Sunday, March 16, 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14470923/pennsylvania-mom-dad-son-rare-disease-gunnar-woodring.html
How mom and dad’s quick-thinking actions helped save son’s life from rare disease
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 20:35 EST, 6 March 2025 | Updated: 20:42 EST, 6 March 2025
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The parents of a five-year-old boy from Pennsylvania are being praised for making the quick-thinking decision to return to hospital, despite being recently discharged.
Gunnar Woodring was known to be a bright and lively child until early January when his health suddenly took a terrifying turn for the worse.
Initially diagnosed with influenza, his condition rapidly deteriorated, alarming his mother, Katie Woodring.
‘I said, Gunnar, are you having a hard time breathing? And he nodded yes. And I said to my husband, I know we were just discharged, but we need to go back to the emergency room,’ Katie said.
Her maternal instincts proving to be lifesaving.
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Doctors credit Gunnar’s survival to his parents’ quick actions and their refusal to ignore their instincts.
‘Had they not recognized that this was more than just the flu, more than just a mild viral illness.
‘They knew very early on that this child was quite ill and they did what great parents do: they advocated, and they said there’s something not right, so they saved their child’s life,’ Dr. Frank Maffei, Chair of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Critical Care at Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, said.
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EVERYONE needs a Patient Advocate.
Not just a little child. The patient is not is a position to see and hear everything that’s going on.
As a PiA (Patient Advocate aka Giant Pain In The <synonym for donkey>) for my sainted wife, I keep my own chart and logs. I documented every interaction that happened in the hospital. And, I don’t take no <synonym for excrement> when the SHIF and she’s going into shock (low blood sugar) or coma (high blood sugar), I understand that the nursing staff can’t stand by 24/7, but I could. Once went 30 hours without a break during one tough interval.
I often thought I should have written a book about advocating for your patient. (Like the time I called the local Fire Department when there was an on-oxygen patient sneaking smokes in an overcrowded temporary ward in an old conference room. The Fire Chief personally thanked me after he shutdown the ER from accepting new patients. The head of the hospital wasn’t as happy when she visited my wife the day after. Like I cared. Frau asked me if I did it; I proudly said “sure did and I’d do it faster next time.” Never had the chance or need.) I found that the “head docs” never were upset or rude to me when I put in my “advice”. Their lesser team members were not as cordial. I’d seen a “head doc” have a heated hallway conversation with a “little doc” on more tha one occasion. Funny how much you can see when you are only focus on “your patient”.
I had all sorts of tricks to ingratiate myself to the staff (i.e., all ways thank and compliment the cleaning staff; box of donuts for the night nurses; never ask for a service I could do myself; never try to “help” the patient use the ladies room unless the nurse needed help). You have to strictly observe the boundaries. Remember you’re there to watch, record, and report. Not get in the way. The staff should barely know you are there. Remembering their names is easy when you write them all down.
Laugh! I could have take better notes if I had court reporter training. But I used some self-generated forms that helped a lot.
Bottom line: TL;DR. Always trust your instincts; docs and teams make mistakes.
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/is-arpa-h-really-a-giant-biden-biotech?publication_id=1119676&post_id=158552758&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true
Is ARPA-H Really a Giant Biden Biotech Slush Fund?
Dr. McCullough with Liz MacDonald on Fox Business The Evening Edit
Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Mar 07, 2025
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Senator Joni Ernst wrote Robert F. Kennedy a concerning letter about one ARPA-H check for $28 M to Vaccine Company, Inc, operating out of a PO Box in Maryland. Ernst’s cursory investigation revealed Vaccine Company, Inc, is brand new, has no physical plant or address, and yet received a generous $24M payment from ARPA-H. Ernst points out that ARPA-H received an additional $1.5B from the Biden administration in 2022.
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Certainly seems suspect.
1.5B$?
Must be a really small lab to fit in a Post Office Box.
Where’s the new FBI? The POB had to be paid for. Follow the money and hand out immunity to the “little people” until you get to “the brains”.
Jail is too good for grifters.
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Friday, March 14, 2025
FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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Heart of Steel Titanium
An Australian man in his 40s lived for a record 105 days with a titanium heart before receiving a donor heart transplant March 6. Though five patients in the US had previously been implanted with BiVACOR’s Total Artificial Heart, he is the first to be discharged from the hospital with the device and has the longest survival period between implantation and transplantation.
The device uses magnetic levitation technology—like that used in high-speed trains—to suspend a single moving part, a rotor, which pumps blood through the body. An external system controls the device, adjusting blood flow based on the patient’s activity. Experts say it could be a solution for heart failure patients awaiting transplants and may become a permanent option for those ineligible for transplants due to age or other conditions, though further testing is required.
