Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Tuesday trespass...

...wherein we show some more examples of how the Left tramples on traditional American values.

Example One: Nanny Medicine. Watching the noon news on Channel eight here in Stumptown, I heard the newsbabe try to explain a new definition of "obese", which, BTW, USED to have the meaning of more than 30 pounds over ideal weight. The "new" definition of "obese" apparently means flabby-looking, because the reporter explained that one can be "obese" AT one's ideal weight. This is nothing more than a blatant attempt to use scare tactics to scare people into being underweight, or becoming gym rats, or both. I reject it.

Example Two: Qualification of Presidents: Obama does not meet the qualification listed in the Constitution because he is NOT a "natural born citizen" as required, then defined in the SCOTUS case Minor v. Happersett. In that case, a "natural born citizen" was defined as, "all children born in a country of parents who were it's citizens". There is no argument that Barack Hussein Obama was not born of parents who were both citizens. There is argument that he was born here. US District Court Judge Anderson of TN  has cited Minor v. Happersett as being on point. Sheriff Arpaio thinks that this is important enough to let superior courts decide whether Obama should even be on ballots across the country. Read about this new angle on the "birther" controversy here. I support Sheriff Joe in his quest to have the truth come out. This Nation could stand the minor constitutional crisis caused by discovering that Obama was never qualified to hold office, at this point, but if Obama wins another term of office, and THEN a court tells him he is not qualified, there is a high potential for a MAJOR Constitutional crisis. A gun sort of crisis, if you know what I mean, Verne.

Example Three: The Fourth Estate as Obama shills. It seems to me that there are rules about this. At what point do the rules get enforced? When is someone going to start accumulating all the minutes and hours of TeeVee time used strictly to re-elect Obama, and the column-miles of newsprint used for the same reason, and decree that said media either have to give equal time to the Romnizer or be classed for tax purposes and purposes of license renewals as political shills?

Example Four: We're not Los Angeles, and don't need their air pollution rules in Oregon. It seems that City of Portland garbage rates are about to rise by almost 10% just so the garbage collectors can buy new trucks that meet the most stringent emissions rules. Those would be Kalifornica's rules, which are written for the extreme example of the Los Angeles Basin airshed, arguably the worst place a large city has been built, on the entire planet. The topography and local micro-climate makes it impossible to get rid of man OR nature-generated air pollution, and rules for emissions were written to consider those facts, but then, those rules have been foisted off on the entire rest of the Nation, which does not need them because the rest of the Nation does not have the airshed problems that Los Angeles has. No matter, the insane Portland City Council, led by the Gay Pedophile Mayor, Sam Adams, brought in the CA rules, and so all the trucks have to be changed out. No matter that the current trucks still have life left, the haulers must buy new ones, and oh, while you're at it, City Council, did you remember to mandate that those trucks use "bio-diesel" fuel at $7.00+ per gallon? That stupid rule, which the City Fleet is, itself, saddled with, would make the perfect capper for this insane additional expense in an already insanely-expensive city.

Example Five: When the history books tell us that Liquor Prohibition failed as a social-control experiment, let's try it all over again! The self-same insane City of Portland, which has forced foodcart entrepreneurs into what used to be called by the Nazis, "lagers" or concentrations, smarted recently when the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, acting on their legal counsel's advice that such establishments, once forced to tie themselves down, had to be treated, for purposes of liquor licensing, as brick-and-mortar restaurants. They issued a liquor license (beer and wine only) to one food cart, in the lager known locally as "Cartlandia", no doubt, after the TV series "Portlandia". So the city is mightily cheese(burgered)ed off, and has filed suit against the State liquor agency. The Rivrdog blog, no real friend of the OLCC, nevertheless sides with them on this one, and hopes their legal beagles turn into legal pitbulls and rip the City a new one.

That's enuff for today. Suffice it to say I do NOT forgive these trespasses.

The stars aligned...

