Tuesday, December 17, 2024
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/james-anthony/make-healthcare-efficient-again/
Make Healthcare Efficient Again
- The single biggest wasteful spending inside and outside governments is on healthcare. To make healthcare efficient and innovative, customers need usable healthcare-product descriptions.
By James Anthony
December 11, 2024
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Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency plan is to cancel major regulations, reduce headcounts, and defund inadequately-authorized expenditures and waste, but not to shrink entitlement programs.
This plan would require legislators to stop using the executive power to allocate budgets, presidents and bureaucrats to stop using legislative power to pass rules, and judges to start opining quickly and broadly against presidents and bureaucrats.
Congressmen, presidents and bureaucrats, and judges have other plans.
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Also, the rules would need to make healthcare product descriptions sufficiently simple and clear that customers could use these descriptions to make their best choices when they shop:
- A fee for office work could be like a lawyer’s rate for office work. A fee for surgery could be like a lawyer’s rate for courtroom work.
- Test instructions could be transmissible to testing producers. Also, testing producers could list their pricing.
- Therapy recommendations could be readable by customers. The recommendation on a drug, for instance, could provide all the information that would be needed to shop for the drug if it was available over-the-counter.
- Procedures could have full packages of features built in, like auto models have. Foreseeable complications could be priced separately, and a worst-case total not exceeded.
- Quality could be quantified. Procedure sellers could use their past rates of complications to calculate their customers’ average cost for complications.
- Customers could then compare procedure sellers’ total price plus complications, like customers compare product sellers’ total price plus shipping.
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I especially like my fiancé’s pharmacy experience overseas. She walks into the Phamacia and says I want X. The pharmacist says here it is or “I don’t have it but I do have Y”. And for pocket change, she has all she needs. Of course, she knew what she needed. But she could have consulted a hotel doctor, or got a list from the Embassy.
But on a transaction basis, it was quick, easy, and cheap. Of course, “illegal drugs” would be clean, exact, and cheaper than the street deals.
All the money in “prohibition” could be put to “rehabilitation” for those that want it. Like Portugal.
Argh!
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Monday, December 16, 2024
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/12/laurence-m-vance/one-agency-that-trump-shouldnt-nominate-anyone-to-lead/
One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead
By Laurence M. Vance
December 11, 2024
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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead.
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It is not the business of the government to concern itself with the personal eating, drinking, or smoking habits of Americans; with the nature and quantity of any substance Americans inhale or otherwise take into their body; with restricting or monitoring any harmful or mood-altering substances that any American wants to consume; or with regulating the consumption, medical, or recreational habits of Americans.
Since the DEA is the main federal agency responsible for the drug war, it needs neither an administrator nor agents. The agency should be shuttered, completely and permanently.
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Clearly there is no Federal authorization in the Constitution for this continued intrusion into the Rights of ordinary Americans and usurpation of individual States’ Rights.
Argh!
The “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” has been a total disaster in so many dimensions.
It’s a good thing to stop. Period!
(And confirm the point that Libertarians have been making for a long long time.)
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Sunday, December 15, 2024
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14174993/dogs-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-mutated-new-superpower.html
Dogs living near Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop new superpower
By ELLYN LAPOINTE FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 16:18 EST, 9 December 2024 | Updated: 06:01 EST, 10 December 2024
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Dogs living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have mutated to develop a new superpower – they are immune to radiation, heavy metals and pollution.
Scientists collected blood samples from 116 stray dogs living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ), finding two different populations that were both genetically distinct from other dogs in the surrounding area.
This suggests they have adapted to withstand long-term exposure to this toxic environment and would explain why they have continued to thrive in the wasteland.
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Hopefully something great can come from this disaster. Imagine if we learnt how to survive and thrive in hostile environments. Might be needed for space travel where such exposures are likely. The “exclusion zone” maybe habitable to humans, but who’d want to live there. Like Sweden, the Amish, and the California Seventh Day Adventists, we don’t often have such obvious control groups. We have so much to learn that we can’t afford to be stupid and unobservant.