Approximately 6.7 million Americans over age 20 have heart failure, and around 4,600 heart transplants were performed in 2024. The US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the trial to include 15 more participants.
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Now that is a real boon to people whose heart is on its way to failure. And death.
Soon maybe they won’t need donors or pigs.
Amazing.
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Friday, March 14, 2025
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/degraded-lands-transformed-into-productive-farms-with-science-we-can-create-wonders/
Degraded Lands Transformed into Productive Farms: With Science, We Can Create Wonders
By Andy Corbley – Mar 3, 202
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In a degraded and semi-arid farming area in India, simple science-driven changes to the landscape have colored the horizon, and a village’s fortunes, with green.
In the Latur district in the central western state of Maharashtra, 40 years of erratic rainfall, groundwater depletion, soil erosion, and crop failures have impoverished the local people.
In the village of Matephal, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) launched a project in 2023 that aimed at addressing these challenges through integrated landscape management and climate-smart farming practices.
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“This ICRISAT project improved yields, diversified crops, and boosted incomes. It also spared women from walking over a kilometer for drinking water, now available in the village for people and animals,” said Mr. Govind Hinge of Matephal village.
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Pretty amazing results. Went from “dirt poor” with no water to abundant water and good soil.
Unfortunately, the author doesn’t itemize the capital investment that went into creating this miracle. While obviously significant, far beyond what a poor village could afford, one wonders what the ROI would be? For example, the 30 tons of fish harvested might be a source of capital. A 13 foot rise in the water table might be economically exploitable. The extra acreage that become productive might be a source of capital to be used.
I wonder if the world’s engineering schools could be an educational resource? Imagine instead of funding football teams with expansive coaches, Universities could complete for whose intervention produces the most results. Funny? No fill the stadium with two equally sized plots and see which produced the best tomatoes. Yeah, now that is exciting.
Listen to the 4 minute video and see if you’re not as impressed as I am.
Interesting to me is that this intervention made a permanent positive change in peoples’ lives.
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Note: I learned that a hectare (symbol: ha) is a unit of area that is accepted in the International System of Units (SI). It is primarily used to measure land area. One hectare is equal to 10,000 square meters and is equivalent to approximately 2.471 acres.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
Found on XTwitter
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Seems like a great idea!
As a gun owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I really objected when Gooferment bureaucrats made a big deal out of adoptions by “those people” (i.e., gay, lesbian, single parent). I’d rather see those children adopted into a loving home than stuck in the “system”.
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2018/05/05/kansas-oklahoma-approve-religious-veto-on-lgbt-adoptions/
If they are truly so concerned, then schedule follow up visits and such.
But the “system” is no place for children.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
A Student Used AI to Beat Amazon’s Brutal Technical Interview. He Got an Offer and Someone Tattled to His University
https://gizmodo.com/a-student-used-ai-to-beat-amazons-brutal-technical-interview-he-got-an-offer-and-someone-tattled-to-his-university-2000571562
- Roy Lee built an AI system that bypasses FAANG’s brutal technical interviews and says that the work of most programmers will be obsolete in two years.
By Matthew Gault Published March 4, 2025
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Lee recorded his entire technical interview with Amazon and posted the whole thing, uncut, on YouTube. Then they made him an offer. He rejected it. For Lee, the point was proving that Interview Coder worked, not passing a technical interview and landing a position.
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Good for him. Ethical shmethical. Columbia is probably just pissed that they lost their market for over-priced computer science grads. AMAZON just got embarrassed on YouTube.
Looks like we old programmers got ours and got out before the robot uprising?
Wonder if AI does FORTRAN and COBOL?
I think my 360 Assembler experience is still unique. Too many ways to hide the methods in registers and absolute / relative addressing. And no English language for AI to analyze.
Laugh!
P.S., The Gooferment and Big Banks still use COBOL. Too much invested in it and too hard to recode. I did a FORTRAN retrieval for one oil company that manage to misplace the FORTRAN source code for their refinery control code. So there should still be work for us fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income to “save the day” as Mighty Mouse would say.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025
https://people.com/dog-found-abandoned-in-cold-looking-for-foster-home-11689843
Iowa Rescue Dog Dumped in a Cage and ‘Left Alone’ in 18-Degree Cold, Now in ‘Gentle Hands’
Rise, a 4-year-old dog left alone in a cage on Sunday, March 2, now has a name that “speaks to new beginnings,” per the Humane Society of Scott County
By Brenton Blanchet
Updated on March 3, 2025 04:40PM EST
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- A thin and scarred dog was found dumped outside the old location of an Iowa animal shelter on March 2
- A good Samaritan spotted the abandoned dog alone in the 18-degree cold and brought the canine to the Humane Society of Scott County
- The Humane Society of Scott County named the dog Rise to honor the pet’s resilience
A dog found abandoned in a cage in Iowa in 18-degree weather is ready to begin a warm and welcoming next chapter.
