Anti-Vax Nonsense

There have always been anti-vaccine nutjobs but things really took off with a doctor in the UK named Andrew Wakefield. He argued that while the individual measles, mumps and rubella vaccines were fine, the combined MMR caused Autism. By pure coincidence he was looking to market his own measles vaccine so no red flags there.

Hbomberguy lays things out in the video. Fair warning, he can be over the top but he does explain why the original study was flawed and why the Lancet had to retract it.

On Fluoride or what's a mouthful of Cavities among friends

Looks like Utah has banned Fluoride in its drinking water.

Rebecca Watson is a science blogger who does a good job of looking at scientific studies and putting them in terms a layman can understand. So here she is on fluoride.

These guys are such assholes

Quite a number of beneficiaries rely on their checks to live month to month so they are probably not going to be happy to wait until the next month espcially if it impacts everyone. Medicare will also be affected if SSA temporarily goes dark:

• You sign up for Medicare through SSA so beneficiaries may not have the health coverage they need.
• Medicare premiums can be withheld from the SSA benefit payments and no paid premium = no coverage

Looking for ways to cut costs and eliminate waste and abuse is a good thing. However, the administration is going in and playing slash and burn. These are complex systems and time should be spent getting to understand the business rules and how they interconnect with other systems and outside partners. Not to mention having people who actually know the languages some of the older systems use (cough COBOL)

Bonus Moment of Dumbassitude

Bonehead move for today - Doing a word search on a document repository to eliminate the dreaded "DEI"

Someone really doesn't want to acknowledge the acommplishments of women and people of color. Or history even if it isn't a positive moment in US military history

Pete Hegseth Banned Images of ‘Enola Gay’ Plane in DEI Crackdown

One such case, the Associated Press reported, is a photograph of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945.

Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark - Enola Gay

And now some tunes

Thomas Benjamin Wild, Esq - No More Fucks to give

Frank Turner -  Thatcher Fucked the Kids

Jess Silk - Stranger on the Tube

The Men They Couldn't Hang - Ghosts of Cable Street

Almost 9 years

 Why did I stop?  Let's face it, my life isn't that interesting. Why am I starting again?  I pissed at the direction this country is going.  I'm pissed that a bunch of nothings have taken over  government agencies that they know nothing about, don't understand  and are completely incompetent.  How many agencies have had to scramble to rehire staff because the BOIs and MWMs don't know the mission.

By the way BOI = Band of Incels and MWM = Medicore White Men.   It used to be Loser White Men but I realized they aren't complete loser but definitely not as wonderful as the think they are.  I mean really - who in IT wouldn''t bother to secure a server if they had any basic common sense.

So I occasionally go off and rant but will more likely post cat pictues and links to music I like.

Beginning with the curent crop - Mairi, Loki, and Huckleberry

 

The Gnawing

The little bugger is getting big and it seems annoying Huckleberry is his favorite activity.