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Saturday, December 14, 2024
https://www.makeuseof.com/use-amazon-lockers-maximum-privacy/?user=cmVpbmtlZmpAZ21haWwuY29t&lctg=7e6c3cd411d6a815afa18582d54bd455914c43c5f69df1448b8ec20ee4959f71
Why I Use Amazon Lockers for Maximum Privacy (and So Should You)
By Vinayak Guhanarayan
Published 1 day ago
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-10>>
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- The Basics of Amazon Lockers
- Make Sure Only You Open Your Packages
- Keep Your Home Address Private
- Prevent Package Theft
- Convenience When You’re Away
- They’re Perfect for Surprise Gifts
One of the perks of shopping on Amazon is that anything you order is delivered right to your doorstep. And while this is an undeniable benefit for many, there are times when doorstep delivery isn’t practical or even feasible. It’s times like these that Amazon Lockers come in handy.
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They’re Perfect for Surprise Gifts
When purchasing surprise gifts for my family and friends, I use Amazon’s Archive Order feature for privacy. I also opt for these deliveries to end up at an Amazon Locker. This way, I don’t have to worry about the recipient accidentally opening the package.
This is especially helpful during the holiday season, when most people are likely to order several gifts.
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I recently had two surprise gifts ruined by delivery at the door.
I really had not considered this option. (Yeah, I’m old, dumb, and don’t think things through to their logical conclusion. My bad!)
The use cases the author outlines are prefect for anyone like me who doesn’t want surprise ruined or package theft.
YMMV but I like this idea.
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Friday, December 13, 2024
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/08/apple-sued-over-abandoning-csam-detection-for-icloud/
Apple sued over abandoning CSAM detection for iCloud
Anthony Ha
10:26 AM PST · December 8, 2024
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Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The lawsuit argues that by not doing more to prevent the spread of this material, it’s forcing victims to relive their trauma, according to The New York Times. The suit describes Apple as announcing “a widely touted improved design aimed at protecting children,” then failing to “implement those designs or take any measures to detect and limit” this material.
Apple first announced the system in 2021, explaining that it would use digital signatures from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and other groups to detect known CSAM content in users’ iCloud libraries. However, it appeared to abandon those plans after security and privacy advocates suggested they could create a backdoor for government surveillance.
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In this case, I think the risk of “backdoor for government surveillance” is less valuable than the prevention of Child Abuse. IMHO.
I’d be pushing the tech companies hard in the war against children’s exploitation.
Maybe even their devices (i.e., iPhone, Android phones, tablets) should use digital signatures from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
https://cordcuttersnews.com/walmarts-vizio-watchfree-has-a-ton-of-action-holiday-movies-in-december/
As the weather cools, VIZIO brings the heat with a lineup of thrilling action films this December! Whether you’re in the mood for heart-pounding chases, explosive showdowns, or sharp-witted humor, WatchFree+ has something for everyone. Stream these cinematic favorites for free on your VIZIO TV or the VIZIO mobile app—no subscription required, just a free VIZIO account. Cozy up and enjoy these action-packed blockbusters at no cost.
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I’m always up for free content. You too?
https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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College Football Playoffs
The field for the inaugural 12-team college football playoff was revealed yesterday, with Big Ten champion Oregon capturing the top seed. The Ducks are followed by No. 2 Georgia, No. 3 Boise State, and No. 4 Arizona State, with each of the top four receiving a first-round bye.
Under the new system, the opening round will have the higher-seeded teams host games on campus: No. 5 Texas will host No. 12 Clemson; No. 6 Penn State will welcome No. 11 SMU; No. 7 Notre Dame faces No. 10 Indiana; and No. 8 Ohio State will take on No. 9 Tennessee. The biggest debate of selection day was SMU, which lost the ACC championship on a last-second field goal, nudging out Alabama.
A significant amount of money is at stake. Roughly $115M will be distributed across the conferences based on which teams advance (see details).
The first round will be held Friday, Dec. 20, and Saturday, Dec. 21. See the full schedule of bowl games here; see a playoff bracket here.
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Sorry but all this chatter about “non-profit”, “amateur athletes”, and “student athletes” is just a “Barbara Streisand” smoke screen for Gooferment Skrules to rake in big bucks from “We, The Sheeple”.
