In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

I had a real adventure trying to find a picture to illustrate this post. After a week of Mars rover specials on TV, plus the usual History Channel fare, I was beginning to realize the world is still run by upper-class white ladies who all look the same, because no matter how many transsexuals, blacks, Latins, Asians, or whatever else they have on the show to explain things, there's always -- always -- an upper-class white lady to endorse whatever is said, although the lizard people have given everyone else an approved script as well. So, knowing what I was looking for, I started doing google image searches for "upper class wasp woman look", and sure enough, I got mostly picures of insects, with a few 19th century sketches of period fashion as well. I tried variations. "Understated elite look" brought, remarkably, ladies in bikinis. "Upper class look" brought ladies in big hair. Finally, as a last ditch effort, I hit on it: "Sally Quinn"....

I keep thinking back on the Mars mission special I watched a week ago. A space probe professor type made a remark that, to the great disappointment of all the space probe professors, Mars looked like the Sonoran desert or something. Well, not actually. the 1953 Disney film The Living Desert simply contradicts that characterization. The Sonoran desert doesn't look much like Mars at all. What appears to be the conventional wisdom promoted in the current media discussion of life on Mars is that, given liquid water and t amount of time, life will appear in some microbial form and evolve from there. The quantity given for t is at most a billion years, because that's the time span Mars is supposed to have had liquid water. Where they got that isn't explained, but let's grant it. I went to Wikipedia's timeline of life on Earth. I recognize that all these estimates, a billion years for water on Mars, 4.4 billion years ago for the first liquid water on Earth and so f...

According to Fox News, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday that it's "very likely" that family members who have been vaccinated against coronavirus can safely hug each other. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director explained that what vaccinated individuals can safely do with family members and in a public setting differ greatly. If an individual is vaccinated and with another person who is vaccinated, the things they can do are "much, much more liberal in the sense of pulling back on stringent public health measures," Fauci said during an interview on MSBNC with host Andrea Mitchell. But wait a moment. Last August he said people could hook up on Tinder, and that was even before the jab: "[I]t's what's called relative risk," Fauci said. "If you're willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if yo...

The other day I was browsing the web for news of the lunar rover's landing. What I noticed was that the TV broadcasters were all reading from the same script, apparently approved by the Bilderbergs, but even more jarring was they were all wearing the same rictus that North Korean broadcasters affect to celebrate Dear Leader's birthday. This was a major, major event. The reason for this latest multibillion-dollar excursion, as indeed the expressed reason on the TV specials for all the previous ones, is to find evidence of life on Mars. And this has been a national effort not too far in scope from the Manhattan Project. Somehow our way of life, or democracy, or civilization or something, hangs in the balance. Wha? To me, as I would guess to vast numbers of other people, whether the rover landed on Mars was about as critical as whether Tom Brady won the Super Bowl. So I thought back to the TV special I saw last weekend about the mission. I won't cite which one, I think they ...

The photo above appears regularly as a Facebook ad. What's begun to occur to me is that there's been no change in the COVID narrative. There's simply no information on how to sign up for a shot, where you cqn go, what the lines are like, or whatever -- in fact, Mayor Garcetti closed many sites last week for lack of vaccine, but there's no info on whether they've reopened or what this week's supply is like. I went to Kaiser yesterday for a shingles shot, which was hard ebough to go through, what with an entitled medicql staff taking its time to do any tasks at all. But the tech asked me if I had any intention of getting a COVID shot. I said of course, but we can't get them from Kaiser. In fact, my wife fianlly got an appointment next month at Rite Aid, but Kaiser still says they're just doing front line workers and over-75, So I'm not sure if the lizard people even want us to get the shot. I see a lot of opinion that they and the Bilderbergs want ...

Yesterday I speculated that Dr Fauci, in the course of overstaying his 15 minutes of fame, could potentially fall victim to revelations of kickbacks or MeToo. But my wife pointed out that his million-dollar prize for "defending science" was exactly a payoff, in the same way that Hunter Biden's recent book deal , which involves an undisclosed payment for a manuscript that will inevitably be ghostwritten, is a payoff to both Hunter and his dad. Well, a hooker is paid a speciric fee for a particular sexual act, and this is against the law. An excort is paid for a particular amount of time, in which activities are not specified, and this is perfectly legal. The same principle is at work here. So what was Dr Fauci paid for? He already earned $417,608 in 2019, the highest paid employee in the US government. (That amount probably doesn't account for other lagniappes, bonuses, deferred compensation, and the like) A milllion bucks is chump change, but so far, I haven...

In yesterday's news: Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser as the winner of one of three prizes. It said he had earned the recognition over a lifetime of leadership on HIV research and AIDS relief, as well as his advocacy for the vaccines against COVID-19. In its statement, the private foundation did not mention former President Donald Trump, who undermined Fauci’s follow-the-science approach to the pandemic. But it credited Fauci with “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis.” “As the COVID-19 pandemic unraveled, (Fauci) leveraged his considerable communication skills to address people gripped by fear and anxiety and worked relentlessly to inform individuals in the Unit...