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Great article. Leftist here are too stupid to draw parallels.

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for initial use - the FDA does thorough testing - in 2 major areas...1) is the drug effective for the condition it was developed for....and 2) is the drug safe.

When the FDA finally approves the drug - they have approved it as safe.

Doctors are free to prescribe drugs for ‘off-label’ purposes. (NOW - a drug company may NOT ‘advertise’ the use of the drug for anything BUT what it was tested for.)

So - the FDA approved HCQ for malaria. I don’t know if it went through FDA testing for use to treat Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)..... Doctors might have found it effective - and an off-patent drug - would still cost a lot of money to run trials. Doctors are free to spread the word - and other doctors might decide to prescribe it - off label - without the ‘blesing of the FDA’...which would only add costs.

LTG Flynn should be given a ‘hidden’ pardon....that would take effect ONLY after all Sidney Powell’s efforts to get his name cleared fail to get proper justice.

A pardon has a taint....’a person was guilty, convicted (Or would be convicted) - but a pardon is ‘forgiveness.’

IIRC - Sidney Powell told Trump (at the time) - to not pardon Flynn. A pardon would prevent Flynn from suing various individuals for their participation in the FRAME UP.

SO - Trump should give Flynn a secret envelope with the pardon, properly dated....and Flynn can exercise it if the legal system is a total failure *like our election laws are.

Absolutely agree - raising children who grow up to take the same oath I took — is a proud accomplishment.

MY oldest- a daughter - was Army Reserve - combat medic -then became an Nurse Corps officer. Mobilized twice to serve in the ICU at Madigan Hospital. (She got allergies and asthma -and had to leave after 10 years.)

My next - a son- followed me to become a Submarine Officer. BUT - he did it with so much more style. Graduated from the Naval Academy - and got his M.S. EE at Naval Postgraduate School....then went to nuclear power training.

My third child - another son - decided to enlist in the Army - and went Airborne Infanty - did a tour in Iraq - got his Ranger tab- then 3 years later - got accepted into the Army Aviator program - now he flies for the Army.

You asked: Then why doesn’t this happen at the south pole, or Antarctica?

ANS - it DOES. It is just that things are ‘flipped’. For the winter solstice (around Dec. 21) - above the Arctic Circle - the sun never rises (perpetual night). AND - below the Antarctic Circle - the sun never sets (Land of the Midnight Sun in the Southern Hemisphere.)

AND- we see the reverse - Summer Solstice - around June 21 - we see above the Arctic Circle - Land of the midnight sun.....and below the Antarctic Circle - Land of perpetual night - no sun rising.

This article is stupid. The writer is clearly ignorant of science and astronomy.

Here is the key - when the sun is at the highest point in the sky (local noon) on March or Sept 21 (+/- a day or so) - for the Spring or Fall Equinox - the sun will be on the celestial equator. It will found above the horizion 90° minus the latitude. For Seattle area - 48° N - the sun will be 42° above the horizon. On the summer solstice - it will be 23.5° higher - or 65.5°.

The author of the article is talking about how far the sun is rising or setting at the horizon - WHICH IS IRRELEVANT. If we go above the Arctic Circle - we have the ‘Land of the Midnight sun’ - where the sun never sets for some part of the summer.

Every night I go out to do observational astronomy -I see that the celestial north pole is still within 1° of the north star -Polaris. The earth has NOT shifted its tilt any appreciable amount. I think scientists would be reporting this as HUGE news....but it has NOT happened.

There are countries with HCQ sold ‘over the counter’ (OTC) - and many countries with easy HCQ availability have death rates that are one-forth, one-fifth or even lower than other countries that are shunning HCQ (since it makes people buy the very expensive alternate that is not as good...like Remdesivir.)

Some good articles...

India - MUCH lower death rates due to COVID....is HCQ the difference?

https://amgreatness.com/2020/08/11/why-is-desperately-poor-india-beating-new-yorks-covid-19-response/

opposition to HCQ kills....
http://noisyroom.net/blog/2020/08/12/fauci-hcq-animus-costing-american-lives-ignores-foreign-successes/

https://pjmedia.com/uncategorized/stacey-lennox/2020/08/13/how-many-lives-will-the-health-experts-bizarre-hcq-disinformation-campaign-cost-n786685

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hydroxychloroquine-works-in-high-risk-patients-and-saying-otherwise-is-dangerous

Mullen is a Deep State Swamp creature.

Mullen lead the ‘Benghazi Accountability Review Board’.
Mullen did not think it worth interviewing the Secretary of State- Hillary Clinton, to make determinations of actions taken by Hillary.

