FDA approves booster shot for those over 65
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The Food and Drug Administration ruled Monday it’s safe for people over the age of sixty-five to get a Covid booster shot. Less than twenty-four hours after receiving his booster shot, President Biden is feeling disoriented, confused and discombobulated. In other words, there were no side effects.
The New York Post reports that a Brooklyn jury delivered a guilty verdict against the lewd rap star R. Kelly Monday on all counts of racketeering and sex trafficking. I have to hand him this, the defendant stayed in character. When Kelly heard the guilty verdict being read, he peed on himself.
The Rolling Stones performed a moving tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts last week in their first show since his death. It was great to see the remaining band members together. It ‘s funny, Charlie Watts has been dead for about a month and he still looks better than Keith Richards.
Closer magazine says thousands of Baby Boomers are re-enrolling in college to learn high tech skills in retirement. It is an exchange program. The colleges teach Baby Boomers computer skills and in return the Baby Boomers teaching the college kids how to roll a onepaper joint in a hurricane.
Major League Baseball enjoyed thrilling divisional races and wild card stretch runs this week, drawing big TV ratings. I played softball for the Comedy Store in the Sunset Strip League in the late Seventies.
My best game came against Barney’s Beanery, when I scored two grams in one inning. Disney World is partnering with Amazon to give theme park customers a voice assistant to relay information to them. Snow White will no longer be awakened by a kiss from the handsome prince, Amazon has something more wonderful for her. She’s served with divorce papers from Jeffrey Bezos.
The Wall Street Journal reported that farmers across the nation are suffering from a shortage of fertilizer both synthetic and natural. It’s a shame. Because with three cable news networks, five hundred thirtyfive people in Congress and two presidents, there is no shortage of fertilizer spreaders.
The Senate called the Defense Secretary and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the head of Centcom to testify about the Afghan disaster. They reiterated that the Taliban remains a terrorist group. You know you’re a Taliban if you refine heroin for a living but have a moral objection to beer.
The Senate grilled the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and head of Central Command Tuesday.
They said they advised Biden to keep twenty-five hundred troops in Afghanistan, and to evacuate civilians first. Joe Biden told ABC News he doesn’t remember and no one disbelieves that.
President Biden’s Afghanistan evacuation policy was undermined by his top generals Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The generals testified that in their judgment, the surge was followed by a premature withdrawal. That isn’t military strategy, that’s Catholic family planning.
Fox News reported that Kabul Airport in Afghanistan is beginning to resume flights as Taliban governance gets underway. The one thing I have to admit is that the Taliban take the threat of Covid very seriously. They kill any woman who’s not wearing a mask, they aren’t kidding around.
The Miami Herald reported that Florida residents are in an uproar after it was announced that scientists will soon release seven hundred fifty million genetically modified mosquitoes into Florida.
That’s just the start of it. Nature activists are more worried what the mosquitoes might catch.
The Sydney Herald reports that a man was bitten by a crocodile during a Jumping Crocodile Cruise in Northern Territory province. What did they expect? In Australia’s Northern Territory province, there is one maneating croc for every two and a half people, with an emphasis on the half.