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Dr. Anthony Fauci: A New Kind of War Criminal

 

Dr. Anthony Fauci: A New Kind of War Criminal

 

Joel S. Hirschhorn

 

To understand that President Trump is a war time president is also to understand that Dr. Anthony Fauci is a war criminal undermining Trump’s battle against the pandemic virus.

The current war on the COVID-19 pandemic virus is a battle against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.  Why? Because the CCP intentionally decided to spread the virus worldwide and create the pandemic so that all nations would suffer economically just as they suffered.  Moreover, they knew that they could make huge sums by selling the inevitably needed personal protective equipment (PPE) and, eventually, possible drugs and vaccines.  All this is not surprising because the CCP controls China, subjugates its enormous population, and oppresses minorities and dissidents through what is a criminal civilian and military enterprise that enriches itself and that has never been voted into office through a national popular vote. 

Recent Chinese scientists, notably physician Li Meng Yan from Hong Kong University, have made it clear that the CCP not only created the pandemic but also engineered the virus to make it exceptionally contagious and lethal and that this was known far earlier than most have recognized – in late 2019.  She maintains that the virus “originated in a military laboratory overseen by the People’s Liberation Army.”  The virus escaped the laboratory in Wuhan, probably accidentally.

Steven Mosher has been spreading the results of a study by an esteemed Italian scientist and given this conclusion: “It was genetically engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 (high-containment) lab in a program supervised by the Chinese military.”

So why consider Dr. Anthony Fauci, as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health for 36 years, a new kind of war criminal?  President Trump has been correct in talking about a war against the CCP pandemic.  Here are a number of Fauci actions or lack of them that support my characterization as both god-like and a war criminal who has violated public trust in him and willfully deceived the public.

The first thing to emphasize is that diverse actions have made Fauci far more immune from criticism than the public is immune from the CCP virus.  The U.S. mainstream news media have helped Fauci create an image as a unique, nation-saving neutral, scientist, physician and public health expert working as a main advisor to President Trump.  Fauci, in fact, has been a remarkably successful bureaucrat for his multi-billion dollar operation and brilliant manipulator of the media to create and sustain a popular image that hardly anyone is willing to attack.  He is a master of staying in the public limelight through television, radio and newspaper interviews.

What few people understand is that Fauci also has a political agenda.  So much of what he does and says in a very public way supports the massive anti-Trump movement, especially in the mainstream news media that is remarkably liberal and Democrat Party oriented.  Anti-Trump media have successfully made Fauci cloaked in a myth of a public health defender when in fact his views and actions have resulted in tens and perhaps hundreds of thousands deaths from the CCP virus, countless numbers of people suffered awful medical distress, and also the remarkable, widespread economic disaster inflicting harm and just about all Americans and millions of others worldwide. 

But it is far more unlikely that Fauci will ever admit to what amounts to criminal behavior in preventing the widespread use of life-saving hydroxychloroquine.  The thousands of American lives that have been saved by courageous front-line physicians will eventually be better appreciated, as well as doctors also using hydroxychloroquine worldwide.  As some have noted the use in India with over a billion residents explains why the number of deaths from the CCP virus is roughly the same as the number of fatalities in New York State.  Similarly, the statistics for Turkey are very good, far better than the U.S.  An official said “Doctors prescribe hydroxychloroquine to everyone who is tested positive for coronavirus."  The same is true for Costa Rica where this cheap medicine is widely used.  In some 80 nations this medicine is sold over the counter without the need for prescription.

Of all the many clinicians supporting the use of hydroxychloroquine perhaps the best who has successfully received public exposure is Dr. Harvey Risch.  After publishing in a medical journal he wrote in Newsweek and said:

“As professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, I have authored over 300 peer-reviewed publications and currently hold senior positions on the editorial boards of several leading journals. I am usually accustomed to advocating for positions within the mainstream of medicine, so have been flummoxed to find that, in the midst of a crisis, I am fighting for a treatment that the data fully support but which, for reasons having nothing to do with a correct understanding of the science, has been pushed to the sidelines. As a result, tens of thousands of patients with COVID-19 are dying unnecessarily. Fortunately, the situation can be reversed easily and quickly.

