Jon Perlis, DVM

Albert Einstein said, "common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen."

If you’re a journalist and you’re not asking questions about this case you should be ashamed of yourself. What purpose do you even serve? I’m sure there’s a middle class teenager somewhere who could use some harassing right now but maybe try to do your job once in a while.

How to tell people you’re on the list without saying you’re on the list.

@gosplan1921 Technically, the only reason it would have to happen before mid terms is that he could lose his majority at mid terms. But, since his policies are so popular that’s not really a problem.

Trump is trying to change. 80 years of the “World Order”. He has to get it done before the mid terms. He’s going to break things along the way. Those long term invested in the old ways are going to suffer. They are going to say things like this.

So the strange tampon story about Tim Walz has gained a lot of traction on this site. It appears to be wrong, but understanding why requires some knowledge about how legislation passes and gets signed into law. So let me explain . . .

@docjlmdvm @DrJenGunter What is wrong with scaring people with the truth?

@DrJenGunter This is absolutely ridiculous. Trying to scare women into voting for B. 🙄

This is what you need to know. If Trump is elected, you will lose: Abortion Contraception IVF

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As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel. For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids. The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas. Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better. As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves. Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

If you are against public carry of guns, but also think Jedi should be allowed to walk around with lightsabers for “religious reasons,” I’m sorry I cannot take you seriously.

@chrissyfarr Search the area very close to your house. They will often hide close by. Then search that same area again and maybe even a 3rd time before widening the search.

My cat is missing and I'm losing my actual mind. Has anyone found their cat after it ran out? And what should I be doing other than calling vets, posting on FB groups, etc.?

@ClueHeywood I was halfway through making a similar comment in Alabama when a guy said, “Let’s kick his ass.” I posited he might not be able to. My 6’2” conservative friend whose ass I’ve kicked all his life said “I wouldn’t recommend trying” which seemed to keep the guy from pushing it.

I’m a liberal but I will still whip your ass in a bar, only difference is I will do an indigenous land acknowledgment first

@FlintStoneMan1 @elaine_hali @kprather88 That’s quite the tenuous grasp on reality that you have there. Anyone following you should do their own research, seek other viewpoints and try to look at the evidence without wearing their political beliefs as corrective lenses.

Crazy 101...seeing an MD on a plane frantically wiping down all surfaces with no mask in sight (while I am wearing one and gently telling her "it is in the air"...she then nodded and complained she had had the worst case of RSV and COVID with a 104 degree fever. Really?

#Daredevil Season 1 showrunner Steven DeKnight has criticized Disney+'s decision to reboot instead of making a Season 4 of the Netflix series: "It's an old Disney scam where they slightly rename a series to reset contract terms..." Details: thedirect.com/article/darede…

I was today-years-old when I learned that BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD IS A NON-PROFIT… The deets: #BCBS is actually a federation of independently owned/operated BCBS companies, the overarching entity of which is BCBS Association @BCBSAssociation, which is a nonprofit. A nonprofit with $780M in revenue and a $19M CEO compensation. The “members” of BCBS Association, though historically non-profit, have been allowed to convert to for-profit for the past couple decades. Some have, but many remain still non-profit. The most well known FOR-profit BCBS is probably @ElevanceHealth (formerly Anthem), publicly traded with a market cap of $109 Billion. The NON-profits? These include: @HCSC, @BCBSM (Michigan), @_GuideWell (Florida Blue), @IBX (Independence Blue Cross), and more… While non-profit, these are not 501(c)(3)s (charitable organizations), but mostly 501(c)(4)s (social welfare organizations). Call me pessimistic, but I still believe “non-profit” is a tax (exemption) status, not a mission statement… But tell me, where does BCBS fall on this? Tax status (they do pay taxes, though get tax breaks based on their specific 501 subsection)? Or mission statement? 🤨

nothing can beat this one

just a heads up, twitter changed the DM settings for everyone to be that only checkies can DM you. if you want to receive DMs from anyone not dumb enough to fall for elon's scam, go into your settings and change it from the second option to the third option.

@DrT_DVM I already have a food name cat - Ramen but you have convinced me. Her new name will be Gouda Gary.

Met a cat named Cheddar Bob and I am OBSESSED I think all cats should have a cheese first name and human middle name.

1/ Good morning. If any of you are still bamboozled by Nancy Jacobsen and Mark Penn's @nolabelsorg's actual intentions let me hook you up. They claim to be moderate, centrist problem solvers who are running a 3rd part effort to "give Americans more choices."

Momentum is shifting in our @AmerMedicalAssn battle to stop health plans using #PriorAuth to delay & deny care. I describe the process as a "Kafkaesque absurdity" in today's @washingtonpost. Legislators and regulators are hearing physicians & patients washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

for every glowing puff piece you see trying to rehabilitate Elizabeth Holmes's image, i want you to remember something she personally approved a 15 month clinical trial using a device she knew to be useless, to measure cancer drug levels in the blood of terminal cancer patients

The veterinarians are on the verge of creating an official sub specialty of internal medicine called Nephrology and Urology!. A long road coming to fruition.