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There seemed to be a bit of conspiracy theorizing on the post game show last night that the Astros had some underhanded insight into the Rays pitching. A couple of the former players on the show shut it down pretty quickly. What became obvious was that Tyler Glasnow was tipping his pitches and a couple of the Astros batters quickly picked up on it and spread it around to the rest. And Glasnow admitted he was tipping. That’s just smart baseball. But I betcha that the Yankees will whine to MLB that the Astros have a nefarious plot to steal their signals.
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It’s a wonderful life, great movie, we used to watch it every Christmas.
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I took this photo in January of 2006 in Casa Grande AZ at Patrick’s during better times for Patrick’s. Knocking around the Arizona junkyards was a lot of fun 15 plus years ago, but like everything, once it got popular the price skyrocketed and the inventory disappeared. The last I heard, everything was seized and auctioned for unpaid taxes coupled with bankruptcy.
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Nobody loves him, everybody hates him, he should go eat some worms
With former Samford quarterback and undrafted rookie Devlin Hodges set to make his NFL debut this weekend for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kaepernick’s agents were frustrated enough to put out a Q&A compilation on Thursday titled, “Facts to Address the False Narratives Regarding Colin Kaepernick”.
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Good morning Hamsters.
So we celebrate the Astros victory last night and get ready for the next challenge. Yea. Snoopy Happy Dance time. But please dear Astros don’t drag things out to the very end again. Too many hearts and nerves depend on a swift victory.
Very ready for the cold front that is supposed to arrive fast this morning with some rain ahead of it. Rain we can use. Cold air we can also use.
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Kaepernick is reaping what he has sown.
Had to make a detour to the wife’s office before we hit the road this morning. It will get down to about 33F tonight. I am looking forward to it.
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Kaepernick has only to look in a mirror to see the cause of his discontent.
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I encourage Kapernick to feast on the contents of the basement of my outhouse.
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Somebody needs to tell Colin K. that he is radioactive and everybody knows it.
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60 degrees. Gusty wind. Occasional shower.
TaaDaaa.
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Shannon
It looks like it’s going to rain around Bellville all next week. Usually, October is a pretty dry month down there.
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But toward the end, Trump discussed bringing the troops home from the several adventures we have going around the world. He said that our military is not a police force and that these countries are going to have to become self-sufficient in matters of defense. He then talked about writing letters to the families of soldiers who did not make it, greeting the coffins returning to Dover, the agony of the loved ones suffering losses. He talked of his visits to Walter Reed, pinning Purple Hearts, greeting the war heroes. You could hear a pin drop in that auditorium as he talked about this. There are a lot of war profiteers, and a lot of politicians whose skids get greased by these profiteers. Trump truly wants to bring these troops home and avoid any war that we do not intend to win. Don’t be surprised if Afghanistan is over soon.
You’re not the only one thinking along these lines:
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The front just roared/blew in here on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond and bought cloudy skies with it. Temp is steadily dropping fast from the 74 it was at 6. Down to 71, now 70 and dropping fast. Old Glory on the front porch is very active in the wind. The webworm nests in the trees are coming loose and flying across the yards. Rain expected ought to weight them down so they can come loose even faster.
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Very still, hot, and muggy here at Buffalo Speedway and Westheimer. The front ain’t here yet.
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Rain just arrived, sky is darker, still very windy, and down to 68. About the only active critters are the squirrels dashing across the yards.
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Calm, sunny, and dry in the barrio.
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Down to 42 degrees this morning now, and at last a little light rain is falling. Guess it will be a mostly stay in day today. There’s plenty of work that needs to be done inside, but I sure do have a hard time getting excited about doing indoor chores. Now if there’s a project that needs doing, I’m all in, but just routine cleaning, bed making, tub scrubbing, etc. is not my favorite pass time. With a project, you can see the parts coming together, and once complete, the job is done and over. With house chores, you do it once, and by the time you finish, it’s time to do it again. I’d rather just wait for a while between “do it’s” than do the same thing over and over every day. Now, back to researching that flood light project for the back yard – that’s more my speed.