I am referring, of course, to the medication hydroxychloroquine. When this inexpensive oral medication is given very early in the course of illness, before the virus has had time to multiply beyond control, it has shown to be highly effective, especially when given in combination with the antibiotics azithromycin or doxycycline and the nutritional supplement zinc.”

On national television Risch said “75,000 to 100,000 lives will be saved" with use of the controversial medicine and that "we're basically fighting a propaganda war against the medical facts."  More recently he made this important observation: “a third of [FDA] funding comes from drug companies, [and] is under intense pressure from those companies to be extremely conservative in its handling of hydroxychloroquine.

Dr. Simone Gold has also made an extensive review of the evidence for using hydroxychloroquine.  Another important review by several physicians is also available.  Dr. James Todaro has an excellent website on this issue with great resources.

An article in The Daily Mail that noted: “The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) presented data on 2,333 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine …across the globe that shows 91.6 percent of those who got the drug fared better after treatment.”

A most important analysis “An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch” by Steven Hatfill, a physician and veteran virologist, noted that “the ‘Fauci Strategy’ was to keep early infected patients quarantined at home without treatment until they developed a shortness of breath and had to be admitted to a hospital. ... The Food and Drug Administration cluelessly agreed to this doctrine and it stated in its hydroxychloroquine Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) that “hospitalized patients were likely to have a greater prospect of benefit (compared to ambulatory patients with mild illness).  In reality just the opposite was true. This was a tragic mistake by Fauci and FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn and it was a mistake that would cost the lives of thousands of Americans in the days to come.  Here in our country, Fauci continued to ignore the ever accumulating and remarkable early-use data on hydroxychloroquine and he became focused on a new antiviral compound named remdesivir.  Why is the American media trying to run the U.S. pandemic response with its own misinformation?”  Hatfill shows why some nations have performed better than the U.S. because hydroxychloroquine has been used.

Fauci has dismissed a great many studies and test results showing the efficacy and safety of hydroxychloroquine by only supporting extensive, lengthy randomized, placebo controlled, double blind studies.  As many doctors have noted there are countless highly used prescription medicines that have never gone through such lengthy and expensive three-phase testing.  Why has Fauci stubbornly refused to acknowledge and accept the positive findings from all kinds of other studies by clinicians in the U.S. and a number of other countries?  He recently said that health experts are unanimous about this medicine – a total lie.  You have to wonder why he would proclaim such a wrong statement in the face of many published writings indicating just the opposite.  The obvious explanation is that he wants to purposefully mislead the public and attack the great many physicians advocating the use of hydroxychloroquine.

Frontline doctors successfully treating their patients with hydroxychloroquine have been appearing on many “conservative” news outlets, including several shows on Fox News and the Warroom Pandemic show.  The point being that too many Americans have been deceived about this therapeutic that has been used safely for many decades to fight malaria and address several serious diseases.

An inevitable, logical and necessary question to consider is exactly why has Fauci chosen to sacrifice the lives of perhaps millions of people by continually dismissing the benefits of hydroxychloroquine?

The answer is twofold.  First, Fauci has a long history of being very close to the CCP and the World Health Organization (WHO).  WHO has been in the pocket of the CCP and played a key role in creating the pandemic.  It also has not done what it could have in promoting global use of hydroxychloroquine.  Fauci helped steer U.S. funding for creating the Wuhan lab that let loose the CCP virus and has been proud of working with Chinese scientists while ignoring that they are beholding to the CCP.

Also note on January 21, 220 Fauci said the CCP virus “is not a major threat for the people of the United States and this is not something that the citizens of the United States right now should be worried about.”  In fact, towards the end of December 2019 and early in January 2020 there was evidence that a very dangerous contagious virus had been unleashed from China, though WHO ignored the evidence.

Second, the only way to fully understand the political motive of Fauci is that for decades he has had close relationships with the largest global pharmaceutical companies.  A main reason was his work on fighting the AIDS epidemic.  Blocking widescale use of the extremely low-cost hydroxychloroquine is key to safeguarding what will be trillions of dollars to be made for treatment drugs, therapeutics, and vaccines. 

For example, “Gilead Sciences Inc., which produces remdesivir, said it would charge U.S. hospitals $3,120 per patient with typical commercial insurance.”  And this therapeutic is in limited supply for critically ill patients in hospitals only.  As noted by Steven Hatfill “Hydroxychloroquine, by contrast, costs 60 cents a tablet, it can be taken at home, it fits in with the national pandemic plan for respiratory viruses, and a course of therapy simply requires swallowing three tablets in the first 24 hours followed by one tablet every 12 hours for five days.”

Fauci’s group ran the key study on remdesivir and publicly proclaimed positive results before the results were peer reviewed and published in a medical journal.   Fauci’s group also developed one of the currently tested vaccines in cooperation with the drug company Moderna, which has received nearly $500 million in federal funding for its work.

One final point to illustrate the political leanings of Fauci.  While he has frequently opined on what government should do, such as making Americans wear masks (after initially saying they were unnecessary), he stubbornly refused to take a public stand against the government allowed massive protests and riots in countless cities that involved huge numbers of people in close proximity.  All these mass activities are a main cause of the spreading of the CCP virus.  But Fauci refused to opine that governments should have taken strong actions to prevent and limit such protests and riots that are correctly seen as part of the broad anti-Trump, pro-Democrat Party movement.

It is hard to understand Fauci’s recent public praising of New York State’s handling of the pandemic on a National Public Radio interview, long after widespread condemnation of its incredibly high death rate, other than to appreciate his leftist leaning.  This also illustrates the sheer ego and belief of being immune to public criticism that defines Fauci.

At the end of July 2020 it was reported that one major American politician had done the right thing.  “The Ohio Board of Pharmacy withdrew a ban on dispensing the drug for treatment or prevention of COVID-19 at the request of Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican.”

Soon after, in response to an open criticism by Fauci at a congressional hearing, doctors at Henry Ford Health System released a letter on the hospital's successful use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19.  “Unfortunately, the political climate that has persisted has made any objective discussion about this drug impossible, and we are deeply saddened by this turn of events,” they said.

If you accept the abundant evidence that hydroxychloroquine is both an effective preventive as well as a cure when prescribed by doctors at an early point, especially before hospitalization, then you begin to understand why Fauci has blood on his hands.  I believe an accurate historical analysis of this pandemic will show this.

Eventually President Trump may admit that it was a big mistake to elevate Fauci by having him play such a major role in the White House activities on fighting the pandemic.  He may also regret his early and open support for hydroxychloroquine which he proudly said he had taken as a preventive action.  This mobilized leftist forces and as Dennis Prager has aptly said they “weaponized medicine.”  And “people are dying because of the left.”

Meanwhile, every day more and more Americans and others globally are dying unnecessarily from the CCP virus.  So far Fauci has won.  Made possible by the intentional actions by leftist anti-Trump mainstream media.  The federal government's stockpile of hydroxychloroquene sits unused.  Dr. Risch was correct in saying that Fauci has waged a “misinformation campaign” for political purposes  When such a campaign costs thousands and perhaps millions of lives it is a war crime.  Daniel John Sobieski concluded: “Hydroxychloroquine can save lives -- lots of lives. The question then is how many lives have been lost and will be lost due the words and actions of Dr. Anthony Fauci.”

All those straining to overcome the many obstacles to easily using hydroxychloroquine must understand that until Fauci is knocked off his lofty pedestal they will continue to lose the war on the pandemic.

 

About the author:  Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn was a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he directed a research project between the Medical School and the Engineering College; he was a senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association dealing with a number of health issues.  He has authored hundreds of articles, op-ed articles in major newspapers, and several books.  He has been an executive volunteer at a major hospital for many years and is a member of an advisory panel for an international patient advocacy group.

 

This first appeared on NolanChart.com

Fight the Esblishment

Joel S. Hirschhorn

If you think that the worst thing for the country is electing yet another establishment politician to the presidency, what is your best, most principled action?  By you I mean the millions of Americans who have supported the candidacy of either Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump.  They have enormous potential power.

Skip forward to the general election and imagine that both Sanders and Trump have not made it to the presidential ballot, a very likely scenario.  Clearly, both Trump and Sanders supporters strongly oppose the political establishment.  The status quo of what amounts to more of a plutocracy than a legitimate and effective democracy.  Now, what do these angry, disappointed Americans do in the general election?  Cave and vote for the lesser of two evils?  Or, is there a better solution?  There is.  It is to not vote for any presidential candidate.