Time to divest “education” from “entertainment”.
Argh! Now that “amateur athletes” can make big bucks from “Name, Image, and Likeness”, lets cut the <synonym for excrement> and stop fooling everyone.
This is nothing more than gambling by Gooferment institutions using Taxpayer money and defrauding those same Taxpayers at the same time.
If you use my Tax dollars, then you can’t use them for anything but “education”! Privatize these “State Actors” away from the font of Taxpayer money.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
FROM TWITTER AKA X
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Matt Van Swol
@matt_vanswol
FEMA seems to be very confused about why #WNC residents receiving the “maximum” payout are still upset.
Let me explain:
a) You’re living in your retirement home in Chimney Rock at age 68 with your wife, you both saved up forever for this home.
b) Helene comes in and carries that home down into the lake below, your whole life savings along with it.
c) You barely escape with your life and a few weeks later submit a “housing assistance” form on FEMA’s website.
d) FEMA shows up and takes a look at where your home used to be and says, “Yep, that sucks, you qualify!”
e) You feel lucky, many of your neighbors didn’t qualify so you wait on FEMA to get back to you.
f) A few days later you receive a payout into your bank account of $42,500.
g) You turn to your wife and say… wait a minute, we still have $120,000 left on our mortgage, but we don’t have a house!
h) You call FEMA and say, “Hey, I’m grateful for the $42,500, but I don’t have a home and I still owe 6 figures on the one that doesn’t exist. What do I do now?”
i) FEMA says, totally get it, we can put you up in a hotel for 31 days.
j) You say, I don’t need a hotel, I need a plan to rebuild my home and get my life back together!
k) FEMA says, “Oh right, about that… you can’t actually build on the land your house once existed on because it’s in a flood plain now.”
l) You sit there in silence. Finally you respond, “So my home is in a lake, I only have $42,500 to my name, I owe $120,000 on my mortgage, and the land I currently own, I can’t even build on?”
m) FEMA goes, “That’s correct, here’s a 31 day hotel voucher.
That’s why people are pissed.
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# – # – # – # – #
Speechless!
Argh!
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/12/trump_should_bring_a_constitutional_gun_to_the_senate_swamp_knife_fight.html
Trump Should Bring a Constitutional Gun to the Senate / Swamp Knife Fight
By Vince Coyner
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-04>>
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But of course, the leftists eviscerated the Founders’ original intentions about the Senate with the 17th Amendment. As a result, the Senate has become simply a more entrenched version of the House. Therefore, if a cabal of geriatric swamp-loving RINOs wants to try to shanghai the president’s mandate because the close balance of party power in the chamber allows them to do so, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables, Trump should bring a constitutional gun to their knife fight and keep them from doing so.
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Once upon a time, in a place far away, the Dead Old White Guys tried to ensure that “these United States” would have a strong voice in the Federal Gooferment. Unfortunately, a befuddled “We, The Sheeple” agreed to strip the “these United States” this power.
Talk about getting money out of politics, Senate “campaigns” funded by rich donors create a “dark money” swamp of conflicted interests. Maybe today’s “Senators” should be like race car drivers and wear the logos of those that “own” them.
Repealing the 17th Amendment would go a long way towards restoring Federalism that the Dead Old White Guys want to restrain tyranny.
Hard to do? Not so much now as “We, The Sheeple” seem to be fed up with the current system.
“Would you tell me please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man’s rights as easily as a king can.” Mel Gibson as the character Benjamin Martin in the movie The Patriot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187393/quotes
Well, at least, you can have the petty tyrants close enough to “influence” them or tar ’n’ feather them. Bringing the selection of Senators back to the local legislature makes more sense than having something that duplicates the House of Representatives.
And, now that we have Zoom meetings, why not keep all the Senators and Representatives “locked up” in the home States? No need for them to go an conspire with these other drones and parasites.
Argh!
