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I thought those were waterfowl in the second photo, but when I zoomed in I couldn’t tell what they were…
I am partial to the second! It reads as upside down to me for some reason - an interesting effect.
We're staying in a farmhouse with a little pond that the owners have not been able to attend to this summer; we've hit it with Muck Away and my husband has started trying to rake as much algae up the banks as he can reach.
First post-op appointment, and change of dressing: the knee incision is very tidy, thin, clean, and utterly without the slightest inflammation. Thank you, Dr. Kodali and team, for your careful work!
One more week of the not-quite-unbearably-annoying compression stockings and I'm outta them and the dressing, ready to resume normal showers without wrapping my leg in Press 'n' Seal. This evening I am celebrating my progress with one ounce of wine, taking only ibuprofen at bedtime but keeping a hydrocodone beside me for 3am. Someone please advise if even the one ounce of wine means I'd better forgo the narcotic until tomorrow night.
Let me just emphasize the last sentence of my post above for those who habitually skip me:
Someone please advise if even the one ounce of wine means I'd better forgo the narcotic until tomorrow night.
Try alternating between ibuprofen and extra-strength Tylenol.
Thanks, Kak - I've never had good luck with even extra-strength Tylenol. Of course I was taking it for pain for the week before the surgery to stay off the NSAIDs, but to not much avail. Still - worth a shot!
I'm just pretty excited that I'm down to one or no hydrocodone a day (depending on physical therapy - they want my pain well controlled so I'll do the work thoroughly, and I learned yesterday, on 800mg ibuprofen, that that wasn't enough!).
The general medical advice is to avoid alcohol entirely while taking Vicodin, as interactions can occur regardless of the amount.
Jane Goodall has passed.
She was one of Leakey’s angels or one of the Trimates. The other 2 were Dianne Fossey and Biruté Galdikas. All 3 were mentored by Louis Leakey, paleoanthropologist and archaeologist, who shaped our understanding of human evolution through his work in East Africa.
Leakey’s mentorship of Goodall, Fossey, and Galdikas broke the norm. At a time when women were rarely given scientific opportunities, Leakey chose these three based on their passion and observational skills, not formal credentials.
Dianne Fossey researched gorillas at Karisoke Research Center, Rwanda.
She was murdered in 1985, probably by poachers.
Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She died today at the age of 91.
Biruté Galdikas conducted the first long-term study of orangutans. She established the Orangutan Foundation International in Indonesia. She is 79 and the last of the Trimates.
Job well done, Professor Leakey.
“Try alternating between ibuprofen and extra-strength Tylenol.”
Good advice, naproxen is easier on the stomach and the kidneys than ibuprofen and in my experience with NSAIDs it works better than ibuprofen.
’Someone please advise if even the one ounce of wine means I'd better forgo the narcotic until tomorrow night.’
One ounce of wine won’t make a bit of difference.
Vicki Hearne _Adam's Task_ has a nice essay on the philosophical emergency caused by teaching chimps sign language. Short form, dogs have been doing that stuff for centuries. But amusing stories about Chimp problems, like love of pornography, sitting in a tree reading Playboy. That revised some philosophers.
“ I thought those were waterfowl in the second photo, but when I zoomed in I couldn’t tell what they were…”
Lotuses
"The Office of Management and Budget move to permanently reduce the government workforce if there is a shutdown, outlined in a memo shared with POLITICO ahead of release to agencies tonight, escalates the stakes of a potential shutdown next week."
Did Mussolini increase the number of government employees?
Chat GPT: "Yes, Mussolini increased the number of government employees. ..."expanded the bureaucracy significantly..."
Did Hitler increase the number of government employees?
Chat GPT "Yes, Hitler significantly expanded the number of government employees."
’Lotuses’
Thanks! We have cattails and water lilies around our lake but I haven’t seen lotuses like that. Quite photogenic.
I get the impression they don’t like being made to live by their own set of rules…
…they definitely don’t like that mocking rule…
Joy Behar says she may not survive. Is that some kind of televangelist ultimatum thing?
Response of the year from an earlier thread:
lonejustice said: “It is shameful that all of our military generals had to sit and be lectured to by a 5 time draft dodger during the Viet Nam war.
