I participated in a conjoined twin separation at LA County but, as is often the case, one twin was less sturdy and eventually died.
The way things are going, won’t be long before minors will be requesting, and allowed to be, surgically joined together
Recently, it’s been reported that uranium has gone missing from Libya, aka Libya’s government.
For what it’s worth- I talked to a professional scientist, + he said- the uranium that is missing, in or from, Libya, is not Uranium-235, and the missing uranium cannot be made into: nuclear bombs, nuclear warheads, or any other nuclear explosive devices.
I just wanted to mention this fact, in case anyone was worried that the uranium could be used to make bombs or other dangerous weapons.
Well thats reassuring i thought they had shipped thaf material to tennessee
Full moon:
The way things are going, won’t be long before minors will be requesting, and allowed to be, surgically joined together
———
I thought that too. But today’s narcissists can’t even conceive of the empathy these 2 sisters have.
Then there’s this:
Eastern Libyan [soldiers?] say they have recovered the missing uranium.
Where do you think fissile uranium (U-235) comes from? Natural uranium, via enrichment, (gas diffusion, cyclotrons, centrifuges, laser processes) after conversion chemically into uranium hexafluoride IIRC. Natural uranium contains 0.72% U-235 (stuff for bombs) so 2.5 tons, 5000 lbs, could yield a maximum of 36 lbs. The Little Boy bomb used 140 lbs. IDK how much U-235 is used in modern designs, but I assume considerablly less.
Iran wouldn’t turn down 2.5 tons of natural uranium IMO.
Haftars men are the good guys the western side is backed by qatar and turkey (the ones who brought back the taliban)
I’ve given up on Althouse. She’s quadrupled-down on the Stanford Judge debate.
But this another fine mess brought to you by graham and jacob marley (mccain) with special guest mcmuffin and kinzinger.
I thought the Stanford Judge speech was in a large auditorium and the protesters were the usual organized pussy hat, handmaiden,sign carrying , screaming mob type, like Kavanaugh hearings.
Video shows what seems to be a classroom with definitely rude but seemingly not very organized retards interrupting the judge.
Kind of dis-appointed, although the woman brought in to quell the riot was sure an ass.
Today’s financial turmoil involves efforts shore-up First Republic bank. OK.
Now that some substantial banking crises have already hit, the Federal Reserve is responding with at least two actions. I don’t entirely understand the distinction between the two lending (to troubled banks) options.
By Jacob Adelman (Barron’s) After Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week, the Federal Reserve rolled out a new lending program aimed at making sure other regional banks with similar balance sheets don’t meet the same fate.
But the program has one potential complication: there appear to be few if any similarly situated banks.
– – –
Under the Bank Term Funding Program, as the Fed’s new facility is known, banks are eligible for low-interest government loans equaling the par value of their Treasury bonds, government-sponsored mortgage-backed securities, and other qualifying assets.
– – –
“For Silicon Valley Bank, this would have been a lifesaver,” Joseph Wang, a former trader on the Fed’s open-market desk and author of the Fed Guy blog and Central Banking 101, says of the lending program.
The second item are changes instituted to the Fed’s Discount Window operations, which if I understand it correctly, are a fundamental rescue lending option of the Fed that is always in place.
The Discount Window and Discount Rate
The Discount Window
Federal Reserve lending to depository institutions (the “discount window”) plays an important role in supporting the liquidity and stability of the banking system and the effective implementation of monetary policy. By providing ready access to funding, the discount window helps depository institutions manage their liquidity risks efficiently and avoid actions that have negative consequences for their customers, such as withdrawing credit during times of market stress. Thus, the discount window supports the smooth flow of credit to households and businesses.
On March 15, the Board announced changes to the discount window. These changes included the following:
Narrowing the spread of the primary credit rate relative to the general level of overnight interest rates to help encourage more active use of the window by depository institutions to meet unexpected funding needs.
Announcing that depository institutions may borrow from the discount window for periods as long as 90 days, prepayable and renewable by the borrower on a daily basis.
