“Less dangerous if a person is mentally unstable?”
Tell that to Batman. His most dangerous foe is the Joker who is extremely far from mentally stable. Batman is never sure what the Joker will do next. [Very Very Big Insane Grin}
I’ve always thought that when those unclaimed pallets of bricks show up on the street, the next thing that should happen is that some dude and his friends should come by with a fork lift and a flat-bed truck, load ‘um up, take them somewhere, and build a patio.
LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
Chutzpah should work. Show up with forklift and truck dressed in hardhats and reflective vests. “Street Department told us they were a traffic hazard and told us to move them.”
There’s usually someone who has a reason for them to be there. Such as repairing a flower bed.
You can’t just place pallets of bricks on the road without a permit or any sort of money trail.
In Des Moines, the officials spoke to folks, and warned them that someone could hurt themselves if those were on the sidewalk, and the multiple pallets of bricks which had been on the sidewalk in the week before the scheduled protest were safely out of th eway by the day of!
As one who has been teaching and tutoring college and high school students for a while, I frequently use the line “I don’t like to make the same mistake twice, because there are some many new ones out there!” It fits in well with the “Experience keeps you from making mistakes. You get experience by learning from mistakes. If you’re really good, you learn from OTHER people’s mistakes.”
<California version> “We had…$20 full tanks.” Welp, you sitll do – it’s just that now the gas tanks are only 8 gallons, and you have to refill them when the gauge reads 50% becuae you don’t know if you’ll be able to find a open gas staion because of mostly peaceful protesters blocking the roads.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, in which the US negotiated an end to the Mexican War, resulted in payment to Mexico (yes, the winner paid the loser) $15,000,000 USD in compensation for that land:
The US Dollar was gold backed in 1848 at the price of $18.93 per ounce. Today’s spot price is $3,433.47 per ounce. So that $15m in gold is now worth $2,727,657,686.21. Round it to $3 billion post-Autopen-Administration-inflation USD.
Now was it a bargain price for vast swaths of arid unimproved land? Yep. Sorry, you lost. Shouldn’t have started the whole thing with those Tejas folks in the first place, or alternately should have negotiated the new border in good faith.
But the land was not stolen.
And only tangentially related, if one was wondering why the shouts and threats and wailing and gnashing recently re taxing remittances, they are simply humoungous – per Banco de Mexico, 2023 total remittances from the US to Mexico totaled $63.3 billion in that single year alone.
In other news, two MN Democratic lawmakers and their spouses were shot at their homes by someone impersonating a police officer. Both had voted against keeping illegal immigrants on the state Medicaid program. (Later info said one had not, but the perception seems to have been he did).
In other words, both are perceived to have defied the Party. And the shooter also shot their spouses. Guys, I don’t think this is right-wing violence.
Above is the current news link to the situation – it seems to have the most updated information.
There has been ‘talk’ about a Democrat civil war and something like the ousting of Hogg I expected but the Minnesota situation is beyond what I ever expected. Then again, I’m afraid we are now dealing with the truly crazy.
I view it as a Maxwell’s Demon type situation, artificially driving a solution against osmotic pressure.
In an ever-tightening virtue spiral, the #DemocRats continuously eject the likes of Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan and Theo Von. People who either have sufficient common sense that they can’t go along with the gag anymore, or they aren’t paying sufficient attention and inadvertently say something that gets them thrown out.
Thus, if this is allowed to run for nearly 60 years (which it has), what you end up with is a hyper-concentration of lunatics, provocateurs, Karens and outright criminals who think un-@living non-compliant Party members is perfectly okay.
(I’m using creative spelling to f- over Fred the Fed’s AI search. Hi Fred!)
This is similar to how Maximum Maxwell my pet rocket is concentrating the squirrel and bunny populations here at Chez Phantom. As time goes by the rodent’s average speed increases, because the slower ones are being removed from the pool, so to speak. >:D
Taking bets on how long before the #DemocRats get themselves declared a criminal terrorist organization, and their leadership is hauled forth to stand trial for treason. Looks to me like they are working hard to make it happen this year.
Since facism is pretty much baked into communism, the wishcasting magic of speech control has a purpose or two. One, forcing believers to compromise their integrity damages their ability to resist, and ability to protect innocence. Two, it allows any arbitrary party to be guilty and thus ‘justly’ sentenced to death for crimes against the people.
These are sorta the same purpose, because communist ideas are most attractive to the sources of leader magic and expert magic that start with a ravening and insatiable desire to torment and murder.
Kicking out people unimpressed with Obama, Biden, and Harris has the effect of putting them in with me. This has effects. A) We start to average sane, no matter how crazy I started out. B) I know I have vehement, strong, and important disagreements with some or all of my fellow Trump enthusiasts. C) Exploring some of those disagreements can create a diffident consensus, that is maybe willing to see multiple models, and consider that it may not be critically important to act now on every issue.
So, yes, they are sorting for a concentration of bad people and of crazy people.
Yet, most Americans have taken a sanity hit over the lockdown. Furthermore, a lot of traditional tribal factions have taken a beating, and split over that and other matters.
Both factions have sorta opposite issues with the different version of the narratives pushed that Trump can do things.
Pro-Trump can have complacency, and well, he will be out in three and a half years, and Vance or whomever is not yet elected. We have not even had the mid term cycle. (We can try to compensate for that optimism bias, but it puts us at more risk of black pilling, or influence by glowies.)
Anti-Trump has some combo of foreign influence, leaderships fearing the lost opportunities caused by mortality, and the internal narrative that Trump can do things. They were just lying to themselves (probably) about Harris and Walz having a chance, etc. They probably have not processed those surprises. Few seemed to have anticipated the possibility of Trump getting back in, and nobody against Trump seems to have anticipated Trump coming out of the gate swinging.
They are not moored to any models of what Trump can do, or what Trump cannot do. The communist mystery of the infinitely mallable now, and the all powerful magic leader, would displace a lot of possible sanity checking.
Conservatism is partly a series of strategic gambles or bets on it not being critically important to do things outside of the routien, new things, right away.
Then there is the fact that ‘moar adrenaline nao’ as the tactic for all strategic problems eventually fries one’s mind a bit.
In conclusion, I have doubts that I am mentally functioning at my strongest, and I might still be less delusional, calmer, and more effective at thinking than these folks.
And remember, the Democrats appointed that batshit crazy MF-er to important positions repeatedly. For years. Decades, even. They don’t care what manner of evil they enable in their compulsive pursuit of power.
Earliest speculation I heard was that the victims voted, or were perceived as having voted, against keeping illegal aliens on the state’s public medical assistance system.
Latest news conference is trying to shift the narrative to Rabid Pro-Lifer on a Rampage Against Abortion Enablers.
The first seems to me more in keeping with other bits of info coming out, eg. the hand written No Kings lit in the suspect’s vehicle.
Someone put one of *their* bumper stickers on one of my hall mates’ car. He pealed it off intact and put in where anyone knew it belongs, inside a urinal. I snapped a picture.
And that is how I got my one and only published photograph in that year’s annual. Tacky, yes. Funny, also yes.
The whole idea of pre-positioning cubes of bricks for the rioters to use later is just so blatant that my mind can’t grasp it, even though we saw it before in 2020.
This is how you know that the local authorities are complicit. Otherwise beat cops would report the locations of the bricks and the people who paid for them would be arrested.
Also, it isn’t as if the social media sites where all this is arranged are unknown to police. They can figure it out and bust every single meat head that touches a brick. But they don’t.
Judging by the pictures I’ve seen, it went from single pallets of bricks in the Summer of St. George, to a choice of single pallets of concrete blocks vs multiple pallets of bricks.
Summer of Burnin’ Love participants can more easily break up concrete blocks for multiple yeetage. Bricks don’t break and this fit in the ubiquitous backpack nearly as easily.
Local National Guard unit pulled out and head towards local college city where large protest is planned for Evil Marxist Billionaire Day. Resisted the temptation to yell “Get Some!” or “Shoot for the Blue of their Hair!” out the window.
In other news one of the sponsors of Evil Marxist Billionaire Day has a super mega yacht named “KAOS”. Who is writing this script?
After some of what we learned about the operations of the CIA and FBI in the 1970s and 1980s, I’m not so sure Get Smart was a parody.
In other news, Mel Brooks is still around, and announced he’s working on Spaceballs: The Sequel. John Candy passed away some years ago, but Mel is still around at only 99.
Did the Mn Governor, Tampon Tim, help the shooter with his hit list? Did he encourage the murder of two other Democrats? Since the shooter is such a good liberal, look for Canada to offer him asylum. Will the AG look the other way, or plea deal it down to a misdemeanor, or will he throw the book at him because of his skin color? Dudes white, what if he identifies as a person of color and a woman? Conspiracy Theories are so fun right at the moment.
It seems to hate Dorothy D. with a burning passion. I swear I approve more of her posts from holding than everyone else combined. i have no idea what she did to piss them off, but well done her.
It makes me log in every day, sometimes more than once, and usually takes me back to the, “sign into Word Page sheet almost every day (this started maybe a month ago).
Imhave no idea what I said to tick it off, but oh, well.
Well for starters, the Donald and Netanyahu appear to have played a first-class show of, “good cop/bad cop,” with Bibi as the bad cop. Trump gave the mullahs 60 days to agree to a peace deal and told them bad things would happen if they didn’t. Then, over the 60 days, there were multiple “leaks,” saying the two of them were arguing and Trump was getting disgusted with Netanyahu’s hard-line stance. So Iran let the world know they weren’t going to make a deal. On Day 61, the Israelis launched their attack. Including somehow persuading the Iranian air force leaders to bunch up for a meeting, whereupon Ivanova got her, “Boom!” They also built drone facilities inside Iran and launched drone attacks.
Trump has confirmed we knew, and the US undoubtedly gave the Israelis help with things like satellite imagery, not to mention outright missile defense. So far, the loss ratio favors Israel, though, since as usual they target military figures and facilities and the mullahs target civilians, there have been Israeli civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, the !eft decided to mime patriotism and skinsuit the Founders by announcing a day of, “No Kings!”rallies around the country on Flag Day/Army’s 250th birthday/Donald Trump’s birthday. Results have been spotty. If you want a laugh, one of “The View’s” hosts really did find it suspicious that Donald timed his birthday to match the Army’s, presumably before he was born. (Didn’t occur to her, I guess, that if he has
Dorothy, OT but for some reason WP has been holding you in moderation a lot, and, looking at your next comment, apparently NOT comment length related. It’s weird.
That’s been getting me, too, with my longer ones more likely to get clobbered. I wonder if there’s a list of strange words (anybody remember Groucho Marx’s game show? “Say the secret word and you get [$100|moderated].) Last time I tested, mentioning Ch@arl3s L!ndb_rgh’s name got me moderated.
There definitely is a word list, And I’ve previously identified via trial and error some really really odd words that do in fact automod a comment, but I tried a bunch from my latest modded comment and nothing by itself would trigger it.
If memory serves, you might have missed the three letter term for freedom pill dispenser, either that or something about kinetic disassembly through chemistry. It’s been a long day; not going to try to find it.
Actually, I find that short comments are more likely to vanish into the aether. One or two words seem to be Right Out, according to WPDE.
On the verboten word list, I remember back in late 2020 mentioning the name of a certain Venezuelan vote stealing machine company got your comment axed with extreme prejudice. I made multiple attempts to post a comment about it and none of them showed up until Sarah pried them all loose at once. Then it looked like I was spamming the comment section. :-P
The DemocRats are having another #BLM/2020/George Floyd moment, but with Mexicans this time. El Jorge Floydo. As to -why- they are staging this theater piece, I can only assume it is because they’ve been nurturing this border issue for ten years, making it worse every year, and #TheDonald put a stop to it in a couple of months. This makes them look bad, so they’re paying for some rioting.
As for the Middle East, everything is on fire because Iranian missiles are made in China or Russia, maintained by Iranian conscripts, and are therefore sh1te. Where the IDF targets one window in an apartment block or the six-inch chimney of a bunker, the Mullahs target a city. If the thing flies at all. We don’t get to see how many of them explode on the launch pad.
Basically Arabs suck at war. This is a theme with them, they’ve always sucked since we entered the Industrial Revolution. Something about still living in the 14th Century.
Oh, and Russia is on like week 3 of “We’re going to totally wipe Ukraine off the map!” after Ukraine got a Trojan Cargo Trailer into Russia, full of drones, parked next to a launch pad, and flattened a bunch of planes.
The cope on TwiX is getting a little epic because they’ve managed to set fires and kill firefighters, but not things like “wipe out local fleet of aircraft” or anything, and Ukraine keeps shooting down their drones and rockets.
Oh, and I think Polish jets scrambled, becasue Russia got sloppy, or “sloppy,” who knows which.
Oh yes, indeed. It took my old personal version to new heights. (“Unicorns, dragons, and mythical creatures/Snow falling down on a mountain’s bare features,/ Tesseract building and magic with strings/ These are a few of my favorite things.”
so, we had a protest in town today. Something about kings. Didn’t know we had one, but I’m always open to new information. About 100 people, all the usual suspects, average age 70, very pale, lots of Birkenstocks. Admittedly it was raining, but this is the epicenter of rich white wine women and they couldn’t fill a tiny park. Damp squib indeed.
I didn’t look at ours. The location made me very nervous (corner with lots of traffic, a Chik-fil-a, big power substation with a comparatively low fence) about Trouble. I do my best to avoid that sort of Trouble.
Eugene had same protest of “No Kings”. Posted on FB as “thousands”. A lot of comments, derogatory type of, “creative counting”, “losers”. None in support of.
Whatever.
On the flip side, Saturday parking, and fueling, at Costco was not crowded today. Unheard of on a non-UofO game day.
I wasn’t planning on going to town yesterday, and the events in Minnesota (plus threats of mostly peaceful protest, however unlikely that would be in Flyover Falls) made it pretty clear such a trip would be ill advised. I can pick up the new prescription (getting old sucks, but beats the alternative) on Tuesday.
Cynical humor department: Drug information for a prostate relief med: “Don’t take this if you are pregnant.” I think the dog pushed my eyes under the couch.
Um. Based on the information we got for hubby, the “prostate relief med” is probably a hormone that is regularly prescribed for women. Usually past child bearing years, but the overlap is possible.
The basic information says it’s a targeted* muscle relaxant. (Tamsulosin, AKA “Flomax” :) ) Biggest side effect is low blood pressure; they say don’t drive for a day or two when starting. Should put the start off a day; have to take Kat-the-dog the day after my normal shopping trip to the vet’s for heartworm testing plus yearly shots. I’ve been designated driver since Covidiocy (barring injury, sigh).
The prostate issue is benign**, but annoying. Appointment with Dr. Mengele’s minion was quite informative. Circumstances say he’ll probably be moving on; downside to a teaching clinic/practice is that the turnover is high. Get through residency or other training, and bye-bye! The FNP who I saw for the knee in February ’24 was gone in June.
(star) Prostate and bladder
(double star) Minion says PSA has myriad ways of going high, one of which is cancer. If high, retest and maybe look for other causes.
I got the PSA test yesterday and a result. Came out well in the lower portion of the “normal” range (norm: 0-4, me 1-ish).
The doc said false negatives can occur, but last year’s CT scan found nothing to be excited about. I’m on the MRI blacklist, so that’s all I have. Not gonna worry.
Hubby went from that to 2, 3, then 6. The climb the GP sent him to specialist. The jump the specialist went “Um …” Then things got serious fast. Not helped that the jump happened, not only between specialists (old one moved out of area), but their building had major issues and they were essentially shutdown except for in progress urgent care for six months. Then they had to get caught up. So the “next appointment” after the first of the year, was late September. His cancer was rated 4 (of 5) or 8 (of 10) old scale. (Biden’s rating.)
Surgery was penciled in for mid-November, providing a detail scan mapping for the cancer did not find it outside the prostrate (at which point surgery was out). Radiation specialist said “Recommend surgery. I hope I don’t see you again.” (With surgery, radiation is possible if the scan misses the migration; 10% possibility. Very difficult surgery if radiation is done first and that is not good enough. Only a handful of surgeons in the entire world perform it. Thus “not done” is the rule.) His last PSA was “undetectable” (< 0.4). Yea!
FYI. Hubby was lucky. Any much more delay and the outcome not so rosy. When they perform the pathology on the extracted prostrate, they are looking for 3 things: How big is the tumor related to prostrate (55%). Are prostrate edges involved (No). Where is the cancer cells in relation to a duct that the cancer typically uses to migrate out of the prostrate – In it (No) – Right where the duct is in the prostrate (Yes!).
Conclusion. Guys do not take comfort that (in general) prostrate cancer is a “slow cancer”. Once it takes, hold there is a point where things could move fast (slow is relative to other cancers). And yes, from first diagnosis, I (at least) was doing the whole head-in-the-sand “it is a slow cancer” bargaining (even here). Make sure, if the PSA numbers warrant it, get in for your 6 months check ins. Wife’s either nag your guys to make their appointments, or flat out do it for them (my mistake. Don’t think it would have mattered given the circumstances because he wasn’t under “urgent” when they lost their office and doctors, but still …)
OK, it can be prescribed (as off-label) for women with bladder issues. (Kidney stones seem to be the biggie.) Not sure if that’s the one you’re talking about.
AARRRGHH!! ‘Prostrate’ means ‘lying flat on ones belly’. ‘Prostate’ is an organ in the male urogenital system. A minor peeve, I admit, but ’tis mine own.
Although I suppose severe prostate issues could lead to prostration… :-P
[Wondering] Was the original Batman show in color? We didn’t have a color TV until the early ’70s. One network (NBC, then owned by RCA) was doing color, but not all.
I seem to be too agitated today to appreciate memes. Deadly political violence five miles from me has left at least two people dead, Two more people in the hospital with five and six gunshot wounds respectively, uncertain prognosis. One of the victims apparently took some of those bullets while shielding her adult daughter with Spina bifida.
Just got a FB message from a cousin I like consisting of a “No Kings,” sign. Oh, well. She and her family spent 2020 in France after her husband was transferred and I don’t know if they ever got transferred back, so her outlook is probably thoroughly European.
According To Hoyt 
“Less dangerous if a person is mentally unstable?”
Tell that to Batman. His most dangerous foe is the Joker who is extremely far from mentally stable. Batman is never sure what the Joker will do next. [Very Very Big Insane Grin}
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Batman’s own superpower is that nobody knows if he’s mentally stable.
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…. Batman would get along so well with my characters.
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at least he’s self-aware. In a conversation with Wonder Woman in the justice league animated series:
“You’re a princess from a society of immortal warriors. I’m a rich kid with issues… lots of issues.”
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In one comic, Bruce is comparing himself with Clark (Superman).
Roughly, “For all of his god-like power, Clark is a good man and I’m not a good man.”
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ZOWIE!
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There is a “Texts from Superheroes” where Batman framed himself for murder just to keep the criminals guessing. I can totally see Batman doing that.
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Likely Joker didn’t believe it.
After all, he’s been trying for years to get Batman to murder him! [Very Big Joker Grin]
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Joker’s the one who actually did the crime. ;)
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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BAM!
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This is such an excellent bunch of memes! Thank you for the Saturday morning fun.
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I’ve always thought that when those unclaimed pallets of bricks show up on the street, the next thing that should happen is that some dude and his friends should come by with a fork lift and a flat-bed truck, load ‘um up, take them somewhere, and build a patio.
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LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
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LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
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Depends on whether you follow the advice so considerately provided by the Left about hiding your identity.
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LOL, this is a great idea. I wonder what the odds of being accused of theft are after doing it? It the filed complaints might reveal who is funding the riots.
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Funny how great minds think alike. I have several projects that could use a few truck loads.
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Problem is we don’t cruise the areas where these pallets of bricks would be stacked for these “peaceful” riots.
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Eh. I’d be willing to drive for a few hours for free bricks. And I’ve got a truck that could haul quite a few.
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Chutzpah should work. Show up with forklift and truck dressed in hardhats and reflective vests. “Street Department told us they were a traffic hazard and told us to move them.”
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There’s usually someone who has a reason for them to be there. Such as repairing a flower bed.
You can’t just place pallets of bricks on the road without a permit or any sort of money trail.
In Des Moines, the officials spoke to folks, and warned them that someone could hurt themselves if those were on the sidewalk, and the multiple pallets of bricks which had been on the sidewalk in the week before the scheduled protest were safely out of th eway by the day of!
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Nod.
I’ve heard about things like that.
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sigh….
Better than my idea of adding …. interesting …. things to the pallet.
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Yes, but how would we find that much dog poo?
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Your local dog rescue or animal shelter should be able to supply all you want…..
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Nah, go to a hog farm. Ain’t nuttin’ stinks like pig shit. :-P
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I’m a bit Strange. I love bacon, but never got into coffee, really.
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If you can’t drink your bacon, you’re not trying hard enough.
Also, Walz’s California envy is an ongoing thing. Lord help us all . . .
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As one who has been teaching and tutoring college and high school students for a while, I frequently use the line “I don’t like to make the same mistake twice, because there are some many new ones out there!” It fits in well with the “Experience keeps you from making mistakes. You get experience by learning from mistakes. If you’re really good, you learn from OTHER people’s mistakes.”
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“Some folks can be taught. Some can learn from the mistakes of others. The rest have to piss on the electric fence for themselves.”
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“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.”
I put another reply here but WPDE sh*tcanned it.
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<California version> “We had…$20 full tanks.” Welp, you sitll do – it’s just that now the gas tanks are only 8 gallons, and you have to refill them when the gauge reads 50% becuae you don’t know if you’ll be able to find a open gas staion because of mostly peaceful protesters blocking the roads.
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Dilly Memes has an absolute banger of a protest song out there, “California Freedom.” If I had a clue, I’d try to post the link here.
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Oh boy. Sarah is on a roll today! Yippee!
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Need a meme countering those who have decided that California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, “belong to Mexico”.
“1836 Texas decided where the Border was with Mexico. Remember the Alamo?”
“1846 Californians, New Mexico, and Arizona, with help from the US decided where the border was with Mexico. Did not want all of Mexico.”
“Making the US regret this 179 year old decision is a bad idea.”
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, in which the US negotiated an end to the Mexican War, resulted in payment to Mexico (yes, the winner paid the loser) $15,000,000 USD in compensation for that land:
https://www.britannica.com/event/Treaty-of-Guadalupe-Hidalgo
The US Dollar was gold backed in 1848 at the price of $18.93 per ounce. Today’s spot price is $3,433.47 per ounce. So that $15m in gold is now worth $2,727,657,686.21. Round it to $3 billion post-Autopen-Administration-inflation USD.
