Recent Posts
He’s here to kick ass and take names. And he already forgot everyone’s name.
The new “very fine people/drink bleach” hoax.
PCIntern (29,191 posts)
Well THIS is not uninteresting...
t has been postulated by Epistemic Crisis that Orangina is taking a medication called Ambrisentan. This is a medication designed to treat pulmonary hypertension. Many of you don’t receive his feed. I figured I’d comment because I’m off work today and bored out of my mind
Rather than me presenting what would undoubtedly become a criticized paragraph, please allow me to quote from Wikipedia:
“PAH is considered a universally fatal illness, although survival time may vary between individuals. The prognosis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group I) has an untreated median survival of 2–3 years from time of diagnosis, with the cause of death usually being right ventricular failure (cor pulmonale).[97] The survival time is variable and depends on many factors.[98] A recent outcome study of those patients who had started treatment with bosentan (Tracleer) showed that 89% of patients were alive at 2 years.[99] With new therapies, survival rates are increasing. For 2,635 patients enrolled in The Registry to Evaluate Early and Long-term Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Disease Management (REVEAL Registry) from March 2006 to December 2009, 1-, 3-, 5-, and 7-year survival rates were 85%, 68%, 57%, and 49%, respectively. For patients with idiopathic/familial PAH, survival rates were 91%, 74%, 65%, and 59%.[100] Levels of mortality are very high in pregnant women with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group I). Pregnancy is sometimes described as contraindicated in these women.[101][102][103]”
He apparently gave away that he was being treated for this condition because he referred to what he thought his aspirin dose was as 386 milligram dose vs the usual 81 mg. 386 happens to be the stamped number on the Ambrisentan pill. He confused that number with the 325 conventional dose of aspirin. (Even people without dementia do things like that. ).
So I’m gonna guess with some assurance that he was diagnosed some time ago and given his general health, obesity, and kidney and heart ailments, I’d say that he’s treading very dangerous waters.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221546965
I have been in education for a long time. My first teaching job came two weeks after my younger nephew was born. His birthday is next week, and he’ll be 29. Take out the five years when I was working in retail and going to graduate school, and I’ve been a teacher for 24 years. There is not enough money in the world to tempt me back into public education. I’d rather stay poor, thank you. I keep hearing about a teacher shortage. That’s incorrect. There’s not a teacher shortage; there’s a people willing to be treated like dirt shortage. Why? How did public education come to this sad state? Jonathan Turley’s opinion piece in The Hill speaks to the problem and nails it right to the wall.
His opinion piece titled "The Blue-State Model for Education has Failed, and the Public has Caught On" states early on that one of the reasons the public schools have gone down the drain is because of the teachers’ unions. Early in the article, Turley states, “New polling shows that K-12 education has now reached a record low in the number of people who are even “somewhat satisfied” with the state of education in the U.S.” He then talks about the “education cartel,” a self-sustaining, self-perpetuating alliance between unions and politicians. The cartel has rendered families and students irrelevant.
How is that possible? people ask. Without the students, there is no school system. It doesn’t matter to the cartel. As long as the money keeps coming, which it does through dues, the cartel continues to operate. Personally, I have very little experience with the teachers’ unions. I joined the American Federation of Teachers briefly so I could get some legal help regarding the principal at the high school where I taught. I was a second-year teacher, and he had determined that I needed to go. He was black, and I was white. The AFT pointed me to the union steward at my high school, a government teacher who was also one of the basketball coaches. He told me that there was nothing the principal could do to force me from the building. I had to leave on my own. I’m a stubborn soul, so I was determined that the principal was going to leave first. He did, two years later.
Was the advice I got worth the annual membership? Absolutely. But that was twenty years ago. I dropped my membership the next year. Today, I wouldn’t join any teachers’ union because at their very core, they are about representing the teachers, not the students. The unions protect every teacher, even the teachers who have no business being anywhere near a classroom. In the states where teachers are required to join a union, the power is tenfold over the states that give teachers a choice, the right-to-work states.
While the state of Missouri is considered a pro-Second Amendment state—including having Constitutional Carry—the City of St. Louis has a tendency to try to go its own way on the matter. The recent case of a resident evicted from his public housing unit after a defensive gun use appears to be the latest example.
St. Louis once had a Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner, who was heavily funded by anti-gun billionaire George Soros, and who seemed more interested in the overzealous prosecution of gun owners than truly violent criminals. In 2023, then-mayor Tishaura Jones proposed banning certain firearms in the city; an idea met with a swift response from then-Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey.
In yet another recent example of things going wrong in St. Louis, a wheelchair-bound man was told by the St. Louis Housing Authority that he was being evicted after the man was forced to use a firearm to defend himself from a violent attacker.
The incident took place on August 26, and a report by FOX 2/KTVI St Louis notes that the Housing Authority sent the resident, Torrey Holliday, an eviction letter after viewing a surveillance video that “captured [Torrey Holliday] on front lobby video shooting someone.”
...
But perhaps most important is the fact that police investigated the shooting and “classified [it] as an act of self-defense against an armed intruder.”
Grafana describes the incident:Quote“Holliday, who uses a wheelchair, found himself cornered in the lobby of his apartment complex on the 5300 block of North Euclid. According to court records and police reports, a man named Randall T. Taylor had previously stolen a firearm from him. When they crossed paths again, Taylor confronted him, declared a robbery, and kept advancing even as Holliday tried to roll his wheelchair away.
Holliday drew his weapon, fired, and protected his life. Law enforcement subsequently charged Taylor with first-degree robbery, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm.”
A former prosecutor in the New York attorney general’s office claims that Letitia James is threatening him after he blew the whistle on a scheme to take down President Trump – as he refuses to delete evidence of the alleged corruption.
Daniel Wiesenfeld, who worked in James’ Investor Protection Bureau before he was axed last month, defiantly told his former boss Monday he would not be handing over “confidential and privileged” materials, according to email obtained by the Times-Union.
The blistering email also included a photo of a detective’s business card from the AG’s Executive Protection Detail that had been jammed into his front door, the paper reported.
“I am in receipt of your September 18th letter threatening me with ‘professional discipline, as well as civil and/or criminal action’ and your subsequent September 30th letter providing a deadline by 5pm today for me to confirm my destruction of your ‘confidential and/or privileged information’,” Wiesenfeld wrote Monday.
The Trump administration is turning to a defense technology giant in a $6.6 billion effort to speed production of submarines as the U.S. struggles to keep pace with China's vast shipbuilding capacity.
The ramp-up in production brings a Silicon Valley-style manufacturer into one of the Pentagon's most troubled industrial bases as they fall behind expected pace of two Virginia-class attack submarines per year.
Anduril will build a more than 2-million-square-foot shipyard at Sparrows Point shipyard just outside of Baltimore to manufacture critical submarine components, eventually scaling up to large sections of the vessels. A senior administration official said the facility could add roughly 9 million labor hours a year, equivalent to about a 15% increase in submarine production capacity.
...
The investment takes aim at a problem the Navy has struggled for years to solve: shipyards are delivering roughly 1.3 Virginia-class submarines a year, well short of the Navy's goal of two, even as demand for the nuclear-powered attack boats grows. The Navy currently projects reaching the two-per-year rate around 2032. It currently has 26 Virginia-class submarines and expects to add two more in the spring, according to a senior administration official.and
For the submarine project, Anduril plans to invest $3.7 billion of its own capital to build the facility, workforce and manufacturing capacity. The Navy could spend up to another $2.9 billion purchasing the resulting production.