These changes are effective March 16, and will remain in effect until the Board announces otherwise. The press release announcing these changes can be found here.
The Discount Rate
The discount rate is the interest rate charged to commercial banks and other depository institutions on loans they receive from their regional Federal Reserve Bank’s lending facility—the discount window. The Federal Reserve Banks offer three types of credit to depository institutions: primary credit, secondary credit, and seasonal credit, each with its own interest rate. All discount window loans are fully secured.
The discount rate on secondary credit is higher than the rate on primary credit. The rate for seasonal credit is an average of selected market rates. Rates are established by each Reserve Bank’s board of directors, subject to the review and determination of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The rates for the three lending programs are the same across all Reserve Banks.
I’m guessing that the first option, the “Bank Term Funding Program” is unlimited in its loan duration, unlike the discount window. A little over my head to know for sure.
Speaking of gay stuuf, I attended a high school graduation at Soquel High School in Santa Cruz Ca several years ago.
Santa Cruz is home to CalState Santa Cruz, where Angela Davis teaches and almost seems right leaning compared to other professors.
Anyway, during awards ceremony, lots of cheering and appreciation for particular students, sports team, the usual.
When a somewhat giddy female administrator, holding up a framed certificate, proudly announced that Soquel has one some kind of award for gay rights, I expected a standing ovation.
To say the favorable reaction was sparse would be an understatement. Majority of attendees response was to share a WTF? look while shaking shrugging their shoulders and frowning.
Surprised me, ’cause I thought the whole city was on board the gay and trans train.
The Barron’s is from inside my secure brokerage account.
Fullmoon,
Angela Davis is a prof. at UC Santa Cruz. I gave a guest lecture there a long time ago.
Also long ago, I recall meeting a nice young women who was taking a class or course at UCSC. She was also an Army or Navy officer. Not sure which now. That was all fine and dandy, until uniform day rolled around. She was required to wear her uniform throughout that day including to her UCSC class. She never got treated respectfully again, especially by the prof. She knew that was going to happen, and it did.
Who knows? With your story maybe things are improving a bit. Or Soquel is a little different.
March 16, 2020. Three years ago today.
Nobody in this clip should ever have any position of power in government ever again.
Democrats doing what Democrats do….
“Watch: Border Patrol Chief Testifies Border Is Not Secure, Wall Needed”— https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-border-patrol-chief-testifies-border-not-secure-wall-needed
Key grafs:
“During testimony before the House Wednesday, Border Patrol chief Raúl Ortiz contradicted Biden administration officials by stating that there is a full on crisis on the southern border, urging that it is not secure, and calling for a wall to be built.
“Biden officials, including DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have repeatedly claimed that the border is under control, yet Ortiz confirmed that there is no operational control of the entire southern border….
“…Ortiz went on to talk about the numbers flooding the border…
“…Elsewhere during the hearing, Ortiz said it was a mistake to stop building President Trump’s wall. He also defended the agents who were accused and cleared of whipping migrants while on horseback…
“…Not a single Democrat was present at the hearing…” [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
No doubt they wouldn’t hesitate to refer to Border Patrol Chief Ortiz as “So-called…”
Thread detailing Fauci’s Awesome Adventure, most of the information from Robert Kennedy jr’s book, but several things I had wondered about are addressed.
Links and document screecaps at the Tweets.
?THREAD: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top-paid US federal employee, has developed bioweapons for the Pentagon since 2002. In 2014, Obama shut down 18 of Fauci’s gain-of-function experiments after lab leaks, and 300 top scientists complained about his dangerous bioweapons research.
#6 The Los Angeles Times noted that the “non-military biodefense research budget” increased from $60 million in 2001 to $317 million in 2002, and the Bush administration was now requesting $2 billion for 2003, which exceeded the combined research budgets for “breast and lung cancer, stroke and tuberculosis.”
