Wednesday Miracle Drug Open Comments

Is there nothing that this medicine can’t do?  Parasites, viruses, now cancer?  But since it’s a cheap drug and Big Pharma can’t make money off of it, it’ll be hard to find a doctor who’ll prescribe it.  I may have to follow this guy’s Substack.

Ivermectin Squares Off in a New War on Cancer

With this article, I begin what I hope will be a series of reports on the use of inexpensive generic drugs for the treatment of cancer. In one of the few good things to come out of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, a growing number of physicians who pioneered effective early treatments for Covid-19 is now attempting to learn if safe, off-patent drugs can also work for cancer. So far, results are promising for drugs like ivermectin, mebendazole, and metformin, and supplements like melatonin.

John Ross was fifty-one years old when he was diagnosed, after more than a year of discomfort and growing unwellness, with Stage 3B colon cancer. A three- to four-inch tumor had almost completely blocked and broken through the organ wall; his surrounding lymph nodes were enlarged and presumed cancerous.

The story of John Ross goes on to describe how he pursued “conventional” cancer treatments, but didn’t tell his doctors he was also using ivermectin and other non-conventional treatments:

In his quest for the best care, Ross, who lives in Prescott, Wisconsin, went to two major cancer centers in the Midwest. He underwent a battery of blood draws and diagnostic tests and consulted at least a dozen physicians. But only Dr. James found and treated, he said, a low magnesium level, a Vitamin D level that was acceptable but too low, Dr. James believed, for challenging cancer, and, most critically, severe thyroid dysfunction. Nobody had tested for this, he said.

“I don’t know how you are standing here today—I’ve never seen blood this bad,” Dr. James told Ross after his thyroid result came in….” Starting three weeks before radiation and chemotherapy, Ross began, along with ivermectin, infusions of high-dose Vitamin C and glutathione; major auto-hemotherapy, also called ozone therapy; and hyperbaric oxygen therapy, along with supplements like high-dose melatonin.

The “conventional” doctors were amazed at his lack of adverse reactions to the harsh chemicals and radiation he was being given. No burns, no hair loss, etc.

The clincher, however, came in Ross’s MRI and CT scans in July of 2023. After twenty-eight radiation and chemotherapy treatments and nearly three months of the ivermectin protocol, “Ninety percent of his tumor had turned fibrous, meaning into scar tissue,” Ross’s wife, Roxanne, told me. “And the lymph nodes were half the size,” John added. An oncologist’s report called that an “excellent response.”

Dr. James saw this kind of recovery with two patients, the other one withholding his name.  The anonymous patient totally refused the “conventional”  treatment and took only the cheap stuff.

Same result.

Two years before Covid, researchers analyzed published data that strongly suggested ivermectin could be repurposed, namely put to another off-label use, for cancer. In about twenty laboratory studies, ivermectin was found to inhibit cell proliferation and induce “apoptosis”—cell death—in cancer cell lines of the breast, prostate, ovary, head and neck, colon, and pancreas. 

/snip

A seasoned group of expert doctors—often sharing their experiences in chat groups, tweets, and texts—is challenging the American model of cancer care. One patient at a time, they are using safe, off-the-shelf drugs, often alongside traditional therapies. I know of losses to cancer among their patients. But I also know of unexpected wins.

Dr. Paul Marik is a widely published critical care physician and author of a book on the potential of so-called repurposed drugs to prevent and treat cancer. Dr. Kathleen Ruddy is a retired cancer surgeon who trained at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and cared for 10,000 breast cancer patients over a thirty-year career.

/snip

Mebendazole and ivermectin, both antiparasitic drugs, doom cancer cells by disrupting the biochemical pathways on which they depend, Marik explained of the research. “They act on tumor stem cells and the tumor microenvironment. Unlike chemo, which only targets rapidly dividing cells, both ivermectin and mebendazole have been proven to act on multiple tumor pathways involving multiple different cancer types.”

“In the pre-clinical data, the twenty years of research that Paul is referring to,” Ruddy said, “there is not a cancer type that has not been impinged upon in terms of its growth and proliferation when exposed to ivermectin. Not one. Not one,” she said, gesturing with her index finger. All have succumbed, to varying degrees, when exposed to ivermectin.

There’s more, but you get the idea.

