The Very Private Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Stripped of His Authority Again as He Is Hospitalized In Critical Care Unit With Bladder Problems

I think this very private man will soon exit to the private sector.

Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is moved to the critical care unit at Walter Reed after tests on 'emergent bladder issues' as he passes duties to his deputy for second time in a month following his prostate cancer surgery
Lloyd Austin, 70, was admitted to a critical care unit late on Sunday evening
He has been hospitalized for 'symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue'
Austin was taken to Walter Reed Hospital after thesymptoms emerged Sunday
By Stephen M. Lepore and Katelyn Caralle, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com

Lloyd Austin has been admitted to a critical care unit at Walter Reed Medical Center 'for supportive care and close monitoring' after he was hospitalized for 'symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue.'
The Defense Secretary, 70, was transported to military hospital after the symptoms emerged Sunday afternoon.
According to a hospital official, Austin was admitted to the critical care unit 'after a series of tests and evaluations.'
'At this time, it is not clear how long Secretary Austin will remain hospitalized. The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement.
Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:48 PM

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1 Hello

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:48 PM (R4t5M)

2 Hi!!

Posted by: From about that Time at February 12, 2024 03:49 PM (4780s)

3 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?
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Does "fit" mean a combination of both "healthy" and "competent?"

If so, no.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 03:49 PM (yjAVs)

4 Does that account for his piss poor job performance?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 03:49 PM (zssUw)

5 It's vewwy quiet here.

Posted by: From about that Time at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (4780s)

6 Die, motherfucker, die.

Just quoting a song. Doesn't mean anything really.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (lSfFP)

7 Does that account for his piss poor job performance?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 03:49 PM (zssUw)

Haaaaaaaaaa

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (9UlRk)

8 According to a hospital official, Austin was admitted to the critical care unit 'after a series of tests and evaluations.'
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That isn't the typical, "we admitted him because he's a big and important guy and we're being super careful."

That sounds more like the admitted him because they had to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (yjAVs)

9 Nood'd.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (R4t5M)

10 Make him a Private so they say they are working on the private Private's privates.

Posted by: Ralph Monroe at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (vFG9F)

11 Rookie mistake. Reading content.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (D31gV)

12 DEI, motherfucker.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (KiBMU)

13 He has been hospitalized for 'symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue'

Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (G8h7g)

14 Has Nato operatives got trump yet?

Posted by: raimondo at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (KaT1U)

15 Why doesn't he step down? Resign.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (JeYYB)

16
DEI Standards apply here; he's staying short of assuming room temperature.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (j4U/Z)

17 It's vewwy quiet here.

What would we know about "emergent bladder issues?" We're all buff, healthy, 29 year-old guys here.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (sNc8Y)

18 'At this time, it is not clear how long Secretary Austin will remain hospitalized. The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement.
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An ICU-worthy side effect has no effect on total timeline? Or just no effect on the expectation of recovery - eventually?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (yjAVs)

19 Maybe he can borrow some of Joe's Depends.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (LkLld)

20 My dick doesn't work.

Posted by: Lloyd Austin at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

21 an emergent bladder issue

I'm pretty sure those are suppose to stay inside you.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (IG4Id)

22 Probably infection, maybe from hospital.

Posted by: hamitchell at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (kE/nb)

23 Does that account for his piss poor job performance?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Incompetence is most of it, but his health issues contribute a wee bit.

Posted by: mikeski at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (7WNtT)

24 Pissing blood is a bad sign, generally.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 03:51 PM (D7oie)

25 Having Kathleen Hicks in charge is much scarier than having no one in charge.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (BdMk6)

26 ++++
An ICU-worthy side effect has no effect on total timeline? Or just no effect on the expectation of recovery - eventually?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Look fat...

Posted by: Braenyard at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (mSwgC)

27 I think Lloyd has been getting it up the squeak hole for so long it must have worn out his innards.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (JF/W5)

28 I'm no fan of his, but just on a human level I wish him well.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

29 I think we should make a bladder problem music playlist for him to listen to in the hospital.

I would include:

Rolling Stones
Kenny & Dolly "Islands in the Stream"
Theme from "On Golden Pond"
Urethra Franklin R-E-S-Pee-E-C-T
Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls of Fire"
...

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (991eG)

30 Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.
.......

Oh great. Now I feel better.

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

31 At least he let someone know this time.

Give him another medal!

Posted by: spindrift at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (MqhXY)

32 Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.
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That's an interesting and passive construction.

"His duties were stripped?" By whom? According to which process? Did he temporarily step down (which he should have) and transfer his duties, or was this done externally by some other party? If the latter, then how did it come about?

This is written so vaguely that either the author doesn't understand or know or the author is being deliberately evasive. Or both, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (yjAVs)

33 Does the Secretary of Defense have anything to do with confirming the POTUS orders for nuclear weapons release?

Posted by: rd at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (rCsAm)

34 That sounds painful.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (7B5FA)

35 28 I'm no fan of his, but just on a human level I wish him well.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

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Right there with you.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (JeYYB)

36 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:48 PM

No, but that hasn't mattered for 30 years.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (N1tpc)

37 He looks like his health is generally poor. Don't think that helps.

Posted by: hamitchell at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (kE/nb)

38 They weren't hired for their fitness. They were hired for their political reliability.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (xcxpd)

39 My dick doesn't work.

Posted by: Lloyd Austin

Well of course not. You had it surgically removed and inserted up your ass. They did have to remove your head first though so you got that going for you now.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (D31gV)

40 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (G8h7g)

Yep. Why lie about it?

Who knows with these assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (R4t5M)

41 Not only does Austin's pecker not shoot, it won't even piss. Guy is all fucked up. Probably talks like a fag, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (DyHJQ)

42 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.
Posted by: rickb223

That was my first thought - cancer has metastasized.

Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (oiNtH)

43 “an emergent bladder issue“

Depends Brand (psr) stock jumped 22% during late-day Wall Street trading.

Posted by: 13times at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (lrxmU)

44
You might think Kuato has a lot of room inside Lloyd, but we all gotta get out sometimes.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (j4U/Z)

45 Can you imagine if China does attack Taiwan and some high level officer tries to contact leadership?

The SecDef is full of morphine in the hospital, the president is napping since it is after 10 AM, and the VP is under Willie Brown's desk with her phone off.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (ibTVg)

46 He can't resign. If he does because he's in failing health & csnt carry out his duties properly
that starts a cascade. And they can't have that.

Posted by: Biblio at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (9CIfT)

47 Does the Secretary of Defense have anything to do with confirming the POTUS orders for nuclear weapons release? Posted by: rd at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (rCsAm

Yes, and vice versa. Both are necessary.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (7B5FA)

48 42 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.
Posted by: rickb223

A severe infection will do it especially E.coli

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (Akjoo)

49 Too bad. Austin has been a paper-pusher of prodigious stamina. He's America's Achilles.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (vDyah)

50 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

51 MERSA, staph.

Posted by: hamitchell at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (kE/nb)

52 Yep. Why lie about it?

This is common in authoritarian regimes - remember the games the Soviets played with the health of their leaders. Why give the plebes information if it might just lead to wrong thought?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (ibTVg)

53 Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (V8he0)

54 The SecDef is full of morphine in the hospital, the president is napping since it is after 10 AM, and the VP is under Willie Brown's desk with her phone off.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (ibTVg)

THEN PUT PELOSI ON THE LINE!!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (vDyah)

55 This happened what with all of his precautions of wearing a mask with a face shield over it. Outdoors. Looking like DOOF Vader.

Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (oiNtH)

56 An ICU-worthy side effect ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix

*******

Hate to break it to you Joe, what makes him ICU worthy is not his condition, it's his name and title. They would put him in ICU if he had a hangnail...

VIPICU

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (991eG)

57 Fortunately we only have 3 1/2 wars going on right now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (6x71M)

58 Biden, not content with destroying the country, has done everything he can to embarrass and destroy the ability and reputation of the US Military as well.

I can't WAIT for his man to take his spot in the Hell he so richly deserves.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (Zz0t1)

59 Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.
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That's an interesting and passive construction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Don't worry. They got a power woooman in DEI charge now.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (D31gV)

60 I wonder if he's wearing a cloth mask and the Darth Vader face shield?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (7B5FA)

61 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

No.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (9yWhg)

62 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.

Or infection because they f*cked up the prostatectomy.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (sNc8Y)

63 "Emergent bladder issue" is so vague as to qualify as a non-response.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (lf83v)

64 Can you imagine if China does attack Taiwan and some high level officer tries to contact leadership?

The SecDef is full of morphine in the hospital, the president is napping since it is after 10 AM, and the VP is under Willie Brown's desk with her phone off.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (ibTVg)

I got in trouble in the early 2000s when I mentioned that I thought the office I worked in had "the leadership profile of the Iraqi Republican Guards" and comments like that may have contributed to my failure to succeed as a member of that team.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (D7oie)

65 30 Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.
.......

Oh great. Now I feel better.
Posted by: wth at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

She's an Obama stooge, an academic and career civil service.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (xcxpd)

66 55 This happened what with all of his precautions of wearing a mask with a face shield over it. Outdoors. Looking like DOOF Vader.
Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (oiNtH)

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Yes and imagine how many times he's been jabbed.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (JeYYB)

67 Post operation bladder infection on a person in his shape is serious.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (mSwgC)

68 Urosepsis

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (Dm8we)

69 So Hicks are in charge now? Wait until I tell Mr Douglas!

Posted by: Ralph Monroe at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (vFG9F)

70 This happened what with all of his precautions of wearing a mask with a face shield over it. Outdoors. Looking like DOOF Vader.
Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (oiNtH)

Maybe he was battling prostate cancer when he wore that mask and that's why he was wearing it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (YqDXo)

71 @cheri, horde mind!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (7B5FA)

72 How batshit crazy is Kathleen Hicks?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (R4t5M)

73 Clearly, his bladder is racist.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (lf83v)

74 Can you imagine if China does attack Taiwan and some high level officer tries to contact leadership?

********

Al Haig is in charge here!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (991eG)

75 "it was announced"

"has had his duties stripped"

Passive voice means never having to say ~~you're sorry~~ WTF is going on.

Posted by: mikeski at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (7WNtT)

76 The SecDef is full of morphine in the hospital, the president is napping since it is after 10 AM, and the VP is under Willie Brown's desk with her phone off.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (ibTVg)

And they'll finally get through to some hare-brained up-talking communications major doing her damnedest just to get her Outlook open.

