M*A*S*H Farewell

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Today is the 40th anniversary of the M*A*S*H series finale.  The Mental Floss website has a list of 17 interesting things we might not know or remember (from an article dated February 28, 2018.)

In 1968, surgeon H. Richard Hornberger—using the nom de plume of Richard Hooker—collaborated with writer W.C. Heinz to create the book MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, based on his experiences with the 8055th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. Two years later, Robert Altman used the book as the basis for a movie about the fictional 4077th unit (he cut the number 8055 in half). Two years after that, M*A*S*H came to life again in the form of an 11-season television series. And 35 years ago today, that show culminated in the most-watched series finale in television history. Here are some facts about the show that won’t get you a Section 8.

ALAN ALDA AND JAMIE FARR SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY.

Alda (Hawkeye Pierce) was in the Army Reserve for six months in Korea. Farr enlisted, and was stationed in Japan when Red Skelton requested his services on his USO Tour through Korea. Wayne Rogers (Trapper John McIntyre) joined the U.S. Navy for a time as a ship navigator. Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicut) served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

MCLEAN STEVENSON AUDITIONED FOR HAWKEYE, AND COMEDIAN ROBERT KLEIN TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF TRAPPER JOHN.

Stevenson was convinced to take the role of Lt. Colonel Henry Blake instead. As for Klein, he denied a claim that he lived to regret the decision.

LARRY GELBART WROTE THE PILOT IN TWO DAYS FOR $25,000.

The veteran screenwriter had been living in London after growing tired of Hollywood, but he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to try to adapt Robert Altman’s movie for television audiences.

KLINGER WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE IN ONE EPISODE.

He was also supposed to be gay. Jamie Farr’s character was changed to a heterosexual who cross-dressed to try to get himself kicked out of Korea. Allegedly, the Klinger character was influenced by comedian Lenny Bruce’s claim that he got discharged from the Navy for claiming to have “homosexual tendencies.”

ONLY THE NETWORK WANTED THE LAUGH TRACK.

Gelbart and executive producer Gene Reynolds were against the canned laughter; unfortunately, CBS knew of no other way to present a 30-minute “comedy.” Gelbart and Reynolds did manage to get the network to agree to take out the laughing during the scenes in the operating room, and as the seasons progressed, the track got quieter and quieter. In the U.K., the BBC omitted the laugh track entirely.

CBS DIDN’T WANT ONE “UNPATRIOTIC” EPISODE.

An episode where soldiers stand outside in the freezing cold so that they can make themselves sick enough to be sent home was rejected by CBS. That soldier tactic was apparently actually used during the Korean War.

THE WRITERS CAME UP WITH AN INGENIOUS WAY OF DEALING WITH SCRIPT COMPLAINTS.

After growing tired of having to listen to cast members’ notes about their scripts, M*A*S*H writer Ken Levine and his fellow scribes changed their script on two occasions so that the actors were forced to pretend it was parka weather on 90- to 100-degree days on their Malibu ranch set. They took the hint and the “ticky tack” notes stopped.

WAYNE ROGERS WAS ABLE TO LEAVE THE SHOW BECAUSE HE NEVER SIGNED A CONTRACT.

Rogers was threatened with a breach of contract lawsuit. The problem was that he had never signed a deal, objecting to the standard contract given to TV actors when he had started playing Trapper John, particularly the “morals clause,” which he considered antiquated. Rogers said that aside from missing the cast—and his friendship with Alda in particular—he had no regrets about leaving the show after season three.

ALDA WAS THE ONLY ACTOR WHO WAS AWARE OF HENRY BLAKE’S FATE UNTIL MOMENTS BEFORE SHOOTING THE FINAL SCENE IN “ABYSSINIA, HENRY.”

Gelbart and Reynolds used the opportunity for McLean Stevenson wanting to leave after the third season to “make a point” about the “wastefulness” of war, and decided to kill off Henry Blake. After distributing the script without the last page and shooting all of the scenes written therein, Gelbart asked the cast to wait a few minutes before the start of the end-of-season wrap party and gave them each one copy of the final page, where Radar enters the O.R. and announces that Henry didn’t make it.