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14176379/Piers-Morgan-gleeful-reporter-Taylor-Lorenz-joy-death-UnitedHealthcare-CEO-Brian-Thompson.html
Piers Morgan goes nuclear on gleeful ex-WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz for saying she felt ‘joy’ after death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
By EMMA RICHTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 01:41 EST, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 07:58 EST, 10 December 2024
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Piers Morgan was left in shock after gleeful former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz said she felt ‘joy’ following the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
On Monday night, Lorez joined Morgan on Piers Morgan Uncensored, as the broadcaster questioned her about her controversial social media posts following Thompson being gunned down in Manhattan on Wednesday.
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‘Should they all be killed, these healthcare executives? Would that make you even more joyful?,’ he asked.
Lorenz laughed and then said: ‘Uh, no,’ as Morgan asked her ‘Well, why not?’
‘Why are you laughing? You seem to find the whole thing hilarious. A bloke’s been murdered in the street. I don’t find it funny at all.’
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As a little L libertarian, I don’t often agree with Piers Morgan but from time to time, he is right on target.
How can you laugh at the murder of anyone?
There are humans who are so broken that it’s hard to feel compassion (i.e., murderer, rapists, genocidal maniacs, the insane). But we should feel sadness every time an irreplaceable life has been lost.
While some deaths are wither unavoidable or unforeseen, deliberately killing anyone is a very serious matter. That’s why we have jury trials.
But as a pro-life little L libertarian, I’m anti-death penalty for anyone. Gooferment can’t be trusted with the power to end someone’s life. Maybe if a convict is too dangerous to put in prison, then maybe it’s morally justifiable.
Left liberals seem to be the only ones who thing that insurance company executives are so evil as to be joyfully murdered.
Argh!
Piers is right on this one. Again, he and I are on the same page.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-balloons-capture-nyc-sized-areas
12-pound US robot balloons capture NYC-sized areas in jaw-dropping details
- These autonomous balloons operate at altitudes ranging from 60,000 to 85,000 feet.
Updated: Nov 28, 2024 07:36 AM EST
Mrigakshi Dixit
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As per Space.com, a single balloon can capture the same amount of data as 800,000 drones in a single flight.
Moreover, the balloons can map large disaster zones in detail within hours, rather than weeks.
“Many insurance companies are still relying on aerial data collection methods from the 1950s to assess 2024’s climate risks,” said Rema Matevosyan, CEO of Near Space Labs.
“When you consider that only six percent of the $250 billion in losses from Hurricane Helene may be covered by insurance, it becomes clear that outdated risk assessment methods are creating a domino effect: poor data leads to inadequate policy pricing, which leads to carrier losses, which ultimately forces insurers to abandon entire markets—leaving homeowners stranded and unable to secure mortgages,” Matevosyan added.
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While I don’t pity the “poor” insurance companies, it makes sense that better data can help EVERYONE properly assess risk.
My personal experience with “federal flood insurance” is dismal.
In the case of shore house, I carried the required policy even after the mortgage was paid off. When there was a flood, I wasn’t covered because it wasn’t my primary residence. So why did I pay those premiums for all those years? “You made a mistake” was their response. Luckily, all I lost was an outside hot water heater; my neighbor’s house, which was 4 inches lower than mine, had a ¼ of a million dollars in repairs. It literally killed him when he was ripped off by contractors.
In the case of my primary residence, I paid flood insurance for decades. When the flood hit, my neignborhood was three feet ABOVE the high water mark. Asking about that was another exercise in stupidity. “You’re in the flood plain.” Revise the map. “No, it’s set by the Federal Government.” Argh!
So maybe if had access to better topology, some politicians and bureaucrats could accurately assess my risk,
Argh! Sure as soon as pigs fly.
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Monday, December 9, 2024
https://www.wcax.com/2024/11/27/14-year-old-accidentally-shoots-16-year-old-accomplice-two-tried-carjack-man-police-say/?tbref=hp&ICID=ref_fark
14-year-old accidentally shoots 16-year-old accomplice as the two tried to carjack a man, police say
By First Alert 4 Staff and Amanda Alvarado
Published: Nov. 27, 2024 at 9:10 AM EST
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ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A 14-year-old suspect accidentally shot his 16-year-old accomplice as they tried to carjack a man on Monday.
