This bears repeating: The scariest thing Trump has ever said

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Wednesday October 05, 2016 · 11:55 AM PDT

2016/10/05 · 11:55

Dalton Javier Ramirez's younger sister, Denis, has helped him build piÃ±atas resembling Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, which have gotten a big response from Mexican-Americans — Perhaps the best Trump piñata I've seen yet. Dunno who took the picture, but bravo.

First, please watch this video. Then read the rest.

No, I am not kidding. Watch this video.

Now then.

Donald Trump said, during the first debate with Hillary Clinton, that he would accept the results of the election, even if he didn’t win.

However, 96 hours later, he went back on his words. He walked back “The answer is, if she wins, I will absolutely support her.” His new response? “We’re going to have to see. We’re going to see what happens. We’re going to have to see.”
Let that sink in a bit.

We’re going to have to see what happens. We’re going to have to see if I can accept the will of the voters. We’re going to have to see if I am not going to make more dog whistles to the gonzo alt-right and the “militias” around the country and tell them it’s time to use a “second amendment remedy” to seize the Presidency from “Crooked Hillary.” We’re going to have to see if I don’t throw the biggest freaking tantrum a thin-skinned, fussy baby of a wannabe Mussolini has ever thrown. Nice country you have there. Shame if anything were going to happen to it.

This comment is easily the worst ever to descend from the mouth of perhaps the most odious candidate to ever get as far as being the nominee of a major party for the President of the United States. And it got almost zero play in the Mainstream Media. Almost zero. The first statement got lots and lots of eyeballs. The second? Not so much. A few print articles.

But this, my friends, is YUUUUUUUUGE.

Has there ever been a serious candidate for the White House who has threatened a putsch if he doesn’t win? Has there?

We’re in deep doo-doo, folks.

A Situation With Two Jerrys: one powerful, the other powerless

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Thursday October 02, 2014 · 10:09 AM PDT

2014/10/02 · 10:09

Perhaps you remember my diary "The Jerry Situation" about my uncle and his mental health/living situation problems. It's only gotten worse. Details below the fold.

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Thursday July 31, 2014 · 4:46 PM PDT

2014/07/31 · 16:46

I have an uncle who is...well...reality challenged.

Once upon a time, he was a college professor. He taught Anthropology and Archaeology, he traveled to Israel and Mexico and other places on his summers off to participate in digs, and he seemed a little like Indiana Jones to me.

Then my grandmother, his mom, started having "small strokes." Transient ischemic attacks is the medical term for them. Every time she'd have one, she'd lose more and more of her memory. It became clear that she could not care for herself anymore, and that he would have to become her caregiver.

Little by little, he pared down the number of courses he taught at a local community college, and eventually he stopped teaching altogether as my grandmother's hold on reality slipped away, and she needed more and more help with her activities of daily living. He did not know it then, but he was headed on a downward spiral himself.

More of the tale under the squiggle.

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Monday June 09, 2014 · 2:53 PM PDT

2014/06/09 · 14:53

no image description available — The chase. Photo credit: KCBS TV Los Angeles

The chase. Photo credit: KCBS TV Los Angeles

People are going to say "this is not a diary" but I don't care. Right now, here in the San Fernando Valley, CA, there have been two gun-related incidents. A high-speed chase ended up with a barricaded suspect. Not very far away from that incident, Los Angeles Valley College received a threat that a student was going to show up with a gun because he was ticked about his grades. In both cases, several neighborhood schools are either on lockdown or were on lockdown, and in the case of the barricaded suspect streets are blocked with police cordons.

When is this going to be addressed by lawmakers? When will we collectively say enough is enough and deal with the twin crises of the wide availability of guns and lack of availability of mental health care? I despair of this ever changing so long as the munitions industry and its lobbyists in the NRA have an inordinate amount of power.

The aftermath of a colonoscopy

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Wednesday May 28, 2014 · 2:41 PM PDT

2014/05/28 · 14:41

I lost my mother in 1993. She was only 53. She died of advanced colon cancer that had already metastasized to her liver. Eventually the cancer invaded her bones, causing excruciating pain. In the midst of all this, she spent the last year of her life being poked and prodded by doctors, with surgery and chemo and radiation. It was not a year of quality life, it was a year of agony, until she finally died. Even her last moments were agonizing, because the hospice doctor was more concerned about his license to practice than alleviating my mother's intractable pain.

This was not a way I wanted to go out. I really should have, by rights, had my first colonoscopy 10 years ago, because a first-degree relative (mom) died of severe colorectal cancer. But it was only this year, thanks to the extension of MediCal, (Medicaid in California) that I was finally able to get my colonoscopy. I am 50, and according to accepted medical guidelines it was time for a person of normal background to get a baseline colonoscopy.

Needless to say, this was something that scared me, big time. My health journey after the fold.

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