Wednesday 25th October 2023

Leftist playbook, exactly what the Biden regime did to stop the truth coming out. Albanese will use the Voice and his opinion of what misinformation is to push through the bill on this, and the real reason is yo steal the next election. The LAST people I would trust to impose their view of truth is the government!

I just signed the petition and wanted to see if you knew about this and if you could help by adding your name.

You can read more and sign the petition here:

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” -Bob Marley

A day in the life!
Thanks Karen Hardy and Whitney Koenig!

Yesterday I overheard a nursing student snark, “Yeah, this is why I’m in nursing school - so I can pass trays.”

And if I hadn’t been up to my eyeballs in other things to do for my patients, I would have stopped and said: You’ve already missed the point entirely. I’m not sure why you DO think you’re here. If you hope to be a good nurse (or coworker, or person with a heart), you’re going to spend the majority of your working life doing things you SO mistakenly think are beneath you. You are going to pass trays with a smile - excitement even, when your patient finally gets to try clear liquids. You will even open the milk and butter the toast and cut the meat. You will feed full-grown adults from those trays, bite by tedious, hard-to-swallow bite. You will, at times, get your own vital signs or glucoscans, empty Foley bags and bedside commodes without thinking twice. You will reposition the same person, move the same three pillows, 27 times in one shift because they can’t get comfortable. You will not only help bathe patients, but wash and dry between the toes they can’t reach. Lotion and apply deodorant. Scratch backs. Nystatin powder skin folds. Comb hair. Carefully brush teeth and dentures. Shave an old man’s wrinkled face.

Because these things make them feel more human again. You will NOT delegate every “code brown,” and you will handle them with a mix of grace and humor so as not to humiliate someone who already feels quite small. You will change ostomy appliances and redress infected and necrotic wounds and smell smells that stay with you, and you will work hard not to show how disgusted you may feel because you will remember that this person can’t walk away from what you have only to face for a few moments. You will fetch ice and tissues and an extra blanket and hunt down an applesauce when you know you don’t have time to. You will listen sincerely to your patient vent when you know you don’t have time to. You will hug a family member, hear them out, encourage them, bring them coffee the way they like it, answer what you may feel are “stupid” questions - twice even - when you don’t have time to.

You won’t always eat when you’re hungry or pee when you need to because there’s usually something more important to do. You’ll be aggravated by Q2 narcotic pushes, but keenly aware that the person who requires them is far more put upon. You will navigate unbelievably messy family dramas, and you will be griped at for things you have no control over, and be talked down to, and you will remain calm and respectful (even though you’ll surely say what you really felt to your coworkers later), because you will try your best to stay mindful of the fact that while this is your everyday, it’s this patient or family’s high-stress situation, a potential tragedy in the making.

Many days you won’t feel like doing any of these things, but you’ll shelve your own feelings and do them the best you can anyway.

HIPAA will prevent you from telling friends, family, and Facebook what your work is really like. They’ll guess based off what ridiculousness Gray’s Anatomy and the like make of it, and you’ll just have to haha at the poop and puke jokes. But your coworkers will get it, the way this work of nursing fills and breaks, fills and breaks your heart. Fellow nurses, doctors, NPs and PAs, CNAs and PCAs, unit clerks, phlebotomists, respiratory therapists, physical and occupational therapists, speech therapists, transport, radiology, telemetry, pharmacy techs, lab, even dietary and housekeeping -- it’s a team sport.

And you’re not set above the rest as captain. You will see you need each other, not just to complete the obvious tasks but to laugh and cry and laugh again about these things only someone else who’s really been there can understand. You will see clearly that critical thinking about and careful delivery of medications are only part of the very necessary care you must provide. Blood gushing adrenaline-pumping code blue ribs breaking beneath your CPR hands moments are also part, but they’re not what it’s all about.

The “little” stuff is rarely small. It’s heavy and you can’t carry it by yourself.

So yes, little nursling, you are here to pass trays.

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.” ~Søren Kierkegaard
(Book: The Essential Kierkegaard https://amzn.to/3MoWjCy)
(Art: Photograph of a hiker at Trnovacko Lake in Montenegro)

Print this out and give to your young ones, then maybe someday...

Averaging by its very nature smooths: removing peaks and troughs. Temperature data tends to be cyclical, whether on a one-minute, or thousand-year scale. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has made a habit of smoothing when it is convenient and using extreme values otherwise. Take their one-minute temperature data from Canberra Airport: super-sensitive electronic equipment now records the highest, lowest, and last second of each minute and reports the highest second as the daily maximum temperature. Back in 2019 I purchased some of this data to test the Bureau’s claim that averaging the data would make no difference. I found that averaging the last one-second of each minute always gave me a lower maximum temperature. This is because the difference between the the highest and the last second could typically be 0.7 degrees Celsius as shown in Figure 17 – that is from a comprehensive report I co-authored in 2020. I have so far been unable to get this report published in a suitable peer-reviewed journal perhaps because it contradicts the Bureau’s much lauded Ayers and Warne (2020) analysis that comes to the opposite conclusion.

Adam Savage walks through two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries that came from simple, creative ideas anyone could have thought of.

I have just watched a video (link below) where three ex-members of the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) express incredulity over the lack of early warning of the Hamas attack on Israelis and the lack of standard procedure applied in the area where Hamas breached border security and the 12 hour delay to respond.

They said the surveillance is so sophisticated that soldiers watching the video screens of the area know when a bird approaches the border, let alone when a group of terrorists blow up part of the fence.

One said there was no way this could have occurred without complicity by senior officials.

Which when you consider that part of the border where Hamas attacked was deliberately left unmanned by a transfer of regular guards from there to the West Bank, the fact that the music festival was moved to that area with two days notice, and the Egyptians warned Israel that something major was coming, all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle appear to be in place for it to warrant being investigated as a false flag operation to justify the genocide of Palestinians and the seizure of their land.

I have a suggestion of how to repatriate the hostages taken by Hamas.

Tell Hamas you need 30 days to organize a trade. Organise a cease-fire.

In that time convene an impartial, independent, top level investigation into the above data to determine if there was complicity by anyone, from the PM down.

If there was, all the person’s assets should be used to provide reparations to the injured and families of the deceased and they should be traded to Hamas for the hostages.

Once you have removed the persons standing as barriers to peace then look at the actions that would bring about a lasting, equitable resolution to that which stands in the way of peaceful coexistence.

It is shockingly barbaric that this so-called civilization persists in trading an eye for an eye after continually and consistently proving that it does not bring peace.

Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

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