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How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People
Democrats decide herd mentality is more important than herd immunity.
Worth a repeat, given how few people saw it the first time..
@Tommy Duncan,
That was a terrific read. The island sounds charming...
Who knew Emily Post would hold the winning hand against an occupation?
My latest music video, Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out.
It's a 100 year old blues tune that I've been playing for 50 years.
Joe Rogan Experience #1474: Dr. Rhonda Patrick
I've just started to watch this and so far I'm about ten minutes in but I doubt I'll be disappointed.
I've seen her talk before and I just know it's going to be just one interesting idea after another.
She's doing speculation. But she is so good at coming up with hypotheses -- so for that matter is
Roger Seheult, although Seheult's videos are more concentrated and focused. Of course she has
been thinking about what is happening with the virus and although it's not her field still she's good
at this. And that's definitely not true of everyone.
It was posted today. It's three hours long. Here, from the comments, is an index of the topics
covered:
0:00 Rhonda's response to nerves and Immune systems
2:40 CMV virus
7:07 Coronavirus antibodies and cross immunity
9:19 Prison and covid 19
13:30 Llamas the potential key to coronavirus
16:41 Potential medications for covid 19 and adaptive immune response
20:30 Multiple strains of covid 19 and asian resistance to certain strains
24:40 Blood type and Covid 19
27:36 Ventilators and vitamin D deficiency
40:24 Toxicity of high levels of vitamin D
46:02 Vitamin D and clinical trials
51:04 How much vitamin D to take and its potential
55:04 Health and vitamin C
1:04:40 IVC vs oral vitamin C
1:15:07 Red light therapy and saunas
1:18:39 Saunas, physical activity, and whoop straps
1:23:24 Sciatica and exercise
1:32:26 Saunas studies and naked saunas
1:44:25 Toxins release and sauna benefits
1:48:01 Hot baths and fighting depression
1:52:41 Cryotherapy, saunas benefits and heat shock proteins
2:02:14 Confirmation bias on social media and A holes
2:07:00 Joe rants about social distancing policies
2:11:33 Covid 19, viral load and vitamin D exposure
2:21:26 Lockdown protocols and testing
2:23:00 Temperature, viral survival and saunas
2:33:45 Zylatol toothpaste
2:42:00 CBD and THC
2:46:50 Summary of podcast
2:47:18 Sleep, night terrors, benzos and light exposure
This sense of fatigue really tires me out.
A good article from Alan Dershowitz, with a great quote at the end:
There is a joke lawyers who practice in Federal Court like to tell. Angel Gabriel summons Sigmund Freud in heaven and tells him God is having delusions of grandeur. Freud asks how God can have delusions of grandeur: There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a federal judge."
There are hinge points on history
https://babalublog.com/2020/05/13/we-almdost-lost-pope-john-paul-ii-in-1981/#comments
@YoungHegelian,
Then there's the joke about when Bobby Knight, Rick Pitino and Dean Smith go to heaven. As they enter the kingdom hall, where God is seated on HIs throne, the Lord asks them to present themselves.
Rick Pitino steps up and tells of his storied career at the University of Kentucky, and then asserts that he should be seated at the right hand of God.
Dean Smith goes next and talks about his record at UNC and then tells God that he, Dean Smith, should be seated at the left hand of God.
Bobby Knight comes forward and likewise tells of his accomplishments at Indiana University. He then looks at God and says, "And you, sir, on in my seat."
Fwiw
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1261105313408856067
Mark,
I feel ya. I am occasionally getting downright grouchy. My downstairs neighbor was coming home from a walk while I was in our shared driveway, cleaning up some trash. Although the driveway is 8' wide, she would not come up the driveway until I was entering my house.
I was contemplating this--she has acted like this for the past 2 months--and the phrase came to mind: Fear is the Mind Killer.
We are told to treat everyone we see as infected. We were told that two weeks ago. And two weeks before that. Two weeks from now, we will be told to treat the same people as infected. Since no one is infected for months on end, we are essentially always viewing everyone else with suspicion.
The human mind is not meant to be hyper-vigilant for days and months on end. When we act fearful--and others respond to us with fear--our reptile brains learn that there is something of which to be afraid. This is how agoraphobia sinks its claws into someone, for example, a gradual ratcheting up of fear. We are creating a population conditioned to be afraid and suspicious of everyone around them. The conscious mind will not be able to overcome this.
This is insanity. Fear IS the mind killer. And it will be the society-killer, if we keep this up.
wonderful piece of history
Outwitting the Nazis
Its an unnatural state, some kind of malignant truman show.
We live in a small town, near a major metropolis, where i used to live miami is bonkers
I just listened to and read (in French) the Charlie Hebdo article linked at the Gatestone site that hosts the Dershowitz piece that YH highlighted. Happy to report that I got the jist of it immediately, and more and more words actually came back to me within just a couple of paragraphs of concentration. I was certain I'd killed the part of my brain that held the French I learned in high school, but apparently it's still kicking.
Might just click on a few more and see what happens.
PS - looks like France is in worse shape than I think most of us here realize. Color me completely unsurprised. COVID or not they were falling fast, faster than I had thought at least.
Bobby Knight comes forward and likewise tells of his accomplishments at Indiana University. He then looks at God and says, "And you, sir, [are] in my seat."
HA!
Head-to-head
Gene Keady vs Bob Knight
21-20.....................20-21
Bobby Knight had better press (not to mention hair).
Are you a NeverTrump "conservative"
...who wants to be a journalist?
A Handy Guide To Writing The NeverTrump Column
This guide has you covered
NeverTrump becomes NeverRepublican
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/13/nevertrump-becomes-neverrepublican/
@Meade,
Ha! Yourself.
How many NCAA titles does Gene have? Remind me again...it seems to have slipped my mind...
Nevermind. I went to Duke. Let's talk about Coach K....
Fabulous link Tommy Duncan.
Yay and Yay and Hooray and Hooray! Let the mindless rejoicing begin!
COMMENT MODERATION HAS BEEN TURNED OFF!!!!
Just finished watching last years Packers-Seattle playoff game. Great final drive by the Pack to run out the clock up by five. Two clutch third and long passes by Rodgers to Adams and Graham. I hope the NFL figures out how to put a season together in 2020.
