Finestkind Clinic and fish market

alternative hisory for later watching

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:55:29 +0000

posting to watch later on my tablet:

learning how Pope Gregory the Great faced hoards of Goths invading the former Roman empire comes to mine.

Here is another summary.

that site is Lyndon Larouche offspring of course. But the Anglo conspiracy theories go back to before WWI.

Professor Quigley call your office. They are at it again.

Paging Senator Church: The CIA is doing it again

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:54:43 +0000

The past few days, I got my hands on thousands of new transcripts and hundreds of recordings, thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan . You've heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits. What you not have heard is - there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become "foot soldiers" in constant clashes with the administration to cross a "red line" or invoke a "doomsday scenario" - meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027. Then, a lot of coordinated responses kick off, including delegitimizing the federal government itself and handing that legitimacy to Democratic governors. 2028 then becomes a vote on whether to keep America governance as-is or to burn it all down to appease a "young and brown" demographic. The mysterious group who's been coordinating 50501, Indivisible, and coordinating the NoKings protests is called "United Democracy Alliance" and their intellectual leader is Erica Chenoweth who came up with the 3.5% rule of nonviolent regime change. Patience. I know I've hyped this more than anything else. It's genuinely the biggest discovery I've had. This is an enormous archive. This is only the beginning.
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) October 18, 2026

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the Church committee summary at Wikipedia

I am so old that it was the liberals in the Democratic party who looked into the CIA shennanigans.

Family news

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:42:55 +0000

My grand daughter is visiting family so lots of food for us to eat.

Kuya's mom is now here and quite weak and having some complications from her cancer, but now the pain and bleeding have stopped so hopefully she is okay. I suggested taking her to the hospital, and got our cousin Dr Angi to examine her and she agreed, but at 89 with end stage renal disease and cancer, the family prefers hospice mode, so she is here and now the crisis has passed and she is better.

I had sterp throat and now have bronchitis, so have been staying in my room most of the day instead of going out to restaurants which is what we had planned to do.

the plague

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:08:41 +0000

docs in the IHS in the SW USA, especially in the four corners area of the Navajo reservation, see a few cases every year. Easily treatable if found early.

The US Army used to give a vaccine to the military serving in VietNam and SEAsia, but I don't know if this is still done.

more here.

Family news

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:58:54 +0000

Kuya has moved his mother to the Philippines and she is still quite weak, staying in the spare bedroom. She needs a full time caregiver or two, so after three days trying to cope, he found two of our staff willing to do the basic caregiving and they have been instructed by Joy, a trained caregiver, on how to do basic stuff.

She needs a hospital bad which should arrive tomorrow.

I can't help much since I have muscle weakness as a complication of dengue three years ago.

In the meanwhile, for the last month he has hired staff to fix up the business compound (offices, meeting room, spare bedrooms for guests, and our house). things that havent't been fixed for five years due to covid when expenses lowered our profit on rice, and two years ago when the rice buyer's check bounced and we lost the money for our entire harvest. No we can't sue her: She left the country with lost of other people being owed by her too.

But finally we are breaking even and can fix up the place, and his mom's social security should cover her medical expenses here (no Medicare doesn't pay hospitals in the Philippines).

Sigh.

Why October 7 Get out your rosaries ladies.

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:31:42 +0000

three years ago, an unprovoked attack by Hamas from Gaza killed and kidnanpped over 1000 Israelis, and not just Israelis: over 40 innocent Thai farmworkers were murdered too.

The western press ignores the Thai farmworkers and the Filipina caregiver murdered of course.

And the west is easily swallowing the Hamas reports against Israel, ignoring that this war would never have happened if those in charge had just arrested those who committed the murders and sent back the hostages.

Why does the propaganda work? Because the MSM stories go back only a week or two and often naively think the reports from Gaza are true reports from neutral observers.

But the real problem is that the west tends to ignore history, ,whereas some cultures, including Arab culture, keeps hatred and grudges alive for centuries.

Quick: Any of you guys who went to Catholic school would remember there used to be a name for Mary as Our Lady of Victory, but after Vatican II when militant names became a no no, the feast day was changed to Our Lady of the Rosary.

