Austin Bay reminds his audience that the real danger is not attacking a gun free gay bar (or even Disneyland) but the several Army bases nearby. And then essentially says what is being argued back and forth is nonsense. The problem is "lone wolfs" who are often known to the FBI but are still running around.
hmmm.. a couple of years ago, a sheriff arrested two Muslim kids with explosives on a road to an army base in one of the Carolinas, but the kids were left go. Any follow up of that incident?
But this was for terrorizing civilians. The result will be a President Trump, of course. which is why the press is pushing the danger of extremists white Christian homophobes and that the Trumpettes are no longer coming to his rallies.
And the "1968 is back" article of the day is Guccifer's hacking of the DNC's files with dirt on the Donald. Poor Nixon only had a couple of burglars to try to find these files, and got impeached.
Which
today, of course, not only do the Chinese have my personnel files, thanks to a hack of the federal gov't,, but Putin probably has Hillary's secret State Dept files (and maybe some personal stuff she would like to keep hidden).
On the other hand, the hackers are keeping track of the terrorist stuff too: There is a headsup there about an up and coming European attack
I won't comment on American politics, because I only read what others in the media are saying, not what is going on. That will give you a distorted picture..... I remember when Reagan was running, and all the shortwave European news media was predicting he was crazy, and would start World War III...
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the teerrorist of Orlando appeared in a documentary on the oil spill. Uh, wasn't that outside his area of expertise? So why did the leftists/ environmentalist ask his opinion? Because he was paranoid and angry, and they needed a paranoid angry "man on the street" comment? And why was he, as a "security guard" posted on a beach being cleaned up? Someone trying to steal oil residue?
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LAPD on how to survive a terrorist shooter:
headsup SenseofEvents
te problem is, of course, that people freeze in emergencies. That is why Medical personnel constatntly train for CPR, and the military drills people to shoot. Unless you are trained, you have to "think" on what to do, and you can't really think straight due to fear/shock. But trained people respond automatically.
Again, I refer you to the previous post with the video of Lt Joe Kenda on why this makes "eye witness" testimony unreliable...
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The most important link of the day: How to take a perfect selfie
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Update: Ruby loved DisneyTokyo, and said it was much nicer than Disney Hong Kong.
Lots of stuff about the opening of Disney Shanghai but I almost missed this one: a couple of days ago, the LATimes reported two bombs at the airport in Shanghai, after which the bomber slit his own throat. more HERE
these things happen all the time, say the articles, and are usually locals protesting something, so no problem here, folks just move along.
FINEST KIND CLINIC AND FISHMARKET.... Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Podcast of the week
InOurTime podcast this week: The Bronze Age Collapse
1600 years before Rome fell, there was a previous collapse of Bronze age civilizations.
Climate change? Barbarian invasion? Earthquakes? Rebellions?
The history behind the Iliad, Odyssey, Exodus, and the lost empire of the Hittites.
1600 years before Rome fell, there was a previous collapse of Bronze age civilizations.
Climate change? Barbarian invasion? Earthquakes? Rebellions?
The history behind the Iliad, Odyssey, Exodus, and the lost empire of the Hittites.
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Stories below the fold: multiculturalism matters
StrategyPage has an article on how political correctness ignores reality, making many in the US (especially in academia) unable to recognize how cultures differ and how religion matters. So they fail to see the real enemy. Quoting SunTzu.
the dirty little secret is that people in different cultures think differently, and when we docs deal with patients, we have to be sensitive to this.
Modern multiculturalism just pretends everyone is the same logical secular mindset, ignoring religion (including secular Confucian values) or painting religion as the enemy, as I see all the time in the two minute hate on facebook.
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Related item: Even clerics can't stop "honor killings" in Pakistan.
the "liberation" of women due to modernity (and cellphones) clashes with the old fashioned values of the family oriented society.
like FGM, these customs predate Islam, and are found in the other religions of the area, and have to do with the control of the family's wealth: Defying marriage rules could lead to the disintegration of the rest of the family.
