Undeniably Right

I saw another post from a member of the meme brigade. This was a post of a meme that claimed DOGE cuts are gutting cancer research and people are dying. The proudly ignorant member of the brigade that posted it said, in so many words, without government funding, cancer patients will die. A number of other people liked or loved his post. It seems to me that it takes a lot of work to remain this ignorant.

Based upon figures from several sources including the American Cancer Society, in the United States alone, about $57 billion is spent on cancer research each year. Funding from the federal government ranges from $7-8 billion annually. Just under 15% of all funding. That doesn't sound like gutting the funding at all. I'm not saying it isn't significant but, gutting funding implies a much higher percentage would be gone.

I guess we'll have to listen to discover the difference?

Sorry I forgot to post this last week, so you get two from Mike today.

One of the undeniable truths of life in my world is that we underestimate the average person's ability to understand complex issues. Many of these issues are not as complex as they are made out to be by the so-called subject matter experts. We are told that we can't understand our education system even though most of us went through it and know what worked and didn't work.  We are told that medical, scientific, and legal issues cannot be understood by the common man. That is very wrong and history proves otherwise.

That takes us to the latest episode of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Tylenol and autism. In response to his press conference about the possible link between acetaminophen and increased rates of autism, ADD, and ADHD, the left is telling us once again that Trump and RFK Jr are trying to kill people with their pseudoscience. There is no scientific link between acetaminophen and those conditions. Additionally, autism, ADD, and ADHD are not illnesses and cannot be cured, as Trump is accused of claiming.

When I was in the 7th grade at La Plata junior high school, there was a sign in one of the classrooms. It said, "if ignorance is bliss, why isn't everyone smiling?" We know that ignorance actually results in emotions like frustration and anger. Politicians know this as well, often using the ignorance of the voting masses to create fear and thus motivate them to vote in a certain way or to lash out at their political opponents. The truth is our frustration and anger, not violence, should be directed at those very politicians. They are the ones that created this mess and they are the ones that could fix it if they really wanted to.

Wonder what Mike's take on it is.

The reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk from the left side of the aisle as compared to the right side of the aisle is about what you would think it would be. The left demonstrates happiness saying he got what he deserved. Even those that say no one deserves to be shot will still say he was an inflammatory, divisive, polarizing figure. The right side of the aisle held peaceful vigils and condemned the shooting.

I have a few observations since the media is trying to push the narrative that Donald Trump's hateful rhetoric along with the hateful speech engaged in by Kirk led to his death.

Too much, too little or not at all?