We can be confident people in this group will constitute a large cross-section of PedoPoseurdom demographics: Criminally negligent corporate executives and everyone else who gets a kick out of violating the public trust. I suppose low-level types like this could be given a parole option. The biggest swath from that bunch will be the typically common fraudsters and inside traders. These people are sociopaths enthusiastically testing the limits of decent society with impunity.
Now we can expect to see Boeing emerge from this as just another too-big-to-fail economically foundational organized crime syndicate. Some of these people need to go to jail if the findings are in fact true. If the overall company suffers unduly or eventually fails, that is incentive for others to think about going forward. Police yourselves, assholes.
I experienced this type crap going on in Lockheed myself. Corners cut, specs fudged, tests faked. It’s everywhere economic incentive to cheat exists, and government is basically helpless to stop it. It’s nothing against the companies or workforce themselves. The problem is, they are after all, made up of imperfect people like you and me.
What do you expect? I’m pretty sure most expect higher standards in aircraft safety – especially from the people responsible for this type stuff. Boeing has alot of work left to do. This is not about getting the Max back in the air. It’s about getting Boeing’s head out of their collective asses.
The weed horse has alot of life left in it. So I’ll keep aggressively beating it. It’s not going away, and it certainly won’t die. How do you un-beat the near-dead horse Christianity and Capitalism tried to kill?
I just realized personal corroboration for the NORML post linked above. All through this back injury nonsense I’ve been confronted with doctors over and over again who didn’t seem to think there was anything wrong with me. I wonder why…
There is no question Cannabis effectively calms the muscle spasms invoked by this particular back injury. My entire midsection, down the right leg and up into the right shoulder were literally locked with muscle clenching throughout January and February this year, immediately following the left hip surgery. At the time, it was just a bad reaction to the surgery. Took 6 months of hacking through the thickest jungle of VA bullshit I’ve ever experienced to clear up that little misunderstanding.
It’s still terrible – I’m just growing accustomed to it. Still rolling big knots out of my buttocks and back every night. Still slightly limping to the right – with a fresh hip replacement on the left. Go figure. Like I told Chris the other day, I don’t care about the pain. That’s no picnic either. All I really want is to just be able to walk again.
Then that article popped up in my news feed this morning and I had an epiphany. I remembered sitting in Annie’s office being interviewed at the Loveland VA a couple weeks ago. It drew out late into the afternoon, and I was sitting there literally twitching from time-to-time because I hadn’t had any medication all day. No – not the meth-head tweaker-type drug-withdrawal twitch. It’s a unique little doodad this thing does when the glute receives some aberrant, momentary little jolt from the festering nerves in there that just sorta radiates out into the leg and up the back. Left un-treated, it continues spreading further, more intensely, eventually clamping down and not releasing any time I’m on my feet. It’s the body’s natural radiculopathy reaction to nerve root damage. I wonder if Annie noticed me starting to do that, at the worst I’ve been in probably the last 2 months, or since my last T-break. I’m pretty sure MJ is the biggest thing keeping me going right now.
But what about every other prior doctor visit so far this year? They saw a healthy-looking 60-YO without a cane (most times) appearing to walk normally, good vitals – WTF?! It’s easy to see how George was fooled. I showed up at the first followup 2 weeks after surgery, off the hydrocodone already, rarin’ to go. But I never recovered. How much you wanna bet the Cannabis has been masking my symptoms all year long – enough to the point where doctors were slotting me into their personal whiny hypochondriac category right off the bat?
Just a theory. But if that’s the answer to my VA problem, it’s still the wrong answer. I’ve been telling them about it for years, turning down the pharmaceuticals. KInda hard to get with the program when people can’t agree on how to conduct what program.
Fuck Trump, too. Apparently Donny-boy recently had his eye on Greenland for some reason. Him and the Pope should start a new country in there called Pedo-Poseurdom. We’ll build a wall around the whole goddamn continent, start up a NATO-sponsored no-fly zone, and ship in every sumbitch’n dictator, pedophile and high-ranking corporate cocksucker that steps out of line. They can butt-fuck each other all day long while proclaiming their great wisdom and sanctity.
“Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness,” Trump tweeted. “Was he on the same call that I was? Can’t be possible! Please ask him to read the Transcript of the call. Witch Hunt!”
I was hoping to get this done in 10 installments. After meeting with the folks at the Colorado Spine Institute today, that is finally starting to look like a real possibility. Yesterday was also a stroke on the plus side for a change, when as expected, the EMG test turned up negative. That’s a GOOD thing – still no nerve damage – or so they say.