In a culture of poverty, the threat of starvation is more important than free love.
We saw this in the arranged marriage when I lived in (a traditional) Africa. On the other hand, some girls objected and ran away... most missions had a few of these girls working for them to keep them safe until things could be worked out. (the alternative was to run away to the city to become a prostitute).
"Fiddler on the Roof" is actually a good place to start to understand the clash of modernity with the customs that keep people safe.
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The liberals decry American troops all over the place, but as StrategyPage points out, they often are requested to be there as a "trip wire" to protect these countries from their neighbors, and the US is less likely to take over the place than these enemies.
yeah. The left/nationalists here insisted the US leave, and now they have China taking over our fishing grounds. Way to go fellahs.
Like Lolo's family, who like many here opposed the Spanish and then the Americans, realized that the Yanks were not the worst case scenerio, and joined the anti Japanese guerillas.
Alas, many of the elite families (like PNoy's grandfather) made nice with the Japanese, so the real stories of what went on is often ignored.
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speaking of elite families: They don't approve of Duterte. But he might let China "help" the Philippines get the gas out of the Spratlys area, like Arroyo had planned to do (after she was bribed).
given China's economic threats that silence the latest ASEAN complaints, the area is up for grabs right now.
Rappler has more on Duterte's background. Meme vs reality.
the dirty little secret is that people in different cultures think differently, and when we docs deal with patients, we have to be sensitive to this.
Modern multiculturalism just pretends everyone is the same logical secular mindset, ignoring religion (including secular Confucian values) or painting religion as the enemy, as I see all the time in the two minute hate on facebook.
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Related item: Even clerics can't stop "honor killings" in Pakistan.
the "liberation" of women due to modernity (and cellphones) clashes with the old fashioned values of the family oriented society.
like FGM, these customs predate Islam, and are found in the other religions of the area, and have to do with the control of the family's wealth: Defying marriage rules could lead to the disintegration of the rest of the family.
In a culture of poverty, the threat of starvation is more important than free love.
We saw this in the arranged marriage when I lived in (a traditional) Africa. On the other hand, some girls objected and ran away... most missions had a few of these girls working for them to keep them safe until things could be worked out. (the alternative was to run away to the city to become a prostitute).
"Fiddler on the Roof" is actually a good place to start to understand the clash of modernity with the customs that keep people safe.
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The liberals decry American troops all over the place, but as StrategyPage points out, they often are requested to be there as a "trip wire" to protect these countries from their neighbors, and the US is less likely to take over the place than these enemies.
yeah. The left/nationalists here insisted the US leave, and now they have China taking over our fishing grounds. Way to go fellahs.
Like Lolo's family, who like many here opposed the Spanish and then the Americans, realized that the Yanks were not the worst case scenerio, and joined the anti Japanese guerillas.
Alas, many of the elite families (like PNoy's grandfather) made nice with the Japanese, so the real stories of what went on is often ignored.
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speaking of elite families: They don't approve of Duterte. But he might let China "help" the Philippines get the gas out of the Spratlys area, like Arroyo had planned to do (after she was bribed).
given China's economic threats that silence the latest ASEAN complaints, the area is up for grabs right now.
Rappler has more on Duterte's background. Meme vs reality.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Soft targets, we haz that
Here in the Philippines, when I go to the mall, I get my bag/backpack checked by a security guard, and I've seen Kuya get the small of his back patted down (to check for a hidden gun).
Banks and shops have "no guns" signs, and if you carry one, you have to leave it with the security guard at the door. To get in our bank, there is a guard outside and one inside who unlocks the door for you.
There is also a sign at the bank "no cellphones". There is also a "no cellphones" sign at church, to stop the ringing etc from disturbing people, but I suspect the one at the bank is there to stop someone from setting off a bomb.
