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Re: blood glucose meters - Yesterday
I'm using the freestyle lite and the test strips are supplied by Medicare. They parcel out the strip refills depending on your level of treatment -- ie: if you are on insulin you get more. By the way, it is possible to test by getting blood from the thigh, which is a lot less sensitive than the finger tip. Theoretically the finger stick is supposed to be better for checking low blood sugar, buby Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: COMEDY: 'About 700 people expected for 'J6' rally, DHS official says' - 4 days ago
Back in my day, I think we called this the government spying on the public. I can understand looking at social media posts, which are kind of -- by definition -- out there in the public domain. But the part about checking on hotel reservations would have been kind of creepy in the 1960s environment.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: 9/11 memories - 7 days ago
The phone rang at 6:45 AM west coast time. It was my stepson who was, at the time, in his first year as a commercial airline pilot with a commuter line which flew between New England, DC, Cincinnati, and a few other places. His first words to me were that he was OK, but we should turn on the television because something had happened involving a plane hitting the WTC in New York. I told him to talby Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: Newsom recall chances fading - 15 days ago
My biggest problem with writing about Newsom was whether or not to put an e on the end of his name. Other than that, he is a fairly run of the mill California Democrat who comes out of the San Francisco side of the party and apparently had parental connections and, I think, comes from money. That would parallel a lot of successful elected ranging from President Adams to George W Bush to FDR to JFby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan granted parole - 21 days ago
When Sirhan killed RFK, he gave up his right to life. Upon lawful conviction in a court of law, his life is subject to what the people of California decide. He has no fundamental right to get out of prison. If he is released, it would be an act of mercy. The argument as to whether he is no longer a danger to the public strikes me as irrelevant -- if we think he is still a danger, we would not relby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan granted parole - 22 days ago
Unlikely that the governor will OK the release. I remember seeing the aftermath on television.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Walensky: Schools not following CDC guidance seeing 'large-scale' outbreaks - 22 days ago
We need a safe and effective vaccine for all school age children. We may be close. Of course the disinformation campaign will continue, but we need to make it available as soon as possible. Probably it will be a lower dose of the Pfizer or Moderna. An aside: One local reporter interviewed members of a group here in the Los Angeles area who have a fairly low dose rate. A number of them were afrby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Murderous swine: 'Abbott bans Covid vaccine mandates in Texas, regardless of FDA approval status' - 23 days ago
QuoteN-OS X-tasy! At what point can a public official be arrested for deliberately acting in direct conflict with the public good? Giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war would be one. Taking or soliciting bribes would be another. I suppose intentionally destroying a levy during a flood would also suffice. On the other hand, congressman Dan Sickles shot a man dead just down from tby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Night shift check in - 23 days ago
Just curious. What ever happened to the ritual in which the night shift checked in? How many currently active participants were part of that?by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: “Locomotive” going off a ramp for Mission Impossible flick - 24 days ago
Buster Keaton did it long ago (with a real locomotive) in The General. It didn't go over a cliff, but the effect was equally good (better, probably).by Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: Sirhan Sirhan is seeking parole and might actually be released - 24 days ago
I imagine others will attend to oppose his parole.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Apathetic voters could hand California recall to Republicans: ‘Folks seem unaware’ - 24 days ago
Elder is actually nice enough when you talk to him on the radio. It's his politics that are the problem.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Delta Air - get vaccinated or pay $200/month - 24 days ago
I don't want unvaccinated flight attendants on the airplane I fly.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Okay, WiseGuy, what's YOUR Afghanistan plan? - 25 days ago
The problem is that Biden was not in a place politically where he could negotiate a surrender with the Taliban, although that would have been a way to solve today's problems with America's supporters and people with American visas who are not at the airport. But that is not what anybody could do politically. Biden and aides had to pretend (or even hope) that the Afghan government and army woulby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: that's all I can 'stan, I can't 'stanz no more?!.....President Biden delivers remarks on Afghanistan..... - 29 days ago
This is the problem of announcing a pullout without simultaneously negotiating a surrender on honorable terms. Did anybody really expect the former government to stay in power? And knowing that there was a good probability that the Taliban would take over, there should have been an agreement that everybody who wants to leave gets to leave. Now that the Taliban are a national government, perhapby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Alabama doc refuses to treat unvaccinated - 29 days ago
