Finestkind Clinic and fish market

The history of a mansion

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:23:42 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:40:45 +0000

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it says a lot when the video starts with an apology that it is an independent story, and don't attack them for posting it. The conspiracy theorists have distorted the story so much that people no longer believe what they saw with their eyes.

family news

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:50:40 +0000

Kuya is leaving later this week to check on his mom, who wants to move to the Phiippines instead of staying at a care center. The problem? She might need dialysis and Medicaid does not cover treatment in the Philippines. Oh well.

In other news, my main watchdog, Barry, died. He has been ailing for the last year and slowly getting thinner. when the vet checked him he was anemic but I didn't do more tests because he is getting old, although I did get him treatment two years ago for a medical problem. He was a good dog. Sigh.

the future of eldercare?

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:16:42 +0000

Japan also has been pushing robots for nursing their growing elderly population,

and China is putting out videos of dancing robots etc and getting breathless reports by the US MSM who push the story without any scepticism.

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and yes Ray Bradbury fortold this years ago. Twilight zone even had a program based on his short story:

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We remember those who walk into danger to save others

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:17:18 +0000

give peace a chance

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:14:39 +0000

YUM! Fish head stew

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:05:03 +0000

We have this dish a couple times a month.

More HERE:

You might be wondering, how did salmon, a fish commonly found in the icy waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, make its way to the Philippines? Salmon is not native to tropical waters, which makes it a relatively recent addition to Filipino cuisine. Historically, it wasn’t something you would find in local wet markets. However, as global trade increased, imported salmon became more accessible to the average Filipino. Interestingly, countries that export salmon typically prioritize the fillets, leaving the heads as by-products. Luckily for us, these heads are often sold at a fraction of the cost of fillets, making them an affordable option for creating this flavorful dish.

Post modernism and mental problems

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:44:20 +0000

mainly posted for later listening.

The cult like beliefs of the left are obvious, and the left mainly points to the cult like Trumpieboy followers.

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another podcast for later consideration:

Just for nice

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:44:48 +0000

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Happy Holiday weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:18:27 +0000

the more things change the more they stay the same

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:53:47 +0000

Since taking on my shoulders the burden of pastoral care, I have been unable to keep steadily recollected because my mind is distracted by many responsibilities. I am forced to consider questions affecting churches and monasteries and often I must judge the lives and actions of individuals; at one moment I am forced to take part in certain civil affairs, next I must worry over the incursions of barbarians and fear the wolves who menace the flock entrusted to my care; now I must accept political responsibility in order to give support to those who preserve the rule of law; now I must bear patiently the villainies of brigands, and then I must confront them, yet in all charity.

Pope Gregory the Great recognized he had to preserve the rule of law because of barbarians and wolves who would menace ordinary folk.

He didn't have to bow to political correctness.

background here.and HERE:

Rome, his birthplace, was sacked by barbarians when he was only six years old, and barbarian raids around the Italian countryside brought throngs of dirt-poor refugees flooding into Rome, carrying with them a plague that wiped out a third of the region’s ..population.....

It was Gregory who first conceived of a global plan of spreading the Gospel to the empire’s barbarian conquerors, sending St. Augustine of Canterbury, the prior of his former monastery, to England as the head of a mission team.

He organized the first universal system of relief for the poor in Rome, harvesting produce from the Church’s lands and sending teams patrolling the streets to distribute prepared food to the indigent refugees

Drones and future wars

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:54:55 +0000

StrrategyPage has lots of essays on drones which alas I can't keep up with since this is outside my level of expertise.

