Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.

André Gide

Before I go to sleep, would you like to be the next president of the US of A

Here it is, play the existing division of the upper-middle-class yuppies & upper class as well as the entire lower class trailer park dwellers.
 Your slogan? "We're going to make America rich again". I, as president, am going to do away with "fractional reserve banking" (He/she would be dead before the inauguration), we're going to bring All the jobs back to America. (While there's some poor slob making car parts for a cheese sandwich and Americans want $30 an hour) We're going to put a stop to big Pharma. (While drug abuse keeps most happy, working and docile plus creates jobs across the board)
  We're going to create a country where the GDP is no longer based on consumer spending. (Like enough people even realize this and can even follow this post) We're going to stop these cover-up drugs that hide HIV so that they can no longer be more easily passed between our citizens. (People no longer see the commercials and think it's gone while getting infected after 1 too many beers after an LGBT parade and being bi-curious) 
 We're going to "actually" educate children in our public schools. (What? That may have gone too far) And finally, we're going to give all you jackasses the latest iPhone every year.(People around the world can have entire conversations yet not one of them can spell a word bigger than their name and not a one can write a discernable paragraph)

 If you're going to bullshit, GO BIG or go home.

Wholly shit!

 Hahaha, allow me to share some advice, when you're around heavily indoctrinated Catholic Spanish individuals, don't say jack shit about the Pope.
 Everyone since the beginning of the Catholics following the church and it's participants have dealt with priests diddling little boys and This Pope Didn't Know! Hahahaha
 Is there any shield, any weapon, any escape from the bullshit except through laughter?

Am I ready for the second coming of the Lord

 People have asked me this question all throughout my life and I'll answer as I always have, "Where the hell did he go"? I mean really.. Was he on vacation, gone into hiatus or what?
 In any event, if this is your concern I'm optimistic. I feel as though God can see everything that you are and for me to change at this point, he'll know it's a complete fraud. So... Why try to bullshit him?

Mental Illness Policy

Micro-hospitalizing mentally ill

Read more at: https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/imd/longer-hospital-stay.html

Acute Care Inpatient and Observation Patient Throughput

Improving Flow

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Definition

Number of inpatient admissions (including observations) per week

(Note: Observations are patients who are admitted, but stay less than 24 hours. Medicare has specific criteria for which diagnoses need to be observation

 

Goal

While it is important to establish a throughput goal, each organization needs to determine an appropriate target. A throughput goal could be based upon financial need, existing or new patient demand, or a desire to increase volume for a specific service line or specialty.

Examples:

• Increase throughput by 10 percent of acute care admissions by June 2004.
• Increase throughput in the operating room by 15 additional cases a week by December 2004.
• Increase cardiology admissions by 20 percent by September 2004.

Data Collection Plan

Measuring the number of inpatient admissions per week over time will show how changes are affecting overall throughput. As flow through the acute care setting is improved, total throughput of patients should be maintained or increased as patients are able to be placed more appropriately, moved more quickly, and discharged in a timely fashion. Throughput can be an important measure to reference in speaking to senior leaders about the business case for improving patient flow.

 

Throughput data can usually be collected through existing hospital financial or admissions information systems. Count the total number of inpatient and observation patients admitted to the hospital per month. You may wish to segment the data if you have specific service line or population targets for increased admissions. Throughput measures are generally slow to change, so monthly data collection is sufficient.

 

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Have you ever had a song that asks a very serious question

 My life friends, my blog friends, my Facebook and Twitter friends, well?

God’s Wrath ‘Vengeance Is Mine, I Will Repay’

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Resource by John Piper  Scripture: Romans 12:19–21    Topic: The Wrath of God

 That was confusing yet have you ever heard of this? I have in my indoctrinated schoolas and churches.
 I think it's a load of crap!

*I don't believe in forgiving and forgetting nor do I ask to be forgiven.

Maybe someone could share an alternative?

 I realize I've visited this topic often.

I could be doing this for anyone anywhere in the world

I had several developments of my own that needed patents or patent searches and I had associates that didn't know how to begin. I brought my own material and there's as well. By the time I have dinner, all these tasks will be completed.

I can go to any city and make money

 Making money has always been easy for me yet creating a "sustainable" path... Well, that has had it's challenges.
 I'm looking for a new country to live and work in. I'll arrive with my own finances to get started as well as arriving with my own skills and tools.

 Anyone that visits or frequents my blog and or CV has a full conveyance of my skillset(s).

 I'm searching for the visitors that come to this blog a chance to give me a new life away from the states and in return I'll assist you in being more profitable, sustainable or simply update your software, infrastructure, security, anything that we as a team can agree upon to make your endeavors better than when I arrived.

 I never ask for favors, I either pay or barter services. Paying in some form up front tends to be more economically advantageous than to repay some unknown amount in a "favor".

 You now have my offer, I have a valid passport and the funds to relocate anywhere in the world.

Contact me.

 I do have to make a stop back in FL before I move forward

Enter the backroom of Niko's Toy Box, SEO Professionals.

 I go on vacation to work on new strategies of continuing a comfortable and sustainable life here on earth. I don't afford myself the time to sit down and become complacent, this is an ever evolving world that requires me to develop and implement a means to evolve with it.

My backroom > 

 Money does grow on trees yet you have to invest time, energy and $$$ to cut through the weeds and bushes to be beneath the tree as it drops its fruit. There is no way around this.

My Toy Box

Reach deep into your mental bank account

..after many years of study while reading "Emerson" in a subject totally off topic up jumped another paradox, "The most valuable thing that an individual can have is knowledge yet this must be a synthetic priori because we are unable to "know' anything".

Some will get this.

 I don't explain things often so pay attention. The first button reads that the blue button is true, which it is in its "statement" yet not it's color. The blue button is actually every color except blue because blue is reflected.

 The blue button is true in its statement because the red button is every color except red.

 So, in all measures of its terminology, the word "Knowledge" should be removed from the English language and be replaced with something like, "Extremely well versed in the posteriori".

My 39' Mainship Express For Sale

 You didn't know? It all has to go! I'm going back overseas.

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My last post must have touched on a truth *Updated

..SO...

 Come to think about it, I should post how to get weapons in or out of the US.

People remember 9/11 for different reasons. Everyone's heard of the Patriot Act. Here's what it actually does.

The Patriot Act has become a symbol of the massive expansion of government surveillance after 9/11. So if you're concerned about excessive government surveillance, or if you've ever talked with someone who is, you've probably heard or used "the Patriot Act" as a shorthand for the problem.

That's not exactly right. The Patriot Act was a big, broad law, and a lot of it has nothing to do with surveillance. And the government's current surveillance powers are drawn from some parts of the Patriot Act, but also from other laws.

The current fight in Congress over surveillance programs has led to a lot of confusion about whether "the Patriot Act has expired." It hasn't; most of the Patriot Act is permanent. But three of the many, many individual provisions within the law expired, or "sunsetted," at the end of May 2015. The most significant of these is Section 215, which the government used to justify the National Security Agency's controversial phone records program.

But other controversial programs remain in effect. And ultimately, the expiration of three Patriot Act provisions will have only modest effects on the government's spying powers. Here's what you need to know about the original Patriot Act, the three expired provisions within it, and the other ways the government can collect Americans' information.

What is the Patriot Act?
Just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Congress passed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act — the USA PATRIOT Act. (Over the course of the bill's existence, most journalistic outlets have given up on the all-caps "PATRIOT" because it's dumb and looks like something out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.)

The bill passed overwhelmingly. Only one senator (Russ Feingold of Wisconsin) voted against it.

 Protecting the Homeland
Something like this would seem over the top today, no? (Luke Frazza/AFP)

The Patriot Act covered a lot of ground. Some of its provisions have since been struck down by the courts (the Supreme Court has ruled that it's illegal to indefinitely detain immigrants who aren't charged with crimes, for example); others have become part of the mission of the Department of Homeland Security, which didn't exist when the law was passed. Others have stuck around and aren't the subject of a lot of controversy: the law created a slew of new federal crimes related to terrorism, created federal funds to assist victims of terrorism, and gave the federal government a range of new powers to track and seize money being used by organizations connected to terrorism.

But what "Patriot Act" tends to mean to most Americans — and the reason the parts of the bill that need to be renewed by Congress have faced increasing opposition over the past several years — is several provisions that made it much easier for the government to collect millions of Americans' communications records.