"Thai One? Sir, a little Thai restaurant is not a matter for a person of my stature? Call the local police? And they'll be able to help you? Goodbye?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (9UlRk)

77 72 How batshit crazy is Kathleen Hicks?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (R4t5M)

Bad, just like all the rest of them

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (Akjoo)

78 Seriously though, why wouldn't he resign, have lots of people say how wonderful he was as Sec Def *cough* and take care of his health?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (JeYYB)

79 Remember the last time we had a A President Johnson ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (BKOUD)

80 "Urosepsis
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba"

A recently discovered moon around Uranus?

Posted by: Ralph Monroe at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (vFG9F)

81 By all means dems must take the booster asap. Turbo cancer is just a conspiracy.

Posted by: Kestrel.987 at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (wyl5F)

82 So Hicks are in charge now?

Not Hope Hicks, unfortunately.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (9yWhg)

83
Don't worry. They got a power woooman in DEI charge now.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 03:56 PM (D31gV)

See: The Chilean swat team

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

84 ********

Al Haig is in charge here!

Posted by: Muldoon
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If only we had an Al Haig

Posted by: Braenyard at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (mSwgC)

85 Hate to break it to you Joe, what makes him ICU worthy is not his condition, it's his name and title. They would put him in ICU if he had a hangnail...

VIPICU
Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 03:55 PM (991eG)
++++
Certainly possible. That's what I meant by the way the quote sounds to me. Ordinarily, that would be my immediate assumption, but the quote sounded more like, "he needed it" than "we stuck him in there because he's a VIP."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (yjAVs)

86 I can't believe that no one saw Emergent Bladder Issues open for...

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (sNc8Y)

87 Call me Lily Austin and not Lloyd. I am now the first female SecDef !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Lily Austin at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (BKOUD)

88 A Representative (R) in Michigan was just stripped of all committees and all resources in the Michigan House by the Speaker of the House (D).

Because he promoted a "racist conspiracy theory" on his social media.

You have to read several paragraphs in the Fox article to find out that he was talking about how the Democrats are importing new voters to replace the existing ones. (The "Great Replacement Theory")

You know, that "racist conspiracy theory" the Democrats loudly giggled about up until it became too obvious and now pretend it never happened. But it's also good that it's happening.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (N1tpc)

89 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.
Posted by: rickb223

Yep. Why lie about it?
Who knows with these assholes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

I am sure he has been "Vaxxed" and "boosted". And now likely, he has cancer. Maybe in multiple places, and it is metastizising. Fast. He might have weeks, maybe a couple of months.
Yes, despite who he is and what he has done, I would not wish all this pain and suffering on anybody.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (vcOmj)

90 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

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* Atomic Tranny Dogboy being leashed & ridden by Rear Admiral Levine has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (+zNfy)

91 Can you imagine if China does attack Taiwan and some high level officer tries to contact leadership?
__________

"Herro, Great Wall Restaurant, you want pickup or derivery?"

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (lf83v)

92 "The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement."

Given the propensity of everyone in service of this administration to offer rosy assessments of the state of things (at odds with reality), I'd find no comfort in that if I were Austin.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (snyZJ)

93 I pray he heals, and I pray he leaves a job for which he is clearly not qualified.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2024 04:00 PM (NxC5+)

94 How batshit crazy is Kathleen Hicks?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

Based on the trannie shooter thread. Let's hope she isn't taking testosterone supplements.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 04:00 PM (D31gV)

95 Some Admiral: Uh, so we are experiencing a massive attack by the Chinese military to invade Taiwan. Mr President what are your orders?

Joe Biden: ZZZZZZ

Some Admiral: MR PRESIDENT I NEED ORDERS!!!!

Joe Biden: Huh? What? Oh chocolate cookie dough flavor ok? Two scoops. ZZZZZZ

Some Admiral: What is that loud missile sound I am suddenly hearing?

[Signal lost]

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 04:00 PM (ibTVg)

96 Bladder Problems

That's a real pisser.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (Aogz+)

97 The way Austin dressed during COVID with his face shield and mask, looking like Darth Vader if designed by a retarded AI, it's ironic that simple prostate cancer with resulting complications is laying him low.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (DgSZ/)

98 The SecDef is full of morphine in the hospital, the president is napping since it is after 10 AM, and the VP is under Willie Brown's desk with her phone off.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 03:54 PM (ibTVg)

THEN PUT ~~PELOSI~~ HUNTER ON THE LINE!!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

99 94 Based on the trannie shooter thread. Let's hope she isn't taking testosterone supplements.
Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 04:00 PM (D31gV)

Remember that the Queer Lefty catchphrase is "Be Gay, Do Crimes".

Posted by: XTC at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (sm6Pk)

100 I heard he was at a pick-up basketball game and started to dribble funny.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (991eG)

101
You have to read several paragraphs in the Fox article to find out that he was talking about how the Democrats are importing new voters to replace the existing ones. (The "Great Replacement Theory")

A racist conspiracy theory AND one of the top selling political books by two of the top Democrats in the country "The Coming Democrat Majority"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (ibTVg)

102 I saw Bladder Problems perform with Urethra Franklin at the Pelvic Bowl.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (lf83v)

103 "Urosepsis
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba"

A recently discovered moon around Uranus?

Posted by: Ralph Monroe

Dingleberries?

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 12, 2024 04:02 PM (D31gV)

104 >>> Does that account for his piss poor job performance?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 03:49 PM (zssUw)

ISWYDT

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 04:02 PM (Y6IkP)

105 So Lloyd's bladder is committing insurrection?

But remember Darth Lloyd is fully boosted against COVID. He should be fine...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:02 PM (Mi8Re)

106 THEN PUT PELOSI HUNTER ON THE LINE!!

China? NO YELLOW I already told you that. Now get me some of those underage Ukrainian hookers I told you to get

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 12, 2024 04:02 PM (ibTVg)

107 97 The way Austin dressed during COVID with his face shield and mask, looking like Darth Vader if designed by a retarded AI, it's ironic that simple prostate cancer with resulting complications is laying him low.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (DgSZ/)

But it would make perfect sense if he were immunocompromised at the time, perhaps by treatment for the prostate cancer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

108 From a couple threads ago - this country had better take the Lakewood shooting seriously, because next time it might happen in a House of Worship.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2024 04:03 PM (i9ffA)

109 Call me Lily Austin and not Lloyd. I am now the first female SecDef !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Lily Austin at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (BKOUD)
.......

Huh. I woulda went with "Lola".

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2024 04:03 PM (v0R5T)

110 His pee pee can't pee pee!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Age Three at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (PiwSw)

111 I saw Bladder Problems perform with Urethra Franklin at the Pelvic Bowl.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Urine this on your own. Done get pissy with us.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (G8h7g)

112 The fact he hasn't already submitted his resignation is astonishing as it is selfish.

Posted by: WisRich at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (G0vdT)

113 Sounds like Lupus.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (LkLld)

114 But it would make perfect sense if he were immunocompromised at the time, perhaps by treatment for the prostate cancer.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

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Crossed my mind too. Then again, he should have considered resignation. These people cling to power with Pelosi claw-like grip.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (JeYYB)

115 Call me Lily Austin and not Lloyd. I am now the first female SecDef !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Lily Austin at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (BKOUD)
.......

Huh. I woulda went with "Lola".
Posted by: wth

He was a show girl.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (G8h7g)

116 I'm sure that lots of women, including Dr. Kathleen Hicks, are laughing their asses off.

Posted by: SMOD at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (RHGPo)

117 40 Only thing I can think of that would put him in the critical care unit is bladder cancer.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 03:50 PM (G8h7g)

Yep. Why lie about it?

Who knows with these assholes.
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It could be there as well. It looks like LLLLLLoyd Austin has a case of the turbo-ass-cancer.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at February 12, 2024 04:04 PM (JNTt1)

118 Lola Lloyd does roll off the tongue easily

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (Mi8Re)

119 107 97 The way Austin dressed during COVID with his face shield and mask, looking like Darth Vader if designed by a retarded AI, it's ironic that simple prostate cancer with resulting complications is laying him low.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (DgSZ/)

But it would make perfect sense if he were immunocompromised at the time, perhaps by treatment for the prostate cancer.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Very true. Any of the speculation here is far better than what our MSM reports as far as truthiness quotient.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (9FrDg)

120 The Gang That Can't Pee Straight.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (lf83v)

121 The Amerikan dog has a delicious pork chop firmly fastened to its neck.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (V8he0)

122 Crossed my mind too. Then again, he should have considered resignation. These people cling to power with Pelosi claw-like grip.
Posted by: Seems Legit

I had a GI Joe with the Pelosi Claw-Like Grip.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (G8h7g)

123 Does that account for his piss poor job performance?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Tough question. Like the riddle of the Sphincter.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (9yWhg)

124 My affection for the military these days compels me to nominate the highest-ranking member of the Biden Administration, Richard Levine, for the job.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (cSaKW)

125 Norms soooo restored, bro!

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (YofvK)

126 I can't believe that no one saw Emergent Bladder Issues open for...

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 03:59 PM (sNc8Y)

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I caught them open for Infected Mushroom at Nola Socks Pub in '97.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (+zNfy)

127 Ruth Vader-Meinhoff Ginsberg showed the way on how to claw onto power

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (Mi8Re)

128 >>Sounds like Lupus.

The Ubiquitous Killer

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (nSDU/)

129 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?
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Fat Vader leaves a big seat to be filled.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (krQz2)

130 That's what I meant by the way the quote sounds to me. Ordinarily, that would be my immediate assumption, but the quote sounded more like, "he needed it" than "we stuck him in there because he's a VIP."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

********

You are generally better at reading the tea leaves than I am, but having worked at a military medical center, I would say that's pretty much how it works for the brass.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (991eG)

131 Bladder issues after any kind of prostate or bladder surgery might easily be bladder bleeding and/or bladder obstruction due to blood clots. The 'fix' for either is 'constant bladder irrigation' it usually takes 3 days to 'fix' the problem with CBI.
Had a bunch of patients with CBIs while working a med/surg/cancer unit.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (zI+sH)

132 The way Austin dressed during COVID with his face shield and mask, looking like Darth Vader if designed by a retarded AI

I found a shield that attached to your nose and looked almost as bad. I had to buy at least one for history.

