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December 28, 2009

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There’s a lot of pain and suffering in the world. With traffic accidents, crime, suicide, falls, etc., etc., hospitals are flooded with emergency cases daily. Before these cases make it to the hospital however, a large percentage receive assistance from trained Emergency Medical Technicians or EMT’s.

I can only imagine what the average EMT must see in a career. I know I wouldn’t be able to handle the job, so I thank God there are people in this world who can. Countless lives have undoubtedly been saved by these highly trained men and women.

But earlier this month an incident in New York city tarnished the image of these brave individuals. On Dec. 9 two EMT’s were on break at the restaurant Au Bon Pain in Brooklyn when Eutisha Rennix, an employee, collapsed.

The EMT’s, Jason Green and Melissa Jackson were placing their order when they were told of the emergency. Witnesses said their response was to recommend calling 9-1-1. They then got their orders and left. Ms Rennix, who was 6 months pregnant, later died at the hospital. Her child was too premature to survive.

As it turns out, the two are dispatchers for the city’s EMT’s so I thought maybe that was the reason they didn’t take action. But, according to an Associated Press article, "As dispatchers, Green, a 6-year veteran, and Jackson, a 4-year veteran, are fully trained EMTs. A spokesman for the EMTs’ union said all dispatchers are required to be field-trained EMTs or paramedics in order to be more effective at their jobs, and are capable of getting involved in emergency situations."

"’All of our members are qualified to make that initial assessment and in some cases, start medical care,’ said Robert Ungar, spokesman for the Uniformed EMTS and Paramedics, FDNY."

"’Being dispatchers is not a defense’ for inaction, he said."

"Douglas Rosenthal, the EMTs’ lawyer, pushed back against what he called a "rush to judgment" that had vilified his clients. He said the facts will show that Green and Jackson acted ‘appropriately to the best of their abilities’"

"The EMTs, …were suspended without pay and the Brooklyn district attorney opened a criminal investigation into the case. State health officials, who called the inaction ‘appalling,’ were also investigating along with the city’s fire department, which oversees EMTs."

It appears that everyone from the EMT union to the district attorney is just as amazed by this incident as I am. I can’t understand why anyone would refuse to help in such a situation.

Can you think of any reason these EMT’s would refuse to help? Should they lose their jobs? Should they be prosecuted for their inaction?

Dumbfounded,

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Today's Quotes


“Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter because nobody listens.” - Nick Diamos

“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.” - Cato the Elder

Today's Chuckle

The Angel In The Boat
[Thanks Sied]

Three guys were fishing in a lake one day, when an angel appeared in the boat.

When the three astonished men had settled down enough to speak, the first guy asked the angel humbly, “I’ve suffered from back pain ever since I took shrapnel in the Vietnam War …. Could you help me?”

“Of course,” the angel said, and when he touched the man’s back, the man felt relief for the first time in years.

The second guy who wore very thick glasses and had a hard time reading and driving. He asked if the angel could do anything about his poor eyesight. The angel smiled, removed the man’s glasses and tossed them into the lake. When they hit the water, the man’s eyes cleared and he could see everything distinctly.

When the angel turned to the third guy, the guy put his hands out defensively — “Don’t touch me!” he cried, “I’m on a disability pension.”

Life Sentences


“Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.”

“Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.”

“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.” - All from American writer Susan Sontag who died on this date in 2004

Image'n That

Bad Place Names
[Thanks Tesser]



Most Embarrassing or Scary Moment


John in Oz had some info on the issue of global warming to share.  This was a meant to be a comment but since I was slow to get his images loaded, I decided to make a 15 Minutes piece out of it.  To save space I’ve included links to the images.  Thanks for the comments John, here’s your 15 Minutes.

With the South Pole getting colder every decade, Antarctic sea-ice ever increasing, ice-bergs heading north toward New Zealand, and 304 record low temperatures set in the U.S. last week, Bob accuses Cliff of having his head in the sand? How’s that Global Warming working out for the rest of you?

(image 1)


Here’s a summary:

Record Events for Sun Dec 6, 2009 through Sat Dec 12, 2009

Total Records: 2601

Rainfall: 992

Snowfall: 815

High Temperatures: 36

Low Temperatures: 304

Lowest Max Temperatures: 403

Highest Min Temperatures: 51

Data from NOAA via the HW map generator via http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/13/lots-of-new-cold-and-snow-records-in-the-usa-this-week/#more-14140

1) Oh wait, this is the first of Bob’s 4 proofs of Global Warming- "extreme weather records being set faster than they would be". Except what you’re getting is the exact opposite. Here’s the prediction: "As the global climate changes, extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, heat waves, heavy rainfall, tropical storms and hurricanes are expected to increase"
http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=3546&method=full

2) Well what about ancient forests devastated by bugs from elsewhere? Oh please, I’m from Australia. We’ve got biological infestations from everywhere; rabbits, cane-toads, crown-of-thorns starfish- none of them proving ‘Global Warming’.