Here is the logic.  For authentic anti-establishment, anti-status quo people who correctly see a corrupt political system their potential power is to remove the credibility of the current, broken system.  The true revolutionary action is to drive voter turnout to historically low levels.  Stop voting!  Create a national embarrassment.  Stop participating in the corrupt system and send a message to the world that the current delusional democracy is being rejected.  Tell both major parties that they are in existential trouble.

If you can not get a true radical outsider in the White House, then show the world that a huge number of American citizens no longer recognize the legitimacy of the political system.  Other than violent action, this is the proper form of civil disobedience in the name of rebellion.  If both Sanders and Trump do not get to the general election ballot, then the lesson learned should be that participation in the sham democracy is a waste of time and energy.  The game is so rigged, especially the primary nomination system, that the establishment can and does control the system.

See presidential elections as mostly a distraction, keeping most Americans from understanding that they live in a money-controlled delusional democracy.

This stop-voting strategy is also far better than voting for a third party candidate.  Face facts, the current corrupt two-party duopoly political system has made it fruitless to support third party presidential candidates.  Sure, in some sense, this is a protest vote.  But history shows us that having several million people vote for third party presidential candidates has had no positive impact on improving or, better yet, reforming the present system.  The two major parties have maintained their iron grip on the political system.  Withholding you vote and participation is a stronger protest and a greater rejection of the current system.  Moreover, every so often votes for a third party candidate help elect one of the lesser evils that you may think is the greater evil.

Now is the time for supporters of Trump and Sanders to send a clear message to the respective parties that if their preferred candidate is not selected for the general election at the party’s convention that they will not vote for anyone else selected by the convention.  Those who follow the current primary season should know that if the parties lose the votes of Trump and Sanders supporters they are in serious jeopardy of losing the November election.  All these supporters share a common belief that the status quo is far more threatening to the country than electing their respective preferences, either Sanders or Trump.  Put that belief into action by sending clear messages that they will not vote for any alternative chosen by the establishment at the two conventions.

The ugly but not unexpected truth is that both major parties are now willing to reject the millions of Americans who will have voted for Sanders and Trump.  The establishment in both of them fears both of these disruptive candidates and rightfully so.  All the special moneyed interests in both parties see an existential threat from these candidates.  Both parties no longer fairly represent the interests and needs of the vast majority of Americans.  Whether Trump or Sanders would or could actually greatly reform the political system is beside the point.  The highest priority is to reject the status quo and recognize that whoever the establishment accepts instead of Trump and Sanders, or even Cruz, will maintain a corrupt system serving the interests of a rich and powerful minority.

For people passionately against the establishment, they must resist what the Democrat and Republican parties out of fear tell them.  Do not accept their argument that if you do not vote for whoever has been put on the ballot by the party, then you will help elect the candidate from the other party.  The rock bottom principle must be to not contribute to electing an establishment candidate from your own party.  In the end, any establishment candidate, even from your preferred party, is not what the country needs.

And resist the temptation to feel good by writing in the name of someone.  It is a selfish action and has no significance.  Better to see a boycott of this year’s presidential election as having a better chance to force millions more people to demand fixing our broken democracy.

For the record, Ted Cruz should be seen as an establishment candidate, despite the fact that nearly all establishment politicians greatly dislike him, and many now support him.  Remember that he got to be a senator because he successfully navigated the Texas establishment.  Moreover, aside from ego-driven actions he never has shown any genuine interest in greatly reforming the whole political system.  He is driven by ambition, not a revolutionary spirit.

Now is the time for thinking Americans to withdraw their participation in an election where disruptive candidates are replaced with establishment ones.  Otherwise our delusional democracy prevails.  We the people need a political revolution.  Otherwise, with awful economic inequality condemning millions of Americans to economic prison, violent revolution should not be ruled out.  Not in a nation with widespread gun ownership.  After all, our corrupt political system presents a type of oppressive government for which the Second Amendment may offer the ultimate solution.  Time is running out.  This may be the year for seeing whether or not we can vote – or not vote - our way to a democracy we once thought we had.

