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patd
4 years ago

patd
4 years ago

and for our franken fans

patd
4 years ago

D’ump lost a lot of goper docs with this one.   NYTimes reports:

After Trump accuses doctors of profiteering, medical professionals push back.
[…]
“The suggestion that doctors — in the midst of a public health crisis — are overcounting Covid-19 patients or lying to line their pockets is a malicious, outrageous and completely misguided charge,” said Susan R. Bailey, the president of the American Medical Association, in a statement on Friday.
“Rather than attacking us and lobbing baseless charges at physicians, our leaders should be following the science and urging adherence to the public health steps we know work — wearing a mask, washing hands and practicing physical distancing,” she added.
Misleading claims about inflated death counts related to the coronavirus surfaced as early as April.
Coronavirus cases are rising in Michigan as a third wave of infections spreads across the country. This week, the state recorded a 91 percent increase in new cases from the average two weeks earlier.
Mr. Trump made a similar false claim about physicians at a campaign rally on Oct. 24 in Wisconsin — another state that has seen a surge in cases this month — when he said that “doctors get more money and hospitals get more money” for reporting more deaths due to the coronavirus.
That prompted a backlash from organizations including the Society of Hospital Medicine, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
“These baseless claims not only do a disservice to our health care heroes but promulgate the dangerous wave of misinformation which continues to hinder our nation’s efforts to get the pandemic under control and allow our nation to return to normalcy,” the American College of Emergency Physicians said in a statement on Sunday.
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patd
4 years ago

 

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

My family just went through a medical emergency scare with my mother.  She started to bleed and lost a lot of blood.  During the day she stabilized and late yesterday the cause may have been found.  She had been taking large doses of Advil which might be the cause of the problem.
We need to check on our family members to make sure they are not over medicating.

patd
4 years ago

BB, good news she’s stabilized.  while checking those meds you also might want to check their expiration dates and question side effects when combined with other stuff on the shelf.  a lot of stress going around and causing confusion as well as overdosing to eliminate the anxiety.

patd
4 years ago

Jamie
4 years ago

RIP Sean Connery

The first time I saw him on the screen, long before Bond

 

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

Jamie – The Cold War was hot and the missile race was on. Sigh.  Sean Connery was the one and only Bond.

Pogo
4 years ago

Yep, Connery set a standard for Bond no one’s come close to. Sad to think he’s gone. 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

BB –  Hope all goes well.
That movie scared the crap out of me, especially toward the end when he’s in the carriage.  I completely blocked out the singing. 
 
 

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

I also loved Connery as Harrison Ford’s father in the Raider movies.  But Bond…   shaken not stirred…  there will never really be another.
 
patd…   I saw Franken live last night.  Obviously he and Bill were not on the same page.  Bill wanted him to be serious….  and Al’s gone back to comedy.

Jamie
4 years ago

Sturgeone

Don’t get me started on the railroad to the necktie party for Franken.   Even the “picture” was fake.  He did nothing more than was common for USO entertainment at the time, and the GOP hired woman did a number in the show where she practically climbed another man like a tree. 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Trump rallies ultimately resulted in 30,000 coronarvius cases: Stanford study

RebelliousRenee
4 years ago

Yeah….   LOVE Al Franken.  Methinks Al just wanted to do dueling comedians last night.  And Bill….   sometimes takes himself too seriously.  A little levity at this time is ok, IMO.
 

xrepublican
4 years ago

There’s a shabby hit job going around the inet that claims Joe got at least $900,000 from commie China, laundered through the U of PA and two S corporations that Biden set up. I’ll diagram the alleged criminal scheme :
1. Chicoms pay Penn $70 Million (allegation does not itemize)
2. Penn pays unspecified amount (not itemized) into one of Biden’s S corps.  
3. S corp pays Biden $900,000.
(False)ergo : Biden works for the maoists.

xrepublican
4 years ago

maher thinks of himself as an intellectual. Now that’s funny.

Bink
4 years ago

the craziest thing you’ll see all day

blueINdallas
4 years ago

tRUMPsky and the Repugz are backed into a corner.  They’re throwing everything they can find to stop the blue wave.  Most of what they are throwing is crap from their own backsides.  The Republican Party should’ve jumped if the tRUMPsky train before the bridge in that pic washed out. 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/31/texas-congress-preexisting-conditions/
And, nobody cares what garbage Reugz concoct because pre-existing conditions.

whskyjack
4 years ago

Donald in a dumpster
 
The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday’s presidential election.
In what seemed a further calculated insult, the statue of his predecessor and nemesis Barack Obama, who counted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel among his closest allies, remained in place, beaming and besuited.

whskyjack
4 years ago

Halloween was Mrs Jacks favorite holiday. If she was around this would have been in our front yard.

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

Flatus
Hope all is ok.  If you can let us know.

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Wow! 57.3% of registered, Texans early voted.  

