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tim wrote: Fri Jul 31, 2026 2:01 pm I hope you didn't get the shot Higgy. I was hoping to hang around here until the grid goes down in the coming World War.

Higgenbotham wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 11:48 pm

aeden wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:47 pm viewtopic.php?p=81508#p81508

This will be a little long-winded before getting to the point.

Back in 1985, I was working with an entitled little guy from the suburbs of Chicago in the cold northern winters and was telling him about how I wasn't running the furnace and just using a space heater in the bedroom at night. I wasn't doing it all winter, just for maybe 6 or 8 weeks after most people turned their furnaces on. I said something like it's kinda cold when you get up and get out into the rest of the apartment, but I get through it. He turned around from his desk and screamed at me, "I'm running my furnace; I want to be warm!" End of conversation. It was "Morning in America". I was doing the same thing about 20 years later but had a better way to do it, having picked an apartment with a sliding glass door that faced south. Got a knock on the door and it was the power company rep sent out to investigate why I was using so little gas. I took him on a tour and showed him how. He enjoyed it and, as he left, said, "More power to you!" Idea being this was so unusual they had to come out and take a look. In Austin, Texas from 2014 to 2016 the freon ran out in my car. I had a 45 minute commute during the hottest part of the day (about 5 pm here) and finally got it recharged the week I knew I'd have to take my boss somewhere. My thought had been that sweating a little bit at the end of a day in an office isn't a bad thing. Aside from a few oddballs like me, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike expect to be comfortable in America. That was illustrated at the end of my semi-fictitious story about Dale, the mobile auto mechanic who charged Ron a ridiculous sum of money to fix his AC in a suburb of Cleveland, with the note at the end of the story observing that as of 2023 it is not even possible to buy any model of car in America that does not come with air conditioning. That's the extreme we are at, at what could be the highest probability point in time that some years down the line Americans are junking their very last cars because they can't afford to fix the air conditioning or can't get the parts.

So I'm not Monday morning quarterbacking Abbott for his decision to transport the illegals in style to Martha's Vineyard or wherever he sent them or, for that matter, Trump for his promise to build a wall rather than use some other method to secure the border. It's what would be expected from any politician in present day America, as it appears to be the only politically expedient thing to do. How else could it be done in a country where everyone expects to be comfortable and, as Navigator observed in one of the write-ups on his site, "None Should Ever Die":

The contrast between the government response in the 1950’s and the response to the Covid epidemic today couldn’t be more drastic. During the Asian flu epidemic, people were told to use common sense (stay home if you are sick, cover your mouth when coughing, wash your hands), and that was about it. Today, as we all know, the government has shut down most of the economy, and quarantines are imposed for weeks if not months at a time.

The contrasting responses are due to a dramatic shift in the culture of the Health Care establishment, which, in turn, is mirroring a change in our national cultures. The change is in how we deal with death.

https://comingstorms.com/none-should-ever-die/

If Abbott had sent the illegals to the east coast in a bus without air conditioning or a boxcar and even one of them had arrived passed out or, perish the thought, dead, probably news outlets of every stripe would have descended on the scene and there would have been a national uproar. Abbott may have been labeled the next Derek Chauvin or something like that, snuffing the life out of an innocent fellow human by not providing air conditioning. Similarly, after my comment about not being vaxed for covid, I looked up the statistics. Current statistics say that 95% of the people in my age group (50-64) in America have been vaxed. I'm aware of what can happen in the small percentage of cases where people are seriously ill with covid, and it's not fun. https://www.wmur.com/article/pediatrici ... d/36373770 This was not an acceptable risk to ~95% of the people in my age group (I realize some had to take the vax to keep their jobs while some who didn't get the vax believed the whole thing was a hoax). An untested vax with unknown side effects at that. Given what was known at the time, throughout the long expanse of history, that percentage would have almost certainly been lower.

Having said all that, the manner in which Abbott is handling the border is a big jump in the needle. I didn't expect it at all. I thought he would just keep grandstanding, like all politicians do nowadays, without doing anything different or significant. Same with the bill that's been introduced in this legislative session for a gold backed digital currency issued by the State of Texas. Does Greg Abbott know or understand something that few others do? I wouldn't bet against him.

Higgenbotham wrote: Sat Jul 25, 2026 5:13 pmWhile the periphery breaks down rather slowly at first, the capital cities of the hegemon should collapse suddenly and violently.

Anthony Fauci’s personal diary reveals his thoughts on a “rambling” Trump.

This weekend: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) released diary entries by Fauci that provide intimate details about what he was thinking as he helped lead the nation’s pandemic response.

Take a look: Fauci describes internal battles over how to handle the outbreak and says he received an expletive-laden call from Trump in Nov. 2020. See all the key entries here.

Higgenbotham wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2026 9:44 pm A couple months ago, I was talking to a guy about my age who graduated from Princeton. He's told me he wasn't a great student but he knows a lot of people and loves to talk. I brought up the Covid-19 virus escaping or being released from the Wuhan Lab. I said it was obvious it was an engineered virus that escaped from the Wuhan Lab - why did the media lie about it with the bat story and say it was naturally occurring? His immediate response was, "To protect Fauci."

After years of digging, Paul may have finally found what he’s been looking for. His latest release of pandemic-related documents included portions of Fauci’s COVID diary from the earliest days of the crisis. Paul claims, “What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.”

1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.

Today I’m releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. pic.twitter.com/58LvmeYkCN

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026

In a nine-part thread on X, Paul highlighted the most relevant entries. The first, dated January 26, 2020, exposed a serious disconnect between what the director actually believed — that the virus did not originate from the wet market — and what he was leading the public to believe.

Paul wrote: “Fauci writes in his diary: ‘Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.’ That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.”

[It’s worth noting that Fauci still appears to believe the virus had “jumped from animals to humans.” He simply didn’t know how.]

Here is the relevant portion of Fauci’s January 26, 2020, entry: [Emphasis added.]

It now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. The infections spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection and that gave the virus time to establish itself in multigenerational (sustained) spread Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.

2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.”

That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes. pic.twitter.com/mz0OzcPHgg

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026

Less than a week later, on a now-infamous call with 12 prominent virologists, only two had “concluded it was natural.”

Fauci wrote: “The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”

In other words, 10 of the 12 virologists, or 83.33%, believed the virus may have been genetically engineered.

[Note: According to the National Institutes of Health, deliberate insertion “refers to the intentional, man-made addition of specific genetic material, mutations, or molecular features into a viral genome using laboratory biotechnology.” It is a direct form of genetic engineering.]

3/9 Feb. 1, 2020. The call that produced Proximal Origin. Twelve scientists.

Only 2 concluded it was natural. Per Fauci’s own notes, “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”
This was never a 50/50 room.

Even in Utah, Land of ‘Big Love,’ Families Are Getting Smaller

Forget tradwives. When it comes to plummeting fertility rates, Utah is leading the country.

Utah has long been famous for its large families. From the Osmond singers to “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” the picture has been one of young people marrying and having a lot of babies.

But Utah is now experiencing the biggest fertility rate drop in its modern history. After a peak in 2007, Utah’s rate has plummeted by more than 37 percent, the largest decline of any state in the country. Utah, which was No. 1 in the nation for fertility rates for years, is now ranked sixth.

Utah is a leading example of a demographic transformation that is sweeping the United States and other rich countries, as young women increasingly delay childbearing. As the trend deepens, the worry is that more women would forgo having children altogether, a choice that could have serious consequences for the country, economically and politically. For the first time, about half of all 30-year-old women are childless