Gela

RN since ‘91, BSN, CCRN, fNTP, RWP, lover of great photography, memory keeper, and frustrated Padre Fan

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

Today is James Bond Day, celebrating the day that marks the release of the first Bond film, DR. NO, on October 5th 1962.

Tonight, watch the movie that brought Ian Fleming’s James Bond to the silver screen, and be sure to pour yourself a martini, shaken, not stirred of course 🍸

What’s your favorite Bond film? 🇬🇧

[Gela @Gela65]

@MartyCaswell @FriarTerritory Rico Suave number one, Rico Suave number two 😂

[Gela @Gela65]

@MartyCaswell 🤔 huh. Didn’t see that coming.

[T.J. Moe @TJMoe28]

RFK Jr is far and away the most popular member of the cabinet. He’s smooth and plays all the right notes. A truly likable man. If republicans are smart, they march him out as often as possible. MAHA is still wildly popular. This speech was spectacular.

[Amanda Princess 👑 @AmandaPrincesx]

Rude passenger gets what he deserves!🤯

[Amy Berger @TuitNutrition]

WOW!! 🤩

[Mohammad Irfan @irfan65111]

बच्चों को शिक्षा देने वाली बहुत अच्छी वीडियो है...

वीडियो शेयर लाइक करते हुए आगे जाने दो।

#ViralVideos

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

Every August I find myself reflecting on the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the close to twenty years that preceded it. My thoughts on what amounts to almost zero accountability for senior level military officers, elected representatives, and appointed bureaucrats who failed upward during that time are captured in a blog I wrote on 16 August 2021 titled “Imperial Hubris: The Great Game Revisited” and an article I wrote for TownHall on 23 August 2021 titled “A Time For Bold Adjustment: Fire The Generals.” Both can be found on the blog section of my website.

https://t.co/5I3wAyADXs

From the blog:
I describe the American experience in Afghanistan as “…a failure that crossed party lines over four separate administrations, two Republican and two Democrat. As we watch the U.S. Embassy evacuation in Kabul and see images of the Taliban taking control of the country, to those of us who fought there it is more than a strategic failure; it’s personal.”

“This year, for the first time in U.S. history, one could have joined the military, served for twenty years, and retired while the country is still involved in the same war.”

“In what is accurately described as imperial hubris, the United States political-military establishment confused entry and initial resolve with victory. They were wrong; America’s sons and daughters paid the price.”

“Simply put, our elected officials and senior level military leaders were trapped by their own intellectual inertia, condemning us to eventual defeat.”

“Strategically, our leaders were not held to account for their blunders — in too many cases, blunders of epic proportions. Rather, they were promoted and eventually retired with full pensions to sit on the boards of companies making a killing in the world of government contracts; the military industrial complex is alive and well. As Lt. Col. Paul Yingling pointed out in his 2007 article A Failure in Generalship, ‘As matters stand now, a private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war.��”

[Gela @Gela65]

@JackCarrUSA @nelsondemille All are must read. I love them all for different reasons.

[Danny @DjokovicFan_]

Novak Djokovic in his documentary on why he refused the COVID vaccine:

"Because I didn't need it. Why should I get the vaccine? I'm healthy, I'm an athlete. I had corona. I had immunity. I wasn't a threat to anyone. There was no reason for me to get vaccinated. It's my freedom to choose which that fundamental right that you have as a human being on this planet — the freedom to choose — which was taken from a lot of people."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If you had trusted the settled science of the day, here is how it would have gone.

1890s: you dose the baby with Bayer's new cough syrup, the non-addictive alternative to morphine, marketed for children. It was heroin. They named it after the German for heroic.

1900s: you rub calomel teething powder on your infant's gums. It is a mercury compound, and it leaves a generation with pink disease. Swollen, peeling hands and feet, screaming for months, and some of them died.

1910s: you cook in Crisco, launched by a soap and candle company, because cottonseed oil is modern and lard is what your mother used. The process that made it solid produced trans fat, banned outright a century later.

1920s: you drink Radithor, certified radioactive water, on prescription. Eben Byers took fourteen hundred bottles for his vitality. His jaw was removed in pieces and he was buried in a lead coffin.

1930s: a chemist dissolves a new sulfa drug in diethylene glycol, which is antifreeze. It kills 107 people, mostly children, and only then does America give the FDA power to demand safety testing.

1940s: your doctor lights a Camel in the surgery. More doctors smoke them than any other brand, and the advert runs in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which sold him the page.

1950s: DDT is sprayed over your kitchen, your garden and your children at school. The man who found its insecticidal properties has already been given a Nobel Prize.