Today, the stars aligned and I was able to pay the gudwife back for 35 years of putting up with me. 

I was boating all day, but returned home about 2pm. My wife and I exchanged news, since I had been out for 24 hours, then I went upstairs to take a nap, having only managed 4 hours of sleep last night. I undressed, and was just pulling back the covers when I heard a strange voice calling my name. It was a soft, small voice, but yet, urgent. I went to the stair landing and looked over, and saw my wife collapsing, holding her throat. She had just used the last air in her lungs to alert me that she was choking.

I rushed downstairs, and followed my training. I skipped the back slaps, since she was blue already, went straight to the Heimelich Maneuver, between 5 & 10 repetitions . No effect, book says to do a finger sweep, so I went in there and just felt the blockage. I couldn't hook it out, so I threw the book away, as she was almost gone now, and shoved the chunk of meat farther down.

It worked, and she began to get air. I put her in a chair and dialed  911. I got put on Hold for almost a minute, then got a surly SOB of a dispatcher who refused to listen to the patient's history, wanted to run a script on me like a farking telemarketer (I'll file the Internal Affairs complaint tomorrow). I asked for a supervisor, and got the message passed. Less than 5 minutes later, an ambulance arrived, and the pros took over.

We're in the ER now, and she's going to be just fine. My fingernails were long and I was afraid I'd lacerated her when I shoved my ham-hand down her throat, and she got a good dose of the worst that the Willamette River has for uglies, because I had been handling lines on my boat since I last scrubbed myself down, but a close examination by the doc saw no damage, despite quite a lot of pain.

If this had happened earlier, before I had gotten home, if I had been fully asleep and not had heard the cry...

Lord God, I meant to have this conversation to thank you before now, but never got around to it. I hope you can see me to match the voice to my face, because I'm not really tall on my knees just now, and don't stand out in the crowd of seven billion other humans on this planet, any of whom might also need your guidance...

For you, dear readers, if you're ever offered the chance to take Basic EMT class like I did, almost 20 years ago, take it, and pay attention in class. I did, or I'd be planning a funeral now instead of getting ready to welcome my daughter home from overseas.

I'm about done myself, and need a drink, and I STILL hear my pillow calling.

You have the Guidon, Mr. Romney

...and, in case you don't know it, the Guidon Bearer is supposed to stay out in front of the formation. You are now leading the Republican Party race for President, so let's look at the battle streamers on that Guidon, and how they may differ from your past performance.

Second Amendment: You were a big gun controller in your stint as Governor in MA. There is a battle streamer on your Guidon that says the Second Amendment MEANS WHAT IT SAYS, so you NEED to tell us that you will NEVER sign any kind of gun control legislation restricting the right of US citizens to keep AND bear arms. You did that in Taxachusetts. Your apologists say you yielded to avoid even more drastic gun control, but a Guidon Bearer never yields, never falls back, always stays in front. Tell us you WILL be a Second Amendment absolutist. Tell us you will have your DOJ go after all the Gunwalker people (if Obama doesn't pardon them all on his last day in office). Tell us that you will have your people bear down on the DeeCee Administration to move them off their position of resistance to Heller implementation. Tell us that you will put the DOJ into an aggressive posture to hammer places like NYC, Chicago, etc to get them to recognize that they can't disarm their citizens. You could start by cutting off Law Enforcement funding to any jurisdiction which does not meet a basic test of complying with the Second Amendment. Your predecessors did that for civil rights violations in the past, so just look at 2A compliance as a Civil Rights process.

ObamaCare: You started this ball rolling with your "RomneyCare" in MA. It will be your job, if elected, to erase ObamaCare, and that will take some work, because like an invasive weed, it has spread it's roots everywhere: into the tax system, into continuing funding laws, into the Pharma industry, into the very Emergency Rooms at all local hospitals. It's complete re-write of the way medicine is provided has and will screw up delivery of medical services for decades, even if you rip it all out, and do it quickly. Don't even think about leaving it partially in place, rip it ALL out and THEN make any necessary reforms, starting with draconian tort reform for malpractice, and a total cut-off of free ER care for illegals. You DO realize, don't you Mr. Romney, that the reason most states can't balance their budgets is that the cost of providing medical care to illegals has overwhelmed state budgets? In my State of Oregon, it is estimated that almost a third of education funding goes to illegals and over a third of Medicaid.

