Category: Good News

Tread Carefully, Yamo

Good News, Health

I read this story with great joy:

Up until four months ago, Lev was self-harming until he was black and blue, unable to make eye contact and keeping to himself in a corner all day. He was inching dangerously close to being confined by a punishing helmet and sedated with heavy antipsychotic meds to mitigate his severe autism that left him incapable of functioning by himself.

The outlook was bleak for the tormented tyke, who showed symptoms before he was a year old.

His parents, Gabriella and Matthew Bielski, chased every therapeutic intervention and specialist across the country for years, to no avail. The family desperately needed a lifeline, as no medication is approved to address the core symptoms related to autism.

That was until research led the anguished couple to Yamo Pharmaceuticals, a decade-old clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to treating the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder with its “miracle drug” called L1-79.

They managed to get Lev the therapy before FDA approval thanks to the FDA’s expanded-access program — and the results, they said, were immediate.

“It was the next day,” Matthew Bielski said. “It was right away and other people in all the phases said the same thing.”

“It changed everything for us,” he added, beaming over Lev’s “life-changing transformation.”

Overjoyed over his “miracle kid,” Bielski predicted the drug will be the “Ozempic of autism.”

Which is when my joy abruptly ended.

You see, it’s all very well to come up with a new miracle drug which helps perhaps millions of people.  That’s what Ozempic did — and promptly priced its product out of reach for many millions of people (like myself) who desperately need it.

So hooray hurrah and halleluya for this latest wonder drug.  Let’s just hope that Yamo doesn’t price it at $650 per dose*, like Ozempic’s manufacturer Novo Nordisk did.

Because otherwise this will all be for nothing, and only the wealthy will benefit.

*That $650 is what Ozempic would cost me after Medicare has paid the bulk of the pharmaceutical company’s price.  Needless to say, I don’t take it anymore — just can’t afford it — and the dolorous effect of diabetes on my health has recurred.  Bitter?  You bet your ass I am.

A Question Of Majority

Good News, The Gun Thing, Today's Yoot

Here’s some news that had me reaching for a celebratory gin:

The DOJ announced it has concluded that the federal ban on handgun sales to 18- through 20-year-olds is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced.

I’ve talked about the age issue before.  If kids are assumed to be majors at age 18 and entitled to vote (I’m still somewhat unsure of the wisdom of the 26th Amendment, by the way), get married without parental consent, sign contracts and all that, then gun ownership should definitely be included in those freedoms (along with the responsibilities, a discussion for another time).

What I like most about this latest announcement from the DoJ is that they haven’t waited for lawsuits to pitchfork them into doing the right thing, but rather have done their own homework before prosecuting such cases — as any decent government department should.

The Office of Legal Counsel determined that 18 to 20-year-olds are among “the people” protected by the Second Amendment. “Eighteen-year-olds may vote, serve on juries, be drafted, and face adult criminal penalties, including capital punishment,” said Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser for the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. “The Constitution protects the people’s right to keep and bear arms. The Department of Justice may not constitutionally seek to impose criminal penalties on dealers who sell handguns to law-abiding adults who, in nearly every other relevant respect, are members of the political community.”

Of course, the Nanny States all have age restrictions on gun ownership by “juveniles”, but up until now they’ve been able to take cover behind the federal ban.  But that just means that Our Heroes at the Second Amendment Foundation — y’all are SAF members, right? — can proceed with litigation against those states, using the DoJ’s findings as supporting material.

All in all, good news.

A Second Industrial Revolution?

Economics, Good News, Manufacturing

Perhaps, just possibly, we may be starting to turn a corner.  From this:

Where did all that creativity come from? Largely from physical suburbs, neighborhoods of the middle and working classes, and nuclear families – all seen as contemptible by globalist/Marxists – where the father had a good job. Who have almost all been reduced to desperation. Why? Because globalism effectively shipped tens of millions of jobs overseas, and the environmental movement, backed by globalists, cleared tens of millions rural dwellers into the mega-cities, where they languish in matchbox apartments beside super highways. A manufacturing job has a multiplier of five and a resource job a multiplier of 7. Where, I ask you, do people think money comes from? Production? The Fed? To globalists the Central Banks print money to pay their mounting liabilities, thank you very much.

