Grace Kelly, American Actress
I may be unalterably partial to brunettes, but I have never wavered from my opinion that Grace Kelly is the most beautiful woman who ever lived.
At her finest in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) with Jimmy Stewart.
She also won an Oscar for Best Actress in the 1954 drama The Country Girl.
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Well we have a blonde and a very pretty one at that. So, it’s Friday!
Mornin’ Gang
Happy Windy Friday! Mercy.
Texpat, about your #64 last night, I can’t believe that the United States has allowed the savages to all but shut the ship traffic in the Red Sea. I say that because many container ships aren’t risking it and going around African adding miles and days to the trip.
Mornin’ GJT windy here also. 😉
The Bidet admin finally got my message and decided to strike back at the Houthis launch sites. From the news I heard, 60+ sites were targeted;
my question is how effective were these strikes?
Did they hit the launch pads/zones, did they hit any weapons depots, did they kill any of the leadership and how many of the rank and file got their trip to meet allah face to face?
Now that the Houthi strongholds have been softened a bit, it is time for KSA to send in his troops to root out and eliminate the remaining terrorists and their Iranian backers.
I have one in the spitoon; it just went poof without a trace.
My name is Eithan Haim. I am a 33-year-old general surgeon who was the anonymous whistleblower in a story released May 16, 2023 by Christopher Rufo. We exposed the fact that Texas Children’s Hospital – the largest children’s hospital in the world – was lying to the public about the existence of their transgender program. In part due to the story’s release, the very next day, the Texas Legislature voted, with bipartisan support, to ban transgender medical interventions on minors. The conduct we exposed became illegal in the State of Texas within 24 hours of our story.
Just over a month later, on June 23rd, 2023, a few hours before my graduation from surgical training, two federal agents showed up to my apartment in a highly atypical, unexpected, and aggressive show of force. Despite their best attempt at launching a surprise interview, I insisted on having an attorney present. Before leaving, however, I was given a target letter signed by a federal prosecutor that stated I was being criminally investigated for a case regarding “medical records.”
Since no laws had been violated (no personally identifiable patient health information was disclosed), this was nothing more than a blatant attempt at political intimidation. We believe this case is being driven by a highly ideological division within the Department of Health and Human Services that aims to silence whistleblowers who expose institutionalized medical corruption and the dangers of these hormone-based interventions for confused, adolescent children.
Between then and our decision to take this story public, the path forward was unclear. I knew that speaking out would necessarily put myself and my family at great risk, but after experiencing the extent of the corruption first-hand, it became clear that silence would never be an option.
We paid (and are paying) an enormous price. We spent the entirety of our retirement, investments, savings, and almost all of our disposable income to pay the legal bills to keep the case alive. My name was also leaked to left-wing activists who have viciously defamed me online and threatened my reputation as a physician. Although we have given this case all we have, there simply isn’t enough to keep up with the hundreds of thousands we currently owe in legal bills or the potential million(s) it would cost to fight this case through trial.
This guy is only 33 years old, younger than all children. The administration of Texas Children’s Hospital in collusion with the Biden criminal enterprise, Dept. of Health & Human Services and the Merrick Garland DOJ have set out to destroy his life and his professional reputation.
Eithan’s goal is to raise $500,000 to pay off his legal bills and continue to fight TCH and others.
He has raised about $87,000 as of a few minutes ago.
All money raised goes directly to our attorneys at Burke Law Group. Like us, our attorneys are all-in for this fight. Owing to their faith in this cause, they have sacrificed countless hours of their own time on my legal defense and the defense of laws banning transgender procedures on minors.
This fund supports my legal defense in order to establish a precedent for other whistleblowers to speak out without fear of government persecution. It will also help support our efforts to fight against the unsubstantiated challenges to state laws banning these procedures (with my assistance, we have already filed multiple legal briefs defending the laws with organizations like Do No Harm). Additionally, this fund will support offensive legal action against those who have abused their professional responsibility in service of radical transgender ideology. Every dollar will work towards dismantling the legal and political regime attempting to keep medical professionals like me silent.
