The Biden administration is trying to invoke a civil war/uprising by sending armed FBI agents in the middle of the night to invade Trumpie boy's home to get supposedly 16 boxes of documents that might contain secret stuff he isn't allowed to have.

I guess just asking for them politely by knocking on the door with a subpeona is too hard for them. 

And it was justified because apparently someone in his staff (a mole perhaps) noticed a torn photograph in his toilet, the suggestion being that if the FBI didn't quickly raid his home with armed agents in the middle of the night to examine these so called secret papers, that Trump might finally, after 16 months, get around to personally flushing 16 boxes of secret papers down his toilet. 

What, no shredders available? Duh.

The implications is that a busy president stole them deliberatly. So he had nothing better to do than pack up these papers (what, no staff)? 

And if the staff did this, given the huge percentage of moles among his staff, onc has to wonder: could it be a set up?. 

For that matter, why papers at all, when emails and top secret stuff could be scanned to hard drives, which of course could be destroyed after they are subpeonad, or ignored, as is being done to Hunter Biden's computer and the client list of Epstein.

Ironically, the right wing conspiracy sites say it isn't about the papers: it is the FBI trying to invoke the right wing nut cases to do something rash, like shoot up the Senate baseball game or try to shoot a Supreme court justice... oh, sorry. Those things were done by nut cases inspired by the rhetoric of the left.

This is the theatre of the absurd, and you know that it is absurd when even ex Gov Cuomo says WTF.

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StrategyPage has a nice summary of the problems facing the Philippines: Mainly corruption and China, who is behind a lot of the corruption and behind the drugs here of course. 

China has been trying to bribe the Philippines with "help" so we don't notice they are decimating the fish stocks in the West Philippine sea, not to mention trying to steal our petroleum resources there.

Efforts to reduce the Chinese threat includes reducing corrupt Chinese influence in the Philippines. That is the main reason why the new Filipino government is canceling three Chinese financed railroad construction projects worth nine billion dollars. This was part of a $24 billion Chinese proposal for projects that improved Filipino ports and transportation networks. Cancelation of these projects has been under consideration for over a year because of vague loan terms and Chinese failure to perform. The Chinese are believed to be using the loan program as a weapon to coerce the Philippines into making concessions in the South China Sea....

the greens here who are opposing investing in fossil fuels (i.e. don't let local businesses pressure the gov't to pressure China to let them drill in our traditional waters). This group of greens include the Catholic bishops, one does wonder if China is sort of encouraging this idea. 

I mean, it is an open secret that the Vatican's deal with China (arranged by the pedophile McCarrick) went through because China bribed them with money to betray the Catholic believers and let the communists take over the church.

Sigh. So much corruption in so many places.\

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The latest monkey pox news is that someone "discovered" you could use a smaller dosage of the vaccine by giving the vaccine subcutaneously. Well, duh.

Did the US get around to importing the millions of dosese they stored in Denmark? Who knows. 

Just like no one knows why it is taboo to say it is being spread by promiscuous MSM, or that the government that closed churches for 2 years won't close raves and other places where this is being spread. 

The reason no one will shut these high risk festivals down is politics, of course: They remember when Diane Feinstein faced a recall after trying to shut down the bath houses that were the source of a local hepatitis and Syphillis outbreak.

1986 Jan. 23: Mayor Dianne Feinstein told a U.S. Conference of Mayors session on AIDS that gay organizations in San Francisco "will regret" opposing her campaign to close the city's bathhouses. "It has been established that the bathhouses contribute to the spread of AIDS and they ought to be closed," Feinstein said. She said that her two-year campaign to close the bathhouses has been blocked by courts and gay groups "who have turned this into a civil rights issue rather than a public health issue.

As for the kids who caught it: well, if you have a lesion and don't wash your hands, you can spread it to kids. 

so maybe those diagnosed with lesions, or those with lesions who suspect they might be infected, should just self isolate? 

Or should the government legally impose isolation on those who are still infectious: i.e. people with active disease, as we used to do for scarlet fever, measles, etc. and indeed do with those exposed to Covid (here in the Philippines,

For example, here in the Philippines, Dr. Angie had to self isolate three times last year because she was exposed to someone, and the bank had to close down twice last year fot the same reason. Ruby, on entering the Philippines, had to go into ten days of strict isolation even though she had been vaccinated in the USA. 

And yes, the Philippines isolated the person who came to the Philippines with monkey pox, and also isolated his ten contacts.

in contrast, in the USA, the CDC recommends isolation but adds:

Ideally, people with monkeypox would remain in isolation for the duration of illness, which typically lasts two to four weeks. However, if a person with monkeypox is unable to remain fully isolated throughout the illness, they should do the following:

they then list obvious things like wearing a mask for a disease that is spread by skin to skin contact. 

But of course unless there is someone checking that the patients are actually staying isolated, and this includes arresting those who break quarantine, the precautions are nonsense.

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I have pretty well been ignoring the news from the Ukraine, but apparently the danger is now about attacking a nuclear power plant.

 Dr. C has a headsup about what is going on there: