FUN: Since I am tutoring my 8 year old child … … …
… … … in Fourth Grade Math, that he likes as much as AMH. I fugured I should create a “Professor Proton” character from TBBT. With apologies and a tip of the old tin foil hat to Bob Newhart … for the idea!}
I present for your amusement … … Taa Dah … … Professor Poopy Pop Pop
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Had another instance of this today. Doctor’s practice has a web-based front end where you fill it all the forms. However, the HIPAA form doesn’t allow you to put in other people you want to have access to your medical records. I brought that to the attention of the receptionist and she said “Yep, we know, but it just can’t be done.”
As a fat old white guy injineer I find that INEXCUSABLE.
So the receptionist printed the blank form, I filled it out again with my wife’s name, the receptionist scanned it in, and who knows what she did with the paper.
So we waste paper, toner, and electrons. Not to mention the TAE (ie., time, attention, effort, and dikw).
Multiply that by every new patient!
What a waste. makes me wonder what else is ignored?
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https://www.facebook.com/reel/1963861027606492
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Germany, 1942. Maria von Maltzan was German. Blonde. Blue-eyed. The perfect picture of what Nazis called “ARYAN.” She used it to save LIVES. She hid Jewish people in her APARTMENT. Including the famous Jewish writer Hans Hirschel. She hid him for 3 YEARS. Under her BED. In a SOFA. In a secret COMPARTMENT.
The Gestapo came 12 TIMES. 12 times she smiled at THEM. Offered them COFFEE. Chatted about WEATHER. They left 12 TIMES. Without finding ANYONE. Through her underground NETWORK — She helped 30,000 PEOPLE escape BERLIN.
After the WAR — She married Hans Hirschel. The man she hid under her BED for 3 years. When asked if she was SCARED — She said — “Of course. But scared people can still do the RIGHT thing. Fear doesn’t have to stop YOU.”
“30,000 PEOPLE. 12 GESTAPO VISITS. ONE CUP OF COFFEE. EVERY TIME.”
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I have no idea if this is true or not.
But if it is, I’m not sure I could have the huevos muchos grande to pull this off.
Thankfully all my moral challenge have been tiny in comparison.
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Inside New York’s medical fraud capital where often empty senior centers bill Medicaid $100M-a-year for patients
By Chadwick Moore
Published Aug. 3, 2026, 5:56 p.m. ET
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The vibrant, east Asian immigrant enclave of Flushing may be New York’s medical fraud capital.
A one-mile radius of the neighborhood boasts 77 Social Adult Daycares (SADCs), which bill Medicaid over $100 million a year, accounting for 14 percent of all daycare spending in the state, a Post investigation reveals.
When The Post visited some of largest — which are private businesses that have claimed between $20 and 40 million from Medicaid over the last six years — many storefronts were shuttered, and those that were open had empty rooms with no patients.
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See what happens when something is “free” … …
… … the grifters come in and rob the Taxpayer blind.
Easy solution:
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https://www.raptitude.com/2009/07/88-important-truths-ive-learned-about-life/
88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life
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Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth.
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11. Every problem you have is your responsibility, regardless of who caused it.
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“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — attributed to Einstein
So I guess there are no “problems”. Only our paradigms are wrong! No “problems”; only “opportunities”; only “solutions”.
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https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1988482613166612968?t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w
Massimo @Rainmaker1973
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In Japan, cleanliness isn’t just a duty it’s a reflection of their culture and identity.
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Very impressive as a culture.
I always how the Japanese fans leave their stadium area cleaner than when they arrive.
No one orders it. They just do it.
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https://x.com/matrixmysteries/status/1988581895857475898?s=51&t=fNifJ9M-EU2FgGneNcz51w
MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries
7:17 AM · Nov 12, 2025
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“They raised $127 million — and only 2.5% went to the kids.”
“Charity is just another business.”
Joe Rogan says groups like Kids Wish Network and Cancer Fund of America pocket nearly everything — while the people they claim to help get almost nothing.
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I bet they are incorporated as a non-profit and enjoy tax advantages.
Seems like some reform is necessary. Even the Corporate version of the “death penalty”.
Where are all the regulators?
Argh!
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https://www.military.com/history/4-things-know-pow-mia-recognition-day.html
Remember those that the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats betrayed by leaving them behind!
“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous
“A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not.” — Lt. Col. Jean V. Dubois (Ret.) and student, p. 26 Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein
The most significant item in the Quang report is the assertion that there were 1,205 American POWs in captivity that September. Six months later, Hanoi released 591 POWs, insisting they were the only prisoners alive at that time. If that was true and if the Quang report is accurate, more than 600 POWs must have died or been killed between the fall of 1972 and April 1, 1973. https://time.com/archive/6723016/american-pows-who-was-left-behind/
“I can’t promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.” — Mel Gibson playing Lt. Col. Hal Moore in “We Were Soldiers”
In the U.S. Armed Forces, we don’t leave anyone behind. It’s one of the basic pillars of what the Army calls the Warrior Ethos: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” https://nation.time.com/2012/05/17/the-warrior-ethos-why-we-leave-no-one-behind/
We should add “BIA” (Betrayed In Action) to MIAs, POWs, KIAs, WIAs!
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Before the POW/MIA flag flew over the White House or was recognized by Congress, it began with Mary Hoff—a military wife searching for answers after her husband was declared missing in Vietnam.
Her request helped create one of America’s most recognizable symbols and the four-word promise printed beneath it: YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN
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“A veteran is someone who at one point in his life wrote a blank check made payable to the ‘United States of America’ for an amount of ‘up to and including my life.'” -Anonymous
And, of course, everyone “forgets”. Except for the vets and the families of all the KIAs, MIAs, POWs, and those who carry a lifetime of “scars”.
All the “chicken hawks” should be voted out of office. Any “Congress Critter” who votes for, or allows to happen, should be handed a rifle and sent to “the front” where ever it happens to be.
Argh!
Remember Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’ universe?
“One does not merely have the right to be a citizen and vote by virtue of what Heinlein called the mere accident of birth; rather, one has to earn this right through Federal Service that tested one’s ability and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of the polity. “
Bet a lot of vets would NOT vote for all the undeclared wars the USA has been in since WW2?
I sure wouldn’t. Would you?
Argh!
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Storks build enormous nests on rooftops that weigh hundreds of pounds
Popkin 10:48 am Wed Mar 25, 2026
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Photo #4 from Lost Found Art is my favorite — a stork nest balanced atop the pointed section of a roof, somehow maintaining its grip on that precarious spot. The whole series of photos is gorgeous, each nest its own piece of accidental architecture. I wish these photos were an entire book.
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Interesting. I wonder if architects stay this stuff to learn Mother Nature’s secrets. There’s so much we don’t know!
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