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Gov. Hair Gel would be a great successor to Bidementia.

And he STILL hasn't offered to resign.

Sorry, but he doesn't use e-mail.

Si, man. Gracias, si man. They claimed, "We've never done that, no man," liars man. We got them to give us a different (slighter) discount, financially savvy we man.

Vance Dons Helmet And Body Armor In Preparation To Run With Trump U.S. — Trump's newly announced running mate JD Vance prepared to campaign with the former President today by donning a Kevlar helmet and body armor. "I'm honored to have been picked to run alongside Donald Trump as a candidate for Vice President," said the young Senator from Ohio as he tightened the straps on his ballistic vest. "I will do everything in my power to survive until November 5th." Vance then dove for cover as several bullets whizzed overhead. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/vance-dons-helmet-and-body-armor-in-preparation-to-run-with-trump

JD Vance Horrified To Learn He Must Now Use Truth Social U.S. — Trump's official VP pick JD Vance was horrified today after learning he will now have to communicate with voters on Truth Social. "Listen, I'm honored to be chosen to run alongside Donald Trump, but I really wish someone had told me about this before I said 'yes,'" said a visibly shaken Vance. "Do I really have to use Truth Social now? I didn't think that was part of the deal." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/jd-vance-horrified-to-learn-he-must-now-use-truth-social

Secret Service Vows To Find Out What Went Wrong At The Trump Rally As Soon As They Figure Out Who Left Cocaine In The White House [...] Federal agents reportedly remained stumped regarding the source of the White House cocaine despite working closely with President Biden's son, Hunter, to follow the trail. "He's the cocaine expert," Harper explained. "His knowledge of blow and where it can be obtained and preferred hiding places is invaluable. We'll figure it out one of these days. Once we do, we'll totally get to the bottom of the whole Trump shooter thing. Trust us." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/secret-service-vows-to-find-out-what-went-wrong-at-the-trump-rally-as-soon-as-they-figure-out-who-left-cocaine-in-the-white-house

Biden Tells Americans That We Must Eliminate Political Violence And Also Donald Trump WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of an effort to reduce tensions and tone down dangerous rhetoric during a heated presidential campaign season, President Joe Biden told all Americans that we must eliminate political violence and also Donald Trump. "We cannot allow this type of political violence and Donald Trump to continue to exist," Biden said in a statement to the media. "Threats of political violence, assassination attempts on presidents, and Donald J. Trump have no place in this country. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-tells-americans-that-we-must-eliminate-political-violence-and-also-donald-trump

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Secret Service Beefs Up Trump's Security With Squad Of Blind Midgets U.S. — According to sources, the United States Secret Service plans to beef up Trump's security team with a squad of blind midgets. "I have personally vetted these seeing-impaired persons of limited stature and certify them ready for deployment," Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle said in a statement. Republican leadership questioned the effectiveness of these new agents but the agency dismissed their concerns as bigoted. "They asked why they were so short and also why they kept bumping into things, and that's just not acceptable," Director Cheatle said. "They are as devoted to their duty as they are physically handicapped." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/secret-service-beefs-up-trumps-security-with-squad-of-disabled-midgets

Democrats Order Flags To Be Flown At Half-Staff As Trump Still Alive [...] Lawmakers on the left side of the political aisle admitted that it had been an emotional and difficult few days, with several prominent Democrats saying they didn't know if they would be able to continue with their normal duties after Trump sadly escaped being murdered by an assassin at a Pennsylvania campaign rally. "We're all pretty broken up," admitted Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who had trouble holding back tears. "We never envisioned a day where we would be standing here mourning Trump's lack of being assassinated… but here we are. We will get through this. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-order-flags-to-be-flown-at-half-staff-as-trump-still-alive

