Wednesday, September 16, 2020

if the rcmp believe that an investigation is warranted, they should launch an investigation.

otherwise, the issue is up for voters to determine - not an unelected guardian council.
do, i think we should have a body that holds politicians accountable?

in a word - no.

but, that's relative to the fact that any such thing would be extrajudicial, and inherently undemocratic.

in a democracy, the primary lever we use to hold politicians accountable is an election - and it should be up to voters to make those choices, not unelected nazis lurking behind the scenes, who are ultimately accountable to nobody, themselves.

and, if a politician does break the law - the actual law, not somebody's hokey pokey concept of what's "immoral" - then they should be charged, and allowed for due process, in a court of law. that investigation can't be bureaucratized like this.

i do not like chrystia freeland. at all. but, freedom of association is a right worth standing up for, and, if they don't push back on this, it sets a vicious precedent that can't be shrugged off.

i don't want to live in iran.

abolish the ethics commissioner.
we have a fucking guardian council in this country, and it needs to be overthrown.
well, ok, it's under 41(1).

41 (1) If the Commissioner determines that a former reporting public office holder is not complying with his or her obligations under this Part, the Commissioner may order any current public office holders not to have official dealings with that former reporting public office holder.

but, let's compare that to the constitution:
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art2d.html

it's the kind of fucked up law you'd see in a backwards country like iran....

they should pay the $500 and send it to the supreme court for a reference decision.
i don't see any authority granted to the ethics commissioner to make orders of this sort in this legislation.

it says he can fine them $500. that is all.

mario dion should resign and, frankly, i'd like to see the position removed along with him.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-36.65/page-7.html#docCont
so, it was some mickey mouse law brought in by harper...of course....

let me see if anybody has ever commented on the constitutionality of such an absurdity.
your ethics commissioner sounds more like an ethics nazi, to me.


why do we even have one?

can we just get rid of this guy, flat out?
no macnaughton for you!

come back, one year!

i mean, what the fuck?
nobody elected mr. dion. so, from what authority do his orders stem from?

he should accept accusations of being in abuse of power and step down.

but, i mean, i understand that this doesn't happen in a vacuum - this is a purge in slow motion.
i mean, do cabinet ministers not have some semblance of freedom of association?

do they sign that away when they swear on whatever it is that they swear on?
there's little that mr. o'toole offers that small, if traditional, red tory swing demographic - the clark swing, that was 8% at one point, and has been coming down, slowly, for years. traditional liberals - like me, even if i'm a self-hating one - are going to be fully revolted by him.

it's the old progressives that'll like the folksiness and cheesy exterior, if he can convince them he's on their side.

if he figures that out, that's the next election - the pcs and liberals partitioning the ndp, and the greens trying to salvage what's left of it.

hey, i warned you not to elect mr. singh. alas.
i mean, i'm an over-educated bourgeois liberal at heart, even if i hate myself for it.

i can't stand even looking at him.

i know my friends on the fake left have different views - he's the kind of Man of the People a lot of them might get hoodwinked by, if he can pull it off.

and, he has a great foil in jagmeet "hasn't shaved in thirty years" singh.

it's plausibly easy pickings....

...meaning, i guess, that a lot of the ndp vote is up for grabs, right now - and that the liberals and conservatives may find themselves partitioning poland, molotov-ribbentrop style, over the next cycle.

the greens are the only real resistance to that....
i will say this: o'toole will probably do better with self-identified "progressives" that have historically voted ndp than self-identified liberals.

that's where he's more likely to gain ground....
i mean, the guy they're supposed to like looks like he's a walking cadaver.

i've been yelling at the liberals that they need to pay attention to their left.

i'm leaning green, clearly. but, a lot of wandering ndp supporters might just like o'toole better.

and, that might be the key - disenfranchised workers in southern ontario.
you have to wonder how many of layton's dumbest supporters are going to fall for it, like the naive fish that they are.
pay close attention to him.

he looks and acts like an old timey communist. really.
ok, they're being taken out from the inside.

who the fuck does mario dion think he is, anyways?

