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---our brilliant and dazzling president Trump hasn't done enough for the American people, as promised, already. How about the new policy he enacted on allowing folks easier access to hospital prices, so more shopping and comparing can be done?

Brit Psychiatrists claim. AS IF, the state of the world today isn't already enough. Of course, consider which group is saying this. The hairdressers of western medicine. Same folks who supported lobotomies, the schizophrenogenic mother, autism in almost every home, same with multiple personality disorders, several hundred different mental disorders---with drugs for most, Bedlam care, the legitimacy of psychoANALytic treatments, and lots more questionable claims, including how normally homosexuals choose to live. The greater number of "legitimized" "illnesses", the more billable clinic hours, no? In my experience, only a small number of caring, well experienced, willing to listen---and try to understand their charges' struggles and needs, ---and humble psychiatric medical doctors and nurses are really helpful, far fewer than those who earn quite well.

On my doctor's recommendation, I got a flu shot two weeks ago. The injection was nearly painless. The next day, my arm hurt a little at the site of the shot. On the second day, I awoke and my arm was laying on the floor. I had to duct tape it into place. I felt yucky for a few days after.
Officially, I'm over it, or I thought I was and tonight I reached for something across (right to left) and still have some tenderness.
I'm thinking that maybe I should remove the duct tape...

...sure, lots of factors involved in these rates, especially when long standing trends are broken by stark differences over time. It seems that among blacks, in the USA, such rates have climbed to almost twice the rates for other ethnic groups. Allegedly, these data were much closer in value, even in the days of bondage. Supposedly, the usual suspects,--- poverty, education, class, etc. have little to do with all this, all "controlled" for.. Researchers conclude that it's actually something about the experience of growing up here black, instead. Mind you, these results come, as almost all such social science study information, from university and other alt ueber liberal research shops, often using unblinded questionnaire data. Choosing of study hypotheses, obtaining funding, methodologies, interpretation and reporting results, and more---all often affected by political slants of the researchers.

...of course, "oldtimers" is the most common of these memory/behavior scourges.. Don't count on money grubbing Big Pharma for help any time soon. Their three expensive drugs, do very little for symptoms, except for side effects, let alone prevention. Of course, the TV and hot detail lady sales human persons and heavy biased adverts make these sound like God's answer to Alzheimers, and other dementias. But, as with much of modern medicine, there is evidence that non-drug/non-surgery life style changes can help considerably with both of the above. Diet, exercise, social contact, lots of good water, various brain use strategies---and even a little wine daily, seem to increase the brain fluid flushout, and decrease the scavenger cell overgrowth, leading to inflammatory brain processes, that now seem a large cause. Tau and beta amyloid proteins, schmoteins. Same with genetics, except for a small number of cases. Most striking is the novel jogging and intense enjoyment of personal early community and family memories (photos, visits, movies, TV shows, furniture, vacations, etc.). Hasn't been studied or reported much, but I'm waiting with great hope for research reporting the importance of frequent hot kinky sex later in life, as the main preventive strategery.

....sure, machines sometimes can best champions at Chess and Go. But related trends are occurring everywhere. Radiologists seem to miss as much as 20% of early breast cancers in reading mammograms, and google health folks now report they have software that can improve this significantly. Please slip into this hospital gown, which opens in the back. Doctor HAL 9000 will be in shortly to go over your films with you.

....but given what tomorrow is....best remedy for a hangover?

... and I like it.

All this Christmas circus, hypocrisy and consumerism.... makes me sick, lock my door and close the shutters.
.... and adding the nonsense called *waiting for the New Year.....

....... no, it's not me - crazy is the world.

When I feel like helping or giving presents, I don't wait for Christmas, or birthday, or whatever the numbers of the calendar.

The crowd festivities, never makes me happy.

"Researchers followed 23,000 people in Italy for eight years and found that those who ate chili peppers at least four times a week had a 40% lower risk of death from heart attack and a more than 50% lower risk of death from stroke. - 4 days ago"
More @

I heard this reported on radio news (Coast to Coast AM plug) a couple days ago.

I'm LUVVIN' on the hot peppers ...
Four times a WEEK??
Hell! I prob'ly eat four servings of the stuff per MEAL - starting with breakfast.

Crystal® Louisiana Hot Sauce ( shameless plug) is the New Ketchup & great as salad dressing.
Da Bomb - Beyond Insanity® ( ditto) Habañero Sauce is a special treat

Anyway -
It was good hearing that SOMETHING out there that folks enjoy ain't gonna kill 'em & might do 'em good

I calculated it out ...

Averaging out four servings/week & at the rate I eat 'em - I'm gonna live another 200 years.
Minimum!!


*Intentionally phrased as a rhetorical question to fling The Rule down & dance on it
I'm such a Rebel ...

I was going to do a blog about Mar-a-Lago as the president will be staying there between Christmas and New Years. This puts the kibosh on my plans to take a few days off and enjoy flying at the local radio control model airfield as it's in the restricted zone less than 25 miles from Mar-a-Lago!
There is another field in Fort Lauderdale 30 miles away that doesn't have flight restrictions, so I'll probably do some flight practice there.
Hopefully all who celebrate Christmas will enjoy the day and if you are missing your two front teeth, I suggest you Google a good dentist for restoration. As they say "Be truthful to your teeth, if not they will be false to you!"