Watching a bit of RFK get grilled – you’d have some sympathy for the hostile questions except for you know the Democrats are just lying, ignorant hacks who have been provided their questions by the Swamp. Kennedy isn’t perfect, but (as we used to say of old-timey Liberals) his heart is in the right place: he’s skeptical of the amount of medication we’re given these days. And everyone should be.
Look, I don’t like pain or cold symptoms or feeling sad just like everyone else – but I also know (because I took high school biology) that the human body is built to fight this stuff off. Our biology – created by Nature or God, depending on one’s point of view – desires our health because healthy human bodies means the continuation of the human species. Medicine is supposed to just back up this natural course of events…not take over our lives. Some people are taking huge numbers of pills to try to regulate every aspect of their physical and psychological well-being. That isn’t good.
I’m 60. I’ve got a bum knee. It hurts all the time – sometimes very badly sometimes less badly, but all the time. My eyesight is getting poorer (I have to wear glasses to be able to see the TV from my chair; my close up vision is still pretty good but even there the eye doc is saying I’m close to needing reading glasses, especially at night). I get those odd aches and pains that you can’t determine their source. I’m getting old. But even so, my body still tries to repair itself. And, to be fair, I am in pretty darned good health for a 60 year old who has smoked since 13 (I can do laps underwater in my pool, for instance). I do at least 20 pushups every morning! I’m sure if I bothered going to doctors on the regular, they’d find stuff to medicate…I’d reject it out of hand. I don’t want to go the route I’ve seen other oldsters go where its just one more pill after another and, of course, you can’t cure getting old and dying.
I recall my Uncle Mike – he was afflicted with something genetically common in my family: a bum heart valve (my grandfather had it, my dad had it, Uncle Mike as noted, my cousin has it – there is a high chance that I’ll have it at some point). The fix for this is to replace the heart valve – my dad did that and regretted it. Sure, it got him to 82 but he had to take pills and pills and pills and the blood thinners meant that if he sneezed too hard he’d bruise and it was all just a hassle. Uncle Mike got the diagnoses, considered what dad had gone through and decided to give it a miss…when the doc said it was “any day now” on his death, he went around visiting friends and family to say goodbye and then went home to die in his bed (the thing about it is that until that valve actually fails, you’re fine – if it fails and you don’t get rushed to the hospital for the valve replacement, you die). We can’t fight the inevitable. I think that is what RFK is really saying on medicine – and on food, all he’s saying is that perhaps we should have more fresh, natural food in our diet…this does kinda make some sense.
Pam Bondi got out of the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote. Do note that when it is crunch time, Democrats never break ranks…they never make the grand gesture to the other side. This is what is really so infuriating about the Murkowskis of the GOP. There is no need for them to vote against our side – it is never reciprocated. All they’re doing is throwing a bone to the Democrats and giving them the “bi-partisan opposition” talking point.
Trump continues to sign his Executive Orders – set to sign one banning Critical Race Theory from federally-funded schools. Aside from torpedoing the hideous, anti-human ideology behind CRT, the real news here is that, finally, we’re using the strings. Keep in mind that most of the federal government’s power to influence State and local affairs comes from the strings attached to federal money. If you don’t do what Uncle Sam says, you don’t get the money. You don’t have to do it! Most of this stuff can be legally ignored by the States and localities…but they won’t get the money if the do that. For the first time, we’re attaching our strings. Democrats have gleefully attached their strings ever since the Welfare State was truly born in the 1960s…the GOP never has because, well, that wouldn’t be nice. Democrats would object! Now they can object al they want – we don’t care. Better, of course, just to dispense with all this drivel…but if we can’t then the crucial thing is to move the money from the Left’s priorities to ours.
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I got in an interesting discussion with one of the few liberal members of my church last Sunday about climate change. It started out as a routine discussion about the colder than normal winter we’re having, and I mentioned that I had had my woodstove going 24/7 since Thanksgiving except for a warm spell between Christmas and New Year’s, and had put the last of my firewood in my wood stove before leaving for church. I said the same amount of wood lasted till mid-March last year because it was a much milder winter. He was offended that I would do something so environmentally unfriendly as burning wood to heat my house. I told him it just augments my furnace, which is a very environmentally friendly geo-thermal, and that I like the radiant warmth that a wood stove provides. Plus, I live in the woods and just the wood from the trees downed by a storm two years ago will last me for the rest of my life.