If you are on Facebook or other social media, please share this story from GiveSendGo. They can’t suppress the story if enough people keep posting it.
Also, since the leadership of Texas Childrens’ Hospital decided to persecute and destroy Dr. Eithan Haim, I am sure remaining employed has been difficult given TCH’s reach and influence.
I did find the good people at the Greenville Medical Center in Greenville, east of Dallas, have given a job to Dr. Haim. It’s a smaller, rural hospital, but at least he is employed.
Bill Melugin on the Eagle Pass standoff.
NEW: The Texas Military Department confirms the TX National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass (city property where mass illegal crossings are), and is restricting Border Patrol from accessing the area, saying the Feds “perpetuate illegal crossings”. This is the area where Border Patrol has been cutting TX razor wire. Razor wire and fences are now deployed to block the area off from the public and federal government. Attached video is from our crew on the ground this morning as they began blocking it off.
You can expect DOJ to sue Texas over this.
I have a hard time avoiding binge watching YouTube videos of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana making fools out of pompous, self-satisfed people who show up for their 15 minutes of fame at Capitol Hill.
This Obama appointee was an assistant attorney general for 12 and a Superior Court in Washington judge for 9 years. If you wonder how many of these ridiculous rulings and opinions erupt out of local federal courts, all you have to do is watch this video.
Be worried for our nation.
That’s right, an AAG for 12 years and Superior Court judge for 9 years.
NOTE: This nominee withdrew her name or it was withdrawn by the White House after this hearing.
How stupid do you have to be to show up in DC to be interviewed for a federal judgeship and not even prepare by studying the US Constitution ? When you know Senator Kennedy is going to asking ?
Blonde Friday? PFFFFFTTTTTT Forget hair color I love a well endowed lass myself. Sorta like this.
NOTE: This nominee withdrew her name or it was withdrawn by the White House after this hearing.
Yup but remember THIS Judge is now sitting on the US Supreme Court even though she doesn’t know anything about Article II of the Constitution AND could define the word : “Woman”
BUTT She is the right color/gender so there’s that.
~SPITS~
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Blessed with a lot of pistols? 😀 >>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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One of the best non-pro, amateur video ads I have ever seen. She is excellent.
I can finally sit at my “desk” without the sun burning a hole in my eyeballs.
Good morning and Happy Friday, C&C! Lots of legal news in today’s excellent roundup: terrific new decision forces the CDC to cough up jab side effect data; Jewish students sue Harvard and it may take eviscerate the equity movement; Trump judges swatted along with a lot of other folks; Middle East war widens with broad attacks on Yemen; and a remarkable Daily Mail headline signals jabs wall of media protection may be crumbling.
NEWS:
You’re going to love and hate this story — but mostly love. On January 5th, in Freedom Coalition of Doctors for Choice v. Centers for Disease Control, et al, a Texas federal court gave the CDC a twelve-month rolling deadline to cough up all the “free-text” entries from its V-SAFE vaccine side-effect tracking database.
The court gave TPTB the middle finger when they claimed it would 59 years to process all of this paperwork. IIRC, it took ’em about two weeks to get stuff ready to get the jabs approved.
The V-Safe program allows recipients to enter their own information, including free text to report anything they want – not being strait jacketed into box checking options. Also, medical staff aren’t involved, so the lag in, or lack of, data entry by doctors incentivized by Big Pharma is avoided.
The V-Safe program had collected just under 8M entries before the CDC yanked it. Since then, the CDC has been guarding that data like the cash stash under grandma’s mattress.
One of the most remarkable things about last week’s order was how skeptical the judge seemed about nearly everything the CDC said. The public’s loss of trust in the health agency apparently extends to the judicial branch. Judges are part of the public, after all. The order even referenced the disgraceful loss of trust, ironically noting that “While ‘Trust the Science’ became something of a national slogan, the American public’s trust in science and scientists are at an all-time low.”
