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How does Biden stack up against a list of Alzheimer's symptoms?
It is tragic for the individual, family, and loved ones of an elderly person suffering from dementia or Alzheimer's. It is a disaster for our nation if it is our president. Is President Biden suffering from a disease that is robbing him of his cognitive abilities?
President Biden's longtime personal physician and now White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, has either not performed or not released the results of a cognitive test. President Biden's staff shield him from view, and the media continue to protect the president from scrutiny. Since the media have not explored the cognitive abilities of the president, we will do it by comparing the CDC's "10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's" to President Biden's behavior.
1. Memory loss that disrupts daily life such as dependency on notes.
2. Challenges in planning or solving problems.
3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks.
4. Confusion with time or places.
5. Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relations.
6. New problems with words in speaking or writing.
7. Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.
8. Decreased or poor judgment.
9. Withdrawal from work or social activities.
10. Changes in mood and personality.
If President Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, why hasn't Congress acted in removing the president in accordance with Amendment XXV of the Constitution? It may be that the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate know they need a weakened president to enact their legacy legislation and believe they can continue to control of the federal government with Biden in the role. Republican leaders in the House and Senate may believe that once they control both houses, they will have the power to approve the next vice president — all while our rivals across the globe take advantage of our weakened president and our allies plot a future without the United States.
America with a weakened leader reminds me of the instruction I received when parachuting. If you have a malfunction, you must decide how bad of a malfunction. If malfunction results in a broken leg or two, then ride it to the ground. Because if you go to the reserve and it malfunctions, your life is over. We cannot survive a President Harris, House speaker Pelosi, and Senate leader Schumer leading our country. Let us all wait until the November 2022 elections.
President Biden's longtime personal physician and now White House physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor, has either not performed or not released the results of a cognitive test. President Biden's staff shield him from view, and the media continue to protect the president from scrutiny. Since the media have not explored the cognitive abilities of the president, we will do it by comparing the CDC's "10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer's" to President Biden's behavior.
1. Memory loss that disrupts daily life such as dependency on notes.
2. Challenges in planning or solving problems.
3. Difficulty completing familiar tasks.
4. Confusion with time or places.
5. Trouble understanding visual images and spatial relations.
6. New problems with words in speaking or writing.
7. Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.
8. Decreased or poor judgment.
9. Withdrawal from work or social activities.
10. Changes in mood and personality.
If President Biden is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, why hasn't Congress acted in removing the president in accordance with Amendment XXV of the Constitution? It may be that the Democrat leaders in the House and Senate know they need a weakened president to enact their legacy legislation and believe they can continue to control of the federal government with Biden in the role. Republican leaders in the House and Senate may believe that once they control both houses, they will have the power to approve the next vice president — all while our rivals across the globe take advantage of our weakened president and our allies plot a future without the United States.
America with a weakened leader reminds me of the instruction I received when parachuting. If you have a malfunction, you must decide how bad of a malfunction. If malfunction results in a broken leg or two, then ride it to the ground. Because if you go to the reserve and it malfunctions, your life is over. We cannot survive a President Harris, House speaker Pelosi, and Senate leader Schumer leading our country. Let us all wait until the November 2022 elections.
. . . .(laughing) . . .and now for something completely different
Overtired and burned out of the Vaxxed VS Anti-Vaxxed
Democrat VS Republican
White VS Black & Brown
Catholic VS Protestant
Christian VS Pagan
Stagnation is truly setting it. The energy really needs switching up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjmz_SlGhg
Recent Admission by Republicans about other Republicans both Shocking and Accurate....
,,,,,and what needs to be done to rectify this situation. 
Drunken man joins search party looking for .......... himself
A missing man in Turkey accidentally joined his own search party for hours before realizing he was the person they were looking for, local media reports.
Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.
When he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.
Mr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.
But when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: "I am here."
Beyhan Mutlu had been drinking with friends on Tuesday when he wandered into a forest in Bursa province.
When he failed to return, his wife and friends alerted local authorities and a search party was sent out.
