bootsykowan's Blog

The infrastructure should simply lobby to have laboratories available to the public to store blood tests/urine tests/blood pressure.  All insurance would educate folks to first go to a laboratory to get these tests stored and then make a regular appointment for an annual checkup.  There's no good reason in the 21st century that the doctor has to be the middle man for all this.  There are plenty of charts available and they all agree with each other globally, whether rich or poor or homeless.  We are all born equal with respect to these 3 tests.

From Spinoza's treatment of the word "blessing" I was introduced by Baruch to the word from the Bible "glory". So I wanted to find the Hebrew word for "glory". One of the sources was the Kernerman Dictionary. I was astounded and angry. No Hebrew. There was Arabic though. however, I tempered my hormones and forced myself to be calm and find out everything about Kernerman before I thought "Jew Hater". So glad I did. It was an Israeli Dictionary:) So Israelis can't compare English, Arabic and Hebrew in the same dictionary if they use the Kernerman MultiLanguage dictionary;)

I was accused of stinking on the MyFoxDC/Boards.  Great opportunity to explain all about body odor.  Tom Naylor of MCI got the corporation to measure my body odor at work.  This was a great scientific experiment at corporate expense.  The set up a bubbling machine in the nearest corner of the huge room (individualized cubicles) from my cubicle.  When I asked Tom for the results, he refused to tell me.  So I called up maintenance and they told me it was negative.  I don't have a body odor.  I demanded that they redo the research right outside my cubicle.  It was too far away.  Tom's cubicle was right across a narrow aisle from mine.  They did.  It became an office joke yelled at across the aisles.  I never got "friendly" with my fellow workers so I enjoyed the quips silently.  You know "I took it all in."  Maintenance protested because they said I would not be able to withstand the "noise".  I said I still wanted to make sure that Tom couldn't smell my body.  So it was outside my cubicle in the aisle for 1 week.  That ended Tom always complaining to management that he couldn't attend meetings with me because I stink.  There's a test for everything.  So why can't they test my hormones before giving me steroids?

Just learned about them from the FBI.

http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june08/ecoterror_063008.ht
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Seems they can.  The whole subject of Transsexuality is a complete mystery to me.My first response would be:  Give me their endocrine readout.  First steroids?  Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone.  I discovered on a visit to a psychiatrist that females require testosterone for strength.  I was in my late sixties when I first heard it.  It's because one family member who was present at the visit  made a simple statement:  "I remember that in elementary school I never had strength to complete the jungle gym using my hands to go across an empty space."  
I still think the highest powers that formulate the rules for curriculum for Medical School in the USA should state their mission something like "Produce non-surgical endocrinologists."  If all of our cellphones were programmed with the Periodic Table of Elements (PTE) and the Electro-Magnetic-Gravitational-Radiation Spectrum (EMGRS) then it would happen sooner.  Maybe we can get a factory set up among the tribes of South Africa to do this.  It only takes one tribe on the Planet Earth.  We don't have to wait until we get people on Mars or even on the Earth's satellite, the Moon.  Some African tribe can be endowed to do this for us.  Just one factory in South Africa can change the world.  

I'm finding that within family matters, architecture is a really important subject with me.  It's part of growing old.  I seem to focus on the basics now: shelter, food, clothing, security.  I love the architecture of the garden apartments where I live.  It's like living in an area made up of castles.  There so much common area here that equalizes us all, of every age and mentality.  We can help each other if we viewed the individual building where we lived as a castle.  It turns out that shelter and security are really closely related.  Eldercare is all about security.  I'm beginning to find out that I have the same concerns about me that I had about my young children.  It's like I'm my own child.  A child that has a huge memory.  I wonder if any one who is growing old ever thinks about architecture with respect to eldercare - shelter/security.  It's simply more than filling out a financial form.  I wonder if social workers and psychiatrists and psychologists legally talk about these things with their elderly customers?  
Hmmm, come to think of it.  When I relocated to a foreign country called Dallas County, Texas, I was completely scared of everyone because of threats.  So for 4 years I kept my blinds closed and wouldn't even look at my neighbors.  Then one neighbor was giving me grief about mowing my property and assuming it as part of theirs.  So I had to get involved with lawyers.  That led me to review my Title because I thought I had problems with the neighbor on the other side.  Sure enough.  So I called this neighbor up to discuss the boundary between us.  He invited me over for a drink and all we talked about was the architecture of the community.  This included the flood plain/plane and all the problems they suffered because of the creek behind our homes.  How neighbor turned against neighbor even in school with the children.  We became good friends since that fateful night.  Even though I'm back "home" I have them in living in my mind right next door to me. 
In fact, most of our combined lives  as neighbors have centered around shelter/security.  I was able to keep my blinds open and enjoy the view without being scared.  

Suppose all the smart neighborhood kids started forming militia instead of gangs?  What's to stop them?  All the gangs take on new names using the word "militia"?  I don't know why they aren't smart enough to do that.  It's so easy.  The Supreme Court says that's not important at all.  Just an after thought.  Yet it exists in the USCode.  Instead of Capo, we have General of the Militia.  Isn't that innovative enough for y'all?   Who says I don't have imagination?  I think drugs are clouding the brains of the USA.  We could start in kindergarten, couldn't we?  Kids are individualists and they can regulate themselves can't they?  
Don't you think we better have Universal Military Training real quicklike?  Getting to look more like  Iraq under Hussein aren't we?

Are these Supreme Court Justices afraid of Universal Military Training for their kids?  That's why they chose to not deal with well regulated militia part of the sentence?  That's what I call anti-WMI, pro-WMD.

I guess I'll find out.  I won't go into any house  unless there's a law to say you are required to post that you have a gun.

Just how reliable is the memory of a dying human being?  By then they've been so drugged can you really rely on them being true to themselves.  I've lost my memory 5 times.  That means people were talking to me as if they were talking to the real me.  From 3 of these events (the other two were involved with sexual relationships so you can scratch those witnesses, including my own physicianl here in the D.C. area;)  I found out that two times I was very nice, very submissive and the other one I was a tyrant.  When I visited my mom who was dying she was a tyrant.  She stopped talking to me two years before she died because she said "You are too smart."  I saw her Saturday evening with her 17 month younger sister with whom she didn't talk also.  She died in my arms the next day asking my forgiveness.  (BTW, that was a great gift.)  My aunt and I in our trip to the hospital discussed what would be her first words when she saw me.  I said  "My, Bootsy, you got fat."  Exactly her first words.  She wouldn't talk to her sister.  She made fun of my aunt's gift of a lovely pink scarf which I still have.  I asked the nurse how can she be so mean.  That was 20 years before I got my facelift and the "mean" experience myself.  When I found out how mean I was, I understood that my mom really wasn't my mom because her memory was all mixed up.  Our psyche may be very dependent on our own memory banks.  I don't know how you can measure memory.  That, it seems to me, is a project for NIMH.  Back in the 1980's when I was concerned with my first two memory lapses, the ONE expert in the USA at NIMH refused to talk to me about it.  He said he was only expert of loss of memory due to physical trauma that he can identify.  
Perhaps, Mrs. Ethel (Shulman) Weiss, my 2nd grade teacher at Van Ness Elementary chose a scientific path.  In our reading groups, she would ask us to read a randomly chosen sentence.  Then close our books. Then she'd point to someone and ask them to recite what we all had just read.  Eventually, she added the next sentence.  So then we had to repeat back to her two sentences.  I believe that's called "rapid reading" in today's lingo.  Remember this was before they knew what was inside an atom and during the great depression and a lot of us were on welfare and long before Dr. Spock.  IOW, "Ethel" or "Eth-El" used plain old Common Sense about healthy memory maintenance.