Anyway, long story short, I said that without the wood stove, it costs twice as much to heat my house to 68 degrees in the winter as it does to cool it to 75 degrees in the summer. He accused me of lying, and to be honest, I just pulled the number out of thin air. Anyway, I’ll know by February 25th if what I told him is true because it’ll be the first 30 day period in the winter that will be 100% furnace in quite a few years. Based on my electric usage since last Sunday, the twice as much figure is going to be pretty accurate. Bottom line, warmer is better than colder.
Also LOL at your little fire making any difference.
Yeah, I though that was kind of humorous, but that’s the way liberal minds work. I burn nothing by hardwoods (mostly Oak and Hickory), around 10% moisture content, and I burn it pretty hot. Most of the time you can’t even see smoke coming from my chimney.
As our Amazona points out: they don’t think. They emote. China is building coal-fired plants by the dozen but we’ve got shut down farms in the Netherlands to stop climate change!
And there is more of that smug assumption of moral superiority from your church member, assigning virtue (or lack of virtue) to something as basic as burning wood to keep your house warm.
Yeah, I attribute comments like his to a combination of ignorance and virtue signaling, but you know, if we ended up in an Orwellian society, this is the kind of person who would turn his neighbor in to the state for (fill in the blank – anything that Liberals don’t like).
Except for the impression we are not yet in an Orwellian society, I agree. The recent election kept us from going over that last cliff into total Orwellianism, but remember, we already had weaponized federal agencies persecuting political opponents under color of law.
I was thinking of having a bumper sticker made saying Make Orwell Fiction Again but now I don’t think I need it
You might print this and give it to your sanctimonious virtue signaling church member.
This part, in particular, made me think of you:
“The satisfaction involved with heating your home through wood from your own property, gathered with your own hands, is difficult to describe. You feel a certain synchronization of your body with the tree, the land on which it grew, and the flame it feeds. There’s a completeness to the process seen from start to finish that can be hard to find elsewhere.”
HHS needs creative destruction. The way it is now just doesn’t work.
Yep – it just the way it is even when we’re not dealing with overt evil/corruption. The Royal Navy secured itself global supremacy in 1805 as Trafalgar. For the next century in spite of massive technological change, it was still thinking in terms of laying their ships alongside that of the enemy. British Tars actually did cutlass drill until the late 19th century! So, you see?, they could swing over to the enemy ship and take her blade to blade! Nobody was thinking about how to use the armored, steam-driven new ships which had guns of massively more range than a century previously.
But a few Admirals did see where it was going and, eventually, Jackie Fisher rose to the top of the Royal Navy and simply forced change…forced the fleet to take into consideration greater range and striking power (and even then they never got to the massive range WWI naval battles would be fought at), take into consideration the destructive power of torpedoes. Start to embrace the newest thing, air power. He was fought tooth and nail all the way…called insane, destructive. He was ruining the Navy! But without Fisher, the Royal Navy would have been unprepared for the German High Seas Fleet which was better armored and was trained to fire rapidly, accurately and at great range…not to mention the German U-Boats. You’ve sometimes gotta rip everything to pieces…to conduct a revolution in order to conserve what you’ve got.
Google Divorcee Vows to Kick Senators Who Vote Against RFK Jr. Out of Office
Wow – this could be fun. She’s calling out RINO’s too.
Nicole Shanahan, the former running mate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., threatened Tuesday to fund primary challengers to U.S. senators who vote against Kennedy’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
“And more than that, I also want to say to Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), this is a bipartisan message, and it comes directly from me,” Shanahan said in her video posted on X.
https://headlineusa.com/nicole-shanahan-fund-senate-primaries-kennedy-rfk-jr/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP2000&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
Her mention of Bernie Sanders reminds me of his recent effort to appear strong and forceful in his questioning of Kennedy, but “Do you support this onesie?” has to be the biggest self-own of utter insanity I have seen.