Response from John mosby: “ Trump has made up for his draft dodging by getting shot for our freedom. I would bet he has more bullet holes in him than the average general or E-9 in that audience.”
The new lefty narrative is the MAGA will send out assasins to kill Joy Behar and other heroes of the crazy left cat ladies.
Did Mussolini increase the number of government employees?
Did Hitler increase the number of government employees?
They wouldn't have if they had known it would reflect badly on the Democrats in 2025, I'm sure.
Speaking of cats . . .
RIP Maru the cat.
Maru passed Sept 6 (I just found out today). He was 18 years old and at one time held the Guinness World Record for the most viewed animal on YouTube, certified in September 2016 with over 325 million views (a mark now surpassed by others).
The 4 Stages of Leftism:
1) _______ isn't actually happening. It's only GOP "misinformation. "
2) _______ is happening, but it's so rare, it doesn't matter.
3) _______ is happening, which is a good thing. And if you believe otherwise U R HITLER!!!
4)Now we are going to shoot you with monogramed shell casings, knives, and bike locks, and molotov cocktails.
Ro Khanna has just confirmed that the democrats on Medicaid fraud for illegals has just mestasized to Stage 2.
I see a lot of liberals on a lot of social media platforms today screaming "Illegal immigrants can't get medical benefits from the government! It's unlawful!"
Seems it's also unlawful to hire an illegal alien at $300,000a yet- plus allowances and benefits- to run a school district, yet it's done.
My son and several of his ROTC buddies just got off their 4 years active duty obligation and are job hunting. I told them they should all send their resumes to the Board of Education applying for the job. Shouldn't be any more difficult then anything they were doing as they left the Army as Captains. Alas, they don't have mail order PhDs from a diploma mill to document their skills.
Every IRL Democrat I know thinks that Butler, PA was a false flag, but if you suggest that J6 was a false flag, they think that you are a kooky conspiracy theorist. You see, only the other side does false flags!
Thought of something conspiratorial about the big meetup of flag officers.
Suppose you wanted to have a private meeting with a half dozen or so important officials out of a few hundred- but didn't want the meeting known? Inviting a half dozen from all over the world would raise eyebrows and a lot of questions. Inviting ALL of them would be seen as and derided as a "stunt" by all right thinking people, and the private meeting with the half dozen actual important ones could be held without anyone noticing.
Just a thought.
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Jaq - and the left cannot explain who Cory Comperatore is - nor do they care/dare. They remain loyal hive-cultists to their Soviet hacks in the press.
"Every IRL Democrat I know thinks that Butler, PA was a false flag"
You must hang out with drug addicts or psych patients or something. I suggest you organize a better circle of friends.
"Every IRL Democrat I know thinks that Butler, PA was a false flag…”
What absolute nonsense. I know many Democrats and not even one has ever said Butler PA was a false flag.
This person rocks.
What the Israelis are up against.
worth your 3 minutes.
Humperdink: thanks! CC, JSM
100% I also wondered why employees have to work without pay but Congress and those peole get paid Thats crap.If you cant do your job,,run the gvernment /especialy the ones who own all 3 branches, getting paid when others dont is ridiculous.
A handful of Democrats and Republicans are asking that their pay be withheld during the government shutdown, arguing that they should face the same consequences as federal workers and agents.
Among the Republicans asking for their paychecks to be paused are Reps. Chip Roy (R-TX), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Tom Barrett (R-WI), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Bob Latta (R-OH), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ), Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), Young Kim (R-CA), and Rob Bresnahan (R-PA). All four members of the Iowa delegation to the House have also decided to forgo pay until the government reopens.
The lawmakers have insisted they don’t want to see a paycheck until “an appropriations agreement has taken effect.”
In his letter, Barrett stated that it is “wrong” for federal employees and military personnel to continue working without pay, while the president and members of Congress still receive a paycheck.
“In the event of a lapse in appropriations…I believe that fairness dictates that my pay also be withheld until such a time that normal government operations resume,” Barrett wrote.
On a press call, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) said he plans to ask for his pay to be withheld “if needed” — noting that members don’t get paid until the end of October and, “I’m sincerely hoping that we can get through this before the end of the month.”