Why are some parts of the Patriot Act expiring?
Back when the Patriot Act was first being debated, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) was worried about some of the powers the Patriot Act was giving the federal government. He voted for the bill, but not before adding a five-year countdown clock to three of the sketchiest-looking provisions. After five years, if Congress hadn't passed a new law renewing the programs, they would "sunset." Wyden hoped "these provisions would be more thoughtfully debated at a later, less panicked time."

 Ron Wyden
Waiting for a less panicked time.

In 2006, there was a little more "thoughtful debate" — including a filibuster, led by Feingold, that caused senators to tweak the surveillance provisions slightly. By 2011, though, Ron Wyden was on the Senate floor warning that there was a "secret Patriot Act": that the federal government secretly believed the law allowed it to conduct way more surveillance of Americans than people assumed. Despite Wyden's warnings, Congress passed a four-year extension — which reset the countdown clock for May 31, 2015.

What did the expired parts of the Patriot Act actually do?
The parts of the law that expired at the end of May cover three of the most controversial programs for domestic and international surveillance.

The one you're most likely to have heard of is Section 215, which is officially called the "business records" provision — it gives the government broad power to ask businesses for their records relating to someone who might be involved in terrorism. For example, if the FBI had been tracking Timothy McVeigh before the Oklahoma City bombing, it might have learned from business records that he'd rented a truck and bought a truckload of fertilizer.

When the Patriot Act was first passed, 215 came under some mild criticism because of fears that the government could force public libraries to turn over someone's borrowing records. (Remember libraries?) But in 2013, documents leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the government had been collecting the phone records of every single customer of phone companies including Verizon. And it was using Section 215 as the justification that made it legal.


The Snowden leaks put Section 215 at the center of a renewed controversy about government surveillance of Americans — which ultimately led to the current legislative fight. But two other, less discussed provisions have also expired.

The "roving wiretap" provision (Section 206) allows the government to tap every device a person uses — landline, cell phone, laptop, etc. — with just one approval from the (famously permissive) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. And the "lone wolf" provision (Section 207) allows the government to surveil someone who might be engaged in international terrorism, even if he or she is not actually connected to any existing terrorist group.

Have any of these provisions actually prevented terrorist attacks?
The Obama administration says that Section 215, in particular, has been extremely helpful in terrorism investigations. But when the government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board reviewed the program in January 2014, that is ... not what it found (emphasis added):

Where the telephone records collected by the NSA under its Section 215 program have provided value, they have done so primarily in two ways. The first is by offering additional leads regarding the contacts of terrorism suspects already known to investigators, which can help investigators confirm suspicions about the target of an inquiry or about persons in contact with that target. But our review suggests that the Section 215 program offers little unique value here, instead largely duplicating the FBI’s own information-gathering efforts. The second is by demonstrating that known foreign terrorism suspects do not have U.S. contacts or that known terrorist plots do not have a U.S. nexus. [...]

We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation. Moreover, we are aware of no instance in which the program directly contributed to the discovery of a previously unknown terrorist plot or the disruption of a terrorist attack. And we believe that in only one instance over the past seven years has the program arguably contributed to the identification of an unknown terrorism suspect. In that case, moreover, the suspect was not involved in planning a terrorist attack and there is reason to believe that the FBI may have discovered him without the contribution of the NSA’s program.

There's less information about the other two provisions. Section 207, for example — the "lone wolf" program — has apparently never even been used.

Are these the only controversial parts of the Patriot Act?
Hardly. They're just the ones that Congress put the countdown clock on when it passed the original law. In the 15 years since the Patriot Act has passed, Congress and the public have realized that the federal government is using all sorts of provisions to justify surveillance.

The most controversial permanent program under the Patriot Act is the "National Security Letters" program, which lets the government demand communications records from telecom companies without even going through the surveillance court for approval first.

National Security Letters have been used extremely broadly, and some privacy advocates have pointed out that they could simply replace some of the powers the government lost at the end of May. As Julian Sanchez of the Cato Institute wrote last month:

the FBI didn’t even bother using 215 for more than a year after the passage of the Patriot Act.[...] In at least one case, when the secret court refused an application for journalists’ records on First Amendment grounds, the Bureau turned around and obtained the same data using National Security Letters.