On Sunday, March 2, the Kings Harvest Pet Rescue No Kill Shelter in Davenport announced on Facebook that, earlier that morning, an unidentified person left a dog unattended in the cold outside of the shelter’s former location.
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Special place in Hell reserved for that person. Only thing worse that that I can think of is: What if it was a child?
Would it have taken that much effort to bring it to the proper address that was on the sign where it was abandoned?
I find this very sad because all life is precious.
As Bob Barker always ended the Price Is Right tv show. “Remember to spay and neuter your pets.” That advice should apply to some heartless people too.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo?ICID=ref_fark
Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
13 hours ago << EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-03-03>>
Kelly Ng BBC News
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One of the world’s most prolific blood donors – whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies – has died.
James Harrison died in his sleep at a nursing home in New South Wales, Australia on 17 February, his family said on Monday. He was 88.
Known in Australia as the man with the golden arm, Harrison’s blood contained a rare antibody, Anti-D, which is used to make medication given to pregnant mothers whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn babies.
The Australian Red Cross Blood Service who paid tribute to Harrison, said he had pledged to become a donor after receiving transfusions while undergoing a major chest surgery when he was 14.
He started donating his blood plasma when he was 18 and continued doing so every two weeks until he was 81.
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We need more of these silent heroes. Where do we get Anti-D?
I started donating blood in College. I remember that the Christian Brothers really publicized the need. Most were WWII and or Korean War vets and could really make us understand how important it was. I remember one of them teaching “Engineering Measurements” saying that we were probably too dumb to be good engineers but probably smart enough to bleed correctly. It was a big joke when we reported that we did “bleed well enough”.
Later in my life, when my sainted wife was mysteriously “loosing platelets”, she was getting four bags of them every week. One of her last wishes was that I replace them. I did and then some until I “aged out”. Who knew that “old platelets” didn’t help those in need?
Anyway, I hope that everyone who can donates. Maybe you might have the “golden arm”!
What a privilege to save lives.
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Sunday, March 9, 2025
https://www.newsmax.com/us/incentive-budget-abortion/2025/02/28/id/1200846/
N.J. Gov. Seeks to Draw Abortionists to Garden State
By Nicole Weatherholtz | Friday, 28 February 2025 10:27 AM EST
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has included a $2 million incentive program in his new budget proposal to draw “reproductive healthcare providers” to the Garden State, according to Catholic News Agency.
Murphy’s remarks on the 2026 budget indicate the initiative was designed to appeal to abortion providers in pro-life states, saying the program would bring reproductive healthcare providers to New Jersey who have been “targeted by politicians elsewhere.”
“I will certainly never back down from defending women — and protecting their access to reproductive healthcare and, especially, their right to an abortion,” Murphy said on Tuesday. “Those folks in Washington can try and push their anti-choice agenda on us. But as long as I am governor, they will fail.”
With the 2026 budget, the governor declared that his administration was “going to make the largest investment into protecting reproductive rights in our state’s history by fully funding women’s healthcare.”
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As pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian I don’t understand why the Taxpayers of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee have to subsidize or incentivize that Phil Murphy calls “reproductive healthcare providers”.
There is a lot of emotion in this issue and personally I believe that “abortion” is a tricky topic.
Up to a certain point, the Gooferment should have no role in what should be a terrible decision that has to be made by a woman. Perhaps guided by her doctor, her family, and her Church, she should be free to chose what she sees as “best”.
At some point, the child gets the rights of a human being. I don’t know what that point is: conception, 3 months, viability outside of the womb, 6 months, at birth, at some number of days after birth, when they can assert their rights, at 18, at 21. As I said, I don’t know.
But I do know, that the Gooferment should not add to the fury. “It’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Using Taxpayer money to attract more killing of human beings seems like a failure to understand the basic role of Gooferment: “Protect its citizens!”
No mater what age they are.
It’s a topic best left to the people. If Murphy wants, then let him pay out of his pocket; not mine. Or start a GOFUNDME!
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Saturday, March 8, 2025
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/johann-david-wyss/the-swiss-family-robinson/mary-jane-godwin_william-godwin
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
166,675 words (10 hours 7 minutes) with a reading ease of 56.32 (fairly difficult)
Translated by Mary Jane Godwin and William Godwin.