Posted by: SMOD at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (RHGPo)

133 It could be there as well. It looks like LLLLLLoyd Austin has a case of the turbo-ass-cancer.

Out: Mitt Romney gives people turbo cancer with his eyes

In: Any claim that the increase in turbo cancer since we started giving people the clot shot is due to the clot shot is obviously malinformation.

Posted by: The FNM at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (ibTVg)

134 Maybe his man snizz is acting up?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (Q4IgG)

135 The Gang That Can't Pee Straight.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

You've heard of the Apple Dumpling Gang?

This is the Butterscotch Pudding Gang.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (G8h7g)

136 The Gang That Can't Pee Straight.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 04:05 PM (lf83v)
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-- Rachel Levine has entered the chat --

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:07 PM (krQz2)

137 >>You've heard of the Apple Dumpling Gang?

This is the Butterscotch Pudding Gang.

The Self-Lubricating Catheter Clan

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2024 04:07 PM (nSDU/)

138 You are generally better at reading the tea leaves than I am, but having worked at a military medical center, I would say that's pretty much how it works for the brass.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:06 PM (991eG)
++++
I'll certainly defer to your much greater experience. I dunno if it's better or worse if this is a "he's a VIP, stick him in the ICU no matter what" scenario vs. "he's in really bad shape, stick him in the ICU" scenario.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (yjAVs)

139 Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview

Putin's words appeared genuine but US swiftly condemns

Posted by: SMOD at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (RHGPo)

140 He is 70. As an O-10 he is supposed to be mandatorily retired after 40 years of active service. He was commissioned in 1975... so 49 years active...

But I guess the rules don't matter anymore.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (xaFKb)

141 "The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement."

That doesn't really sound benign as intended. Sounds legalistic.

One day he'll fully recover... from this local tumor? This cancer management in this snapshot in time is perceptionally, clinically optimistic?

Is there metastasis? Is he to undergo debilitating chemo/radiation for maintenance? Are there secondary effects of his surgery that are complicating?

Forgetting that I don't approve of his leadership as known, I'm not confident of that report or of his medical condition despite official assurances. I mean, officially, Biden remains of sound mind and body to be president. So excuse my suspicions.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (aXxgO)

142 In October 2020, she served on the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic, co-chaired by Heidi Larson and J. Stephen Morrison.[12]

Mistress of Misinformation!

Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (oiNtH)

143 I’m not gonna shit on the guy for being sick. I will shit on him for being an asshole who won’t resign as he is clearly very sick.

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (YofvK)

144 I guess people get tired of lying eventually.

@paulsperry_ 14m
BREAKING: White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said he will not advise Biden undergo a neurological exam or cognitive test as part of his belated Feb 16 "annual" physical. O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (IG4Id)

145 But it would make perfect sense if he were immunocompromised at the time, perhaps by treatment for the prostate cancer.

It never made sense, let alone "perfect".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (V8he0)

146 When talking about Darth Lloyd and his Face Shield +5 versus cooties, you must also mention that 'fabulous' piece of neck jewelry with the multi-colored ribbon.

Dude, Idi Amin from the grave thinks you look like a dork.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (Mi8Re)

147 Maybe his man snizz is acting up?

The term of art is "Mangina"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (ibTVg)

148 The Gang That Can't Pee Straight.
________

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Every Guy Trying to Pee After Sex at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (lf83v)

149 Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (Dm8we)

Wow, there's a name I haven't heard of in awhile. He was married to my mom's cousin.

Posted by: ARLDN at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (ks5aq)

150 I'm sure that lots of women, including Dr. Kathleen Hicks, are laughing their asses off.

********

Prostate cancer? Sure glad I'm a woman!

Posted by: Adm. R. Levine at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (991eG)

151 I would guess Austin is wearing some type of diaper or undie liner.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (zssUw)

152 Now I understand why Austin wore both a mask and a face shield. He knew he had health conditions that would risk death if he caught COVID.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (MNhXM)

153 THEN PUT HUNTER ON THE LINE!!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

Hunter just snorted another line. He's out of commission for about 6 hours.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (a/dOO)

154 "Had his duties stripped.."

Sounds like he refused/forgot to transfer authority.

Posted by: WisRich at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (G0vdT)

155 >>I'll certainly defer to your much greater experience. I dunno if it's better or worse if this is a "he's a VIP, stick him in the ICU no matter what" scenario vs. "he's in really bad shape, stick him in the ICU" scenario.

He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and they didn't try to cover it up this time. I think it's probably serious.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (LkLld)

156 O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
____________

He should be fire for incompetence. Every doctor performs that test on patients over 70.

It is routine.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (lf83v)

157 147 Maybe his man snizz is acting up?

The term of art is "Mangina"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (ibTVg)

He prefers to call it "Mani Willis".

Posted by: XTC at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (sm6Pk)

158 I would guess Austin is wearing some type of diaper or undie liner.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Depends.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (G8h7g)

159 155 >>I'll certainly defer to your much greater experience. I dunno if it's better or worse if this is a "he's a VIP, stick him in the ICU no matter what" scenario vs. "he's in really bad shape, stick him in the ICU" scenario.

He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and they didn't try to cover it up this time. I think it's probably serious.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (LkLld)

Like, 'girlfriend in a coma' serious?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (xcxpd)

160 157 147 Maybe his man snizz is acting up?

The term of art is "Mangina"
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (ibTVg)

He prefers to call it "Mani Willis".
Posted by: XTC at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (sm6Pk)

Bussy

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:10 PM (xcxpd)

161 I see other commenters may have made the mask/shield combo connection.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (MNhXM)

162 But I guess the rules don't matter anymore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (xaFKb)

They matter for you and me of course.

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (YofvK)

163 Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview

Putin's words appeared genuine but US swiftly condemns
Posted by: SMOD

Knowing this administration, they could have dismissed this solely because Tucker was involved.

Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (oiNtH)

164 And I hate that I know the term 'bussy'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (xcxpd)

165 156 O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
____________

It isn't necessary. We can all see he suffers from dementia

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Akjoo)

166 "Had his duties stripped.."

Sounds like he refused/forgot to transfer authority.

Posted by: WisRich at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (G0vdT

AGAIN!

Posted by: rd at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (CflCT)

167 Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.

Is this like the Disney thing where they replace him with a girlboss?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (P4c/S)

168 Out: Look at how North Korea claims their dictator is perfect at everything!!! Those idiots!

In: Anyone that claims that President Biden is not in perfect health is obviously a NAZI that should be sent to a prison camp.

Posted by: The FNM at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (ibTVg)

169 Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2024 03:57 PM (Dm8we)

Wow, there's a name I haven't heard of in awhile. He was married to my mom's cousin.
Posted by: ARLDN
_________

The real Biff Pocoroba? Catcher for the Braves in the 70s?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Dm8we)

170 I think it's probably serious.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:09 PM (LkLld)

We won't know for sure until we ask Simone.

Posted by: spindrift at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (MqhXY)

171
Every Guy Trying to Pee After Sixty Five.
FIFY

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Aogz+)

172 This whole bladder story was supposed to be kept secret but it leaked out.

Leaked.

Out.

Posted by: Schecky Green at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (lf83v)

173 131 Bladder issues after any kind of prostate or bladder surgery might easily be bladder bleeding and/or bladder obstruction due to blood clots. The 'fix' for either is 'constant bladder irrigation' it usually takes 3 days to 'fix' the problem with CBI.
Had a bunch of patients with CBIs while working a med/surg/cancer unit.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Had that after my bladder surgery but given the length of time between the original surgery and this admission is over a month. Something ain't right here--either original surgery was botched or post op infection/scar tissue is sealing off the bladder from emptying.

You get real sick, pretty fast with severe urine retention problems and it can stretch out your bladder muscles to the extent that you keep getting retention issues as well. That requires further surgery.

In my case, it was misdiagnosed enlarged prostate blockage when it was actually a bladder obstruction. Declined TURP surgery locally due to side effects and went to Mayo for HOLEP procedure which is safer and quicker recovery time with fewer side effects.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (9FrDg)

174 Pravda, "General Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is suffering from a mild cold."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (Mi8Re)

175 Oh, and another US Navy Destroyer Captain got relieved of command last week for 'loss of confidence'... which means... anything.

The Purge continues.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (xaFKb)

176 145 But it would make perfect sense if he were immunocompromised at the time, perhaps by treatment for the prostate cancer.

It never made sense, let alone "perfect".
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (V8he0)

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That's true, but what repulsed me was his show of fear, by being masked and shielded while "inspecting the troops."

This isn't the courageous leader I'm looking for. If it was cancer at the time he should have resigned.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (JeYYB)

177 140 He is 70. As an O-10 he is supposed to be mandatorily retired after 40 years of active service. He was commissioned in 1975... so 49 years active...

But I guess the rules don't matter anymore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (xaFKb)

Nope

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (xcxpd)

178 Beau Biden died tragically in the ICU from a pee pee infection.

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (YofvK)

179 140 He is 70. As an O-10 he is supposed to be mandatorily retired after 40 years of active service. He was commissioned in 1975... so 49 years active...

But I guess the rules don't matter anymore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (xaFKb)

Ah, but the Sec. Def. is a civilian, so he's no longer in the military. Everyone just calls him by his military rank.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (a/dOO)

180 SecDef in a coma, I know
I know, it's serious
SecDef in a coma, I know
I know, it's really serious

Posted by: The Smiths at February 12, 2024 04:13 PM (ibTVg)

181
AWOL Austin

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:13 PM (krQz2)

182 STRATCOM CC: ICBM's inbound Mr. President and we have 15 minutes to decide on our response !!!!!

President Biden: Where is my Ice Cream ???

VP Harris: Where is Sponge-Bob when we need him ???

SecDef Austin: Where my Fricken Nuts ??? Who cut off my Nuts ???

STRATCOM CC: Get my plane ready to go to Tahiti........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:13 PM (BKOUD)

183 I saw The Riddle of the Sphincter open for The Flying Burrito Brothers at the Troubadour in '77.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 04:13 PM (+zNfy)

184 It's just a flesh wound.

Posted by: Obligatory at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (lVMGr)

185 166 "Had his duties stripped.."

Sounds like he refused/forgot to transfer authority.

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It sure does.

As opposed to, "transfer of authority."

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (JeYYB)

186 Oh, and another US Navy Destroyer Captain got relieved of command last week for 'loss of confidence'... which means... anything.