Larry Linville (Frank Burns) immediately remarked that it was “f***ing brilliant.” Gary Burghoff (Radar) turned to Stevenson and called him a son of a bitch, because he was going to get an acting Emmy for the episode. (He didn’t.) They then shot the scene in two takes. Gelbart and Reynolds claimed they received over 1000 letters from people upset over the ending. Reynolds also claimed that CBS was so unhappy with the decision that in at least one repeat airing, they cut out the final scene.

THE WRITERS RAN OUT OF NAMES.

During season six, there’s an episode that features four Marine patients named after the 1977 California Angels infield. Throughout season seven, the patients were named after the 1978 Los Angeles Dodgers. Ken Levine didn’t just use baseball players’ names though; in “Goodbye Radar,” Radar’s new girlfriend was named after one of Levine’s former lady friends, Patty Haven.

THE SERIES LASTED MUCH LONGER THAN THE ACTUAL KOREAN WAR.

The series spent 11 years telling the story of Army doctors and nurses dealing with a three year, one month, and two day war.

ALDA CO-WROTE 13 AND DIRECTED 31 EPISODES OF THE SERIES.

That 31 count includes the series finale. Alda was the first person to ever win an Emmy for acting, directing, and writing on the same program.

A METRIC TON OF FUTURE STARS MADE GUEST APPEARANCES.

Ron Howard played an underage Marine. Leslie Nielsen played a Colonel. Patrick Swayze portrayed an injured soldier with leukemia. John Ritter, Laurence Fishburne, Pat Morita, Rita Wilson, George Wendt, Shelley Long, Ed Begley Jr., Blythe Danner, Teri Garr, and even Andrew Dice Clay also all visited the 4077th.

THE SERIES FINALE IS STILL THE MOST WATCHED EPISODE OF TELEVISION IN AMERICAN HISTORY.

Seventy-seven percent of the people watching television in the United States on the night of Monday, February 28, 1983 were watching the two-and-a-half-hour series finale, “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen.” That was 121.6 million people. A company only had to pay $30,000 to run a 30-second commercial when M*A*S*H got started in 1972. For the series finale, a 30-second spot cost $450,000.

THERE WERE THREE SPINOFFS.

Trapper John, M.D., aired from 1979 to 1986 and was about Trapper John McIntyre’s present-day tenure as chief of surgery back in San Francisco (it didn’t star Wayne Rogers). AfterMASH featured Col. Potter (Harry Morgan), Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), and Klinger (Jamie Farr) working at a veterans’ hospital in Missouri right after the events of M*A*S*H; it was cancelled in its second season as it was unable to compete with The A-Team. W*A*L*T*E*R followed the new adventures of Walter “Radar” O’Reilly (Burghoff again), who became a St. Louis cop after losing the family farm and his wife (not Patty Haven) and attempting suicide. The pilot wasn’t picked up, and only aired once, and only in the eastern and central time zones, on CBS on July 17, 1984.

RADAR’S TEDDY BEAR WAS SOLD AND RETURNED TO BURGHOFF.

Burghoff said Radar’s teddy bear had been lost for 30 years until it suddenly turned up at an auction in 2005. A medical student bought it for $11,500, and promptly sold it back to Burghoff.

A CONSTRUCTION WORKER FOUND THE SHOW’S TIME CAPSULE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.

In the series’ penultimate episode, “As Time Goes By,” the characters bury a time capsule under the Fox Ranch. Two months later, the land was sold. Soon after, a construction worker found the capsule and got in contact with Alan Alda to ask what he should do with it. After he was told to keep it, Alda claimed the construction worker “didn’t seem very impressed.”

Happy Farewell Anniversary M*A*S*H!

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  1. Morning All!
    it snowed some last night but it’s too dark to tell if it’s still snowing. so far we got about 2 inches.
    Hubby and I have all the season of MASH on dvd and we do enjoy watching it, especially because at this point, we can skip over the higher-than-mighty episodes.

