The first Friday Funnies after the attempted Blumenthal take down.........best way to handle the situation .......carry on as usual!!! Keep going..........victory is in sight!!!!
Ho ho! So happy to see your usual Friday Funnies!!! And quite the contrary collection! Love your humor, Drs Malone. Way to show that Blumenthal guy!!! 🤗
I apologize for my rants today. So many bothersome issues!!
Not sure if you heard Gavin Newsom’s speech yesterday saying he is going to gerrymander California so that republicans will have no seats in the state. He also urged other Democrat states to gerrymander seats away from republicans. The democrats have been doing this decade after decade. The key for republicans is to begin to play smash mouth football harder than the democrats! Because the republicans have not played this game in the same way they actually have much more to gain!
In California Trump got 45% of the vote, Newsom is promising 0 republican representatives. We know how heavily Californians are taxed. The average income rate is around 10%, and sales tax is 7.25 or higher. What this comes down to is taxation without representation, one of the same issues that started the American Revolution. If the founding fathers were here they would say this is a usurpation of our fundamental rights and our money. Think of how money is spent in blue state. The workers are stripped of their money and it’s given many times to people that don’t work or people that aren’t even citizens. The people rowing the boat are being whipped to go faster while the democrats drink champagne with steaks smothered with lobsters. With zero representation why bother voting?
Eventually I believe this will end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t think Newsom’s plan to eliminate all Republican representation will fly. If things were done on an even playing field the Republicans would have upwards of 250 seats in congress. The problem with the Democrats they are being run by extreme leftist communists. They are truly becoming obsolete. Look at DC. Things got so bad there people wouldn’t report crime. 70 percent of murders and violent crime goes unsolved. Residence there are already seeing a difference, and praising what’s happening.
I'm from California, it's sooooo much worse than people know!
God save us all if Newscum wins a presidency. We couldn't afford to retire there, we moved to Tennessee so we could afford to retire, it was a painful move I was a native, a rare find.
Just wondering Trump isn't playing rope-a-dope w/ Newsom and the blue states, to get a federal law that draws lines in all states without regard for how it affects party outcomes. The more they howl, the greater the need to correct the problem. Howl away, Gavin.
I had to look up the term effeminate creep! I never heard that one before, but I do get it. Boys are taught to dislike being masculine. They say testosterone is becoming a rare hormone in men which may explain why there’s so many effeminate creeps.
Yes, just the hand gestures alone (as my wife reminded me)— like his distant relationship, Nancy Pelosi—alerts one to an effeminate creep. Perhaps as a young boy he related to Nancy and girls around him more than to the men and masculine boys. In any event, he’s not suited to deal with the likes of men like Putin and Xi. One would seeing him crying and grasping for “Mommy” if someone managed to cut his ear with a bullet—never standing tall and defiant yelling “fight, fight, fight!” Margaret Thatcher had that vein of courage like Trump.
Thing is, how would Grusome accomplish this. Those areas that have retained Republican representation in California (and other Marxist states) through redistricting and endless "recounts" (we see you CA, WA…) are geographically distinct, separate, distant from heavy Marxist districts. Districts have to be contiguous, hence the salamander aspect of gerrymandering. Also CA has constitutional restrictions on redistricting.
Ideally, the response to this is to redistrict out, or minimize, any democrat heavy areas in American states; AND for sane people to leave Marxist states for American states, taking their taxes, businesses whenever possible. Let the Marxist wallow in the blue shit they’ll be left with. My only concern is that I’m downwind of western Washington and northern Idaho and so far as I know nothing, not even a ripe feedlot, smells as bad as swamps of blue shit.
The only way: Tough on crime! Those who are against this...are criminals. Governor "Nuisance's" agenda in California was one of the worst with its Catch and Release Crime Enhancement Program. Criminals, other than its leaders took over. .
About California, I have a true story for you James. I lived there for 22 years, in an old apartment downtown in what was known as Koreatown but was loaded with Mexican illegals. The building behind me had street parties random Saturday nights (because if it was regular the police could shut it down so they gamed the system) that started around 6 pm and went till the wee hours of Sunday morning. Boom boxes that pounded out the worst trash music known to man that shook the building and heated your bones from the vibration. I generally started calling the police around 10:30 because the law says you can torture your neighbors up till 10 pm only. The police always ALWAYS ignored me. They simply don’t bother with noise crime …. Until one night I lost my temper. I called and said (politely) that if they didn’t come stop this noise I would get in my car, drive around to the neighbors, drive into the backyard and run over the sound system. AND if I hit women and children, I didn’t care. The horrified officer said, “Don’t even say that!” To which I responded with considerable heat, “YOU’VE GOT FIVE MINUTES.” And then I slammed down the phone and went to bed and smiled as about five sirens wailed into that street. When the police knocked at my door the next day, the community officer said he wasn’t supposed to ask anyone for their immigration status but he did mention to the perpetrators that ICE might come calling. They were gone the next day. Moved about 20 blocks away. I moved too. To Kentucky where I have never looked back. Anyone who thinks actual citizens want California insanity simply don’t understand California politics.
Barbara Lee it’s incredible that we know how true justice works. Lady Justice wears a blindfold to represent impartiality, the ideal that Justice should be applied without regard to wealth, power and status. The Marxist left has pushed us far away from our founding principles of justice. How can we expect peace and “Quiet” when police won’t do their job! God forbid you take matters into your own hands, you’ll find justice used against you quickly.
The problem boils down to who’s counting the votes in CA, and all the big cities run by Democrats. In CA every state, county and big city is run by Democrats. Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, DC, NYC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland….
81 million votes for Brandon demonstrates the audacity of their criminal achievements as they use the end justifies the means philosophy. Votes should be counted at least twice once by each candidates party and recounted is discrepancies are over a small margin.
Politicians and the Media are so busy playing politics and the Gotcha Game....they never talk about the guts of any issue. This issue is no different. They are truly worthless.
Some stupid flak on MSNBC actually said this fight was started by Trump [somehow excusing Newsome of his gerrymandering sins]. What children they are. The California GOP Rep she was "interviewing" had a lame response directed only at the point he wanted to make....which was bashing Newsome. Another 5 minutes of my life wasted!
The issue - Texas started re-districting because the DOJ and Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon said the 5 CDs in question used race to draw the lines. A violation of The Voting Rights Act. The are doing this because they violated the law.
Background - Gerrymandering has been going on since the man who it is named after did it....100 years ago?? I don't know.....don't care. Because basically, whoever is in power can draw the lines....and only a court can stop them....if they care too. This needs reforming....maybe AI can help?? That is why Trump is taking this on....the GOP is in power, so he will redraw lines where he can.
It's time the Republicans start playing and beating the Democrats at their own game! I can't believe the Republicans have tolerated the Democrats games for as long as they have, it's about time they stand up for themselves
Never had a pet in childhood until a one eyed chicken wandered into the yard and I built a coop for the chicken. Then one day we had a chicken dinner! Chickens eat insects and they enjoy the sun and deliver Vitamin D rich eggs if they are farm yard raised. Today, over 95% of the chickens are raised in tin barns without sun light. They can add lights that stimulate Vitamin D production, but they don't. We can do it in our schools too to help our kids learn faster! The magazine cover of Scientific America on Sunshine has been ignored by the medicine man. Fear of sun burns prevail.
