GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need a new form of id for children traveling?

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13106377/southwest-flight-accuses-mom-child-trafficking-son.html

Wild moment Florida mom is accused of CHILD TRAFFICKING at Ohio airport after traveling with her four-year-old son on Southwest flight

By Ruth Bashinsky For Dailymail.Com

Published: 07:24 EST, 2 March 2024 | Updated: 11:24 EST, 2 March 2024

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A ‘traumatized’ single mom has claimed Southwest Airlines accused her of child trafficking while she was traveling with her four-year-old son from Florida to Ohio.

Video footage shows the moment Mary Bridgetta Tomarchio, 45, was confronted by two armed police officers at at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on February 17 after receiving a suspicious report from ‘a pilot’. 

Tomarchio told DailyMail.com she thought the officers were joking at first but quickly became terrified as they questioned her and asked for proof she was his mother.  

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While “child trafficking” is a terrible problem, there must be a better way of checking?

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Striped marlin chage their stripe’s shades

Monday, March 4, 2024

https://www.igb-berlin.de/en/news/colour-change-group-hunting?utm_placement=newsletter

> Researchers find striped marlin communicate with each other by changing the shade of their stripes during high-speed hunting; discovery sheds light on the evolution of predatory group behaviors in fish (More)

# – # – # – # – # 

Who knew?

Imagine if humans had that ability.  No more hand signals in a military ambush.  No more need to “remember” to use your turn signals when driving.  

Or, you can tell when a woman is going to get enraged at you.  But you can kinda know that already.  It would be nice to have a warning.

Laugh!

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GUNS: The Unintended Consequences of creating “protected species” of the two and four legged kind

Sunday, March 3, 2024

https://www.ammoland.com/2024/02/wolves-in-northern-wisconsin-a-reminder-to-stay-armed/#axzz8SqoCkVVb

Home » Conservation
Wolves in Northern Wisconsin a Reminder to Stay Armed
Ammoland Inc. Posted on February 22, 2024 by Dean Weingarten

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Wolves that hold their ground when confronted with a human and wolves that do not retreat when yelled at or bluff charged are a problem, as explained by Dr. Valerius Geist, the eminent biologist, and expert on wildlife management. The myth of the harmless wolf developed because people in North America were commonly armed and capable of dealing with wolf packs. The introduction of modern firearms, steel traps, snares, and poison made humans the uncontested apex predator. Wolves learned to avoid humans to survive. The myth of the harmless wolf was born.

Protect wolves from humans with punishing legislation, prevent them from being shot, trapped, snared, or poisoned, and they lose fear and respect for humans. They are subject to the immutable laws of physics. They have developed a healthy fear of cars, which have become their main “predator.”

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There is no way I’d go trapping around the countryside unarmed.  Reports are common about bears, coyotes, and other predators in non-urban areas.  And even some urban ones.

Of course, “protect nature” has led to complacent humans.

And not only do we have to blame the “protect the bears and wolves” people, but also the politicians, bureaucrats, and judges (but I repeat myself) who protect the urban version of “wolves and bears”.

If you can carry a firearm, you are at risk from all sorts af “animals” as well as tyrants who would disarm and shackle you into slavery.  (Figure out your “taxes” and you’ll know how much of a slave you are!)

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose

“§ 1890. The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. And yet, though this truth would seem so clear, and the importance of a well regulated militia would seem so undeniable, it cannot be disguised, that among the American people there is a growing indifference to any system of militia discipline, and a strong disposition, from a sense of its burthens, to be rid of all regulations. How it is practicable to keep the people duly armed without some organization, it is difficult to see. There is certainly no small danger, that indifference may lead to disgust, and disgust to contempt; and thus gradually undermine all the protection intended by this clause of our national bill of rights.”  — Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 3:§§ 1890–91 https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/amendIIs10.html

Gun Rights are the palladium of rights  —  the God given right of self-defense!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.”