i'm not likely going to get used to this gorbachev wannabe, but maybe he'll at least tear down the wall.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palantir-macnaughton-ethics-1.5726443
don't listen to these buffoons; these are the same idiots that endorsed stephen harper.

what we need to do is a whole sale about face, and adopt the swedish model. we need to adjust, to adapt, to get used to it.

the other option is sinking further into debt to fight a quixotic war we can't win.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-as-coronavirus-cases-rise-canada-cant-afford-a-wait-and-see-approach/
like, you realize the guy in sweden is actually pretty much the only person talking that's qualified to talk, right?
let's look at studies from before the pandemic, to prevent bias from influencing the results.

if a mask is ineffective against the flu, it should be less effective against covid-19, because it's more contagious than the flu.

Results
The rates of all infection outcomes were highest in the cloth mask arm, with the rate of ILI statistically significantly higher in the cloth mask arm (relative risk (RR)=13.00, 95% CI 1.69 to 100.07) compared with the medical mask arm. Cloth masks also had significantly higher rates of ILI compared with the control arm. An analysis by mask use showed ILI (RR=6.64, 95% CI 1.45 to 28.65) and laboratory-confirmed virus (RR=1.72, 95% CI 1.01 to 2.94) were significantly higher in the cloth masks group compared with the medical masks group. Penetration of cloth masks by particles was almost 97% and medical masks 44%.

Conclusions
This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
again, these are very strange comments, given that we know that drugstore face masks do not protect against the spread of viruses.

if he was talking about a high grade mask, maybe.

but, it's been known for years that those flimsy things they're making us wear are completely useless.

so, what is going on?

why are they forcing us to wear masks?

https://globalnews.ca/news/7338646/facemasks-work-against-coronavirus-masks-cdc/
losing bad gambles has consequences.

we're going to have to make sure we put the right people in power, when we get the chance, to ensure those consequences are felt by those that are both most responsible and most capable of feeling them.

if you leave either the feds or the province in charge, it's the vulnerable that are going to take it on the chin - and this is a taste of it.

they won't raise taxes on the rich.

they'll levy fines on students, instead.
we were stupid - we thought we could beat this.

we bet the bank on it, and we lost.

now, we're broke.

and, we're going to need to elect a left-wing government if we want to resolve this without resorting to austerity.

for now, they're going to levy huge fines on kids to try to raise revenue, because that's the kind of morally bankrupt people that they are.
what that means is that if you see cops you need to avoid them.

they're going to be given quotas.

they're trying to raise money.
at this stage, because the virus is already seeded, a lockdown is not going to do anything at all.

again: this is not a second wave. this is the conclusion of the first wave, the part of it that got into the general population.

as an effective vaccine is likely fleeting - we've been lucky so far, but this thing will mutate faster than we can fight it - if we don't allow the virus to spread in young people, we'll be in and out of lockdown forever.

when will we wake up and realize how stupid we're being?
i would rather see an increase in property taxes, as well as an increase in corporate taxes, than a levy of a regressive sin tax on young people for existing.

it's a backwards policy, and you're a backwards person if you're supporting it.
so, let's be clear, here.

what the government is doing is trying to raise money, not reduce the spread of the disease.

this is essentially a sin tax.

and, if they hit me, i'll fight them to the supreme court on it - and explicitly argue that the measures aren't working, and won't work.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7338283/ford-government-social-gatherings-coronavirus/
the cops could reboot this again soon ( i still don't know why.) , so let's post some links.

adenine reference:
https://www.nal.usda.gov/sites/www.nal.usda.gov/files/ars_purine_content_of_foods.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/37/5/37_b13-00967/_html

inositol reference:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15783165_Myo-inositol_content_of_common_foods_development_of_a_high-myo-inositol_diet

q1 reference:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/12743925_Coenzyme_Q10_in_health_and_disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenzyme_Q10

q2 reference:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/pyrroloquinolinequinone

salicyclic acid reference:
http://www.food-info.net/uk/qa/qa-fi27.htm

general:
whfoods
nutrition self nd
kiwis are in, but i can't find any useful information regarding the nutritional benefit of the skin, so i'm forced to undershoot it.

