All Creatures Great and Small

Native American Advice and/or Philosophy

 

Lending A Helpful Hand...

 

Scent Dogs

 Background

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, early, ideally real-time, identification of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals is pivotal in interrupting infection chains. Volatile organic compounds produced during respiratory infections can cause specific scent imprints, which can be detected by trained dogs with a high rate of precision.

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.

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...

What Do The 2020 Democrats Want?

 If Joe Biden wins the election, this is probably what the Democratic Party will take action on:

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

1. Protect Americans and Recovering from the Covid-19 Pandemic
2. Building a Stronger, Fairer Economy
3. Achieving Universal, Affordable, Quality Health Care
4. Protecting Communities and Building Trust by Reforming our Criminal Justice System
5. Healing the Soul of America
6. Combating the Climate Crisis and Pursuing Environmental Justice
7. Restoring and Strengthening our Democracy
8. Creating a 21st Century Immigration System
9. Providing a World Class Education in Every Zip Code
10. 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 drawn
Nobody'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...

And, to be more precise: Battle Lines Are Being Drawn...

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.

Under 40

 

First Word

 

Mainstream Media

 

A Very Personal Opinion

I am 72, almost 73, and have lived through many Presidents and many Congresses where, regardless of control in the hands of the Democrats or in the hands of the Republicans, very little has ever been accomplished that benefitted the American citizens.  For instance, compare TODAY with the 1960's and we still have the same issues/problems:

1. racial issues
2. educational issues
3. healthcare issues
4. gender equality issues
5. wealth gap issue
6. income inequality issues
7. communism issues
8. military issues
9. fighting foreign wars issues
10. 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?

Funny Stuff

 

At His Best...

 

Protecting Consumers

 

Schumer... STOP LYING...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was briefly interrupted by a heckler Tuesday while doing a live news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on the partisan fight over the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vacant Supreme Court seat.

“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?

Sounds About Right...

 

Really???

 

Interesting...

 

We Had Forgotten