What is happening to the The American Academy of Pediatrics?

Pediatric care, 1960

Back on June 9, Muldoon wrote a great post about the American Academy of Pediatrics, entitled The Moral Abdication of The Academy. I encourage you to re-read it. Here's a short excerpt:

While certainly the AAP and its various sub-committees have been instrumental in many advances in the medical and surgical treatments of major medical problems affecting children, the organization has a less savory side.
When I began my pediatric training in the mid 1980s it was expected as a matter of course that pediatric residents would automatically join the AAP. It was axiomatic that "pediatrician = AAP member". The mantra in those days was that we were to be "advocates for children". The pediatrician was to utilize his expertise to enhance, fortify and augment parents' ability to raise healthy children. The pediatrician and the parents, as a team, endeavored to help children become functioning adults, with well-rounded physical, mental and social capabilities. We were taught to respect the cultural and ethnic background of each family. Somewhere along the way, there began a shift from augmenting and enhancing, to overruling and usurping parents.
The AAP issues numerous policy statements, intended to address particular pediatric health issues authoritatively, from a position of being subject matter experts. These policy statements originally served as 'guidelines' for pediatricians, but have evolved to become the 'standard of care' for general pediatricians in their daily practices. AAP positions are cited as gospel and deviations from them are shunned. Busy pediatricians nearly always defer to the expert position, as the path of least resistance. Also, AAP statements are not just aimed at practicing pediatricians. More and more they are aimed at public policy makers, legislators and government agencies. I have been noticing some unsettling trends and techniques among the AAP's statements. Let's look at a few examples.

The examples Muldoon gives fall into four categories. I am afraid that there are a couple of new, specific illustrations since Muldoon wrote that post. Let's see how well these fit into the categories Muldoon set forth:

EXAMPLE #3: Intentional distortion and misrepresentation of statistics.

The American Academy of Pediatrics sponsors a medical journal, Pediatrics, which published a paper on August 3 which purported to dismiss the key points of Abigail Shrier's book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. The lead author of the paper is Jack Turban. I thought it would be a good idea to watch Shrier's Twitter feed for responses. And they came:

I'm so frustrated major journals like Pediatrics allow activist clinicians to overclaim and distort. It doesn't help trans people in the long run to flood the zone with shoddy science.
2/ To take one of many examples, this paper argues that from 2017 to 2019, the % of adolescents identifying as trans *dropped by a third*. Does anyone, anywhere think this is true? Jack Turban doesn't -- in July of 2021, in a sworn statement, he endorsed the idea of a rise.

This came in before the Pediatrics paper: The Beginning of the End of 'Gender-Affirming Care'? Is this one reason the AAP published a new paper?

Britain is closing the infamous Tavistock Centre. Finland and Sweden have radically revised their treatment guidelines. But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.

A major refutation to the Pediatrics piece came in yesterday . I am no statistician, but I have heard some statisticians defend statistical programs. And the logical and statistical arguments used in this paper just don't meet minimum standards. Leor Sapir writes in City Journal:

A new study in the journal Pediatrics sets out to refute a central claim made by critics of pediatric gender transition: that social pressure rather than organic processes is the major cause of transgender self-identification among youth. Among the study's authors is Jack Turban, an oft-quoted proponent of "gender affirming care" (GAC) and propagator of the affirm-or-suicide myth.
Pediatrics, recall, is the journal that published Jason Rafferty's thoroughly debunked 2018 article purporting to find conclusive evidence that alternatives to GAC are futile and harmful. That article has become Exhibit A in efforts by policymakers to promote GAC and is widely cited by activist groups working with schools to make (iatrogenic) "social transition" easier for students. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which publishes Pediatrics, has spent the past few years suppressing petitions from members to conduct a thorough review of the evidence on this issue. According to the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, Michael Biggs, a U.K. researcher who has published on this topic, submitted a rebuttal to the AAP, which the organization refused to publish (offering no explanation). It is becoming increasingly clear that AAP's policy on this issue is "no debate."

This is very disturbing. "No debate" makes this professional organization sound like a grievance studies department in a university.

Turban takes aim at the two key claims driving the social-genesis approach. The first, known as the social contagion hypothesis, is that adolescents adopt a transgender identity in response to social cues and pressures. This phenomenon was first documented in a 2018 study by Lisa Littman and inspired Abigail Shrier's book Irreversible Damage. Its plausibility has since been strengthened by clinicians working in the field. According to some proponents of the contagion hypothesis, the effect exists mostly or even exclusively among teenage girls. Relying on a supplemental questionnaire adopted by 16 states on the CDC's biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey, however, Turban finds that more boys than girls identified as trans in 2017 (1.5 boys for every girl) and 2019 (1.2 boys for every girl). Thus, he concludes, the contagion hypothesis is false.
This is an astonishing leap of logic. First, the supplemental questionnaire asks respondents whether they self-identify as transgender. It gives them four options: yes, no, I don't know, and I don't understand the question. Turban includes only those who said yes (2.4 percent in 2017, 1.6 percent in 2019). He leaves out those who answered, "I don't know," a far more numerous category (4 percent). . .

Second, the supplemental questionnaire also asks respondents what their "sex" is. Turban assumes that respondents understand this second question to mean "sex assigned at birth" rather than "gender identity," and cites three studies to confirm that that is how teenagers "are likely to understand" the word "sex." Yet the first two citations say nothing of the sort, and the third only weakly hints in that direction. No less damning, the researcher who developed the questionnaire for the CDC has herself emphasized the "uncertainty as to whether transgender students responded to the sex question with their sex or gender identity."

Third, Turban's claim about the sex ratio is inconsistent with existing data, which clearly show a strong predominance of girls over boys. These trends have been documented in peer-reviewed research, are internationally observed, and have remained fairly steady over the past decade or so. By contrast, Turban's data are solely from the U.S., sample only one-third of states (Turban mentions 16 states, but it appears that the actual number of states collecting data is even lower), and focus only on two specific years. . .

There is much more at the link. Do you think this AAP-sponsored paper fits Muldoon's characterization of "Intentional distortion and misrepresentation of statistics"?

EXAMPLE #4: Expanding the definition of childhood while also granting autonomy to immature individuals

This is part of what Muldoon wrote:

At its inception, the field of Pediatrics self-described as the medical care of children. As time passed, further subcategories of childhood emerged. Advances in newborn care and prevention of common infectious diseases led to a re-categorization into Newborns, Infants and Children. In the 1980s, further expansion defined the transitional phase from child to adult as a unique category, and Adolescent Medicine was born. Now, more recent articles from the AAP speak of Newborns, Infants, Children, Adolescents and Young Adults. Mission creep aside, this has two results. One, it expands the definition of childhood even further, and two, it blurs the line between childhood and adulthood.This creates the ironic situation where childhood is extended well into the 20's, while simultaneously granting pre-teens the autonomy to make life-changing decisions about sexuality and sexual development, such as puberty blockers, male or female hormone enhancement, or surgical genital mutilation.
For decades, Adolescent Medicine specialists have planted and nourished a notion of autonomy and confidentiality between the adolescent and the physician. There comes a point however, when claiming to affirm a pre-teen or teen's feelings or self-image (no matter how delusional it may be) comes into conflict with the parents' lifelong commitment, rights, and responsibilities as the guide for that youth's development from child to adult. At some point, a physician as counselor encouraging a youth to reject the culture, traditions and mores of his/her parents drives a wedge between child and family.

This is happening NOW:

July 18, An Open Letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics:

We write to you from Genspect, an international and non-partisan organization which represents thousands of parents of gender dysphoric children, adolescents, and young adults, as well as trans people, detransitioners, clinicians, and allied groups. We want our children to be affirmed as whole human beings, and we want them to be treated with evidence-based interventions which ensure that benefits outweigh risks. We are very concerned that the AAP is currently representing only one set of views on how best to help our children thrive--namely both social (names, pronouns, etc.) and medical transition (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgeries), which the AAP refers to as "affirmative care." Many of our children have received this care and are anything but thriving.
This has propelled us to closely read the studies that support these treatments, and we have found that what is claimed about the studies is not at all what the results actually show. . .

. . . We now have several independent systematic reviews of evidence that show that the benefits of these treatments are far from certain. However, the evidence of risks --such as harms to bones and the cardiovascular system, effects on the brain and other organs, sexual difficulties, and a future inability to have kids--are mounting, as evidenced by a growing number of studies. Several countries have now acted on this new information, including Sweden, where "it has been decided that hormonal treatments (i.e., puberty blocking and cross-sex hormones) will not be initiated in gender dysphoric patients under the age of 16. For patients between ages 16 and 18, it has been decided that treatment may only occur within the clinical trial settings approved by the EPM (Ethical Review Agency/Swedish Institutional Review Board). The patient must receive comprehensive information about potential risks of the treatment, and a careful assessment of the patient's maturity level must be conducted to determine if the patient is capable of evaluating, and consenting to, the treatment."
Additionally the UK is undertaking a multi-year review of its gender transition program over concerns that harms outweigh benefits. An official interim report distanced itself from the "affirmation model" by emphasizing that this model of care "originated in the USA" and signaling that change is coming to Great Britain.

So, is the UK scapegoating the USA, or are the activists pushing "gender affirmative care" really worse here?

We have recently become aware that five pediatricians submitted a resolution (#27) to urge the AAP to do a thorough and systematic evaluation of the available evidence and to update the 2018 AAP position paper Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender Diverse Children and Adolescents, which incorrectly promulgates the notion that "gender affirmative" psychosocial and medical interventions are the only acceptable treatment for gender dysphoric youth. This resolution is timely: thousands of young adults are coming forward on Detrans subreddit and other social media platforms describing their regret. Why is this happening? A recently published peer-reviewed publication warned that the original "Dutch" protocol that is now used to treat dysphoric youth suffers from significant methodological limitations and is not applicable to most of the current cases: namely youth with post-puberty onset of gender dysphoria complicated by mental health or neurocognitive difficulties.
Many Genspect parents have observed such a sudden trans identification in their children, often emerging after an intense and obsessive period of consuming narrowly-focused social media content and watching their friends, one by one, announce a trans identity. Moreover, many of our children suffer from psychological comorbidities . . .

It is long past due for the AAP to address this issue, and we were pleased to see that Resolution 27, introduced by several AAP pediatrician members, finally addressed this. However, we were very disappointed to learn that the AAP leadership chose to specifically disallow pediatrician comments on Resolution 27, omitting it from the list in the link sent to pediatricians soliciting their comments. We understand that this is due to a "new rule" that "unsponsored" resolutions cannot be commented on. It is alarming that not a single chapter or committee within the AAP was willing to "sponsor" a resolution that asks to conduct a non-partisan and systematic review of evidence in pediatric gender medicine - something the AAP has never done. It is even more alarming that the AAP appears to be preemptively suppressing debate by not allowing comments on "unsponsored" resolutions, a rule that did not exist last year when a similar "unsponsored" resolution got many supportive pediatrician votes and comments. . . (emphasis mine)

The entire letter is great. This thread includes a link to an additional detailed rebuttal to the current AAP policy statement on trans-kids (read to the end of the thread for cautions concerning pedophilia); notes on international scandals in the field and ways that pediatricians and others can help change the current situation. Responses to the AAP from pediatricians and others are needed soon.

Does it appear that the AAP is continuing its practice of "Expanding the definition of childhood while also granting autonomy to immature individuals", as Muldoon put it back in June?

Quotes

The creeps that used to pull up to kids in windowless vans offering to help find their dog are now pulling up to schools in Priuses offering to help kids find their gender.
These aren't things normal adults do.
Frank McCormick - Chalkboard Heresy

Response: "It's a growth sector of the economy. Thanks ESG!"

Sex education will ensure that the next generation will not form families, since it will have destroyed in its pupils everything that leads one sex to idealize the other and so to channel erotic feelings into marriage
Becoming a Family
Roger Scruton

Apparently, eleven-year-olds need to know how to whore themselves - and to know that whoring is, like, totally valid and empowering - because they may be transgender and may have to pay for hormones and surgical mutilations.
Oh shiny tomorrow.
David Thompson, on education in Loudon County, VA

Music

Mentoring: Jimmy Brown, the Newsboy

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Here's last week's post, with comments: The Pritzker Billionaires and Synthetic Sex Identities

I closed the comments on this thread so you wouldn't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:08 AM

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1 Lot of reading there. Be back later.