The Purge continues.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (xaFKb)

Hey that's not fair. They were pulling over every destroyer captain sailing down that particular highway that evening....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (9UlRk)

187 Uromysitisis can be death a sentence.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (evaxF)

188 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (yjAVs)

*******

True enough.

Austin and Walter Reed aside, civilian hospitals are very good at up-coding patient severity and billing for ICU level care. I worked one place that had something like 50 ICU beds and only two nursing stations at the opposite ends of a long hall. About 40 of the beds were in private rooms without direct line of sight from the nurses' station. Connditions like routine overnight post-op care, home in the a.m.

Ka-ching!

Posted by: Adm. R. Levine at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (991eG)

189 156 O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
____________

If they did give it to Him they would lie about the results anyway

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (Akjoo)

190 >>Uromysitisis can be death a sentence.

Nice.

Posted by: garrett at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (nSDU/)

191 144 I guess people get tired of lying eventually.

@paulsperry_ 14m
BREAKING: White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said he will not advise Biden undergo a neurological exam or cognitive test as part of his belated Feb 16 "annual" physical. O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (IG4Id)

========

You know what's going to kill those dementia rumors?

Skipping dementia tests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

192 Trans-urethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is a risky surgical procedure no matter what the doctors say. Lots of opportunities for post-op complications and depressing life-and-function-altering outcomes. it is not to be wished on any man, lest karma rebounds onto you.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (J9nBc)

193 Oh, and another US Navy Destroyer Captain got relieved of command last week for 'loss of confidence'... which means the new Captain must be a Transgender !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (BKOUD)

194 Next on PBS, an Alfred Hitchcock classic: The Riddle of the Sphincter.

Posted by: Overpaid narrator voice at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (lVMGr)

195 Ah, but the Sec. Def. is a civilian, so he's no longer in the military. Everyone just calls him by his military rank.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 12, 2024 04:12 PM (a/dOO)

Good point, but still past his sell by date, as are just about all our major politicians.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (xaFKb)

196 Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview

Putin's words appeared genuine but US swiftly condemns

wow someone at the WH watched the interview? it's longer than a Tik Tok so I didn't think they had it in them

Posted by: brak at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (25k9m)

197 IN: Incompetent
JUST IN: Incontinent

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (wtvvX)

198 Although she doesn't relish his misery or wish him greater pain, this leggy brunette in a dress finds it impossible to have any sympathy:
http://tiny.cc/fmyrwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (yjAVs)

199
Had that after my bladder surgery but given the length of time between the original surgery and this admission is over a month. Something ain't right here--either original surgery was botched or post op infection/scar tissue is sealing off the bladder from emptying.
Posted by: whig

Or 'mr I'm private' has been hiding complications since the last time he his issues and they finally got so bad he had to be transported to the hospital... If you don't wait until you are really sick you can usually drive yourself to hospitals...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (zI+sH)

200 193 Oh, and another US Navy Destroyer Captain got relieved of command last week for 'loss of confidence'... which means the new Captain must be a Transgender !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (BKOUD)

Male looking White guy... go figure.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (xaFKb)

201 ____________

If they did give it to Him they would lie about the results anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 04:14 PM (Akjoo)

Which, if they want to quell some of the negative public perception out there currently, they should say they gave him one and lie about it.

Them NOT giving him one and lying about it means they're giving up and won't be backing him for '24.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (Zz0t1)

202 On the radio this morning, they were saying that Austin was alert and retained his duties. Then by the time this report came out, it said "stripped of his duties." Yes, something smells about this one. Either he's worse off than they're letting on, or he refuses to ever relinquish control.

I know, I know, embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (a/dOO)

203 TURP?

FUPA?

Am confused

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (Mi8Re)

204 Oh, and another US Navy Destroyer Captain got relieved of command last week for 'loss of confidence'... which means... anything.

And yet Biden is still in the White House.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (YqDXo)

205
His new title is Lloyd Austin, Chief Emergent Bladder Emergency Chief

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Scientists can't even figure out how many moons the Earth has at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (WF0+t)

206 These monsters cling to their positions even on their death beds. They are so addicted to the power they wield that they cannot let it go. Most untainted people take time out to heal and even give up their jobs this late into their careers finding that their health is more important but not the current DC octogenarian megalomaniacs.

Posted by: Decaf at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (3JfbU)

207 He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and they didn't try to cover it up this time. I think it's probably serious.
Posted by: JackStraw

Like, 'girlfriend in a coma' serious?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Like "dead intern in your office" serious.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (G8h7g)

208 Adirondack Patriot: "He should be fire for incompetence. Every doctor performs that test on patients over 70.

It is routine."

Yeah, to ask (test) is to answer. So best not to ask (test).

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (aXxgO)

209 >>Uromysitisis?

https://youtu.be/OG6b7KJ1Ah0

Posted by: Yep. Seinfeld. at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (lVMGr)

210 171
Every Guy Trying to Pee After Sixty Five.
FIFY
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
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That is the default diagnosis of enlarged prostate but without a sizing imaging of the prostate, it is often a false one. I was given that diagnosis despite repeated UTIs as I was getting old and my prostate was enlarged. Twasn't that at all as it turns out.

Always get a second opinion (or even third) if you can before undergoing surgery. Surgery fixing the wrong thing is as bad as not having surgery at all.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (9FrDg)

211 Riddle of the Sphincter sounds like a Hardy Boys book.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (R4t5M)

212 http://tiny.cc/fmyrwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Wow. Nice gams.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (9yWhg)

213 It sure does.

As opposed to, "transfer of authority."

Generally speaking, I agree but I'm not sure I trust anyone writing for MSM to understand, let alone convey, subtlety of meaning in writing any more.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (sNc8Y)

214 Jill Biden is more EVIL then Hillary Clinton knowing her husband is brain dead but does not tell him to resign ......

She cares more about her ass being licked then about the country and THE CHILDREN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (BKOUD)

215 Is anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

--------------------

No and they know it otherwise they would not have needed to steal the 2020 election.

Posted by: Decaf at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (3JfbU)

216 >>Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview

If he wanted to they aren't going to let Joe sit down with Putin. He's wind up giving them back Alaska.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (LkLld)

217 I see other commenters may have made the mask/shield combo connection.
Posted by: Naples Yellow

Too bad that combo only protected against sawdust, not anything even remotely cootie-sized

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (MhLnR)

218 208 Adirondack Patriot: "He should be fire for incompetence. Every doctor performs that test on patients over 70.

It is routine."

Yeah, to ask (test) is to answer. So best not to ask (test).
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (aXxgO)

He can't be forced to testify about a test he never performed.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (xaFKb)

219 203 TURP?

FUPA?

Am confused
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:16 PM (Mi8Re)

Don't ask.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (AJDwy)

220 Lloyd Austin isn't fit enough pass a casual insurance physical. Just the mere effort of breathing leaves him short of breath.

I'd presume his blood pressure is sky-high, too. Gotta put a lot of strain on the heart, pushing a gallon n' a half of 90 weight syrup through the system, when all the blood vessels themselves are being crushed by the surrounding fat pressing in like the ocean on the ill-fated Titan submarine.

Gotta be some brave nurses tending to him, there. One wrong poke with a needle, and he may well burst like a kids balloon.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (e6UQI)

221 211 Riddle of the Sphincter sounds like a Hardy Boys book.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (R4t5M)

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If Disney got a hold of it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (JeYYB)

222 'loss of confidence'

Seems to be an ongoing theme.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (V8he0)

223 Riddle of the Sphincter: A Hadley Boys Mystery.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (Mi8Re)

224 Is there such a thing as an "emergent bladder issue"

Or that just a typo for emergency ?

Posted by: PaleRider at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (3cGpq)

225 He probably developed turbo cancer.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at February 12, 2024 04:19 PM (evaxF)

226 I see the War on Cancer goes as well as any modern US military effort.

Posted by: Flyguy at February 12, 2024 04:19 PM (OYxA4)

227 A Hadley Boys Mystery.
Posted by: Anna Puma

The Baxendale Boys books were better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:19 PM (9yWhg)

228 PaleRider

The bladder staged an insurrection

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:20 PM (Mi8Re)

229 Earlier Sunday, it was announced Austin has had his duties stripped and transferred to deputy Kathleen Hicks.

********

You misheard. For the procedure he had his booty stripped!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:20 PM (991eG)

230 All this urinary infection talk is giving me shrinkage.

Posted by: George Costanza at February 12, 2024 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

231 Kathleen Hicks is your typical overeducated political appointee. Has a PhD in poli sci from MIT (poli sci ain't tech) then got into government and Barky appointed her to an important policy position in Pentagon. Zero practical military experience, much theory /policy experience. Kind of like Blinken in a dress

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (DgSZ/)

232 Austin is a Fat Slob whom probably eats 100 Twinkees a Day. He cannot pass an Army physical and probably waddles when he walks !

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (BKOUD)

233 222 'loss of confidence'

Seems to be an ongoing theme.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:18 PM (V8he0)

Used to take a whole big bunch of F ups to get a CO relieved of Command...

Now, it seems to happen about once a month... with a MUCH smaller Navy than I served in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (xaFKb)

234 "the private sector" - the afterlife?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (w6EFb)

235 Raskin sounds worried.

@AnnieGrayer

First on CNN: Jamie Raskin raises serious concerns about Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski ahead of his interview with Congress as part of Biden impeachment inquiry

Raskin says Bobulinski presents “giant red flags” in new letter to James Comer

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)

236 203 TURP?

FUPA?

Am confused
Posted by: Anna Puma

Trans urethal resection procedure. Aka rotor rooter---using a heated cutting surface they cut through obstructions in the prostate and urinary tract.

Modern approaches use either a Holmium cold laser (Holep) which also gives the doc a biopsy of teh prostate tissue for cancer or Rezum which is a steam procedure that fries the offending tissue for later expulsion after it dies. There is one other TURP variant that uses microwaves to heat the tissue and then it is much like Rezum.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (9FrDg)

237 25 Having Kathleen Hicks in charge is much scarier than having no one in charge.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 03:52 PM (BdMk6)

Catherine Hicks >>> Kathleen Hicks
http://tinyurl.com/mvzk8tpx

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (wtvvX)

238 235 Raskin sounds worried.

