So people on the right are extremists because we do not want to give complete control of things over to the government, when giving complete control over things to the government has always proved to be disastrous.
What's that about insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Of course, the Krugmans of the world believe they are important so they will not be subjected to the evils of government control. That is reserved for the great unwashed such as us.
The Krugman's of the world know they are party apparatchiks and really do have nothing to fear, and everything to gain. Now if they can only complete their take over of everything.
Last news story I saw was that California's projected surplus had suddenly morphed into (amazing, eh?) yet another, and even bigger deficit.
Add to that the immense debts Cali owes, (bonds, unfunded pensions, etc) and the fact that productive people are leaving in drovesmeans that in the near future, California will have even fewer income earners to pay those taxes.
Of course, Krugman is one of those to whom debts are immaterial, as we will soon be able to pay them from . . . Well, something.
Yeah, the unraveling head is a perfect visual for Krugman, and far too many like him. Trouble is that the country is unraveling, too, under their influence.
Sorry, but I am breaking in for another medical update - a few weeks ago I announced I had sinusitis, bronchitis, and possible pneumonia.
The third possibility was negated by a chest X-ray. I took Azithromycin for the first two, and it seemed to knock them down - to a certain point, but then the cough started to come back.
My doctor gave me a new scrip, for Augmentin this time, and it seems to knock the problem down to a certain point, but no further.
So on Saturday I turned in a sputum sample, and today I got the results, I do have pneumonia, but a very unusual type it seems, caused by a yeast infection in my lungs (anyboady wanna make sourdough bread?).
So I have Fungal Pneumonia, yay, and yet another medication, Fluconazole. I left work as soon as I heard, because the doctor said I would be coughing out spores (sure nobody wants to make sourdough bread?) for a while.
I go in Thursday morning, so he can determine if I am safe to be around people, or if I remain a Typhoid Dances.
And now I either pulled or tore a muscle in my stomach last night while coughing - will call the doctor as soon as he opens to see if I should use some of the remaining Tramadol muscle relaxant from my earlier back problem.
Well, interesting news from my mother, which she did not want to tell me when I was first diagnosed with the yeast infection.
But now that I am well on the mend, she's told me that my estranged father, who I'd not seen from the age of eleven, died of a massive and uncontrolled fungal infection of the lungs. I've always thought it was cancer, but it turns out the fungus just kept growing until there was no room for air.
Don't mess with pneumonia, any kind of pneumonia. I've had it three times, the last recently...and it did more damage in 90 days than cancer did in 8 years. My cancer was/is unusual in its slow growth rate, its structure (more cavity lesion than tumor) and lack of metastasis ... just daily upchucking of blood for a decade...which I ignored, of course, like a farking idiot. The cancer is under control, a mere sliver now 9need glasses to see it on the scans now) and still shrinking, with last PET Scan skull to knees showing no metastasis any where ... meanwhile in 90 days the undetected pneumonia wiped out an entire lobe of my right lung....you get less density on a hip x-ray now than my upper right lung....scarred like a shot gun blast got it.
Otherwise I'm like any other active & athletic guy who retired and relaxed...the wheels come off a lot now...my advice, stay active, really active (slow is okay, but move, lift, fight, etc.!) at least more active than I did initially. Being old sucks and every single old sports or work injury you incurred long ago, but over-came with muscle compensation, comes back to haunt you. I'm still in PT and have been since last August. Shit!!
Take care, Dances...and from here on out with this Pneumonia thing...if anything doesn't seem right to you, bitch and whine and tell the doctors.
We're a fine bunch. I'm in the midst of pneumonia, mine is exacerbated by COPD/emphysema - gee, I'm so glad I smoked for 30+ years.
Thank gawd for my better half who took me to the doctor. Honestly, at one point I felt I could not go on. I have a high threshhold for pain but the inablilty to breath properly terrifies me.
Sending positive thoughts to you both to hang in there and improve.
Florie...I'll see your 30+ years and raise you to 55+ years of smoking...3 packs a day. Half of them Camels. Why be half stupid when you can go all the way? This last bout of pneumonia kicked my ass...and sneaked up on me, no connection to Asian Flu or Hong Kong Flu. Just WHAM.
The PT is just an effort to cure "sit-on-my-ass-too-muchedness" which was exacerbated by the cancer go round, then the pneumonia.
I'm fine now...if my body would just cease "creaking" so much.
Oh gosh DWT and florrie, I'm so sorry you're both so sick! I don't think there is anything scarier than not being able to breathe effectively. Please please take good care of yourselves.
"They" say that if a person stops smoking, within 15 years the lungs will recoup to pre-smoking health. I don't believe it for a minute! *cough cough* Lewy is probably right; if we all hadn't ixnayed the cancer sticks, we'd be pushing up daisies or occupying a nursing home bed.
Aridog, I've heard that PT can be really brutal and painful. Ouch! So far I'm lucky enough to get by with my yoga and walking, and I try to ignore all the creaks and *snap-crackle-pops*.
Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry to hear of everyone's illnesses! I'm so glad that I got to read this AFTER you're all on the mend.
Aridog, Dances and Florrie, thank G-d you are all recovering. I will pray for your continued good health.
My dad has also had pneumonia recently. In fact he was sent to the hospital on the eve of Passover. He was put on an IV of antibiotics and then given a 10-day course of more antibiotics which he's only just finished. I was quite shocked at how he looked when he got home. White as a sheet and hardly strength to sit up, no strength at all to speak.
We're furious at his doctor because he went to her twice during the previous week complaining of a bad cough and inability to breathe, but she said his lungs were clear so it's just viral. But she ought to know my dad by now. With him it nearly always turns into pneumonia. She should not have waited to treat him.
Thank G-d his strength is returning, but this bout has really knocked him for six.
As for pneumonia-related injuries, my cousin is also just recovering and she broke a rib from all the coughing.
Becasuer I lived there for so long, I think I understand the South Koreans and their desire to unify, even partially, with the north...and Kaesong is an example of that desperation. Kaesong is counter productive however, it rewards the Northern Party without any measurable benefit to the rest of the world. Result, as China and USA become more intertwined in enterprise, little chubby Kim's village of idiots become less important on the world stage...so he/they just must act up.
Problem: don't underestimate their insanity..e.g., they do this every time, because they really are batshit crazy enough to go all Adam Lanza / Major Hasan on the world....any part of it within their reach. The north has now been under the severe Leninist/Stalinist form of party control for several generations...only a few of the sane are still alive there. Remember Stalin, paranoid psychopath that he was, executed and/or enslaved his best generals and engineers, particularly in aeronautics, before and during WWII.
The Soviet engineers were ahead of the Germans and British on jet engine and rocket propulsion...until Stalin killed them off. Sometimes crazy does equal stupid...which brings us back on the topic of Krugman.
I need to add that with Kaesong again shuttered Baby Kim will again carry out at least some lethal violence against the south, again likely in the area of the Northern Limit Line and the Han River Estuary.
If severe enough we must strike the north, but NOT with nukes...using nukes will bring true the prediction of the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" as related by Robert Oppenheimer. We must sustain nukes, but not use them...when and if we do, we are done, all of us, everywhere.
We have the ability to bomb to oblivion every industrial zone and harbor without nukes...if only we have the will, AND we coordinate with the Chinese directly...e.g., tell them that if line X is crossed, solution Y will be enacted, but that it is will STOP well south of the Yalu river. I can only hope that somewhere in the Pentagon are generals/admirals who understand that to win at war you must destroy not only the "will" but the "means" to wage war by your enemy...and "all resources" includes women and children. With all the blood lost in S. E. Asia, we never defeated the simple reproductive demographics.
China's sole interest in North Korea now is its hegemony, a buffer between China's borders and the rest of the world...just like Vietnam and all of Indo-China. China has acted no differently for thousands of years. North Korea is cannon fodder to China...who now has mush more to gain from the west. If actions by North Korea appear to threaten inch of Chinese soil, China may very well just roll on in and take all of the north over...I'm fairly confident they realize their mistake in letting the NORKS return to power in 1953.
I wish there was a "like" button for comments like yours Aridog. I've been trying to make sense of what's going on in N. Korea (as if we don't have enough troubles in our neck of the woods) and you've explained it all very well.
I agree with your projected solution, but if the Administration's inept meddling in the Middle East is anything to go by, I wouldn't hold your hopes too high.
So people on the right are extremists because we do not want to give complete control of things over to the government, when giving complete control over things to the government has always proved to be disastrous.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that about insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results? Of course, the Krugmans of the world believe they are important so they will not be subjected to the evils of government control. That is reserved for the great unwashed such as us.
The Krugman's of the world know they are party apparatchiks and really do have nothing to fear, and everything to gain. Now if they can only complete their take over of everything.
DeleteLast news story I saw was that California's projected surplus had suddenly morphed into (amazing, eh?) yet another, and even bigger deficit.
ReplyDeleteAdd to that the immense debts Cali owes, (bonds, unfunded pensions, etc) and the fact that productive people are leaving in drovesmeans that in the near future, California will have even fewer income earners to pay those taxes.
Of course, Krugman is one of those to whom debts are immaterial, as we will soon be able to pay them from . . . Well, something.
Yeah, the unraveling head is a perfect visual for Krugman, and far too many like him. Trouble is that the country is unraveling, too, under their influence.
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ReplyDeleteThere. I said it.
ReplyDeleteYou're not the only one: Reason has a nice piece on the topic of the Krugman crazy.
And Jeff Goldstein comes right out and says what we all know.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I am breaking in for another medical update - a few weeks ago I announced I had sinusitis, bronchitis, and possible pneumonia.
ReplyDeleteThe third possibility was negated by a chest X-ray. I took Azithromycin for the first two, and it seemed to knock them down - to a certain point, but then the cough started to come back.
My doctor gave me a new scrip, for Augmentin this time, and it seems to knock the problem down to a certain point, but no further.
So on Saturday I turned in a sputum sample, and today I got the results, I do have pneumonia, but a very unusual type it seems, caused by a yeast infection in my lungs (anyboady wanna make sourdough bread?).
So I have Fungal Pneumonia, yay, and yet another medication, Fluconazole. I left work as soon as I heard, because the doctor said I would be coughing out spores (sure nobody wants to make sourdough bread?) for a while.
I go in Thursday morning, so he can determine if I am safe to be around people, or if I remain a Typhoid Dances.
Sigh.
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We're behind you in any way we can help, Dances.
DeleteAnd now I either pulled or tore a muscle in my stomach last night while coughing - will call the doctor as soon as he opens to see if I should use some of the remaining Tramadol muscle relaxant from my earlier back problem.
DeleteReally am getting tired of this
Dances, I hope you're feeling better - or getting some relief, at any rate.
DeleteIt is good news though that you have a conclusive diagnosis and are on the correct medication.
Well, interesting news from my mother, which she did not want to tell me when I was first diagnosed with the yeast infection.
DeleteBut now that I am well on the mend, she's told me that my estranged father, who I'd not seen from the age of eleven, died of a massive and uncontrolled fungal infection of the lungs. I've always thought it was cancer, but it turns out the fungus just kept growing until there was no room for air.
I'm not sure which death is worse.
Don't mess with pneumonia, any kind of pneumonia. I've had it three times, the last recently...and it did more damage in 90 days than cancer did in 8 years. My cancer was/is unusual in its slow growth rate, its structure (more cavity lesion than tumor) and lack of metastasis ... just daily upchucking of blood for a decade...which I ignored, of course, like a farking idiot. The cancer is under control, a mere sliver now 9need glasses to see it on the scans now) and still shrinking, with last PET Scan skull to knees showing no metastasis any where ... meanwhile in 90 days the undetected pneumonia wiped out an entire lobe of my right lung....you get less density on a hip x-ray now than my upper right lung....scarred like a shot gun blast got it.
DeleteOtherwise I'm like any other active & athletic guy who retired and relaxed...the wheels come off a lot now...my advice, stay active, really active (slow is okay, but move, lift, fight, etc.!) at least more active than I did initially. Being old sucks and every single old sports or work injury you incurred long ago, but over-came with muscle compensation, comes back to haunt you. I'm still in PT and have been since last August. Shit!!
Take care, Dances...and from here on out with this Pneumonia thing...if anything doesn't seem right to you, bitch and whine and tell the doctors.
We're a fine bunch. I'm in the midst of pneumonia, mine is exacerbated by COPD/emphysema - gee, I'm so glad I smoked for 30+ years.
DeleteThank gawd for my better half who took me to the doctor. Honestly, at one point I felt I could not go on. I have a high threshhold for pain but the inablilty to breath properly terrifies me.
Sending positive thoughts to you both to hang in there and improve.
Florie...I'll see your 30+ years and raise you to 55+ years of smoking...3 packs a day. Half of them Camels. Why be half stupid when you can go all the way? This last bout of pneumonia kicked my ass...and sneaked up on me, no connection to Asian Flu or Hong Kong Flu. Just WHAM.
DeleteThe PT is just an effort to cure "sit-on-my-ass-too-muchedness" which was exacerbated by the cancer go round, then the pneumonia.
I'm fine now...if my body would just cease "creaking" so much.
I'm glad you're ok now, Aridog. I feel like I know what your sports (skiing, hiking, riding - outdoors stuff) mean to you.
DeleteI hear your advice and am going to work hard to get back to my hourly walk and gardening, etc. I've got to get strong again.
This sitting around and being depressed SUCKS. I hope your new meds really help you, Dances. It's good you have the tramadol. Hang in there, bro.
Just saw this about your troubles Florrie. I pray for your good health, even more than my own.
DeleteTake care of yourself, PLEASE.
Thank you, DWT, same here friend.
DeleteHealing thoughts going out to everyone.
DeleteThe intuition to "keep moving" is a good one.
(I've learned Ari's wisdom myself... I have to do strength training regularly or old injuries cause pain.)
Cheerful thought: yeah, none of us smoke anymore.
DeleteAnd I know why.
Because: we're all at the age where... if we all still smoked? Well... then most of us would be dead.
In statistics, this is called "survivorship bias". No kidding.