And the Patriot Act isn't the only law that has led to problematic surveillance programs:


What is the USA Freedom Act?
Most members of Congress who want to scale back government surveillance have decided that the best way to fix the Patriot Act is to let surveillance programs continue but put serious restrictions on how they can be used. That's the purpose of the USA Freedom Act. (Its official name is the USA FREEDOM Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act. That is even stupider than the USA PATRIOT Act and sounds like something out of Team America: World Police.)


The USA Freedom Act would force the government to ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for approval before being able to access phone records, and would only give it access for specific searches — not just passive bulk collection of everyone's data.

Furthermore, the Freedom Act tackles National Security Letters — it would hold them to the same standards that requests under Section 215 meet, so that the government couldn't use the letters to get data they were banned from getting through the courts. And it would force the surveillance court — which currently operates completely in secret — to publish data about its major decisions.

Other privacy advocates, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), oppose the USA Freedom Act because it would allow some surveillance under Section 215. They'd prefer to see collection of phone records end entirely, and think that simply not renewing the Patriot Act provisions and not replacing them with a new bill is the best way to do that. Other advocates disagree, using National Security Letters as an example of how the government can just use other routes to get the same amount of data.

...as long as I'm here...

 Hurricane Florence has the nation's attention and there are "some" that are going to send what money, food and clothing that they can. Statistics prove that this is by no means the majority of viewers.

*The vast majority of people are going to sit there and view it for gossiping rights, to put on all those "fake" OMG's to your other bullshit friends and to run around your job saying, "Did you see"?

 I'm not doing jack either, I've ridden out so many storms that I forget the number. I don't run but always keep an inflatable somewhere. I lived in Murfreesboro, NC when Isabel hit, I connected two inverters to my Blazer and went to sleep. I put my hypersensitive wife in the bed and slept on the couch with "Bear".
 Running from death is a lifelong run and all you'll do is be tired when you Lose in the end!

I hope you're not in line behind me during the transition to Heaven

 ...so I'm sitting here, reading, blogging, imagining the end of this life. (Oh shit, chuckles)

 So I get my DMV look alike number called and I enter God's office to be judged.

 And I'm like, "Ok dude, I've been waiting for this, what's next"? Then God begins to rehash my sins (WHY) and I'm sitting there. He says do you remember this? Oh Yeah! The two twins! And do you remember this? Ohhh, Hell Yeah! Skipping school and getting twisted in the junkyard. God sighs and says, what about this? OOOOOOO SHIT, BROOKLYN! The Red Parrot, I Was Nice With It That Night...what happened with those chicks?

 God is rubbing his head and asks do I even get the point of these questions? Yes. Then why are you so happy?
 Because the last thing I want is for you to send me to a place where your son reads from that book boring my ass to death 24/7! I'd be stuck with some heavy assed flightless wings surrounded by those sisters that go to church and cook sweet shit and fry chicken all damned day, those righteous White folks whose ass sqeek when they walk because they're so stuck up and lastly I'd be around them racist Lutheran teachers from grammar school and those "suspect" tree jumping Catholic priests".

 Send me to hell dude, buy myself some "lava front" property, threaten the devil with a hostile take over Daily! And throw myself a fat assed steak on the "Q"!

 But Niko, you have a good heart, why not repent? Because I never ask for forgiveness for the things I've enjoyed and would gladly do again but you already knew that.

AND GET ME SOME CLOTHES, I SAW THE PRIESTS BEHIND ME ALREADY LOOKING!

 Yep, if you're behind me, you'll have a hell of a long wait.

Rebel flags and monuments

 As I go through life I'm quite sure I've passed these signs and monuments but to be honest, I don't give a shit! As a matter of fact, I prefer they be flown especially on car bumpers and private restaurants and homes.

 If I saw this mental midget crap, I'd know where not to go. Right away I'm thinking danger and inbreeding.

You do realise that the new drug treatments "only hide" HIV

New HIV therapy reduces virus, boosts immunity in drug-resistant patients.

*If I ever find a compatible mate and decide I want a little "extra", I'll buy her all sorts of wigs and Holloween costumes.

Here's your HIV+ map.

