Friday, September 25
Thursday, September 24
Scent Dogs
Background
Methods
Eight detection dogs were trained for 1 week to detect saliva or tracheobronchial secretions of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients in a randomized, double-blinded and controlled study.
Eight detection dogs were trained for 1 week to detect saliva or tracheobronchial secretions of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients in a randomized, double-blinded and controlled study.
Results
The dogs were able to discriminate between samples of infected (positive) and non-infected (negative) individuals with average diagnostic sensitivity of 82.63% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 82.02–83.24%) and specificity of 96.35% (95% CI: 96.31–96.39%). During the presentation of 1012 randomized samples, the dogs achieved an overall average detection rate of 94% (±3.4%) with 157 correct indications of positive, 792 correct rejections of negative, 33 incorrect indications of negative or incorrect rejections of 30 positive sample presentations.
Conclusions
These preliminary findings indicate that trained detection dogs can identify respiratory secretion samples from hospitalized and clinically diseased SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals by discriminating between samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected patients and negative controls. This data may form the basis for the reliable screening method of SARS-CoV-2 infected people. >>>TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE, CLICK HERE...
These preliminary findings indicate that trained detection dogs can identify respiratory secretion samples from hospitalized and clinically diseased SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals by discriminating between samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected patients and negative controls. This data may form the basis for the reliable screening method of SARS-CoV-2 infected people. >>>TO READ ENTIRE ARTICLE, CLICK HERE...
What Do The 2020 Democrats Want?
1. Increase taxes
2. Increase Minimum Wage
3. Defund Police Departments
4. Return the regulations on businesses that Trump Removed
5. Provide Medicare For All
6. Open our borders to immigration
7. Institute stricter gun laws
8. Increase number of Supreme Court Justices
9. Make DC and Puerto Rico States
10. Provide Free College Tuition
11. Provide Free Housing to the Poor
12. Institute AOC's Green New Deal
HOWEVER,
This is the Democratic Party 2020 Platform
- Protect Americans and Recovering from the Covid-19 Pandemic
- Building a Stronger, Fairer Economy
- Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality Health Care
- Protecting Communities and Building Trust by Reforming our Criminal Justice System
- Healing the Soul of America
- Combating the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice
- Restoring and Strengthening our Democracy
- Creating a 21st Century Immigration System
- Providing a World Class Education in Every Zip Code
- Renewing American Leadership
COMMENTS:
Point #1 -- Biden, like Trump, will follow the advice of the CDC and other medical professionals... so, in essence he will do nothing different
Point #2 -- How will Biden build a fairer economy, when having an unfair economy is the foundation of Capitalism and our free market enterprise system?
Limit the profits of companies?
- Limit the salaries of CEO's?
- Prevent companies from giving bonuses?
- Forcing companies to hire the unqualified?
- Limit dividends paid to shareholders?
- Force the wealthy to share their money?
Point #3 -- Medicare For All will cost more money than our country currently takes in and every time the government gets involved the quality of its employees decreases... waiting lines for services will start to appear... salaries for doctors will decrease... quality of doctors will decrease...
Point #4 -- Defunding the police is not criminal justice reform... instead it is encouraging criminal activity because there are not enough cops around to enforce the law. You can see this with speeders on the interstate highways.
Point #5 -- Neither Biden nor Trump will be able to heal America's SOUL There will always be RACISM and there will always be discrimination and there will always be preconceived ideas like Asians are just smarter in math and science than anyone else. OR, black people make better basketball players.
Point #6 -- Moving on any Green New Deal is going to be costly and one that this country cannot afford unless it relies on the WEALTHY to bear most of the costs. If industry is force to do this, then they will layoff people to offset the increased expenses so that they can continue to pay their shareholders a nice dividend.
Point #7 -- If Biden as a result of the influence of AOC and Bernie Sanders, moves towards SOCIALISM, that movement will DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY and we will no longer be a Democratic Republic but a SOCIALISTIC COUNTRY that is tolerating capitalism.
Point #8 -- The Democrats have already stated that they want open borders so that legal as well as illegal immigration can take place... this contradicts building a stronger Democracy and will increase crime and illegal drugs, even if we legalize marijuana.
Point #9 -- Providing free college means that we will be creating an over-educated society and will not have enough employment opportunities to provide to these college educated applicants, making their college education worthless in terms of garnering a financial reward for their efforts.
Point #10 -- Renew Leadership. If Biden really wanted to be seen as a LEADER, he would stop the violence in some of our cities. He would not support defunding the police departments or increasing taxes that could seriously hamper our economy and slow down the recovery. If he really wanted to be a LEADER, he would congratulate Trump for his peace with Israel and a few Arab countries and acknowledge that Trump is doing the best that anyone can do regarding COVID-19. LEADERS DON'T POINT FINGERS
Battle Lines Are Being Drawn
For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield - 1967
Here is what I find interesting...