CSI looks like the real deal. I don’t doubt the last 2 spine guys are knowledgeable professionals. But they aren’t good doctors, in my estimation. The 1st guy had a canned spiel ready for me, and when specifically questioned about my 1 specific complaint, both of us gazing at the MRI display, his response was “what, that little thing – that’s nothing.” The 2nd guy just flatly refused to do what I knew then needs done. And just for the record, Dr. Knight with the rehab gang in the Aurora VA also flatly refused. I haven’t even met Dr. Donner yet, but his PA, Chris took the time to ask all the right, carefully reasoned diagnostic questions, AND explain in detail the complicated mess of potential implications and outcomes.
So I’ll undergo a CT Discogram soon as we can get it scheduled, and see what happens. Best guess prognosis at this time seems to lead to a fusion procedure. Or it could be nothing, maybe something in-between. I’m not exactly looking forward to another surgery, but I can’t go on like this.
First year in recent memory we’ve had real cold and snow before Thanksgiving. We’re showing 19 degrees with 3 inches on the ground at 7am and more of the same expected through Wednesday. At least it was cold enough to not stick to the leaves causing any tree damage. I believe it caught the morning commuters by surprise too, from the looks of the traffic map.
“Death is all around us, yet when it comes to our own deaths, we are not updating our prediction to assimilate that reality, Dor-Ziderman said. It’s unclear what evolutionary purpose this breakdown serves.”
Eventually these researchers are going to get past scratching the surface.
Four and a half years after retiring, and they still cannot find qualified engineers.
Just another of the many reasons why I don’t answer the phone much any more. I probably spend more time blocking numbers and deleting 3 second voicemails than I do talking on the damn thing. At least the job inquiries are down to about 1 a month.
Some of my favorite technological and scientific advances are in the realm of forensics – all kinds. There’s the crime type everyone seems familiar with. Digital was part of the job in several assignments with both the Air Force and Lockheed. It’s pretty amazing how you can break down the physical world to it’s most fundamental parts and get a first-hand reality peek into the past. And there’s no argument. Given a “thing,” the arrangement of molecules “is what it is” now. Based on an unbroken chain of scientifically-proven causes and events, where it came from and how it got to be here this way, can be factually determined, beyond a reasonable doubt. Not being a doctor or medical examiner myself, I can’t be too technical about this, but here goes:
Take my lumbar spine, for example. An L4-5 annular tear reflects a traumatic force applied in some direction. Z axis spinal flex is minimal, because the spine is held together by the annulus portion between each disc and vertebrae. It’s basically the glue holding everything together, propping you up while standing. OTOH, we have great spinal flexibility in the X-Y axes due to nature’s mechanical engineering of the vertebrae and discs – ask any hoola hoop or gymnastics buff. So unless you are being drawn and quartered, a traumatic force causing an annular tear may potentially source from any 360-degree radius direction.
Thanks to the miracle of modern medical imaging techniques, we just happen to know exactly where my annular tear is located. Looking down with north facing front it’s at about East/Southeast on the compass dial. So by definition, the direction traumatic force sourced from was West/Northwest. Hold a small stick by the ends in your hands, arms outstretched straight in front, and bend in a plane parallel to the ground until it starts to break (tear). Now imagine you are facing East/South east, and the stick is my spine.
Anybody see a fresh hip replacement back there somewhere? I’m gonna say we got a bit overzealous seating the cup. I’m no orthopedic surgeon, so what the fuck do I know. We’ll find out, sooner or later, one way or the other – hopefully not in the course of a wrongful death lawsuit.
I’m not saying he is “totally” right on this matter either, but his characterization of mainstream media is fairly accurate, regardless of the factual ramifications of any particular episode being reported. The media issue is interesting to me because it doesn’t matter what the topic is – politics, health, current events, whatever – they tend to sensationalize just about anything, with little to no contextual perspective, solely for the purpose of getting eyeballs on their advertising. Some call it “spin.” That term goes out the window when the message is just patently false. Truth be damned.
A different technique was used to move the goldfish inside for the winter this season. Previously, I would start the tank inside a few weeks beforehand to get it cycled. This time I simply siphoned water from the pond directly into the tank through a basement window and moved the fish same day. Should be much less stressful – no temp change, no cycling issues.
Plymouth State tightened their grip on the Little East defeating conference rival Keene State 3-2 in a hard-fought match Wednesday evening. Francie scored a personal record high 22 kills. Maybe we’ll be seeing some new stuff in the women’s volleyball record book after this season. OPW 2 weeks ago.
The PSU media moguls were gracious enough to provide some video clips:
