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The Million-Dollar Kid

A report showed that a 6-year-old unvaccinated boy from Oregon was [infected] with tetanus, the state's first case of its kind in nearly 30 years. The young boy contracted the disease after he cut his forehead while playing outside on a farm, according to a report released by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday that details the 2017 case.

The boy’s parents reportedly cleaned and stitched his cut at home. Roughly a week later, the boy began to cry as his limbs involuntarily spasmed and his jaw began to clench tight.

In total, the boy required nearly “8 weeks of inpatient care, followed by rehabilitation care, before he was able to resume normal activities,” the CDC said in the report. Excluding the costs of air transportation, inpatient rehabilitation and ambulatory follow-ups, inpatient charges for the boy totaled $811,929. But despite “extensive review of the risks and benefits of tetanus vaccination by physicians,” the boy’s parents declined a second dose of the tetanus-fighting medication and “any other recommended immunizations.” 

Obviously, the farmers aren't going to come up with over a million dollars to pay for their own anti-vax intransigence, so you and I get to pay via higher medical/health insurance costs. Lovely, isn't it?

These nuts are really starting to become more than an irritant; they're a menace.

 

EEE-AW, EEE-AW, EEE-AW

Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, blasted Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her epic environmental ignorance and hypocrisy. Moore was reacting to news that AOC is a rabid user of gas-guzzling car services like Uber and Lyft. Meanwhile, she tells everyone else that we should take the bus — or the world will end in 12 years.

AOC, America's Official Crackpot.

Patrick Moore: Replying to @AOC
Pompous little twit. You don’t have a plan to grow food for 8 billion people without fossil fuels, or get the food into the cities. Horses? If fossil fuels were banned every tree in the world would be cut down for fuel for cooking and heating. You would bring about mass death.

In all, Ocasio-Cortez spent $29,365.70 on those emissions-spewing vehicles, along with car and van rentals — even though her Queens HQ was a one-minute walk to the 7 train. She listed 1,049 transactions for Uber, Lyft, Juno and other car services, federal filings show.

Well, she's Uber-important now!

But wait! There's more:

As BizPac Review reported, Ocasio-Cortez is still reeling from the volcanic bipartisan backlash she stirred when she chased Amazon out of New York.

Alfredo Ortiz, the CEO of the Job Creators Network, ripped OAC for promoting socialism, a failed ideology that caused the once-prosperous Venezuela to crater into poverty.

“Socialism takes and capitalism creates,” Ortiz said. “Socialism took away 25,000 to 40,000 great-paying jobs. We calculated somewhere between $4 billion to $6 billion in lost wages for New Yorkers.”

“We have economic illiteracy in this country. [Ocasio-Cortez] is taking a victory lap while thousands of people lost the American dream.”

Such criticism triggers America's Official Crackpot, who took to social media to complain (naturally).

 

Panera Cares Stops Caring

Panera Bread has shuttered the last of its ideologically driven "pay what you want" restaurants. The socialist-tinged ventures were called "Panera Cares" and the higher-ups have finally figured out that "caring" is not synonymous with "viable business model." On February 15, the final Panera Cares, located in Boston, will close.

Under the model championed by the company’s founder Ron Shaich, the restaurant operated like a typical Panera, but offered meals at a suggested donation price, with the goal of raising awareness about food insecurity. You know who's probably suffering from food insecurity? The employees of Panera Cares who are no longer employed and no longer receive paychecks.

Heck of a concept there, Ron!

Failure was guaranteed; it just took them a while to figure that out. The "Democratic Socialists" are doubtless outraged by this development. But they're staying awfully quiet, for some reason.

 

Kentucky Sheriff To Residents: Lock And Load

Martin County Sheriff John Kirk had a concerning message for residents after funding didn’t come through: you’re on your own.

Given the level of cuts that had to be made, the sheriff warned residents to prepare to defend themselves, since the police department could no longer offer their services.

“We have always provided police protection but without the funding, we can no longer do this,” Kirk said. “FOLKS, LOCK YOUR DOORS, LOAD YOUR GUNS AND GET YOU A BARKING, BITING DOG. If the Sheriff’s office can’t protect you, WHO WILL?”

Part of the budgeting problem stems from a decline in coal revenue, which the Lexington Herald-Leader reported dropped from $34 million in the Fiscal Year 2012 to just $6.7 million in the Fiscal Year 2018.

Looks like Barry and Pantsuit made good on their promise to put a lot of coal miners out of work.

