Nom de plume: Rivrdog

First word on a badnasty

Here in this Instagram post. Will have to authenticate it, but since this government is SOOO good at accepting badnasties, I'll put it in the file. If true, it's aimed right between the eyes of the fishing industry AND recrecreational boaters. Fit's right into the Gates-plan for depopulation.

BTW, this will self-authenticate if it turns out that this compound has been granted exempt status from lawsuits like the mNRA jabs were...

Sunday sadness scribbling

I'm from an old and prolific Portland medical family, & I'm normally highly sympathetic with the medical profession.

 

I've turned, though. The obvious fact is that most doctors have chugged the commie Kool-Aid, and keep chugging it.

 

I profile a lot. I was taught how to do it in the various police academies I attended and in follow-on LEO training courses, plus profiling is just organizing common sense.

 

My main profiling these days is to classify and categorize the political opposition to our Constitutional Republic, but you already know that if you follow me on Facebook or on this Rivrdog Blog.

 

I will now profile the medical profession, and it isn't looking good for them. Here are my profile qualifiers:

1. Do you (choose one) a. Tolerate, b. Support or c. Actively Defend and advocate for Socialized Medicine? (record answer and move on)

2. In your entire office or suite of offices in a medical comples, is there a single US Flag on display? (record answer and move on)

3. If your work is for a health maintenance org claiming a religious afiliation, do you refer low-spirit cases to practitioners of the religion? (record answer and move on)

4. As to Covid-19, do you (choose one): a. Tolerate, b. Support or c. Actively Defend the suppression of alternate views on the USA's response to the disease vector? (record answer and calculate results):

 

Perfect (good) profile (rates Zero)

Item one should be a "no" on any of the three choices.

Item two should be a "yes"

Item three should be a "yes"

Item four should be a "no" on any of the three choices.

 

Here's the bad part: I have two offspring in the medical profession. One rates between 1 and 2, the other between 3 and 4, and they are nowhere as PROFESSIONALLY antagonistic towards the Republic as some other medical providers I've encountered in the past ten years or so.

 

In conclusion, I'm going to put it all together: the two most important professions in this USA are Information movers (newsies, computer gurus, etc) and Medical Providers. Both those professions are badly compromised as to maintaining the health and vibrancy of our Constitution and governance according to it.

 

Looking for what profession DOES unilaterally support our Constitution and governance according to it, I find only Veterans. A few months ago, I would have said Veterans and LEOs (I am retired from both professions), but the LEO profession has guzzled enough commie Kool Aid to remove themselves now as saviors of the American Way, following the Information movers right over the Marxist cliff.

 

Result? Of the 8.5 million Veterans, MAYBE 5 million are fit to fight for this Republic against the communist hordes.

 

Those aren't very good odds.

A note of good news

No, I won't title this "breaking" news...bad luck potential there.

The dear wife gets to return to her home in a week. Skilled nursing evidently believes she is almost ambulatory enough, although her access to the second floor will now have to be via the funicular railway (stair-climber) which gets put up a week after she gets back. The bite for that is $10.3 Large. I will get a chunk of that back in tax relief via a medical deduction.

Yep, hearts are a lot lighter at Schloss Schneiden.

Apologies to my Cohort of Readers

Dear readers, it's not that I don't love all four of you, it's that this has been a bad week. Last Sunday, my wife got up to fix herself breakfast, and Houdini the Orange Terror-Cat stayed at her feet, as he usually does. She tripped over him and went down, breaking her hip. She had surgery to install three screws to put the pelvic bone back together, just got out of the hospital yesterday and is in a nearby skilled nursing facility to do rehab. Naturally, this has removed most all of MY spare time, so I have been on Twitter (@straightcase) a bit, but not often. Since I dumped Facebook because of their intrusive ads on my timeline, I have nothing to keep anyone over there (my 189 "friends") happy except this blog and my occasional tweedling.

