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Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things like we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Yes! G-D's justice is perfect as seen in Psalm 19:7-11. I've been tapping into Melchizadek and Aaron's (Levites) priesthood. I've recently come to faith in Yeshua/Jesus and now consider myself a full bible, charismatic Jew. Gentiles brought me to faith through signs, wonders, miracles and their fruits. {Romans 11:11} My testimony involves being persecuted and prosecuted for over 2 years, which I guess is my christ walk as a fellow Jew like all 12 Apostles over this research: https://covidandvaxfaqs.substack.com/p/incriminating-patents-update
Here is one of my favorite passages in the OT…I have many, though!!
The trinity in the OT as seen in Isaiah 48:12-17
Isaiah 48:12 - Listen to me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last. Surely my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens;
Okay, reader, who is speaking in this passage??? It is fairly clear the speaker is God…Creator…first, last, founder of earth!!!
Now keep reading and scoot to Isaiah 48:16-17:
48:16 -Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, from the time it took place, I was there, and now the LORD GOD has sent ME and HIS SPIRIT!!!!
48:17 -Thus, says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
So, now, reader…we have in a few short verses that the LORD GOD, sent the Creator GOD, and HIS Spirit. Hello, trinity!!!! We also have that the Creator God speaking originally is also the LORD, your REDEEMER and the HOLY ONE of Israel, who teaches us.
I love God’s word. This passage gives me goosebumps every time I read it and see how active Jesus was in creation and as our Savior and as the Word!!!
Sarcasm warranted. The multi-nefarious mixed & CONNEDtradictory messages in both the Old & New Testaments of Christianity’s Good Book is CONfusing to the logical mind. THE One comforting Faith—affirming literalism from the Gospels is 1 John 4:8, to wit: #GodIsLove (period!). It is only a pantheistic, non-anthropomorphic understanding of G_d, Gott, Dios, Jehovah, and Allah which permits #DivineProvidence to be omnipotent, omniscient & omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere at once.)
1) It's not saying you are a fool, it's an example of a "contradiction" that only exists if you want it to be there.
2) It's not necessarily against the "golden rule", if the one who says it was also ok with being called out as a fool by critics, themselves. (Remember that in the Bible, Jesus called Peter "Satan", so severe criticism is clearly sometimes OK.)
“Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.”
Janice! Good morning. Always appreciate your scripture. Don't know where to turn to right now. . . It's 1030 in Florida right now and my C&C hasn't shown up. Do you know of anything happened to Jeff?
No, I’m just assuming he’s working hard on pulling together a lot of nonsense and making it sound like good news. Or at least making it entertaining. 😁🙏🏻 I do have a passage locked and loaded for when today’s post lands though.
It's my favorite of the Star Trek movies because it had so much of the humor that largely erupted between the interaction between characters. I should respond on twitter to some of those I come in contact with "I find your use of "colorful metaphors" fascinating.
The governments way of handling all this bs...is not changing the program, but redefining it. So instead of ship blowing up, it is instead the legacy of a "heightened disagreement."
They would even say that the ships destruction was misinformation.
I like your idea...and I agree...the "white pill" that there is no such thing as a "no win situation" That as long as we have breath, there are alternatives.
You can pull any label out of the air and call yourself that, but the question remains, what does God Most High call you? Unless the answer from His mouth and according to His word is “Mine,” you are lost for all eternity. May God have mercy on you.
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Interesting challenge, Vonu. I understand "Christian" to mean "follower of Christ" and "atheist" to mean "one who is certain there is no god." How do you define the two terms?
It would be better to say that Christ was never God, and nobody even thought he was until the Council of Nicea (at least that's what I assume you meant to communicate). On the other hand, if Christ is in fact God, then he always was God regardless of whether "official dogma" existed to that effect.
(You might also take note that there are quite a few places in the New Testament writings - which are indisputably pre-nicene - in which Jesus is criticized for claiming equality with God. Christians will argue that he did indeed claim to be God right from the start if you pay attention to the context and cultural understandings.)
“What are we supposed to do, tell the president or Chuck Schumer to send a tweet saying, ‘Hey, most Big Macs aren’t that expensive?’ It would look ridiculous.”
Someone tell this guy it's too late to prevent the White House Office of Digital Strategy from looking ridiculous. Its very existence is ridiculous.
"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" They treat the country like a cheated-on spouse.
Mike Benz talks about how the CIA-led censorship complex (via DHS) declared elections to be "critical infrastructure" therefore anything that undermined confidence in them was deemed a national security threat. That was the pretext for the social media censoring in 2020 and afterwards.
I expect they are now trying to do the same thing with the economy. People know things were far better under Trump than this guy, and the "white supremist" hysteria just isn't working anymore. So now they plan to gaslight the economy and criminalize speech that says otherwise. Hard to convince people they aren't hungry though.
Taylor Lorenz is stupid to think banning sales receipts on SM will keep people from seeing the prices have risen when they shop.
She's not the brightest bulb on the tree. Especially since she thinks she can pass for a Millennial. If the doxing "lol cow" had a daughter, she would be the age Taylor pretends to be.
If you really wanted to "debunk" it, just have someone holding up the regular quarter pounder in one hand and the "Smokey Double BLT Quarter Pounder" (see the receipt) in the other with the prices next to them and "it's not rocket science" as the caption. But apparently that's too complicated for the "White House Office Of Digital Strategy"... is this where we say "ok boomer" or something?
(PS - receipt also shows it was a large meal with a 1L drink, apparently. Not surprised it's expensive, though of course it would have been cheaper without inflation.)
Every time the mainstream media comes to Bidens rescue it resembles more of an 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch. “What a bunch of Marroons” as Bugs Bunny would say regarding the totally corrupt, immoral and totally stinking Biden Administration and their incompetent mainstream media “marks” who shill for them. An attempted rebuke of a $16 McDonalds receipt is the best they can offer as to why everything is so screwed up in this country. Pathetic absolutely pathetic!!
Social media is FULL of lefties slapping up garbage posts, fighting against the perception ( THEY would have you believe - Misconception ) that the economy is in bad shape and people are struggling.
One such post listed about 10 items that "claim" to see reduced cost at market to the customer.
Lol. Think for yourself, I say.
I fact checked one item quite easily (eggs) and quickly found that the post's numbers were GARBAGE.
Check year over year avg cost of eggs - and GUESS WHAT ?
My chickens have decided to slow their production (I forgive them as they are hard workers) so I actually had to buy a carton of eggs when company was in town and HOLY SMOKES that was painful for me to plunk money down for them! I felt at once blessed by having my little birds and thankful I don't have to buy eggs (with this recent exception).
I have always said that eggs are the BEST BUY ever - where else can you get PURE PROTEIN for under $2.50? And that's for a DOZEN of them. A stupid "burger" bought at a drive through is half plastic anyway and costs over $5.00 - no matter which "fast" food cartel you use!
Living in a rural area, I have many choices to buy local eggs. Today, I was delighted to find out I could pick up a dozen at my family practitioner’s office. Her little daughters are selling eggs. (My doctor has her own office and is blessedly unwoke)
Social media is also full of bots (when Elon can't even guess how many, you know it's a lot). And paid "activists." And CCP agents. I'm convinced most (>50%) of the "leftist" influence on social media is due to these bad actors. They're creating an illusion of agreement. Just like they did with "covid." They create a "base" of support with fake content, then tack on some actual support from the noisy lunatic left, which taken together looks like "the majority agree." But, it's all just a manufactured impression.
I pushed back against a shared FB post that purported to show how much cheaper everything was (it didn't even give a baseline, like "since last year," because I am sure they wanted us to think that it was since 2020.). So I responded, when the prices are where they were in Jan 2021, then we'll take you more seriously. THAT's the proper baseline.
They can gaslight people about a lot of things, but not when it comes to your grocery spending or vaccine consequences. People know what they are living.
It's why it's not going to work. The C19 shots have harmed or killed so many that even Dems can't deny it at this point. And we now have the internet, social media, sites like this one, alternative news sources, and all-time lows for trust in media. Meaning: they can't just gloss over it, knowing that people don't have any way to connect and share their experiences at scale, as used to be the case decades ago. They got away with it in the past b/c these things didn't exist. I'm disgusted by all of it and how long it's taken to sway opinion, but I am hopeful we're making progress and the tide is turning.
"In reality, inflation has been steadily subsiding." Total unvarnished red herring.
What dishonest POSs who work for the WaPo.
"Mississippi delta residents are complaining about floodwaters after persistent rains...BUT IN REALITY, FLOODWATERS HAVE BEEN STEADILY SUBSIDING."
Yes, but our homes are STILL FLOODED, you garbage Americans at WaPo. It matters little that something is going down if it was WAY TOO HIGH TO BEGIN WITH, and not due to an Act of God but instead due to Resident Biden's crap on a cracker policies.
The problem they will have is that reality is real. They, being the ruling elites, have no grasp of reality. This is more or less by design, as over time, the measures they use became more and more disconnected from reality. For example, their core inflation numbers don't even include the things that people need to buy and are complaining about. (Check out Shadow Stats for a take on what actual inflation numbers are. It's much more in line with what life feels like for regular people than the "official" propaganda stats our government uses.)