i initially went for kiwis because i couldn't find strawberries, and stuck with them when strawberries became locatable, again. it's mostly about the c, but they're also helping with the e. and, it turns out there's also a lot of inositol, which is a neurotransmitter that we can make on our own but can use if it's given to us, too.

i've added two q-complex vitamins:
q2) pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) (cannot synthesize)   <-----kiwis
q3) queuine  (cannot synthesize)    <-----animal byproduct, mostly. obscure....

i'm also going to pencil in taurine as b14, but understand that that is novel. i actually won't drink energy drinks due to the testosteronic effects of taurine, but i'm realizing i need it in some form. eggs?

i'll leave ergothioneine for when i look at the amino acids.

i strangely cannot find biotin numbers for kiwis, and less strangely cannot find q2 numbers for strawberries. let's hope i get enough b7 in the end that it doesn't matter.

regarding strawberries and q2, i know there's some in there, but can't find a source willing to state it. there should also be some b7 in kiwis, but how much?

disclaimer:
i've gone to town with a few things - i'm not making up vitamins but rather filling things in. i mean, there's all these "missing vitamin names". what were they, exactly? it also gives me an excuse to work in a few things like choline that are hard to otherwise define as they are essential in some amount but not technically vitamins.

note that these numbers are scavenged and should be interpreted approximately. that's partly why i'm aiming to overshoot on most of it.


banana
8"
strawberries
75 g
kiwi
75 g
soy milk
250 ml
cherry
ice cream
200 ml
red pepper
1
tomato
1
caesar
200 ml
eggs
2
cheese
50 g
margarine
1 tbsp
whole wheat
bread + germ
1 slice
sum
a2011013--------
b1
thiamine
3218---------
b2 [aka g, j]
riboflavin
61125---------
b3
niacin
52110---------
b4*
adenine (mg)
1.360.3750.3
---------
b5
pantothenic acid
52115---------
b6
pyridoxine
25226---------
b7 [aka h]
biotin
102.5?
---------
b8*
inositol (g)
0.0110102
---------
b9 [aka m, b11, r]
folic acid
74.566---------
b10*
pABA
~0~0~0
---------
b12 [aka t]
cyanocobalamin
00050---------
b13*
orotic acid
~0~0~0
---------
b14*
taurine
~0~0~0
---------
b15*
pangamic acid
~0~0~0----------
b16*
choline
211----------
b20* [aka I]
l-carnitine
~0~0~0----------
c20741174---------
d00045---------
e11.510----------
f1*
linoleic acid
omega-6 (g)
.0626.09.1871.5---------
f2*
alphalinoleic acid
omega-3 (g)
.0367.065.03190.2---------
k1138----------
q1*
coenzyme q10 (mg)
.136.075.0375----------
q2*
pyrroloquinoline

 quinone (mu-g)
176.8?202.5----------
q3*
queuine 
(mu-g)
???----------
s*
salicylic acid (mg)
~0~1~0.375----------

* not really.

- chapman's black cherry ice cream
i'm sure i'm going to have to do this a few more times, actually.

i just ran across a new category of phytonutrients that i'm adding near the bottom.

changes are bold & italic.

==========

so, what is the list of everything i need to get?

13 vitamins:
1) A
2) B1 (thiamine)
3) B2 (riboflavin)
4) B3 (niacin)
5) B5 (pantothenic acid)
6) B6.
7) B7 (biotin)
8) B12.
9) Folic acid.
10)  C
11) D
12) E,
13) K

15 amino acids:
1) histidine
2) isoleucine
3) leucine
4) lysine
5) methionine
6) phenylalanine
7) threonine
8) tryptophan
9) valine
10) arginine
11) cysteine
12) glycine
13) glutamine
14) proline
15) tyrosine
+ measure 6 non-essential

4 fatty acids:
1) linoleic acid
2) ala
3) dha
4) epa

23 minerals:
1) calcium
2) phosphorus
3) potassium
4) sulfur
5) sodium
6) chlorine
7) magnesium
8) iron
9) zinc
10) copper
11) manganese
12) iodine
13) selenium
14) molybdenum
15) chromium
16) fluoride
17) bromine
18) cobalt
19) tin
20) vanadium
21) silicon
22) boron
23) nickel
24) lead?