Mr Mutlu, 50, then stumbled across the search party and decided to join them, NTV reported.
But when members of the search party began calling out his name, he replied: "I am here."
"Bad for almost Everybody"
Today from Time;
For the rest of the article from Time go to the following link;
In response to:
Donald Trump Still Leads The Republicans—And That’s Bad for Almost Everybody
Philip Elliott
Wed, September 29, 2021, 2:07 PM
Donald Trump is out of office. That doesn’t mean he’s out of power.
In the last week, the former President has once again shown just how he plans to maintain control of the Republican Party’s brand. He has refused to accept the Republican-led audit of 2020 election results in Arizona that he is, in fact, still the race’s loser. He continues to push for election reviews in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—and seems to be on track to get them. Trump has been hammering his supporters in Congress to gum up a quartet of high-profile pieces of President Joe Biden’s agenda and keeps sprinkling his endorsements in races around the country, trying to exact revenge on corners of his party he has deemed insufficiently loyal.
Trump has remade the Republican brand into one of chaos and obstruction, despite holding no official place in the party hierarchy. His contempt for norms continues and, especially among House Republicans, that is in itself a new norm. It’s tough to imagine a pre-Trump moment where such rancor was celebrated. In 2009, when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” at then-President Barack Obama, he issued an apology almost immediately for his outburst. Now, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s heckling of fellow members on the steps of the Capitol about abortion and their faith is met with deafening silence from the GOP. (Party leaders, however, have already stripped her of committee assignments for peddling conspiracy theories.)
Trump may have fled Washington even before Joe Biden took the oath but his influence never left, especially among Republicans who sincerely believe that Trump’s mix of bravado and trouble-making is a winning cocktail for victory in next year’s midterms and the 2024 race that, if Trump is to be believed, could feature his return to the ballot. In fact, CNN polling shows GOP voters prefer Trump to be the leader of the Republican Party by a 2-to-1 margin, even if those same voters say it’s a coin-toss whether he’d actually help them retake the White House as the nominee. Trump is still drawing crowds across the country, and some $82 million in cash in the first half of the year moved into Trump-affiliated accounts at a network of political committees.
It’s easy to dismiss the shift in what it means to be a Republican these days as something that only matters inside the Beltway; something for cable news pundits to fret about. After all, the share of Americans who actually identify as a member of the Republican Party hovers around 30% year over year. (Democrats come in around that same level. The biggest voting bloc in America is unaffiliated voters, and has been for decades.)
The problem is that for many voters, supporting Trump goes hand in hand with rejecting some of the nation’s basic guiding principles. In communities across this country, yard signs still are promoting Trump’s re-election last year. Many Republicans still believe he is the legitimately elected President of the United States: two-thirds of GOP voters said in a poll released last month that Trump was the winner of the election, a number that has remained consistent since November despite overwhelming evidence otherwise. It’s tough for rank-and-file Republican lawmakers to ignore that reality, even if meaningful election fraud is fiction.....
Donald Trump Still Leads The Republicans—And That’s Bad for Almost Everybody
Philip Elliott
Wed, September 29, 2021, 2:07 PM
Donald Trump is out of office. That doesn’t mean he’s out of power.
In the last week, the former President has once again shown just how he plans to maintain control of the Republican Party’s brand. He has refused to accept the Republican-led audit of 2020 election results in Arizona that he is, in fact, still the race’s loser. He continues to push for election reviews in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—and seems to be on track to get them. Trump has been hammering his supporters in Congress to gum up a quartet of high-profile pieces of President Joe Biden’s agenda and keeps sprinkling his endorsements in races around the country, trying to exact revenge on corners of his party he has deemed insufficiently loyal.
Trump has remade the Republican brand into one of chaos and obstruction, despite holding no official place in the party hierarchy. His contempt for norms continues and, especially among House Republicans, that is in itself a new norm. It’s tough to imagine a pre-Trump moment where such rancor was celebrated. In 2009, when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” at then-President Barack Obama, he issued an apology almost immediately for his outburst. Now, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s heckling of fellow members on the steps of the Capitol about abortion and their faith is met with deafening silence from the GOP. (Party leaders, however, have already stripped her of committee assignments for peddling conspiracy theories.)
Trump may have fled Washington even before Joe Biden took the oath but his influence never left, especially among Republicans who sincerely believe that Trump’s mix of bravado and trouble-making is a winning cocktail for victory in next year’s midterms and the 2024 race that, if Trump is to be believed, could feature his return to the ballot. In fact, CNN polling shows GOP voters prefer Trump to be the leader of the Republican Party by a 2-to-1 margin, even if those same voters say it’s a coin-toss whether he’d actually help them retake the White House as the nominee. Trump is still drawing crowds across the country, and some $82 million in cash in the first half of the year moved into Trump-affiliated accounts at a network of political committees.
It’s easy to dismiss the shift in what it means to be a Republican these days as something that only matters inside the Beltway; something for cable news pundits to fret about. After all, the share of Americans who actually identify as a member of the Republican Party hovers around 30% year over year. (Democrats come in around that same level. The biggest voting bloc in America is unaffiliated voters, and has been for decades.)
The problem is that for many voters, supporting Trump goes hand in hand with rejecting some of the nation’s basic guiding principles. In communities across this country, yard signs still are promoting Trump’s re-election last year. Many Republicans still believe he is the legitimately elected President of the United States: two-thirds of GOP voters said in a poll released last month that Trump was the winner of the election, a number that has remained consistent since November despite overwhelming evidence otherwise. It’s tough for rank-and-file Republican lawmakers to ignore that reality, even if meaningful election fraud is fiction.....
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Personal & Societal Irresponsibility has consequences, which should include financial responsibility
Letters to the editor from the Houston Chronicle;
In response to:
'Enough is enough' - unvaccinated should face financial consequences
Taking personal responsibility
Regarding “Editorial: Texas’ nursing shortage is costing lives, and Gov. Abbott let it happen,” (Aug. 17): Gov. Greg Abbott’s support comes largely from rural areas and, as you point out, hospitals in those areas are bearing the brunt of his decisions. But those decisions are largely supported by the folks in those areas. His lack of leadership is actually a reflection of his base and he continues to build a large re-election campaign fund from that base. How long are the rest of us going to allow this sick system to continue?
It is past time for those of us that are vaccinated to say enough is enough to those adults that choose to not be vaccinated. There need to be financial consequences for those who are not vaccinated who contract COVID, not extraordinary measures to treat them. Personal responsibility is, after all, a conservative mantra. There is no “right” to bring our health care system to the brink due to lack of personal responsibility.
Julie Marinucci, Houston
As coronavirus infections surge there has been increasing concern about the availability of hospital beds in many cities, including Houston. It is curious that while many restaurants, shops and other businesses allow entrance only to vaccinated customers, no hospitals have similar requirements, even as space becomes short. How does it serve equity or public health if a sick patient, through no fault of his own, or a sick child — not eligible for vaccination — is turned away because all the beds are filled with people who, by their own preference for “personal choice,” and despite the danger they pose to others in the community, refuse vaccination? Of course, if there is no shortage of beds, these people should be admitted, but in light of the increased threat that they pose to staff and other patients, it would be reasonable to impose an additional charge for their treatment.
The possibility of higher hospital costs or refusal of admittance to a hospital might convince some to get the vaccine. The economic incentive could be carried a step further if the insurance companies refused to pay the medical costs of the unvaccinated. This is not a drastic action. Most insurance policies require that the insured take normal steps to avoid an insured loss. A homeowner cannot burn the house down and collect on the fire insurance policy.
Paul Horvitz, Houston
'Enough is enough' - unvaccinated should face financial consequences
Taking personal responsibility
Regarding “Editorial: Texas’ nursing shortage is costing lives, and Gov. Abbott let it happen,” (Aug. 17): Gov. Greg Abbott’s support comes largely from rural areas and, as you point out, hospitals in those areas are bearing the brunt of his decisions. But those decisions are largely supported by the folks in those areas. His lack of leadership is actually a reflection of his base and he continues to build a large re-election campaign fund from that base. How long are the rest of us going to allow this sick system to continue?
It is past time for those of us that are vaccinated to say enough is enough to those adults that choose to not be vaccinated. There need to be financial consequences for those who are not vaccinated who contract COVID, not extraordinary measures to treat them. Personal responsibility is, after all, a conservative mantra. There is no “right” to bring our health care system to the brink due to lack of personal responsibility.
Julie Marinucci, Houston
As coronavirus infections surge there has been increasing concern about the availability of hospital beds in many cities, including Houston. It is curious that while many restaurants, shops and other businesses allow entrance only to vaccinated customers, no hospitals have similar requirements, even as space becomes short. How does it serve equity or public health if a sick patient, through no fault of his own, or a sick child — not eligible for vaccination — is turned away because all the beds are filled with people who, by their own preference for “personal choice,” and despite the danger they pose to others in the community, refuse vaccination? Of course, if there is no shortage of beds, these people should be admitted, but in light of the increased threat that they pose to staff and other patients, it would be reasonable to impose an additional charge for their treatment.
The possibility of higher hospital costs or refusal of admittance to a hospital might convince some to get the vaccine. The economic incentive could be carried a step further if the insurance companies refused to pay the medical costs of the unvaccinated. This is not a drastic action. Most insurance policies require that the insured take normal steps to avoid an insured loss. A homeowner cannot burn the house down and collect on the fire insurance policy.
Paul Horvitz, Houston
Rep. Mike Turner: Milley 'Incredibly Disingenuous' With Testimony
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley was "incredibly disingenuous" with his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, told Newsmax.
Milley left out any mention of the U.S. drone strike that ended up killing civilians, including children, rather than an ISIS-K target in the final days of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Turner lamented on Tuesday's "National Report."
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was "emotional" about the 13 U.S. service members who died in a suicide bomber strike at the Kabul airport during the evacuation from Afghanistan, but Milley's reaction was different.
Read more and watch video:
Milley left out any mention of the U.S. drone strike that ended up killing civilians, including children, rather than an ISIS-K target in the final days of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Turner lamented on Tuesday's "National Report."
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was "emotional" about the 13 U.S. service members who died in a suicide bomber strike at the Kabul airport during the evacuation from Afghanistan, but Milley's reaction was different.
Read more and watch video:
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If
Biden 'knew' he would be deteriorating at this pace, would he have still campaigned for president?
Maybe he was just bamboozled into running?
Maybe he was just bamboozled into running?
Statist instinct of the Left: "Shut up!" vs. Free speech
Here's a test to see if you, yourself, have Statist impulses. Do you favor speech and debate, or is your go-to response "Shut up!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=UUz4s5OktLE&feature=emb_logo
The Founders of the American Republic and the U.S. Constitution were students of Natural Law and the Socratic method. Logical arguments, back and forth, within proscribed rules, until the truth could be elicited.
The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate) is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. It is named after the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates and is introduced by him in Plato's Theaetetus as midwifery (maieutics) because it is employed to bring out definitions implicit in the interlocutors' beliefs, or to help them further their understanding.
The Socratic method is a method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions.
The Socratic method searches for general commonly held truths that shape beliefs and scrutinizes them to determine their consistency with other beliefs. The basic form is a series of questions formulated as tests of logic and fact intended to help a person or group discover their beliefs about some topic; exploring definitions, and seeking to characterize general characteristics shared by various particular instances.
“Persuasion is the civilized substitute for harsh authority and ruthless force,” wrote R.T. Oliver. Oliver said that the recipients of any persuasive discourse must feel free to make a choice. In a free society it is persuasion that decides rules, determines behavior,and acts as the governing agent in human physical and mental activities. In every free society individuals are continuously attempting to change the thoughts and/or actions of others. It is a fundamental concept of a free society.
Yes, persuasion. Not, Shut Up!
