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LMAO - Climate scolds demanding everybody stop eating meat are lining up for the meat buffet and skipping over the vegan buffet.

Reporting from @ClimateDepot at #COP29Baku

11:02 AM · Nov 14, 2024 //

Morano wonders why they would bother to offer the meat version at all, considering it's so bad for the environment that they have to "restrict (it) for the rest of us."

He then films himself about to enjoy a hot dog with real beef at the summit, a menu item Morano says is "selling like hot cakes."

Morano tells RedState that NetZero climate initiatives are little more than a masquerade for the rich to enjoy life's pleasures while forcing others to pay.

"This is just another example of how NetZero is nothing short of the Sovietization of the once free West," he explained. "Private jets, lavish mansions, and plenty of meat for those who rule over the rest of us."

It was clear to forty percent of young women that Kamala Harris only offered death or subjugation: economically, the issue of men in women's spaces, and harm to their bodies from criminal actors. Many young women voted for a future that looked beyond "my body, my choice," and looked toward "my vote, my future."

If this trend holds and grows, the kids are going to be all right.

The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless.

But to Lee Cantrell, who helps run the California Poison Control System, the cache was an opportunity to answer an enduring question about the actual shelf life of drugs: Could these drugs from the bell-bottom era still be potent? //

The age of the drugs might have been bizarre, but the question the researchers wanted to answer wasn't. Pharmacies across the country in major medical centers and in neighborhood strip malls routinely toss out tons of scarce and potentially valuable prescription drugs when they hit their expiration dates. //

Experts estimate such squandering eats up about $765 billion a year — as much as a quarter of all the country's health care spending. //

The findings surprised both researchers: A dozen of the 14 compounds were still as potent as they were when they were manufactured, some at almost 100 percent of their labeled concentrations. //

"Refining our prescription drug dating process could save billions," he says.

But after a brief burst of attention, the response to their study faded. That raises an even bigger question: If some drugs remain effective well beyond the date on their labels, why hasn't there been a push to extend their expiration dates?

It turns out that the FDA, the agency that helps set the dates, has long known the shelf life of some drugs can be extended, sometimes by years.

In fact, the federal government has saved a fortune by doing this. //

For decades, the federal government has stockpiled massive stashes of medication, antidotes and vaccines in secure locations throughout the country. The drugs are worth tens of billions of dollars and would provide a first line of defense in case of a large-scale emergency.

Maintaining these stockpiles is expensive. The drugs have to be kept secure and at the proper humidity and temperature so they don't degrade. Luckily, the country has rarely needed to tap into many of the drugs, but this means they often reach their expiration dates. Though the government requires pharmacies to throw away expired drugs, it doesn't always follow these instructions itself. Instead, for more than 30 years, it has pulled some medicines and tested their quality. //

In 1986, the Air Force, hoping to save on replacement costs, asked the FDA if certain drugs' expiration dates could be extended. In response, the FDA and Defense Department created the Shelf Life Extension Program.

Each year, drugs from the stockpiles are selected based on their value and pending expiration, and analyzed in batches to determine whether their end dates could be safely extended. For several decades, the program has found that the actual shelf life of many drugs is well beyond the original expiration dates.

A 2006 study of 122 drugs tested by the program showed that two-thirds of the expired medications were stable every time a lot was tested. Each of them had their expiration dates extended, on average, by more than four years, according to research published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Some that failed to hold their potency include the common asthma inhalant albuterol, the topical rash spray diphenhydramine, and a local anesthetic made from lidocaine and epinephrine, the study said. //

An official with the Department of Defense, which maintains about $13.6 billion worth of drugs in its stockpile, says that in 2016 it cost $3.1 million to run the extension program — which saved the department from replacing $2.1 billion in expired drugs. //

Federal and state laws prohibit pharmacists from dispensing expired drugs, and The Joint Commission, which accredits thousands of health care organizations, requires facilities to remove expired medication from their supply. //

Testing showed 24 of the 40 expired devices contained at least 90 percent of their stated amount of epinephrine, enough to be considered as potent as when they were made. All of them contained at least 80 percent of their labeled concentration of medication. The takeaway? Even EpiPens stored in less than ideal conditions may last longer than their labels say they do, and if there's no other option, an expired EpiPen may be better than nothing, Cantrell says. //

"The question is: Should the FDA be doing more stability testing?" Berkowitz says. "Could they come up with a safe and systematic way to cut down on the drugs being wasted in hospitals?"