The ‘fix was in’ to help Hillary - and Mullen was sleazy enough to trade his reputation to provide cover for her. A person of integrity would have done a thorough investigation - but he ‘fixed it’ to help Hillary. That tells me he has NO integrity to search for the truth.

This is STUPID.

For the Navy - there is a ‘Manual of Anthropomorphic Measurements’ for each ‘platform’ (plane). It specifies what are acceptable for each platform. Sitting height - minimum and maximum. Arm Reach - minimum and maximum. Back of seat to end of knees (don’t want knees clipped if ejecting). Weight - min/max (an ejection seat might not work properly for someone too heavy - and it might compress the spine and harm someone too light.

It is VERY expensive to design a plane that has more ‘flexible ranges’ - to try to allow someone say 4’11’ up to 6’6”. So - you design a plane within certain constraints- and you limit the crew to fit within those constraints. PERIOD.

A few years ago - one of my son’s USNA friends wanted to fly F-18 jets - but was too tall - so he went to P-3’s and P-8s. A young lady I worked with in Civil Air Patrol weighed too little to fly F-18s - so she decided to go to West Point and work to fly combat helicopters...(more flexible range of values for pilots/co-pilots).

Satire? Maybe...maybe not.

In 1975- I was going to Officer Candidate School (OCS) at NETC Newport, RI - to become a Naval Officer. 19 weeks of training at that time. One had to have a college degree.

During Navigation and Piloting course - the instructor was remarking about preps to enter or leave a port - and knowing what the ship’s draft was- and the effects of tides. TIDES!

Some young lady taking the course stuck her hand up and ask...’Tide? How do they know what the tides are?’ The instructor was a bit surprised and started to mention how the rotation of the Earth, and the rotation of the Moon around the Earth, etc. - were all known and how the Tide Tables could be generated years or even decades in advance.
The young lady looked quizzical - and gave a comment that was more ‘statement’ than question - she said...”Wait a minute....are you trying to tell me that the Moon has something to do with Tides?”

Yup - the stupid walk amongst us - and even worse - they vote.

You correct - Judge Sullivan IS corrupt.

An honest Judge might have taken a look at the Mueller team - and the very presence of Andrew Weissman as the #2 guy would have sent a strong message - CORRUPT TO THE CORE.

Sullivan KNEW that Weissman was corrupt. Read Sidney Powell’s book “License to Lie” - and Sullivan comes across as a good guy - a good judge - who found that Weissman repeatedly violated Brady rules - and got innocent people convicted, because CLEARLY exonerating information was withheld. Sullivan recommended sanctions on those DoJ individuals - but nothing was done. IMHO - Sullivan should called Weissman in for every case coming out of the Mueller team - and interrogated Weissman - UNDER OATH - to swear all Brady rules were completely followed - and if it was discovered that there was a Brady Violation - Weissman would be jailed and disbarred.

The headline begs a question that everyone knows the answer.

Did The Mueller Team Violate Brady??

Silly question. The highly unethical and corrupt Mueller hired Andrew Weissman to be his Lieutenant (and given Mueller’s appearance during the Congressional testimony after the report was released....his onset senility suggests that it was the Weissman Report - not the Mueller report - and had not even read the report.)

Weissman figures prominantly in the book Sidney Powell wrote (License to Lie)...and Powell became LTG Flynn’s lawyer after Flynn fired his inept (and possibly corrupt) legal team. Weissman is FAMOUS (or infamous) for his repeated Brady violations. That he was not disbarred should be an embarrassment to judges that permit him to appear before them as a lawyer. That he was hired by DoJ after all his Brady violations - is proof that the DoJ is run by corrupt crooked people.

Weissman withholds documents ALL THE TIME - and then he claims that he missed them, or quickly reviewed them and saw nothing important that needed to be revealed....so he tries to avoid sanctions (and disbarment) by essentially acting as ‘shucks...I tried to do the right thing...sorry I missed it...but no harm, no foul..’

Fact is - every previous prosecution with Weissman on the prosecution team should be forced to go through a new trial - same as if you found a forensic laboratory had been discovered to fake lab results to get prosecutions

As I understand it...the ‘maintenance dose’ for those with Lupus or Rheumatoid Arthritis is fairly low....while someone with malaria might take a higher dose. [OTOH -those going into an area with malaria might take the lower dose as a prophylactic...to keep from getting malaria while in an malaria prone area.]

The dose scheme I recall for the COVID 19 was 200 mg x 3 times for the first day - then 200 mg x 2 for days 2 thru 6...and the Zn and ZPack also taken.

The higher dose was never shown to be a problem for malaria.

