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Big Bucks for Big Promises In Big Bucks talk (financial jargon)... There's usually a cool babe on my back . What’s bigger than a unicorn? Samumed stuns yet again as anti-aging pipeline draws $438M at $12B valuation Samumed is a "regenerative medicine" operation in San Diego, working on drugs to keep us young and active (and cute). Their most advanced (through the approval pipeline) drug is for osteoarthritis - mainly in the knees.  They have NO PRODUCTS ON THE MARKET yet.  Yet they just raised a half billion bucks. (The "cute" part is their second most advanced drug which cures baldness.) Their focus is on us the aging (everybody), with  human clinical trials of experimental drugs to treat cancer, osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and several other diseases. Their one and only venture capitalist backer is  Singapore-based Vickers Venture Partners. Chinese! Surprise, surprise. Those Chinese are o

The Russians Gotta Love This  The press is all over this, but maybe you haven't  gotten into it, because stuff like this makes you crazy. If you haven't experienced crazy lately, you should read up on this. [Click on some of the better pieces:  Vox ,   Washington Post ,   NPR ,   Media Matters ] Just "Q" QAnon Not since the Jonestown 900 has there been a more credulous, hypnotized crowd of human beans than the QAnon crowd. See how stupid this conspiracy theory is, and stroke you chin and say "I would never fall for something so outrageously stoopid."  DON'T BE SO SURE. "People Prefer Lies" might not be true, but it aint' no lie.  If the lie is something you want to be true , especially. And conspiracy theories tap into something evolution wrote into our gene code. Now, THROW IN THE RUSSIANS !! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, the artillery of Big Lie Repitition lands on your brain terrain, and the switch might get fl

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I Just Love Tom Tomorrow He's kind of a "buckshot political cartoonist"... mows stuff down Here's his whole   un-subtle take on Democrat/Republican thinking. [A sample] I'm the "Goofball" Dem                               I'm the "Galahad" Repub His most telling panel in this strip is the final one, where "Galahad" responds generally to the irrefutable arguments put forth by Goofball: ... Sounds like a Russian troll/bot on Breitbart.

Halooo, Ro ma nia ! For reasons totally mysterious to me, several page views are frequently recorded from Romania by some one(s) checking out Olde Scooters ramblings. Romania  is a very beautiful country, where the history is deep and the mythologies dense. It's also famous for housing many hundreds of brilliant hackers and other web geniuses. "Many fortified churches and castles" What's this "Dracula" thing? This is  a not atypical count from the Blogger "Stats" report.                 SeniorJunior page views last few days . United States 312 Romania 32 Germany 15 France 9 Russia 8 United Kingdom 7 Portugal 7 South Korea 5 Peru 5 Canada 3 And they build a pretty cool line of cars I have never heard of.. Dacia Duster  Romania is a southeastern European country known for the forested region of Transylvania, ringed by the

I Always Hoped to Find a Religious Figure in the Logs Bet I've cut about a thousand juniper logs in our 20 years in the New Mexico mountains.  I ALWAYS look at the cross sections, since the central red wood makes a collection of shapes worthy of Dr. Rorschach. Surely I would find a holy relic, maybe a saint or the Virgin Mary. After chainsawing a log, what to my wondering eyes should appear but this wonder. A compound trunk sliced right at the point where a branch emerged and LO...        Saint Dowitcher, the Longbill! Who can doubt my sainthood?... check that halo! Look up Dowitcher in your Audubon, ye doubters. Not only does St. Dowitcher the Longbilled have a halo, it has a penumbra .   Talk about your holy glow. There are several varieties of Juniper hereabouts. I think this one is a "single seed," but I'm not positive.

This Stuff Doesn't Work on This Olde Democrat Email campaigning that starts with "fear shots" just doesn't do it for me. I think it is alarmist and mostly ridiculous to start donation appeals with stuff like this. Gimme six Duff Beers, fast! These are the subject lines of five recent emails I've received from various Democrats in the last few days: Five from Downerville California HEARTBREAK.   WILL, WE’RE OUT OF TIME: D-I-S-A-S-T-E-R for Democrats’ chances to take back the House!! If the election were held tomorrow, we'd lose. James Carville  : K iss all hope goodbye.                 Will, we've just received some dire news. Ick! HINT: I've got plenty of "dire news" in my in-box. I don't need more from my political party! Who told the Dems this was a good communications tactic? It makes me want NOT to read the message. Just saying.... Homer credit