FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
posting to watch later on my tablet:
learning how Pope Gregory the Great faced hoards of Goths invading the former Roman empire comes to mine.
Here is another summary.
that site is Lyndon Larouche offspring of course. But the Anglo conspiracy theories go back to before WWI.
Professor Quigley call your office. They are at it again.
The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan . You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic. The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change. Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 18, 2026
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the Church committee summary at Wikipedia
I am so old that it was the liberals in the Democratic party who looked into the CIA shennanigans.
I had sterp throat and now have bronchitis, so have been staying in my room most of the day instead of going out to restaurants which is what we had planned to do.
Kuya has moved his mother to the Philippines and she is still quite weak, staying in the spare bedroom. She needs a full time caregiver or two, so after three days trying to cope, he found two of our staff willing to do the basic caregiving and they have been instructed by Joy, a trained caregiver, on how to do basic stuff.
She needs a hospital bad which should arrive tomorrow.
I can't help much since I have muscle weakness as a complication of dengue three years ago.
In the meanwhile, for the last month he has hired staff to fix up the business compound (offices, meeting room, spare bedrooms for guests, and our house). things that havent't been fixed for five years due to covid when expenses lowered our profit on rice, and two years ago when the rice buyer's check bounced and we lost the money for our entire harvest. No we can't sue her: She left the country with lost of other people being owed by her too.
But finally we are breaking even and can fix up the place, and his mom's social security should cover her medical expenses here (no Medicare doesn't pay hospitals in the Philippines).
Sigh.
three years ago, an unprovoked attack by Hamas from Gaza killed and kidnanpped over 1000 Israelis, and not just Israelis: over 40 innocent Thai farmworkers were murdered too.
The western press ignores the Thai farmworkers and the Filipina caregiver murdered of course.
And the west is easily swallowing the Hamas reports against Israel, ignoring that this war would never have happened if those in charge had just arrested those who committed the murders and sent back the hostages.
Why does the propaganda work? Because the MSM stories go back only a week or two and often naively think the reports from Gaza are true reports from neutral observers.
But the real problem is that the west tends to ignore history, ,whereas some cultures, including Arab culture, keeps hatred and grudges alive for centuries.
Quick: Any of you guys who went to Catholic school would remember there used to be a name for Mary as Our Lady of Victory, but after Vatican II when militant names became a no no, the feast day was changed to Our Lady of the Rosary.
And the reason this feast day was on October 7 was to remember the Battle of Leponto.
The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was actually instituted under another name: In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted “Our Lady of Victory” as an annual feast in thanksgiving for Mary’s patronage in the victory of the Holy League over the Muslim Turks in the Battle of Lepanto...
Coming at what was seen as a crisis point for Christianity, the victory at Lepanto stemmed Ottoman incursion into the Mediterranean and prevented their influence from spreading through Europe.
Through the intervention of Our Lady, the Hand of God prevented the Muslim victory..
The epic victory has been commemorated in literature:
Miguel de Cervantes, a Spanish soldier wounded in the battle, recovered to become a novelist, poet and playwright; and he was so inspired by this battle that he incorporated elements of it in his own acclaimed novel, Don Quixote....
a secular report on the battle can be watched here:
the reason for the rosary is because Catholics often were illiterate peasants for 1000 years, and it was via fiestas, stories, plays, and simple prayers like the rosary (which was easly for ordinary people to pray) were how the faith was kept alive.
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and of course, the idea that praying the rosary to Mama Mary asking for peace is also seen as a way to stop aggression, as is something seen in stories behind the fall of communism in Europe...
and here in the Philippines it was prayed by those in those behind the People Power revolution here in the Philippines where one million Filipinos praying and singing hymns and carrying a statue of Mary at the head of their procession stopped Marcos soldiers from taking over the military under General Ramos who had backed Cory Aquino after she won the election against Marcos Senior.
So when you read of riots in Europe, and think things are lost, just remember that a few days ago one million Frenchmen were out singing and praying with the Pope in Paris and later in Lourdes
I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. https://t.co/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026
it isn't only about the left (the right does it too). It is actually a sign of being a true believer, needing a purpose in life and directing self hatred against others instead of actually doing something that might help others.
I saw this in medical school and I saw how very few anti VietNam war protesters bothered to help the boat people or the other refugees who fled that country when the communists took over. Nope, they were into other things: Jane Fonda for example started putting out exercize videos. About the only anti war activist who actually helped was Joan Baez...
that is why all the stress on training social justice warriors is nonsense. Are any of these folks building houses in Appalachia? working in food banks? Helping in emergencies such as helping to fill sandbags to stop flooding, evacuating people, taking groceries etc to those fleeing fires or floods?? Church groups do this all the time...
BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 4, 2026
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physicians working in the Navajo area of the IHS see a few cases every year, mostly from flea bites. These are treated and most survive. but Pneumonic plague is highly fatal and can kill you within 24 hours, even with treatment.