carotenoids (not including pro-vitamin a)
1) lutein
2) zeaxanthin
3) lycopene
4) phytofluene
5) phytoene
6) astaxanthin
7) capsanthin
8) canthaxanthin
9) cryptoxanthin

chlorophyll:
1) chlorophyll a
2) chlorophyll b

other molecules required for proper metabolic functions:
1) choline (cannot synthesize properly)
2) coQ10
3) lipoic acid
4) glutathione precursors
5) ergothioneine  (cannot synthesize)   <-----mushrooms
6) pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) (cannot synthesize)   <-----kiwis
7) queuine  (cannot synthesize)    <-----cheese
8) taurine (cannot synthesize properly) <----cheese

glucose:
i'm more concerned about diabetes than weight gain, so...
the glycemic index is:
running total...

fiber:
i don't need many different types, i just need some. i'm not worrying about this.

& water

also, let's measure flavonoids:

anthocyanidins:
1) pelargonidin
2) delphinidin
3) cyanidin
4) malvinidin
5) peonidin
6) petunidin
7) rosinidin

flavonols:
1) isorhamnetin
2) kaempferol
3) myricetin
4) quercetin
5) fisetin
6) kaempferide

flavones:
1) luteolin
2) apigenin
3) techtochrysin
4) baicalein (to avoid!)
5) norwogonin
6) wogonin
7) nobiletin

flavanones:
1) eriodictyol
2) hesperetin
3) naringenin
4) hesperidin
5) isosakuranetin
6) pinocembrin
7) sterubin

isoflavones:
1) daidzein
2) genistein
3) glycitein
4) biochanin A
5) formononetin

i should try to measure some further phytoestrogens:
1) matairesinol
2) secoisolariciresinol
3) pinoresinol
4) lariciresinol
5) coumestrol

& finally, let's also measure:
1) saponins
2) ursolic acid (& precursors)
3) cafestol
4) resveratrol
5) ellagic acid
6) coumarin
7) tyrosol
8) hydroxytyrosol
9) oleocanthal
10) oleuropein
11) gingerol
12) phytic acid
you just cut a little hole around the receptacle and cut them into slices....
all of the data assume people don't eat kiwi skins.

wtf?

who are these people that don't eat the skins?

i'm baffled. really.
strawberries are in.

the bananas were mostly for the potassium, which isn't listed yet. the strawberries were mostly for the C, and as you can see they get me a good shot of the daily amount.

kiwis are next and also are mostly for the C.

disclaimer:
i've gone to town with a few things - i'm not making up vitamins but rather filling things in. i mean, there's all these "missing vitamin names". what were they, exactly? it also gives me an excuse to work in a few things like choline that are hard to otherwise define as they are essential in some amount but not technically vitamins.

note that these numbers are scavenged and should be interpreted approximately. that's partly why i'm aiming to overshoot on most of it.


banana
8"
strawberries
75 mg
kiwi
1
soy milk
250 ml
cherry
ice cream
200 ml
red pepper
1
tomato
1
caesar
200 ml
eggs
2
cheese
50 g
margarine
1 tbsp
whole wheat
bread + germ
1 slice
sum
a20-1013--------
b1
thiamine
32-8---------
b2 [aka g, j]
riboflavin
61-25---------
b3
niacin
52-10---------
b4*
adenine (mg)
1.360.375-----------
b5
pantothenic acid
52-15---------
b6
pyridoxine
252-6---------
b7 [aka h]
biotin
102.5-----------
b8*
inositol (g)
0.0110-----------
b9 [aka m, b11, r]
folic acid
74.5-6---------
b10*
pABA
~0~0-----------
b12 [aka t]
cyanocobalamin
00-50---------
b13*
orotic acid
~0~0-----------
b15*
pangamic acid
~0~0-----------
b16*
choline
21-----------
b20* [aka I]
l-carnitine
~0~0-----------
c2074-4---------
d00-45---------
e11.5-----------
f1*
linoleic acid
omega-6 (g)
.0626.09-1.5---------
f2*
alphalinoleic acid
omega-3 (g)
.0367.065-0.2---------
k11-----------
q*
coenzyme q10 (mg)
.136.075-----------
s*
salicylic acid (mg)
~0~1-----------

* not really.