Coal is bad; solar, wind, and biomass are good, according to Green Religion. But wind and solar produce energy purely on an intermittent basis, whereas biomass, coal, and natural gas produce base loads. And there's a dirty little secret when it comes to the "burning biomass is good, burning coal is bad" mantra: in today's technological environment, given clean-burn coal plants, biomass is presently worse for the environment than coal.

Biomass electricity generation, a heavily subsidized form of “green” energy that relies primarily on the burning of wood, is more polluting and worse for the climate than coal, according to a new analysis of 88 pollution permits for biomass power plants in 25 states. The report found that although wood-burning power plants are often promoted as being good for the climate and carbon neutral, the low efficiency of plants means that they emit almost 50 percent more CO2 than coal per unit of energy produced.

Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal, released this week and delivered to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), concludes that biomass power plants across the country are permitted to emit more pollution than comparable coal plants or commercial waste incinerators, even as they are subsidized by state and federal renewable energy dollars. It contains detailed emissions and fuel specifications for a number of facilities, including plants in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.

Biomass plants are dirty because they are markedly inefficient. The report found that per megawatt-hour, a biomass power plant employing “best available control technology” emits more nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, particulate matter and carbon monoxide than a modern coal plant of the same size. "The American Lung Association has opposed granting renewable energy subsidies for biomass combustion precisely because it is so polluting,” said Jeff Seyler, president and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Northeast. “Why we are using taxpayer dollars to subsidize power plants that are more polluting than coal?”

Why? Two words explain it: Green Religion.

Never let a few facts get in the way of dogma.

 

Oregon Democratics: Going After The Little Guy, As Usual

The carbon tax bill, HB 2020, also known as Carbon Cap-and-Trade would have a big price tag for Oregon small businesses and their customers.

Residential customers in Oregon who use natural gas are likely to see their rates increase by 11 percent—or $74—in 2021, the first year Oregon’s new climate policy and cap and spend bill takes effect, and by 53 percent, or $567, in 2040.

At least I've got a good supply of firewood....

 

 

Clueless As Usual

It seems to go with being a Democratic.

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) said in a Thursday morning hearing of the House Education and Labor Committee that the Chief Executive Officer of McDonald’s gets paid $21.8 million a year while the median earnings for workers at the restaurant chain “who put in 40 hours a day” is $7000 per year. On Thursday evening, Omar tweeted out a video clip of her talking at the hearing about McDonald's workers who put in “40 hours a day.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.) then retweeted Omar’s tweet.

They don't need to be, you know, factually correct - just morally correct. However they choose to define morality at any particular point in time.

 

Pelosi Pans Great Jobs Report

Pelosi on Jobs Report: ‘GOP Attitude Disrespects Workers, Dishonors Our Values and Damages Our Economy’. So to Pelosi, it is the GOPs "attitude". But the GOP polices have created more jobs for workers to choose from which has caused workers wages to increase while booting our economy into high gear.

As for as "our values", some of us don't share many of what she refers to as "our values", such as infanticide.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to a January employment report that showed “nonfarm payroll employment increased by 304,000” during the month by issuing a statement attacking congressional Republicans for embracing an attitude that “disrespects workers”.

Apparently, she resides in an alternate universe. Pantsuit has yet to pipe up; maybe it's finally occurred to her that nobody cares about her or her opinions. Pelosi should eventually figure it out as well.

 

Come The End Of This Month, People May Actually Have To Get A Job

There are about 38 million people currently receiving food stamps and they could all be cut off, forcing them to have to budget like the rest of us. This is terrible news for the Democratics who believe that it's imperative to maintain a dependent class numbering in the millions. As Occasional Cortex and other incoming Socialists insist, the new battle cry from the Left is "free stuff for all". In the meantime...

The U.S. economy surpassed 150,000,000 jobs for the first time ever following the Employment Situation report for December 2018.

That's a great leap forward, but employers are still looking to fill 7 million job openings - with more to come.

Obviously, we need to get more Democratics in there so they can get things back to normal.

 

I Assume They Bought Ammo On Credit Too

Out of the 13 mass shootings that have killed 10 or more people over the past decade, eight of the perpetrators used credit cards to stockpile firearms they otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford, the New York Times' Andrew Sorkin reports.

 

Insidious

When I left college, I had a student loan of $2,000 to repay. Of course, I also worked while in school, and I had a couple of scholarships. So for me, it wasn't a big deal, despite the fact that my parents paid nothing toward college - nor did I expect them to. Once I was out of high school, I didn't live in their home. There were a few hard times, but I managed.

How times have changed. A "fundamental transformation" indeed.

During the Obama years student loan debt increased by nearly 300%.

No wonder so many end up moving back in with mom and dad. And it's probably hard to find a decent job with that degree in gender studies....