Now was it a bargain price for vast swaths of arid unimproved land? Yep. Sorry, you lost. Shouldn’t have started the whole thing with those Tejas folks in the first place, or alternately should have negotiated the new border in good faith.
But the land was not stolen.
And only tangentially related, if one was wondering why the shouts and threats and wailing and gnashing recently re taxing remittances, they are simply humoungous – per Banco de Mexico, 2023 total remittances from the US to Mexico totaled $63.3 billion in that single year alone.
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The absolutely last thing we want or need is to occupy, thus be responsible for, the train wreck that is Mexico.
Let the Mexicans clean up their mess. We can provide folks who specialize in cleanup. (Grin)
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We push Mexicans down to Panama and name the place Hot Alaska.
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I like Baked Alaska better.
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Okay, me too.
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Now. Now.
Can Mexico actually still be worse than California?
#sarcasm (JIC)
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Yes. Unfortunately, the Democrats see that as a challenge. “Make Kalifornia even worse than Mexico? Yes, we can!”
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In other news, two MN Democratic lawmakers and their spouses were shot at their homes by someone impersonating a police officer. Both had voted against keeping illegal immigrants on the state Medicaid program. (Later info said one had not, but the perception seems to have been he did).
In other words, both are perceived to have defied the Party. And the shooter also shot their spouses. Guys, I don’t think this is right-wing violence.
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https://alphanews.org/developing-two-state-lawmakers-shot-at-homes-in-brooklyn-park-champlin/
Above is the current news link to the situation – it seems to have the most updated information.
There has been ‘talk’ about a Democrat civil war and something like the ousting of Hogg I expected but the Minnesota situation is beyond what I ever expected. Then again, I’m afraid we are now dealing with the truly crazy.
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They always have been; they’re just losing the ability to hide it.
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I view it as a Maxwell’s Demon type situation, artificially driving a solution against osmotic pressure.
In an ever-tightening virtue spiral, the #DemocRats continuously eject the likes of Tulsi Gabbard, Joe Rogan and Theo Von. People who either have sufficient common sense that they can’t go along with the gag anymore, or they aren’t paying sufficient attention and inadvertently say something that gets them thrown out.
Thus, if this is allowed to run for nearly 60 years (which it has), what you end up with is a hyper-concentration of lunatics, provocateurs, Karens and outright criminals who think un-@living non-compliant Party members is perfectly okay.
(I’m using creative spelling to f- over Fred the Fed’s AI search. Hi Fred!)
This is similar to how Maximum Maxwell my pet rocket is concentrating the squirrel and bunny populations here at Chez Phantom. As time goes by the rodent’s average speed increases, because the slower ones are being removed from the pool, so to speak. >:D
Taking bets on how long before the #DemocRats get themselves declared a criminal terrorist organization, and their leadership is hauled forth to stand trial for treason. Looks to me like they are working hard to make it happen this year.
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Since facism is pretty much baked into communism, the wishcasting magic of speech control has a purpose or two. One, forcing believers to compromise their integrity damages their ability to resist, and ability to protect innocence. Two, it allows any arbitrary party to be guilty and thus ‘justly’ sentenced to death for crimes against the people.
These are sorta the same purpose, because communist ideas are most attractive to the sources of leader magic and expert magic that start with a ravening and insatiable desire to torment and murder.
Kicking out people unimpressed with Obama, Biden, and Harris has the effect of putting them in with me. This has effects. A) We start to average sane, no matter how crazy I started out. B) I know I have vehement, strong, and important disagreements with some or all of my fellow Trump enthusiasts. C) Exploring some of those disagreements can create a diffident consensus, that is maybe willing to see multiple models, and consider that it may not be critically important to act now on every issue.
So, yes, they are sorting for a concentration of bad people and of crazy people.
Yet, most Americans have taken a sanity hit over the lockdown. Furthermore, a lot of traditional tribal factions have taken a beating, and split over that and other matters.
Both factions have sorta opposite issues with the different version of the narratives pushed that Trump can do things.
Pro-Trump can have complacency, and well, he will be out in three and a half years, and Vance or whomever is not yet elected. We have not even had the mid term cycle. (We can try to compensate for that optimism bias, but it puts us at more risk of black pilling, or influence by glowies.)
Anti-Trump has some combo of foreign influence, leaderships fearing the lost opportunities caused by mortality, and the internal narrative that Trump can do things. They were just lying to themselves (probably) about Harris and Walz having a chance, etc. They probably have not processed those surprises. Few seemed to have anticipated the possibility of Trump getting back in, and nobody against Trump seems to have anticipated Trump coming out of the gate swinging.
They are not moored to any models of what Trump can do, or what Trump cannot do. The communist mystery of the infinitely mallable now, and the all powerful magic leader, would displace a lot of possible sanity checking.
Conservatism is partly a series of strategic gambles or bets on it not being critically important to do things outside of the routien, new things, right away.
Then there is the fact that ‘moar adrenaline nao’ as the tactic for all strategic problems eventually fries one’s mind a bit.
In conclusion, I have doubts that I am mentally functioning at my strongest, and I might still be less delusional, calmer, and more effective at thinking than these folks.
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Attempted “false flag”. Very hard Lefty, imitating Law Enforcement, shooting Dem Pols and their spouses.
Since the “right” wing isn’t providing “Death Squad” horrors, the Leftroids will fill in the gap.
Again.
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‘Person of Interest’ identified as a multiple times Democratic governor-appointed member of State advisory boards . . .
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-hard- Left.
Again.
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All kinds of “batguano crazy” is coming out. He was all over several spectrums. I still think he was weaponized as an attempted false flag.
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And remember, the Democrats appointed that batshit crazy MF-er to important positions repeatedly. For years. Decades, even. They don’t care what manner of evil they enable in their compulsive pursuit of power.