And the reason this feast day was on October 7 was to remember the Battle of Leponto.

The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was actually instituted under another name: In 1571 Pope Pius V instituted “Our Lady of Victory” as an annual feast in thanksgiving for Mary’s patronage in the victory of the Holy League over the Muslim Turks in the Battle of Lepanto...

Coming at what was seen as a crisis point for Christianity, the victory at Lepanto stemmed Ottoman incursion into the Mediterranean and prevented their influence from spreading through Europe.

Through the intervention of Our Lady, the Hand of God prevented the Muslim victory..

The epic victory has been commemorated in literature:

Miguel de Cervantes, a Spanish soldier wounded in the battle, recovered to become a novelist, poet and playwright; and he was so inspired by this battle that he incorporated elements of it in his own acclaimed novel, Don Quixote....

a secular report on the battle can be watched here:

the reason for the rosary is because Catholics often were illiterate peasants for 1000 years, and it was via fiestas, stories, plays, and simple prayers like the rosary (which was easly for ordinary people to pray) were how the faith was kept alive.

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and of course, the idea that praying the rosary to Mama Mary asking for peace is also seen as a way to stop aggression, as is something seen in stories behind the fall of communism in Europe...

and here in the Philippines it was prayed by those in those behind the People Power revolution here in the Philippines where one million Filipinos praying and singing hymns and carrying a statue of Mary at the head of their procession stopped Marcos soldiers from taking over the military under General Ramos who had backed Cory Aquino after she won the election against Marcos Senior.

So when you read of riots in Europe, and think things are lost, just remember that a few days ago one million Frenchmen were out singing and praying with the Pope in Paris and later in Lourdes

alas sounds about right

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:43:54 +0000

I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. https://t.co/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026

it isn't only about the left (the right does it too). It is actually a sign of being a true believer, needing a purpose in life and directing self hatred against others instead of actually doing something that might help others.

I saw this in medical school and I saw how very few anti VietNam war protesters bothered to help the boat people or the other refugees who fled that country when the communists took over. Nope, they were into other things: Jane Fonda for example started putting out exercize videos. About the only anti war activist who actually helped was Joan Baez...

that is why all the stress on training social justice warriors is nonsense. Are any of these folks building houses in Appalachia? working in food banks? Helping in emergencies such as helping to fill sandbags to stop flooding, evacuating people, taking groceries etc to those fleeing fires or floods?? Church groups do this all the time...

another lab accident

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:40:19 +0000

BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 4, 2026

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physicians working in the Navajo area of the IHS see a few cases every year, mostly from flea bites. These are treated and most survive. but Pneumonic plague is highly fatal and can kill you within 24 hours, even with treatment.

Family news

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:14:13 +0000

my stepson is in the US planning to move his mother from her nursing home there to the Philippines where she can stay with family since she no longer could care for herself,

The bad news?

The extra bedroom is in my house.

Actually he wanted me to move upstairs to the apartment we have there, but my walking ability is shot since I had neuromuscular complications from dengue and I can't manage the stairs

So we will be in the same house.

So right now, we have all sorts of workmen cleaning and painting the aging house including my bedroom.

I am not sure who he will hire for a caregiver (he probably expects his wife, who is a trained caregiver, to do it, but she runs her own business so we might have to hire one.

Oh well. Does it bother me that my husband's ex is moving into what is essentially my husband's house? No because she is now senile and can't walk around, but needs a walker or wheelchair. So I can just lock the door and I still have two dogs in the room with me (she is a cat person and hates dogs).

My main dog died last week, and I miss him. But his two smaller siblings are now trying to take their place in my room at night, so now I have two in my bedroom instead of one....

Luckily we still have two other (larger) dogs outside to guard the business compound and an old female dog to guard the office upstairs.

so people all over cleaning and washing and painting: the place is in an uproar.