According to police, the teenagers approached a 73-year-old man who was sitting in a parked car. The teens allegedly pointed a gun at him and demanded his keys. The man threw his keys in a nearby open field.
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First, gun safety needs to be taught early in life. Eddie Eagle says: “Don’t touch a gun”, Clearly, this youth missed class the day they taught that.
“I told you that ‘juvenile delinquent’ is a contradiction in terms. ‘Delinquent’ means ‘failing in duty.’ But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a ‘juvenile delinquent.’ But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
All I can suggest is that these young men be charged as adults.
Horific, as that sounds, how else can we send a message that we as a society will not tolerate lawlessness by anyone.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Obviously, the 73 year old man needs the means to level the playing field. Time to up the stakes by making “crime” a risky course of action.
“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.
- Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!
- Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!
- Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
Ferdinand John Reinke
I still feel this way.
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/is-the-nypd-looking-for-the-wrong?publication_id=1119676&post_id=152760792&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true
Is the NYPD Looking for the Wrong Guy?
Musings about red herrings and a possible doppelgänger in murder of Brian Thompson
John Leake
Dec 07, 2024
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When I saw this, it immediately reminded me of the tail of a White-tailed deer. When I was a boy, my dad told me that if you are watching or hunting White-tail bucks, it’s important NOT to focus too much on their white tails when they run away. Your eye gets padlocked on the tail, but then the fleeing deer will tuck it, and you will lose sight of him. Better to focus on the entire animal as he runs away.
I would like to preface the following by stating that I am merely musing. As a true crime writer, I often begin with a hunch and muse about it for a few days. Acquiring more data will either enable me to develop the hunch into a plausible theory or to dismiss it as mere fantasy.
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Reviewing the timeline, I wonder how the NYPD went about connecting the young man who checked into the hostel on Nov. 24 with the murder of Brian Thompson on Dec. 4. Can detectives be sure the guy who checked into the hostel is the same guy who shot Thompson?
Did they track the movements of his cell phone—a cell phone he purportedly ditched in an alley a couple of blocks from the murder scene? NOTE: the fact that the killer ditched his cell phone makes me wonder if it is a red herring—that is, I wonder if he wanted the cell phone to be found.
Reviewing the above timeline, I wonder about the critical period between 5:30, when the suspect left the hostel, and 6:44, when the suspect shot Brian Thompson. Again, can the NYPD be sure that the guy who stayed in the hostel on the Upper West Side is the same guy who shot Thompson? If so, how? By Chief Kenny’s own admission, there is a gap in their video surveillance of the suspect between him leaving the hostel at 5:30 and purportedly arriving at the Hilton at 5:41.
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I think this fellow is onto something.
And, remember that what the “authorities” say publicly may or may not be “true”, what they are really thinking, or all the “facts” they have.
I give his musing about the phone as a key fact that can’t be overlooked. Killers maybe crazy but they are rarely stupid. He made sure that the authorities saw him making calls and dropped it maybe to be found?
All these red herrings and possibly a doppelgänger have all the makings of a good Conspiracy Theory! Too soon to tell but definitely a possibility,
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Sunday, December 8, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/12/01/us-news/how-scott-presler-helped-trump-win-pennsylvania/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3
How a long-haired gay giant helped Trump flip Pennsylvania red
By Ethan Dodd
Published Dec. 1, 2024, 6:56 p.m. ET
- Standing at 6’5″ and 200 pounds with 22 inches of long brown hair running down his back, the gay conservative political activist told The Post, “I’m a big boy.”
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Presler also proved himself to be something of a political titan this year.
After losing Pennsylvania by some 80,000 votes in 2020, former President Donald Trump flipped the Keystone State red this November by 120,000 ballots.
Scott Presler helped register 50,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania, which went for Trump by 120,000 votes. Getty Images
That’s due in no small part to Presler, whose nonprofit Early Vote Action put the Trump campaign’s “Swamp the vote” strategy into action in Pennsylvania, registering Republican voters and getting them to vote early, by mail, or “by whatever means necessary,” the group’s website reads.
