nd then I thought Republicans are going to have a real problem in the midterm because all the Democrats have to do is say Republicans took away healthcare from 12 million people. That's what they say now. And who knows how long before they take it away from you. And that's pretty scary. Pretty scary. How do I know that's scary? Because yesterday I got to experience having no healthcare.

So I have Kaiser Permanente and I think I've got shingles. So I've got this insanely painful set of skin problems on one side. It looks like shingles probably. So I used my app to contact my healthcare provider to set up an in-person appointment because I'd already sent in photos of it and they had not guessed shingles, but now it looks like it's almost certainly shingles because I checked AI. AI says, "Yeah, probably shingles." And then my app said that there's no availability of appointments for in person. And I thought, really? None? Not a month from now or two months from now? Like, just none? I really can't get any healthcare.

And I thought, oh, they're trying to make me do a Zoom call because you can do almost everything on Zoom. So I go to the other part of the app to set up a Zoom appointment. And it comes back with there are no available appointments ever. So and of course this always happens on the long weekends that are a holiday. How many of you have not noticed that somebody in your family, maybe you, always has a health problem on a holiday? Always, because that's when all the doctors go on vacation and you're lucky if you can get anything.

So I got to experience having no healthcare and also having a pretty painful health problem. I mean it really hurts. If you ever get shingles, good luck. It hurts like a mofo. Now fortunately I had AI and I had other mechanisms to get what I need. So I'm being treated as well as I think I need to be, but I didn't have any healthcare. So I got to tell you that when you realize you don't have healthcare even though you've been paying for it, it's a scary thing. So if the Democrats scare voters by saying they're going to take away your healthcare next, that's going to really be effective.

So I was trying to think, what could Republicans do to get ahead of the messaging? And I don't have a suggestion yet, but something like this came to mind. So this will just be a brainstorming. This is not a good suggestion, but it might make you think of a better one. What if Republicans said everyone who supports the country by working, going to school, or following their laws gets to keep their health insurance? Everyone who supports America by working, going to school or volunteering, I guess, or following our laws, which would take care of the non-citizens who were getting it. They get to keep their health insurance or their healthcare. Would that work? Maybe that's a little bit too conceptual. It would be a lot better if there was some picture or something scary. So Republicans are going to have a tough time. We'll keep working on that.

Representative Comer is going to bring Biden's physician in for a conversation to find out what did he know and what was the real situation with Biden's health behind the scenes. I can't wait. I suspect that he will be reluctant to answer questions because if he does, he's going to have to lie like hell and I don't know that he's going to want to do that under oath.

You know that killer that American bread seems to have in it called glyphosate. And some say it's the reason that the bread is healthy in Europe but not healthy in America is that glyphosate was used as a weed killer. Well I didn't know this but a lot of US bread companies had replaced glyphosate already. So they replaced it with what's it called? Diquat. D I Q U A T. Diquat. I just like saying diquat. Anyway, but apparently that replaced glyphosate is widely employed in the US as a weed killer. Except there's a new report that that might even be worse for you according to The Guardian. So The Guardian has an article that says this new thing that replaces the thing that you thought was the bad thing that the new thing can damage your organs and gut bacteria according to new research. Why is it everybody in the world can make bread except Americans? Can we really not make bread that isn't poisonous, man? Yeah, I don't like that story.

Taiwan's got a company that has a tech platform they built to detect schizophrenia. So apparently they can scan your brain and then use AI. And the AI can accurately up to 91% accuracy identify people with schizophrenia. Huh. And apparently it can identify other patterns as well. So that's interesting. If they can identify that you probably have schizophrenia by looking at your brain, how long will it be before they find the part of your brain that handles free will? They haven't found it yet, but I know it's in there somewhere. I'm joking. Free will doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

And then I saw an article by Antonio Graceffo. He was in, damn it, I didn't write down the publication, but he's talking about the problems with measuring the temperature of the earth. Let's see if any of these sound like things I've told you before. So this would be in the topic of climate change. Did you know according to Antonio Graceffo that 96% of US temperature stations fail to meet NOAA's own siting standards and are often surrounded by essentially heat islands. Did you know that is 96% of them don't meet the standard? I didn't know that. I knew a lot of them didn't, but I didn't know it was 96%. So that's not 96% who were by heat islands, but just 96% that for whatever reason don't meet the standard.

Then did you know that those thermometers transitioned from mercury to digital sensors between 1980 and the 2000s and that that same period where they took out one kind of thermometer and put in another introduced what he calls discontinuities in the data and that happens to be the period of accelerated warming. So the very period that they were replacing the technology they used to measure the temperature, that's the period that the temperature suddenly went up. Okay. Why were they replacing the old thermometers? Was it because they were totally accurate? No.

Then how about this? The early measurements were geographically concentrated in Europe and North America, ignoring vast regions, especially the 71% of the planet covered by oceans. So until recently, the temperature of the oceans were ignored for climate change. The oceans, the world is mostly ocean. And then measurement errors of plus or minus half a degree centigrade often exceeded the very climate signals being used to justify the policies. So in other words even where they found some warming it was below the level that your accuracy could have told you is real if that makes sense.

Worse still, says Antonio, much of the raw data has been adjusted or homogenized. Do you know what that means? When the data from the temperature sensors was homogenized. Have you ever heard that term? When I tell you what it means, you're just going to shake your head. You go, "Oh God. God, what a world. What a world." Homogenized means made up. It means for example if you had one temperature station that had failed you know let's say a car ran into it and it wasn't available instead of saying oh we don't have that data they would look at other measurements and then they would look at what that used to say and then they would estimate what that probably was the temperature in that measuring device that didn't exist. So homogenized means somebody used assumptions to figure out what the temperature was. So assumptions. Okay.

Now those are the problems that you know about. We haven't even talked about the models. Do you remember what I keep telling you about the temperature models for climate change? So I used to say there's no way that they're accurate. And I would try to make my argument. And now I just say this. Wait till you find out about the climate models because you will find out there. There's no chance that you won't find out. And when you find out, you're going to say, "God, that Scott Adams guy was on this early." Yeah. There is no way that the complicated multivariable climate models are even a little bit reliable. There is not really any way that's possible. But you've been told, the