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You are reflecting on the market value of Free Advice. What is remarkable enough is that it was given and received. All bets are off after that point - as they should be.
You cannot take ownership for other peoples' choices without risking arrogance - nor are we Gods.
Take It, or Leave It
By Cathy Jameson Every now and then, I discover that someone I know has taken a piece of advice that I've offered. I like learning that. It tells me that my knowledge, or something that I’ve experience, was recognized and that it had some value. It’s encouraging to know that some of my ideas...
'Vaccine Hesitancy' is yet another nonsense and misleading phrase. People are not hesitating - but are rejecting facile assurances 'all is well', realizing they are without a sensible basis. Unprecedented reprogramming of immune systems coincide with unheard of immune disorders. Without comparison of outcomes - and presence of control groups - there is no impartial assessment at all.
Blaming Social Media for Vaccine "Hesitancy"
Thanks to our John Stone for sharing this article from The Lancet, which blames social media for vaccine hesitancy. If I were to read about the beauty of owning unicorns 24/7/365 on social media, I would not go looking for a UnicornSmart store to purchase one as a pet. Social media isn't perfect...
" The US elected a negotiator, not a warmonger nor a fool."
That is not always evident from outside the sandbox. Quora had several interesting discussion threads starting with the Huawei CFO's arrest in Canada. You will appreciate fraud is one thing, 'sanctions' over a matter in dispute with the EU quite another outside the US. Some relevant posts are noted at oldephartte/livejournal.com
Open Thread 29 June 2019
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Given that I tend to think the US position on Iran has been bullshit from the get go, it takes real talent to make things even more dysfunctional. I agree - that has been accomplished. There is no plausible encouragement to 'modify behaviour' where pundits drive conclusions and actual action is ignored.
The Collapse of Deterrence with Iran by Christopher J. Bolan
Earlier this month, the U.S. administration announced its decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Just this week, the Trump administration said that it will no longer exempt any country from U.S. sanctions if they contin...
Im sure a mad Iran would not co-sponsor and support an arrangement that was designed to verify that it continued to avoid militarization of nuclear technology. Nor would it source fuel and technical support from neighbour Russia if idiocy were to occur later...alienating a supplier of a vital supply which had shown via the Cuban Missile Crisis that it was not to be trifled with in matters of nuclear threat.
Is it not interesting that sanctions interfered with their ability to fund an independent auditor.
http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/07/israel-iran-and-the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/
Did Iran have a nuclear WEAPONS program after 2003? - Republished 17 January 2016
Yesterday was Implementation Day. Today on the FZ GPS show it was repeatedly said that what was negotiated was the ending of a "POTENTIAL nuclear weapons program" but did Iran actually have a nuclear weapons program at all after 2003? pl ************** "The IAEA wants to know how far Iran g...
Environmentalism is something I can relate to when you are talking water supply and pollution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=player_embedded is an inspiring work.
But humans 'knowing something' might mean they know different things than you do. After all, just because something seems wild doesn't mean it isn't so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KmotCQCxQEI
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTruthAlwaysAddsUp
http://iceagenow.info/2013/08/global-warming-greatest-deception-history-science-climatologist/
Notes On My 61st Birthday
I've been writing lately, but I'm just keeping busy. I've lost much of my former interest in the Human Condition. It exists, it sucks, it can't be changed, there are no alternatives to it, so I've got to live within it. And that's all there is. I can't help thinking about this stuff today as I c...
"Volcanic activity." Better they prepare for Louisiana style gas emitting sinkholes, perhaps, or seismic activity from hydrofracking. There is quite a bit of commentary on YouTube which seems invisible to most pundits. http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/broken-search-corexit_931.html
Preparing for Volcanic Activity in New Orleans
On December 27, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a proposed rule that would add emergency preparedness requirements to the conditions of participation for various program participants, particularly hospitals, long term care facilities, and ambulatory surgical centers....
For a moment I thought Ezra was a 'bot...then I reread his note. :) "who really got the nudge " I see no reason why the assessment cannot be of a dual purpose proposition.
Committing to Reducing Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescriptions
A tiny study of physician antibiotic prescribing practices, discussed in a recent issue of JAMA, has set the health blogosphere on fire. "A Simple Way to Slash Unneccessary Drug Prescriptions" trumpets Scientific American. But is it really all that simple? After all, are the forces that shape in...
It was interesting to surf through the roots of the word beneficiary, benefice,through serfdom and vassalage. Less pejorative ? I think not.