Posted by: Javems at August 06, 2022 11:14 AM (AmoqO)

2 Wow.

All of our institutions are crap.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 06, 2022 11:15 AM (C1rbv)

3 Skimmed it, but the gist seems to be that lefties have suborned another organization for their own purposes, and deviationists will be shot.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 11:16 AM (/NCI4)

4 Wasn't there a president with purple lips who complained about surgeons performing unnecessary surgeries for the money?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 06, 2022 11:16 AM (eGTCV)

5 New thread at odd hour

Posted by: Ciampino - - at August 06, 2022 11:17 AM (qfLjt)

6 All of our institutions are crap.
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Yep.

Thank God that my marriage isn't.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:17 AM (tUVd3)

7 Figures America is exporting this perversity.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:18 AM (tUVd3)

8 We are creating an entire generation of kids who will go through life confused and intolerant of any opposing viewpoints and will wind up dependent of psychotropic drugs for the rest of their lives.

It's like it is being done on purpose.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 06, 2022 11:18 AM (bVYXr)

9 "Childhood"...lasts 'til 26 now...right?

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:19 AM (AwYPR)

10 re: granting autonomy to immature individuals --

A few years ago I was shocked to learn that in Oregon, 13 year olds are allowed to make final decisions about their health care, even in hospital.

But seeing what has been transpiring across the nation, I now understand that is just one more step to the final goal: legalizing sex with minor children.

"If a 13 yr old can decide their health care, why can't s/he decide to choose sexual relations with a 40 year old?"

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 11:19 AM (dCxaZ)

11 Pennsylvania Pride Festival Teaches Kids to Pole Dance

https://tinyurl.com/3fymmrtz

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:21 AM (tUVd3)

12 "If a 13 yr old can decide their health care, why can't s/he decide to choose sexual relations with a 40 year old?"

The Dutch lowered the legal age to something like 13 back in the 70s. They raised it back up again (to what I don't know, and I'm not googling that). I wonder how many children were irreversibly damaged by that experiment.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (/NCI4)

13 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

14 They're not children anymore. Parents are allowing/encouraging this.

They're things. Society should treat them as such.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2022 11:24 AM (BFigT)

15 I remember a Doc making a housecall when I was very little. It was slightly traumatic, actually. Might have been more traumatic in the office.

Posted by: KT at August 06, 2022 11:25 AM (rrtZS)

16 The beatings will continue until morals improve. Or something like that.

Posted by: Bosk at August 06, 2022 11:26 AM (yh68b)

17 Doc visited my house up to about 1965..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at August 06, 2022 11:27 AM (RMN7W)

18 I absolutely remember Doctors making housecalls in the 60s. Very common in small southern towns.

Posted by: lurker at August 06, 2022 11:28 AM (+XCWQ)

19 4 Wasn't there a president with purple lips who complained about surgeons performing unnecessary surgeries for the money?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at August 06, 2022 11:16 AM (eGTCV)

Yes, but he would consider this "necessary" surgery.. He was talking about Grandmas hip replacement

Posted by: It's me donna at August 06, 2022 11:28 AM (bs+z0)

20 Sorry I'm late, Homey Depot run

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 06, 2022 11:29 AM (IAr9f)

21 KT-

Thanks for the detailed digging and further exposition on this topic. When I wrote my bit, I literally picked four of the first six or so Policy Statements I looked at to find the examples I used. It is pervasive.

One minor quibble. That magazine cover is clearly faked. A pediatrician of that era would have worn a bow tie.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 11:30 AM (kXYt5)

22 I remember having mumps around 1960...mom made me stay in bed. My aunts bought me new toys!

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:30 AM (AwYPR)

23 >>I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.

Posted by: BignJames

When I was a kid- just a lower case db- our family doctor came to the house on a few occasions. This would have been 1961-1962 ish. The black doctor bag and everything. And she had a really great doctor name- Margaret Throckmorton Snow. She was great. RIP, Doctor Margaret.

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:30 AM (geLO8)

24 2+2=4

Posted by: Holy Crap at August 06, 2022 11:33 AM (glGDV)

25 "I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960."

When I was a kid our family doctor did live/practice in a residential neighborhood. Not at a clinic or hospital. That's something you don't see anymore.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 06, 2022 11:34 AM (qH6FZ)

26 Science is fake. Alex Jones would be proud!

Posted by: Sid at August 06, 2022 11:34 AM (n8wau)

27 Docs making housecalls is something I've only read about and seen on TV.

Weird reading about some here that actually experienced that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:36 AM (tUVd3)

28 Years back I read Eric Voegelin's 'Science, Politics' and Gnosticism'. I dismissed it as being like those 'books' about Nazi Occultism!!!
I am now being forced to revisit that conclusion and come to the late realization Voegelin was 100% correct. This bullshit is exactly like Alchemy/ Gnostic beliefs, a core part of which is the belief that the division of The Human into two separate genders is unnatural, and that Alchemy can create a union of the sexes in a single, superior being.
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. CRAZY.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 06, 2022 11:36 AM (43xH1)

29 So what are the AAP protocols and research about other body dysmorphias like anorexia? Have they even attempted to research any of it. 'Peer pressure' as a phenomenon has intensified beyond any imagination (aside from us SF nerds) and it doesn't seem that issue is researched at all either.

Most of the kids I knew in the 90s - 00s who declared they were 'gay' were fashionistas. I think of the kids I knew, only one ended up being truly gay.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 11:36 AM (MIKMs)

30 24 2+2=4

Posted by: Holy Crap at August 06, 2022 11:33 AM (glGDV)
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2+2=5 for large values of 2
also
your lawyer:"What would you like it to add up to?"

Posted by: Ciampino - Common Core and non-racyss Math is fluid at August 06, 2022 11:37 AM (qfLjt)

31 Muldoon at August 06, 2022 11:30 AM

I've seen statements of concern by other pediatricians, too. I am floored at the AAP's unresponsiveness to their members.

Posted by: KT at August 06, 2022 11:37 AM (rrtZS)

32 No house calls but my childhood doctor smoked like a chimney. Come to think of it, most adults smoked when I was growing up circa 1960-something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2022 11:38 AM (BFigT)

33 "I doubt ~~anyone~~ many here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960."

edited...I try not to speak in absolutes.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:38 AM (AwYPR)

34 Yes; We had a doctor who made house calls for very short time in the mid 1960's. Then he had a house at the bottom floor of his house. He was very good.

The pediatrician who usually treated my son in a regular office must have been in his mid seventies or older back then in 2000 and following. He had started the practice and stayed after the normal retirement age because he really enjoyed his work and liked kids. I never asked him because transgenderism wasn't an issue even then but my impression was he would be totally appalled by the idea of transgenderism and horrified and enraged about the mutilation of kids.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:38 AM (snPsk)

35 No house calls but my childhood doctor smoked like a chimney. Come to think of it, most adults smoked when I was growing up circa 1960-something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2022 11:38 AM

They were smoking in the delivery room when I was born in the 50s.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 06, 2022 11:39 AM (bVYXr)

36 I'm 71 and have rarely needed a Doctor

which kinda figures since both is my sisters ar MD's

they couldn't be bootleggers and strippers

Posted by: REDACTED at August 06, 2022 11:39 AM (us2H3)

37 KT, F&F this morning was talking about this very thing and called out the AAP
here's the clip-

https://tinyurl.com/273x6ef8

Posted by: redridinghood at August 06, 2022 11:39 AM (NpAcC)

38 Excellent essay, Muldoon. Thanks and very good commentary, I appreciate it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:40 AM (snPsk)

39 I was a Navy brat, so I didn't have a childhood doctor.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:40 AM (tUVd3)

40 Doktoh

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:40 AM (gbzeC)

41 Families and civil society pose a threat to government power. This was one reason why the CPC wanted to force people to dine at collective canteens during th Great Leap Forward (when the canteens had food).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 06, 2022 11:40 AM (9isyS)

42 I've seen statements of concern by other pediatricians, too. I am floored at the AAP's unresponsiveness to their members.

As is the case with our politicians and corporate overlords, they feel it's beneath them to acknowledge the opposition.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 11:41 AM (Xrfse)

43 Never had a pediatrician, only a family doctor who set broken bones, sewed up wounds, etc. Guy graduated from The Citadel, did U.S. Army after med school, far as I know he had a perfect record for calling the right gender.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 11:41 AM (gktX6)

44 Meant "Very good commentary, KT". Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:41 AM (snPsk)

45 I guess I am pretty lucky. I work in the Office of the SG so I have plenty of DRs to confer with on any ailments my family has. I am friendly with a pediatrician so any questions my daughter has about my grandson, I just call her. It is great.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2022 11:41 AM (Irn0L)

46 Nothing will be done. Problem is whack job parents and people that can see whats going on but do nothing. This could be stopped if we weren't such a docile law abiding society. These trans freaks dressed up in women's clothes, ridiculous makeup and the "normies" that defend and promote them should be swinging from lamp posts. I don't care how that sounds. Pedophilia is evil and as another commenter pointed out, that's all this is, a push to make having sex with kids acceptable.

Posted by: JROD at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (0jZnq)

47 Mark Twain wrote there are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. wiki says Twain attributed the quote to Benjamin Disraeli.

And many evil groups take advantage of the fact that most people don't understand statistics, and present garbage stats as "science" that supposedly supports their premise. These evildoers also understand that 'science' holds sway with people whereas math does not.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (3cGpq)

48 >>Docs making housecalls is something I've only read about and seen on TV.

Weird reading about some here that actually experienced that.

oh yeah, if you're old enough, you've seen some things-
it was a different country and society back then
thank you for visiting my lawn- now, this way to the exit

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (geLO8)

49 #4-Meant "He had an office at the bottom floor of his house."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (snPsk)

50 I have no trust in institutions, but that is my general mindset anyway.

In my short and infrequent interactions with others, I get the impression that trusting in God means being passive. This frustrates me, but my reaction is to become more hermit like, which is very passive. Life is all kinds of tangled.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (K0jo2)

51 I was a Navy brat, so I didn't have a childhood doctor.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:40 AM (tUVd3)

Got stitched up by a corpsman as a kid...trainee...doc was supervising.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

52 oh yeah, if you're old enough, you've seen some things-
it was a different country and society back then
thank you for visiting my lawn- now, this way to the exit
Posted by: DB
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Ok, boomer.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:43 AM (tUVd3)

53 People out walking along the Med on the Boardwalk in Tel Aviv giving a finger to Islamic Jihad

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2022 11:44 AM (Irn0L)

54 It actually makes sense to me for doctors do house calls. That way you don't have to bring sick people into an office. I do understand why it's much more efficient to have an office if you have a big practice

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:44 AM (snPsk)

55 Whatever happened to all those campaigns against Female Genital Mutilation? That used to be such a big thing for so long....

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at August 06, 2022 11:44 AM (K58O6)

56 Got stitched up by a corpsman as a kid...trainee...doc was supervising.
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:42 AM (AwYPR)

As it should be. Your injury contributed to the greater good. Right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM (Irn0L)

57 >Ok, boomer.

Posted by: SMH

you got it, squirt

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM (geLO8)

58 22 I remember having mumps around 1960...mom made me stay in bed. My aunts bought me new toys!
Posted by: BignJames

When I got mumps my mom painted my neck purple
Then when the fever was down and I wanted to play,she sent purple-necked me to buy something at the corner store

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM (gbzeC)

59 Got stitched up by a corpsman as a kid...trainee...doc was supervising.
Posted by: BignJames
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I have no memories of any doctors treating me, or the teachers at school, for that matter.
Can't even recall what they looked like.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM (tUVd3)

60 As far as my granddaughters are concerned, the less they see of doctors, the better.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:46 AM (tUVd3)

61 43 Never had a pediatrician, only a family doctor who set broken bones, sewed up wounds, etc. Guy graduated from The Citadel, did U.S. Army after med school, far as I know he had a perfect record for calling the right gender.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 11:41 AM (gktX6)
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Of course you meant "..... calling the right sex."

Posted by: Ciampino - If you use THEIR language then you have lost at August 06, 2022 11:46 AM (qfLjt)

62 Posted by: DB

Please let me stand on your lawn under a shady tree-and if you have some lemonade that would be nice too.

I'm probably not that much younger than you are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:46 AM (snPsk)

63 So what are the AAP protocols and research about other body dysmorphias like anorexia?

I don't know what their protocol is, however I do know that the AAP issued a statement in strong support of gender transitioning or whatever the child mutilation is called nowadays.

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 11:47 AM (dCxaZ)

64 I miss the days of greasing the skids with a twenty or 2

In Dallas, you could just about do anything you wanted with a litte ready cash in your pocket

Posted by: REDACTED at August 06, 2022 11:48 AM (us2H3)

65 I've seen statements of concern by other pediatricians, too. I am floored at the AAP's unresponsiveness to their members.

**

I assume the AAP is a skimsuit worn by Leftists

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:48 AM (gbzeC)

66 >Please let me stand on your lawn under a shady tree-and if you have some lemonade that would be nice too. I'm probably not that much younger than you are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

make yourself comfortable. There's a stack of old Reader's Digest over there. I like the 'laughter is the best medicine' pages myself.

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (geLO8)

67 Not specifically a pediatrician issue, more like a prosecutor problem, but essentially shaken baby syndrome is a myth. It's basically impossible to shake a baby and cause the type of brain damage associated with it.

You know what can cause the symptoms? Sickle cell. So... not only is shaken baby a prosecution overreach, it's also rayciss.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (phEmZ)

68 "Science" lost its credibility when science became "settled"

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (K0jo2)

69 We lived in a small town, probably 1,200 residents in the mid 1950s. I had bad bouts of bronchitis as a pre-teen. Doc would come to the house. Wasn't a lot to be done that Mom wasn't doing.

Posted by: Javems at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (AmoqO)

70 I've seen statements of concern by other pediatricians, too. I am floored at the AAP's unresponsiveness to their members.

Perhaps they shouldn't continue to be members.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (/NCI4)

71 As it should be. Your injury contributed to the greater good. Right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM (Irn0L)

Dunno about that, but, I got better.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:50 AM (AwYPR)

72
Posted by: Sid at August 06, 2022 11:34 AM (n8wau)

You are not allowed to post here unless you are fully vaxxed and boosted. CDC recommends that all Americans receive 3 more boosters. Have you followed that protocol, Sid? Are you FULLY boosted?

If not, you're a Superspreading Murderer and I am reporting you to Anthony Fauci et al tout de suite

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 11:50 AM (dCxaZ)

73 I remember going for my football physical as a ute and the Doc smoking in his office while he signed the paperwork.

My current Doc is an avid gun collector also and after he taps my chest and smacks my balls around for my annual physical he pulls out whatever he is carrying that day and we talk about guns and the commie democrats.

Docs, gotta love 'em.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 06, 2022 11:50 AM (R/m4+)

74 make yourself comfortable. There's a stack of old Reader's Digest over there. I like the 'laughter is the best medicine' pages myself.
Posted by: DB
___

I always preferred Humor in Uniform myself.

My gammy collected RDs.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:51 AM (tUVd3)

75 Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:49 AM (geLO

Yes; Laughter is a great medicine. When I was a kid and went to the doctor's office they had "Highlights" magazine My favorite part was the "find the hidden pictures" section.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (snPsk)

76 32 Remember the family doc, not a pediatrician, making a house call when I was a little kid in the 1950s, down with the bad flu going around.. Mom and Dad, and the doc, sitting down for coffee after his exam, doc bumming a smoke off the Old Man. (Raleigh non filters, Dad was a hard case).

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (lz5hY)

77 Reader's Digest is fun reading for a bored kid

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (gbzeC)

78 Great content KT.
I appreciate the relook of Muldoon's previous write up. When Muldoon writes, I read.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (anj39)

79 Now, my childhood dentist had lava lamps in the waiting room and liked to play Glen Campbell records.

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (geLO8)

80 It actually makes sense to me for doctors do house calls. That way you don't have to bring sick people into an office. I do understand why it's much more efficient to have an office if you have a big practice

It also matters that you have a place for all the modern diagnostic equipment, blood work, etc. (Assuming you aren't just sent off to a specialist.) Although, when I had young kids, 99% of the time the ped looked in their ears and pronounced that they had an ear infection, which I already knew.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (/NCI4)

81 54 It actually makes sense to me for doctors do house calls. That way you don't have to bring sick people into an office. I do understand why it's much more efficient to have an office if you have a big practice

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:44 AM (snPsk)
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Except that travel time might constitute a greater part of your day than consulting. This means less patients seen and thus less money.

Posted by: Ciampino - vets still do housecalls for large animals at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (qfLjt)

82 All you young'uns and your fancy educated "Doctors". Back in my day all we had were medicine men that did some chanting and then got you stoned on peyote.
Good times.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (qH6FZ)

83 I have no memories of any doctors treating me, or the teachers at school, for that matter.
Can't even recall what they looked like.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:45 AM

I thought it was just me, but I can't recall any of that stuff either. I remember some friends from grade school and up, but i can't recall a single teacher even ones that I have class photos with.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (bVYXr)

84 Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 11:50 AM (dCxaZ)

LOL. Well done.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (snPsk)

85 Reader's Digest is fun reading for a bored kid
___

Yes they were, and the word games were fun also.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (tUVd3)

86 "Science" lost its credibility when science became "settled"

That isn't science. If anyone tells you it's settled in order to preclude debate, they're a fraud.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 11:54 AM (/NCI4)

87 I came here for the salad wagon but I cannot find it.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 06, 2022 11:54 AM (vuisn)

88 I remember the doctor making house calls on me as a kid, he was probably as old as me now then.
My dad tells he had blood poison as a kid and a doctor stayed overnight

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 06, 2022 11:54 AM (IAr9f)

89 Posted by: Ciampino - vets still do housecalls for large animals at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (qfLjt)

Yes; I assume the change was made because of efficiency and monetary concerns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:55 AM (snPsk)

90 All you young'uns and your fancy educated "Doctors". Back in my day all we had were medicine men that did some chanting and then got you stoned on peyote.
Good times.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 06, 2022 11:53 AM (qH6FZ)

No hot iron?

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:55 AM (AwYPR)

91 I just remembered the dr our family had when we were kids.
Had to go up a flight of steps to get to his office.
I guess he was a bit of a quack since he misdiagnosed my eczema as scabies.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (gbzeC)

92 Ciampino, in ETEX sex and gender is the same thing, and there's just two.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (gktX6)

93 77 Reader's Digest is fun reading for a bored kid
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:52 AM (gbzeC)

you could read and had Readers Digest

fancy !!

Posted by: REDACTED at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (us2H3)

94 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (T4tVD)

95 Science is fake. Alex Jones would be proud!
Posted by: Sid at August 06, 2022 11:34 AM (n8wau)

This actually one of the less stupid things you have written. There is a lot of fakery in science these days, driven by Communists like you, with an agenda. Fakery in the "transgender" realm, fakery in climate science, fakery in Covid vaxx's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (EdgPH)

96 I got a kick out of that 11 year old kid at the grand ole opry. 11 years old and kicking ass with a guitar. Kid definitely found his path. Compare that to kids today.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (VwHCD)

97 I thought it was just me, but I can't recall any of that stuff either. I remember some friends from grade school and up, but i can't recall a single teacher even ones that I have class photos with.
Posted by: Mister Scott
___

I can remember some childhood friends, and of course friends from high school, but I cannot recall the faces of teachers at all, much less the names of them.

I guess moving around alot, changing schools constantly might have something to do with that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:57 AM (tUVd3)

98 No hot iron?
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:55 AM (AwYPR)

Who really knows what happened after the peyote.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 06, 2022 11:57 AM (qH6FZ)

99 a doctor stayed overnight

Amazing and wonderful really.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:57 AM (snPsk)

100 I guess he was a bit of a quack since he misdiagnosed my eczema as scabies.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (gbzeC)

Air Force doc thought my measles was hives...went home and spread it to the neighborhood kids.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:59 AM (AwYPR)

101 "Doctoring" was rare in my family. I went once for a throat so sore I couldn't swallow. It was a major inconvenience for my family to get me there. My grandma waited with me. When we finally were seen, there was nothing to be done but rest. I took that as a lesson to take care of health issues myself.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 11:59 AM (K0jo2)

102 Fakery in the "transgender" realm, fakery in climate science, fakery in Covid vaxx's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (EdgPH)

And if it must be said, Alex Jones is much more often right than he is wrong. Just really wrong about that one big thing, which he readily acknowledges.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 06, 2022 11:59 AM (phEmZ)

103 Except that travel time might constitute a greater part of your day than consulting.

And here in 2022, the cost of traveling could bankrupt a younger M.D. FJB.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:00 PM (Xrfse)

104 GAC==Gender Affirming Care==Child mutilation.

Posted by: Naked, sitting in a sensory deprivation room, smoking crack. at August 06, 2022 12:00 PM (QY+6a)

105 Monsters walk the Earth.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 12:01 PM (C35Jn)

106 91 Doctor's office up a flight of stairs. Doc Adams on Gunsmoke. "Jeez, Matt got shot again. I should put in an elevator just to get the big galoot up there".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:01 PM (lz5hY)

107 ISTR public health nurses would supposedly do home visits, but never came to our house.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 12:01 PM (gbzeC)

108 Our family doctor was our team doctor, he smoked but told us not to. Hell of a guy. Had a beautiful wife.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 12:02 PM (gktX6)

109 This actually one of the less stupid things you have written. There is a lot of fakery in science these days, driven by Communists like you, with an agenda.

I lurfed. Bravo.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:02 PM (Xrfse)

110 that social pressure rather than organic processes is the major cause of transgender self-identification among youth.
***
This really should fall under the scientific category of "D-uh."

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:04 PM (Ed8Zd)

111 I am not a fan of the theory that social contagion being the basis for the rise, I agree it is an element (I remember bulemia and cutting waves) but it is being driven by media focus on it (like bulemia and cutting)

I think what is driving it is CRT, where claiming to be trans means escaping the prosecution that demonized race and cultural background forces you into.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:04 PM (xhaym)

112 The only other doctor visit I remember was for the physical to play sports.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 12:04 PM (K0jo2)

113 Besides time and money, what with a medical practice being a business, I'm sure lawyers and insurance companies have a lot to do with docs not making house calls.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:06 PM (lz5hY)

114 88 I remember the doctor making house calls on me as a kid, he was probably as old as me now then.
My dad tells he had blood poison as a kid and a doctor stayed overnight
Posted by: Skip's phone
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Now days it's, go to Emergency, that's the default statement. My doc didn't make house calls but I was dreadfully sick one night and he told my parents to bring him to his home.

There was a great transition, caused by collusion between AIDS government and the insurance industry.
Pre-1980 there were no primary physicians there were General Practitioners. GPs would stitch you up and do other general repairs, today they refer you to a specialist. If you need any immediate work it's off to Emergency you go.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 12:07 PM (woO3w)

115 I am not a fan of the theory that social contagion being the basis for the rise, I agree it is an element (I remember bulemia and cutting waves) but it is being driven by media focus on it (like bulemia and cutting)

I think what is driving it is CRT, where claiming to be trans means escaping the prosecution that demonized race and cultural background forces you into.

Embrace the power of and. We are in the perfect storm in many arenas

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 12:07 PM (K0jo2)

116 Docs making housecalls is something I've only read about and seen on TV.
Weird reading about some here that actually experienced that.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:36 AM (tUVd3)

I actually had a house call from an MD when I had amebic dysentery when I lived in Colombia, when I was a kid.

However, we had a GP that was willing to stitch me up any number of times at his office here in the US. Which I believe is as rare as unicorn farts now.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:07 PM (xhaym)

117
One minor quibble. That magazine cover is clearly faked. A pediatrician of that era would have worn a bow tie.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 11:30 AM (kXYt5)

I wonder how many bow ties Muldoon has?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:08 PM (anj39)

118 10-15 year old girls have to be the most malleable and influenceable creatures on the planet. It takes about 3 days to pick up from peers an entirely new manner of talking - remember Valley Girl talk?- appearance, and attitudes. That's why having decent and stable friends is so important.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:09 PM (Ed8Zd)

119 According to a now-deleted Instagram post from Eli Erlick:

There are over 20 states trying to criminalize hormone therapy, particularly for trans youth. So, my friends and I had an idea: sending out our extra prescriptions around the country. If you need hormones, I’m working with a distribution network to get you access. Everything is free, no questions asked. We have hundreds of doses of testosterone, estradiol, and spironolactone available right now. All are prescribed by doctors and unused. Each package comes with information on dosage, obtaining bloodwork, etc. I realize this is only a band-aid solution: we need full access to affirmative medical care from professionals immediately. However, missing a single dose of hormones can be devastating (especially for trans teens and those new to hormones)! These laws are outrageous and I can’t wait for them to be overturned. In the meantime, DM me if you need HRT or if you have overprescribed hormones you’d like to send out.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2022 12:09 PM (BRHaw)

120 Our family doctor made house calls up until at least 1968. I don't know if that was typical even for him at that point or just because he lived in our neighborhood and my Mother was a nurse.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 12:09 PM (C35Jn)

121 Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:04 PM (xhaym)

I think the CRT theory related to the preponderance of gender dysphoria to girls in particular is the basis of a recent City Journal article.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (snPsk)

122 I got to put this SOMEWHERE because it's so exciting for MAGA world:

attn: Dave in Fla:

Seattle Times today, regarding WA-3:

Headline: Herrera Beutler In Trouble As Kent Gains

(from the article) "Herrera Beutler needs a miracle now," said Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.

Here's the backstory: Herrera Beutler is one of the ten RINOs who voted for impeachment. She wasn't expected to be in danger of losing. GOP challenger Joe Kent (Green Beret; Patriot; MAGA; saint) has mounted an ASTONISHING long shot campaign to take down this witch. Just amazing!

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (NLIak)

123 When I worked at McDonald's half a century ago, GAC stood for "grilled American cheese" and was a special order sandwich available to those who knew of it.

Posted by: dissent555 at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (aoFfE)

124 > I am not a fan of the theory that social contagion being the basis for the rise, I agree it is an element

I think it's a big driver of behavior- kids get attention from being out there on the cutting edge of whatever The Latest Thing is- gay, trans, pretending you're some kind of furry animal- we didn't see any of this shit before social media

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (geLO8)

125 I am not a fan of the theory that social contagion being the basis for the rise, I agree it is an element (I remember bulemia and cutting waves) but it is being driven by media focus on it (like bulemia and cutting)

I think what is driving it is CRT, where claiming to be trans means escaping the prosecution that demonized race and cultural background forces you into.

Embrace the power of and. We are in the perfect storm in many arenas
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 12:07 PM (K0jo2)

One could argue these are all aspects of social contagion. Government, pressure groups, and the media are all "social" in some way, like it or not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (EdgPH)

126 In Eli Erick's dream future, we are all Pat.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (Ed8Zd)

127 92 Ciampino, in ETEX sex and gender is the same thing, and there's just two.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (gktX6)
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What's ETEX ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sex = Biology, Gender = grammar at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (qfLjt)

128 Everything is free, no questions asked. We have hundreds of doses of testosterone,

Free you say?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (/9IqB)

129 A very interesting book about what the practice of medicine used to look like in the 40s and 50s The Doctor Wears Three Faces by Mary Bard.

Her husband was an internist in Seattle when she married him. He had an office and did home calls outside of his office and hospital hours. Mary acted as his home switchboard and scheduler from her dining room

(Mary Bard was the somewhat more impulsive sister of Betty MacDonald who wrote The Egg and I)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (xhaym)

130 What's ETEX ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sex = Biology, Gender = grammar at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (qfLjt)

Western Louisiana.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (/9IqB)

131 I kind of liked the series Yellowstone, although Costner's nutty beliefs stick in my mind. One thing I like about the show is the folks using the Vet for getting thrown from a critter, getting the shit beat out of them, stabbed, or shot. For immediate first aid, a Vet would be a good choice because their usual patients can't just tell them what's wrong.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (lz5hY)

132 26 Science is fake. Alex Jones would be proud!
Posted by: Sid at August 06, 2022 11:34 AM (n8wau)

When I was in high school, we learned about the principle of sexual dimorphism in biology, though we didnt spend much time on it since its an obvious, near-universal characteristc of life. I dont know what "science" you're talking about.

Posted by: Bandana Dee at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (oy4r9)

133 According to a now-deleted Instagram post from Eli Erlick

Good grief. What a reprehensible and evil POS.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (Xrfse)

134 I remember our Dr. making house call to see Mom. That would've been around '69 or '70. He liked her cause she had 6 sons and he had just started his family and had 5 little boys.

Posted by: olddog in mo, No Cheetos allowed on the 'toon at August 06, 2022 12:13 PM (nb5Ym)

135 "Headline: Herrera Beutler In Trouble As Kent Gains"

Only one primary race worth paying attention to left. Alaska Senate.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 06, 2022 12:14 PM (qH6FZ)

136 Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2022 12:09 PM (BRHaw)

What a hideous personality Eli Ehlich has to suggest that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 12:14 PM (snPsk)

137 Good grief. What a reprehensible and evil POS.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:12 PM (Xrfse)

What he advocates is criminal. Trafficking in prescription drugs. Hang him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2022 12:15 PM (EdgPH)

138 EpochTV and NTD will livestream CPAC Texas 2022, starting at 10:45 a.m. ET (9:45 a.m. CT) on Aug. 6. Access the livestream on this page.
my CPAC highlights, today - all times are Central Daylight Time (CDT). It's up right now

11:25 am – 11:40 am - Saving the West - Nigel Farage
12:55 pm – 1:50 pm - The Frontline Prescription, Ronny Jackson, Rich McCormick, Joseph Humire
1:20 pm – 1:40 pm - Wiping Up the Pooh - Gordon Chang,
4:50 pm – 5:20 pm - Glenn Beck
5:35 pm - President Donald J. Trump

Epoch Times https://bit.ly/3dbp2vc

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 12:15 PM (woO3w)

139 I don't believe I ever saw the doctor come to the house.
My mom made everything better with mustard plasters, Vicksburg Vapo-Rub and Wonderoil

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 06, 2022 12:16 PM (eGTCV)

140 What's ETEX ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sex = Biology, Gender = grammar at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (qfLjt)

East Texas, I am guessing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:16 PM (dNqv+)

141 122 addendum:

Dave

If Kent beats Herrera Beutler, I suggest a Flaming Skull would be appropriate.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:16 PM (NLIak)

142 Not the bee

https://tinyurl.com/2zubnp7b

Middle schooler trolls teacher with "banana" and "rock" pronouns, short-circuits her brainwashed mind

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 12:16 PM (gbzeC)

143 I wonder how many bow ties Muldoon has?
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

I was going through some old photos yesterday and came across a picture of me and my wife in full battle regalia. She was in a full-length gown, up hair-do, pearls, gorgeous. I was in my dress blues, with, yep-- a bow tie. Considerably less gorgeous. We were attending a formal military dinner at a joint US-Hungary medical conference shortly after the Wall came down (1991-ish); at Lake Balaton in Hungary. Last time I ever wore a "tuxedo" equivalent. Last time I wore a bow tie. I may still have it stuck in the back of a drawer. So to answer your question: one.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 12:17 PM (kXYt5)

144 I can remember some childhood friends, and of course friends from high school, but I cannot recall the faces of teachers at all, much less the names of them.

I guess moving around alot, changing schools constantly might have something to do with that.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 11:57 AM (tUVd3)

I attended seven different schools up to the 5th grade. Dad was stationed at one post for 13 years after that. Went to 5th thru high school in one small town off post. Lucky or not, can't decide.

Posted by: Javems at August 06, 2022 12:19 PM (AmoqO)

145 Western Louisiana.
Posted by: G'rump928

LOL !

Posted by: JT at August 06, 2022 12:19 PM (T4tVD)

146 I always enjoy the music/dancing videos in KT's posts. Thank you!

Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2022 12:19 PM (t62xj)

147 well duh!!

If Paul Pelosi Jr. did accompany his mother on her August 2-3, 2022 trip to Taiwan, is he playing the same role for Nancy Pelosi as Hunter Biden played for Joe Biden, enriching the family through influence peddling?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 06, 2022 12:19 PM (BRHaw)

148 Here's the backstory: Herrera Beutler is one of the ten RINOs who voted for impeachment. She wasn't expected to be in danger of losing. GOP challenger Joe Kent (Green Beret; Patriot; MAGA; saint) has mounted an ASTONISHING long shot campaign to take down this witch. Just amazing!

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (NLIak)

Interesting. Huge Russian population in WA-3. I wonder what the voting profile for them is like?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (anj39)

149 So many words . . .

So many delicious, wonderful, mind-filling words!

Thanks for this post.

Now to read . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (fSRlj)

150 Had to look up Eli Erlick
Dweeb who trannied

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (gbzeC)

151 139 If you had a glass bottomed vaporizer (old one with the cotton wrapped power cord) and a jar of Vicks you could cure cancer. The house would smell Vicksy from November to March, but what the hell.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (lz5hY)

152 One could argue these are all aspects of social contagion. Government, pressure groups, and the media are all "social" in some way, like it or not.

Definitely an amplifier. And explains why less "social" people are less susceptible.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (K0jo2)

153 My dear, departed Ma made me wear a bow tie to Sunday school when I was a little mite. I hated it with the heat of a thousand suns. I'm still traumatized, to this day. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:21 PM (Xrfse)

154 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 06, 2022 11:56 AM (VwHCD)

we chanced upon an awesome, hugely talented guitarist one day in Margate NJ. We took a day trip to the shore and ended up at a beach bar called The Greenhouse.

This guido was coming up and down the stairs, I thought he was the bouncer, or maybe a collector for the boss. Anyway on one of his trips up the stairs I saw him carrying equipment. "Oh, he's setting up for the band".

No. He *was* the band. Finally, I saw him tuning his guitar. And when he started to play, all of us at the table were stunned. I can't even describe this dude. His style, his proficiency at the instrument, his selection of material...all combined to create a really unexpected jewel of a show. His "home base" style is flamenco, or gypsy, but he morphs it and twists the sound into all forms, even disco!

His name is Gypsy Joe Vlado. I have no idea when or where he plays next, because his website is shite.

I told him, "when we came here for pizza, none of us ever expected we would be treated to world class music".

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:21 PM (dCxaZ)

155 I am quite concerned that certain very important and basic services, like pediatric medical care, are being corrupted so thoroughly. Same for general medical care. Same for basic household needs. It's becoming more and more difficult to avoid supporting various corruptions. Try boycotting the evil Unilever, for example.

Posted by: Emmie at August 06, 2022 12:22 PM (t62xj)

156 The Washington Post is continuing its apparent public relations campaign on behalf of drag shows for children by running another op-ed claiming the events are “squeaky-clean for family-friendly audiences,” and laws aimed at banning them are the true indoctrination.

https://tinyurl.com/4wxprprv

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 12:22 PM (tUVd3)

157 Last time I wore a bow tie. I may still have it stuck in the back of a drawer. So to answer your question: one.
Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 12:17 PM (kXYt5)

Ahhh. You too?
I still have my blues as well. A pity they don't fit.
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:23 PM (anj39)

158 Headline: Herrera Beutler In Trouble As Kent Gains

Appreciate the positive news!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 06, 2022 12:23 PM (K0jo2)

159
I think it's a big driver of behavior- kids get attention from being out there on the cutting edge of whatever The Latest Thing is- gay, trans, pretending you're some kind of furry animal- we didn't see any of this shit before social media
Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (geLO

There seems to be some evidence that those emergency hotlines for suicide, cutting and bulimia seem to have driven incidence of those very things.
I can see it as someone saying, "here is something that everyone is doing, I wonder if it will make me feel less worse than how I feel right now?"

This is why I think we need a coast to coast Libertarian hotline for counseling for kids who fear they are leaning LP.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:23 PM (xhaym)

160 >My dear, departed Ma made me wear a bow tie to Sunday school when I was a little mite. I hated it with the heat of a thousand suns. I'm still traumatized, to this day. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD

clip-on, right?

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:23 PM (geLO8)

161 Yes; I assume the change was made because of efficiency and monetary concerns.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:55 AM (snPsk)

Liability insurance, and (if I can be excused for cynicism) tradesmen do house calls. Professionals have offices.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:24 PM (xhaym)

162 clip-on, right?