IMPORTANT NOTE - this treatment is REALLY effective if given ‘earlier’ - and one doctor in NY had 900 patients who used it...and less than 10 required hospitalization. Obviously if the treatment is not started until the person is in serious condition, it might be less effective. AND - patients who get placed on a ventilator are already seriously compromised...because the COVID-19 virus tends to shut down the immune system and it can cause organ damage. A treatment too late - is just that.

The NY doctor with 900 patients - had one die...and according to the reports, the patient did not follow the prescribed regimen.

BTW - my wife posted something to FB to inform non-medical friends of something else interesting. BTW - JCAHO is “Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations”

HERE GOES -

This pandemic has shown light on something that has been a sore spot for many of us in medicine: the waste and irrelevance of JCAHO and JCAHO’s interference with our daily lives in providing medical care.

For those unfamiliar, JCAHO is an accreditation organization that inspects and accredits hospitals and medical organizations. JCAHO was formed in the past to help ‘clean up’ shoddy unsafe practices in medicine. It had a role, an important role, and made a difference in transforming the quality, reliability, and safety in medical practice.

Fast forward to today, and JCAHO has, like most government or government-like organizations, morphed into a swollen, self-serving, irrelevant, non evidence-based cancer that inhibits patient care on a daily basis and whose number one influence on the practice of medicine is to help generate massive amounts of waste, inefficiency, and administrative burden and cost.

Take, for example, the fact that hospitals are running short on simple things like face masks. For the last year or two, I’ve been routinely going through at least a box of masks every day I’m at work! Why?! Because the JCAHO inspectors threaten hospitals with fears of failed inspections and financial implications if they see someone walk out of an OR and keep their mask on or hanging around their neck. Yes, that’s right. I can walk into an OR for a 30-second check on a patient and I’m mandated to trash the face mask I just put on. Enormous cost and waste. Multiply this by the numbers of people and numbers of ORs around the nation and the waste and trash generation is almost difficult to imagine. There is no evidence that me wearing a mask for more than one encounter or throughout a portion of the day has any bearing on patient infection rates. In fact, for anesthesia providers or circulating nurses, there is no evidence to show wearing a mask at all makes a difference in surgical infection rates.

Another example: there is a little plastic device we call a Christmas tree. It’s a tapered plastic connector that threads onto the oxygen supply on the wall. It allows the soft plastic end of oxygen tubing that goes to a patient to be connected to the oxygen supply. Well, JCAHO has recently been on a mission to force hospitals to follow manufacturers’ guidelines to a T for everything! Somewhere along the way, the manufacturer of this plastic connector stated it’s a single use device. So JCAHO has gone on a mission to force the removal of this plastic connector from the wall after each patient. Sometimes this plastic tree is connected to a plastic supply fitting. Where does one draw the line as to which plastic piece should be changed? What about the plastic-based pipeline in the wall to which the plastic valve and tree are connected? So, now, we have boxes of hundreds or thousands of these little Christmas trees so that we can change them for each patient. I mean, by this rationale, why wouldn’t we need to change the light switch or the TV remote? Why not the faucet handles and toilet seat?

At the time of a recent inspection I witnessed nurses throwing marking pens, lotion, salt packets, alcohol wipes in the trash. I inquired as to why...because JCAHO says anything that is ‘expired’ according to a date, or that has no date, should be thrown away. At least that’s how they interpret and behave with the inspections. Yes...salt packets. Salt...could be thousands of years old...but no expiration date so let’s throw it away. Hand lotion...you know, it might turn into poison if it’s over an expiration date. Marking pens!!!??!!! Really?!! A whole tub in the trash because some JCAHO inspector couldn’t find an expiration date on them.

Where is JCAHO now? They are showing us how important and relevant they truly are.

Thank god for common sense and resourcefulness in the time of this crisis. Because if you think JCAHO would allow daisy-chaining a ventilator to treat more than one patient , or allow an anesthesia ventilator to be used on an ICU patient , think again.

And, I haven’t even scratched on the numbers of nursing administration positions that have been created to handle the workload of complying with JCAHO demands.

If you want to know where the expenses are in American Medicine, look no further than the government bureaucratic red tape and the administrative burden it causes. They are stealing dollars that could go to actual patient care!

My wife and daughter are Nurses - with ICU specialty - and both completed the premier certification for ICU work - CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse)...which can add anothr $1 to $2 per hour of salary with the CCRN certification.