Sigh.

catching a rocket

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:39:09 +0000

more here.

and here

:Starship meanwhile continued firing its own engines to reach a preliminary suborbital flight path. Near the end of that burn it lost one of its outer engines. It nonetheless reached the right preliminary orbit, but because of the engine loss engineers spent about fifteen minutes discussing whether that engine issue would preclude going to full orbit and completing all six orbits. In the end they decided to go to orbit, and were successful. The ship that successfully deployed all 26 Starlinks, all of which appeared to be operating as expected. Because of the engine issue, however, the decision was then made to de-orbit early, after completing about two orbits, bringing the ship back over the northern Pacific, likely to have it avoid habitable land as much as possible. At landing Starship successfully completed a soft vertical splashdown, but it then exploded. No recovery of this ship will take place, as occurred on the previous flight.

So who is watching the terrorist suspects:

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:39:03 +0000

according to Trumpieboy, the terrorists who were caught with car bombs near an AFB in the UK were being watched by authorities.

But apparently not watching them very well.

They were actually stopped because a farmer returning from a party noticed them and called the local cops.

So a civilian and local bobbies, not high falutin expert anti terrorism cops, stopped them..

From a UKTelegraph article that quoted the farmer mentioned in a local tabloid

“A plucky amateur shouldn’t be spotting an unusual bit of activity at 1am when the air base is on high alert,” she said. “I think it’s absolutely astonishing.”

Place conspiracy theory here.

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update: There were 5 guys arrested (the farmer said she saw 8 to ten) and then left out on bail by the judge. They were "British citizens".... and the cops claimed no viable explosives found (presumably they found dead explosives)

Conspiracy theory A: A false flag.

Conspiracy theory B: Incompetnt

Conspiracy theory C: They don't want to hurt the feelings of the Muslims in the government or have the Muslim mobs upset or the patriots upset at a time when 1000 boat people mainly military age men are arriving on their shores.

Sigh.

The street dogs who live all over the world

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:30:59 +0000

The Pope in Paris:

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 04:54:34 +0000

the Pope is in Paris, and lots and lots of folks are there.

PBS reports 800 thousand attended his mass in Paris.

the NYTimes however is sarcastic as ever pushing the idea:

Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France
After visiting Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day trip to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds."

trying to be everyone's pope?? seeking to appeal? who is the gender expert Karen who wrote this article?

A Catholic would say it was an outreach to remind people about the importance of Christ and how the church helps people to know love and serve the Lord.

But that's just me.

This secular video is a better summary of what is going on:

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Doing his thing: Multicultural outreach.

Catholicism is not European or white Anglo Saxon church.

Which is why the Pope is pushing outreach to migrants, even though in the US a lot of ordinary folk in the USA are upset on how the church used their money to help the drug cartels smuggle people into the USA along with drugs and gang members hiding with real refugees and those seeking to better themselves ,

( There is also a lot of resentment because migrants are easily underpaid and steal their jobs but that could be fixed with amnesty and rules)

In the USA, the religious revival tends to be evangelical and Catholic and partly inspired by Charlie Kirk, who was killed for daring to outreach both politics and conservative religious ideas to college students.

but in France, like in the US, the younger folk are slowly returning to church.

Explaining American foreign policy

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:54:50 +0000

full transcript here
QUESTION: So, while you were here, the Iranian president spoke at the United Nations. And he said that President Trump’s speech “goes against the very essence… of the United Nations.” He said that President Trump “must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, [and] increased bullying.” And he said, “We will never bow our [heads] or bend [our knees].” Do you have a response to him today? SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. I think slaughtering 10,000 of your own people in protests is a violation of the UN – I hope it’s a violation of the UN principles. I think sponsoring terrorist organizations in the region to attack your neighbors, attack energy infrastructure, attack civilian sites, is a violation of the UN system. So, I don’t know what standing Iran has to lecture anyone on human rights or the international system when they habitually violate it. They violate the sovereignty of every one of their neighbors by sponsoring terrorist organizations that reside within the borders of those countries. They slaughter their own people. They violate rules that were – and sanctions that were imposed by the international community against their nuclear weapons program. So, I just – honestly, I don’t know how you stand up there and argue on behalf of the international system when you are the world’s leading – the world-leading violator of the international system. That’s what the Iranian system has been, unfortunately – sadly, tragically.

the Democrats are being manipulated by the socialist/Islamicist juggernaut (paid for by whom I wonder) so Iran thinks things will change in November after the election.