Nomenclature for Change
Those of you who pore over the Federal Register may have noted the nomenclature changes of 77 FR 29002-01 on May 16, 2012, removing the term Medicaid "Recipient" from current CMS regulations and substituting Medicaid "Beneficiary." It took me a little longer to catch on to it but I have been ...
" statute designed to empower patients to protect their privacy from others " One should consider this is an unproven assertion ! I hearken back to known incidents where heads of government departments were selected with an agenda to frustrate the work of government. ( This did not seem to apply equally to agencies feeding the endless maw of corporate greed with 'no bid' contracts. )
Whose Lab Results Are Those, Anyway?
"As part of an ongoing effort to empower patients to be informed partners with their health care providers," HHS has finally issued a rule amending the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations "to allow laboratories to give a patient, or a person designated by the p...
ps As a person who has barely survived the use of broad spectrum antibiotics twice ( penicillin and tetracycline ) while knowing my digestive tract gets wrecked by E-mycin and clindamycin ( self medication with acidopholus helps, but does not correct the problem ) I am currently diabetic and having the very devil of a time with proliferation of gut flora ( and yes, I do consider I am a self made victim of sugar poisoning, likely with GM pesticide enhancements and corn starch perverting the problem : even though I cut drinking pop years ago...and won't go near 'diet' formulations )possibly as in a precursor to CFIDS. Yet my exposure is likely as nothing to yours. And yes, I smoked for decades.
The Continued Weirdness of Emily Willingham
By Anne Dachel Emily Willingham wrote the story, 10 Weirdest Things Linked To Autism, on Sept 4, 2013. She wrote, "9. Vaccines. It's dead, Jim. Stop flogging the poor, dead hypothesis. Let's just bury it in a simple, private ceremony. "10. Mothers. Not that mothers are necessarily strange,...
"I would rather give John Prescott a French kiss " There ought to be some sort of citation for bravery for such a proposition.
My brother gave me a walkabout in the jungle behind his place in Kangaroo Valley, N.S.W. back in 2000. I would have to agree with an assessment of ridiculous proliferation of things venomous : stinging nettles, stinging trees, bull ants, venomous snakes, etc.
And wasn't that a laugh about the Commons having had enough warmongering for the day ? You would think nobody was serious about rewriting the map of oil bearing nations to suit the convenience of the energy companies.
http://www.oilempire.us/new-map.html
And I bring you even better news from 'down under there'!
I am thinking of renaming this site as 'The Good News Blog"! Well, as you know, I have always thought it part of my duty to keep you all happy, happy, happy which is why you rarely read any glum news here about, say, America slipping into a Marxist hell, Europe erupting into war because, like, ...
My best day ever was 900 - up from an average of 300-400 depending on whether or not it was the weekend. That was on opitslinkfest.blogspot.ca which did hit 1,618,000...and was shuttered by DCMA games.
I almost lose track of the blogs - 2 years at opit.wordpress.com - archived for TSA ( WTF ? I know not ) Years more at My Opera Community and shares at Care 2 and Current TV ( can't do that any more either )
And so many 'lost' who decided not to tempt the authorities further and wiped their blogs. Glad you didn't. And...it's tough to set up shop elsewhere. Keep this open as when and if you might be tempted to get up on the soapbox. It's just too hard to get that sort of exposure otherwise. Hiatus is not always addictive either.
DOTE Goes Off The Air
Naturally, I reserved the last day to say goodbye. Yesterday I found humanity not guilty by reason of insanity — humans are non compos mentis, which means "not of sound mind and hence not (legally) responsible; mentally incompetent" Although yesterday's post focused on tragedy, you won't be a...
Hello Not Hilzoy. While I`ve missed her and wouldn`t mind finding out how she is faring after going to Africa, a historian with an appetite for Asian cuisine is scarcely to be sniffed at. Given your choice of nom de plume I suspect your name is an acronym like mine - with yours taken from field experience.
Your age reminds me of my first post as OldePhartteInTraining in 2005 which was responded to by exMI and ThreeScoreAndTenOrMore.
I`m 65 and occasionally quip with my.opera.com nepmak2000 who is 68 ( and his acronym is obvious on arrival )
Your audience awaits. Have fun.
I AM NOT HILZOY (obviously)
by dr ngo (posted by liberal japonicus who will quickly get his grubby fingers out of dr ngo's prose as soon as we can sort out the typepad shtuff) Let me introduce myself with some important disclaimers: First, I am not Hilzoy. That's OK, because no one else is. On the other hand, some denizens...