But today there is a discussion of the treatment of Russian Casualties in the Ukraine war, and I came across this snippet:

The primary source of Russian losses has been Ukrainian drones. These drones come in an increasing number of types, and new models appear rapidly. Russia has been unable to compete. To make matters worse, Ukraine has developed an effective drone interceptor, further diluting Russian offensive efforts. Over the last year, Ukrainian long-range drones have intensified their attacks on military and economic targets in western Russia, including major cities like Moscow and St Petersburg. These attacks are bringing the war home to Russian civilians who have been told for years that Russian forces were winning.

this article is for later reading at my leisure:Weapons: Drone Wars Past and Future

In 2026, Ukraine plans to build at least eight million, and possibly ten million drones. They built about five million drones last year. In 2024, the total was 1.5 million drones. There have been problems. Chinese component producers are having a hard time keeping up, and last year, to assist the Russians, China halted sending drone components to Ukraine

those Chinese drones are spies for China here in the Philppines: Lots of underseas drones in the area, many being civilian drones. But China can control the regular drones too: Philippine mission's China-made drone won't fly in West Philippine Sea

A China-made drone for a Filipino civilian mission to the West Philippine Sea would not take off, as it received prompts that required the operator to register the unit with Chinese authorities....,,According to Vonne Aquino's report on "24 Oras," the drone received the prompts even when the Atin Ito vessel was well within the Philippines, just 127 nautical miles from Mindoro...

and then there are the underwater drones:

MANILA — Five underwater drones found by Philippine fishermen were capable of gathering information that could aid in "underwater warfare", the country's military said Tuesday, noting at least one had relayed a signal to China.

That article is 2025.

StrategyPage essay on the latest aggression of China against the Philippines LINK

how to manipulate small meetings

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:08:48 +0000

first draft so excuse the mistakes and awkward writing

there are oodles of youtube videos on how to run meetings. Excuse my synicism but I remember the old encounter groups of the sixties where the leader guided everyone and everyone went along with them, except me because I was a stubborn nerd: I mean, I was a medical student at a time when less than ten percent of docs and less than ten percent of my class were women, so I was not obedient. It got so frustrating that I got a nurse to call me out of the meetings with medical problems that required my presence.

Most videos are how to do this, but this one is a good summary:15 Psychological Mind Tricks To Get People To Do What You Want

In Part 1 of this conversation, Fr. Murray takes apart the vocabulary: Sr. Nathalie Becquart calling synodality “a social prophecy” and “a grammar of peace”; the Synod Secretariat classifying Catholics who disagree not as people with differing views but as “resistance”; and the question nobody in Rome has answered — where in the world do we find a Catholic mandate to invent a church in a different way?

so this is how to manipulate people and a bit honest that they are doing it.

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this is first draft but the videos say what I want to say: It's a scam manipulating people, and of course normal folks end up leaving the meeting (as I did in the encounter groups of the sixties) because they know the emperor is naked

TSP playing politics again with my retirement savings

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:08:50 +0000

Instapundit reports TSP, the sefl investing retirement plan for govt employees, is playing politcs again with our retirement saving.

This time they are investimg money to promote DEI and Trumpieboy caught them at it.

Management contracts awarded for managing billions of dollars contributed by civil service employees to the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for their retirement conflict with President Donald Trump’s executive order banning spending by federal departments and agencies on programs based on diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) concepts....

“It’s under the ‘Annual Reports’ section in which the FRTIB requests multiple data points that tie into left-wing DEI ideology. Among the information sought, the agency requires that BlackRock and SSGA/SSIM each ‘Provide a report on the investment manager’s use of women/minority owned brokers,’ ‘Provide data on the firm’s management composition as it relates to women/minorities,’ and ‘Provide a summary of the firm’s diversity philosophy,’” The Federalist report added.

The problem with the TSP mandating DEI activities among its contractors is that Trump’s March 2026 executive order required termination of all such programs within federal departments and agencies because under DEI concepts “employees, applicants, or contracting parties are treated differently, separated, or singled out based on their race or ethnicity, rather than treated equally and objectively based on their merit and without regard to their immutable characteristics.”

so why is TSP allowed to push DEI?

The TSP appears to escape the EO’s mandate because it manages billions of dollars invested by civil service employees but without a specific congressional appropriation for that purpose. As a result, the TSP is not sufficiently subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) to be covered by the EO.

This is not the first time TSP has pushed policies that undermine the USA.

Back in 1990 they added a fund with overseas investments that included Chinese companies associated with the ChiCom military.