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This news item was lost in the fog of NBA conspicuous narcissism and malicious media contradictions in the past week. The NBA is now competing with the NFL for the title of Most Suicidal American Institution, Sports Category.
The Portland Trail Blazers announced that they have severed relations with a company that does business with Israel following a pressure campaign by activists tied to the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
As the NBA is facing outrage after the general manager of the Houston Rockets capitulated to censorship by the Chinese communist government, the Trail Blazers quietly severed ties with the manufacturer Leupold, which has a contract to produce accessories for the Israeli Defense Forces.
Trail Blazers president and CEO Chris McGowan recently announced the decision to bow to pressure from BDS activists, telling a reporter for the Bleacher Report that “Leupold is no longer a part of the organization.”
Leupold & Stevens, Inc., a family owned company, is located in Beaverton, a suburb of Portland. They have been there for 112 years and now employ over 650 local people in skilled, well-paid jobs. Leupold has been providing scopes and optical aides for the Israeli Defense Forces with equipment like this.
Leupold & Stevens has been around a lot longer than the Trailblazers and will still be there, I’m sure, when they are gone. Besides, the contribution the company and its employees make far exceeds the value of anything a basketball team could ever generate.
This is the Leupold & Stevens history beginning in 1907 – very well done.
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My internet is down this morning and cell phone data access is spotty at best. Checked with folks in the hood and they’re experiencing the same issues, across all cell carriers.
Ukrainians, no doubt, are up to no good. OMB!
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#19 – It could be that you’ve just been infected with the self-imposed power outage in northern Calif. I’ve seen a few privately produced videos from out there, and there is very limited gas to supply generators,one supermarket just handing out all it’s frozen food inventory, and a thousand other tales. After a couple of days without power, I suspect tempers will begin to heat up enough to spontaneously spark wild fires without any power lines arcing. What a mess that is out there. When does the revolution begin?
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Temp has started to drop just a bit, heavy overcast and now the rain begins. Wind out of the northwest. The leading edge of the front has arrived.
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Getting some thunder now.
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TexMo
Forget Arkansas. Just stay in Texas – it’s safer.
When cops found baggies in her pocket, she quickly insisted it was not hers and “someone else put it there,” the documents say.
She then warned that if she “pops hot” in sobriety tests, it was because her brother “fed her a sandwich contaminated with meth” when she visited him in a hospital, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Catlett — who failed three field sobriety tests — also suggested her brother may have drugged her drink, saying the hospital visit left her feeling like “when she used to use meth,” according to the report.
These people escaped from Florida and are now wandering around Arkansas.
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Now a very heavy rain; rate is at 2-3″/hour according to my SWAG.
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Need a priest up here, quick.
To do last rites on summer.
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Rain has diminished considerably. Just a bit more than a drizzle now.
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Northern Calif power: I enjoy watching this guy talk about airplane events as well as local events which affect him. He’s an airline pilot who is currently grounded due to prostate cancer issues, so he’s running around doing videos. There are 2 recent videos relating to the power outage. He’s not a “hair on fire” guy, more of a just the facts guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6RDhj-NHAg
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(I’ll let you mull on this for a moment)
When It’s a Wonderful Life was released in 1946, the FBI labeled it “subversive.”
They said that its depiction of a greedy businessman was “a common trick used by communists.”
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In the 1960s the CIA implanted a battery and a microphone into a cat and an antenna into its tail. They released it near the Soviet compound in Washington D.C., but it was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately.
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Here’s a better blancolirio electrical disruption update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m1xcX_X0wc
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Had to turn the truck AC up to 70, from 69.
🙂
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81F in Sugar Land this morning.
79F in Porter
69F in Livingston
54F in Nachadoches
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23 Texpat
These people escaped from Florida and are now wandering around Arkansas.
