NYS State Governor Cuomo announced the launch of the See Something Send Something app for iPhone and Android. I'm probably gonna install it but just the same is a Muslim man and his friend allowed to take pics of the GW Bridge at twilight or of the Croton Dam? Meanwhile Charlie Sheen who's a public health menace could be having sex in both places and it'd be no biggie. I'm gonna go to the Play Store right now and check it out.
Hope you're not disAPPointed.
ReplyDeleteBB go to Apps in the Google Play Store and type in "citizen observer llc" and see if your town has one.
ReplyDeleteWe don't. Must be a metropolitan area type thing. Our guv is tightening the state borders against Syrians, though. Funny, we let in immigrants from California, ya know?
ReplyDeleteI'm getting bored with John Tesh, things like making your bed in the morning is the first important organizational task of the day. Saw "Mockingjay" today. Good movie but long, had to piss like a Russian racehorse at the end.
ReplyDeleteOkay, you made me laugh.
DeleteHad an appointment with my Nurse Practitioner this morning. BP 122/78, lost 20 lbs
ReplyDeleteand all my blood tests passed (even the bad cholesterol. I don't ever remember an
appointment where they didn't give me some sort of advice. This time it was 'good job, see ya next year'. University town up the road has had to put police protection
around the Muslim Mosque near the U campus. Some guy that used to work for
Dick Cheney had listed in a website as dangerous and it blossomed throughout the
anti-moslim blogosphere. A couple months back someone burned down their PP
clinic. Goes without saying the folks there have worse worries than outside terrorists.
Not to worry about getting bored with J. Tesh...rumor has it that Connie feels the same way.
I've had doctor's appointments that have went extremely quick with hardly anything being said. I chalk it up to they're stacked up that day with more important patients like the guy with the third testicle that glows in the dark. I'm only guessing here but Tesh sex is probably pretty generic stuff.
DeleteThe critics have had a bone to pick with "Mockingjay" saying the last installment should have been one movie and not two. By my calcs that would have been a 4 1\2-5 hour movie easy. Movie reviewers like long flicks but don't seem to have a concern for the American bladder.
ReplyDeleteYou've been obsessed with John Tesh for as long as I can remember. BB has homegrown terrorists to deal with it seems, no need to import any from anywhere. It's a long cold winter in Idaho, have to do something to pass the hours I guess, blowing stuff up must be on the to do list.
ReplyDeleteI still have roses blooming, I'm doing pretty good with the med adjustment and as usual looking at working the next four days (Thurs-Sun). I don't remember when I was last off on Thanksgiving. This year I'll be off Christmas for the first time since 2009. Next year I'll have to work so I'm planning on being off for Thanksgiving. It's only worth the extra money to a point, and then it gets old.
My mother in law's boyfriend (they have been together so long I think of him as a step father in law) was just diagnosed with small cell cancer of the lung and it's spread to his liver. Even with treatment which he has opted to go for he's looking at a 6 to 12 month timeframe and that's optimistic. It makes you get existential. That's a lot of bad karma being burned up, cancer. It's pretty wicked. I don't know if I was in his shoes if I would opt for the treatment. Probably so, just to try to squeak out enough time to get everything in order before I go. Then you wonder, would you really even want to know when you go, like would it be easier if you knew it was coming or is it better to be taken by surprise? All in all these are not happy holidays around here. We're just like everyone else, just trying to do what we can.
He also has progressive dementia and you can make an argument that it's a blessing in this case. It certainly does skew the ball in the realm of 'don't treat'. It was his decision but I'm not sure it was the best one. Even if they cure the cancer, he's still got dementia.
DeleteThis is why I worship Science far less than BB, we don't cure any major diseases anymore. From what I heard the pope recently kissed a baby with a tumor in the head and apparently the tumor is gone.
