It's unbelievable what we're letting krasnov get away with. A tiny little pissant trying to destroy the USA and we seem to be standing idly by as he continues his destruction. Just lately FEMA has denied any help to western North Carolina for the damage done by hurricane Helene. The cost will be enormous and should be shared with the rest of the country. He will continue to inflict hurt to any area he perceives as going against his agenda.
Remembering all the people in the services and out that fought the Nazis at the last "turning". My father was a Staff Sergeant and tail-gunner named Jack---you can't get any more American than that.
How do we live up to that legacy? All that sacrifice!
TRump has turned the Presidency, Cabinet, and many in Congress into a syndicate. They are criminals. Pumping and dumping stock is still illegal. Actions that kill children and the vulnerable are crimes against humanity.
The least we can do to honor what they gave in the past is to prevent the Trump Syndicate from killing the future. This bunch of psychos need to hear that we mean to give them what they deserve. See you in the streets!
Within this Saturday Report I noticed a potential statistic taking shape. It is a ratio - of psychopaths to sycophants. The ratio appears to be this: 58:764,000. Seems right.
The music is wonderful! It reflects the hopes and dreams of America! America is still the hope and the dream of We The People. The lyrics have been telling the story of the fight of our lives! The Good Fight for The Simple Life!
I record and watch Thom's daily show , 9-12 PST channel 269, Dish. The songs if commercial would make a lot of money and be on the billboard charts. Who are the singers? The musicians.?
1. June 14 is the No Kings National Day of Defiance.
2. This week, the House passed Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” that will c𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲—putting seniors, kids and working families back in the ER for regular healthcare because they cannot afford to see primary care physicians. This will mean longer waits, fewer doctors and more out-of-pocket costs.
I'm hoping the senate parimentarian will cut out all the non budget BS from the bill...Several Republican senators say the bill is unacceptable as written but we can't rely on them and need to encourage them.
Our only hope for preventing the Senate from passing this is to flood Senators’ offices with phone calls! PLEASE CALL NOW and/or Monday morning, before they meet in the dead of night, as did the Republican Congress, to pass this atrocious and life-threatening bill! Our chances of preventing disaster are slim, but we must try!
" (Remember, he’s doing this entirely outside of the law and the Constitution itself, which gives the SOLE power to impose tariffs on Congress: he’s claiming “emergency” powers, but there hasn’t been an economic emergency in America since the last time he was president and he screwed up the response to Covid so badly that the market crashed worse than in 1929 and a half-million Americans died unnecessarily.)" I'm tired boss. Tired of hearing all the things done illegally and still in power. How do we remove this fraudulent pustule?
I know Schumer and Jeffries (and Carville) will disagree with me, but I’m beginning to think it’d help if the Democrats were to start behaving like a unified opposition party. Currently, the only Dems doing the right thing are the vocal few who annoy the above mentioned. The current landscape is a monument to “moderation”.
That’s not entirely true, Daniel Solomon (that Republicans are the [only] enemy).
Significantly more Democratic unification could be gained by spending even relatively small amounts of money in rural areas of states like Missouri and Ohio, for example.
Democrats throughout the party need to listen to -and ACT on- at least some suggestions being made by the vocal few, rather than ostracizing them. Such a change in policy would immediately lead to more authentic unification instead of people once again having to choose between the lesser of two wrongs.
The status quo has not been working. I’m a geezer, and I, too, would help if the Democratic Party leaders were to start behaving like mature adults who are receptive to a broad range of solutions.
You're confused. They're just politicians. Inside baseball is not a sport. We wuz robbed. If I could go back in time, I'd have inserted a spine in Biden and Garland. But so far, the door to another universe has not been discovered.
I’m not confused, and in part you show the weakness of your argument by immediately denigrating me.
Policy decisions are not a sport. They have real life consequences. Protectionism and policies that are focused almost exclusively on top-tier elections and incumbency are not as effective as they need to be, with historical proof.
We need to focus more on being effective, not protective.
I've been taking Vitamin D3 for decades. It must be working despite the fact that I was in palliative care for lung cancer in 2017, am 86, still have brown hair (mottled with some grey) and am in relatively good health,despite being pre diabetic since 2006 I just wish I had started earlier.
I, too, have been taking Vitamin D for ages. (I’m 88, and in good health for my age; my balance is not as good as I’d like, but I still walk (slowly, I admit.). In fact, at my last annual, my primary told me to cut out the Vitamin D for awhile.