Second Stanza Lyrics
There's battle lines being drawnNobody's right if everybody's wrong
Think about these lyrics from 1967 and see if they still apply... The Democrats think that they are correct and everyone else is wrong and the Republicans think that they are correct and everyone else is wrong...
Hillary Hillary Clinton says Biden should not concede the election 'under any circumstances'
The former Democratic presidential nominee predicted Republicans could try to “mess up absentee balloting” for a narrow advantage in the Electoral College. SOURCE: NBC News, August 26, 2020 by Rebecca Shabad
Now, since Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died and a SUPREME COURT SEAT is up for grabs... how will the opposing Democrats try to prevent TRUMP from pushing a conservative replacement through the Senate before election?
This will further divide the country.
This will further draw battle lines.
And,
Here's the real crux of the problem...
If Biden wins he cannot bridge the divide in this country
If Trump wins he cannot bridge the dived in this country
BOTH SIDE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL AGAINST THE OTHER SIDE... just as they have done for the last 4 years...
Since our country is divided, the least of the evils is making sure that we have a strong economy, that we keep taxes low, that we keeps regulations off industry, and that we maintain a strong presence overseas as we continue to fight terrorism and communism....
FORTUNATELY/UNFORTUNATELY,
President Trump is the only candidate who has proven that this can be done since he has already done it once before the PANDEMIC...
Deviate from this direction and AMERICA IS SCREWED both figuratively and literally.
Wednesday, September 23
A Very Personal Opinion
- racial issues
- educational issues
- healthcare issues
- gender equality issues
- wealth gap issue
- income inequality issues
- communism issues
- military issues
- fighting foreign wars issues
- immigration issues
NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN ROUGHLY 55 YEARS...
Why has this happened?
POLITICIANS...
On the other side of the coin, President Donald Trump has accomplished more in 47 months that any other President has accomplished in either FOUR or EIGHT years. For example and before the Corona Pandemic, our economy was the greatest in our history, unemployment was the lowest in our history, and employment was the highest in our history.
Critics can argue that President Trump's tax reductions and removing restrictions/regulations on business/industries will have intended and unintended consequences sometime in the near future. Those experts may or may not be correct but the facts remain the same, Trump has accomplished more...
A Biden Presidency will destroy/ruin all of that...
WHY?
Because he plans to REVERSE all of Trump's accomplishments and that has NEGATIVE not POSITIVE implications.
At my age, whatever happens will have very little impact on me and my wife... we will continue to receive Social Security so we don't have to worry about jobs/employment, and we have enough saved where we can pay our expenses until both of us are 95 years old.
SO... why am I concerned?
Because...
- the wealthy will not stand for increased taxes as a whole... some will be willing
- businesses will not stand for increased taxes/returned regulations...
- the global community will take advantage of our weakness or lack of action...
- increasing the National Debt will eventually bite us in the ASS...
- CHINA owns 1/3 of our National Debt...
- China's mililtary/Navy is greater than our military/Navy...
- the global economy is shifting towards the Far East...
- students in college memorize for the test then forget... they retain little knowledge...
If you don't believe me, then do your own damn RESEARCH... in a few years, I'll be dead and all of this will be on your shoulders...
Will the US be willing to go to war with CHINA if it refuses to pay back the debt?
What happens when the wealthy refuse to give up their money and shelter it from taxes overseas?
Who pays the bills then?
Schumer... STOP LYING...
“You ain’t doing s--t!” a man shouted, prompting the New York Democrat to stop talking and look up from his notes.
“Stop lying to the people!" the heckler continued. "Stop lying to the people!”
2020 POLITICAL BATTLE GROUND
ALL THE SAME
- Democrats
- Liberal Democrats
- Progressive Democrats
- Socialist Democrats
REPUBLICANS ⇒ are all the same...
So... what are we left with?
One group wants to make everyone the same and take away wealth...
One group wants to maintain individuality and allow individual growth of wealth.
FROM A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: I would do much better financially under the Democrats because my Medicare would increase and my Social Security would increase as well, but from a business point-of-view, I think that would be financial irresponsibility.
I am also opposed to changing the US CONTSITUTION just because our BLACK MINORITY still perceives that they are being treated like slaves... the wealthy black minority does not see it that way BUT they are quiet...
A WOMAN HAS A RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHAT TO DO WITH HER BODY BUT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT PAY FOR THAT DECISION...
OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ALLOWS US TO BEAR ARMS AND WHETHER THAT WAS TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE...
THERE ARE 9 JUSTICES ON THE SUPREME COURT AND THERE IS NO NEED TO HAVE ANYMORE JUST TO GIVE ONE PARTY THE ADVANTAGE...
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHOULD NEVER BECOME A STATE BUT PUERTO RICO, LIKE HAWAII AND ALASKA SHOULD BE CONSIDERED...
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROVIDE AS MANY SERVICES TO THEIR CITIZENS AS IS FINANCIALLY POSSIBLE WITHOUT UNDULY TAXING OTHERS TO PAY FOR THOSE EXCESSES... (THIS INCLUDES HEALTHCARE)
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD MAINTAIN A POWERFUL MILITARY TO PREVENT COMMUNISM AND TERRORISM FROM SPREADING ACROSS THE GLOBE...
FREE EDUCATION, FREE INCOME, AND FREE HOUSING PREVENT CITIZENS FROM TAKING RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE THEY EARNED IT THROUGH HARD WORK...
CAPITALISM AND OUR FREE MARKET ENTERPRISE SYSTEM SHOULD BE PROTECTED AT ALL COSTS...
ALL CITIZENS SHOULD BE GIVEN AN EQUAL CHANCE AT BECOMING WEALTHY WITHOUT THE GRANTING OF SPECIAL FAVORS, EITHER IT IS PART OF THEIR PERSONALITY OR IT IS NOT...
A Divided America
As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority. Hispanic and Latino Americans are the largest ethnic minority, comprising an estimated 18% of the population. African Americans are the second largest racial minority, comprising an estimated 13.4% of the population.
Self-identified race: Percent of population
Hispanic and Latino (of any race): 15.3%
Non-Hispanic white: 63.4%
Black or African American: 13.4%
* * * * * *
How much has changed in 4 years???
I would venture to say, NOT MUCH... so, Black Americans are the lowest minority in America with Hispanic/Latino ahead of them by 2 percentage points which is several million people... (6,000,000 people)
But Hispanic/Latino DON'T BITCH like Blacks do... however, Hispanic/Latino groups were not used as slaves for hundreds of years...
Why are BLACKS according to population numbers on the LOW END OF THE TOTEM POLE in America?
- Birthrates?
- Crime and Violence?
- Both?
What if we look at Household Income by Ethnic Group?
Here are the results:
Asian Americans $85,897
White Americans $65,777
Hawaiian Americans $64,865
Not Hispanic/Latino $64,025
Hispanic/Latino $51,404
Other Race $49,805
American Indian $48,370
Alaskan Native
Black American $41, 911
******SOURCE: United States Census 2018
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here is what I find interesting... Black Americans are BITCHING the most because they are the lowest minority group in America and because they earn the least amount of money among Americans... so, why is that?
Is it because of RACIAL SUPPRESSION by WHITE?
If that is the case, then why are all these other ethnic groups in America making more money each year?
Are the Asians racially suppressing the Blacks?
Are the Hawaiian/Alaskans racially suppressing the Blacks?
Are the Native Americans racially suppressing the Blacks?
Are the Hispanic/Latinos racially suppressing the Blacks?
OR,
is it just the WHITE AMERICANS who are racially suppressing the BLACKS?
Tuesday, September 22
Who Are You First?
Are you an American first or a Black?
Are you an American first or a Hispanic/Latino?
Are you an American first or an Asian?
Are you an American first or a Caucasian?
Are you an American first or a Christian?
Are you an American first or a Muslim?
Are you an American first or an Atheist?
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The only group of which I would not ask this question would be Native Americans... as the answer would be obvious, even to those born in the USA after 1776. But, the rest of us are undoubtedly sons and daughters of immigrants who came to this country for a new life.
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As a Vietnam Veteran, I have a certain amount of loyalty to my country and I suppose to the government that governs my country, but I wonder if that loyalty would ever be put into a position to be viewed as subordinate to my faith. And, I understand the phrase, "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto God that which is God's."
But, what if I had to choose between my faith and my country?
For instance... instead of enlisting in the Navy during the Vietnam War, I challenged the draft and/or the enlistment based upon my faith and my religious conviction against killing... who would have won?
Suppose you are a black person and you have a choice to burn, riot, and loot cities on behalf of Black Lives Matter in the hopes that Americans will end the racial prejudice with which they have to contend on a regular basis OR, you can decided not to participate, support the country and its law enforcement efforts and change the country legally through the CONGRESS...
I hope that for whatever reason that you are never put into a position where you have to CHOOSE...
Global Poverty and Hunger
Around the world, more than 780 million people live in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 per person per day, an amount which is impossible to support a healthy livelihood in any part of the world.