DeleteWhat makes a cancer diagnosis really stressful is we're no closer to finding a cure. Like I was looking up the oncology dept. at St. John's in Yonkers and the site says for some cases they can only offer palliative care as the cancer progresses. How depressing!!! Dunno if they have a pot wing.
DeleteYou can't hurry a cure for a complex pathology, Z-Man. Look on the bright side: since science came around, death in childbirth, which used to take one in three women, is much improved. We are no longer bothered by the other medieval causes of death like Plague, bloody flux, imbalance of humors apoplexy and the old Dark Age favorite "struck down by the hand of God". We ponder that like bacteria and viruses that
Deletequickly become tolerant of antibiotics, the old curse of disease moves ahead faster than we an come up with cures. Regarding the efficacy of
a Papal kiss curing a tumor, we recall the crowds with another old disease, scrofula, lining up for the kingly cure .
The bottom line is, we get born, we live and we die...so science has it's
job cut out.
I would posit that medical chemistry has made strides in neurochemistry with which Saty
Deleteis familiar and probably more expert than us. Consider as well that simple diabetes used to be a killer. Had a high school friend and went blind at 19 and died at 21...of diabetes. No one 'worships' science; it
seems often that it is the sole alternative, ya know?
It's been over four decades since Nixon declared a war on cancer
DeleteIMO that's plenty of time. Sure science has contained many diseases that plagued us in the past but as Janet Jackson has said what have you done for me lately? There's still MS, Muscular Dystrophy, ALS, Alzheimer's, Charlie Sheen and of course the biggie cancer. I'm not against science but as Dirty Harry once said a man has to know his limitations.
Let me throw in tinnitus. Oh sure they'll tell you it's earwax or something which is just a fancy way of saying we don't really know. Insomnia same thing. Weight loss, there's about a thousand theories and systems.
DeleteRushing science: we had an entire department come down with lead poisoning which was coming from a lead oxide ingredient in an ammunition tracer formulation.
ReplyDeleteIt had taken the development team two years to come up with the round which had to
begin making a 12" diameter red flaming ball 50 ft from the muzzle, travel at 900 feet/second and flame out at 450 yards. I was asked to come up with a reformulation
in one day. Busy with other stuff, I tried to beg off, but the Ivory Tower was desperate. So, I set aside one day; ran the free energy thermochemistry calculations and came up with three possibilities. Mixed up the stuff, loaded out 1000 rounds of each and found an answer. The operation continued, the sick people got better and we finished the contract and for quite awhile I was thought to
walk on water. Moral of story...yes there is such a thing as dumb luck. :)
But plenty of cancers are curable. My mother has been cancer free for over five years. So it's not like cancer per se is instantly a death sentence. Some kinds of cancers have no known cures and with some by the time they catch them it's too far gone to get any hope up about. So palliative treatment can help pain and suffering in those cases without actually trying to cure anything. It depends on the cancer. If you look at St Jude's they will give you all kinds of statistics on survival rates of different kinds of childhood cancers and things that used to be surefire killers back in the 60's are oftentimes curable or they have 90% survival rates now. So things are improving in many cases. The problem is cancer is a big word, and not all cancers are created equal. Small cell cancer is particularly aggressive. And like I said, he has dementia, which isn't curable no matter what. Anyway, he's going through the treatment, he has good days and bad, the holidays are pretty much miserable for all of us trying to deal with this impending mortality. Which brings me back to the question would you want to know if it was you?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see mainstream doctors start to question the whole PSA thing. Many of them are now saying many prostate cancers are indolent and so instead of making guys impotent and possibly incontinent let 's surveil them on a case-by-case and day-by-day basis. Finally some sense on cancer.
DeleteCancer to me is such a tiresome topic. I'm not saying it's not a problem, it is but you can go to the doctor and say you can't sleep, you have tinnitus and sciatica, a possible herniated disc and an aching nut and some doctors just switch the topic over to cancer. I'm almost convinced if they searched hard enough they can find it too.
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