John Drake

Elon Musk has centered his operations in Texas, not Silicon Valley.

Because the FDA and drug companies are always right and have your best interest at heart. From the list of withdrawn drugs. And don't tell me "withdrawn" somehow means the drug companies and FDA were doing their job. There are plenty of poison drugs on the list that Rezulin is on. ======== "Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert submitted the diabetes drug Rezulin for FDA review on July 31, 1996. The medical officer assigned to the review, Dr. John L. Gueriguian, cited Rezulin's potential to harm the liver and the heart, and he questioned its viability in lowering blood sugar for patients with adult-onset diabetes, recommending against the drug's approval. After complaints from the drugmaker, Gueriguian was removed on November 4, 1996, and his review was purged by the FDA.[8][9] Gueriguian and the company had a single meeting at which Gueriguian used "intemperate" language; the company said its objections were based on inappropriate remarks made by Gueriguian.[10] Parke-Davis said at the advisory committee that the risk of liver toxicity was comparable to placebo and that additional data of other studies confirmed this.[11] According to Peter Gøtzsche, when the company provided these additional data one week after approval, they showed a substantially greater risk for liver toxicity.[12] The FDA approved the drug on January 29, 1997, and it appeared in pharmacies in late March. At the time, Dr. Solomon Sobel, a director at the FDA overseeing diabetes drugs, said in a New York Times interview that adverse effects of troglitazone appeared to be rare and relatively mild.[13]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troglitazone

The Guardian seems to pop up in my X-feed all the time. I never stop and look at it, however. It's entirely canned agitprop. Look, Fidel used to send me Granma back in the 60s, and it had more editorial freedom than the Guardian.

Things must change. That is what I want to see, and it appears to be that agents of change are being put in place. The country is in a mess, both domestically and internationally. The USA needs to get in shape, figuratively and literally. It will start with getting rid of the entrenched interests in food and pharma. Entire departments need to go. Americans are eating poison food and taking unsafe drugs.

Appointing Tulsi was good. But making RFKjr head of HHS is even better. I am happy.

The plans are already on the books. Sure, here you go.

Isn't the British government putting the squeeze on pensioners living in Britain by removing their heating subsidy? If they're willing to screw over the people living in the UK, imagine what they'll do to those living overseas.

Don't those solar panels contain metal contaminants? What happens if there are accidents and these panels get flushed to the bottom of the dams?

There are only so many big productions that Thailand can handle. Grand Elephant and Living Films are the big two production service companies. They're usually fully booked, especially during this time of year, when rainy season has ended. There are some second tier companies such as Greenlight that is pretty close to the other two, but it is usually booked up solid as well. After that, it's mainly boutique companies and small scale service providers. Kantana mainly does postpro these days, I think. JKN was supposed to build a lot of studios, but I don't know what its economic state is today after the Miss Universe fiasco. In other words, I don't see where there is room for any big expansion of Hollywood level productions.

The most fundamental way that the US rewards its friends and allies is with access to its markets. If you're going to align with China and BRICS and join in dedollarization, then you're not going to get easy access to US markets.

I went over to National Review to see how they were handling the Gaetz nomination. As expected, the last redoubt of Bushism is throwing hissy fits. I don't know much about Gaetz, but if NR hates, well, then . . . .

That's right Thailand, you're not going to be able to skirt US trade sanctions through Thai In Name Only companies that are essentially Chinese.

I don't disparage the lives of garbagemen. Their lives are just as valuable as yours and mine. There are already far too many "experts" out there who think by virtue of who they know, where they studied, and who their family is that it gives them a right to dispose of the lives and careers of people of every social status below theirs.

It's all the "qualified" people who get the head nodding that have put us in the mess we're in. Do not want more of the same.

Could not possibly be worse than: Rumsfeld Gates Panetta and especially Austin, who disappeared into a hospital without telling anyone, allowed a Chinese surveillance balloon to leisurely float across the entire country, and engineered a crisis in recruitment

A big chunk of DEI funding and infrastructure will disappear if Trump indeed does start taxing universities' endowments.

Nick Fuentes hates Trump. Fuentes spent the entire campaign calling Trump a traitor.

I thought that expires this year. I hope so. I'm all for taxing billionaires, too.

Just saw that Trump is going to tax private universities' endowments. Seems just. Everybody must pay their fair share. 555

The three most bloated and corrupt departments are defense, education, and justice. There shouldn't just be job cuts but salary rollbacks. These people are overpaid. I'd also like to see a public comment board, like Vivek and Elon are describing for gvt. waste, devoted to embassies and consuls, where we expats could get a say on the (lack of) services we get. Would be nice to see these people stop sitting under palm trees and taking lunch for four hours need to give us in person service for passports and everything else.

Describes Hamas and Hezbollah exactly, doesn't it?

I knew this as soon as I read the headline.

If it was about Israeli football hooligans, why are the muslims still rioting and attacking people a week later? https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/europe/amsterdam-riot-police-soccer-violence-intl/index.html And more to the point, why people now getting terror warnings in Thailand because of a soccer game half way across the world?

So our SSA cola is going up.

Fire everybody! Except those at SSA. Start with Education, then Justice and Treasury. Clean out Defense, too.