Cover image: Woodford State Park, Vermont
Badlands News Brief – January 8, 2025
Trump’s Lawyers Have Assailed Jack Smith. They Could Soon Have Power to Go After Him
California wildfires live updates: At least 5 dead, over 100,000 forced to flee
But not the Getty Museum. Not surprising as most modern museums have massive fire suppression systems.
Comedians Begin to Admit They Were Pressured Into Pushing the Leftwing Propaganda Line
Exclusive — Andrew Huff: Preemptive Pardon of Anthony Fauci, if Accepted, ‘Incriminates Everyone’
MKUltra Documents Declassified
Doug Casey Exposes the Real Issues Behind the H-1B Controversy
Pfizer’s secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID
TWEETS!
Just one to set the record straight.
https://twitter.com/CarloMVigano/status/1877041960189366605
The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is a decision that the State can legitimately take, and this is a principle dictated by Natural Law even before positive civil law or Canon Law. Conversely, the “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and indisputably incompatible with the network of pseudo-charitable organizations in the hands of the Bergoglian Hierarchy, the Democratic Party and the NGOs attributable to George Soros, and with the system of complicity between the deep state and the deep church, both of which are actively engaged in the dissolution of the social, economic, cultural, and religious fabric of the Nations in which they have taken control of the institutions. Stopping illegal immigration would make them lose an inexhaustible source of profit, paid for by citizens’ taxes. The “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants is certainly and unquestionably incompatible with the subversive plan of ethnic substitution shared by the globalist elite, because it thwarts it and prevents the creation of the premises for social revolt that are intended lead to a further restriction of fundamental freedoms. When we hear representatives of the deep church (i.e. the Bergoglian “church”) or the deep state speak, we ought to realize that these people are emissaries of the subversive globalist lobby, and that every word they say is false, because behind an apparently acceptable excuse they actually hide unmentionable criminal purposes. Let us not be surprised then if “Cardinal” McElroy – appointed by Bergoglio as “Archbishop” of Washington, heir of the serial abuser and right-hand man of the Argentine Jesuit, Theodore McCarrick – is so busy with immigrants, LGBTQ+, the environment and vaccines: these are the points of the Agenda 2030, which the Bergoglian “church” has been promoting since the Mafia of St. Gallen managed to have a puppet of the World Economic Forum elected “pope”. And let us not be surprised if what the exponents of the deep state and the deep church have in common is corruption, vice, and perversion.
MEMES and FUN STUFF
True story.
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4 19We love, because he first loved us. 20If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also. 5 1Every one who believes that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God, and every one who loves the parent loves the child. 2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. 4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
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SATIRE
‘This Is Worse Than The Holocaust!’ Shouts Sunny Hostin After Barista Forgets To Put Cream In Her Coffee
New Check Engine Light For Women Will Show Ryan Gosling’s Face So They’ll Actually Pay Attention To It
Mike Johnson Calls LEGO To Order Another Set Of Hair
‘It’s Too Expensive To Have Kids,’ Says Woman Whose Ancestors Raised 11 Kids In A Two-Bedroom House
WEEKEND STARTER
Tanqueray Almond Cocktail
Ingredients
- 1 ounce gin
- 1/2 ounce amaretto liqueur
- 1 dash bitters
- 1 splash sour mix
- Maraschino cherries, for garnish
Steps to Make It
- Gather the ingredients.
- In a snifter with ice, pour the gin, amaretto, and bitters.
- Top with a splash of sour mix.
- Garnish with maraschino cherries. Serve and enjoy.
Have a good weekend, y’all.
Have a good one y’all.
ELEVEN days, ELEVEN hours and (well crap there goes the streak) 42 minutes until our Once and Future President, Donald John Trump, is restored to his Rightful Office.
Not that I’m counting, mind you.
LMAO!!!
You could have waited another 31 minutes….
LOL
We’re gettin’ there.
That’s barely more than a tennight.
You could make it into a video, and call it the Tennight Show 😀
42 minutes isn’t bad either. Just remember to bring your towel!
to soak up all those liberal tears?
That would certainly work well too.
The post was inspired by The Hitchhilker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where two of several important elements are the number 42, as well as the admonishment to bring your towel.
TY I haven’t yet read or watched any iteration of THHGTTG 🙂
Most (if not all) of it is on the web…
Here’s a good place to start:
https://clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG%20Intro.htm
Thanks 🙂
And invite some hoopy froods 🙂
11*3,818181818181818… minutes 😆
Nick Sortor:
All that wood could have been air-conditioning those same homes in the summer, and heating them in the winter, if only Gavin Newsom would have listened to me!
Wood reactors. Net Zero compliant. It’s time!
Blow that — there’s more potential energy in the thorium in coal than can be realized by burning the coal, so we should build power plants that “burn” the thorium to convert the hydrocarbons to gasoline.
Ah, “more” may be true, but the energy needed to remove and concentrate the thorium is such that, I suspect most of that thorium energy would be used to get the thorium, because the concentration is still extremely low. IOW, you have to mine and remove the coal anyway – might as well burn it.
Or just burn the wood that’s going to burn down your house otherwise, since the coal and the thorium aren’t going to do THAT either way.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
The real truth is, nuclear waste isn’t all that radioactive, and while coal is even less so, if you burn it, the ash that’s left is slightly more radioactive.
Which is not to say that SciAm isn’t lying, because I still don’t trust them.