Yep.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:24 PM (Xrfse)

163 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

My family doctor did. I was 11 years old in 1967 and I remember him coming to our house on several occasions - to treat me, my mom and my sisters. He was a wonderful doctor from the old country.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:25 PM (mTSL0)

164 I'm in Jamie's district. The counties towards the coast are soundly conservative. Clark county is large and used to be conservative, but is being taken over by Portlanders. Jamie just managed to beat the Dem in the last general. St some point, the Dem will win. I doubt there will be much in the way of cheating. I suspect they think Kent will be easier to beat. We have all vote by mail and jungle primaries. But I think the remaining conservatives here did not like the impeachment votes and want her gone.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2022 12:25 PM (9WSy4)

165 Richard (Rachel) Levine a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry. That speaks volumes.

Inexplicably, she fathered two children. A miracle of procreation.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:25 PM (aSWOS)

166 eattle Times today, regarding WA-3:

Headline: Herrera Beutler In Trouble As Kent Gains

(from the article) "Herrera Beutler needs a miracle now," said Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report.

Here's the backstory: Herrera Beutler is one of the ten RINOs who voted for impeachment. She wasn't expected to be in danger of losing. GOP challenger Joe Kent (Green Beret; Patriot; MAGA; saint) has mounted an ASTONISHING long shot campaign to take down this witch. Just amazing!

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (NLIak)

Woot! Since this is central Wa, I assume the R has a decent shot at winning the actual election?

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

167 Testosterone is a controlled substance.

Posted by: Javems at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (AmoqO)

168 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.

Posted by: BignJames
------
You underestimate the longevity of Morons.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (aSWOS)

169 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (IAr9f)

170 [ii]I still have my blues as well. A pity they don't fit.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes

******

It's shameful that the Army couldn't find a fabric that didn't shrink over time...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (kXYt5)

171 East Texas is the place to be,
halfway tween Shreveport and the Big D.
Clean living in the land of the free,
Whataburger and a large sweet tea!

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (gktX6)

172 I've heard similar complaints from docs, both in person and written. Not really sure if the pedo/groomer shit or the COVID shit has done more to damage the reputation of the medical community, although it looks like Dickin' Pox wants to give it a go as well.

Med related: just found out my company has been concealing serious health effects in the vaxxed, which is like all but a dozen or two people at the company. I know roughly 2/3 missed multiple days for shot side effects, and a solid 15% or so had to go to ER/urgent care for themselves or a family member, sometimes multiple times (!) - but apparently we've been having people stroke out and be hospitalized for weeks, and they just can't hide it anymore.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (BbSpR)

173 My mom made everything better with mustard plasters, Vicksburg Vapo-Rub and Wonderoil
Posted by: N.L. Urker

micurichrome (sp), peroxide, calamine lotion, and a beer for her.

Posted by: Infidel at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (mn1Pi)

174 Rusians, Ukrainians, Monrovians etc. There is a strong conservative bend with the older ones and they don't trust officials. The younger ones tend to be Dems as that's where the political power is.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2022 12:28 PM (9WSy4)

175 "Here's the backstory: Herrera Beutler is one of the ten RINOs who voted for impeachment. She wasn't expected to be in danger of losing. GOP challenger Joe Kent (Green Beret; Patriot; MAGA; saint) has mounted an ASTONISHING long shot campaign to take down this witch. Just amazing!

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:10 PM (NLIak)"

In WA it may not matter - they toss ballots wholesale based on addresses. IIRC the "republican" secstate who ran voting for years recently left to take up a role in the Depends Administration.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:29 PM (BbSpR)

176 Interesting. Huge Russian population in WA-3. I wonder what the voting profile for them is like?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:20 PM (anj39)

Seriously? That seems weird.

Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

177 In WA it may not matter - they toss ballots wholesale based on addresses. IIRC the "republican" secstate who ran voting for years recently left to take up a role in the Depends Administration.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:29 PM (BbSpR)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Dino Rossi at August 06, 2022 12:30 PM (Ed8Zd)

178 Ahhh. You too?
I still have my blues as well. A pity they don't fit.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:23 PM (anj39

My mess dress has shrunk considerably over the past 40 years or so. Terrible quality.

Posted by: Fox2! at August 06, 2022 12:30 PM (ds0vf)

179 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.

Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

My pediatrician made house calls all the time. So did my mom's GP. 1960's.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 06, 2022 12:31 PM (45fpk)

180 but apparently we've been having people stroke out and be hospitalized for weeks, and they just can't hide it anymore.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (BbSpR)

I suspect the larger companies that had vaxx mandates are going to continue to allow a lot of work from home specifically so they can hide the missing people

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:31 PM (xhaym)

181 You underestimate the longevity of Morons.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (aSWOS)

I will always be 29. Technically speaking.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:31 PM (mTSL0)

182 I still have my blues as well. A pity they don't fit.
Sigh...
Posted by: Diogenes

******

It's shameful that the Army couldn't find a fabric that didn't shrink over time...
Posted by: Muldoon
----------

I still have, and wear regularly, my web belt. I've been through several actual belts, but the buckle is the same issued to me.*cough* *cough* years ago. Let's just say 'decades ago'. The great thing is, it is infinitely adjustable, and accommodates changing waist size easily.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:32 PM (aSWOS)

183 Judith Durham: Former Seekers Lead Singer Dies Aged 79

Australian musician Judith Durham, best known as the lead singer of folk music group The Seekers, has died aged 79.

Her band sold more than 50 million records and had hits including I’ll Never Find Another You, I Am Australian and Georgy Girl.

She left the group to go solo in 1968 and went on to release a number of studio albums.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 12:32 PM (yikp0)

184 170
It's shameful that the Army couldn't find a fabric that didn't shrink over time...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (kXYt5)
----
Didn't you know it's the drier that shrinks clothes, though some blame the refrigerator?

Posted by: Ciampino - I blame growing at August 06, 2022 12:33 PM (qfLjt)

185 KT - Just want to thank you for the 'spelling' mug. I sent a picture to my kids with a hint 'for Christmas'. Received it yesterday, beautifully wrapped, from one of the kids with the card saying 'from your grandchildren'.

Thanks for the laughs (laffs?) over the mug.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 12:33 PM (MIKMs)

186 For what it's worth, my neighbor flys a Gasden flag and one across the street has a Let's Go Brandon flag. And one house has a life sized picture of Trump in the living room window. But downtown and East County are Dems. Skamania county used to be reliably conservative but not now, since it was changed to a tourist economy.

There were a lot of flyers claiming Kent is a Bernie Bro. I think folks figured that would be better than a RINO. I don't know anything about the Dem Perez.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2022 12:33 PM (9WSy4)

187 The media is not only the political left's propaganda arm, they're the LGBQXYZ's propaganda arm too. They're responsible for the apparent wide-spread... uh... 'interest' in the deviant lifestyle. Mostly because they're deviants themselves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2022 12:34 PM (BFigT)

188 My blues are at my mom's house. I keep telling myself I should retrieve them. I will, someday.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:34 PM (mTSL0)

189 Australian musician Judith Durham, best known as the lead singer of folk music group The Seekers, has died aged 79.

She was blessed with a wonderful voice. In interviews, she seemed like a genuinely nice gal. Rest in peace, Judith.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:35 PM (Xrfse)

190
My first experience with telemedicine in a Zoom style call was less then great. I could never get an answer as to whether they would write an antibiotic prescription for me based on my word. I've had Lyme disease twice and know the symptoms. I've never had the 'tell-tale' rash. Fever and brain fog were the two common symptoms.

My own father had Lyme but the Dr told him he didn't. A couple of days later he had Bells Palsy.

So the government is watching out for us by discouraging the use of antibiotics, in the process making it difficult for those truly in need. Is their anything the government doesn't fvck up?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 06, 2022 12:36 PM (jE276)

191 Seriously? That seems weird.
Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

A lot of Russians and Ukrainians moved to the PNW in the late 70's, it was one of those agreements to allow Jews and Orthodox to emigrate. A lot of them wound up farmers and running construction companies.
Decent folk, the oldsters don't smile much and they don't like following regulations if they can ignore them. Meth issues in the community there just like everywhere else.

They have links to other groups that live in Argentina and Alberta Canada.

For some reason there is a big grouping of Romanians in Happy Valley, which is a suburb of Portland. That one confuses me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:36 PM (xhaym)

192 Judith Durham: Former Seekers Lead Singer Dies Aged 79

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 12:32 PM (yikp0)

That breaks my heart! I've long had a crush on her.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:36 PM (mTSL0)

193 173 My mom made everything better with mustard plasters, Vicksburg Vapo-Rub and Wonderoil
Posted by: N.L. Urker

micurichrome (sp), peroxide, calamine lotion, and a beer for her.

Posted by: Infidel at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (mn1Pi)
----
Also Gentian Violet tincture.

Posted by: Ciampino - picric acid for burns at August 06, 2022 12:36 PM (qfLjt)

194 182 Mike, I still have one of my first issued belt buckles and have it on a new belt due to shrinkage of inferior product. It has a little bend in it from opening beer bottles before twist offs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:37 PM (lz5hY)

195 Interesting. Huge Russian population in WA-3. I wonder what the voting profile for them is like? Posted by: Diogenes

I lived in that area for a number of years. On occasion a guy would get in his car and it would blow up. Oddly, arrests were never made. I hope that help answer your question.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 06, 2022 12:37 PM (FF+On)

196 Seriously? That seems weird.
Posted by: LASue at August 06, 2022 12:29 PM (Ed8Zd

Yeah.. There has always been a large Russian community down south of Portland, but when the Soviet Union broke up, there was a lot of resettlement in SW WA. I attended my niece's graduation from high school and easily a third of the graduates were russian.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:38 PM (anj39)

197 My husband used to hire the Russians when he had his sandblasting business. Had lots of stories. I've been in favor of letting more of them in. They don't trust officials and most are very industrious. We used to let them use our dock to fish for Northern Pike minnows. There's a bounty on them and they made big dollars.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 06, 2022 12:38 PM (9WSy4)

198 Let's see, high school:
Mr Rose, English Sophomore year (great)
Mr Haire, History Junior Year (great teacher)
Mr Niedermyer, English Senior year (horrible asshole idiot)
Mr Riley, Anatomy Senior year (great guy, also ran an informal chess club during lunch)
Mr Carr, Chemistry Sophomore year (nice guy, kind of odd in hindsight. 'We get in our Mol mobile and cross the Mol bridge' (introduction to conversion factor equations.))

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:39 PM (dNqv+)

199 Names I cannot remember right at the moment:
-Pear shaped woman I had for Biology freshman and sophomore year
-Older farmer guy who I had for Senior Physics (great teacher)
-Government Teacher, a guy with jet black (obviously dyed in hindsight) hair. THICK Brooklyn accent. Great Teacher.
-a fairly hot blonde woman who I had for econ (although we did not call it that.)
-Horrible woman I had for calc senior year.
-greasy haired guy for Algebra II. Horrible teacher.
-Great guy I had for Trigonometry. Big nose. Quiet smile.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:39 PM (dNqv+)

200 I realize looking back, math was the most hit or miss subject as far as teachers. The same is true in my experience in college.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:40 PM (dNqv+)

201 DOB 1947 here.

I assure you that doctors used to make house calls during the "lifetimes" of some posters here!

"Think I'll go for a walk." You're not fooling anyone, you know.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:40 PM (NLIak)

202 but apparently we've been having people stroke out and be hospitalized for weeks, and they just can't hide it anymore.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (BbSpR)

yeah, the lid's about to blow on this thing

just in time for the monkeypox op

lol

suxkx to be the pResident

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:40 PM (dCxaZ)

203 Back to work, didn't get help I was supposed to today

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 06, 2022 12:41 PM (IAr9f)

204 I still have, and wear regularly, my web belt. I've been through several actual belts, but the buckle is the same issued to me.*cough* *cough* years ago. Let's just say 'decades ago'. The great thing is, it is infinitely adjustable, and accommodates changing waist size easily.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:32 PM (aSWOS)

I still have and wear the Russian belt I acquired in Afghan...err...I mean Pakistan back in the 80's.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:42 PM (anj39)

205 ...The Latest Thing is- gay, trans, pretending you're some kind of furry animal- we didn't see any of this shit before social media
Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:11 PM (geLO

I think that many maladies are being created by social media that won't even have names for another 20 years or so.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:42 PM (mTSL0)

206 "I suspect the larger companies that had vaxx mandates are going to continue to allow a lot of work from home specifically so they can hide the missing people
Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 12:31 PM (xhaym)"

Company has steadfastly dodged any kind of mandate - they make way too much money to play around like that - but leadership has gone full throttle woke in the last few years, so they pushed the jabs heavily. We have a super heavy population of "I LOOOOVE SCIENCE" posers so they all jumped on it.