They keep saying inflation has slowed. To which our answer should be: "So what? Not good enough." We don't need slower. We need stopped or reversed. We just had a long run of very high inflation, which means prices rose...a lot. So, any additional inflation on top of that - even if it's a low percent - is going to add to what is already an unsustainably high price level. (And 3% inflation means more in actual take home $ terms today than it did 3 years ago b/c the last couple years of inflation increased prices so much.)
What we need is a sustained period of deflation to reduce prices, bringing them closer to where they were 3 years ago. No matter how high they raise the interest rates, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. So, they are left trying to "message" their way out a self-inflicted crisis that has very real effects on people's everyday lives. Try as they might, they're just going to become like the late Soviet Union where everyone knows the government is lying.
Seems like the PTB have just changed the way inflation is calculated so that it's consistently been more-and-more understated since the 1980s. At this point, given everything they exclude from the calculations, it seems like nothing more than government propaganda to make things look better than they are. Kind of the opposite of what they do with climate data.
As he says on the site: "In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living."
“the CDC hired a Chief Diversity Officer (and so what?).”
A decade ago or so, an insurance association for Lutherans combined two groups into a larger group called Thrivent for Lutherans. It was not only offering insurance policies but investments and planning strategies to Lutherans. While I never used the investment portions, I did remain an associate member, ($20.00), a year. It allowed me access to their quarterly magazine and what Thrivent was doing. A few years ago, I noticed they dropped the “for Lutherans” portion, and last summer ended my association with Thrivent when we were informed in the magazine, they had hired a Chief Diversity Officer. You can guess his background. I sent them a polite, but pointed letter stating my withdrawal and asking how much diversity money they received? I heard nothing back, but my membership was terminated.
Example #2: My husband and I visited Boston in mid-October for our 30th Anniversary. We counted four historic churches/cathedrals/places of worship that had Rainbow flags (including the triangulated version with "minor attracted persons" colorations of pink, blue, and white) and BLM flags draped across the front of their buildings. We're talking 25+ feet up, above what would be considered their main public entrance. It was shocking. Others, had BLM flags mounted on the short iron fencing that encircled their property, next to pedestrian sidewalks. A beautiful, historic city, the birthplace of our American Revolution captured by virtue-signaling Marxists.
We drove through 28 states mainly in the NE and my husband started taking photos of all the beautiful,historic churches that were sadly draped in BLM & the un Biblical spectrum rainbow regalia. This seemed most obvious in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, where ironically the population is predominantly white (90-01%). Virtual signal much! 🧐😞
It will be "interesting" to see how that works out. Tragic for the students who have already invested two or three years there, and for the faculty and staff who want nothing to do with the new policy. I'm guessing the next fresh"woman" class will be down a good 75%, and many of the current underclass students will be transferring.
My kids attend a Lutheran school (LCMS, a biblical denomination) and they got all kinds of free Thrivent stuff such as T-shirts. In fact, the school used Thrivent clothing for PE.
That all stopped when they went woke. Now the school not only won't accept it, but it's not allowed on campus.
My son attended a LCMS school as well; a parent explained to us (Baptists) that the LCMS Lutherans are the Bible believers, while the ELCA Lutherans are “liberal just this side of whoopie”.
Yes, the LCMS has tried to disassociate themselves as much as possible from Thrivent, but they won’t state it publicly and many older members do not realize. The Great Wall of silence, too many churches have allowed themselves to be backed into.
Yes, that organization and Lutheran Brotherhood were originally combined. Most good people don’t realize how insidious this has become. It is intentional even though church leaders and organizations will deny it.
They were Aid Association for Lutherans, then Thrivent for Lutherans, and now Thrivent to hell with Lutherans. I bailed on their sloppy service decades ago, and after several emails and phone calls trying to straighten them out, they still send me somebody else’s mail. I’m not a boycott pusher, but when a business stinks, all their dirty laundry should be on the internet. So, take THAT, Fail-to-Thrivent.
The CDC budget mystery could be a good job for the C&C army. More precisely, it could be a great job for the Congressional Representatives of the C&C army. I mean, they should know without even looking, right?
I"m really disturbed by the increase in vaccine ads: by Pfizer, Moderna, CDC, state & local health departments. I suspect it is the unspent zillions of promotional dollars that need to be spent - on things like 6th boosters that are not wanted by those who haven't got them already.
Topher Olive may want to keep his head on a swivel in case Bob Peters' weaponized brown shirts come looking for him. After all, they jailed a guy for sharing a MEME.
Yep, Topher will soon hear a knock on his door, opening up for an IRS agent whose suit coat has conveniently been swept aside to reveal a gun, and then will be asked to sit for an uncomfortable audit - asking for all his McD receipts and "how do you afford that nice truck in the driveway on a laborer's salary.....?"
You're on fire this morning Jeff, thankyou for reading the WawaPosers so we don't have to, it is remarkable how how disconnected these people are from economic or any other reality and how they can lie so easily over and over again. I like to think that 50 is the new 30, but unfortunately more accurately, $20 is the new $1...
I think they should increase the price of a Big Mac to $40 - watch people still come. Convenience carries a heavy toll. For $16 I can almost get a whole organic chicken - food for a week.
Hubs works on a factory processor on the Bering Sea. They fish for Pollock. That fish used to be one of the largest bio-masses in the world. I can't say that in 2023 with any certainty. Anyway...that is what the filet o'fish is at McDonalds. So, if you scrape all the breading off, throw away the bun and don't eat the tartar sauce, You ARE supporting 17 American ships that bring that fish to the filet. Just sayin'.
I’ve loved seafood all my life but have had to give it up. It’s either farmraised, fed with who knows what, full of infectious bacteria because of the crowded breeding, or if wild caught, still full of micro plastic, mercury and other heavy metals. We really have destroyed our beautiful God-given earth. We are paying the price for our greed and intentional mismanagement.
We eat a lot of seafood but only what was caught in Alaska, which we buy from a small-fisherman co-op subscription service. Fish farms are illegal there and their wild fishery is extremely well managed so as to keep it "sustainable." (Hate using that word, it's usually meaningless but it fits here.) We've also switched to humanely raised non-mRNA meat from a regenerative farm. All of that is very expensive but at least our money buys real food from real, hard-working people.
You are very fortunate to be able to have access to quality seafood. As for the beef etc., I’ve started buying all my meat from a local farmer, grass fed/finished, free range. No mRNA in any of it. It’s not really a regenerative farm probably. Just a family that is trying to hold onto their bit of land and who want to provide clean, non-adulterated meats. The pressures on small farmers are incredible.
Back when I blindly trusted my sources, I enjoyed a little country diner in Texas that had all-you-can-eat catfish Friday’s. Great food and service, genuine local vibe, felt truly authentic. A friend went to work there, and I asked her where they got their excellent catfish. She said, “It’s shipped in frozen from a farm in Iceland.” I’m not sure which was more incongruent—backwoods diner finds Iceland, or Iceland finds backwoods diner, but the catfish never tasted the same again.
Trash talk all they want, McDs fish filet sandwich is one of my guilty pleasures - thank your Hubby for me! Hard, dangerous work... he’s earned his man card.
Lol...He definitely has the man card. Bering Sea kills good men and he has known boats that have gone down. Ah, that is what is missing from the males of today. NO MAN CARDS. I should be in charge of handing them out, because I can tell just by looking at them if they are worthy. Haha...it's a joke. And...thank you for your support. We, the Bering Sea Wives Club, thank you.
I used to eat those things. A very nice woman and her little girl, out of the blue, bought me a Big Mac, fries and a Coke from McD's about 5 years ago when I was working outside in cold temps. So very nice of them! But, as I was eating it, I realized none of it tasted as good as I remember. Still a wonderful gift.
We drove from Phoenix to San Diego last week which takes us through Gila Bend, AZ. Due to the chaos of packing and trying to leave the driveway by a specific time, we had not eaten before leaving. There are limited fast food options--usually I'll do an Egg McMuffin. We decided to try Burger King where I bought a regular hamburger. It was awful! I used to eat it as a kid but since I mostly avoid fast food alltogether had not had one in probably over 30 years. The bun was weird and the meat was weird.
I had a similar situation 10 years ago. I eat very clean food so I suppose I might be more sensitive. The Burger King tasted awful but it also made my stomach and insides feel really strange later, like I had consumed something chemical, not fit for human consumption.
Good description. As I chewed and swallowed, I was trying to "mind-over-matter" during the swallowing. I had to keep telling myself that people don't die from eating one Burger King burger 😂. It will all be ok I said...
I have read repeatedly , in many different sources, that there is human flesh in fast food burgers. I always took it with a grain of salt, and still do, but I've gone from ~5 % believing it to ~50 % believing it. Why? Once the Khazarians extract their andrenochrome and do their organ harvesting, there are still "leftovers". . Think they are going to "waste " those, or not pull yet another very dark secret "gotcha" on humanity? These days, I don't . This is the world we live in. I've never gone wrong thinking the worst of these satanic monsters.
I may barf. I don't think that is possible, but I do think something else is.... have you ever noticed how McD's used to say the hamburgers were made WITH 200% pure beef? There's a huge difference of something being made WITH and OF. I can make a slime burger and put in .01% beef and it's still "made with 100% pure beef" because that's one of the ingredients. But if it's made OF beef than that's all it can be. I'm betting McD's is 1% beef and a bunch of other non-food like soy, fake meat, and "pink slime" which is an FDA approved filler for beef. Gross!!!