I am not too impressed with PCP's I am scheduled for an annual wellness exam in August, it is concurrent with what should be a semi annual diabetes exam,.Medicare authorizes one lipid panel per year. I should also get a CBC prior to the exam, that way the doctor will have blood test results in front of him during the exam. I asked him to order the tests before the exam. He said that he would determine what tests to order at my exam.
The only thing he will do is weigh me (I do that daily), take my oxygen levels (I do that dialy and often I have four oxymeters), nurse takes blood pressure (I do that dialy with an Omcrom, the only thing different is that he has stethoscope (I have three) but I can't use it on myself. I keep a daily spreadsheet on everything including my blood glucose.
WTF is going on. I will walk into the Wellness Exam knowing more about my health than he,and he won't order the required blood tests until after he talks with me.
Mr. Farrar, I am sympathetic with your medical adventures. I too have had some bad experiences with physicians. Some good ones also. It takes about 17 years for a truly new treatment, idea or procedure to reach from the research lab to the clinician. During that period there are undoubtedly patients who experience unnecessary deficits in the treatment by their physicians.
Any care giver who is dumb enough to order labs AFTER the scheduled appointment should not be allowed to practice medicine. This has never happened to me. I guess I am lucky. I live in city which has a research medical university in it and this boosts the quality of medical care for the whole city. At first glance, it sounds like a bit of a stretch for you to claim "I will walk into the wellness exam knowing more about my health than he." But it sounds as though there is truth to it in your case.
About two decades ago I got my hands on the first large, truly unbiased research report about the cholesterol hypothesis. This hypothesis had been around since Ancel Keyes published the results of his "7 Countries" study in the 1950s. In his report Keyes claimed that high cholesterol causes coronary artery disease CAD. The report I read a couple decades ago was titled the "West of Scotland Study" or WESTCO. This was the first sizable study which had unbiased researchers doing it. None of them were employees of a pharmaceutical company; or took money from a pharmaceutical company. Like any honest researcher, they reported the means and standard deviations from their experimental group and control group. Thus I was able to apply two commonly used tests of significance to their data. I found there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group.Their data failed to reject the null hypothesis. In other words their data rejected the hypothesis that cholesterol causes CAD. In the conclusion of their report the authors themselves said the same thing: they failed to find a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. Cholesterol does not cause CAD.
When I pointed out the results of the WESTCO study to my clinician, he told me I was selectively paying attention to only those studies which supported my preconceived belief that the cholesterol hypothesis was wrong. And he insisted I take Statin drugs to protect me from CAD. I, of course, refused to take those drugs. And I never will take them as there is no objective empirical evidence that they prolong life by protecting against CAD. Thirty years after Ancel Keyes did his "7 Countries" study, he admitted that his study was a fraud. Keyes faked it.
I believe the cholesterol hypothesis and the profitable Statin drugs which go along with it will turn out to be the biggest medical fraud in history. My clinician refused to listen to my interpretation even though I had been on research teams at two universities and taught Research Methods for 36 years. I participated in research projects for the USDA at Iowa State University and research projects at the Michigan State University Medical School. My clinician had no such experience.
Back to your experience with your clinician:....This same clinician of mine eventually told me there was no reason for me to take lab tests in the future because of my refusal to take Statin drugs as therapy. I now have a new clinician as my PCP. I do not go so far as to say you should do the same. But it is something to think about. It would be a shame for you to suffer an unnecessary downturn in your health do to an incompetent clinician or other aleatory factors.
Gerald, I will not take prescription meds., because I don't trust PhRMA and I pay attention to the warnings about adverse effects. Drugs doesn't cure they attack symptoms, and everything is washed through the liver, and the liver fails and you wind up on dialysis or needing a transplant.
I do take red yeast rice, a natural form of statin, what info do you have on natural statins.
As regards my PCP, I tell him what I want and need. I am very tuned in to my body, and the only way to keep check on it is via blood tests. I had a UTI recently, and he did prescribe a one week course of an anti biotic, I took it and it worked, but I also had him order a PSA to check my prostate which is something that he wouldn't do on his own, It came back 1.25... very verygood.
Keep the daily songs, please! I love them.
It's unbelievable what we're letting krasnov get away with. A tiny little pissant trying to destroy the USA and we seem to be standing idly by as he continues his destruction. Just lately FEMA has denied any help to western North Carolina for the damage done by hurricane Helene. The cost will be enormous and should be shared with the rest of the country. He will continue to inflict hurt to any area he perceives as going against his agenda.
And yes, keep the songs coming.
