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There’s BSue on the phone behind him with the Doc.
First!
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I just heard Chris Salcedo on am700 speak of getting the US out of the UN and getting the UN out of the US. Seeing what the UN has become and how it has served against ours and Israel’s interest, I have to agree. I have echoed this position here on the couch for several years.
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Squawk’s Credo:
When in Romania, do as the Romanians do.
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Elizabeth Anne Holmes spent part of her childhood in Houston, a couple of teen years in China and then was accepted at Stanford for premed. She’s only 31 years old, has 18 patents and 100 patents pending.
One day she’ll probably be the richest woman in the world, compensation from a world for its gratitude to her uncommon genius. Everyone’s life will be transformed by her inventions and she will save the human race a ton of toil and trouble. Ms. Holmes’ medical devices will also free the individual to obtain laboratory information and data about his own body without having to pay medical gatekeepers for the privilege.
“Before meeting Holmes, I spent approximately 19 minutes in a spalike room at a Walgreens in Palo Alto. There I got my finger painlessly pricked — and, for less than the price of a latte, chose from an endless menu of tests that would otherwise have cost me hundreds and a doctor’s office visit. Results popped up via voicemail, and in an app on my phone, a few hours later, and yes, I am now taking a supplement to fix those low vitamin D levels,” Leive wrote.
This is the future. Holmes is cutting out the middleman and making the customer king. A century earlier, Almon Brown Strowger invented the rotary dial and cut out the telephone operator. She is cutting out the physician, but the medical industry is a powerful lobby and getting states to allow people to test themselves takes some doing. In July 2015, Arizona became the first state to allow people to get and directly pay for any laboratory test from a participating licensed lab without first being required to get a health care provider’s permission first or work through insurance eligibility.
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Dana Loesch manages to help a good thing come out of something bad.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/07/17/photographer-insulted-conservative-pundit-but-its-the-follow-up-comment-thats-really-astonishing/ -
RE: My #4
What’s that you say ? Everyone should go to college ?
Elizabeth Anne Holmes dropped out of Stanford after her freshman year to pursue her dream. Just think, if she had stayed in school, we might never have benefited from her creativity.
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Mornin’ all. Sorta nice here in Gulf Shores, AL.
Going to see Dolphins on a boat this morning with the family.
Some goober cut the fiber optic so haven’t had Internet for two days on the whole peninsula. Hard to do some needed work while family sleeps if you can’t access the Internet.
Later.
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Happy dolphin hunting CFree! 😀
Curious how you would compare that area to Destin/Pensacola.
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Hot and dry out here in central Texas. Did I mention hot?
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The snooty “intellectual” class is deriding Germany for wanting its layabout kid to stop smoking weed and playing video games all day and get out of the basement and get a job.
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Kale is killing the foodies and trendoids of the Bi-coastal Left.
Surely, this is the ultimate RightWingConspiracy. Thousands of bible-thumping, gun hugging, white male truck farmers flying Confederate flags over their vast acres of poisonous kale. You know they’re laughing and cackling every time a truckload rolls out to San Francisco or New York City.
Ernie Hubbard sees a very self-selecting group of patients and clients—“health fanatics,” he calls them—people who eat extremely well by current standards, exercise regularly, generally don’t smoke, do drugs, or drink to excess. In today’s world, however, especially in health-conscious Marin County, California, where Hubbard lives and works, these are the people increasingly showing up in doctors’ offices complaining of persistent but elusive problems: Chronic fatigue. Skin and hair issues. Arrhythmias and other neurological disorders. Foggy thinking. Gluten sensitivity and other digestive troubles. Sometimes even the possibility of Lyme Disease.
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Well ole Jeb has rustled up at least one vote for Hitlery; Jeb Bush Hails Uber In San Francisco, Vote.Doesn’t Win Driver’s
The Uber driver who picked up Jeb Bush Thursday on a San Francisco street corner doesn’t normally vote and didn’t recognize the Republican frontrunner. But the experience of driving a man who could be President, and talking about it with a reporter, may get him to the polls this year.
He said he will probably pull the lever for Hillary Clinton.
Mornin’ Gang
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Texpat, do all roads lead to Romania these days? Where, when, and why are swim suit and overcoat worn together?
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#4 Texpat
Seriously, I can’t imagine more than perhaps 5% of the population, even in the developed world, being able to dump their doctor and manage their own blood tests. Would not know what tests to do, how to interpret the results, or what actions to take to “fix” any parameter out of range.Sure, that information is available, and so is all sorts of claptrap on the internet. Let’s see one of those “Man on the street or campus” videos, the kind where people are asked if they want to sign a petition to abolish the Bill of Rights. I don’t think the average person in the USA knows jack about biology or medicine.
Bottom line: IMO, maybe a small market for self-directed blood testing.
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#10 Pyro
The Germany-Greece comparisons are stunning. Going in to read it, I was visualizing Greek Pajama Boys at home drinking hot chocolate. But those productivity and effort charts are quite damning. If the Greeks are “at work” 39 hrs a week, they must be socializing or daydreaming, but they sure aren’t working. -
#!! TP: That is a fascinating article.What, I wonder, are some good uses for thalium?
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#12: There is a crude joke in there to which I shall refrain.
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15 mh42
Nonsense. For me to get a blood test to check for my cholesterol level I have to go to the doctor, sit in an exam room, wait 20-30 minutes for a nurse to come and draw it. They send it to a lab in New York and the results come back 3 or 4 days later. The doctor then calls me to explain in as few words possible what is going on.
At least two hours of my time @ $100/hr, $80 for doctor’s visit and $70 for a lab test equals $350.
There are all kinds of online resources to explain every line item of a blood or urine test. I can go to the drugstore 5 minutes from my house, walk in and get a test sample in a few minutes and have the results sent to my iPhone shortly. If I have a question about something, I can then go to my doctor or just call him and have him bill me for his time.
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See, you are among that 5% I thought would be able to use it.
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#20: I have heard of many docs getting kickback/commissions on testing – and the price just keeps going up.
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#21 – 5%?
balderdash IMHO
This will (and is already) revolutionizing diagnostic testing!
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So if a person knows they have a doctor’s appointment coming up, they drive to the corner drugstore and spend a few dollars and minutes getting a blood workup done. That person then has the app also forward the results to their physician ahead of the appointment. It saves everyone time and when the patient arrives at the doctor’s office, the lab results are already in the doc’s laptop.
It cuts out the whole blood draw, ship to lab and wait for data process. The doctor doesn’t have to make a followup call and can address issues in the exam room immediately.
This is a huge win for everyone but the current, traditional lab operators. The patient will have control of the data and can also send it to another doctor for a second opinion.
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I like the idea of self-testing blood work and other lab items, but let’s suppose that I am a surgeon and Methodist Hospital preparing for hip replacement surgery. My patient doesn’t want to admit to me his STD’s and presents a phony lab result. As the surgeon, I’m not willing to accept third party lab work as I prefer to control the chain of custody. But, as an individual, if I have a recurring condition that I want to check on from time to time, say a PSA, it would be nice to be able to conduct that test myself and only report to the doc if the number is too high. After all, no one cares more about my health than I do.
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25 EG
I’m assuming prep for surgery would be done in-house by the pathology lab in the hospital itself. They will want to protect themselves, at any rate.
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#24-26: I feel pretty confident that a deal can be worked out to where the speedy test machine could get licenced for the hospitals to use. This will save the hospitals bundles in labor costs and get faster results to boot.
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#24 TP
Yes, yes, yes! I would (and will) love getting my test results that way. But I still think you, Katfish and I are in the minority. -
28 mh42
But I still think you, Katfish and I are in the minority.
Yeah, that’s what they said about email.
And by the way, Elizabeth Holmes company is licensed, insured, bonded in all 50 states as a full range testing laboratory. There won’t be a way for patients to submit phony test results because doctors will only be able to receive them directly from her lab – not from the patient.
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G.K. Chesterton’s Paradox of the Wall:
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, or that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion.”
HT: Instapundit
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Chuck Jones was one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century ranking up there, in my book, with Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Groucho Marx, et al.
Posted yesterday on YouTube is this tribute to Jones and his fabulous work.
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My father died from a massive heart attack at 40. I’ve known since my late 20s that I have very high cholesterol. Doctors have been trying to get me on statins for as long as they’ve been around. So for a few years now I’ve been getting some screening done by Lifeline Screening. They run several tests, including an ultrasound of my major arteries looking for blockage. I’m always clean as a whistle. They also do a series of blood tests. Everything except cholesterol is always well within normal ranges. The whole battery of tests is around $150 and I do it every two years. Comes out of my HSA. They send the report to my doctor and send me a copy. When he tries to put me on statins I ask why. He says “your cholesterol is really high”. I ask, what will that do? “It will cause clogged arteries!” Yeah but I don’t have that, you’ve seen my report, I say. “But it could over time.” Yeah, but it’s been over 250 for 30 years and there’s no clogging yet. “I strongly recommend you take them”. Ok, I say, I’ll keep it in mind.
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Apparently this Tranny still has his stones:
ZOEY TUR: Good try… Did she deserve the honor? Probably not. Is she brave? Of course she’s brave. All those years invested as the sports legend, to come out transgender is horribly difficult. It is the most difficult thing you can do. I’ve been overseas, I’ve flown helicopter missions, surveillance missions, I’ve been shot, stabbed. Being brave is being yourself. And being transgender is about the bravest thing you can do.
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BEN SHAPIRO, BREITBART.COM: Why are we mainstreaming delusion?
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SAMANTHA SCHACHER: Why would you call it a delusion?
SHAPIRO: Because, Bruce — Caitlyn Jenner, I’ll call him Caitlyn Jenner because that’s what–
SCHACHER: No, it’s her, you’re not being polite to the pronouns, it’s disrespectful.
SHAPIRO: Okay, forget about the disrespect, facts don’t care about your feelings. It, turns out that every chromosome, every cell in Caitlyn Jenner’s body, is male, with the exception of some of his sperm cells. … It turns out that he still has all of his male appendages. How he feels on the inside is irrelevant to the question of his biological self.
ODUOLOWU: I don’t agree with that, I am not on that train… She wants to be called she, I’m going to call her she. I just have a problem with the message and the messenger.
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ZOEY TUR: We both know chromosomes don’t necessarily mean you’re male or female….You have a thing like Klinefelter’s syndrome. So, [pointing to Shapiro] you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not educated on genetics.
SHAPIRO: What are your genetics, sir?
DREW PINSKY, HOST: I’d stay away from the genetics and back to the brain scans.
ZOEY TUR: You cut that out now, or you’ll go home in an ambulance.
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The 4,000 lb gorilla in the room ignored by the MSM:
Houston was warned by Moody’s Investors Service this month that it may be downgraded because of mounting retirement bills, the latest municipality put on notice as the company ignores bookkeeping gimmicks that let cities mask the size of their debt for years. The approach foreshadows accounting rules for even top-rated issuers that are poised to cause pension shortfalls to swell as new financial reports are released.
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That was on display this week for Chicago, whose credit rating was cut to junk by Moody’s in May because of a $20 billion pension shortfall. The city was forced to pay yields of almost 8 percent on taxable bonds maturing in 2042, about twice what some homeowners can get on a 30-year mortgage.
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Like other cities, Houston’s revenue is limited by property-tax caps. Its three pension plans have combined unfunded liability of about $3.4 billion, according documents for a debt sale last month.
On July 2, Moody’s lowered Houston’s outlook to negative, citing the “challenges the city faces from growing pension costs and liabilities.” The Aa2 rating is the third-highest investment grade.
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The credit-rating company said in a report Friday that the shortfall in Dallas’s police and firefighters’ pension system will more than triple to $4.7 billion because of the accounting-rule shift.
Living in the big cities run by Democrats is getting more dangerous all the time.
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I just need to make it about seven more years.
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I just need to make it about seven more years.
Me, a little over 5, unless NASA succeeds in running me off, (and dayaam they’ve been trying) then I’ll be over in Alabama doing what ever I can to get by. I figure if I add another tractor to the fleet, one with a backhoe and front end loader, I can make a living Bush Hoggin’, septic tank work and whatever else I can find. You’d be surprised how hard it is to get anyone to do anything over there.
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Unfrigging believable, Facebook blocked this picture
http://oi62.tinypic.com/33mqsex.jpg
from being posted because it contained content that has been reported as offensive.
Yanno it ain’t the government that we ahve to worry about messing with our freedoms of speech. It is the perpetually offended. We all need to give our blogmaster a big sloppy kiss for his benevolence.
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I don’t see any image at that link.
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Welp dangit. Let’s try this one.
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Oh wait it was similar to this one.
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Bwahahaha! I would post #40 on FB but I’d offend some fambly…but it would have nothing to do with the flag.
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Brother Squawk got me in trouble with the wife when I clicked on his link in #40–But it was worth it.
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Motive still a mystery. Maybe he was a victim of soicumstance.
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#40 – Bro Squawkster you darn near redeemed yaself for that big-wet-sloppy-kiss remark………. 🙂
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Heh
My job is finished here. 🙂
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Heh Hamous–Great episode. Disorder in the Court.
Love Curly but still partial to Shemp although the Larry beat downs are fantastic.
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Bro Squawk’s #40 in music.
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If OCloven Hoof were my jogging buddy I’d be….
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Brother Phil
Me thinks I prolly should not post my favorite Joe Walsh song that reminds me of that lovely lass in #40.
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I like ’em too 😉
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But yeah, you shouldn’t post that one.
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Gimme Shelter Josefus style
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Hammy
#52It was the strangest thing when I remembered that song. This vision of your granny flashed before my eyes. I mean man there she was standing right there tapping a rolling pin into the palm of her hand. So enjoyed the song on my own. 🙂
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Sophie Lloyd Surfing with the alien
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What’s the name of the Joe Walsh song?
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