1970's...... Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese on a sesame seed bun. They had contests on AM radio stations for people who could say this . It stayed in my brain.
It was a big deal. We listened to am radio every morning before school on a cool very old radio. McDonald's arrived in 1970 I believe, here in Eugene Oregon. It was a very big deal. 'Ronald McDonald' came hahahaha and so many people showed up to the opening. I only remember 1970 because my brother was just born, and my mom left him with my dad and it was .....not super successful, diapers , bottle etc.
Say it all backwards in under 10 seconds and the AM radio station sent you a red box AM radio that resembled a Big Mac box. True 70’s story! I still have it.
Oh you are a true winner!!!!. What do millennials say? Pics or it didn't happen. Hahahah. I am wishing I still had the round blue am radio that hung on a metal chain ..used it all the time while picking beans for money.
It's all really gross. We usually stop once a year at some fast food chain when we're on a road trip. Sort of for nostalgia's sake. It's almost inedible. Salty, fatty, and pasty. No real flavor. The bread turns to mush like Elmer's paste as soon as it hits your tongue. The meat tastes like crisco with a ton of salt in it. And the "vegetables" look like a petri dish for e coli and its friends. Comparing the thing you get to the pictures in the ads and on the walls is hilarious. I always marvel that some people eat this every day. Yuck.
It became legal a decade ago or so to put pink slime in burgers. Anyone who regularly eats fast food burgers shouldn’t look into that. And what they put in chicken sandwiches is even worse.
We watch The Foods that Built America. Just started the one about how sausage became a household staple because the German immigrant Hormel brothers made such a great product back in the 1900s. McDonald’s also started out as a great thing. Too bad they’ve all gone to toilet for larger profits.
I remember seeing the piles of potatoes stacked in our local McDonald's when I was a kid and we (rarely) went there to eat. Yep, peeled, cut, and fried real potatoes on site back in the day.
In-N-Out Burger still does that and won't build a restaurant where they can't get same day delivery of fresh meat. I remember being a kid and the first McDonald's in our area opened. It was a huge deal. My mom, dad and I went every Sunday for dinner for a long time.
So for $16, I can buy 6 to 8 2-pound bags of potatoes from my store (depends on the sales). That's breakfast for several weeks. And you are right, people would still buy the non-food.
8-10years ago I priced out my family of 4's cost of all organic meals. It came to a little over $2/meal/person for 3 meals a day. Everything was made from scratch. It's obviously more now, but still defeats the misnomer that eating organic is expensive.
That's fantastic Chop! Sounds like you could run a food consulting/ delivery business. When I hear people say "organic is too expensive" what I believe they really mean is "I don't have time to cook whole foods."
True. At least one city I know of processes sewage into fertilizer. They label it as such, and while they claim it's "safe and effective," they don't recommend it for vegetable gardens. For some reason, it's cheap as . . . well, obviously.
So once again the government tells the people not to believe their lyin' eyes. In essence, "You aren't hurting financially; you're just too stupid to distinguish between social media and real life."
I'm not doing "social" media anymore--deleted my Facepoop account in January of '21 and was on MeWe for about 18 months--deleted that one in November of '22. I'm on THIS GROUP and that's about it. C & C has become a GATHERING PLACE and LIFE LINE for "moi".
I haven’t been to McDonald’s in a few years. Last week I was starving for midafternoon snack and McDonald’s was the only option within walking distance. Upon entering, there were no order takers, just 4 large screen ordering stations. I paid $7.82 for a small fry and extra small chocolate milkshake. My McDonald’s days are officially over. I hope to hear from Taylor Lorenz soon.
Truly depressing. I was in a remodeled McDonald's yesterday and all I could think was how absolutely hopeless it felt in there. All gray. Screens. No joy whatsoever.
Sadly, the "round egg" == a real egg as opposed to the overly processed scrambled eggs.
We were at Rosa's the other day - ordered a breakfast bowl for $5, but it must have been at least 3-4 eggs' worth + meat. It was pretty good and I remember being pretty surprised at the amount of food - especially compared to McDonald's. :/
Yes, I was just kidding. But, that is probably why they have to dumb down the verbage on menu items. People's head would explode if you added "over easy, over medium, medium, hard" to that line up.
I worked at McDonald's as a teen. Had a few favourite menu items at the time. A few weeks ago I saw my fav come back (sweet chili chicken wrap). I had to have it for nostalgia sake.. I nearly barfed. The tortilla was like eating paper.
First saw those touchscreens in Paris, France in 2014. I asked a friend why there was no one working the counter, he told me that the cost of labor in Paris is so high and impossible to fire once hired, McDonald's went with the touchscreens to make the burger cost affordable. If the states in the US keep jacking up minimum wage (looking at you Cali), all of the fast food industry will go touchscreen ordering, too.
when I was a kid, the big, fancy thing that screamed you were rich was the "50 dollar lunch". I took my friend out to lunch for her birthday a few weeks ago at Aladdin's, which is not fast food, but not Michelin-starred dining either, and the check was $50, before tip ... for basically tasty vegetables and a supreme tahini dressing. Not that celebrating my friend isn't worth $50, but it was Aladdin's. Not even Applebee's. And regularly, when my family of 3 goes out to dinner ... with cocktails, (admittedly, we usually need more than one by that point in the week), the check is regularly around $150. A stinking Old Fashioned with mid-tier bourbon is now a $15 drink. 1st world, laptop-class problems ... a fair accusation, but the prices are up for everything, and inflation or not, retailers and establishments rose prices when everyone (except the unvaxxed) were getting free covid money, and prices are not likely coming back down.
$15 taco plates at Mexican restaurants here now. Even Vietnamese bowls went from $8 to $15. Inflation at restaurants is at 100% and will never drop. They’ll close the business before dropping prices.
And in the end, it’s all junk food. Going out to eat isn’t that fun anymore. Recently I took my son to 5 guys. 2 burgers, 1 fry, 1 drink. $36. I said never again! It’s junk food!
I live in rural AZ and no fast food in town. A local non profit built a commercial kitchen a few years back people can use A number of local people are making great affordable dinners.
I treated a friend to a birthday dinner at Cheesecake Factory this past weekend. I didn't even have an entree, just a small salad and dessert. She had a full meal. Our bill came to $98 before tip. That is outrageous and about twice what it would have been just a few years ago!
Aladdin's is great, but like every place else, prices have gone well past double. Every place has. My favorite Mexican restaurant has. They actually charge a surcharge to use a credit card, so I always pay cash. I heard this is common now with many restuarants.
They were pretty up front about it. The bill actually comes with two amounts - one for cash and one for credit. I'll check that out if I ever go any place else to eat and thanks for the heads up.
Agree. We don't eat out very often, but the last couple times we have, have been eye-opening to say the least. And yes, even lunch at a regular-Joe establishment is not the $12 affair it once was.
Yep, I do more extensive meal planning now, and vacuum seal whatever leftovers I can and save in the freezer for a later date. Perhaps that's why the "$15 Old Fashioned" was shocking to me, because we don't go out very often anymore.
Plus it doesn’t taste as good as it used to either. I’m a good cook too, but sometimes I need a break. It kills me to go out though... a mid priced meal for two is my grocery budget for the week.
Same here. Sometimes I wish it could be just a nice treat to go out to eat and have something new and tasty but it winds up not being what I think it will be.
YES! Sometimes we want to go out and then look at each and one of us says, "We'll just be disappointed!" And then we figure something out. I am an excellent cook, too, and really do love to cook, but dang it, I want a break occasionally. I feel ya.
Ugh! Red Lodster, even with their "specials" is too far north in price for many... Not as crowded for lunch anymore and the crowds that used to wait outside in the evening for a seat inside have all but disappeared. Now and again, mostly on Fridays we notice a dozen or so waiting when it used to be upwards to 35 or more. We live within a mile of a formerly extremely busy one, have to drive by it on our way out of the neighborhood. Can't help but notice...
Oh, I cook all the time, I'm a home chef. But your presumption that I don't know how to cook is cute. I won't be shamed for eating. My point was about how shockingly high the increase in prices is on choices that previously didn't need too much evaluation.
My go-to rant is about the ridiculous up-charge high-end restaurants do for ordering a bottle of wine. Recent trip for a great steak dinner for two was north of $300. I'm okay with that.
But what I am increasingly angry about is they charged me $90 for a bottle of wine I could've bought locally for less than $20. I mean COME ON! HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?
It's gotten so bad that I'm just not gonna participate in getting screwed like this.
Totally get where you’re coming from, sometimes it’s nice to have a break from cooking (and deciding what to make! 😆 That’s almost worse for me sometimes!).
Cooking is all well and good, but also fraught with new challenges as the quality and quantity of grocery store food is on the dramatic decline (at least where I am currently living).
It is also an acquired skill. There are many times when beginners at the skill would prefer a prepared dinner that they can actually eat as opposed to a half-baked attempt at something that the dog would turn his nose up at.
So with just the two of us for thanksgiving, I do all the peripherals but just get a breast as turkey is a little difficult to freeze, even in a deep freeze. But I recently bought a vacuum packer thingy, and have just a freezer full of seafood in there now, I repack everything as soon as I get home with it. I digress.