Saturday, March 2, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/hamas-hijacks-british-democracy-1199seius-money-grab-and-other-commentary/

Opinion editorial
Hamas hijacks British democracy, 1199SEIU’s money grab and other commentary
By Post Editorial Board 
Published Feb. 25, 2024, 4:24 p.m. ET

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Eye on Albany: 1199SEIU’s Money Grab

A review of health-care union 1199SEIU’s disclosures this last decade reveals that “a quarter-billion dollars in Medicaid funds earmarked to improve nursing home care have instead flowed to a pair of benefit funds providing health coverage for 1199 members,” grumbles the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond. And some of that cash was diverted to a union project “sponsoring a multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign in support of higher Medicaid funding for hospitals.” That is: “Medicaid dollars have indirectly financed lobbying for more Medicaid dollars.” Meanwhile, the union’s National Benefit Fund, which had “a pattern of negative cash flow” from 2018 to 2020, restored “fiscal balance by increasing the contribution rates from its member employers — and by securing continued subsidies from the state.”

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And, that is essentially the problem with Gooferment programs and Gooferment unions.

Of course, the “unions” provide “campaign” contributions and labor, so no conflict of interest there.

Can we say “self-licking ice cream cone”!

Argh!

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JOBSFINDING: Learn from the old brokers — Keep a shadow book

Friday, March 1, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/23/catherine-herridge-shares-union-statement-condemning-cbs-news-seizure-of-her-notes/

Catherine Herridge Shares Union Statement Condemning CBS News’ Seizure of Her Notes
Kristina Wong
23 Feb 2024 5:12

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Veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, whom CBS News laid off last week, shared a statement on Friday that appeared to confirm that the network had seized notes from her office after she had been let go in an unusual and heavy-handed manner that called into question the network’s motives.

Herridge, who reported on the Justice Department and other national security matters, had been reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal for the network and was in the middle of a First Amendment case after refusing to turn over to an Obama-appointed federal judge the name of a source for an investigative piece she wrote for Fox News in 2017.

“Important update via @sagaftra,” Herridge posted on X, along with the union’s statement.

The statement came after an article on Tuesday by The Hill columnist and former CBS News legal analyst Jonathan Turley that said CBS News had seized Herridge’s files — a highly unusual practice when a news employee is laid off. It said:

    SAG-AFTRA strongly condemns CBS News’ decision to seize Catherine Herridge’s reporter notes and research from her office, including confidential source information. This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment.

    It is completely inappropriate for an employer to lay off a reporter and take the very unusual step of retaining and searching the reporter’s files, inclusive of confidential source identification and information. From a First Amendment standpoint, a media corporation with a commitment to journalism calling a reporter’s research and confidential source reporting “proprietary information” is both shocking and absurd.

    The retention of a media professional’s reporting materials by their former employer is a serious break with traditional practices which supports the immediate return of reporting materials. We urge CBS to return this material to Catherine in support of the most basic of First Amendment principles. We are encouraged by recent outreach by CBS News to SAG-AFTRA on this matter, and we are hopeful that it will be resolved shortly.

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I have often blogged about the need to recognize that you are not your job AND your employer is nothing more than cruel heartless soulless monster.  I learned this from being fired four times in my career.  Bit after the first time, I was never again caught unaware.  And in one case, profited from it.

FROM A PAST BLOG POST

On Wall Street, it was “common practice” for brokers (aka “financial consultants”, :”wealth managers”, etc. etc.) to keep a duplicate “shadow book” at home. This would be all their contacts and their information as well as portfolio holdings record. When they were “walked out”, their ”significant others”, who were not covered my NDAs or non-competes, would be on the phone letting “their Customers” know the news. Usually in a day or two, they were hired by a competitor and “their Customers” would be transferring their account to the new firm. Often, before a replacement was found for the departed, the Customer were already gone. That’s called “job security”. Brokerage house were always trying to discourage that “personal relationship” by inserting “assistants” into the process and relationships. But “high net worth” individuals want that “personal high maintenance touch”.  

So you must ALWAYS keep an insurance policy that your “resources” never disappear.  