The money would fund new high-security labs at universities and government agencies for work on “vaccines and treatments for biowarfare agents,” but some experts questioned the security concerns of experimenting on these types of exotic pathogens.
I used to defend Dubya, back in the day. He was put in a hard situation early in his term, and I thought he did better than he was getting credit for.
Not any more.
#7 From archived versions of the NIAID’s Biodefense website, Dr. Anthony Fauci details how the Patriot Act placed him on top of the nation’s biodefense infrastructure:
“Homeland security is a multifaceted endeavor, of which biodefense is a critical component. Our nation’s ability to detect and counter bioterrorism depends to a large degree on the information generated by biomedical research on dangerous, disease-causing microbes and on the immune system response to these pathogens.
Much of this research is supported by the NIH and NIAID. The role of NIAID biodefense research is to develop the tools necessary to protect civilians from potential agents of bioterrorism. Since the fall of 2001, the NIAID has moved quickly to accelerate basic and clinical research related to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases caused by potential agents of bioterrorism.
Hah.
Blew that one.
#8 In Dec. 2002, Dr. Anthony Fauci described how the distinction between “bioweapons” and “biodefense” does not exist, as later demonstrated by his gain-of-function research:
“I found myself again, never imagining that I would be doing this, needing to learn from people that I never thought I would be learning things from, namely bioweaponers. People who are our own bioweaponers in the US decades ago, international figures, people from other countries, the UK, and also importantly, defectors particularly from the Soviet Union who had vast experience in the ways of biowarfare.”
#9 How Dick Cheney created Anthony Fauci |
@unherd
“With the stroke of Bush and Cheney’s pen, all United States biodefense efforts, classified or unclassified, were placed under the aegis of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci now had a virtual carte blanche to not merely approve but design and run the kind of research projects he sought — and could do so with no oversight structure above him.
Biodefense projects that formerly would have fallen under the authority of military or intelligence agencies were now under his direct supervision.”
I did not know that key fact.
#10 “It’s this that explains one of the most bewildering irregularities surrounding Anthony Fauci: his compensation.
As widely reported, Fauci is the highest-paid member of the federal government, out-earning the President, four-star generals, senators, and Super Court Justices. His salary roughly doubled that of his own (nominal) boss until recently, NIH director Francis Collins.
Fauci’s giant pay packet can be traced back to 2004, the year after NIAID was made the country’s top biodefence authority agency.”
He had his finger in every pandemic pie, and was getting paid for each of them.
Plus what he got from Pharma.
#17 After the pause on gain-of-function research, Dr. Anthony Fauci, USAID (CIA), DOD, and other US government agencies worked with Dr. Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and Dr. Ralph Baric to transfer Fauci’s coronavirus research to Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
There is a well-documented scientific paper trail of Dr. Fauci funding Dr. Baric’s bioweapons research and that knowledge being transferred to Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan lab.
“The NIH decided the risk was worth it. In a potentially fateful decision, it funded work similar to Baric’s at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which soon used its own reverse-genetics technology to make numerous coronavirus chimeras. Unnoticed by most, however, was a key difference that significantly shifted the risk calculation. The Chinese work was carried out at biosafety level 2 (BSL-2), a much lower tier than Baric’s BSL-3+.”
Links for every year to the receipts.
#18 That’s why Senator @RandPaul accused Dr. Fauci of funding “supervirus” research in the US and “making a huge mistake” by trading the know-how to China.
Fauci denied the accusation, stating categorically: “The NIH has not ever, and does not now, fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
Not the only time he lied.
#19 But even Dr. Robert Redfield, the former CDC Director, told congress last week that he believes Dr. Anthony Fauci used American taxpayer dollars to fund the bioweapons research that created COVID-19:
“I think it did — not only from NIH but from the State Department, USAID, and from DOD.”
There is no circle in hell low enough.
On the drug abuse front, I saw an article today on the local NBC affiliate that I had to read twice, and research a bit, to take seriously. People are smoking embalming fluid, often laced with PCP. There’s a bill in the legislature (status unknown) to make embalming fluid a controlled substance.
