Draxel Forg: What’s happening?

12th Doctor: Right on cue. Take a look, Eagle men, from Shanroth, planet of the lawyers, that’s one of their justice cruisers, action lawsuit class I shouldn’t wonder.

Doctor Who (Big Finish) The Best Laid Plans 2019

Ladies & Gentlemen:

I would like to call to your attention the recent spate of healthcare workers doing the following:

  1. Openly calling for the death of political opponents
  2. Openly calling for healthcare workers to injure patients with political views they dislike
  3. Openly calling for healthcare workers to not treat patients with political views they dislike
  4. Actually refusing to treat people due to political opinions
  5. Openly taking public political opinions as representatives of the industry or individual healthcare facilities

Needless to say this may be problematic in terms of publicity but I would like to point out a far greater risk to your business than simply bad press.

Medicine, for all its advancements is still an inexact science.

Unlike engineering where the tolerances for various metals and structures can be predicted if the products are properly made, different people will react to treatments differently. There is always a chance that a problem will arise with any med or any treatment or any procedure.

Of course there is always the factor of human error which can be reduced by vigilance but by nature never completely eliminated. Which is why Doctors & Nurses and healthcare workers with any sense carry malpractice insurance.

Now consider for a moment a conservative who comes to one of your facilities, a facility where the doctor, or the nurse, or the person passing meds or even the kitchen staff has been posting on public social media their disgust at conservatives &/or calling for their harm.

Think of what happens if an open conservative comes to your facility for any sort of treatment and has

  • A reaction to meds
  • An adverse reaction to a procedure
  • A bad complication
  • An unexpected death

In any of those cases the patient and/or the family naturally questions why this has taken place. What kind of conclusion might be reached if any of those online political activities come to light concerning any person involved in his or her treatment? How fast will the family conclude that this was not part of the normal risk of treatment but a deliberate act against a perceived “enemy”?

How quick do you think a family like that will decide to sue?

How fast will such a suit become a cause célèbre in the conservative community?

How quickly will pols seeking to make hay grab onto such a case?

How much would that cause previous patients and their families to give scrutiny to any past visit that did not have a satisfactory outcome?

And most importantly will the insurance company that covers your facility decide at best to raise the rates they are charging because of the risk or fight any payout on the grounds that a deliberate failure to provide the proper care is a criminal act?

All of those risks are after the fact, consider this:

A medical college that openly pushes to radicalize doctors or nurses to consider those who don’t share an instructors hatred of conservatives or ICE or Trump as not worthy of treatment.

Can you imagine the risk you will have if you hire a graduate of such a program? Can you picture all of those consequences I already named exacerbated by hiring a person who has done any of those things listed above or marched in events during their college years? The negligence argument writes itself.

That being said I offer the following suggestions:

  1. Instruct your HR departments to screen potential hires social media posts for any such statements supporting violence as noted above.
  2. Instruct your HR departments to inform colleges that train medical professionals that candidates from any facility whose program is even perceived to encourage bias based on political affiliation will not be considered for any position
  3. Discharge any person who has precipitated in any of the above actions
  4. If discharge is not possible due to contract limitation give written notice that any such behavior as noted above will result in immediate discharge from the facility & a lawsuit to recover damages by the facility
  5. Implement immediate training for existing staff to make it clear that any such action will result in immediate discharge & a possible lawsuit to recover damages
  6. Implement training for all new hires to make clear that any such action will result in immediate discharge & a possible lawsuit to recover damages.
  7. Make such a policy an official policy of your facility

Such actions will protect you and your facility from the enormous financial risks involved in this behavior contrary to the best traditions of the medical profession.

It’s your call.

Amy Pond: [To her younger self] Ok kid this is where it gets complicated.

Doctor Who The Big Bang 2010

Well nationally there’s trouble in Minnesota and locally we’re just an hour away from what appears to be the biggest snow storm to hit the area since the blizzard of 1978 but in DaTechguy’s house the big story this morning was that when I weighed myself I came out at 259.8 which means I’m down 43.5 pounds and also means that with under ten pounds left to lose (9.8 pounds to be exact) we now enter phrase three of DaTechGuy’s Diet Plan which has the potential to be the hardest part to pull off.

For those who missed my first two posts on the subject here is the base diet I started with when I began five months, two weeks and three days ago:

  • No fast food: McDonalds, Wendy’s Burger king OUT
  • No bread (I get two slices when I go out for breakfast that’s it) no Subs
  • No sausage
  • No chocolate bars
  • No candy, cake etc basically no deserts
  • No Ice Cream
  • No potatoes
  • Salads with a meal whenever possible simple oil/vinegar dressings only
  • Soups when possible
  • Soda only if a restaurant has iffy water
  • Lots of peppers, onions & garlic
  • No Pasta
  • No snacks
  • NO SECOND HELPINGS NO EXCEPTIONS!