3) ‘10 thousand year old glaciers suddenly falling to bits’- Glaciers are rivers of ice. It’s not just heat that affects Glaciers. It’s how much snow falls at the top end. The only reports I’ve seen were those that debunked from meteorological records, the unfounded assertions of researchers, who when challenged asserted that precipitation hadn’t declined. It had. Wind, aerosols, precipitation, evaporation, cloudiness, Global Dimming are all relevant factors. I realize this sounds like hand-waving dismissal, until you realize that these glaciers survived warmer temperatures than today’s 9 thousand years ago. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/08/29/study-glaciers-defied-hotter-temperaturs-9000-years-ago/

4) The big one. Bob’s story that there’s people offering big bucks scientists to deny climate change, with most of them nobly refusing, is an appealing mythology to climate alarmists. The problem is that it’s a misleading half-truth.

Exxon-Mobil Corp paid a grand total of $23 million over a decade to fund the research of skeptics- one quarter or less of what they paid to fund the research of consensus scientists.

All the Big Bucks are all going the other way, from Gore’s Nobel Prize to James ‘Coal is the holocaust’ Hansen’s quarter-million dollar Heinz foundation prize, to the 79 Billion dollars and counting the US Government has spent on the Climate industry.

Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Bob’s ‘big bucks’ are less than a thousandth of what the US government has put in, and less than one five-thousandth of the value of carbon trading in just the single year of 2008. http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf

Here’s what the Daily Mail says about the CRU’s attempt to ‘Hide the Decline’. I’m not English, and don’t know the newspaper’s reliability, but the graph appears accurate:

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Here’s a station that says the temperature is increasing:

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That’s not the worst I’ve seen, just the worst I can lay my hands on at the moment.

Here’s one that says it isn’t:

(image 4)

I fully intended to tactfully advise Chris that I couldn’t agree with his conclusion that AGW is fraud. I subscribe to Heinlein’s Law, "Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity". Groupthink is enough, I thought, to explain the Bob’s, the CRU’s and the IPCC. However, in the course of writing this letter I learn the raw data plotted above has been removed. The ‘adjusted’ data better supports AGW http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/11/giss-raw-station-data-before-and-after/ The raw data is no longer available. Nor is it just that one station.

That and the attempt of the CRU to hide their data from inspection http://climateaudit.org/2009/07/31/the-cru-data-purge-continues/

I’m no longer sure I can.




Weather Alerts

We had our first measurable snowfall yesterday.

A couple days ago, the snow had been predicted. A northern cold front was to meet up with a moist air mass from the south right here in River City.
Weather forecasters were telling us we would be in for a significant snow. Some areas southwest of where I live were to bear the brunt of it, whereas, here, we were to get 2 to 4 inches.

As the weather systems moved toward us, the weather reports turned into weather warnings. My immediate area was given a "Winter Storm Watch" and the southeast area was given a "Winter Storm Warning". The difference, from my understanding, is a "warning" means it IS going to happen. A "watch" means it isn’t going to be as severe as a "warning", but something is going to happen.

The weather systems approached. They did as predicted and the cold air from the north caused the moist air to crystallize and snow began to fall. A steady fall of snow continued throughout the day, but it stopped well before they anticipated. Our "warnings" were to continue through the night and on into the start of today. However, all weather alerts were cancelled in the late afternoon as the brunt of the weather pattern chose to do more damage further east.

It is not unusual to get weather alerts that never develop as predicted. It seems the attitude is to predict the worst case scenario and prepare accordingly. Otherwise, due to the imprecise nature of weather forecasting thus far, we could find ourselves with piles of snow and road crews still at home sipping coffee.

This comes at a price. Supplies of salt & other deicing materials are spread across roadways. Road crews are scheduled for overtime when snows come overnight. Fuel and repair costs accrue as equipment is put to use. Most of the time, as storms diminish, crews are recalled and supplies are reserved.

Here’s your quiz:
How accurate are weather predictions in your area?
If you live in unincorporated areas, do your road crews react to predictions, or to only what occurs?
Do you alter your plans based on weather forecasts?