C’mon now. Them are straight up, stereotypical Arkansas inbred hillbillies. I saw their pictures yesterday and I’d be willing to wager that mama and daddy were also brother and sister.
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If Flarda wasn’t flat, we’d call them hillbillies, too.
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Actually, the proper nomenclature is Sandbillies.
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If we lived in a world in which all the journalists were as honest and smart as Richard Fernandez, we wouldn’t have most of the problems we do on earth.
This is what is really happening in Turkey/Syria/Kurdistan. Erdogan is stepping down into the Briar Patch and Bre’r Trump isn’t going to do a thing to discourage him.
Turkey’s border offensive against the Kurds, far from being a blitzkrieg, is limited by the resources available to Ankara’s forces. According to DW, its goal is to bring a 15,360- square kilometer swath under its control. “Turkey wants to create a 32-kilometer-deep, 480-kilometer-long corridor (20 miles deep, 300 miles long) inside Syria along the border to protect its security… it plans to resettle nearly 1 million of its 3.6 million Syrian refugees who hail from other parts of Syria inside the ‘safe zone.’” But it must do so by installment and on a shoestring.
The regular Turkish army will provide armor, artillery, and air support, but it relies on militia forces for “boots.” DW continues, “in reality, a buffer zone may only extend several kilometers inside Syria and be formed around several pockets, and the operation conducted in stages. Turkey plans to use a motley group of its Syrian rebel allies to do much of the ground fighting and holding of territory.”
He also quotes here from The Independent:
Turkey is already fighting a guerilla war against the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in its own southeast provinces. Expanding the ground war into Syria against the PKK’s allies risks sparking a separate insurgency. The Syrian Democratic Forces, the collection of Kurdish-led armed groups partnered with the US in its fight against Isis, said it was “determined to defend our land at all costs” against Turkey.
“What makes Turkey think they’re not going to get caught in northern Syria fighting a protracted campaign?” said Steven Cook, a Turkey and Middle East specialist at the Council on Foreign Relations. … “They’re really exposed going deeper into Syrian territory,” said Mr Cook. “And they’re not going to get any help. If Erdogan gets into trouble, the cavalry is not coming to the rescue.”
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Flarda Porch Honkies have invaded Georgia.
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#33 – Geez your spellcheck must be on coffee break eh? 🙂
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50 degrees in far northeast Colorado County.
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Finally getting to be tee shirt weather around here.
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We got about 6″ of snow so far here in Cut-N-Shoot
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#42 (oh)
You got the bubble butt weather girl over there reporting?
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I am very hesitant to say this, but. . . . . . it’s kind of . . . . .cool outside.
/I prolly jinxed it and it will be back in the 90’s before sundown tomorrow. . .
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Currently 55 on the moors of the Brazos at Richmond and very blustery. Lots of those dratted webworm nests fell to the ground thanks to the rain and wind; 0.28″ in the rain gauge. Still very windy and overcast but not as dark as in the rainstorm. Gonna be cold tonight so we’ll actually need to turn the heat on.
Spouse went out to fetch the trash can after the garbage truck came by about noon. The wind blew the trash can over twice this morning, but fortunately the lid stayed on so the trash bags didn’t fall out. Finally fixed that tipping over issue by moving the can next to the mailbox post at the end of the driveway so if the wind tried to knock it over again it would lean on the post. That worked well.
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#41 – AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMEN!!
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Our reward for SURVIVING May June July August & September!
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The notion of Felonia Von Pantsuit “running” for POTUS again is laughable. That fat, lying, cackling, hag can barely waddle.
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Hi, gang! Sorry to be so late to the party, but I had things I had to do this morning. We were supposed to have plumbers call & arrive this morning, but nada so far. This will probably ruin my nap. Well, at least I overslept this morning after the 8 o’clock galloping horse alarm.
We had a plumbing problem involving the upstairs shower get diagnosed on Tuesday, and they were supposed to come back with the parts & equipment to fix the problem today. I don’t feel good about our chances right now.