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The lockdowns didn’t help ANYONE.
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Some time scale Walz proxy, /and/, exactly how crazy and how stupid is Tim Walz?
It is probably simply that manhunts are difficult.
However, Walz is actually known to have improperly manipulated law enforcement previously, in support of violent political terrorism.
So further acts are not as incredible as they should be.
Hopefully this thought winds up simply being a judgement issue on my part.
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incident in Salt Lake City. My read is an Auntiefool tried to generate a “right wing” hit story, and botched.
and the “security” for the protest shot and killed a bystander-protestor, so any participants now face murder charges.
in 72 hours, hopefully we have clarity.
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2025/06/15/salt-lake-protest-shooting-man-dies/
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Let me guess — 10,000 witnesses and nobody saw nuthin’. Or else, 10,000 completely different versions.
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That camel / AH-64 meme (pe one very much like it) has another 1991 caption:
(arabic-ish font)
“….Holy War….”
…
“HOLYS##T!!!”
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I remember that one.
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Saw that on a tee-shirt. Returned about ten years later, also on tee-shirt, but not as obvious (worn under other shirt).
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As to possible motivation:
Earliest speculation I heard was that the victims voted, or were perceived as having voted, against keeping illegal aliens on the state’s public medical assistance system.
Latest news conference is trying to shift the narrative to Rabid Pro-Lifer on a Rampage Against Abortion Enablers.
The first seems to me more in keeping with other bits of info coming out, eg. the hand written No Kings lit in the suspect’s vehicle.
Of course, way too early to tell . . .
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I heard something that said due to compromise, two Dems were chosen to vote with the republicans to actually pass the bill – the two who were targeted
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Love the, “Rooftop Koreans is a creed,” meme.
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Putting MAGA stickers on protestors’ cars; that reminds me….
Picture this; basement of Works Progress Administration built dorm, spring 1982. Our despised just down NC 54 rivals have just won the National Championship in basketball (see https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-march-29-1982-michael-jordan-hits-winning-shot-ncaa-final-launching-legend).
Someone put one of *their* bumper stickers on one of my hall mates’ car. He pealed it off intact and put in where anyone knew it belongs, inside a urinal. I snapped a picture.
And that is how I got my one and only published photograph in that year’s annual. Tacky, yes. Funny, also yes.
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SFBS!
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The whole idea of pre-positioning cubes of bricks for the rioters to use later is just so blatant that my mind can’t grasp it, even though we saw it before in 2020.
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This is how you know that the local authorities are complicit. Otherwise beat cops would report the locations of the bricks and the people who paid for them would be arrested.
Also, it isn’t as if the social media sites where all this is arranged are unknown to police. They can figure it out and bust every single meat head that touches a brick. But they don’t.
Shenanigans.
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Judging by the pictures I’ve seen, it went from single pallets of bricks in the Summer of St. George, to a choice of single pallets of concrete blocks vs multiple pallets of bricks.
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Summer of Burnin’ Love participants can more easily break up concrete blocks for multiple yeetage. Bricks don’t break and this fit in the ubiquitous backpack nearly as easily.
They have lessons learned too.
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Some of them, apparently, have been hitting the gym.
They don’t all have noodle arms.
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Local National Guard unit pulled out and head towards local college city where large protest is planned for Evil Marxist Billionaire Day. Resisted the temptation to yell “Get Some!” or “Shoot for the Blue of their Hair!” out the window.
In other news one of the sponsors of Evil Marxist Billionaire Day has a super mega yacht named “KAOS”. Who is writing this script?
https://www.superyachtfan.com/yacht/kaos/
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They’re plagiarizing, like they always do. They just didn’t notice that Get Smart was a parody… :-P
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After some of what we learned about the operations of the CIA and FBI in the 1970s and 1980s, I’m not so sure Get Smart was a parody.
In other news, Mel Brooks is still around, and announced he’s working on Spaceballs: The Sequel. John Candy passed away some years ago, but Mel is still around at only 99.
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Hey, Yoda was in his 900’s. Yogurt is only in his 90’s, just a youngster! :-D
“Feel the Schwartz, let it flow through you…”
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That Office meme is basically my theology.
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Did the Mn Governor, Tampon Tim, help the shooter with his hit list? Did he encourage the murder of two other Democrats? Since the shooter is such a good liberal, look for Canada to offer him asylum. Will the AG look the other way, or plea deal it down to a misdemeanor, or will he throw the book at him because of his skin color? Dudes white, what if he identifies as a person of color and a woman?
Conspiracy Theories are so fun right at the moment.
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Correlation not equal causation. I mean, I write villains, so my manifesto count has got to be in the triple digits by now…
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The Reader is with her. https://x.com/HarmeetKDhillon/status/1933928142726373545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1933928142726373545%7Ctwgr%5E6986c11ea965d2a253738495b39efe209e9f98e6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F725393%2F
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Can someone give me a brief summation on why the world is currently burning? I was without a laptop for the last three weeks.
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Brief answer? The leftists in the US are at it again. In other news, Israel solved the Iranian nukes problem for a while.
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What, I hit a character limit? Anyway, if the Donald has that sort of pull with the Almighty, they might as well surrender now.
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Ummm…huh???
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She got moderated, I think. It’ll show up later. Maybe.
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Way maybe. One of mine from the other day discussing gun-type vs. implosion is still awaiting mod.
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I never saw it. I think WP ATE it.
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No worries, and no brilliant insights that Must Be Shared. Just crabbing at WP, really.
It has seemed more aggressive, and more random, just lately.
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It seems to hate Dorothy D. with a burning passion. I swear I approve more of her posts from holding than everyone else combined. i have no idea what she did to piss them off, but well done her.