I went to-get the breast this year, and it was 5.49 a pound. So a five pound breast was 26.98. A whole 21 pound turkey on the other hand, was .69 cents a pound. So that turkey cost me a whopping 14.50. Needless to say, I spent a good part of two days stripping and packaging, but it came out so good. But imagine looking at those prices and trying to wrap your head around their methodology.
I went to one of my favorite restaurants.....in the $$ to $$$ range. I ordered a glass of wine, one which is sold at Costco for $12/bottle. I was gobsmacked when I saw the cost for ONE GLASS of wine was $21. I now order beer and buy my wine at Costco.
Hubby and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant two weeks ago and walked out of their place paying $44 per person. And we did get a margarita with it. My meal was a poblano chicken and pasta dish. It was delish but wasn't worth $24...
My hubs and I went to a nice Italian place on Sunday and made it out under $40 plus tip and both had enough leftovers for a second meal - technically it was only $20 as our local city is doing a BOGO gift card program to help local small businesses which we have taken full advantage of. Win, win!
I went to the drive in over the weekend -yep, it's still open in Columbus! On one screen, they had the horror/comedy "Thanksgiving" and the other side was Disney "Wish". The horror side was well attended, even though it was nearly at 32 degrees by the end of the movie. I drove out and saw all of 4 cars at Disney. Believe me, Disney is sinking. Good.
I love our drive in. They are crowded as all get out in the summer. They took a vote this year to see if people would still come in November, which isn't exactly a warm month here, and got a great response. I've been 3 times in November and they are still doing a good business. Ticket price went from $8.50 to $10 per adult this year, but considering that's for a double and sometimes triple feature, I don't mind one bit.
😍😍 we went to so many drive in movies when I was a kid. Watched the first starwars there..all the Herbie the love bug movies. Great times. went from the microphones on windows to using our radios by the time they were almost done.
I admire your "pluck"--I prefer to "stream video" my movies for FREE on Tubi--great streaming video platform--discovered it through my friend in November of '21.
I love Tubi, too. It's on often over here. But there's just something about sitting in a car, under the stars or moon, eating tasty food (even if it isn't exactly real food) from the concession stands and watching a movie with the radio blasting the soundtrack. I don't hear well so it helps me to b able to turn it up as loud as I need to hear things. The drive in is also good at playing classic movies, especially in the fall. Maybe it's just a comfort activity for me. :)
Comfort activity works for "moi" - you enjoy yourself...sounds like Columbus knows how to take care of it's REAL and LEGAL citizens!! You do mean the Columbus in OH--right?
Disney has been bad for quite some time. 15 years ago I had the unfortunate experience of watching Disney’s afterschool programming for girls. It was HORRIBLE. Nothing but shallow consumerism, mean girl behavior, and treating boys like they were an inferior life form. Seems we are currently reaping the “benefit” of girls raised on this garbage.
now a note about the Pfizer lawsuit. None of this surprises me. Not one bit. I worked at Pfizer in two different capacities during my career ... as a scientist and as a global marketer, about 20 years apart. When I was a scientist early in my career, what I remember most was when we would do experiments on promising compounds under study, let's say we ran 10 experiments, even if 9 of them produced a negative result/not what we wanted to see, we would have to replicate the experiment as many times as needed to get a sufficient quantity of supportable data for the 1 result that turned out positive. So 90% of the time, the drug would not work as we wanted, but 10% of the time it did ... that's what we were instructed to replicate, the 10%. So, fast forward to the covid 'studies' ... I only needed to read the clinical trial design documents that were publicly available through clinicaltrials.gov to see that they were still doing "10% science" because the bridging study for the 11 - 15 age group relied on "10%" of trial's *adult* cohort, to 'bridge' efficacy. Formerly being one of their global marketers for biosimilars, I knew immediately that this wasn't appropriate, even if not empirically unexpected. So that Quillivant studies were faked/falsified/created out of thin air, does not surprise me in the least. even their best seller viagra ... the original intent was a different indication ... a "10%" indication instead of the fact that no one performing the preclinical animal studies noticed that dogs/monkeys/guinea pigs/rats were likely showing them 'the hard evidence' for a better indication.
I agree. A couple of weeks ago we were listening to a conservative morning radio talk show in Phoenix. They had Taylor Lorenz on--interviewing her about something. I was so flabbergasted that I didn't pay attention to what they were talking about. It was like my brain went on short circuit and I couldn't pay attention.
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us take hold of our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things like we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
— Hebrews 4:14-16 LSB
Thank you for your posts, Janice.
I pray daily for God's MERCY and FORGIVENESS for myself and for our country!
Yes! G-D's justice is perfect as seen in Psalm 19:7-11. I've been tapping into Melchizadek and Aaron's (Levites) priesthood. I've recently come to faith in Yeshua/Jesus and now consider myself a full bible, charismatic Jew. Gentiles brought me to faith through signs, wonders, miracles and their fruits. {Romans 11:11} My testimony involves being persecuted and prosecuted for over 2 years, which I guess is my christ walk as a fellow Jew like all 12 Apostles over this research: https://covidandvaxfaqs.substack.com/p/incriminating-patents-update
Here is one of my favorite passages in the OT…I have many, though!!
The trinity in the OT as seen in Isaiah 48:12-17
Isaiah 48:12 - Listen to me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last. Surely my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens;
Okay, reader, who is speaking in this passage??? It is fairly clear the speaker is God…Creator…first, last, founder of earth!!!
Now keep reading and scoot to Isaiah 48:16-17:
48:16 -Come near to Me, listen to this: From the first I have not spoken in secret, from the time it took place, I was there, and now the LORD GOD has sent ME and HIS SPIRIT!!!!
48:17 -Thus, says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
So, now, reader…we have in a few short verses that the LORD GOD, sent the Creator GOD, and HIS Spirit. Hello, trinity!!!! We also have that the Creator God speaking originally is also the LORD, your REDEEMER and the HOLY ONE of Israel, who teaches us.
I love God’s word. This passage gives me goosebumps every time I read it and see how active Jesus was in creation and as our Savior and as the Word!!!
The Word always confirms itself. It never contradicts! Praise!
Colossians 1:16
Sarcasm warranted. The multi-nefarious mixed & CONNEDtradictory messages in both the Old & New Testaments of Christianity’s Good Book is CONfusing to the logical mind. THE One comforting Faith—affirming literalism from the Gospels is 1 John 4:8, to wit: #GodIsLove (period!). It is only a pantheistic, non-anthropomorphic understanding of G_d, Gott, Dios, Jehovah, and Allah which permits #DivineProvidence to be omnipotent, omniscient & omnipresent (all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere at once.)
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#CREATORS (Conspiracy Realist Educator Activist Truther Organizer Reader Socializer)
Only if you go in LOOKING for contradictions and refusing to consider resolutions to them.
Prov. 26:4 Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.
Prov. 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.
"Oh look, a Bible contradiction! Isn't the bible so stupid??!" (/sarc)
(edit -- I also find it amusing that the Bible basically says, "Don't feed the trolls" several thousand years in advance.)
You make my point,
as branding me a fool
goes against the Golden Rule.
1) It's not saying you are a fool, it's an example of a "contradiction" that only exists if you want it to be there.
2) It's not necessarily against the "golden rule", if the one who says it was also ok with being called out as a fool by critics, themselves. (Remember that in the Bible, Jesus called Peter "Satan", so severe criticism is clearly sometimes OK.)
1 Corinthians 2:14
🙏🏼😇🕊️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDqVWwK5Wcc&t=2531s
The wisdom of man is no wisdom at all.
I was reminded of this.
“Quarry the granite rock with razors, or moor the vessel with a thread of silk; then may you hope with such keen and delicate instruments as human knowledge and human reason to contend against those giants, the passion and the pride of man.”
(The Idea of a University). John Henry Newman
Janice! Good morning. Always appreciate your scripture. Don't know where to turn to right now. . . It's 1030 in Florida right now and my C&C hasn't shown up. Do you know of anything happened to Jeff?
No, I’m just assuming he’s working hard on pulling together a lot of nonsense and making it sound like good news. Or at least making it entertaining. 😁🙏🏻 I do have a passage locked and loaded for when today’s post lands though.
Oh thank goodness! Please never stop! I read your pages with my own Bible next to me for further reading.
Is LSB anything like LSD?
And can it be derived from using too much LDS in the sixties? The LDS reference is from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
OMG. Just when I thought C&C couldn't get any better. Now I'm seeing Trekkie material. THANKS!
LDS ... I LOVED that scene!
(... said person who hung her old star trek ornaments on the tree this year...)
It's my favorite of the Star Trek movies because it had so much of the humor that largely erupted between the interaction between characters. I should respond on twitter to some of those I come in contact with "I find your use of "colorful metaphors" fascinating.
"I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space."
That's better still!!
After covid-iocy and family-idiocy, I bought a couple of inspirational t-shirts:
"Kobayashi Maru -- Change the Program"
It's been my life mantra ever since. ;-)
I like your solution better.
The governments way of handling all this bs...is not changing the program, but redefining it. So instead of ship blowing up, it is instead the legacy of a "heightened disagreement."
They would even say that the ships destruction was misinformation.