I wrote about it here.: and Trump stopped it LINK... more HERE.

more links from the past about the TSP board trying to send money to the Chicoms:: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/372466 names behind the decision:

AonHewitt was behind this:

as my blog noted:

Who is AonHewitt: Wikipedia article says an investment firm that cares for retiree funds. all over the world. Hewitt expanded into "China" in the early 2000s, before it merged with Aon. my blog back then noted: who is on the employee advisory council? Gov't website; (a) The Board shall establish an Employee Thrift Advisory Council. The Council shall be composed of 15 members appointed by the Chairman of the Board in accordance with subsection (b). so they are from various labor organizations but are appointed by the chairman of the board. How convenient.

I haven't followed the investment stuff since then, but it sounds like the board was infiltrated by those with an agenda.

dog

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:40:10 +0000

doglove

so yes your dog loves you.

and we have puppies....

our latest puppies are being weaned

The Watchdogs including the father and mother of the puppies.

Rain rain go away

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:37:05 +0000

Phil Star Article: No don't blame all the money supposed to be used for flood control that disappeared, it is the heavy rains causing this.

Actually we have had heavy rain/thunderstorms almost every day so this is true.

and now maybe a typhoon is coming:

MANILA, Philippines — The massive flooding that hit parts of the country was caused not only by issues involving flood control projects, but also by the unprecedented volume of rain brought by recent weather disturbances, President Marcos said yesterday. After a situation briefing with Central Luzon local officials in San Fernando, Pampanga, Marcos said heavy rains had overwhelmed the country’s flood management programs.

Marcos noted that the government is also eyeing long-term flood control projects, including the construction of river dams in Nueva Ecija and a long dike that could extend to Bataan.e.

Al Jazeera's Jamela Alindogan reports from the northern Philippines, where inundated communities are demanding answers. Residents say they are ready for the potential for monsoon flooding, but are angry that flood control measures they say were paid for seemingly do not work. pic.twitter.com/eeQ3mXcAQU
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) August 22, 2026

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WATCH: Barangay officials found undersized and allegedly substandard steel bars in a damaged flood-control project in Claudio Salgado, Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro.

Several sections collapsed last week following continuous rains brought by the southwest monsoon or Habagat. | via… pic.twitter.com/3PaSyuGiSO
— GMA News (@gmanews) August 23, 2026

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but it's not corruption, garbage blocking the sewers and drainage systems, or the substandard flood control projects that used shoddy cheap construction instead of paying for decent materials and construction: It's climate change. DUH.

The floods that submerged many parts of Luzon due to the southwest monsoon are indeed a result of climate change, as President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday stressed that these are not only due to anomalous flood control projects.https://t.co/l30POY0bwg
— Politiko (@Politiko_Ph) August 24, 2026

more hereL

the Papal Posse dares to say the emperor is naked

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:27:20 +0000

News stories ignored and conspiracy coverup: you mean the crazies were right?

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:02:18 +0000

The rains have kept me inside for most of the last week, so I have been listening to podcasts etc.

Well that will increase your paranoia.

Example one: the Covid coverup is slowly crumbling.

Covid conspiracy was real??

this is of course an ongoing story and the worse part?? that the major medical journals haven't corrected their misinformation.

Then you have this scandal.

so where are the stories about this? Who knows. Probably the same place that ignores the sex trafficking of street kids in poor countries.

And then you have the ongoing story of the casting couch in Hollywood;

the part of the discussion about seducing a kid you raised is of course about Woody Allen. But it reminded me of Tale of Genji: He kidnaps a young girl and raises her and then "marries her" and it is clear that the girl was raped/traumatized.

Nothing new under the sun I guess...

another story being ignored: That China is being aggressive against the Philippines and Viet Nam in the West Philippine sea.

from StrategyPage

The situation in the South China Sea is becoming more difficult for China because the Philippines has implemented measures to reduce the Chinese threat by curbing corrupt Chinese influence in the country. That is the main reason why the new Filipino government is canceling three Chinese-financed railroad construction projects worth nine billion dollars. ....The cancellation of these projects has been under consideration for over a year due to vague loan terms and China's failure to perform. The Chinese are believed to be using the loan program as a weapon to coerce the Philippines into making concessions in the South China Sea.