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I found this book somehow and was totally absorbed by it. Maybe that’s why I have sympathy for the survivalist lifestyle. Maybe if I had made different choices, then I’d have different results.
Amazing all the great, and not-so-great, books that are available here. I’ve chipped in and hope you do too.
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Friday, March 7, 2025
FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/
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Postpartum Neurology
Women with postpartum depression symptoms exhibited corresponding shifts in the size of certain brain regions, according to a study this week. The study provides the first neurological evidence of the condition’s impact, which affects as much as one in seven pregnant women worldwide.
Researchers analyzed a series of brain scans of 88 first-time mothers without a history of depression. They then compared the images to answers given in standard questionnaires used to diagnose postpartum depression. Nearly 30 women who showed moderate to severe symptoms of the condition saw enlargement of the amygdala and hippocampus, key regions of the brain that regulate emotion. Whether the enlarged anatomy causes the depression or vice versa remains unclear.
The condition has been studied for centuries, though data has stemmed from reported experiences rather than anatomical observations. Severe postpartum depression typically manifests as extreme mood swings, extended periods of sadness, and loss of sleep, and its severity distinguishes it from milder, more common “baby blues.”
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So this is another finding that it’s “not in your head” psychosomatic craziness. It’s a real demonstrable physical symptom.
Do we have to revisit all the baby killings by moms with baby blues?
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Friday, March 7, 2025
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/ryan-mcmaken/secession-why-redrawing-us-state-borders-makes-politicians-so-mad/
Secession: Why Redrawing US State Borders Makes Politicians So Mad – LewRockwell
By Ryan McMaken
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2025-02-27>>
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The opponents of state-level secession should give it a rest. Few people outside Illinois with families and jobs—and who want to mind their own business—care if the border between Illinois and Indiana is changed. The same is true of the line between Idaho and Oregon. These lines weren’t drawn by the Almighty. Politicians care deeply about such things, however, because they care deeply about power, and about preserving the status quo that has served the ruling class so well.
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At the risk of reigniting the War for Southern Independence aka the (un) Civil War, what’s wrong with allowing voters to change boundaries or even leave these United States?
From a just Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee POV, why shouldn’t Staten Island escape liberal New York and join the less liberal Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee?
Similarly, Texas, Hawaii, California, Alaska, and New Hampshire should all be allowed to decide their fates. (Remember that only North Dakota currently has the ability to clear checks thru the (not) Federal Reserve System via their current Bank of North Dakota.) All throughout the world, people should be allowed the right of self-determination. Imagine how peaceful the world would be if the Straight Line Borders drawn my the English and French to divide ethic groups into “manageable” populations didn’t happen. Ethinic minorities would be too busy fighting each other to focus on the foreign invaders.
Let’s all agree that the right of self-determination trumps the desires of the status quo elite.
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Thursday, March 6, 2025
https://nautil.us/can-we-prove-the-world-isnt-a-simulation-238416/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nautilus-newsletter
Philosophy
Can We Prove the World Isn’t a Simulation?
- You might think we have definitive evidence we’re not in a simulation. That’s impossible.
By Dylan DiScenza January 26, 2022
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What about the other way around? Could we prove we are in a simulation? In The Matrix, Neo realized he’d been living in a simulation when he took the red pill and woke up in a different reality. He shouldn’t have been so sure. For all he knows, his old world was nonsimulated and the red pill plunged him into a simulation.
Still, we certainly could get very strong evidence that we’re in a simulation. The simulators could lift the Sydney Harbor Bridge into the air and turn it upside down. They could show us the source code of the simulation. They could show us private episodes from our past, along with the simulation technology that produced them. They could show me a film of my brain hooked up to wires in the next reality up, with an associated readout of my thoughts and feelings. They could give me control of the simulation, so that I could move mountains in the world around me just by pressing some buttons.
Even this evidence would fall short of absolute proof that we’re in a simulation. Maybe the world we’re in is a nonsimulated magic world, like the Harry Potter world, in which all-powerful wizards are using their powers to convince us we’re in a simulation. Maybe most of my life has been nonsimulated but simulators have put me into a temporary simulated duplicate to fool me. Or maybe I’m having a drug-induced hallucination. Still, I think that if I got evidence like this, I would probably be convinced that I am in a simulation.
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If we are in either, what difference does it make? We still have to “live” with the evidence presented us. And, why would it be this way? Is a wizard, a god, a space alien, or the flying spaghetti monster just playing with the equivalent of a kid’s train set?
Makes my head hurt so I’ll just pretend it’s “real life” until proven otherwise.
