"Howdy Doody + GOP Cowards +The K-Bomb= Blue Ripple, Red Revenge"

I'll deal with the title topics in a few paragraphs. Yes, last night was gut wrenching, nail biting and all those other cliches. We got a split decision in both results as well as polling relevance. I'm gonna start with FL, it was a roller coaster ride!
WTH were Floridians thinking, voting for a corrupt, Bernie Sanders loving, Marxist mayor of a high crime failed city?! I was calling Gillum Obama Lite but he's actually far more radical than Obama, or at least dumb enough to reveal it. It's not that the other option was a hold your nose case like Lex Luthor, the GOP's Senate candidate. DeSantis is a young, highly educated veteran with a terrific record, but that means nothing to the zealots of identity politics. They were willing to overlook Gillum's scandals & baggage for the same PC cop out that put Obama in the WH twice. Had he won, we'd be looking at a constant battle over confiscatory taxation and choking regulation between the Gov. and GOP controlled state legislature. The fact it was so close is testament to my admonition that Miami (more on our races later) is the next L.A. and FL is the next Mexifornia if we don't control our borders. The Scott-Nelson race was as close as Scott's elections always have been. This is also a reflection of how divided we are. Any of you who remember my past blogs know I'm no fan of Scott, to put it mildly. He's certainly been no friend of dentistry and I think last night was a win-win for us. He got rid of the doddering, do nothing, liberal rubber stamp voter, Yahoo Nelson. It was high time we put the old coot out to pasture! In typical classlessness, Yahoo refuses to concede, so we'll be put through a recount, which won't save him. I say win-win because Scott, in addition to booting Yahoo, can't do any damage to dentistry in DC and will only help FL.
 The problem FL has, as well as AZ, CO, GA NV, and NC, is due in great part because liberalism is a mental disorder and it can and sadly does cross state lines. I know some of you may find that harsh and a few might even be triggered, so I'll explain. Voters in blue states flee the places they can no longer afford to live in and it's due to the multi tiered taxation and over regulation implemented by the ultra libs they elected into office. Then they come to the above listed red states but bring their liberalism with them and proceed to vote for the same crap! That's how CA, NY, NJ, IL, & MA refugees have ruined states I listed above. It would be nice if red states could pass laws that those who come from blue states can't vote for 5 years, LOL, which could never happen. The only other group who exhibits the same mental disorder of leaving a place they can't live in any longer, only to embrace and try to impose the same insanity in their new home is guess who? That's right, Muslims!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6QC_qEyl0Q&t=61s
 Now about the title and its meaning. Howdy Doody is what I call Paul Ryan. He was a wimp when he let the obnoxious, boor, Bite Me, walk all over him in their veep debate and nothing changed when he replaced Boo Hoo Boehner as Speaker. Ryan is a bean counter nerd, not a true leader who'll fight or inspire others to do the same. He presided over a spineless GOP House who never funded the wall and never repealed Obamacare in the 2 years they had total power. I won't miss Howdy Doody one bit.

GOP cowards refers to the fact 40+ GOP House members were so intimidated by the fake news of the vaunted blue wave that was gonna sweep them off the political landscape, as far back as January, that they decided to retire. Believe me, no career politician ever leaves to spend more time with their family. When you remove the most potent weapon a politician has, incumbency, it makes holding                                                              that seat much more difficult.
                     The House losses were far                             more about Republicans who                         cut and run, than they were a                         referendum on Trump. If that's                       not true, then why did nearly                         all of the senators Trump                               campaigned for win?


The K-Bomb, of course, is Justice Brett Kavanaugh. At least 4 Dem senators who opposed him lost and possibly another one will also lose. Why do I use the term blue ripple? Well, by  comparison, Obama lost 63 House seats & 6 Senate seat in his first midterm in 2010. Trump's 27 House losses are <1/2 of that and he gained 5 Senate seats. Look at the obscene amounts of $ pumped in from all over to bolster Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, Kristen Sinema, Andrew Gillum & Bob Menendez. The only one who survived was scumbag Menendez, and that's in the cesspool of NJ. With the Senate gains, Trump will no longer be held hostage by RINO turncoats, Murkowski and Collins, though Collins really stepped up with Kavanaugh. There is a chance Sinema pulls some maneuvers to magically "find" votes and eke out a win, McSally had better lawyer up to avoid her win being stolen.
 Just like before, Obama was also a big loser. Every candidate he stumped for got whooped, LOL! Contrast that to Trump's coat tails and it's easy to see that Trump's been living rent free in Barry's head for 2 years. If we didn't have enough good news, impotent Jeff Sessions, just resigned his post as AG, about damn time!!
 Locally, out DHAT nemesis won reelection and  doubt he's gonna stop his well funded (by Pew) crusade. We're going to have to prepare ourselves for a long, bitter fight and defeat this in committee, just like we did last session. This is a long fight and has been fought for years in other states, we need to have resolve. 2 Miami districts were part of the flip that changed control of the House. It disgusts me that a corrupt Clinton minion like Donna Shalala will go to the Congress. Her record as UM president was atrocious but that didn't matter to block voting liberals who've turned a once solid red district liberal. It didn't help for the GOP to run a pretty lady whose biggest claim to fame was TV reportage, as her opponent. Carlos Curbelo also lost, he's an empty suit RINO who I won't miss. If we were gonna lose the House anyway, we might as well have the benefit of this loss taking him out.
 In closing, this loss can be a gift and set up a win in 2020. My reason for believing it is fourfold. 1) It's much easier to whine and accuse than it is to legislate. The Dems, who've had nothing but hate & anger to sell, will now have to actually propose solutions. 2) The voters who elected those new Dems to office do no want them to devote their time and efforts to endless investigations and subpoenas, they want them do address the issues they see as problems. If the Dems put old battle axes like Pelosi, Nadler, Waters and Pencil Neck Schiff in charge of committees and they go for impeachment and confrontation, they'll pay dearly in 2020. The Dems are famous for over reaching, as they did with Kavanaugh, and paying the price later. 3) House Dems have the Senate, now with a bigger GOP majority, that can stall or stop anything they put forward that's seen as abusive. 4) There will be an old versus young power struggle between the House Dems. The young newbies have no appetite or patience for the long, drawn out ways of their elders. Let's not forget that these elders were the ones who lost the House 8 years ago and only regained it now due to the new batch of young members. Many of these younguns campaigned on opposing Pelosi as Speaker. If they support her, their voters will be pissed and they could wind up 1-termers. If they oppose her and Pelosi prevails, they'll be punished. It's gonna take some time for things to sort out but I believe things were far less catastrophic for the GOP than they could have been or the left wanted them to be.

"Here Come Da Justice!"

Okay, it was originally "here come da judge!" when Flip Wilson did his act, but that judge is now Justice Kavanaugh!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIcKkKID8k
Before I delve into that, I wanna talk about our recent trip to Europe.
 We hadn't been there since 2001, mostly because they've succumbed to Islam and Euro leaders are unwilling to protect their people and tourists, as years of terror attacks in theaters, public streets, stadiums, magazine offices and markets have shown. We drove through 3 countries and there were no passport controls, armed authorities or any other means of stopping terrorists from using the EU like tourists do, but for evil intentions. We went first to Germany to visit our nephew, then Austria and finished in Switzerland. We had a great time, liked most of what we saw and noticed some improvements. Smoking is now verboten in most eating establishments, thank God! I did notice a staggering % of young people still smoke, not very encouraging, but outside. Driving is much more fun and safer than here. I was doing 85 m.p.h. (highway) in my SUV rental and "they was passin' me like I was standin' still" (paraphrased line from a classic car song, enjoy!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2b0Xi84dYY&list=RDh2b0Xi84dYY&start_radio=1
 The most  aggressive drivers (which I liked) drove Audis. Fuel, even diesel, costs $5.75/gal. in Austria and $6.50 in Switzerland, when you convert currencies and metric to English, crazy! The German govt. has no respect for its highway drivers and a 90-120 minute drive from Frankfurt to Nurnberg took nearly 4 hours. They have tons of infrastructure $ and toss sops to their road construction unions, tying up endless tracts of highways. When the same roadway is repaired every year, something's not right. I found the food (especially desserts) and beers terrific! I had more types of beers and tones than a shade guide could accommodate. The hotels in Europe are still well below ours in size, comfort and amenities, for the most part, when you compare price with value. Europeans simply don't mind a phone booth sized shower stall where you bang your elbows and knees and I think it's because showering regularly is still not a big priority. They also charge you to use public toilets, this in nations where the govt. runs everything! You'd better go get change before you find out you've gotta go. I love that they did away with 1 & 2 Euro bills for coins, like Canada. That said, Euro bills are weird, sized larger to smaller from the 100Eu-5Eu, tough to fit in our wallets. I guess Stevie Wonder has an easy time finding bills.
Everything is far more expensive in Europe, especially Switzerland. I wonder how they get by and how high their salaries are? I guess it's why they live in small flats and use so much public transportation. The Tyrol is gorgeous and I highly recommend it. We loved the Lufthansa Airbus A-380-800 we flew in! Sorry to say it but Airbus is taking Boeing to school.
 As for the Kavanaugh circus, none of it surprised me. The Dems lost in 2016, still can't accept it, and now are losing the only place they can impose their agenda on the voters who vehemently oppose it-the courts. Ford (the nutty professor) is mentally unstable and was scripted, rehearsed and highly paid to deliver her inane rant. Here's a great imitation of her, positively brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY19q3nxSpQ
 Any girl who at age 15 goes up to a room with 2 boys, is probably not going to check out their Matchbox cars or video games, assuming it even happened. The way the GOP treated her with kid gloves, which really pissed me off, probably worked by denying the feminazis one more whining point. They didn't even ask her why she felt the need to delete 3 years of yearbook posts? I can tell you no good girl who accuses bad boys of abusing her has to delete accounts of binge drinking, passing out and the power these girls had over young boys using sex as leverage. Sounds like toxic feminism run amok. The bedrock American principle of innocent till proven guilty, which sets us aside from most of the world, including Europe, was swept aside by the anti-Kavanaugh fascists who placed putting his scalp on their belt above all else.
 This was also about abortion, the altar upon which the left worships. The paid rent-a-mobs, assault on lawmakers anywhere they stand or eat, calls for conservatives to die and repealing the electoral vote system are symptoms of a political party and movement coming totally unhinged- I love it! The blatant hypocrisy is legion, and no surprise. These blue state Senators & their minions are the same folks who didn't believe Juanita Broadrrick, who reported Bill Clinton for raping her within the hour, with a torn bloody lip and his DNA inside her, but believe the loony professor with zero evidence, selective amnesia and 35 years later. They had no problem with Teddy Kennedy, who left Mary Jo Kopechne to die of slow asphyxiation in a sunken car, all to avoid letting cops know he drove off that bridge cuz he was drunk. He was also a serial groper of women in DC clubs and restaurants but the Dems anointed him the Lion of the Senate.
http://hillbuzz.org/will-they-be-serving-waitress-sandwiches-at-ted-kennedys-wake
This hypocrisy includes the fact many in the GOP voted for Obama's 2 justices but no such reciprocation was offered to them by the uber partisan Dems. This is war, my friends!
 The left has proven by actions (mostly inaction), not talk, that they don't really give a damn about minorities, women, or any other victim group they use and discard once it's no longer election time.
I admire Joe Manchin for having the 'nads to cross his party, not that running in a state Trump won by 42% left him much choice. It remains to be seen what electoral price the other red state Dems, including our own Yahoo Nelson, will pay for their "no" vote in Nov. I predict 2 of them will lose, we shall see soon.
 As for dental issues, it looks like our old DHAT nemeses (including a new Speaker of the House who seems to have no problem with DHATs) will be back and their underwriters, Pew & Kelloggs, will be digging deep into their $ to help them. Our FDA had better be ready to play smash mouth, dental pun intended. More on that as we near the new session in Tallahassee. Everyone please make sure to get out and vote, it's never been more crucial!