I like your idea...and I agree...the "white pill" that there is no such thing as a "no win situation" That as long as we have breath, there are alternatives.
I absolutely love that movie, and have been enjoying all the comments.
Where did LDS replace LSD?
Utah, presumably.
There are a lot more LDS outside of Utah than in it.
To actually answer the question seriously, I think it's the Legacy Standard Bible.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%204&version=LSB
I always thought that the Geneva bible was the standard, as the first one to be printed.
I call myself a Christian atheist and before you think that is an oxymoron, do your due diligence.
You can pull any label out of the air and call yourself that, but the question remains, what does God Most High call you? Unless the answer from His mouth and according to His word is “Mine,” you are lost for all eternity. May God have mercy on you.
Where is the mouth of a non-material spirit?
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
-- 1 Corinthians 2:14
Who created your mouth?
In the same place as the "eyes" that are opened when you realize that the government doesn't always have your best interests at heart.
Romans 2:15
Interesting challenge, Vonu. I understand "Christian" to mean "follower of Christ" and "atheist" to mean "one who is certain there is no god." How do you define the two terms?
Until the Nicene, Christ wasn't God.
It would be better to say that Christ was never God, and nobody even thought he was until the Council of Nicea (at least that's what I assume you meant to communicate). On the other hand, if Christ is in fact God, then he always was God regardless of whether "official dogma" existed to that effect.
(You might also take note that there are quite a few places in the New Testament writings - which are indisputably pre-nicene - in which Jesus is criticized for claiming equality with God. Christians will argue that he did indeed claim to be God right from the start if you pay attention to the context and cultural understandings.)
You are absurd. Go gaze at your belly button or just go.
“What are we supposed to do, tell the president or Chuck Schumer to send a tweet saying, ‘Hey, most Big Macs aren’t that expensive?’ It would look ridiculous.”
Someone tell this guy it's too late to prevent the White House Office of Digital Strategy from looking ridiculous. Its very existence is ridiculous.
"Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" They treat the country like a cheated-on spouse.
Mike Benz talks about how the CIA-led censorship complex (via DHS) declared elections to be "critical infrastructure" therefore anything that undermined confidence in them was deemed a national security threat. That was the pretext for the social media censoring in 2020 and afterwards.
I expect they are now trying to do the same thing with the economy. People know things were far better under Trump than this guy, and the "white supremist" hysteria just isn't working anymore. So now they plan to gaslight the economy and criminalize speech that says otherwise. Hard to convince people they aren't hungry though.
That would be the entire “administration” is ridiculous
My thought was "Who cares if it's a seasonal burger?" It's still a $16 burger at McDonalds! What? Do they think they are 5 Guys or something?
Biden was a buffoon before he started mumbling and getting lost on stage.
Taylor Lorenz is stupid to think banning sales receipts on SM will keep people from seeing the prices have risen when they shop.
She's not the brightest bulb on the tree. Especially since she thinks she can pass for a Millennial. If the doxing "lol cow" had a daughter, she would be the age Taylor pretends to be.
They are surely a ridiculous group of people.
If you really wanted to "debunk" it, just have someone holding up the regular quarter pounder in one hand and the "Smokey Double BLT Quarter Pounder" (see the receipt) in the other with the prices next to them and "it's not rocket science" as the caption. But apparently that's too complicated for the "White House Office Of Digital Strategy"... is this where we say "ok boomer" or something?
(PS - receipt also shows it was a large meal with a 1L drink, apparently. Not surprised it's expensive, though of course it would have been cheaper without inflation.)
Every time the mainstream media comes to Bidens rescue it resembles more of an 1970s Saturday Night Live sketch. “What a bunch of Marroons” as Bugs Bunny would say regarding the totally corrupt, immoral and totally stinking Biden Administration and their incompetent mainstream media “marks” who shill for them. An attempted rebuke of a $16 McDonalds receipt is the best they can offer as to why everything is so screwed up in this country. Pathetic absolutely pathetic!!
Social media is FULL of lefties slapping up garbage posts, fighting against the perception ( THEY would have you believe - Misconception ) that the economy is in bad shape and people are struggling.
One such post listed about 10 items that "claim" to see reduced cost at market to the customer.
Lol. Think for yourself, I say.
I fact checked one item quite easily (eggs) and quickly found that the post's numbers were GARBAGE.
Check year over year avg cost of eggs - and GUESS WHAT ?
that particular post, no surprise - garbage.
My chickens haven't raised the price of their eggs in years (and never will)!
My chickens have decided to slow their production (I forgive them as they are hard workers) so I actually had to buy a carton of eggs when company was in town and HOLY SMOKES that was painful for me to plunk money down for them! I felt at once blessed by having my little birds and thankful I don't have to buy eggs (with this recent exception).
I have always said that eggs are the BEST BUY ever - where else can you get PURE PROTEIN for under $2.50? And that's for a DOZEN of them. A stupid "burger" bought at a drive through is half plastic anyway and costs over $5.00 - no matter which "fast" food cartel you use!
It could be the commercial feed. There's a recipe online for making your own. Cheaper in bulk from a feedstore.
I had heard about the commercial stuff slowing/stopping production. I try to buy from a small place in MD and have it shipped but it's expensive.
Living in a rural area, I have many choices to buy local eggs. Today, I was delighted to find out I could pick up a dozen at my family practitioner’s office. Her little daughters are selling eggs. (My doctor has her own office and is blessedly unwoke)
Feed has gone way up though.
Bet that feed and other care products have gone up though. Still congrats on chicken ownership.
Social media is also full of bots (when Elon can't even guess how many, you know it's a lot). And paid "activists." And CCP agents. I'm convinced most (>50%) of the "leftist" influence on social media is due to these bad actors. They're creating an illusion of agreement. Just like they did with "covid." They create a "base" of support with fake content, then tack on some actual support from the noisy lunatic left, which taken together looks like "the majority agree." But, it's all just a manufactured impression.
I pushed back against a shared FB post that purported to show how much cheaper everything was (it didn't even give a baseline, like "since last year," because I am sure they wanted us to think that it was since 2020.). So I responded, when the prices are where they were in Jan 2021, then we'll take you more seriously. THAT's the proper baseline.
They can gaslight people about a lot of things, but not when it comes to your grocery spending or vaccine consequences. People know what they are living.
It's why it's not going to work. The C19 shots have harmed or killed so many that even Dems can't deny it at this point. And we now have the internet, social media, sites like this one, alternative news sources, and all-time lows for trust in media. Meaning: they can't just gloss over it, knowing that people don't have any way to connect and share their experiences at scale, as used to be the case decades ago. They got away with it in the past b/c these things didn't exist. I'm disgusted by all of it and how long it's taken to sway opinion, but I am hopeful we're making progress and the tide is turning.
The MSM IS Garbage
I saw that too. As soon as I saw ‘eggs’ I just kept scrolling.
....wish I hadn't seen that in a friend's post. - one I used to think was better than that.
Oh well - we ALL have such stories...
Very true. I’ve been sickened lately over the posts comparing Trump to Hitler. They did that in 2016 and my best friend believed it.
She’s been gone I think since 2017, I think her derangement syndrome made her lymphoma worse. 🥲
People who believe the Trump/Hitler comparisons don’t know anything about Hitler 😑
Or Trump.
Hitler would have been way less pro-Israel for one thing.
The MSM are there “to pump him up”. Literally eventually.
Yea I went to a real burger joint Saturday. Three of us. If my husband had been with us, would’ve been a $100 burger lunch.
Good thing the economy is in such good shape.
"In reality, inflation has been steadily subsiding." Total unvarnished red herring.
What dishonest POSs who work for the WaPo.
"Mississippi delta residents are complaining about floodwaters after persistent rains...BUT IN REALITY, FLOODWATERS HAVE BEEN STEADILY SUBSIDING."
Yes, but our homes are STILL FLOODED, you garbage Americans at WaPo. It matters little that something is going down if it was WAY TOO HIGH TO BEGIN WITH, and not due to an Act of God but instead due to Resident Biden's crap on a cracker policies.
It's worse that that. Inflation subsiding doesn't mean prices are going down, but that they are not going up as fast as they were.
So those flood waters are still rising, you just won't drown as quickly.
The problem they will have is that reality is real. They, being the ruling elites, have no grasp of reality. This is more or less by design, as over time, the measures they use became more and more disconnected from reality. For example, their core inflation numbers don't even include the things that people need to buy and are complaining about. (Check out Shadow Stats for a take on what actual inflation numbers are. It's much more in line with what life feels like for regular people than the "official" propaganda stats our government uses.)
They keep saying inflation has slowed. To which our answer should be: "So what? Not good enough." We don't need slower. We need stopped or reversed. We just had a long run of very high inflation, which means prices rose...a lot. So, any additional inflation on top of that - even if it's a low percent - is going to add to what is already an unsustainably high price level. (And 3% inflation means more in actual take home $ terms today than it did 3 years ago b/c the last couple years of inflation increased prices so much.)
What we need is a sustained period of deflation to reduce prices, bringing them closer to where they were 3 years ago. No matter how high they raise the interest rates, it doesn't look like that's going to happen. So, they are left trying to "message" their way out a self-inflicted crisis that has very real effects on people's everyday lives. Try as they might, they're just going to become like the late Soviet Union where everyone knows the government is lying.
