Saturday, March 25, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Cafe Hayek
Cafe Hayek: " I also do not think that true love of liberty was ever born just from the sight of material goods that freedom produces; for this often succeeds in hiding it. It is certainly true that in the long run, freedom always brings, to those who know how to keep it, ease, well-being, and often riches; but there are times when it briefly hinders the enjoyment of such goods; there are others when only despotism can temporarily afford their enjoyment. Men who prize only these kinds of goods have never enjoyed freedom for long.
That which, in all times, has so strongly attached certain men's hearts to freedom, are its own attractions, its own peculiar charm, independent of its benefits; it is the pleasure of being able to speak, act, and breathe without constraint, under the government of God and the laws alone. Whoever seeks anything from freedom but itself is made for slavery.
Now such men and women who love freedom so dearly are easily accused, chastised, castigated as being ideologues -- as if commitment to some non-material value is shameful or evidence of simple-mindedness."
That which, in all times, has so strongly attached certain men's hearts to freedom, are its own attractions, its own peculiar charm, independent of its benefits; it is the pleasure of being able to speak, act, and breathe without constraint, under the government of God and the laws alone. Whoever seeks anything from freedom but itself is made for slavery.
Now such men and women who love freedom so dearly are easily accused, chastised, castigated as being ideologues -- as if commitment to some non-material value is shameful or evidence of simple-mindedness."
Thursday, March 16, 2006
The Brier Patch
The Brier Patch
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
--Mark Twain
It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
--Mark Twain
The Brier Patch
The Brier Patch: "It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
--Mark Twain"
--Mark Twain"
The Brier Patch
The Brier Patch: "It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.
--Mark Twain"
--Mark Twain"
The Brier Patch
The Brier Patch: "It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail."
Gut Rumbles: Acidman is sick...
Gut Rumbles: Acidman is sick...It sounds like you have/had some sort of dysentery. The problem with dysentery is that although a healthy body will fight it off without resorting to medicines, you have to eat to stay healthy, and the disease won't let you keep anything in.
Two avenues of self-help are still available. First, you have to eliminate the chance of continuous re-infection. Scrub down the bathroom with 10% bleach solution. Wash all the bed linens in disinfectant soap. Spray down your bare mattress with Lysol and let it dry before putting new linens on. Put all your pillows in the dryer and roast them on high heat for an hour each, or better yet, burn them and get new. Do your skivvies in hot water and dry with high heat.
Keep yourself scrupulously clean. Shower with soap after every bowel movement.
Eat one-serving foods (except if on the purification diet listed below) and keep no leftovers. Run your dishwasher on it's highest heating and hot-washing cycles.
Lay in a supply of Gatorade. Do not chill it. You don't need to make your body work harder to warm up cold liquids you are putting into it.
Here is the risky part. Get some water-purifying tablets or drops. Make up an amount that will purify
10 quarts (liters) of water. With the tablets, you crush them with something in the bottom of a shot glass. Carefully fill the shot glass with water and stir, dissolving the tablets. If drops are used, they will self-mix as you add the water.
Horn the contents of the shot glass. DO NOT CHASE IT WITH ANYTHING. DO NOT SPIT OUT ANY RESIDUE, SWALLOW IT ALL.
Lay down for about four hours, then start in on the Gatorade, taking it as small as you must to keep it down. Try to manage at least a quart every 6 hours.
Stay on the Gatorade diet (NO FOOD!) for two days.
On the third day, eat one pint of plain yogurt. Not the fruity kind, PLAIN YOGURT. Continue with the Gatorade for another day, then slowly introduce SMALL amounts of food back in your life. What you are doing here is killing off all the digestive bacterial in your gut. You will kill the evil ones that are causing the problem as well. With all the bacteria gone, the gut can't do it's job, so any food in there will not digest. So, don't put any in. Just gatorade for survival, it will keep you going (or Pedialyte, it's better but way more expensive). Eating the yogurt next re-introduces the Lacto-bacillus Acidophillus, the good digestive bacteria, back into the gut. It will grow rapidly (if you've waited the two days for the killer-compound to be flushed out by the Gatorade, if not, the compound will negate the yogurt).
Start with the B.R.A.T. diet: Bananas, rice (plain) applesauce and tea. Or the B.O.A.T. diet, which is the same but substitutes oatmeal for rice. Saltine crackers are a decent substitute also.
After two days successful on these diets, try bringing in eggs, and a little fat (butter or some light fat). Then step up to meats.
The key is quantities. Your GI tract and colon will get into a reactive mode called enteritis and colitis, where it shits everything right out (so you don't get the food value out of it). You have to combat that by not overloading the tract and colon. Small meals, fed often, will get you adequate nutrition to recover.
By the end of the bout, you will have lost a lot of weight, which your body will try to compensate for by storing carbs and fats faster. Let it work. This isn't a weight-reduction program, and if you stay underweight too long, organ damage might occur.
BTW, the Halzone tablet amoeba-killer deal works. I have friends who used this remedy in 'Nam. The docs knew it was being used, and said nothing, so it can't be all that bad for you.
