[Eater] To be able to stop at almost any Southern gas station and have a good, inexpensive meal is an American tradition rooted in Black survival and entrepreneurship
Scanning the aisles of small, locally owned gas stations in the South is like taking a step back in time. Few other places stock old-school Necco Wafers, Mary Janes, Bit-O-Honeys, and Chick-O-Sticks alongside foods like pickled eggs, pickled sausages, gizzards, barbeque, and pound cake. At Dodge’s Southern Style, a gas station between Ravenel and Johns Island, South Carolina, you’ll find fried chicken, biscuits, fried hand pies, and country ham on the menu next to a variety of nabs (crackers with peanut butter or cheese) and all the chips you can imagine. At Spinx, a gas station chain with locations across the South, there’s rice and beans, mac and cheese conveniently contained in an easy to carry bowl, or loaded biscuit sandwiches with all the fixins to pick up and take on the road.
In the South, you can have a full-on Sunday meal while you fill up your tank. But as much as the gas station seems unchanging, this convenience — specifically, the accessibility of this kind of convenience — has evolved. What seems so conventional to us now, to be able to stop at almost any gas station and have a good, inexpensive meal, is rooted in Black survival and entrepreneurship. And, of course, the standout foods you’ll find at Southern gas stations have their roots in African American culture.
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Six-month old baby in serious condition with post-COVID symptoms
How fortunate that the version of Covid that escaped from the CCP lab rarely causes babies and children much distress, such that testing positive and showing serious symptoms are not often combined. This summer Mr. Wife's niece’s toddler suddenly became ill enough that she took him to the emergency room at the hospital where she works as nurse in the Covid ward. He tested positive, but four hours later felt well enough to run around the backyard with his older brothers.
#13
I'm sure all those babies were conservative Trump fans, so they deserve what they got, right, G?
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Nurse retired rather than label DX covid. Administration at hospital trying to keep the crisis alive.
Despondent fellow shot himself dead after his wife of 33 years left him. DX, covid so the wife collected $200,000 and the hospital I understand collects $38,000 for covid DX.
The media is corrupted.
Such a fast recovery suggests to me DX was incorrect.
Now they are claiming Deer's have covid in my area when I had asked a vet if pets could catch covid and he said no. I suggest China test swabs are contaminated.
#18
NEW covid19 vaccine breakthrough data...
From last week
MN reports 4,749 cases, 195 hospitalizations, and 25 deaths among the vaccinated since last week's report.
34% of covid19 deaths are among the vaccinated.
If 34% of covid deaths are among the vaccinated–a percentage that, so far, continues to rise–it would seem that the vaccines have been vastly oversold, and efforts to force people to get them cannot be justified.
There may be an important qualification to that conclusion, however: it depends on how meaningful the concept of a “covid death” is. As has been true throughout the epidemic, those who contract covid and later die are overwhelmingly old and sick.
Look especially at the relative risk of dying if you are infected and you are 29 and under versus 85 and older. At 29 and under you have a 3100 times less risk of dying. If you are 39 and under, you have an 1100 times less risk of dying. Those are staggering differences in risk, and they are almost certainly understated, as many infections in the younger groups go undetected. Now ask yourself how the response to the epidemic made any sense at all. It couldn’t have been stupider.
I think it is undoubtedly true that the vaccines’ performance has been, to some degree, disappointing. The qualifying factor is that those who have covid and subsequently die are, still, overwhelmingly old and infirm. In many cases, the fact that a dying patient has covid is more or less irrelevant. And no one ever said that being vaccinated would make you immortal.
Still, if a person hadn’t contracted covid despite being vaccinated, he wouldn’t be counted as a “covid death,” no matter how dubious that category may be.
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Everybody is "all in" on their take. COVID religionists won't hear anything that blasphemes their sacrament. Personal freedom people won't hear anything about how "you owe it to everyone else" to knuckle under and submit to the vax.
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle, and both extremes avoid it like the, uh, plague...
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Not even 24 hours after getting Ivermectin, two out of my three patients were almost completely better. They were out of bed walking around and all the crackles I heard in their lungs from the day before were gone. All it took was about 18 hours and one dose of Ivermectin. The third patient who was 95 years old, stayed the same. She didn’t get any worse like she had done the night previous.