However, we are not patted down at church, and there are only cops wandering around the Palenke. Once I saw a psychotic man shouting in the Palenke parking lot, and told the cops who just shrugged (he was a regular and harmless). Don't know if they removed him.
The thing is that we have a lot of security here, mainly against local thieves and gangs.
when people in the US insist on gun control, I laugh: Marcos confiscated all the guns in the Philippines and they have strict laws. Of course, most locals still use machetes in fights, but we had a nephew kill his drunken brother who attacked him, with an illegal shotgun he used with birdshot to scare away thieves.... birdshot is not usually fatal at a distance, so probably he would have scared away the brother if some of it hadn't hit his femoral artery at 3 feet away.
So why did he have a gun? He lived on a farm and it was for safety.
Most middle class people here have guns (often illegal). Until Lolo had his stroke in the early 1990's, he had a hand gun and his WWII Machine gun in the closet. He gave them away after his stroke, so when we moved here we had only dogs for protection. Back then, most of the criminals would hesitate to attack you (although we did have an airconditioner stolen from our window... but it was old and they couldn't carry it to get away) and the store next door had a thief hide in the back and steal stuff after hours: He got out via the aircon room, then dropped onto the storage shed in the yard, and then over the wall.... the cops investigated and found his footprints and lots of dog footprints and laughed.
But in the past two years, we have had two neighbors killed in robberies, both elderly (one a FilAm) plus the danger of political violence (see previous post about the ex mayor's family attempts to kill her rival... who is a friend of Lolo's family... the last hit was when he was on they way home from our cousin's funeral, killing his body guard and 3 bystanders)... then there are kidnap gangs. So I rarely go out alone: No, the cook is 70 years old and 90 pounds, but she is related to half the tricycle drivers in town, (and probably the NPA who are now in retirement). So don't mess with her.
there are also reports about bodies being found: Drug reprisals? but presumably drug related. The Philippines is a major center for shipping out drugs, but like a lot of places, they are now selling it locally, and crime has gone up.
Are there sermons in the churches against such things? I have no idea (Mass is in Tagalog, and presumably the drug users don't go to church).
So anyway, when the Human rights folks complain about Duterte, you have to remember that violence is already around, and it takes years to get justice if the person has connections. The ex mayor, the father of the later ex mayor, died in bed despite being behind a hit that killed five people. The rumor was that he paid 20 thousand pesos a month to someone to stop from being indicted, but when Pnoy got in, the person he was bribing got honest, so he was indicted and "disappeared". (He fled to QC, where he was found three years later on dialysis).
Pnoy tried to stop the high level corruption but it is endemic. Sigh. Duterte has a lot of folks scared: Maybe they won't pay for their crimes if they go honest, so we are hoping things will change.
So anyway, soft targets and crime are as big a problem as terrorism here, and the money spent on security is huge.
Remember that the next time you read nonsense about terrorism.
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How closely are folks checked when they go into malls etc in the USA? my last visit was three years ago, but I wasn't checked then...
related item: Disneyland Orlando was a possible target, but the FBI ignored their complaints he was checking out the place in a suspicious manner.
Duh.
His second wife knew about the planned attack: and only asked him not to do it. She is a US citizen. She is "cooperating" now... but don't expect people to forgive her from not reporting him.
Michael Totten has a take on the stupidity of politicians shouting about "banning guns" and "banning Muslims".
Banks and shops have "no guns" signs, and if you carry one, you have to leave it with the security guard at the door. To get in our bank, there is a guard outside and one inside who unlocks the door for you.
There is also a sign at the bank "no cellphones". There is also a "no cellphones" sign at church, to stop the ringing etc from disturbing people, but I suspect the one at the bank is there to stop someone from setting off a bomb.
However, we are not patted down at church, and there are only cops wandering around the Palenke. Once I saw a psychotic man shouting in the Palenke parking lot, and told the cops who just shrugged (he was a regular and harmless). Don't know if they removed him.