Let me note that the rules of this diet did NOT apply on the following days:

  • Birthdays
  • Anniversaries
  • Thanksgiving
  • Christmas
  • Any General Family Celebration

This keeps one from becoming a killjoy on key days while eliminating the concept of “cheat days” which I think sabotages diets.

Using this diet I dropped 33.3 pounds in 3 months 2 weeks and one day which got me to under 270, 20 pounds to my final goal.

Once I cracked 270 Phase Two of the diet began. This loosed some of these rules allowing me to enjoy things I had withheld from myself while still limiting them. Those updated rules were:

  • No fast food: McDonalds, Wendy’s Burger king OUT
  • No Subs
  • No snacks
  • Salads with a meal whenever possible simple oil/vinegar dressings only
  • Soups when possible
  • Soda only if a restaurant has iffy water (always diet)
  • Lots of peppers, onions & garlic
  • No Pasta (UPDATE forgot to include this in the list)
  • No snacks
  • NO SECOND HELPINGS NO EXCEPTIONS!
  • An occasional Market Basket Donut (FAR superior to Dunkin’s) perhaps bi-weekly. (had maybe 3 during this time)
  • No bread at home, if I’m out and it comes with a meal one slice Toast if I go out for breakfast (had maybe four pieces)
  • Breakfast sausage once a week max if I cook at home or once a week out) Only twice at home but regularly if I had breakfast out
  • One candy bar a week if I want it think a Cadbury bar eaten over 3 days (had about four)
  • Ice cream if I go to Friendly’s (the mini cone trio) a taste of what’s at home a week if wanted (ran out of home ice cream never bought one)
  • If at Friendly’s or anywhere & get a burger & fries no BBQ sauce or bacon eat about 1/2 of the fries (I don’t finish the fires and had bacon three times on a burger

This phase lasted two months and two days to lose ten pounds. While this is a considerably slower rate of loss per pound as the numbers show:

  • 62 days to lose 10 pounds (one pound every 6.2 days) vs
  • 105 days to lose 33.3 pounds (one pound every 3.15 days)

…the end result was to allow me to reintroduce foods I enjoyed without binging. There was some surprises in that when I had ribs for the first time in months I found that I didn’t really enjoy them so just dropped them. But this slower rates paid off in habits that have now been established.

But now that I’m below 260 and have less than ten pounds to go that REALLY tough part comes. The phase three diet eliminates almost all of the restrictions above. Here is what remains:

  • No fast food: McDonalds, Wendy’s Burger king OUT
  • Salads with a meal whenever possible simple oil/vinegar dressings only
  • Soups when possible
  • Diet Soda only
  • Lots of peppers, onions & garlic
  • NO THIRD HELPINGS NO EXCEPTIONS!

Here is what is now allowed or loosened:

  • One Sub a week max (Small or Medium only)
  • Snacks (chips etc) Only during playoff games & major sports events
  • Pasta once a week MAX
  • Second Helpings only to avoid leftovers and no seconds on a desert.
  • English Muffin White Bread & Bagels allowed at home for occasional sandwich (weekly) or as an occasional Breakfast item
  • An occasional Market Basket Donut
  • Three candy bars max over any two week period
  • Ice cream at home once a week max
  • No items ordered out if the calorie listing is over 1200.
  • Not allowed to finish any order of fries or onion rings unless they are being shared.

The idea here is the same as phase two. Allowing me to introduce items back to my regular dietary rotation in a way that doesn’t cause me to binge. There is nothing wrong with having some chips, there is a lot wrong with finishing a bag in one sitting. Bagels & bread are fine, but not overdoing carbs that become fat. Pasta is a wonderful thing but feasting on it daily is bad news.

Now I want to point out that these are things are CAN do. This doesn’t mean I’m going to be having all of this stuff even as much as it’s allowed. Basically I’m giving myself more options and it’s my job to not abuse any of them. The three and a half months at the start of the diet built up the discipline to do without, the two months that followed built up the discipline to enjoy things in moderation. Now this home stretch is going to be all about allowing most of the things that I haven’t had. Given that it took me 2 months to lose those 10 pounds I’d not be surprised if it took till April to finish the job although the snowfall and the shoveling involved will likely help a bit as will the coming of spring and the ability to walk again outside as exercise at public tracks and parks.

But the reality is all of this is a means to an end. My last set of blood tests were a huge improvement on the results that prompted this diet. This is all about getting those numbers where they need to be. I’m scheduled for tests in two weeks. That is where the rubber meets the road.

