Ep. 27 Donald Trump appeared in court today, but it wasn’t a legal proceeding. It was a grotesque parody of the system our ancestors created. Victor Davis Hanson explains. pic.twitter.com/KhTHateWCZ
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A Rolls Royce on the Moon
(yes, it might happen) The U.K. Space Agency has decided to continue funding a project by Rolls-Royce to create a small nuclear-powered reactor that could serve as a long-term energy source for lunar bases.
The new boost to Rolls-Royce’s research pot follows a previous $303,495 (£249,000) study funded by the U.K. Space Agency in 2022. With the new funds, the company hopes to have a demonstration model for a modular micro-reactor ready to deliver to the moon by 2029.
In a March 17 press release, Rolls-Royce and the U.K. Space Agency state that the micro-reactor program will help to “develop technology that will provide power needed for humans to live and work on the moon.”
Those of you who follow this blog know that I believe that small nuclear generators are the future of energy on Earth and in Space. Rolls Royce entered the SMR (small modular reactor) race in a big way for Earth. They’re one of several companies pursuing this. The US Military is also buying microreactors to power remote bases.
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Got Narcan?
It’s an indication that something has gone terribly wrong for the city to urge New York’s stockbrokers and grandmothers to keep Narcan handy and be on the lookout for drowsy strangers or fentanyl poisoning on the playground.
“The latest mile marker on New York City’s road to urban perdition is a PSA from the health commissioner.
Every citizen, it says, should get trained on using Narcan, or naloxone, the medicine that reverses opioid overdoses.
After failing to control public disorder, including drug use, the city wants to conscript every resident into its health corps.
“We have defibrillators behind every bar, in every business, in every public event,” Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said last week. “Narcan has to be everywhere. You should be carrying Narcan right now.”
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Identify the Aircraft:
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It’s an early entry, but it did serve as a combat aircraft in WW1. Background blanked out.
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It’s not easy to ID from this angle, but you should be able to get it.
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The largest passenger airliner in the world in 1930, eight of these giant four engine biplanes were built. Seating was provided for 18 people on long range routes, or 38 on shorter routes and inside, the interior was based on the Pullman cars of the famous Orient Express train.
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The vertical stabilizer may be the best clue. This aircraft was known by two names. If you get the first, you should also be able to get the second.
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It’s just ugly.
Yep. I have two of those intranasal Narcan devices. I was prescribed some Vicodin (10 tabs, PRN) and it came with Narcan. This was in Phoenix. The pharmacist said, “you’re not being charged for it. We’re required by law to provide Narcan with any opioids.”
Good samaritans dispensing Narcan may get their asses kicked. “You took away my high!” That’s going to be an unintended consequence of this state-mandated do-gooding.
Passing them out to the public because the Fentanyl “epidemic” is so severe is insane.
Everything is insane.
That’s the true epidemic.
Insanity.
Mental – absolutely mental.
Demented.
I was on my way out the door to catch the train (what do you use for bait, MC?) and truncated the comment. “Proper” inpatient hospital protocol for dealing with accidental opioid overdose is to dilute the dose (eg with normal saline) and slowly administer the Narcan, just enough until the person wakes up. If you slam the max dose yes you’ll probably wake the person up, but they will also be refractory to opioids until the Narcan wears off. That would be cruel in the case of a person on opioids for actual pain. People with ER experience can probably comment on the practice of deliberately hitting junkies with a big dose to “take away the high”. Lifesaving, yes, but also to mess with persons they often hate. Not entirely without reason. So imagine how angry some person passed out on the street would be if you “improved the world” by messing with him uninvited.
Last week I was looking in on a friend with a serious opioid problem. She fell off the wagon and is awaiting a slot at an inpatient treatment facility. We had a long talk. Her description of the fentanyl high was awesome, only not in a good way, but rather in the original sense of awe inspiring. And terrifying as to how much she craved (craves) it. I learned a lot, including current street prices for heroin and fentanyl hereabouts. Also turns out there’s a significant black market in Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone; “treatment” for opioid addiction). I’m increasingly of the mind that much of the “rehab industry” is exactly that. A money-raking enterprise. (No, they don’t teach about this stuff in med school and residency. Maybe if you specialize in Addiction or Pain Medicine, but not normal programs.) I’ve also heard stories from multiple people about dealers working AT rehab facilities. (Obviously most people working there aren’t, but it’s pretty horrible that ANY work there.)