"Things Are Heating Up!"

Yes, it continues to be a real scorcher! I've been late in my my posts, so here goes. Last week we attended a Congreso Dental held by CEOLA-HELO, something I hadn't done in ages. They're the local Latin dental study club and often hold events jointly with LAODI, a similar group with more focus on implant topics. Their courses are usually delivered in Spanish and they have translation for English speaking lecturers. I found the courses to be from very good to excellent and got plenty of usable pearls for my practice. There was a good variety of topics from cosmetic, implants, endo, materials, etc. the food was quite good and so was our room in the Doral Intercontinental. I commend CEOLA-HELO president, Dr. Libia Rios, for an excellent job with what I know from past events to be an onerous undertaking. This event is held every other year, probably a more viable option with the 2-year license renewal process. Our own SFDDA had an annual meeting every year and it fizzled. Without getting into the how & why weeds, I believe SFDDA needs to look at a similar model and if we don't, we risk allowing our society to continue on a dwindling spiral. Even though there were many no shows, the Congreso was well attended and that tells me members still want in person meetings, as long as the speakers and formats are top notch. That said, members also have to step up and show up! We whine about not getting our money's worth but often fail to partake of the many benefits our membership offers. I definitely plan on continuing my attendance to CEOLA-HELO events and will likely join this group I was once president of.
 On the dental political front, it appears our enemy in the FL House (whose name shall go unmentioned) who sponsored the DHAT bill will be reelected easily. I've never seen so many signs for 1 candidate and next to none for his primary opponent. It would be hilarious if he won big next Tuesday and lost to a Dem in Nov., the district may have shifted a bit, but I wouldn't bank on it. We have no absolute proof he plans to continue his crusade for the DHAT fiasco, but he's been very evasive when asked, not unusual for a lawyer legislator. There's no question Pew and/or Kellogg foundations greased this guy from day 1 and he suddenly became the male St. Apolonia. At least our idiot Gov. will be gone and may even serve a useful purpose, to unseat Yahoo Nelson for US Senate. Scott can't screw up dental law from DC and it would be a flipped seat. Seems to me 2 years ago we were talking about the GOP's 2 to 1 edge for 2018 in Sen. electoral contests and their chances of flipping 7-8 seats. Now we're talking about the GOP maybe losing the House and holding the Senate, what the hell?! In the Sen., it comes down to RINO cowards who wanna be all things to all people, especially when you look at spineless sops like Flake and Cochran.
 In the House, it's much of the same but without the 2 to 1 numerical factor. Look no further than FL 26, our own pathetic Carlos Curbelo, what a wuss! He was recently voted #1 in a list of the top 10 RINO cowards by a conservative blog. As much as I don't want the pathetic, spineless GOP lose the House to an even more dangerous Dem party, part of me would love to see this weasel get his ass whooped. FL 27's candidate roster looks like the bar scene in the first Star Wars, what a mish mosh. Sadly, it's probably gonna come down to $, as usual. I don't doubt Ros-Lehtinen chose to retire because she knew she'd lose this time. That district is getting too infested with out of state liberal idiots. I call them idiots because they flee blue states they can no longer afford to live in due to policies enacted by the lawmakers they elected, only to bring that same liberalism with them to red states and proceed to screw them up, too! There's also the issue of Hispanics who have no clue about American exceptionalism born of hard work, they want a nanny state and vote Dem. I've predicted Miami is the next L.A. and FL is the next Mexifornia years ago.
 The Russian hacking witch hunt is fizzling and people are getting sick and tired of Bob Mueller's obnoxious mug and his endless pursuit of nothing other than to getting Trump. They throw a new manufactured scandal person at Trump each week. First Stormy Daniels and now Omarosa whatever the hell her last name is. Trump brought some of this on himself by his penchant for hiring unqualified, unstable cretins to his cabinet.
 Midterms are more important than ever, I know we say that all the time but these really are. If the Dems take the House, we're looking at Leatherface for Speaker, though she may get strong opposition from younger commies who are pissed at her for the damage she's done to their party. Either way, they'd make immediate gridlock and be obsessed with impeaching Trump, though they have no case, it's what their donors demand and nobody's gonna talk them out of that. This will be a turnout battle, no one's gonna change anyone's mind at this late stage. If the GOP loses, they will have brought this on themselves.

"100% Dental Issue- Legislative Accountability"