That's the size of it for now, my friends.

Cure for an attitude

I have an attitude because this URI won't go away and I'm probably a silly millimeter away from developing pneumonia. Prevention requires me to stay indoors and not breathe any cold air for long. This sucks, and has for two weeks now.

The attitude causes me to feel sorry for myself and to take a critical approach to the world. Sorry, that second part is the normal me, the attitude is the first part, and I don't usually snivel about myself.

So, I went back to my basic military training in USAF Officer Training School for the answer.

True story follows. Was caused by my problem of reporting to OTS with two left feet...

Scene: 1967. Medina Annex to Lackland AFB, TX, on the drill pad where we learn to march and to LEAD formations in marching movements: I had just screwed up and marched the Flight of 40-some Officer Trainees off the drill pad and into the weeds while trying to have them execute a double flanking movement:

Flight Training Officer: "OT, do you have an attitude?"

Officer Trainee (having been told at the first assembly to always tell the truth): "SIR, I do have an attitude!"

FTO: "OT, you have three seconds to get rid of it. If the Air Force wanted you to have an attitude, you would have been issued one. The entire Flight will now give me fifty pushups because OT Schneider has an unauthorized attitude."

Result: The entire flight will now know to watch OT Schneider very carefully for future development of unauthorized attitudes. Cooperate and graduate.

Apology

Sorry about the light blogging of late: I contracted a head cold this week and started taking Coricidin HBP for it. The resulting legarthies combine to keep the muse & I asleep. Now its time to get a grip on myself and lend my son a hand to move his household yet again...(sigh!). Hopefully, I'll be back at the helm of my Zepplin next week...

A liberal victory you may have overlooked

...but nevertheless, one which WILL impact you greatly.

I refer to the sea change in the politics of the American Medical Association. It is now reliably a liberal institution instead of the conservative institution it was a scant decade ago.

My evidence is here, and also I have direct anecdotal evidence as well because I have a young Doctor of Medicine in my family.

This will impact all of us who oppose Federal Socialized medicine, because without the Doctors' help and active opposition, it is unlikely that the HCA will ever be overturned and the practice of medicine returned to the arena of private enterprise. In fact, it will likely go the other way, with Doctors all becoming de-facto if not de jure employees of the Federal Government, with a Union and all, as well as a huge pay raise to insure their fealty. Merrie Olde Englande went that route a decade or so ago, and the STARTING pay for Brit Doctors in their National system is now $400K/yr in our money equivalent. The tag-along there is that the National system then began to use less Doctors, and delegated most of the physicians' previous work to Physician's Assistants or Nurses.

Since I have a Registered Nurse in my family as well as a Doctor, I can assure you that the machinery to implement the "de-Doctorization" of US Healthcare is beginning to grind. Not very fast at the moment, but when the call comes down from our Government, an actual Implementation Schedule will be posted and you will be far less likely to see a Doctor on your initial visit to a health-care facility after I-Hour.

The times, they be a-changin'.

That's the Progressive Movement. "Change to achieve the illusion of progress."*

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*This particular, and very accurate, definition of Progressivism was brought to my attention in the mid-1970s by my police partner JGP. I believe he actually coined it to describe Police Management Progressivism, but it fits the political movement better.

"Medical" questions about guns

Sometimes, you make a passing note of something and don't dwell on it afterward.

Such was the case with your blogger in regard to the "gun questions" being asked by medical providers as a result of an Executive Order signed by the President. Until a good friend and 2A defender had such an issue yesterday at my local hospital, this was not a front-burner thing for me. Dince then, I decided to put some effort into resolving this issue. I'll start with the analysis provided by Fox News here.

Here is a TX CHL forum sticky with useful links, including the entire HCA.

This article, published subsequent to the rest of them including the Snopes article that got it wrong, seems to be the most definitive. It says:

1. That language DOES exist in the HCA forbiding health care providers from recording such information in any way, or releasing any such information to Federal authorities.