/snip
…the court had also footnoted Francis Collin’s recent mea culpa, where the NIH director loonily admitted that public health people shouldn’t be in charge of important decisions. The Court wrote:
THAT will leave a mark! When a judge tells you that your words are worthless…doesn’t bode well for Big Pharma and Big Gov.
The Plaintiff is a non-profit formed specifically to get the V-safe data and make it available to the public on its website, http://www.drsforchoice.org. Now that they have an order, the first batch of V-safe entries should be released to the public on February 15th.
/snip
Next, the Court began using skeptical language suggesting it thinks the CDC lies like a rug, or a dog, or a Pelosi. The Court considered the CDC’s sworn claim that it would take one of its analysts fifty-nine years to review all the 7.8 million text entries for private information, which came to 650,000 pages, and said, yeah, that’s your own fault:
To this lawyer’s eyes, that last comment about overestimating — wholly unnecessary to the order — stuck out like a sore injection site. The Court didn’t just say the CDC overestimated the number of pages; it said the CDC excessively overestimated the number of pages.
That’s how the judge calls you a liar without calling you a liar.
Following is Mr. C. excerpting various entries from the judge’s document. Good stuff. The judge is ticked off, and this time it’s at the right people.
Then the Court began analyzing whether forcing the CDC to cough up the V-safe data was in the public interest, and here is where the order really began to soar….[excerpted text]
After describing how important the data was to the public interest, the judge moved on to the CDC’s V-safe “studies,” of which he seemed to take an exceptionally dim view: [excerpted text]
The judge continued, suggesting that some of the CDC’s published V-safe studies might actually be misleading: [excerpted text]
After all of the flogging was completed, the judge ordered the release of information, on a timeline the judge determined. And it wasn’t 59 years of foot dragging.
Now let’s consider some of the order’s implications.
First of all, we know this must be bad news for the jabs because, had the V-safe data shown the vaccines were safe and effective, the CDC would have already released the data. (We can ignore the CDC’s bogus claims about its alleged 59-year effort to review the data, since the court already dealt with that.) It is vexing that a publicly-funded health bureaucracy used taxpayer money to protect big pharma from the reality of its defective products by dragging out the release of this information for two years.
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I can finally sit at my “desk” without the sun burning a hole in my eyeballs.
I don’t understand why you can’t install blinds or curtains or something.
Heh. The illegal aliens are fond of aluminum foil on the windows.
Next, good news at Harvard. It seems that Hahhvaahd is the defendant in a religious discrimination complaint in Federal Court.
The second paragraph — especially its final sentence — neatly summarized the complaint’s allegations:
Harvard’s antisemitism cancer—as a past Harvard president termed it—manifests itself in a double standard invidious to Jews. Harvard selectively enforces its policies to avoid protecting Jewish students from harassment, hires professors who support anti-Jewish violence and spread antisemitic propaganda, and ignores Jewish students’ pleas for protection. Those professors teach and advocate through a binary oppressor-oppressed lens, through which Jews, one of history’s most persecuted peoples, are typically designated “oppressor,” and therefore unworthy of support or sympathy. Harvard permits students and faculty to advocate, without consequence, the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel, the only Jewish country in the world. Meanwhile, Harvard requires students to take a training class that warns that they will be disciplined if they engage in sizeism, fatphobia, racism, transphobia, or other disfavored behavior.
/snip
For a moment, set aside issues of whether or not the modern State of Israel is a force for good in the world, or whether the Mossad ran Jeffrey Epstein, and even darker theories. Jewish Americans are not bombing Gaza, so we don’t need to embroil Israel’s war decisions into this analysis. What almost all of us can agree on is unlike other ‘victim groups,’ the Jews have a real claim to really having been oppressed, and quite badly, at various points in history.