And the MSM in the US are happy to publicize the propaganda of these bozos instead of trying to put things into perspective.

Child kidnapping by Russia

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:33:22 +0000

One little known story of the Spanish civil war was that Russia kidnapped Spanish children to raise them as communists.

the Wikipedia article frames it as keeping the children safe in a time of war (as were many thousands who were taken in by France etc) but if you read down the article the real reason is noted:

Communist propaganda portrayed them as the future political elite in a Spanish socialist republic which would emerge from victory in the Civil War. The children and their families believed that their time in Russia would be short, and in their later testimonies they confirm that they were happy with the adventure of travelling to a foreign country.

the evacuations of children during war is controversial because of the separation from family and culture, yet the alternative might be a dead child.

Yet the high casualty rate in the Spanish children in Russia suggests that safety was not the real issue.

So fast forward to the Russia Ukraine war, where again Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children claiming they just wanted to keep them safe.

From StrategyPage:

September 19, 2026: Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has kidnapped nearly 50,000 Ukrainian children and sent them to Russia to halt its population decline...

The Russian government developed a formal system to obtain children. The easiest method was to find young, orphaned children, from infants to 7 or 8 years old, and send them to Russia to be adopted. When Russian troops took some populated Ukrainian territory, special filtration teams were sent in to find any children they could kidnap without meeting violent resistance from families or neighbors...

What is most unusual about this use of children as hostages to pacify occupied regions is that it is happening in Donbas, which has been under Russian control since 2014 and initially supplied troops for the 2022 invasion. As that invasion went badly and got a lot of the Russian soldiers killed or wounded, the surviving volunteers from Donbas refused to fight any longer....

One underreported story about getting these children back to their families is the work of Melania Trump.

Yum! BBQ chicken feet

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:02:25 +0000

Yanks eat chicken meat, mainly breasts and legs, so what do they do with the rest of it?

Well, for example, Tyson sells the chicken feet to China

Yes, Tyson does sell chicken feet as a byproduct of processing chickens for meat. Chicken feet are often used in soups, stews, and other dishes in various cultures around the world. It is a common practice for poultry companies like Tyson to package and sell chicken feet as a way to minimize waste and provide customers with a diverse selection of products.

so how do you cook them? This is one way:

our neighbor used to grill cheap chicken feet/ chicken heads/ chicken intestine, sliced pork and hot dogs outside her home, and sold them mainly to the tricycle drivers who drove to and from the Palenke. However for the last two years, several restaurants have popped up, so she doesn't do it anymore because of competition.

Chicken heads anyone?

he mentions the intestines. Yes they are grilled also.

CS Lewis link

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:02:13 +0000

just a link to an article about CS Lewis and his relationship with various children.

LINK

more HERE.

links posted so I can read them later on my tablet

Rogan publicizes Blood Cobalt

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:28:06 +0000

recent report Blood Batteries.

I am aghast of how the left gets hysterical over "Children" in Gaza, i.e. teenage soldiers being killed because Hamas recruits child soldiers, even though using children/young teenagers in the military is a war crime by the way...or point out that Hamas deliberately puts weapons in civilian areas (a war crime) so that they can point to civilian and children casualties when Israel bombs the weapons (and don't forget the secondary explosions)

But people being pushed out of their villages by mining or dying in mining accidents or children working in these mines. Silence.

Why? Chinese influence on the left in the USA and MSM

Similarly the environmentalists don't complain about Africa's environment being destroyed by Chinese mining companies.

Come to think of it the environmentalist left isn't complaining about China destroying the ecology of the West Philippine sea, or about Chinese factory ships overfishing and destroying the fishing areas all over the world, including South America.

Press Bias? Who wudda thot

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:34:11 +0000

Trumpieboy is having another fight with the MSM.

Well duh.

It's not just Trumpieboy criticizing biased news reporting: the naysayers about covid vaccine side effects is being exposed on the alternative media.