Btw prices much lower in Europe than here now.
Club soda has risen 29% over the past 6-12 months. I'm gonna have to start charging family for my Mojitos.
Thank you for the ShadowStats website recommendation! The video explaining inflation is closer to 13% was eye opening
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=WrMJZ4N7wEEIoKW-&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kitco.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMzY4NDIsMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&feature=emb_share&v=gRlyuksgFJA
Seems like the PTB have just changed the way inflation is calculated so that it's consistently been more-and-more understated since the 1980s. At this point, given everything they exclude from the calculations, it seems like nothing more than government propaganda to make things look better than they are. Kind of the opposite of what they do with climate data.
As he says on the site: "In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living."
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts
They're doing it so they can keep their SS Cost of Living Adjustments down.
And in the hopes that we're too dumb to figure out they're lying.
“the CDC hired a Chief Diversity Officer (and so what?).”
A decade ago or so, an insurance association for Lutherans combined two groups into a larger group called Thrivent for Lutherans. It was not only offering insurance policies but investments and planning strategies to Lutherans. While I never used the investment portions, I did remain an associate member, ($20.00), a year. It allowed me access to their quarterly magazine and what Thrivent was doing. A few years ago, I noticed they dropped the “for Lutherans” portion, and last summer ended my association with Thrivent when we were informed in the magazine, they had hired a Chief Diversity Officer. You can guess his background. I sent them a polite, but pointed letter stating my withdrawal and asking how much diversity money they received? I heard nothing back, but my membership was terminated.
Sad that most of the national church organizations have been woke infected.
Example #2: My husband and I visited Boston in mid-October for our 30th Anniversary. We counted four historic churches/cathedrals/places of worship that had Rainbow flags (including the triangulated version with "minor attracted persons" colorations of pink, blue, and white) and BLM flags draped across the front of their buildings. We're talking 25+ feet up, above what would be considered their main public entrance. It was shocking. Others, had BLM flags mounted on the short iron fencing that encircled their property, next to pedestrian sidewalks. A beautiful, historic city, the birthplace of our American Revolution captured by virtue-signaling Marxists.
I’m glad I moved from MA years ago. Too painful to witness what you described.
I completely understand. It was a gut punch to see.
We drove through 28 states mainly in the NE and my husband started taking photos of all the beautiful,historic churches that were sadly draped in BLM & the un Biblical spectrum rainbow regalia. This seemed most obvious in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, where ironically the population is predominantly white (90-01%). Virtual signal much! 🧐😞
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/22/catholic-all-girls-college-will-admit-men-identify-trans-women/
Example #1
It will be "interesting" to see how that works out. Tragic for the students who have already invested two or three years there, and for the faculty and staff who want nothing to do with the new policy. I'm guessing the next fresh"woman" class will be down a good 75%, and many of the current underclass students will be transferring.
My kids attend a Lutheran school (LCMS, a biblical denomination) and they got all kinds of free Thrivent stuff such as T-shirts. In fact, the school used Thrivent clothing for PE.
That all stopped when they went woke. Now the school not only won't accept it, but it's not allowed on campus.
My son attended a LCMS school as well; a parent explained to us (Baptists) that the LCMS Lutherans are the Bible believers, while the ELCA Lutherans are “liberal just this side of whoopie”.
ELCA is an insane asylum. Luther must be rolling over in his grave that they have the gall to call themselves Lutherans.
We're pseudo-Baptists (Calvary Chapel) and have been incredibly blessed by an LCMS school. Thank God for them, they were an answer to prayer for us.
Yes, the LCMS has tried to disassociate themselves as much as possible from Thrivent, but they won’t state it publicly and many older members do not realize. The Great Wall of silence, too many churches have allowed themselves to be backed into.
I miss the old Aid Association for Lutherans. Thrivent is meaningless. Thanks for the heads-up on the Diversity Officer. Time to cancel my policy.
Yes, that organization and Lutheran Brotherhood were originally combined. Most good people don’t realize how insidious this has become. It is intentional even though church leaders and organizations will deny it.
They were Aid Association for Lutherans, then Thrivent for Lutherans, and now Thrivent to hell with Lutherans. I bailed on their sloppy service decades ago, and after several emails and phone calls trying to straighten them out, they still send me somebody else’s mail. I’m not a boycott pusher, but when a business stinks, all their dirty laundry should be on the internet. So, take THAT, Fail-to-Thrivent.
Jeff, CDC digging…..you have the drive of a warrior spirit. Hats off to you. There are heroes.
The CDC budget mystery could be a good job for the C&C army. More precisely, it could be a great job for the Congressional Representatives of the C&C army. I mean, they should know without even looking, right?
I'm really interested in the CDC budget numbers. How about this 2023 HHS budget; CDC is on page 42. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fy-2023-budget-in-brief.pdf.
I"m really disturbed by the increase in vaccine ads: by Pfizer, Moderna, CDC, state & local health departments. I suspect it is the unspent zillions of promotional dollars that need to be spent - on things like 6th boosters that are not wanted by those who haven't got them already.
Topher Olive may want to keep his head on a swivel in case Bob Peters' weaponized brown shirts come looking for him. After all, they jailed a guy for sharing a MEME.
He's probably been added to the No-Fly list.
They're not hiring all those IRS agents for nothing!
Yep, Topher will soon hear a knock on his door, opening up for an IRS agent whose suit coat has conveniently been swept aside to reveal a gun, and then will be asked to sit for an uncomfortable audit - asking for all his McD receipts and "how do you afford that nice truck in the driveway on a laborer's salary.....?"
Nice truck?...hell how does he afford the seasonal burger?🍔
Shoot first and have audit later.
....I'm certain, in this case, will be a 'justifiable homicide'. (sarc.)
.....but, but. - this is AMERICA !!
Not any more.
No. Not any more :(
You're on fire this morning Jeff, thankyou for reading the WawaPosers so we don't have to, it is remarkable how how disconnected these people are from economic or any other reality and how they can lie so easily over and over again. I like to think that 50 is the new 30, but unfortunately more accurately, $20 is the new $1...
I think they should increase the price of a Big Mac to $40 - watch people still come. Convenience carries a heavy toll. For $16 I can almost get a whole organic chicken - food for a week.
Hubs works on a factory processor on the Bering Sea. They fish for Pollock. That fish used to be one of the largest bio-masses in the world. I can't say that in 2023 with any certainty. Anyway...that is what the filet o'fish is at McDonalds. So, if you scrape all the breading off, throw away the bun and don't eat the tartar sauce, You ARE supporting 17 American ships that bring that fish to the filet. Just sayin'.
I’ve loved seafood all my life but have had to give it up. It’s either farmraised, fed with who knows what, full of infectious bacteria because of the crowded breeding, or if wild caught, still full of micro plastic, mercury and other heavy metals. We really have destroyed our beautiful God-given earth. We are paying the price for our greed and intentional mismanagement.
Yeah...Hubs won't eat seafood. When I go eat shrimp, it is the ones caught local here in Florida.
We eat a lot of seafood but only what was caught in Alaska, which we buy from a small-fisherman co-op subscription service. Fish farms are illegal there and their wild fishery is extremely well managed so as to keep it "sustainable." (Hate using that word, it's usually meaningless but it fits here.) We've also switched to humanely raised non-mRNA meat from a regenerative farm. All of that is very expensive but at least our money buys real food from real, hard-working people.
You are very fortunate to be able to have access to quality seafood. As for the beef etc., I’ve started buying all my meat from a local farmer, grass fed/finished, free range. No mRNA in any of it. It’s not really a regenerative farm probably. Just a family that is trying to hold onto their bit of land and who want to provide clean, non-adulterated meats. The pressures on small farmers are incredible.
Hope you are eating humanely raised meat.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re not bypassing American fishermen now for cheaper, farmed raised tilapia from China! Yuk!
McDonalds is a huge contract for them. If it happens, will let you know! And...glad you know about Talapia. GROSS.
Back when I blindly trusted my sources, I enjoyed a little country diner in Texas that had all-you-can-eat catfish Friday’s. Great food and service, genuine local vibe, felt truly authentic. A friend went to work there, and I asked her where they got their excellent catfish. She said, “It’s shipped in frozen from a farm in Iceland.” I’m not sure which was more incongruent—backwoods diner finds Iceland, or Iceland finds backwoods diner, but the catfish never tasted the same again.
Trash talk all they want, McDs fish filet sandwich is one of my guilty pleasures - thank your Hubby for me! Hard, dangerous work... he’s earned his man card.
Lol...He definitely has the man card. Bering Sea kills good men and he has known boats that have gone down. Ah, that is what is missing from the males of today. NO MAN CARDS. I should be in charge of handing them out, because I can tell just by looking at them if they are worthy. Haha...it's a joke. And...thank you for your support. We, the Bering Sea Wives Club, thank you.
I’m not eating at McDonalds to support anyone.
Yeah, it is gross. And, the farther you get away from eating it, the more you see how bad it really is. Bleck. Did you want fries with that?
For $16 I can (almost; $5.99 per) get THREE rotisserie chickens, either from Costco or from my neighborhood supermarket.
Big Mac: fake disgusting meat..no thanks.
