Tinfoil Hat Time: The after the weekend edition.
Mr. Obama during a speech on Thursday apparently blamed Fox News
for the problems implementing Obama care. I am so confused; I thought
that this administration didn't take Fox News very seriously? Didn't
they even suggest that Fox didn't even really do news? It couldn't
possibly be 20,000 pages of undecipherable regulations that even the
originators of the law find confusing?
Along that same note he also stated that there was no evidence
that the ACA was hurting businesses. Really? Setting aside those that
I know who have small businesses who can't afford to hire because of
the ACA, Investors Business Daily came out with a report on over 300
companies that have either laid off people or cut them back to part
time employees. This report does not take into account medical
institutions who have had to do the same, not to mention all the
unions that are declaring that this is going to ruin both the 40 hour
work week and the foundations of the middle class. When the unions,
which at one time supported this are now against it, and major
hospitals that once backed it are having to lay off or early retire
3000 employees it might be worth a second look before you implement
it. Perhaps if they had read it in the first place we wouldn't be
having this conversation....
Under the heading of “here we go again”, the republicans, in
the house, passed another budget bill this time with an amendment
delaying Obama care for a year....sigh....apparently they didn't get
the memo that Harry Reid is going to kill it , again, in the senate
and even if, by some miracle of the blessed virgin, it was to
actually get through the senate, Mr. Obama has said that he will veto
it. How about pass a budget and then fight over Obama care or, and I
think this is a much better idea,just let Obama Care happen. If
democrats are right and this is the greatest thing since apple pie
then come the 1st of January we should all be dealing with
unicorns and rainbows and there will be great rejoicing in the
streets and dems will win from now until eternity comes. If it isn't
,and the proverbial bat guano goes into massive rotation, then the
republicans will be able to say “I told you so” and the dems can
count on loosing elections for the foreseeable future. So in the
words of Dirty Harry, and this is to both parties, “do you feel
lucky?”
Under the category of “money not well spent” according to a
Denver news report 600 grand was spent in an affluent neighbor hood
to plant trees. This was federal money and didn't cost the wealthy
folks a penny. Also senator Tom Coburn put out a list of federally
funded programs that are wasteful such as “social media for
apples,Wine tasting and a youtube clip for handling watermelons.” I
am impressed. Nothing like knowing that apples are getting their own
social media while grandma can't afford to buy them....
Under the category of “wait a minute you are against this
idea..”
On Friday Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration was
going to allow 45 million in funding for armed guards at schools. I
keep waiting for the punch line....are these the same people who made
fun of the NRA for suggesting that very thing.
Over the weekend a professor ,in Kansas, was suspended for a
twitter basically chastising the head of the NRA and telling him that
some day it could be him or his family mourning a shooting death. He
made no threats so I am not sure how this is deserving of suspension.
We either have a first amendment right to free speech or we don't.
One question; where are those that would agree with him? Shouldn't
the ACLU be screaming about his rights of free speech? How could it
be that this redneck, gun loving, bible reading hick is the only one
speaking up for his rights even when I disagree with him....
Under the category of “be careful who you date” Apparently
some members of the NSA have been using their positions to spy on
their lovers...I'm not even sure how to make fun of this one...hi I'm
the perverted spy that your mother warned you about.....
The UN has decided that they are 95% certain that humans are
responsible for climate change, suggesting that the earths temp has
gone up approx. 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1950. Now I remember back
in the 70's when we were being told that we were going to have
another ice age by the 90's if we didn't clean up our act. Then it
was global warming. The polar caps were melting, and Bermuda was
going to sink under the rising waters, and their would be more fierce
hurricanes...hasn't happened so now they have changed it to climate
change, which is a fancy PC term meaning “ they have no idea what
they are talking about they just want to tax you more” Anyone who
lives in the North East understands that when you go from a parka to
shorts and then back to a parka, all in a 12 hour period, THAT'S
climate change. I think I'll just stick to the “Farmers Almanac”
and my horoscope....
So that’s all for now. See you after we become the United
Socialist States of America......
Monday, September 30, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Tinfoil Hat Time
Today
I am going to be starting a new type of blog. It will be called “My
Tin Foil Hat” and will focus mostly on what I personally see as
absurd or even down right humorous in politics. If it's nothing more
than a dumb headline I plan to try and point out the humor or the
silliness in it. I am not saying that any of it will be factual, I
will simply be using what is provided by the MSM and other sources to
mock what I see as being the massive amounts of insanity coming from
DC and other black holes in the universe. Should you have something
you want to share but don't have the time contact me and I will share
it if it's legit. Be fore warned I am a libertarian that makes
everyone fair game no matter the party or religious association. Let
the games begin.
To start this I would like to congratulate Lois Lerner on her retirement from the IRS. I have to applaud her in just how well she understands the 5th amendment ,while ignoring the rest, and I rejoice in the knowledge that tea party taxes, as well as everyone else', will be paying her retirement. Well played Lois, well played indeed...
Under the category of "wasting our time" republicans in the house once again voted to defund Obama care only this time putting it in the temporary budget bill, knowing full well that the senate would kill it. Ted Cruz took up the challenge in the senate and filibustered for 21 hours talking about Duck Dynasty and Dr. Seuss and swapping trivia with other senators. Now every time I watch Duck Dynasty I am going to see Cruz in a beard.....
John Kerry ,under the direction of President Obama, signed the UN arms treaty. So does that mean we are going to now stop supplying guns to drug cartels and rebels all over the world? Oh wait , it's not meant for the United States, unless your a law abiding American citizen, it's supposed to be for rogue nations who supply guns to terrorists....oh wait, never mind.......
The FDA spent over 182 thousand tax payer dollars to have a study done to “better understand social media” For about half of that I would been more than happy to explain it to them. OK so it's not funny but it is pathetic.
And in the “you got to be kidding” category. The FBI has determined that the Navy Yard killer was delusional. Really? I am so glad that we pay them as much as we do so that they can determine what all the rest of us already know.
The EPA has admitted that their new CO2 regulations,that will essentially prevent any new coal powered plants from ever being built, will have no effects on CO2 emissions or global warming. All righty then...
Apparently, at least according to a university of Maryland professor, it's legal to kill children in Florida ,referring to the Martin/Zimmerman case. So if I understand correctly a security guard, killing someone in a fight, while in fear of his own life constitutes open season on kids? Kind of strange how the killing of one person in Florida gets the top spot while 23 get killed in Chicago in two days. Oh yea I forgot it's not politically correct to point out minority against minority crime unless reverends Al and Jessie say it's OK.
Not to be out done that same professor also stated that there was a link between us rabid gun owners, gun manufactures, and pot smokers. “Radical factions of gun owners, gun manufactures, and marijuana users are challenging the very fabric of our nation...”
Apparently this man has never been around pot smokers. When you smoke pot, I wouldn't know this from any kind of personal experience ,just in case big brother is reading this, the only thing your “rabid” for is junk food. Given a choice between a Whoopie pie and a gun they are going to take the Whoopie pie.
And last, under the category of “you are just out of your freaking mind” A new drug here in the US called “Krokodil” has a nasty habit of making your skin green and scaly and eventually fall off around the injection sight. It's made up of a combination of Codeine and either, gas,turpentine,oil or alcohol. One question; why in the !#@$ would you want to inject anything in your system that contains gas? I am sure pot and a whoopie pie has to be a better way to go...
So there you have the first edition of silliness at it's finest. It may not be the funniest thing you read today but perhaps it will make you think about the absurdity out there.
To start this I would like to congratulate Lois Lerner on her retirement from the IRS. I have to applaud her in just how well she understands the 5th amendment ,while ignoring the rest, and I rejoice in the knowledge that tea party taxes, as well as everyone else', will be paying her retirement. Well played Lois, well played indeed...
Under the category of "wasting our time" republicans in the house once again voted to defund Obama care only this time putting it in the temporary budget bill, knowing full well that the senate would kill it. Ted Cruz took up the challenge in the senate and filibustered for 21 hours talking about Duck Dynasty and Dr. Seuss and swapping trivia with other senators. Now every time I watch Duck Dynasty I am going to see Cruz in a beard.....
John Kerry ,under the direction of President Obama, signed the UN arms treaty. So does that mean we are going to now stop supplying guns to drug cartels and rebels all over the world? Oh wait , it's not meant for the United States, unless your a law abiding American citizen, it's supposed to be for rogue nations who supply guns to terrorists....oh wait, never mind.......
The FDA spent over 182 thousand tax payer dollars to have a study done to “better understand social media” For about half of that I would been more than happy to explain it to them. OK so it's not funny but it is pathetic.