The idea of affordable cancer care that works as well or better than the multiple thousands dollars treatments? And you thought the real estate market was going to be decimated.  Just imagine all the cancer docs having to change specialties, the pharmacy reps finding new drugs to hawk…and all the mommies and daddies being able to hug their kids for years to come.


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  1. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Morning all, let’s get the day started.

    Interesting article.

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I have I ever told you that I HATE MICROSOFT oh and Bill Gates of course.   ~SPITS~

    It’s HUMP DAY!

    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    How about that? Texanadian snuck in before I refreshed. Gotta’ learn to do that. 😉

  4. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    We were watching Reacher season 2 episode 2 and the crew noticed a black sedan following them SO Reacher said, “well I’ll just go over and introduce myself”. He walks over to the front of the car with the dude behind the wheel and kicks the front bumper/hood so hard that the air bag goes off and smacks the guy in the face then Reacher yanks him out of the car and proceeds to beat crap out of him. Dude is out cold on the road and the gal comes over to check his ID and of course he’s a cop. Not sure the cop is a good or bad guy yet but I’m guessing a bad guy. Reacher is a man of action. 😀

  5. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Wiregrass couple celebrates 80 years of marriage.

    DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — A Wiregrass couple celebrated a major milestone on Sunday, as they celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary.

    Surrounded by loved ones at their Dothan home, George and Louise Dennis celebrated 8 decades of marriage.

    They eloped in 1944 when George was 18 and Louise was 15, without their parent’s blessing across the state line in Bonifay. Their parents were not happy with the couple’s decision, but after talking it out, the families finally agreed to let them stay married and Louise’s dad gave his blessing.

    The love story however started two years before their union, when George was delivering the newspaper for the Dothan Eagle and one day he saw Louise sitting outside her grandmother’s house and from that moment he knew that she was the one for him.

    George and Louise’s paths would cross again in high school.

    “We just knew it I reckon,” George Dennis said. “Our spirits must have worked together. I know the Lord had his hand in it because we were in the same grade at school, so that kind of put us together. She was double promoted a couple of times and I failed the 8th grade, so that would put us down there together and I get there and I kept the other guys away didn’t I Louise?”

    “Well, yes you did,” Louise answered.

    Months after their union, George entered World War 2 as a soldier, where during his service he lost his leg after he tripped over a landmine while on the battlefield.

    This tragedy and the loss of their adopted daughter Crystal, whom they lost to a horse accident when she was 7, did not break George and Louise’s bond. Instead, the couple persevered and opened an antique rug business, Persian Gallery, that was open for over 40 years in the Circle City.

    Now 80 years after their elopement in Jackson County the couple is one of the longest married couples in the state of Alabama.

    “We got room to brag,” George says.

    “Oh well, it’s not our bragging,” Louise replies.

    “No, it’s the Lord that took us this far and he deserves all the credit.”

    When asked what the secret is to being married for almost eight decades, both Louise and George agree that their faith has guided them this far. To go along with two words that George attributes to the longevity, “Yes, dear.”

    Emphasis mine. 😀

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Everybody stand up and give an ovation for Jennifer Van Laar, editor-in-chief at RedState.com.  The general public today doesn’t realize the power of a single blog post, often more powerful than the old school journalism of the past because of its instant and vast distribution.  The internet is all the old wire services and syndicators rolled into one on huge steroids.

    Sources within the meeting told RedState that McDaniel “ranted” about RedState’s story and enlisted standing Budget Committee Chair Christine Toretti to send an email purporting to “debunk” RedState’s reporting to the members of the 168 and members of the press

    That strategy failed, and by Sunday Donald Trump was hinting during interviews that McDaniel wouldn’t be at the helm of the RNC much longer.

    Unnamed sources, though, told the Times that McDaniel has been “considering leaving before the end of her term for some time.”