A national opinion survey conducted at the end of June found that Filipinos trusted the United States, Australia and Japan the most while trusting China and Russia the least. ... Until China expanded its “lost territory” claims to the South China Sea nearly two decades ago. China was seen as a potential ally of, and investor in, the Philippines.

Despite numerous Filipino diplomatic efforts, China refused to compromise on its claims.

at this point, China is seen as the greatest threat to the Philippines, especially since the Chinese appear to have additional claims on Filipino territory and independence as a nation.

They will try to claim Luzon as part of China if not stopped...

however, the country whose risk from Chinese expansion is usually ignored: Russia. China once owned Siberia and has a lot of workers there who could be a fifth column if invaded. Hence China encouraging Russia in the Ukraine probably has more to do with making Russia weak than in hurting NATO...

the USNavy is having problems on on an aircraft carrier and the peace group mothers are making a fuss, which resulted in moving an aircraft carrier from near VietNam to the Middle East.

Was the kerfuffle by the peace activists that got an exaggerated scandal on an aircraft carrier that caused the USN to remove it from the middle east influenced by Chinese minions in the peace movement?

Who knows.

The USNavy has been having problems for years and it will probably take years to fix it, alas.

and on StrategyPage, many of the essays are about drones. Hmmm... I am just too lazy to keep up with the drone news, but it says a lot that the big beautiful ball room that was politicized to criticize Trump was more about drone attacks on meetings in tents outside the WH than about his vanity, not to mention the need to build a new bunker below the WH a la GreenBrier bunker.

So who is behind the hysteria that distort such obvious news stories

AI Frankenvirus or a godsend for reisstant germs?

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:05:11 +0000

this artificially manufactured virus is a bacteriaphage to eat E Coli. Wapost explains:

or if you don't have the money to get past their wall you can read it at CIDRAP:

,,, researchers from Stanford University and the Broad Institute report that the functional bacteriophages they created using artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly destroyed strains of Escherichia coli that had evolved resistance to naturally occurring phages, but experts call for safeguards to prevent the technology from being used for harm.

Bacteriophages are ubiquitous viruses that target, infect, and kill only bacteria. They are found everywhere bacteria live, including the environment and the human gut, and they can be used to treat bacterial infections.
... “Even the simplest genomes are highly complex and can be rendered nonviable by a single mutation,” the authors wrote. “Design at the scale of whole genomes has remained largely beyond reach.”
Urgent biosafety, biosecurity questions
....In an accompanying commentary, Thomas Inglesby, MD, and Moritz Hanke, MD, both of Johns Hopkins University, warn that although the finding is promising, “it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. The ability to compose viral genomes using generative AI now exists; the governance to safely steer it does not.”

They caution that this technology could be used to create non-therapeutic bacteriophages in eukaryotes such as humans, animals, and plants.

Drones anyone?

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:05:02 +0000

China is sneaking into the Philippine economic zone trying to steal a shoal to make an island, meaning that if this is done thcy could say the entire area is owned by the Chinese.

So I keep an eye on what is going on.

Here is one video about drones:

one thing we have in common with the Ukraine is a bunch of kids who love computer games and other high tech stuff.

Hence Pax Silica, to use the local talent.

of course my youtube channel is full of videos by Chinese trolls complaining, and there are local complaints also probably worrying about it.

The worry about China ignores that China is slowly stealing the resources of the West Philippine se and next step, making one of their islands withing the EEZ off of Luzon.

Note: China has lots of trolls to pretend these things are bad, but China is hated.

heh. illegal mining, like all the farmers who are mining for gold etc in their fields since they can't make a profit since the rich guys import cheap rice that depresses the price.

about all those shrine of Mama Mary

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:57:54 +0000

The church is visited by both Ecuadorian and Colombian pilgrims.