Immigration: See above paragraph, AND, Close the farging borders! Keep out all further illegals, use the military for that, THEN get to work on deporting the ones who are here. If you want to accelerate the right of naturalization for some, do that, but make sure that those individuals who are illegal now start their naturalization process by returning to their native country, waiting a determined period, then applying for a visa to return, and then they return via normal entry, just like I do whenever I leave the country and come back. Make sure all naturalization candidates declare their previous illegal stay in this country, and pay up all their back taxes they avoided by working under the table. They need to pay for any medical care they walked out of paying, too. This stuff CAN be tracked, so track it and start collecting those back taxes. If every illegal owes just $5K in back taxes, and there are 20 million of them here, that's 100 billion dollars, not exactly chump change and definitely NOT forgivable. Maybe some of them can work it off, but COLLECT what they owe, dammit!

Control the Economy: This may not sit well with most of my conservative buds, but there has to be some central control over the economy. This isn't "morning in America" like it was for Ronnie Reagan. The Global Economy had barely gotten started then, but now, we have robber barons controlling vital companies all over the globe. You can't just give them their head and let them run with our economy. They will continue to rob us blind and it will get even worse under your Administration. How about a basic principle of Everybody Pays Some Tax for starters? No business baron should be able to have his company pay no taxes. A small minimum tax will not cripple any business, and with all the regulatory burdens you are going to lift off these global businesses, they can afford to pay some taxes. Likewise, no individual gets off without taxes, either. Establish a minimum income tax of at least 5%. That will mean that the welfare-dependent might have to forgo a few cans of malt liquor per month, or keep that 42" flat-screen instead of upping their lifestyle to a 60", but DO IT.

Carry that Guidon, sir, and carry it proudly. If you do, the troops will follow you, and that's all you need to begin to turn this Nation around.

Genocide by Malaria?

Fifty years ago, Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring", the book which claimed that the widespread use of DDT was going to eliminate all the songbirds from the Earth (and eagles and all other birds). The world believed her, and followed her suggestion, which was to ban the manufacture and use of the chemical almost everywhere.

The problem was, that with the then-widespread use of DDT and long-range aircraft to spray it with, we had just about eliminated the most deadly pest in the world fifty years ago, the malaria-carrying mosquito. Once the ban went into place, the mosquito rebounded rapidly, and since then, untold millions of tropical-world residents have died of malaria, borne almost exclusively by the mosquito, with most of the victims being babies and children.

Now, if any one person, under any other circumstances at all, could be directly linked to the killing of millions of innocent babies and children, the entire civilized world (and most of the less-civilized world as well) would howl for their head.

To my knowledge, no one ever linked Rachel Carson to this form of intentional genocide.

Why not?

Answer below the fold...

St. Potty's Day AAR

Yep, you read the title correctly, so this post will contain some crap-blogging.

La Grippe*...and a new cure for it

...is on it's way out of my old bod, it seems. Still a few cramps around, but probably less than 20% of the misery I've put up with for the past few days. The back spasms are gone too, leaving me to wonder if the intestinal flu I've had somehow kicked off the back attack.

Oh, well, happiness is this case of the Blowers in the rear-view mirror.

One advantage: since I had to totally fast, my stomach is now shrunken, so it's a good time to start that post-holiday diet. Actually, it's already started, I probably didn't drink more than 1,000 calories yesterday. I took a bottle of Gatorade G-03, the "recover" fluid, and that may have restored enough strength for Nature to start kicking the virus' butt.

So, regular Gatorade "Perform 02" for main hydration, and "Recover 03" for strength-building.