In the 70s and 80s it wasnt so bad. Now: ugh!🤢🤮
I used to eat those things. A very nice woman and her little girl, out of the blue, bought me a Big Mac, fries and a Coke from McD's about 5 years ago when I was working outside in cold temps. So very nice of them! But, as I was eating it, I realized none of it tasted as good as I remember. Still a wonderful gift.
We drove from Phoenix to San Diego last week which takes us through Gila Bend, AZ. Due to the chaos of packing and trying to leave the driveway by a specific time, we had not eaten before leaving. There are limited fast food options--usually I'll do an Egg McMuffin. We decided to try Burger King where I bought a regular hamburger. It was awful! I used to eat it as a kid but since I mostly avoid fast food alltogether had not had one in probably over 30 years. The bun was weird and the meat was weird.
I had a similar situation 10 years ago. I eat very clean food so I suppose I might be more sensitive. The Burger King tasted awful but it also made my stomach and insides feel really strange later, like I had consumed something chemical, not fit for human consumption.
Good description. As I chewed and swallowed, I was trying to "mind-over-matter" during the swallowing. I had to keep telling myself that people don't die from eating one Burger King burger 😂. It will all be ok I said...
I have read repeatedly , in many different sources, that there is human flesh in fast food burgers. I always took it with a grain of salt, and still do, but I've gone from ~5 % believing it to ~50 % believing it. Why? Once the Khazarians extract their andrenochrome and do their organ harvesting, there are still "leftovers". . Think they are going to "waste " those, or not pull yet another very dark secret "gotcha" on humanity? These days, I don't . This is the world we live in. I've never gone wrong thinking the worst of these satanic monsters.
I may barf. I don't think that is possible, but I do think something else is.... have you ever noticed how McD's used to say the hamburgers were made WITH 200% pure beef? There's a huge difference of something being made WITH and OF. I can make a slime burger and put in .01% beef and it's still "made with 100% pure beef" because that's one of the ingredients. But if it's made OF beef than that's all it can be. I'm betting McD's is 1% beef and a bunch of other non-food like soy, fake meat, and "pink slime" which is an FDA approved filler for beef. Gross!!!
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1970's...... Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese on a sesame seed bun. They had contests on AM radio stations for people who could say this . It stayed in my brain.
Forgot pickles and onions after cheese!
Thank you so much..I have always thought there was something missing. !!!
Thank you for making me feel less ridiculous for having remembered it!
It was a big deal. We listened to am radio every morning before school on a cool very old radio. McDonald's arrived in 1970 I believe, here in Eugene Oregon. It was a very big deal. 'Ronald McDonald' came hahahaha and so many people showed up to the opening. I only remember 1970 because my brother was just born, and my mom left him with my dad and it was .....not super successful, diapers , bottle etc.
Say it all backwards in under 10 seconds and the AM radio station sent you a red box AM radio that resembled a Big Mac box. True 70’s story! I still have it.
Oh you are a true winner!!!!. What do millennials say? Pics or it didn't happen. Hahahah. I am wishing I still had the round blue am radio that hung on a metal chain ..used it all the time while picking beans for money.
You forgot the pickle.
That's the best part!
It's all really gross. We usually stop once a year at some fast food chain when we're on a road trip. Sort of for nostalgia's sake. It's almost inedible. Salty, fatty, and pasty. No real flavor. The bread turns to mush like Elmer's paste as soon as it hits your tongue. The meat tastes like crisco with a ton of salt in it. And the "vegetables" look like a petri dish for e coli and its friends. Comparing the thing you get to the pictures in the ads and on the walls is hilarious. I always marvel that some people eat this every day. Yuck.
It became legal a decade ago or so to put pink slime in burgers. Anyone who regularly eats fast food burgers shouldn’t look into that. And what they put in chicken sandwiches is even worse.
We watch The Foods that Built America. Just started the one about how sausage became a household staple because the German immigrant Hormel brothers made such a great product back in the 1900s. McDonald’s also started out as a great thing. Too bad they’ve all gone to toilet for larger profits.
I remember seeing the piles of potatoes stacked in our local McDonald's when I was a kid and we (rarely) went there to eat. Yep, peeled, cut, and fried real potatoes on site back in the day.
In-N-Out Burger still does that and won't build a restaurant where they can't get same day delivery of fresh meat. I remember being a kid and the first McDonald's in our area opened. It was a huge deal. My mom, dad and I went every Sunday for dinner for a long time.
Mmmmmm.....the pink slime meat
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It is totally gross. Not fit for human consumption imo.
The new “secret sauce”.
So for $16, I can buy 6 to 8 2-pound bags of potatoes from my store (depends on the sales). That's breakfast for several weeks. And you are right, people would still buy the non-food.
Sounds like a good deal! Potato burgers here we come (:
8-10years ago I priced out my family of 4's cost of all organic meals. It came to a little over $2/meal/person for 3 meals a day. Everything was made from scratch. It's obviously more now, but still defeats the misnomer that eating organic is expensive.
That's fantastic Chop! Sounds like you could run a food consulting/ delivery business. When I hear people say "organic is too expensive" what I believe they really mean is "I don't have time to cook whole foods."
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But what is the technical definition of organic? I read something that said it includes the use of human waste for fertilization.
Ew. Compost and manure are common fertilizers, but I've never heard of human feces used. What have you been reading?
I don’t remember now. But it was recently.
True. At least one city I know of processes sewage into fertilizer. They label it as such, and while they claim it's "safe and effective," they don't recommend it for vegetable gardens. For some reason, it's cheap as . . . well, obviously.
So once again the government tells the people not to believe their lyin' eyes. In essence, "You aren't hurting financially; you're just too stupid to distinguish between social media and real life."
I'm not doing "social" media anymore--deleted my Facepoop account in January of '21 and was on MeWe for about 18 months--deleted that one in November of '22. I'm on THIS GROUP and that's about it. C & C has become a GATHERING PLACE and LIFE LINE for "moi".
THANK YOU, Atty. Jeff Childers!!
They did the same thing during the Obama years- economy was doing great! Nothing to see here! But social media was just a fledgling back then.
I haven’t been to McDonald’s in a few years. Last week I was starving for midafternoon snack and McDonald’s was the only option within walking distance. Upon entering, there were no order takers, just 4 large screen ordering stations. I paid $7.82 for a small fry and extra small chocolate milkshake. My McDonald’s days are officially over. I hope to hear from Taylor Lorenz soon.
Those kiosks are one reason I don't go to McD's. Another reason is that our local one was remodeled and now reminds me of a Soviet gulag.
Truly depressing. I was in a remodeled McDonald's yesterday and all I could think was how absolutely hopeless it felt in there. All gray. Screens. No joy whatsoever.
here is my fav:
Round Egg
$2.39
(70 Cal.)
Quantity
1
I much prefer hexagon eggs, but sadly, I can't afford them anymore. ~sigh~
Sadly, the "round egg" == a real egg as opposed to the overly processed scrambled eggs.
We were at Rosa's the other day - ordered a breakfast bowl for $5, but it must have been at least 3-4 eggs' worth + meat. It was pretty good and I remember being pretty surprised at the amount of food - especially compared to McDonald's. :/
Yes, I was just kidding. But, that is probably why they have to dumb down the verbage on menu items. People's head would explode if you added "over easy, over medium, medium, hard" to that line up.
exactly!! Too much choice would confuse us.
Yeah, and they're a little rough on the hens.
The round egg is cracked and fried on the premises. If you get a folded egg, it is cooked then frozen somewhere else. Always ask for the round egg.
I worked at McDonald's as a teen. Had a few favourite menu items at the time. A few weeks ago I saw my fav come back (sweet chili chicken wrap). I had to have it for nostalgia sake.. I nearly barfed. The tortilla was like eating paper.
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$11 recently for me- quarter pounder and fries! No soda pop.
First saw those touchscreens in Paris, France in 2014. I asked a friend why there was no one working the counter, he told me that the cost of labor in Paris is so high and impossible to fire once hired, McDonald's went with the touchscreens to make the burger cost affordable. If the states in the US keep jacking up minimum wage (looking at you Cali), all of the fast food industry will go touchscreen ordering, too.
when I was a kid, the big, fancy thing that screamed you were rich was the "50 dollar lunch". I took my friend out to lunch for her birthday a few weeks ago at Aladdin's, which is not fast food, but not Michelin-starred dining either, and the check was $50, before tip ... for basically tasty vegetables and a supreme tahini dressing. Not that celebrating my friend isn't worth $50, but it was Aladdin's. Not even Applebee's. And regularly, when my family of 3 goes out to dinner ... with cocktails, (admittedly, we usually need more than one by that point in the week), the check is regularly around $150. A stinking Old Fashioned with mid-tier bourbon is now a $15 drink. 1st world, laptop-class problems ... a fair accusation, but the prices are up for everything, and inflation or not, retailers and establishments rose prices when everyone (except the unvaxxed) were getting free covid money, and prices are not likely coming back down.
$15 taco plates at Mexican restaurants here now. Even Vietnamese bowls went from $8 to $15. Inflation at restaurants is at 100% and will never drop. They’ll close the business before dropping prices.
And in the end, it’s all junk food. Going out to eat isn’t that fun anymore. Recently I took my son to 5 guys. 2 burgers, 1 fry, 1 drink. $36. I said never again! It’s junk food!