The thing is that we have a lot of security here, mainly against local thieves and gangs.
when people in the US insist on gun control, I laugh: Marcos confiscated all the guns in the Philippines and they have strict laws. Of course, most locals still use machetes in fights, but we had a nephew kill his drunken brother who attacked him, with an illegal shotgun he used with birdshot to scare away thieves.... birdshot is not usually fatal at a distance, so probably he would have scared away the brother if some of it hadn't hit his femoral artery at 3 feet away.
So why did he have a gun? He lived on a farm and it was for safety.
Most middle class people here have guns (often illegal). Until Lolo had his stroke in the early 1990's, he had a hand gun and his WWII Machine gun in the closet. He gave them away after his stroke, so when we moved here we had only dogs for protection. Back then, most of the criminals would hesitate to attack you (although we did have an airconditioner stolen from our window... but it was old and they couldn't carry it to get away) and the store next door had a thief hide in the back and steal stuff after hours: He got out via the aircon room, then dropped onto the storage shed in the yard, and then over the wall.... the cops investigated and found his footprints and lots of dog footprints and laughed.
But in the past two years, we have had two neighbors killed in robberies, both elderly (one a FilAm) plus the danger of political violence (see previous post about the ex mayor's family attempts to kill her rival... who is a friend of Lolo's family... the last hit was when he was on they way home from our cousin's funeral, killing his body guard and 3 bystanders)... then there are kidnap gangs. So I rarely go out alone: No, the cook is 70 years old and 90 pounds, but she is related to half the tricycle drivers in town, (and probably the NPA who are now in retirement). So don't mess with her.
there are also reports about bodies being found: Drug reprisals? but presumably drug related. The Philippines is a major center for shipping out drugs, but like a lot of places, they are now selling it locally, and crime has gone up.
Are there sermons in the churches against such things? I have no idea (Mass is in Tagalog, and presumably the drug users don't go to church).
So anyway, when the Human rights folks complain about Duterte, you have to remember that violence is already around, and it takes years to get justice if the person has connections. The ex mayor, the father of the later ex mayor, died in bed despite being behind a hit that killed five people. The rumor was that he paid 20 thousand pesos a month to someone to stop from being indicted, but when Pnoy got in, the person he was bribing got honest, so he was indicted and "disappeared". (He fled to QC, where he was found three years later on dialysis).
Pnoy tried to stop the high level corruption but it is endemic. Sigh. Duterte has a lot of folks scared: Maybe they won't pay for their crimes if they go honest, so we are hoping things will change.
So anyway, soft targets and crime are as big a problem as terrorism here, and the money spent on security is huge.
Remember that the next time you read nonsense about terrorism.
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How closely are folks checked when they go into malls etc in the USA? my last visit was three years ago, but I wasn't checked then...
related item: Disneyland Orlando was a possible target, but the FBI ignored their complaints he was checking out the place in a suspicious manner.
Duh.
His second wife knew about the planned attack: and only asked him not to do it. She is a US citizen. She is "cooperating" now... but don't expect people to forgive her from not reporting him.
Michael Totten has a take on the stupidity of politicians shouting about "banning guns" and "banning Muslims".
Family news
Ruby and Joy got back from Tokyo last night. They had a wonderful time.
She put a couple hundred photos on Facebook.
And she met her "team" for the first time: some were from Singapore...
nowadays they do projects via computers, whereas in my day we just wrote on paper.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Conspiracy theory of the day
Who was that bozo who locked the door to keep people from fleeing the Orlando night club?
Lots of other conspiracy theories out there that this was a "wag the dog" type plan to ......(fill in blanks).
Expect a lot of "second shooter" type stories.
But as Lt Kenda (see earlier post) points out, "eye witnesses" are often unreliable. So ignore the call of many shooters until the story is clear.
and no, President Obama is a klutz but he is rightly worried about Anti Islam backlash, so will play the story up as domestic terrorism.