Schadenfreude, didn't NC vote for Trump. His FEMA cuts are going to hurt the red states worse than the blue states. I have no empathy for them.
In reality North Carolina is a blue state, it appears to be red because of voter suppression.
Remembering all the people in the services and out that fought the Nazis at the last "turning". My father was a Staff Sergeant and tail-gunner named Jack---you can't get any more American than that.
How do we live up to that legacy? All that sacrifice!
TRump has turned the Presidency, Cabinet, and many in Congress into a syndicate. They are criminals. Pumping and dumping stock is still illegal. Actions that kill children and the vulnerable are crimes against humanity.
The least we can do to honor what they gave in the past is to prevent the Trump Syndicate from killing the future. This bunch of psychos need to hear that we mean to give them what they deserve. See you in the streets!
Me too!
Within this Saturday Report I noticed a potential statistic taking shape. It is a ratio - of psychopaths to sycophants. The ratio appears to be this: 58:764,000. Seems right.
The music is wonderful! It reflects the hopes and dreams of America! America is still the hope and the dream of We The People. The lyrics have been telling the story of the fight of our lives! The Good Fight for The Simple Life!
Keep the daily songs!!!
I record and watch Thom's daily show , 9-12 PST channel 269, Dish. The songs if commercial would make a lot of money and be on the billboard charts. Who are the singers? The musicians.?
Keep the songs, please! 🙏🏼
1. June 14 is the No Kings National Day of Defiance.
2. This week, the House passed Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” that will c𝘂𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲—putting seniors, kids and working families back in the ER for regular healthcare because they cannot afford to see primary care physicians. This will mean longer waits, fewer doctors and more out-of-pocket costs.
I'm hoping the senate parimentarian will cut out all the non budget BS from the bill...Several Republican senators say the bill is unacceptable as written but we can't rely on them and need to encourage them.
Our only hope for preventing the Senate from passing this is to flood Senators’ offices with phone calls! PLEASE CALL NOW and/or Monday morning, before they meet in the dead of night, as did the Republican Congress, to pass this atrocious and life-threatening bill! Our chances of preventing disaster are slim, but we must try!
Here's the effect, if you won't believe me....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZdorrQyR0&t=3334s
3. Memorial Day 2025. A good day to fight fascism.
" (Remember, he’s doing this entirely outside of the law and the Constitution itself, which gives the SOLE power to impose tariffs on Congress: he’s claiming “emergency” powers, but there hasn’t been an economic emergency in America since the last time he was president and he screwed up the response to Covid so badly that the market crashed worse than in 1929 and a half-million Americans died unnecessarily.)" I'm tired boss. Tired of hearing all the things done illegally and still in power. How do we remove this fraudulent pustule?
Pidgeonhole Republican senators.
I know Schumer and Jeffries (and Carville) will disagree with me, but I’m beginning to think it’d help if the Democrats were to start behaving like a unified opposition party. Currently, the only Dems doing the right thing are the vocal few who annoy the above mentioned. The current landscape is a monument to “moderation”.
The enemy are the Republicanz, stupid.
That’s not entirely true, Daniel Solomon (that Republicans are the [only] enemy).
Significantly more Democratic unification could be gained by spending even relatively small amounts of money in rural areas of states like Missouri and Ohio, for example.
Democrats throughout the party need to listen to -and ACT on- at least some suggestions being made by the vocal few, rather than ostracizing them. Such a change in policy would immediately lead to more authentic unification instead of people once again having to choose between the lesser of two wrongs.
The status quo has not been working. I’m a geezer, and I, too, would help if the Democratic Party leaders were to start behaving like mature adults who are receptive to a broad range of solutions.
Be effective, not protective!
You're confused. They're just politicians. Inside baseball is not a sport. We wuz robbed. If I could go back in time, I'd have inserted a spine in Biden and Garland. But so far, the door to another universe has not been discovered.
I’m not confused, and in part you show the weakness of your argument by immediately denigrating me.
Policy decisions are not a sport. They have real life consequences. Protectionism and policies that are focused almost exclusively on top-tier elections and incumbency are not as effective as they need to be, with historical proof.
We need to focus more on being effective, not protective.
"Orgy of corruption," the perfect description for America's Caligula!
I've been taking Vitamin D3 for decades. It must be working despite the fact that I was in palliative care for lung cancer in 2017, am 86, still have brown hair (mottled with some grey) and am in relatively good health,despite being pre diabetic since 2006 I just wish I had started earlier.
I, too, have been taking Vitamin D for ages. (I’m 88, and in good health for my age; my balance is not as good as I’d like, but I still walk (slowly, I admit.). In fact, at my last annual, my primary told me to cut out the Vitamin D for awhile.
I am not too impressed with PCP's I am scheduled for an annual wellness exam in August, it is concurrent with what should be a semi annual diabetes exam,.Medicare authorizes one lipid panel per year. I should also get a CBC prior to the exam, that way the doctor will have blood test results in front of him during the exam. I asked him to order the tests before the exam. He said that he would determine what tests to order at my exam.
The only thing he will do is weigh me (I do that daily), take my oxygen levels (I do that dialy and often I have four oxymeters), nurse takes blood pressure (I do that dialy with an Omcrom, the only thing different is that he has stethoscope (I have three) but I can't use it on myself. I keep a daily spreadsheet on everything including my blood glucose.
WTF is going on. I will walk into the Wellness Exam knowing more about my health than he,and he won't order the required blood tests until after he talks with me.
Mr. Farrar, I am sympathetic with your medical adventures. I too have had some bad experiences with physicians. Some good ones also. It takes about 17 years for a truly new treatment, idea or procedure to reach from the research lab to the clinician. During that period there are undoubtedly patients who experience unnecessary deficits in the treatment by their physicians.
Any care giver who is dumb enough to order labs AFTER the scheduled appointment should not be allowed to practice medicine. This has never happened to me. I guess I am lucky. I live in city which has a research medical university in it and this boosts the quality of medical care for the whole city. At first glance, it sounds like a bit of a stretch for you to claim "I will walk into the wellness exam knowing more about my health than he." But it sounds as though there is truth to it in your case.
About two decades ago I got my hands on the first large, truly unbiased research report about the cholesterol hypothesis. This hypothesis had been around since Ancel Keyes published the results of his "7 Countries" study in the 1950s. In his report Keyes claimed that high cholesterol causes coronary artery disease CAD. The report I read a couple decades ago was titled the "West of Scotland Study" or WESTCO. This was the first sizable study which had unbiased researchers doing it. None of them were employees of a pharmaceutical company; or took money from a pharmaceutical company. Like any honest researcher, they reported the means and standard deviations from their experimental group and control group. Thus I was able to apply two commonly used tests of significance to their data. I found there was no significant difference between the experimental group and the control group.Their data failed to reject the null hypothesis. In other words their data rejected the hypothesis that cholesterol causes CAD. In the conclusion of their report the authors themselves said the same thing: they failed to find a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group. Cholesterol does not cause CAD.
When I pointed out the results of the WESTCO study to my clinician, he told me I was selectively paying attention to only those studies which supported my preconceived belief that the cholesterol hypothesis was wrong. And he insisted I take Statin drugs to protect me from CAD. I, of course, refused to take those drugs. And I never will take them as there is no objective empirical evidence that they prolong life by protecting against CAD. Thirty years after Ancel Keyes did his "7 Countries" study, he admitted that his study was a fraud. Keyes faked it.
I believe the cholesterol hypothesis and the profitable Statin drugs which go along with it will turn out to be the biggest medical fraud in history. My clinician refused to listen to my interpretation even though I had been on research teams at two universities and taught Research Methods for 36 years. I participated in research projects for the USDA at Iowa State University and research projects at the Michigan State University Medical School. My clinician had no such experience.
Back to your experience with your clinician:....This same clinician of mine eventually told me there was no reason for me to take lab tests in the future because of my refusal to take Statin drugs as therapy. I now have a new clinician as my PCP. I do not go so far as to say you should do the same. But it is something to think about. It would be a shame for you to suffer an unnecessary downturn in your health do to an incompetent clinician or other aleatory factors.
Gerald, I will not take prescription meds., because I don't trust PhRMA and I pay attention to the warnings about adverse effects. Drugs doesn't cure they attack symptoms, and everything is washed through the liver, and the liver fails and you wind up on dialysis or needing a transplant.
I do take red yeast rice, a natural form of statin, what info do you have on natural statins.
As regards my PCP, I tell him what I want and need. I am very tuned in to my body, and the only way to keep check on it is via blood tests. I had a UTI recently, and he did prescribe a one week course of an anti biotic, I took it and it worked, but I also had him order a PSA to check my prostate which is something that he wouldn't do on his own, It came back 1.25... very verygood.
Yes, I love the daily songs! and all of your content. Thank you, I have learned so much.
I see no reason not to include the daily song in the Daily Takes.
I, didn’t vote for this, Thom.