FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE, SOME THOUGHTS on electronic health records and privacy.

I originally wrote that post on January 13, 2010 and in the last 14 years have been proven right on every single assertion. My health records have been compromised/hacked, most recently in January and February of this year and I have had spam emails in my inbox within hours (hell, minutes) of leaving my doctor's office. On my streaming television service over 60% of the advertisements -- and there lots of them -- are directed at senior health services.

In that earlier post, I wrote that "electronic health records are about control - not care." In that statement I was a bit off; I should have written 'government health care' in place of 'electronic health records' in the certainty that some progressive politician (Kamala?) would resurrect that Bernie Sanders nightmare.

REPORT: Artifical Iintelligence chatbots give increasingly liberal answers to questions on gun control and crime.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "artifical intelligence is no smarter than the dumbest programmer and just as biased." Its only saving grace is that it is fast.

JD VANCE'S REACTION to a woman's screams at his North Carolina rally a reminder of how good he is.

NO, FORCE IT TO LIVE WITHIN ITS CORE RESPONSIBILITIES: Congress must ensure full funding for FEMA.

REVENGE: What's up with Joe?

IT'S ONLY MONEY (which we don't have): Kamala Harris’s irresponsible proposal to expand Medicare.

NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD admits they 'rotor washed' a hurricane Helene relief site. But here's the nut graf: the North Carolina National Guard reports directly to Gov. Roy Cooper, who said

"Politicians, billionaires and grifters who peddle lies during a time of crisis should be held accountable." ... Cooper should definitely be held accountable. The "unprecedented response" he crows about had little to do with him and everything to do with billionaires like Elon Musk, the relief organizations, and the incredible Americans who entered the breach and were the first to respond. Instead, Cooper chose to cozy up to FEMA heads and play at CENTCOM from his cushy office and home in Raleigh, while the people he hindered and maligned were the ones doing the work of saving lives and offering hope.

If you can vote him out do so.

BREAKING: Third Trump assassination attempt thwarted.

And the suspect was released? YGBFKM!

JOHN STOSSEL on the real cost of free money.

THE "NATIONAL SECURITY LEADERS FOR AMERICA" expose themselves as partisan agents with their ill-advised one-sided endorsements.

The 3-letter national 'securitiy' agancies are the Deep State writ large hiding behind their security clearance blanket.....

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DONOR who cut ties with his alma mater redirects millions to Israeli universities instead.

FALLING LEAVES 2024 WEEK 4: Here is this week's threesome.

I changed picture location a bit this week to get slightly better views up and down our road. Not a whole lot has changed. We haven't had any cold nights yet, so there haven't been any significant color changes and last week's breezes took down most of the dead leaves (and a few branches to go into the fire pit tonight), so -- not a lot of change.

I did go down to the pond yesterday and here are two pictures taken from our dock. No leaf fall yet, but at least some color change. I'm hoping for more.

Until next week....

KAMALA HARRIS just cut Trump's closing campaign ad for him.

Compare Harris' response with that of Vice President George W. Bush's response when he was campaigning to follow President Reagan (second bullet point).

HEH: Elon Musk speculated about why Vice President Kamala Harris is getting backed by certain billionaires: they may be connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

It's funny (in the ha-ha sense) but frankly I wouldn't be surprised. At it's core, the Deep State is very shallow.