And in the “you got to be kidding” category. The FBI has determined that the Navy Yard killer was delusional. Really? I am so glad that we pay them as much as we do so that they can determine what all the rest of us already know.
The EPA has admitted that their new CO2 regulations,that will essentially prevent any new coal powered plants from ever being built, will have no effects on CO2 emissions or global warming. All righty then...
Apparently, at least according to a university of Maryland professor, it's legal to kill children in Florida ,referring to the Martin/Zimmerman case. So if I understand correctly a security guard, killing someone in a fight, while in fear of his own life constitutes open season on kids? Kind of strange how the killing of one person in Florida gets the top spot while 23 get killed in Chicago in two days. Oh yea I forgot it's not politically correct to point out minority against minority crime unless reverends Al and Jessie say it's OK.
Not to be out done that same professor also stated that there was a link between us rabid gun owners, gun manufactures, and pot smokers. “Radical factions of gun owners, gun manufactures, and marijuana users are challenging the very fabric of our nation...”
Apparently this man has never been around pot smokers. When you smoke pot, I wouldn't know this from any kind of personal experience ,just in case big brother is reading this, the only thing your “rabid” for is junk food. Given a choice between a Whoopie pie and a gun they are going to take the Whoopie pie.
And last, under the category of “you are just out of your freaking mind” A new drug here in the US called “Krokodil” has a nasty habit of making your skin green and scaly and eventually fall off around the injection sight. It's made up of a combination of Codeine and either, gas,turpentine,oil or alcohol. One question; why in the !#@$ would you want to inject anything in your system that contains gas? I am sure pot and a whoopie pie has to be a better way to go...
So there you have the first edition of silliness at it's finest. It may not be the funniest thing you read today but perhaps it will make you think about the absurdity out there.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Attacking Syria? Why?
So apparently I have been asleep at the
switch for the last couple of years. Imagine my surprise when I
finally found out just how dangerous Syria is to the US. I could
never have imagined how a country so far away from us could be such a
threat to our national sovereignty. I'm guessing that they are
massing off the east coast, getting ready to invade? No? Then why are
we bothering to get involved in their civil war? Why are we siding
with Al-Qaida? I thought they were the bad guys. Oh ,I get it ,they
are only the bad guys when it's convenient!
By the way, a thought kind of occurred
to me, where is the actual proof of chemical attack by the Assad
regime? Yes, we have pictures of bodies, but we don't know who did
it. We have rebels ,who are trying to overthrow him, make the claim
that he has done this but no actual proof that he is the one
responsible. Now I understand that they have a panicked cell phone
call from a commander demanding to know who did the attacking but
still we have nothing but assumptions. It might have been the rebels
trying to force our hand. It may be nothing more than a big set up. I
am not saying that the man is some sort of saint but it seems to me
that if you are going to risk starting WW3 you ought to have a bit
more then he said, she said, going on.
It also seems to me that we are being
just a bit on the arrogant side as well. Our leaders seem to be under
some delusion that if we strike them that they, and their allies,
won't strike back at us and our allies. Syria along with Iran, Iraq
and I believe Lebanon, have already stated that they will attack
Israel if we strike Syria. Russia and China, who are staunch
supporters of the Syrian government are warning of dire consequences
if we do this. I am not suggesting that we back down from any one but
I am saying we don't need to get involved in another war there or
anywhere else for that matter and this may get very ugly and out of
control very quickly.
It's amazing to me that an
administration that was so hard on Bush and his administrations lack
of real proof on chemical weapons in Iraq is so eager to jump all
over this. Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons on his own people
and the Iranians during their long war and the proof was out there
but we did nothing about it until he threatened the middle east oil
supply. What makes this attack so much different? Is it because Assad
isn't an ally?
It's also amazing to me just how quiet
the American public is. I remember hundreds of thousands of
protesters marching and protesting in the US and around the world. I
remember seeing pictures of Bush and Cheney with Hitler mustaches
and slogans that went something to the effect, they lie and people
die. Where are the protesters? Where is code pink? We have the
potential of entering into one of the nastiest wars since Vietnam and
I hear nothing but crickets.
Well ,I have spoken my piece ,and while
I am saddened by the deaths of the Syrian people, I have an extreme
hatred of war, I don't think it's our place to police the entire
world and I believe that this one has the possibility of biting us
back.
Peace Out.