1960s: your wife takes thalidomide for morning sickness because it is remarkably safe. More than ten thousand children are born with missing and shortened limbs.

1970s: the country puts down the butter and picks up the margarine, on the instruction of the American Heart Association. The fat everybody switched to was banned in 2015 as unsafe at any level.

1980s: the fat comes out of everything and sugar goes back in to make it edible. Obesity begins a climb it has never come off.

1990s: your father is prescribed OxyContin, because fewer than one per cent get addicted. The company later pleads guilty to criminal misbranding, and the overdose count runs into hundreds of thousands.

2000s: you take Vioxx for your knee. It is pulled in 2004, and the FDA's own safety officer estimates tens of thousands of excess heart attacks.

Not one of those was fringe. Every one had a professional body, a literature and a man in a white coat standing behind it.

Nobody who followed that advice was stupid. They were obedient, to the most qualified people available.

Settled is a word about money. It means the questions stopped being funded, so they stopped being asked.

So which of today's instructions will your grandchildren read out in disbelief.

The oil washed in hexane and built into every cell you own. The statin that blocks the pathway making your hormones, to prevent one heart attack per hundred people. The injection where a third of the loss is muscle. The infant formula built out of vegetable oil.

All settled. None of it funded to be otherwise.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

Let's be clear - none of the three HHS secretaries under Presidents Obama and Biden held an MD or PhD.
Kathleen Sebelius (Obama, 2009–2014): Held a Bachelor of Arts (Trinity Washington University) and a Master of Public Administration (University of Kansas). She did not have a doctorate or medical degree.
Sylvia Mathews Burwell (Obama, 2014–2017) did not possess a master's, PhD, or other advanced degree.
Xavier Becerra (Biden, 2021–2025): Held a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Juris Doctor (JD) from Stanford University. He is an attorney, not a medical doctor or PhD holder.
So - why has mainstream media made such a BFD about Kennedy not being a scientist or MD? Why do they continue to hammer at this?

[Gela @Gela65]

@DonOrsillo @Padres Walk off are great but I’m worried about Don. 🤣

[Jack Carr @JackCarrUSA]

Remembering

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Remember.
Extortion-17.
SGT Alexander J. Bennett
SPC Spencer Duncan
CWO Bryan J. Nichols
CWO David R. Carter
SSG Patrick D. Hamburger
TSgt John W. Brown
SSgt Andrew W. Harvell
TSgt Daniel L. Zerbe
PO1 (SEAL) Darrik C. Benson
CPO (SEAL) Brian R. Bill
PO1 (SEAL) Christopher G. Campbell
PO1 Jared W. Day
PO1 John Douangdara & Navy SEAL Dog “Bart”
CPO (SEAL) John W. Faas
CPO (SEAL) Kevin A. Houston
Lt. Cmdr. (SEAL) Jonas B. Kelsall
MCPO (SEAL) Louis J. Langlais
CPO (SEAL) Matthew D. Mason
CPO (SEAL) Stephen M. Mills
CPO Nicholas H. Null
PO1 (SEAL) Jesse D. Pittman
SCPO (SEAL) Thomas A. Ratzlaff
CPO (SEAL) Robert J. Reeves
CPO (SEAL) Heath M. Robinson
PO2 (SEAL) Nicholas P. Spehar
PO1 Michael J. Strange
PO1 (SEAL) Jon T. Tumilson
PO1 (SEAL) Aaron C. Vaughn
SCPO Kraig M. Vickers
PO1 (SEAL) Jason R. Workman

[Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra]

If you want to understand why many feel the Covid response including the covering up of its likely origins will go down as one of the greatest crimes against humanity then this balanced response from Vinay Prasad is worth 20 mins of your time. Excellent stuff!

[Gela @Gela65]

And that’s why @DanaBashCNN and the rest off @CNN have lost credibility and viewers

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

Why is @DanaBashCNN making assertions about vaccines?

In 2022, Pfizer signed a multi-year deal making it CNN's exclusive pharmaceutical advertiser. The arrangement raised obvious conflict-of-interest questions given CNN's fawning pandemic coverage and relentless suppression of dissenting voices—all while Pfizer's cash flowed directly into the network's coffers.

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

Why is @DanaBashCNN making assertions about vaccines?

In 2022, Pfizer signed a multi-year deal making it CNN's exclusive pharmaceutical advertiser. The arrangement raised obvious conflict-of-interest questions given CNN's fawning pandemic coverage and relentless suppression of dissenting voices—all while Pfizer's cash flowed directly into the network's coffers.

[Gela @Gela65]

@MikhailaFuller OMG that face priceless. congratulations