And now we know what prompted Sanders’ desperate attempt to appear forceful in his opposition to Kennedy. Evidently it was not his concern that infants might be radicalized by the slogans on their onesies, but about having his gravy train derailed
Almost 2 million dollars in campaign contributions from Big Pharma seems to be pretty motivating.
Hopefully, with a successful vote for Kennedy to head the Dept. of Health, he’ll make significant changes where the influence of big pharma is fully rescinded and the independence of that department is restored, putting the interest of the people ahead of corporate profits.
Trump Signs Laken Riley Act as 1st Piece of Legislation, Vows to Restock Gitmo w/ Illegals
I can already see leftist heads exploding – again.
“Some of them are so bad that we don’t even trust the countries to hold them because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re gonna send ’em out to Guantanamo,” Trump said. He said that he’d direct federal officials to get facilities in Cuba ready to receive migrant criminals.
“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal aliens threatening the American people,” the president said.
https://headlineusa.com/trump-signs-laken-riley-act-gitmo/?utm_source=HUSA_EMAIL_NSP2000&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail
Love it! (hat-tip, Jeff Childers)
Trump is playing 5D chess, while his adversaries are standing around picking their noses.
And Democrats fighting each thing as it comes are shooting themselves in the foot. It just means we’re going to get court cases and legislation cementing Trump’s orders.
Ann Coulter wants back into the tent. Now all of a sudden Trump used to be FANTASTIC—till Jared Kushner stepped in. And now she loves him again.
“fantastic” twice in one paragraph! Wow, Ann really misses being in the Inner Circle. Trashing Trump didn’t get her there with the Dems, though they appreciated her efforts, but now she seems to hope she can rehabilitate herself in the new administration with plenty of gushing and flattery.
This is how every Dem hysteria freakout ought to be handled
The left doesn’t want to have the conversation because it might enlighten people to act independent and in their own best interest. They want TOTAL compliance to government mandates. They couldn’t care less about the detriments of those mandates if it generates submission with them in control.
Rejecting the premise is so crucial. Their worldview is build upon a scaffolding of lies…if you argue with them, you lose.
Talk about thinking outside the box.
Someone around here mentioned this some years ago. Oh, right: it was me!
Gotta wonder if someone on the Trump team read your 17-year-old post.
ROFL – a man can dream!
A lot of people are now jumping on Trump over his plane crash remarks – so insensitive! Welp, I got some words about that on X:
Those of you upset at Trump’s remarks re: the crash. I get it. I understand where you’re coming from. But, you’re wrong. (this will be a long post)
“Why can’t we just pray for the victims and support our first responders until the crisis is over?” seems like the wise and merciful thing, but its not. The crisis ended when the ‘copter hit the plane. Say your prayers for the repose of their souls, sure. I did. But now we’re left with the fact that 60+ people are *dead*.
They ain’t coming back. Their lives are over. Every plan they had, gone. All their loved ones, bereft. It was a routine landing and they were hit in mid-air by a military helicopter piloted by a person who, on paper, should have been able to easily avoid the collision.
Was it pilot error? Equipment failure. Traffic control screw up? Combination of all three?
It probably was. But here’s the thing: we pay a heck of a lot of people a heck of a lot of money to make sure everything is working so that easily avoided things are, well, easily avoided. Its one thing if a bolt of lightning strikes … its another when something that is supposed to work a certain way doesn’t work that way.
We’re supposed to be *angry* that this happened. Sad, sure. But also very much *angry*. And with that anger is supposed to come a burning determination to locate any errors – all up and down the line. Someone DID NOT DO THEIR JOB. Might be a whole bunch of someones, but there is definitely in this situation a person or persons who didn’t perform as expected. And people are dead because of it. Remember that: they’re DEAD. You’re not supposed to worry about hurt feelings right now.