Lots of other conspiracy theories out there that this was a "wag the dog" type plan to ......(fill in blanks).
Expect a lot of "second shooter" type stories.
But as Lt Kenda (see earlier post) points out, "eye witnesses" are often unreliable. So ignore the call of many shooters until the story is clear.
and no, President Obama is a klutz but he is rightly worried about Anti Islam backlash, so will play the story up as domestic terrorism.
Rejecting the inferior
via LesFemmes
the famous essay on this is HERE: welcome to Holland:
All things work out for the best for those who love God... because there is a reason behind everything.
Monday, June 13, 2016
They said it in court
The news is bad...time for a joke.
The latest email of the day from TiaMaria
The latest email of the day from TiaMaria
COURT RECORDERS KEEP STRAIGHT FACES????
These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place.
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan!
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ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
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ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
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ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget..
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of something you forgot?
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ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
____________________________________ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20, much like your IQ.
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ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you shitting me?
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ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Getting laid
____________________________________________ATTORNEY: She had three children , right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
WITNESS: Your Honor, I think I need a different attorney. Can I get a new attorney?
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ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death..
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Take a guess.
___________________________________________ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Unless the Circus was in town I'm going with male.
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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor , how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All of them. The live ones put up too much of a fight.
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ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral...
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 PM
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: If not, he was by the time I finished.
____________________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Are you qualified to ask that question?______________________________________
And last:ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No..
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
Don't overreact
A lot of the anti Catholic black legends is still believed, never mind it is exaggerated to say the least (see this BBC program about the Inquisition).
But even when religious persecution might have inspired some toward real terrorism, it doesn't mean that all the hysterical accusations should be believed.
podcast of the week IOT BBC on TitusOates and his papist plot.
But even when religious persecution might have inspired some toward real terrorism, it doesn't mean that all the hysterical accusations should be believed.
podcast of the week IOT BBC on TitusOates and his papist plot.
An eye for an eye?
Since it is early morning and I live in the Philippines, my readers probably know more about the terrible murders in Florida than I do.
The Ubercatholic site, LesFemmes, note that Orlando is a gay friendly town. The only comment is from a grandmother who is praying for their souls, which is the Christian response to such a horror.
Early reports of a mosque near the nightclub was squelched when it was noted the place seen on google maps was a well known Christian church. And another comment somewhere noted that a lot of non gay women go there just to enjoy the music and dance.
In other words, all types were in the town.
ISIS will brag about this, but one monster does not a jihad make.
The real danger is copy cat shooters, a perennial problem with flashy crimes of any sort.
The Ubercatholic site, LesFemmes, note that Orlando is a gay friendly town. The only comment is from a grandmother who is praying for their souls, which is the Christian response to such a horror.
Early reports of a mosque near the nightclub was squelched when it was noted the place seen on google maps was a well known Christian church. And another comment somewhere noted that a lot of non gay women go there just to enjoy the music and dance.
In other words, all types were in the town.
ISIS will brag about this, but one monster does not a jihad make.
The real danger is copy cat shooters, a perennial problem with flashy crimes of any sort.
Pope blasts politically correct murders
While you were busy watching the reports on a terrible massacre by a known ISIS supporter who legally owned a gun, the real danger of murder is right in front of your eyes, disguised as "choice" in California and Canada.
Drudge includes a link to the Pope's comments:
The joke is that "Women and minorities are affected the most", but alas, in this case, it is true.
The Disability group "Not Dead Yet" has an essay by one of their black members, who notes that the black community are not involved in this, since they see it as a "white" problem...
an example is when one of our nursing home patients aspirated a piece of food, partially blocking her trachea. An immediate bronchoscopy would have saved her life, but since she had a "DNR" order she was allowed to die. After that, no one would sign a DNR order....