In the cited story, not only was this reporter’s material seized but even her twitter handle appears to be inexorably linked to her former employer.

Remember the Company laptop, phone, and even your twitter handle is at risk.

Diversify, duplicate, and back up to your own resources.  

For the longest time, personally, I would regularly print ALL emails and, when I got home, scaned them on a high-speed scanner and immediately shredded them.  Never knew what I’d need later in life. And form time to time, they came in handy.  With the advent of better search tools for PDFs, it’s an even better and easier habit to do.

YMMV but just remember what you are dealing with.

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INTERESTING: Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, may dem,onstrate a cheap way to address NYC’s rat proble,

Thursday, February 29, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/flaco-the-owl-who-escaped-central-park-zoo-dead-after-apparent-nyc-building-collision/

Flaco, beloved owl who escaped Central Park Zoo year ago, dead: officials
By  Richard Pollina
Published Feb. 23, 2024
Updated Feb. 24, 2024, 1:14 a.m. ET

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Though the Eurasian Eagle Owl is not native to North America, Flaco had been successfully feasting on the plentiful bounty of rats in Central Park and around the city since his escape.

“He has been very successful at hunting and consuming the abundant prey in the park,” the zoo said last year.

The Eurasian Eagle Owl is one of the larger owl species, with a wingspan of up to 79 inches and weighing three to nine pounds, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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The Eurasian Eagle Owl is not currently on the endangered species list but has been flagged as a “concerned” species given the decline in local populations worldwide. 

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Now I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer but could the Universe have just sent us a “messenger” in the shape of Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, as to how to control rats in NYC?

We know that NYC rats are BIG problem.  Some of them are the size of small pigs.  And they breed prolifically.  

Since NYC residents can’t seem to control them and the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk City are equally helpless, let solve this species’ “concerned” status.

I’m always reluctant to mess with the Universe, but maybe a few breeding pairs of Flaco’s cousins, could bring the rat population under control.  Hell, maybe Eurasian Eagle Owl could replace the other “rat” in the City  — the pigeon. 

A win for all involved at a minimal cost.

Maybe John Oliver could get NYC to make the Eurasian Eagle Owl the City’s official bird?  It worked for the Pūteketeke in New Zealand!

(Hey John Oliver, feel free to steal this idea for a signed picture of you with an Eurasian Eagle Owl.  Otherwise, © 2019 Ferdinand J. Reinke All Rights Reserved. Laugh!)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: US forces fighting in Gaza??????

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-claimed-secret-knowledge-of-us-forces-in-gaza/

US News exclusive

US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: pal

Jack Morphet, Andy Tillett, and Kate Sheehy

Published Feb. 27, 2024, 7:56 p.m. ET

# – # – # – # – # 

If this is true then Biden and others should be impeached immediately.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why not pictures on handicap placards?

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Seems like a simple way to avoid abuse.  Just put the pictures on handicap placards of the authorized User.  

Easy way to fix the abuse that’s so obvious.

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DISCOURAGING: Will SCOTUS reign in “Javert” Jack Smith

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/jack_smith_will_annoy_the_supreme_court.html

February 23, 2024
Jack Smith Will Annoy the Supreme Court
By Sean Ross Callaghan 

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A unanimous Supreme Court should restore the federal courts’ reputation by denouncing “Javert” Jack Smith and his jurisprudence of jihad and announcing that it will take all due time to consider presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and to craft an opinion to stand the test of time, the timing of the election be damned.

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One can only hope that SCOTUS or some other fair-minded judge puts a HARD STOP to this “law fare”!

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DISCOURAGING: Abandonment makes crazy children

Monday, February 26, 2024

https://www.thefp.com/p/rob-henderson-the-three-adults-who-abandoned-me

Rob Henderson: The Three Adults Who Abandoned Me

  • My biological father, my birth mom, and my adoptive dad all left me. They also taught me the most important lesson of my life.

By Rob Henderson
February 19, 2024

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Since my father abandoned my mom and me three times, I believe I grew up screwed up.  

I am preventing one youngster from compound abandonment issues.  