@AnnieGrayer

First on CNN: Jamie Raskin raises serious concerns about Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski ahead of his interview with Congress as part of Biden impeachment inquiry

Raskin says Bobulinski presents “giant red flags” in new letter to James Comer
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld

The wolves are circling the prey

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (AJDwy)

239 Raskin says Bobulinski presents “giant red flags” in new letter to James Comer
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (LkLld)

Sounds like something a Russian agent would say

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (9UlRk)

240 Austin is a Fat Slob whom probably eats 100 Twinkees a Day. He cannot pass an Army physical and probably waddles when he walks !
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Which Meal Team was he on, I wonder?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (9yWhg)

241 231 Kathleen Hicks is your typical overeducated political appointee. Has a PhD in poli sci from MIT (poli sci ain't tech) then got into government and Barky appointed her to an important policy position in Pentagon. Zero practical military experience, much theory /policy experience. Kind of like Blinken in a dress
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (DgSZ/)

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We're effed.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (JeYYB)

242 232 Austin is a Fat Slob whom probably eats 100 Twinkees a Day. He cannot pass an Army physical and probably waddles when he walks !
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (BKOUD)

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Posted by: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

243 Has a PhD in poli sci from MIT

So she's an intellectual! Laughs bitterly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

244 I wonder King Charles is doing.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (zssUw)

245 Being "Stripped" of duties sounds like someone who is reprimanded pending discharge. Strange indeed.

Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (oiNtH)

246 TURP variant that uses microwaves to heat the tissue

Wait... Lloyd had his nuts nuked?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (Mi8Re)

247 I have a PHD in "Stand up Philosophy" from the University of Atlantis.

So can I by SecDef..... Please....Please....Mommy ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (BKOUD)

248 So she's an intellectual! Laughs bitterly.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:22 PM (YqDXo)

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That made me laugh.

Bitterly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:23 PM (JeYYB)

249 Catherine Hicks >>> Kathleen Hicks
http://tinyurl.com/mvzk8tpx

Posted by: Tex Lovera

Hope Hicks > Catherine Hicks >>> Kathleen Hicks

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:23 PM (9yWhg)

250 Used to take a whole big bunch of F ups to get a CO relieved of Command...

Now, it seems to happen about once a month... with a MUCH smaller Navy than I served in.

2024: garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 04:23 PM (V8he0)

251 Wow. Nice gams.

Kinda looks like she's waiting for her Uber pick up after attending a funeral.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:23 PM (sNc8Y)

252 198 Although she doesn't relish his misery or wish him greater pain, this leggy brunette in a dress finds it impossible to have any sympathy:
http://tiny.cc/fmyrwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (yjAVs)

Very fit. Would.
Is that Katelyn Runck?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

253 Kathleen Hicks is your typical overeducated political appointee. Has a PhD in poli sci from MIT (poli sci ain't tech) then got into government and Barky appointed her to an important policy position in Pentagon. Zero practical military experience, much theory /policy experience. Kind of like Blinken in a dress
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (DgSZ/)

reminds me of this classic:

http://tinyurl.com/4jaz5kwk

Posted by: brak at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (25k9m)

254 s there such a thing as an "emergent bladder issue"

Or that just a typo for emergency ?
Posted by: PaleRider

******

That's common usage. Emergent is a step up from urgent. An emergent issue creates an emergency. Urgent issue causes a sense of urgency.

Urgency- I have to pee so bad it feels like my bladder will explode.

Emergency- My bladder exploded

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (991eG)

255 Hillary for SedDef.................

Hillary Gots Back !!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (BKOUD)

256 251 Wow. Nice gams.

Kinda looks like she's waiting for her Uber pick up after attending a funeral.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:23 PM (sNc8Y)

I volunteer to lend her comfort.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (T+Iwg)

257 Radical prostatectomy usually means using a catheter for at least two weeks while you try to retrain certain muscles. Infection would be a likely adverse side effect.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (pgwxJ)

258 Kind of like Blinken in a dress

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:21 PM (DgSZ/)

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You say that like it doesn't happen.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:25 PM (krQz2)

259 Or 'mr I'm private' has been hiding complications since the last time he his issues and they finally got so bad he had to be transported to the hospital... If you don't wait until you are really sick you can usually drive yourself to hospitals...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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I had an ill trained nurse that catherized me after I went to the doc and they found severe urinary retention (over one liter or so). The catherization hurt so bad that I barely got through the pain to drive home. Too short on the expansion loop which led to razor blade like pain.

Know how to cath myself if it happens in the future. Damn sure not pleasant.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:25 PM (9FrDg)

260 reminds me of this classic:

http://tinyurl.com/4jaz5kwk
Posted by: brak at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (25k9m)

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That also made me laugh...bitterly.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:25 PM (JeYYB)

261 207 He was taken to the hospital by ambulance and they didn't try to cover it up this time. I think it's probably serious.
Posted by: JackStraw

Like, 'girlfriend in a coma' serious?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Like "dead intern in your office" serious.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2024 04:17 PM (G8h7g)

*Joe Scarborough has left the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

262 Just sayin…

If you’ve never had prostate issues, no less cancer, with attendant complications, a lot of y’all are being cruel.

We may be morons, but we’re better than making light of his unfortunate situation.

Yes he should have had his resignation papers already in…

Posted by: browndog appreciates creature comforts now at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (pY+ea)

263 PaleRider: "Is there such a thing as an 'emergent bladder issue'

Or that just a typo for emergency?"

It's a bladder issue that is appearing and/or worsening. Not necessarily an emergency, but not an issue/condition that should be delayed or that can be ignored.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (aXxgO)

264 Wait. This is the guy who has been instrumental in the disintegration of our military and y'all feel bad for him and wish him well? Is it because it's a man's disease? Wtf.

He's a traitor and a scumbag and I don't feel bad for
Him at
All.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (cPLO/)

265 reminds me of this classic:

http://tinyurl.com/4jaz5kwk
Posted by: brak at February 12, 2024 04:24 PM (25k9m)

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That also made me laugh...bitterly.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:25 PM (JeYYB)

The three on the bottom are far less terrifying.

They can be reasoned with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (9UlRk)

266 Although she doesn't relish his misery or wish him greater pain, this leggy brunette in a dress finds it impossible to have any sympathy:
http://tiny.cc/fmyrwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Knobby knees. And what's that around her neck?

Posted by: wth at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

267 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (JeYYB)

268 *squirms in chair*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (R4t5M)

269 @258 Axeman , the minute I posted that I had to bang my head against the table to rid of the image of Blinken in a dress

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (DgSZ/)

270 I am ready, Tan, and relaxed...........

I am ready to step in to take Joey Boy's place !!!!!!

Posted by: Al Gore at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (BKOUD)

271 Someone actually asked KJP why Biden has an empty schedule for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week...

Said "she doesn't have anything"...

I guess it's a med reset...gotta switch since tolerance has been reached on the old ones...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2024 04:27 PM (exHjb)

272 He's a traitor and a scumbag and I don't feel bad for
Him at
All.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (cPLO/)

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Well, there is that too.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:27 PM (JeYYB)

273 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

This reality is making Demolition Man look like a feel good date movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:27 PM (Mi8Re)

274 He's a traitor and a scumbag and I don't feel bad for
Him at
All.
Posted by: nurse ratched

*fist bump*

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 12, 2024 04:28 PM (MhLnR)

275 I volunteer to lend her comfort.

Morons are good folk. Y'all make me proud.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:28 PM (sNc8Y)

276 F**k You .......... Pony Faced Dog Ass Sniffing Homo !!!!!!!

President'n Hard !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 04:28 PM (BKOUD)

277 Yep. Why lie about it?

Who knows with these assholes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 03:53 PM (R4t5M)

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The same thing they have done with King Charles and his cancer, we have no idea what sort of cancer. The same with his daughter-in-law Kate, Princess of Wales. They also have the disease of elitism, where the commoners, serfs, peons and peasants are not entitled to know what is happening with the elites, we are not clever enough to tell the difference between diseases.

They are just protecting us from having to worry our little heads about what is going on. I am sick of this condescension from on high.

Posted by: Decaf at February 12, 2024 04:28 PM (3JfbU)

278 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
Posted by: Seems Legit

I think 1984 is still the leading candidate.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:28 PM (9yWhg)

279 246 TURP variant that uses microwaves to heat the tissue

Wait... Lloyd had his nuts nuked?
Posted by: Anna Puma

He had prostate cancer which I did not. But they commonly treat the prostate gland with radioactive seed to kill the cancer, total removal which in my FIL case, made him impotent and unable to control his bladder (cut the nerve) and he had internal leakage immediately after the first surgery so they had to open him up again to fix his urinary line hole.

Prostate is a small dense tissue that is really hard for blood stream drugs to penetrate which is why radiation or surgical removal is necessary for cancer. Also difficult to cure if the prostate tissue is infected with antibiotics. Nasty stuff.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:29 PM (9FrDg)

280 We may be morons, but we’re better than making light of his unfortunate situation.

Yes he should have had his resignation papers already in…

Posted by: browndog appreciates creature comforts now at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (pY+ea)

There's no lightness in my laughter at this guy's busted undercarriage. Fuck him, and may his suffering be maximal. It's a drop in the bucket to atone for the suffering he and his fellow conspirators have wrought upon the world.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:29 PM (9UlRk)

281 191 144 I guess people get tired of lying eventually.

@paulsperry_ 14m
BREAKING: White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said he will not advise Biden undergo a neurological exam or cognitive test as part of his belated Feb 16 "annual" physical. O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (IG4Id)

========

You know what's going to kill those dementia rumors?

Skipping dementia tests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

"Biden 2024: I Forgot!".

Posted by: LASue at February 12, 2024 04:29 PM (Kcw7x)

282 I guess it's a med reset...gotta switch since tolerance has been reached on the old ones...

Takes that long to train Joey in the new talking points. He's a 14.4 modem in a Gig Ethernet world.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:29 PM (Mi8Re)

283 Who’s going to be left to notify China of all our defense plans?

Posted by: TitanTom at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (mLHwG)

284 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Moby Dick

Posted by: That guy who thinks Moby Dick is always the answer at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (CsUN+)

285 Oh Nurse look............. That looks like a Penis, only smaller ..........

Posted by: Dr. Ho, Austin's Nut Doctor at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (BKOUD)

286 The same thing they have done with King Charles and his cancer, we have no idea what sort of cancer. The same with his daughter-in-law Kate, Princess of Wales. They also have the disease of elitism, where the commoners, serfs, peons and peasants are not entitled to know what is happening with the elites, we are not clever enough to tell the difference between diseases.