Then we had a stroke patient who was confused and transferred back to the IHS hospital so the nurses could communicate in Lakota while she recovered. Because of a (usually temporary) disability in swallowing, the attending doc put in a feeding tube and asked the ER doc, a moonlighting resident from Baltimore, to check the position of the tube after the X ray was done.
The temporary doc said: Why not just give her morphine, haha. And repeated the comment when the doctor asked what he meant (he meant to sedate her and let her starve to death, or maybe just to "accidentally" overdose her on morphine).
The doc said wryly that "we don't do things like that here", and told the nurse he'd be back in a few hours to check the X ray. (I was an observer, and did not interfere with the conversation: My next door neighbor was an AIM activist, so I planned to notify her if this had been done).
now, this was 20 years ago. How many minority patients in Baltimore have been given "morphine, haha" by this physician?
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Related item: AlJ article on hospice nurses and those they serve.
Drudge includes a link to the Pope's comments:
sounds like he is criticizing the latest disability snuff film, me against you, where a guy can't live his affluent lifestyle so offs himself.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis scathingly decried the pursuit for perfect bodies on Sunday, saying such obsession leads to society hiding away the disabled to avoid offending sensibilities of what he termed "the privileged few."
In St. Peter's Square, Francis celebrated Mass dedicated to disabled people and their caregivers, then spent time chatting with and hugging many of them at the end of the service. "It is thought that sick or disabled persons cannot be happy, since they cannot live the lifestyle held up by the culture of pleasure and entertainment," Francis said in his homily.
"In an age when care for one's body has become an obsession and a big business, anything that is imperfect has to be hidden away, since it threatens the happiness and serenity of the privileged few and endangers the dominant model."
... Francis has used his papacy to champion the cause of those marginalized in societies where wealth and other financial achievements are prized over inner worth.If you are not worried about this trend, you should be, because behind this propaganda campaign is the idea that the old, the disabled, or the poor are inferior and should have their "medical treatment" limited by futile care ideas or by QALY criteria.
The joke is that "Women and minorities are affected the most", but alas, in this case, it is true.
The Disability group "Not Dead Yet" has an essay by one of their black members, who notes that the black community are not involved in this, since they see it as a "white" problem...
Many Black folks who I talk to about the anti assisted suicide movement say “that’s a White thing, we don’t do that stuff”. They ask me why have I devoted myself to a predominantly White issue....
Physician assisted suicide and euthanasia of people with disabilities is a deadly form of discrimination resulting from the fact that doctors and others do not see the lives of people with disabilities as valuable. This mirrors society’s beliefs that our lives are not worth living and that it is better to be dead than disabled...
Blacks will get caught up because due to medical racism, the lives of Blacks are already seen as less worthy than Whites. That’s even more so with Blacks with disabilities. Our families are pressured to withdraw life support for loved ones or we fall under state’s futility laws....As a physician I have seen medical bias against my AmerIndian patients, especially when they were old or handicapped: but it backfired: the reason so many of our patients chose "futile" treatments was because they suspected they would be denied care that would prolong their lives...
an example is when one of our nursing home patients aspirated a piece of food, partially blocking her trachea. An immediate bronchoscopy would have saved her life, but since she had a "DNR" order she was allowed to die. After that, no one would sign a DNR order....
Then we had a stroke patient who was confused and transferred back to the IHS hospital so the nurses could communicate in Lakota while she recovered. Because of a (usually temporary) disability in swallowing, the attending doc put in a feeding tube and asked the ER doc, a moonlighting resident from Baltimore, to check the position of the tube after the X ray was done.
The temporary doc said: Why not just give her morphine, haha. And repeated the comment when the doctor asked what he meant (he meant to sedate her and let her starve to death, or maybe just to "accidentally" overdose her on morphine).
The doc said wryly that "we don't do things like that here", and told the nurse he'd be back in a few hours to check the X ray. (I was an observer, and did not interfere with the conversation: My next door neighbor was an AIM activist, so I planned to notify her if this had been done).
now, this was 20 years ago. How many minority patients in Baltimore have been given "morphine, haha" by this physician?