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Well, it is nice and cool here, 83, up from 60 @ 5 AM and 37% humidity?!
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Why am I NOT surprised; It Now Appears Fox News’ Trump Poll Was Set Up in Such a Way That Trump Could Never Win.
The article’s headline, “Fox News Host Slams Fox Poll Showing Most Americans Approve Impeachment,” appeared below the words “Doesn’t Count.”
“Fox News host Greg Gutfeld on Thursday blasted his network’s most recent poll finding a majority of registered voters want President Donald Trump impeached and removed from office over the Ukraine scandal, claiming it was unfairly biased towards Democrats and that ‘these polls have been known to be wrong,’” the article began.
Oh, the old “fake news” gambit! Those Fox News agitprop flunkies. They can’t even accept reality even if it comes from their own network!
Except Gutfeld’s criticism of the poll was totally legitimate.
“I’ve been seeing this poll everywhere and I know it’s a Fox News poll but we got to point out that it’s weighted toward Democrats,” Gutfeld said.
“From what I’ve seen, it’s 48 percent Democrats, 40 percent Republicans, 12 percent other. So it’s weighted for that.”
And that’s the issue here: Fox News’ poll doesn’t necessarily represent reality, at least in terms of the sample that it chose.
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Fox has turned to the Dark Side.
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What’s a Friday without Flarada Man Friday? https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/florida-man-friday-crossdresser-robs-bank-steals-cop-car/
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They just want to be loved! Is that so wroooong???
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#53: LOOK AT THOSE EARS! Those things look like radar dishes, I wonder if he can move them independently? He could prolly hear my stomach grumbling from half a mile away. His ears are so big he make JugEars ears look normal by comparison. Almost like Shrek ears.
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Well, we have a plumber, shows up right when I usually start my nap.
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U.S.—The NBA has found itself at odds with its lucrative Chinese market, and the league is doing its best to appease the Chinese government. In a move intended to patch things up with China, the NBA announced that President Xi Jinping has made the All-Star team this year.
The president will tower under the competition at an intimidating 5’11”. Especially threatening to the opposing team will be the president’s ability to imprison or execute any player who dunks on him. He is also expected to execute players on his own team who speak out against him or suggest he’s unfit for the basketball team.
https://babylonbee.com/news/president-xi-makes-nba-all-star-team
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NBA Now Requiring All Players To Stand For Chinese National Anthem
https://babylonbee.com/news/nba-requiring-players-to-stand-for-chinese-national-anthem
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It is sunny and still very windy but the temp rose to 59 from the low of 55 this morning. The wind has scattered webworm nests all over the front yard and some in the back yard and pastures but is most easily seen in the front yard. Still plenty of them in the trees. Tempted to gather them in a pile and burn them to get rid of any residual worm leavings. Ugly little critters.
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My #51, 2.10 HA! Not surprised once more; Shepard Smith leaves Fox News Channel
NEW YORK (AP) — Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on a network dominated by supporters of President Trump, abruptly quit after working at Fox since it started in 1996.
Smith said at the end of his daily newscast on Friday that he had asked the network to let him out of his contract and it had agreed.
Even in the current polarized environment, Smith said “it’s my hope that the facts will win the day, that the facts will always matter and journalism and journalists will thrive.”
Neil Cavuto, who anchors the broadcast following Smith’s, looked shocked after the announcement.
“Whoa,” Cavuto said. “Like you, I’m a little stunned.”
Smith’s departure also comes one day after Attorney General William Barr met privately with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox News. President Trump has been increasingly critical of personalities on Fox News that he views as disloyal.
On his afternoon newscast, Smith had frequently given tough reports debunking statements made by Trump and his supporters — even the Fox News opinion hosts that rule the network’s prime-time lineup.
Two weeks ago, Smith clashed with Tucker Carlson when an analyst on Smith’s program, Andrew Napolitano, said that it was a crime for President Trump to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government, in this case the Ukraine. Later that night, Carlson asked his own analyst, Joseph diGenova, to comment and he called Napolitano a fool.