They are just protecting us from having to worry our little heads about what is going on. I am sick of this condescension from on high.
Posted by: Decaf

Goes back a long way. Edward VII's final illness didn't get much press coverage.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (9yWhg)

287 284 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

ugh Brazil probably

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (AcWfM)

288 283 Who’s going to be left to notify China of all our defense plans?
Posted by: TitanTom at February 12, 2024 04:30 PM (mLHwG)

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I think that was Milley who admitted it openly. Don't doubt Austin is the same weak-spined tool.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (JeYYB)

289 278 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
Posted by: Seems Legit

I think 1984 is still the leading candidate.
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I'd go with The Wanting Seed by Burgess. Starvation and cannibals. Metaphorically, we are already there.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (DyHJQ)

290 Being in a prostate-adjacent age group, I'm learning a lot of things here today that kinda make my wee-wee shrivel up...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (wtvvX)

291 Brazil?

Who's having the Saran Wrap plastic surgery?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (Mi8Re)

292 I think this very private man will soon exit to the private sector.

Raytheon has fantastic Hospice care.

anyone in the Biden Administration fit for office?

No.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (sAmhv)

293 Oh come on, Brave New World. "So-ma! So-ma! So-ma!"]

With a dash of Fahrenheit 451 tossed in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (i9ffA)

294 Biden 4042: Remember the Hertz!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (9UlRk)

295 BREAKING: White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said he will not advise Biden undergo a neurological exam or cognitive test as part of his belated Feb 16 "annual" physical. O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:08 PM (IG4Id)

See? All better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (j++Y7)

296 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. If we're lucky.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (CsUN+)

297 Lloyd Austin will be Jimmy Carter's roommate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (Mi8Re)

298 oh shoot you said novel! if novel, This Perfect Day most likely

or We, which scares me

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (AcWfM)

299 Being that he's a communist he's be trying to hold onto his pro-state for a long while. Now it'll likely be surgically removed.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (evaxF)

300 This particular SecDef seemed really weird. In a bad way.

If it's true he "was stripped of his responsibilities" and that he didn't "relinquish" them then he deserves whatever happens.

It seems like most, if not all of *biden's cabinet is off the proverbial reservation. I have nothing but contempt for them and hope there is much pain and suffering in their lives.

*shrugs.... they want me dead, so fuck 'em

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 04:33 PM (Q4IgG)

301 It must upset Charles. He didn't get the crown until he was 75, because he mother had the long life gene. Then he gets cancer.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 04:33 PM (zssUw)

302 293 Oh come on, Brave New World. "So-ma! So-ma! So-ma!"]

With a dash of Fahrenheit 451 tossed in.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (i9ffA)

I was thinking 1984 with a dash of Fahrenheit 451 and The Children of Men

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2024 04:33 PM (exHjb)

303 BREAKING: White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said he will not advise Biden undergo a neurological exam or cognitive test as part of his belated Feb 16 "annual" physical. O'Connor doesn't believe it's necessary, despite egregious memory lapses observed by Special Counsel Rob Hur

That is simply malpractice.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2024 04:33 PM (CsUN+)

304 BTW, as a PSA. Urinary tract infections are one of the reasons that a lot of people in nursing homes etc. suddenly go bonkers. Delirium is a frequent occurrence and given the predominance of diuretics given to elderly--a lot of times the urinary tract infections are increased by dehydration and poor sanitation such as regular cleaning and proper defecation wiping.

Something to remember if an elderly older loved one suddenly goes off the rails. Often it is a uti.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (9FrDg)

305 Lol.

Everything towards the prostate. Everything within the prostate. Nothing outside the prostate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (9UlRk)

306 Put Biden's removed brain in the Jar named.....

Abby Normal

Posted by: Dr. FrankinSteen at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (BKOUD)

307 Lloyd Austin will be Jimmy Carter's roommate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:32 PM (Mi8Re)

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They can join McCain (in progress) for a tripartite funeral.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (+zNfy)

308 Biden 4042: Remember the Hertz!

Biden's walking through airports!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (9yWhg)

309 One Prostate to Rule Them All?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (Mi8Re)

310 306 Put Biden's removed brain in the Jar named.....

Abby Normal
Posted by: Dr. FrankinSteen at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (BKOUD)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

311 Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024

With family history, most insurance will cover PSA blood tests younger than age 50. Get checked young, especially if your dad had it. Both my dad and FIL had it. Bad outcomes for my dad (the usual) and FIL died when it was caught too late and had metastasized. It was a long, painful, miserable end for him.

Get checked, gents.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (pgwxJ)

312 Something to remember if an elderly older loved one suddenly goes off the rails. Often it is a uti.
Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (9FrDg)

That should always be the 1st check. Not dementia.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (exHjb)

313 278 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
Posted by: Seems Legit

Very hard to answer as current year America is a hodge podge of several Dystopian novels. If I had to pick just one: Brave New World. Even that isn't quite right. We're living in a hybrid Dystopian society that will get worse.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 04:35 PM (sAmhv)

314 Everything towards the prostate. Everything within the prostate. Nothing outside the prostate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:34 PM (9UlRk)

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Funny and stolen.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 04:36 PM (+zNfy)

315 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Posted by: Seems Legit

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Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 12, 2024 04:36 PM (+zNfy)

316 290 Being in a prostate-adjacent age group, I'm learning a lot of things here today that kinda make my wee-wee shrivel up...
Posted by: Tex Lovera
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Get a damn good urologist is my advice and know the signs of a uti. If you get one frequently, then something is wrong. Pissing blood is always a bad symptom by the way.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:36 PM (9FrDg)

317 On The Beach.

Posted by: Neville Shute at February 12, 2024 04:36 PM (lVMGr)

318 I think Britain is currently experiencing Anthony Burgess's novel 1985.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (PiwSw)

319 The illegal problem has me thinking the worst as far as America's future.

It will take years and years for them to assimilate IF they ever do.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (JeYYB)

320 I would have also added in Harrison Bergeron...but that's not a novel...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (exHjb)

321 Oh go gas yourself Neville.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (Mi8Re)

322 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Posted by: Seems Legit

***
King's The Running Man. Or James Blish's They Shall Have Stars, though I think we're there already.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (omVj0)

323 Big Mike has bigger Nuts the Austin......... Hust Sayin !!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (BKOUD)

324 It must upset Charles. He didn't get the crown until he was 75, because he mother had the long life gene. Then he gets cancer.
Posted by: Northernlurker

Victoria's son Edward VII had a similar trajectory, though he was younger than Charles when he ascended, and did not die of cancer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:38 PM (9yWhg)

325 The illegal problem has me thinking the worst as far as America's future.

An American version of 'The Camp of the Saints'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 04:38 PM (sAmhv)

326 >>>Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Not a novel, but Idiocracy. Hell, we're already about 75% there.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 12, 2024 04:38 PM (CwhoI)

327 We're slouching towards Tuesdays With Morrie and no one is doing a damn thing to stop it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:38 PM (9UlRk)

328 Being in a prostate-adjacent age group, I'm learning a lot of things here today that kinda make my wee-wee shrivel up...

All kidding and Moron behavior aside, the topic has come up in the past and I believe a number of us have had prostate cancer. It's one of the most survivable cancers if it's caught early.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:39 PM (sNc8Y)

329 That should always be the 1st check. Not dementia.
Posted by: Nova Local

Yep. Dementia is a process that takes awhile. Sudden onset means usually something else. Both at the same time are really bad news.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:39 PM (9FrDg)

330 Was AWOL Austin the vicinity of King Charles?

Doesn't it seem odd that two public figures could come down with full-body rectal cancer at once?

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:39 PM (krQz2)

331 I hate getting my prostate checked. But, I never got any sympathy from the gals, who had to endure the stirrups. So I put up with it, and endure in silence.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:40 PM (9yWhg)

332 Did Lloyd Austin ever drink Camp Lejuene water?

Posted by: Lawyers everywhere at February 12, 2024 04:40 PM (lVMGr)

333 Wow. Nice gams.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

*********

Psssst, Hey Bulgo- nobody says "gams" anymore.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:40 PM (991eG)

334 Doesn't it seem odd that two public figures could come down with full-body rectal cancer at once?
Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:39 PM (krQz2)

Just a big coincidence!

Posted by: Pfizer... at February 12, 2024 04:40 PM (xaFKb)

335 I have never seen Idiocracy.

I keep hearing about it. Recently more so.

It's on the list.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:40 PM (JeYYB)

336 He has been hospitalized for 'symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue'

Translation: his prostate cancer is metastasizing.

Sad, but he has no business being Secretary of Defense - I don't think that he has long to live.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (YAtuc)

337 The faceplate is to "keep Austin weird".

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (krQz2)

338 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Not a novel, but Idiocracy. Hell, we're already about 75% there.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 12, 2024 04:38 PM (CwhoI)
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Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is also a top contender.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (7fElN)

339 You know what's going to kill those dementia rumors?

Skipping dementia tests.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 12, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

"Biden 2024: I Forgot!".

Posted by: LASue at February 12, 2024 04:29 PM (Kcw7x)

It worked for Steve Martin.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (wtvvX)

340
YOU be the guy to tell Biden undergo a neurological exam.

Love to hear Joey's eloquent language in response.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (j4U/Z)

341 335 I have never seen Idiocracy.

I keep hearing about it. Recently more so.

It's on the list.
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It is worth the watch.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (DyHJQ)

342 I heard on CNN that Putin wrote Special Council Hur's Report !!!!!!!!!!

RUSSIA, PUTIN AND TRUMP 2.0 !!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (BKOUD)

343 IN the previous thread, there was a mention that a majority of Cabinet members plus the vice president have to agree that the president can't discharge his duties. In the article, "If Harris can get eight Cabinet members to agree . . ." Eight is a simple majority? There are fourteen Cabinet members???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (omVj0)

344 The real Biff Pocoroba? Catcher for the Braves in the 70s?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (Dm8we)

Yeah, that guy. I hadn't seen him since the 80's when I was a kid, but I've been at family reunions since then with some of his kids (my 2nd cousins).

Posted by: ARLDN at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (ks5aq)

345 Who's having the Saran Wrap plastic surgery?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2024 04:31 PM (Mi8Re)

Austin's complications are having complications.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (/HDaX)

346 >>Not a novel, but Idiocracy. Hell, we're already about 75% there.