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Related item: AlJ article on hospice nurses and those they serve.
China destroys reefs, anyone object?
I have frequently note that few "green" types seem to be worried about China's destruction of the reefs and fishing grounds in the West Philippine Sea (compare and contrast to the on line hysteria over dead lions or gorillas).
That is not exactly true.
NYTimes article a year ago did notice it. Actually they didn't notice it, they just quoted a local official who complained
The rest of the article is about the yearly PhilAm military exercizes that are now upsetting China, even though they have gone on every year since I have lived here (11 years).
local environmentalists have complained and demonstrated, as have local fishermen. Also from last year:
That is not exactly true.
NYTimes article a year ago did notice it. Actually they didn't notice it, they just quoted a local official who complained
He said China’s neighbors in the South China Sea could lose up to $100 million a year because of the loss of the coral reefs, which are breeding grounds for high-value fish harvested by countries surrounding the sea.
Land "reclamation"? That implies that these places were once islands and are being restored. HELLO. They are shoals and never were islands, and the "reclamation" is destroying the ecology of the region.
China has been undertaking land reclamation projects on the sand spits, islets and submerged reefs of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, according to satellite images
The rest of the article is about the yearly PhilAm military exercizes that are now upsetting China, even though they have gone on every year since I have lived here (11 years).
local environmentalists have complained and demonstrated, as have local fishermen. Also from last year:
The environmental group said that China’s military activities in the disputed area will ”increase the risk of coral reef destruction, toxic and hazardous waste dumping, and the depletion of fisheries.”
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Destroying Land's End?
I usually have to get my land's end pants via the relatives who bring them here. It is almost impossible to find clothing or shoes that fit me in the Philippines, where most of the stuff is petit.
Usually I can usually find some if I look in the used clothing stuff, where often I find JCPenney cast offs (I even found a LLBean and Cherokee the other day). But pants are a problem, as are dresses.
Usually I can usually find some if I look in the used clothing stuff, where often I find JCPenney cast offs (I even found a LLBean and Cherokee the other day). But pants are a problem, as are dresses.
My LandsEnd is a lot more expensive, but the stuff lasts for years, despite the careless laundress and cheap soap.
Ah, but now they have a CEO who wants to make it PC more "fashionable". And guess what? The company is now losing money.
More HERE.
and as Faustina at DaTechGuy points out: Not only do the clothes last forever, they have sizes that fit you. She is thin but needs Women's tall, and I use women's XL, and sometimes XL short. They even will cuff the pants for you if you are shorter than the usual length...
so I guess for now I'll stick with whatever is in the UkayUkay clothing kiosks.
Marchionni fundamentally misunderstands the company, and maybe the republic for which it stands.
Lands’ End is about America. It’s not for walking the runway, it’s for walking the dog. It isn’t for pickup bars, it’s for picking up the kids. It isn’t about the sizzle, it’s about the steak, or maybe even the Ball Park Frank. Lands’ End is small-d democratic: It is a declaration of independence sent to the fashion aristocrats and autocrats who would dictate terms to the citizens. We the people, not the editors of Vogue, will decide what we like to wear.
By contrast, Marchionni seems to have a vision of fanciful high-cheekboned swells in a Fellini movie wearing Lands’ End jackets loosely draped over their shoulders while sipping Campari and plucking imaginary grapes out of the air as they speak, but the vision is not, to Lands’ End customers, aspirational. It’s insulting.
and as Faustina at DaTechGuy points out: Not only do the clothes last forever, they have sizes that fit you. She is thin but needs Women's tall, and I use women's XL, and sometimes XL short. They even will cuff the pants for you if you are shorter than the usual length...
so I guess for now I'll stick with whatever is in the UkayUkay clothing kiosks.
Friday, June 10, 2016
Tinfoil hat news of the day
The Bilderbergers are meeting.