[Joel S. Hirschhorn was an official at the National Governors Association and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and is the author of Delusional Democracy.]

Costco 101 – Avoiding Costco Craziness

Make no mistake, I love Costco Wholesale and shop there regularly. I have also spent a lot of time watching many other people shop there. Here is my conclusion: The vast majority of Costco shoppers are dumb and blindly buying incredible amounts of goods there, usually walking out with a hundred or more dollars worth of things.

I say this because I am an obsessive comparison shopper, always looking for spending the least amount of money on products. As much as I love Costco, I know that the vast majority of items there can be bought at lower prices if consumers shop wisely at supermarkets and other stores like Target, or on Amazon. But most loyal Costco shoppers who spend a significant amount of money for annual membership seem to be in some type of buzzed, euphoric and almost hypnotic state of mind. This explains why Costco is the second biggest retailer in the US with nearly 70 million members.

They lose all mindful control and go nuts when at Costco, almost as if all the stuff was free. Those extra large Costco carts quickly get filled up, often to overflowing conditions. Some use those large flat bed carts to load up even more. And of course people are buying some huge sizes of products, raising issues as whether they will ever consume all of the contents. When you are spending $55 a year membership fee you are certainly motivated to shop there. But overpaying on a lot of what you buy remains unwise.

"Right after you join a warehouse club, the first thing you think is 'how am I going to earn back that entry fee I just paid?'" said Brian Wansink, a professor of consumer behavior at Cornell University. "It creates a spending, but also a justification mentality."

Many business articles about Costco have pointed out that nearly all of its considerable profits come from the membership fees it charges. This might suggest that shoppers are getting terrific deals on everything they buy. That is just plain wrong. While generally speaking Costco does work to offer relatively low prices, the truth is that many other retail outlets, especially Amazon, are able to offer lower prices, if not all the time, then definitely when items are on sale.

Anyone who looks critically at Costco and many other retailers should note that there really are a lot of workers in Costco, far more than at supermarkets. Moreover, it has been widely publicized that Costco pays rather high salaries with good fringe benefits. This helps explain why so many of its prices are really not the lowest available to shoppers. Add to this that one of Costco's attractions are the food samples handed out to shoppers. This means still more workers and corporate costs. But stuffing yourself on free food samples adds considerably to the Costco shopping experience and surely is part of the genius of the Costco business model.

Here is another interesting feature of Costco. It changes many of its prices very frequently, perhaps reflecting changes in consumer demand. But I have also noticed significant price increases on weekends. Also, Costco holds its own sales, offering considerable price reductions lasting several weeks; this means that shoppers have to pay attention to in-store signs and the booklets that are sent monthly to members. These reductions are typically several dollars per item and suggest the wisdom of not stocking up too much on items, because they may go on sale.

When it comes to food items, there are some that, over time, I have learned are definitely terrific deals at Costco. It is the main store I use for buying humus, herring, quinoa, salsa, Greek yogurt, some vitamins and supplements, and often fresh fish. But I rarely buy any other food items, because I know I can get them cheaper or in more reasonable sizes or quantities elsewhere. For other kinds of products, such as clothing, I definitely get convinced sometimes that Costco offers a good price. In past months, for example, I have purchased four automobile tires, jeans (at an incredible price of $12), a suitcase, some prescription drugs, an ornamental garden item, and a neat assembly for drying clothes outside. Today I bought a pair of Adidas running shoes for $35; the exact item on Amazon was $75.

In sum, I enjoy shopping at Costco, getting free lunches, and, most importantly, saving a lot more money than my annual membership fee. And when I check out I continually notice that nearly everyone else at Costco is spending many hundreds of dollars, while my bill is usually way under $50. Self-control is the key. Never think that you can or should avoid also shopping for sale items at local supermarkets and other retailers, or even on Amazon. Enjoy Costco, but do not let yourself get addicted.

How to Avoid Illness from Reusable Bags

Sometimes even the most appealing concepts backfire. The environmentally sound notion of cutting way back on single use plastic shopping bags in recent years has spurred a widespread movement to use reusable bags. In fact, in many places plastic shopping bags have been strongly condemned by local governments by imposing a small tax on them or outright banning them at retail stores. What merits serious attention by consumers, however, is that those reusable bags have now been found to pose a significant health hazard. Before telling you how to protect yourself, consider these important revelations.

The examination of reusable bags in California and Arizona found that 51 percent of them contained nasty coliform bacteria, according to a 2011 study. But more alarming is that they found E. coli - which is very far from harmless - in 12 percent of the bags. This finding was not really all that surprising because of the habits of the people using these types of bags. Turns out that 75 percent said that they placed meat and vegetables in the same bag. Research showed that when bags were stored in hot car trunks for two hours, the bacteria grew tenfold.

Oregon researchers found that a "reusable grocery bag left in a hotel bathroom caused an outbreak of norovirus-induced diarrhea and nausea that struck nine of 13 members of a girls' soccer team," according to a 2012 story in the Los Angeles Times.

A more recent study on the public-health impact of plastic-bag bans found emergency-room admissions related to E. coli infections increased in San Francisco after a ban on plastic bags. Note that nearby counties without such a ban did not show this increase. Also revealed was that the San Francisco ban also correlated with increases in salmonella and other bacterial infections, and that similar effects were found in other California towns that adopted similar bans. Note that Seattle and Los Angeles also have bans on plastic bags.

What all these scientific findings show is that reusable shopping bags really do pose health threats, including death. Hard to believe by many, but still an indisputable fact. Perhaps you should immediately look at the inside of your own reusable bags right now and closely see whether or not they have food residues or stains inside them.

So, what should sensible people do to ensure their safety?

The first practice which turns out is rarely done is simple: Every few weeks wash your reusable bags along with clothes you wash. But this still deals with the problem after the fact. Also note that the good news is that washing bags eliminates 99.9 percent of the bacteria but the bad news is that 97 percent of people have reported that they never wash their bags. What about prevention?

Here is the smart prevention practice. Recognize that the fundamental problem is various types of foods leaving residues inside bags, especially meats, fruits and vegetables. Just visualize the not farfetched behavior of placing wet and dripping packages of ground beef or chicken in a reusable bag. But placing pieces of fruit and vegetable in a bag is also problematic. The problem is especially serious when the weather is warm, causing germs to multiply. To deal with this you should always place unpackaged foods within the smaller plastic bags available in almost all produce departments selling fruits and vegetables. Make it a practice of leaving some of them in your reusable bags. And meat and fish departments should also place their items in smaller bags unless they are very well packaged. If they do not, ask them to. Also note that many plastic containers in which fruits, especially salad greens and berries, are packed have intentional perforated holed in them; so also place them in those smaller plastic bags to ensure that pieces of food or drippings do not end up in your reusable bag. Just remember to throw out any small plastic bags you have used to protect your reusable bags or recycle them.

So now you know the facts. While it may make you feel good to be a good environmentalist using reusable textile or thicker plastic bags instead of thin plastic ones that are frowned upon, face the reality that it is up to you to make sure that doing so does not cause some threat to your health, or that of your loved ones.

Garage Door Electric Eye Fixes -- How to Fix Your Problem Quickly and Cheaply

Millions of people suffer greatly when their electric garage door openers stop working. What drives people crazy is when their door will not go down after the appropriate button or switch is pressed either inside the garage or on their car remote control. Instead of going down the door stops abruptly, goes back up and an inside light bulb on the motor box blinks. Assuming that nothing is actually blocking the electric eye beam, this is a malfunction. The electric eye beam system is an important government mandated safety system.
This safety system is designed to prevent the garage door from closing down on a person, especially a child, a pet or even a car or package that has not been properly located completely inside or outside the garage. The goal is not to disarm this safety system, but to ensure it works properly.

But there are conditions causing the system to falsely believe that something is blocking the invisible beam sent from the device on one side of the door inside the garage to the device on the other side; both are a small distance from the floor and one sends the beam, the other receives it. The receiver must receive an uninterrupted beam to maintain an electric circuit that allows the door to close smoothly.

Note that most of us who have suffered with this problem learn that when the door refuses to close you can still lower it by depressing the button on the inside of your garage and holding it down until the door fully closes. This does solve your immediate problem, but it will not work by trying the same approach on your remote control inside your car or another battery operated control mounted just outside the garage door.