Four scientists who worked on the FDA extension program told ProPublica something like that could work for drugs stored in hospital pharmacies, where conditions are carefully controlled.

Greg Burel, director of the CDC's stockpile, says he worries that if drugmakers were forced to extend their expiration dates it could backfire, making it unprofitable to produce certain drugs and thereby reducing access or increasing prices.

These two need to be made an example of. The Trump DOJ needs to prosecute Marseglia and Harvie to the fullest extent of the law. Both are on video knowingly violating the law and if they get away with it, imagine what they and others will do during the next election. The only way to fight back against this kind of subversion of our elections is to create deterrence. Election officials should be just as subject to jail time as any random voter who violates election laws. //

What if all this had occurred behind closed doors? If elections in the United States are ever to be trusted by the majority of Americans, the hammer needs to drop here. Hard.

Early in his third presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to establish a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” to “declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and abuses of power.” The phrase “Truth and Reconciliation” recalls bodies established to investigate abuses by toppled Communist regimes such as East Germany’s, or the former apartheid government of South Africa. The framing suggests that Trump views the entire past decade, from “Russiagate” to the “lawfare” cases entangling himself and his advisers, as the fruits of an illegitimate regime that threw the rule of law out the window.

This interpretation of recent history, surely viewed as partisan by Trump’s opponents, will be tested by the facts, once they become better known and documented. But the president-elect’s suggestion that the workings of the U.S. government must be more transparent is long overdue. //

It is high time for a serious overhaul of classification procedures, with the appointment of a presidential “task force” of the kind suggested in the Classification Reform for Transparency Act (which still awaits passage). President Obama’s Executive Order 13526 of 2009 limited classification times for ordinary records to 10 years and established a cap of 25 years for more sensitive files. But the nine telltale “exemptions” were left in place, allowing security agencies to continue stonewalling — while adding massively to the vault of our nation’s secrets.

If we streamline exemptions to a few simple categories such as “sources at risk,” private data of living citizens, and military-technological and trade secrets and shorten classification to a single presidential term of four years (e.g., to prevent an opposition party from mining recent presidential files for use in election campaigns), we could exponentially reduce the expense of classification going forward and restore public trust in Washington, D.C. — not least by putting a healthy fear into our public servants that they cannot abuse their powers and get away with it.

Meanwhile, why not declassify all U.S. government files more than 25 years old? If a strict exemption threshold is met, government agencies could still redact personal data or trade or military secrets — but the files themselves should be opened. Rather than require citizens and historians to pry information out of Washington via FOIA applications, the burden of classification should be placed where it belongs — on the government.

Files should be open to the public unless otherwise specified, not secret by default. We the people have a right to know what our government does in our name, and to know our own history.

Gaetz was a highly effective member of Congress. Then all that changed with the publication of an anonymously sourced report accusing him of possibly being a child sex trafficker.

White Boy Summer just got extended for at least four more years. The War on Boys that started decades ago has finally ended; the boys won decisively on Nov. 5, 2024. Young guys (18-29) shifted 29 points to the right since 2020!

I saw this one coming from miles away. Boys, especially straight, white ones who can’t claim any special status as a member of a “marginalized” or “oppressed” group, have been cast as the bad guys in the modern world, and they know it. They know that in truth they are the most marginalized group in America. //

We owe these boys our gratitude. In a poignant echo of June 6, 1944, on Nov. 5, 2024, young American men of every creed and color were once again called to protect the nation from being subjugated by a ruthless enemy.

Thank you for your service, guys. You did it.

Mildred's Oldest Son
6 hours ago
Well, how did the last two SECDEF 4-stars work out for the USA, especially Austin?

Laocoön of Troy Mildred's Oldest Son
6 hours ago
Don't forget Mattis.

The upside about having 2 SECDEF 4 stars from Republican and
Dem administrations is that we've proven that course from each side and it's dramatically failed every time. It just doesn't work. The truth is that the statuatory prohibition for General Officers as SECDEF was a wise one and departing from that design invites disaster. As a nation we need to shelve that option.

SECDEF needs to be a civilian. Period. The Generals and Admirals must subordinate themselves to that civilian leadership.

The CJCS is the President's primary military advisor, but he has no command authority. He has no troops to command. That too is a wise choice. No more Milley's calling up some PLA generalissmo and writing checks he can't cash. His job is to give the President his best military advice and then shut the flock up and let the Prez direct a course of action.