As to “insane”, yes, if you operate off the premise of good intentions and basic decency. But illicit street drugs are good for so many interests (as you know). Debt finance and constant war are proven tools for enslaving nations. That’s the top-down approach. Drug addiction is excellent for destroying individuals and often their families and friends. When that’s prevalent enough then it destroys societies from the ground up. I’m sure the Chinese are rubbing their hands in glee at how well the fentanyl thing is working. Apart from the obvious geopolitical goals, the other goal is revenge for the Opium Wars and the “Century of Humiliation”.
MrsPaulM_DVM said the same Mike. We are starting to see dogs with “the problem” and have ordered up some Narcan to have on hand. Owners lie as to ‘the how’ to cover their rear-ends, but she knows the clinical signs.
Proper protocol is lost on “officials” who want others to solve the very problems they created. Government offers solutions to non-existant problems.
The fentanyl problem could be solved with literally the stroke of a pen. That it isn’t, speaks volumes about intent.
Useful to those who never let a crisis go to waste, even an intentionally manufactured one.
I use to carry two narcans on me in a small med pack and at least in my truck. I stopped carrying them in my med pack and only two in my truck pack. With in two weeks in the small town I live in, while shopping I delivered a intranasal narcan to the same person on different occasion. Brutal, non-ethical? Yup. While working as a psych nurse and behavioral therapist on a dual diagnosis unit it was a revolving door for the same patients, you could set your calendar days by them. I have taken the attitude of Ed+Campbell. You want to enjoy the high? Pay the ferry toll. My opinion? One dose administered, no more after that, if that first OD hasn’t taught you a lesson, then why are we subsidizing the cost or paramedics, an ER visit and possibility of a psych hold with you having no assets or insurance to pay it?
clarification, “with in a two week period, on two different occasions the same person.”
Wish ya had a edit function so we could correct after posting LL.
The big problem with a combination of free healthcare and an open border offering a wide variety of drugs that will turn you into a zombie is that users bankrupt the system. It’s one flaw with the libertarian notion of uncontrolled drugs. Fine if they OD out and die, but that’s never how it goes. There are children and dependents who are ravaged by that philosophy.
Narcotics/substances are an end-user problem really, not a supply problem. So long as the population wants to snort and inject that crap, it will be available. Bathtub gin was the thing during prohibition.
Drug abuse is solvable by prohibition, in the same way murder is solvable by gun control. Every ban of objects is justified by the gun control argument. Meanwhile, government can’t even keep drugs out of prisons.
Libertarians never proposed tax-funded healthcare. Why should libertarians give up their drug freedom just so that taxpayers keep their hospital taxes lower?
Oh, I wasn’t suggesting that one must administer “incremental Narcan” to dangerously passed out abusers in order to be ethical.
As with everything else in life, the ethical issues are “simple” when considering the aggregate, but when it comes to individuals (especially ones you know personally) then it’s hard. Sigh.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. TBD
2. Bristol Bulldog IIA
3. Handley Page H.P.42
4. Bristol Bolingbroke, aka Bristol Blenheim Mk IV
5. Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy C Mk. 1
#1 is an odd aircraft, with the 4-wheel landing gear being the biggest tell for an aircraft of that size.
Bristol T.B.8
They made 50 of those.
Number 5 is Snoopy.
#5 was in a Pixar movie, amiright?
Please tell me the voice actor used a Goofy accent. (The Disney character that is.)
When tapped to do so, as a Christian we are tasked with helping others less fortunate or who find themselves in a situation out of their control (The Good Samaritan comes to mind, which includes clergy stepping to the other side of the road to avoid “the problem”).