I understand how it screws you up in your life.

It’s a sadness you carry all your life.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: CDC releases data and it’s stunning commnets

Sunday, February 25, 2024

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/cdc-releases-v-safe-free-text-data?publication_id=548354&post_id=141814150&isFreemail=true&r=onvra

CDC releases V-safe free-text data because they want everyone to know just how unsafe the COVID vaccine really is

  • Now, you can download the data and see for yourself what people reported.

Steve Kirsch

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Executive summary

The CDC has released the first drop of the V-safe free-text comments so everyone can see for themselves that the COVID vaccine has extremely serious safety problems.

There are nearly 400,000 comments in this release.

The only question is: why did they wait so long to do this?

In my opinion, these “customer testimonials” are the single best selling tool they have to get people to take the COVID vaccine.

The CDC should be running TV and newspaper ads! Something like “Are you unsure whether the COVID vaccine is right for you? Here is what our satisfied users had to say about this amazing product that will change your life, sometimes forever!”

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Reading some of the comments — and being attuned to some of the various disastrous deaths and cancers that might be in some way related — I’ll pass on this chemistry experiment while sticking with the old traditional definition of vaccine. As always, YMMV.

Remember “they” redefined  “vaccine” to include this new genetic engineering technology.  Forced as many as possible to take it with intimidation, threats, and coercion.  Ignored the concept of “informed consent” and “my body; my choice”.  Gave Big Pharma complete immunity from lawsuits.  And, ignored vaccine injuries, sudden cardiac deaths, flawed “trials” (i.e., remember eliminating control groups). 

Never mind the whole safe and effective “horse pill” that won a Nobel Prize for eliminating river blindness.

Then we have the small matter of the “emergency use” while having a licensed product.

Sorry, but do what you want, but “no thank you” for me.

#endthefda #endthecdc

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RANT: I don’t search with Google

Saturday, February 24, 2024

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GOVERNACIDE: UK woman killed by Gooferment “health care”

Saturday, February 24, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68310754?ICID=ref_fark

999: Leicestershire woman dies at home hours after calling for ambulance
By Samantha Noble  — BBC News, East Midlands

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Janet Lyon died from pneumonia

A 67-year-old woman died trying to get through to her GP surgery three hours after calling for an ambulance which was not sent.

Janet Lyon, from Leicestershire, was struggling to breathe on 27 December.

She was told to go to a walk-in centre or her GP by a 999 call handler after it was determined she had an urgent problem which was not life-threatening.

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) apologised but found the 999 call was handled appropriately.

It added the service was experiencing “high demand” at the time.

Ms Lyon’s daughter Katie Keating put in a formal complaint to EMAS and said she was “enraged” at the response. 

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Here we have a classic example of Gooferment “service”.  “We are too busy for you.”

Well that got rid of a pensioner and save the Gooferment lots of money.  No mater that she “drowned” alone.

In a profit making enterprise, they’d have adequate staff or alternative arrangements.  “Like you’re ambulatory and not a class 1 emergency, let’s call you a taxi to the ER.”

But no, politicians and bureaucrats have their own incentive structure and we ain’t in it.

Can you imagine a politician getting this response.  I can’t.

Argh!

How does “We, The Sheeple” allow Gooferment into such important functions?

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TECHNOLOGY: No help for you if you ext to a land line

Saturday, February 24, 2024

A now funny incident pointed out a “hidden flaw” in the process of sending a text message.

A recent “I’m hone safe” text message was not received which led to a comedy of errors worthy of a Marx Brothers’ skit.  

An “after action” review  — although it wasn’t called that  — revealed that the text message was sent to a land line.

No error message was “thrown up”.

It would seem that Apple and Android could easily validate mobile versus landline and prevent such a blunder.

But, I guess there’s no demand for such “smarts”; just AI to produce revenue.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: College grads STILL earn less that plumbers

Friday, February 23, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/bill-sardi/the-dumb-american-worker/

The Dumb American Worker
By Bill Sardi
August 6, 2019

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Here we go, socialist jingo. Note the words “income inequality.” Joining a union is not going to get you anywhere as the union takes a cut of your paycheck. Unions, plus or minus, socialize what a worker is worth.  