Buy some and keep it around, but watch the expiry dates, the stuff doesn't last forever.

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*...French word for intestinal flu. The Frogs pretty much learned all there was to know about common disease well before anyone else.

Lite blogging

...because this back attack in progress won't let me sit upright for long.

Christmas URI

Yep, the Christmas cold. Probably unavoidable when you have the whole fandamily in the house for Christmas Eve, serve them a feast, hold hands, play games and clean up afterwards.

Too bad, I had some business affairs to attend to today, but I'm moping around here with Easter-colored grundge coming out of my sinuses...Coricidin (the FIRST cold-symptom relief medication, and still the best) has it mostly handled.

"Pox Parties"....WTF?

Local evening nuze last night did a story on parents who fear vaccinations for their children, but somehow went their children to have immunity from common childhood diseases, so they're throwing "pox parties".

At the pox party, a child with active Chicken Pox is introduced to the kids who don't have it, and they play together such that there is sure to be body-fluid exchange (kiss or touch or share food). Another form of the Pox Party is for the parent of the kid with chicken pox to go out and buy a box of lollipops, open each one, and have the infected kid lick them all, then wrap them back up and send them (in this case, via the US Mail, which was a felony) to the parents who wanted their kids to get the chicken pox.

Here's the problem with this sort of "folk doctoring".

First of all, it's completely medically unsupervised. The child who is passing along the pox might have a secondary infection of a horrible kind, and pass that along, as well as the pox.

Second of all, the parents who expose their kids to the (unknown and probably undiagnosed) disease of another kid have no clue what the problems might be when their kid develops the disease. Their kid might be immuno-compromised, and the pox might kill their kid (or maybe the secondary infection will).

Third, the dosage of the agent is completely uncontrolled, and it's medically and morally wrong to give any drug to a patient if you can't control the drug or the dosage. To be fair, I should point out that the use of smoked Medical Marijuana also disregards this rule (to the utter stupidity of the medical Establishment, some of which supports it).

OK,'Dawg, what's YOUR remedy for parents who far vaccinations but want their kid naturally exposed to these kiddy-diseases?

I'm glad you asked, Mister Muse, but I would have told you anyway.

Suck it up, parents, control your irrational fears, and take that kid in for it's shots.

End of story.

Oh wait, not quite the end. The government ought to prosecute those who have violated actual LAWS by deliberately spreading this disease. Yes, send some of those "No vaccinations" mommies to the hoosegow. Especially the ones who work up the Pox Parties, but every parent involved in this cockamamie scheme gets a negative file on them in the Children's Services Division for phsically abusing their kid(s).

This isn't about politics. It's about having the smarts to properly raise kids, and not threaten their very existance with your idiot scheming. If you aren't smart enough to raise a kid without jeopardizing it's existance, you shouldn't be a parent. In THAT respect, the State DOES have an interest in your parenting, a moral interest as well as a legal interest.

Two Vasectomies

From email this ayem:

A TALE OF TWO VASECTOMIES

A man goes into the hospital for a vasectomy. Before the procedure a very attractive nurse comes in and takes his vitals, then tells him to take all of his clothes off.

When he is fully undressed she instructs him to lie down on the table.

The man obeys. The nurse then takes all of her clothes off and climbs on top and has her way with him.

Upon the completion of the act the man catches his breath and asks what that was all about. The nurse informs the patient that studies have shown that before a vasectomy if the man has an ejaculation, he will be more relaxed and that the vas deferens (sperm duct) is easier for the surgeon to locate and sever, thereby making the surgery safer, more efficient and quicker.

The nurse then wheels the patient to the operating room. While they are going down the hall the patient looks through a window to the right and sees six men in a room masturbating. Curious, the man asks," What are they doing in there"?

The nurse responds, "They are getting vasectomies too, but you have Blue Cross and they have Obama Care."

heheheheheh....tip of the flight helmet to the Colonel.