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Quite a fellow. It’s an American success story. Maybe you, the reader <breaking the fourth wall>, could get involved and accomplish something. Anything!
Regardless of how you feel about “politics”, the USA needs patriots to save the nation from the forces of evil. Debt, deficits, “counterfeiting”, dispair, and Crony Capitalism. Time for the “sunshine patriots” to step aside and let “We, The Sheeple” clean our Agean Stables.
If this fellow can do it, so can any of us.
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
Well, Hello from Mac Book Air aka BLUE aka MCBA5.
It’s my fifth iteration of Mac Book Airs. Officially known as FVHFD4SHQ6L4. When I spilled coffee on it, I bought MCBA6 aka ROSE while iBLUE was in for repair. When it came back, it was demoted to “spare”. From time to time, I’d fire it up and use it a little.
So the cockatoo got to ROSE and feasted on the keyboard. So I backed it up to portable hard drive in prep for the Apple Store.
Luckily it’s still has an active Apple Care. The repair is supposedly covered under accidental damage and will get a new keyboard. Yay. It’ll be back in a week or so.
No problem,! I’ll just fail over to BLUE.
Wow was that an over estimation of the process.
Now, I am a belt ’n’ suspenders guy. One is none; two is one; and three is bliss.
Sure. Unfortunately all the passwords were screwed up since my last use.
No problem it’s easy now to reset them using the Apple Account to reset them.
(Even my extra DUMMYADMIN account which has the same password across all my MCBXs was trashed?)
Of course, BLUE needs to update the OS and a whole load of apps.
No problem. After the FireFox update, all my settings were trashed.
No problem. I use Mozilla’s sync so it recovered all my settings. Almost.
All my extensions were not on the toolbar. Argh! After about a calendar day, I found the fix.
I’m now back to “business”. Until the next troll, gremlin, or bug pops up.
(Imagine if I didn’t use BLUE for one day on the First of Every Month. Argh!)
YMMV!
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/weston-road-house-fire-no-injuries-19949303.php?ICID=ref_fark
Fire that destroyed CT home on Thanksgiving apparently caused by someone frying turkey, officials say
By Peter Yankowski, Brianna Gurciullo, Hana Ikramuddin, Staff Writers
Updated Nov 29, 2024 4:51 p.m.
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WESTON — A fire that erupted at a large home on Weston Road on Thanksgiving Day started in the garage after someone tried to fry a turkey, officials said Friday.
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I wonder if their insurance might deny their claim since they don’t insure against “stupidity”. The pictures are spectacular.
I’ve seen many videos of these type fails on YouTube. Some were even deliberate demonstrations by Fire Departments to educate “We, The Sheeple” about the dangers.
Certainly doing it in a garage is only one tiny step smarter than doing it in the kitchen.
The explosive power of this type of “cooking” is really stunning. What’s next firing it out of a cannon? It just seems like a stupid way to singe your eyebrows off.
Well, I guess it is a way to earn a painful Darwin Award.
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Saturday, December 7, 2024
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
December 7, 2024
Flag at Half-Staff
# – # – # – # – #
As if anyone remembers … …
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Ribbons to Honor the Fallen
If you are unable to fly your flag at half-staff, the accepted solution is to tie a long black ribbon to the top of the flagpole allowing it to drape over the American flag.
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Friday, December 6, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/missing-korean-war-vet-with-dementia-found-more-than-200-miles-from-home/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3
Missing Korean War vet with dementia found more than 200 miles from home after wife spots 91-year-old on TV
By David Propper
Published Dec. 4, 2024, 11:53 p.m. ET
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A missing 91-year-old Korean War vet with dementia was found more than 200 miles away from his Wyoming home — when his worried wife spotted him on an evening newscast two days after he wandered off.
Avril Black’s concern was mounting after her spouse Michael Black vanished after he left their Afton home on Nov. 25, leading her to report him missing the next morning, according to a local report.
While authorities reportedly gathered he had hitchhiked his way to Ovid, Idaho, and then traveled down to Garden City, Utah, he was in the wind from there.