Businesses operate in a competitive market. Cost of labor can doom a restaurant owner who is only working on a 10% profit margin to begin with. Of course, we can halt competition. Then the cost of everything rises.

We send American kids to school with no orientation on how to get a job, how to build their worth, how to develop job skills. Students pass a few college classes that hand out true or false tests and that makes them worth more in the labor market? Young Americans would be better off working as an understudy plumber. 

A few years ago The Wall Street Journal published a report showing plumbers make more money (six figures) than college graduates. 

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And, I just shake my head at the “stupidity” of “immature adults” taking loans for degrees that command no use in the market place.

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ConspiracyTheories: MH370 theory about murder suicide

Friday, February 23, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13096637/MH370-Malaysia-Airlines-disturbing-theory.html

Pilot explains how those in charge of MH370 could have easily carried out a plot to deliberately crash

  •     Mike Glynn is a retired Qantas pilot
  •     He believes the pilot of MH370 could have depressurised the cabin 
  •     READ MORE: Why we may never know what happened to the MH370 

By Ashley Nickel and David Southwell For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 01:09 EST, 18 February 2024 | Updated: 03:36 EST, 18 February 2024

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A retired Qantas pilot has opened up on what may have happened during the mysterious MH370 flight that disappeared almost 10 years ago.

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 vanished over the South China Sea during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014.

The puzzling case made headlines across the world as it seemed the plane, which carried 239 people – including six Australians, disappeared without a trace.

Just one week after the plane was downed, then-Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak claimed there was a ‘high degree of certainty’ communications with MH370’s cockpit were deliberately cut.

One popular theory is the crash was a murder-suicide at the hands of captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, 53, but it has never been confirmed by authorities.

*** and ***

British aerospace engineer Richard Godfrey last month accused the Malaysian Government of abandoning its search for MH370.

He claims the government did not want to invest any more funding into the mission, despite several calls from victims’ families to relaunch search efforts last year.

‘In my view, the Malaysian government does not want the cause of the crash of MH370 to be known,’ he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

‘It does not help to speculate what the motives of the Malaysian Government might be with regard to MH370.’ 

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Sad to say but this “story” does nothing to answer the questions or prove that it was a murder – suicide.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: rare disease isn’t so rare in Lehigh Valley Health Network?

Thursday, February 22, 2024

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/12-new-families-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-lvhn-doctor-accused-of-false-diagnoses/article_40005328-ccd7-11ee-b537-ab1b812ce2b3.html?ICID=ref_fark

12 new families file class action lawsuit against LVHN, doctor accused of false diagnoses
69 News, Rob Manch Feb 16, 2024 

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An Easton couple has filed the second civil complaint against Lehigh Valley Health Network and Dr. Debra Esernio-Jenssen, who has been accused of intentionally misdiagnosing children as victims of abuse from their parents. 

Esernio-Jenssen is accused of systematically overdiagnosing children with a rare condition called Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a child’s caretaker makes up fake symptoms to make the child appear sick. She is also accused of falsely accusing parents of child abuse — which has led to some parents losing custody of their children or serving prison time, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit lists a total of 17 causes of action against Jenssen, LVHN and other defendants. Among these causes are corporate negligence, medical professional liability (multiple causes), interference with parental rights, fraud and invasion of privacy.

*** end quote ***

Now the Gooferment is up to their elbows in the regulation of the Big Medical industry.  Of course, just “to protect us”!

I hope that some of these lawsuits reach the politicians, bureaucrats, and executives involved.

Bankrupt the people and organizations at fault.

Argh!

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GOVERNACIDE: A five-time deported illegal alien kills

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/02/15/five-time-deported-illegal-alien-accused-of-killing-10-year-old-boy-walking-home-from-school/

Five-Time Deported Illegal Alien Accused of Killing 10-Year-Old Boy Walking Home from School

John Binder  —  15 Feb 2024

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A five-time deported illegal alien is now accused of killing a 10-year-old boy walking home from school in Midland, Texas, in a hit-and-run crash.

