Category: General

Damn!

X, which is often the scene of flame wars, has really doubled down.

The conservative right, and even just right leaning folks have taken the gloves off and said, “Hold my beer.” 

People are pissed off. They’re not holding back. One dude is tracking down everyone that danced a little dance over Charlie Kirk’s assassination. This guy is sending the videos to people’s employers. I don’t know what the “Fired” count is at the moment.

Some of the vile leftists are going on instagram and TikTok to bemoan that they’ve lost their jobs. Then they repost their little crying videos on X. Some are claiming it’s a violation of their freedom of speech. Then it gets funny as hell.

The right wing folks are more than happy to point out how these people got others fired for “Hate Speech” and are asking where the difference is.

Others point out that they’re entirely free to say whatever the hell they want to and that’s why law enforcement isn’t kicking their doors down. But then go on to say their company doesn’t have to put up with a hateful person working for them.

Then inevitably more leftists jump in trying to defend the poor “Victim” who just lost their job. Nobody is listening to that shit anymore. People on the right are saying in no uncertain terms what they think, then pointing out that’s them exercising their right to free speech.

Greg Gutfeld took on one of the panel members on The Five and tore her a new asshole over the duplicity of the “but what about” arguments. He said on-air we’re not listening to that shit anymore.

He spent 4 minutes saying exactly what he thought. It was obvious he was pretty close to being pissed off. (At least as close as I’ve ever seen him on air that way.)

Thus far I’ve not seen any physical threats from the right, but that could be because X is filtering that stuff out. 

Today, there are reports that other people knew about this guys plan. Reditt is probably going to catch some subpoenas for messages posted in one of the trans rights activist groups. There’s another report that Amazon had a book listed 1-2 days before Kirk’s assassination titled something like Killing Charlie Kirk. The book and amazon listing are gone now, but it begs a serious question.

The trigger man, appears to have been dating another dude who was transitioning to being a woman. The boyfriend (yes, I misgendered the fucker,) is said to have hated Christians, Conservatives, and Charlie Kirk. His family says in the last couple of years as he’s been transitioning he’s become more radical and pulled away from them.

Holy fuck! This might mean the end of the radical transgender movement. And it can’t happen fast enough.

The down side is that most people don’t have the capacity to differentiate between the LGB and the TQIA+ fuckwads who’ve been trying to tell LGB and straight folks, that we’re the screwed up ones because we don’t date mutilated things with frankenweinies or rot pockets.

It’s freaking wild.

There’s a move to remove Ilhan Omar from a bunch of committees and after the shit she’s said! I’m all for it. One that caught my attention was where she said “Somalia is better than the US.” Ohhhh really???

Lots of people suggested that she get her incestuous ass on a plane back to Somalia. Others suggested that she not only be removed from Congress, but that she also be flat out deported for false statements on her immigration paperwork. These people replied to her X account directly.

I hope it doesn’t escalate, but I also hope that decent people keep shouting these leftists down. It’ll be good for them to have a taste of their own medicine for a change.

Kathy Hochul endorsed that socialist, (a.k.a. communist,) running for mayor of New York. She might have just torpedoed her career in the process, and that too would be a great freaking win.

It’s possible that instead of a bunch of “powder kegs” going off all over the country in which a lot of innocent and not so innocent people would get hurt, it’s just going to be a wild fire of people not holding back, not being polite or tolerant anymore. That may be enough…

Turning Point is seeing a massive number of inquires about starting chapters in High Schools and Colleges across the country.

A doctor that said he was happy Charlie Kirk got his head blown off. When a nurse called him out about it, the nurse was put on unpaid leave. The doctor was also put on leave and has since resigned. The Nurse, in an unusual display of justice was reinstated and is back at work.

In that case it’s not so much about the Doctor having his opinion, it’s about him saying that in front of all the nursing staff, patients, and visitors in a hospital ward. If I’d heard that as a patient, I’d be checking out against medical advice. That kind of heartless statement would make me question the doctor’s resolve to obey the Hippocratic oath.

I have enough concerns about doctors in general, the last thing I need is to be worried about not getting decent or proper medical care, because a doctor figures out that I’m a right leaning gay man. Some would say conservative, (My brother still thinks I’m too far left. 😁) In California, I’m considered positively rabid!

