Is Lois Lane suspicious that Clark isn't getting the needle vaccination?

As usual, don't know how much I'll write tonight.  I've been working on the book all day to hide away.  I really get the impression we're in the last week or so of anything we've known our whole lives.

□ [“Dystopia Down Under: Thousands of Australians With Unpaid Fines for Breaking Covid Rules Have Bank Accounts Raided and Property Seized As Tyrannical Government Chases Millions in Fees"]

What the hell?  Australia's about as close as we get to a 'frontier' anymore and they're doing this?  This is what the leftist armada is going for, seizing everything.  They're making up rules that people will be punished for breaking but the people making those rules don't have to follow them.

It makes sense that they would pick late fall/early winter, not much food grown then.  Are we going to be able to see which people believe in this insane punishment, who know it'll never ever happen to them?

□ [“New York Poll Worker Claims Ballots Came in That Were Already Pre-Stamped with Buffalo Mayoral Candidate’s Name in Wrong Box"]

It was a Democrat verses a socialist.  It was obvious they'd start pulling this all the time and use it against each other.  At a guess, I suspect they'll move to group voting in public and, as with Occupy Wall Street, move very quickly from there to have people in charge without regard to elections.  They're obviously going to turn against each other, the only question is how much suffering they'll impose on the rest of us until they get that far.

Ideally I would like to think that this is the sort of thing LTC Miller and men like him planned for over the last fifteen or twenty years to see the bad people rip each other apart and leave the rest of us reasonably free.  Pretty safe to say I'm just deluding myself because I have nowhere else to look for optimism.

□ [“Proof CDC Changed Definition of ‘Vaccine’ Because Prior Definition Allowed People 'To Claim the COVID-19 Vaccine is Not a Vaccine'"]

Vaccines prevent infection and transmission of viruses.  That's not what this stuff is doing.  The most honest they could be was to admit that they had discovered this AFTER FORCING EVERYBODY TO TAKE IT!!!  They're doing what the Tuskegee Experiment did except much larger and much more authoritarian.

For that matter, there's reason to worry that there will be similarity to Germany around 1920.  I can't think of a specific precedent for wanting to punish "Let's go, Brandon" as hatespeech but that's the sort of thing they'd do.

CNN and Sesame Street Team Up to Push Vaccine Propaganda for Very Young Children
November 6, 2021

CRT Is a Racist Republican Lie and Is Not Taught In Schools, Claim Leftist Political Activist and Education Bureaucrats Oh Hell Yes We Do Teach CRT -- And We Lie to Parents About Teaching It, Says Indiana Teacher and School Administrator
November 5, 2021

Just a note, I did put Ghostbusters on today, the original.  Haven't seen it in years.  Didn't watch it that much today but I did remember all of it.  What struck me most was that the plot was quite good, building naturally from the opening through the finale.  I think there was one small detail that stuck out as being questionable but I can't remember it.

I will say Sigourney Weaver was great but Dana really doesn't make much sense.  It's natural that she'd be scared by ghosts and look to people whose job it is to do something about it, but Bill Murray comes off as totally creepy and it's still not believable that he'd be fixated on Dana.  By the second time he's met her, he's already become famous so he's getting all the chicks he wants, but he somehow stops by to watch her orchestra practice???  And she goes along with it and agrees to see him again?  The most believable part of that is that she would actually go for a famous guy even if he is a stalker but that's not really a Dana we'd like to know better.

The rest of the cast was fun as always.  I always liked Winston's lack of believability in ghosts as a reaction to the others on the team but I was surprised to realize he didn't really do anything to the movie except add a couple more jokes.  No wonder Eddie Murphy turned the part down.

But it was fun to see the wackos again all the way up through saving the day.  Annie Potts was wonderful as Janine, she contributed almost nothing to the story either but you don't even notice because she's so much fun, I'd seen the movie many times before I realized that.  The Ghostbusters can't work without Janine and she can't work because it's her breaktime.  And Rick Moranis gets to be Rick Moranis, a very likable loon.

Then there's the main trio.  They do show enough personality to be more than one-dimensional but they're about driving the story as a whole so it's really about them as characters.  They're the stars so obviously they're always present but other than Dana with Mister Doctor Venkman, there's no character arc, there's not much detail about any of them as people, what you see is what you get.  That's fine, it's their job, it's all we need.

But the plot starts from a ghost at the library to the geeky scientists investigating and, after being fired, going into business for themselves.  That goes nowhere until something finally happens, then they get busy and build up to the climax.  It keeps moving up level after level, echoed by them going to Dana's apartment to find Gozer.

It works very well and one of the reasons this became an instant classic, building off the late-70s Saturday Night Live/National Lampoon mindset.  I am assuming they were aimed at leftism with a pop culture mask but at this point I just assume that about 'most anything.  Haven't decided if I'll see the new movie but I'll definitely be thinking about it.