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Well done indeed. There’s a maxim that you can tell someone’s character by the enemies they make. Her character must be absolutely wonderful.😉
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It makes me log in every day, sometimes more than once, and usually takes me back to the, “sign into Word Page sheet almost every day (this started maybe a month ago).
Imhave no idea what I said to tick it off, but oh, well.
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Joy Behar actually said Trump arranged to be born on the Army’s birthday so he could have a parade.
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Good for Israel.
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Indeed. Of course, the usual terrorist apologists are melting down.😈
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Well for starters, the Donald and Netanyahu appear to have played a first-class show of, “good cop/bad cop,” with Bibi as the bad cop. Trump gave the mullahs 60 days to agree to a peace deal and told them bad things would happen if they didn’t. Then, over the 60 days, there were multiple “leaks,” saying the two of them were arguing and Trump was getting disgusted with Netanyahu’s hard-line stance. So Iran let the world know they weren’t going to make a deal. On Day 61, the Israelis launched their attack. Including somehow persuading the Iranian air force leaders to bunch up for a meeting, whereupon Ivanova got her, “Boom!” They also built drone facilities inside Iran and launched drone attacks.
Trump has confirmed we knew, and the US undoubtedly gave the Israelis help with things like satellite imagery, not to mention outright missile defense. So far, the loss ratio favors Israel, though, since as usual they target military figures and facilities and the mullahs target civilians, there have been Israeli civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, the !eft decided to mime patriotism and skinsuit the Founders by announcing a day of, “No Kings!”rallies around the country on Flag Day/Army’s 250th birthday/Donald Trump’s birthday. Results have been spotty. If you want a laugh, one of “The View’s” hosts really did find it suspicious that Donald timed his birthday to match the Army’s, presumably before he was born. (Didn’t occur to her, I guess, that if he has
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Dorothy, OT but for some reason WP has been holding you in moderation a lot, and, looking at your next comment, apparently NOT comment length related. It’s weird.
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That’s been getting me, too, with my longer ones more likely to get clobbered. I wonder if there’s a list of strange words (anybody remember Groucho Marx’s game show? “Say the secret word and you get [$100|moderated].) Last time I tested, mentioning Ch@arl3s L!ndb_rgh’s name got me moderated.
The algorithm’s on LSD, I think.
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There definitely is a word list, And I’ve previously identified via trial and error some really really odd words that do in fact automod a comment, but I tried a bunch from my latest modded comment and nothing by itself would trigger it.
WPDE.
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If memory serves, you might have missed the three letter term for freedom pill dispenser, either that or something about kinetic disassembly through chemistry. It’s been a long day; not going to try to find it.
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No, gun does not do it. It was a proper name IIRC. Totally random.
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Actually, I find that short comments are more likely to vanish into the aether. One or two words seem to be Right Out, according to WPDE.
On the verboten word list, I remember back in late 2020 mentioning the name of a certain Venezuelan vote stealing machine company got your comment axed with extreme prejudice. I made multiple attempts to post a comment about it and none of them showed up until Sarah pried them all loose at once. Then it looked like I was spamming the comment section. :-P
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Thanks for the update.
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Short answer for the USA: Astroturf.
The DemocRats are having another #BLM/2020/George Floyd moment, but with Mexicans this time. El Jorge Floydo. As to -why- they are staging this theater piece, I can only assume it is because they’ve been nurturing this border issue for ten years, making it worse every year, and #TheDonald put a stop to it in a couple of months. This makes them look bad, so they’re paying for some rioting.
As for the Middle East, everything is on fire because Iranian missiles are made in China or Russia, maintained by Iranian conscripts, and are therefore sh1te. Where the IDF targets one window in an apartment block or the six-inch chimney of a bunker, the Mullahs target a city. If the thing flies at all. We don’t get to see how many of them explode on the launch pad.
Basically Arabs suck at war. This is a theme with them, they’ve always sucked since we entered the Industrial Revolution. Something about still living in the 14th Century.
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Oh, and Russia is on like week 3 of “We’re going to totally wipe Ukraine off the map!” after Ukraine got a Trojan Cargo Trailer into Russia, full of drones, parked next to a launch pad, and flattened a bunch of planes.
The cope on TwiX is getting a little epic because they’ve managed to set fires and kill firefighters, but not things like “wipe out local fleet of aircraft” or anything, and Ukraine keeps shooting down their drones and rockets.
Oh, and I think Polish jets scrambled, becasue Russia got sloppy, or “sloppy,” who knows which.
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All good (as usual), but the filk(?) version of “My Favorite Things” was priceless.
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Oh yes, indeed. It took my old personal version to new heights. (“Unicorns, dragons, and mythical creatures/Snow falling down on a mountain’s bare features,/ Tesseract building and magic with strings/ These are a few of my favorite things.”
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so, we had a protest in town today. Something about kings. Didn’t know we had one, but I’m always open to new information. About 100 people, all the usual suspects, average age 70, very pale, lots of Birkenstocks. Admittedly it was raining, but this is the epicenter of rich white wine women and they couldn’t fill a tiny park. Damp squib indeed.
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I didn’t look at ours. The location made me very nervous (corner with lots of traffic, a Chik-fil-a, big power substation with a comparatively low fence) about Trouble. I do my best to avoid that sort of Trouble.
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From my viewing news pictures of rich white wine women, they could indeed be able to fill a tiny park
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I was justly busy today, making sure our Cub Scouts had a range day at a friendly local ranch. I’ll check the news tomorrow. Or in a week or two.
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Eugene had same protest of “No Kings”. Posted on FB as “thousands”. A lot of comments, derogatory type of, “creative counting”, “losers”. None in support of.
Whatever.
On the flip side, Saturday parking, and fueling, at Costco was not crowded today. Unheard of on a non-UofO game day.