2. That after Sandy Hook, President Obama issued a statement in front of news cameras indicating that he WOULD issue an Executive Order telling medical providers that their "right" to ask such questions was not infringed by the HCA, BUT HE NEVER ISSUED OR SIGNED ANY SUCH ORDER.

3. This means that the provider-constraining language in the HCA is still in the HCA, and still in effect.

Now for the tricky part.

If an ER or clinic intake clerk with a paper form or computer keyboard asks those gun questions, a reasonable person should assume that a permanent record is being made, and if that record is being made, it WILL eventually get into a Federal database, or, a significant risk exists that it will get into a Federal data base, so you are well within your rights under HCA and HIPAA to not answer the question, and the provider is NOT within their right to deny you care because of your refusal. That said, the Obama Administration takes the view that it is okay for a DOCTOR to ask the gun questions. My take on that is that a DOCTOR may ask anything he/she wants, in aid of making a proper medical diagnosis of your health complaint. That DOCTOR is still constrained by the "second amendment language" in the HCA though, therefore, that DOCTOR may not record that information in your chart if that chart is subject to overview by the Government.

Okay then, that's my and others' opinions of the legal niceties involved.

What then, is the best way to effect standing on your rights here? Your choices are:

1. Maintain silence AND eye contact with the questioner. The questioner MAY get that message without further words exchanged. (If you are being interviewed by a clerk or provider who is not a DOCTOR)

2. Firmly state you are ending the interview, and ask to speak to the interviewer's supervisor. I would escalate from #1 to this tactic if #1 failed to work for you. (same caveat as in #1, above)

3. If no luck with either of the above, it's time to take the offensive. You need to firmly state that: the HCA does NOT allow providers to record that information if ANY chance exists that the Government could later view it (and that is guaranteed by the HCA) AND that by insisting on an answer, you (name the interviewer) are violating my rights under the HCA and possibly the Bill of Rights, AND "standards of care" are NOT being met because of the delays caused by this improper interview.

4. If, after you use of these tactics of resistance, the ER/Clinic has not moved on with your intake interview, you need to play your trump card. Ask for the senior management person available (this person's title will likely be "Hospital/Clinic Director"). When that person arrives, advise him/her that you have been refused treatment and explain why. Inform that person that you will take appropriate medical transport to the next closest treatment facility NOT run by this management, get treatment, and charge all those fees back to the current facility. Mention also that you hold Management responsible for the violations of your rights which have occurred up to now.

Of course, you will need witnesses, copious notes, etc. Your quest may be vastly facilitated by an Investigative Reporter from a local TV station, if any in your burg are interested.

That's my plan. Use it or not.

That "other" turkey problem

The Turkey Toots. Yep, I have them. These are frequent, concert-quality, paint-peeling flatus.

How do I know the turkey causes them? Well, I've been gobbling of the gobblers since Tuesday, and that's how long I've been jet propelled.

Wasn't there something on the intartubes about fart-absorbing underwear recently? Do any readers have a link? There are a lot of leftover turkey meals yet to consume.

B.O.H.I.C.A.

No lube, either.

His O-ness "apologizes"...

Next, someone goes under the bus, probably Sibelius...

Then, the GOPes pass their "fix", delaying booting folks off their present plans...

The (D)onks go along...

Okay, who just got the shaft?

Not Obama, he gets a boost for "apologizing", even though he still denies lying 24 times.

Not the insurance companies, they keep their profitable status quo for another year.

Not the (D)onks, they just got Boehner to kiss their ass again and they got an electoral pass for a year.

Who goes that leave? Hmmmm.

It leaves nos populi, we get that Fickle Finger of Fate. We're still stuck with the economically-failed Obamacare, and now the failure won't even serve to change out the Senate to kill Obama's aspirations to further jerk us down the Socialist Road.

Nice work, GOPes, you just shafted the whole country, AGAIN.