Weather Alerts - May As Well Cry Wolf
Cliff (the High-Tech Redneck who doesn’t rate a fancy ’signature pic’)

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Kids' Weird Words, The Date from Hell, How I Met My Mate
Kirsten's Krazy Kaleidoscope


Kirsten was still recovering from the holidays.  Here’s an archive piece.

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"There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom."
~ Albert Einstein ~

We are always on the lookout for alternative sources of energy. We are starting to vote for politicians who promise to launch incentives into fuel efficiency; we are wagging our fingers at the auto industry for having gotten itself into a mess by consistently manufacturing gas-guzzlers that fewer people want to buy. We want our transit systems to run more smoothly so that they can be a viable alternative to driving for more people.

It’s not that we lack the technology. Several alternative energy sources are in use - the first ones that come to mind are solar power and wind power. Every now and then we read articles about people recycling sunflower oil. Hybrid vehicles are becoming more popular, although the technology is still experiencing some teething problems. And when Bruce gets his message to the right people (note that I said "when", Bruce, not "if"), the phrase "hydrothermal power" will become part of everyday venacular.

News has recently broken of a doctor who has devised another means of powering his SUV. Interestingly enough, he also lives in California. I wonder if Bruce knows him. Dr. Carl Allen Bittner is a Beverley Hills cosmetic surgeon. He reasoned that if humans store fat as a potential energy source, then fat extracted via liposuction could have some value. He requested and received permission from some of his patients to experiment with this concept. He converted the fat extracted from the patients into free fuel, and successfully used it to power his car.

Predictably, a storm has erupted over this practice. The powers that be in California are pressing medical malpractice charges. The State of California has decreed that liposuctioned fat is categorized as medical waste, and it cannot legally be used for anything. It has to be properly disposed of instead. Some of Dr. Bittner’s patients also have lawsuits pending against him, based on claims that he used their fat without their consent.

There are skeptics who doubt the whole story. They believe that Dr. Bittner would not have the technical ability to convert the fat into fuel. But who knows? Maybe he knows technically-minded people with the right set of skills. It does make some sense that energy could be harvested from human fat, even though the concept has something of a "grossness factor". Whether Dr. Bittner actually did this or not, some ethical questions have been raised. The biggest concern is that greedy doctors could start performing unnecessary liposuction in order to sell the fat and make lots of money. This could easily happen without the consent of the patients. It would be akin to selling human organs for transplant, and it would be a lot easier to pull off.

I don’t know if I myself would choose to power my car with human fat. I have no idea what the environmental implications would be. What if the fat was harvested from someone with some illness? Would the bacteria or virus be killed during the conversion process, or could some potentially lethal toxins be released into the atmosphere for people to inhale? What would the byproducts of burning the fat be? And if I was a liposuction patient myself (which is never likely to happen, since I have a fundamental problem with bits of me being sucked out through a straw attached to a vacuum cleaner), I don’t know if I would want my fat to be used in this way.

Kudos to the doctor for thinking outside the box. We need innovative, imaginative people to come up with viable environmental solutions. But I think the horse I’d back in this one would be Bruce.

Kaleidoscopically yours,
Kirsten

Tim's Tales


Now that Santa Claus has come and gone, how many of you have a new computer or netbook? Chances are your new computer came with security software, but most likely it’s only a trial version. Today I want to show you how to uninstall that and install free products that will keep your computer secure.

First, let’s download the software you’ll need. You’ll want to do that *before* you uninstall your trial security software. The most important security item is your antivirus. I recommend Panda Cloud AV. This especially good for netbooks, as it doesn’t do a daily scan that wastes your battery power. Instead it only scans what you try to open. And the virus database is kept on the internet, so it is updated constantly, not just once a day. It’s ranked better than Norton or AVG in detecting threats. Best of all, it’s free for personal and educational use. Just click the green “Download it now” button, and save it. We’ll deal with it later.

Next on my list is anti-malware. For this, I recommend Malwarebytes. Again, this is free for personal use, and spectacular at cleaning up when your computer “just isn’t acting right”. Just click on the blue Download free version button, and that takes you to Major Geeks.com. Click on a link under Downloads, and save it with your cloudantivirus.exe. This one is called mbam-setup.exe.

Now, you can only have one antivirus, but you can have more than one anti-malware. I also recommend SpyBot Search & Destroy. There is a download button, and then several sites to choose from. The file name will be spybotsd162.exe, save it with the others. If you jump the gun and try to install it, do not install Tea Timer. I’ve got something better for you.

