Category Archives: Health

Team Kimberlin Post of the Day

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This post is about Team Kimberlin and psychology, that is to say, their crude attempts at the practice of psychology. One of the characteristics that I noticed fairly soon into my coverage of these folks was their continued reference to the alleged mental illnesses of those who wrote about them. This has included such absurd claims as that someone might be dangerously violent because he has ADD. Or that another person has substance abuse problems. I’m supposed to have OCD.

According to the DSM-IV (that’s the psychologists’ diagnostic bible), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a ego dystonic disorder. That means that the sufferer actually suffers because he is distressed by his own behavior. I am pleased to say that I’m not usually bothered by my own behavior, so if I have anything like OCD, it would be Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which is ego syntonic, meaning that the behavior fits with the person’s self-image and doesn’t cause him distress. Someone with OCPD is not aware of anything abnormal. He explains why his actions are rational, it is usually impossible to convince him otherwise, and he tends to derive pleasure from his obsessions or compulsions. Those around him suffer.

I’m told neither OCD nor OCPD fits me; however, Jerk NOS has been suggested by a friend who is a psychologist. I think she was joking.

But back to Team Kimberlin …

If I remember my Pysch 101 from 1966 (or there about) correctly, Sigmund Freud defined psychological projection as a defence mechanism by which a person unconsciously rejects his own unacceptable attributes by ascribing them to objects or persons in the outside world instead. Projection involves psychically expelling one’s negative qualities onto others. It’s a common psychological process, and I suppose projecting one’s own propensity for violence and lying or one’s own obsessive behaviors onto others makes it easier to live with a corrupt personality.

But Laws Are For The Little People

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Mayor Bloomberg was denied a second slice of pizza at a Brooklyn eatery.

I’m sorry sir, there’s nothing I can do. Maybe you could go to several restaurants and get one slice at each. At least that way you’re walking. You know, burning calories.

Hizzoner had to walk down the street for his second slice.

I wonder … how soon the restaurant will have its next round of inspections?

UPDATE–If it were only true …

But No AR15 Reviews Yet

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Consumer Reports has a blog post up noting that gun accidents are a very minor cause of accidental deaths in the home. Poisoning and falls are what kill adults. Suffocation and drowning are the main killers of kids. (We need to outlaw those 5 gal assault buckets; if it just saves one child …)

There’s no word yet on when we will see CR do a Glock 21 v. the M1911 article.

So, What Does That Mean For You?

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I’m back from traveling for a research project, and normal blogging will resume on Monday. Meanwhile, here’s another staff post from a member of the Vast Hogewash Research organization:

The IRS on Wednesday issued a regulation that actuarially assumed the least expensive Obamacare plan for a family of 4 and 5 would run around $20,000 annually in 2016. So what does this mean for you?

As our regular readers can attest, we here at Hogewash! like to do the math. So what that amounts to, are premiums of over $1650 per month, per family. For many Americans, that’s more than a mortgage payment for their home. And if you don’t buy health insurance, you have to pay the IRS a penalty.

The penalty for not obtaining insurance is 2.5% of your taxable income. So here’s the question: what is this really? A healthcare bill, or a way to raise taxes on the middle class? Because who in the middle class would pay for that kind of health care plan?

For someone making between $40,000 – $60,000 per year, this plan is 1/2 to 1/3 of your salary. And that’s before taxes. After your mortgage payment/rent and bills, car note, plus basic necessities for your family, who in the middle class has the money to pay for something like that? Remember, that’s the Bronze Plan, the cheap plan.

Of course, this is all after your salary has been cut. You see, your company is eventually going to convert you to a part-time employee in order to avoid the massive penalties they too would incur under this tax scheme. Perhaps this new progressive administration really is trying to make everyone equal. Equally impoverished, that is.

Thank you John Roberts. Your legacy won’t be forgotten.

Amen

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Smitty offers this prayer for the actor in a promotional video celebrating the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:

Lord, have mercy on the fellow in this video, and lay a healthy load of wisdom on his head, so that he can grasp the total foulness of this video, repent of his folly, and set about repairing the societal damage to which he’s contributed.

Smitty also points out the Orwellian language inversion that permits the use of “reproductive rights” to describe the killing of a child in utero.

UPDATE–Corrected the posting credit to Smitty. My bad.

Also, Jackie Wellfonder has further thought on the anniversary here.

If It Just Saves One Child …

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A reader from Western Maryland writes:

A thought occurred to me while catching up on my daily reading. With all the rhetoric over gun control being spewed out and the constant claim that “if it saves just one life”, then why not throw it back in their face with abortion. If it will save just one life, shouldn’t abortion be overturned. Fifty-five million lives have been murdered in 40 years vs how many from guns. We can even treat Planned Parenthood like high capacity clips, or better yet, like McDonald’s use to advertise on their signs, “Over 50 million served.”

I can hear the argument from the left stating that it’s just tissue matter and doesn’t really count, but why is it considered as such when in the animal kingdom it’s not? How many babies have been aborted during the third trimester and didn’t Obama support such procedures. Again, if just one life is saved? Just saying …

Those Who Choose Evil

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Stacy McCain has a provocative post up about the intersection between some forms of mental illness and evil. While I don’t agree with everything he writes, his general trajectory is sensible. Read the whole thing.

When Jesus was asked to sum up the Law, He replied that we are to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind. Then He added a phrase that is more correctly translated, “And you shall be loving those around you as you ideally love yourself.” Not as we actually love ourselves but as we should love ourselves.

There are people who are mad, so completely bonkers, that they truly aren’t responsible for their actions. There are also folks who know right from wrong and who choose evil. Some of these may have a biochemical imbalance in their brain chemistry, but they still know what they are doing and choose not to moderate their behavior.

How do you think Society should protect itself from such people?