I’ve noted before that fauci in Italian refers to the jaws of a predatory animal (“finire nelle fauci di un lupo” means “to end in the jaws of a wolf”) or to the mouth of a volcano. One online dictionary even uses our Tony as an example of “fauci” in context:
I just can’t imagine what on earth would cause any person, even a young and foolish person, to consider using embalming fluid to get high.
Oh, great, now that it has been publicized, there will be a run on embalming fluid.
Gonna have to go to Costco and stock up.
Hi om,
Yes, those points are true. I have heard that natural uranium can be made into weapons-grade uranium.
But, as far as I know- Libya, [and any low budget terrorist groups that might get or steal the natural uranium, like Al-Qaeda, Isis, and AQ’s + Isis’ friends], don’t have the high-level scientists, or the high-level technology, to make the natural uranium into: nuclear-weapons-grade uranium, +/or uranium-235.
When the Libyan governments, or anyone in Libya, or…[not to put Libya in a bad light]…the terrorist groups I’ve mentioned, get: [the needed…high-level scientists] and [the needed…high-level technology] for that job, then I’ll be concerned about the possible, weapons making by those groups.
Kate–
Kids have been using all kinds of weird things to get high since the glory days of the counterculture; I can remember when ER docs used to see hippies who had mixed a full can of powdered nutmeg in a glass of milk and drank the stuff expecting to have an LSD-type experience. Then there were kids who huffed glue, nail polish remover, canned air (gas dusters), freon from air conditioners, and other inhalants. The manufacturers of the canned air used to clean out computers eventually had to add a bitterant to their product to discourage kids from huffing it.
One must add that the nineteenth-century medical profession set the first bad example of substance abuse: ether frolics, in which medical students would get together of an evening to inhale ether and laugh at one another as they fell off the stage of the lecture hall or babble unintelligibly. In fact, Crawford Long, the first American surgeon to use ether as an anesthetic (1842), got the idea to do so because he had participated in ether frolics in medical school.
One last note: As ’tis the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, we should remember the ether-drinking craze in Ireland that started in the late 1840s in response to people taking “the pledge” to abstain from alcohol. A doctor in County Derry discovered that one could get pleasantly drunk on ether while abstaining from demon rum, so he started dispensing ether to his patients and friends as a way to obtain the pleasures of alcohol without violating “the pledge.”
From an article on the Irish ether craze: “Ether drinking spread rapidly throughout Ireland, particularly in the North, and the substance soon could be purchased from grocers, druggists, publicans, and even traveling salesmen. Because ether was produced in bulk for certain industrial uses, it could also be obtained quite inexpensively. Its low price and rapid action meant than even the poorest could afford to get drunk several times a day on it. By the 1880s ether, distilled in England or Scotland, was being imported and widely distributed to even the smallest villages.”
The stuff had its downsides, though: “These include a truly awful smell and taste, coupled with a strong burning sensation while the foul stuff is going down. Plus, it makes you drool like a Saint Bernard dog on a hot summer day, not to mention stimulating truly monumental burps and farts. These aren’t normal emissions—they are laden with highly flammable ether vapors. You can imagine what happened when an ether drinker would light up a pipe and belch or sit down by an open fire and break wind. Severe burns at either end of the alimentary canal were a common hazard.”
Maybe the author will follow up with an article on the abuse of embalming fluid!
Hi Pa+Cat,
I like the trivia about the drug-substitutes that don’t work.
In my high school + grade schools the fabled, pot or cocaine substitute, was: frying banana skins.
(I guess you fry the skins, then try to smoke them like joints.)
Friends of mine who tried it, tell me it doesn’t work.
I didn’t try it, myself. Frying banana skins would probably smell-up my family’s house + get me caught. 🙂
TR–
Did you ever try chewing morning glory seeds? They were supposed to be a safe alternative to LSD, but most users got little from them except nausea and diarrhea.
Hi Pa+Cat,
*snnrrrk* Bwa Ha Ha Ha!