I’ve lost count of how many followers I’ve lost on X. Guess what? I don’t care. I’m letting my subscription lapse and may close the account entirely. It doesn’t serve me, and I’ll never get to their monetization goals. The one thing it provides is a broad scan of the news across pretty much all media feeds. It’s a convenient collection point for what’s happening, which can be processed in 10 minutes or less.

I recently did the same thing with LinkedIn. I’ve decided to purge everything that is not a direct quantifiable benefit.

That being said, I’m glad I’m still on X for the time being. I think the fireworks right now, are about the most entertainment I’ve seen in a while.

Something has changed in our country. I don’t know if it’s for the better or worse and I don’t think anyone will be able to make that call until the dust has settled.

In a way, I pity the Democrat party. There are a lot of very fine people who are life long Democrats. They’ve been unwillingly dragged along by a radical fringe who have come to wield tremendous power and hijacked the party. I suppose I feel pity because that’s exactly what happened to the LGB community.

It’s tough seeing a group of like minded people that you found kinship in, destroyed from within. Worse yet is suddenly finding yourself painted with the same dirty brush as the radical freaks that you have nothing in common with, simply because you’re a member of a particular party or group.

The conservative right has finally pulled a page from the radical left’s playbook. They’ve gotten angry enough that they’re no longer willing to take the high road, be quiet, and take whatever slurs or lies were spoken about them.

Trump simply got there a few years ahead of the rest of us. If you think about it he was simply calling out the bullshit while the rest of the right was behaving as if the left would come to their senses.

They didn’t. So now the right is beginning to fight fire with fire.

Let’s hope that it doesn’t devolve into a full on battle in the streets.

Although there have been some reports of loudmouth leftists getting their asses beat for disrupting vigils and memorial services for Charlie Kirk. Sorry, not sorry. Those people didn’t read the room very well.

You just don’t show your ass at a memorial. Mourners emotions are already raw, and it’s not going to take more than a second or two before they decide to relieve themselves of their pain, by inflicting it on someone spewing hate for the deceased.

Just saw a video where some dude was bear maced after trying to disrupt and destroy a memorial vigil. He was laying on the curb crying like a little bitch while one of his fellow protestors tried to comfort him. She was looking at the crowd surrounding them with genuine fear and confusion in her eyes.

I’d like to think she was realizing that people aren’t going to put up with the bullshit she and her friends have gotten away with for the past 6-7 years anymore. I’m hoping that her fear will make her rethink her life choices and rejoin civil society where discussion and debate are the norm. Though I’m not foolish enough to hold my breath.

I’ll admit to a certain thrill and satisfaction hearing that guy wailing in pain.

Today is the 24th anniversary of 9/11

Back then we naively believed that the enemy was largely outside our country.

We united as a nation and we wiped out one of the top five military forces on the planet in less than a week.

24 years later, it looks like the enemy is not only at the gate. They’re within!

We’ve been divided, set against each other and some of our people are celebrating the murder of a 31 year old man who simply spoke what he believed, and asked questions.

24 years ago, I was watching the endless replays of the towers falling and was every bit as angry then as I am today. I was confused, and didn’t understand why we were being attacked, or who was attacking us.

I had family in the area, 24-36 hours followed where I honestly didn’t know if they were all okay.

Today, I clearly know who the enemy is.

They were standing in the House last night in a House session of Congress.

Some of them were standing in Congress 24 years ago as well. Were they always what we’ve seen them to be recently?

I don’t know.

I have mixed feelings. Today we’re supposed to be remembering those who died on 9/11. But 9/10/2025 has to some extent reopened old wounds.

Hulu, has a “New” package which includes news and local channels that costs ~$89 a month, and DirecTV is offering a better priced package, but it’s still not al la carte.

The DirecTV option is actually better, but DAMN! They’re charging what they once charged for the basics where you had a dish on your roof and they provided the DVR. Hulus pricing is obscene. Spectrum cable provided all the channels + internet service for about that same amount just 3 years ago.

The difference? Now you’re paying for the internet service separately + their streaming fees.

Meaning that you’re still paying about the same price for channels that you don’t really want to, or never watch. “BET”? When was the last time you even noticed what they were running? I guess some households watch it, but really? Most channels in their “Lineup” aren’t that interesting.

I think the streaming companies and cable companies really aren’t getting it. If a household only watches 5 or 10 channels, it’s not worth it. Especially if that same household can get those channels via streaming or over the air for free.