Which is why the double-standard described in this new complaint is not just about anti-semitism but is rapidly dissolving the whole woke infrastructure by proving it was nothing but a mirage. Jews thought they lived safely under the Left’s woke victim umbrella. But once the controversy over the Gaza war appeared on the scene, Jewish Americans quickly found out the hard way they are not victims after all, but are privileged oppressors to the Left.
Give the libs enough time, and they’ll expose themselves. It’s not about protecting victims, it’s about division and control. I’ve opined for a long time that folks who insist on woke culture and censoring “hate” speech should be very careful. Their “protective speech” today could be redefined as “hate speech” tomorrow, and the tables could be turned under their rules. All speech is free speech, else we lose the ability to share ideas and shackle our intelligence.
But that’s just me.
I wish these Jewish students much success in their endeavors, because DEI must DIE.
Texpat – for some reason Hubby doesn’t want curtains. This is a problem only during the winter, when the sun is low in the sky, and only for a few morning hours.
I have plenty to keep myself busy elsewhere until the retina destroying sunshine moves on.
Next up at the C&C: the swatting epidemic
I want every person instigating a swatting event to be prosecuted as attempted murder. I don’t care what ideology spawned the action, or which side gets hit.
Judge Engoran and Judge Chutkan have both been swatted. Someone attempted to swat Jack Smith. That’s after a whole buncha Republicans were swatted.
Them and celebrities and some other folks. This needs to stop. It’s a waste of taxpayer resources, potentially endangers folks who really need those resources, and most of all – it’s dangerous.
Re the attacks against the Red Sea problem makers, mentioned yesterday:
The Middle East war spread a little wider yesterday. Reuters ran the story under the headline, “US and Britain strike Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on shipping.” It wasn’t a small strike, either. Reuters said U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched a total of 73 air strikes across Yemen last night.
Mr. C. reports a mix of headlines: Republicans backed Biden’s attack (or rather, the meat puppet’s handlers’ attack); other headlines were critical.
The Intercept article quoted a long string of Democrat Congresspeople claiming Biden exceeded his Constitutional authority. (The legal issue seems more complicated; Biden obviously may respond to attacks on US assets, for example.) The Democrat objections may be less about the Constitution and more about their objections to the Gaza war, since the Houthis are Gazan allies. To evidence this, the first democrat mentioned in the article complaining about Biden was Rashida Talib.
But several Republicans were equally nonplussed. Marjorie Taylor Greene also showed up in the list, for instance:
Mr. C. wonders where Lloyd Austin is, and if he’s even alive. Given this admin’s penchant for obscuring the most basic facts….yeah, we can wonder. Sometimes I wonder if Biden is alive.
And then this:
Finally, the UK Daily Mail shattered the vaccine shield Wednesday with this astounding headline, which was so fascinating I’m giving you the screen shot: [insert headline stating (paraphrased) “not only did the jab ruin my life, but FB is preventing me from telling my friends about it]
How about that? The headline’s a two-fer, mentioning both vaccine injury and censorship. If they’re not careful, this kind of thing might give people the impression that vaccine injuries are more common than they’re letting on and even make some folks hesitant.
The second week of January is turning out to be just as interesting as was the first week.
I’ve donated to the good doctor’s legal fund, and shared it over yonder and on Gab. Haven’t been on Gab in quite a while, it’s a good thing I have my system for remembering passwords.
This pastor has filed a $3.5M lawsuit against the Canadian powers over his persecution during the Covid lockdowns there. His rights were severely and forcibly denied to him.
I don’t understand why you can’t install blinds or curtains or something.
A Farrah Fawcett poster or sumpthin!
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One of the most remarkable things about last week’s order was how skeptical the judge seemed about nearly everything the CDC said. The public’s loss of trust in the health agency apparently extends to the judicial branch. Judges are part of the public, after all. The order even referenced the disgraceful loss of trust, ironically noting that “While ‘Trust the Science’ became something of a national slogan, the American public’s trust in science and scientists are at an all-time low.”