That's right, my friends, this issue is only going out to dentists and has particular emphasis for those of you who serve as FDA delegates. Since I don't send B-L to the entire HOD list, please share it with any delegates in your district who may not otherwise see it. Now, let's get started.
 My last 2 posts I've been pounding the issue of legislators who tell us they support our issues, smile to our faces as they take our PAC checks, then turn around and stab us in the back when it comes time to vote. No organization can ever bat 1.000 but this session was unprecedented in the way we were both abandoned and sandbagged with that loathsome opioid bill. I mentioned that I'd send a resolution to my delegation in the hopes they'd bring it to the upcoming HOD. In the past few weeks, I've gotten plenty of feedback from various members and FDA staff which I'll share with all of you. They've mostly been reasons why it would be a bad idea to hold legislators accountable and deny $ to those who betray us and give that as a surplus to the $ given to those who help us. I will list these objections and give my response.
 1) "We're an organization of many issues and cannot get tunnel vision on just one". Okay, can someone please tell me which one of our many issues has budged an inch in the last 2 legislative sessions? That aside, we do have many issues but most pale in comparison to the big ones that can destroy the way we practice dentistry and endanger the public.
2) "A legislator can betray us on one bill, then they might turn around and support us on another". Please remind me when that happened in the last 20 years? I recall we have our allies, we have our adversaries and the twain rarely or never cross paths. I can tell you we've had legislators that were loaded for bear on issues like allowing Cuban trained dentists to sit for ADEX with zero U.S. training, forcing every dental lab in FL to hire a CDT and implementing DHATs. Not one of those ever did squat to support us on anything else.
3) "Assigning a poor letter grade to any legislator is humiliating and will anger them". I agree and don't advocate that in any way. My resolution only asks for 2 lists to be published, one that lists those who received PAC $ and the other that lists those who voted to support our bills. These are purely informative and its up to the members to use their common sense to figure out what that means.
4) "If we talk about reducing $ contributions, we may lose $ from frustrated members who might feel we are ineffective" They already KNOW we ARE ineffective and their frustration is reflected in the fact we're $50,000 down in donations this year. That cat's been out of the bag long ago.
5)"FDAPAC and the HOD are arms length, separate entities for legal protection reasons and the HOD cannot make the FDAPAC do anything their chair and voting members don't wish to do". If that's indeed the case, the HOD should certainly be able to take up the topic and make recommendations to the PAC about this issue. When I was a delegate (since 1994) I also proudly served for many years as my district rep. in both the GAC and then FLADPAC. Folks, we are one the same and it's not right that 10-12 PAC members should be insulated and immune from HOD input that's the consensus of 102 dedicated members who give up their time to serve and know these issues.
6)"There might be delegates who are vehemently opposed to any kind of PAC $ efforts and they could demagogue the issue during the HOD, which would discourage others from contributing". If 102 delegates and trustees can't stand up to any negative discourse, offer contrary testimony and convince the delegation of what's right and wrong, then we may as well throw in the towel and give up!
7)"The drop off in $ is not only due to #4, it's also a case of older members who used to contribute retiring and younger ones who replace them who don't chip in". I agree and will cover that next.
 Now I'm addressing our younger members, whether you are grassroots dentists or involved with leadership. If you're serving the FDA in any capacity, thank you and God bless you! If you're not, don't expect a handful of your over worked pals and us old folks to carry your water forever. I know your demographic has very high loan debt and is often unable to even aspire to having your own practices. Many GPs are working in 2-3 offices or McDentist, while even some specialists are forced to be itinerant and travel to various offices. All that said, life is never fair and you're the future of our profession. That means you need to get involved with advocacy, which involves getting to know your legislators, building relationships with them and their staff, signing up to be an LCD (Legislative Contact Dentist) and, yes, writing checks to help those who help us. The fact many LCDs cover several legislators tells you we have too few willing to work and too many on the sidelines. I also know that, on top of your $ situation, you may not feel encouraged to write checks that go in vain. That's precisely why I want the FDA to get a handle on this problem so you'll feel validated and motivated to chip in and pull your weight. If you don't do these things, nothing will improve and the likelihood of a better professional life and future for you will be far less likely.
 Let me describe the current state of things in our FDA with respect to this issue. Our leadership is having to consult legal council to determine if the HOD discussing something as ridiculously simple as publishing 2 lists in Capital Report would put both the FDA and FDAPAC in legal jeopardy! While we walk on eggshells, afraid of our own shadows, our opposition can get up before House & Senate committees and lie through their teeth about how caring and altruistic they are versus how self serving we are. We don't dare do some dirt digging to properly identify the fact Pew, Kellogg and their minions stand to make $ millions when entities are set up to hire DHATs and they get to stick their big spoons in. Former dental deans-turned-shills, who stand to get sweetheart positions or contract deals if this were to ever become law, are never exposed or questioned because we're the good guys and that would be mean. Meanwhile, the same legislators who took our $ and used our good will as Charmin rushed to judgement and sandbagged us with an onerous, unfunded mandate in the form of that asinine opioid abuse bill passed with last minute haste and no debate as the fix was clearly in. This is what we're fighting, my friends, and we have an organization that has to ask permission to breathe. Our PAC has no wins in the recent past and seems content to keep using the same old playbook which no longer works. Is it any wonder we're way down in PAC $? I can only hope some of you in FDA delegations around the state will take up this mantle and make the HOD at least discuss it and inform FDAPAC of the wishes of what is the most representative body of our association. I also hope our PAC is willing to hear this and make the necessary changes to how we allocate our $. Otherwise, they're gonna find themselves all alone in a conference room, looking at each other and wondering why they're the only ones who are writing checks.
 It's clear to me that the way we used to approach dental advocacy is no longer working and we need to use our $ more strategically and effectively. Then and only then will members regain faith in what we're doing and do their part to help out. With that in mind, I urge all of you delegates to make sure this issue is front and center in next week's HOD. If you're a grassroots FDA member, please pay attention to this issue, talk to your local colleagues about it, ask your leadership all the questions you feel are germane to the problem and stay in the loop. Like an abcess, ignoring this won't make it go away and the only cure is involvement. If any of you wish to discuss this topic with me or have any questions, please feel free to contact me by text, call or email. Thank you all!

"The Coup Unravels & A Dental Report Card"

