HEALTH: Viagra and Cancer – YouTube — and the FDA & AMA?

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Sometimes it can take years for serious side-effects to be recognized, so rather than just covering up symptoms with drugs, we should treat the underlying cause with lifestyle changes whenever possible.

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A reason why the FDA should be an ADVISORY agency.  That is, award the FDA “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval to those drug candidates that follow their regime.

Other drugs, not following their process, would be “Doctor and Buyer Beware”.  But as we see from this example, and many others, ALL drugs are “Buyer Beware”.

Maybe the ability to sue should be differentiated by “FDA approved” and “non-FDA approved” in some way.

In any event, it’s time to have the separation of Gooferment and Medicine.

Maybe the AMA’s monopoly on Doctors should be eliminated also.

If we trust a “shade tree mechanic” with our cars, then maybe we can trust out lives to a “Nurse Practitioner”?  Wait a minute, wait a minute, when I go to the “Doctor’s Office” sometimes the only people I see are the receptionist, the Nurse, and the Nurse Practitioner. Is the doctor even in the building or out playing golf?

Hmmm, seems like there’s a lot of streamlining needed. No wonder costs are out of control.

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Glendale, AZ neighbor collects over 40 bikes for those in need

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Have you used Nextdoor to help collect donation items before? Hillcrest Ranch resident Michelle hadn’t until recently when she was looking to donate bikes to St. Vincent de Paul, and was pleasantly surprised at the response! As part of National Bike Month, Michelle was looking to collect bikes to donate to the St.

Source: Glendale, AZ neighbor collects over 40 bikes for those in need

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What a great combination of technology and human needs!

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Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Every time we write about passwords on Lifehacker, a few readers share their secret formula for creating passwords. According to Ryan Merchant, senior manager at the password manager Dashlane , those formulas are easy to hack. Dashlane recently analyzed 61 million passwords from years of large data breaches—passwords that are available to many security researchers, hackers, and even the public.

Source: Password Formulas Don’t Fool Hackers

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Been saying that for years.  My favorite is LASTPASS.

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The Elephant in the Room: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Link Between Psychiatric Medications and Mass Shootings?

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The “March For Our Lives” gun-grabbers have convinced themselves that the only way to stop mass shootings in the United States is to prohibit law-abiding Americans from owning firearms. But what these brainwashed leftists fail (or willfully refuse) to acknowledge is the fact that almost every major shooting incident that’s occurred in recent years is directly tied to the perpetrators’ use of mind-altering pharmaceuticals.

Source: The Elephant in the Room: Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About the Link Between Psychiatric Medications and Mass Shootings?

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The NRA, GOA, and gun owners in general have been yelling about this for decades!

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Thank you from AARP Feedback

Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Thank you for completing our survey!

We know we can improve, and we are going to take action on your feedback.

In the meantime, manage how we communicate with you to ensure you are only hearing from us on topics that interest you. 

Take advantage of your age and experience to expand your possibilities. AARP is more than just discounts and lobbying for senior citizens. See more at www.AARP.org and download the AARP NOW app at NOW.AARP.org.

Source: Thank you from AARP Feedback

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I really object to the far left liberal political agenda that you push for. I don’t think that you should advocate for things that will bankrupt the posterity of the USA. You should be advocating for a strong fiscal discipline in Congress, against the inflationary Federal Reserve policies, and programs like Obama/SCOTUS/Trump care. We can do so much better and seniors are not a homogeneous class of people. Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that transfers wealth from poor minority men to rich white women. As such, you should be championing reform into Individual Social Security Accounts just like a 401k. If Chile could do it in the 70’s, why can’t we do it now.

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TECHNOLOGY: “Don’t be evil” should be “Don’t be stupid”!

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

2018-May-23

FROM GOOGLE NEWS FEEDBACK

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SM Boyd via Google News Help Forum <news+APn2wQczRBc769E16bjrxQV_s5edMPsyvh1fprm8_RnbkdJmVLGZ-kp7ii-@googleproductforums.com>
3:14 AM (5 hours ago)
to Google

From these posts and many others I’ve seen, Google clearly has NO idea what people were doing with their Google News pages. Google News used to be my home page, but that will change as of tomorrow. I have no use for half of the topics Google THINKS I do, and I have not been able to understand Google’s need to change for the sake of changing over the past few years. It seems as though Google is screwing up their products because “NEW & IMPROVED!!!” is only coming from the GoogleBubble. From all the data I know Google collects, you would think they would know how users are using their products.