Common sense should prevail, but lathering everyone up with sunscreen is the norm. The chemicals in the sunscreen have not all been tested for safety.
They were just out of frame, but Mr. Cig was accompanied by Mr. Flammable Bedsheets and Mr. Oxygen Tank. Hospitals; they knew best in 1948, and still do.
And they made good refrigerators back then. I currently have a 1948 GE fridge in my basement. It’s where the grandkids grab a soda. I paid six bucks for it at an auction, slid it down the basement stairs on its side and it has hummed away for the last 15 years. Meanwhile, our garage fridge consistently freezes up and we have to empty it and thaw it out. I’m so weary of sub-par appliances.
1998 Sears Kenmore still going (moved to garage) Newer ones failed. finally we just only used that one. Good exercise going downstairs, less eating too.
Bought a SubZero in 16 flawless but costs two arms and a leg, with currency debasement it now costs four arms and two legs. Have my moms old refer in the garage has to be at least 30 years old going strong.
It has to be a difficult decision for President Trump to reclassify pot from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 3 drug. Trumps older brother Fred had struggled with alcoholism and died at 41. Though he died of a heart attack the family has said they believe alcohol played a role. The death of Trumps older brother has strongly influenced him to always be against all types of substance abuse and addictions, as it has myself.
With some mixed feelings I hope he keeps pot as a schedule 1 drug. Since this push to legalize pot, remembering Soros has sunk millions into pot being legalized, it’s been a very slippery slope which began with “we just want to have medical use for the sick or PTSD veterans”, which I do understand. Today 33% of the young between 18 and 30 are recreationally smoking pot regularly. In Massachusetts there are over 500 pot stores now, there everywhere. They have walk-ins, drive throughs, now even delivery service. Just recently Steven Tompkins extreme liberal Sheriff of Suffolk County (Boston!) was indicted on charges of extorting 50,000 dollars from a cannabis company that needed his office’s support for licensing and access to a program that refers former inmates to work at the dispensary. Tompkins is also alleged to have pressured a company executive to sell him stock in the company before its initial public offering, and later demanded a refund when the stocks value declined, welcome to Massachusetts!! Couldn’t have happened to a more honest officer of the law!
If they do lower pots classification the number of people smoking pot is sure to rise with many more states legalizing pot.
I often wonder when is enough enough? We give this government so much power over our lives. You may say people should have the freedom to do what they want, and I agree, but the government assisting and making money on the poisoning of society just seems wrong to me. Corporate imprudent greed and near sightedness seems to be the road we constantly insist on going down without thinking about what is wrong and what is tight. I’m all into capitalism, I own a business, but harming kids is not good business and certainly not good for society. This makes me think of the famous Vladimir Lenin quote “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”.
Trump is certainly a capitalist but I hope and think on this one he’s going to pass on lowering the classification to a schedule 3 drug but on this one we will wait and see! J.Goodrich
"Today, the average THC level for cannabis flower has risen dramatically. Typical dispensary cannabis often ranges from 15% to 25% THC, with some strains topping 30% or even higher. This represents a five- to tenfold increase in potency compared to the cannabis commonly available in the 1980s. Cannabis concentrates and extracts can contain even more THC, with products reaching up to 90% THC"
How it's Grown. What else is IN it. How it enters the body.
Dr. Chris Exley's book, "Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom", page 43, ".. in related research we also have showed that street cannabis is ALUMINUM-rich, as is, pure THC.." He goes on to write, for this reason, he doesn't believe it should be used for disease therapy, like MS. If grown in the absence of alum, hydroponically, could be used. Dr. E also states, same page, "Recreational drugs, legal or otherwise, are significant contributors to to the body's burden of aluminum." Hope he doesn't mind me quoting his book here.
The Lt. Gov. of Texas in the pocket of alcohol lobby wants all TCH containing products banned (as does the senate). However there is some evidence that synergy occurs in CBD oil with 0.3% TCH in controlling inflammation. I use it with good results and sweating out what looks like an upcoming ban
Don't see how they'd control it. They test your product if hoping to officially sell it, but it's easy for folks to grow potent marijuana in their own yard. So, it will be sold to the most vulnerable (kids), most of the time, Not in licensed stores.
*Steve Robinson, a very Brave Journalist in Maine - his New documentary - on Maine's Marijuana problem. It's a SCARY film to watch.
"High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia Takeover of Rural America"
I sure hope President Trump watches this video, before deciding on this issue.
I listened to a video describing how the dark side is using Glyphosate, fluoride, aluminum and 5G Wi-Fi which opens up our blood brain barrier so that the toxins get into our brain and destroy our pineal gland/our memory! China protect its pregnant women from Wi-Fi radiation. Our politicians are not doing anything to protect us from all these poisons over all these years until Kennedy arrived. They said China is just watching America commit suicide.
Back in the 60’s/70’s you had to smoke half a joint to get a buzz today it’s one or two hits. The real problem is not government control but education. Cigarette smoking has been reduced by increasing sin taxes and education to great effect. Putting people in a cage for getting high is cruel. Pot is not good for you, but alcohol is much worse. In my life I’ve been so drunk I passed out, threw up in the gutter, and could not remember a thing about the entire evening. The difference between the two is day and night. Not suggesting anyone should use either one but we don’t put people in a cage for just getting drunk and we shouldn’t do it for pot either. We should educate on the dangers and tax both of them like cigarettes.
I agree James. The beautiful state of Colorado in which I lived for many years is now covered in a haze of pot smoke! You can’t even enjoy a park because of the smell and degenerates begging for money to buy their pot. Oh America! What is happening to us? Please, DJT. Do NOT make it easier for folks to do “drugs”!
I smoked my share of pot as a teenager (1968 on) until I was 25, when I hung up the phone on all that. Today's pot is so much stronger. It is sometimes laced with fun drugs like Fentanyl. ( whats not to like? <sarc>) Driving high on weed is no better than driving while drinking. So while, I empathize with the judicial mistreatment of people for use that happened in the 60's and 70's rescheduling pot is a complex issue. I have a friend who spent time in prison for simple possession in the early 1970s.. He became a Felon and can not vote. He was told he can have that felony expunged years ago. because he never even has had a speeding ticket to date, but refuses to because he is so pissed about the injustice to him in his youth that he refuses to have anything to do with the government to this day (he is now 78. He is a successful farmer and wont even sign up for programs for farmers.
Do we end up with another generation of people like my friend if it stays schedule 1? Do we end up with another generation oft people injured in car crashes, mental problems, and health problems if we move it to schedule 3.
Where does CBD gummies fit into the conversation?
I feel conflicted and a bit guilty even talking about this, when I had my fun in my young years with pot.
S.R.; Driving on weed is very different from drinking too much! Ram Dass got stopped for going too slow, you won't find that problem with the aggressiveness felt from alcohol. Don't buy pot from street dealers, just like not buying Anything from the street. CBD is incredibly useful.
Yes I remember that story about Ram Das (Richard Alpert). Also the Cheech and Chong movie Up In Smoke where they were stopped for driving about 10 miles an hour if they were moving at all.
I do have experience driving a bit high back in my late teens. Decided not a good idea. I also was in a rear end collision where the driver was drunk (I was a passenger in the car, though I was sober). He did not even slow down. The speed limit was 25 on that street and no one was hurt. = God protects drunks and fools sometimes.
I witnessed a collision right on my intersection while walking my dog, where a guy drove through a stop sign and t-bone a car with a mom and a kid in it. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. Laying on the road was a brass hash pipe. My dog saw that and went to check it out. That got the cops attention.
Life is about learning and making decisions. Decisions have consequences, good and bad. I've done plenty of both.
Inhaling vs drinking. We need clarity on the differences. If metals(such as aluminum in the actual marijuana, and in the pipes it's often smoked in) are being inhaled, I believe, this enters the body in much more dangerous ways (vs drinking alcohol) as the lungs provide such a huge surface area, i.e., entry point.
I stand with Wyoming - they've successfully fought legalizing it, as they see how it's Changed their border state, Colorado, for the Worse, not Better.
Heres a breakdown of some of the carcinogens in weed smoke. When smoking marijuana, a variety of chemicals are inhaled into the lungs, including THC (the psychoactive component), as well as other compounds like tar, carbon monoxide, and various carcinogens. These include acetaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic, benzene, cadmium, chromium, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, isoprene, lead, mercury, nickel, and quinoline. Some of these chemicals are known toxins and carcinogens, and marijuana smoke contains similar harmful compounds to tobacco smoke.
Education to the dangers and consequences is the key IMHO. Stop selling alcohol in every grocery store, restaurant and sports venue. Maybe combine alcohol and pot stores in the same location and require certification of understanding the risks for both prior to purchase. Expecting the government to handle all life’s problems gets you a government that controls everything you do.
Show me someone who smokes "a pack a day" of pot. Gummies don't get smoked. There is also organic, (third party tested) CBD oil with 2.5mg THC. No smoking needed and tested up the wazoo.
So, would a reasonable solution be just to regulate CBD oil @ 2.5 mgTHC across the board and make the rest illegal? Keep it simple, save the confusion.
Show me the stats of it being more dangerous to the body than alcohol? This is a fear based and misinformed attitude, prohibition didn't work so well either. Cannabis use has been documented from 2800 BC. Aluminum in cans holding THC drinks, yes.
You know me DD people close to me have drinking problems and they get belligerent when drunk, it’s abusive. I’ve never seen that with someone smoking pot, maybe making poor decisions.
How did I let myself get into this debate...This reminds me of the scary commercials from the fifties. Too much fear and not enough balance and study for this. More regulation is seldom the key, it's just that most people don't regulate themselves!
James, As far as I know, cannabis isn't addictive and can be successfully used for some serious medical conditions. Keeping kids from pot is like keeping them from booze and as far as I'm concerned alcohol is more lethal on all levels. The potency is stronger in some cases, and yet who last died from a THC overdose compared to the rates of other schedule 1 drugs?
Well people do become dependent upon it, in the inclined it can precipitate schizophrenia, it is lipid soluble (stays in brain, has a longer half life than alcohol, impairs driving ( increased # of MVAs, injuries and deaths) also increased industrial accidents. Not a benign drug & no longer your older brother’s MJ— >> levels of THC. When legalized no state has it had a positive impact on state budget (increased revenue from taxing <<incurred costs.
Roger, I just read something completely different about tax revenue. It transfers money from you to the government, getting people off the black market. Illinois= 1.98 billion. This is obviously a very complicated area. Cannabis use has been documented from 2800 BC. Dependency happens in all facets of life...
What you just read is at odds with the usual experience: boosters sell legalization and taxation to legislators who dream of easy money from the taxes. The black market sellers respond by cutting their prices (& likely do this by exploiting illegal immigrant slave labor. Not familiar with the article or study you refer to. I am going to bet that it is an outlier.
Some of these issues are why I have mixed feelings. I don’t think the recreational smoking is good for people’s health. There are all kinds of SS of carcinogens in the smoke and people deeply inhale it. But I understand your feelings!
When my mom was dying of lung cancer (not from smoking pot, altho she did try it) I was opening a new salon, buying a house and full-time caregiver for her. My system loses all appetite when I am stressed and I called my son for some pot, for I needed to eat. It worked so I could keep on and not get sick myself!
There was a repost by an ER MD in WVA this morning reporting on the increased problems they are having because of the increased potency. Opening the door doesn't sound wise to me.
This is like anything else where use is up to the individual... Food, cigs., driving etc. Alcohol is still legal and one of the easiest to abuse. I forgot gambling...
The catch is the impact of food, cigs, alcohol are generally known. Evidently, and as observed by the ER Doc, the weed and when combined with amphetamines not so much.
The earliest documented use of cannabis was 2800 BC and there is evidence of earlier use 8800-6500 BCE. Certainly long enough to know some of the beneficial uses. Anything combined with amphetamines will be detrimental and doctors have prescribed amphetamines for many, many years. Not so good, but what do we expect???
I’m going out on a limb here but regulating self inflicted injuries doesn’t work. Survival of the smartest, fittest and most moral works. I see all the Amish kids I live near are immune to this kind of behavior. Nothing would persuade the ones I know to ingest anything dangerous or do anything immoral (like stealing or shooting someone- and they all own guns they use for hunting). What’s the difference? Character, family, community! We aren’t going to regulate our way to a safe society. It will happen when every individual within that society has a reason to NOT be self-destructive. However, being truthful and transparent about harmful substances is essential. Recreational cannabis isn’t a good thing but medical cannabis is hugely helpful. Same goes for fentanyl. And then at some point, we have to tell people, you harm yourself screwing around, that’s on you. Nobody is going to be able to save you from yourself.
Try living in MN. Towns of certain size have no rights to refuse a shop selling pot. Some are figuring a temp way to get out of it. And the fraud here will escalate even more.
More than the continuous fraud of our very famous Gov. Walz funded projects and other tasty ways to bilk the public? How will fraud in smoke shops affect you? There are other larger fish to fry...
I figure Lucy is pointing out the ability for the state of MN to force the selling of Pot into local communities where locals do not desire their kids having access. In other words, pot-forcing without representation.
Here in Big Lake, that is exactly what is happening.
Extrapolating out 10 years our already failing school system will be assisted by 12 yr olds getting pot from 18 yr olds, just like I got older guys to buy me beer when I was growing up; but I was 16. It will be really easy to move this stuff, easily concealed and small, down into the lower grades.
Back in the 60's the older guys did not bring six packs to school and hand them out. . .
Education and actually talking to our kids will do wonders. The "older guys" were just around the corner ready to party. Our already failing school system will either wake up or we will continue to falter, no amount of restriction of pot will change that. My mom went to the still in the woods, drank too much and took prescription "medication" (speed) her sister got pregnant by my dad and that wasn't unusual in the scheme of things. Life is full of choices. Be Real. (I didn't mean to be snarky) I mean we all need to know what it means to be Real.
There are not to my knowledge other drugs that so efficiently treat body and headache, fever, prevent and assuage heart attacks and possibly prevent some forms of cancer as aspirin. More discoveries still possible. And it is quite inexpensive (except when pharma improves, i.e.,makes them cost more). Yet a friend, a physician, once told me of his disappointment with colleagues who would not rx aspirin because it was UNSCIENTIFIC to give patients a drug not knowing its mode of action. Refusing a patient efficacious treatment because of ignorance is not being scientific, it is bad medical practice. And goes to my maintaining that practicing physicians should not consider themselves scientists. Those who do have caused more harm than all snake oil salesmen combined. Fauci serves as a single example proving that statement. He is a mere dilettante.
Dr Nash, try DMSO for pain. Way better than aspirin and safer. Just don’t bother asking a physician about it. They don’t know anything unless it’s a pharmaceutical product that makes money.
I enjoyed this weeks Friday funnies more than normal because I can’t be sure why, but a great many of them made me smile. We have seven chicken hens that give us more eggs than the two of us can eat so our neighbors benefit. But I shutter to be reminded that they’re turning ticks into eggs! Thank you and I hope everybody has a blessed weekend!
"Never confuse education with intelligence." Wouldn't this be better stated as "Never confuse education with knowledge and wisdom." There are many intelligent but stupid people that our universities are churning out these days even after receiving an "education".
And Common Sense! I know a white Liberal lady who proudly (and constantly) mentions her 5 degrees! Yet this woman has absolutely NO Common Sense! Literally cannot screw in a light bulb. Sigh!
Jung had some intriguing thoughts about why it took man so long to achieve a high level of technological competence. He proposed that man’s earliest vocabularies were image derived (archaic) and this somehow constrained objective thought processing. He pointed out the Middle Ages had no lack of skilled artisanship nor understanding of basic physics yet they did not begin to evolve a greater degree of technology until they began thinking with new words derived through objective expansion of their lexicon and he credited philosophers like St. Thomas and William of Ockham for externalizing our mental activity. We evolved technology as our word driven thinking expanded. It was only when emphasis shifted to words free from their visual etiology that we broke free of archaic thinking.
I wonder if Jung considered that archaic paleo vocabularies contain so many words due to lack of modifiers that perhaps they literally overload the brain's ability to operate more objectively. Which brings me to the socialist mindset. Their philosophy tells us that they are driven by principles dictated by a mainly subjective vocabulary. Now that they are loading all those woke words and phrases into their tiny little brains that are already abused by marxist ideology do they become victims of subjective overload to the extent they are rendered incapable of rational behavior?
But Thomas was revisiting Aristotelian thought from 2000 years prior, fashioned in a Christian context. That’s a big gap for Jung to ignore. However, the printing press...
You had the " dark ages" and then the west, particularly the church, was hung up on Plato. Thomas reintroduced logic at a critical time in the evolution of critical thought
Transcribing by hand, be it Aristotle or anyone else, did tend to slow things down a bit. And the heavy hand of the Catholic Church did not brook opposing views. Yet words in the abstract were still with us; reminds me of a book lent to me by my late friend, Dr. Hines, “How the Irish Saved Civilization.” I ordered a book yesterday on the letters of Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake for his trouble of offending those in power in the Catholic Church.
But to your point, “(Socialist) philosophy tells us that they are driven by principles dictated by a mainly subjective vocabulary.” Like striving for utopia, a utopia they reserve the right to define and constantly revise, as conditions warrant? Then yes, perhaps you are on to something here. The lunatics are running the asylum, formerly known as the UK, with the same mental deficiencies as DC Democrats. Must be contagious.
Easy to get lost in linguistics, but it sure is logical that technical competence is facilitated by words. I know very little about, but have always been fascinated by the Chinese language; consisting of so many single syllable words that can have multiple meanings. Those meanings are usually defined with inflection. It would seem impossible to communicate with them without living among them. Then there is Japanese which takes syllables to the other extreme.
I was in school from 1954 to 1966. We didn’t have those desks. We had the flip top ones that slanted. You could store your books, pencils and lunch in and smash your finger under the top when it dropped too.
I wasn’t able to watch the video about the Democratic Party at first. Finally got it to play. It nailed it. They have lied so much about themselves that most don’t know the real story. Thanks for telling it in a humorous but truthful way. I loved it. 👏👏👏
The first Friday Funnies after the attempted Blumenthal take down.........best way to handle the situation .......carry on as usual!!! Keep going..........victory is in sight!!!!
Ho ho! So happy to see your usual Friday Funnies!!! And quite the contrary collection! Love your humor, Drs Malone. Way to show that Blumenthal guy!!! 🤗
I apologize for my rants today. So many bothersome issues!!
Not sure if you heard Gavin Newsom’s speech yesterday saying he is going to gerrymander California so that republicans will have no seats in the state. He also urged other Democrat states to gerrymander seats away from republicans. The democrats have been doing this decade after decade. The key for republicans is to begin to play smash mouth football harder than the democrats! Because the republicans have not played this game in the same way they actually have much more to gain!
In California Trump got 45% of the vote, Newsom is promising 0 republican representatives. We know how heavily Californians are taxed. The average income rate is around 10%, and sales tax is 7.25 or higher. What this comes down to is taxation without representation, one of the same issues that started the American Revolution. If the founding fathers were here they would say this is a usurpation of our fundamental rights and our money. Think of how money is spent in blue state. The workers are stripped of their money and it’s given many times to people that don’t work or people that aren’t even citizens. The people rowing the boat are being whipped to go faster while the democrats drink champagne with steaks smothered with lobsters. With zero representation why bother voting?
Eventually I believe this will end up in the Supreme Court and I don’t think Newsom’s plan to eliminate all Republican representation will fly. If things were done on an even playing field the Republicans would have upwards of 250 seats in congress. The problem with the Democrats they are being run by extreme leftist communists. They are truly becoming obsolete. Look at DC. Things got so bad there people wouldn’t report crime. 70 percent of murders and violent crime goes unsolved. Residence there are already seeing a difference, and praising what’s happening.
Have a niece weekend.
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I'm from California, it's sooooo much worse than people know!
God save us all if Newscum wins a presidency. We couldn't afford to retire there, we moved to Tennessee so we could afford to retire, it was a painful move I was a native, a rare find.
Just wondering Trump isn't playing rope-a-dope w/ Newsom and the blue states, to get a federal law that draws lines in all states without regard for how it affects party outcomes. The more they howl, the greater the need to correct the problem. Howl away, Gavin.
We Californians hate that effeminate creep in Sacramento!
I had to look up the term effeminate creep! I never heard that one before, but I do get it. Boys are taught to dislike being masculine. They say testosterone is becoming a rare hormone in men which may explain why there’s so many effeminate creeps.
Yes, just the hand gestures alone (as my wife reminded me)— like his distant relationship, Nancy Pelosi—alerts one to an effeminate creep. Perhaps as a young boy he related to Nancy and girls around him more than to the men and masculine boys. In any event, he’s not suited to deal with the likes of men like Putin and Xi. One would seeing him crying and grasping for “Mommy” if someone managed to cut his ear with a bullet—never standing tall and defiant yelling “fight, fight, fight!” Margaret Thatcher had that vein of courage like Trump.
Thing is, how would Grusome accomplish this. Those areas that have retained Republican representation in California (and other Marxist states) through redistricting and endless "recounts" (we see you CA, WA…) are geographically distinct, separate, distant from heavy Marxist districts. Districts have to be contiguous, hence the salamander aspect of gerrymandering. Also CA has constitutional restrictions on redistricting.
Ideally, the response to this is to redistrict out, or minimize, any democrat heavy areas in American states; AND for sane people to leave Marxist states for American states, taking their taxes, businesses whenever possible. Let the Marxist wallow in the blue shit they’ll be left with. My only concern is that I’m downwind of western Washington and northern Idaho and so far as I know nothing, not even a ripe feedlot, smells as bad as swamps of blue shit.
Very well said SR Miller! Beautiful!
The only way: Tough on crime! Those who are against this...are criminals. Governor "Nuisance's" agenda in California was one of the worst with its Catch and Release Crime Enhancement Program. Criminals, other than its leaders took over. .
About California, I have a true story for you James. I lived there for 22 years, in an old apartment downtown in what was known as Koreatown but was loaded with Mexican illegals. The building behind me had street parties random Saturday nights (because if it was regular the police could shut it down so they gamed the system) that started around 6 pm and went till the wee hours of Sunday morning. Boom boxes that pounded out the worst trash music known to man that shook the building and heated your bones from the vibration. I generally started calling the police around 10:30 because the law says you can torture your neighbors up till 10 pm only. The police always ALWAYS ignored me. They simply don’t bother with noise crime …. Until one night I lost my temper. I called and said (politely) that if they didn’t come stop this noise I would get in my car, drive around to the neighbors, drive into the backyard and run over the sound system. AND if I hit women and children, I didn’t care. The horrified officer said, “Don’t even say that!” To which I responded with considerable heat, “YOU’VE GOT FIVE MINUTES.” And then I slammed down the phone and went to bed and smiled as about five sirens wailed into that street. When the police knocked at my door the next day, the community officer said he wasn’t supposed to ask anyone for their immigration status but he did mention to the perpetrators that ICE might come calling. They were gone the next day. Moved about 20 blocks away. I moved too. To Kentucky where I have never looked back. Anyone who thinks actual citizens want California insanity simply don’t understand California politics.
Barbara Lee it’s incredible that we know how true justice works. Lady Justice wears a blindfold to represent impartiality, the ideal that Justice should be applied without regard to wealth, power and status. The Marxist left has pushed us far away from our founding principles of justice. How can we expect peace and “Quiet” when police won’t do their job! God forbid you take matters into your own hands, you’ll find justice used against you quickly.
That was 30 years ago and I never intended to do it. Just to move my local police off their butts.
I know, I’m kind of surprised it worked!!
The problem boils down to who’s counting the votes in CA, and all the big cities run by Democrats. In CA every state, county and big city is run by Democrats. Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia, DC, NYC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland….
81 million votes for Brandon demonstrates the audacity of their criminal achievements as they use the end justifies the means philosophy. Votes should be counted at least twice once by each candidates party and recounted is discrepancies are over a small margin.
Politicians and the Media are so busy playing politics and the Gotcha Game....they never talk about the guts of any issue. This issue is no different. They are truly worthless.
Some stupid flak on MSNBC actually said this fight was started by Trump [somehow excusing Newsome of his gerrymandering sins]. What children they are. The California GOP Rep she was "interviewing" had a lame response directed only at the point he wanted to make....which was bashing Newsome. Another 5 minutes of my life wasted!
The issue - Texas started re-districting because the DOJ and Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon said the 5 CDs in question used race to draw the lines. A violation of The Voting Rights Act. The are doing this because they violated the law.
Background - Gerrymandering has been going on since the man who it is named after did it....100 years ago?? I don't know.....don't care. Because basically, whoever is in power can draw the lines....and only a court can stop them....if they care too. This needs reforming....maybe AI can help?? That is why Trump is taking this on....the GOP is in power, so he will redraw lines where he can.
It's time the Republicans start playing and beating the Democrats at their own game! I can't believe the Republicans have tolerated the Democrats games for as long as they have, it's about time they stand up for themselves
215. Elbridge Gerry, governor of Massachussets.
Derangement runs supreme! God help us!
In Massachusetts I have little or no representation as a Republican! Can’t move so….! Where do you vote James?
Bought Maytag washer and dryer just after buying my first house in '95. Still got'em. No touch screens, wi-fi connections, eco modes. They just work.
1998 Sears Kenmore. still going. Replaced the belt on the dryer myself.
Oh dear. I'm experiencing sincere envy. Nursing my older appliances as long as possible.
That's what I have too, but the motor on the dryer has died.
It’s easy to replace it. I encourage you to do it because the new stuff is junk.
Never had a pet in childhood until a one eyed chicken wandered into the yard and I built a coop for the chicken. Then one day we had a chicken dinner! Chickens eat insects and they enjoy the sun and deliver Vitamin D rich eggs if they are farm yard raised. Today, over 95% of the chickens are raised in tin barns without sun light. They can add lights that stimulate Vitamin D production, but they don't. We can do it in our schools too to help our kids learn faster! The magazine cover of Scientific America on Sunshine has been ignored by the medicine man. Fear of sun burns prevail.
Common sense should prevail, but lathering everyone up with sunscreen is the norm. The chemicals in the sunscreen have not all been tested for safety.
They were just out of frame, but Mr. Cig was accompanied by Mr. Flammable Bedsheets and Mr. Oxygen Tank. Hospitals; they knew best in 1948, and still do.
And they made good refrigerators back then. I currently have a 1948 GE fridge in my basement. It’s where the grandkids grab a soda. I paid six bucks for it at an auction, slid it down the basement stairs on its side and it has hummed away for the last 15 years. Meanwhile, our garage fridge consistently freezes up and we have to empty it and thaw it out. I’m so weary of sub-par appliances.
1998 Sears Kenmore still going (moved to garage) Newer ones failed. finally we just only used that one. Good exercise going downstairs, less eating too.
Bought a SubZero in 16 flawless but costs two arms and a leg, with currency debasement it now costs four arms and two legs. Have my moms old refer in the garage has to be at least 30 years old going strong.
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It has to be a difficult decision for President Trump to reclassify pot from a schedule 1 drug to a schedule 3 drug. Trumps older brother Fred had struggled with alcoholism and died at 41. Though he died of a heart attack the family has said they believe alcohol played a role. The death of Trumps older brother has strongly influenced him to always be against all types of substance abuse and addictions, as it has myself.
With some mixed feelings I hope he keeps pot as a schedule 1 drug. Since this push to legalize pot, remembering Soros has sunk millions into pot being legalized, it’s been a very slippery slope which began with “we just want to have medical use for the sick or PTSD veterans”, which I do understand. Today 33% of the young between 18 and 30 are recreationally smoking pot regularly. In Massachusetts there are over 500 pot stores now, there everywhere. They have walk-ins, drive throughs, now even delivery service. Just recently Steven Tompkins extreme liberal Sheriff of Suffolk County (Boston!) was indicted on charges of extorting 50,000 dollars from a cannabis company that needed his office’s support for licensing and access to a program that refers former inmates to work at the dispensary. Tompkins is also alleged to have pressured a company executive to sell him stock in the company before its initial public offering, and later demanded a refund when the stocks value declined, welcome to Massachusetts!! Couldn’t have happened to a more honest officer of the law!
If they do lower pots classification the number of people smoking pot is sure to rise with many more states legalizing pot.
I often wonder when is enough enough? We give this government so much power over our lives. You may say people should have the freedom to do what they want, and I agree, but the government assisting and making money on the poisoning of society just seems wrong to me. Corporate imprudent greed and near sightedness seems to be the road we constantly insist on going down without thinking about what is wrong and what is tight. I’m all into capitalism, I own a business, but harming kids is not good business and certainly not good for society. This makes me think of the famous Vladimir Lenin quote “the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them”.
Trump is certainly a capitalist but I hope and think on this one he’s going to pass on lowering the classification to a schedule 3 drug but on this one we will wait and see! J.Goodrich
This is a major problem:
"Today, the average THC level for cannabis flower has risen dramatically. Typical dispensary cannabis often ranges from 15% to 25% THC, with some strains topping 30% or even higher. This represents a five- to tenfold increase in potency compared to the cannabis commonly available in the 1980s. Cannabis concentrates and extracts can contain even more THC, with products reaching up to 90% THC"
So many issues with marijuana.
How it's Grown. What else is IN it. How it enters the body.
Dr. Chris Exley's book, "Imagine You Are An Aluminum Atom", page 43, ".. in related research we also have showed that street cannabis is ALUMINUM-rich, as is, pure THC.." He goes on to write, for this reason, he doesn't believe it should be used for disease therapy, like MS. If grown in the absence of alum, hydroponically, could be used. Dr. E also states, same page, "Recreational drugs, legal or otherwise, are significant contributors to to the body's burden of aluminum." Hope he doesn't mind me quoting his book here.
nothing wrong with quoting as long as you give attribution, which you quite adroitly have done.
The Lt. Gov. of Texas in the pocket of alcohol lobby wants all TCH containing products banned (as does the senate). However there is some evidence that synergy occurs in CBD oil with 0.3% TCH in controlling inflammation. I use it with good results and sweating out what looks like an upcoming ban
Maybe the Feds can take control of the % if they change the classifications.
Don't see how they'd control it. They test your product if hoping to officially sell it, but it's easy for folks to grow potent marijuana in their own yard. So, it will be sold to the most vulnerable (kids), most of the time, Not in licensed stores.
*Steve Robinson, a very Brave Journalist in Maine - his New documentary - on Maine's Marijuana problem. It's a SCARY film to watch.
"High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia Takeover of Rural America"
I sure hope President Trump watches this video, before deciding on this issue.
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/06/watch-now-high-crimes-the-chinese-mafias-takeover-of-rural-america/.
Thanks for sharing!
I listened to a video describing how the dark side is using Glyphosate, fluoride, aluminum and 5G Wi-Fi which opens up our blood brain barrier so that the toxins get into our brain and destroy our pineal gland/our memory! China protect its pregnant women from Wi-Fi radiation. Our politicians are not doing anything to protect us from all these poisons over all these years until Kennedy arrived. They said China is just watching America commit suicide.
Hope you get to watch the video about China's Marijuana Grow Mafia in Maine. AND it's not only Maine, where this is a problem. Oklahoma is another "legal" state -where this has happened. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/federal-jury-convicts-chinese-nationals-drug-conspiracy-illegally-trafficking-black link - Jan 19, 2024 "Federal Jury Convicts Chinese Nationals of Drug Conspiracy for Illegally Trafficking Black-Market Marijuana from Oklahoma Grow Operation".
Far safer to use HEMP instead. CBD good for pain and sleep. without the risks of THC.
How High can we go, metophorically speaking of cause!
Back in the 60’s/70’s you had to smoke half a joint to get a buzz today it’s one or two hits. The real problem is not government control but education. Cigarette smoking has been reduced by increasing sin taxes and education to great effect. Putting people in a cage for getting high is cruel. Pot is not good for you, but alcohol is much worse. In my life I’ve been so drunk I passed out, threw up in the gutter, and could not remember a thing about the entire evening. The difference between the two is day and night. Not suggesting anyone should use either one but we don’t put people in a cage for just getting drunk and we shouldn’t do it for pot either. We should educate on the dangers and tax both of them like cigarettes.
I agree James. The beautiful state of Colorado in which I lived for many years is now covered in a haze of pot smoke! You can’t even enjoy a park because of the smell and degenerates begging for money to buy their pot. Oh America! What is happening to us? Please, DJT. Do NOT make it easier for folks to do “drugs”!
Same thing happening in America as happened in great Britain. It is now toast.
I smoked my share of pot as a teenager (1968 on) until I was 25, when I hung up the phone on all that. Today's pot is so much stronger. It is sometimes laced with fun drugs like Fentanyl. ( whats not to like? <sarc>) Driving high on weed is no better than driving while drinking. So while, I empathize with the judicial mistreatment of people for use that happened in the 60's and 70's rescheduling pot is a complex issue. I have a friend who spent time in prison for simple possession in the early 1970s.. He became a Felon and can not vote. He was told he can have that felony expunged years ago. because he never even has had a speeding ticket to date, but refuses to because he is so pissed about the injustice to him in his youth that he refuses to have anything to do with the government to this day (he is now 78. He is a successful farmer and wont even sign up for programs for farmers.
Do we end up with another generation of people like my friend if it stays schedule 1? Do we end up with another generation oft people injured in car crashes, mental problems, and health problems if we move it to schedule 3.
Where does CBD gummies fit into the conversation?
I feel conflicted and a bit guilty even talking about this, when I had my fun in my young years with pot.
S.R.; Driving on weed is very different from drinking too much! Ram Dass got stopped for going too slow, you won't find that problem with the aggressiveness felt from alcohol. Don't buy pot from street dealers, just like not buying Anything from the street. CBD is incredibly useful.
Yes I remember that story about Ram Das (Richard Alpert). Also the Cheech and Chong movie Up In Smoke where they were stopped for driving about 10 miles an hour if they were moving at all.
I do have experience driving a bit high back in my late teens. Decided not a good idea. I also was in a rear end collision where the driver was drunk (I was a passenger in the car, though I was sober). He did not even slow down. The speed limit was 25 on that street and no one was hurt. = God protects drunks and fools sometimes.
I witnessed a collision right on my intersection while walking my dog, where a guy drove through a stop sign and t-bone a car with a mom and a kid in it. Luckily no one was seriously hurt. Laying on the road was a brass hash pipe. My dog saw that and went to check it out. That got the cops attention.
Life is about learning and making decisions. Decisions have consequences, good and bad. I've done plenty of both.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t advocate driving on anything mind altering, esp. alcohol.
I know.
When I finished writing this comment, I heard an ad on Bannon's Warroom for Harrelson's Own CBD. This CBD stuff has become pretty mainstream.
AND many potheads ALSO drink simultaneously.
Your friend, maybe he's a victim of paranoia, I know a few, and many former smokers admit to it.
Long dead now, He was both an alcoholic and a pot head. He was a really good drummer, though.
Inhaling vs drinking. We need clarity on the differences. If metals(such as aluminum in the actual marijuana, and in the pipes it's often smoked in) are being inhaled, I believe, this enters the body in much more dangerous ways (vs drinking alcohol) as the lungs provide such a huge surface area, i.e., entry point.
I stand with Wyoming - they've successfully fought legalizing it, as they see how it's Changed their border state, Colorado, for the Worse, not Better.
Heres a breakdown of some of the carcinogens in weed smoke. When smoking marijuana, a variety of chemicals are inhaled into the lungs, including THC (the psychoactive component), as well as other compounds like tar, carbon monoxide, and various carcinogens. These include acetaldehyde, ammonia, arsenic, benzene, cadmium, chromium, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, isoprene, lead, mercury, nickel, and quinoline. Some of these chemicals are known toxins and carcinogens, and marijuana smoke contains similar harmful compounds to tobacco smoke.
Education to the dangers and consequences is the key IMHO. Stop selling alcohol in every grocery store, restaurant and sports venue. Maybe combine alcohol and pot stores in the same location and require certification of understanding the risks for both prior to purchase. Expecting the government to handle all life’s problems gets you a government that controls everything you do.
Show me someone who smokes "a pack a day" of pot. Gummies don't get smoked. There is also organic, (third party tested) CBD oil with 2.5mg THC. No smoking needed and tested up the wazoo.
So, would a reasonable solution be just to regulate CBD oil @ 2.5 mgTHC across the board and make the rest illegal? Keep it simple, save the confusion.
It's too late for that, there is no way to keep everyone "safe" except for re-wiring the mind and psyche. That is not what we're here to learn.
Show me the stats of it being more dangerous to the body than alcohol? This is a fear based and misinformed attitude, prohibition didn't work so well either. Cannabis use has been documented from 2800 BC. Aluminum in cans holding THC drinks, yes.
You know me DD people close to me have drinking problems and they get belligerent when drunk, it’s abusive. I’ve never seen that with someone smoking pot, maybe making poor decisions.
How did I let myself get into this debate...This reminds me of the scary commercials from the fifties. Too much fear and not enough balance and study for this. More regulation is seldom the key, it's just that most people don't regulate themselves!
Dunning–Kruger strikes again...
James, As far as I know, cannabis isn't addictive and can be successfully used for some serious medical conditions. Keeping kids from pot is like keeping them from booze and as far as I'm concerned alcohol is more lethal on all levels. The potency is stronger in some cases, and yet who last died from a THC overdose compared to the rates of other schedule 1 drugs?
Well people do become dependent upon it, in the inclined it can precipitate schizophrenia, it is lipid soluble (stays in brain, has a longer half life than alcohol, impairs driving ( increased # of MVAs, injuries and deaths) also increased industrial accidents. Not a benign drug & no longer your older brother’s MJ— >> levels of THC. When legalized no state has it had a positive impact on state budget (increased revenue from taxing <<incurred costs.
Roger, I just read something completely different about tax revenue. It transfers money from you to the government, getting people off the black market. Illinois= 1.98 billion. This is obviously a very complicated area. Cannabis use has been documented from 2800 BC. Dependency happens in all facets of life...
What you just read is at odds with the usual experience: boosters sell legalization and taxation to legislators who dream of easy money from the taxes. The black market sellers respond by cutting their prices (& likely do this by exploiting illegal immigrant slave labor. Not familiar with the article or study you refer to. I am going to bet that it is an outlier.
And transferring more money to the government is a good thing how? (Not that I am a consumer of these products).
I didn’t say it was a good thing. Please don’t put words in my mouth.
Sorry to misinterpret what you said; I also don’t think that it is a good thing for money in dealers or cartels hands; it is what it is.
Some of these issues are why I have mixed feelings. I don’t think the recreational smoking is good for people’s health. There are all kinds of SS of carcinogens in the smoke and people deeply inhale it. But I understand your feelings!
When my mom was dying of lung cancer (not from smoking pot, altho she did try it) I was opening a new salon, buying a house and full-time caregiver for her. My system loses all appetite when I am stressed and I called my son for some pot, for I needed to eat. It worked so I could keep on and not get sick myself!
great story DD!
There was a repost by an ER MD in WVA this morning reporting on the increased problems they are having because of the increased potency. Opening the door doesn't sound wise to me.
This is like anything else where use is up to the individual... Food, cigs., driving etc. Alcohol is still legal and one of the easiest to abuse. I forgot gambling...
The catch is the impact of food, cigs, alcohol are generally known. Evidently, and as observed by the ER Doc, the weed and when combined with amphetamines not so much.
The earliest documented use of cannabis was 2800 BC and there is evidence of earlier use 8800-6500 BCE. Certainly long enough to know some of the beneficial uses. Anything combined with amphetamines will be detrimental and doctors have prescribed amphetamines for many, many years. Not so good, but what do we expect???
and donuts.
Mmmmmm Donuts
I’m going out on a limb here but regulating self inflicted injuries doesn’t work. Survival of the smartest, fittest and most moral works. I see all the Amish kids I live near are immune to this kind of behavior. Nothing would persuade the ones I know to ingest anything dangerous or do anything immoral (like stealing or shooting someone- and they all own guns they use for hunting). What’s the difference? Character, family, community! We aren’t going to regulate our way to a safe society. It will happen when every individual within that society has a reason to NOT be self-destructive. However, being truthful and transparent about harmful substances is essential. Recreational cannabis isn’t a good thing but medical cannabis is hugely helpful. Same goes for fentanyl. And then at some point, we have to tell people, you harm yourself screwing around, that’s on you. Nobody is going to be able to save you from yourself.
Try living in MN. Towns of certain size have no rights to refuse a shop selling pot. Some are figuring a temp way to get out of it. And the fraud here will escalate even more.
More than the continuous fraud of our very famous Gov. Walz funded projects and other tasty ways to bilk the public? How will fraud in smoke shops affect you? There are other larger fish to fry...
I figure Lucy is pointing out the ability for the state of MN to force the selling of Pot into local communities where locals do not desire their kids having access. In other words, pot-forcing without representation.
Here in Big Lake, that is exactly what is happening.
Extrapolating out 10 years our already failing school system will be assisted by 12 yr olds getting pot from 18 yr olds, just like I got older guys to buy me beer when I was growing up; but I was 16. It will be really easy to move this stuff, easily concealed and small, down into the lower grades.
Back in the 60's the older guys did not bring six packs to school and hand them out. . .
Education and actually talking to our kids will do wonders. The "older guys" were just around the corner ready to party. Our already failing school system will either wake up or we will continue to falter, no amount of restriction of pot will change that. My mom went to the still in the woods, drank too much and took prescription "medication" (speed) her sister got pregnant by my dad and that wasn't unusual in the scheme of things. Life is full of choices. Be Real. (I didn't mean to be snarky) I mean we all need to know what it means to be Real.
As someone has wryly but correctly noted: when Leftists speak of carbon reduction, never forget that you are the carbon they want to reduce.
The cigarette was my favorite one. Great examples of how 'science' changes since it is always a moving target.
But wait, Dr. Fauci taught us that consensus is the best science. Please do your homework...
There are not to my knowledge other drugs that so efficiently treat body and headache, fever, prevent and assuage heart attacks and possibly prevent some forms of cancer as aspirin. More discoveries still possible. And it is quite inexpensive (except when pharma improves, i.e.,makes them cost more). Yet a friend, a physician, once told me of his disappointment with colleagues who would not rx aspirin because it was UNSCIENTIFIC to give patients a drug not knowing its mode of action. Refusing a patient efficacious treatment because of ignorance is not being scientific, it is bad medical practice. And goes to my maintaining that practicing physicians should not consider themselves scientists. Those who do have caused more harm than all snake oil salesmen combined. Fauci serves as a single example proving that statement. He is a mere dilettante.
Nothing mere about him. It is like calling him a mere mass murderer. Oh, wait . . .
That too
Dr Nash, try DMSO for pain. Way better than aspirin and safer. Just don’t bother asking a physician about it. They don’t know anything unless it’s a pharmaceutical product that makes money.
Just may come down to that. Guess who will not get my vote in the primary?
Oh yes, I forgot that Fauci is the science. Thank you for the reminder.
I enjoyed this weeks Friday funnies more than normal because I can’t be sure why, but a great many of them made me smile. We have seven chicken hens that give us more eggs than the two of us can eat so our neighbors benefit. But I shutter to be reminded that they’re turning ticks into eggs! Thank you and I hope everybody has a blessed weekend!
Yeah, just don't think about that . . . ha!
But, the very true part is the slow attrition of chickens by coyotes, raccoons, and weasels.
3 weeks ago one cat and one hen were . . . "eaten". . . and not buy me!
"Never confuse education with intelligence." Wouldn't this be better stated as "Never confuse education with knowledge and wisdom." There are many intelligent but stupid people that our universities are churning out these days even after receiving an "education".
And Common Sense! I know a white Liberal lady who proudly (and constantly) mentions her 5 degrees! Yet this woman has absolutely NO Common Sense! Literally cannot screw in a light bulb. Sigh!
I always ask what the degrees are in as that can often help provide additional guidance on the merits of the claimed education.
Yes. A degree in Underwater Basketweaving does say a lot, doesn’t it!
BTW have you heard about the alien space ship heading towards earth? It’s supposed to be here by Halloween!
If they’re smart they’ll come to Massachusetts, 70 plus thousand a year and free everything!
Tulsi Gabbard was asked about the ship, she said she has no comment.
that's because the beautiful representative from Florida has become the new expert on "interdimensional beings"!
Luna
look forward to Friday every week to read your News. However the exercise class at 10:30….. not so much.
The jogging outfits of the women cops in Britain miss the mark as much as their country's food. Sorry, but it's true.)
Jung had some intriguing thoughts about why it took man so long to achieve a high level of technological competence. He proposed that man’s earliest vocabularies were image derived (archaic) and this somehow constrained objective thought processing. He pointed out the Middle Ages had no lack of skilled artisanship nor understanding of basic physics yet they did not begin to evolve a greater degree of technology until they began thinking with new words derived through objective expansion of their lexicon and he credited philosophers like St. Thomas and William of Ockham for externalizing our mental activity. We evolved technology as our word driven thinking expanded. It was only when emphasis shifted to words free from their visual etiology that we broke free of archaic thinking.
I wonder if Jung considered that archaic paleo vocabularies contain so many words due to lack of modifiers that perhaps they literally overload the brain's ability to operate more objectively. Which brings me to the socialist mindset. Their philosophy tells us that they are driven by principles dictated by a mainly subjective vocabulary. Now that they are loading all those woke words and phrases into their tiny little brains that are already abused by marxist ideology do they become victims of subjective overload to the extent they are rendered incapable of rational behavior?
But Thomas was revisiting Aristotelian thought from 2000 years prior, fashioned in a Christian context. That’s a big gap for Jung to ignore. However, the printing press...
You had the " dark ages" and then the west, particularly the church, was hung up on Plato. Thomas reintroduced logic at a critical time in the evolution of critical thought
Transcribing by hand, be it Aristotle or anyone else, did tend to slow things down a bit. And the heavy hand of the Catholic Church did not brook opposing views. Yet words in the abstract were still with us; reminds me of a book lent to me by my late friend, Dr. Hines, “How the Irish Saved Civilization.” I ordered a book yesterday on the letters of Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake for his trouble of offending those in power in the Catholic Church.
But to your point, “(Socialist) philosophy tells us that they are driven by principles dictated by a mainly subjective vocabulary.” Like striving for utopia, a utopia they reserve the right to define and constantly revise, as conditions warrant? Then yes, perhaps you are on to something here. The lunatics are running the asylum, formerly known as the UK, with the same mental deficiencies as DC Democrats. Must be contagious.
"Utopia" - ancient Greek word meaning NO PLACE.
Easy to get lost in linguistics, but it sure is logical that technical competence is facilitated by words. I know very little about, but have always been fascinated by the Chinese language; consisting of so many single syllable words that can have multiple meanings. Those meanings are usually defined with inflection. It would seem impossible to communicate with them without living among them. Then there is Japanese which takes syllables to the other extreme.
A little more basic than that. See Haidt’s The Righteous Mind.
SCHOOL DESK - that type was still in use when I was in primary school thru mid 1980s
I was in school from 1954 to 1966. We didn’t have those desks. We had the flip top ones that slanted. You could store your books, pencils and lunch in and smash your finger under the top when it dropped too.
thanks for clarify. Looked again, that picture was the "Front Loader" type.
went to private school. we had both types.
LOL remember finger and even head smashes.
I wasn’t able to watch the video about the Democratic Party at first. Finally got it to play. It nailed it. They have lied so much about themselves that most don’t know the real story. Thanks for telling it in a humorous but truthful way. I loved it. 👏👏👏