POVERTY LEADS TO HUNGER
One in three children in low- and middle-income countries suffers from chronic undernutrition. Without a sustainable source of income at a sufficient level, young children and their families do not have access to nutritious food, clean water or health care. And the deadly effects of undernutrition cannot be underestimated:
45% of all child deaths worldwide are from causes related to undernutrition (World Health Organization, 2018).
At Action Against Hunger, we believe that no child should die from hunger. We help over 21 million people every year gain access to sustainable sources of income, clean water, nutritious food, and health care, but there is still so much to be done.
GLOBAL POVERTY FACTS
Here are some statistics that show the scale of global poverty and its devastating effects.
780 million people, 11 percent of the world's population, live in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 per day.
At least 17 million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition around the world. Severe acute malnutrition is the direct cause of death for 2 million children every year.
Every day, 1,000 children under 5 die from illnesses like diarrhea, dysentery, and cholera caused by contaminated water and inadequate sanitation.
Source: United Nations, UNICEF
QUESTION:
WHY DON'T AMERICANS CARE ABOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD?
Monday, September 21
What Have You Got To Lose?
Here's my thought...
If you have killed someone, not in self defense, then what have you got to lose by killing more people? Killing more people might get you the death penalty in a court trial but again, THE HANGMAN can only kill you ONCE...
- One life for one life
- One life for 5 lives
- One life for 10 lives
With this type of mentality, politicians can explore all kinds of things to do to their opponents but if caught then they can only be punished ONCE.
DOES THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS?
Perhaps it does, but what does that do for the country in the process?
What have you got to lose if Biden wins the election in November?
- You will get higher taxes
- Business will get the restrictions that Trump took off
- Democrats will want to limit the second amendment
- Democrats will want to censor conservative viewpoints
- The stock market will decline
- Democrats will try to increase the number on the Supreme Court
- Democrats want to make DC and Puerto Rico States increasing seats in House/Senate
- Democrats will create open borders
- Democrats will lose respect of global countries like Russia, China, North Korea
- Democrats will allow Iran to become a nuclear power
Are you like the killer of one person who has NOTHING TO LOSE by killing more people or are you like the conservatives who want our country to grow economically and be the global deterrent of communism???
NO DOUBTS AT ALL
Coronavirus pandemic likely 'could have been prevented' if China, WHO acted differently, report says
Republican lawmakers calling on WHO's leader to resign
as written By Greg Norman | Fox News
To read entire article, click here...
The GOP members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 96 page document indicating that China and the WHO could have prevented the Global Pandemic if they had acted with transparency from the beginning...
ODD that this report was released by the GOP members of this House Committee when the House and this Committee are controlled by the Democrats...
Why are the DEMOCRATS not wanting to blame CHINA and the WHO (World Health Organization) for covering up the release of the Corona Virus Pandemic.
Seems irresponsible to me...
The Passing of Time
We all basically have the same amount of time each day... 24 hours, 7 days each week, 30/31 days each month, 12 months/52 weeks each year, and if we are lucky (and/or blessed depending upon one's beliefs) have an opportunity to live to 80/90+ years of age. Our lives, does not really begin until we graduate from high school at 17/18 years of age and once that happens, we (as individuals) can build whatever life it is that we want to build with notable exceptions:
- handicaps,
- heredity,
- birth location,
- birth parents,
- birth wealth,
- birth diseases,
- family influence,
- community influence,
- and our own individual personalities
Other milestones in our life in addition to graduation from high school, might include:
- turning 21 years of age
- entering/graduating college
- entering/discharge from the military
- getting married
- having children
- awards and recognitions
- realizing our faith
- having to wear eye glasses
- major operations
- turning 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100
- having grandchildren
- retiring from our careers
One issue that we never expected to have happen is the realization that time passes by all of us equally and once we realize that we are closer to our death than we are to our birth, we all unmistakably and painfully realize how fast time has passed. And, the older we become the faster time seems to pass by. It is not that we fear death as much as it is that we fear the end of life as we know it. It is this end of life that terrifies us the most because we don't know what to expect... it is from that uncertainty that we grasp out to our faith as some sort of justification for having the opportunity to live such a brief life...
SOCIAL SECURITY: Cost of Living Adjustments
According to estimates put forth by The Senior Citizens League, the cost of living adjustment for next year is likely to be 1.3 %, which the group characterized as “extremely low.”
Benefits increased by 1.6 % in 2020, 2.8% in 2019, 2% in 2018, 0.3 percent in 2017 and 0% in 2016.
According to The Senior Citizens League, benefits have lost 30% of their purchasing power since the year 2000.
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