UKIndependent report includes the background of a few of the big shots who are attending.
and Inforwars has the real backstory (if it's true...)
oh well. We peons are not part of the picture...
UKIndependent report includes the background of a few of the big shots who are attending.
and Inforwars has the real backstory (if it's true...)
oh well. We peons are not part of the picture...
Family news
Ruby is off to Japan with her JrAchievement team (she won a contest).
Her mom is going with her (she is underage) but the parents won't be running around with the kids, who mostly want to visit Disneyland Tokyo.
The final will meeting was yesterday, but Nanette didn't show up. So the next step is the court to devise who will do the probate.
This will cause a family fight since Kuya said he wants to change stuff and control Ruby's property (i.e. the house Lolo granted to his daughter independently to make sure she had a place to stay when she went to college in Manila).
If we're lucky we won't be throw out of the place by that time.
Her mom is going with her (she is underage) but the parents won't be running around with the kids, who mostly want to visit Disneyland Tokyo.
The final will meeting was yesterday, but Nanette didn't show up. So the next step is the court to devise who will do the probate.
This will cause a family fight since Kuya said he wants to change stuff and control Ruby's property (i.e. the house Lolo granted to his daughter independently to make sure she had a place to stay when she went to college in Manila).
If we're lucky we won't be throw out of the place by that time.
Pedophilia or at risk behavior?
CDC new report on youth risk behavior has good news and bad news.
The survey is about everything: Do you drink milk? Alcohol? drugs? seatbelt use? are you overweight? Smoke cigarettes? Been bullied or threatened? Carry a gun to school?
About 10 percent of the kids are at risk for everything, (the same kids or different kids?)
But deep in the report is this fact:
but the numbers are lower than in 2001, which is good news.
The survey is about everything: Do you drink milk? Alcohol? drugs? seatbelt use? are you overweight? Smoke cigarettes? Been bullied or threatened? Carry a gun to school?
About 10 percent of the kids are at risk for everything, (the same kids or different kids?)
But deep in the report is this fact:
not clarified: if the girls are having sex with their 14 yo boyfriend or exploited by an older man, or if the boys are just making out with the girl next door or are seduced by an older male.
Nationwide, 3.9% of students had had sexual intercourse for the first time before age 13 years (Table 69). The prevalence of having had sexual intercourse before age 13 years was higher among male (5.6%) than female (2.2%) students; higher among white male (3.5%), black male (12.1%), and Hispanic male (6.8%) than white female (1.6%), black female (4.3%), and Hispanic female (3.1%) students, respectively;
but the numbers are lower than in 2001, which is good news.
Chickens? Why not?
AnnAlthouse links to a post about Bill Gates promoting chickens in Africa.
My comment (since most of her comments are from the clueless):
My comment (since most of her comments are from the clueless):
Let me give you some background.
40 years ago, I worked in rural Africa as a doc, and we had a nutrition village to feed up malnourished kids and teach moms to supplement their diets. Part of the outreach was selling baby chicks...
Local chickens were mean, laid eggs in the bushes, and had few eggs. We imported hybrid chickens, to be kept in a cage so the eggs didn't get broken by predators. One egg a day would keep the 3 year old from dying of kwashiorkor. And we gave classes how to do this.
We got our funds from Oxfam.
He is funding something that will help, as long as the money goes to organizations that already do this work.
One problem: In Asia, backyard chickens have been banned due to Birdflu. Other "backyard" protein sources include rabbits (which we also used) or Cuys, aka guinea pigs, which a Colombian charity is promoting in the Congo. These are raised indoors as a protein source in the Andes.
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Family news
Brownout scheduled today.
The new fishpump is a bit too strong: sprays 3 feet in the air. But the fish are happy.
We are due again to go to court about Lolo's will. Sigh.
The new fishpump is a bit too strong: sprays 3 feet in the air. But the fish are happy.
We are due again to go to court about Lolo's will. Sigh.
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