- chapman's black cherry ice cream
so, here we go.

there was a typo in the quantity of soy milk. it's been brought down to 250 ml.

bananas are in. let's keep going...

disclaimer:
i've gone to town with a few things - i'm not making up vitamins but rather filling things in. i mean, there's all these "missing vitamin names". what were they, exactly? it also gives me an excuse to work in a few things like choline that are hard to otherwise define as they are essential in some amount but not technically vitamins.

note that these numbers are scavenged and should be interpreted approximately. that's partly why i'm aiming to overshoot on most of it.

banana
1
strawberries
6
kiwi
1
soy milk
250 ml
cherry
ice cream
200 ml
red pepper
1
tomato
1
caesar
200 ml
eggs
2
cheese
50 g
margarine
1 tbsp
whole wheat
bread + germ
1 slice
sum
a2--1013--------
b1
thiamine
3--8---------
b2 [aka g, j]
riboflavin
6--25---------
b3
niacin
5--10---------
b4*
adenine (mg)
1.36------------
b5
pantothenic acid
5--15---------
b6
pyridoxine
25--6---------
b7 [aka h]
biotin
10------------
b8*
inositol (g)
0.01------------
b9 [aka m, b11, r]
folic acid
7--6---------
b10*
pABA
~0------------
b12 [aka t]
cyanocobalamin
0--50---------
b13*
orotic acid
~0------------
b15*
pangamic acid
~0------------
b16*
choline
2------------
b20* [aka I]
l-carnitine
~0------------
c20--4---------
d0--45---------
e1------------
f1*
linoleic acid
omega-6 (g)
.0626--1.5---------
f2*
alphalinoleic acid
omega-3 (g)
.0367--0.2---------
k1------------
q*
coenzyme q10 (mg)
.136------------
s*
salicylic acid (mg)
~0------------

* not really.

- chapman's black cherry ice cream
actually, here's my base chart, in a more copiable form for later.

i've gone to town with a few things - i'm not making up vitamins but rather filling things in. i mean, there's all these "missing vitamin names". what were they, exactly? it also gives me an excuse to work in a few things like choline that are hard to otherwise define as they are essential in some amount but not technically vitamins.


banana
1
strawberries
6
kiwi
1
soy milk
300 ml
cherry
ice cream
200 ml
red pepper
1
tomato
1
caesar
200 ml
eggs
2
cheese
50 g
margarine
1 tbsp
whole wheat
bread + germ
1 slice
sum
a - - - - - - - - - - - - -
b1
thiamine
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b2 [aka g, j]
riboflavin
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b3
niacin
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b4*
adenine
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b5
pantothenic acid
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b6
pyridoxine
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b7 [aka h]
biotin
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b8*
inositol
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b9 [aka m, b11, r]
folic acid
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b10*
pABA
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b12 [aka t]
cyanocobalamin
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b13*
orotic acid
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b15*
pangemic acid
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b16*
choline
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
b20* [aka I]
l-carnitine
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
c - - - - - - - - - - - - -
d - - - - - - - - - - - - -
e - - - - - - - - - - - - -
f1*
linoleic acid
omega-6
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
f2*
alphalinoleic acid
omega-3
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
k - - - - - - - - - - - - -
q*
coenzyme q10
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
s*
salicylic acid
- - - - - - - - - - - - -

* not really.

the candidate for pseudo-b14 was never properly identified. b17 is apparently actually poisonous, so avoid that. b18 is arsenic. yummy? b19 was never assigned. vitamins f, g, h, i, j, m, q, r, s & t have been found! vitamin l was promoted for use in lactation and since dropped. vitamin n was never identified. vitamin o was actually oxygen. vitamin p was a flavonoid, and i'll deal with those after.

and, i'm stopping there, ignoring u--->z.