Ockham’s razor (i.e., fewest assumptions) says it’s “real life”.
Sigh!
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
https://www.boredpanda.com/offensive-things-people-say-to-women/
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Tempest 8 minutes ago
I remember a comment somewhere from some time ago which renamed mansplaining as “correctile dysfunction” and I’ve never forgotten it. Waiting for the day I’ll get to use it!
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Pretty funny.
Never thought of it this way.
Some of the others are amazing as well.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/how-to-not-pay-your-medical-bills-e9d195e6?st=Smcycm
How to Not Pay Your Medical Bills
- Actually, that’s easy. This is how I paid a lot less.
By Joel Stein
Feb. 20, 2025 10:25 am ET
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As you probably recall, I had a mole removed about a year ago. As fresh as this is in all of our memories, a year is a fair bit of time, so I was surprised to get a bill in the mail for $604.80 from a company called DermTech. Apparently, much like wedding gifts, you have a year to send someone a medical bill.
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A friend of mine, who is retired and better off than me, has a different strategy. He calls and asks for a payment plan. He offers 5$/month since that’s “all his budget allows”. Each month he mails 5$ paper checks by US mail. Sometimes people call and say don’t bother since processing the checks costs them more than 5$. I don’t understand that but it seems to work for him.
My only experience with “delayed billing” was with a hospital bill for my sainted wife’s last hospital stay that was about TWO YEARS prior. It was bill for about 1½ M dollars. That certainly made my eyes water. Talking to them yielded that someone forgot to send it to the insurance company and I should submit it to my insurance company.
Instead, I called my lawyer. His firm was conflicted out because they represent the hospital. He recommended any local lawyer could take care of this with one letter. Found one with an office near my home. One visit. TWO LETTERS required.
First one to the hospital asking for their agreement with the insurance company. After a two week delay, he sent a SECOND LETTER to the hospital that their agreement with the insurance company required all bills to be submitted within 180 days and, if not, were deemed “closed”. A month later he got a letter saying basically “You’re right. Have a nice day”. Cost me about $400. Slightly better than 1½ M$!
At no extra charge, the local lawyer pointed out that the hospital wouldn’t want to make an issue out of it since the contract with the hospital applied to all hospital bills even if the patient was not insured or insured with some other insurance company. I can understand why they don’t want that to become common knowledge. Wonder if the hospital’s lawyers cleaned up their contracts?
Of course, YMMV.
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Monday, March 3, 2025
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14421799/yale-scientists-covid-vaccine-study-message-victims.html
Yale scientists who risked careers to publish bombshell Covid vaccine study issue message to shot’s victims
By EMILY JOSHU STERNE HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ISHITA SRIVASTAVA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 01:40 EST, 22 February 2025 | Updated: 07:03 EST, 22 February 2025
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On Wednesday, a team from Yale University known for their rigorous work revealed the mRNA shots can cause a previously unknown condition known as ‘post-vaccination syndrome.’
The syndrome appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus, extreme fatigue and biological changes to patients’ immune systems.
Dr Akiko Iwasaki, the lead researcher behind the paper, told DailyMail.com she understands her findings could be seen as controversial. But she wants patients to know her team will keep studying to bring them ‘better transparency and safer vaccines.’
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Now we know that ‘post-vaccination syndrome’ is real. And, who do we hold accountable and how?
What’s controversial?
People were harmed. People were misled. People were unemployed forcibly.
How can it all be made right?
How is it prevented in the future?
Argh!
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/see-a-garbage-trucks-cng-cylinders-explode-after-lithium-ion-battery-fire/
See a garbage truck’s CNG cylinders explode after lithium-ion battery fire
- It happened recently in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
Nate Anderson – Feb 20, 2025 5:21 PM |
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Garbage truck fires are never ideal, but they are usually not catastrophic. When a fire broke out on December 6 in the back of a garbage truck making its Friday rounds through the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, the fire department responded within five minutes. Firefighters saw flames shooting five feet into the air out the back of the truck, and they prepared to put the fire out using hoses and water. Four minutes after their arrival on scene, however, the garbage truck exploded in rather spectacular fashion, injuring several firefighters and police officers, damaging several homes in the vicinity, and scattering debris through the neighborhood.
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What is an infrequent event — a garbage truck fire — turned into a war zone!
Do you think all the warnings are just to give someone a job?
In this case, no one was hurt. But that was just luck.
Remember this when you’re flying or just doodling around town on your e-scooter with your laptop.
Not everything has to be sabotage by a waring country; sometimes it’s just ordinary human stupidity.
Argh!