Five guys is horrible. They all pretty much suck.
i like Five Guys, but on my most recent (now multiple months ago) trip, my burger, fries and coke cost me $22(!)
Beats the crap outta the $160 meal for two at Red Lobster, though.
I live in rural AZ and no fast food in town. A local non profit built a commercial kitchen a few years back people can use A number of local people are making great affordable dinners.
I treated a friend to a birthday dinner at Cheesecake Factory this past weekend. I didn't even have an entree, just a small salad and dessert. She had a full meal. Our bill came to $98 before tip. That is outrageous and about twice what it would have been just a few years ago!
Aladdin's is great, but like every place else, prices have gone well past double. Every place has. My favorite Mexican restaurant has. They actually charge a surcharge to use a credit card, so I always pay cash. I heard this is common now with many restuarants.
And look for the menu small print advising that they’re automatically adding a 3% (or more) ‘tip’ to your bill. Not all do this but some sneak it in.
They were pretty up front about it. The bill actually comes with two amounts - one for cash and one for credit. I'll check that out if I ever go any place else to eat and thanks for the heads up.
I've seen this too, cash discount.
Agree. We don't eat out very often, but the last couple times we have, have been eye-opening to say the least. And yes, even lunch at a regular-Joe establishment is not the $12 affair it once was.
Yep, I do more extensive meal planning now, and vacuum seal whatever leftovers I can and save in the freezer for a later date. Perhaps that's why the "$15 Old Fashioned" was shocking to me, because we don't go out very often anymore.
Plus it doesn’t taste as good as it used to either. I’m a good cook too, but sometimes I need a break. It kills me to go out though... a mid priced meal for two is my grocery budget for the week.
Same here. Sometimes I wish it could be just a nice treat to go out to eat and have something new and tasty but it winds up not being what I think it will be.
YES! Sometimes we want to go out and then look at each and one of us says, "We'll just be disappointed!" And then we figure something out. I am an excellent cook, too, and really do love to cook, but dang it, I want a break occasionally. I feel ya.
Exactly!
Wife suggested we go to Red Lobster (which I generally avoid, but it was Friday and seafood was limited here in Angus country.)
Bill: $160 for two. Not exaggerating. It included an appetizer and two sangrias, but no dessert.
Ugh! Red Lodster, even with their "specials" is too far north in price for many... Not as crowded for lunch anymore and the crowds that used to wait outside in the evening for a seat inside have all but disappeared. Now and again, mostly on Fridays we notice a dozen or so waiting when it used to be upwards to 35 or more. We live within a mile of a formerly extremely busy one, have to drive by it on our way out of the neighborhood. Can't help but notice...
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geez...learn to cook
Oh, I cook all the time, I'm a home chef. But your presumption that I don't know how to cook is cute. I won't be shamed for eating. My point was about how shockingly high the increase in prices is on choices that previously didn't need too much evaluation.
I love to cook, but sometimes it’s fun NOT cooking. Now, when you feel robbed, it loses is charm.
My go-to rant is about the ridiculous up-charge high-end restaurants do for ordering a bottle of wine. Recent trip for a great steak dinner for two was north of $300. I'm okay with that.
But what I am increasingly angry about is they charged me $90 for a bottle of wine I could've bought locally for less than $20. I mean COME ON! HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?
It's gotten so bad that I'm just not gonna participate in getting screwed like this.
Most of us totally understood you!
Totally get where you’re coming from, sometimes it’s nice to have a break from cooking (and deciding what to make! 😆 That’s almost worse for me sometimes!).
Ouch! Let’s not be petty and judgy among our own! We must stick together!
Cooking is all well and good, but also fraught with new challenges as the quality and quantity of grocery store food is on the dramatic decline (at least where I am currently living).
It is also an acquired skill. There are many times when beginners at the skill would prefer a prepared dinner that they can actually eat as opposed to a half-baked attempt at something that the dog would turn his nose up at.
So with just the two of us for thanksgiving, I do all the peripherals but just get a breast as turkey is a little difficult to freeze, even in a deep freeze. But I recently bought a vacuum packer thingy, and have just a freezer full of seafood in there now, I repack everything as soon as I get home with it. I digress.
I went to-get the breast this year, and it was 5.49 a pound. So a five pound breast was 26.98. A whole 21 pound turkey on the other hand, was .69 cents a pound. So that turkey cost me a whopping 14.50. Needless to say, I spent a good part of two days stripping and packaging, but it came out so good. But imagine looking at those prices and trying to wrap your head around their methodology.
I went to one of my favorite restaurants.....in the $$ to $$$ range. I ordered a glass of wine, one which is sold at Costco for $12/bottle. I was gobsmacked when I saw the cost for ONE GLASS of wine was $21. I now order beer and buy my wine at Costco.
Do you mind sharing the restaurant name? Curious
Hubby and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant two weeks ago and walked out of their place paying $44 per person. And we did get a margarita with it. My meal was a poblano chicken and pasta dish. It was delish but wasn't worth $24...
My hubs and I went to a nice Italian place on Sunday and made it out under $40 plus tip and both had enough leftovers for a second meal - technically it was only $20 as our local city is doing a BOGO gift card program to help local small businesses which we have taken full advantage of. Win, win!
Love the “anti-Disney Christmas” idea. Do it please parents and grandparents.
I went to the drive in over the weekend -yep, it's still open in Columbus! On one screen, they had the horror/comedy "Thanksgiving" and the other side was Disney "Wish". The horror side was well attended, even though it was nearly at 32 degrees by the end of the movie. I drove out and saw all of 4 cars at Disney. Believe me, Disney is sinking. Good.
Little jealous of your drive ins
I love our drive in. They are crowded as all get out in the summer. They took a vote this year to see if people would still come in November, which isn't exactly a warm month here, and got a great response. I've been 3 times in November and they are still doing a good business. Ticket price went from $8.50 to $10 per adult this year, but considering that's for a double and sometimes triple feature, I don't mind one bit.
😍😍 we went to so many drive in movies when I was a kid. Watched the first starwars there..all the Herbie the love bug movies. Great times. went from the microphones on windows to using our radios by the time they were almost done.
I admire your "pluck"--I prefer to "stream video" my movies for FREE on Tubi--great streaming video platform--discovered it through my friend in November of '21.
I love Tubi, too. It's on often over here. But there's just something about sitting in a car, under the stars or moon, eating tasty food (even if it isn't exactly real food) from the concession stands and watching a movie with the radio blasting the soundtrack. I don't hear well so it helps me to b able to turn it up as loud as I need to hear things. The drive in is also good at playing classic movies, especially in the fall. Maybe it's just a comfort activity for me. :)
Comfort activity works for "moi" - you enjoy yourself...sounds like Columbus knows how to take care of it's REAL and LEGAL citizens!! You do mean the Columbus in OH--right?
I love drive ins too and am glad we have a couple of them left around here!
GOOD news indeed--thanks for giving me my "morning moral sunshine moment", Four!!
Disney has been bad for quite some time. 15 years ago I had the unfortunate experience of watching Disney’s afterschool programming for girls. It was HORRIBLE. Nothing but shallow consumerism, mean girl behavior, and treating boys like they were an inferior life form. Seems we are currently reaping the “benefit” of girls raised on this garbage.
We have never given anything Disney and steer clear of their programming. Only thing we did was go to the park one time.
Already done! 😉
A "cheap Chinese frozen meat product" ... that's Childers Code for a Bug-Burger!
now a note about the Pfizer lawsuit. None of this surprises me. Not one bit. I worked at Pfizer in two different capacities during my career ... as a scientist and as a global marketer, about 20 years apart. When I was a scientist early in my career, what I remember most was when we would do experiments on promising compounds under study, let's say we ran 10 experiments, even if 9 of them produced a negative result/not what we wanted to see, we would have to replicate the experiment as many times as needed to get a sufficient quantity of supportable data for the 1 result that turned out positive. So 90% of the time, the drug would not work as we wanted, but 10% of the time it did ... that's what we were instructed to replicate, the 10%. So, fast forward to the covid 'studies' ... I only needed to read the clinical trial design documents that were publicly available through clinicaltrials.gov to see that they were still doing "10% science" because the bridging study for the 11 - 15 age group relied on "10%" of trial's *adult* cohort, to 'bridge' efficacy. Formerly being one of their global marketers for biosimilars, I knew immediately that this wasn't appropriate, even if not empirically unexpected. So that Quillivant studies were faked/falsified/created out of thin air, does not surprise me in the least. even their best seller viagra ... the original intent was a different indication ... a "10%" indication instead of the fact that no one performing the preclinical animal studies noticed that dogs/monkeys/guinea pigs/rats were likely showing them 'the hard evidence' for a better indication.
I fail to understand hie whiny Taylor Lorenz is still working. She is a slime ball. My sense is she has missed her true calling; selling used cars.
Unfair to used car salesmen (& women).
She sure is a whiner...and she is older than she claims.
The age thing caught my attention.
I agree. A couple of weeks ago we were listening to a conservative morning radio talk show in Phoenix. They had Taylor Lorenz on--interviewing her about something. I was so flabbergasted that I didn't pay attention to what they were talking about. It was like my brain went on short circuit and I couldn't pay attention.