I have had to deal with this problem on a number of occasions in recent decades, as millions of others also have. This is proven by countless websites where desperate people seek solutions for this non-closing garage door problem. The problem is that many of websites out of ignorance or evil offer solutions that cannot work or suffer for other reasons. Some suggest ways to circumvent this safety system.

Here are a few examples of widely offered bad solutions. Pull out the wires going into both electric eye devices; this is nonsense because an open circuit acts like a blocked beam. Relocate both devices from the sides of the garage door to some location above the garage door such that only a short space is between the device openings where the beam emerges and is received. This not only is a lot of work, but it obviously removes the safety system, a violation of local legal requirements. Third, is the suggestion that you can somehow connect the wires coming from both devices at the back of the motor-control box on the ceiling. This is beyond the skill of most people and could damage your opener and still may not actually work, and it too cancels the safety system.

So, now, let me give you the two most commonly successful fixes for this garage door closing problem. First, I want to emphasize the wisdom of not immediately calling a garage door repair service, for two reasons. Odds are you can fix this problem yourself in a few minutes. Worse, you are likely to pay a lot of money and either the repair person will just do what you can do or wrongly say one or more expensive components must be replaced.

What you should do immediately upon facing this problem is carefully examine both electric eye devices and make sure there is no dirt, dust, debris or spider web on the front glass on both devices. Even if just one of them has obstructions your safety system will interpret them as beam blocks.

If this action does not fix the problem, the odds are that a misalignment of the devices is causing the beam to not fully be sensed by the receiving device; this is the one that if you put your hand in front of, then the small light on the side of the device goes out. You should carefully look at the receiving device and move the metal holder attached to the wall a little bit in different directions until you see the light stay bright and steady. Just make sure that you have reoriented the metal holder enough so that the light stays on. A flickering light will cause the system to not operate correctly; this is an indication that the beam is not fully striking the receiving device lens. Odds are that you must move the device holder parallel to the floor, and not up or down.

There is a slight possibility that bright sunlight hitting the devices might stop proper operation. To check this, take a news paper or piece of cardboard to block the sun and see if the system operates correctly, or if it malfunctions only in sunlight but operates correctly at night.

Follow this advice and you have a 90 plus percent chance of fixing your problem without spending a lot of money on a repair service call. Why not 100 percent? It is conceivable that some component in the motor-control box has failed.

Oprah Winfrey: Billionaire, Fatso, Hypocrite, and Narcissist

In our complex world with never-ending surprises and disappointments, there are some things that I am absolutely certain of. Oprah Winfrey will appear again as the biggest billionaire fatso, even if she thins down again. The world is filled with low IQ fans of Oprah that fall for her many sales pitches. In any dictionary definition of narcissism her picture should be shown. When I recently saw her receive the Kennedy Center Honor there she was again: fat and happy with the guy she supposedly loves and is committed to sitting behind her, but who she has never married. In so many ways Oprah is the world's richest hypocrite and narcissist, which makes her role as life coach to the masses dubious.

Frankly, I could not understand the selection of her for the Kennedy Center Honor; she has been a huge commercial success, but far from an artistic success with a large repertoire of artistic achievements. What seems more significant is that Forbes magazine, in September 2010, said she was worth over $2.7 billion.
Here are some of the main ways that Oprah can be assessed.

Role model: Over the many years of her endless visibility she seems to have become a role model for millions of fans. But for the life of me I cannot figure out why. Put aside her talent for commercial and financial success and what is left? She obviously has rejected marriage and raising children. Though she has contributed considerable money to some worthy causes, she lives the life of a billionaire addicted to material consumption and opulent living, totally dissimilar, for example, to billionaire Warren Buffet. Though at many points she supposedly champions healthy living, as a repeat offender fatso she clearly personifies the overweight and obesity epidemic that Michelle Obama and so many others are rightfully fighting.

Indeed, to a considerable extent, Oprah is a negative role model. Consider the study published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology that found that 23 percent of overweight women saw themselves as being smaller than they were. This delusional misperception was especially acute for black and Latino women, two groups that are strong Oprah fans. The study found that more than 80 percent of African-American women and 75 percent of Hispanic-American women were overweight or obese, and were less likely than white women to see themselves as overweight. The survey participants tended to be low-income and the researchers noted that overweight women who see themselves as normal weight are less likely to try to lose weight and, therefore, develop complications from obesity, including diabetes and hypertension. If a billionaire with unlimited resources cannot stay at healthy weight, what are regular women to hope for?