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    1. Good morning! I never knew it was a book that spawned that series. I watched it sporadically and enjoyed it tremendously. But by the early ’80’s, I was busy with HB, who was born in 1980, and a busy life. By then, I was into Miami Vice big-time!

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    2. Oh, and sorry about the snow – ours is disappearing rapidly – 28 when I got up – foggy and cloudy day but up to 30 now. There is still a little bit of snow piled up on the north side of my garden beds but not much now.

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      1. we’re getting a rain/snow mix and the stuff coming off the roof is HEAVY…so if i don’t get it off the deck, the high water content will freeze and make it impossible to get off later.
        hubby says we’re getting 5-8 on Friday

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  13. Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    February 28, 2023 1:06 am

    Tucker Carlson
    @TuckerCarlson

    The origins of Covid were never a secret. The real story — the greatest outrage — is that the people who knew or should have known the truth lied about it in order to hide the Chinese government’s role in mass murder.

    Video linked in tweet…👇…

    The origins of Covid were never a secret. The real story — the greatest outrage — is that the people who knew or should have known the truth lied about it in order to hide the Chinese government’s role in mass murder. pic.twitter.com/Z1gJxsDQHc

    — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) February 28, 2023

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  16. $5Million a PIECE for slavery reparations in s state that NEVER had slavery at all. California. AND the committee just pulled that number out of their asses…no formula, no reasoning, no seriousness!
    entire article
    Typically the question “Did you pull that number out of thin air?” is rhetorical and doesn’t warrant a serious response. In the case of the San Francisco panel tasked with creating a dollar amount for potential reparations to be paid to the city’s black citizens, the answer is actually, “Yes, we did.”

    The 15-member panel — which was put together in 2021 — really did pull the $5 million-apiece recommendation for reparations out of thin air without doing any sort of mathematical equation, according to a new report.

    In January, The Daily Wire reported that the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee concluded that the city should redistribute millions in order to rectify injustices allegedly caused by systemic racism. The committee’s chair Eric McDonnell revealed how the group came to that conclusion.

    “There wasn’t a math formula,” McDonnell told The Washington Post. “It was a journey for the committee towards what could represent a significant enough investment in families to put them on this path to economic well-being, growth and vitality that chattel slavery and all the policies that flowed from it destroyed.”

    As pointed out by the paper, the reparations aren’t intended to act as compensation for the blight of slavery — rather the money would make up for “the public policies explicitly created to subjugate Black people in San Francisco by upholding and expanding the intent and legacy of chattel slavery.”

    The suggested figure has critics and supporters perplexed.

    “This is just a bunch of like-minded people who got in the room and came up with a number,” John Dennis, chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party, said. “You’ll notice in that report, there was no justification for the number, no analysis provided. This was an opportunity to do some serious work and they blew it.”

    William A. Darity Jr., an economist at Duke University who supports reparations, told the Post, “Calling for $5 million payout by a local government undercuts the credibility of the reparations effort.”

    In order to qualify, applicants must be at least 18 years old at the time the city enacts the committee’s proposal, have identified as black or African American on public documents for at least 10 years, and prove they were born in the city between 1940 and 1996.

    These residents must also be able to prove that they lived in the city for at least 13 years or had personally been incarcerated — or the direct descendant of someone imprisoned — during the War on Drugs since 1971.

    San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors will vote to approve the economic program later this year after the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee releases its final report in June.

    As a conservative, you often look at the insanities of the Left and wonder if they are just making it up as they go along. In the case of San Franciso’s potential reparations program, that is exactly what is happening.

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-franciscos-reparations-committee-really-is-just-making-it-up-as-it-goes-along

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      1. i agree, the idea is ridiculous. but even so, they had a chance to show careful thought and diligence. what they showed is pure emotion and a lack of reasoning behind their demands

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    2. Don’t get me started…I want reparations for the hundreds of thousands of “white” people who gave their lives and well being to end slavery!

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      1. absolutely!
        and all the relatives of those blacks who owned slaves, what reparations do they have to pay?
        and what reparations are due from the countries THAT SOLD THEM in the first place?