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/14-year-old-kentucky-boy-shoots-kills-two/
14-Year-Old Kentucky Boy Shoots and Kills Two Home Invaders With His Father’s Handgun
by Ben Kew Feb. 20, 2025 9:15 am
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The two men have since been identified as 44-year-old Roger D. Smith and 51-year-old Jeffrey M. Allen.
Smith was taken to hospital but succumbed to his injuries, while Allen was pronounced dead at the scene.
Manchester Police Chief Jeff Couch told NBC News that the boy was on his own at the time of the incident.
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FAFO
Exceptionally good shooting under stress.
Two ne’er-do-wells have been forcefully retired. Wonder what their rap sheets look like.
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Friday, February 28, 2025
https://johnklar.substack.com/p/maha-vs-microplastics-to-ensure-the?publication_id=779141&post_id=156807700&isFreemail=true&r=3vwsqx&triedRedirect=true
MAHA vs Microplastics – To Ensure the First, Get Rid of the Second!
American children are being sickened by toxic partisan ideology.
John Klar
Feb 19, 2025
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If Americans are ever to be healthy again, an effective response to ubiquitous microplastics will be essential. Recent confirmation hearings of the MAHA maven Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. focused on his supposed vaccine and abortion positions while mainly ignoring his opening statement centered on American diets. Industrially-backed officials may thrust their ostrich heads in the political sands, but America’s babies and children are left exposed to toxic chemicals in the meantime – especially microplastics.
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Studies increasingly demonstrate toxic threats to developing children’s bodies from microplastics and chemicals called phthalates (plasticizers) used in plastic containers and food service gloves. A recent study of human brains found an average equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics per brain, an increase of 50% in eight years. A 2023 study estimated that humans are inhaling the equivalent of a credit card per week of microplastics.
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The visual of a “credit card per week” made a traumatic impression upon me. Don’t know why? For me at the end of life’s journey, not much worries me.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), what about the little children?
That can’t be good for them. Not sure how the average parent prevents that, but I’d sure like to know.
Argh!
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Thursday, February 27, 2025
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-did-108-economists-predict-mileis-results-exactly-wrong/
How Did 108 Economists Predict Milei’s Results Exactly Wrong?
- Leading lights on the left said Milei’s free market reforms would be disastrous. Instead, they’ve been hailed as a miracle.
Jon Miltimore
February 15, 2025
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“Their understanding of how markets work and of how governments work is superficial,” writes Henderson. “I wonder if any of them, seeing the apparent success of Milei’s policies, are questioning their prior views. We can always hope.”
Indeed we can. But for now, it’s not unfair to assume from their silence that they’ve learned little from Argentina’s economic progress.
As President Donald Trump begins his own second term as president, there’s much he can learn from Milei’s first year in office.
This includes ignoring economists who claim that cutting government spending, regulations, and bureaucracy will result in economic devastation. And perhaps most importantly, the danger of using government printing presses to avoid making difficult budget decisions.
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Jonathan Miltimore is Senior Editor at AIER. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, and the Star Tribune. He is a contributor at the Washington Examiner and has had bylines in Fox News, Newsweek, National Review, the Epoch Times, Real Clear Politics, the Washington Times, and other media.
Prior to joining AIER, Jon served in editorial roles at the History Channel magazine and the Foundation for Economic Education. He also served in the Bush Administration as an intern in the Department of Speechwriting. When he is not working, Jon enjoys reading, watching movies, and spending time with his wife and three children. He also coaches youth football, baseball, and wrestling.
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All the little L libertarians knew that, if allowed, Milei’s free market reforms would radically change the incentive structure in that socialist economy. Just like that, freeing people’s competitive skills and ability from the chains of a Welfare State would stun all the pessimists. And it did.
Inflation from 300% to 2.4%. GDP of 5%.
I guess that the people of any country would want stats like that. Now it’s time to get the leadership that will give it to them.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
Today is the anniversary of the worst day in my life. While she and I always lived with the expectation it would happen, it still was metaphorical punch in the gut when it happened.
I wrote about it in my book long before it did happen.
“You can’t be afraid. It’s not right to be afraid. It’s as if you don’t trust the Lord with our lives. I’m not a big Bible Banger, but it seems rude to joggle God’s elbow. Like a little kid, who has no concept of what is happening.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 206
“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399
And each year I reflect on the thing I might have done to delay or prevent it.
“You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. Don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” – Johnny Cash
I have a theory that, unless you care crazy, you always make the best decisions among the available options at the time. Hence there are no “mistakes”. There are only choices that worked out well and those that worked out badly. Like in sports, doing the high percentage play doesn’t guarantee in the short run; maybe not even in the long run either.