Hello to all of you, I hope all the moms out there had a great Mother's Day and spent time with your families waiting on you, for a change. My family met as usual and there were 3 generations of moms present. It's been a while, let's get to the first topic.
 The movement conspiring to remove Trump from office is unprecedented and vicious beyond compare. I recall how many liberals I talked to about my concerns with Obama in 2009 told me he'd just been sworn in and we needed to be fair and give him a chance. Needless to say, the left has given no such quarter to President Trump and neither have those friends of mine- something I've rubbed their noses in mercilessly. The man's biggest sin was winning the election and the other side simply cannot and will not accept that. I've never seen a POTUS who's had to fight the media, opposing party and even the globalist, turncoat sellouts in his own party to this degree. All the while, Trump's implementing his agenda, dismantling Obama's disastrous policies here and abroad and making the USA a super power again that our enemies will respect and fear.
 We see Americans detained in N. Korea coming home, black conservatives daring to speak out against the Democrat plantation and jobs we were told were gone for good back in record numbers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/business/economy/jobs-report.html
You know it's bad for the left when even the NY Slimes publishes this piece. Candice Owens is a breath of fresh air and serious threat to the poverty pimps who peddle race for votes.
https://townhall.com/notebook/bethbaumann/2017/12/20/black-conservative-drops-a-truth-bomb-about-racism-in-america-n2425320
 We've withdrawn from the ridiculous, anti-american Paris accords and Obama Iran Nuke treason. That deal was never a treaty nor was it ever ratified or supported by most Americans. This is a long read but absolutely nukes (pun intended) the entire crock of BS that Iran deal was.
https://nypost.com/2016/05/05/playing-the-press-and-the-public-for-chumps-to-sell-the-iran-deal/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Notice, BTW, most of our European allies have been quick to jump onto our side? I guess they've realized siding with the world's most prolific sponsor of terrorism over us is not a good idea.
 The FBI placed a mole in the Trump campaign and is getting busted for it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-10/wsj-fbi-hid-mole-trump-campaign
 The same exposure and debunking applies to the fake dossier, bought and paid for by the Hillary team, that was the excuse for this entire sham to begin with. The Dems wanted to drag all of this out, confident their willing accomplice media would give them cover. Now they no longer wanna do that as their internal polling and hacks are telling them to STFU about impeachment and Russian collusion. None of this will be dealt with anytime soon unless and until Trump replaces the hapless imbecile (more like DC Swamp Critter) he chose for AG, Jeff Sessions. It also gives me great pleasure to know that the NRA & Laura Ingraham Show boycotts organized by useful idiot David Camera Hogg and his merry band of flunkies is getting old, tedious and has backfired. Just ask Yeti coolers. Now about that report card.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28958/istandwithlaura-backlash-builds-against-companies-james-barrett
 Last post I described in detail my disgust with how flagrantly many legislators, including some we've been able to rely on in past sessions, smiled in our faces, took our PAC $ then royally screwed us. Most offensive of all was the 11th hour bomb in the form of the mandatory opioid course we can't even administer in house, like we do most other mandatory courses. I want nothing short of a ban on any contributions for any legislator who does this to us even once. I got some backlash about the message that might send to the grassroots members and the effect it could have on their willingness to chip in. I think nothing can have a more chilling effect on contributions than the fact we keep giving and they keep shafting us. This is especially true of members who don't follow the issues as closely as we in leadership do and are less likely to navigate the political weeds, devil in the details, etc. that we contend with on a regular basis. I'm sure all of you are familiar with some type of congressional report card, be it left or right organizations from Planned Parenthood to the NRA. If we wanna be extra careful and not just publish an excrement list with the names of those who betrayed us, great, I get it. Here's my proposal. We publish in every Capital Report during legislative session 2 lists, A & B. List A should read "The following legislators received support from FDAPAC during this session" List B should read "The following legislators supported the FDA's bills in committee during this session". If any legislator on list A does not appear on list B, they are cut off from any future FDAPAC $ until they prove they can be trusted again. I will be drafting a resolution for our FDA delegation to bring to the upcoming HOD. If we can't take a stand against this abuse from legislators, we deserve to get rolled every session.

"Einstein's Def. of Dental Advocacy"

Hi, my friends, hope you're all enjoying the nice weather and Easter week. Before I get to the titular topic, I wanted to thank all of you who came out for MOM in Ft. Myers. It was the first time I took part and it was very fulfilling. I did restorative and my better half did patient ambassador. I hope we can do as good a job when MOM comes to S. Fla. in 2021 as they did in Ft. Myers. I suggested to our GAO that we take tons of photos of the most bombed out, diseased patients we treated. These are the same folks who will show up to the govt. run dental settings and they have very serious problems that require very capable clinicians. We need to prepare PPS shows to use in the committee hearings so we can rub their noses in it. I wanna see the DHAT shills tell us these cases can be done by therapists!
The title refers to the way we've been doing our advocacy in Tallahassee and the lack of success we've seen the last few years.
 Let's start with this past session, there was one great accomplishment that came out of it-we stopped the DHAT issue (including that BS study) for this year! I know that's something to celebrate, though we also know these folks aren't going away. There are states that have been fighting this crap for 8 years! We can never rest on our laurels and assume we won't be dealing with this again, we will. Now let's look at what we didn't get.
 We failed to get loan repayment, which we know is a major part of the true solution to the access to care issue. We also didn't get funding for hiring 2 full time staff to vet and assign Donated Dental Services patients to we who treat them pro bono. In other words, the state won't fork over $150,000 to make it easier for us to give away $2 million in free care, incredibly stupid and very telling as to how much they really wanna solve access to care. I find the language in the last (Sine Die) Capitol Report a bit soft peddle, when it comes to the excuse they gave the useless RPOF. It read
 "Due to the tragedy in Parkland, the Legislature also had to reprioritize initiatives originally outlined in the budget and place additional focus on addressing issues surrounding school safety, mental health and gun regulations...". They didn't HAVE to do this, they CHOSE to, the same way they passed those ridiculous gun laws that won't make anyone any safer but will deprive lawful Floridians of some of their 2A rights. It's pretty pathetic when our elected representatives are so damned spineless that they rush to pass bad public policy to assuage a bunch of whiny teenagers who've been usurped as useful idiots by the anti-gun left! At the same time, look at how fast the lame stream media dropped the school shooting in MD, wanna know why? Because, it doesn't advance their anti-gun narrative, that's why! Unlike the Broward Cowards Dept., this SRO took initiative once notified about the shooter and took the shooter out! The difference was staggering, only 2 students shot, sadly the 16-year-old girl died, but it wasn't 17 dead like Parkland.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/great-mills-high-school-shooting/index.html
Contrast that to SRO Peterson standing outside of the very building where kids were being gunned down for 4 minutes. He lied when he said he thought the shooter was outside, as 911 audio of his voice proves.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/03/09/new-recording-reveals-disgraced-broward-deputy-knew-shooter-was-inside-school-and-told-cops-to-stay-outside-611768#
 Maybe these young imbeciles running around DC and elsewhere with the "NRA blood on your hands" signs need a slight edit to read "SRO Scot Peterson, BSO & FBI- Blood on your hands!"
 If we look at our failures in the last 3 sessions, it's always something, isn't it? Last year we actually got loan repayment to the finish line, only to be vetoed by our idiot governor, the same one who hastily signed the bad gun bills. The year before that the RPOF, who can't find its own buttocks with both hands and a flashlight, failed to pass a budget, in a state with 1-party control of everything. This year it was "the children", always some excuse or another. Personally, I think we were screwed either way, shooting or not. I say that because the chair of the House committee that would have funded our bill has openly declared his opposition to the concept.  I'm glad Rep. Jason Brodeur is termed out this year and hope he does NOT get into the FL Senate.
 So, now let's talk about Einstein. I'm sure all of you know the definition, do the same thing over and over but expect to get a different outcome. That's the FDA and dental advocacy and it needs to stop! I know this was easily the nastiest session where a record number of legislators took our PAC $ and used our bills for Charmin. It also means we have no guarantees it won't keep happening. We need to STOP giving a single penny to ANYONE who we've supported and has betrayed us. I want the GAO to publish names, enough pussy footing around! If they don't wanna make a list and indicate it contains the names of the traitors, fine, there's another way to do it. We publish a list that's titled "the following legislators received FDAPAC support this legislative session". Then publish another list right next to it that's titled "the following legislators voted in support of our bills". If anyone whose name appears in column A ain't in column B, we know who they are and what they did. From that day forward, that turncoat doesn't get any more PAC $! The Capitol Report always has various lists for various purposes, these 2 new ones would have a great purpose and save us $ or allow us to give it to true allies.
 I was warned about doing this and unintended consequences in the form of members realizing we're ineffective and not contributing. For God's sake, WE ARE INEFFECTIVE and it's no secret! That's why more members don't chip in or only do so in small amounts, who can blame them? I'm not suggesting we discourage members from giving, we just let them know their $ won't be wasted on our enemies. That knowledge, if anything, should encourage more member contributions, not less. If the FDA won't do this, we have no one to blame but ourselves when members clutch their credit cards and we keep getting punked in Tallahassee. Enough, already!

"St. Valentine's Day Massacre- A Tale of Identity Politics"

It's been nearly 3 weeks since a monster whose name I will not repeat (I'll call him the shooter) took the lives of 17 innocent people. The original St. Valentine's Day Massacre was in 1929, for those of you with historical curiosity. That event, made famous in many old B&W movies, resulted in gangsters killing 7 rival gangsters, versus the 17 innocent students and faculty killed in Parkland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre
I wanna go over the fallout from this recent event and talk about the many ways it could have and should have been prevented, as well as the ridiculous wrong targeting going on by the clueless on the anti 2A left, who think they finally got the act of barbarism (no, I won't call it a tragedy, that would be plane crash or fire) that's gonna serve their purpose to fulfill their true goal. That goal is the total prohibition of firearms & eventual confiscation of any in existence, a la Australia. I'll explain the identity politics in the title later on, I promise. The Aussie comparison is absurd, they have a much smaller, far more monolithic population than ours. It's not about picking which immigrant group or ethnicity commits more crime, it's purely a numbers deal. Every group has mostly decent, hard working folks who wanna improve their lives, as well as shiftless slackers and criminal vermin who come to new nations to either fleece the welfare systems or commit violent crimes. The US takes in more diverse groups and in higher numbers than any nation, which is why we have so much exposure to the negative parts of those immigrant groups wreaking havoc.
2 of the biggest lies parroted by the idiot students, their parents and the accomplice media are that the NRA is responsible for this shooting and they own Congress. No NRA member has ever committed a mass shooting and the NRA trains cops, has firearm safety programs and helps schools to better protect their structures and students, none of which these drones care one whit about. As for owning Congress, the NRA spent $200 million over 20 years, versus the $1.7 BILLION the lawmakers got last year, alone!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/nra-gun-control-florida.html
Contrary to the lies the left propagates, it is they, via their unions, who wield the big $.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/seven-unions-top-kochs-in-super-pac-spending-and-thats-just-the-money-we-know-about/
 Let's start with the obvious, gun control has never stopped gun violence in America, see Chicago & Baltimore. Outlawing a particular firearm or magazine size doesn't work, either. The San Bernardino terrorist couple had pairs of 30-round mags duct taped together in a state that has already outlawed them years ago. Can you think of nations with tighter gun control than the UK, France, Germany & Belgium. There were more gun deaths from mass shootings there in 2015 than in the US during all of Obama's tenure!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/03/facts-shoot-holes-in-obamas-claim-that-us-is-only-host-to-mass-killings.html
Another inconvenient truth is the USA ranks a paltry 11th in gun deaths per capita and most of the nations above us have very tough gun laws.
https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
I won't go on with more facts, it makes no difference to the ignorant, agenda-driven left. They don't know what they don't know, they don't wanna know and they don't give a damn!
 When I first heard the news in Parkland I was sad but not surprised. I figured it was some disgruntled student who should never have gotten that weapon, be it from a careless relative or an actual legal purchase, and I was correct. My sorrow and empathy for those poor students was short lived when I saw how quickly they were being made tools of the anti-gun left and their stupid parents, who should know better, were only too happy to allow it. When Kate Steinle was murdered by a POS who'd been deported 6 times, I don't remember her family making a media circus out of it, they made their appearances with quiet dignity. The same was true of poor little Jessica Lunsford, right here in FL, whose dad was nothing but gracious and polite. Contrast that to the Town Mob CNN (who else?) organized 1 week later. I commend Marco Rubio & Dana Loesch for taking the heat and standing up for common sense and the rule of law, more than I can say for the hapless, bumbling FBI, who were MIA. Those kids were disrespectful little pups and the parents who lost their kids were downright disgraceful, they didn't want any solutions, they just wanted to blame & humiliate those who had no fault in the act. To the father (Fred) who chastised Rubio over the "weapon of choice" (AR-15) I say this. There was a recent massacre in NYC where 12 cyclists in a bike lane were mowed down by an Islamic terrorist who used an SUV, there have been many more of these vehicle attacks with higher loss of life in Europe. Would Fred ban all SUVs? What about that hysterical mom who yelled at Dana Loesch about the fact we only had muskets when the 2A was first ratified? Well, if my math is correct, we had the 1A (which protects free speech) before the 2A. I'm pretty sure Al Gore hadn't gotten around to inventing the internet in 1789 and I'm really sure there were no cell phones, laptops, PCs or social media. Far more kids take their own lives from online bullying every year than die of gunfire, would hysterical mom ban the internet, cell phones and social media?
https://nobullying.com/bullying-suicide-statistics/
 Now let's talk about the real causes of this atrocity. Aside from the guiltiest of all, the shooter, this was a massive failure on many fronts.
1) When seconds count, police are minutes away, now add to that a school security cam feed with a 20-minute delay, WTF?!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-shooting-coral-springs-video-20180222-story.html
 My $25 camera in my front desk area is live, includes HD & audio and I can access it with my cell phone, for God's sake.
2) The same Chicago based Promise Program ( thank you Obama & Holder!) that failed to report the theft crimes of Trayvon Martin, who was allowed to travel to Sanford and get shot, was also instrumental in covering for this shooter. He'd been expelled for threatening his girlfriend's new boyfriend with a knife in school. She dumped him because he physically abused her. Had his record been made public, he would never have passed the background check to buy the rifle.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/02/27/promise-program-exposed-by-this-show/
3) There were 4 armed BSO officers at the school and they stood back and did nothing, as kids and faculty were getting gunned down! The most spineless of them all, SRO Scot Peterson, used the pathetic excuse that he did no wrong and waited outside the classroom because he believed the gunfire sounds were coming from outside, ridiculous! BTW, if he felt he did no wrong, why did he quickly resign?http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/23/report-four-sheriff-scott-israels-deputies-waited-outside-douglas-high-school-shooting/
4) The hapless FBI ignored or failed to act on a deluge of calls and reports, even from people close to this monster who knew him well and what he was planning to do.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-17/florida-parkland-shooting-fbi-failed-to-act-on-gunman-tip/9457414
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/red-flags-warnings-cries-for-help-how-a-system-built-to-stop-the-parkland-school-shooter-broke-down/2018/02/23/3ccff52c-18d9-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.ebcfd936a1e7
If he'd made any threats on Obama, he woulda been rounded up in a jiffy. Look what happened to that idiot who made that awful online documentary the Dems dishonestly attributed as an excuse for Benghazi.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/hillarys_worst_crime_was_against_the_filmmaker.html
 The students and parents were organized and made into useful idiot tools by various left wing, anti-gun groups. Any sympathy they had is long gone and they've become fair game. The idea the left pushes that these kids and their Manchurian parents are grieving and therefore unassailable is total BS, I don't buy it for 1 minute and neither should any fair minded person.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/huge-leftwing-activist-groups-behind-supposed-teen-organized-march-for-gun-control/
 Now let's talk about identity politics. I'm referring to the incompetent, lying BSO Sheriff, Scott Israel. He was in charge after the bungled procedures that led to the FLL terror attack in the baggage claim area.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fort-lauderdale-hollywood-airport-shooting/fl-airport-shooting-after-action-release-20170815-story.html
How did this buffoon ever get elected sheriff? The answer is identity politics, you have a district of NY refugee liberals and they elected another NY liberal as their sheriff. You see, my friends, identity politics can occur anywhere with a plurality of like minded people, not just da hood or el barrio.
 So, what can we do to prevent or at least minimize future attacks of this kind?
1) Train and deploy armed guards for all our schools. Why is it I go to Whole Foods and see a Coral Gables cop there, aren't our kids more precious than over priced groceries?!
2) Make the school properties more resistant to forced entry. Is that an admission we live in a screwed up society? Yes, let's get over it!
3) Raise the age to buy an AR-15 to 21. I'm hesitant to do this because I know it'll be a precedent and way in the the anti-gun nuts to incrementally erode our gun rights. I would NOT make that age 21 requirement apply for all long weapons as they are not used is mass shootings and millions of Americans aged 18-21 hunt and target shoot with these rifles and shotguns.
4) Enforce existing laws. The govt. (both parties) has only prosecuted 49-50 of 80,000+ cases where someone whose record prohibited them from buying ANY firearm, knowingly tried to do so anyway, by lying on the federal application.
5) Standardize the databases and require all 50 states to report all their data to it. Right now there are still several states that don't.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-fbi-gun-background-check-system-missing-records-20171110-story.html
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-ridiculous-non-searchable-databases-explained/
6) Expand the disqualifying red flags to include school suspension, posting photos or other threatening content online (including animal abuse or mutilation) and membership in  or admiration for gangs, terrorist groups or other lawless entities. If our cops and FBI can't round up these nutjobs early and are forced to wait for them to kill innocent people, nothing will change.
7) Repeal the Promise program and build more reform schools, boot camps, etc. There are certain types of kids in our schools that are there only because society has nowhere else to put them. They impede the education of the good students, at best, and commit property crimes, assault and murder at worst.
 I find it most ironic that the AR-15 was first introduced to the general public in 1989 and we had no crisis of mass shootings back then. Our course, we also didn't have social media anonymity & isolation, kids online for 5-6 hours a day, bloody, violent video games that are so lifelike they mimic the videos the military uses to prepare troops for war. Let's ask ourselves what's happened to American society and the nuclear family in 30 years?

"Dentists Can Resist, Too!": Dentist Day Edition

Hello to all of you, I took a month off and wanted to wait till DDOH passed to post again. My title takes a shot at the asinine RESIST bumper stickers sported by those who think they're gonna overturn an election. I emailed the DHAT bill's sponsor early on and told him he'd face strong resistance, which he has. I hope you all enjoyed the Super Bowl, it was the first time I'd watched an NFL game all season. They wanna kneel, I won't watch, it's that simple. This sheriff said it best with this billboard.

It was a good game and seeing the "gargling with Drano" look on Bill Belichick's face was fun! Congrats to the Eagles and their talented upstart QB. That said, this was a "defenseless" Super Bowl. My God, I've never seen 2 SB teams with such pitiful pass defenses, it was a question of who's secondary got torched the most, LOL. The NFL got clobbered this season in the wallet, let's see what they do next year.
 Before I get to DDOH, I just wanna touch on the Trump vs. coup plotters saga. As more and more facts are known, via things like emails between the traitorous conspirators that confirmed they knew the entire dossier ploy was a scam, the more this sham falls apart. The Left wanted to drag this thing into the Nov. midterm elections, maybe not so much now, eh? It's really quite simple, the Billary Machine hired an MI6 hack to fabricate a fictitious golden showers dossier and used it to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. To add insult to injury, it was renewed 3 times. Then there's the Lisa Page- Peter Strzok affair and tons of conversations about how determined they were to derail the Trump campaign.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/25/missing-text-messages-between-two-fbi-employees-have-been-located-according-to-department-justice-official.html
Clearly these egomaniacs didn't think Hillary could possibly lose and they figured when she won, all of this would be covered up and swept aside. Oops! Anyway, I think this will continue to unravel and fall apart. For me, simply having it go away is way too good the for the traitors. Many of these scumbags need to go to jail!
https://nypost.com/2018/01/10/the-trump-dossiers-credibility-is-collapsing/
Now let's talk about this Tuesday. I don't recall seeing the huge turnout we had for DDOH in many years, and we needed every one of them to show up. I'm pretty sure the S. Fla. turnout was a new record!

A few weeks ago I spoke to the Latin dental study club here and sounded the alarm. They were incredulous as to the procedures a high school grad with 3 years of vocational training could perform and with only general supervision, i.e. the dentist is playing golf. We've had many years of dud issues or housekeeping but there's nothing like a true threat to the way we practice and the detrimental effect on patients to rally the troops! 2 weeks ago, this DHAT bill was first heard in a House Healthcare subcommittee and the sponsor (Miami's own newly elected Rep. Daniel Perez) was already backpedaling. He knew he didn't have the votes to pass such a draconian invasion of our profession by people who even admit they are totally clueless about any aspect of it. So Perez did a strike all, which is basically drawing a line through every word of his original DHAT language, and amended it to be funding for a study to determine the causes of lack of access to care for the demographic of interest here. As if we haven't known those causes and their solutions for decades! They had people from Pew Foundation going up and even the former dean of UFCD, sellout shill, Frank Catalanotto, pleading for this bad piece of public policy. He talked about 168,000 visits to FL's emergency rooms for dental pain and how many of them were potentially life threatening infections. My counter to that is that there's no way in hell a DHAT is trained or equipped to treat this level of dental disease. These low access patients have some of the worst, most difficult dental problems to treat, not "simple" fillings or "simple" extractions. The amendment barely passed with the committee chair, Rep. Jason Brodeur, voting to break the tie. More on him later.
 This Tuesday was DDOH and a large number of us crowded into the committee room to hear the House Health Appropriations Committee consider whether or not to fund the sham study Perez kept in as a lifeline. Testimony and debate went long, hot and heavy. In the end, there were still not enough votes to pass the bill, so the committee chairman, Jason Brodeur, called for a T.P. (temporary postponement) and got it unanimously. What should have happened was taking a vote and this turkey killed for this year's session, not this stay of execution. Yes, it's a win to force these ridiculous maneuvers from the opposition because they have no other option, but it still leaves the issue dangling. It became clear to me Chmn. Brodeur is not our friend. The snide remark he slipped in about loan repayment, the true solution to placing dentists where the neediest poor patients are (which 45 states are currently doing) left no doubt. Brodeur remarked that he was against it and the marketplace should take care of this issue. Newsflash, Jason, the marketplace has already spoken loudly and clearly about this patient group. Medicaid pays crap, few of us wanna work for 30% of UCR, and these people are without a place to get their dental care! This guy can't possibly be so obtuse, I think it's pure cynicism and another factor. That factor is Brodeur's occupation is healthcare consultant. Look at his profile and it's clear why he's in favor of DHATs. This is a guy with a resume that's deep into managed care and Big Pharma!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-brodeur-0057b67
 Have any of you wondered why all this fervor for DHATs and what's really behind it? Aside from govt. and regulators sinking their meat hooks into dentistry, I believe there are some major McDentist big players who stand to get hefty, lucrative contracts if this thing ever becomes law. This reminds me of 15 years ago when ADI got a sweetheart deal for Medicaid pts., screwed over those few dentists who did treat Medicaid and gave a no-bid gift to Mike Fernandez- disgusting! But we're always admonished not to come off as self serving. Is there anyone more self serving than conflicted politicians? The Dem. Ranking Member, Rep. David Richardson met with us and told us he'd planned to vote the bill up. Anyone who'd heard the grilling he was giving Perez would have concluded the complete opposite. This is the BS Kabuki theater that many politicians often engage in, they say one thing but mean another. Richardson also told us when all we can do is send up a bunch of dentists to do nothing but oppose in unison, it looks very self serving. I wonder if David sees 2 committee hearings on a bad bill that lacks the support to pass, yet keeps getting bailed out, as self serving? I say this because it's well known that legislators don't like to humiliate one of their won. I guess they'd rather foist a bad law on unsuspecting Floridians than upset a green horn rookie who's clueless and out of his league.
 I can only hope this study dies without passage. At least the original DHAT language is DOA for this session. I've been reassured that they can't stick that language onto some new bill. I hope that's correct because Richardson told us he wouldn't be surprised if that happened. It's clear to me this issue isn't going away and we're gonna be fighting it for many years. BTW, the only state (lower 48) where DHATs practice is MN and in 10 years there are only a few in rural areas. Most are concentrated in Minneapolis- St. Paul. This bill has nothing to do with access to care and we must fight it with our last breath!