What these folks need to do, is say, “For $30 you can pick 10 channels.” I’d probably go for it since I’m in a blind area and can’t see Mt Wilson. Let me pick the local channels, that’s like 5, then let me pick other channels that I’d be interested in.”

That’s value!

Instead it’s another bait and switch that has you paying over a $100 per month just to get the 10 channels of 500 that you actually watch. Only now, all they have to do is connect their output to the internet and verify you’re a subscriber. They don’t provide anything in the way of hardware, or cabling.

Sadly, there will be people that pay the fees thinking they’re cutting the cable & going to save a few bucks.

I suppose if you already have internet that you’re paying for, and you’ve got a DirecTV box or two, you might save a few dollars but honestly is it worth it?

If I lived on the other side of the mountain, I’d be getting what little TV I watch using an antenna. As it stands right now, If there’s breaking news, I can use one of the local stations free streaming app.

During the hurricanes last year, I was streaming a live news feed out of a TV station in Florida via their app. Their coverage was much better than the LA coverage, and surprisingly the live coverage out of a Lexington, KY TV station was even better. Both those options were free.

President Trump announced a new health data transmission program today.

On the one hand, that’s kind of cool. In theory, transferring your medical data records could come down to simply authorizing access. Trump also said that the data wouldn’t be in a central database, which means that they’re talking about an actual transfer of data and in theory, the deletion of that data from the source system when it’s transferred to a new doctor.

If that’s how it works okay, but I know that there’ll be backups and that somehow patient data won’t be deleted from one system when it’s transferred to another system. My concern is that the data will end up exposed in a data breach.

Another concern is the insurance implications. I was once told by a doctor that I trusted, not to reveal too much about family history, because if he put the data in my records, which were shared with the insurance company I could find my insurance rates greatly increased on the possibility that I might illustrate those same problems.

If all the medical data is available and concentrated (including misdiagnosis) into one medical file, it could be misused by insurance companies to unfairly raise your personal healthcare insurance rates.

Trump said if you want to opt out you can. Maybe I’d believe him, if it wasn’t for Obama saying, “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.” Which actually wasn’t the truth.

Don’t get me wrong, I think it is a great idea for the patient to be in control of their data. The potential for abuse of that data is where I’m concerned.

The other thing this new system is supposed to do, is get rid of the doctor’s clipboard. Shit! I’ve been to, and left doctors, who spent the entire appointment staring at their computer screen instead of looking at me, the patient.

If the doctor isn’t going to actually interact with me, personally as in, actually listening to my heart or lungs, then what’s the point? I might as well not physically be in the office. Perhaps, part of this will involve remote telemetry so that in the future, physical office visits won’t be necessary at all. If we get to that point then the only interaction we’ll need will be with the ER / Hospital staff. Individual doctors will be a thing of the past.

In theory, an AI with remote monitoring, and occasional bloodwork results could be just as efficient (perhaps more so) than a human doctor. Based on constant remote monitoring, an AI might be able to anticipate a problem and direct the patient to the appropriate medical facility before a disease process became debilitating.

My 3 year old Apple Watch collects a wide variety of data now, that it sends to my phone. That data can, at my option be shared via print or email with a medical professional.

The problem is, most doctors are completely unaware of this ability, few think to ask for it, and most are quite surprised when the patient can answer questions like, “How are you sleeping?” With a pretty accurate number of hours slept and changes over time. In my case, I can give a doctor literally years of BP data, exercise data, weight variations, medication compliance, O2 saturation, and all kinds of other data. Shortly, there will be more exercise data and variety because I’m likely going to join a gym. A lot of gym equipment has the ability to sync your effort on the equipment to the heart rate, respiration, and other data, devices like the Apple Watch collects. The data from the gym equipment increases the depth and quality of the exercise information.

While that’s very cool and can be used to guide my exercise routines for better results I don’t know how much I’m going to be sharing with a doctor. As a rule, I answer the questions they ask and nothing more. So obviously, I’m not opposed to having the data available, I’m opposed to that data being used to rate my worthiness for insurance, or treatment.

I’d hate for medical care to become regulated based on your medical telemetry. That sounds a whole lot like the social credit scores in China and I’ve got some fundamental issues with that system.

I’m going to reserve judgement until the new agency, regulation, law, or whatever gets rolling. But I’ll be watching it closely.