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  17. inmates in chicago jail being coerced to vote? or vote despite being registered in another county?
    FTA
    ‘I said but you should because if I’m registered to vote somewhere else like I am, you are asking me and enticing me to vote even though I’m registered somewhere else and that’s a felony. I can’t be voting in two different jurisdictions.’

    He claims another guard told him that he was ‘just doing what I’m told’.

    An inmate being held on murder charges, also says 21 of the 48 inmates in his Division 11, have already voted but none were asked if they were registered or eligible to vote.

    ‘They just say who wants to vote? Line up to vote,’ he said.

    An unnamed source familiar with Cook County Jail said it is the ideal environment for ballot harvesting.

    ‘Cameras inside the Jail notoriously don’t work. There aren’t any election observers. If an inmate complains, who would believe them? So, if you wanted to manipulate a ballot, who would know?’

    There are 7,480 inmates under the custody of the Cook County Sheriff, with 72.3 percent being black, 19 percent Latino and 7.8 percent white.

    Inmate offenses range from murder and carjacking to sexual assault of a minor and armed robbery.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11798187/Inmates-claim-jail-guards-pressuring-vote-illegally-Chicagos-mayoral-election.html

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  18. ernie_h
    February 28, 2023 7:14 am

    https://home.solari.com/special-solari-report-usda-hitting-food-supply-chain-with-cattle-surveillance-and-a-level-4-animal-disease-laboratory/

    This is probably old news to some, but it’s highly relevant to what’s going on to the meat supply chain.

    Seems the government is intent on placing RFID tags on beef cattle and buffalo…..something about improving animal health (read ‘surveillance’)….yeah, right.

    But the more interesting thing (at least to me) is the construction of a BSL-4 facility smack in the middle of Kansas. Now, why would you want to do that? Ostensibly to help monitor and track animal diseases…..or something like that….yea, right. BUT…..they’re moving the research done at Plum Island to the Kansas facility. Plum Island, the only place in the states where research on FMDV (foot and mouth disease) is allowed. Oh, OK, a highly infections virus of divided-hoof animals…..now smack in the middle of the beef belt. They’ll allow research on Rinderpest virus (cattle plague) there as well.

    Absolutely insane……but fits right along with throwing bird flu in the mix to destroy the chicken/egg industries (if fires don’t work)…..and replace with artificial/lab grown ‘meat’.

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    1. Well MTG has been SWATTED some 3 times at her home with her children present. Each one of these events could have resulted in death by cop for anyone present in the home. She has the right to contend that “our country is gone”

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  20. we watch the Blacklist and more than once they present things that seem far fetched but are really precursors to what is coming. they spoke of a global cabal, controlling world wide food production, infecting the population with a deadly disease to reduce population and so forth. There was an episode early on called The Stewmaker. He developed a process to liquefy a corpse and wash it down the drain. and now it seems the mexican cartels and greenies who want to reduce the “waste” of a dead person are doing the same.
    FTA

    When it comes to gore, Mexico’s drug traffickers seem to compete among themselves for the title of most depraved. One will chop off the heads of victims. Another will string dead rivals from bridges or burn their genitals. Recently, hit men removed the face from a dead man and sewed it onto a soccer ball.

    On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced the capture of one of those who they said had been active in this game of one upsmanship. Teodoro Eduardo Garcia Simental [El Teo]… was boiling rivals in barrels of lye in what has become known as pozole[.]

    snip

    So what is water cremation? Well, human pozole! From Fast Company:

    A process called alkaline hydrolysis is … the … flow of warm water mixed with alkali (usually sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide) to naturally liquefy a body over the course of several hours. The process creates relatively little emissions and leaves behind no waste. The leftover liquid can be disposed down the drain, and the remaining bones and metal can then go in an urn, like a traditional cremation.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/greenies_take_a_cue_from_sinaloas_stew_maker.html

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    1. agreed! there is some process now where they recommend scrutinizing ADDRESSES to show election fraud. in one instant, there were 20 people registered to one single family home listed as a one bathroom home, which is a health code violation. so if it’s not election fraud, they can be sued and the owner fined. lawfare stuff in essence being turned back on the left.
      Good Morning GA!