I found out later that no sooner had I left Rimbey hospital, the next doctor who came to replace me stopped the antibiotics, stopped all the vitamins, she even stopped the patient’s inhalers. Within hours of my leaving the hospital this doctor even took away the patient’s inhalers, to help her breathe. The patients were not even allowed vitamins.
Thankfully, both my 70 year old patients who had immediate recoveries after a single dose of ivermectin left the hospital that week. I’d like to speak briefly to the healthcare professionals in the crowd: No doctor would take away antibiotics and inhalers for ANY viral pneumonia, never mind COVID. No doctor would do that to ANY patient with a pneumonia. Unless they were… Well I’ll let you think about that. We are remembering Nuremburg after all. And for healthcare professionals, I want us all to think very deeply about that.
But it gets worse, In my brief day and a half in the small town of Rimbey, I saw 2 patients who had recently been discharged from Red Deer Hospital after being on the COVID ward.
They were sent home with NOTHING. Not even an inhaler. These patients ended up in ER at a small hospital wanting help. Just days after being sent home from a tertiary care hospital with nothing.
As I keep trying to say, it's not just about Ivermectin or HCQ. It's about _any treatment at all_.
That's all. You can now return to pretending you care about babies while you withhold treatments and mumble about the inferior races.
#22
I used to think that this kind of demagoguery - accusing your opponents of not thinking - is a trick people like you MM learn because you're uncapable of reasoning debate. And then I realized - it's not a trick. Your kind is simply too self-centered to imagine somebody different from yourselves.
Well, never mind, time to take some rest from this group - which's no longer entertaining (endless slogan canting, misquotations, and outright falsehoods are NOT my idea of engaging conversation).
p.s. Don't be surprised when 2022 midterms yield results confuting (and when some) your expectations.
#23
The truth is that this thing, as dangerous as it is, has been hyped to the moon, and lied about, by people who either don't know WTF they're doing or actually do know that it's a golden opportunity to score political power and extend control.
COVID is nasty, sure. But the people with doubts about the wisdom of lockdowns, or who see all the screwups that have been committed with the data, or who recognize the fact that the vaccines pose a greater risk to young men than COVID does -- these people are raising valid concerns. They are following "the science." They're interpreting the data correctly.
Stop bashing them. Fauci and the doom-ghouls have fucked up before --- remember how they screamed in the late 1980s that AIDS was going to sweep through and infect every other heterosexual? Covers of national news magazines bleating that we were all going to catch AIDS, every one of us, Dorothy and Aubtue Em (and your little dog, too)?
#24
I don't have to imagine people different from myself. They parade before my eyes every day. As for reasoned debate, well, calling people you disagree with "pithecoid' is the very soul of reason, eh?
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#25
you'all are lettin it get to you... calm.... you can do it! Dont let pettyness sunder the "team"
#27
So I am not vaccinated, and yes I finally got Covid. I looked into the Ivermectin and decided to use it. Here is what I found, all the trolling crap aside. First, this virus works the body in basically three stages. First is the asymptomatic phase, pretty self explanatory. Second is the virus stage, like the flu - so to speak. And third is the infection stage, this comes after the virus stage as the bodys immune system is so beat down you are susceptible to anything. This is whats being put to our medical community, and is playing out to be true with my body.
So we have to realize there is no curing this virus, the body has to run its course with it. So those that say Ivermectin will not cure Covid are right, partially. It does however, help the body to absorb Zinc, which is critical in fighting viruses. I also took a light antibiotic to help keep the infection under control during the virus week. And then I took a number of vitamins to help the immune system. A hand full. I took Claritin, and two nose sprays to keep my sinuses clear, drainage into the lungs is bad. Now that the first sick stage is over I'm still taking the vitamins, stopped the ivermectin. I'm taking a stronger antibiotic for this third week.
I have approached this from an immune boosting perspective. I know that when I switched to taking the Ivermectin I noticed a difference. But to be fair, I have only had this virus once, so I dont have a control group here. I believe looking at how cancer patients care for their immune system is a good model. Make the body as strong as possible. For me keeping my lungs clear was most important. So far so good.