Rogelio Ortiz-Olivas, a 50-year-old five-time deported illegal alien from Mexico, has been arrested and charged with drunk driving and causing a fatal hit-and-run crash that ultimately killed 10-year-old Alex “AJ” Wise, Jr.

*** end quote ***

Seems like the Gooferment is unwilling to enforce the laws.  Time for a revolution.

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HEROIC: If a rickshaw-puller who wore used clothes and had no education can support 300 children to go to school … …

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

FROM QUORA

Loving and Amazing World
Posted by Richard Strachan

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In 1987, a 74-year-old rickshaw puller by the name of Bai Fangli came back to his hometown planning to retire from his backbreaking job. There, he saw children working in the fields, because they were too poor to afford school fees.

Bai came back to Tianjin and resumed his job as a rickshaw puller, securing a humble lodging near the railway station. He remained available for customers around the clock, consumed basic meals, and dressed in cast-off second-hand attire he stumbled upon. Every penny he earned through hard work went towards assisting underprivileged children in accessing education.

In 2001, he drove his rickshaw to Tianjin YaoHua Middle School, to deliver his last installment of money. Nearly 90 years old, he told the students that he couldn’t work anymore. All of the students and teachers were moved to tears.

In total, Bai donated a total of 350,000 yuan to help more than 300 poor students continue with their studies. In 2005, Bai passed away leaving behind an inspiring legacy.

If a rickshaw-puller who wore used clothes and had no education can support 300 children to go to school, imagine what you and I can do with the resources we have to bring about positive change in our world!

*** end quote ***

Stunning contribution by an already old man.  I can’t imagine this in the here and now.

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TECHNOLOGY: Great stickers for social media

Monday, February 19, 2024

https://kottke.org/24/02/virtual-stickers-to-manage-replies-by

 

 

a virtual sticker that reads 'Do not reply to tell me you don't have this problem'

a virtual sticker that reads 'Do not reply unless you have direct experience'

 

a virtual sticker that reads ‘Do not reply, I’m just complaining, not asking for help’

 

a virtual sticker that reads 'This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.'

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Great idea!

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ECONOMICS: Changing CEO incentives to more align with the needs of society

Sunday, February 18, 2024

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/02/14/why-they-dont-care/

Why They Don’t Care
By Eric – February 14, 2024

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People ask why the CEOs of major automakers go along with what’s going on; can’t they see it’s killing their business?

Of course. They are not stupid people. But they are extremely wealthy people. So wealthy they don’t have to care – about anything. Certainly not whether the company they head goes under at some point in the future.

It won’t affect them, you see.

Consider GM’s Mary Barra as a case in point. She is paid around $29-30 million every year. It is difficult for the average middle class person who earns a “good living” to appreciate just how much money Barra is paid (I am careful to not say earns) in just one year.

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I have long thought that “executive compensation” focused on high salaries and stock options.  This has lead to a conflict in “incentives”.  The short term focus of corporate management and investment firms has been disaster for the economy, all the “little people”, pension funds, and investors.  Corporate management has no incentive to manage for the long run. 

It’s time for the Gooferment and the tax code to change the incentives.

I’ve always thought that “corporate management” should be paid is a modest “salary” (i.e., the average paid to individuals in their company), and any “excess” or “performance bonuses” in  laddered tiers of non-transferable corporate bonds (with allowances for death and personal bankruptcy).  Should their corporation goes “tits up” before those bonds mature, well then that’s just tough luck.

That will realign the incentives quickly.

To “encourage” quick adoption, excessive salary could have a special FU tax associated with it.  I’d like it paid to  the share owners, but that is getting down the road.

Maybe this would make those i the C-suite care!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: USPS mail delivery test — failed

Saturday, February 17, 2024

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/special-reports/postal-problems/houston-usps-postal-system-problems/285-9e9c2da0-dac7-4bf0-b7fa-0fb8277dcab0?ICID=ref_fark

We sent 11 packages with Air Tags through priority mail last month. Here’s where they went.