But first I want to protect your browsing experience. My tool of choice is McAfee Site Advisor. Click on Free Download and save saSetup3.0.1.163.exe with the rest of these tools. It’s not the only product on the market, but it’s a solid start.

Now to take care of your registry. I told you not to install Tea Timer. I’ve found that it can be annoying and confusing. That’s why I use RegistryProt. Just scroll down a bit and click Download, agree to their license agreement, and save regprot.zip with the rest of the lot.

That should keep you busy until Wednesday.

Tim a’Musing
Having a Ball with Security

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Tip of the Day


Miscellaneous Tips

Cheese won’t harden if you butter the exposed edges before storing.

Poet-Tree


Not too many with that line.  Anne saved me with some extras though.

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As the old year gives way to the new…

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Limerick rules.  http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm 

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Your present is under my tree—
It’s something that will bring you glee—
It isn’t molasses
nor a pair of glasses
but it’s some fun to you from me. - Cassandra in New York
Your present is under my tree
Hey, what did you get for me
I don’t need much
Just some trinket or such
In fact, all I really need is thee. - Bonnie
Your present is under my tree,
and on it my dog did pee.
Happy Holidays!
From, Celine Kitty, Rowdy Dog, and the Tazz!
Japanese food makes me squeal
Love eating sushi and uncooked eel!
And when it goes on sale.
That food I will inhale. . . .
I think I’m getting a raw deal! - Anne Onimous
In Greece, in the days of yore
Political parties weren’t a bore.
One party they did ban -
The "Half-horse, Half-man" -
Was when it moved towards the centaur. - Anne Onimous
I know I am no school child
But I felt both fired up and defiled
When I glimpsed a view -
A naked barbeque! -
In a video of "Grills Gone Wild" - Anne Onimous
While in the woods you can’t find a tree
Or maybe can’t find stuff on TV.
But if the sky you’ll crossed
Then you’ll never been lost
Until you get lost at Mach 3. - Anne Onimous
This advice I give is no joke
We each need to be one smart bloke
While living heartily
Do practice fire safety -
Don’t let your dreams go up in smoke. - Anne Onimous
One day while showing off like a ham
To the cold pavement I did slam. . .
To learn to walk again
I think that I’ll begin
With that famous twelve-step program. - Anne Onimous
Bad days follow me - for instance
The therapist who was licensed,
And the tire salesman,
Along with the bank man
All told me that I was unbalanced. - Anne Onimous

Reader Comments


Re: Adopted Children

My divorced sister-in-law, hereafter referred to as "crazy aunt Barbie"(caB), was living in Mindanao as a missionary, adopted a child from the Philippines who was the child of a drug addict prostitute in Manila. By the time he was 2 years old he was nothing more than a "product" for her "business". When "caB" adopted him at around 7 years old he had some issues that she thought could be overcome with a loving environment. "CaB" moved back to the states during his teen years and finally said she was going to send him back to Manila, or just abandon him and let him get deported, because he was a SOLID 5′ 4" 175 pound black-belt in martial-arts and she couldn’t handle him anymore.

When he was 16 he came to live with us for a trial period of 6 months to see if we could help him. Three weeks after he arrived he threatened my wife verbally, then us and himself with a knife. I wasn’t sure how to diffuse the situation, so I approached him with concern but caution and immobilized his weapon, (I’m 5′10", weighed 203 lbs., was curling 175 lbs. and could squeeze a bathroom scale to 250 lbs. with my hands at the time but had no martial-arts abilities. I was fortunate he had basic respect for the "dad" authority in a household). He calmed down and decided he wanted to play a game called "frog". I asked what the game was, and he said "I punch you in the arm as hard as I can and then you punch me in the arm as hard as you can, and we see who makes the biggest "frogs" on the other ones arms!"
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We were still in the kitchen where the incident started, (it measured 12′ x 18′). He hit my arm and then I hit his and sent him about 4 steps away to the sink where he landed against the countertop. He came back and hit me again, and I gave him another trip to the sink. This went on for about 10 minutes and my wrist was KILLING me, but I thought if I show any fear or pain he would try to take over leadership of the family, so I finally said that we had better stop it so things don’t get out of control.

For the next 5 months he was a "model citizen" and respected my wife and me while obeying the "house rules" as diligently as he possibly could… he really began to blossom into the decent kid that he wanted to be.

We sent him back to "caB", and within the next year he had degraded to the same stuff as before.