Thanks for the info on the morning glory seeds, but- I think I’ll strongly avoid [that] type of recreation. 🙂
TR:
Lybia gave up it’s nuclear weapons program under Kydaffi IIRC. That uranium was for the canceled program IIRC. Syria had a program. Pakistan succeeded with its nuclear weapons program as did North Korea, remember? Iran has its own program going strong right now. The nuclear weapons genie is out of the bottle. But other programs are more practical to non-nation states. IIRC weapons capable of causing multitudes of civilian deaths, what was the phrase (?), were a national concern in the early years if this century for some reason.
Must have been those merchants of death.
Hi om,
Cool. Thanks for the info. 🙂
TR:
Here is some related information and analysis about the Libyan uranium and how “we” got here:
After looking at the information that I have, I’m going to stick with my original comment.
No slight meant to anyone, but, I personally know the person who told me about the properties of uranium-235. He is a professional scientist, + his scientific knowledge is extensive. I have to go with his viewpoint on the uranium in Libya.
I have to go with the knowledge from the people that I know from off of the web.
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I participated in a conjoined twin separation at LA County but, as is often the case, one twin was less sturdy and eventually died.
The way things are going, won’t be long before minors will be requesting, and allowed to be, surgically joined together
Recently, it’s been reported that uranium has gone missing from Libya, aka Libya’s government.
For what it’s worth- I talked to a professional scientist, + he said- the uranium that is missing, in or from, Libya, is not Uranium-235, and the missing uranium cannot be made into: nuclear bombs, nuclear warheads, or any other nuclear explosive devices.
I just wanted to mention this fact, in case anyone was worried that the uranium could be used to make bombs or other dangerous weapons.
Well thats reassuring i thought they had shipped thaf material to tennessee
Full moon:
The way things are going, won’t be long before minors will be requesting, and allowed to be, surgically joined together
———
I thought that too. But today’s narcissists can’t even conceive of the empathy these 2 sisters have.
Then there’s this:
Eastern Libyan [soldiers?] say they have recovered the missing uranium.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/eastern-libya-forces-say-they-have-found-missing-uranium/ar-AA18IIYg
TR:
Where do you think fissile uranium (U-235) comes from? Natural uranium, via enrichment, (gas diffusion, cyclotrons, centrifuges, laser processes) after conversion chemically into uranium hexafluoride IIRC. Natural uranium contains 0.72% U-235 (stuff for bombs) so 2.5 tons, 5000 lbs, could yield a maximum of 36 lbs. The Little Boy bomb used 140 lbs. IDK how much U-235 is used in modern designs, but I assume considerablly less.
Iran wouldn’t turn down 2.5 tons of natural uranium IMO.
Haftars men are the good guys the western side is backed by qatar and turkey (the ones who brought back the taliban)
I’ve given up on Althouse. She’s quadrupled-down on the Stanford Judge debate.
But this another fine mess brought to you by graham and jacob marley (mccain) with special guest mcmuffin and kinzinger.
I thought the Stanford Judge speech was in a large auditorium and the protesters were the usual organized pussy hat, handmaiden,sign carrying , screaming mob type, like Kavanaugh hearings.
Video shows what seems to be a classroom with definitely rude but seemingly not very organized retards interrupting the judge.
Kind of dis-appointed, although the woman brought in to quell the riot was sure an ass.
Today’s financial turmoil involves efforts shore-up First Republic bank. OK.
Now that some substantial banking crises have already hit, the Federal Reserve is responding with at least two actions. I don’t entirely understand the distinction between the two lending (to troubled banks) options.
By Jacob Adelman (Barron’s)
After Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week, the Federal Reserve rolled out a new lending program aimed at making sure other regional banks with similar balance sheets don’t meet the same fate.
But the program has one potential complication: there appear to be few if any similarly situated banks.