Gone completely WOKE!
unScientific unAmerican…. along with Sky and Scope, and others… 😡 😡 😡 😡
Yup – Workers involved in a TVA power plant coal ash spill disaster here in east TN unfortunately learned the hard way what happens with that.
https://www.epa.gov/tn/epa-response-kingston-tva-coal-ash-spill
https://lhsfna.org/hundreds-of-workers-sickened-or-killed-following-coal-ash-cleanup/
What’s interesting is that if you have enough energy, that waste turns into an ore for all those elements!
Could it be because all the “radiation” was condensed into a smaller pile?
Yes! In fact, concentrating sea water quickly would presumably do the same thing. This seems to be a recurring theme in natural processes, to create concentrated whatever.
Stuff from geologically “concentrated” deposits (ores are barely concentrated, TBH) gets released by some process or processes, and must then be reconcentrated by us, somehow, for our use.
Note similar situations with rare earths in beach sands – except that there may be good (energy efficient) ways to separate the rare earths (though still requiring some energy).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045653523025249
All of this is relevant to the error of “green energy” which, even when nuclear, must pay to get the nuclear fuel, and can’t pay its costs otherwise. Note also that deuterium in the water here is a kind of ore, and water on this planet is a kind of ore, too. Costs of concentrating fuel most always be paid.
The whole thing is beautiful, just by the fact that it works to sustain life, frankly, and then [more conscious] intelligent life! This planet really is a Garden of Eden.
Monazite sand…thorium and Rare Earth goodies!
Looks very nice!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1738573318304807
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@mazemoore
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April, 2021. Gavin Newsom explains that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.
Also
https://nitter.poast.org/bill_c10/status/1877203690957783395#m
https://twitter.com/bill_c10/status/1877203690957783395#m
Steven Guilbeault Minister of Environment PARODY
@bill_c10
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As I squint my eyes to focus on the flames and the fire, I am reminded of the indescribable leadership which has been so success-divergent in protecting citizens. The California Government is the greatest in competence.
The world will be a better place when both of those azzhats are no longer the subjects of soundbites and quotes. Criminal liars.
They need the Mussolini treatment.
Yea. That would be a shame.
Team Humorous Old Peckerwoods
Make public executions great again!
AND heads on pikes.
“Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles is GONE.”
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Don’t forget to vote Democrat, 2026.
They’ve earned your vote. They have delivered on every insanity, every lie, every assault on reality that they ever promised, and so much more.
Right now, as the fires rage and your cities burn, they’re flushing fresh water out into the Pacific ocean, under the ridiculous pretense of saving a ‘smelt’.
Your mayor is in Ghana pretending to get in touch with her African roots. The same mayor that oversaw slashing the fire department budget by nearly $18 million (IIRC), while spending millions on Leftist pet projects.
The mental illness of the Democrat Party has finally reaped a reward worthy of their policies.
The only surprise is that it took so long.
Newscum 2028.
Yup.
California is a sovereign state in a sovereign nation. Cali residents need to handle their own issues and leave the rest of the 49 out of it. No more federal funds to bail them out. They are receiving what they wanted with their votes and inattention to state and local government activities.
You reap what you sow. No bail outs, PDT. Hold the line.
We need to inundate our Congress Critters and Trump with letters, phone calls, faxes, and emails to that effect.
North Carolina was left to deal with their disaster ALONE so the same for CA. Afterall you VOTED to seend the $$$ to Ulraine. ‘nough said.
and the fire equipment went to ukraine too
Never to be used more than a few times.
Probably sold by the Ukrainian Nazi regime for pennies on the dollar immediately.
Collin Rugg:
https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1877048612519121223
Of the top dozen exploitable petroleum sources in the US — including Texas and Alaska — five are in California. It’s a fantastically wealthy state being impoverished by tree-hugging commies.
Anti-Human totalitarian Fabian ‘Progressives’
It’s time to start calling Democrat policies and their proponents what they really are.
Mentally ill.
It’s mental illness at the top of government and business. The entire power structure is mentally ill, and they call it ‘virtue’.
IMO mentel illness conveys a degree of excuse for behavior. I don’t think these people are worthy of having excuses. The motivations of the population-control freaks is evil, and those who follow their advice are following evil even when shown that to be the case. They don’t listen and continue their destructive behavior. No excuse.
I think it goes back to Hegel (and the Greens [e.g. Habeck and Baerbock], Carly Fiorina and her “perception is reality” mantra, and others) and his solipsistic denial of objective reality… as explained by Oxford Refference:
The belief that only oneself and one’s experience exists. Solipsism is the extreme consequence of believing that knowledge must be founded on inner, personal states of experience, and then failing to find a bridge whereby they can inform us of anything beyond themselves. Solipsism of the present moment extends its scepticism even to one’s own past states, so that all that is left is me, now. Russell reports meeting someone who claimed that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that more people were not so as well.
source: https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100517247
The Delta Smelt they are “saving” are not native to California!
They are an INVASIVE SPECIES! However you can no longer find any info about that. SURPRISE ….. Not.
Probably yet another RED Chinese invasive species….
I doubt it. The delta smelt is essentially a minnow that irresponsible fishermen use as bait. My guess is too many mating age of them got loose.
Not a fisherman here. Why irresponsible?
Done fishing, dump minnow bucket in the river.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
the Minnows would be lost.
The Minnows would be lost.
😀
😂
Now is the time to introduce an idea.
Democrats are stupid. The “smart” party and their “smart” mouthpieces in media and entertainment are actually stupid.
Yes! Oh, how they would hate that. It needs to go viral.
