Bowel Obstruction? #1

    I made multiple calls today to my physican's assistant's office and to the Walmart pharmacy with no success. This looks like it's going to be ugly so I want to start documenting now.
    The male nurse, Mark, came out to the reception area to get me. I had just finished kidding with Mickey, one of the receptionist. Joking, she had seen me come in and got off her stool to hide behind it. I laughed, and she brightened up my day. Mark escorted me down the hall, asking how I was. I replied appropriately. He pointed to a room and went into it, sitting in a chair. "Not that. There," he said, pointing to the examining bed. I go up and sat on it. Without a further word, he sat down at a chair and opened up the laptop on the desk. As he pored over the laptop, I finally opened my Wall Street Journal and began reading too. Then I felt him staring at me. I looked up, and he asked rather haughtily, "Are you ready?"
    After he took my vitals, he returned to his laptop. I said, "Just tell me when you're ready, okay?" He refused to reply. I picked up my newspaper and started reading again. Suddenly, he got up and without a word, left the examining room. I had no idea what was going on with him. In a few minutes, Paul, the physician's assistant and a very young woman carrying some sort of machine entered the room. Mark didn't bother to mention her, her machine, or why she was there. It was cold, especially after Mark's rude behavior. Mark had silently left the room to get Paul because I had broken through my first blood pressure pill, which I knew, and would have to begin a second one.
    This is the beginning of a story written because I am feeling like I need to go to the bathroom at any moment. My stomach feels full, but in the last three days I have had one Subway sub and a PBJ sandwhich. I have no appetite. Sunday, I had blood in the toilet after a "bowel movement" - a couple of pebble sized pieces. I called Mark last Friday to discuss my symptoms and tell him I thought I had a bowel obstruction. When he called back, he said, "One thing I can tell you is that you don't have a bowel obstruction because you're going to the bathroom." I thought that was a rather snarky observation. How about a partial obstruction? He ordered X-rays. I immediately drove over to pick up the order and went to the hospital to have them done. Paul would have them in two days. I started calling at 9:05 today. I've learned that Paul has them, but he didn't call me back today. I am out of antidepressants but can't get any because Paul didn't send over to Walmart notification that I had increased the number taken per day.
    If I don't hear something from Paul's office, I'm going over there with this tomorrow morning for the staff's reading pleasure. I'm going to make something happen. But why the difficulty?
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

"Free Education"

    The sneaky collectivists are now calling the crazy, high tax scheme to give everybody a free college education not as "free college education" but as "free education". I heard radio and talk show host, Tom Hartman, refer to being for "free education" yesterday. At first, I thought,"What? We already have public education which is 'free' - funded by the tax payers." Then I realized the little weasel was referring to "free college education." He was taking out "college" to mask an unpopular idea. That is called lying by omission, Tom. Shame on you!
Don't you know that most of your listeners are rationally challenged, and you shouldn't be taking such liberties with them? Don't let the human weasels (I love real weasels (especially the wolverine whom I consider the Navy Seal of the animal world) reframe the terms. The collectivists favorite tool as they lack logic, reason, and evidence is to use derision. Use derision back on them. If they say, "free education," you ask back something like "Free college education is what you mean. Why can't you just be honest?" or you pepper it up a little by asking sarcastically, "Why can't you be transparent? You're talking about free college education!"
    You don't want to support "free" college education for a number of reasons. Prima facie, it is a lie. Nothing's free except the free lunches at the restaurants that use to offer them. The problem was you were expected to spend a lot of monty on beer with your free lunch, thus making up for the cost of giving you a free lunch. I will bet that if you didn't buy beer and only ate the free lunch, you would not be welcomed for long. The taxpayer will pay for the "free" college education, and so will be the college students when they graduate in four to ten years. You can be sure they will extend their stay in "free" college as long as possible. Second, if there is "free" college, you will have people all over the world sneaking into America for "free" college just as they are presently sneaking in for "free" medical care in our emergency rooms. Have you noticed how more and more emergency rooms are closing because they can't afford to be giving away "free" medical care? Third, providing the government employees to administer giving away "free" college education will be very expensive because federal government employees get salaries and benefits (more money) that are far higher than what most taxpayers get. You get these government employees in, and they will lobby and donate for more programs, meaning more taxes. For example, when I lived in Virginia it was a conservative state. But with the explosion of federal workers working in D.C. but living and voting in Virginia, these federal government employees have changed Virginia's conservatism in the direction of liberalism (high taxes, and increased laws and regulations on the backs of every individual and every business.)
    "Free" college education is an immature idea shared by children and adults who want something for nothing. Like the free lunches at the restaurants, it doesn't happen for long. There's always a price. Walk away from "free college education and speak out against it. Don't be a slob who gets drunk on lies.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Obama More White Than Black

    President Obama was the son of a white woman and an African male.  I do not know if his father's African blood was diluted with Arabic blood. Muslim Arabs entered Africa to capture Africans to take back to Arabia as slaves. While there,they raped many African women and impregnated them. The Muslim Arabs invaded, raped, and took away Africans for Arabic use for hundreds of years. Thus, much African blood is not pure African but Arabic as well. Let's say this is not true of Obama and that he is half white and half African, though his long, elevated nose and magisterial manner remind me of an Arabic prince not an African. However, I say he is more white than black because he was raised by his white mother without his black father.  His African father deserted the family to study in America. He could have taken Obama and his wife, but he didn't. There was a large number of years in which Obama's father did not even visit him. Obama's black father remarried and started another family. Obama's mother did not desert Obam by putting him into foster care or leaving him at the door of the local fire station or by going to graduate studies in America. She raised Obama and eventually married an Indonesian, and they left Hawaii to live in Indonesia where Obama attended a Muslim school.
    To conclude, Obama was half white and, if his father had no Arabic blood, half black. But because he was raised by a white mother after his black father deserted him to go to school (he could have brought his wife and son with him),
my reason and my precious, though often totally unrealistic, feelings tell me that I am justified in saying that Obama, who is by blood just as white as he is black -if his father had no Arab blood, is by culture more white than black because his white mother stuck with him and raised him, unlike his black father. President Obama, who was never a black president, is actually more white than black thanks to his white mother not abandoning him as his black father did.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of 68, William and Mary

Police Pursue Intelligently

    I am beginning to establish a practice of going to the woods on religious days to be closer to God or at least to feel that way. Last Sunday, I headed north of Brattleboro, Vermont after a nice dinner with some of the family. I was on Route 30 when two little cars roared by me at high speeds, their tiny motors running at a high pitch. I turned off the main road to head up a mountain, considering calling the police. But then I looked down the mountain, and there was a police cruiser coming up the highway. He obviously wasn't trying to catch them but was just tailing behind them as he and others used radios and care for the idiot drivers and the innocent people driving along Route 30.
    I thought about how unlike that tactic would be in the Florida, where I have spent considerable time. There the cops would be roaring in mad pursuit of the hot-rod idiots, pushing them to drive faster and faster until they lost control of their vehicles or crashed into other vehicles. Yes, it would be much more exciting and macho to go after the speeders with top speed. Your testosterone level would find new heights, but it is not the caring thing to do.
    It is much more civilized to show empathy for the speeding idiots and the people driving around them to poke along coming up behind them and using your radio to try to block them. It's hard not to join the chase and be part of the action. I salute the officer's manliness in giving up high drama for the caring and right thing to do. He made me feel God's presence Easter night.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

Only Racists See Obama As Black

    The Stephanie Miller Show on radio is constantly identifying people according to race especially the supposedly black president Obama. Due to the surrounding mountains, it's the only talk radio show available. Obama is just as much white as he is black. He had a white mother and a black father. Liberals, socialists, and other crazies routinely refer to Obama as "black." This shows their racism because what they are ascribing to by calling Obama black when he is just as white as he is black, is the ancient racist belief that black blood is poisonous. Therefore, even one drop of black blood in a Caucasian makes that person a black. That's why black and white mixes are called mullatoes, quadtroons, octoroons, and on down. One drop of black blood negates entry into the white world. 
    Obama needs to give up this racism too. He regularly refers to himself as an Afro-American. Has he no respect for his mother? She is white. He's ignoring her entirely. That must have been very hurtful for her. I urge President Obama to be honest and respectful of his mother who brought him into this world. If he wants to go around trumpeting his racial identity (BFD!) honestly, he needs to refer to himself as Afro-European American. Act like a man, Mr. President, not a player!
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

"Free College"

    I was listening to the Tom Hartman radio show today when a rather whinny guy congratulated Comrade Hartman for being so loyal to facts unlike so many (individualist) talk show hosts who yell over the caller and make up lies. Then the guy began a discussion of "free college" thus leaving the realm of facts. The fact is that there is no such thing as free college. It will be bought by the taxpayer through the force and violence of tax laws and government employees. Each student who eventually gets paid for work will become a taxpayer unless he is working illegally. His taxes will increase to reflect the costs of Americans giving "free" college education to fellow Americans and most probably to any illegal immigrant who can slip into our country. Can you imagine how much free college with beautiful American women and drinking binges Thurday through Sunday will attract illegal immigrants in addition to everything else the American sheep provide them once they slip in?
    Right now, it would probably be cheaper to pay increased taxes for your "free" college than to pay back student loans, but not for long. Everyone will want to go to college if it's "free." Colleges have been dumbed down so much, and colleges want to keep students's tuition and fees coming in so badly, that it is not that difficult to stay in many colleges and universities and still have plenty of time to be with the pretty girls (or boys) and drink copious amounts of beer. If going to college is like going to a well-stocked resort for four years, all of America and the rest of the world will be applying to American colleges. Then they can enroll in their classes and learn how to hate individualism, private property, constitutional rights, free enterprise and hard work. All the values that make their "free" college possible.
    If you don't want to have to support this scene - and, it will be impossible to support financially, but that won't stop the crazies-  you have to use another American value- the courage to speak out, early and long. Yes, courage has a cost. This undertaking is not for the weak, the passive, and the ignorant who want to remain that way. If you protest in a legal, moral way,  you will like yourself better, be stronger for it, and will have done the right thing.
    By the way, being truthful and specific, like I have tried to be here, are qualities you should look for in your presidential choice. Do that and then decide who is the least objectionable by those standards. I'm thinking Cruz. At least we know that he is pro-economic growth and much less likely than Trump to rule by executive orders. Obama has set the stage for that, and Trump looks like he's ready to play.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary

No Drone Today

    My being a frightened person began in the womb not only by having the genes of my parents who were both anxious and frightened people, especially my father, but because I was almost aborted by government doctors serving in the Army in Anchorage immediately after WWll. My father was a thinker and a planner and arranged things so that my mother joined him at Fort Anchorage during the war. She lived in a cabin in a Eskimo village and had to walk through staked out sled dogs to get to her cabin. During the day, she worked as a civilian at Ft. Anchorage. How many soldiers during WW ll do you think were thoughtful and lucky enough to take their wives to war? Somehow my mother got pregnant with me but didn't know why she wasn't feeling well. It was apparently beyond the pay scale of the government doctors too because they decided to open her up to see what was wrong with her. Then they saw me, hastily sewed her up and kept her in the hospital for two weeks since a miscarriage was likely after such a trauma. I apparently saw the blade coming and struggled to get away from it as my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. After that, my father, to his credit, paid with his own money for my birth in a Swedish civilian hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts. The doctor said getting me unwrapped from the cord had been tricky, and I am sure there was some brain damage as my memory is bad and I am clueless about mechanics. Unfortunately, that wasn't the end of being scared witless for at the age of two when I broke some of my father's scrimshaw from Alaska, he started considering killing me. He was considering killing me or putting me into reform school and letting me know about it regularly until I left for William and Mary at 17. I never spent another night at "home" again. No wonder, aye?
    When I wrote the post about Obama deliberately abandoning Benghazi and causing the death of two Seals, an American ambassador, and a State Department communications expert, I did not know if I were the first person to write that on the Internet. If I were the first, I was afraid of the consequences.
There are many ways to kill a person, and it's documented in two books I've read that Obama goes around saying, "I'm really good a killing people" in reference to the terrorists and the hundreds of innocent Arabs killed in drone attacks with Hellfire Missiles on shots that he has personally authorized. Terrorists and innocent Arabs today, American "enemies of the state" tomorrow.
I was pleased with myself (a rarity for a person suffering from depression) when I went ahead and published the post not knowing if I were the first person in the word reporting this or not. That showed some courage and no Cruise Missile came up the Conneticutt River to Brattleboro looking for me because many people have posted about the deliberate abandoning of the four Americans at Benghazi.
    The two books I'm referring to are Double Down -around page 50 for Obama's observation, I think, and another book whose title is something like A President, A Terrorist, and A Drone. "Getting good at killing people" is mentioned, I think, around page 30 and again in the chapter end notes. It's an early chapter.
    Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of 68, William and Mary