Oh my goodness, so sorry to hear about everyones sickness. Please get better soon and take good care of yourselves x
DeleteOh gosh DWT and florrie, I'm so sorry you're both so sick! I don't think there is anything scarier than not being able to breathe effectively. Please please take good care of yourselves.
Delete"They" say that if a person stops smoking, within 15 years the lungs will recoup to pre-smoking health. I don't believe it for a minute! *cough cough* Lewy is probably right; if we all hadn't ixnayed the cancer sticks, we'd be pushing up daisies or occupying a nursing home bed.
Aridog, I've heard that PT can be really brutal and painful. Ouch! So far I'm lucky enough to get by with my yoga and walking, and I try to ignore all the creaks and *snap-crackle-pops*.
Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry to hear of everyone's illnesses! I'm so glad that I got to read this AFTER you're all on the mend.
DeleteAridog, Dances and Florrie, thank G-d you are all recovering. I will pray for your continued good health.
My dad has also had pneumonia recently. In fact he was sent to the hospital on the eve of Passover. He was put on an IV of antibiotics and then given a 10-day course of more antibiotics which he's only just finished. I was quite shocked at how he looked when he got home. White as a sheet and hardly strength to sit up, no strength at all to speak.
We're furious at his doctor because he went to her twice during the previous week complaining of a bad cough and inability to breathe, but she said his lungs were clear so it's just viral. But she ought to know my dad by now. With him it nearly always turns into pneumonia. She should not have waited to treat him.
Thank G-d his strength is returning, but this bout has really knocked him for six.
As for pneumonia-related injuries, my cousin is also just recovering and she broke a rib from all the coughing.
Sending healing thoughts and prayers to everyone.
Breaking: North Korea refusing to allow 446 South Korean workers at Kaesong industrial park to return home.
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Aaand surprise. First twitter data wasn't accurate. No hostage situation but the Kaesong complex is being shut down.
ReplyDeleteAgain? Oh, my. Somebody must not have let Baby Kim's last order of Cognac through to him.
DeleteBecasuer I lived there for so long, I think I understand the South Koreans and their desire to unify, even partially, with the north...and Kaesong is an example of that desperation. Kaesong is counter productive however, it rewards the Northern Party without any measurable benefit to the rest of the world. Result, as China and USA become more intertwined in enterprise, little chubby Kim's village of idiots become less important on the world stage...so he/they just must act up.
DeleteProblem: don't underestimate their insanity..e.g., they do this every time, because they really are batshit crazy enough to go all Adam Lanza / Major Hasan on the world....any part of it within their reach. The north has now been under the severe Leninist/Stalinist form of party control for several generations...only a few of the sane are still alive there. Remember Stalin, paranoid psychopath that he was, executed and/or enslaved his best generals and engineers, particularly in aeronautics, before and during WWII.
The Soviet engineers were ahead of the Germans and British on jet engine and rocket propulsion...until Stalin killed them off. Sometimes crazy does equal stupid...which brings us back on the topic of Krugman.
I need to add that with Kaesong again shuttered Baby Kim will again carry out at least some lethal violence against the south, again likely in the area of the Northern Limit Line and the Han River Estuary.
DeleteIf severe enough we must strike the north, but NOT with nukes...using nukes will bring true the prediction of the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" as related by Robert Oppenheimer. We must sustain nukes, but not use them...when and if we do, we are done, all of us, everywhere.
We have the ability to bomb to oblivion every industrial zone and harbor without nukes...if only we have the will, AND we coordinate with the Chinese directly...e.g., tell them that if line X is crossed, solution Y will be enacted, but that it is will STOP well south of the Yalu river. I can only hope that somewhere in the Pentagon are generals/admirals who understand that to win at war you must destroy not only the "will" but the "means" to wage war by your enemy...and "all resources" includes women and children. With all the blood lost in S. E. Asia, we never defeated the simple reproductive demographics.
China's sole interest in North Korea now is its hegemony, a buffer between China's borders and the rest of the world...just like Vietnam and all of Indo-China. China has acted no differently for thousands of years. North Korea is cannon fodder to China...who now has mush more to gain from the west. If actions by North Korea appear to threaten inch of Chinese soil, China may very well just roll on in and take all of the north over...I'm fairly confident they realize their mistake in letting the NORKS return to power in 1953.
I wish there was a "like" button for comments like yours Aridog. I've been trying to make sense of what's going on in N. Korea (as if we don't have enough troubles in our neck of the woods) and you've explained it all very well.
DeleteI agree with your projected solution, but if the Administration's inept meddling in the Middle East is anything to go by, I wouldn't hold your hopes too high.
I get access to First World internet again and find out everyone is sick!
ReplyDeleteI hope you all are feeling better soon. I never smoked, but I do live in Africa, which isn't good for the health in so many, many ways...