Everybody seems to have run out of steam. You don't seem to have read the same reviews of the situation that I have, though one link hinting at alternative accounts did surface. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/24/boston-bombing-suspect-unarmed_n_3150723.html
False Flags, Fake Blood, and Michelle Obama: A Guide to the ...
www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/boston-marathon-conspiracies/
Apr 23, 2013 – Forget everything you thought you knew about the Boston bombings. The real ... “There is clear evidence of false flag staging here,” he wrote.
NH State Rep. Suggests Boston Bombing Was 'False Flag' Conspiracy
livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/.../nh-state-rep-suggests-boston-bombin...
Apr 23, 2013 – A Republican state representative in New Hampshire posted a video by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Facebook last week suggesting the ...
Back to Back C-span Callers: Boston Marathon Bombing a False ...
www.infowars.com/back-to-back-c-span-callers-boston-marathon-bombi...
Apr 22, 2013 – This past weekend, CSpan received consecutive calls from people concerned that the Boston Marathon bombings were a false flag attack.
FBI's Boston Bombing False Flag - A CLOSER LOOK! - YouTube
► 60:01► 60:01
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ0DGh4fNy0
Apr 25, 2013
NH State Rep. Claims Boston Marathon Bombings Were A 'False Flag'
www.ibtimes.com/nh-state-rep-claims-boston-marathon-bombings-were-...
Apr 24, 2013 – Republican New Hampshire State Rep. Stella Tremblay believes the United States government may have orchestrated the Boston Marathon ...
Northerntruthseeker: Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Proof That ...
northerntruthseeker.blogspot.com/.../boston-marathon-false-flag-attack-p...
Apr 23, 2013 – Boston Marathon False Flag Attack: Proof That "Craft" Security Firm Did The Bombing? I received an email from a friend just a few hours ago ...
Boston Bombing: Anatomy of a False Flag - Mathaba.Net
www.mathaba.net/news/?x=632851
Apr 21, 2013 – False flags are an American tradition. They go way back. The Boston bombings appear the latest. More on that below. Notable earlier false ...
Guess I'd never make a pundit. I prefer to research matters rather than idly speculate about what if'a.
"we refused to be terrorized"
by Ugh O rly? From President Obama's statement last Friday night after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Massachusetts: One thing we do know is that whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not -- cannot -- prevail. Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, ...
I have both notable articles and notable links which I feel compelled to leave as especially important.l When it finally becomes impossible to keep them up I batch the lot and put them up as a separate post on a page listed on my homepage. Mind, that's with articles. With sources - blogs and more - I co post at Delicious and Diigo, with Yahoo and Google Bookmarks waiting should failure occur. And Bookmarking gives one a topical index/tagfile. Not to mention the Community does the same - and have Searchable finds. BTW I am oldephartte on Diigo, opit on Delicious and currently oldephartte.blogspot.ca
Spring cleanup open friday thread
by liberal japonicus With Ugh coming onboard, it is probably a good time to do a cleanup of the right sidebar and the blogs. The iconoclast in me wants to suggest we do away with the blog roll, as I think no one uses it and the whole thing about exchanging blog links has this Gilded Age feel to ...
BTW You should note that your blog is - as are many other good sites - subject to a warnoff by Web of Trust. I suggest you ask that rating be reviewed.
Proof why global cooling is far worse than global warming
A picture is a thousand words… This time last year, Taylor’s Bulbs near Spalding, Lincolnshire, was carpeted with nodding daffodils; this year their leaves are still making their way out of the ground. A perfect illustration that plant life struggles in cold conditions and we shouldn’t fea...
Climate changes....as do weather patterns. There is a lot of hogwash promoted about humanity's ability to predict and change the future. I had a proper collection of links at opitslinkfest.blogspot.com at a post on climate in contention which is currently unavailable. Even so, a look at the sidebar at oldephartte.blogspot.ca and at http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/2013/01/opits-notes.html should show there is a lot less to 'scientific consensus' than political pundits and the UN would have you believe.
Proof why global cooling is far worse than global warming
A picture is a thousand words… This time last year, Taylor’s Bulbs near Spalding, Lincolnshire, was carpeted with nodding daffodils; this year their leaves are still making their way out of the ground. A perfect illustration that plant life struggles in cold conditions and we shouldn’t fea...