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
This Is What America Could Be
“What we have here , in this
neighborhood, is what America could be. Those words were said to me
almost 30 years ago by an elderly black man in Detroit while he and I
drank a beer on his front porch, talked and watched the neighbors
pass by. I was there for a room mates wedding, as his best man, and
this was the first time, away from a military base, that I witnessed
such a diverse group of families all living near each other. He
pointed to the house across the street and said to me; there lives an
elderly woman ,that at the time of her moving here, had never met
anyone who was black because the whole area was white. But as things
changed she went with the flow and was now a good friend to him and
his family. He then proceeded to point out various houses and people
and tell me how all of them, ethnically speaking, were different and
yet all of them had adjusted and everyone looked out for each other.
He then repeated what he had said earlier about how all of America
could be this way if we all chose it to be like this. This was a man
old enough to have had grand parents that were slaves and yet he
didn't focus on that instead he looked for the good.
This past weekend ,during an annual
gathering in the north country, I was reminded of the truth of that
once again. As I said in an earlier post I have a very diverse group
of friends. For many of them, it goes way beyond friendship to being
family.
Between rain drops and down pours, high
winds and cold, we managed to have a couple of bon fires, lots of
food and beverage. Some of the kids were even crazy enough to get
into the water even though the air temperature was about 60-65. We
had a good time.
But it's really the people involved
that made this a good time.
This group consisted of black, white
and Hispanic. We are a group from three states and two countries. We
are a group of people who are liberal, conservative and libertarian.
We have folks that are Christian, others that are close to being
atheists, and some of us who practice Reform Judaism. We are a group
who has everything from small children to elderly and handicapped. We
are from Brooklyn, From the coast of Maine, Vermont and Ontario. We
discussed everything from politics to religion and conspiracy
theories. We laughed ,we joked, and we remembered days and times gone
by. We talked about issues that the politically correct would say we
couldn't and yet there was no anger no finger pointing or
accusations, why? Because what we have is love and respect.
It's not that we agree on everything,we
don't by any stretch, but we don't spend our time arguing over it we
instead listen to each others perspective and views and generally
speak to each other in a civilized manner. Notice I didn't suggest we
don't do a bit of teasing and having some fun with it but we don't do
it in a bitter and angry sort of way.
That is part of my reason for not
understanding some of the so called “leaders” out there on either
sides of the aisle, who scream and rant and rage, particularly when
it comes to race. I am never quite sure what it is they hope to
accomplish by making racially loaded comments. I could sit here and
name names, but most of you already know the people I am talking
about. So why is it then, if the average American can have friends
and family that are from all races and walks of life, that people
like these “leaders” are even listened to any more? They don't
seem to understand that the real problem is the breakdown of the
family and this is an issue facing all communities whether it's in
the inner cities or in rural towns. This is not an issue that is just
facing one race, it's affecting all races. This progressive idea of
marginalizing men as being an unimportant part of the family
structure has led to fathers skipping out on their responsibilities.
At one time being a teen age mom would have been a scandal, now they
make reality shows out of it and pay these girls to keep at it.
Parents are not taking the responsibility for their kids and
disciplining them when they need it, instead listening to those other
so called experts who suggest that disciplining your children will do
them more harm then good and then wondering why their kids are doing
just about anything they wish and they are making the parents afraid.
To make it worse we have Hollywood glorifying all of it.
You want to end all of this? Quit
talking and start acting. Teach your children responsibility for
their own actions and respect for others. Teach them love and not
hate. They are your children if you don't stand up and do it who
will? The government isn't going to do it and Holly wood glorifies
all that is wrong so it all rests on you and me.
My children don't hate and neither do
the children of my friends. We have all taught our children love and
respect for others and themselves and we demonstrate that when we all
get together. It can happen if you try and,as the elderly gentleman
said to me all those years ago, this is what America could be.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
The Story Of Uncle Iggy
This is a story about uncle Iggy. This
is also a true and scary story of how uncle Iggy became a zombie.
This is also a story on how uncle Iggy got away from being a zombie
only to be attacked from a different direction by those who made him
a zombie in the first place. So fill up your coffee mug get
comfortable make sure you have your teddy bear and a warm blankie to
keep you safe and I will present to you a modern day medical horror
story.