– – –
Under the Bank Term Funding Program, as the Fed’s new facility is known, banks are eligible for low-interest government loans equaling the par value of their Treasury bonds, government-sponsored mortgage-backed securities, and other qualifying assets.
– – –
“For Silicon Valley Bank, this would have been a lifesaver,” Joseph Wang, a former trader on the Fed’s open-market desk and author of the Fed Guy blog and Central Banking 101, says of the lending program.
The second item are changes instituted to the Fed’s Discount Window operations, which if I understand it correctly, are a fundamental rescue lending option of the Fed that is always in place.
The Discount Window and Discount Rate
The Discount Window
Federal Reserve lending to depository institutions (the “discount window”) plays an important role in supporting the liquidity and stability of the banking system and the effective implementation of monetary policy. By providing ready access to funding, the discount window helps depository institutions manage their liquidity risks efficiently and avoid actions that have negative consequences for their customers, such as withdrawing credit during times of market stress. Thus, the discount window supports the smooth flow of credit to households and businesses.
On March 15, the Board announced changes to the discount window. These changes included the following:
Narrowing the spread of the primary credit rate relative to the general level of overnight interest rates to help encourage more active use of the window by depository institutions to meet unexpected funding needs.
Announcing that depository institutions may borrow from the discount window for periods as long as 90 days, prepayable and renewable by the borrower on a daily basis.
These changes are effective March 16, and will remain in effect until the Board announces otherwise. The press release announcing these changes can be found here.
The Discount Rate
The discount rate is the interest rate charged to commercial banks and other depository institutions on loans they receive from their regional Federal Reserve Bank’s lending facility—the discount window. The Federal Reserve Banks offer three types of credit to depository institutions: primary credit, secondary credit, and seasonal credit, each with its own interest rate. All discount window loans are fully secured.
The discount rate on secondary credit is higher than the rate on primary credit. The rate for seasonal credit is an average of selected market rates. Rates are established by each Reserve Bank’s board of directors, subject to the review and determination of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The rates for the three lending programs are the same across all Reserve Banks.
I’m guessing that the first option, the “Bank Term Funding Program” is unlimited in its loan duration, unlike the discount window. A little over my head to know for sure.
Speaking of gay stuuf, I attended a high school graduation at Soquel High School in Santa Cruz Ca several years ago.
Santa Cruz is home to CalState Santa Cruz, where Angela Davis teaches and almost seems right leaning compared to other professors.
Anyway, during awards ceremony, lots of cheering and appreciation for particular students, sports team, the usual.
When a somewhat giddy female administrator, holding up a framed certificate, proudly announced that Soquel has one some kind of award for gay rights, I expected a standing ovation.
To say the favorable reaction was sparse would be an understatement. Majority of attendees response was to share a WTF? look while shaking shrugging their shoulders and frowning.
Surprised me, ’cause I thought the whole city was on board the gay and trans train.
The link to the Fed’s discount window page.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/discountrate.htm
The Barron’s is from inside my secure brokerage account.
Fullmoon,
Angela Davis is a prof. at UC Santa Cruz. I gave a guest lecture there a long time ago.
Also long ago, I recall meeting a nice young women who was taking a class or course at UCSC. She was also an Army or Navy officer. Not sure which now. That was all fine and dandy, until uniform day rolled around. She was required to wear her uniform throughout that day including to her UCSC class. She never got treated respectfully again, especially by the prof. She knew that was going to happen, and it did.
Who knows? With your story maybe things are improving a bit. Or Soquel is a little different.
March 16, 2020. Three years ago today.
Nobody in this clip should ever have any position of power in government ever again.
No one.
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1636450152842944518
Democrats doing what Democrats do….
“Watch: Border Patrol Chief Testifies Border Is Not Secure, Wall Needed”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/watch-border-patrol-chief-testifies-border-not-secure-wall-needed
Key grafs:
“During testimony before the House Wednesday, Border Patrol chief Raúl Ortiz contradicted Biden administration officials by stating that there is a full on crisis on the southern border, urging that it is not secure, and calling for a wall to be built.
