So, would you ever toy around with a Ouija Board? When and where would you use it? Why, or why not?

... is the most aesthetically pleasing flag. Prove me wrong (you can't).

Transgenderism is not normal. It's the opposite of normal, something's in fact very wrong with it. There is no way you could ever somehow say it's normal for someone born a male to feel like they're in the wrong body or need to be female - clearly something is wrong, the wiring got mixed up or some shit and now there's the wrong signals being sent. It's detrimental for the individual to endure such a confusing fuck up, let alone the rest of society to understand it. So why is transgenderism slowly being pushed as a normal thing when something clearly went wrong? Do you see it happening in nature? Do we ever see a lion trying to bite it's own balls off because it'd rather be a lioness? No. So why are we pushing this idea it's okay?

It should be noted I have nothing against transgender people. I empathize for them because it would definitely be a scary thing to be born a dude or girl but feel like it's the wrong body. So why isn't something like transgenderism being studied to look for causes or cures? If a cure could be found and the gender identity issue resolved, wouldn't that be the best option? It would allow an avenue for those afflicted with the dysphoria.

In short, I absolutely believe it should be studied, and without vilification. Transgender people should be allowed to do as they please, but let's not fool ourselves into believing it's normal or okay, when the cold hard truth is that it isn't. The closer we could get to ending it, the better. It would mean less and less people would have to deal with such a controversial hardship.

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Hooray!! Happy EMS Week to all you guys and any other EMTs/Firefighters/Paramedics who might be on here!

I got a free cooler from work lol. Anybody else here work in EMS too?

K guys, I just cashed in my check the other day. I got monies to spend and wanna spend it. I'm going to a bar later tonight with a friend. What drinks should I buy?

An economic collapse is inevitable, according to a CIA financial analyst:

http://pro.moneymappress.com/MMRBS495LG/PMMRR502/?iris=361147&ad=same-sm&h=true

So, are you guys ready for the ensuing anarchy, chaos, poverty, starvation, and war? The intro of the video seems a little conspiracy ish, but once it gets into the interview with the CIA analyst it's good. I recommend watching, because things are gonna take a mighty big turn sometime in the next decade. Time to start prepping, gonna' buy me some MREs and guns n' ammo

Edit - I should have also mentioned the analyst is the author of the book called "The Death of Money". Jim Rickards

Post some of your favorite food. I'm hungry and looking for ideas of what to eat.

A coworker told me the other day of a crazy call he had for transport. They get dispatched to a psychiatrist's office for a patient who's pale, cool, and moist. Initially, they think it's just some transport for a geriatric patient who might be on some sort of cardiac compromise. When they get on scene, all the staff and people in the building are standing outside the psychiatrist's office, which seemed a little weird. So my coworker and his partner ask where the patient is and they point into the office to a 23 Y.O. Hispanic female lying on the ground moaning. They go inside and begin speaking to her family who was there - the father spoke broken English but the mother spoke fluent English. They ask about what happened and they don't really give any help, so they begin assessing the girl. They assess ABC's, look at her arms for any track marks or scarring and find nothing - all WNL. She's mumbling something they don't understand but don't really pay attention. Now they decide to get her up and transport and the father goes to grab her arm when she shoots right up to a fully erect standing position when she was previously lying on the ground. She did this without being helped up or bending her knees or core. The FTO (my coworker) remarked he thought it was a neat trick but was a little perturbed. Now that she's up he and his partner grab her arms gently to help walk her to the gurney, but she turns her head to them both with eyes closed and smirks. They secure her to the gurney and she's still mumbling incoherent sounds.