A brief note: To the government
agencies who are likely spying : Greetings! To the rest of you who
are reading this I am not even beginning to tell you to stop taking
meds or to ignore your doctor. I am giving you the story of uncle
Iggy's decisions. Secondly while I may sound a bit tough on the
doctors, the problem is not so much them, it's the fact that there
are too few to go around and so they have to do things much quicker
than they might actually like, having said that there is still no
reason to be rude to a patient. End of Note.
Chapter One: In the
beginning.......Isn't that a lovely way to start a story? Sounds
almost biblical.....
There was a quiet humble man named
Iggy, OK that’s not quite true because Iggy is a Marine and there
is nothing humble about a Marine in full plumage. Iggy is a family
man with a wonderful wife,gorgeous, intelligent, ( yes she is reading
this) and crazy enough to put up with uncle Iggy. He has three
children, one who is grown and gone and two at home that fearfully
remember the days of him being a zombie. Some clarification, his wife
was working in those days so the two youngest ate a lot of tuna and
mac, NOT because he tried to eat them ,or anything quite that weird.
They all lived happily ever after.....oops getting ahead of
myself.....they all lived in Vermont just before the turn of the
century,( I have always wanted to write that phrase), and all was
well until Iggy got the bright idea to go back into the Marines. In
all fairness that was prompted by a sudden lack of employment and a
certain need to eat and see to it that the family had clothes and
what not because ,as liberal as Vermont is, they still don't let you
wander around naked, though if you do it in the winter they might
just let it go just for the entertainment factor. So at the advanced
age of mid thirties Iggy put on his nations uniform once again and
took his family off to a new adventure in foreign lands such as
California and North Carolina and all was well for a while.
Chapter Two: The attacks of 9/1/1
Leaving all humor for the moment, the
attacks literally and figuratively rocked the world. Uncle Iggy's
work load, as a platoon Sgt., tripled and as a result he became very
sick, spent quite a bit of time in the hospital, and started the
first of many medications. Things were not good. The government made
sure that he was just well enough to send off to war and, just to
make sure that he was really well protected, gave him various
vaccinations, none of which had been actually approved by the FDA,
and some of which he had had as a child, and sent him off to play in
the biggest kitty litter box in the world. Spring break 2003 was
about to start! They failed to mention that the “vaccinations”
had side effects and possible complications. Uncle Iggy was not aware
of any of this at the time he just knew that he hadn’t felt well
since they had given them to him but being a good new zombie he
didn't question it until several years later.
Chapter Three: War is hell but drugs
are great!
Uncle Iggy, as you can Imagine, came
back from war a very different man. Setting aside injuries and
illness, he had to spend his time remembering all that he had seen
and experienced and deal with a population of people who treated him
like he was from Mars. In all fairness those who really mattered
still treated him well, but having returned back to Vermont it really
wasn't in his best interest to tell anyone that he had gone to war
because the good and peaceful anti war demonstrators had already
demonstrated just how much they loved military people by attacking
national guard troops in uniform and ripping up flags. He didn't
sleep much because of the rather intense nightmares and there really
being no one that he could talk to that would understand. So uncle
Iggy, as many veterans do, checked into the VA healthcare system and
the zombification started in earnest. After going through a battery
of physical and mental exams it was determined that what he needed
was lots of drugs and that would take him to happy land where there
were rainbows and unicorns. I know this to be a real place because
the gummy bears told me so. Iggy, being rather tired and in pain,
also being curious about unicorns and talking gummy bears,complied.
He had so many medications going at the
same time that to this day he can't remember them all. He had meds
for pain, for arthritis, to help him sleep, for stress, (there were
several of those) and for various side effects that came along with
the all drugs. It was total Zombie time. Uncle Iggy doesn't really
remember a lot about went on at that time because he was so highly
medicated but he did manage to pack on 50 lbs and his children got to
learn about various combos of mac and tuna. His wife will tell you
that his days were basically simple; He would get up have some coffee
take his meds and by 10 am would be sound asleep on the couch. He
would wake up just before she had to go to work and kind of muddle
through the rest of the afternoon and almost be human just about the
time to take another dose and go to bed. Now granted he wasn't a true
zombie in that he didn't go out and eat brains, he didn't even know
where his own were never mind having the ambition to go looking for
any others, but his life was just about as close as you could come to
it with out Will Smith showing up at the door to try and cure him.
Chapter Four: The wife intervenes and
there is less zombie.