Naturally the overall system here will try to blame the pilot, alone. Or the equipment, alone. Maybe toss in some air traffic controller, as well. But someone trained that pilot. Someone certified that pilot. Someone was in command of that pilot. Someone hired that air traffic controller. Someone trained that air traffic controller. Someone determined the work load of that air traffic controller. You see where I’m going here? We can’t let people off the hook. Someone – or lots of someones – seriously f*cked up and now people are dead. You let the system deflect you into tearful immobility and all you’re doing is keeping the system that just failed.
It should be that everyone still living who was involved from start to finish here is in desperate fear of losing their jobs and getting arrested. And they should live with that fear all the time…as an incentive to make sure they don’t screw up their part of the program. The jobs involved here all have lives at stake. This isn’t a kid at McDonald’s screwing up your order…someone in air travel is asleep at the switch and it can kill people.
So we should be pressing hard. Demanding answers. Right now. Not a month from now after everyone has had a chance to work up their story and perhaps obtain legal counsel. Right now, right this instant, everyone should be proving they have clean hands…that they did their job exactly right every time.
It’s impossible to believe that the morning after the near miss there was not a briefing about it and discussion about the problems of flying that route, the need to be extremely alert, etc. I would have expected the flight crew the next night, if the same one, to be super-paranoid and if a different one to be more aware than ever of the dangers. So one thing I want to know is if there was such a briefing after the near miss and attention paid to it and discussion about how to avoid this kind of thing.
If not, and/or if the flight crew that crashed was not told of the near miss the night before, then the Army has layer upon layer of negligence to answer for.
As for the refusal to name the female pilot, I get the family concern about tainting her reputation after she is gone. I understand that can be a sensitive subject. But the fact is, she was a soldier, not a fragile flower that has to be sheltered. The Agenda Media are full of “explanations” centered on the lie that Pete Hegseth has said woman should not be in the military, which is why there is so much concern about identifying the woman pilot, but he never said any such thing. In fact, while explaining why women should not be in the field in combat, he gave a very detailed and coherent statement about his opinion and why he feels this way, and specifically said he has served with women who were great, anyone meeting the criteria for any position should be accepted, etc. The effort to cloud the secrecy in lies, aside from just the Left being the Left, does lead to the speculation that the pilot might actually fit into a DEI category.
“I also want an opportunity to clarify comments that have been misconstrued that I somehow don’t support women in the military,” Hegseth said. “Some of our greatest warriors, our best warriors are women who served, raised their right hand to serve this country and love our nation and want to defend that flag and they do it every single day around the globe.” He just doesn’t think they belong in actual combat, and he cites reasons for this.
Mark, your comments on going to the source of a problem are even more relevant given the new news that the night before this plane crash, a nearly identical crash was narrowly averted when a plane was called off on its landing approach and had to abort the landing and go around, because a helicopter was in its flight path.
In other words, this was something that should have gotten so much alarmed attention that everyone would be on high alert. Yet the same situation was allowed to happen again, the next night, and the second time the results were lethal
Wow; hadn’t heard that. Shows that we’re living on luck.
I just keep realizing that DEI – and, earlier, Affirmative Action, which is pretty much the same thing – has led to an overall lowering of standards that started in the 1980s. Now maybe we understand why we’re having trouble sending a space ship into low Earth orbit. Its all up and down the line people who were never required to even build sufficient basic skills have been inserted into positions they never would have qualified for in the past.
And this all comes back to “disparate impact”, which was first ruled, I believe, around 1972 by the Supreme Court and essentially reaffirmed as recently as 2015…this is where a plaintiff doesn’t have to show discriminatory intent but just that there has been “disparate impact” against a protected class. This is where we get the idea that if the overall population is 12% black and only 8% of a company’s employees are black, that is “disparate impact” and actionable. This is nonsense on stilts but because of things like this – and their being aggressively pushed by the Left – we have people who simply don’t know what they’re doing in positions of crucial responsibility.
To me the issue starts with “protected class”. All other problems stem from that.
Constipation moment?
Got this from a good friend this morning.
Someone at the Toronto Star (assuming that’s really true) has a marvelous sense of humor.
ROFL!
This is the kind of ridicule we need to keep on coming. These elites think we revere them and aspire to be like them, and they need to see themselves through the lens of normality.