“Biden officials, including DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, have repeatedly claimed that the border is under control, yet Ortiz confirmed that there is no operational control of the entire southern border….
“…Ortiz went on to talk about the numbers flooding the border…
“…Elsewhere during the hearing, Ortiz said it was a mistake to stop building President Trump’s wall. He also defended the agents who were accused and cleared of whipping migrants while on horseback…
“…Not a single Democrat was present at the hearing…” [Emphasis mine; Barry M.]
No doubt they wouldn’t hesitate to refer to Border Patrol Chief Ortiz as “So-called…”
Thread detailing Fauci’s Awesome Adventure, most of the information from Robert Kennedy jr’s book, but several things I had wondered about are addressed.
Links and document screecaps at the Tweets.
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1636123938911825920
I used to defend Dubya, back in the day. He was put in a hard situation early in his term, and I thought he did better than he was getting credit for.
Not any more.
Hah.
Blew that one.
I did not know that key fact.
He had his finger in every pandemic pie, and was getting paid for each of them.
Plus what he got from Pharma.
Links for every year to the receipts.
Not the only time he lied.
There is no circle in hell low enough.
On the drug abuse front, I saw an article today on the local NBC affiliate that I had to read twice, and research a bit, to take seriously. People are smoking embalming fluid, often laced with PCP. There’s a bill in the legislature (status unknown) to make embalming fluid a controlled substance.
https://www.wral.com/mother-who-lived-in-fear-of-son-getting-high-on-embalming-fluid-now-pushing-for-law-change/20766011/
AesopFan:
Apropos of filthy lucre, it isn’t just Tony who is paid well: Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, is the chief bioethicist at the NIH and is paid at least $234,000 per year. Both Faucis made out like the proverbial bandits during the pandemic– details of their ill-gotten wealth here: https://nypost.com/2022/09/29/fauci-and-wifes-wealth-skyrocketed-by-5m-during-pandemic-analysis/
and here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2022/01/15/disclosures-released-dr-fauci-household-profits-exceeded-17-million-in-2020–included-income-royalties-travel-perks-and-investment-gains/?sh=28531b837d5f
I’ve noted before that fauci in Italian refers to the jaws of a predatory animal (“finire nelle fauci di un lupo” means “to end in the jaws of a wolf”) or to the mouth of a volcano. One online dictionary even uses our Tony as an example of “fauci” in context:
https://dictionary.reverso.net/italian-english/fauci/
Kate said, “People are smoking embalming fluid . . . .”
“Dr.” Jill had better keep an eye on Brandon’s hangers-on . . . .
embalming fluid, what madness is this about,
Here you go, only fit for the dead to consume:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalming_chemicals
see “Wouldn’t be prudent.”
or consumption of TidePods
or Gender disphoria
Youth is a dangerous phase of life.
I just can’t imagine what on earth would cause any person, even a young and foolish person, to consider using embalming fluid to get high.
Oh, great, now that it has been publicized, there will be a run on embalming fluid.
Gonna have to go to Costco and stock up.
Hi om,
Yes, those points are true. I have heard that natural uranium can be made into weapons-grade uranium.
But, as far as I know- Libya, [and any low budget terrorist groups that might get or steal the natural uranium, like Al-Qaeda, Isis, and AQ’s + Isis’ friends], don’t have the high-level scientists, or the high-level technology, to make the natural uranium into: nuclear-weapons-grade uranium, +/or uranium-235.
When the Libyan governments, or anyone in Libya, or…[not to put Libya in a bad light]…the terrorist groups I’ve mentioned, get: [the needed…high-level scientists] and [the needed…high-level technology] for that job, then I’ll be concerned about the possible, weapons making by those groups.
Kate–
Kids have been using all kinds of weird things to get high since the glory days of the counterculture; I can remember when ER docs used to see hippies who had mixed a full can of powdered nutmeg in a glass of milk and drank the stuff expecting to have an LSD-type experience. Then there were kids who huffed glue, nail polish remover, canned air (gas dusters), freon from air conditioners, and other inhalants. The manufacturers of the canned air used to clean out computers eventually had to add a bitterant to their product to discourage kids from huffing it.