My opinion is that kids need an environment of structure, control, discipline and love to grow into responsible adults and without that, they will react to their "world" with the level of maturity that their emotions have developed to, (i.e., arrested development is a fact). The WORST thing to do is to try and reason with a child why they should behave in a certain way… they don’t have the tools to know how to calculate their behavior when they are living in the "pleasure/pain" stage of their emotional growth. Some of today’s "child psychology" is destructive and will lead to undesirable results.

What we did with our nephew was a kind of "boot-camp", and as long as the environment is not unloving and sadistic, a certain amount of inflicted pain is a good thing (when carefully administered by the right people to the right part of the body… typically spanking the buttocks with an appropriate instrument while the child is young enough to learn a valuable lesson from it). - Bruce in Colorado




Re: Smells


Nancy L. in Ohio, I will see your pet food factory with the fertilizer factory in Idaho, and raise you with the sugar factory in El Centro, CA. (below sea level and lots of triple digit days.) Hard to imagine something so sweet could smell so bad in the making. A bit like fish actually. (What is Menhaden anyway?)

Most favorite smell, the open country after a good rainfall and…also the smell of the outdoors after a good snowfall. - Grammie Sammie



Re: Kids And Stores

Patti said, "It is my opinion that the job of parenting children is to teach them how to live in the world at large."

Every parent needs to know they are "training" their children how to behave as adults. If they don’t apply themselves to the task, they will have visits to the principal’s office or jail.

"You aren’t teaching that lesson when there are no consequences to follow egregiously wrong behaviors. When your baby grows up and gets a job, the boss is not going to be concerned with his or her little feelings."

A problem that will become obvious soon is children who never had limits being told to do something by a person in a blue uniform. If mommy and daddy couldn’t get little Schmedley to eat his vegetables because he was "high-strung" or just a "strong-willed child" it is likely that when the officer pulls out his stun gun that the little darlin’ (who now weighs 206) may still believe that there are no negative consequences for his immature actions and rebellion.

"…are hired to do a job, not be in therapy. What sort of preparation are you giving your offspring?"

Parents are training their kids to be irresponsible turds, because Dr. Spock said they would "damage their self esteem" if they ever had a moment of disappointment.

"Have you noticed more children "out of control" or "acting up" of late? Like everything else, can we blame this on the economy? If you have small children and they misbehave in public, what do you do? Do you have a code word, letting them know they are in trouble later? Do you act immediately to stop the behavior? If you are out and a child is carrying on, do you ever stop and speak? If so, do you speak to the child or to the adult?"

I was shopping in a Target store and heard a small child carrying on about having to have something. It seemed that whatever aisle I was in this kid was close by and demanding EVERYTHING within arms reach. When I saw the cart there was all kinds of useless crap that dad had been loading up on to placate the 3 year old child, and it was painfully obvious who was in control of the situation. Now, I personally don’t know why a child needs double edged razors or tampons, but what the hell do I know? When I got to the checkout, guess who cruises in behind me… milquetoast man and Attilla the HouseApe, still pulling stuff off the nearby displays. I couldn’t stop myself from asking the guy if his back hurt, and he said, "no, why" To which I responded, "Well, the way you were bending over and kissing that kid’s butt through the whole store…" (I had my tact surgically removed in 1989).

"Is there an effective disciplinary method to curtail bad behaviors either in public or private? Does it help or hurt the child to allow them to misbehave without consequences?"

There was a study done years ago in New York public schools where they removed the chain-link fence from around the playground and all the kids began congregating in the middle of the playground. When they replace the fence the children began using the entire playground again because there was safety in having boundaries. If a parent doesn’t know how to establish healthy boundaries for their kids, they will not be able to provide an environment where the child can learn the necessity of rules and limits.

We used to have a neighbor who always tried to have a peer meeting with their 5 year old son, Bryce. Bryce had NO idea what the hell was expected from him because mom was always in a negotiation process with the little dear. Here is a slightly embellished account of a typical incident: "Bryce… stop jamming that ice-pick into your little sister’s eye… Bryce… I am your mother Bryce… do what I tell you… I’m gonna count to TEN Bryce… I’m COUNTING! You stop that right now, Bryce…’One’… Bryce… I’m counting Bryce…’One’… Bryce… stop that this instant… Bryce.. ‘One… two’… Bryce… I’m counting Bryce…’One… two’…" I’ll bet Bryce couldn’t count to five by the time he was 16, and he DAMN-SURE didn’t know what an immovable limit on his behavior was! - Bruce in Colorado

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