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I’m glad this hero was not found dead somewhere. As a society, we need better systems to find individuals who “wander away”.
Air Tags? Angel Sense devices? Medical Alert bracelets? Even Tattoos?
I would believe that local police should be the first point of contact. Amber alerts for the local area could be issued. Shelters, churches, and vet organizations could be involved.
(When I get a NIXIE alert, I pay attention to it. Never “found” anyone, but I look when out and about.)
Hopefully, we’ll get better at caring for members of the human race, who through no fault of their own, need help.
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Friday, December 6, 2024
https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/20243-9250479?e=39307912ab
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For instance, I know a guy who worked at a record store (remember those?) who used to feel oddly guilty about his job, because he couldn’t shake the idea that the store was somehow taking advantage of consumers.
Then he read Murray Rothbard’s discussion of “demonstrated preference” — which means that both parties to a voluntary transaction are made better off (ex ante), or the transaction would not have occurred.
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This insight is one reason for a completely voluntary society. If everyone is free, then no one can be “exploited”.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-05>>
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed
Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the insurance division of UnitedHealth Group, was shot and killed yesterday in what police called a targeted attack in Manhattan.
The company was holding its annual investor day at the Hilton Hotel. A search for the suspect is underway. The 50-year-old Thompson was arriving around 6:45 am ET when the suspect, wearing a ski mask and a dark hooded sweatshirt, fired three shots at his back and leg using a handgun before escaping on an e-bike. Police say the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes before the killing. Authorities have not publicly identified a motive as of this writing, but they say Thompson had recently faced several threats.
UnitedHealthcare is the largest private health insurance provider in the US, serving roughly 50 million customers. Thompson had worked at the company for more than 20 years, becoming CEO of UnitedHealthcare in April 2021.
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To early to classify yet.
- Disgruntled insurance CustomerHe was going to testify in exchange for immunity on insider trading
- He was going to inform about the political pressure to pay for Covid shots
- He was going to spill the beans on the Covid financial scams
- He had some evidence on HRC
- Jealous lover or spurned wifeSome connection to organized crime
While it’s still early, stay tuned to your favorite Conspiracy Theorist reporter for news as it breaks.
p.s., don’t just dismiss Conspiracy Theories because they have a habit of becoming true
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Thursday, December 5, 2024
https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/world-news/missing-hiker-sam-benastick-found-alive-after-50-days-in-canadian-wilderness/
Missing hiker found alive after 50 days in Canadian wilderness where temperatures dropped below 0: ‘Unbelievable’
By Alex Oliveira
Published Nov. 28, 2024, 7:57 p.m. ET
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A young hiker lost in the volatile Canadian wilderness for more than a month was found alive Tuesday after weeks of desperate searching, according to reports.
Sam Benastick, 20, was found hobbling down a service road in British Columbia’s Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, where he had been reported missing after failing to return home from a 10-day hiking trip on October 17, according to CBC News.
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Is that a record of some type?
No details of what he did right and wrong. Clearly, he was either very lucky or had some great skills.
I’d like to know what he was carrying and doing while “lost”. And, of course, who pays for the search and rescue?
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3246790/pardon-fifth-amendment-trouble-hunter-biden/
Pardon means Fifth Amendment trouble for Hunter Biden
By Kaelan Deese
December 2, 2024 12:37 pm
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In the hours since the pardon, Republicans, along with legal experts, have elevated the significance of what the younger Biden’s pardon means for their long-standing investigations, contending that it opens up the playing field for lawmakers to question him on nearly everything he has now been pardoned from over the past 11 years.
Under the Fifth Amendment, people can refuse to answer questions if their responses might incriminate them in criminal cases. However, with all criminal liability now erased by the pardon, Hunter Biden could face contempt charges if he refuses to testify before congressional panels.
“Well, this now makes it much easier for a GOP Senate/House to call Hunter as a witness about his and his dad’s connections to Ukraine, etc. because the pardon prevents Hunter from asserting the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself,” Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney and host of the Four Boxes Diner legal analysis show, wrote on X.
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If I was at all connected to Hunter Biden, then I’d be worried.