At any rate they get her in the ambulance and the mother joins the attending EMT (who's female) in the rear of the rig. At this point the patient begins talking more clearly, saying "Lucifer, Lucifer", among other words. She begins speaking louder and saying "Mother, are you there? Mother?". Transport begins and the attending is completing the PCR when the patient rockets up in a sitting stance and turns to the attending. She opens her eyes that have turned completely black with dilation and the patient states, "Marella (this is the name of the attending EMT), I have marked the souls of your three children." Then she laughed, laid back down and closed her eyes again. The attending was shocked because she was a mother of 3 kids but had never mentioned it at any point. At this point the mother of the patient pulls out a vial of holy water from her pocket and begins splashing her daughter with it, while saying "Pray, pray as hard as you can!". Then the mother opens the mouth of her daughter and pours the water in her mouth to get her to drink it and her daughter gags. The attending was feeling too shocked to really stop the mother when the patient shot back up, opened her dilated eyes and spat the water in her face and laughed again. Then she raised her arms and her hands bent unnaturally down to touch her wrists and completely parallel to her arm, something that's anatomically impossible.

The FTO in the front is hearing this and seeing it unfold in the rear view mirror and can hardly believe what he's seeing. The attending has now had enough and grabs the restraints and restrains the patient to the gurney so the rest of the transport was without much else incident. Upon arriving at the hospital they notice the patient now has lacerations all up her arms and forearms that were not there when they had assessed her on scene, and the patient's necklace was fused to her skin and was also not fused when inspected on scene. The hospital staff asked about it but both my coworker and his partner could not account for it since it wasn't there at scene and only appeared, somehow, upon arriving. Some of the staff believed them and others did not, but in the end it was some sort of possession they dealt with. Documented into the PCR and all, a legit possession. Too many things happened that could not naturally occur.

So, I ask you, why don't you believe?

... and changes his stance: https://www.lifesitenews.com/static/medical-student-becomes-pro-life-after-seeing-babys-limbs-torn-off-in-sucti.html

Some time ago, I was sent this testimony from a medical student who preferred not to leave a name. He had just witnessed an abortion as part of his training. Deeply troubled, he wanted to tell someone. He was haunted by what he had seen.
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The student starts out by saying that he was firmly in the pro-choice camp before witnessing the abortion:

    To begin, I must say that until yesterday, Friday, July 2, 2004, I was strongly pro-choice. I am a pre-medical student, and being very scientific, I understood that the mass of cells that forms the fetal body is not often capable of survival before 24 weeks in the womb. I am also somewhat liberal, and I believed that every woman should have the right to choose what she did with her body and one that could potentially be growing inside of her.

The student had heard the pro-choice movement’s slogans. He took them at face value, believing that the unborn baby was “a mass of cells” and not an individual human being. He felt that a woman “had the right to control her body” and did not sympathize with the tiny baby inside her. He did not believe in the child’s humanity or right to life.

Then he took the opportunity to see an abortion performed. Because of his pro-choice beliefs, he did not expect to be disturbed by anything he would see:

    This summer, I was accepted into a pre-medical program in NYC in which we are allowed to shadow doctors and see all sorts of medical procedures. When given the opportunity to see an abortion, I did not hesitate to accept the offer. It was something new, edgy, and exciting that I had never seen.

He then describes exactly what he witnessed in the operating room:

    When I entered the operating room, it felt like any other I had ever been in. On the table in front of me, I saw a woman, legs up as if delivering a child although she was asleep. Next to her was a tray of instruments for the abortion and a vacuum machine for suctioning the fetal tissues from the uterus. The doctors put on their gowns and masks and the procedure began. The cervix was held open with a crude metal instrument and a large transparent tube was stuck inside of the woman. Within a matter of seconds, the machine’s motor was engaged and blood, tissue, and tiny organs were pulled out of their environment into a filter. A minute later, the vacuum choked to a halt. The tube was removed, and stuck to the end was a small body and a head attached haphazardly to it, what was formed of the neck snapped. The ribs had formed with a thin skin covering them, the eyes had formed, and the inner organs had begun to function. The tiny heart of the fetus, obviously a little boy, had just stopped — forever. The vacuum filter was opened, and the tiny arms and legs that had been torn off of the fetus were accounted for. The fingers and toes had the beginnings of their nails on them. The doctors, proud of their work, reassembled the body to show me. Tears welled up in my eyes as they removed the baby boy from the table and shoved his body into a container for disposal.

