drew my cat into the room to see if there was a fight that needed breaking up. She is a 16 lb Norweigan Forest Cat who everyone thinks is a Maine Coon.
Sounds like she would get the refereeing job done.
We have a Norwegian also, not quite as big as yours though! Our guy is only 14 lbs. Man, talk about a coat!
Does he also have an epic tail? 😀
He does!