If Biden started ranting about Brawndo and electrolytes I wouldn't be surprising in the least.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (LkLld)

347 331 I hate getting my prostate checked. But, I never got any sympathy from the gals, who had to endure the stirrups. So I put up with it, and endure in silence.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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New protocol is just reliance on PSA test. Doc no longer puts the finger up the butt.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (9FrDg)

348 >>>Doesn't it seem odd that two public figures could come down with full-body rectal cancer at once?

Totally a coincidence.

Posted by: Jom Acosta, with a strange red mass on the tip of my nose at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

349 267 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (JeYYB)

—————

1) Mega corporations and oligarchs ruling everything

2) Marriage and male/female relationships falling off a cliff

3) open pedophilia

4) collapse of Christianity

5) social credit system/pre-crime

Not sure what book covers all that.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (2fIO4)

350 Psssst, Hey Bulgo- nobody says "gams" anymore.

Nice pins on the bird.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (VMFAF)

351 No sense telling Austin to go piss up a rope.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (s0Sk+)

352 Two Navy brethren with prostate cancer. This is an issue close to me.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2024 04:43 PM (NxC5+)

353 Austin's complications are having complications.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (/HDaX)
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An infection has come down will full case of Lloyd Austin.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:43 PM (krQz2)

354 ---
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" is also a top contender.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (7fElN)

Well, Kim Greist was pretty hawt IIRC, so at least there's that.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2024 04:43 PM (T+Iwg)

355 Give piss a chance.

Posted by: Joke Oh Ono at February 12, 2024 04:43 PM (lf83v)

356 Psssst, Hey Bulgo- nobody says "gams" anymore.
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, I have been told that I have "nice gams."

Legs trail far behind boobs and vaginas in the number of slang words used to describe them.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:43 PM (9yWhg)

357 Psssst, Hey Bulgo- nobody says "gams" anymore.

Nice pins on the bird.
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (VMFAF)
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What a dame!

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (krQz2)

358 347 331 I hate getting my prostate checked. But, I never got any sympathy from the gals, who had to endure the stirrups. So I put up with it, and endure in silence.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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New protocol is just reliance on PSA test. Doc no longer puts the finger up the butt.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (9FrDg)

Either that news hasn't made it to my Doc, or else she just likes sticking her finger in my ass once a year...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (wtvvX)

359 New protocol is just reliance on PSA test. Doc no longer puts the finger up the butt.

"But doc, I don't even have a prostate any more."

"Well, better safe than sorry."

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (sNc8Y)

360 349 267 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:26 PM (JeYYB)

—————

1) Mega corporations and oligarchs ruling everything

2) Marriage and male/female relationships falling off a cliff

3) open pedophilia

4) collapse of Christianity

5) social credit system/pre-crime

Not sure what book covers all that.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Brave New World, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (sAmhv)

361 'At this time, it is not clear how long Secretary Austin will remain hospitalized. The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement.

How fitting for such an arrogant incompetent dick.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (N39Ws)

362 351 No sense telling Austin to go piss up a rope.
Posted by: Ben Had at February

You're the best

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (JGlUB)

363 @EpochTimes

Austin Remains in Hospital, Expected to Attend NATO Meeting Virtually

The Pentagon could not confirm whether Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks is now sixth in line in the presidential succession.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (LkLld)

364 343 IN the previous thread, there was a mention that a majority of Cabinet members plus the vice president have to agree that the president can't discharge his duties. In the article, "If Harris can get eight Cabinet members to agree . . ." Eight is a simple majority? There are fourteen Cabinet members???
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:41 PM (omVj0

15 executives who vote, actually. And then more folks.

From whitehouse.gov...
..."the heads of the 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General. Additionally, the Cabinet includes the White House Chief of Staff, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US Trade Representative, as well as the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Management and Budget, Council of Economic Advisers, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Small Business Administration."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (exHjb)

365 New protocol is just reliance on PSA test. Doc no longer puts the finger up the butt.
Posted by: whig

My doc still does the finger thing, plus a blood test. He says that neither one, by itself, is conclusive.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (9yWhg)

366 sure what book covers all that.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (2fIO4)
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Daniel, Revelation, Jeremiah, Isaiah....

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (tT6L1)

367 If you know anything at all about male anatomy you should know that there is a vas deferens between testicular cancer and prostate cancer.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (991eG)

368 Either that news hasn't made it to my Doc, or else she just likes sticking her finger in my ass once a year...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (wtvvX)

Same here. Her explanation was that you still need to do the digital exam to get a sense of prostate enlargement issues.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (/HDaX)

369 352 Two Navy brethren with prostate cancer. This is an issue close to me.
Posted by: Eromero

Almost all males will eventually get prostate cancer from what I've read. But in the past, most males died before prostate cancer killed them. But, for a lot of guys, it is highly curable if caught in time. Get those PSA blood tests annually guys.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:45 PM (9FrDg)

370 There's a "prostate-ution" joke in there somewhere...

Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at February 12, 2024 04:46 PM (tbSPP)

371 Confucius Say........ Man who sticks finger up Kumala's Vagina...

Gets Stinky Finger, HIV, STD, Crabs and IQ reduced by 20 points........

Posted by: ZippyLock at February 12, 2024 04:46 PM (PYJJG)

372 Incompetence, meet incontinence.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2024 04:46 PM (woPEM)

373 The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is standing to his immediate right.

@RNCResearch 16m
Biden is confused again: "...and the Crown Prince Hussein. Where— is the prince out here? I thought he was coming out. Anyway."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:46 PM (IG4Id)

374 If there is no novel that captures the times.... write one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:47 PM (9UlRk)

375 Seems Legit: "I have never seen Idiocracy.

I keep hearing about it. Recently more so.

It's on the list."

You'll be as frustrated watching it as Corporal Joe Bauers was living it. And then you'll think to yourself, "Wait a sec'. I think I'm Joe Bauers." Sort of unsettling.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:47 PM (aXxgO)

376 Almost all males will eventually get prostate cancer from what I've read.

Yes. My GP has confirmed this.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:47 PM (9yWhg)

377
My doctor told me that I could give a proctological exam to myself.

I mean, clinical, but rude!

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:47 PM (krQz2)

378 Lloyd Christmas > Lloyd Austin

Posted by: Crazy to be sane, certified moron and virtue signaler at February 12, 2024 04:47 PM (7/zDs)

379
Brave New World, more or less.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 04:44 PM (sAmhv)

————

I haven’t read it in decades but I think it is close to that one IIRC.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2024 04:48 PM (2fIO4)

380 Are you technically still in the line of presidential succession if you murder all the people ahead of you?

Just asking in general. No particular reason.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:48 PM (9UlRk)

381 There's a "prostate-ution" joke in there somewhere...
Posted by: buzzsawmonkey

Well, I was anti-state union.
-- Zombie Jeff Davis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (9yWhg)

382 Same here. Her explanation was that you still need to do the digital exam to get a sense of prostate enlargement issues.

likely story

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (dCxaZ)

383 @RNCResearch 16m
Biden is confused again: "...and the Crown Prince Hussein. Where— is the prince out here? I thought he was coming out. Anyway."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:46 PM (IG4Id)
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Oh...Trump got two people mixed up one time too!

Posted by: Disingenuous Media Asshats at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (krQz2)

384 1) Mega corporations and oligarchs ruling everything

2) Marriage and male/female relationships falling off a cliff

3) open pedophilia

4) collapse of Christianity

5) social credit system/pre-crime

Not sure what book covers all that.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2024 04:42 PM (2fIO4)

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This is how I see it. Thought maybe a novel would cover it.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (JeYYB)

385 My doc still does the finger thing, plus a blood test. He says that neither one, by itself, is conclusive.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

The only conclusive test is biopsy and even then, depending on the method and how many samples, it can miss it.

You can actually get an ultrasound sizing of your prostate which is far more accurate than a finger up the butt. Rarely ordered but probably should be considered more.

BPH aka enlarged prostate almost always manifests as difficulty in peeing at times.

The PSA picks up inflammation in the prostate which may be cancer or may be something like an infection or injury.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (9FrDg)

386 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?

Gattaca

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (zI+sH)

387 There's a vas deferens between prostate cancer and bladder cancer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (BdMk6)

388 On the bright side no one misses him.

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (fgyOK)

389 387 There's a vas deferens between prostate cancer and bladder cancer.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
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Biology teacher in HS made that joke.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (9FrDg)

390 emergent bladder issue

I'm pretty sure those are suppose to stay inside you.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

-

LOVE IS LOVE

Posted by: Moron Robbie - they tried to make me go to jihad and I said Beau, Beau, Beau at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (Rk8QN)

391 Prostate cancer usually metastasizes to bone, so bladder cancer would be unlikely.

More probable is a complication related to the prostate cancer surgery such as blockage of the ureter or blood clot causing inabilty to urinate, which definitely is a medical emergency. Impotence is another possible complication of prostate surgery, but this is not a critical care issue.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 12, 2024 04:51 PM (MDua2)

392 "Gattaca
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron"

I loved that game!. Got 27,000 points once!

Posted by: Ralph Monroe at February 12, 2024 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

393 387 There's a vas deferens between prostate cancer and bladder cancer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (BdMk6)

Urethra have it or you don't.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:51 PM (wtvvX)

394 You can actually get an ultrasound sizing of your prostate which is far more accurate

whig at February 12, 2024 04:49

Latest biopsy methods include the ultrasound survey of the prostate, FYI. The process is, shall we say, unpleasant.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (pgwxJ)

395 King's The Running Man. Or James Blish's They Shall Have Stars, though I think we're there already.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (omVj0)

I know I have Cities in Flight around here somewhere; now I have to go find it....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (PiwSw)

396 So, the Prezzy was meeting with the King of Jordan, a country we have illegally invaded.

(Jordan is a UN member State, and as we did ratify the UN Treaty, it has the force of US Law)...

Oh, and Jordan wants Biden to back the Palis... who are actually Jordanians in the first place.

Talk about a mess.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (xaFKb)

397 If you know anything at all about male anatomy you should know that there is a vas deferens between testicular cancer and prostate cancer.
Posted by: Muldoon

Okay, I groaned.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (zI+sH)

398 "Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?"

