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A good fall day with just a tad too many wind gusts.
I picked up scripts yesterday. One was new so I paid the $24. When I got
home I looked information about the scripts. It turned out that the new script
was covered completely, but the thyroid one was used GoodRx and not my
insurance. I called and they said bring in the receipts. Turns out the last
time I refilled the thyroid one it was too early, so they ran it through
GoodRx. It was my screw-up. I had been taking the med forever, and when my
doctor sent in a new script he changed me from every day to every other day. I
didn’t see it, so used it twice as fast as I should have. Walgreens was so good
as they ran it through BC and refunded the charge. Embarrassed, but happy.
I recently read a news story about ICE and Border Patrol. Border Patrol
works within 100 miles of our borders and it responsible for stopping
immigrants at or near the border who are entering without proper paperwork.
They are trained to capture and detain them and remove them from the US. ICE is
very different. They can work anywhere within the US. They get information from
many different sources to identify people who may or may not be here illegally.
They review their information, make a plan of action to capture the illegal,
notify the relevant local officials of a raid, capture and detain the illegal
who then waits for a court date. This administration has decided to use both ICE
and Border Patrol anywhere in the US. Border Patrol has never been trained the
way ICE agents have been trained. This new responsibility for Border agents is
why there are so many problems with identifying and capturing illegals. I
believe both should do their jobs as outlined in the law.
It was a crazy week for this administration. First Mayor-elect Mamdani
and President Trump met. Many expected something bad. It turned out that when
Trump talked directly to Mamdani, they had a good conversation without
rhetoric. Nice! Then Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her resignation from the
house for January 2026. First, MTG flipped on Trump and many Republicans, shocking
many in the news. Then out-of-the-blue on Friday, she announced she was resigning
after Trump had called her a traitor. I seldom agree with MTG and her MAGA
politics, but in this case I understand her reasons and applaud her for stating
them so clearly.
History that is not true…
The Taj Mahal’s builders were
mutilated
Called 'a teardrop on the cheek
of time' by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Taj Mahal is
world-renowned for the transcendent beauty not only of its architecture, but
its backstory. Built by heartbroken Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for
his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, the Taj is a symbol of enduring love and
beauty that was always intended to ring down the centuries. So determined was
he that no future monument should ever rival its beauty that Shah Jahan cut off
the hands of each of the 20,000 laborers who worked on the site.
It’s easy to see why this mix of
high romance and unspeakable cruelty appeals to storytellers, but it is
just that – a story.
Unfortunately, mass mutilations
do appear elsewhere in the historical record. In the 13th century, some Mongol
conquerors kept track of their victims by severing their right ears and
then counting them up in large piles. Byzantine emperor Basil the Bulgar-Slayer
meanwhile, is thought to have blinded up to 15,000 Bulgarian prisoners in AD
1014, leaving just one man in every hundred with his sight so he could lead the
others home.
Myths people still believe about
Native Americans…
The Manhattan purchase was a fair deal for
trinkets
The history of the sale of Manhattan for $24
worth of beads is a simplification of the actual events. In 1626, the Dutch
exchanged goods with the Lenape people, valued at approximately $1,000 in
present-day money, including tools and cloth.
The Lenape would have perceived this as a
settlement to share the land, rather than to sell it permanently, as they had a
different worldview regarding land ownership.
Random Thoughts…
An onion
is the bass player of food.
Finding
worms in apples has been much less of a
problem than I anticipated experiencing as a kid.
April
Fool’s Day is the one day a year when people critically examine news articles
before accepting them as true.
Brushing
our teeth is the closest we ever come to cleaning our skeleton.
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