Uncle Iggys' children were finally
saved by their mother. She somehow got through to that muddled,
zombified mind that the children needed to eat something more than
tuna and mac and that he needed to get off the meds and try something
different. He listened. Out went the drugs, in came herbs and other
more holistic remedies, and the zombification process stopped. I
would love to tell you that the nightmares had all gone away along
with the pain and illnesses, but life is rarely that kind to people,
and so you have to make a serious choice, either live with what your
dealt or live as a zombie, granted the zombie world did have unicorns
and rainbows, but instead he chose to deal with it. Unknown to Uncle
Iggy or his wife was that the next wave of zombification was about to
begin
Chapter Five: The disease
zombification.
Fast forward a few years and we find
uncle Iggy getting better. He still has his aches and pains and still
has to deal with the nightmares, though less frequently, and from
time to time his magical mystery disease lays him out for a bit but
over all he is doing better. He has tried to stay away from the VA as
much as possible, opting instead for local witch doctors if at all
possible while still going to the VA whenever absolutely needed. I am
guessing that they don't really like that when you do this and that
they must keep track of your absence because, in the words of uncle
Iggy, “ when you do go to see them they seem to go out of their
collective way to find something wrong with you, beyond what is
already there.” The proof? New diseases coming out of literally no
where. About 2 years ago uncle Iggy went in for his annual visit to
the VA, it used to be every few months then six months and now it's
usually about a year, got to love that government health care ( you
knew I was going to say that somewhere) and in the course of things
they did blood work on him. This was not a “fasting” batch of
blood work, no this was right after a meal and after a rather
interesting weekend of bonfires, food and beverage. Yet when it was
done, even after he had told them of his maniacal weekend, they still
listed it as fasting. Amazingly enough the blood sugar level was
normal but they decided that there was something troubling about the
liver enzymes and suggested that perhaps there was some kind of liver
disease going on and that they needed to do more tests. Panic ensued
,the unicorns ran away and the rainbows faded. This is where the new
attempt at zombification began.
Chapter Six: What the bleep is going
on?
So now uncle Iggy is concerned. Who
wouldn't be? You can't live with out your liver and so ,as you can
imagine, he worried. For several weeks he got to sit and stew over
what might be wrong and his views of worse case scenarios made the
movie 2012 look like a quiet stroll on a Sunday afternoon. Finally
the time for the new round of testing arrives, an MRI, but before
they can begin he has to have his blood pressure taken and more blood
work. His blood pressure is through the roof so much so that they
decide that the one med he is taking for “hypertension” is not
enough and he needs to take another one along with it. Uncle Iggy is
damn near in panic mode at this point because he is watching his body
fall apart. If you had told him that his ears were going to fall off
next he wouldn't have been surprised.
They ran the next set of tests on the
liver and send him home and when the new med arrived, for the blood
pressure, he eagerly took it thinking that the doc prescribed it and
so therefore it must be necessary. Please keep in mind, dear reader,
that uncle Iggy has no desire to die and wants to live to see his
great ,great grandchildren so with that in mind he started taking the
medication. It was a mistake but he didn't figure that out until just
recently. Going back to the liver issue for just a moment, it turned
out that uncle Iggy has a much larger liver than the average person
and that it was perfectly fine, the enzymes were nothing more than a
result of it's unusual size.
Chapter Seven: Another attempt.
Uncle Iggy was in trouble. Unbeknownst
to him the newest zombie attack attempt had already started but he
didn't see the warning signs. I suppose his first clue should have
been the severe urge to wander around aimlessly and eat people brains
but he seemed to miss that part and the part that showed he was
gaining a lot of weight back that he had previously lost. Enter
another blood test. This time it was for a arthritis clinic so there
was no fasting needed however they treated it as such and out of no
where suddenly uncle Iggy was now a diabetic because the blood
glucose reading was high. Now just imagine if Uncle Iggy had a wife
who was any less beautiful and intelligent, yes she is reading this,
and who didn't have a memory that a computer would envy. He had
forgotten the fact that they had eaten lunch just before that set of
tests and might have been suckered in completely. As it was he was
concerned enough so that when the new med came to try to lower the
blood sugar he took it. It caused him severe headaches. That’s when
his beautiful, intelligent wife remembered that they had eaten before
the test so rather then going back to the VA for a med for the
headaches he stopped taking the med and went herbal again. Meanwhile
the weight gain was continuing.
Chapter Eight. It's all my fault?