    Here are a few examples with Democratic National Committee comparable spending:

    Floral Arrangements: RNC – $70,328.00 DNC – $795

    Consultants: RNC – $1,078,279.47 DNC – $114,000

    Office Supplies: RNC – $297,717.64 DNC – $45,005

    Limousines: RNC – $263,127.25 DNC – $7,000

    But this is the worst…

    Voter File Maintenance: RNC – $39,233.50 DNC – $235,865.88

    GOTV Texts: RNC – $86,019 DNC -$1,676,923.29

    Read all of Jennifer Van Laar’s reporting on RNC finances under Ronna McDaniel here:

    Jan 31, 2024: EXCLUSIVE: RNC Spent $1.5 Million on Floral Arrangements, Limos, Management/Media Consultants

              **********************************************************************

    NOTE:  Jennifer Van Laar was also the writer who busted congresswoman Katie Hill in 2019 with nude photos of her having a highly inappropriate lurid sexual affair with her female staffer and apparently maintaining a throuple situation with her husband.

    The lefties were upset with Jennifer.

  7. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    5 Super Dave

    They must not have had too many rules about getting married down in Florida back in 1944.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are a dozen US states that now have a higher credit rating than the federal government after Fitch downgraded the US credit rating to AA+ from AAA earlier this week.

    Fitch’s downgrade comes 12 years after S&P lowered the US government’s debt rating to AA+, and both downgrades are centered around similar concerns: political brinkmanship surrounding the debt ceiling that often leaves the government on the verge of an unprecedented default before a last-minute political fix is made.

    Also not helping the US government is its ballooning debts, growing interest payments on said debts, a reduction in tax revenues due to several tax cuts in recent years, and a complicated and lengthy process to balance the government’s budget.

    One of those 12 states is…

    TEXAS

    Fitch Rating: AAA
    S&P Rating: AAA
    Moody’s Rating: Aaa

  9. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #7 Texpat, that’s what I heard. FWIW; Niceville FL had open gambling until sometime after the war.

  10. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Remember back when we were endlessly told independent news sources couldn’t be trusted because “real journalism” had layers of fact-checkers and copy editors ?

    How hard do you think it would have been to determine the voice and identity of the racist announcer ?  Accusing a person in America today of racism is at least equal to being called a murderer.

    The Oklahoman, the state’s largest newspaper, was ordered by a jury to pay $25 million to Scott Sapulpa after they accused him of engaging in a racist tirade against high school basketball players.

    The incident in question took place in March 2021, when players from the Norman High School girls basketball team “took the knee” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

    As the protest took place, audiences were astonished to hear one of the live commentators launch into a rant filled with racial slurs directed at the kneeling players.

    “They’re kneeling? F**king n***ers. I hope Norman gets their ass kicked,” one of the men was heard saying. “F**k them. I hope they lose. They’re gonna kneel like that?”

    Amid the consequent outrage, The Oklahoman identified Sapulpa as the man who went on the racist tirade. However, it turned out to be his partner Matt Rowan. The paper says it corrected the story within two and a half hours.

    Despite the relatively swift correction, Sapulpa filed a defamation lawsuit and was awarded $5 million in actual damages as well as a further $20 million in punitive damages.

  11. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Anyone remember Henry’s Hideout between Magnolia and Plantersville, near the Renaissance Festival? It’s been remodeled and opened back up a week ago or two after being shuttered many years. Hard to find much history on it but my understanding is the original owner passed away and it was in his will the place could not be sold. The Gilley family leased it in the mid 00’s but it didn’t make it. Owner is a Phillips, not sure if he’s the son or what the relationship. Place has been there since the 30’s I believe.

  12. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    11 GJT

    Anyone remember Henry’s Hideout between Magnolia and Plantersville…

    Oh, yes.  Are the hundreds of mountings still on the walls ?

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Oh, yes.  Are the hundreds of mountings still on the walls ?

    Yes! Horniest Place in Texas. I heard the old man would offer a beer per point if you brought in antlers to hang.

  14. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Henry’s Hideout Texas Monthly

    Some twenty miles north of Cypress, on the road between Magnolia and Plantersville, sits Henry’s Hideout. Henry Phillips called it “the horniest place in Texas,” and when you enter through the front door, you see thousands of antlers hanging on the walls. Phillips built the bar in 1937, adding the backroom dance hall in 1964. Before his death in 1992, he personally sold tickets at the door every weekend. “He kissed all the girls who came through,” says fifteen-year employee Diann Andersen. “He always wore a starched white shirt, and it always had barbecue sauce on it.” Henry’s sauce recipe died with him, leaving some to ponder which loss was greater. His nephew Billy Phillips now owns the Hideout (capacity: 400), and it’s still open every day of the year except Good Friday. The dance hall walls showcase Henry’s other weakness: felt tapestries. Dozens of poker-playing dogs and other animal vignettes adorn the walls, and of course, there’s a token velvet Elvis.

    That is all I could find.

  15. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I wondered when and where the first huge fraud would take place using the tools of artificial intelligence.

    Now we know and it was for $25 million+.

    The scammers digital replicated the voice of the company’s chief financial officer’s, along with those of other top level employees, during an online meeting. In it, they issued instructions for an employee to transfer the money 200 million Hong Kong dollars (>$25,000,000 USD) in a series of 15 transactions to five local bank accounts.

    All participants in the video chat except the victim appeared to have been digitally created.

    According to a police statement, the employee was initially skeptical of the order after receiving email instructions to transfer the money, but she was convinced after the video call that the order was real.

    but then,

    “[The fraudster] invited the informant [clerk] to a video conference that would have many participants,” Chan said, noting that AI likely served to make the voices of the company’s officials sound realistic.

    “Because the people in the video conference looked like the real people, the informant … made 15 transactions as instructed,” Chan added. However, “… it turns out that everyone was fake.”

  16. Tedtam Avatar

    Finally settling in, gonna do my dailies before hitting the treadmill.

    Today is a special day for Hubby and me.  On this day in 1979, he took me to see “Superman” at the theater.  Little did I know that I had met mine, and would end up marrying him.

    We’ll be going out to dinner later.  Maybe when we come home I can see if I can find that movie and we can watch it again.

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    That DH guy must be a real smooth talker and Romeo.

    He had to be exceptionally smooth, because every word had to count double since he could only get a tiny few in edgewise. Bonus points for dodging the arm waving Italian ancestral genes.

  18. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good Morning, Hamsters.

    Breezy here, with high clouds gathering over us that steadily cover blue sky, but that doesn’t stop sunlight from making some shadows under the trees.  This remains the dead of winter with just a warming break passing through before the next cold front arrives.  That break enables one to do outdoor things before the cold wet stuff comes back on Saturday.

    Good news about our SUV being home in our garage again, as it can wait here better than at the dealership for the Majic Word to speak the finally determined fix for the problem is ready to be installed.  Spouse has to drive it into the dealership to have the correction installed while he waits maybe an hour or so for that to be done.  Finally.  Maybe tomorrow or Friday.  We hope.  Anyhow it is nice to have it back for doing errands.  We were thinking by now it had spent almost more time at the dealership than in our garage.  Not holding our breaths, but it does seem workable. 🙂

  19. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    14 SQK

    What a great Dance Halls link.

    Crider’s – near Hunt, TX – gets a nice mention.

  20. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Shannon #18

    Yeah that is one of the better articles I have ever found on Texas Monthly.

  21. Tedtam Avatar

    WEEKEND AT ZELENSKY’S ☙ Wednesday, February 7, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Wednesday! Your hump-day roundup includes: Tucker Carlson confirms controversial interview of Russian President Putin; a roundup of bad news about Ukraine as the country gets completely hollowed out and dependent on foreign partners to show a semblance of life; the most significant part of the Florida Grand Jury’s report; and lonely California county makes history with a declaration of emergency you never saw coming.

    NEWS:

    First, the kerfluffle over Tucker’s now-announced interview with Putin.  Of course, the lamestream media is trashing this event as evil, horrible, traitorous, etc. – when it should have been them pursuing the interview.  Sloth is its own punishment.

    Most Americans have not heard a single word from the Russian president since our Proxy War with Russia began. Their delicate brains have been tenderly protected from the evil magical spells that would surely emanate from even an interpreted version of a Putin speech. And since nobody has heard from him, and because everyone assumes there we have a free media in this country, most people believe Putin has remained silent all this time.

    Don’t worry, CIA. America is ready to hear Russia’s side. We can judge for ourselves whether it’s propaganda or whether Putin makes any good points. If he lies, you can point it out to us after. Maybe try publishing an official CIA statement this time, instead of using a fake news media cutout, we’ll respect you more for it.

    Exactly.  Just do your dang jobs and report.  We don’t need to be protected from the raw data, just from “your truth”.

    But I digress. It is probably safe to say Tucker’s upcoming interview is simultaneously the most anticipated interview in decades (at least) and at the same time is also the most feared and hated interview ever anticipated to be published since Satan held a post-eviction press conference right outside the Garden of Eden.

    Rather than recap the long, deplorable list of hysterical fake news journalists wailing and flinging rhetorical feces over the very idea of Tucker’s interview — we don’t even NEED to see it! — how dare he! — I’ll show you instead this famous clip of Putin owning a delusional NBC journalist who interviewed him in 2021, before the Proxy War:

    https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1633645023165050882?s=20

    CNN’s big reporters are claiming that they’ve been trying to get this interview, and will keep trying. /stifling laughter/  Tucker managed to do it once he was freed from Fox’s shackles.  What’s holding these “real” reporters back?

    Whatever else it might be, the Putin interview is a masterful marketing move, both by Tucker and by Elon Musk, whose Twitter platform is providing Tucker an unfiltered place to publish his interview (and advertise his show). And the potential effect or influence on the Proxy War debate cannot possibly be estimated. It could be nothing but it could be massive, which is the reason why the corporate media is terrified.

  22. Tedtam Avatar

    Ukraine:  the news ain’t good.

    More dead fighters than live ones.  Russia gearing up its military economy (and we should be highly watchful on that item!).  Ukraine running out of materiel and bodies, while Russia builds both.  Ukraine is losing international support, and Zelensky is facing serious internal power struggles.  From what I read in the C&C, there’s a “soft” coup that may go “hard” any time.

    Y’all probably missed it, since I only told you to go look at it and you probably didn’t since I heard not a peep about it.  One BIG problem that Ukraine faces is a baby shortage.  They are going to demographically collapse.  This is to be expected when you ship all of the men off to get killed.  Despite current socially correct “wisdom,” women cannot become men.  No number of transgendered and mutilated females will be able to father any kids.  Childers had a solution: send our illegal alien, military age and supposedly virile men to Ukraine. Childers points out that we can fly them to Poland and all they have to do is cross one more border. /heh heh/  Their culture is probably dead anyway, but they can have a passle of half-Ukrainian kids and maybe save some of their heritage.

    It’s a two-fer solution.

  23. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Two movies to watch before Superbowel Sunday

    Black Sunday. watch on Pluto

    Sum of all Fears.  Rentable on Prime.

     

  24. Tedtam Avatar

    Next on the C&C, Mr. Childers continues to break down the important report from Florida on the jab:

    … Without argument, the most important disclosure in the report was its explanation of how the vaccine lie was perpetrated by the government — aided and abetted by a willing, sold-out media.

    How did the government lie about “safe and effective”? The alphabet agencies, the CDC and FDA, manipulated words and definitions to hide the truth. How about the word “safe”?  How was that manipulated?  The grand jury report explains:

    image.png

    Unwinding that text: the vaccines weren’t safe compared to, say, an orange.  They were “safe” relative to the dangers – or supposed dangers – of the virus itself.  And the supposed danger was defined by – TADA! – the same entities that had a vested interest in promoting the jab.

    I like it to the advertising trick of “now 40% more effective!”  More effective than WHAT?  Beating with a stick?  Than a glass of water?

    And the media complied with the lie.

    The media could have explained all this to us at the time, but they didn’t. They are pathetically useless and I hope every reporter who helped promote this lie gets fired.

    So they can spend time in honest self-reflection, of course.

    The same game was played with “effective”. The jab was deemed “effective” based on “other data”.  “Other data” was undefined.

    There weren’t any clinical trials proving effictiveness — Pfizer never even tested for that. The regulators relied on “other data” to conclude the shots were effective. The media never asked the agencies to explain what their “other data” was that caused them to determine the vaccines were so “effective.” From the report, citing federal statute:

    image 2.png

    They got away with it last time. But now we know. They won’t get away with it any more. The term “safe and effective” has become a hissing and a byword.

    Heads. Should. Roll.

  25. Tedtam Avatar

    More lefty  madness.  Literally, mental illness.

    ABC-7 Chicago ran a history-making story yesterday headlined, “Mental health: California county becomes 1st in US to declare loneliness as public health emergency.” It will not surprise you to know that lonely San Mateo County has only democrats on its Board of Supervisors and its citizens voted 72% for Biden in 2020. So.

    /snip

    Anyway, San Mateo shows why we must not allow the Constitution to be overridden by any declaration of emergency. Low-intelligence officials like San Mateo’s Board of Supervisors would shred the Constitution in a California minute. Just imagine what they’ll do once they start thinking about feeling rejected.

    Portlanders! Take hope. I am considering replacing Portland with San Mateo as the butt of C&C’s low IQ jokes. I’d like to hear from our San Mateo readers: what say you? Is it dumber to live in San Mateo or in Portland? I realize it might be hard to say.

    When governments are allowed to define emotions as “emergency situations,” then we all are at the mercy of madmen.

  26. Tedtam Avatar

    More on ivermectin and cancer:

    IVERMECTIN and CANCER, it has at least 15 anti-cancer mechanisms of action. Can Ivermectin Treat COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancers? – 9 Ivermectin papers reviewed

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/ivermectin-and-cancer-it-has-at-least

     

    Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the drug that was touted as dangerous “horse medicine” ended up healing people that the jab endangered?

  27. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tedtam @ 12:41 PM

    From the link:

    In addition to the county-wide resolution, Canepa has sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom. In it, he asked the governor to create a new minister of loneliness position for California.

    Tell me this is a joke, please.

  28. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Testing,1,2,3,4,5,4,3,2,1, You got sidetone? 😉

  29. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well my new computer works,…mostly now lets see if it can find my printer.

  30. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Y A W N

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bobby Vinton is 88 years old and has been married to Delores for 62 years. He retired after a serious case of shingles in 2015. (Wiki)

  32. bsue54 Avatar

    #26 – Shannon… the very first record (45rpm) I ever owned was Bobby Vinton’s “Roses are Red, My Love” – purchased by my mother, although (at the time) our family did NOT possess a record player capable of playing 45’s… (That’s how I figured out I was getting a record player for either my birthday or Christmas – they are only 3 days apart)

  33. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    12:21 granny

    To the neocons, the Middle East is a 22-year-old hot yoga instructor, and Ukraine is a middle-aged divorcee with a psychotic ex-husband, thirteen cats, and three drug-addled grown children who all live at home.

    That right there is poetry.

  34. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    20 squack

    Fixed your “Sum” link.

  35. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Spouse’s brother and wife arrive at our home on Saturday evening after the flight from O’Hare in Chicago to Intercontinental in Houston and a 50-mile ride from the airport to our place via limousine.  They haven’t been here in 10 years; we’ve been going there.  Lots of new things here in that time and lots of old things are retired.  Just hope the weather cooperates and Saturday and Sunday are not as nasty as predicted now.  The rest of the visit thus far seems to be predicted as sunny and seasonably warm.  But this is Texas, so wait 5 minutes and see what happens.

  36. Tedtam Avatar

    I am submitting my registration for jury duty.  For the required gender question, the options are: Male, Female, Other (fill in).

    I was tempted to click Other, just to see what would happen.

  37. Tedtam Avatar

    #28 Wagonburner

    The man has a way with words, I agree.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Today is the 50th anniversary of the greatest movie of all time. Salud!

    https://youtu.be/QSdXqgQ4cfs

  39. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I’m torn between that one and Young Frankenstein.

  40. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m having a hard time staying awake. My cats are bad models. I’m having a late lunch, and then I think I’ll go back to bed. Some of the fuzzers will probably follow me…

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    32 wagonburner

    The story goes that Gene Wilder agreed to do Blazing Saddles only if Mel Brooks agreed to look over a movie script that Wilder had written and to produce the movie. That movie was Young Frankenstein.

  42. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Hey, Where de the white women at?

  43. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    30 Adee

    Are you going to take your kinfolks to Fredericksburg ?

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I don’t know about the rest of you, but I had the common sense God gave me to buy a DVD version of Blazing Saddles six or seven years ago.

    Just in case.

  45. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    That uppity n______ hit me upside the head with a shovel. 

  46. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    And from YF:

    Nice knockers!

    and

    Blücher!

  47. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #36 Texpat,

    We took them to Fredericksburg the last time they were here, which was 10 years ago.  I don’t think we will this time since there is so much to see around here in Fort Bend County that was not here 10 years ago.  They arrive Sunday evening and return home on the following Wednesday afternoon, leaving for the Houston airport at 2:30 pm.  It is an hour trip up there from here.

    The  trip from here to Fredericksburg is 3.5 hours each way if you go through Dripping Springs instead of Austin.  If they could stay for a week that would be great.  But their very senior Labrador Ozzy is 14 years old and takes arthritis meds and heart meds and boards at their vet’s hospital when they travel.

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A warning on the trigger warning.

    From Christian at hollywoodintoto:

    Max, the platform that once yanked “Gone With the Wind” from its cyber-shelves, just slapped a video trigger warning on Brooks’ vision.

    Anyone who wants to watch “Blazing Saddles” must endure an introduction by TCM’s Jacqueline Stewart, who joined the company in 2019 as a host and expert on film preservation and “representation.”

    “You’re about to watch a movie from 1974 that many consider one of the greatest comedies of all time,” Stewart begins in the clip, shot in front of a background teeming with books. Ironic.

    She gives a quick primer on Brooks’ satirical film canon before describing the film’s plot.

    “As the storyline implies, the issue of race is front and center in ‘Blazing Saddles’ … and racist language and attitudes pervade the film. But those attitudes are espoused by characters who are explicitly portrayed here as narrow-minded, ignorant bigots.

    “The film’s real and much more enlightened perspective is represented by the two main characters played by Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder,” she says.

    I can watch my DVD of Blazing Saddles without any of this drivel though.

  49. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The Astros have class that thus far no other major league team has achieved.  Would be interesting to read about other teams’  comments on the event.  Once they recovered from the shock, that is.

  50. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Blazing Saddles was a hoot, is a hoot, and will always be a sly hoot.  It is a movie that makes one laugh until the sides become sore.  Do not eat anything while watching it unless you can swallow fast before you choke on whatever you are eating when a hilarious scene shows up.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I tried to buy a DVD of Blazing Saddles several years ago. It was hopeless. Couldn’t find anyone I trusted to send big money to.

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    42 SQK

    / insert giant smiley here

  53. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I think the Astros have unseated the Cowboys as the most-hated team in America.

    I love it.

    Shove it, you losers.

  54. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I forgot the feel good story of the week.

    Midland police said George Samuel Butler, 37, entered a home in the 1400 block of Daventry Place “by force with a rifle,” MRT.com reported, after which the homeowner placed the suspect in a chokehold “in an apparent case of self-defense.”

    Police said they responded to the scene just after 4 a.m. after a report of a disturbance with weapons and found Butler dead, the outlet added.

    MRT.com noted that the police department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit and Crime Scene Unit also responded to the scene, next of kin were notified, and the investigation into the fatality continued.

    Not the first instance

    MRT.com added that Butler was previously arrested for burglarizing a home in Midland.

    The outlet, citing police, said a woman stated in July 2022 that “Butler had kicked in her front door.”

    Arriving police said officers saw Butler through windows of a residence searching a room and looking under beds — and cops also saw pieces of the front door frame hanging, MRT.com reported.

    More from the outlet:

    Officers made several announcements for Butler to exit the residence, but he refused and shut the door, preventing officers from conducting their duties. When officers entered the residence and attempted to place him in handcuffs, Butler started fighting an officer and placed him in a headlock. The officer was able to take Butler to the ground before placing him, with the help of other officers, in handcuffs. The officer also sustained a bloody nose. 

  55. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    47 Shannon

    I used to think the same thing, but up here the hatred for the Boston Patriots and Red Sox is palpable.  It is the single, common and unifying theme shared by Mets and Yankees, Jets and Giants fans.

    I don’t think they spend much time thinking about the Dallas Cowboys unless they get into the playoffs.

  56. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Oh, yes.  Are the hundreds of mountings still on the walls ?

    Yup.

    and just when you were hearing yesterday that it was dead, the sinate Vampyres of the undead, are quite alive and they’ll never srop from trying to mount everyone and give us a fantastic fang phlucking.

    https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1755403407727497355

  57. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/02/07/congress/gop-senators-agonize-on-foreign-aid-00140119

    They’re going through withdrawal.

    their fangs need blood money.

    get ready.

    a deal will be reached on Feb 29th and little Mikey will cave

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