The Garland DOJ offices in DC have WANTED – Dead or Alive posters of Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on the walls.
Jeff Childers must have forgotten about Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas in Amarillo. This judge, if you recall, caused a national mental breakdown on the Left when he issued an injunction on the distribution of the abortion pill Mifepristone. It was the first time in history a court had challenged an FDA drug approval.
Kacsmaryk is the only judge in the Northern District of Texas Amarillo offices and Ken Paxton loves to file his lawsuits against the Biden administration in that court. Judge Kasmaryk also ordered the reinstatement of Trump’s “Remain In Mexico” policy, but SCOTUS reversed his decision. The judge has little to no patience for dumb behavior of DOJ attorneys.
The Doctors for Choice did their forum shopping wisely with their suit against the CDC. They could not have found a more sympathetic federal judge in the entire country.
I’m processing an application for our vacancy in Bryan. Hubby talked to the couple, liked them a lot. They filled out an application, and right there it asks, among other things, if they’ve ever been sued before and if they’ve ever been evicted.
They answered no to both of those questions.
I just reviewed the report that came back from our screening service, which sent me to the Brazos County Clerk filings. I can’t get a lot of info, such as transcripts and such, and on two separate occasions in the past two years these folks were in court for eviction proceedings.
I guess they thought we wouldn’t check.
I thought this was the most interesting part of the legal drama from today’s Coffee & Covid.
Judge Kacsmaryk wrote in his opinion:
In 2024, American citizens may be more interested in COVID data following Dr. Francis Collins’s statements on the “public-health mindset”: “If you’re a public-health person and you’re trying to make a decision, you have this very narrow view of what the right decision is, and that is something that will save a life. It doesn’t matter what else happens. So you attach infinite value to stopping the disease and saving a life. You attach a zero value to whether this actually totally disrupts people’s lives, ruins the economy, and has many kids kept out of school in a way that they never quite recovered from … This is a public-health mindset. And I think a lot of us involved in trying to make those recommendations had that mindset, and that was really unfortunate. It’s another mistake we made. Okay.”
Childers points out the unintended consequences of Collins’ pathetic appeal to public sympathy.
Stop for a second. Those of you who were annoyed when Collins said that but nothing happened to him — this happened. Collins thought his silly statement would make him look good somehow (our fault was we just cared too much!). But his half-baked, half-hearted, half-witted admission is now showing up in crucial court orders.
This high-stakes game we are playing is a game of inches. Be patient.
Morning, gang! What a windy day we are having in northwest Houston. I sat outside with Billy Cat while he ate his breakfast this morning, and the gusts of wind were scaring him. But he stuck it out and cleaned his bowl.
Since my birthday is coming up next month I’ve found what y’all can get me;
Comments: Y75You didn’t do bad for your 1st cut with the 880 with a 60″ bar. Be careful the 60inch bar throws chains off very often keep it tight and straight up and down cuts. Horizontal the bar bends and the chain come off.
I’ve done many of these cookies in British Columbia Canada and I would recommend that you use a smaller saw to get it started then move onto the big boy. It will definitely help in securing a nice even straight cut. Keep up the good work.
Cool to see the big machine in action. Wear some gloves and ear protection unless I didn’t see ear plugs. That must have been a beast to handle but try to use the dogs and get that thing up to speed before trying to bury it into the wood
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Please pray for favor from United Health Care concerning the needed surgery for Headcrusher. 2 Kelsey Seybold doctors, a spine specialils and a neuro-surgeon both said that surgery was the appropriate option. The surgeon said flatly, that the only way this gets fixed is with surgery. I have an image that I would like to post, if Shannon can help.
With her tweetX Majorie Taylor Green wins the captain obvious award for the week.
yet they still couldn’t manage to impeach Fidel mayorkas because a few house eCons objected to how she filed the article to impeach or some other noble notion was violated in their convoluted chamber of sanctimonious rules.
so better to let the invasion continue.
it’s their Wally World and you can’t enter but millions of illegals can.