On the Democratic side, Reps. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), and Nellie Pou (D-NJ), as well as Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim (D-NJ), are asking for their pay to be withheld. THIS MAKES SENSE..IF YOU CAN'T GOVERN especially if your in charge of everything, you should not only not get paid,,yu should be fined every day you keep up the bullcrap!!
Christians in Nigeria never carried out massacres, never dug tunnels, never fired rockets, never took hostages, never started a war. They are simply a peaceful community, half of Nigeria’s population, who only wanted to live in peace. Yet they are relentlessly attacked by Islamic groups: their churches burned, their women and children slaughtered, their men massacred simply for being Christians.
And what is the response of the world? Silence.
What absolute nonsense. I know many Democrats and not even one has ever said Butler PA was a false flag.
And there she goes again. If Inga - and only Inga - doesn't know anybody doing X, it's bullshit. It doesn't exist.
I've personally unfriended people who think it was a false flag. I've also unfriended people who lamented the assassin wasn't a better shot. And that includes family members.
There is an entire world existing outside your little comfort zone. Venture out and see it sometime.
Or at least don't be so dismissive of those who actually live in it.
@Peachy 9:25 Incredible. Especially because she spent so much of her youth in Israel. You’d think she was deprogrammed.
"This evening I am celebrating my progress with one ounce of wine, taking only ibuprofen at bedtime but keeping a hydrocodone beside me for 3am. Someone please advise if even the one ounce of wine means I'd better forgo the narcotic until tomorrow night."
One oz. of wine won't hurt you. For my hip the doc gave me a giant bottle of oxy. I threw it out. It doesn't work on me. I took an Ibu/Tylonol mixture and that took the edge off.
Hamas - Exposed. Leftists, still don't get it.
Eva- right? Complete brainwash.
correction - Jew-hate/ Hamas prop = complete Brain poison
There are several charities that give aid to Christians in Nigeria. Just ask your favorite AI for reputable charities that help Christians in Nigeria. Check Charity Navigator or GiveWell for latest financials.
Truthnigeria.com and Opendoors.org for news.
“I've personally unfriended people who think it was a false flag. I've also unfriended people who lamented the assassin wasn't a better shot. And that includes family members.”
Get better friends and family.
Can you imagine a masked Marine? It is a matter of honor—and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it. ~WILLIAM G. YOUNG. JUDGE of the UNITED STATES
Gadbox - what about your Antifa thugs(D) - they wear masks.
ICE agents do so - to protect their families from Doxxing and murder from Democratic-Nazi Antifa thugs.
You moron.
Gadbot -
Here is a photo of Antifa goons(D) who shoot at ICE
More please.
Get better friends and family.
I have better friends and family. I'm removing those who gone over the edge into insanity because they live politics 24/7.
My point - that completely sailed over your head - is for YOU to expand your circles. Understand just because YOU aren't personally aware of it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
You and Freder both pull this bullshit. "Well, I don't about it ergo it's not happening. Must be the monkeys flying out of your butt."
Huh-uh. It may be inconvenient to recognize these things, but it doesn't make them any less real.
Jamie asked . . .
Someone please advise if even the one ounce of wine means I'd better forgo the narcotic until tomorrow night.
It depends upon the strength of the hydrocodone. I take hydrocodone-acetaminphen 5-325, commonly called Norco, and it just doesn't bite that hard. If you hurt, take the damn pill.
“My point - that completely sailed over your head - is for YOU to expand your circles. Understand just because YOU aren't personally aware of it doesn't mean it isn't happening.”
I can imagine it IS happening, but in far lower numbers than you and Jaq want to make everyone believe. It’s storytelling to try to make your opponents look bad.
Inga is at Stage 2 of Mr. T’s “4 Stages of Leftism” (8:31).
"What absolute nonsense. I know many Democrats and not even one has ever said Butler PA was a false flag."
Does Robert Cook count?
It’s storytelling to try to make your opponents look bad.
I can't speak for JAQ. But I don't need to tell stories in order to make my opponents look bad.