To this:

Now both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, who put all their eggs into globalism, are sneering, but this is what is happening in the real world, the physical world, where actual people make actual things.

And what follows is a long list of developments that should make one feel a little more hopeful, in that they are reversing the effects of “off-shoring” our manufacturing capacity and the shuttering of energy development.  Then:

None of these depend on green energy. Why? Because green energy is a boutique operation for rich globalist virtue signalers meant to steal subsidy from the taxpayer.

The investments from the private sector into the physical economy are equally huge, as the big houses diversify away from globalism and carbon capture and alternative energy as profit. Trillions are moving into the marketplace.

Oh, and Trump just CRUSHED the trade deficit, slashing it from $136B to $29.4B, the lowest in 20 years. America has been subsidizing the rest of the world long enough. Time all those broken countries stood on their own two feet.

Time to grow.

I think we can do it.  The rest of the world?  I’m not so sure.

Reconquista

Good News

Well, well, well…

“But but but what about TOLERANNNNCE, Kim?”

Yeah… what about it?

Given that Islam is the most intolerant socio-political institution ever inflicted on mankind, it’s about time we had a little turnaround, methinks.  And if the famously-tolerant Porros are doing this, then ya gotta know things are getting bad.

Worthwhile Largesse

Good News, Subsidies

When I think of how much of our taxpayer money has been frittered away on useless crap like eco-lunacy, supporting Commie insurrections and delivering government benefits to illegal immigrants [156 more examples omitted for reasons of space], here at least is one I can get behind (via Reader John C., thankee):

The Department of War has given $10 million to TV host Mike Rowe’s Foundation that encourages Americans to enter the skilled trade industry.
The former “Dirty Jobs” star started the program that aims to offer Americans careers in the skilled trades like plumbing, electrical, and other hands-on work that won’t be made obsolete by artificial intelligence.

Wow… government money being spent on a civilian program that actually helps citizens and provides strategic benefit to the nation.

Here’s the enormity of the thing:

The foundation has helped over 2,600 people so far train as welders, HVAC technicians, pipefitters, and diesel mechanics who command a six-figure salary without requiring a four-year degree and massive amounts of student loan debt.

However:

The foundation says that America will need 320,000 welders, 250,000 shipbuilders, and 81,000 electricians over the next decade.

I bet the Lefties are totally pissed off about this — ironic, really, considering that they’ve always proclaimed themselves as the “Workers’ Party”, but really aren’t.  Then again, they are the “Party Of Lies”, and always have been.

Congrats to the Pentagon, and of course likewise to Mike Rowe (a true patriot if ever there was one).  If I have a single quibble, it’s that they should have given more than ten million dollars to this most worthy cause.

Finally, Part 2

Eco-Crap, Good News

I said this a couple weeks ago:

Start your engines, rev them loudly and turn your A/C down to 65, because the foolishness is ending:

The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.

Can we also repeal all those stupid CAFE standards and regulations on auto companies and the cars they sell?

And now this is coming down the turnpike:

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright today announced the Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to permanently end home appliance and equipment mandates that raise costs and disrupt consumer choice.  The proposal will update the Department’s Process Rule used to establish energy conservation standards for household appliances and equipment, including air conditioning units, gas stoves, washing and drying machines, water heaters, refrigerators, and other products Americans rely on every day.  In America, you should be able to choose a dryer that dries clothes on the first try rather than one that takes multiple cycles — unfortunately, past administrations thought otherwise,” Secretary Wright said. “For too long, the American people paid the price for mandates that restricted consumer choice and drove up costs.  President Trump promised to end this nonsense and that is exactly what we are doing.”

One more time: