Trump won the tournament because his stroke count was 0 in the first round

This ain’t the NBA…lowest score wins.


Now….where’s that indictment?

( “Now watch this swing.” )

As an aside, I thought of an interesting project, both political and academic:

If an individual or group of individuals had access to video from the beginning of Fox News, or at the very least summaries of the broadcast, one could compile a timeline, stretching back to the beginning, as to what outraged them on a given day, week, or month. For example we all remember the Obama terrorist fist bump, right? But in fact, every day they come up with a new reason to be outraged, which later just fades into the obscurity when eclipsed by a new one. I can only imagine the list and it would take a team of people some fair amount of time to compile it, but I think it might actually be worth it. Every time one of these assholes comes up with that day’s ridiculous statement about something societal, you just throw five or six things back in their faces that they were equally outraged about which are now given and acceptable to the vast majority of the society. Political jiu-jitsu as it were.

But wait....there's more!!!

A Sunday story with a moral at the conclusion....

When I was training, the most comprehensive and difficult course which we studied was general pathology. In that course, all the basic sciences are integrated with the assumption that since you are now schooled in the “normal“ it is time to learn about the abnormal or pathology. To that end, we studied inflammation and infection, oncology, and various and sundry autoimmune complex diseases, and many many more. The volume of material was frightening, however it was somewhat easily absorbable since our basic science courses had been very comprehensive.

The head of the department of pathology at our university was an extremely erudite and learned man who was clearly a politically progressive humanist: thoughtful, brilliant, (obviously), and very very interested in teaching us as much as he could stuff into our heads. We met weekly in what are known in colleges as recitation sessions, but we were called lab sections, and to one of these he brought a bunny rabbit. He told us that the bunny had been sensitized with a compound such that if it came in to contact with the compound again, it would go to anaphylactic shock and die. he then proceeded, at our collective horror, to inject the body with this antigen, and for the next 10 minutes, we watched it die. I cannot begin to tell you how sadistic and horrifying this experience was, and realize that he was doing it for six other sections for a total of seven bunny rabbits. Annually.

He watched us all very carefully, and then he said this, and I’ll paraphrase, but I’m not far from the exact quotation because I will never forget it, “What I just did now is show you death. I’m sure most of you have never seen the death of a human or an animal in your presence, and God willing, you will never have to have this happen , but I am telling you that a dental office is as good a place to die as any, and that is why you need to be very careful with your history taking, your discussion of the medical history with the patient, and your administration of medications, including anesthetics, and any other prescription meds. I look into your eyes and I see how upset you are with me and I don’t care. What I do care about is that you have learned a lesson today that it is incumbent upon you to prevent this from happening if it all possible under your auspices. Physicians are fortunate in a sense inasmuch as they learn in hospitals, where people are dying daily, but you don’t have to endure this series of horrors and for many of you that is why you chose dentistry as a profession.”

Obviously, I have never forgotten this experience, and I have to say that for better or worse, and believe me, I am an animal lover, and the whole thing made me sick to my stomach, his mission was successful. Which brings me to my point for the day.

When this football player collapsed, essentially dead, on the field a few Mondays ago I was watching it live, and was as horrified as anyone else observing this tragedy in the making. I thank the staff and the doctors and their professional competence for saving him, and was thrilled to see, as I’m certain virtually everyone else is thrilled to see, his return to some normal existence. it is remarkable how sophisticated the process was and how far we’ve come in medical science in a few short years. But I would say this to all: any of us at any moment can sustain a problem which causes sudden death. It can happen on a bus, it can happen watching TV, it can happen while posting to DU, it can happen at the grocery store . For this gentleman, it almost happened at his place of business, which happens to be a football field. I’m certain that analytically it is actually a very complicated series of events which caused this to occur as it is for most people. When some of us have cardiac episodes, people will say well that person is overweight, smoked, was under a great deal of stress, whatever. The fact is that , it is a synergy of these issues which caused the problem. Of course, what we do as thinking individuals is use the “best odds“ technique of trying to minimize risk, but the risk is always there.

I think that the fact that it has been 50 years since a professional Football player died on the field during a game is in and of itself remarkable and all these discussions for increased safety due to this most recent occurrence are somewhat specious: anyone who participates in physical activity at any level is at risk. When I was in high school, I played competitive tennis and was invited to a racquet club for a weekend tournament with local players, and one of the gentleman in his mid-30s who I would describe is looking like George HW Bush in his 30s: tall, physically, fit slim, you know the look, finished his match, took a glass of lemonade, and dropped dead on the spot. They were people standing right next to him who jumped on top of him to try to help there was no pulse. In 1 million years when this guy woke up in the morning, not one person would think that it was his last day on this earth.

Finally, I would say on this Sunday please enjoy the pleasures of man and nature, and the NFL if you, like me, love football, and realize that the only lasting, permanent thing in this whole Universe is Donald Trump’s ability to not be held accountable for a single thing which he has done to damage others in his life.

