"Thoughts and prayers don't cut it when your daughter has been swept away by a flash flood. Not even a little."

Considering most of the victims were attending a Christian summer camp. I think prayers mean a whole lot to those families right now, and they are clinging to their faith to pull them through this horrific event.

I am not Christian, and personally do not believe in the "power of prayer" , but this is about them, not me.

You'd be surprised how many murders happen at Waffle House

Typo, Early, not "Da fly"

Da fly reports said 10 people were hit and gunfire was coming from multiple directions, indicating more than one shooter. Those reports were inaccurate, he was the only shooter. That is all I was saying.

He had not has not been identified at press time so it is premature to speculate as to his motive or political affiliation..

On topic, Laura, I.m going with 9-0. If there's a dissenter it will be Clarence. How soon do you think they will take on that actual matter?

Well if Democrats don't get to work finding a candidate who can run a "big tent" campaign, that is what we are going to get. A platform of "not Trump" isn't going to be enough to get across the finish line.

#18 Yes, it is.

Update press conference cleared some misinformation. They believe suspect started fire to ambush first responders. Two firefighters were killed and a third was wounded. Suspect fired at police who returned fire, killing the suspect. He has not yet been identified, but they believe he was acting alone.

FIL did not need skilled nursing care, he was just unable to care for himself, so assisted living would have been sufficient for him. Unfortunate,y that type of care is not available under Medicaid (at least that is what we were told) so he lived in a nursing home for many years.

My mistake, I meant $12000 per month, not year. My FIL paid $3400/mo almost 20 years ago. Once his assets were depleted and Medicaid took over, they let him keep $35/month and took the rest of his pension and social security payments.

A big question is, why DOES it cost $12,000 per year to get a bed in a tiny room in a nursing home. Pretty much every middle class person who lives beyond their ability to care for themselves will find themselves having to turn to Medicaid. First you must spend down all your assets, then the facility will assess your total income from all sources, and then take almost every penny of it for your substandard care. You will be left with a tiny stipend for personal needs.

I don't claim to be an expert on this matter, but I have watched it unfold for many elderly family members

Funny you should say that. When I first moved here, I had trouble estimating age, which is an important skill for a police officer. Forty year old white women in Fl looked like 70 year olds anywhere else.

Ah ... .keyboard damage due to lightning, first it's typos then I'm next. Pray for me.

Wow, 7 deaths of yer in a population of 22 million. It is only a matter of time before,
It gets me. Should i just stay indoors? Or maybe just move someplace miserable and cold.

Phew, what a relief, we have Chat JPT to figure this out for us.

#11 JpW, U.N Inspectors found particles of 83.7% U 235 in 2023.

Nope, it is a very commonly used medication for both men and women for a variety of illnesses. Women on methotrexate have always been required or strongly encouraged to use reliable contraception, because methotrexate does not reliably cause abortion and can cause birth defects in surviving infants.

When used for abortion, methotrexate is administered in combination with other drugs (such as misoprostol) over a period of days. The methotrexate slows progression and the misoprostal then expels it from the uterus. The way methotrexate is utilized for an ectopic pregnancy is quite different. Methotrexate is injected as an urgent solo therapy to halt cell division in a rapidly growing embryo so it will not burst the tiny fallopian tube. This usually takes place in a hospital setting where the patient is closely monitored.

Your insistence that they are exactly the same thing is the kind of dangerous misinformation I am trying to address.Taunting me is just a sick, twisted game you like to play.

"All of those are medical procedures are abortion. Even removing a dead fetus by vacuum aspiration to suck the dead fetus out of the uterus via the vagina is still an abortion."

Yep, those are all abortion procedures, none of which are applicable to an ectopic pregnancy, because it isn't in the uterus. If you insist on calling administration of methotrexate an "abortion procedure", then my 12 year nephew has had hundreds of abortion procedures, because he is on methotrexate for a chronic disease.

"Some of you insist this all because of the draconian laws being passed by the far right. Other claim it's because of malicious compliance by the left."

It is both. I have made it very clear that I am in favor of NEITHER of those things. The laws shouldn't have been passed in the first place, but now that they are on the books, it is DANGEROUS disservice to women to misrepresent what those laws state. MULTIPLE women have died because they didn't get treatment that was COMPLETELY within the law, but was denied to them ANYWAY because of FEAR on the part of doctors who leaned into this sort of misinformation that has been recklessly spread as a form of protest.

Thanks for the analysis. JPW

Interesting you bring up medical care. He is likely eligible for various veterans benefits, will he have access to that in Korea?

Wierd, she is usually such a MAGA fangirl. It's always funny to watch her at televised events maneuvering to get close to him.

This is insanity

So much misinformation. The "medical procedure" known as abortion is vacuum aspiration to suck the fetus out of the uterus via the vagina. Considering an ectopic pregnancy is not and will never become a fetus, and is not and will never be in the uterus, and cannot be removed by vacuum aspiration, or via the vagina using any method Laparoscopic surgery through the abdominal wall is required to remove an ectopic pregnancy nd that is not the same medical procedure as an abortion, nor does it have the same CPT coding.

If you consider administering methotrexate to be a "Medical procedure", that will also will have different CPT coding because it will include the coding for the drug AND the diagnosis, which could be for termination of pregnancy, treatment of an ectopic pregnancy, or treating a Variety of other illnesses like endometriosis psoriasis, Crohn's disease or lymphoma. All of these have differnt CPT coding. Just because they use the same drug doesn't make them the same thing.

Doctors know (or should know) that treatment of a non-uterine "pregnancy" is not, and has never been considered an abortion from a medical standpoint.