Good morning all, currently -35F here. It was -42 when I first got up with a windchill in the -50’s. Might have to put on a sweater today. FWP the furnace in the shop is out and I can’t get it to light. Rats.
Hang on. I’m still on the road.
If American MLB needs better pitchers, maybe they should take a look at German farmers.
Holy crap South Africa is bringing charges against Israel for what? Genocide. Israel is facing the International lynch mob.
I saw this article a few days ago, and the amount of denial is breathtaking:
Cancer is hitting more young people in the U.S. and around the globe, baffling doctors. Diagnosis rates in the U.S. rose in 2019 to 107.8 cases per 100,000 people under 50, up 12.8% from 95.6 in 2000, federal data show. A study in BMJ Oncology last year reported a sharp global rise in cancers in people under 50, with the highest rates in North America, Australia and Western Europe.
Doctors are racing to figure out what is making them sick, and how to identify young people who are at high risk. They suspect that changes in the way we live—less physical activity, more ultra-processed foods, new toxins—have raised the risk for younger generations.
“The patients are getting younger,” said Dr. Andrea Cercek, who co-directs a program for early-onset gastrointestinal cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where Keen was treated. “It’s likely some environmental change, whether it’s something in our food, our medications or something we have not yet identified.”
Something in our MEDICATIONS?! It’s right there in front of them, and they are STILL baffled?!
Chiefs -v- Dolphins will be played in Kansas City tomorrow night. Temps expected to be 0º F +/-, tickets going for $28.
#35 Squawk: South Africa claiming Israel is committing genocide?!? What about what South Africa is doing to the white farmers and other whites in South Africa?
Project much?
Bonecrusher
Project much?
Excuse me. Was that directed at me?
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The NFL sold that game to Paramount+.
Available to subscribers only.
Look for it to be the least watched playoff game ever.
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I don’t think so.
Bonecrusher is speaking about the black genocide of white farmers in South Africa while accusing Israel of doing the same thing to Palestinians. The government of South Africa looks like the biggest of hypocrites.
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From Bonecrusher:
#37 Shannon
They’re catching a lot of heat over it, I know that.
Sorry Bones.
My old technique of posting photos into comments doesn’t seem to work anymore.
I work exclusively from my phone, so that’s probably part of the problem.
Retrying….
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Ha! It worked!
Now, if I can only remember my new technique….
Shannon @ 3:30 PM
Don’t be surprised if a year from now all the NFL Playoff games are live-streamed on some Paramount or Paramount+ platform.
The NFL sold the rights to the game to NBC who decided to broadcast it on the local area NBC affiliates in Miami and Kansas City. NBC then decided to broadcast it to the rest of the world on Peacock which is one of their subsidiaries. It’s a test case for NBC and they’ll probably lose money, but it is the future.
Like I said yesterday, live streaming is the new game, cable is a dying industry and the old alphabet networks we grew up with will disappear.
If any of you own stock in a cable company, dump it now.
Shannon
The 3:33 image came out a little blurry. The 3:48 image came out sharper.
Hmmm.
I know this can’t be an image of my lumbar region because there are still discs between the vertebrae. Mine would look like one solid piece of bone.
Shannon
It cost $6/month or $60/year for Peacock. The Peacock Premium Plus is another $60/year for a total $120/year if you want it ad-free.
They had only 28 million subscribers at the end of September. If they sign up another 20 million for this game, they will come out in the long run even if they lose money on the direct game revenue.
Remember, the NFL playoffs are about gambling and there are millions out there laying bets. They’ll subscribe.
I don’t care anything about the NFL, but I am pretty fascinated with what is happening in the broadcasting & entertainment world vis-a-vis the technological and business areas of it.
Bones submitted the photo. I’m sure he will follow up with the story of whose spine it is.
It darn sure isn’t my spine, either.