Its like when they turned off the deflector shield,
To keep on keeping track, here's John Phelan on Minnesota:
"On April 8th, Gov. Walz extended his stay-at-home order (SHO) to May 4th. In doing so, he explained:
We can say with 95 percent confidence that we are going to need a minimum of 3,000 beds starting in the middle of May. And that could be 3,000 beds as far out as the middle of July, depending on what we do social distancing-wise, and it could go higher.
This forecast was based on Version 2 of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Model, produced by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Department of Health. This has driven state government policy relating to Covid-19.
As of yesterday, May 13th, the Department of Health says that there were 295 people hospitalized with Covid-19 and another 199 in Intensive Care Units, as Figure 1 shows. Since March 19th, just 647 Minnesotans in total have needed ICU care for Covid-19."
Model off by a factor of 15. Deaths way off too. Etc. etc. Massive error maliciously exploited to produce massive damage.
A-I-M: For crying out loud; shhhh!
"Bobby Knight had better press (not to mention hair)."
And was better at the chair toss event.
Well the truth might confuse
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/netflix-jeffrey-epstein-documentary-trailer-shows-donald-trump-but-not-bill-clinton/
There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a federal judge."
I heard the same joke, except it was about somebody watching a guy play golf and not being able to hit the green and he asks, "Who does that guy think he is, Jesus Christ?" (Actually it was Jesus.) And Jesus' partner says, "No, He thinks He's Jack Nicklaus."
Yeah, I heard it a long time ago.
Undisputed champion.
Last night i linked how procurator gleason is tied personally to weissman, professionally through his firm to sally yates and two chinese state affiliated enterprises.
God like, one could say.
@Meade and @Original Mike,
Wanh-wanhs whine and gripe. NCAA championships talk and BS walks. Ah. But we are in a completely different era; I don't find college ball any fun now. I loathe one-and-done. I also hate the shot clock. And I was AT the Duke-UNC game where the 4-corners offense led to a 7-0 score at the end of the first half. Eventually, good teams figured out how to handle the 4-corners.
Anyone can toss a chair.
@Meade--are you a Boilermaker?
Lots of good golf jokes involving Divine entities. Best one I know involves God, Jesus AND Moses, and ends with "Dad, quit showing off."
@Anne:
When we act fearful--and others respond to us with fear--our reptile brains learn that there is something of which to be afraid.
Warning: pedantry ahead. MacLean's "triune brain" model is pretty well discredited. There is no such thing as people having a "reptile brain." It's one of those pop pscyh myths, like "left brain/right brain" and "only use X% of our brain" that irritate me.
@Original Mike,
Next thing you know, you'll be saying that anyone can toss a dwarf.
" I loathe one-and-done."
I'm an old school college hockey fan, so two-game-total-goals for me.
@JF,
Well heaven forbid that I should irritate you. People understand what I mean by reptile brain. If I referred to the amygdala etc they would be lost. Do you want to be right or do you want to be understood?
Coming up: Klink discovers that Hogan's gang have built a gonculator in their barracks.
"Next thing you know, you'll be saying that anyone can toss a dwarf."
I can't. Could've in my youth.
Clinton Aides Allied With Fusion GPS Pair After Election -- to Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier
"Top officials with the Hillary Clinton campaign re-engaged with the opposition researchers behind the Steele dossier just three weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration, newly declassified congressional witness transcripts reveal, indicating her campaign’s participation in an ongoing and well-funded effort to undermine the president by casting him as a tool of the Kremlin"
@Original Mike
By one-and-done, I mean the practice of enrolling a phenomenal player for his freshman year and then losing him as he jumps to the pros. I can't blame the players who are talented enough to do that; I just think it makes for lousy college ball.
That does seem like a waste of talent as an opportunity for an education
Oh, I thought you meant the March circus.
@Meade--are you a Boilermaker?
I'm a homer. I wear either a Badgers or Brewers hat now days. USA.
BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER mushroom mushroom BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER.
My mind is a strange place. That was a very stoopid but funny video in the early days of the interwebz.
To keep on keeping track, here's Howie Carr on MA:
"Of the 5,141 virus deaths in Massachusetts, 3,095 have occurred in the state’s nursing homes — more than 60%, double the percentage even in New York.
Yet Gov. Charlie Baker, the scold and scourge of all golf carts, gun shops, nail salons and churches, none of which have recorded any fatalities, seems strangely oblivious to the ever-escalating toll in the state’s “long-term care facilities,” which are both heavily regulated and subsidized by the commonwealth.
Of the 5,108 deaths, only 246 were of people under the age of 60."
The insanity epidemic has yet to subside.
Gah they are most harmless at best, our governor who was initially cautious understands proper procedures
On today's run around the neighborhood, I endeavored to take pictures of the neighborhood cats. We have a plethora, and I discover new ones seemingly every week. We have, according to my records, two black cats with white mustaches and bibs. One all black cat. One dark gray dusty-looking cat. Two short-haired tabby cats. One long-haired tabby cat. One white cat with a black tail, a black spot on her side and a tan spot on her head. I think there may be more tabby cats--gray ones and fawn ones.
The dusty-looking gray one comes into my back yard (over the 6' fence) and poops. I don't appreciate that.
Sebastien,
Use code or something. You will call down upon us the KenBIngaHowie scourge and the conversation will turn to shit.
Afraid I'm drifting to sleep. Can I trust you kids to behave yourselves or should I switch on safety mode?
Klaatu barada nikto applejack round house cocked pistol
Seriously: If you're a good enough athlete, why do you need to be a college graduate? You can HIRE all the college graduates you need.
The last was from a sort of revised failsafe called twilight last gleaming but from crews perspective, it was atages of alert in lieu of def con
I don't think any of us are the problem.
It was with powers boothe and rebecca demornay
@Meade,
Drift away, sweet prince, and may a choir of angels sing you to your sleep.
“Afraid I'm drifting to sleep. Can I trust you kids to behave yourselves or should I switch on safety mode?”
I don’t know Meade, is it safe? I can sense that you know who is itching to find an open thread.
We know the covid19 virus has been around much earlier than the March lockdowns. So something that I've wondered about for some time has been the super bowl. This was the last national mass congregation of Americans before the social distance hammer came down. Not just the game, but the hundreds of thousands of fans who congregated for the week long party in Miami with and without tickets to the game itself.
