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Trask: Denish’s Diatribe On Musk A Misguided Hit Piece

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By CHARLIE TRASK
Los Alamos

At the end of her Op-Ed, Diane Denish recommends that we speak up and push back against Elon Musk. Well, SURPRISE, I’m going to push back on Denish and the failure of our Democrat leadership. I’m urging our normal citizens to stand up for America.

Denish has thrown her/their cards on the table. She tells us that the world’s smartest person is a racist, bullied kid, non-engineer, Trump donor, user of drugs, father, emotionless, adolescent user of “X”, empathy-less, lover of chaos, and a multitude of other unfounded liberal innuendos and lies.

This is such a standard play Read More

Posts From The Road: Oceanviews

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La Jolla Coastline: We enjoyed a sunny but cool day as we walked the coastline pathway in La Jolla, Calif. The views, the sounds, the smells of the coast we wonderful. The scenes as we walked were continually changing and always beautiful. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com

Napping: We first spotted sea lions and seals as we passed the Children’s Beach area which has been claimed by the sea mammals. A short distance farther we say this “herd” or “raft” of sea lions and seals mostly minding their own business and snoozing as they listened to the crash of nearby Read More

Catch Of The Week: Road Toll Smishing Scams – Part 2, The Revenge!

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By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daiy Post

Oof, yet again the nation is facing a wave of toll themed smishing scams.

What is smishing? Smishing is phishing via SMS – text message, as opposed to phishing, which is when they try to trick you into giving up sensitive information via email attack.

These attacks started up again this year, and thousands of people have already reported the attacks.

In 2024 the FBI had warned about this scam, “Since early-March 2024, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received over 2,000 complaints reporting smishing texts Read More

Weekly Fishing Report: March 18, 2025 

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By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post 

The snowpack in Northern New Mexico  is  still well-below normal. Despite more beneficial snow that fell this past week, the measure of snow water equivalent, which is the amount of water you will have once the snow is melted, is below 50-percent of normal in the Upper Rio Grande, Jemez River and Pecos River basins. The Chama River Basin improved somewhat and is now 57-percent of normal. 

The snowpack in Southern Colorado, including the headwaters of the Rio Grande, is also below normal.  Snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters Read More

Home Country: Asian Elbow

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Home Country
By SLIM RANDLES

I timed ‘er just right t’other day. Strolled on into the Mule Barn when I knew Doc and the guys would be there. Oh we unfiltered the world events for a while, then… to take advantage of medical science when it’s sippin’ coffee, I rolls up my sleeve and shows Doc my elbow.

Then I said, “Doc, what do you reckermend for a elbow with a carbolic uncle on it like this here?”

And ol’ Doc, he looks right at me, takes a sip o’joe, and says, “Youth in Asia.”

Youth in Asia? Hey, you know me, Alphonse Wilson. You know I ain’t got a thing against them Chinese kids. I sure like to watch ‘em in the Olympics. Read More

Robinson: New Mexico Doctors – ‘We Are Exhausted And Demoralized’

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By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

Five progressives killed the medical malpractice bill.

You might say the trial lawyers got their money’s worth. You might say it’s late in the session and everybody’s getting tired and cranky. You could even observe that the strife of national politics has haunted this legislative session. It would all be true.

But there’s another element that’s more troubling, and that’s denial and willful ignorance.

New Mexico doesn’t have enough doctors. It’s a national problem, but it’s worse here. In recent years New Mexico was the ONLY state Read More

Dannemann: The Trial Lawyer Argument Is Bogus

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By MERILEE DANNEMANN
© 2025 by Merilee Dannemann

In New Mexico, there aren’t enough doctors. There aren’t enough nurses. There aren’t enough hospitals, especially in small towns. There aren’t enough patients paying full price for their healthcare and too many on Medicaid.

You probably already know this. We talk about it all the time.  

Two other factors contribute to this crisis. One is the presence of private for-profit ownership of hospitals and the other is our high rate of malpractice insurance.

But one of these two issues is claiming to be the solution to the other one, and that is pure nonsense. Read More

Fr. Glenn: Promises Made, Promises Kept

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By Fr. Glenn Jones:

New York bishop Fulton Sheen had a very popular television show back in the 1950s called “Life is Worth Living”, in which he expounded on the Christian—more specifically, the Catholic—faith. One of his more famous phrases was “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” Unfortunately, with the increased secularization of society and the embracing of some values which are opposed—sometimes diametrically—to Christian beliefs, both of those number Read More

All Shall Be Well: You Are NOT Alone

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Clergy from left, Deacon Amy Schmuck, Deacon Cynthia Biddlecomb, retired, The Rev. Mary Ann Hill and The Rev. Lynn Finnegan. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com

By The Rev. Lynn M. Finnegan
Associate Rector
The Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith

In the documentary series, Alone, ten individuals are taken to a remote wilderness and challenged to survive as long as possible using a limited amount of survival equipment.

With the exception of medical check-ins, the participants are isolated from each other and all other humans. The audience follows their wilderness outing via self-produced Read More

Dr. Raffin: Those Measly Measles

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By Celeste Raffin, MD
Member
Los Alamos County Health Council

I remember very little of my early childhood, but will never forget having the Measles. Even though it was over 60 years ago, I remember how sick I was with astonishing clarity. 

Measles, aka Rubeola, is an infectious disease caused by the Measles virus. It was first described in Persia in the late 800’s AD. By 1200 AD it had developed into a human only disease that was prevalent throughout Asia and Europe. Whether intentional or not, Measles became one of the first bioterror weapons. Asian and European explorers, followed by North American Read More