The BBC is enjoying a scandal where 28 - mostly so-called environmentalists' - managed to spin coverage of the AGW scam. Now, my blog records are not available, but I have been following this story for 3 years now when I finally had a WTF moment about the supposition that man causes climate change. The merest awareness of the nature of scientific method will tell you prophecy is innately unscientific. So I found out what was happening - including people like Denis Rancourt losing positions for speaking out against fraud. Some intel : http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb2013/1/prweb10308274.htm http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/ http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/ Why is this happening ? heh
The United Nations : Corrupt, Ineffective, Dangerous
In each case, the UN hoped to use the "global warming" scam as a ..... But here's
the shocker: He will invite the United Nations to tax Americans directly. And the ...
www.akdart.com/un.html
IPCC hasn’t learnt a damn thing: draft Climate Report cites WWF, Greenpeace
Via Foxnews Critics are blasting a draft U.N. climate change report that combines studies by advocacy groups like the World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace alongside scientific research papers -- the same issue that led independent auditors to slam the U.N.'s last report. “You'd think that the ...
opit is now following David Habakkuk

Aug 18, 2012
Dubya was 'for' nation building when it meant a clusterfuck. Check out the story of the Fallujah water treatment plant as a sample of progress. Or check out the police showers that electrocuted residents.
'They Didn’t Build That'
Paul Krugman: They Didn’t Build That: A few thoughts related to the fake controversy over Obama’s “you didn’t build that”: First, sure enough, the self-reliant businessman featured in Romney’s ads was the beneficiary of large government loans and contracts. This doesn’t make him a bad guy; pret...
This is way late out the gate ... but I got the impression at the time that the Malik Hasan case might well be a frame up to stimulate the Islamofascist meme. The reason being in that case there were original reports of 2 or 3 shooters....and the site of embarkation to Afghanistan tended to have such incidents with some regularity.
The presumption of innocence, fair trials, and defendants who won't/can't argue "they didn't do it"
Over at the US News & World Report blog, Leslie Marshall asks "Can Mohamed Osman Mohamud Get a Fair Trial?": My problem with this is not the arrest. My problem with this is not the innocence or guilt of Mohamed. My problem with this is that Mohamed Osman Mohamud has been tried in the court of p...
Blue Girl Red State would have serious issues that Republicans dominate the ranks of serving officers - and she has reasons to be interested. And the premise of this post is blather from the get go.
Yet there are factors affecting opinions of the enlisted which deserve to be aired/investigated. Religious indoctrination and political gamesmanship has gone so far as to include instructor time in training institutions - in Israel too - for known racists. But Islamophobia, religious intolerence, and profiling are all of a piece with the entrenched forces that produce the likes of Glenn Beck.
One would not want trained killers to sympathize with their victims. The incidence of remorse and suicide is far too high as it is.
Officers are people of superior intellect, even if naive before their blooding. They are likely to investigate dissenting views such as http://www.leadingtowar.com/watch_online.php
I contend Valerie Plame/Wilson was most likely outed because she would not go along with the Cheney gang's manufactured intel promoting a toothless old tiger as dangerous when the proof he was not was routinely verified by examining military related installations in the country embargoed against normal trade. Aluminum tubes for processing yellowcake into fertilizer are not that exotic a technology so as to fool anyone who cared for long.
No. The military would have been aware of the thrust to destroy Iraq as a nation. All the rest was window dressing around that objective.
But what might routinely be said to pundits could be quite different !
Do US flag officers believe Iraq had WMDs?
by Doctor Science Daniel Drezner reported at Foreign Policy on a recent poll conducted by Dartmouth political scientist Benjamin Valentino that found, among other points, that 63% of Republicans believe that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction at the time of the US invasion in 2003. This is appr...
I've posted Memorial Day and Remembrance Day - with less precision and enthusiam as time wears on. My father and uncles were veterans...who advised I not enter military service except as a response to invasion and 'for the duration of the emergency' when I had 3 years of cadet training.
U.S. law supports that idea...in theory.
Doug's Darkworld and Vagabond Scholar both have articles worth noting.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2012/05/29-may-dougs-darkworld.html
A picture is worth a thousand words
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0jMxDE-i8Ys/T8SJhSgoT1I/AAAAAAAAAWo/JGtQ-7BNNuk/s1600/529670_382115418476365_275683962452845_1183759_1506935906_n.jpg
Memorial Day and mourning
by liberal japonicus While the main action probably centers around the observations of Chris Hayes, (google news here), I was in the wikipedia page about Memorial Day and thinking about some questions of national culture, which are below the fold One thing is that the notion of a nation mournin...
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