To screw up something as basic as a News webpage leaves me wondering if I shouldn’t move away from Google products altogether. Gmail, maps etc. There is never a warning that something fundamental is going to change, it just happens, and users are left wondering how to recover what they’ve set up. I notice Google has demoted the famous “Don’t Be Evil” motto, maybe it’s time for a new one to live by: “Don’t Be Stupid.” They keep shooting themselves in the foot, but the billions keep rolling in, so I guess the actual users don’t matter. Whatever. The internet is much more than Google.

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Maybe this isn’t the biggest tech blunder since IBM ceded the PC to Microsoft or “No one would want a computer in the home”?

But then again, maybe it is.

I was moving from the Apple ecosystem to Google’s.  Maybe like  other feedbackers, I have to completely rethink that?

Like the last election,  Which is the prettiest horse in the glue factory coral.” Google versus Apple? Gasp, maybe even Microsoft gets in the running?

Argh!

Google, don’t be stupid!

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The Next Welfare Program – The Daily Reckoning

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

UBI is an idea gaining traction among those given to believing impossible things — college professors.And politicians.The fellow with stars in his eyes… is often the fellow with rocks in his head.Under UBI, the government would guarantee every working-age American a basic standard of living.No string would come attached to this pretty peach… no proof of want… no questions whatsoever.Assume, for example, that a strong-backed fellow can find employment moving furniture.But the job demands an early rise… and he finds that dozing until noon better suits him.Would this layabout receive a check?Yes he would.

Source: The Next Welfare Program – The Daily Reckoning

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Subsidizing “welfare queens”?  Again!

The only way this flies if ALL other welfare programs are completely eliminated and all the bureaucrats are put on the street to look for work.  No unemployment insurance for 99 weeks  — that goes away with the Universal Basic Income.  No welfare  — no food stamps, no WIC, no retraining  — no nothing.

Some how I don’t the politicians and bureaucrats will make the trade.

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[FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

[FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums, broadband news, information and community

Source: [FiOS Phone] New Telemarketer Trick? – Verizon FiOS | DSLReports Forums

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A new curse upon the land?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

“Very few people know what the DFS is doing and can enter the building,” according to an active-duty official with knowledge of the directorate’s operations, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. The official agreed to share details about the directorate after The Intercept and NHK last year revealed that the spy agency had obtained a mass surveillance system called XKEYSCORE, which is used to sift through copies of people’s emails, online chats, internet browsing histories, and information about social media activity. The official said that they believed the directorate’s use of XKEYSCORE was “not permissible” under the Japanese Constitution, which protects people’s right to privacy.

Source: The Untold Story of Japan’s Secret Spy Agency

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Here’s an example of why no Gooferment’s Deep State can be trusted or contained by mere “constitution”.  Lysander Spooner had it right.

“Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is now binding upon nobody; and is, moreover, such an one as no people can ever hereafter be expected to consent to, except as they may be forced to do so at the point of the bayonet, it is perhaps of no importance what its true legal meaning, as a contract, is. Nevertheless, the writer thinks it proper to say that, in his opinion, the Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the government has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. He has heretofore written much, and could write much more, to prove that such is the truth. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), No Treason (1870) http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm#no.6

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Three high school seniors die in Oregon crash weeks before graduation | Daily Mail Online

Monday, May 21, 2018

High school seniors Luciana Tellez, Giselle Montano and Esmeralda Nava died Saturday night after their car was struck head-on on Interstate 5 in Yoncalla, Oregon.

Source: Three high school seniors die in Oregon crash weeks before graduation | Daily Mail Online

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Why can these types of crashes be prevented by good injineering (i.e., wrong way tire shredders at all entrances).  If we had private roads, I bet they’d be installed already!

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