Mine would make you cry.
I can certainly see one bulging disc in the photo.
By the way, I never could see the first image (3:33) on the blog.
Just think about it. NBC doesn’t really care about their image anymore because they know it won’t matter much longer.
If they get only 5,000,000 new subscribers for Peacock in 2024 for this Chiefs/Dolphins game and lose even $20,000,000 on the game itself, they have gained $300,000,000 in subscriber fees for 2024.
They don’t care if everybody hates them and they lose money on the game.
Pretty damned slick, if you ask me.
Shannon @ 4:54 PM
The image is of Bonecrusher’s son’s spine.
He is going to have back surgery and has been posting about it here several times over the last few days.
My brother has a fancy new Apple laptop computer, but insists on squinting into a tiny iPhone screen all day long to read and post on the internet.
It’s mind boggling. He’s going to have to get a seeing-eye dog pretty soon. Maybe the dog can read the comments on Hambone.net out loud to him.
I’ve been otherwise occupied today, sorry for the delay in responding. When I showed that pic to the first Kelsey Seybold doc, a spine specialist, she said that is a big bulge and she was referring to a neuro surgeon. Neuro surgeon said it was very clear that surgery was not really a choice.
If Shannon would be so kind as to post an enlarged version of the image, I can give a better play by play if what the surgeon said.
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That size is about as good as it’s going to get here.
I should have scrolled further up.
If you look at L4-L5 you can see the dark bulge into the white, verticle line, that line is the spinal cord and the dark bulge is the disc pinching it off.
There is more than one “The Hague,” as I learned in my years of leading the coverage there for AP (Associated Press) in my role as Europe-Africa Editor. The Dutch city houses the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, both of which have the authority to issue arrest warrants. That’s why Serbian miscreants Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic were arrested, and why warrants are out for deposed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and now for Vladimir Putin.
The case against Israel is being heard this Thursday and Friday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which is a far more political beast. Established in 1945 under the United Nations to address legal disputes between states, it has no enforcement powers at all.
To illustrate this, consider the case involving Azerbaijan, which 13 months ago started blockading the “Lachin Corridor,” cutting off the 120,000 ethnic Armenians in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh from the world. Last February, the ICJ ordered the blockade to be lifted immediately in highly explicit and rather imperious language,
Azerbaijan ignored the order completely and made the blockade hermetic in June, sparking charges by respected international jurists like Luis Moreno Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the ICC, of “genocide by starvation.” It then attacked the exhausted enclave in September, compelling the entire population to flee to Armenia.
Adding to the court’s un-seriousness is a political aspect that comes from the fact that the 15 judges are appointed along a regional key to represent countries, including the countries involved in any case, and they rarely stray from the positions of their governments.
That’s why Israel got to choose a judge.* Indeed its choice, Aharon Barak (the same former Supreme Court chief justice that the Netanyahu coalition has been disgracefully besmirching), may well be the most independent-minded judge on the panel this week.
None of that means that it would be helpful to Israel to be accused and then convicted of genocide in this venue. World public opinion, which does not care too much about nuance, does not distinguish between the various courts. But is a conviction likely?
No matter how political the court may be, it must consider genocide as defined by the Genocide Convention, a document approved by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Both Israel and South Africa recognize this convention, though its wording may surprise most people.
Read the whole thing. Even kangaroos wouldn’t humiliate themselves in this court.
Like Squawk quoted yesterday…
PUBLIC RELATIONS is an anagram of CRAP BUILT ON LIES.
The world does not care about the facts or the evidence. It’s all about the narrative in the media.
* The entire process here is a farce and while I realize Israel committed itself to all kinds of things sponsored by the United Nations immediately after 1948, I also realize Ben-Gurion and the rest were extraordinarily naive in believing anything they signed would not be used against them in the future.
COVID had knocked out our annual Evening of Country Gospel where we invite singers/groups from the area to perform at our church hall.