Unfortunately, we live in the Fourth Dimension of Time. And, there’s no do overs to test other outcomes.
“… checked the Eternal Possibilities Machine, which generates all the possibilities for use in creating the alternative worlds. In all those probability lines …” CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 45
Wish I had that Eternal Possibilities Machine to go back and look at all the other paths possible and their results.
But, unfortunately, no such device exists. (Yet?)
So we just have to trudge along. “Let’s go forth and speak no more of this.”
So today ends my reflection. I’ll put the mental folder away for next year and put one foot in front of the other on my way to whatever life has in store for me next.
Sigh!
YMMV
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
https://wokespy.com/study-homeschoolers-have-highest-life-satisfaction-better-families-least-divorce-rates-and-are-least-depressed/
Study: Homeschoolers Have Highest Life Satisfaction, Better Families, Least Divorce Rates, and are Least Depressed
By Martin Tribe / February 17, 2025
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A Cardus Educational Survey (CES) has discovered that homeschooled children outperformed their non-homeschooled peers on various psychosocial issues. Between 2019 and 2021, school enrolment declined by 2.1 million while homeschooling increased by 30%.
The trend was largely influenced by the pandemic when homeschooling was mandatory. However, many parents continued to teach their children at home even after physical classes resumed.One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
The CES report that studied adults between adults 24 to 39 years old analyzed economic, mental health, civic, spiritual, and family formation among homeschooled and non-homeschooled individuals.
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One key finding was that homeschooled adults exhibited better mental health than their non-homeschooled peers amid the nation’s ongoing mental health crisis affecting teens and young adults.
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While the short-term financial gains might be appealing, they are costly in the long due to depopulation which is an existential threat. The mental health crisis also requires more funds to address, resulting in the loss of otherwise productive members of society through depression and suicide. Likely, that is why nearly 60% of all “gun crimes” in the US are suicides instead of accidental shootings or homicides.
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While “home schooling” is a daunting undertaking, it does point out that the problem is Gooferment Skrules. Mixing in non-Gooferment schools and comparing that to “home schools” confounds the data and makes Gooferment Skrules’ flaws not as obvious.
In the 80’s, I proposed a voucher solution for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee that would eliminate Gooferment Skrules over forty years. (Enough time for everyone to get comfortable and shift the “Overton window” on “education”. The essence of the plan was to give Gooferment Skrules to the teachers and staff of every school. In the first 20 years, 5% of the students could use their “green” voucher anywhere they wanted, while everyone else would have a “red” voucher that he’d to be used at their local school. Each year, the 5% would grow by 5%. (New students entering the system would get via a lottery either a “green” or “red” voucher.) The school would get a chance to adapt to a free market. Then in the second 20 year period, the amount of the voucher would decrease by 5% each year. At the end of forty years, no Gooferment Skrules. Of course, the property tax portion of real estate would decrease. School “corporations” would have to compete in the free market.
Hard to imagine what this would look like but I’d bet that schools would adapt to be wonderful places. Not the pre-prison incubator of illiterates that they are today.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-first-in-man-oral-proteolytic?publication_id=1119676&post_id=157693736&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true
BREAKING–First-in-Man Oral Proteolytic and Thrombolytic Dissolution of Intra-Arterial COVID-19 Vaccine Thrombi
- Complex Blend of Oral Enzymes and Natural Ingredients Clears Brain Fog and Removes Impending Stroke Risk in Heavily Vaccinated Patient
Feb 24, 2025
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
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While McCullough Protocol Base Spike Protein Detoxification with Ultimate Spike Detox has quickly grown to a global standard for managing long-COVID and complications after COVID-19 vaccination, at the McCullough Foundation we continue to seek innovative solutions to more rapidly and completely manage the health problems brought on by the pandemic.
In this breaking interview, Dr. Takuji Shirasawa from the Ochanomizu Health and Longevity Clinic describes a 60-year old Japanese man who took 4 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines and presented with a loss of mental clarity otherwise known as “brain fog.” Shirasawa used MR angiography to demonstrate sessile bilateral arterial thrombi in the carotid bulbs. His hypothesis was that mini-blood clots may be responsible for the neurological and cognitive symptoms.
Shirasawa performed a N-of-1 trial giving the patient a complex blend of oral proteolytic and thrombolytic enzymes featuring nattokinase, bromelain, serrapeptase, and papain adding over a dozen natural ingredients given in proprietary blends from Texas based Phytomedic Labs. The patient was also administered aspirin 100 mg per day.
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This certainly good news. It proves that “brain fog” really does exist by MR angiography. So anyone who says the symptoms are all in your head is correct but not in the way they mean it (i.e., psychosomatic).
