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A few days ago, Maxine Waters, never noted for the high quality of her intellect, tweeted that her Twitter account had been deleted. Fox News notes that Waters still hasn’t explained her bizarre claim, what with the account still being there.

Personally, I think what happened is that she accidentally deleted her bookmark for her account.

Alternately, since she hasn’t tweeted since then, she may have accidentally reset her password, and deleted the confirmation password. She could have locked herself out.

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The Accountability Project reported on Facebook that staff at a Texas hospital put a plastic bag over a 17yo girl’s head.

This 17 year old young lady went to the emergency room in Odessa, COVID positive, because she couldn’t breath. She was humiliated and dehumanized by the staff. Aside from the warning on the bag not to place this over your head, as it could cause suffocation, this is just wrong. The bag is labeled equipment cover and has your typical warning on it. The girls mother said she complained of not being able to breath well, taking off the mask, and was asked to put it back on. The bag was over her head for roughly 30 minutes and she was instructed to save the bag for future use throughout the hospital.

Is “attempted murder” over the top?

This 17 year old young lady went to the emergency room in Odessa, COVID positive…

COVID positive. A common issue in the more serious COVID cases is difficulty breathing because the lungs aren’t exchanging air properly. Blood O₂ level goes down. This is a bad thing.

…because she couldn’t breath.

Confirmed. Difficulty breathing. With that alone, medical personnel should have taken into account the very high probability that the girl’s blood O₂ level is low.

Then she put on a mask. That would further lower her blood O₂. She could already be getting down to dangerous levels.

Now, why do plastic bags get warning labels? Because putting one over your head can cause asphyxiation, meaning you don’t get enough oxygen, and CO₂ is trapped in the bag.

Deliberately putting a bag over someone is already beginning asphyxiation is a clear attempt to complete the process.

Murder.

Rather than a plastic bag, they should have been giving her oxygen. If they were concerned about her spreading COVID, they could have used one of these.

Instead, they deliberately blocked her air.

Attempted murder.

‘Twere me, I’d file a criminal complaint, a civil complaint to the state medical board, and a malpractice lawsuit. But that’s just me, because I object to people trying to kill family members as a general rule. I’m an asshole like that.

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In Norway. Five dead so far, several injured. It should drop out of the news real quick, because:

• No gun. Apparently he used a bow and arrows (one report said it might have been a crossbow).
• Islamic terrorist, known to the authorities.Reports also said he’s Danish. But I can’t help but wonder if he’s a Dane of Middle Eastern descent.Update: No, he doesn’t appear to be.
  

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The blog is back up. Finally. This seems to happen around once a month, but usually only last a few hours. I think it’s the hosting company doing server maintenance. I can’t really complain much because it’s free hosting.

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Maxine Waters announced that someone hacked her and “erased” her Twitter account.

She announced that ON her Twitter account. Which clearly hasn’t been erased.

Added: And her campaign account is still up.

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We’ve got squirrels stealing ham bones from dogs, and fighting amongst themselves over who gets to eat it.

We have bipedal lizards.

And today, the bluejays started having conversations with woodpeckers. Not screeching at each other, a conversation.

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357 Magnum has a pretty good post about why it isn’t as easy as many people think. There’s a good link and a video illustrating… issues.

The video is about Los Angeles doing a repair on a buried line back in 1989. I missed that when it happened. It took months and millions of dollars.

That system was a big steel pipe, with the 3 phase conductors run through it. The conductors were individually wrapped in layers of paper for insulation, then the pipe was pressurized with oil. The oil acts as a dielectric for additional insulation and heat management.

Watch the video for the details. One thing that wasn’t addressed in the video struck me. They eventually had to drain all the oil out of the ten mile pipe. I see problems.

I’m betting that was the same type of carcinogenic, PCB-ladened oil that used to be used in transformers. Disposing of that oil would have been a HAZMAT nightmare. Been there, done that. Smaller amount, though.

I used to work on troposcatter radios. They used… oh, I think 1,000 pound transformers, and they filled with that oil. And they leaked.

We finally got to replace them with non-PCB transformers, which were smaller, lighter, and more efficient than the old stuff. But cleaning up everything was a nasty cleansuit affair. The old transformers had to be sealed up. Everything we used — suits masks, gloves, wipes, cleaning solution — had to go into sealed barrels. And the barrels’ exterior had to be decontaminated.

You know, what with the PCB exposure, X-rays from the klystrons, and general radiation from spending years living at high altitudes, it’s a wonder I never got cancer. I’m glad troposcater is pretty a thing of the past.

I think oil-type buried power lines are also going the way of the dodo. It looks like the current preferred technique is heavy duty coaxial lines run through separate concrete ducts, with buried canble vaults for splice points. No oil. But it still costs as much as 15 times what overhead lines do.

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