You've got a serious disease, but this is one that will actually respond to non-medical intervention.
If you let the docs treat it in the ER or Urgent Care (if they will, they might just pass it off as some gut virus and let you suffer it out). If they treat it properly, they will give you (IV) a strong antibiotic, replacement fluids and morphine and phenergan. That does everything quickly, but you will still have some residual trots until your gut gets rid of all it's previous infected waste. Then they put you on a clear diet (Gatorade), then the BOAT or BRAT diet, etc.
Then you pay their bill, $2,000 thank you. Plus about $250 worth of antibiotics to go home with. If they decide to do a CAT scan of your gut, add another $4,500 to that bill.
Two ways to go, the docs or the home-remedy way.
BTW, the cleanliness regime applies to either program.
Two avenues of self-help are still available. First, you have to eliminate the chance of continuous re-infection. Scrub down the bathroom with 10% bleach solution. Wash all the bed linens in disinfectant soap. Spray down your bare mattress with Lysol and let it dry before putting new linens on. Put all your pillows in the dryer and roast them on high heat for an hour each, or better yet, burn them and get new. Do your skivvies in hot water and dry with high heat.
Keep yourself scrupulously clean. Shower with soap after every bowel movement.
Eat one-serving foods (except if on the purification diet listed below) and keep no leftovers. Run your dishwasher on it's highest heating and hot-washing cycles.
Lay in a supply of Gatorade. Do not chill it. You don't need to make your body work harder to warm up cold liquids you are putting into it.
Here is the risky part. Get some water-purifying tablets or drops. Make up an amount that will purify
10 quarts (liters) of water. With the tablets, you crush them with something in the bottom of a shot glass. Carefully fill the shot glass with water and stir, dissolving the tablets. If drops are used, they will self-mix as you add the water.
Horn the contents of the shot glass. DO NOT CHASE IT WITH ANYTHING. DO NOT SPIT OUT ANY RESIDUE, SWALLOW IT ALL.
Lay down for about four hours, then start in on the Gatorade, taking it as small as you must to keep it down. Try to manage at least a quart every 6 hours.
Stay on the Gatorade diet (NO FOOD!) for two days.
On the third day, eat one pint of plain yogurt. Not the fruity kind, PLAIN YOGURT. Continue with the Gatorade for another day, then slowly introduce SMALL amounts of food back in your life. What you are doing here is killing off all the digestive bacterial in your gut. You will kill the evil ones that are causing the problem as well. With all the bacteria gone, the gut can't do it's job, so any food in there will not digest. So, don't put any in. Just gatorade for survival, it will keep you going (or Pedialyte, it's better but way more expensive). Eating the yogurt next re-introduces the Lacto-bacillus Acidophillus, the good digestive bacteria, back into the gut. It will grow rapidly (if you've waited the two days for the killer-compound to be flushed out by the Gatorade, if not, the compound will negate the yogurt).
Start with the B.R.A.T. diet: Bananas, rice (plain) applesauce and tea. Or the B.O.A.T. diet, which is the same but substitutes oatmeal for rice. Saltine crackers are a decent substitute also.
After two days successful on these diets, try bringing in eggs, and a little fat (butter or some light fat). Then step up to meats.
The key is quantities. Your GI tract and colon will get into a reactive mode called enteritis and colitis, where it shits everything right out (so you don't get the food value out of it). You have to combat that by not overloading the tract and colon. Small meals, fed often, will get you adequate nutrition to recover.
By the end of the bout, you will have lost a lot of weight, which your body will try to compensate for by storing carbs and fats faster. Let it work. This isn't a weight-reduction program, and if you stay underweight too long, organ damage might occur.
BTW, the Halzone tablet amoeba-killer deal works. I have friends who used this remedy in 'Nam. The docs knew it was being used, and said nothing, so it can't be all that bad for you.
You've got a serious disease, but this is one that will actually respond to non-medical intervention.
If you let the docs treat it in the ER or Urgent Care (if they will, they might just pass it off as some gut virus and let you suffer it out). If they treat it properly, they will give you (IV) a strong antibiotic, replacement fluids and morphine and phenergan. That does everything quickly, but you will still have some residual trots until your gut gets rid of all it's previous infected waste. Then they put you on a clear diet (Gatorade), then the BOAT or BRAT diet, etc.
Then you pay their bill, $2,000 thank you. Plus about $250 worth of antibiotics to go home with. If they decide to do a CAT scan of your gut, add another $4,500 to that bill.
Two ways to go, the docs or the home-remedy way.
BTW, the cleanliness regime applies to either program.
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Winds of Change.NET: Maybe Iraq Is A Lot Like Vietnam - Maybe We're Wrong About Vietnam
Winds of Change.NET: Maybe Iraq Is A Lot Like Vietnam - Maybe We're Wrong About Vietnam: "COUNTERINSURGENCY: The John Paul Vann Model
By Rich Webster
In November of 1968 I can remember the legendary John Paul Vann speaking to our graduation class of newly trained advisors at Di An, South Vietnam. You cant win a guerrilla war by dropping bombs from the air, he said. You may kill some of the enemy, but you will alienate the people you are there trying to help, and they will turn against you."