Spontaneously combusting in what heat? It’s the middle of winter!
I figured as much. I suspected it was illegal invaders or acts of intentional sabotage by foreign government agents.
An easy way to continually weaken your enemy from within, and put yet another constant strain on limited resources.
There’s also a history of hate-filled radical environmentalists setting fires – intentionally, malevolently burning down people’s homes in California!
I think it’s the SatanoDEMONRATS doing a slash and burn on their way out, “courtesy” of the Bye. Done. misAdministration….
Western Lensman:
https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1876797978242892231
Y’know, Senator Fester Addams is not too bad….
….but I’m looking forward to a Gomez.
Morticia.
Fetterman feeling a flip to MAGAmerican? 😉
Let’s not get out over our skis.
I can dream can’t I 😉
Scott Presler has broached the idea.
Best if he stays DemonRat but VOTES conservative.
Breaks the mold, D-Rats vote in lock step. May become contagious.
Interesting–TY 🙂
If I’m being honest, I think this guy is probably better than Oz would have been. I think Oz is a touchy-feeling lefty in too many ways.
Fetterman has been a pleasant surprise. I think he managed to get out from under his handler/wife’s thumb.
Bingo. Brazilian commie. Yup, yup, yup.
When he had the breakdown just after being elected, she headed for Canada. After that he changed.
I think he was being dosed with something.
Quite possibly. He certainly was a bit ‘loopy’ before the “Breakdown.”
Remember Kanye West (ye) and his ‘manager’ threatening to have him put away if he did not shut up?
https://www.newsfromtheperimeter.com/home/2022/11/8/kanye-west-exposes-celebs-on-monarch-mind-control-kill-list
I doubt Kanye was the only one.
Waxed wroth, as it were… 🙂
I was just thinking something similar 
i am from PA. Oz was a hold your nose and vote for him choice for me.
Fetterman is so much better than i had hoped for
He’s a liberal, for sure. But at least he’s reasonable. More like Democrats used to be.
Wonders never cease. It’s just marvelous.
Yea. Fester is evolving. Pleasant surprise, as Gail posted. I never saw it coming.
Me, either. All I saw was a stroke victim, honestly. I didn’t think he would recover.
The stroke must have taken out the Marxist crud infecting his brain.
This might be the first case of a beneficial stroke. 😆
Other than ones that kill truly bad people, you mean.
🙂
We are caught in the middle of a war between Good and Evil. When Evil is ascendant (which we have allowed), then we are losing. When Good is winning, the world is better.
In the end, of course, God wins. But until such time as He deems, we are in the struggle.
Amen!
This is somewhat confusing, particularly for those of us who are of a certain age….
J. Paul Getty built an art museum in 1974. It’s in Malibu and is a copy of a Roman villa from Herculaneum that was buried in the famous Pompeii eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
After Getty’s death, his estate built an art museum in 1997. It’s in Brentwood, in the hills above the 405 freeway. It’s connected to a seven story underground garage by a private cable-pulled tram. (As a personal note, on one of the previous occasions my car’s battery died, I push-started my car in this garage about four floors down.)
Subsequent to this, the original Getty museum was renamed the Getty Villa, and the new one was to be known as the Getty Center. The old one specialized in antiquities, and other works were moved to the new one.
The villa, being modeled after an ancient Roman structure, but built to 1974 code, is reasonably fireproof — and its contents are generally pretty rugged. By contrast, the Getty Center is reputed to have every modern safeguard and may be impervious to natural phenomena (some say its collections can be made secure against an adjacent atomic bomb with six hours warning). The new Getty has been threatened by fire before, and it didn’t even muss its gardens.
So far, I’ve been hearing about the grounds of the Villa burning in the Palisades fire. That is not the Getty that has the Van Gogh in it.
Again, the most famous piece at the Villa is an ancient bronze. It would most likely shrug off smoke damage.
They only have one Van Gogh? We have at least three.
Originals? And who is this ‘we’ of whom you speak?
Yes, originals and one that’s particularly famous.
The Saint Louis Art Museum is technically owned by the people of the region. It has a board of trustees, but is part of the zoo museum tax base which funds part of its operating expenses. So, by charter, admission is free.
One of the perks of living here is that SLAM, the zoo, the history museum and science center are free, and the Botanical Garden is very inexpensive for entry – Wednesday and Saturday mornings are free for residents of STL city and county. After all, we are paying for it.
DePat’s MKULTRA link above leads to THIS – the newest mother lode of MKULTRA information.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/dnsa-intelligence/2024-12-23/cia-behavior-control-experiments-focus-new-scholarly
I don’t know how this works, but Repubs have a majority in the Senate. I don’t know if there’s some committee that can gum up the works.
So go around them.
You’re the POTUS. You have a Constitutional obligation to get things done. If the criminal legislative branch seeks to obstruct you in your Constitutional duties and obligations, then go around them.
Use the resources at your command to accomplish the objectives that would otherwise be accomplished by the appointees who are being blocked.
If it is something the military can do, then use the military.
If it is something private industry can do, then use private industry.
If it is something that another agency can be redirected or repurposed to do, then do that.
In the meantime, use Elon Musk to expose every single Republi-con senator and representative who is obstructing. Begin very open and public and very well funded plans to primary these exact Republi-con traitors.
Use fear, intimidation, money, power, every tool of force and coercion at your disposal.
In other words, treat them as they treat everyone else.
“…she hasn’t provided required vetting Materials…”
Well that is VERY EASY for POTUS to correct on Jan 20th at 12:01
Grant her the HIGHEST CLEARANCE. As POTUS Trump has the right.
Security Clearances and Presidential Authority
So go around them.
Yes. I’m sure Trump and his people have plans. Some have menntioned recess appointments, and there is something else that I can’t remember details about. But I’d like to see other means being used to bulldoze through and get it done.
“Acting” appointments.
Recess appointments problematic, with Turtle running Thune.
“Some have menntioned recess appointments,”
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Brain-dead Cocaine Mitch will just instruct his puppet Lurch Thune to not allow the Senate to go into ‘recess’, just like he did LAST TIME that DJT was POTUS, if I recall correctly.
Treat these criminals as what they are.
It’s a war.
The reason our side always loses is because we don’t treat it as a war.
Screw the committee. Send it to the Floor for a vote.
I think the Senate rules say that that would make it a two/thirds vote to pass.
Thanks.
Guessing that would apply to Committee voes down, sent to Floor anyway.
I’m going to say right now; I have no patience for the bullshit games.
That means I expect Trump to bulldoze right over whomever and whatever he needs to in order to enact his agenda.
Piss on the Congress, to hell with the Demoncrats. Get the shit done. America has suffered enough.
I’d guess that is Trump’s plan. Pedal To The Floor. Fuck All Who get In The Way.
We’, Trump have been obstructed every step of the way, since Trump came down the escalator, ~nine years ago.
The obstruction continues will All of the shit happening. Maggot, hussein, their criminals doing everything they can to derail Trump.
The DemCommunists are playing the “Go along to get along, or we’ll fix it so that no POTUS47 nominee gets approved” game. The so-called Republicans in the Senate, led by Sen. John “I’m a clone of Mitch McConnell” Thune, will fall into line. And don’t forget, The Turtle is still in the Senate. He’s now controlling it via Thune and similar types.
It has a nice ring. 😅
Neither can we!
Is there any possible way to recall him?
It’s been tried, and a recall was on the ballot — but what the people vote for doesn’t matter much in this state.
Where is the military?
Why hasn’t Hussein ordered the military to take over the firefighting effort?
I wonder how many illegals and homeless are being burned alive? A lot of them do not have transportation.
I don’t know how Gruesome can even show his face in public going forward.
He should be running for his life.
I’m astounded that so many people will just allow the leader of their state to destroy them, to literally wipe them out, to BURN them out, and the People do what, nothing?
How is he not in so much danger now that his security detail won’t even allow him to remain in the state, because there is no way they can protect him against a population of 39 million people who want his head on a pike?
If a Republi-con was responsible for this, he’d already be dead or chased out of the state and his own home burned to the ground. Californians would be lining up to do it, high-fiving and virtue-signalling to each other.
The criminals know we’re a peaceful people.
I think this time may be different for Gruesome. Not in terms of danger to him, but in terms of people making it so that he can’t walk the streets without jeering and mockery of his every statement.
Heckling Newsom at every single opportunity should be the duty of every Californian.
THAT is protected free speech, and even when it’s “not”, it’s valid non-violent civil disobedience.
I sure hope so!
I also hope people can sue the CRAP out of the politicians in CA.
Suing the Government for Negligence: The Federal Tort Claims ActIf you’re injured by a government agency, you may be able to sue under the Federal Tort Claims Act.,
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part of the plan. California’s in the hole money wise. CA’s constituents are SOOL because of the lack of fire insurance. They will plead for FEDERAL assistance. They will get it. the homeowners will get a small amount and the rest will flow into CA coffers, so the CA gov’t can continue on it’s merry way.
By design.
Trump will bury Newscum and California incompetence with in their face fury.
I saw a clip of him being interviewed. There was devastation in the background. He responded to Trump’s criticisms by pointing out that people are losing their homes and even their lives, and something to the effect of “this isn’t the time for playing politics.” Well, when the actions and inactions of politicians caused the devastation, their failures are fair game. And you can bet that if the shoe were on the other foot, the Left would be howling.
Republican California — built the California Water Project.
Democrat California — this.
Those Billions of dollars voted for water storage are gone.
Supporting illegals, homeless and lining D-Rat pockets. Money laundering.
Wall Street Apes:
https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1877032321469264185
“She was just PULLED OUT OF SURGERY”
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If you allowed it to happen, that’s on YOU.
If you’re in surgery, it doesn’t matter if the POTUS calls, you tell him you’ll get back to him when the surgery is over and your patient is in recovery.
WTH is wrong with people.
my question exactly!
She’s just as much of the problem as the insurance company. Why is she just now speaking up?
Everything was okay until it effects her.
Her personal testimony is more powerful than just blanket pronouncements, IMO.
I imagine she is crazy-busy and that she deals with insurance on most days and there is a feeling that protest is useless. It’s really hard for a doctor to become an activist for a lot of reasons. So many of the doctors that speak out and make videos are not in full-time practice anymore.
It does say that her patient was asleep, but I get your point.
Any time you are under anesthesia, there is a non-zero chance you never wake up again. There are also recent studies (posted here, IIRC) that show brain damage as a result of being made unconscious during medical procedures (or for any other reason).
So this woman is anesthetized, and laying on an operating table while her surgeon is off playing Chatty Cathy with an insurance agent. Which means the anesthesia specialist is going to have to administer MORE anesthesia, which is going to cost MORE money AND put the patient at greater risk.
Beyond all that, do HIPAA laws not apply to insurance clowns? Why is my surgeon discussing my personal medical situation with some ass-hat at ABC Insurance, Inc.?
What business is it of his? His ONLY job is to pay the bills for treatment deemed necessary by a physician.
The insurance agent isn’t a medical professional, he has zero medical training and is in no position to make any determination about my medical care, under any circumstance. And he sure as *&^% better not be trying to coerce or influence my doctor in any way.
And the only way to make sure that doesn’t happen is to make sure insurance agents are prevented by LAW from EVER speaking to a physician about any individual patient.
Ever.
The appropriate person to make those decisions is the medical professional.
We pay insurance premiums to the insurance company to pay for whatever care is deemed necessary by the MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, not to pay for whatever care is deemed necessary by Joe Dumbass at Insurance ‘Я Us.
Because Joe Dumbass is always going to argue that $0 worth (or as close to it as possible) is the right amount of medical care.
Fix that problem easy.
Pass a law that anyone who works at an insurance agency goes into a national database, and for the rest of his life, that insurance agent receives the exact same level of medical care for himself and his family that he authorized for his policy holders.
Watch what happens then.
Motivation is a powerful thing… 😂
scott467,
I see three deplorable entities here.
1. The insurance company for interfering in the middle of a patient’s medical procedure
2. The hospital for allowing a doctor to take a phone call in the middle of an operation, and,
3. The surgeon for thinking it’s ok to leave the patient on the operating table to go and talk to the insurance company.
When a surgeon leaves a patient on the table to speak to a fucking administrator, HERE’S YOUR SIGN.
What the hell is wrong with so-called doctors now? Seriously. They’re like mindless automaton sheep.
Death Of Common Sense, is front and center.
And it’s killing people. For real.
The patient was asleep. I don’t blame the doctor. I’m glad this happened and she spoke up about it.
The liability of leaving that patient, not to mention potential infection from contamination, ALONE would more than offset the cost of the surgery. I have seen them come and go, I hate to say it, but 1 of 12 is worth a dime, the rest are mindless lemmings. The Hippocratic oath is dead. Now it is ALL about the $$.
Sad, but true.
“She was just PULLED OUT OF SURGERY…”
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That’s a lie. Nobody pulled her out of surgery, she CHOSE to stop the surgery and take the call. Turns out it was even worse than that, she actually called the insurance agent.
If I was the surgeon, I would fire whatever assistant was stupid enough to interrupt my surgical procedure for a freakin’ PHONE CALL, unless it was a phone call from God Himself.
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“…while her patient was asleep and forced to speak with UnitedHealthcare”
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So her patient is unconscious on the operating table, and this bureaucrat masquerading as a doctor CHOSE to LEAVE the operating room
to take a call from United Health Careto call United Healthcare, on the orders of an insurance agent.Nobody “forced” her to do anything.
Unless someone had a gun to her head, she clearly doesn’t even know the meaning of the word ‘force’.
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“…who tries to cancel patients inpatient stay after surgery who has CANCER”
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That’s a discussion for the patient and her lawyers and the patient’s primary care physician, NOT the surgeon who is about to cut into the patient on the operating table, you &^%$%ing idiots.
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“It’s 2025 and insurance just keeps getting worse”
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Because people like you keep taking calls in the middle of surgery, and then doing whatever the bureaucrat on the other end of the phone says.
The bureaucrat is fighting for himself and his best interests.
Do you think the person calling in the MIDDLE of a freaking surgery has either YOUR best interests or (more importantly) your PATIENT’S best interests in mind?!?
YOU have to fight for YOU, and you *&^% well better fight for your unconscious PATIENT.
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“I’ve never had this happen before. But during the second deep, I had a phone call into the operating room saying that UnitedHealthcare wanted me to call them about one of the patients who was having surgery”
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Are you a 5-year old child?
Younger?
Because even a 5-year old knows better than to take a phone call from an insurance company in the middle of a medical procedure.
How in the world are you not too embarrassed to even tell this story?
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“I’ve never had this happen before.”
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It didn’t happen TO you, you DID it. It couldn’t have happened without YOU doing it.
For example, you could have left the insurance bureaucrat hanging on the line for the entire length of the surgery, and if he was still on the line when surgery was over, you could have talked to him then.
But no, you didn’t do that, did you Cruella?
No, you dropped everything, left your unconscious patient on the operating table, and RAN to the *&^%ing phone to talk to the money man.
And that’s 100% on YOU.
And nobody else BUT you.
YOU did it. You don’t get to pass the buck to anyone.
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“But during the second deep, I had a phone call into the operating room saying that UnitedHealthcare wanted me to call them about one of the patients who was having surgery”
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How is it even POSSIBLE to call into the operating room?
WTH is going on here?
What possible reason could there be, to have a PHONE in the operating room?!?
Is it sitting right next to the Tik-Tok camera?
Do you do anything that anybody ‘wants’?
How in the world have you not been sued to oblivion by the patient in question?
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“So I scrubbed outta my case and I called UnitedHealthcare…”
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Who scrubbed outta your case?
YOU did.
And who called United Healthcare?
YOU did.
The scumbag vampire wasn’t even waiting on the line, YOU actually called HIM.
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“…and the gentleman…”
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The ‘gentleman‘ ?!?
Is that what they’re calling them these days? The #^%@ing scumbag that INTERRUPTED a surgical procedure to have YOU call HIM about the patient’s post-op care, is a ‘gentleman’?
Seriously?!?
How ‘gentle’ is he?
Is he ‘gentle’ enough to be YOUR insurance agent?
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“…said he needed some information about her,”
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So let me get this straight, honey.
Some bean counter for a insurance agency calls into your operating room, and he ‘needed’ something, and so you, being a half-wit with radically misplaced priorities that only a half-wit could possess, you dropped everything and said “how high” when some clown from the insurance company said he ‘needed something’.
Are you a DOCTOR or a flunky for the insurance industry?
I guess we all know the answer to that question.
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“…wanna know her diagnosis and whether whether her inpatient stay should be justified.”
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Why are you even having that conversation?
Oh, that’s right, because YOU chose to INTERRUPT a medical procedure in an operating room, to go CALL an insurance agent.
How did you think that was going to go?
Did you think you were in the girl-power position, after being TOLD to stop your surgery and go call an insurance company agent, because he wants to know things?
Is there anyone who doesn’t own you?
Do you have any self-respect, at all?
You claim to be a doctor, a surgeon even, so you ought to have at least a little bit of self-esteem — enough to tell ANYBODY who interrupts your operating room to GFY — and whoever did it, and all their stuff better be gone by the time you’re done with the surgery.
But instead, here you are, taking phone calls and playing Stepin Fetchit to some stranger at an insurance company, while your patient lies unconscious on the operating table.
Do you do surgical procedures in blackface too, or are you a melanin lotto winning DEI hire?
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” — I was like, do you understand that she’s asleep right now and she has breast cancer?”
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Love the valley-girl lingo, that’s very professional. Why are you even having that conversation, with anyone, at that moment in time?!?
Because you dropped everything, literally, to go MAKE a phone call to an insurance company. Because he ‘needed’ and ‘wanted’ something.
How do you think that looks? Who do you think has power in that scenario?
And who do you think OUGHT to have the upper hand in that scenario?
Where’s your girl-boss power?
Do you suppose the insurance agent went to college and then did 3+ years of medical school plus however many years in residency you went through? Is the insurance agent YOUR superior, either professionally OR transactionally?
Or is he a dime a dozen, replaceable by anyone who answers a want ad in the newspaper and walks in off the street?
And you’re interrupting a surgical procedure and saying ‘how high’ to this clown?
Were you born yesterday, or do you fall off the turnip truck every day?
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“It’s out of control. It insurance is out of control. I have no other words.”
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Somebody is out of control — or more accurately, doesn’t have any control in the first place, not control over herself or control of her operating room.
And she’s passing the buck like it’s a hot coal at a snowman making contest.
If I was the surgeon, I would have standing orders that I was NOT to be disturbed unless there was an actual fire or the building was being evacuated because they found a bomb.
I would certainly be chew on some ones ASS for forwarding that call to me.
Unfortunately hospitals are now like universities and run by WOKE money grubbing asses so the sureon is just a lowly employee.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) warned that this would happen if OH!Bummercare was passed.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Leftist.
Rude awakening.
Times were, looters would (and could) be shot on sight.
No questions asked, no penalties.
Oddly enough, looting used to be rare…
All the Governater has to do is give the order.
The order he probably gave was, “burn, baby, burn”…..
I’d prefer to lock to standard time, but this is a great example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. I’m about 97% for not changing times, and 3% for it being standard time instead of daylight time. If 97% of my irritation on this issue is removed, I’ll probably forget about the other 3% until my other problems are solved.
We tried year-round DST during the energy crisis and people hated it, we ended up right back where we were before.
According to what reputable source — the NY Slimes? The Feral Government?
My memory of when it happened.
As it turned out many people hate a late sunrise which is what they had in the dead of winter with DST.
I LOVED sun in the afternoon when I got off work. Of course I have been known to go horseback riding in minus 40F …. I did not bother to take the blanket off my horse,🙃
For which the horse was grateful.
True!
We also used to do ski joring thru a big field.
They should try living up here in the Puget Sound – the land of winter late sunrises, no matter which scheme is used.
Make ’em a (nominal, because it’s what your watch calls it, not reality) hour later.
It’s not going to be perfect for anyone unless they move to a location where the sun rises and sets at exactly the time they want.
Yep. Standard Time was Standard Time for (just about) forever, and no-one bitched about it back then.
I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE THAT HOUR UP TO THE DEEP STATE!!!!!!!!!!!
I get that people are irritated with the one hour flip, twice a year.
I prefer get on one. Don’t care which one.
SMDH, Scott has this legislation as his hot button of the day.
R-Cons are a really, really bad joke.
Low hanging fruit for votes.
I think it was one of the things Trump had mentioned. Some Repubs are taking action on his agenda items.
Darren Grimes:
A minute and 30 seconds of Trump zingers with the media.
TOO MUCH WINNING!!!
That brings a big smile to my face. So nice to see the Fake News get treated they way they should be.
Best part. FOUR More Years. Trump will be totally unleashed.
“Chy-na!”
Thank you, dear De Pat, for setting such a bountiful table of a post before us on this day.
There’s a 28 second video in the article showing almost completely destroyed buildings but very close by them there are articles that appear to have not heat/flame issues, a planter, a barbeque, a bench, a green painted box (newspaper or possibly utility box?), & many trees. These anomalies make me think it Possible that DEWs could be in play.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14265045/billy-crystal-pacific-palisades-los-angeles-home-california-fire.html
That “makes us look like fools” theory has been disproved a number of times. Far too great a territory burned and/or affected for DEW to have been involved (or used over that great of an expanse).
Santa Ana winds have been a problem since time immemorial, but the INTENTIONAL NEGLECT by the SatanoDEMONRATS have taken an annual event and turned it into an
Annus horribilis…..
I agree about the winds but I don’t understand the nearby items seeming to show no heat or flame issues. It looks strange to me, but perhaps I’m the only one who gets hung up on that “evidence” 🙂
From a relative of mine who’s a Believer but bought into A Lot of leftisms…
She called this “Trump and the Environment”
“God put us in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and make sure it kept producing clean air, water, soil, plants, animals and people as God planned it to sustain all life. President Trump is evil in his plans to destroy our healthy and, safe environment for more money and profits to the rich and powerful destroyers of our Eden!”
Then she appended this item that was emailed to her…forewarned & all 😉 😉
Donnie R. Dann
January 2025 – Volume 29 Number 1
Conservation Alert
IS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEAD?
Trump Administration and Conservation
“Climate change is a hoax”. The president-elect has promised to practically wipe out federal climate, clean air, and clean water regulations. His administration’s plans aim at rules applying to everything from auto emissions to power plant pollution to drinking water standards. To those of us who care deeply for the natural world, these and similar statements and proposals by the president-elect are disheartening. But despair not.
Most Blue states have been ardent fighters in the battle against climate change deniers and air and water polluters. Their attorneys general and lawmakers are preparing to fight back by filing lawsuits, enacting their own regulations, and staffing up state environmental agencies.
In the first Trump administration, his agencies tried to roll back more than 100 environmental rules. The courts struck down many of those rollbacks after legal challenges.
Where and what will the anti-environmentalists attack first? Environmental advocates say the likeliest might be the EPA’s waivers that allow California to set its own limits, stricter than federal rules, for automotive emissions. Many other states, comprising 40% of the light-duty vehicle market, follow the California standards.
“[California] needs federal support on reducing transportation emissions, really centered on our waivers from the EPA,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, said in an interview, “There’s a way for regulations to be created, and a way for them to be changed. If the law isn’t followed, as it often was not during the first Trump administration, we will sue, and as in the past, we will win.”
Of the roughly 120 lawsuits brought by California against the first Trump administration, 70 were environmental cases, Bonta said. The state won a majority of those cases.
The Wall Street Journal reecetntly wrote that etven some MAGA Republicans are unwilling to roll back significant portions of the Biden-era climate bill where it could negatively affect their constituencies’ economic interests.
This Newsletter may be excerpted, reproduced or circulated without limitation.Unsubscribee
Some of the above is courtesy of Oregon Capital Chronicle.
This is too easy.
California is either a state, subject to all the rules for all the other states, without exceptions or waivers…..
…..or it can be a territory, with special rules unto itself.
Per that dubious newsletter it apparently expects waivers AND federal bailouts 😡
Normal. They think they’re invulnerable.
Hope the Trump team helps them revise their views of themselves & US…
I want every single freakin’ subordinate clause of potential exception to be REVOKED. California should live under the rules that everyone else does.
100%
Including emission standards, etc.
At this point, I think a very hard lesson needs to be learned.
NO FEDERAL BAILOUTS PERIOD!!!
From yesterday there was this video from para59r
https://nitter.poast.org/JohnLeFevre/status/1876869458561556738
https://twitter.com/JohnLeFevre/status/1876869458561556738
From that thread:
Tara
https://nitter.poast.org/Tara15482537174/status/1876936716835012697
Map showing locations of many fires & pict of a fire.
They can be wa(i)ved off into the Pacific.
THEY broke it; THEY buy it. THEIR PROBLEM, not ours…..
And NOT A PENNY UNTIL THE HURRICANE VICTIMS ARE HELPED!!!!!!!!!!!!
This!
They worship the creature, and not the CREATOR.
The trouble is, the tree-huggers have no knowledge of basic science, economics, and logic, let alone anything more complicated. They live and rely upon ideology rather than common sense and reality, i.e. and ideocracy, as we see here in Germany with Habeck, Baerbock, Lang, and all the rest…
I figured that sooner or later the idiots would blame this all on Trump. Once again, I wonder for whom the Kalifornistan Krowd voted…
My (partial) beef with the above is the non-constitutional overreach of government via the EPA. There May be lofty goals within some EPA actions but its very existence is outside of constitutional authority so represents illegitimate government, aka tyranny!
I’m reading rock solid about 80% of 12G of RAM, and about 20% of 16G of swap. This is before I changed my swap to a different device and doubled it from 8G — because I’d frequently go 100% of RAM and 100% of swap and my system would semi-hang.
First impression — I gave it more swap, and now it doesn’t need as much as it previously used. WTF?
Second note — both Brave and Firefox pushed updates while I was dorking around. Would it not be ironic if they fixed (in software) the problem I was working to fix (in hardware)?
I’d previously diddled with “swappiness”. Ubuntu standard is 60 — I’d tried 40 and 80 and they both seemed to make my memory management worse. I’m continuing to watch the current setup, but it is not doing the pre-misbehaving I expect.
Just to make this comment interesting, here’s “Ride to Happiness” —
I’m not a code guy but my speculation is that there are lines of code commanding the performance of something and directing the use of a specific size allotment of RAM not located in the swap file. By changing the amount of RAM, you are changing the base address of the RAM which is somehow the root by which all commands are to be used in certain execution sub-schemes.
Or some such similar thing. 😜
[I’m done now]
On that “happy” ride I could do without the extra spinning of the cars. Looks like something to get the vertigo & stomach contents going–yikes!