Hey! When are we going to start talking about Representative Comer and his ex-girlfriend?

According to news sources, the sanctimonious prick beat the shit out of his girlfriend and threatened her mother if she got involved. It was a big public scandal in his home state, and for some reason nobody wants to talk about it. I personally heard about it on Keith Olbermann‘s podcast a couple weeks ago, and I’ve been waiting to hear something about it in the mainstream press or here.

You gotta read the whole article. Four paragraphs won’t do…

(On edit: Send this far and wide. It should go viral)
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/elections/kentucky/2015/05/04/james-comer-domestic-violence/26901137/

My seven week old puppy

I have a question for the group...

Well, it’s a lengthy statement, and then a question, but you get my drift.

We have been apprised, read about, heard about, watched television about, and consumed hundreds if not, thousands of fictional or semi fictional accounts of clandestine operations, run by the CIA, the FBI, the NSA, the defense establishment, and other organizations whose letters escape me right now. On top of everything else, the resources ,the technology, the access to information, these organizations are filled with brilliant people – the three people whom I knew in my lifetime who went into this type of government service were among the most brilliant people I have ever met. They were recruited, and have been in government service for their my entire adult lives.

So here’s the question: do you mean to tell me that these agencies who possess enormous resources and power are just going to sit around and let a bunch of miscreant tinhorn revolutionaries undo that which they have created since the second world war? There is absolutely no action which is off-limits for these people and the agencies to which they belong, particularly here in the United States. I myself am a law-abiding patriotic citizen, but even if I were not the last people I would want to go up against would be this crowd, because there is no negotiation with them once they have decided that you are going to be a thing of the past. I get it, but I just don’t get it.

You know...

I just rewatched the early Schwartznegger film “The Running Man” and although except for Richard Dawson the acting is atrocious the concept of what TV has become and outright pure lying I media has become was “eerily” foretold.

That film and Network were the two great predictors of the future…..among others. We are classically fucked.

Have a great Saturday night!!!

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Ok... it's time for indictments

One-two punch: McCarthy’s nightmare followed by the following: indict TFG, his henchmen, and the congressional members in on it. So much for gaveling committees into session to investigate Democrats. They’ll be retaining lawyers and working on their cases and the video/audio/data which exposes them as traitors. Monday morning, 9 A.M.

This story is non-political, but might be helpful to some...

One day per week, I work in a community in South Jersey wherein many people do not attend the dentist on a regular basis. In the early afternoon yesterday a young lady came to see me who had had some issues and I had wanted to reevaluate her two weeks following my treatment in order to ensure that she had some resolution and was on the road to recovery. She mentioned that her boyfriend in the waiting room had been complaining about his teeth all the time and had a toothache which seem to be persistent for months. I said to her that I would be happy to see him today and take a look .

So she took some time to persuade him to fill out the health history, etc., and he eventually sat in my chair, and the assistant took a radiograph. I walked in the room and said, hello, went through the usual, patter of him saying how he hates dentists and my usual reply that I’m not too fond of the patients myself, so we’re even, and we both laughed and we are now officially “buddies“. I take one look at the x-ray with the flicker of my eye on the screen, and ask him what may I do for you today. And he said that he just wanted me to take a look and let him know what was going on. Without a word , I shook my head and he stared at me for an instant and I said you are not leaving today with those two broken teeth in your mouth. He said that he was really scared to get anything done and I acknowledged that and told him that in no uncertain terms we had to get these out of his mouth because they were dangerous to him in several fashions. I further told him that I would ensure that he would not feel any pain while I was doing my procedure, he might feel some pressure and if he did feel pain, I would give him more anesthetic immediately without question.

He consented to the procedure, and I gave him double the volume anesthetic for a variety of reasons which I will not go into here, and manage to elevate three horrifyingly abscessing roots out from one tooth and extract the second tooth with forceps which revealed one of the largest cysts I’ve seen in a long time attached to the tooth. I completed the entire procedure in about 8 to 10 minutes, including waiting for the anesthetic to take effect and packed him with gauze. Through the packing, he said that he didn’t feel a thing and that’s amazing and I told him that he was an excellent patient, allowed me to do my job, and he was going to feel so much better starting in about an hour and a half when the anesthetic began wearing off. He then told me that he has been suffering with the pain with these two teeth for more than two years and didn’t mention it to anybody.

I tell the story in case there is anyone reading this who is afraid of going to any practitioner of any type because of what you will have to endure during the procedure. if you attend a competent practitioner, the experience should be at worst uncomfortable, but the result will be magical. Sometimes you just have to rip the Band-Aid off quickly - two years he suffered with this and in less than 10 minutes his problem was permanently solved. It should be a lesson to all of us that dealing with an acute situation is preferable earlier and wishing and hoping things go away by themselves is fruitless and can be dangerous in many ways, including physically, emotionally, educationally, or maritally.


(Photo of the extracted teeth is available upon request😁👍