A new HIV drug reduced viral replication and increased immune cells in individuals with advanced, drug-resistant HIV infection. Used in combination with existing HIV medications, the drug is a promising strategy for patients who have run out of effective treatment options, the researchers said.

In a study, a new HIV drug reduced viral replication and increased immune cells in individuals with advanced, drug-resistant HIV infection. Used in combination with existing HIV medications, the drug is a promising strategy for patients who have run out of effective treatment options, the researchers said.

The study, co-authored by Yale assistant professor of medicine Brinda Emu, M.D., was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

For some individuals with HIV, existing drug therapies fail to suppress the virus, leading to drug resistance and worsening disease. While several HIV drugs target the virus effectively, there has not been a new class of HIV drugs approved to combat the disease in a decade. In March 2018, the FDA approved ibalizumab, a drug that targets the primary receptor for HIV entry into immune cells known as CD4 T cells. This novel mechanism of action prevents HIV from entering target cells.

Multiple sites participated in the study, including Yale, enrolling patients with multi-drug-resistant HIV. Patients received a dose of ibalizumab, which is delivered intravenously, in addition to their failing regimen, for one week. After that period, they received ibalizumab in combination with optimized treatment regimens for six months.

The research team found that after one week on ibalizumab, the majority of the 40 patients (83%) enrolled in the study experienced decrease in viral load, which refers to the amount of HIV detected in the blood. After 25 weeks, nearly half of patients saw viral load suppression dip below the level of detection. The researchers also reported an increase in CD4 T cells, which are a marker for immune strength. A single individual experienced an adverse event, which was felt to be ibalizumab-related and resulted in withdrawal from the study, the researchers said.

The results were notable for this drug-resistant population of patients studied, said Emu: "These patients had extremely advanced HIV and resistant virus with limited options. To see viral suppression in a significant percentage of these patients at six months is heartening. The result represents a much-needed new mechanism of action for patients who have highly resistant HIV."

As the first monoclonal antibody approved to treat HIV, ibalizumab is a promising option for individuals who have tried several other drug therapies. "It should be considered for patients that have multi-drug resistance given the efficacy seen this study," she noted.

Because of its novel mechanism, ibalizumab will not interact negatively with other medications. It is also delivered intravenously every two weeks and lasts longer than current HIV drugs, which are taken daily by mouth.

"It's ushering in a whole class of medicine and a new mode of delivery for the treatment of HIV," said Emu. "I look forward to discussions in the community about how such a therapy will fit into the current treatment paradigm for HIV infection."

She added, "we must also keep in mind that ibalizumab was approved with a smaller number of patients treated than other medications due to the rarity of patients with multi-drug resistant HIV. As such, patients and providers must remain vigilant for side effects and adverse events."

The 10 Things Americans Feared the in Most 2017

*Has it changed?

(NEWSER) – 2017 marked "a pronounced shift" in American fears. Christopher Bader of Chapman University, which has released its fourth annual Survey of American Fears, notes "environmental fears" are prominent in the 10 biggest fears of Americans for the first time, per a release. For the third year in a row, "corruption of government officials" took the top spot.

 But pollution of drinking water and oceans appeared in the top 10 for the first time, as did new fear "TrumpCare," which took the runner-up spot nabbed by "terrorist attacks" in 2016. The International Business Times calls this "a clear reflection of the political unrest and uncertainty in the wake of Donald Trump's election as president." Participants were asked about "80 different fears across a huge variety of topics ranging from crime, the government, the environment, disasters, personal anxieties, technology, and many others," per Chapman. Here are the top 10 fears of 2017, based on responses from 1,200 participants across the country:

Corrupt government officials: 74.5%

American Healthcare Act/TrumpCare: 55%

Pollution of oceans, rivers, and lakes: 53%

Pollution of drinking water: 50%

Not having enough money for the future: 50%

High medical bills: 48%

US involvement in a world war: 48%

Global warming and climate change: 48%

North Korea using weapons: 47.5%

Air pollution: 45%

What's the difference between the U.S. deficit and the national debt?

It's expensive to run a superpower. In 2012, the United States federal government spent $3.54 trillion on everything in its budget, including defense, (the largest chunk of discretionary spending at $670 billion), Social Security (the largest of the mandatory expenses at $767 billion), Medicare and Medicaid, scientific research, grants for college students and much, much more. Unfortunately, the government only took in $2.45 trillion in taxes, fees and other revenue [source: Congressional Budget Office]. That leaves a budget shortfall of more than $1 trillion, and that trillion dollars is called the deficit.