Obamacare Insurance Exchanges

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CNBC reports that only 15 states have told the feds that they will operate a heath insurance exchange as mandated by Obamacare. (H/T, The Corner) This leaves roughly 2/3 of the country for the federal government to build exchanges for.

Meanwhile, I’m in one of the bluest states that is committed to running an exchange.

Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin and Alternative Healing

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There’s a whole chapter in Mark Singer’s Citizen K (Ch. 35) that deals with TDPK’s alternate version of reality as compared to the recollections of others. One story deals with an attempt at alternative healing.

When his high school girlfriend Susan Harvey, then in her early twenties, lay comatose in the hospital after a terrible car accident, he saved her life—so he said. Her doctor told the family to “pray for her to die, that she probably wouldn’t come out of it.” Kimberlin, the sole believer in recovery, “stayed by her side for literally three months.” He had mystical experiences in her hospital room, where he spent a lot of time in “meditation and affirmation.” To discourage scarring, he salved her wounds with vitamin E. …

Kimberlin advised me to speak to Susan’s mother, who he assured me was quite fond of him. “He was a nice teenager, I think, ” Darlene Harvey told me. “But my children said I didn’t know him very well.” Brett’s ministrations, she asserted, had not been beneficial. “We hired private-duty nurses so Susan wouldn’t fall out of the bed, but they were worth nothing. I went in one evening after work and found this one nurse has gone to eat and left her alone. So that was that, no more private nurses. I guess after that Brett and his mother would slip in the back door to visit her. He poured oil on her stomach, which was all cut open from surgery. It was vitamin E or something like that. The surgeon was so outraged—he read the riot act to me. Brett didn’t nurse her back. He might have thought he did. ‘Nursing her back’ is a figment of his imagination. The surgeon said if that oil had gotten into her stomach it would have killed her. Brett thinks one thing, but the doctor thinks another, and I’m sure the doctor knows more about this particular situation.” Susan Harvey refused to be interviewed, allowing only that she wanted “nothing to do with Brett Kimberlin.”

If the Rules of Civil Procedure don’t apply to TDPK, why should the rules related to medicine?

Lefties on Twitter Foam at the Mouth Over the “Layoff Bomb”

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The moonbats on Twitter are ranting about the evil revenge business owners are taking on their employees because Barack Obama has been reelected. (H/T, Twitchy) Sure, layoffs are probably coming as the economy worsens. Even if Washington decides not to drive off the economic cliff, the politicians will most likely veer off into a deep ditch. Obamacare and other restrictive regulations are no longer a possibility to be hedged against. They’re a sure thing, and many companies are now faced with the choice of contracting to handle the expected economic downturn or simply giving up and cashing in while their assets still have value.

Let me give you an example of the kinds of consumer choices that will drive the economic contraction. I don’t get a chance to go hunting every year, but this year both Mrs. Hoge and I will be in the field harvesting deer for our freezer. Since we already have rifles, the incremental cost to us will be around $100 for hunting licenses and a couple of boxes of ammunition. Compare that with what we would spend on an equivalent amount of meat at Safeway, and you can see how our family’s economizing will help shrink the overall economy. Hornady (maker of the ammo we use) and Safeway will have to make their staffing decisions based on how they believe my family and millions of others will be making our spending decisions.

One wonders if any of these moonbats took Econ 101. Or if they all took it from Paul Krugman.

UPDATE–While I use a Tikka T3 Lite in .270 Winchester or a Marlin Model 1895 in .45/70 for deer, Stacy McCain seems to favor a Hyunai Sonata.

Remember—All Obama Promises Have an Expiration Date

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Mitt Romney is reminding the voters of how well the President has stuck to his 2008 campaign promises. Remember how he attacked John McCain for wanting to take 882 billion bucks out of Medicare? A new Romney ad calls that to voters’ attention.

Of course, the ad is raaaaacist. It quotes what Obama actually said, and that’s a patently unfair use of the Republican patented racial dog whistle. Moreover, Obamacare only raids Medicare for 716 billion dollars. That’s 166 billion dollars saved or created … opps, I mean saved. (For a moment there, I thought I was writing about jobs.)

Is it November yet?

His Lips Are Moving

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Breitbart has a story up on President’s Mediscare talking point.

My plan has already extended Medicare by more than a decade. Their plan would end Medicare as we know it.

Please note that this nonsense was Politifact’s Lie of the Year for 2011. Politifact is a left-wing outfit that quite often bends over backwards to give Democrats the benefit of the doubt, but even they could swallow that line.

Of course, now that conservatives are pointing out Obama’s recycling of this lie, Politifact is trying to say that they didn’t really make the call they made. But they did. Now their lips are moving too.

Et Tu, Wolf

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Wolf Blitzer held Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s feet to the fire over bogus claims that the Ryan budget as passed by the House of Representatives will change Medicare coverage for those currently on Medicare. Video here. Indeed, his plan doesn’t affect anyone currently 55 or older.

The left is losing control of the narrative, and they’re starting to panic. It’s going to get very, very ugly.

Fedorapohobia

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DaTechGuy ran into some protesters when he ate at Chick-fil-A. When he approached them later, they fled. Like me, DaTechGuy wears a hat, specifically, a fedora. He notes that he was the only person wearing a fedora who approached the protestors and that he was the only person they ran from. He suggests that they may have an irrational fear of his hat—fedoraphobia.

Well, while some of the folks protesting Chick-fil-A are making a calculated attack on the company, the beliefs of its founder, and the First Amendment, most are not rational in their hatred. Perhaps they are also projecting their fear on to fedoras because of what they now symbolize among some bloggers.

DaTechGuy and I both live in solid blue states, he in Massachusetts, I in Maryland. I believe I’ll start taking field notes on reaction to my hat. I may have more to report at a later date.