Tonight we are trying again. What a crowd. Must be 400 in attendance.
Beef or Chicken Stew served.
I’ll be singing with a couple groups.
Gorblimy, Houston is blacked out tonight. I just got back from an errand 2 miles from home, and I’ve never driven in such darkness. I guess the whole area is heavily clouded over, the sky is darkest-dark blue, no stars, no moon, just oppressive black-out.
There is going to be an ole-timers get-together from the once-upon-a Schlumberger drilling software gang, in Sugar Land next Friday night. I had thought I might go, but now I realize that I am simply too old to drive 25 miles each way after dark. I guess I could ask around and see if anyone could give me a ride, but after my short errand tonight, I may feel like I am too old to even be a passenger on a long nighttime drive.
Ahem. I don’t see any graphics posted in this file. Just big blank areas where y’all claim to have put inyour images.
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Harper, I’m going to be deeply disappointed in you if you don’t get off your derriere and go to Sugar Land for that party next week.
55 mharper42
Refresh the Page !!!!
You always have to refresh the page when you see a large blank space.
I agree MHarper! Go have some fun.
I don’t know if there is a problem but I see both pictures and I almost never have to refresh to see them but I am using an old Dell PC. I don’t own a fancy phone.
mharper dittos, what they said get over there any way you can.
Gotta refresh to see current comments anyway, no biggie.
I splurged on crab legs for my no-meat Friday dinner.
Not gonna do it again. Both Hubby and I are wondering what all the hooplah is about crab meat.
GJT
I am lookng into that also. There is a way that the page reloads when a new comment is made. the main advantage is reducing the chances of straining a mousing finger.
Love me some crab legs. Steamed. With mucho melted butta.
I’d heard something about this on the radio, but didn’t realize it happened at the Galleria Mall, here in Houston. The Galleria used to be such a hoity-toity place to go, and now it’s tied to men sexually abusing toddlers.
Yet another video shows Fernandez and two other men engaged in graphic sexual activity while the male victim was lying on a changing table, the complaint says.
A 54-second video showed a second prepubescent child wearing jeans and an “opened diaper with a dinosaur t-shirt” on a changing table in what appears to be a public restroom, it adds. The complaint accuses Fernandez and another suspect of engaging in sexual activity, and the other suspect attempts to rape the male child, it says.
Only one of the three has been identified and caught. The judge was so revolted that he refused any bail option and made sure the perp was held behind bars.
Hopefully forever.
I got to hear a little bit of Mark Levin on the way home from the show. Man, he is so good.
That sorry basturd Biden is funding Iran, Hamas, Qatar, Houthis, etc.
Dammit Harper.
I’d volunteer to take you myself but I’m not so keen on night driving anymore either.
Dernit. I forgot to eat supper tonight.
Oh well. I’m quite certain that Salmon and Asparagus is just as good at 11pm.
Just checking in tonight to say Hi to one and all Hamsters and have read all the comments thus far to catch up on what today had to offer. Been busy with other things stretched out most of the afternoon. Have been especially paying attention to the weather forecasts as they slightly change when more info becomes available.
All our outside water faucets still have protective covers from last year’s winter since the sprinkler system takes care of watering the yards. Spouse has checked everything out for keeping water dripping slowly in the house faucets or draining the pipes in the attic if necessary after filling both bathtubs with water so we can use the plumbing by pouring small pailfuls of water into toilets to flush them. Many years ago when we had 5 straight days of below freezing temps that sort of thing worked very well.
Likely too late for anyone to put more insulation in the attic now, but adding more than the house already has is a very good idea. Since we built our house and our builder was an old-timer who only built maybe 5 or 6 custom homes a year and was very fussy about doing things right. We had a lot of attic insulation put in. Several years later we added more insulation and probably have as much up there as a home in Wisconsin has. Also the builder put lots of insulation in the outside walls. The extra attic insulation works well for keeping the house cooler in summer as well as warmer in winter.
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