Uncle Iggy wound up moving to another
state and had to go to a new VA and was assigned a new doctor. O
gentle reader please understand this is an example of government run
health care at it's finest, while they may share information they
don't actually READ the information. So rather then ask Iggy what had
changed that might be the cause of the a fore mentioned weight gain,
or checking to see if perhaps the medication might be having an
adverse reaction, he immediately decided that Uncle Iggy must be
sucking down copious amounts of Twinkies and Mountain Dew, which
admittedly has it's appeal, though Uncle Iggy is more of an ice cream
kind of guy, but if he had been doing that he would have literally
been seeing the rainbows and unicorns mentioned earlier from a
caffeine and sugar overdose. And so the doctor proceeded to chew
Iggy out for gaining weight and suggested that if he wanted to get
off of meds that he needed to change his ways and he wanted more
blood work to be done to prove that uncle Iggy was indeed diabetic.
He also upped the dosage in the newest med. So basically without
checking all factors the doctor assumed and suggested that all the
gain was nothing more than his fault. Upon leaving Uncle Iggy was
furious. It not good to tick off uncle Iggy not to mention his wife.
Chapter Nine: Vindication
Upon arriving at their illustrious
mansion uncle Iggy and his intelligent ( did I mention she is
beautiful as well?) wife started to research the meds that he was on
and low and behold they can cause weight gain and cause a rise in
your blood sugar levels! Even better, when mixed with the diabetic
medicine they wanted to give to him, it would cause all sorts of
other adverse effects such as massive headaches! Now to me this is an
amazing thing that two low educated people who are not being paid to
research these things can find this information in short order, while
the paid professionals can't or won't. So uncle Iggy stopped taking
that medication as well and not only has he lost some of the weight
that he had gained, it's only been a few weeks after all,the lab
results came back and showed that there was nothing wrong with the
blood sugar levels or enzymes or anything else of a blood work type
nature. Vindication.
There is a moral behind this story, and
it is rather simple: question everything. Don't assume that because
you are dealing with a doctor, especially one being paid by the
government, that they have your best interest in mind or that they
know everything. Many of them do, many of them are good and honest
people but it seems that the VA ( government run) has a highly
disproportionate amount of doctors that treat you like you are
nothing but a number and just try to hurry you through so they can
get to the next patient. Second thing though, especially if your a
doctor, make sure your patient doesn't write blogs, especially if you
intend to insult them or belittle them in any way with out checking
all the facts, because we will tell and loudly.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
The end has come, my point has been made...
Off and on over the last 6 months or so I have considered dis-continuing to write "Simple Minded" and have finally decided that this will be my last post. My reasoning for it is as simple as I have tried to make this blog. First and foremost the points that I have been trying to make, our government becoming corrupted and seriously violating or ignoring the Constitution, has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. You would have to be living under a rock or on another planet to not see it ,yet it would seem, that most Americans are OK with all of this, not necessarily those of you who read this, but it would seem that with a serious apathetic and sheep like attitude the vast majority of Americans simply don't care or they believe the lie that we have to sacrifice our freedom for safety ,which has been the siren call of all dictators for centuries. So as such I feel that I am wasting my time in the effort to wake people up. Obviously most of you who read this humble blog are on the same page with me or you wouldn't bother, unless your the NSA that is, and there are not many of you still reading, so I will leave you to other patriots who perhaps have more knowledge than myself with the same amount of passion.
My second reason is that I want to focus more on spiritual matters in my other blog " His Quiet Voice" because even though I like politics, as I have said before, my argument has been made for me by the government and there is little more that I could add, but also because it has been burning me out to the point of missing the things of the spirit which are by far of more importance.
Simply put; I can do little to nothing to stop the corruption that is going on in this world and in our government. There is no president , king, or politician that can, or will even try, to stop it until the time of the Messiah has come and God has set His kingdom up on this earth. So His kingdom is where I will put my hope and trust and leave the politics to others.
Shalom.
My second reason is that I want to focus more on spiritual matters in my other blog " His Quiet Voice" because even though I like politics, as I have said before, my argument has been made for me by the government and there is little more that I could add, but also because it has been burning me out to the point of missing the things of the spirit which are by far of more importance.
Simply put; I can do little to nothing to stop the corruption that is going on in this world and in our government. There is no president , king, or politician that can, or will even try, to stop it until the time of the Messiah has come and God has set His kingdom up on this earth. So His kingdom is where I will put my hope and trust and leave the politics to others.
Shalom.
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