A summary of the medical consequences of inhalant abuse can be found here: https://americanaddictioncenters.org/inhalant-abuse/side-effects
One must add that the nineteenth-century medical profession set the first bad example of substance abuse: ether frolics, in which medical students would get together of an evening to inhale ether and laugh at one another as they fell off the stage of the lecture hall or babble unintelligibly. In fact, Crawford Long, the first American surgeon to use ether as an anesthetic (1842), got the idea to do so because he had participated in ether frolics in medical school.
One last note: As ’tis the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, we should remember the ether-drinking craze in Ireland that started in the late 1840s in response to people taking “the pledge” to abstain from alcohol. A doctor in County Derry discovered that one could get pleasantly drunk on ether while abstaining from demon rum, so he started dispensing ether to his patients and friends as a way to obtain the pleasures of alcohol without violating “the pledge.”
From an article on the Irish ether craze: “Ether drinking spread rapidly throughout Ireland, particularly in the North, and the substance soon could be purchased from grocers, druggists, publicans, and even traveling salesmen. Because ether was produced in bulk for certain industrial uses, it could also be obtained quite inexpensively. Its low price and rapid action meant than even the poorest could afford to get drunk several times a day on it. By the 1880s ether, distilled in England or Scotland, was being imported and widely distributed to even the smallest villages.”
The stuff had its downsides, though: “These include a truly awful smell and taste, coupled with a strong burning sensation while the foul stuff is going down. Plus, it makes you drool like a Saint Bernard dog on a hot summer day, not to mention stimulating truly monumental burps and farts. These aren’t normal emissions—they are laden with highly flammable ether vapors. You can imagine what happened when an ether drinker would light up a pipe and belch or sit down by an open fire and break wind. Severe burns at either end of the alimentary canal were a common hazard.”
Full article here: http://davidlinden.org/blog/the-irish-ether-drinking.html
Maybe the author will follow up with an article on the abuse of embalming fluid!
Hi Pa+Cat,
I like the trivia about the drug-substitutes that don’t work.
In my high school + grade schools the fabled, pot or cocaine substitute, was: frying banana skins.
(I guess you fry the skins, then try to smoke them like joints.)
Friends of mine who tried it, tell me it doesn’t work.
I didn’t try it, myself. Frying banana skins would probably smell-up my family’s house + get me caught. 🙂
TR–
Did you ever try chewing morning glory seeds? They were supposed to be a safe alternative to LSD, but most users got little from them except nausea and diarrhea.
Hi Pa+Cat,
*snnrrrk* Bwa Ha Ha Ha!
Thanks for the info on the morning glory seeds, but- I think I’ll strongly avoid [that] type of recreation. 🙂
TR:
Lybia gave up it’s nuclear weapons program under Kydaffi IIRC. That uranium was for the canceled program IIRC. Syria had a program. Pakistan succeeded with its nuclear weapons program as did North Korea, remember? Iran has its own program going strong right now. The nuclear weapons genie is out of the bottle. But other programs are more practical to non-nation states. IIRC weapons capable of causing multitudes of civilian deaths, what was the phrase (?), were a national concern in the early years if this century for some reason.
Must have been those merchants of death.
Hi om,
Cool. Thanks for the info. 🙂
TR:
Here is some related information and analysis about the Libyan uranium and how “we” got here:
https://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2023/03/12-years-untold-misery-no-accountability.html
BHO, HRC, and Brandon of course.
Hi om,
Thanks for the link.
After looking at the information that I have, I’m going to stick with my original comment.
No slight meant to anyone, but, I personally know the person who told me about the properties of uranium-235. He is a professional scientist, + his scientific knowledge is extensive. I have to go with his viewpoint on the uranium in Libya.
I have to go with the knowledge from the people that I know from off of the web.