When faced with a drug addicted street person who willing participates in killing themselves on the installment plan, help is not what they want and it may end badly for the general public person to intervene. The Democrats have turned cities into chaos and now they want “We the people” to help fix it? Sorry pal, no, that’s your job. The bums are not always on the street.
Then there’s the Debacle in New York…regardless this moron judges looney unprofessional behavior (meaning the fix may be in), PDJT is Warrior. Give ’em hell Mr. President! Praying for continued overwatch Providence from Almighty God.
Time for a Reset ™
“Time for a Reset” that’s been the plan all along. Special thanks to the great “fundamental changer” Barack.
Yeah, I want to reset back by going forward eradicating the losers, cheats, thieves, and outright criminals in office. Start a bit from scratch and undoing the ability formpublic officials to love their jobs while filling offshorebank accounts. The Magical Mr O and his Tyrannical compatriots was a different animal altogether, resetting to Socialism/Marxism/Slavery in a class warfare PsyOp.
Warning: This is a comment, not a call to action.
If I remember correctly, Nicaragua had a large problem with young people sniffing shoe glue to the point that they french fried their brains so that they were zombies. The Nicaraguan government would take the zombies into the jungle and shoot them. This was the mid-80s as I remember.
In America today, drugs are pushed by just about everyone. One of my nurse friends would tell stories of drug salesmen dropping off armloads of free drugs made to cure xxx and would offer great resources to the doctor if he would prescribe their helpful drug.
Now, because of multiple other factors, such as closing mental hospitals, America is being turned into zombie land. It is worse than the opium dens because now the abusers are walking or standing in public without control of themselves. I question how many of the crazy stunts that are occurring today are because the individual is drug crazy. Stunts such as driving the wrong way down the freeway, or just ramming someone, suddenly attacking a store display, or for no reason pulling a pistol and unloading it randomly. The real crazy stunts with no apparent reason for the actions.
X2…How many who went off the rails were “seeing” a psychiatrist and were prescribed psychotropic drugs “to help them”?
IDA:
1. BE2
2. BRISTOL BULLDOG
3. HP42
4. BRISTOL BOLINGBROKE
5. AW660 ARGOSY
SMRs: What is not to like about a robust distributed network of small(ish) nuclear power plants. Sure with the big plants you might get some scales of economy but it seems as if many small power plants would be a lot more resistant to natural (or man made) disasters.
Narcan: Not a very Christian attitude but it is what it is. I probably would walk right on by somebody that was OD’ing in a drug induced stupor. First off, I am a huge proponent of being responsible for your own actions. Second don’t want to take the risk of having some lawyer representing the drug user sue the dickens out of me for injuring him/her when I administered the Narcan. Third, from a self defense class, a good way to avoid altercations and such is to follow the “don’t go to stupid places” rule. Meaning I actively try to avoid places where I might run into a person OD’ing. Lastly, Mike_C’s comment “Good samaritans dispensing Narcan may get their asses kicked” comes into play.
Can’t save the world Ed.
“First of all, do no harm”. My medical knowledge is limited to, stop the bleeding, start the breathing, cover and treat for shock. Someone overdosing? Call 911.
Like almost any adult, I’ve dealt with the harsh consequences of drug and alcohol abuse (children, family). My conclusion is the abuser stops only when the abuser decides to stop. Sadly, many don’t.
So, what does an individual do? Keep you own shit together. You won’t “fix” their problem. What you can do is damage control, but only if you remain functional.
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I was amazed, traveling through rural WV recently, by the large roadside Narcan signs pointing toward several businesses (Dollar General for one) in the middle of nowhere. I would not expect there to be a drug problem in this region but there was a lot of poverty. Rusted out double wides and rv’s surrounded by junk cars, washing machines, garbage, etc. I’d never seen signs notifying the public that Narcan is available and possibly administered. The drug problem may be larger than we realize.
WV loves Oxys – so-called hillbilly heroin. They also love meth, and Narcan doesn’t work on that.
About an hour and ten minutes south of me, the city of Payson, AZ has zombie former meth heads wandering the street with sparse hair and no teeth. It’s not just a WV problem.
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