I was also fascinated by the term of art “N-of-1 trial” that I never heard of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_of_1_trial
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An N of 1 trial (N=1) is a multiple crossover clinical trial, conducted in a single patient.[1] A trial in which random allocation is used to determine the order in which an experimental and a control intervention are given to a single patient is an N of 1 randomized controlled trial. Some N of 1 trials involve randomized assignment and blinding, but the order of experimental and control interventions can also be fixed by the researcher.[2]
This type of study has enabled practitioners to achieve experimental progress without the work of designing a group comparison study. This design, especially if including blinding and wash-out periods, can be effective in confirming causality. N-of-1 trials, if used in clinical practice to inform therapeutic decisions concerned with the patient participating in the trial, can be a source of evidence about individual treatment responses, fulfilling the promise of personalized medicine.[3][4]
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Never heard that before. Heard of “case reports” as anecdotal evidence. But those were always dismissed as “unscientific”.
As always, this is just hearsay until it happens to you or a loved one.
Nice to know such a treatment exists and appears to work.
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Monday, February 24, 2025
https://nj1015.com/violent-record-roman-romanovskiy-nj-man-charged-murder-lauren-saldana/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=7kirmfg475&di=a842a82fc065ea5c55c94d390ad9f7cd
NJ courts kept letting him go until mom of 4 was killed in front of her kids
Erin Vogt
Published: February 10, 2025
- Lauren Saldana, 38, was strangled to death
- The murder suspect has a long history of violence
- Victim’s daughter now pursues justice
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Prosecutors and judges kept giving him new chances. And he kept returning to his girlfriend’s life.
It was a decades-long cycle of brutal violence and lenient justice that came to a head on Jan. 9 in South Brunswick when Roman Romanovskiy, not for the first time, placed his rage-filled hands around the neck of a woman, police said.
But this time, Lauren Saldana, 38, did not survive. This time, a 5-year-old boy witnessed the homicide of his mother by his father, just steps from his newborn brother.
This time, Romanovskiy, just seven months into a probationary term of four years for a seemingly unprovoked assault on two other people, was accused of the most heinous charge after a life of terrorizing others.
“This isn’t fair and was never supposed to happen,” Saldana’s oldest child said in a heartbreaking post on Facebook two days after her mother was killed. “I will fight for her memory and make sure justice is served for her 3 sons and myself, no matter what it takes.”
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OK, let’s start names and kicking asses. (Yeah, I said it.)
Sorry but this criminal was not some young first-time non-violent offender who deserved the benefit of the doubt or leniency.
Everyone involved should be publicly outed and scorned.
Judges should be impeach for poor judgement. The attorneys involved should be censured. And any prosecutors, politicians and bureaucrats should be fired.
And, by the way, what was Roman Romanovskiy immigration and drug testing status?
Argh!
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Sunday, February 23, 2025
https://dailyreckoning.com/blissful-ignorance-now/
Blissful Ignorance Now
By Sean Ring
Posted February 13, 2025
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I was recently watching Landman, which is a TV series about the oil industry in West Texas. Tommy Norris, the Landman, explained to his female lawyer colleague the economics and environmental impact of wind turbines and how oil companies use them to power the wells. They need to use those monstrosities because the wells are off-grid.
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Tommy: “Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix that much concrete or make that steel, and haul this shit out here, and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fucking thing or winterize it? In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it. And don’t get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And nevermind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don’t have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It’d take 30 years if we started tomorrow. And, unfortunately, for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. And hell, it’s in everything. That road we came in on, the wheels won’t every car ever made, including yours. It’s in tennis rackets, and lipstick, and refrigerators, and antihistamines, pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves, any kind of clothing that’s not made with animal or plant fibers, soap, fucking hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats, you name it. Every fucking thing. And you know what the kicker is? We’re gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.”
Rebecca: “It’s the thing that’s gonna kill us all as a species.”
Tommy: “No, the thing that’s gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And, believe me, if Exxon thought them fucking things right there were the future, they’d be putting ’em all over the goddamn place. Getting oil outta the ground is the most dangerous job in the world. We don’t do it ’cause we like it, we do it ’cause we run outta options. And you’re out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain’t nobody to blame, but the demand that we keep pumping it.”
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Funny how we have to rely on TV fiction to “explain” why “green energy” is fictional concept.
And, even more peculiar, that we need nuclear power before we run out of oil.
The alternative is we die off as a species.
ECONOMICS is truly the dismal science of limited resources and the recognition there of.
Argh!
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Saturday, February 22, 2025
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx
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