And yet!
Where are the spikes of cases traced back to the super bowl? By all rights, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Miami should be among the hottest hot spots for the virus. And yet, they're not. At least not in proportion to the exposure they sustained. Kansas City and it's evirons are comparatively clear. Sixteen total deaths in the city itself. 15 in Jackson county. 1 in Clay county. None in Platte county. 32 total. The Super Bowl was the canary in the covid19 coal mine, and it's still alive and singing.
Seriously, where is any serious consideration of why the super bowl was an ineffective vector for the spread of this virus? (Reposted from an earlier thread.)
So how did go from seminary to psychology.
We know not much more now then we disthen, and furthermore we arent employing what we have learned effectively enough.
If a Wisconsin voter dies of Covid, does their vote still count?
FullMoon said...
If a Wisconsin voter dies of Covid, does their vote still count?
5/14/20, 9:49 PM
Of course. When you die, you automatically start voting Democrat.
Oh, Martinet Garcetti is flexing his will-to-power muscles: wear a mask at all times outdoors. Not just no, but hell no, you tyrannical piece of human excrement. What is wrong with these people? Are they just dumb? I mean, really, truly, not very intelligent? As we learn more and more than the virus is spread nosocomially, in nursing homes, and in tight spaces with extended periods of time, we are going to coerce people into mask-wearing out-fucking-doors?
I don't live in LA, thank heavens. I'd probably be going to jail.
@Meade
stay up and hang out!
...there's no skool tomorrow!
Narciso,
To whom did you address that comment about seminary>>psychology?
Pelosi wants any prisoner over fifty released due to virus.
How is that fair to former acquaintance who did 28 of a thirty year sentence?
Meanwhile, in Ca,no bail criminals are stealing and hijacking cars in order to get home. Should Newsome provide Uber? Seems only fair.
@Sebastien,
Now you've gone and done it. SMDH
“Use code or something. You will call down upon us the KenBIngaHowie scourge and the conversation will turn to shit.”
My dear woman. Ken B, Howard and myself might want to have a conversation here in this Cafe thread. Do you think that the conversation you steer is the only one allowed here?
No Anne, your incessant nightly snide comments in which you mention how you want to make sure we don’t comment is problematic. You’re a shit pot stirrer.
Hes properly credentialed (harvard school, columbia) and ethnically balanced jewish and latino, thats all that matters
Yes i was curious about that path of study.
IngaKenBHowie,
Talk away. The rest of us don't give a damn. We got better things to do.
Narciso,
Moi?
"I don't live in LA, thank heavens. I'd probably be going to jail"
Virtue-signaling LA residents are going to end up with some funny tan lines.
It's ridiculous to have to wear a mask outside, especially when it's 90 degrees out.
Yes, so what are the landmarks in oakland.
“Talk away. The rest of us don't give a damn. We got better things to do.”
Good! So stop acting as if you own these Cafe threads, you don’t. And if you had better things to do, you wouldn’t be here nightly like a bar fly waiting for the first guy to buy her a drink.
Everytime i think netflix is worth returni g to they put product like that epstein seeies, now hulu has an interesting offering on the young catherine the great
I read georgianna and then i watched the dutchess. Kiera knightley just sits there.
Klink discovers that Hogan's gang have built a gonculator in their barracks
Hogan's Heroes -- running only about 25 years after actual events of WWII.
Let's see . . . 25 years ago from now was 1995, year of the O.J. trial and the Oklahoma City bombing. Movies - Get Shorty, Braveheart, Crimson Tide, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Heat, Dead Man Walking, Apollo 13, Usual Suspects, and 12 Monkeys.
Not that long ago.
Anne-I-Am, I am much more of a dog person, but I like cats too, and one of the neighborhood ones is a sweetie - a friendly little gray tabby who would run out from the porch and get petted by me.
A week ago, as I was out walking and was a half a block away toward her house, I saw her go chasing across the street after a raccoon three times her size. They both disappeared into a thicket of trees. I nearly yelled out "Don't mess with him, kitty!"
I haven't seen her since. I'm worried about her.
If you're a good enough athlete, why do you need to be a college graduate? You can HIRE all the college graduates you need.
If you're a good enough college graduate, you can hire all the athletes you need to get those oranges up the stairs.
Great day in Pantsland. Spent some time in the pool this afternoon; the mister got a haircut (clumsy with the mask but got the job done) and later grilled a fabulous giant sirloin while I made Ina Garten's avocado salad; had a long stroll through the neighborhood with the two youngest after dinner and ran into an old acquaintance walking her dogs which turned into a pleasant chat; and best of all scheduled not one, not two, but three playdates next week wherein our friends are coming over for lunch and swimming. Also made a hotel reservation the week of Memorial Day because the Pantses are going on a road trip to do some geocaching and land scouting. Woooo! Tomorrow we are going out to lunch in a restaurant for the first time since March 15 and we're going to hit a couple of estate sales which are back as of this weekend. My favorite antique store is opening next week. I've stopped worrying about whether we get every little assignment done for the kid in elementary school (stressful for everyone) and just try to hit the high points and make sure he reads every day and we snuggle every day.
Picking up momentum here in the Republic of Texas. Feels good.
Stelio, Stelio Kontos. Stelio, Stelio Kontos, Stelio Kontos.
https://youtu.be/i1nPGM-2Q0w
Getting the oranges up the stairs.
Oxydrene-- any thoughts?
for athletes, and/ or anyone withe respiratory issues??
the functional extract (Crenulin-RCC2) has been suggested in a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to not only increase exercise endurance when taken 1 hour before a workout, but to help participants actually reach a higher VO2 Max, a sign of greater oxygen consumption at the tissue level, than the placebo group.
Narciso,
So....it was actually PhD in neurophys and neuropharm to seminary (Episcopalian) to pharmaceutical industry and conversion to Orthodox.
Most of my experience in neurology actually comes from 15 years with therapies for neurological diseases from dementia to MS to epilepsy to schizophrenia. Neurology is unbelievably fascinating to me. I work in hematology now, and I enjoy it, but it is less opaque than neuro, and so less interesting to me. Not any less complex, to be sure, because no one can say the immune system and its role in hematologic malignancy is simple....but....it doesn't capture my imagination.
Oaktown landmarks? The cranes in the port. I love seeing them. They hunch over the bay like skeletal vultures. The barges lurk among them, waiting to be picked clean.
The hills. Oakland runs from the flats at the bay up to the top of the ridgeline that cuts off the bay from the valley. The hills are unfathomably beautiful. Populated with conifers, eucalyptus, laurels and cut through with thousands of miles of trails. Deer, snakes, wildcats. Climate that shifts from hot and humid to cool and foggy in the space of a 30-second run. The fog creeps in during the summer at dusk, so that one is running through tendrils of mist, while looking out over a valley of green and grey.
The bay bridge. It soars up over the bay like a swimmer doing the butterfly.
I love Oakland. It is gritty and real and varied.
Hey! Shout! I always appreciate Americana music. Thanks.
You should try it with a resonator guitar, and a slide.
Pants,
Just shut up. I hate you. Sigh. Enjoy; you deserve it.
I Have Misplaced My Pants, life's getting better for some of us.
The Karens can sit at home and stew in their own misery. I am very much looking forward to going to a restaurant tomorrow evening.
Good for you, Pants!
We're just hoping our favorite vacation island reopens it's airport in time for our July arrival.
Didier Raoult
@raoult_didier
Governement study about COVID-19 seroprevalence in Spain: among workers, those who had an "essential profession" and continued working were less infected than those staying at home. This should lead to a reflection on the role of general confinement.
https://issuu.com/prisarevistas/docs/prevalencia/3
You wouldnt think the weather would be that varied, yes blood chemistry would be somewhat less complex then neurology.
So I watched (the first season of?) War of the Worlds. All eight episodes. Which were actually about two or three episodes, with the rest being a lot of filler. I don't know that I see them greenlighting a second season.
exiledonmainstreet - So where you are, do you have to show your papers tomorrow when you go to the restaurant and does the inn keeper have to keep a list for 30 days by order of your gov? We will have to do that here in washington, but either we all tell our gov to go to hell or the restaurants all fail.
The premise was original, the twist was kind of gruesome.
Young Sharon Stone on Magnum.
Med Cram discusses NAC supplementation today help with Covid symptoms, glutathione connection.
Never heard of Oxydrene.
@ingachuck
So...looking at ingredients...sedum increases blood flow by vasodilation...nothing really new and exciting there. Sea buckthorn (hippophae) lowers blood pressure and may increase glucose uptake into muscles cells...again nothing earth-shattering.
Summary: won't hurt you. Probably a waste of money.
Arashi said...
exiledonmainstreet - So where you are, do you have to show your papers tomorrow when you go to the restaurant and does the inn keeper have to keep a list for 30 days by order of your gov? We will have to do that here in washington, but either we all tell our gov to go to hell or the restaurants all fail."
No, we don't have to do that here. You actually have to show ID? That's too bad, that they're required to check. If not, I would simply make up a name and pay in cash.
Just goes to show what stinking hypocrites the Dems are. Show ID to vote? No, that's racist! But want to get a steak and a glass of wine? ID please.
Isn't Washington State discriminating against all the poor people of color who can't afford to get ID? They can't even eat in a restaurant.
Sounds racist to me.
I have a relative who is a police office in Washington and he commented on FB that when he has to fill out the log the restaurant will find they have served Jack Bagodonuts who lives at 678 Upyours Road. That had me in stitches :D I also think it's interesting that he feels comfortable, as a LEO, saying such subversive things on social media.
“I Have Misplaced My Pants, life's getting better for some of us.
The Karens can sit at home and stew in their own misery. I am very much looking forward to going to a restaurant tomorrow evening.”
I don’t see Althouse even going out to a store, much less to a restaurant, she doesn’t strike me as being especially miserable.
He seems to have hit his peter principle in washington state, his presidential run?? Was a 'melon on a school house steps'
Who cares what Althouse does?
She's not our mommy.
Why would she want to go to a restaurant? She can't taste anything.
Oh - I had not thought of that! Of course you are correct, as POC cannot get ID, do not have a phone or email address - according to the 'smart' people, so they cannot show such at the restaurant so Inslee's order is not only unconstitutional but racist as hell!
The ACLU should be on it like white on rice some time after November.
I Have Misplaced My Pants said...
I have a relative who is a police office in Washington and he commented on FB that when he has to fill out the log the restaurant will find they have served Jack Bagodonuts who lives at 678 Upyours Road"
That's great!
I hope a lot of people are doing that.
Unless they pay in cash, theyll track you though.
narciso said...
Unless they pay in cash, theyll track you though.
5/14/20, 10:32 PM
Yep. Pay in cash.
Will they, i have my doubts
"The last was from a sort of revised failsafe called twilight last gleaming but from crews perspective, it was atages of alert in lieu of def con"
Close, narciso. It's actually "By Dawn's Early Light". One of my favorite made-for-HBO movies. Holds up fairly well too, despite a few cheap sets and some factual inaccuracies.
“Who cares what Althouse does?
Why would she want to go to a restaurant? She can't taste anything.”
Ha, that’s true, but it’s pretty presumptuous of you to think she wouldn’t enjoy a meal out. You suggested she was a miserable Karen, I’m just trying to clarify your characterization of her.
Did curbside pickup from a local brewpub. Lamb skewers, greek salad, etc. excellent.
thank you for the responses
@Inga,
re:NAC/glutatione Steven Fearsby here posted a link about that --isnt there also an autism benefit?
@AIA
Re: vasodilation-- any benefit for workouts? Would aspirin do?
Exiled,
I fear for you cat-aquaintance as well. Raccoons are not to be trifled with. But a badger could beat the SHIT out of a raccoon. Just sayin'.
I have Italian friends who lived in the US for a number of years. Jacopo told me in awe one day about encountering a raccoon in his garbage. He was taken by the cute little mask--and he pronounced it rac-o-on. Long o's all around. (Italian pronounces every letter.). I laughed and told him to keep his Jack Russell away from the rack-oh-own, who would tear his precious Reggie to shreds.
Heh, trinitys child by william prochnau was the book, the film adapted the story better.
I don't think of Althouse as a miserable Karen. I think of you as a miserable Karen, Inga.
As per Inslee's order in washington, you will be required to show picture ID, the inn keeper must take down your name, email, phone, address, the time you came in and how many in your party and keep the list for 30 days. So I figure pretty much every restaurant in washington will be out of business by some time in June - or every restaurant owner ignores the order and lets everybody give whatever info they wish and people only pay in cash.
I think everyone should be Jay Inslee, use the governor's address in Olympia and his general phone number in Olympia.
Anne IM,
One of my sisters lives up and over the hills just to the west of you. I have nothing but pleasant memories of visits there.
My family lived in Berkeley for 6 months when I turned 3. (Visiting professor dad.) I actually have a handful of memories of that time (which would probably have merged into later memories if we hadn't moved to a new place).
Arashi,
Heh. The Lives of Others was not meant to be a tutorial.
“re:NAC/glutatione Steven Fearsby here posted a link about that --isnt there also an autism benefit?”
I don’t know, I’ve just started researching it in more detail. The presentation at Med Cram regarding NAC was pretty good. The NAC helps your body with glutathione, which is essential to cell health and has been associated with good outcomes in pneumonia. It’s pretty complicated but worth watching.
So think Zinc, NAC, VitD, VitC, think anti oxidants to mitigate the oxidative damage Covid causes in your epithelium
They think it is, along with 1984,
Do you want to be right or do you want to be understood?
Both. You were neither.
Anne-I-Am - I had to look that up. Seems Inslee, Bill Gates and a host of others want to have an army of Official Contact Tracers roaming about tracking everybody. When this was tried during the AIDS epidemic, the ACLU and others were quick to slapp the idea down - now all of the civil liberties crowd are on the sidelines cheering the excess. Of course the likes of Gates wants 'vaccine papers' for all or no commerce for you. I am not a religious person, but that smacks of the mark of the devil from the Bible and I believe a marker for the beginning of armageddon and the rapture - but I could be wrong.
“Re: vasodilation-- any benefit for workouts? Would aspirin do?”
Beet juice, Ingachuck, beet juice increases Nitric oxide, which dilates your blood vessels and lowers your BP.
Clark,
Maybe up and over the hills to the east? There are no hills to the west...only the decline into the bay. I get east and west confused out here. I have never lived somewhere where west is.....water.
Oakland definitely has its faults. The residents (mostly POC) throw their trash around like you wouldn't believe. I had an altercation with a woman who threw trash out her car window as I ran by. I think she thought she could intimidate me by repeatedly telling me she would kick my ass. While I admitted that I was sure that she would be successful, I noted that a felony conviction for battery sure would cramp her style. Besides, she weighed at least 220; I doubt she could have caught me. But I just don't get the mindset of someone who tosses her trash on the ground.
There is a lot of petty crime. Smash and grabs. And not so petty--a young man was killed in the process of two men stealing his laptop. Because the police don't pay any attention to such crimes, the perps are brazen.
Pockets of homeless encampments, with all the squalor that entails. We call our Home Depot the Homeless Depot, because it is surrounded by tents and piles of garbage. THAT, I just don't get. But...I am not a progressive.
Anne IM: Yes. East. Orinda.
That was kamala harris fiefdom. Wasnt it, this whole campaign season was a waste.
“I don't think of Althouse as a miserable Karen. I think of you as a miserable Karen, Inga.”
Oh yes you do. I get out more than Althouse does. She won’t even step into any public building yet. I think of you as a miserable bitch.
@JF,
Yet you seemed to have understood me, yes? And if you go into detail about brain anatomy and function, I can guarantee you that you will be right, but not understood. Sigh. Really? You are picking a fight in this ditch? What? Run out of clean boxers?
You know what I mean. The more we imagine reasons to be fearful, the more fearful we become. An agoraphobic doesn't wake up one day suddenly afraid to leave the house. First, she fears the interstate. Then she fears the 4-lane. Then she fears the busy streets. Then she fears driving at all.
Seeing our neighbors as vectors of danger with no real cause to do so, over the course of months, will lead to increased distrust--and not just on a conscious level. So much for trust and social cohesion.
And when my neighbor skirts me as though I am a serial killer, my reaction to her is less than salutary. Her reaction engenders in me a kind of contempt. Indeed, weakness is provocative.
Rather than nitpick at me for my failure to be quite as knowledgeable as you about the current fashions of psychology, why not share your thoughts about the broader topic?
@Inga
we do the Beetlejuice already, and there's NO-boosters that are marketed for workouts
but wouldnt aspirin be just as good?
Checked- there may be an autism benefit for glutathione-- looks interesting...
"Glutathione helps defend the body against damage from cigarette smoking, heavy metals, alcohol, and other toxins, exposure to radiation, and cancer chemotherapy."
"Thimerosol is an antiseptic containing 49.5% ethyl mercury that has been used for years as a preservative in many infant vaccines and in flu vaccines. Environmental methyl mercury has been shown to be highly neurotoxic, especially to the developing brain. Because mercury has a high affinity for thiol (sulfhydryl (single bondSH)) groups, the thiol-containing antioxidant, glutathione (GSH), provides the major intracellular defense against mercury-induced neurotoxicity."
And yet, you're the one who sounds angry and miserable, Inga.
I had a good day and I'm looking forward to dining out tomorrow.
Enjoy your solitary meals in your house.
“Did curbside pickup from a local brewpub. Lamb skewers, greek salad, etc. excellent.”
I’ve been craving barbecue ribs, we have a place nearby here that delivers, delicious! Brewpub food is great, love it.
Gets a twitchy, when one doesnt proscribed thought patterns our host likes to consider other points of view.
exiled - which state do you live in, if you don't mind saying. I might need a long road trip to find an open restaurant.
“And yet, you're the one who sounds angry and miserable, Inga.”
You always sound angry and miserable. The hostility surrounds your head like a black cloud. I’m chuckling reading you trying to be a normal female around Ms. Annie like an acolyte trying to get her attention.
Our high school mascot was the wolverine, which is akin to the badger.
“...but wouldnt aspirin be just as good?”
Aspirin is blood thinner and an anti inflammatory and taking it everyday is asking for trouble.
It's true that I'm hostile to you, Inga, because I think you're a contemptible and stupid woman. Many others here share my opinion.
But hostile generally? Nah. I'm not the one cowering in fear because of Wuhan flu.
Enjoy your misery and solitude.
Arashi said...
exiled - which state do you live in, if you don't mind saying. I might need a long road trip to find an open restaurant.
5/14/20, 11:01 P
Wisconsin - in one of the Free Counties.
One has to have a certain sense of the absurd or else the stupidity amd malice of this world crushes you. These world controllers like fauci follow flawed wizards like ferguson into this cul de sac of despair. Gettimg out even a few miles a day is invigorating trapped in the caves of steel is not.
“Again Larry Jon sleeping on the job...”
He should’ve listened to me, I told him I had a feeling...
And, of course, Keep Hope Alive.
I blended baum huxley and asimov into a stewm
any connection to vasodilation and anyeurisms?
medical mary J as a vasodilator-- ??
@exiled,
Wasted energy. There is no percentage in engaging. You might as well as for insight from a rabid dog.
I hope you share your dining out experience. I have a need to live vicariously. While I have enjoyed cooking for my kid, I can't get to the store often enough to mix it up. And I experience ennui. The Instant Pot has been handy the past week because the weather has been unusually rainy and cool--chili and chicken and white beans have been tasty. My friends on fb are shaming me with their varied efforts at cosmopolitan cuisine involving crab, weird vegetables, strange spices... What I want is to invite myself over to their houses.
I can drive wherever I want--the kid and I went to the peninsula over the weekend to run/ride...I can run for miles and miles....what I can't do is WORK in any real sense and experience other people in the way we do when we go to a restaurant or shopping...
I am getting cantankerous.
“Enjoy your misery and solitude.”
I’ve got plenty of time to enjoy my children and grandchildren and friends when this is all over and it WILL be over, probably sooner than you idiots think. I’m not miserable in the least, I want to live into my 90’s, or even 100’s. I’m only 67 I’ve got plenty of years ahead of me. I have grandchildren I want to see get married and great grandchildren to hold.
Nice playing S.T. Bless the blues.
@Ingachuck,
Hmmm. Vasodilation and aneurysms. Just riffing here...aneurysms blow because the vessels walls are weak and give way. It is a structural impairment that is often congenital--and it may be exacerbated by hypertension. Vasodilation reduces the pressure on vessel walls. Nonetheless, vasodilation is not the prescription for aneurysm. Surgical intervention is required if the deficit is threatening and impending.
I don't know anything about cannabis as a vasodilator. There are better compounds out there--simple nitroglycerin, for instance. Viagra, ifyou want a twofer. Nitrous oxide, if you feel like partying, but that doesn't seem sustainable as a daily intervention.
“any connection to vasodilation and anyeurisms?”
Dunno.
“medical mary J as a vasodilator-- ??”
Yes, do it!
@Inga
did you try it? For what IUDMUA?
effective??
Ingachuck,
While it appears that cannabinoids act as vasodilators, they also have varied effects on the endothelium and cardiac muscle. TL;DR=there is a lot we don't know.
And again--if you have a diagnosed aneurysm, you need an interventional consult.
So I open up YouTube, and literally every video offered to me is some instruction on surviving the pandemic. My recent searches were of Elvis and Little Richard, ALF and Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it seems now there was nothing before the virus.
@AIA
not for partying, but to ward off a post-workout brain burn
So-- could you say dilated vessels are better in case of anyeurisms?
There's just so much beet juice one can take ya know...
I was kind of skeptical watching Joe Rogan, who is one unhealthy looking guy, talk about health for three hours, but the person he was interviewing (Rhonda Patrick) seems brilliant.
She did not look too healthy either, though, the studio lights did not do either of them any favors.
‘...did you try it? For what IUDMUA?’
No, I haven’t tried it. Not in a long time anyway. I do have full spectrum Hemp Oil, which I got for sleep. Unfortunately, I’m one of the rare people that can’t tolerate it, gives me a terrible gut ache and ...you know.
How Medical Marijuana-Induced Vasodilation Treats Conditions
People talk about Oakland but Pleasanton is amazing. Main Street, the views of the mountains, the vineyards behind the place where the roads stop, the TREES AND THE INFINITE VARIETY OF LANDSCAPING in all those thousands of front lawns, the FOG LIKE AN ANGEL on May mornings, the creeks, the nice park for us veterans, CAMINO BRAZOS !!!!! One's heart melts.
"Seriously, where is any serious consideration of why the super bowl was an ineffective vector for the spread of this virus?"
It's the mass quantities of beer. Disinfecting from the inside out.
if you have bad reactions to hemp or CBD, that might not be such a bad thing, it means that your body reacts, and there might be other herbs out there to which you react in a big way, but a positive way. Keep looking, is my advice.
BTW, when Willy Nelson quit smoking weed earlier this year, I was concerned. Beetlejuice losing most of its firepower, the Old Man of the Mountains falling down after a gazillion years, the Greatest church in Christendom experiencing an almost fatal fire, that was all bad, but Willy giving up weed - that seemed like a sign that people out there were losing hope.
Well, let not your heart be troubled, as someone says again and again.
@Ingachuck,
So...you are working out at a high-intensity. Seems like you have generalized anxiety about the effect of strenuous activity on the vasculatuve of the brain. I am not an expert...but I do have a berry aneurysm lurking around my cerebellum...
From what I understand...if you have an aneurysm that is cause for concern, your physician will advise you of important precautions/interventions. If you have an aneurysm (like mine) that is innocuous because of size, location, etc, no remedial action is necessary. I do very high intensity intervals--my docs have advised me that I do not need to moderate my efforts.
If you are generally anxious....this isn't helpful. Are you having symptoms? Dizziness? Syncope? Double/blurred vision? Headaches? Weird sensorial effects? If so...get thee to a neurologist NOW. If not...chill out, dude.
Aneurysms are rare. More common, I think, are aortic aneurysms and gastric aneurysms. Had a doctor who died suddenly from an aortic aneurysm--surgery was scheduled, but....
Ingachuck, keeping your BP down is one of the things you want to do if you’re worried about aneurysms. Plus seeing your doc regularly.
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" was a movie about a rogue general commandeering an ICBM base in the US. I don't remember much about it, but watched it as a kid- so around 1976-77 there-abouts.
Stephen Cooper,
Pleasanton is a cool place. It keeps a tight rein on activities therein.
thanks @Inga,@AIA
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HGH for sleep. cycle it.
...and now, to catch da Zzzzzzzz!
@Ingachuck,
Catch good ZZZZZs. I am not a doc, and I didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night. Relax, let your mind cede its activity to the vast nothingness of Lethe.
Burt lancaster played a rogue general who threatened to launch for reasons since bith have anthem related titles i mixed them up.
I thought you had the title right until the correction, then I suddenly remember the other movie. Have seen both, "By Dawn's Early Light" was a pretty good one I have seen more than once.
If you are generally anxious....this isn't helpful. Are you having symptoms? Dizziness? Syncope? Double/blurred vision? Headaches? Weird sensorial effects?
no thank you for asking--
but do read a lot of news, which could make anyone's head explode :-)
The two titles, by the way, come from the same line in the Anthem.
Across two bodies of water https://mobile.twitter.com/g_occhionero/status/1261142060234616832
@Ingachuck,
Thanks for responding. I get worried when people ask generalized questions about specific, rare occurrences. Symptoms need to be reported to an actual physician and investigated. But general anxiety...I am a connoisseur of that. The curse of the 3rd year med student and every pharma rep....When I worked in neurology, I was convinced I had ALS. I think it is displacement.
I don't know how old you are, or what kind of workouts you are doing, but do get regular check-ups by internal medicine.
Another sharp fellow
https://mobile.twitter.com/CJBdingo25/status/1261051445291429888
He happens to be a liberal democrat
it didn't (Pleasanton didn't keep a tight rein on activities) when I was there, Anne. Do you mean right now with the corona fear, or in general?
Well I doubt anyone there remembers me. Last time I was there Saigon had not fallen to the Chicoms and their minions, and Elvis and John Wayne were both in love with their young wives. True that. Seriously if I could visit Pleasanton a couple times a year with a friend or two I would be very happy about that.
On the recommendation of many here, I watched the Waco series on Netflix. It was well made. The Weinstein Company produced it so that's your guarantee of quality...I've no argument with their takedown of the ATF and FBI, but I think Koresh comes across as a lot more sympathetic than he really was. I also think his followers must have been a lot more damaged than they were presented in this series. Also Janet Reno and Bill Clinton are let completely off the hook. Did I mention Weinsten produced the series....I enjoyed the series, but I don't think it told the whole story. The ATF and the FBI screwed up, but Koresh was half in love with the Apocalypse and perhaps that was his subconscious goal.
Stephen Cooper,
Pleasanton is generally more stiff-paw in its approach to the usual Bay Area shenanigans. Which I think is a good thing.
Just reading an article in Berkeleyside about a serial rapist who has been caught and connected to Berkeley rapes going back over a decade. And of course, getting a CCW in Alameda County is impossible. It infuriates me that I can't get a permit to carry a weapon in a county where the police don't respond to 911 calls about violent crime for hours. Well, that's just bullshit anyway. I shouldn't have to petition my overlords for permission to protect myself.
Life doesn't make sense. Sometimes that works out in your favor. I discovered that jogging five miles gives you a sense of accomplishment and well being similar or even better than actually doing something worthwhile. I used to be a dedicated jogger in the worst kinds of weather. It really does improve the quality of life especially on ten mile days. Then you can eat anything you want and still not gain weight....What with plantar fascitis and Achilles tendonitis my jogging days are over, but I remember them fondly. The happiest moments of my life were spent running around in circles for an hour.
@Tommy Duncan, Great read. Thanks for sharing!
My last visit to California was to join the family last summer for a week in a mountain top vacation house between Morro Bay and San Luis Obispo. View NW to Morro Bay in the distance, views down the mountain in every direction. My little sister lives in Morro Bay, and my mom also lives there in a small, very well run assisted living facility. Mom and all of her offspring (four generations total) spent a very restful week kicking back in this very cool, sprawling villa perched high up on the property of a working ranch.
Anne --- home depot sells lots of legal stuff that are almost as good as CCW, and which are even better if people follow the important rule - live life with confidence, but trust your instincts whenever something or someone seems off in a potentially dangerous way (Gavin somebody wrote a good book about that). Unfortunately, the best advice is to always have backup unless you are in a very safe area.
I mean, you are not likely going to win a duel with seconds at dawn after a riff at the Emperor's ball with some of the improvised weapons available at Home Depot, but still .....
Oxydrene- just say no.
https://www.right-of-assembly.org/post/2019/07/04/novex-chromadex-lawsuit
Stephen Cooper,
Point taken. Nonetheless, I like my chances with my compact .45 1911.
Going to bed all. Trying to ease myself into a circadian rhythm more in-line with daylight. The cat must think I am dead when I don't rouse myself when the sun comes up--even though he has eaten, he sticks his face under the pillows and licks my eyes. Very annoying.
Inga, your contributions tonight have been, for the most part, helpful. Thank you for not stirring the pot. Despite what you seem to think, on the nights you don't show up, we don't talk about you. Those nights are free of rancor and bickering. Most of us prefer those evenings. You might want to try participating in a non-adversarial way.
Narciso,
Your additions are always thought-provoking. I hope you sleep well.
Stephen Cooper,
I have been praying for you and for your friends. God bless.
well home depot certainly does not sell 1911s.
by the way, and this has nothing to do with self-defense, next time you go to Pleasanton tell the mayor, or the staff at the big hotel on Main Street, that you know me, and if they do not know who Stephen Cooper is, just say "that guy who used to live on Camino Brazos, that Stephen".
You will probably get a free drink out of it if you deliver the pitch with sincerity.
I was excited today get an email from the Coeur d’Alene Resort informing recipients that the restaurants there were now open. We had pushed on the trip up to MT so that we could do Mother’s Day there. The Sunday Brunch there is great, but not sure when they will get that completely back up. That was our real goal, but decided to head home Sunday from Missoula, where we had spent the night, because my partner and the cat were both tired of traveling. But she also loves Beverly’s there, their five star restaurant, and that does look to be operational next week with reduced seating due to social distancing. We expect to pop over there in the next couple weeks for a doctor’s appointment, and hopefully we can fit dinner at Beverly’s in. Over the last couple months we have done a lot of take out, but haven’t had a sit down restaurant meal during that time. MT seems to have let restaurants open for table service a bit ago - Saturday, we did takeout from the Montana Club in Missoula, and they had table service, with about half the tables removed. Can’t wait. That has been one of the biggest drags I have encountered due to COVID-19 to date. Plus, the mandatory virtue signaling of Costco forcing all of its customers to wear masks.