Wish me luck.

Postscript: So what is the plan once I get to below 250 and have lost the full 53.3 pounds that I set out to do?

Well all the restrictions will be gone. The diet will be ended and I’ll count on the good habits I’ve developed to be maintained. Since weight fluctuate a few pounds in either direction what I’ll do is I’ll weigh myself once a week. If I stay in the 245-255 range I’ll leave things as they are. If I get above 255 the phase three restrictions will again apply till I get back to 250. If I really backslide and hit 260 again then the phase two restrictions will return.

But I’m ten pounds away from worrying about any of that.

Postscript two: Some might wonder why I didn’t go on any of the weight loss drugs out there. My answer is the same as last time. The whole point of this exercise was to not have to take pills and shots for the rest of my life. It was not to take a different set of pills and shots for the rest of my life.

The Judge: Now, it’s a surprisingly simple procedure. You’re to play your normal game, except when you are at bat. And then, under no circumstances, are you to hit the ball safely.

The Natural 1984

I suspect more than a few people are looking at Minnesota and wondering why we are seeing what we are seeing. Why is the left going all out including violence to protect illegal aliens and why are Democrats nationally defending these actions and even making threats concerning them?

The answers is really quite simple at least to me.

  • I suspect the sheer volume of dollars being stolen dwarfs anything that we suspect
  • I suspect the sheer number of Democrats getting rich off these dollars is larger than we suspect
  • I suspect the sheer number of illegal votes being produced by this enterprise is enough to steal a state
  • I submit that access to those dollars nationally is why Harris picked Walz as her VP choice
  • I suspect that this is going on in other blue states whose pols rather keep scrutiny on Minnesota
  • And I suspect key GOP members in those other states are being rewarded for ignoring it

Nicky Santoro: Now, notice how in the count room nobody ever seems to see anything. Somehow, somebody’s always looking the other way. Now, look at these guys. They look busy, right? They’re counting money. Who wants to bother them? I mean, God forbid they should make a mistake and forget to steal.

Casino 1995

Let’s take them in order. Each day we are getting more and more information from citizen journalists about fraud in Minnesota, about empty daycare centers, about non exist transport companies, about whole supposed infrastructures that simply don’t exist.

If this is the kind of money being produced by these locations how many others, particularly in the Somali community see this and say: “This is the life for me.” All you need is an address and a few people to process paperwork and BOOM here come the federal dollars. These aren’t a few businesses I suspect there are thousands, and I suspect they’re not just in the state capital, they’re all over the state because why wouldn’t there be if the risk/reward ratio was so low for so long?

Henry Hill: They called him Jimmy the Gent. The drivers loved him. They used to tip him off about the really good loads. Of course, everybody got a piece. And when the cops assigned a whole army to stop him, Jimmy made them partners.

Goodfellas 1990

It took these people no time at all to find any of this stuff. What does that tell you? It tells you that both the law enforcement, the regulatory and the press apparatus could have done these investigations and found all of this stuff because it was happening out in the open. That they didn’t means they were getting a piece of the action, either directly or indirection (ie press company gets ads from big dems when they don’t investigate)

Oddball: [Talking to German tank officer] You know what’s inside that bank, man? There’s 16 million dollars worth of gold in the bank, sweetheart. Mm-hm, mm-hm. [Tank officer’s eyes grow wide]

Big Joe: That’s about 65 million marks.

Kelly: And sergeant, all you have to do to have an equal share of this money is crank this turret around and blow a hole in that door. [He points to the bank. The German officer thinks about it for about two seconds, then blows the bank doors]

Kelly’s Heroes 1970

With a large community like the Somali’s voting as a block that’s hundreds of thousands of votes. That’s enough votes to transform a state and all the Democrats had to do in order to secure these votes (legal or illegal) was to open up those bank doors and let the cash flow, so that means even if there is illegalities they are going to play ball because that means the state is secure no matter what the average citizen wants or things.

Bart Maverick: I keep adding up 5% of $80,000 and it keeps coming out four thousand every time.

Maverick: The Third Rider 1957

When you look at election 2024 it seems that Tim Walz is a ridiculous choice for a running mate for Kamala Harris. He has no speaking skills and he comes from a state that the GOP has not carried since 1972.

But if you know that Tim Watz’s is the governor of a state that’s raking in Billions of dollars of federal money via fraud even a small percentage of that going to your national campaign is enough to keep you in clover for a while.

Or did you think it was just luck that Kamala had so much dough to blow in a short campaign. I suspect it wasn’t all just relief that Biden was out of the way.