Hypocrite: A number of writers over the years have written about Oprah in terms of hypocrisy. Besides the fat problem, she has advocated many lifestyle styles as a means of pitching all sorts of commercial things, often benefitting her own financial interests. But a dose of critical thinking is helpful. What exactly has Oprah demonstrated in her own life that is consistent with some sort of admirable lifestyle? Other than a talent for making money herself, there is no hard evidence that she has improved the nation by spreading behaviors among millions of people that advances their financial success as well as the nation's. On countless occasions she has touted nutrition, exercise and weight loss programs that obviously have not worked for her.

Queen of narcissism: This is what Oprah's life has been about: vanity, self-absorption, and egotism. She put her face on the cover of her magazine, names for herself, virtually all the time. Her new cable network is the Oprah Winfrey Network or OWN. Even when she has been fat, which is a lot of time, there was never any hesitancy about plastering her picture everywhere. She has sold herself and her name in every conceivable way; this is her great talent, her great achievement. An article on this topic on her own website said this: "A healthy dose of vanity leads to a comfortable level of self-esteem. Narcissism, on the other hand, is an unhealthy self-absorption that should be addressed. At the very least, it is a serious personality flaw. In worse cases, it's a recognized psychological disorder." Her inability to keep a healthy weight and even try marriage, not to mention keep starting new ventures to make even more money can be interpreted as symptoms of unhealthy narcissism.

A 2009 article entitled Finally - People Wising Up to Oprah the Narcissist Nutjob. It made this fine point: "In an age of information overload, she offers herself as a guide through the confusion." More to the point, Oprah long ago learned how to establish herself as a kind of God, worthy of worshipping, and that is exactly what her loyal audience does. There is no genuine humility. Not content with here TV show, magazine, radio show, and website, her new cable network was designed with an even bigger vision: "I will now have the opportunity to do this 24 hours a day on a platform that goes on forever." And don't forget: She has a retail store in Chicago where worshippers purchase used shoes and outfits that she wore on the show. The sad reality is that "Oprah's audience admires her as much for her failings as her successes." It is their addiction.

Consumerism: Not only are Oprah's fans addicted to her, but she spreads her own addiction to consumerism because she is always advancing her own fortunes by getting others to spend money on things. She has a number of incredible mansions around the nation, a private jet, and clearly lives the life of the rich elites while, nevertheless, cleverly maintaining an image of being just another gal. An article on Salon made this critical observation: "One of Oprah's signature gimmicks has been giving stuff away to her audience... These bits have revealed an Oprah who truly revels in consumer culture, and who can seem astonishingly oblivious to the way most people live and what they can afford. She seems to celebrate every event and milestone with extravagant stuff, indeed to not know how to celebrate without it."

Addiction: Anyone who has lost and gained back incredible amounts of fat has some addiction to food. A 2008 article in People magazine was headlined with "Oprah Winfrey Admits to Tipping the Scales at 200 Lbs." In 1990, she hit 237 pounds. Oprah was cited as saying "I look at my thinner self and think, 'How did I let this happen again?" The answer is simple: With every possible resource at her disposal she must have an uncontrolled addiction to food. Nevertheless, Oprah has always sold good eating and nutrition and a healthy lifestyle to her audience on her TV show, magazine and now her own cable network.

Another article that year was titled Is Oprah a Big Fat Hypocrite? It asked the logical question: If Oprah can't keep the weight off, who can? She said this: "As I work out, eat healthfully, and reorder my life so there's time to replenish my energy, I continue to do the spiritual and emotional work to conquer this battle once and for all." But in 2010 she was a fatso once again. She also looked older than her years. So what can be expected for the millions of undoubtedly overweight and obese fans? The sad truth is that Oprah is surely making it easier for them to stay unhealthy.

If you want detailed facts about the life and impact of Oprah I recommend the Wikipedia site. Perhaps the best proof of the decline of American culture is that Oprah is widely accepted as the cultural icon of contemporary times.