In your case it’s not irony.
It’s karma.
[j/k good buddy 😍 ]
Must be a “Democratic” memory manager (mangler) 😀
(Or poorly-written/designed AlGorithms…)…..
😀
https://assets.amuniversal.com/67c527209f0b012f2fe600163e41dd5b
Currently at 82% RAM and 32% swap, so I’m definitely still leaking…..but it seems under control.
I don’t think Brave and memory management live in the same universe…. always had problems with that (and FireFarce isn’t a whole lot better) and cutting off support for Win7 ended my usage of Brave… Windoze 1 0 and 1 1 are Orwellian nightmares… not to mention cr@p…..
Brave implemented a “feature” where it tells you the memory usage of a tab when you hover over it (e.g. 662MB for youtube.com — lotsa thumbnails). That would be a total of “real memory” and swap, with the allocation between the two done by the kernel.
They seem to know the problem exists.
What they’re doing about it, OTOH……
Weird I hopped back to the Q-Tree tab after checking out some other tabs. The way the page looked was really strange, in a way I’ve Never seen before. The post was shrunken with wide margins on the right & left & boxes around some of the sections. I reloaded the page & the typical appearance returned…hmmm…
Would that be the format supposed to be used on a mobile phone? I can recall having seen that tall and narrow version of this and other sites, even as I use a desktop system,
but it has been a while
No clue here, but I have no mobile phone so not likely I’d guess. I’m on a laptop, fwiw…
Maybe the 🕵 going along for the ride is/was using a phone 😆 😆 😆
LOL
sunnydaze
January 9, 2025 12:48 am
Edink
January 9, 2025 1:00 am
L.A. Officials Complain There Aren’t Enough Firefighters — After Firing Hundreds Who Refused to Take COVID Vaccine
As fires rage across Los Angeles, city officials are complaining there are not enough firefighters to manage the situation.
Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said that the department was incapable of managing such a massive natural disaster.
“There are not enough firefighters in all of Los Angeles County to address four separate fires of this magnitude,” he said.
“The LA County Fire Department was prepared for one or two major wildfires, but not the four. This is not a normal red flag alert.”
While their lack of manpower is completely understandable given the incredible ferocity of the fires, it is worth noting that many firefighters were fired for their refusal to take the COVID vaccine.
As pointed out by the popular End Wokeness account X, local news media even ran reports back in 2021 about how firefighters had their employment terminated after refusing to provide proof of vaccination or requesting an exemption.
In fact, a group of hundreds of the city’s firefighters even filed a lawsuit against the city for violating their constitutional rights.
Chiefio captures my thoughts on S T O O P I D California.
100% Newscum and assholes further destroying California and its citizens should be run out of power and strung up. <<<
Every election, Californians double Down On Failure – Demand Failure.
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This is a good read.
Los Angeles Burning & Did It To Themselves
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/
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Admittedly this will NOT fix a damn thing, in California.
California Joe
January 9, 2025 2:21 am
LGBTQ LA Fire Chief announces new $1 Million EV All Electric Fire Truck
PG&E Announces Power Shut-Off to Fire Ravaged Pacific Palisades….
https://lafd.org/news/lafd-chief-debuts-arrival-first-electric-fire-engine
EV Emergency Vehicles.
right? now there’s no water for the fire truck but that’s okay there’s no power to charge the dang thing anything. AND no fireman cuz they got fired.
hollywood couldn’t write a disaster this bad.
FAFO
Let them stew in their own (very hot) juices. YOU voted for it, YOU got it.
At this point I can not find any empathy at ALL.
That IS where I am. Hence, my blunt posts today.
ALSO remember ‘Build Back Better’ Means building Agenda 21/30 housing.
California Housing Laws That Go into Effect in 2025by Muhammad Alameldin @ UC Berkley
California’s 2023 Housing Laws: What You Need to Know
AB 2295 (Assembly Member Richard Bloom) – Educational Employee Housing. This law addresses the dire need for teacher housing. It will allow a qualifying rental housing development project to be an “allowable use,” entitled to certain exemptions…
s entitled to be exempt from any use, density and height limitations that would preclude a residential development of at least 35 feet in height, and a minimum density ranging from 10 to 30 dwelling units per acre depending upon whether the jurisdiction is metropolitan, suburban or unincorporated. A qualifying development is also exempt from various requirements regarding the disposal of surplus land.
So NEW building codes in 2025 JUST IN TIME for rebuilding Californicate according to ‘sustainability strategy.’
Sept 2009 National Multi-Housing Council: Green Practices/Sustainability
NYC mayor Bloomberg was putting it into effect in New York. He really must have LOVED Sandy since it means they can insist on Smart Growth housing as replacement.
Gallery: 5 Super Efficient Tiny New York Apartments
But even for some, 400 square feet is a luxury.
Lahaina is the beta test.
Exactly what I was thinking. However Christchurch NZ was the actual Beta test.
March 2016 The Demise of Christchurch City New Zealand
This blog has LOTS of info.
2011?? From the Ground Up : Re-building Christchurch…aemslab.org.nz›from_the_ground_up
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The Republican mayor and Republican city council here voted to change housing regulations. So now homeowners can turn their garage or divide the house into small aprartments. All in the name of offering more opportunities for low income people.
So now we’ll start seeing all these tiny rat holes pop up. To compliment the influx of all the 5-6 story high rent apartment building’s being built.
The writing is on the wall where this will all end.