  • In January, we boxed up 11 packages with Apple AirTags and shipped them to different locations in the Houston area. The packages were tracked in real time.

Author: Stephen Goin
Published: 11:49 PM EST February 4, 2024
Updated: 8:33 AM EST February 6, 2024 

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Ultimately, only one package was delivered by the “expected” delivery date. In fact, it was early – arriving in just two days. The rest of the packages took up to five days to arrive.

    Jan. 26 ……… one package delivered

    Jan. 30 ……… three packages delivered

    Jan. 31 ……… three packages delivered

    Feb. 1 ………. four packages delivered

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Pretty sad but to be expected.  I had a disappointing result with FedEx.  So what can you use?

Prayer!

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INTERESTING: Making of men in the USA — espeicially in Gooferment Skrules

Friday, February 16, 2024

FROM FREEREPUBLIC

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America’s Lost Boys and Me

2/11/2024, 10:32:44 AM · 14 of 14

ABN 505 to mo

There seems to be a dearth of men in teaching nowadays. When I was in High school most of the teachers were WWII vets with a sprinkling of woman in the arts and language’s. There was serious discipline administered and sometimes physical force was applied when needed. I don’t think woman are capable of handling young men and should not be in charge of them weather, in schools or military settings.

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Having been educated by WWII vets from grades 4 thru ~20, I tend to agree,  Turning boys into men is probably not best done by women.  

I guess that makes me a something or other.

But let us look at the results?

Pretty sad record.

And in Gooferment Skrules it’s uncontrolled chaos.

In my school days, that would have never been tolerate and met with overwhelming physical violence from the faculty.  Even the few lay and women teachers were down right insane.

Dona Nobis Pacem

American has lost its way.

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TECHNOLOGY: Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Get eyeglass prescriptions on paper

My cousin is now in a nursing home and broke her glasses. The lens was lost. I which I had gotten that Rx on paper to get a replacement. Never thought of it. So thought I’d share it to help someone avoid my frustration. (I have my own prescriptions on a credit card type thing that I got from USAGLASSES mail order.). Just never thought of it for my old relatives. Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Jackie, a bald eagle, demonstrated motherly dedication

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13062175/bald-eagle-mother-jackie-eggs-livestream-weather.html

Bald eagle Jackie’s livestream is turned into weather apocalypse film as expecting mom braves California’s tropical storm-force winds, relentless rain and heavy snow shielding three small eggs
By Mackenzie Tatananni For Dailymail.Com
Published: 14:55 EST, 8 February 2024 | Updated: 19:05 EST, 8 February 2024

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Jackie, a bald eagle, shakes powder off her feathers as she settles into a snow heap overlooking a California valley.

Invisible to the eye, a cozy nest sits underneath, kept warm by her body heat.

Jackie has been guarding her three eggs from the elements ever since a powerful atmospheric river pummeled the region last week.

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Life is tough in the wild.  Something we humans forget all to easily.  Life is precious.  

How did the eagles learn to survive?

Make me think hard thoughts.

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DISCOURAGING: Gooferment Skrules are a national disgrace

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

https://www.amren.com/news/2024/02/school-where-just-4-of-students-are-proficient-in-math-and-12-in-english-spent-250k-on-woke-kindergarten-program/

School Where Just 4% of Students Are Proficient in Math and 12% in English Spent $250K on ‘Woke Kindergarten’ Program

Alice Wright, Daily Mail, February 4, 2024

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A Bay Area Elementary School has spent $250,000 on a ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program only to see its student’s literacy and numeracy rates plunge.

The ‘Woke Kindergarten’ program states its mission as an ‘abolitionist early learning ecosystem’ that trains teachers to uproot white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression which are barriers to learning.

After spending the federal money on the program Glassbrook Elementary in Hayward saw numeracy among its 474 students fall to a new low of just 4 percent and literacy just 12 percent.

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Gooferment Skrules are to produce cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.

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