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  22. Pffttt….fucking Ricketts!!! On Fox – “we have to stick with Ukraine until they win!” Needless to say, I fired off a comment to that asswipe and included a link to a very thorough and deep article about the truth of the matter in Ukraine. It will be interesting to see if I ever hear back from his staff….2nd time I’ve contacted him.

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  26. The plot thickens – Pence and DeSantis won’t attend CPAC where Trump is the keynote speaker. Trump wasn’t invited to DeSantis’ event in S FL and now Club For Growth didn’t invite Trump to their party.

    “Top GOP Donors to Meet With GOP Candidates for President, But President Trump Is Not Invited:
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/top-gop-donors-to-meet-with-gop-candidates-for-president-but-president-trump-is-not-invited/

    “The Club for Growth, a leading conservative campaign group, will host almost all the top 2024 Republican prospects for president at a donor retreat in South Florida this weekend, except Donald Trump, according to a Republican familiar with the plans.

    Newly minted candidates Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador, and Vivek Ramaswamy, the pharmaceutical magnate turned conservative influencer, will headline the meeting. Top Republicans who have not declared their candidacies but are seriously eyeing bids — including making all the moves of a shadow campaign — are also expected to attend the event, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.

    The only declared candidate not attending is former President Donald Trump. Trump, who helped spark the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection with his 2020 election lies and is widely blamed for the GOP’s poor showing in the 2022 midterms, was not invited to the donor retreat, the Republican source told Yahoo News. The retreat is being held in Palm Beach, where Trump lives at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

    What a nasty and ignorant journalist. Slandering President Trump by saying he “helped spark the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection with his 2020 election lies and is widely blamed for the GOP’s poor showing in the 2022 midterms”.

    This tells you all you need to know about the candidates and the elites who will be in Palm Beach to support them. What a huge mistake.”

    IMO – Looks like Ramaswamy is the pharmaceutical industry’s candidate – to protect their interests and protect them from liability due to deadly medications produced and promoted during the ‘pandemic’ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy

    The rest of the Club For Growth candidates are being pushed by anti-Trump interests – in order to keep Trump from being President.

    MAGA Patriots – we need a miracle!

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  27. “You cannot contract for a crime, but you CAN write a contract for it! Ask me how.
    Dissecting DOD contracts for covid countermeasures. Part 1 – Pfizer’s “Base Agreement”.

    Sasha Latypova
    20 hr ago

    EXCERPT: “An attorney once told me “you cannot contract for a crime”. I think this is very true, and I think ultimately the truth will prevail. In the meantime, let’s talk about the art of writing contracts for giving future crimes appearance of lawful acts. Here is a lesson brought to you by your government-military-industrial complex.

    This post is Part 1 of the series that will cover publicly available Pfizer-ATI-MCDC-DOD-FDA-HHS contracts that have been disclosed to the public through Jackson v. Ventavia, Pfizer and ICON.

    2020.07.20 DOD-ATI-MCDC-FDA-Pfizer Base Agreement
    2020.07.21 DOD-ATI-MCDC-FDA-Pfizer Technical Direction Letter.
    2020.12.22 DOD-Pfizer Purchasing Contract Order

    These agreements refer to a third, still undisclosed contract, called the “Project Agreement.” Here is the overall structure of how I think these documents fit together. This is a long-term contracting framework where first an “umbrella” agreement is established and then specific projects are separately negotiated and signed-off.”

    https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/you-cannot-contract-for-a-crime-but

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    1. NOTE: Since contracts are right down my alley, if I had the incentive, I could probably pick thru them and point out the hidden traps but I’ll let him do it – he understands that environment far better than I.

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    2. This is how they all do it – via 3rd parties!!!

      “This agreement was signed on July 20, 2020 between Advanced Technology International (ATI), located in Summerville, SC and Pfizer, Inc., New York (NY). ATI is the Consortium Management Firm (CMF) managing several industry consortia for the Department of Defense purchasing various things that they need. An eye-watering amount of money flows through this company, which is a specialist in “Other Transaction Authority” contracts – i.e. a way of contracting favored by the DOD because accountability and regulatory compliance can be avoided, and lots of secrecy can be maintained. ATI manages consortia that primarily make weapons and things related to defense. There are two consortia that have “biopharma” and health related companies in it, working on so-called dual-use (civilian and military) technologies. The consortium that is responsible for making “covid countermeasures” managed by ATI is called MEDICAL CBRN [Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear] DEFENSE CONSORTIUM (MCDC).”

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  28. Praying it can be done – that our country can and will ensure honest transparent elections.

    Pence, as Vice President, was in charge of the White House Election Integrity task force – and he did not establish any guidelines or means to prevent or prosecute or remediate election/ballot fraud through mail-in ballots and other means.

    In January 2021, Pence refused to stand for election integrity in the face of brazen obvious election fraud – refused to decertify the electors or call for the states to rectify the fraudulent results. Pence went along with the January 6 false flag operation and joined the smear of President Trump and his MAGA patriot supporters.

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  29. February 27, 2023
    CDC ADMITS IT HAS NO DATA TO SUPPORT RECOMMENDING COVID-19 BOOSTER SHOTS FOR 12- TO 49-YEAR-OLDS


    EXCERPT: “It can be difficult to keep up with the CDC’s ever-changing COVID-19 booster recommendations, but what is consistent is that the number and frequency of boosters are continually increasing and data supporting these recommendations keeps decreasing. At one point, even mainstream media called out the CDC for the lack of data for these recommendations.

    To pin down the CDC on one of its recommendations, in April 2022, ICAN asked the CDC to produce its data that support the efficacy of COVID-19 boosters for 12-49 year olds. The response? Shocking.

    The CDC admitted that “A search of our records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to your request.” None. Not one record. Not one study. This means the CDC did not have any data to back up its claims or recommendations for boosters in this age group.

    For anyone that has looked at the data regarding boosters, the CDC’s response is unsurprising because study after study shows that repeated boosters increase the chances of contracting COVID-19 disease. For example, as a recent Cleveland Clinic study showed (see Figure 2 in the study), the chances of contracting COVID-19 increase with each additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine.

    The above is another piece of evidence in ICAN’s snowballing work to hold our “health” agencies accountable for every unsupported recommendation and false claim made to the public.

    See below for more instances where ICAN uncovered “health” agencies making unsupported claims to the public”

    https://icandecide.org/press-release/cdc-admits-it-has-no-data-to-support-recommending-covid-19-booster-shots-for-12-to-49-year-olds/

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  31. EXCERPT: “As partisan political figures point fingers in East Palestine, Ohio, they avoid discussing the perverse economic incentives that their claims of “regulation” create.

    They avoid not only the financial truth that “regulated” rail operators are incentivized by government to reach only the “safety minimum” the government dictates, but they also avoid the reality that rail operators recognize the incentive in lobbying and sending money to Washington in order to keep those safety protocols as low as possible.

    But the partisan political figures also are avoiding something else. In a truly market-based paradigm of private property respect, real liability, and insurance demands, the rail operators likely would have to operate more carefully than under the “government rules” system.

    And none of the parties attached to a toxic spill that was turned into a toxic-fume-belching inferno would be able to so easily claim that the “burn” was “controlled” or done properly.”

    https://www.mrctv.org/blog/chem-spill-expert-disputes-govt-claims-controlled-burn-vinyl-chloride-east-palestine

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  32. Still stewing…sorting/organizing my thoughts:

    What the Republican 2024 election campaign looks like right now:

    1. Pence and DeSantis won’t attend CPAC where Trump is the keynote speaker.

    2. President Trump wasn’t invited to DeSantis’ recent event in S FL and the Club For Growth didn’t invite Trump to their party.

    3. Ronna Romney McDaniels says all the candidates must pledge to support the Republican nominee in order to participate in the Republican Primary Debates.

    4. The GOP Primaries are sure to be as vulnerable to media manipulation, foreign and corporate donor interests, and fraud as the 2020 and 2022 elections.

    5. Looks like the RINO-GOP elite and their media messengers are going to promote the idea that Trump is a right wing extremist outlier, who fomented criminal violence and insurrection on January 6.

    6. The Primaries are overwhelmingly stacked against Donald Trump and his America First sane conservative common sense policies – – https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda

    7. MAGA Patriots will need to work and pray for a miracle for there to ever be another Trump administration!

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    1. they exclude Trump at their own peril.
      we are getting louder and proven right at every turn.
      we need the lion and the lion will take no prisoners this time around.
      he never realized the length they will go to.
      now he knows.

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  33. wow…been wading thru the taxes. I do them every year and this year we have some new issues. I am convinced they make this as difficult as they possibly can. like the instructions and schedules were created by idiots who think complicated is brilliant.

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  40. in Nebraska?

    clarion
    February 28, 2023 11:29 am

    I used to try to warn people about the dangers of the “credit report”, and how they should be illegal, but they wouldn’t listen.

    It seemed like people just loved the feeling of power the got from demanding to see someone’s credit report, or the feeling of moral superiority they got from having a high score.

    I could see where this was going, way back then.

    This week I was permanently banned from my hair salon (Garbo’s in Omaha, NE) of many years due to my misdemeanor conviction from over 2 years ago.

    Social credit scores are already here in the US.

    Most people will continue to say & do nothing about this. Here’s why you should… pic.twitter.com/jj28OeOqzo

    — Brandon Straka (@BrandonStraka) February 27, 2023

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        1. In reality, the city of Omaha has nothing to do with it – this was a decision made at the corporate level altho I have no doubt the current Omaha mayor would support it; remember, a lot of companies have incorporated ESG and diversity into their by-laws, allowing for this kind of treatment. No doubt the male hairdresser who did his hair and with whom he had a quasi-political discussion filed a complaint with corporate.

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      1. My experiences with the gay friends I’ve had kind of blinded me to the possible dangers….back then, it was still not prevalent in public and it wasn’t flaunted. And, of course, the fact that HB’s Dad’s Father was gay made a difference in my understanding. The people I knew weren’t flamboyant and attention-seekers, but they also didn’t hide it. They were just normal, every day people – most had been married to a woman at some point and some had kids. They didn’t make out in public. Granted, being in a military area, they were probably a bit more circumspect and there were “known” locations around, like the Washington Marina and IwoJima park. It was way different in DC. Billy, who was an x-ray tech at the clinic at Ft. Myer, was totally different in a private setting or gay bar than at the clinic. But again, he didn’t hide it either.

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        1. I had a gay friend in high school. his family was very rich and most assumed his ways were because of his family’s wealth–he wasn’t athletic, wasn’t into dating but he was funny and we got along famously. he ended up as an entertainment lawyer in FLA. he has a significant other, a home he loves and 3 cats.
          but he was never pushy about his lifestyle.

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          1. Exactly! Live and let live! TBH, I got along better with Billy and Freddie, who were the more flamboyant of the partners. Anyone seeing them in public for very long would quickly deduce that they were gay; not so with both of their partners – you could spend hours with them and never know. Most gay relationships I’ve seen have one or the other that is more “out” than the other.

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  46. Dead deer on banks of polluted creek from toxic spill.

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    1. i saw in the replies to that tweet someone asking if the epa will do an autopsy on the deer to determine cause of death…others reminded him the epa is a joke

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  48. “AMERICA – WE HAVE A PROBLEM — We are witnessing a cover-up of vast proportions and implications.”

    Robert W Malone MD, MS
    2 hr ago

    By: Brett Vance: Brett Vance is a former career Air Force fighter pilot, test pilot, and airline pilot who recently retired from his position as a test pilot in the Aircraft Certification Service with the Federal Aviation Administration. During his career, he accumulated over 7,500 flying hours, flew over 120 different aircraft, and earned ten type ratings in aircraft ranging in size from the B-777 to the Cessna 510. Primary military aircraft were the T-38, A-10, and the F-16.

    EXCERPT: “Prologue — Astronaut and Mission Commander of Apollo 13, James A. Lovell, reported to Mission Control on 13Apr70, “Houston, we’ve had a problem” when announcing a Main Bus B Undervolt malfunction caused during an oxygen tank explosion. Most people know the story of incredible teamwork and courage that ended in the safe return of the crew following this near-catastrophic mission abort. Today’s lingo of that transmission is “Houston, we’ve got a problem,” and is generally associated with the appearance of a sudden unforeseen situation. It is also usually a huge understatement.

    That’s the case now. However, just notifying Houston is not near enough. The whole of America needs to know what’s happening to our National Airspace System. Our NAS—the collection of systems and people that fly you safely from place to place—here in the U.S. is the safest on the planet…at least it was until now. While NASA was able to return three astronauts safely to earth and thus avert a potential catastrophe, the potential catastrophe facing our National Airspace System is similarly dire, but with vastly more terrifying consequences.

    Under discussion here are the following topics that contribute to this problem. First, the departure from the industry, for a variety of reasons, of large numbers of highly-qualified and experienced commercial flight crews. Second, the effect of the covid shots and the mandates on flight safety since their rollout. Finally, and worst of all, the coverup.

    Part 1 – Where is My Crew?

    The first part of the problem with our NAS is the drawdown in the nation’s commercial pilot force. These are the folks that earn their living flying, many of whom are your airline pilots. You’ve all most likely heard of or personally experienced turmoil in flight schedules. And you think it’s what you’re told that weather or Air Traffic Control is to blame for this mess! That’s partially true, but you may have heard that crew availability is also to blame. The airlines will tell you that crews are just out of position and can’t get to where they need to be in a timely manner. What they are not telling you is that they just don’t have enough crews. So, what’s wrong with that? Just fess up and fix it. Right?”

    https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/america-we-have-a-problem

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  49. “Hospitals remain in the red, giving the government leverage to again pay them for government-imposed forms of care”

    Meryl Nass
    2 hr ago

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “From Becker’s Hospital Review we see an unsurprising trend worsens: fewer people going to hospitals, although it seems there are more people with medical conditions folloowing cases of COVID and especially the COVID injections. Patients are wary. Hospitals took their twenty pieces of silver from the government for remdesivir mandates (aka “standing orders”) and the withholding of drugs that were effective and safe. Hospitals, run by bean-counters these days, forgot that they were biting the hand that fed them: patients.

    Furthermore, a lot of people have had the curtain pulled back: they see that hospitals are simply financial empires that have jumped into lucrative gender reassignment surgeries and other fashionable folderol at the expense of meat and potatoes medicine. The patients are realizing that preventive medicine is not what makes money, which is why no one yet tells them to keep their vitamin D levels up.

    We need to continue to see how this will play out, as government handouts with come with sticks as well as carrots for the healthcare system, whose goal may not be to extend our lives and promote better health.

    Hospital margins see no relief to start the year — The year is off to an unfriendly start for hospital finances, with a median margin of -1 percent for January, worsening from the margin recorded a month prior, according to Kaufman Hall. The finding comes from Kaufman Hall’s latest “National Flash Hospital Report” — based on data from more than 900 hospitals. The -1 percent margin captured in January arrives on the heels of 2022 being the worst financial year for hospitals and health systems since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Hospitals recorded decreased patient volumes, emergency department visits, discharges and total revenues in January 2023 compared to the month prior while expenses ticked upward. Month-over-month, total net operating revenue decreased by 3 percent while total expenses rose by 1 percent, with total labor expenses increasing by 3 percent.

    Another contributing factor to the negative median margin is the ordinary trend of hospitals making purchases for the year in January, Kaufman Hall analysts noted.

    “While we have seen a stabilization in operating margins over the past several months, the trendline continues to show that hospitals will be in a tough spot financially for the foreseeable future,” Erik Swanson, senior vice president of data and analytics with Kaufman Hall, said. “With future COVID surges possible and challenging financial months ahead for hospitals, managing cash on hand will be critical to weathering the storm.”

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      1. i honestly cannot believe they allow someone else to determine WHOM a person INTENDED to vote for. that ballot should be somehow identifiable to the ballot caster. that caster should be contacted within 24 hours to determine WHOM they voted for.
        no guessing, no dem guessing no repub guessing either

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