I had visited with my sons 40 years ago. From Pasto we went via bus to Ipialis then hiked over the fields to the northern gorge site. This left us across the gorge from the church, but there is a bridge across the gorge, and on the northern end of the bridge is a small chapel where you can place candles.

this video is very north American bias and emphasizes the Spanish missionaries.

However my son gave a different story about it: the miracle is about an Indian lady carrying her handicapped daughter along the road along the gorge ridge, and suddenly the daughter cried look at the beautiful lady. And the locals made a shrine there. Only later did the missionaries encourage the formal church. And my sons didn't say anything about the image discussed in the video, only about a spring in the bottom of the gorge where people collect water and consider it holy. They hiked down to the bottom (not me: I am not athletic) to visit the area.

This is the story the locals tell, and the locals see it as Our Lady visiting the local people, who were looked down on by the establishment Spanish who ran the place. So it is beloved as a sign Mary loved them and visited them, not as a shrine pushed on them by outside Spanish priests.

such visions are common and usually ignored or debunked by the Catholic church, but locals often place shrines at these areas.

I should note that when traveling down the Pan American highway, we saw a shrine on a hill near the road, and my sons said that the Virgin had appeared there.

Here in the Philippines there are a lot of small Lourdes shines in churches and many have one on their garden and families pray the rosary after dinner. Here she is Mama Mary and folk religion is family oriented, not theological: Mama Mary, Kuya Jesus, and God as father.

I am sure there are a lot of visions of Mama Mary here which are known to family and friends but the church tends to shut them down if they get too enthusiastic.

but the big shrine is along the EDSA where the People Power revolution occurred. Left out of most secular articles, the locals believe that Mama Mary appeared and stopped Marcos Sr's soldiers from shooting the demonstrators, who were praying the rosary and singing hymns.

in the US, one does hear about visions, often in times of stress or sickness, where our Lady or an angel comes with a word of comfort.

In the USA it is common for people to place statues of the virgin in the fields or in the front yards . Our next door neighbor in Pennsylvania, a coalminer, had one in his front garden .

heavy rains and family news

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:25:47 +0000

For last 2 days heavy rain and mildly flooded streets.

Not quite a typhoon so no bad winds and we have electricity and city water.

The schools were closed Friday.

The barangay neighborhood patron saint is St Lawrence so fiesta parade later today. and a Miss Gay Gapan contest was scheduled in the plaza for either yesterday evening or today

My arthritis has been bad from the weather so I spent yesterday in bed and didn't attend church in the evening since Catholics have revived the ancient idea that Sunday starts at Sundown.

Howevery arthritis is better today but since l don't have anyone to attend mass with me I will just sit iny room and enjoy the hymns sung by the Baptists who meet in our meeting room each Sunday.

In other news Stella our black dog's 5 puppies are chubby and healthy but their eyes are not open yet so I haven't checked how. many are boys or girls. Their nest is in our closet where I put a flat box for them.

We have another box in my bathroom for Baby our Mama dog but apparently she did not get pregnant last time she was in heat. She is 7 years old so maybe she is too old.

China is pushing war but the US press doesn't seem to notice

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:21:10 +0000

China has been attacking Filipino fishermen for years, even though these fishermen have been fishing in the area for several generations.

But now after Obama refused to help the Philippines to stop China from destroying the ecosystem (green groups silent of course) and building miltarized artificial islands, they are getting more aggressive in recent weeks.

and also is prolonging the war in Iran:

and infiltrating the US military:

China has been trying to buy retired American flag officers. https://t.co/JaLRF6TI0L
— Gordon G. Chang (@GordonGChang) August 4, 2026

and notice they are discussing how China suckered the Pope into signing away the pious Catholics there.

How the original drone made a star

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:27:32 +0000

the original drone from WWII

from Wikipedia:

The Radioplane OQ-2 was the first mass-produced unmanned aerial vehicle or drone in the United States, manufactured by the Radioplane Company. A follow-on version, the OQ-3, became the most widely used target drone in US service, with over 9,400 being built during World War II.

tropical cyclone: Rain rain rain rain

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:02:56 +0000

translation: Heavy rain all day, but only gusty winds.