ADMINISTRIVIA: Seeking a “pediatric GI specialist” at NYP-Cornell Medical Center asap!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Dear Blog Reader,

Time to take this “publishing press” out for a spin. Not for me, but for a little girl. It’s a long shot, but you wouldn’t happen to be drinking buddies with a “pediatric GI specialist”?

My fellow alumi, Bern Kelly, is looking for some help at getting a pediatric GI specialist at NYP-Cornell Medical Center to review her case sooner rather than later. Know anyone who can help?

If you can, I’ll owe you one and have to do pennance for all the mean things I’ve said about bloggers, blogging, and blog readers.

thanks,
fjohn

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Welcome to Caitlin’s Chronicles – created to keep our network of friends and family around the globe updated about our darling Caitlin Anne.

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Well, we’ve been quiet about being at home, because poor Caitlin’s colon continues to have troubles. She wasn’t ‘sick’ enough to keep in the hospital, but she isn’t well enough to be OK either. I called the pediatric surgeon on call at the hospital on Sunday and got Dr. LaQuaglia himself. He said to skip the low residue diet and revert back to lots of liquids, but can give yogurt, custards, some eggs, etc. After a very wakeful and painful night, I sent the following email to the Nurse Practitioners on the surgical team:

“Just checking in to find out if there has been any progress with getting a GI specialist to look at Caitlin’s case. She is experiencing quite a bit of pain – I assume it is gas pain; it is relatively random, although it seems worst not too long after she eats and at nighttime. The issue I struggle with is that there doesn’t seem to be a game plan to help her until a GI specialist examines her and I don’t know whether I am helping her by feeding her (and filling the empty stomach/giving nutrition) or if it is actually hurting her because it is creating a ‘backlog’ of gas that she is having issues expelling due to the inflamed colon. There are times where she is perfectly fine and times where she screams in pain. Please help me help her for I am at a loss.”

I was quite surprised when Dr. LaQuaglia himself called me back. He is confident she needs a colonoscopy and if things continue the way they have, there was talk of putting the ileostomy back until chemo treatments end and try again then. After all, this leukemia monster lurking in the background (for the time being) isn’t going to sit and wait patiently for the GI issues to resolve themself. We have an appointment with Dr. LaQuaglia tomorrow for him to examine Caitlin’s surgical site and, we hope, come up with a game plan. Apparently, getting the pediatric GI specialist at NYP-Cornell Medical Center to review her case sooner rather than later is easier said than done. I also placed a call to Caitlin’s pediatrician to fill them in and they are looking into pediatric GI doctors as well. Anyone got a pull at NYP?? (Hey, got to ask……..) We will let you know how the appointment goes……

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POLITICAL: Tax increases in a recession?

Sunday, February 22, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/21/AR2009022100911_pf.html

Obama’s First Budget Seeks To Trim Deficit
Plan Would Cut War Spending, Increase Taxes on the Wealthy
By Lori Montgomery and Ceci Connolly
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, February 22, 2009; A01

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President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said.

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Companies don’t pay taxes; people do. So raising the corporate tax is essentially a tax increase for everyone; poor included.

Rich folks have the ability to defer income and shit it and even “coast”. Watch how revenues “fail to appear”!

Stupidity!

Ignores the lessons of Kennedy and Regan.

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Here’s a list of books I’m selling on Amazon

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/7efvab

Please help a poor unemployed FOWG! :-)

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LIBERTY: End the drug war now!

Sunday, November 30, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6aw36e

Bush ‘pardons’ his last Thanksgiving turkey

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — With nostalgic words, US President George W. Bush Wednesday pardoned his last national Thanksgiving turkey, which will now fly first-class to Disneyland in California instead of ending up on a dinner table.

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Would be nice if he did the same for all non-violent drug offenders.

Like that’s ever going to happen.

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POLITICAL: Who’s to blame for the election?

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Well. clearly, the McCain campaign was a disaster, but is it all his fault.

(1) The liberal media certainly was Obama’s chief cheerleader.

(2) George Bush made his first mistake when there was no viable VP to take over for him.

(3) George Bush was a closet liberal. He didn’t govern as a “conservative”; compassionate or otherwise.

(4) The failure to regulate the mortgage market with a simple effective “damping” of the sub-prime mortgage market was a critical gooferment failure. NINJA loans were a well known scandal. The Fed could have put in a minimum percentage down payment rule; akin to its margin requirement rule. Congress — being paid off by Fannie and Freddie — could have passed restraining legislation; at least to divide Fannie and Freddie into small regional competitors. The Judiciary could have found that loan agreements that had negative amortization, adjustable into the sky, or other terms as unenforceable as “fraudulent” or “unsuitable”. So there’s enough blame to go around.

(5) The sheeple are easily led. A victory for the dis-education system of Horace Mann. It’s created uncritical voters who are easily swung by emotional media.

The question becomes what will the Republican / December duopoly? Does Liberty have a doorway to slip through with the demolition of the Republican Party and will the Democrats be destroyed by success?

Out of the rubble can Liberty activists forge a new path to a voluntary society?

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POTUS08: FLASH! Obama calls me “selfish”!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6dm767

Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior National Correspondent Jake Tapper
October 31, 2008 10:58 AM

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“John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic,” Obama continued. “You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”

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Well, that tears it! It’s all out in the open now. His stealth campaign is unmasked.

Think it’s just big gooferment; you’re selfish.

<shaking my head at the hubris of the socialists>

Argh!

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POTUS08: Socialism Katrina-style from the “compassionate conservative”!

Saturday, November 1, 2008

http://tinyurl.com/6qnntz

Friday, October 31, 2008
Your Tax Dollars at Work (Katrina Recovery Edition)

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This one will make your blood boil.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the government providing temporary housing for thousands of storm victims. Some wound up in those infamous FEMA trailers; others found loding in hotels and motels along the coast.

More than three years later, some of those left homeless by the disaster are still living in hotels–on the taxpayer’s dime–and show little interest in leaving their comfortable accommodations.

Andrea Ramey, a reporter for WPMI-TV, the NBC affiliate in Mobile, Alabama, has been investigating these “extended stays”– which also come with free meals. Here’s a portion of what she discovered:

It’s been three years since Katrina and the relief is still flowing, with hundreds of families in Mississippi receiving all the necessities of life, all on your dime. We wanted to know how long the government intended to pay for this public assistance. So five months ago, we began to investigate at the Quality Inn in Biloxi. It’s at that hotel where three years later, victims of Hurricane Katrina still receive free housing and three meals a day, giving some little motivation to get back on their feet.

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This is what’s wrong with socialism. I don’t care if it is Republican “compassionate conservatism” or Democratic “helping hand up”. Both imprision people by trapping them into complacency and lethargy.
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ADMINISTRIVIA: “Drive by commenting”

Friday, October 31, 2008

Just for the record, not that “drive by commenters” read anything, you’re just wasting your time leaving comments here with fake email addresses. I enjoy the comments. Lengthen this, prolong that, gain weight: ll amuse me. Lose weight: makes me sad. I really do enjoy the comments. It’s probably the one aspect of my life where I get “true feedback”. That being said, putting in a phony email address will get you comment marked as “spam” as soon as the “Thank you for your comment” message bounces. Some are dead giveaways by the website they seek to promote either with urls within the comment or in the identity section. Just wasting time and electrons.

So please comment. I don’t use the email address for anything but one message to confirm it’s validity. But I was thinking of a charity fund for FOWG bloggers making less that 250k!

rofl!

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POTUS08: O IS really a Marxist!

Monday, October 27, 2008

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

Wow! Here’s a bombshell. It exposes that the man is a Marxist Socialist. Hearing his words, he, in Clintonesque stype, parses around it. Never letting anyone know what his codewords mean. Hold on to your wallet if he gets elected!

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RANT: It’s not a “financial crisis”; it’s a moral crisis!

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/16171/


Glenn Beck: What happened?

October 6, 2008 – 13:01 ET
Glenn’s letter to his family explaining how we got into this economic crisis…
Yes, another email letter from your crazy brother. You raised a lot of questions in your last email and I am going to try to answer all of them.

I think all of your questions fall into three areas: (1) how did we get here; (2) what’s coming; and (3) what can I do to prepare myself and my family.

Consider this email as my answer to your first question, “how did we get here?”. I’ll be sending you 2 more emails answering your other two questions. Since there’s a lot of misinformation out there I will document each of the facts in my emails so you know where I pulled the information from and where you can go to read and learn more.


{Article Continues}

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A well-reasoned well-documented apolitical (there’s a lot of blame to go around!) piece. Clearly, there are a lot of people who deserve some tar and feathers. Clearly, it ain’t going to change anytime soon. Clearly, not only will NEITHER prez candidate be ABLE to DO anything about it. So what’s some one to do. (1) Get rid of incumbent politicians. Good start. (2) DownsizeDC dot org to slow them down and put them under a microscope. (3) Get ready for a “japan decade” of low growth tight times and look at the stagflation of the Carter years. Morose, yes. Realistic, yes. We need to summon up the Dead Old White Guys for government reform, the courage to start making hard political choices, and good old American ingenuity. We have to THINK our way out of this mess. And, “thinking” is not Washington’s strong suit. Spending is. We have to follow the lead of Andrew Jackson and kill the FED. It’s the root of all evil in that the inflation tax allows COngress to spend money it doesn’t get from taxes. We need them to run an honest set of books. You want a war, pay for it. You want welfare, pay for it. You want spending, where is the tax to cover it. Painful, yes. Necessary, yes. Unavoidable, yes.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Trying Widow Live Writer again

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Yeah, I know. A glutton for punishment.

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GAMBLING: Playing in a ‘tight’ Indian casino

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

During our recent traipse around the countryside (NJ – Hickory – Jax – Cherokee – NJ), we happend to linger at an Indian Casino. I can attest that the ‘house’ was the only one that one in this visit. White men got scalped! Hence, I am revising my thinking about how to play in these.

We did well when we played big in the extremes of denomination (i.e., penny and dollar); in the middle (i.e., nickels and quarters) we had very little winnings.

On Poker, (my initial foray with my hand-written cheat sheet form the inet) I KNOW that you are supposed to hold “a low pair” as the about the sixth place on the list. In my play, I NEVER improved on a low pair. I played a lot of hands. I should have kept a stroke count, but I KNOW I never drew out to trips, two pair, or four. NEVER! I don’t know what the stats are, but NEVER! ZERO, nada, zilch. Either I was the unluckiest bettor known to man. Or those machines were rigged.

I did note that the pay tables on some of the slots were biased against the player (Three red sevens play the same as three any sevens.) And why can’t one take pictures in a casino?

Afraid some one might gather evidence?

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RANT: ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy

Monday, July 14, 2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/01/28/stbarbie28.xml

http://tinyurl.com/67948g

Spoilt Bratz
12:01am GMT 28/01/2007

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What Bratz dolls are both contributing to and feeding on is a culture in which girls play at being ‘sassy’ – the toy industry’s euphemism for sexy – and discard traditional toys at a younger age.

Toy marketers now invoke a phenomenon called KGOY – kids getting older younger – and talk about it as though it were a fact of life over which they have no control, rather than one which they have largely created.

Scothon says, ‘Kids are exposed to more things at earlier ages. Their scope of reference is wider. Their exposure to media is greater.’ Larian tells me, ‘Little girls are much more sophisticated now than they used to be.’

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Sadly noted.

Maybe I’m just an old fart — I use the descriptor FOWG often — but I see little girls dressed like sluts.

Sorry, it’s neither cute nor attractive. But then, I’m a FOWG!

Parents should be ashamed at what they have allowed to happen.

Sigh!

imho,
a FOWG

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TECHNOLOGYSITE: Wordie, a gestalt

Monday, July 7, 2008


 http://wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/56805/http%3A–www.reinkefaceslife.com-

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FITing: First Gas Up!!!

Monday, July 7, 2008

Shell station on Route 38 at Exit 40 on 295 … $3.99 per gallon. Argh! = $33.44

125.8 miles divided by 8.411 gallons

an unimpressive 14.95 mpgs

Arghh!!!

Maybe it’ll improve?

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RANT: If wishes were horses … …

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/grand-theft-society.html

Grand Theft Society
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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A core problem with government is that its managers believe that all reality will conform to their wishes if they issue the right orders, pass the right laws, and put the right people in charge. Reality resists this simple-minded approach …

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(1) Reality is; laws are wishes.

(2) If everyone agreeed that your ‘great idea’ was a ‘great idea’, why do you need the guns of gooferment to force folks to comply?

(3) Even if your ‘great idea’ is passed into law — with credit to Harry Browne — it will be implemented and enforced with a different understanding and agenda.

(4) Gooferment is aggressive force that not only MAKES me doing something regardless of how I feel about the matter. It forces me to PAY for things that I am morally (religiously) opposed to. Cite the Amish and to a lesser extent the Quakers. And, it forces me to PAY for force being APPLIED to you.

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LIBERTY: GOOFRERMENT? You decide.

Monday, June 30, 2008

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2008/06/30/government-the-man-made-disaster/

Government: the man-made disaster

By Michael Hampton on Wal-Mart

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When disaster strikes, too many people look toward Washington, D.C., for the federal government to save them. But what happens when the federal government caused the disaster? Or at least made it worse than it would otherwise have been?

This we saw in New Orleans in 2005. We finally know why the federal government prevented Wal-Mart from delivering water to Hurricane Katrina victims: it was free.

Federal Emergency Management Agency head David Paulison said June 19 that the agency had negotiated a contract with Wal-Mart to deliver bottled water for the next disaster, and the company did indeed deliver 550,000 liters during this month’s Midwest flooding. And got paid for it.

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As it turns out, for years the Corps of Engineers has been building wingdikes and weirs in the Mississippi River to channel the river’s flow. Three university professors last March warned that these structures have caused the river to rise even higher in floods than it otherwise would. And the only reason St. Louis isn’t underwater right now is that dozens of levees upstream broke, flooding out countless acres of Missouri and Illinois farmland and small towns.