FIRST - Ventilator are NOT used on regular med/surg floors - so many nurses are not familiar with vents - and don’t use them.
SECOND - ICU nurses have assignments based on patient acuity - some extreme cases like a patient post-op heart surgery like a bypass...is likely to be 1 nurse to 1 patient. Less serious - 1 RN might handle 2 patients. If patients can be say 25%...1 RN handling 4 less serious patients - that is about the lowest that the ICU ever goes. Typical average- per my reference experts - is 1 RN has 2 patients. SO - if a patient is on a Vent - are there other problems that require more oversight - or just the vent? Usually - the patient is in there for more problems than just respiration.
SOMETIMES- if breathing is the only serious problem - the patient might be moved to the step down unit - Progressive Care Unit (PCU) - if there are nurses on staff familiar with ventilators.

BUT - for this exercise - assume 1 RN could safely monitor 2 vent patients unless there are other serious problems. A Respiratory Tech can provide oversight of just ventilator operation.
BUT - you need that coverage 24/7 for every operational ventilator - so for a week of ICU ops with 20 patients - all on vents - 10 nurses per shift - and be 14 shifts in a week. A full time nurse might be working 3 shifts/week. So - you need 5 nurses for the week. (And - with time off - vacations - etc. - you might have 6 or 7 available)

SO - if you doubled the vents from 20 to 40 - you would need to double the staff available to provide the additional coverage....

ALSO note - most hospitals will select sharp RNs with experience - to try to train up for the ICU - and it can take 6 months or more to be fully trained to be an ICU nurse.

The author wrote: Currently, the FISA court is of course, angry. According to a recent court decision, all FBI agents who were involved in falsifying applications to spy on Carter Page were completely removed from all future secret investigations. Will this deter future occurrences? One can but hope. The alternative is to disband the thing entirely, which some agree with.

The reality is - the FISA court is upset that their own complicity was exposed. Their ‘actions’ were the MINIMUM that they felt would allow them to escape serious examination. A REAL HONEST COURT - would haul the persons who falsified documents and signed these ‘warrants’ with claims of ‘verified’ - and would do far more strong rebukes - including referring them for disbarment. The other action that is downright embarrassing - for the court - is the court named a person to come up with recommendations to fix things in the future. The person named - is a ‘denier’ - who was on record saying ‘nothing to see, no problem here’ - long before he was appointed to whitewash the FISA court’s complicity.

No new policies need be created. Want to send a strong signal - keelhaul EVERY SINGLE FBI AGENT AND DOJ PERSON who participated in this scam...using EXISTING LAWS. Doing this would send a signal that the FISA court is FINALLY upset enough to enforce the law. Thus far - they seem to want to ‘give a pass’ to those who committed crimes.

Abolish the FISA courts. The foreign agents can’t do damage to our country to match what the FBI, DOJ and FISA court have done.

McArthur did speak up - and he was fired for it.

He, like many of the Generals during LBJ’s Presidency who were afraid to speak out about LBJ’s inept micromanaging of the Vietnam War - should have had the courage to give the President their advice - privately....and if the advice was ignored/turned down - then they SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED - and then (and ONLY THEN) gone public with their concerns and issues.

More recently - there was a 2 star (Air Force General) - who spoke disrespectful words about Bill Clinton early in Clinton’s Presidency. He received a fine of $7K and was forced to retire.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-06-19-mn-4709-story.html

Tulsi is a hard core leftist.

AND - she touted her military service - but she seems to have ignored a major factor....her actions as a Reserve Officer in the Army shows she is clueless about the UCMJ and the obligation that officers - even Reserve Officers have to follow the UCMJ.

Tulsi has repeatedly criticizes and spoken ‘contemptible words’ about the Commander in Chief. She has an obligation to either FOLLOW the UCMJ - and not speak in nasty terms about Trump.....OR - she could RESIGN her commission and then speak freely.

The fact that she ignores these factors tells me that she has no concept of “Duty, Honor, and Country” - (the old Army Core Values...)....

She should know better - but she is without integrity on this - as well as so much else. She pushes policies that would destroy the Constitution...something she ‘promised’ to defend - from all enemies -foreign and domestic. She needs to defend the Constitution from all Democrats - including herself.

But - leftists will run to the nearest Federal Court with lots of Obama appointed judges on the bench - and will file for a restraining order - and the judge will issue it. Until we clean up courts of activist judges -we will have to deal with this crap for a LONG time.

Excellent satire.

Of course - there are a lot of leftist idiots (but I repeat myself) who believe that Nazism is ‘Right Wing’ - so this parody has a basis in reality.

Of course - modern historians (90% are on the left) - and web sites like Wikipedia - assign the Nazi Party to ..the far right.

Now- these leftists have to ignore the writings of minor Nazi Party officials like Adolph Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, and others that were present in the formation - where their own writings describe the Nazi Party as socialist with a focus on nationalism, while communism is a WRONG interpretation of Marxism and too much emphasis on spreading it world-wide. Of course- why would the left trust someone like Adolph Hitler, after all, what would he know about Nazism.