It's not just about exposing the lies and manipulation behind the Covid shutdowns, that harmed individuals and the economies of entire countries who obeyed the advice from the CDC etc...

So the MSM alas too often in politics or overseas news about the Middle East distorts reporting, where you read stuff from anonymous sources or terrorist organization as the truth:

but it is not just about the Middle East news distortions. Try being a Catholic.

Father Leo opines:

and here he discusses the covid coverup and the truth.

so the news is depressing, so let's look at history

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:15:15 +0000

one of my leisure activity is looking into technical evolution in ancient times, and also examining the background of the Heian period of Japan that predates the Samurai wars.

No olive oil, very little butter (the Buddhist monks led to butter and yogurt being introduced since it was a religion from India, but with time the vegetarian practices led to dairy products stopped being used.)

So what did they use for lamps?

Rapeseed oil. A mustard like seed.

Wikipedia: has details:

Rapeseed belongs to the genus Brassica. Brassica oilseed varieties are some of the oldest plants cultivated, with documentation of its use tracing back to India 4,000 years ago, and use in China and Japan 2,000 years ago

so used for oil lamps (or a variation of it in Chinese food).

So canola oil? No: Not quite the same thing.

Rapeseed oil is green, has a lousy taste and a chemical that is a little dangerous:

So voila, the Canadians cross bred it, and made Canola oil

Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada; the name is a portmanteau of "can" from Canada and "ola" referring to "oil"

we docs started recommending Canola oil as a way to a healthy oil, but this year it is one of those seed oils that is in the crosshairs of the health nazis.

Heck, there are dozens of videos on youtube insisting it is jet fuel or a lubricant for machinery so if you use it for your food, as if you are eating the industrial oil, not the food variety.

Don't ask me. We use Palm oil, which was a no no a decade or more ago and was blamed for heart disease if you ate cinema popcorn which was how they used it in the USA.but now they are re examinig it and say it's okay.

WTF?

Well you gotta die from something. Sorry Bobby K Jr.

Update

Wikipedia says rapeseed oil was used aftèr 1500in the Edo period but not used in the heian period of japan but other seed oils like perilla oil

I am switching the discussion to my trivia blog soas not to fill up my news blog.

The Great game: Look squirrel propaganda in the US MSM ignores the big picture

noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes) — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:17:15 +0000

She starts with analyzing how Rubio is working with local governments to stop the powerful drug cartels that threaten these governments.

Number of overdose deaths are down in the USA, but then the picture moves to Canada's shennanigans that include drug labs and Chinese using US/Canada trade agreements to get their cheap shoddy goods into the USA and bypassing tariffs.

as for Canada: how does Canada join the EU with a single person in the EU saying it's okay?

and then she discusses the Greenland treaty.

Remember the MSM ridiculing Trump saying he was worrying about Greenland and might have to take it over?

Backstory: This is about the air defense of the USA, keeping the sea lanes in the Arctic open, and keeping China from grabbing their ports and rare minerals via Chinese companies (like was done to the Panama canal and in central Africa). No one believes the companies are just companies, but proxies for the Chinese government policies.

so expect the MSM to pretend this is just the ssame as the old treaty, while ignoring that tthis defense treaty includes provisions that are new, and will stop China's economic takeover and let the US defend a weak Denmark/Greenland from Russia.

now one hopes someone in the USA MSM will notice that China is increasing aggression against the Philippines. inside the Philippines economic zone.

The reason China was allowed to dig up the seabed to make artificial islands in the West Philippine sea is because Obama pressured PNoy not to interfere, but to rely on the UN court. So the Philippines won, but China ignored the courts.

And China is pushing against the Philippines to try to get the Philippines to back down and not try to stop them from taking over Taiwan, which would allow them to block shipping from West Philippine sea to the Pacific ocean via the Luzon strait.

and of course no one in the US MSM seems to be aware of how China and Russia are part of the great game in Iran...

If the Democrats win thanks to Islamicist and socialist propaganda, then the real winner will be China, who not only will again have access to Iranian oil, but will be emboldened to push more aggression against the Philippines figuring the US is too weak to stop them.

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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