Saturday morning fruit plate. Fresh from my garden. You need: A thin slice of watermelon about the size of the plate. A couple small apricots One or two ripe, yet not soft plums Cilantro leaves or mint for garnish (I prefer mint) Agave syrup (an option) Procedure: **cut a thin circular slice of watermelon and place on plate. **pit the fruits and cut into quarters or eighths **use a pastry brush to brush on sweetness to the watermelon (IF) the melon isn’t at peak of ripeness. Not too much, just a thin layer. **toss the fruit in a bowl with just a LITTLE Agave syrup (if the fruit hasn’t reached peak) **pile the apricot/plum mixture atop the watermelon in a kind of peak. **add cilantro or mint leaves as garnish and serve chilled. NOTES: Omit the Agave if the melon and fruits are sweet to your taste. I never use it unless the fruit hasn’t reached peak ripeness. Agave is less sweet than sugar (I never use sugar) and has a low glycemic index. Mint is a better garnish. I used cilantro this morning as my mint is currently in short supply. You can substitute any fruits for the apricots and plums. You can also add a surprising tart, salty twist by adding just a bit of crumbled Feta cheese to the fruit topping. Bon Apetit.

From my perspective as a bio-threat expert, based on current information, the Irkutsk story isn’t about plague. It’s about what fear does to a hospital. The story should sound familiar. Darya Shipilova was twenty-eight years old, a laboratory technician at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute in Siberia. On September 25, she broke a test tube of live plague bacteria. She felt fine at first. Then the stress took over. She could not sleep. She started imagining symptoms. By September 28 she was exhausted, feverish, and coughing. On September 29 she went to Shelekhov District Hospital. The doctors heard “plague lab” and panicked. They gave her broad-spectrum antibiotics, heavy sedation, and eventually a ventilator. The propofol and the antibiotics were too much for her system. The ventilator itself did damage. The tube bypassed her natural defenses, and the machine pushed air into lungs that were already inflamed. She died in the early hours of October 2. The hospital quarantined the ward. Nearly 200 contacts were identified and placed under observation, many hospitalized. The governor flew in the chief sanitary doctor. Several Irkutsk hospitals closed to visitors. The Irkutsk aluminum plant ordered masks for staff. Masks appeared in public and at kindergartens. The real story might be simpler and sadder. A stressed young woman broke a tube, lost sleep, got sick from the stress, and then got overtreated by a system that was terrified of plague. The overreaction killed her, not the bacteria. But the story does not stop with her. It repeats. The nearly 200 contacts locked inside will face the same conditions. Weeks indoors with no sunlight will crash their vitamin D levels, and vitamin D is what keeps the immune system calibrated. The isolation itself will become a stressor, and stress suppresses immune function. The broad-spectrum antibiotics given as prophylaxis will wipe out their gut flora, which is where a huge share of immune signaling happens. The sedation, when it comes, will dull their cough reflexes and let secretions pool in their lungs. The ventilator, if it comes, will be the final insult. The tube bypasses natural defenses, and the machine pushes air into lungs that are already inflamed. The hospital environment will add its own dangers. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive in wards where everyone is on the same drugs. Fungi like Candida and Aspergillus move in when the normal flora is gone. The people who walked in healthy will walk out colonized with organisms their bodies can no longer fight. Then Rospotrebnadzor tested her samples and found nothing. No plague. No tularemia. No anthrax. Just pneumonia of unknown cause. The biosafety review found no lab accident. The official line was that she died of something unrelated to her work. The fear feeds itself. The response becomes the disease.

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So I got sucked into the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Def think she should not be punished and deserves sympathy. Anyway, this medication list is wild! But this is kind of how psychiatrists operate these days. I'm thinking of doing an off-the-cuff YouTube video on this.

Well, another Christian monument destroyed. Police have a suspect in custody, BUT haven’t released the name. Take one guess it’s going to be some Ali something or other. Look, we cannot allow anyone from the Islamic world to remain within our borders, period. Fk freedom of religion, Fk Muslim anything. foxnews.com/world/world-famo…

Congress cannot use the 25th Amendment to oust a President. The invoking of the 25th is done only by the President when he notifies his cabinet that he can no longer serve as President either temporarily or permanently. Hasn’t ever happened. Secondly, it can be invoked by the cabinet on its own if the President becomes unable to carry out the duties of the office and is unable to communicate this to the cabinet. Has never happened. In the case of a President going under anesthesia, and for the duration until the President notifies the cabinet, the 25th automatically transfers the responsibilities of the office to the Vice President. Newsom and all other Democrats and nut jobs have never, apparently, read the amendment, or even read the Constitution. They want a totalitarian government and are either ignorant of the Constitutional constraints or deliberately breaking them. Newsom has been guilty of governing outside the Constitution and Federal Law many times during his terms. The damage he is responsible for bringing down on California will take decades to repair. foxnews.com/politics/conserv…

How very odd… foxnews.com/politics/olive-g…

IMPLIED IN 1A If you have a short attention span, this post is too lengthy for you. No offense. Our First Amendment guarantees the right to free speech. I am putting forth the assertion that it also implies the right to listen, to hear that speech. Networks not broadcasting the President’s speech tonight could likely be held liable under 1A for preventing the President from speaking to whatever parts of our nation’s population to hear, to listen to the President’s speech, as well as breaching their obligations required to hold broadcast licenses. Networks stations hold a public license for each, and with that they are under an absolute obligation to be a conduit for legally protected speech even if the executives don’t like or agree with what is said. The underlying assumption of networks, specifically ABC, NBC and CBS must be that their entire audience is composed of people of the same mind as corporate executives. That position is simply not based on anything factual. Following is the FCC’s requirements for public broadcasting licenses: *** Federal law requires broadcasters to comply with a basic and fundamental obligation—they must operate in the public interest. Congress first enshrined this concept in the law nearly 100 years ago, and it charged the FCC with the responsibility of ensuring that broadcasters only obtain and maintain a license to the extent they are operating in a manner that serves the “public interest, convenience, and necessity.” From those early days, as the courts have long recognized, “the clear intent of the Act was that the award of a broadcasting license should be a ‘public trust“ with broadcasters serving the role “of a ‘public trustee’ charged with the duty of fairly and impartially informing the public audience.“ As the D.C. Circuit has stated, “broadcasters are temporary permittees—fiduciaries—of a great public resource and they must meet the highest standards which areembraced in the public interest concept.”5 It is this service as a public trustee6—and the corresponding obligation to offer programming responsive to the needs and interests of the local communities they are licensed to serve—that makes broadcasters unique and distinguishes them from other programmers. *** Essentially, refusing to broadcast the speech of President Trump or any other President is a breaking of the broadcaster’s fiduciary duty under the terms of their license. The FCC should immediately revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC, NBC and CBS across every owned and operated station in the United States and allocate those licenses to others that will respect the terms of those licenses. @FCC

Are they hiding something from us? I love Grok. @etes_8