Peachy: Apparently, you don't read well. I posted an observation by a learned judge appointed by Ronald Reagan, who tells it like it is about the ICE gangsters, who attack and injure American citizens and often immigrants possessing proper papers without arrest warrants. Then they hustle them off to unknown locations and the infamous Salvadoran gulag.
The pictures are members of the John Brown Gun Club, not identified as antifa, which you must know means folks who are against Fascism and Nazism. John Brown, BTW, was an abolitionist; he opposed slavery and led a battle to free slaves when he attacked the Armory in Harpers Ferry, WV, in 1859 to obtain weapons. West Virginians have declared this to be the first battle of the Civil War.
Top video is a cute compilation of Maru the cat who loved boxes:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/worlds-best-cat-maru-turns-15-today.587108/
@ eva marie
I used to write a daily cat blog way, waaaay back in the day.
A writer writes.
Maru was a favorite link when I was short on material.
So sad to hear of his passing.
He was one-of-a-kind.
"Barrett stated that it is “wrong” for federal employees and military personnel to continue working without pay, while the president and members of Congress still receive a paycheck."
Good news, Dink! The president decided to permanently forego his salary on Jan 20 of this year.
Belmont Club
But the conflict is now an open one and to some extent that will redefine politics in the West. It has already broken the old Tory/Labour duopoly in the UK. In the U.S., the Bill Kristols and John Kennedys of the GOP and Dem parties are gone with the wind. But this was to be expected. The tremendous changes in technology, demographics etc. could not long have been constrained by the End of History straitjacket or the World Order of Davos. Rather something new is breaking out of its shell outside the categories of the 20th century.
Bill Kristol is still on the Bulwark Channel.
Happy to report that I survived my combination of an ounce of wine and a hydrocodone (eight hours later). Thanks to those who weighed in! I can read warning labels as well as anyone else, but I also know that one purpose of warning labels is liability for consumers who may lie about their consumption, which makes the warnings a lot less relevant to someone who just wants to sleep without pain.
the John Brown Club are a terrorist network
"I know many Democrats and not even one has ever said Butler PA was a false flag."
IRL means "In real life," in case you didn't know, Inga, and yes, they all seem to believe it, just like Robert Cook, who might have walked it back, but he didn't walk it back all that resoundingly.
"but in far lower numbers than you and Jaq want to make everyone believe."
I am just reporting my personal experience, but I guess you are doing a "independent FactCheck.org" kind of fact check, where you say "somebody who doesn't actually understand the words this person said might misinterpret them in a way that hurts Democrats, therefore, fact check false." kind of fact check.
It's like the fact check that the Democrats are not shutting down the government over payments to illegals must be considered false because they aren't paying them to illegals *before* legal Americans, which is what "they just know" that Republicans mean.
The never ending hypocrisy of the people that are elected to govern the country.
As the blame game over the current government shutdown in D.C. threatens to take up more political resources than actually finding a solution to the deadlock, there is at least one person who knows what the president should do.
That person is Donald Trump himself
“They don’t have the right leader”, he said in 2011 when Barack Obama was in the Oval office. “The United States’ President has to get this done.
“It’s pretty sad because the whole world is looking at us and laughing at us.”Trump made the comments in an interview with NBC News adding that in his opinion, it isn’t the Democrats or the Republicans that should shoulder the blame, but the U.S. president.
trump says “I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the president should be blamed.
“I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He’s the one that has to get people together.”
Problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. The president’s the leader and he’s got to get everybody in a room and he’s got to lead.
The president’s own words are now being used by his political opponents against him.
Trump is shutting down the government because he doesn't care if you go bankrupt paying for health care. It’s wrong, but he's right about one thing: he'll own the Republican shutdown.”
Trump said “I actually think the president would be blamed if there is a shutdown." Dementia is a saving grace for this fella who always speaks with forked tongue. On this DAY OF ATTONEMENT ,trump should follow in his Jewish famiies tradition and give it a shot! Yeah right could you imagine...
It's great that Richard Fernandez (Wretchard, Belmont Club) is still posting. Kababayan ko 'yan!
Something to help Althouse reach 3000: Nirvana baby loses legal case over Nevermind album
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