“Inga, your contributions tonight have been, for the most part, helpful. Thank you for not stirring the pot. Despite what you seem to think, on the nights you don't show up, we don't talk about you. Those nights are free of rancor and bickering. Most of us prefer those evenings. You might want to try participating in a non-adversarial way.”
Anne, well for starters, I read the Cafe threads in the AM and I always read at least one mention of how happy you are to not have these you don’t like appear in the thread. I’m not worried about people talking or not talking about me, but you do irritate me with the snide mentions. I consider that stirring the pot. It’s underhanded, but it is there. I’ll thank you when YOU don’t stir the pot.
The nights I, or Howard or Ken comment, what is the first response from you? It’s not a welcoming comment, it’s a snide remark. So if you don’t want rancor and bickering, be cognizant of the way you you refer to or speak about those people who you don’t care for when they show up in a Cafe thread. It’s not YOUR Cafe. It’s everyone’s. Actually it’s Althouse’s. If you want peace, be peaceful. If you don’t want an adversary, don’t be adversarial. It’s simple.
Anne at 12:24, thanks for the prayers.
PRAYER is the energy that keeps this world going when it might not be going anywhere without PRAYER
of course GOD is almighty and all powerful but even God - as we are told again and again in almost every book of the Bible - likes the sound of a kind-hearted prayer.
(sorry I do not have more energy tonight, if I did I would go on and on about how PLEASANTON is a real place and anyone who knows as much as I know about PLEASANTON can easily refute the theory that we live in a simulation - cor ad cor loquitur, abyss calls to abyss, and most important of all GOD LOVES US ALL and therefore the love you have for someone you care about cannot be simulated and cannot be a simulation because IT IS WHAT IT IS. clear as daylight, which is why people get so nervous about chemtrails ---- so let me say it another way, clear as daylight in Beulah land, long before chemtrails were a gleam in the eye of anyone born in our era, as clear as daylight in Beulah Land where the light was almost as clear as it was in the Garden of Eden)
Examine is my go to spot for supplements. This is what they have for NAC:
https://examine.com/supplements/n-acetylcysteine/
And if after examinedotcom you put /topics/coronavirus/ you'll get their latest on what they've found about it. I just signed up for their email updates on it.
NAC is supposedly good for working out. It smells, well, absolutely foul. Even in capsule form I can taste it. I have an unopened bottle of 600 mg capsules because I stopped taking it solely because of the unpleasant taste. Looks like it won't hurt to add it back in, at least for a while. I can live with the foul taste for a bit.
But I'm still wondering why health authorities aren't telling everyone- Get your Vitamin D blood level checked! With the evidence showing the vast majority of covid patients in ICU and those who've died because of it are Vitamin D deficient, seems that advice would be a no brainer. My level is 40 ng/ml. Which is considered a healthy level. Do you know yours?
NAC has serious side effects.
“My level is 40 ng/ml. Which is considered a healthy level. Do you know yours?”
I actually don’t know mine. I have taken 2000 IU of D for years now. I take it with K2-MK7 100mcg.
“ well home depot certainly does not sell 1911s.”
Not sure where you would find new 1911s for sale right now anyway. The run on gun sales has gotten ridiculous. No wonder, with Dem politicians freeing violent criminals from jail so they don’t get COVID-19, and police in their cities too swamped, and too demoralized, to respond to reported violence. I thought that I would be safe from this sort of thing by getting AR-15 lower receivers last summer, and then assemble at my leisure from parts over the Internet. Nope. The AR-15 build market has been mostly sold out.
In any case, while I enjoy shooting a 1911. They shoot very well for me. But I will stick with my polymer semiautomatic handguns for a carry weapon, with their 15-17 round magazines, instead of 1911 7 round magazines, and with their increased reliability. Think of it as the difference between taking your sports car out for a spin on Sunday, versus the pickup truck you drive every day. The 1911 is your fancy sports car that you baby when you drive it, but is too temperamental and too fragile to drive every day.
well, I don't live in California anymore, the state I live in now, the pawn shops are apparently essential businesses.
I mean, of course they aren't, but the cops leave them alone. As they should.
Mandatory mask-wearing is bad for healthy people: https://www.technocracy.news/blaylock-face-masks-pose-serious-risks-to-the-healthy/. (No live link because Blogger rejects https: ? Can’t say I’ve seen that before.)
Key graphs: There is another danger to wearing these masks on a daily basis, especially if worn for several hours. When a person is infected with a respiratory virus, they will expel some of the virus with each breath. If they are wearing a mask, especially an N95 mask or other tightly fitting mask, they will be constantly rebreathing the viruses, raising the concentration of the virus in the lungs and the nasal passages. We know that people who have the worst reactions to the coronavirus have the highest concentrations of the virus early on. And this leads to the deadly cytokine storm in a selected number.
It gets even more frightening. Newer evidence suggests that in some cases the virus can enter the brain.11,12 In most instances it enters the brain by way of the olfactory nerves (smell nerves), which connect directly with the area of the brain dealing with recent memory and memory consolidation. By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain.13
All this sounds quite logical to me but IANAD. What do the doctor types around here think?
So if a person who HAS the virus wears a mask for long periods of time, they are rebreathing their own viral load? That does make sense, that’s disturbing. Another reason why testing is so important, those testing positive need to be strictly quarantined obviously.
She don't lie
My fiancee asked me about gold and silver as investments after watching too many commercials. I told her that metals are stable investments, and that physical metals are safer in a world where paper becomes worthless, but probably not as safe as guns and ammo if that's what you really worry about. Bruce Hayden's comment above provoked this post, so in response to said post, I have a Firestar M45 that I purchased 35 years ago and a Springfield XDS 45 that I purchased more recently. The Firestar holds 7, the XDS 13. I paid $189 for the Firestar and $745 for the Springfield. For whatever reason, familiarity, practice, size, I'd take the Firestar into a conflict over the Springfield every time.
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