Might as well throw in Elysium without the Socialist ending.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (aXxgO)

399 He's on a roll

@RNCResearch
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24m
BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

400 Is there a novel where things get fucked up worse than Idiocracy and people get thrown in government gulags?

It's that one.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (krQz2)

401 Let's hope it's not The Big Bang, by Roy M. Griffis

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (PiwSw)

402 I know I have Cities in Flight around here somewhere; now I have to go find it....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

That's why I avoid Scranton!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (zI+sH)

403 Urethra have it or you don't.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

You can usually tell by a quick glans.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

404 The PSA picks up inflammation in the prostate which may be cancer or may be something like an infection or injury.
Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:49 PM (9FrDg)

Is there anything Palmetto State Armory can't do?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

405 399 He's on a roll

@RNCResearch
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24m
BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

Jeebus H. Christ

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (wtvvX)

406 The Ignoramus Squad, just so you know, changed the word "emergency" to the word "emergent." Because of course they don't know what the latter word means.

The bastardization of the English language continues a pace!

Posted by: Beverly at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (Epeb0)

407 400 Is there a novel where things get fucked up worse than Idiocracy and people get thrown in government gulags?

It's that one.
Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (krQz2)

Tom Friedman's personal diary is not exactly a "novel"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (9UlRk)

408 There's a vas deferens between prostate cancer and bladder cancer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 04:50 PM (BdMk6)

Urethra have it or you don't.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:51 PM (wtvvX)
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R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (krQz2)

409 Biden Rejects Putin's Offer For Negotiations On Ukraine Issued In Tucker Carlson Interview

Putin's words appeared genuine but US swiftly condemns
Posted by: SMOD

Knowing this administration, they could have dismissed this solely because Tucker was involved.
Posted by: Cheri at February 12, 2024 04:11 PM (oiNtH)

Interesting thought, but the US has blocked any sort of diplomatic move for months *before* the war started. Russia was noting the violations of the Minsk Accords and wanted the guarantor nations of France and Germany to get with Ukraine and force talks with the Donbas as was agreed. Later both France and Germany boasted that they had no intentions of following Minsk, and were just using the time to rearm Ukraine. The accords were agreed to because Ukraine's army was surrounded and was going to have to surrender.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (eoQWY)

410 >>Impotence is another possible complication of prostate surgery, but this is not a critical care issue.

Speak for yourself! There are thousands of women out there who would be heartbroken if the found out I was impotent.

Well, a handful.

Ok, just me.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (LkLld)

411 (Jordan is a UN member State, and as we did ratify the UN Treaty, it has the force of US Law)...

________________

That was a huge mistake.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (KvZnc)

412 403 Urethra have it or you don't.
Posted by: Tex Lovera

You can usually tell by a quick glans.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (9yWhg)

But you should still have your doctor run some testes to make sure.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (wtvvX)

413 BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"

Biden still not the thespian the world was promised.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (aXxgO)

414 Latest biopsy methods include the ultrasound survey of the prostate, FYI. The process is, shall we say, unpleasant.

Gotta be more pleasant than the core sample method.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (sNc8Y)

415 BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"

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He didn't mean to be right.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (JeYYB)

416 Latest biopsy methods include the ultrasound survey of the prostate, FYI. The process is, shall we say, unpleasant.

Posted by: GM27
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Nah. Been there done that. They normally don't do it for routine BPH diagnosis though. The biopsy part where they punch through the prostate and the number of times they do that is what is truly unpleasant. Kind of like an aspiration needle jammed into the abdomen for internal bleeding.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (9FrDg)

417 That's why I avoid Scranton!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (zI+sH)
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Cause of the oil cancer?

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM (krQz2)

418 Also, your close relatives cannot be made to make you undergo a urology exam without your permission. Even if they're forced kin.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (9yWhg)

419 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
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A Canticle for Leibowitz

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Q4IgG)

420 BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"
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The solution is a Metallica album title.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (krQz2)

421 Gotta be more pleasant than the core sample method.

Oddbob at February 12, 2024 04:56

16 cores usually, and that's IF they haven't identified a trouble spot to specifically target. Good times.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (pgwxJ)

422 King's The Running Man. Or James Blish's They Shall Have Stars, though I think we're there already.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (omVj0)

I know I have Cities in Flight around here somewhere; now I have to go find it....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024 04:52 PM (PiwSw)

The Spindizzies were one of the more interesting ideas for interstellar travel I've read about

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (eoQWY)

423 Is there anything Palmetto State Armory can't do?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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Heh.
Instant prosectomy I guess using their firearms.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (9FrDg)

424
The process is, shall we say, unpleasant.

CT scan of colon has entered the chat.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (57ljU)

425 Cities in Flight. Haven't heard of that one.

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (JeYYB)

426 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
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May as well pitch The Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson. You get the anti-Christ with that one!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (T+Iwg)

427 Biden still not the thespian the world was promised.

I thought that was Karinne Jean-Pierre.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (9yWhg)

428 (Jordan is a UN member State, and as we did ratify the UN Treaty, it has the force of US Law)...

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That was a huge mistake.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 04:55 PM (KvZnc)

Good thing this administration ignores US Laws.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2024 04:59 PM (eoQWY)

429 Nood Fani.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 12, 2024 05:00 PM (pgwxJ)

430 BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"
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I guess it's good he's talking about folks in Gaza, then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - they tried to make me go to jihad and I said Beau, Beau, Beau at February 12, 2024 05:00 PM (Rk8QN)

431 Seems like the male genitourinary system is a strange and foreign country to a lot of folks here.

That cutaway diagram in 7th grade health class must have been more confusing than helpful. Or you were too busy making droopy dick jokes.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 12, 2024 05:00 PM (991eG)

432 Is there a novel where things get fucked up worse than Idiocracy and people get thrown in government gulags?

It's that one.
Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (krQz2)

I think it will be more like Atlas Shrugged. Everything will slowly grind to a stop. But there'll be some regions that have rejected the popular spiel and will remain free and prosperous.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 05:00 PM (BdMk6)

433 Or James Blish's They Shall Have Stars, though I think we're there already.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 04:37 PM (omVj0)

I know I have Cities in Flight around here somewhere; now I have to go find it....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024

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That's the collection of four novels. TSHS postulates a future America with very little useful scientific research being done and the FBI a Gestapo-like force with its head an inherited position. It doesn't have cameras, tracking, and 24/7 surveillance in the way we do, and the future America has interplanetary spaceflight, but otherwise it's much like 2024 America. In fact I think the stated year is 2015 or so.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 05:00 PM (omVj0)

434 A Canticle for Leibowitz! Thanks for reminding me of that one, Martini Farmer. Gotta read that one again.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2024 05:01 PM (NxC5+)

435 Got to see the doc at Mayo demonstrate how he determined prostate size using the ultrasound imaging. Basically software similar to Photoshop tool allows you to lasso and then calculate the volume of the prostate. Mine was normal so the problem driving my urinary retention was the bladder outlet.

Using a holmium cold laser for the operation versus heated items allowed prostate samples to be checked for prostate cancer from the inside and there was no sign of it.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 05:01 PM (9FrDg)

436 Cities in Flight. Haven't heard of that one.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024 04:58 PM (JeYYB)

James Blish. The interstellar 'engine' rips an entire city and its bedrock out of the ground and sends it zipping around the universe. Cities land on various planets and do industrial work/trading on planets rather like hobos doing odd jobs.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2024 05:01 PM (eoQWY)

437 "CT scan of colon has entered the chat."

CT scan is a breeze. It's the colonoscopy. Good thing it's done under general anesthesia.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 05:01 PM (aXxgO)

438 'At this time, it is not clear how long Secretary Austin will remain hospitalized. The current bladder issue is not expected to change his anticipated full recovery. His cancer prognosis remains excellent,' Dr. John Maddox said in a statement.
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It's pretty an obligatory statement. What else is he going to say? "We told him not to buy green bananas?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 12, 2024 05:01 PM (KvZnc)

439 Houston police are moving slowly on deciding the proper pronouns for a church shooter.

Jesus gets them.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2024 05:02 PM (krQz2)

440 Cities in Flight. Haven't heard of that one.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 12, 2024

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A collection of four novels, with Blish's Hugo-winning novelette "Earthman, Come Home" expanded to novel length, plus two more-fascinating prequels and a sequel.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 05:02 PM (omVj0)

441 James Blish. The interstellar 'engine' rips an entire city and its bedrock out of the ground and sends it zipping around the universe. Cities land on various planets and do industrial work/trading on planets rather like hobos doing odd jobs.
Posted by: Oldcat
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His mayor Amalfi was modeled on Fiorello LaGuardia.

Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 05:03 PM (9FrDg)

442 What is the over/under that Austin's problems are a botched transition?

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 12, 2024 05:03 PM (lZVy/)

443 Noodus willisiana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 05:03 PM (omVj0)

444 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 12, 2024 05:04 PM (PiwSw)

445 The biopsy part where they punch through the prostate and the number of times they do that is what is truly unpleasant. Kind of like an aspiration needle jammed into the abdomen for internal bleeding.
Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024 04:56 PM

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I had a prostate biopsy a few months ago, was really anxious about it but it was mostly a nothing burger. Very little discomfort at all.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 12, 2024 05:05 PM (+j+ar)

446 His mayor Amalfi was modeled on Fiorello LaGuardia.
Posted by: whig at February 12, 2024

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I picture Amalfi looking more like Telly Savalas

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 05:05 PM (omVj0)

447 405 399 He's on a roll

@RNCResearch
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BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

Jeebus H. Christ
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 12, 2024 04:54 PM (wtvvX)

But since there isn't one......

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 12, 2024 05:05 PM (N39Ws)

448 Which dystopian novel do you think America will truly resemble in 20 years?
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Q4IgG)

The way religion is being rubbed out it seems unlikely.

Brave New World seems to be the one closest to current Western standards. I remember how the girls were all "very pneumatic"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2024 05:06 PM (eoQWY)

449 BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"
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Needs a little work.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at February 12, 2024 05:14 PM (woPEM)

450 >>>BIDEN: "Every innocent life in Gaza is a tragedy"
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Needs a little work.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at February 12, 2024 05:14 PM (woPEM)

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*golf clap*

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 12, 2024 05:15 PM (JfxgE)

451 I expect we'll be meeting Lloydella very soon.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at February 12, 2024 05:50 PM (dFG8E)

452 Since our credibility has been pissed away, he seems like the right man at the right time...for the American downfall.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at February 12, 2024 07:35 PM (BJgzI)

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