In junior high, almost 55 years ago, I would almost get beaten up because I would tell the "cool" kids how stupid smoking was :) The very idea of PURPOSELY BREATHING IN SMOKE should be enough to let anyone know how stupid and unhealthy it is, without even considering carcinogen content. One thing I've noticed in the past decades is that almost nobody over the age of 18 starts smoking, because by that age, they have some common sense and some resistance to peer pressure.
It is pretty amazing how they were able to create an entire industry out of thin air! I'm sure there are many other products that only have interest, and a long history of being popular, due to advertising and marketing. (pet rocks didn't last though :) )
And since this was allowed to happen to get U.S. to be in favor of entering WWII, it is not a stretch at all to consider that the 9/11 attacks were allowed to happen to get the U.S. (population) to be in favor of all things anti-terrorism. A few thousand people being murdered is a minor thing to these evil people.
I read (well, it was so detailed I mostly skimmed :) ) a book about the attack, and it is completely obvious it was allowed to happen. FDR had a group who's sole purpose was to work out things that would aggravate Japan! That was just one of many things that make it obvious.
I met a rheumatologist the other day and mentioned that I was doing the vitamin C and Lysine therapy as a possibly effective treatment for arteriosclerosis, and she said she had never heard of it. I would think if you are reasonably well-read in medical things, you would have at least heard of this, but I guess it's possible that such non-Big-Pharma treatments are totally off the radar for the medical establishment. I didn't want to start asking what she thought of covid, because it was a small-group church gathering.
I've long thought that the U.S. should pull all military back to U.S., withdraw all ambassadors, pull back all foreign aid agencies and personnel, and let the world see what it would be like without the U.S. (just for a year should be enough :) )
So if they absolutely prove the election was stolen in 2020, will the Supreme Court (which would seem to be the only way to "certify" the action) rule that the pardons issued by Biden are null and void, so that the prosecutions of these criminals can proceed?
My dentist is truly way better than most in our area, and because of that, he doesn't have to deal with insurance, and is fully booked with patients (although he is getting pretty old, so I don't know who I'll eventually need to switch to). I had a really bad experience with a bad dentist about 20 years ago (one on a dental insurance plan). He over-drilled a tooth that eventually rotted and had to be pulled. I suspected there might be a problem with the guy when I saw that he was living in Manhattan, yet had a dental practice way up in Dutchess County (I would be willing to bet he was running away from either horrible reviews in the city, or outright loss of license there).
My teeth are getting brittle with age :) An upcoming crown will be the second in less than two years, on a tooth that had a root canal three years ago. (I think they messed up when they did it, because it shouldn't have a huge cavity now)
This has been obvious for several years when they determined that ANY person living in the U.S. can be counted in a census! What could be funny though, is if they are successful in deporting most illegals, then those areas that got over-counted by the census might actually vote more Republican after their batch of Democrats are deported.
I'm weighing whether to get dental insurance, but my dentist doesn't take insurance (because he is that good). So if I did a plan where you can get some money back for dentists not in their "network", the math doesn't work out for it to be worth it, even with an upcoming crown.
The thing I hate about all of these "green energy" initiatives is that they are based on the "climate change" scam. It seems like even conservatives fall back to the "oh, fossil fuels are bad and dirty, so even if "climate change" is a scam, it's great to pursue these alternative energy sources". Just because a part of something is good does not mean you support something that is based on a lie.
They listed inflation adjusted costs of various U.S. taxpayer funded things this morning on the Pat Gray Unleashed show and it's pretty incredible what USED to be accomplished, such as the Hoover Dam costing about a billion dollars (current U.S. dollars), and the entire NASA budget associated with moon landings only being a few tens of billions? (going hazy on numbers :) )
I'm wondering if the whole evidence set to make it seem like it was some disgruntled policy holder or relative of a policy holder is just cover for an actual, professional, hitman. Even an amateur wouldn't leave such blatant evidence, especially the gun and backpack. Why wouldn't he just bring them with him when he fled the city?