Flatus
4 years ago

BB, Keep your Mom close. Hope her docs are as competent as mine seemed yesterday. Thank  goodness for medicare! I don’t have the results on the contents of my bone biopsy yet but the procedure went well I am told.

blueINdallas
4 years ago
whskyjack
4 years ago

I agree with Flatus about medicare. There have been no problems with my recent surgery.   unlike dealing with BCBS when Mrs Jack was in the hospital. No weird bills, surprise bills.  I think medicare gives a constant so that doctors know how to work with it where as private insurance changes year to year. 
Jack 

whskyjack
4 years ago

BiD
Texas only did 52% turnout in 2016
 
Jack

whskyjack
4 years ago

xrepublican
4 years ago

Mr Flatus is back in harness. Good. I need an adult present. 

xrepublican
4 years ago

Me & Peter Pan.  
 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

New Stanford University study estimates that 18 Trump rallies have led to 30,000 COVID cases and 700 deaths

Full study pdf:

https://t.co/kwqQ8R5mVW

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Trump just said it out loud at Reading PA rally:  

“If we win on Tuesday or — thank you very much, Supreme Court — shortly thereafter…”

craigcrawford
4 years ago

BREAKING: CNN NEW POLL NUMBERS

Arizona:    Biden 50%  Trump 46%

Michigan:  Biden: 53%  Trump: 41%

North Carolina: Biden: 51%  Trump: 45%

Wisconsin: Biden: 52%  Trump: 44%

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Women getting it done 

Blue Bronc
4 years ago

flatus = yes.  She is scared, we all are scared.  I am less so now after spending a few hours with her at the hospital.  She is alert, looks good, but a touch weak.  I also learned more about her drug issues.  It is the five doctors, each treating something and each not doing a medication check which has her on multiple meds.  My brother is getting a list of meds now.  The hard part is she is starting to go into withdrawal as the meds are not part of her care in the hospital.  Hell of a thing for a minty-three year old woman.  The other part of her not feeling great is that I bled out forty years ago August fourth and died.  Obviously I somehow survived.  But, Mom does realize the consequences of bleeding.

xrepublican
4 years ago

Lucky turn of events, Ms Bronc !
 
Being dead isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Glad you made it. We’re wishing your mom the same robust recovery. 

xrepublican
4 years ago

I wish someone would call trump a russian saboteur. 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Iowa Poll: Donald Trump takes over lead in Iowa as Joe Biden fades https://t.co/tHIMJn2hLl via @DMRegister

craigcrawford
4 years ago

🚨🚨IOWA POLL: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst has pulled ahead of Democrat Theresa Greenfield.

Ernst: 46%

Greenfield: 42

MOE +/- 3.4%

 https://t.co/zg9VaAjQJe via @DMRegister

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Jack – An addition 1.8 million registered this year, so that 57% is even bigger.  
Ignore the polls and vote your asses off.

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

It’s Ohio State University not The Ohio State University.  This is the school that employed Rep Jim Jordan

tony
4 years ago

Katherine Graham Cracker
4 years ago

MAGA cavalry. MAGA thugs and criminals
 more like it

blueINdallas
4 years ago

I texted “Happy Halloween” to a Republican relative.  Finally got this response: “That’s correct”

 

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Dr. Fauci: “We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation. All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”

https://t.co/K8wkQJ3CMS

craigcrawford
4 years ago

Trump campaign again leaves supporters stranded in the cold after a rally, this time in Butler County, Pennsylvania… 

blueINdallas
4 years ago

Those medals are worthless when they come from tRUMPsky.  MAGAts hate democracy, the UN-American bastards.  If they  are stupid enough to go see the orange, freak show, then good, I’m glad he left them stranded.  Dumbasses. 

Bink
4 years ago

Well, it’s a little late, but i think i’ll begin my annual Halloween tradition of making the neighbors listen to Led Zeppelin IV🌖🍂🍁

Put your speaker outside and try to go to bed to get the full effect.

Bink
4 years ago

Greatest song ever recorded:

https://youtu.be/ILSr9BbhoJQ

Bink
4 years ago

Did we all live long enough to vote?  Good job, everyone💪❤️🇺🇸🎃 

Bink
4 years ago

ok i’ve actually got a killer Halloween playlist going so, why not?
 

Bink
4 years ago

…the blue blood moon high in the sky veiled by the gathering storm clouds, its gravity lifting me skywards, nonetheless🌖

https://youtu.be/UtGjJVcrKQU

Bink
4 years ago
Bink
4 years ago

At this point, you just let John Diliberto pick the music:

https://echoes.org/

(this message sent to you through space)

old man
4 years ago

At a Glance

Goni is one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall on Earth.
Flooding rain, catastrophic winds and battering surf are expected in the Philippines.
The Philippines and Vietnam have both suffered multiple cyclones in recent weeks.

Super Typhoon Goni made landfall with sustained winds of 195 mph in the eastern Phillippines early Sunday. This makes Goni the strongest typhoon to make landfall anywhere on earth since 2013’s Super Typhoon Haiyan, which also made landfall in the Philippines.

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-10-31-super-typhoon-goni-philippines-vietnam-haiyan
 
Counting blessings 

patd
4 years ago

D’ump responsible for 700 dead because of his rallies?   isn’t that a serial-killer record?   

patd
4 years ago

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