Face it, abortion is wrong. And if you still feel it's okay after reading this, you're a cold, heartless human being and should be ashamed.

http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/fast-food-workers-you-dont-deserve-15-an-hour-to-flip-burgers-and-thats-ok/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons

A piece of the article:

Dear fast food workers,

It’s come to my attention that many of you, supposedly in 230 cities across the country, are walking out of your jobs today and protesting for $15 an hour. You earnestly believe — indeed, you’ve been led to this conclusion by pandering politicians and liberal pundits who possess neither the slightest grasp of the basic rules of economics nor even the faintest hint of integrity — that your entry-level gig pushing buttons on a cash register at Taco Bell ought to earn you double the current federal minimum wage.

I’m aware, of course, that not all of you feel this way. Many of you might consider your position as Whopper Assembler to be rather a temporary situation, not a career path, and you plan on moving on and up not by holding a poster board with “Give me more money!” scrawled across it, but by working hard and being reliable. To be clear, I am not addressing the folks in this latter camp. They are doing what needs to be done, and I respect that.

Instead, I want to talk to those of you who actually consider yourselves entitled to close to a $29,000 a year full-time salary for doing a job that requires no skill, no expertise and no education; those who think a fry cook ought to earn an entry-level income similar to a dental assistant; those who insist the guy putting the lettuce on my Big Mac ought to make more than the emergency medical technician who saves lives for a living; those who believe you should automatically be able to “live comfortably,” as if “comfort” is a human right.

So much truth. If you are working a job flipping burgers you don't deserve to make 15$/hr. It's menial and unskilled, and crying like babies for more money in an entry level job is pathetic. Work for what you earn.

Who's hungry?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130521132122.htm

An attack on glioblastoma brain tumor cells that uses a modified poliovirus is showing encouraging results in an early study to establish the proper dose level, researchers at Duke Cancer Institute report.
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The treatment, developed at Duke and tested in an ongoing phase 1 study, capitalizes on the discovery that cancer cells have an abundance of receptors that work like magnets drawing the poliovirus, which then infects and kills the cells.

The investigational therapy, known as PVSRIPO, uses an engineered form of the virus that is lethal to cancer cells, while harmless to normal cells. Infused directly into the patient's tumor, the virus-based therapy also triggers the body's immune fighters to launch an attack against the infected tumor cells.

Preliminary data, presented at the upcoming 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, previews the results of seven patients enrolled in the study whose tumors reoccurred despite traditional treatments for glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and aggressive brain tumor.

Of the patients enrolled in the study, three have responded well to the drug. One patient remains disease-free 12 months after treatment, another 11 months post-treatment and the third is disease-free after five months. With traditional treatment, about half of glioblastoma patients see recurrent tumor growth within eight weeks.

Two patients in the study did not fair as well; one had recurrent tumor growth after two months, and another's condition declined after four months. The remaining two patients have been treated in the last three and two months, respectively, and currently remain disease free.

"These early results are intriguing," said Annick Desjardins, M.D., FRCPC, principal investigator and associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. "Current therapies for glioblastoma are limited because they cannot cross the blood-brain barrier and often do not specifically attack the tumor. This treatment appears to overcome those problems. We are eager to see additional results as we move forward with our study."

This is pretty interesting. Saw the 60-Minute episode covering this, so far 22 patients have undergone Phase 1 of the clinical trials. 11 of them died, but it was noted despite succumbing to the disease, they lived months longer than averagely estimated for those with recurrent glioblastoma, a major step forward. Even the fact that the first two patients are now considered "cancer free" and have been for several years is a very promising thing in itself, since Phase 1 of a clinical trial is more for determining the proper dose of a treatment and not a determination of effectiveness. This being said, the unusual effectiveness so early in the trials and in Phase 1 has the medical directors very surprised and very optimistic for the future.

Another article on polio therapy:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkroll/2015/03/30/60-minutes-covers-dukes-polio-virus-clinical-trial-against-glioblastoma/

Alright, so I was thinking that if Chlamydia wasn't an STD, it'd actually be a pretty girl's name. Am I the only one who thinks this?