How Stupid Are They?

[up148]

Everyone's dead now so it doesn't matter, but I worked in a small town drug store my junior and senior years of HS. Did everything from stocking shelves and ordering inventory to getting the drug bottles off the shelf and setting them on the prescription script to speed up the process for the pharmacist.
This was back in the day when people came in and waited, so it could get very busy. Drive-thru was way off in the future.

Point is, there were 3 doctors in town and two were hooked on drugs. One on dilaudid and the other on something else. The one would come in and write a prescription for someone and the pharmacist would fill it, all the while knowing it was BS.........but that was small town. Freaked me out the 1st time he came in and slurred out the words "I need this prescription for diiiiiilauuuuuuuuudidddddddddddddddd." He only lived a few more years and OD'd. Very hush, hush of course. So, there wase drug use and abuse going on, just not mainstream, until the later 70's and on. But, cough medicine up your anus.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...........3 doctors in town and two were hooked on drugs.

Not very good statistics, Now consider their patients....

[healey36]

Speaking of stupid, a former neighbor of mine:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-s-chief-protocol-pulled-job-ahead-g-20-n1021781

After twenty years in the Navy and ten years in government, apparently he didn't realize "the lash" was inappropriate for use on civilians.

Healey

[HONDO74]

Speaking of stupid, a former neighbor of mine:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-s-chief-protocol-pulled-job-ahead-g-20-n1021781

After twenty years in the Navy and ten years in government, apparently he didn't realize "the lash" was inappropriate for use on civilians.

Healey

According to the article (link)
Sean Lawler has been pulled off the job amid an investigation into allegations of discrimination and harassment, U.S. officials said.

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Lawler was sworn in at the end of 2017, but has been in the U.S. government for almost three decades, according to his official State Department biography. His bio says he served more than 20 years in the Navy and also has worked in the White House’s National Security Council.

That means he has been in government through the Clinton, Bush and Obama Administrations. And they just now discovered this.

Maybe he inherited the wipe from Janet Reno.

[healey36]

He served in the Navy for 21 years, NSA for 9 years, Trump Admin for eighteen months or so. Master-Chief in the Navy is an achievement...everything after that is crap. His education credentials appear inflated as well, but I have to presume those were verified.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

He served in the Navy for 21 years, NSA for 9 years, Trump Admin for eighteen months or so. Master-Chief in the Navy is an achievement...everything after that is crap.

Makes you wonder about the Navy a bit.....NSA.....no one knows what the frell goes on there minute to minute.....but out from under the rock for 18 months.

His education credentials appear inflated as well, but I have to presume those were verified.

I kind of doubt it.

[HONDO74]

He served in the Navy for 21 years, NSA for 9 years, Trump Admin for eighteen months or so. Master-Chief in the Navy is an achievement...everything after that is crap. His education credentials appear inflated as well, but I have to presume those were verified.

He can look forward to retirement now since he is out of a job......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

He served in the Navy for 21 years, NSA for 9 years, Trump Admin for eighteen months or so. Master-Chief in the Navy is an achievement...everything after that is crap. His education credentials appear inflated as well, but I have to presume those were verified.

He can look forward to retirement now since he is out of a job......

He's got his 30 in,

[HONDO74]

NSA.....no one knows what the frell goes on there minute to minute.....but out from under the rock for 18 months.

National Security Agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems. The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.

clandestine.......

[healey36]

Which brings up another observation, i.e. the bang-up job NSA is doing protecting our proprietary information systems. A number of the recent data breaches have been traced back to NSA-developed "tools" circulating in the vapor world. I realize the smartest and the brightest are working both sides of this thing, but c'mon guys and gals...

Which then brings up another interesting situation. Baltimore's computer system got hacked more than a month ago. They haven't been able to access email, send out water bills, process tax submissions, process traffic tickets, etc., for the duration. I seem to recall the hackers' ransom was $80K for the key to restore the system. Baltimore, always one to take the high road , said eff-off, we'll fix it ourselves. I see tonight the City Council announced the cost of recovery (and it ain't done yet) exceeds $10 million. It seems to me they should have taken their lumps for having an insecure system, paid the $80K ransom, and moved on. Of course, hindsight is always 20-20...

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

National Security Agency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign and domestic intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems. The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.

clandestine.......

Everyone knows where it is located - No Such Agency.

Just drive up and try to get in and see how far you get.

[sleepmac]

For some reason I am reminded of the anecdote of the Cold War era. You couldn't get a satellite photo of Area 51 from the US government as that was classified info. However, so the story goes, you could get such a photo from the Russian Embassy!

Dan Weinhold

[up148]

...........3 doctors in town and two were hooked on drugs.

Not very good statistics, Now consider their patients....

New doctors were on their way in at this time. This was 1966-67 and the town was growing. Both the others were in their late 50's IIRC and one passed by 1970, the other was more careful (I guess) and lasted until the mid 1980's.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...........3 doctors in town and two were hooked on drugs.

Not very good statistics, Now consider their patients....

New doctors were on their way in at this time. This was 1966-67 and the town was growing. Both the others were in their late 50's IIRC and one passed by 1970, the other was more careful (I guess) and lasted until the mid 1980's.

I was obliquely referring to their patients in that if they were addicts one might question how many patients were as well - think Mother's Little Helper.... Consider something like 40-50% of the country is on some medication of some form. Are we really that sick?

[up148]

Not very good statistics, Now consider their patients....

New doctors were on their way in at this time. This was 1966-67 and the town was growing. Both the others were in their late 50's IIRC and one passed by 1970, the other was more careful (I guess) and lasted until the mid 1980's.

I was obliquely referring to their patients in that if they were addicts one might question how many patients were as well - think Mother's Little Helper.... Consider something like 40-50% of the country is on some medication of some form. Are we really that sick?

I was only in my late teens at the time, so I could have missed something. But, working in a small town drug store/pharmacy you learned way more about the townspeople that you really cared to know. I knew who most of the alcoholics were, most of the people going through divorces, who was cheating on who, and drugs wasn't that big of a problem. Things were much different then and a small 6-7000 population town in the suburbs was pretty isolated from the "Big Town" problems. The doctor on dilaudid had a failing practice before he got hooked and the other doctor was very successful, well respected and well liked. BUT, you never know for sure.