Even if they're moonbats it's rough to watch people you know and work with get their shit wrecked with side effects, or from getting bad cases of COVID 2-3 times (which is also happening a lot - they all thought their shots were a magical talisman and behaved accordingly, and at best they did nothing). I have fears for the long term stability of the company.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:42 PM (BbSpR)

207 So the AAP is now declaring peer pressure doesn't exist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2022 12:42 PM (tJrVH)

208 198 199 Mr. Mac. English teacher. Left teaching to go into the Corps. A4 jock, ran into him in Vietnam.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 12:42 PM (lz5hY)

209 Many NHL rosters look like a page from the Moscow phonebook.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2022 12:43 PM (NLIak)

210 Even if they're moonbats it's rough to watch people you know and work with get their shit wrecked with side effects, or from getting bad cases of COVID 2-3 times (which is also happening a lot - they all thought their shots were a magical talisman and behaved accordingly, and at best they did nothing). I have fears for the long term stability of the company.

"that just means it's working!"

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:44 PM (dCxaZ)

211 Judith and The Seekers, first hit. Upright bass as a bonus.

https://tinyurl.com/8d2526yc

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:44 PM (Xrfse)

212 "yeah, the lid's about to blow on this thing
just in time for the monkeypox op
Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:40 PM (dCxaZ)"

Company is also now pushing the dickin' pox vax to "specific high risk groups".

Wasn't likely to go back into the office before, but now there is no fucking way. Ever. Not getting disfiguring scars because some people refuse to stop assfucking everything that moves and are voluntarily helping spread the next politically convenient disease.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:45 PM (BbSpR)

213 I still have the holster (1911) I carried in the FRG back in the '80's.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:45 PM (mTSL0)

214 I still have, and wear regularly, my web belt. I've been through several actual belts, but the buckle is the same issued to me.*cough* *cough* years ago. Let's just say 'decades ago'. The great thing is, it is infinitely adjustable, and accommodates changing waist size easily.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:32 PM (aSWOS)

I need to get one f these. I am still using the belt I bought... for my great uncle's funeral in El Paso. At the Ft Bliss Cemetery. Dad could not go with Mom because of work, so I took off and we went down. I felt like I had to do it because it was the last of Mom's family she knew from when she was a little girl. I miss you, Uncle Steve.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:45 PM (dNqv+)

215

I made house, farm and ranch calls from 1998-2003.

Still would. but practice and life went in a different direction.

Also, not as safe as it used to be. Multiple cases of practitioners being ambushed/raped/murdered by junkies and freaks.

Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviera at August 06, 2022 12:46 PM (7DYli)

216 first 3 grades, my teachers were grandma types.
4th and 5th grade was Miss Johnson. Former RC nun. She was strict.
6th grade was pixie little redhead Mrs Ralph. She was nice.

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:46 PM (geLO8)

217 I remember my Grade 9 home room teacher because she came to class decorated with hockey's.
And I remember my biology teacher. He was a pale guy who played with his balls in class

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 06, 2022 12:46 PM (eGTCV)

218 Australian musician Judith Durham, best known as the lead singer of folk music group The Seekers, has died aged 79.
------------

Aww. A loss. Terrific voice, 'Another You' vid:
https://tinyurl.com/3bhx4cne

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:46 PM (tUVP/)

219 I still have the holster (1911) I carried in the FRG back in the '80's.
Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:45 PM (mTSL0)

Still have my LBE.
Plus my SNL left most of his TA 50 here. I'm ready for the burning times.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:48 PM (anj39)

220 Today is Hiroshima Day, Lefties everywhere should be agitating that it was wrong to kill thousands to save a million lives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2022 12:48 PM (tJrVH)

221 Not getting disfiguring scars because some people refuse to stop assfucking everything that moves and are voluntarily helping spread the next politically convenient disease.

the confirmed demorats I know have already bought the lie that you can get the monkeypox just from, oh well, you know...everything that exists and everyone.

So, so gullible, and un#Sciencey!

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:49 PM (dCxaZ)

222 Also, not as safe as it used to be. Multiple cases of practitioners being ambushed/raped/murdered by junkies and freaks.
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviera at August 06, 2022 12:46 PM (7DYli)

Too bad. Got to love the modern era.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:49 PM (dNqv+)

223 I want to know how psychologists collect bad debts. Can you put a lien on sanity?

Posted by: fd at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (sn5EN)

224 Hickeys??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (yikp0)

225 Having difficulty finding a live feed for CPAN

I believe this is it
https://bit.ly/3P2ZaiE

https://www.ntd.com/cpac-texas-
2022-aug-6_819140.html

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (woO3w)

226 I can still get in my khakis and choker whites, don't wear them cause don't shave.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (gktX6)

227 220 Today is Hiroshima Day, Lefties everywhere should be agitating that it was wrong to kill thousands to save a million lives.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 06, 2022 12:48 PM (tJrVH)

Including my great Uncle Henry, who was on a boat off Japan when the bombs were dropped. He was pro-nuke, oddly enough.

Damn, I am all nostalgic today.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (dNqv+)

228 LOL on the 1960 Saturday Evening Post "Housecall" cover. Elephant up, donkey down. Unfortunately, things didn't turn out that way.

Posted by: mrp at August 06, 2022 12:50 PM (6eRlp)

229 It actually makes sense to me for doctors do house calls. That way you don't have to bring sick people into an office. I do understand why it's much more efficient to have an office if you have a big practice
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2022 11:44 AM (snPsk)

Yes! Impractical in cities, of course, but other than that, it always seemed crazy to have all the sick people wait together in a small area to spread the germs.

Also, looking at that Saturday Evening Post cover makes me REALLY want a time machine.

Posted by: DaisyB at August 06, 2022 12:51 PM (AbL8c)

230 Last one re. Judith. If this don't get a little dust in your eye, not sure what will.

https://tinyurl.com/5n82nahb

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:51 PM (Xrfse)

231 Air Force and Space Force plaintiffs win jab exemption, injunction granted by Trump appointee:

https://tinyurl.com/5c836eys

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:53 PM (dCxaZ)

232 The only other doctor visit I remember was for the physical to play sports.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Jumping ahead here, but when I was 12, I had the team check for hernias, like most boys did then. Doc passed me. I asked, "What about when I do this?"
Oops, hernia.

Posted by: MkY at August 06, 2022 12:53 PM (cPGH3)

233 Mr. Mac. English teacher. Left teaching to go into the Corps. A4 jock, ran into him in Vietnam.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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I was, and remain, astonished by the number of classmates that I encountered while in the service. The odds against it, in each case, were huge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:53 PM (eR8Ul)

234 Last one re. Judith. If this don't get a little dust in your eye, not sure what will.

https://tinyurl.com/5n82nahb

God bless her memory. And her.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at August 06, 2022 12:55 PM (mTSL0)

235
Damn, I am all nostalgic today.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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It's the 'Rockwell Effect'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:55 PM (eR8Ul)

236 I was, and remain, astonished by the number of classmates that I encountered while in the service. The odds against it, in each case, were huge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 12:53 PM (eR8Ul)

I found it interesting that in my 20 years in the Army, I ran into at least a dozen men and women from one high school in Auburn WA. All over the world, many different jobs. All Auburn grads. Weird.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 12:56 PM (anj39)

237 Missed Nigel Farage trying to find a site that was actually showing the convention. NTD seems to be it unless you are a member of Epoch Times.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 12:56 PM (woO3w)

238 I'm sick. Now go away so I can get back to playing with my toys.

Posted by: 'Sick' Kid at August 06, 2022 12:56 PM (oTZbj)

239 I still have a stack of 30+ year old boots from the Army days. Most don't fit any more, feet have gotten wider. But the two pairs of rather expensive Matterhorn go devil boots I was issued for testing still fit. I use them in the shop during winter, good work boots.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2022 12:57 PM (KYKwc)

240 230 Last one re. Judith. If this don't get a little dust in your eye, not sure what will.

https://tinyurl.com/5n82nahb
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 06, 2022 12:51 PM (Xrfse)

Nice. Thanks for sharing that.

I am always amazed by the change of usage in prayer. 'Debt' and 'debtor' in exchange for 'trespasses' that I learned. Also the inclusion of 'For the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory are Yours, Now and Forever.' It seems to have been dropped completely in a lot of even Catholic churches.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:57 PM (dNqv+)

241 Just a reminder that today is National Mustard Day, so plan your activities-

I have some bratwurst I'm going to brown up and enjoy with a lovely spicy brown Gulden's
mashed potatoes on the side

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 12:58 PM (geLO8)

242 Are they becoming the Academy of Pederasts?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 06, 2022 12:59 PM (ynpvh)

243 Vatican II, aka 'let's throw out the forms and usage we have maintained for 1900 years because... reasons.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 12:59 PM (dNqv+)

244

Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as Governor Eric Holcomb quickly signed legislation creating a near-total ban on the procedure shortly after lawmakers approved it.

The ban, which takes effect Sept. 15, includes some exceptions. Abortions would be permitted in cases of rape and incest, before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. Victims of rape and incest would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed.

Under the bill, abortions can be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses. A doctor who performs an illegal abortion or fails to file required reports must also lose their medical license — wording that tightens current Indiana law that says a doctor “may” lose their license.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2022 12:59 PM (63Dwl)

245 11 Pennsylvania Pride Festival Teaches Kids to Pole Dance

SMH over the state of Pennsylvania. I fear it can get worse
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Family pediatrician came by trolley and then walked to our row house when a baby of the family was extremely ill. He stayed 3 days.

Pediatricians also spoke their minds to parents & the parents usually followed the advice. Had a 'heart problem' as a kid & the doctor said she'll learn to live with it, stop spoiling her. (Oh how mom loved that!)
Shots were from public clinics, including in-school clinics. We had school physicals by drs. every few years with a nurse present. There was an eye test, weight taken, quick dental & ENT exam, glance at the child 'victim' standing in its underwear to see if anything looked amiss & with the dr commenting such as dirty ears, needs dental work, needs to lose weight, etc. School PE for sports? A physician came to school & parents paid $5 for the PE & State form.

At 18, we were adults. Anyone who became 20 in high school was removed.

Posted by: Lola at August 06, 2022 01:00 PM (NIYa7)

246 233 Mike, I was astonished at running into my wife's ex husband, but the Corps being a smaller branch of the services, I guess it was to be expected.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 01:01 PM (lz5hY)

247 NPCs are real.
Check the eyes.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yMrVKpjjQQE/

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:01 PM (tUVd3)

248 "the confirmed demorats I know have already bought the lie that you can get the monkeypox just from, oh well, you know...everything that exists and everyone.

So, so gullible, and un#Sciencey!
Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 12:49 PM (dCxaZ)"

Their heads will really explode when more people realize the odds that natural outbreaks are related to people fucking monkeys.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 01:01 PM (BbSpR)

249 >>> 172 I've heard similar complaints from docs, both in person and written. Not really sure if the pedo/groomer shit or the COVID shit has done more to damage the reputation of the medical community, although it looks like Dickin' Pox wants to give it a go as well.

Med related: just found out my company has been concealing serious health effects in the vaxxed, which is like all but a dozen or two people at the company. I know roughly 2/3 missed multiple days for shot side effects, and a solid 15% or so had to go to ER/urgent care for themselves or a family member, sometimes multiple times (!) - but apparently we've been having people stroke out and be hospitalized for weeks, and they just can't hide it anymore.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (BbSpR)

You work where I do?!

Seriously, while I haven't heard anything nearly this bad, I see that we are allowed time off for woofloo and woofloo shots. Why, it's almost like they know it's a problem! And I see plenty of people taking off for either reason.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 06, 2022 01:02 PM (llON8)

250 If we are doing teachers...Senior year.
Mr Phares for biology. A nice man.
Mr Demko for Contemporary World Problems. Great class
Mr Z. For math and I got out of his class. A flaming commie and head of the Teachers Union. A real prick.
And I've spoken of the virtues of Miss K. French teacher. Great teacher and drop dead gorgeous. Left teaching for the airlines.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 01:02 PM (anj39)

251 Today is Hiroshima Day, Lefties everywhere should be agitating that it was wrong to kill thousands to save a million lives.

They were just about to surrender!
*Japs: no we weren't*

Truman only dropped the bomb to show how big his d*** was and to scare Stalin into not trying to take and keep the rest of the world.
*Truman: not seeing the downside here*

Posted by: Lefties who were NOT scheduled to invade at August 06, 2022 01:03 PM (/NCI4)

252 Today is Hiroshima Day, Lefties everywhere should be agitating that it was wrong to kill thousands to save a million lives.
Posted by: Anna Puma

For me at least, saving American lives is kind of far down the list of reasons that nuking Japan was justified. Like number 7 on the list. First six reasons is pitiless retribution for the Imperial Japanese being genocidal cocksuckers who made the Nazis look like Girl Scout Troop 35 from Peoria.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 06, 2022 01:03 PM (KYKwc)

253 "This Plandemic is killing and injuring millions around the world and yet the people taking this trial injection faithfully believe and trust their criminal politicians and health officials. It is now a proven fact that hospitals everywhere are filled with people who are vaccinated but tell that to your neighbours and they simply laugh in your face. Soon, your neighbours will all disappear due to their ignorance."

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4YLOaGmYZdki/

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:04 PM (tUVd3)

254 28 Posted by: LenNeal at August 06, 2022 11:36 AM (43xH1)

The Gnostics were for the most part relatively harmless.

These people want a 75% plus die off.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:04 PM (Lzpvj)

255 251 My Dad was on occupation duty in Japan and told stories of sightseeing in Hiro. Dad died of cancer, age 62.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 01:05 PM (lz5hY)

256 Mike, I was astonished at running into my wife's ex husband, but the Corps being a smaller branch of the services, I guess it was to be expected.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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*?*

I thought we kept all you guys sequestered in the holds of ships.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 01:06 PM (WxuR2)

257 Under the bill, abortions can be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses. A doctor who performs an illegal abortion or fails to file required reports must also lose their medical license — wording that tightens current Indiana law that says a doctor “may” lose their license.
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There was a clinic in South Bend, across the street from City Hall while Little Boots was mayor, whose doctor was some kind of freak who kept 'specimens' at his home and outbuildings (he lived in IL).

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 01:08 PM (MIKMs)

258 >>> 247 NPCs are real.
Check the eyes.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/yMrVKpjjQQE/
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:01 PM (tUVd3)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Stan at August 06, 2022 01:09 PM (llON8)

259 256 We snuck out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 01:10 PM (lz5hY)

260 255 251 My Dad was on occupation duty in Japan and told stories of sightseeing in Hiro. Dad died of cancer, age 62.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 01:05 PM (lz5hY)
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Is his cancer related to the Hiroshima visit? Others in that group also perish early?

Posted by: Ciampino - The Gov used soldiers as test subjects at August 06, 2022 01:10 PM (qfLjt)

261 117 I wonder how many bow ties Muldoon has?

forty-two

Posted by: deep thought at August 06, 2022 01:11 PM (x8zGG)

262 The ACA was also for creating jobs and changing medical decisions.

Posted by: Lola at August 06, 2022 01:11 PM (NIYa7)

263 But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.

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Always follow then money.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 06, 2022 01:11 PM (3vQN0)

264 There was a clinic in South Bend, across the street from City Hall while Little Boots was mayor, whose doctor was some kind of freak who kept 'specimens' at his home and outbuildings (he lived in IL).
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 01:08 PM (MIKMs)

There seem to be a disturbing amount of, but not necessarily surprising when you think about it, overlap between some abortionists and serial killers. Taking of trophies and needing to have them near by.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 01:12 PM (dNqv+)

265 257 Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 01:08 PM (MIKMs)

It seems to be a recurring hobby in Philly Metro there was Kermy G.

Ulrich Klopfer decided to transport dead babies across state lines and was consequently a superhero to democrats.

Here is the final report by IN on Klopfer.

https://tinyurl.com/396a72nx

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:12 PM (Lzpvj)

266 264 Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 01:12 PM (dNqv+)

When you can compartmentalize your morality to the degree those two professions require you have transcended accountability.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:13 PM (Lzpvj)

267 I only ran into 2 of the guys I went to boot camp with during my 22 years, but it was a big Navy.

Posted by: Eromero at August 06, 2022 01:14 PM (gktX6)

268 who made the Nazis look like Girl Scout Troop 35 from Peoria.

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Whaaaaaaa? Dude!

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 06, 2022 01:14 PM (3vQN0)

269 There was a clinic in South Bend, across the street from City Hall while Little Boots was mayor, whose doctor was some kind of freak who kept 'specimens' at his home and outbuildings (he lived in IL).
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Kermit Gosnell??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (yikp0)

270 Victims of rape and incest would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed.

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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2022 12:59 PM (63Dwl)

That exception will swallow the rule (and the incidence of "rape" and "incest" (ewwwww) will skyrocket next year!) unless there's also some law enforcement personnel nearby at the hospital who will investigate the claims. IMHO.

Posted by: Dino Rossi at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

271 My FNL was in the 81st Division. He hated the Japanese. Hated them.
Me ol man was on subs throughout the war, including Pearl Harbor. He was more reserved in his dislike but it was there. His biggest holdover from the war was his refusal to eat any kind of canned fruit.
We had fruit trees in our back yard.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (anj39)

272 268 Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 06, 2022 01:14 PM (3vQN0)

The IJA was reliant on the understanding they were simply barbaric shitheads rather than the reality which is they were omnicidal xenophobic racist rapist shitheads.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (Lzpvj)

273 I think that TikTok, as evil as the platform is, it's also being used to let other kids know that the jab is bullshit.

Doc I just posted above includes a 16-17 year old kid on TikTok expressing his rage over his little sister's death after she got the jab.

Gen Z is gonna be one hugely pissed off generation.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (tUVd3)

274 260 Ciampino, who knows. Dad died in 1975. There were a lot of troops exposed to radiation through ignorance from the first bomb test, through Hiro and Nagasaki, and subsequent above ground tests.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (lz5hY)

275 #265 Thanks for the update, Sven. A different but similar asshole then.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:16 PM (yikp0)

276 269 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (yikp0)

Ulrich Klopfer-Kermy G was in Philly....

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

277 275 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:16 PM (yikp0)

I would bet the baby shoe money there have been others.

It is a cogent observation to compare the psychological makeup of infanticiders and serial killers-they seem to have no intrinsic value for human life at all.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:17 PM (Lzpvj)

278 But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.

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Always follow then money.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 06, 2022 01:11 PM (3vQN0)

Waddaya know? O'Bumbles may have been partially right.

Posted by: Dino Rossi at August 06, 2022 01:18 PM (Ed8Zd)

279 > But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.
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The parents are on the hook for the bill, no? Or are the "doctors" advertising the surgeries doing it for free? Because if the parents are forking over the money rather than sitting the kid down for "a long talk" then the problem isn't just the doctors.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 06, 2022 01:18 PM (BFigT)

280 It is a cogent observation to compare the psychological makeup of infanticiders and serial killers-they seem to have no intrinsic value for human life at all.
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I'm sure.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:18 PM (yikp0)

281 >>> 269 There was a clinic in South Bend, across the street from City Hall while Little Boots was mayor, whose doctor was some kind of freak who kept 'specimens' at his home and outbuildings (he lived in IL).
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Kermit Gosnell??
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (yikp0)

No.

iirc Gosnell was in Philly, and while I can't recall this guy's name he is a different psycho.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 06, 2022 01:18 PM (llON8)

282 270 Victims of rape and incest would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed.

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Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2022 12:59 PM (63Dwl)

That exception will swallow the rule (and the incidence of "rape" and "incest" (ewwwww) will skyrocket next year!) unless there's also some law enforcement personnel nearby at the hospital who will investigate the claims. IMHO.

Posted by: Dino Rossi at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Unless these two categories are reported to LE then it makes a mockery of the ban. Particularly if an obvious minor is the 'victim' which surely would be a glaring criminal matter.

Posted by: Ciampino - Insist on legislation to fix that loophole at August 06, 2022 01:20 PM (qfLjt)

283 Doc I just posted above includes a 16-17 year old kid on TikTok expressing his rage over his little sister's death after she got the jab.

Gen Z is gonna be one hugely pissed off generation.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM (tUVd3)

And I just saw... last week(?) on the news at work that Kentucky was urging all children be vaccinated. *snip expletive laden sentence*

I am not anti-vax in the main, but kids have NOT been a primary problem for Covid. This is fucking madness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 01:20 PM (dNqv+)

284 How many of these doctors are getting paid by Big Pharma?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:20 PM (tUVd3)

285 271 My FNL was in the 81st Division. He hated the Japanese. Hated them.
Me ol man was on subs throughout the war, including Pearl Harbor. He was more reserved in his dislike but it was there. His biggest holdover from the war was his refusal to eat any kind of canned fruit.
We had fruit trees in our back yard.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 01:15 PM

My Stepdad was in the 6th Marines at Okinawa. He hated them so much he wouldn't eat rice.

Posted by: Javems at August 06, 2022 01:21 PM (AmoqO)

286 281 Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 06, 2022 01:18 PM (llON

Ulrich Klopfer, I posted the IN Atty Gnrl's final report on his antics.

Essentially the guy had ~ 2400 sets of remains of dead babies.

Guy failed to report multiple abortions on 13 year olds.

We have faced monsters my whole life, that too many good people refused to call monsters.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:21 PM (Lzpvj)

287 Also, there is a fundamental difference between our vaccines for Small pox, rubella and all that and this fucking 'therapeutic'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 01:24 PM (dNqv+)

288 Reuters is really blaming climate change for that lightning strike near the White House [that killed three]

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There was no lighting prior to 1960.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:25 PM (FVME7)

289 288 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:25 PM (FVME7)

There was no rain either, it is complicated.

Now square their climate religion with their explanations on how life came into being.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

290 288 Reuters is really blaming climate change for that lightning strike near the White House [that killed three]

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There was no lighting prior to 1960.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:25 PM (FVME7)

Ben Franklin's legacy hardest hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 06, 2022 01:26 PM (dNqv+)

291 Well kids.
I'm off to the driving range. Need to work on my short irons.
Later.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 06, 2022 01:27 PM (anj39)

292 I always thought it was interesting that the actual Japanese who were around at the time didn't seem to be outraged at the bomb dropping, or the firebombing. They thoroughly internalized that if they had had the capability to do it to us, they would have, so at least they were honest. One of the many disgusting thought processes of the Modern Enemy is the ability to get loudly morally angry at others for doing exactly what they do if they have the upper hand.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 06, 2022 01:27 PM (3/XaG)

293 284 How many of these doctors are getting paid by Big Pharma?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 01:20 PM (tUVd3)

I don't know. But I did post an article by an anti-mRna jab Ph.D who revealed he was offered big bucks by Pfizer to shut up.

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 01:27 PM (dCxaZ)

294 Ulrich Klopfer, I posted the IN Atty Gnrl's final report on his antics.
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Thanks, sven. No doubt I blanked his name in self-defense because I don't want any more nightmares.

Anyway, at Notre Dame, across the street from city hall, this monster was operating with impunity.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 01:28 PM (MIKMs)

295 I think this is the tip of the iceberg. The side effects will be popping up for years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2022 01:28 PM (89T5c)

296 >Reuters is really blaming climate change for that lightning strike near the White House [that killed three]

I grew up in the DC burbs. Thunder and lightning are a common summertime occurrence. Since forever. Well, at least since the oceans formed, and there was weather.

Posted by: DB at August 06, 2022 01:29 PM (geLO8)

297 294 Posted by: mustbequantum at August 06, 2022 01:28 PM (MIKMs)

Indeed, I had to look it back up I flashed on "jericho" when his antics came up because I remember his given name with Skeet Ulrich.

Essentially the more evil you are the more donkey protects you.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:29 PM (Lzpvj)

298 My FNL was in the 81st Division. He hated the Japanese. Hated them.

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Meanwhile . . .

New German law will allow citizens to change their gender and first name once a year

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The Japanese and the Germans deluded themselves with an all encompassing ideology of hatred. And now we're doing the same thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:29 PM (FVME7)

299 298 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:29 PM (FVME7)

We were told to look the other way as the evil grew since 1992.

Turns out asshole globalists from both sides wanted this.

Posted by: sven at August 06, 2022 01:30 PM (Lzpvj)

300 Cool beans. Kilauea breathing.

https://tinyurl.com/7be8xr87

Posted by: Archimedes at August 06, 2022 01:31 PM (/NCI4)

301 Reuters is really blaming climate change for that lightning strike near the White House [that killed three]
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Dammit. Missed. Sights must be off.

Posted by: Zeus at August 06, 2022 01:32 PM (okiAz)

302 I am not anti-vax in the main, but kids have NOT been a primary problem for Covid. This is fucking madness.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

They have to alter the children to control the population.

*tin foil had off*

Posted by: Infidel at August 06, 2022 01:33 PM (mn1Pi)

303 I think this is the tip of the iceberg. The side effects will be popping up for years.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 06, 2022 01:28 PM (89T5c)

All cause mortality is up, but the good news is it looks like the reproductive injuries may pass.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 01:34 PM (xhaym)

304 Imagine how much whining the left could do if the Axis prevailed. Oh, that’s right, none, Because their vanguard would have been liquidated. Say it: “If order was vanquished, then like the greens really want, I would not be here harming Mother Gaia.” You’re welcome.

Posted by: Holy Crap at August 06, 2022 01:34 PM (glGDV)

305 If the Imperial Japanese had gotten their societal act together in the 1600s instead of going insular the world might have been divided in two between the Japanese Empire and the British Empire in the 1800s.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 06, 2022 01:35 PM (3/XaG)

306 NOOD garden

Posted by: Ciampino - earth at August 06, 2022 01:35 PM (qfLjt)

307 They have to alter the children to control the population.
*tin foil had off*
Posted by: Infidel at August 06, 2022 01:33 PM (mn1Pi)

The big pharma companies have to have it included in the childhood vaccine schedule to receive full immunity from prosecution.

One in 800 vaccine injury it looks like. Imagine being sued for each one?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2022 01:36 PM (xhaym)

308 Dr. Ute Kruger, Chief of Pathology and Breast Cancer Specialist at Lunds University, Sweden. She sees the mRna jab as trigger for fast-growing tumors and auto-immune disease.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8rb255

*link goes to substack*

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 01:36 PM (dCxaZ)

309 Also, the tin foil hat must be grounded with a string of paper clips to be truely effective. Eye roll

Posted by: Holy Crap at August 06, 2022 01:37 PM (glGDV)

310 I am not anti-vax in the main, but kids have NOT been a primary problem for Covid. This is fucking madness.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAoBW3yjlvA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 06, 2022 01:38 PM (FVME7)

311 I'm working on my 1983 Honda scooter today. I looked at it last week and noticed the tag on it was from 2017 and couldn't remember if it was broke or I just quit riding it. I got it to start but it isn't pulling strong up to it's top speed of 45-50 mph. I was barely able to get it to 35. Electrical I think as none of the lights are working and it is choking on full throttle. May just need a new plug which I am going to check after it cools down.

It could just be that I weigh as much as two Singaporeans.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 01:42 PM (C35Jn)

312 If the Axis had won, which to happen would have had happened by 1942, it would have settled into an extended Cold War. America and South America= NATO, Nazi Germany and Europe=Warsaw Pact, Imperial Japan= Communist China. American college kids would be edgy and rebellious by wearing Reynardt Heydrich t-shirts and tell everyone they were fascists.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 06, 2022 01:43 PM (3/XaG)

313 184 170
It's shameful that the Army couldn't find a fabric that didn't shrink over time...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 06, 2022 12:27 PM (kXYt5)
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Didn't you know it's the drier that shrinks clothes, though some blame the refrigerator?
Posted by: Ciampino - I blame growing at August 06, 2022 12:33 PM (qfLjt)
____________

I ask my wife how she manages to shrink the waist of my jeans but not the length.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 06, 2022 01:43 PM (XlpYx)

314 Long story short, most of today's society wants to stick their nose into how other people raise their kids. Its the HOA mentality applied to the family.

And everybody doing it, are doing it from a Tyranny of the Well Intentioned POV. And they don't all come from the Left.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 06, 2022 01:44 PM (n4QeF)

315 My step grandfather was a pediatrician. Old school Texan, can't imagine he would be okay with this gender nonsense. Guy practiced part time until his late 80s because he really enjoyed it.

Posted by: CppThis at August 06, 2022 01:44 PM (UewuT)

316 Long story short, most of today's society wants to stick their nose into how other people raise their kids. Its the HOA mentality applied to the family.

And everybody doing it, are doing it from a Tyranny of the Well Intentioned POV. And they don't all come from the Left.
Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 06, 2022 01:44 PM (n4QeF)

It's true. No one accepts the idea of the Pater Familia anymore.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 06, 2022 01:46 PM (C35Jn)

317 Jack Turban became a "leader" in this field while a psychiatric FELLOW. In training. Not board certified in his subspecialty. That never happens but in this case it did because faculty were afraid to correct or confront him.

Turban claims daddy issues because his father didn't like homosexuals.

One thing Jack Turban's father never did was assist in cutting off the genitals of young gay men, which is what a lot of misidentified trans really are.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at August 06, 2022 01:50 PM (ITey1)

318 One thing Jack Turban's father never did was assist in cutting off the genitals of young gay men, which is what a lot of misidentified trans really are.

It makes no sense - all this cutting and drug prescribing. Just be who you are, as you are. And quit demanding affirmation, if thats truly what you are.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 06, 2022 01:56 PM (n4QeF)

319 If one can change its name and gender once a year, can it's work history and credit path be followed??

Posted by: Lola at August 06, 2022 01:56 PM (NIYa7)

320 Earlier we'd been wondering when the Asian shop owner located his knife. The following vid shows the entire interaction:

https://twitter.com/AsianDawn4

*I like the hashtag of this account - #SoySauceSupremacist*

Posted by: kallisto at August 06, 2022 01:57 PM (dCxaZ)

321 It seems the Senate Dems are SO DESPERATE to get all 50 votes for the Inflation Reduction Act that Schumer decided virus testing for Covid isn’t necessary.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxu4n3t

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 02:05 PM (tUVd3)

322 Sailor by day, performer by night — meet the Navy’s drag queen, ‘Harpy Daniels’ (Navy Times)

https://tinyurl.com/3czy6h83

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 02:15 PM (tUVd3)

323 Greetings:

I grew up in the Bronx of the '50s and '60s. In the '50s, I fell out of bed and bloodied my head.
Dr. Raab came to our apartment at 11pm and put me and my Mother back together again.
No toys we're involved.

In '61, I fractured my wrist at school "playing" "touch" football. At 8pm that evening, Dr. Raab opened his office to x-ray and plaster-cast me.
Again, no toys we're involved.

When I was sick abed, my Father would smuggle comic books to me up his sleeve. Mother only permitted "Classics Illustrated" regardless of infirmities real or imagined.

Posted by: 11B40 at August 06, 2022 02:23 PM (uuklp)

324 190
I've had Lyme disease twice and know the symptoms. I've never had the 'tell-tale' rash. Fever and brain fog were the two common symptoms. My own father had Lyme but the Dr told him he didn't. A couple of days later he had Bells Palsy.

I had Lyme, classic presentation, brain fog, low blood pressure, large rash with two "eyes." A few years later I had Bell's Palsy. No connection that I'm aware of.

Posted by: Gordon Scott at August 06, 2022 02:23 PM (vICW1)

325 I make house calls.

Posted by: Sarah at August 06, 2022 02:27 PM (S+WjR)

326 The potential with this is endless.
Here's what I've been doing... http://www.salarycash1.com
Posted by: Sarah
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Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 06, 2022 02:37 PM (okiAz)

327 322 - More great PR for Pennsylvania!

Watch when the enlistment is done. Will become no less than an in-school administrator.

Yes, we're f'ed.

Posted by: Lola at August 06, 2022 02:41 PM (NIYa7)

328 From Yahoo news, the most digital age American headline I've ever read:

Celebrities May Be Changing Their Minds About the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Case Amid New Evidence

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 06, 2022 02:45 PM (IXpV7)

329 STFU and get back to sucking. I ain't payin' you to type.

Posted by: Sarah's John at August 06, 2022 02:46 PM (DTX3h)

330 Celebrities May Be Changing Their Minds About the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard Case Amid New Evidence

I demand three flaming skulls.

Posted by: That guy who always says... at August 06, 2022 02:47 PM (Xrfse)

331 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

Still remember our family doctor coming to our house as late as 1961. During my childhood, through the 50's, it was still common for the doctor to make house calls.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 06, 2022 02:54 PM (Zvtjl)

332 entire interaction: https://twitter.com/AsianDawn4

*I like the hashtag of this account - #SoySauceSupremacist*
Posted by: kallisto
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It's irritating, maybe deliberate or maybe just unfamiliar with the technology, but one clicks full screen and it doesn't come up to regular size.

It's like shots that would be much better in landscape.
The guy is 22 and he owns his business, the guy that took out the last mall monster was 22. A good sign.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 03:07 PM (woO3w)

333 It's America's version of complete-fail Windows 8. How long, Lord?

Posted by: Coki at August 06, 2022 03:07 PM (oXZHt)

334 Schumer decided virus testing for Covid isn’t necessary.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxu4n3t
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 06, 2022 02:05 PM (tUVd3)
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"Senate Democrats are embracing a “Don’t Test, Don’t Tell” policy"

This may be a feint, if it's not we may get lucky.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 03:16 PM (woO3w)

335 So the government is watching out for us by discouraging the use of antibiotics, in the process making it difficult for those truly in need. Is their anything the government doesn't fvck up?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 06, 2022 12:36 PM (jE276)

Practices refusing to prescribe antibiotics has been going on in California for at least two decades. When I lived in SF, I had an upper respiratory infection and my doctor refused antibiotics (they billed me for nothing, in my opinion). So, I tried to tough it out for 3 months, working and quarantining myself in my office. When I got good and tired of no improvement, I went out of network, to one of those sketchy doctors who gave me a prescription (he also insisted on giving me a pap smear, the pervert, and snapped the button on my jeans before I said, "No! I just need the antibiotic, thank you.") Anyway, once on the meds, I felt better immediately. Never went back to any of those doctors after that.

Posted by: Coki at August 06, 2022 03:17 PM (oXZHt)

336 Collapse is Going to Happen, Like It or Not
https://is.gd/NpFu0R
h/t a commenter else-blog (Sarah Hoyt's place)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 06, 2022 03:28 PM (llON8)

337 What happens if you steal from a shoplifter and return the goods to the shopkeeper?

What if you do this in NYC?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 06, 2022 03:29 PM (fs1hN)

338 331. Easily through the 60s for babies & children with very special needs being cared for by family.

And some older, long practicing physicians (especially with very specific practices, i.e., pulmonary, renal, etc) still see an occasion patient at home. In fact, when Covid vaccine 1st became available, there were physicians who went to certain patients early on to give the 'vaccines.'

House calls returning?: See 'Characteristics of the modern-day physician house call' Medicine (Baltimore). 2019 Feb; 98(

: e14671.
Published online 2019 Feb 22.

Posted by: Lola at August 06, 2022 03:35 PM (NIYa7)

339 13 I doubt anyone here has ever had a Doc make a house call...I doubt they were very common in 1960.
Posted by: BignJames at August 06, 2022 11:22 AM (AwYPR)

My father was an ENT specialist, as well as holding a teaching position at CWRU in the 60's and 70's. He made house calls regularly. He was always on call...

My first GP, when I moved to Buffalo in 1980, made house calls. In one instance, he came to my house to drive me to the hospital himself (long story).

The common thread between the two cases: both men were from the old school of medicine, where house calls were part of the profession, and they were happy to do it.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 06, 2022 03:43 PM (BgMrQ)

340 Chick who competed against that Thomas boy is talking.

https://bit.ly/3SySnAf

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2022 04:37 PM (woO3w)

341 Paragraph writing is also a excitement, if you know afterward you can write if not it is complicated to write.

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