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I wasn’t planning on going to town yesterday, and the events in Minnesota (plus threats of mostly peaceful protest, however unlikely that would be in Flyover Falls) made it pretty clear such a trip would be ill advised. I can pick up the new prescription (getting old sucks, but beats the alternative) on Tuesday.
Cynical humor department: Drug information for a prostate relief med: “Don’t take this if you are pregnant.” I think the dog pushed my eyes under the couch.
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ROFL.
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Um. Based on the information we got for hubby, the “prostate relief med” is probably a hormone that is regularly prescribed for women. Usually past child bearing years, but the overlap is possible.
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Note, hubby didn’t have to take it because he went for surgery quickly.
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The basic information says it’s a targeted* muscle relaxant. (Tamsulosin, AKA “Flomax” :) ) Biggest side effect is low blood pressure; they say don’t drive for a day or two when starting. Should put the start off a day; have to take Kat-the-dog the day after my normal shopping trip to the vet’s for heartworm testing plus yearly shots. I’ve been designated driver since Covidiocy (barring injury, sigh).
The prostate issue is benign**, but annoying. Appointment with Dr. Mengele’s minion was quite informative. Circumstances say he’ll probably be moving on; downside to a teaching clinic/practice is that the turnover is high. Get through residency or other training, and bye-bye! The FNP who I saw for the knee in February ’24 was gone in June.
(star) Prostate and bladder
(double star) Minion says PSA has myriad ways of going high, one of which is cancer. If high, retest and maybe look for other causes.
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I hope it is not cancer.
Hubby’s gotten off lucky. Praying he stays lucky.
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I got the PSA test yesterday and a result. Came out well in the lower portion of the “normal” range (norm: 0-4, me 1-ish).
The doc said false negatives can occur, but last year’s CT scan found nothing to be excited about. I’m on the MRI blacklist, so that’s all I have. Not gonna worry.
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0.4 – 1.0-ish, is a good reading.
Hubby went from that to 2, 3, then 6. The climb the GP sent him to specialist. The jump the specialist went “Um …” Then things got serious fast. Not helped that the jump happened, not only between specialists (old one moved out of area), but their building had major issues and they were essentially shutdown except for in progress urgent care for six months. Then they had to get caught up. So the “next appointment” after the first of the year, was late September. His cancer was rated 4 (of 5) or 8 (of 10) old scale. (Biden’s rating.)
Surgery was penciled in for mid-November, providing a detail scan mapping for the cancer did not find it outside the prostrate (at which point surgery was out). Radiation specialist said “Recommend surgery. I hope I don’t see you again.” (With surgery, radiation is possible if the scan misses the migration; 10% possibility. Very difficult surgery if radiation is done first and that is not good enough. Only a handful of surgeons in the entire world perform it. Thus “not done” is the rule.) His last PSA was “undetectable” (< 0.4). Yea!
FYI. Hubby was lucky. Any much more delay and the outcome not so rosy. When they perform the pathology on the extracted prostrate, they are looking for 3 things: How big is the tumor related to prostrate (55%). Are prostrate edges involved (No). Where is the cancer cells in relation to a duct that the cancer typically uses to migrate out of the prostrate – In it (No) – Right where the duct is in the prostrate (Yes!).
Conclusion. Guys do not take comfort that (in general) prostrate cancer is a “slow cancer”. Once it takes, hold there is a point where things could move fast (slow is relative to other cancers). And yes, from first diagnosis, I (at least) was doing the whole head-in-the-sand “it is a slow cancer” bargaining (even here). Make sure, if the PSA numbers warrant it, get in for your 6 months check ins. Wife’s either nag your guys to make their appointments, or flat out do it for them (my mistake. Don’t think it would have mattered given the circumstances because he wasn’t under “urgent” when they lost their office and doctors, but still …)
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OK, it can be prescribed (as off-label) for women with bladder issues. (Kidney stones seem to be the biggie.) Not sure if that’s the one you’re talking about.
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No. Not surprised. There is usually a reason why labels like that would apply no matter how rare.
With prostrate cancer, if surgery is going to be delayed long, or radiation. A feminine hormone is taken that stops tumor growth.
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AARRRGHH!! ‘Prostrate’ means ‘lying flat on ones belly’. ‘Prostate’ is an organ in the male urogenital system. A minor peeve, I admit, but ’tis mine own.
Although I suppose severe prostate issues could lead to prostration… :-P
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My spelling …. I would not have figured out the difference.
Sorry about that.
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Infantry Sunshine for the protesting dweebs? Priceless.
And a hat tip to the ones who embraced the suck and stayed.
Get their pictures and ID them. Those are the ones worth tracking. (grin)
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I have a little problem with the Batman meme being in black and white, while the Mortitia Addams one is in color.
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[Wondering] Was the original Batman show in color? We didn’t have a color TV until the early ’70s. One network (NBC, then owned by RCA) was doing color, but not all.
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POW!
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I seem to be too agitated today to appreciate memes. Deadly political violence five miles from me has left at least two people dead, Two more people in the hospital with five and six gunshot wounds respectively, uncertain prognosis. One of the victims apparently took some of those bullets while shielding her adult daughter with Spina bifida.
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Oh no.
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I’d just like to know when Greta Thunberg turned into early Bruce Dickinson.
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Cue “always was” meme.
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I’ve been to this wedding. Cousin, not brother, though.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffaa58714-72ff-4829-9de7-609dc436e92e_600x484.png
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Just got a FB message from a cousin I like consisting of a “No Kings,” sign. Oh, well. She and her family spent 2020 in France after her husband was transferred and I don’t know if they ever got transferred back, so her outlook is probably thoroughly European.
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Europe lies SO hard.
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And if you want irony there were supposed to be No Kings demonstrations in Britain, where they really do have a king.
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🤣
Any “No Kings” demonstrations going on in Canada?
Curious, and asking for a friend.
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