Ironic that flawed levees would cause a city not to flood, but the water has to go somewhere.

Ironic, too, that those same small towns got new levees after the flood of 1993 and the government updated its flood maps to show these areas as low risk of flooding. So almost everyone canceled their flood insurance.

This is all so utterly predictable. We all know that government is incapable of doing anything very well, except perhaps killing people. Whatever it touches ultimately ends up going horribly wrong. It’s time to tell the government to keep their hands out of everything we don’t want turning into a disaster.

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You really have to look at gooferment with a critical eye. Could it be that it is the single thing that is killing us. Literally and figuratively?

How much of a slave are you? I can’t even calculate it.

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LIBERTY: How is the Gooferment responsible for oil speculation and its pain?

Sunday, June 29, 2008

My Luddite friend was griping about oil speculation; I, of course, blamed it on the gooferment. He queried "Huh?" (No, he’s much more literate. But basically that’s what he meant. It’s more fitting with the label I’ve hung on him.)

The Gooferment encourages speculation and actually is responsible for it.

(1) Ensures it

Every since Carter, we have not had a rational "energy policy". Carter, a Navy nuke engineer, should have, upon the Arab Oil Embargo, set us on a course to nuke power. France gets ~3/4 of its power from nukes. They allow private sector experts to template a few designs and safety controls. ISO900X. And, then you can’t argue it’s not safe. Cite Navy. Cite France.

Our gooferment is going to let Chinese slant drill from Cuba to off-shore Florida for 18 Billion Gallons of oil. But Americans can’t do it without a spill. Cite Louisianna oil rigs in hurricane Katrina — that was a real eco disaster.

ANWAR?

We ain’t build a refinery in thirty years.

(2) Insures it

Where do specs get the capital necessary to speculate. Gooferment insured banks!

(3) Ignores it

Energy isn’t even on anyone’s radar.

(4) Profits by it

Taxes are a percentage of the price. Higher price; higher receipts. Coincidence? I think not.

(5) Corrupted by it

Where do campaign contributions, graft, and lobbyists come from. Those desiring favors. Oil, power companies. Anyone who wants a hand out?

(6) Empowered by it

It puts them in the driver’s seat. With everyone looking for a politician to ‘save’ us from the problem they created.

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XPfails – luggable – BSOD

Saturday, June 28, 2008

volsnap

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Argh!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Using BLEEZER from McBA

Monday, June 16, 2008

Trying BLEEZER as blog client from McBa.

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RUSH FINDING: FATHER JOHN A. SULLIVAN, 77, of SEASIDE PARK

Friday, May 2, 2008

FATHER JOHN A. SULLIVAN, 77, of SEASIDE PARK
Asbury Park Press – Asbury Park,NJ,USA

He received a master’s degree from Manhattan College in 1968. In 1972, he was granted permission to join the theology faculty at Mount St. Mary’s University …

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Created a new category

Sunday, April 27, 2008

JobFinding for jobs I find.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Insanity!

Saturday, January 12, 2008

I am “revamping”, (i.e., in many areas of my life — personal, professional, and in all things computer). Call it olds-heimers, but I want to do more “high value” activities, and less “low value” ones.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Spinning plates?

Thursday, January 10, 2008

I’m tired. Maybe I need a break. Spinning lots of plates may be just too much. I’m going to think about my blog. I’m not sure what, if anything, I have accomplished. I’m rethinking a lot of things from an ROI perspective. Self, work, Frau. Mom, Aunt, and all the Processes & Project that I have. Maybe there are just too many plates to keep spinning?

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ADMINISTRIVIA: My weblog comment policy

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Since I stated this and other blogs, I’ve been removing occasional comments from my weblog. Not just spammers. If someone violates my weblog comment policy, I nuke their comment. It’s that simple. It’s my blog thanks to the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom offering. So I get to set the rules. Until now, I hadn’t published my policy since mostly it was just trash thrown over the transom.

DO NOT:

  1. post off-topic.
  2. libel anyone.
  3. make unverifiable assertions.
  4. engage in personal attacks.
  5. provide a fake e-mail address.
  6. include more than one URL.
  7. don’t spam.
  8. don’t sell, or offer, to sell anything.
  9. violate the wordpressdotcom tos.

Violation of this policy may mean any of the following:

  1. I will remove your comments.
  2. I will block your attempts to comment in the future.
  3. I will contact your Internet Service Provider.
  4. I ask the Universe to send you some education.

If in doubt, the best solution is to drop me an email at the link below and we can have a conversation about why I am blocking your comment.

All that said, I will endeavor to respond to any comments that raise queries or questions and I welcome useful and constructive feedback.

http://2idi.com/contact/=reinkefj

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Attempt a BLOGLINES blog claim

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

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