In simple terms, a budget deficit is the difference between what the federal government spends (called outlays) and what it takes in (called revenue or receipts). The national debt, also known as the public debt, is the result of the federal government borrowing money to cover years and years of budget deficits. We'll talk more about the national debt on the next page.



Since 1973, the federal government has carried a budget deficit in all but two fiscal years, 1999 and 2000. But the massive deficits accumulated since 2009 have put all previous deficits to shame. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the federal government invested heavily to stimulate the faltering economy. The result was the first budget deficit to break $1 trillion in 2009 — $1.4 trillion to be exact — a full three times larger than 2008, the previous record holder [source: CBO]. Thanks to lower spending and higher tax revenue, the 2012 deficit was down to $1.1 trillion, the lowest in four years [source: Lowrey].

The deficit has been a political sticking point for decades. As the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office explains, there are only two ways to lower the deficit: cut spending or increase revenue. But neither of those solutions is politically popular.

Two of the largest spending obligations of the federal government are Social Security and Medicare, popular programs that support senior citizens during retirement. With the aging of the baby boomer generation, the government will need to spend more on these programs in coming years, but cutting funding to seniors is political suicide.

The other option, raising taxes to shrink the deficit, is also wildly unpopular. To complicate matters, many fiscally conservative congressmen and women have pledged to never raise taxes, leaving little hope for a compromise between spending cuts and increased revenue.

So how does the government come up with the money to pay for programs it can't afford? Borrowing, of course.

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*This ad is Only for true RC enthusiasts and those who have been into racing for a good while. I have a completely upgraded Racing Revo 3.3. I did everything except off-road applications as I race on the flat pavement. (You'll want to change the body and maybe the wheels as I had to go to Kennesaw, GA. just to race, the car is well known)
New engine, new tranny, new filters, tons of glows, new wand, new controller, new toolkits, carrying bag (Might want to change that to) and the list continues.

The new setup has 3 runs on it totaling less than 8 minutes.

The set up on the first of 3 engines.

I'm not comfortable with questions about women and relationships but

 I'll readily admit that I'm more apt to help a foreign woman than I am to assist an American woman. "This" is America and American women have quadruple the chances for success than any other women on the planet! The women "I've" met around the world, excluding Canada, tend to work harder, are far more ambitious, they eat healthier and they at least where fu&^'n shoes. (This is only my opinion and though I have experienced much, I have not experienced all) *As I head off to Mexico, I won't take much interest there either. Spend some years in Central America as I have and draw your own conclusions as to why.

 This is Jessica from MGA, Nicaragua and now I ask you, "Who in the hell wants a tattoed, pierced, truck driver in flip-flops"?

The Making of A Slave – The Infamous “Willie Lynch Letter”

This speech was delivered by a white slave owner, William Lynch in 1712, however in recent years, both White and Black historians have refuted the letter claiming dates and events cannot be verified. Nevertheless, we choose to print the letter due to our belief that behaviors being witnessed today still coincide with statements made in the letter.
… The Journal


Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN-13: 9781448614561 ISBN: 1448614562 Publication Year: 2009

Gentlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest plantation in the West Indies, where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest methods for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish, I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique. While Rome used cords of wood as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple miles back. You are not only losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profi t, you suffer occasional fi res, your animals are killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are; I do not need to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my bag here, I have a fool proof method for controlling your black slaves, I guarantee everyone of you that if installed correctly will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years. My method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it.

I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use distrust and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of differences, and think about them. On top of my list is “Age”, but it is there only because it starts with “A”, the second is “Color” or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantations, attitude of owners, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or is tall or short.

Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action, but before that, I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust, and envy is stronger than adulation, respect or admiration. The Black slave after receiving this introduction shall carry on and will become self refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.

Don’t forget you must pitch the old Black male vs. the young Black male, and the young Black male against the old Black male.

You must use the dark skin vs. the light skin slaves, and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves.

You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the female. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us. They must love, respect and trust only us. Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control.

Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. Used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful.