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RFK JR'S DEAD WORM AND FUSHIMI

 First some headlines.


  • GOP Rep. Marjorie Greene finally did call a vote to eject Mike Johnson as speaker.  She lost by a vote of 359-43, with a lot of help from Democrats.  House Republicans are deciding if there should be consequences, about Greene, for even bringing this to the floor.  How things have changed.
  • Stormy Daniels will be back today to even more bedevil Donald Trump.  Will there be further graphic testimony?  She was at one point scolded by Judge Juan Merchan for such language.  He has already threatened to jail Trump for his outbursts.  Watch her five years ago with Jimmy Kimmel.
  • Heard about the dead worm in RFK Jr's brain?  Well, hear this from Stephen Colbert.  
    • Said to be a tapeworm larva.
    • Condition is known as neurocysticercosis.
    • Hospitalizes 1,000 to 2,000/year in the U.S.
  • Can cause seizures, dizziness, psychosis, blurred vision and memory loss.  Can be fatal.
  • Comes from eating raw or undercooked pork that carries this tapeworm.
  • Contamination comes from physically touching feces and other items contacted by this person through tapeworm eggs.  You would especially infect yourself also
  • This swallowed egg can move from the intestine to the brain.  How??  
  • Centimeter diameter cysts form in the brain.
  • Symptoms could come five to 10 years following this condition.
  • RFK Jr. probably caught this disease traveling abroad, and suffered from memory loss.  The worm apparently died in in his brain.
  • 30% of epilepsy cases worldwide comes from this worm.
  • What will happen to you if so diagnosed?
    • Nothing.
    • Taking steroids and anti-parasitic drugs.
    • Surgery to remove the cysts.
Now that you're grossed out, back to Manhattan.  And there is no connection to what is in JFK Jr's brain.  Had lunch at Fushimi's, a Japanese restaurant.  There are five of them in New York City.  From Forbes:
  • Owners Daniel and Ben Chen named the restaurant for the city of Fushiki in Kyoto, famed for a series of red torii gates at the temples of the Fushimi Inari Shrine.
  • Forbes titled this article:  Fushimi Times Square is High, Wide and Handsome, with a Menu Much the Same.
  • True, and I can add...cheap, too.  At least compared to everything else in and around Times Square.
A few photos.
Looked at the menu and were stunned.  The lunch special was $24/person, including free hot sake.  A couple of days ago at Ippudo, the meal of a small bowl of ramen, hot sake and beer cost almost $50.  Started with a Japanese salad and miso soup with hot sake and beer.
Walked 4954 steps yesterday.
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