By Rich Webster
In November of 1968 I can remember the legendary John Paul Vann speaking to our graduation class of newly trained advisors at Di An, South Vietnam. You cant win a guerrilla war by dropping bombs from the air, he said. You may kill some of the enemy, but you will alienate the people you are there trying to help, and they will turn against you."
Friday, March 10, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
43 Folders
43 Folders: "43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s site about personal productivity, life hacks, and simple ways to make your life a little better. "
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide
Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide: "Benjamin Franklin’s 13 personal goals"
Monday, February 13, 2006
MORE CRAP
Neanderpundit: Crapblogging, of course.: "Crapblogging, of course.
I love spicy food. I can't take too much of it, because it kills my stomach, but I love to eat it. One type of particularly spicy food I had not tried, at least until a couple of weeks ago, was Indian cuisine.
So, since I had a chance to spend some time with a co-worker who was indian, and knew some nice restaurants where we were staying, I let him order for me. I had Tandoori chicken with rice and some kind of goats-milk yogurt drink.
Man, I LOVED this stuff. I had my friend order something relatively mild, so it wouldn't kill me but it was GOOD! I liked it a lot- the chicken, especially, was great. Even the rice had a lot of flavor, something you don't usually get in an American restaurant.
I decided, I'm going to eat a LOT more of this stuff, it was great!
Then cam the 6:05. You know, that first morning crap, the one that you hit right after waking, where you can sit, crap, piss, and read the morning paper just before the shower. I settled in to read the Click and Clack article about America's ten ugliest cars, and then the first wave hit.
oh. my. god.
my. ass. is. on. fire.
I never felt anything like this- it wass like being sodomized by a red hot poker while flaming maggots crawled out of your ass- yes, I could physically feel each grain of semidigested rice as it exited, and it felt, well,it felt bad. At about the same time I began to sweat, and my sweat smelled like a polecat in heat. I opened the window, despite the cold, and gasped for breath, and then the aroma hit me.
I have no idea what it was that was coming out of my ass, but it sure wasn't chicken and rice. Then, each time I thought i was done, and moved on, I ended up sitting back down again, and by the time I got through with my shower, I had been back out of the shower and on the throne several more times. By the time I was through I literally had nothing in me, i had shat every bite I had eaten the previous night, and even (by the smell) some things I hadn't eaten in years. Hey! Where'd that White Castle come from?
Before I got to work I'd been on the john again several times at rest stops, doing the anal equivalent of dry heaves, there was just nothing else. Then, the farting started, and it was worse than the smell of burning brakes and armadillo guts. I thought they were going to chase me out of the office, and finally, I left early, stopping at a Walgreens for a big container of Tucks.
No more indian food for me."
I love spicy food. I can't take too much of it, because it kills my stomach, but I love to eat it. One type of particularly spicy food I had not tried, at least until a couple of weeks ago, was Indian cuisine.
So, since I had a chance to spend some time with a co-worker who was indian, and knew some nice restaurants where we were staying, I let him order for me. I had Tandoori chicken with rice and some kind of goats-milk yogurt drink.
Man, I LOVED this stuff. I had my friend order something relatively mild, so it wouldn't kill me but it was GOOD! I liked it a lot- the chicken, especially, was great. Even the rice had a lot of flavor, something you don't usually get in an American restaurant.
I decided, I'm going to eat a LOT more of this stuff, it was great!
Then cam the 6:05. You know, that first morning crap, the one that you hit right after waking, where you can sit, crap, piss, and read the morning paper just before the shower. I settled in to read the Click and Clack article about America's ten ugliest cars, and then the first wave hit.
oh. my. god.
my. ass. is. on. fire.
I never felt anything like this- it wass like being sodomized by a red hot poker while flaming maggots crawled out of your ass- yes, I could physically feel each grain of semidigested rice as it exited, and it felt, well,it felt bad. At about the same time I began to sweat, and my sweat smelled like a polecat in heat. I opened the window, despite the cold, and gasped for breath, and then the aroma hit me.
I have no idea what it was that was coming out of my ass, but it sure wasn't chicken and rice. Then, each time I thought i was done, and moved on, I ended up sitting back down again, and by the time I got through with my shower, I had been back out of the shower and on the throne several more times. By the time I was through I literally had nothing in me, i had shat every bite I had eaten the previous night, and even (by the smell) some things I hadn't eaten in years. Hey! Where'd that White Castle come from?
Before I got to work I'd been on the john again several times at rest stops, doing the anal equivalent of dry heaves, there was just nothing else. Then, the farting started, and it was worse than the smell of burning brakes and armadillo guts. I thought they were going to chase me out of the office, and finally, I left early, stopping at a Walgreens for a big container of Tucks.
No more indian food for me."
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