Col William Travis: Every minute of time we buy for Sam Houston is another precious minute in the life of Texas. And nobody is ever going to say that William Barrett Travis did not buy every minute possible.

The Alamo 1960

If this type of thing is happening in Minnesota it’s very likely that it’s happening in other blue states like Maine, Illinois, Washington and California. There are already signs that fraud is becoming apparent in these other places. You would think that they would want this story to go away but national democrats have gone all in on Minnesota. They understand that if massive federal resources have to go to Minnesota to stop the fraud and violence those resources can’t be used to see what’s going on in Maine, or Illinois, or Washington or California.

It’s a losing fight in the long run but every day of delay is a day that the grift can go on elsewhere and the evidence can be destroyed or hidden elsewhere and those days and that graft is precious to those Democrats as the lives of their children, likely even more.

Israeli Ambassador: Israeli Intelligence says that East Yemen are going to invade St George’s Island in the next few days.

Prime Minister James Hacker: What? So that’s the connection.

Israeli Ambassador: Your Foreign Office have agreed with East Yemen that they’ll make strong diplomatic representations, but do nothing. In return, the Yemenis will let you keep your airport contract after they’ve taken over.

Yes Prime Minister: A Victory for Democracy 1986

You might wonder why some GOP governors like the governor of Ohio is saying things like fraud being “The price of doing business”. It’s quite simple. While in blue states they left has control of the state in red states their control is limited to cities, but that means votes in the legislature, votes that can be given or withheld at the party’s whim. As the graft is the priority since it makes people rich, as long as the graft & fraud is left alone they can make deals. And if such a deal means that there is a key rep absent for a vote that a high ranking GOP official needs a priority that’s bigger politically then saving federal dollars, well as the governor says, that’s the price of doing business.

Tom Hagen: When I meet with Tattaglia’s men, should I insist all their drug middlemen have clean records’ Corleone: Mention it, don’t insist. But Barzini will know that without being told.

Tom Hagen: You mean Tattaglia…

Don Corleone: Tattaglia is a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn’t know until this day that it was Barzini all along.

The Godfather 1972

There are two things about the ICE spectacles that are being created by the left and the revelations concerning fraud that are not getting enough, if any play in the media.

  1. That the “protests” and the interference with ICE is largely confined to blue states which refuse to allow local law enforcement to cooperate with federal agents. In those states criminals with ICE retainers are handed over in the court room or from jails as a matter of routine so there is no danger to the public and since public law and order is enforced protests blocking roads or declaring “autonomous zones” are not tolerated and have consequences.
  2. That the type of fraud that is apparently widespread in Minnesota is not only repeated in blue states and cities but law enforcement and officials with oversight who attempt to combat it area at best hindered and at worst removed from their positions.

Both of these point lead to an obvious question:

Why is the left so determined to stop these criminals from being arrested when just a generation and a half ago leaders like Bill Clinton openly stated they had to be deported.

and

Why is the left tolerating fraud at this scale when the funds could be available for all the pet project they keep wanting to advance?

The answer to these questions are both pretty much the same:

  • When you abort & Spay your kids you don’t get voters in the future.
  • When you discourage business you don’t get contributions from businessmen & workers
  • When you make areas unsafe to live and work people to move away & your state loses electoral votes.

Those votes and that cash needs to be replaced and both can be done by retaining illegal aliens and getting a large cut of the fraud allowed. By such means you can steal an entire state.

This is the Chicago way that Barack Obama imported and that 12 of 16 years under his people encouraged planting enablers in the civil service and the courts to allow it to flourish and rob you blind.

I submit and suggest that from what we’re seeing the left in an actual minority even in blue states and the left knows it, thus they are pulling out all the stops to keep the flow of cash and the number of illegals present to allow the Democrats to remain a viable party. Without it they would collapse.

That’s why they’re fighting so hard, that’s why they don’t care about lives ruined, that’s also why they don’t care about the Mullahs slaughter people in Iran in a desperate bid to hold power, because in the end what they’re doing now is also a desperate bid to hold power and the only reason why, in my opinion, they haven’t resorted to force of arms is they’re badly outnumbered.

Without their fraud they’re finish so they’ll fight to the last.

I’ll give the last words to Glenn Reynolds:

The people who made these knotty problems knotty did too well “managing” or “addressing” them to ever actually solve them.  Doing so would shut down the whole feedlot.

Trump just cut the knot.  That’s a terrible blow to the managerial class. 

If the public realizes you can actually solve problems, there will be more pressure to do that — rather than just manage them endlessly.

That’s unforgivable. No wonder Trump is the villain in their eyes.