Children who have not had the MMR vaccine are at risk of getting measles, which is one of the most contagious diseases. They should not be in the waiting room with other children who are too young to be vaccinated. A doctor who allows unvaccinated adults to be in his/her waiting room is potentially endangering other patients, and if there are two of them, they endanger each other.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: How to generate "super-immunity" to nearly all known coronaviruses... - 30 days ago
Maybe this would also prevent a substantial fraction of common colds, since some of them are corona virus based.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: COVID deniers remind me of the black knight from the holy grail - 5 weeks ago
You are in good company. The author of Respectful Insolence has been using the Black Knight analogy too, mostly for the vaccine deniers.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: cyclist rant - 5 weeks ago
Yeah, there was this one time that a group of bicyclists coming down from the Palos Verdes Peninsula came through Pacific Ave in San Pedro. That street had a pretty wide bike lane on the right side, but this group (must have been a club) were bunched up and spread out well into the driving lane to the immediate left. The result was that auto traffic got backed up and drivers had to move over to tby Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: SUPERSPREADER!! South Dakota’s Sturgis rally roars back as delta rising - 5 weeks ago
I have been to Sturgis. Technically, we were there a day or so before the official start, but the place was already getting crowded. I still have my Sturgis 2000 tee shirt, although I am not anxious to wear it nowadays because I'm annoyed (understatement) at the S Dak governor and establishment for allowing last year's rally and taking no precautions. The Main Street is lined with souvenir shoby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: sausage and eggs for breakfast - 6 weeks ago
Is that the place that used to be a train station, right across from the convention center? I was once at an Endocrine Society meeting and went to the giant market pretty much every day I was there. We have a place in Los Angeles called the Farmers' Market which is sort of similar, in that it has lots of small concessions where you can get everything from food to drink to toys. The new Grove wby Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: Another day, another… - 6 weeks ago
Quoteabevilac If I’m reading the article correctly, he went to the hospital on Sunday and was dead by Wednesday. Yikes - that’s fast. He probably had had it for a while, and only went to the hospital because he was deathly ill.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: LA County issues mandatory vaccination order... - 6 weeks ago
Maybe we should bring back the equivalent of draft boards, where they get to decide whether you really qualify as a conscientious objector. My guess is that the intent is that most people who have just been lazy or a little hesitant will get the shot, and the truly crazy ones will trade information about how to do a religious objection. Maybe they could get the vaccination rate up to 90 or 95%by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: masks on or masks off - 6 weeks ago
Seeing a lot of masking in Los Angeles but not counting them. There is pretty high compliance on vaccination but of course there is a minority of vaccination resisters. We'll see whether they start to come around, what with an increasing Covid death toll. I wear the mask in places where it is appropriate, which is pretty much all indoor places right now. it's interesting to see all the people weaby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: CDC stats on breakthrough infection (minus the media hysteria) - 6 weeks ago
That looks like a mortality of one in a hundred thousand for the vaccinated population, which is comparable to non-melanoma skin cancer over the course of a year -- in other words, not zero, but pretty low compared to the really dangerous stuff like riding in a car. I am cautiously optimistic that we won't see a super-variant (at least for a while) because every single nucleotide in the RNA gby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: This should be interesting: FLA officials and others bucking DeSantis as cases soar - 7 weeks ago
I can say no to school closures and to lockdowns based on science. This jerk is basing every decision on politics, and extremist politics at that. At some point our recommendations may overlap, but it's merely by chance.by Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: Surprise! (Not.) Georgia nuke plants delayed *again*, with more cost overruns - 7 weeks ago
It's too bad that we don't make better use of fission energy considering the need to minimize usage of fossil fuels. I'd like to see substantial research and development on alternative systems, in particular the ones that are safe after loss of power or loss of coolant etc. I don't pretend any expertise on the subject, but I've seen various reviews of different reactor types that sort of makeby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: seeking recommendations for non-US tv series - 7 weeks ago
Thou Shalt Not Kill is an Italian detective drama set in Turin and starring Miriam Leone. The Italian title is Non Uccidere. It is extremely well edited and acted, and has strong musical scoring. It's been showing in odd order on a couple of PBS stations in the Los Angeles area but is available on Amazon Prime. It is definitely noir.by Ca Bob - Tips and Deals
Re: Nosey Poll for Gun Owners to help DeusX - 8 weeks ago
This story goes back a ways, but it involves sworn testimony in a murder case. The guy who shot my friend to death was arrested by the LAPD on a tip about six weeks after the shooting. He was taken into an interrogation room and interviewed with the recorder running. He implicated the guy who hired him and explained that the other guy had brought him a pistol (which turned out to be a 357 magnumby Ca Bob - 'Friendly' Political Ranting
Re: new to me - short view - 2 months ago
You can actually get packaged gyro, at least at the TJs around here.by Ca Bob - Tips and Deals