See he has a BIG Get Out Of Jail Free card. Unless you have one, you’re screwed. He’ll have to testify against you.
(Don’t know what happens if he refuses?)
So, like when the authorities go after any organized crime, they flip the bottom run to testify against the next rung up. Until they reach the top.
I’ve often thought that in the cases of election fraud, get the underlings, arrest them, and threaten them with prison and watch how fast they will turn states evidence against their boss. Or bosses.
It should be very entertaining to see whose hands are “dirty”.
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Wednesday, December 4, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation?mc_cid=7283492361&mc_eid=0da2484634
Frisco Navy Lab’smHuman Radiation Experiments
San Francisco Public Press & The Guardian
- Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
- Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist
Chris Roberts, San Francisco Public Press
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14.00 EST
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Between 1946 and 1963, this article reports, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point naval shipyard. A review by the San Francisco Public Press of thousands of pages of government and academic records as well as interviews with affected servicemen reveal:
… [T]he lab conducted at least 24 experiments that exposed humans to radiation, far more than past official reviews acknowledged. Safety reports also note dozens of accidents in which staff received doses in excess of federal health limits in effect at the time. Researchers at the lab tracked the exposure of workers trying to clean ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test. Soldiers were ordered to crawl through fields of radioactive sand and soil. In clinical studies, radioactive substances were applied to forearms and hands, injected or administered by mouth. Top US civilian and military officials pre-approved all of this in writing, documents show. The records indicate that researchers gained limited knowledge from this program, and that not everyone involved had their exposure monitored. There is also no sign the lab studied the long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.
This article reports that the Navy’s San Francisco lab was “a major cold war research facility with a unique focus on ‘radiological defense,’ techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.”
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No study of the “long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.”
Well, let’s go back and studied it NOW!
This is “Yet Another Example” of how the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats treat Veterans and the general population. Like lab rats. Not even given any human dignity. Let alone “informed consent”.
It’s not too late to rectify this grave error.
Maybe if the guilty get punishment, the it could deter future bad behavior?
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-makes-hospitals-so-deadly-and
What Makes Hospitals So Deadly and How Can We Fix It?
November’s Open Thread
A Midwestern Doctor
Nov 24, 2024
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In this month’s open thread, I’ll share my thoughts on a question many have asked me since Trump and RFK Jr. won the election and an actual window has been created to change healthcare policies in America—what could be done to increase the survival rates in our hospitals and how can you protect a loved one that’s hospitalized?
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Overall, the remarkable illustration of this corruption was the fact that families eventually began suing hospitals to allow the use of ivermectin for a relative who was expected to die even after being subjected to Fauci’s hospital COVID protocols. Remarkably, because there was so much money on the line, the hospitals chose to fight these lawsuits in court rather than just give ivermectin to the patients. In turn, of the 80 lawsuits filed by lawyer Ralph Lorigo, in 40 the judge sided with the family, and in 40 with the hospital, and of those, in the 40 where patients received ivermectin, 38 survived, whereas of the 40 who did not, 2 survived—in essence making suing a hospital arguably the most effective medical intervention in history. Yet, rather than take this data into consideration, the profit-focused hospitals banded together to develop an effective apparatus to dismiss further lawsuits.
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Sadly, while this is quite depressing, it’s simply illustrative of a few more toxic trends that have taken over medicine.
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So maybe “doctors” have to wear sponsors’ logos on their white coats like race car drivers. Ditto for politicians and bureaucrats!
Personally when my sainted wife was in the hospital, I “babysat” like a mother hen documenting everything. And I mean EVERY THING. Like who came in and what if anything was, or was not done. Meds were logged and when I found a mistake I raised holy hell.
One time, I even called the local fire department when she was put in an overcrowd ward with fellow who was on oxygen and smoking. (It was fun when the firetrucks showed up and the Fire Marshall was literally yelling at everyone in “management”. He shut the ER down for 12 hours while they brought everything up to code.)
I’m not a fan of “medical care” and especially when there is an obvious financial conflict of interest.
If you have a loved one sent to the hospital, then I urge you to monitor their care 24 by 7 by 365,
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