I'm not recommending this, just sharing. While the doctors are not allowed to treat, politics are driving medical decisions, and group fear has taken over, I did the only thing that made sense in my research, to bolster my immune system. So far so good.
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#49 Spot on. React as quickly as possible. Control sinus drainage. Boost immune system. Give the body what it needs to win the war. Now you must go 2-3 months with no re-occurrence. You see the sinuses harbor the little nasties for quite awhile. Poor circulation, check, normal body temperature, check, low oxygen levels, check and a conducive blood chemistry. So as you are aware eyes, ears, nose, throat and lungs are connected. So when the opportunity to strike occurs it flares up again. Then it can migrate to each area just by swallowing. I'm a bit gabby but that's how I have managed not to have a cold or flu for at least thirty years. I beat asthma and bronchitis some forty years ago. I was born with asthma.
#33
"He tested positive, but four hours later felt well enough to run around the backyard with his older brothers." This sort of COVID-19 infection is typical for about 99+% of the 18 and younger age group who contract COVID-19. Back in the days before everyone got tested, a great many children survived their bout of COVID, unnoticed by the parents as having anything out of the ordinary. Now those young "victims" are immune.
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49 Pan: I have a minor rather than a major suggestion: Quercetin (which will help with the zinc) and NAC. Oh, and B-Complex. All that may already be on your list, however.
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Both of these people are fools, and are full of confidence about their totally biased opinions. afghanistan, like many African countries, consisted for many centuries as collection of self governing tribes, with a loose general government. This kind of structure lasted for centuries, because the people were reasonably happy with it. The enjoyed their festivals and celebrations as well as their life styles, though by modern standards they mostly lived in poverty. The good thing about it was it was stable,. The bad thing about it to Western eyes was that it wast too stable., and did not allow progress and prosperity.
The trouble with Western attempts to change these things, (which includes the Russian attempts) have been both arrogant and inept at all levels. They have led to much more harm to the citizens than help.
neither seems to realize that pure democracy is not the American system and does not work at all in a tribal society especially when there is a dominant tribe. It exists nowhere. Giving power to a new elite corrupts it and corruption at the top leads to corruption that spreads throughout the society and the corruption of the Clintons and Biden is doing the same thing to us now.
Scott Horton seems to believe Russian propaganda completely. His knowledge of history is weak, while Kristol is senile.
The two parts of Ukraine have very different histories and many in the East speak Russian; they sometimes behave like different tribes, Rivaly between their leaders is no surprise. Ihe present elected leader of Ukraine a Jew but to Horton it is a den of Nazis.
Have either wondered how the two most violent countries in the 1940s became the two most peaceful and humble people ever since?
The traditional views of the first world war are all wrong. a ccording to the latest theories. It was the German General Staff that forced the war on everyone.
And do yo know why? Because it knew that it had a fantastic advantage over the Russians that could disappear at any moment.
And do you know what it was?
The Russians, in modernizing their army had adopted use of the radio, a relatively knew invention, and made all of its communications through radio signals. In their innocence about it, they neglected to encode their messages, and the Germans were able to hear them all,. They knew exactky where all Russian forces were and where they were going. That information mmmadeit possible for them to disrupt all Russian plans and to attack the Russian armies at exactly where they could not resist. The battles of Tannenberg and the MAsurian Lakes, and all other battles between them were easy German victories. because of this advantage. And the German general staff feared that the Russians at any moment could remedy their blunder.
The war in the West took place entirely in France and Belgium, and left Germany untouched. Not only that, the Germans lost their allies, Bulgaria, Turkey and Austria Hungary before the American offensive in the Argonne began.
They were trying to arrange peace then. Wilson was actually pro-German. and his 14 points were created in Germany. He only got pushed into the war because of the abominable Anti-American behavior of German agents in this country, including sabotage and the famous Zimmerman telegram attempting to recruit Mexico as German ally
That Germany started the war and should pay nothing to countries which had suffered the most from it.
The Germans also took Lenin to Russia to overthrow the Kerensky democracy. and surrender to the Germans.
Our betrayals of allies started with Chang Kai Shek. Our Chinese exoerts all hated him and loved Mao, and were delighted when we stook his best armies and brought them to the cities of the North while the Communists occupied the countryside. Chang would not agree to Mao's terms, and we cut off supplies to those armies. This left them to starve or make terms with Mao.
All the academic experts were delighted, It was only when millions starved to death in Mao's paradise, while Taiwan under the hated Chang became an economic powerhouse, did anyone realize that Chang was right and the idiot Mao was wrong.
the current leaders of China seem to have forgotten that.
#3
Bill Kristol is merely a “Conservative”. After driving The Weekly Standard into bankruptcy, and sucking up tens of millions of Progressive dollars in a failed attempt to attract conservative readers with a replacement, he showed his true colours last November:
Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now.
The man is an intellectual fraud. As for the other person, I’m afraid I regard professional Libertarians with as much respect as Mr. Kristol. Nor does an internet search suggest he has anything illuminating to say.
#4
Libertarian = "Legalized marijuana is the answer to everything."
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Clearly in love with sound of their own voice.
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As a Libertarian (note the large "L"), I have mixed feelings about Scott Horton and his LI (Libertarian Institute), whose podcasts I listen to regularly. There is good and bad to be found there from the perspective of a reasonable American Libertarian.
First, I think it's important to recognize that the LI probably gets money from the Russians. It literally shares some staff with Russian Today. Which isn't always 100% a bad thing; but it bears keeping in mind, as it's reflected in the LI's reporting of international affairs. Which can be objectively extremely illuminating, if also extremely biased.
And what is that bias? It's simple, really. Scott Horton has spent so many years criticizing the United States military, Saudi Arabia, and Israel that he's lost all objectivity and gone completely around the bend. He rails tirelessly against both, but ignores or glosses over abuses by China, Russia, Iran, the Palestinians, or anyone else. I don't think he even does it on purpose at this point. It's become second nature to him.
Of course, Horton isn't the only person who works at the LI, and not everyone there is in lock step with him. But when the Libertarian convention happens next year in Reno, I'm going to go and see what I can do personally about sidelining Horton. His voice isn't helpful to anyone right now.
Oh, on a side note: I don't smoke pot. Or drink. Or do anything else that would get in the way of reading Ludwig Von Mises, Murry Rothbard, or Hans Hoppe from the quite of my library.
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Thank you for that thoughtful and sensible insider’s perspective, Secret Master. You’ve ever been a quiet voice for sense here at Rantburg. Good luck in Reno.
#1
...Brewster was the proverbial one-hit wonder, and that's being generous with the term. The F2A (aka Buffalo)was a screamer in prototype form and the USN's first monoplane fighter, but when little details like radio, armor, etc. were added, it turned into a slug. One commander of a unit equipped with Buffalos stated in an official report that any pilot assigned to one should be considered lost as soon as he left the ground. OTOH, the Finns(!) got some amazing results out of theirs and managed to build a wooden-winged homegrown version that had impressive performance but never got into service.
Brewster also built a variant of the Vought F4U Corsair called the F3A Battler...which was so bad that the USN redlined it from the most basic combat maneuvers (wings kept falling off)and only used it as a limited trainer, and the ones delivered to the Royal Navy apparently went straight to storage and may never have been flown in ANY capacity. It was also notable for a horrifying run of foreign object problems during construction, bad enough that in desperation the Brewster management built a jig that flipped each completed F3A upside down to pop out any potential FOD.
Their last plane was the XA-32 (possibly to have been nicknamed Bear) a single engine attack ship that - had it met its most basic specs - might have been nice to have around had it gotten into service in time. It too was a complete and utter flop, and in 1944 - with the US still needing every single aircraft it could turn out - Brewster ceased aircraft production. They held on until '46 until being quietly dissolved.
Mike
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Thanks for the interesting video. I had read that the Finns were satisfied with the F2A Brewster Buffalo after stripping all of the carrier equipment out -- after losing weight it was quite nimble.
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Who needs battleships when the LCS class is available, engines permitting?
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#2
Warships with one gun, and an automated one, just seem to be planned for failure. As long as it works and systems are optimal great, but redundancy just seems to make sense, as does a fully manual mode as a final backup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-inch/38-caliber_gun
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