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Between this event coming up:
And the pending closing of my warehouse (What you thought Cape Cod Chips was the only company fleeing Massachusetts?) meaning that I have to find a job with health insurance (mandated by MA or a tax penalty thanks Mitt) at age 63 I confess I’ve been a tad distracted.
So here two days late is the indulgence Calendar for Feb which Ironically I had ready a week early.
From every possible direction it looked the same. It was going to be unreasonably easy for Allen Carpentier to enter the Circle of Traitors…the place of punishment for those who betrayed their benefactors
Inferno Larry Nivin & Jerry Pournelle 1976
I think some of the wisdom of Donald Trump might be rubbing off on the GOP.
I know this is generally considered “the stupid party” but there seems to be a glimmer of it on the shutdown votes.
For context let me remind you of what I wrote concerning Donald Trump & the Epstein files a little bit ago:
I think he’s going to let the Epstein stuff play out as far as he can all the time saying to people like Elizabeth Warren:
“Oh please Please Br’re Pocahontas don’t throw me into the Epstein patch!”
And then when the left is fully committed to both the release of the information and harsh punishment for all those involved (including all those who have given them millions upon millions over the years) and then BOOM!
When that time comes and the decides to give them exactly what they want, a lot of very rich and very bad leftists and their funders will find themselves in trouble meanwhile Donald Trump will be hopping away singing:
“Born and bred in a Briar Patch!”And will hop away while the left convicts themselves.
This is pretty much turned out as I predicted as leftist from Reid Hoffman to Bill Gates are scrambling to do damage control & the Clintons try to figure out how to testify to congress on the subject without pleading the 5th.
This of course could be predicted by anyone who doesn’t by the MSM propaganda and has actually paid attention but the left doesn’t think that way. Their primary goal is to win the current news cycle and to keep their base angry.
That’s why I’m delighted at the fact that ICE funding is coming up again in two weeks.
It’s is very possible and even probable that our friends on the left who decided a short term shutdown was NBD to take a stand vs ICE think that a party line vote on funding ICE is a good thing to fire up their base, particularly with former GOP leaders speaking against the agency.
One might have thought that they would have learned from their pushing of Liz Cheney that people who GOP voters disagree with don’t have a lot of sway with conservative votes, no matter how much the MSM thinks otherwise but apparently not.
Let’s go to the polling:
The survey found that calls to defund ice are “politically toxic. When voters are told Democrats want to defund ICE or even shut down the government to stop ICE from enforcing immigration law, the political fallout is immediate and severe.”
- The generic ballot flips from D+4 to R+0 if Democrats oppose ICE.
- If Democrats force a shutdown to defund ICE, Republicans take a 2‑point lead; that’s a 6-point shift away from Democrats over a single issue.
- Swing voters shift a staggering 16 points toward Republicans under a shutdown scenario.
The results indicate that Democrats do not view illegal immigration as a “serious national problem.”
But nearly all Republicans (97%) and 60% of Independent voters see it as a major problem. Overall, 64% of midterm voters and 71% of swing voters agree.
That link to the Cygnal poll is to the site Legal Insurrection which perhaps Dems don’t read, but I’m told that they do on occasion watch CNN:
And I’m sure the left’s base can’t wait to turn out for the party of Trans protesters calling black Ice agents “Nigger” on camera:
But apparently none of that matters to those in the land of the bubble.. It’s going to be unreasonably easy for the Democrat left to smile and celebrate when ICE funding comes up for a vote in two weeks and passes on a strict party line vote.
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:
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
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:
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:
Let me note that the rules of this diet did NOT apply on the following days:
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:
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:
…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:
Here is what is now allowed or loosened:
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.
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