The next day, Smith said that “attacking our colleague who is here to offer legal assessments, on our air, in our work home, is repugnant.”
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My #60, I agree with Hamous that it is hard to watch Fox when they give legitimacy to the most EVIL, Racist Pig in the Democratic party and give her a voice. Juan Williams is also on that list. He got fired from NPR for telling the truth and now on Fox couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it!….~SPITS~
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Unfortunately, I’ve got an appointment to have the soles of my feet scraped with a cheese grater and dipped in bleach that day—–
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#62 – Unfortunately I’ve planned to self-perform a TURP using my X-Acto knives and a soldering iron for that time. Maybe next time.
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#62, Yanno, I have this small wart on my arm that I need to burn off, I’ll get out my trusty solder iron and fix that sucker. It’ll not be fun but it is better than watching some old Hag, playing another old Hag! Oh, and I’ve burned of a wart before, many years ago.
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My #62, I just looked up TURP and damned if El Gordo didn’t beat me by a mile! 😀
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I’d look it up, but I’m afraid of what kind of ads will show up—
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Here’s a pretty good brief about what’s going on in Syria with the Kurds and the Turks. Now I’ll be the first to admit that I do not understand the details of what’s happening, but I’m generally in agreement with the President on getting our troops home and staying out of these winless foreign adventures.
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If you are a male and you don’t know what a TURP is all about, you just aren’t old enough yet. You will most likely know before it’s all over.
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#62: Will the play show her in her last moments when she sees the fires of Hell before she departs for her long visit there? If yes, it could be educational, if no, well . . . .NO!
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TURP
OUCH!
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A Doood post and no one comments? Click on his name, bet he is the one behind the Fender clone playing a stick with four tuners.
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Yeah, ouch. Had to look it up cause, you know, I’m such a young man and all.
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I just don’t want anything with that many syallables being done to me—–
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Hubs reported that several times while he was in the keeping of doctors and nurses at NW Mem-H on Wednesday, he was solemnly asked “What are you here for?” He said he thinks this is a way to reveal any patient mixup. So, that question was asked again just seconds before they would start his anesthesia drip. The doctor asked the question, and my sweet Hubs answered “I’m here for a colonoscopy and a stomachoscopy.” He said the medics were still chuckling as he faded out. He reported later that they told him the word for the stomach scopage procedure: EGD for esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Examines the esophagus, the stomach, and the duodenum, which is the top section of the small intestine.
(Apologies if I already told that story, but Sarge… “that many syllables…”)
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I’ll be skipping the TURP and going directly to a hanging plastic bag, thank you.
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Haven’t seen The Dood in a while! Where you been?
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“One thing, I do want to say is that, POTUS – you know, that’s the President – POTUS has become a potty mouth and children are listening,” Pelosi said.
“This is – this is beyond disgraceful.”
But “We’re gonna impeach the mfer” in front of your own kids is hunky dory.
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I was in the Hermann Memorial / Memorial City Cardiac Lab, out cold for five hours while they intentionally burned the interior of my heart muscle dozens of times. No urinary catheter required.
Subsequently, I had minor foot surgery at Methodist Katy and I woke up – surprise – with a catheter. If that nurse who removed it hadn’t been so sweet and apologetic, I would have punched her lights out.
There will be no elective surgeries on this body involving urinary catheters again.
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Halftime score – SS 53 archrival Goldthwaite 0. They’ll let the clock run during the second half.
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Once you start wandering around about to bust needing to pee, but no matter how hard you try, you can only squeeze out a few drops, you will eventually show up at an ER somewhere begging for a catheter. Don’t ask me how I know these things, but I know these things.
Night all.
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74 mharper
Yes. They did that to me right before my cardiac ablation. (That involved four non-urinary catheters that originate elsewhere in the groin.)There’s just one thing….She’s asking me the questions after the Valium and – quite literally – right before she took a razor to the area.
With a big smile on her face.Sheesh.
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