But persuasion involves civilized discourse.
HERE ARE THE RULES:Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
argumentum ad antiquitatem
argumentum ad hominem
argumentum ad ignorantiam
argumentum ad logicam
argumentum ad misericordiam
argumentum ad nauseam
argumentum ad numerum
argumentum ad populum
argumentum ad verecundiam
circulus in demonstrando
complex question
dicto simpliciter
naturalistic fallacy
nature, appeal to
non sequitur
petitio principii
post hoc ergo propter hoc
red herring
slippery slope
straw man
tu quoque
~dgw61315/fallacies.html
But if you are a Statist, there are millions of dead, millions sent to the camps, the Gulags of Soviet Russia, the Lao Gai of Communist China, giving mute testimony of the urge to say SHUT UP to others, rather than even attempting to persuade.
So, are you trying to persuade, like a Free Westerner, or scream, "Shut Up!" like a Communist?
REMEMBER: LIBRARY RULES OF CIVIL DISCOURSE APPLY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=UUz4s5OktLE&feature=emb_logo
The Founders of the American Republic and the U.S. Constitution were students of Natural Law and the Socratic method. Logical arguments, back and forth, within proscribed rules, until the truth could be elicited.
The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate) is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions. It is named after the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates and is introduced by him in Plato's Theaetetus as midwifery (maieutics) because it is employed to bring out definitions implicit in the interlocutors' beliefs, or to help them further their understanding.
The Socratic method is a method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions.
The Socratic method searches for general commonly held truths that shape beliefs and scrutinizes them to determine their consistency with other beliefs. The basic form is a series of questions formulated as tests of logic and fact intended to help a person or group discover their beliefs about some topic; exploring definitions, and seeking to characterize general characteristics shared by various particular instances.
“Persuasion is the civilized substitute for harsh authority and ruthless force,” wrote R.T. Oliver. Oliver said that the recipients of any persuasive discourse must feel free to make a choice. In a free society it is persuasion that decides rules, determines behavior,and acts as the governing agent in human physical and mental activities. In every free society individuals are continuously attempting to change the thoughts and/or actions of others. It is a fundamental concept of a free society.
Yes, persuasion. Not, Shut Up!
But persuasion involves civilized discourse.
HERE ARE THE RULES:Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate
argumentum ad antiquitatem
argumentum ad hominem
argumentum ad ignorantiam
argumentum ad logicam
argumentum ad misericordiam
argumentum ad nauseam
argumentum ad numerum
argumentum ad populum
argumentum ad verecundiam
circulus in demonstrando
complex question
dicto simpliciter
naturalistic fallacy
nature, appeal to
non sequitur
petitio principii
post hoc ergo propter hoc
red herring
slippery slope
straw man
tu quoque
~dgw61315/fallacies.html
But if you are a Statist, there are millions of dead, millions sent to the camps, the Gulags of Soviet Russia, the Lao Gai of Communist China, giving mute testimony of the urge to say SHUT UP to others, rather than even attempting to persuade.
So, are you trying to persuade, like a Free Westerner, or scream, "Shut Up!" like a Communist?
REMEMBER: LIBRARY RULES OF CIVIL DISCOURSE APPLY.
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John McCain, John McCain, War Hero, Senator, Presidential Contender, who died aged 81
Is being vilified by a CS member who boasts of having served in the US military, is it right that an forces person can wilfully malign and denigrate a decorated with both the Silver Star Medal and Bronze Star Hero of the US Navy?
One has to question the veracity of anyone who is so low to attack someone no longer in a position to respond.
By denigrating one decorated military person you are denigrating all those with the same medals.
I QUESTION THE TRUTH REGARDING ANYONE SO MALICIOUS BEING AN EX-SERVICE MEMBER.
One has to question the veracity of anyone who is so low to attack someone no longer in a position to respond.
By denigrating one decorated military person you are denigrating all those with the same medals.
I QUESTION THE TRUTH REGARDING ANYONE SO MALICIOUS BEING AN EX-SERVICE MEMBER.
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