In 2008, I read a fascinating article in the Billings Gazette -- behind a paywall -- about famous assassinations in history, and which of the victims could have survived had they been attacked in Billings in 2008. I paid for access. It's long, and I'm confident that the excerpts reproduced below (those only about Presidential assassinations, not the others) comply with VJ's "fair use" policy. Garfield's story is ghastly. Sadly, this was shortly before Joseph Lister et al. widely publicized germ theory and the necessity of sterile medical procedures. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Famous assassinations: Who could doctors save today? Would Julius Caesar or John F. Kennedy have survived if they were attacked in Billings today? Dr. Terry Housinger, a general surgeon at the Billings Clinic, tackled the topic of famous assassinations at a meeting of the History of Medicine Club, offering his audience of medical students and doctors a chance to reflect on the evolution of trauma care. After describing the circumstances surrounding each famous assassination, Housinger offered his opinion on whether modern medicine could have saved those high-profile victims if the attack had occurred in Billings today. Here's the gist of what Housinger gleaned from the historical record: Abraham Lincoln • The circumstances: The first assassination of an American president came on the night of April 14, 1865, when Lincoln attended a performance of the comic melodrama "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. As part of a conspiracy plot, John Wilkes Booth, an actor, shot the president from the rear of the presidential box, leapt to the stage and cried, "Sic semper tyrannis" ("Thus always to tyrants"), Virginia's motto. • The weapon: Booth's single shot, at a distance of less than 5 feet, came from a .44-caliber derringer, a short stubby weapon. The derringer had a medium muzzle velocity, a measure of the speed of a bullet as it leaves the barrel, of 900 feet per second. It also had a relatively low muzzle energy of 350 foot-pounds. In comparison, today's high-powered rifles get into the 3,000 range for muzzle energy. • The wound: The bullet entered from behind the left ear and penetrated deep into Lincoln's skull. • Medical attention: "At the scene, they did a form of CPR," Housinger said. Because Lincoln stopped breathing shortly after he was shot, a couple of medical students tried to do an early form of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. "CPR, the way they did it, was basically where they were pushing on his diaphragm from below and they were pulling up his arms," Housinger said. "They actually got some respirations." One of the physicians who was there kept pulling the clot out to minimize the damage caused by swelling. "Their thought at the time, maybe one of the things they learned from Civil War trauma, was they wanted to keep pressure off the brain. They would pull the clot off so he could freely bleed." Lincoln moaned frequently and moved a little bit in his upper extremities but showed few other signs of life. He was carried to a nearby house. "There was a lot of hand wringing done in the next portion of his care. About 10 hours later, he died," Housinger said. In addition to the bleeding and tissue damage from the gunshot, the injury probably caused the brain to swell severely enough to cause the brain to herniate, or bulge downward, pushing the brain stem down toward the spinal column, which can cause death by stopping the body's control of basic functions such as breathing or heartbeat. • Today's outcome: In Billings, with good neurological care, Lincoln might have survived. He probably could have been decompressed, relieving the swelling by using drugs or opening a portion of the skull to relieve pressure. The operation might have required removing a portion of the brain. If he survived, he would have been in a minimal vegetative state at best, Housinger said. James A. Garfield • The circumstances: Four months after taking office, Garfield was assassinated by a disappointed job-seeker. Garfield was the fourth president to die in office and the second to be assassinated. He was shot on July 2, 1881, as he stood in a railroad station waiting to take a train to his 25th class reunion at Williams College. The assassin, Charles J. Guiteau, stepped out of the crowd and fired two shots. • The weapon: Garfield was shot from a distance of less than 5 feet with a .44 caliber pistol. • The wound: The bullet passed within 3 to 4 inches of the president's spinal column. It broke through the 11th rib of Garfield's back on the right side, causing injuries to the liver and soft tissues. • Medical attention: Wound probing. Despite horrendous casualties during the Civil War, surgeons learned very little about trauma care from the war because there was no systematic method of evaluating the results of specific procedures. "We didn't learn diddly squat from the Civil War. People weren't of a mode to study how you could better take care of somebody who is badly injured. They just did stuff," Housinger said. Every doctor had his own ideas about treatment. "One of the things these guys all did was they wanted to probe the wound. I don't have any idea of what they thought they were going to do by probing the wound, but, by God, they did it. They stuck their fingers in it and probed for the bullet. Everybody was hung up on finding the bullet," he said. Today, a bullet is often allowed to remain in place because digging around for it can cause more damage. "They closed his wounds. That was about it," Housinger said. Garfield was tachycardic, having a very rapid heartbeat, and tachypneic, having abnormally rapid breathing. On Sept. 19, 80 days after he was shot, Garfield died of sepsis, a widespread inflammation that happens when the body's normal reaction to an infection goes into overdrive. The inflammation can cause dramatic changes in body temperature, blood pressure, breathing and heart rate, and it can spiral into multiple organ failure. Garfield had abscesses, pockets of infection, throughout his abdomen, where his body had tried to wall off the infection in an attempt to contain it. As Garfield struggled against death, he also became severely malnourished, dropping from 220 pounds to 130 pounds. "He had any number of wound probings, not just that first night, but on down the way. Everybody needed to stick their finger in," Housinger said. At the time, there were no surgical gloves or antibacterial soaps. • Today's outcome: Doctors would have been able to treat his injuries and infection and been able to offer nourishment intravenously or through tube feedings. "This was a no-brainer. It would have been an unreasonable death by today's standard," Housinger said. William McKinley • The circumstances: McKinley was six months into the start of his second term when he was shot by an assassin and Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency. On Sept. 5, 1901, McKinley was shaking hands with people in a receiving line at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y., when he was shot twice by Leon F. Czolgosz, a deranged anarchist. • The weapon: McKinley was shot at point-blank range with a .32-caliber revolver. The revolver had a muzzle velocity of 780 feet per second. The bullet had a fairly low energy of 130 foot-pounds. • The wound: The bullet hit McKinley's left upper abdomen and passed through his stomach. • Medical attention: At first, McKinley was taken to a clinic on the exposition grounds, then to a hospital in Buffalo, where they operated to close his stomach wounds. Although the surgeon had some experience with trauma, his primary doctor, an obstetrician-gynecologist, knew nothing about gunshot wounds, Housinger said. McKinley also had two other doctors, famous cronies who were friends of the exposition's director. Although they closed the holes in his stomach, they failed to débride him. After a gunshot wound, surgeons débride soft-tissue wounds, removing dead or dying tissue, metal or bone fragments and other contaminants such as pieces of clothing, hair or skin. As high-velocity projectiles penetrate the body, they cause shock waves that disrupt and destroy tissues as far as several inches from the bullet's path. Failing to débride a wound increases the risk of infection and likelihood of complications including gangrene and death. The doctors tried to look around to find the bullet, but, when McKinley's pulse became feeble, they quickly finished up the operation. In their haste, they probably missed a number of injuries, Housinger said. McKinley died nine days after the shooting, probably from sepsis and pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas caused by injuries to the pancreas that the doctors overlooked. The pancreas secretes digestive enzymes and produces several important hormones that regulate blood glucose levels. McKinley also leaked digestive acids from the stomach into his abdomen and probably leaked pancreatic enzymes, which can digest the surrounding body tissue. "Throughout the whole time he was trying to get over his illness, they gave him whiskey, and they gave him cognac and more whiskey and they gave him strychnine and then they gave him digitalis and quinine and they gave him more whiskey. "That was pretty much it. I don't know where people came up with the idea this was going to help him. There was absolutely no science here, whatsoever, that I could see," Housinger said. • Today's outcome: "We would have had him out of the hospital in a week, 10 days max," Housinger said. Surgeons would have treated his wound, recognized which organs were injured and débrided his abdomen and pancreas. John F. Kennedy • The circumstances: Kennedy, the youngest man ever to be elected president, was barely past his first 1,000 days in office when he was shot as he rode in an open limousine during a motorcade through Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. The limousine raced to the nearby Parkland Hospital. Kennedy never regained consciousness, and within two hours of his death Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president. Lee Harvey Oswald, who was charged with the murder, was shot two days later by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner. • The weapon: The 6.5-mm rifle had a muzzle velocity of 2,200 feet per second and energy of 2,800 foot-pounds. Kennedy was shot at a distance of about 200 yards. • The wound: One shot entered the back of JFK's head. Another shot passed through his larynx. • Medical attention: He arrived at Parkland Hospital after a 15-minute limousine ride. At the time, the program of Advanced Trauma Life Support training for emergency resuscitation and stabilization of seriously injured or ill patients did not exist. But Kennedy was given full ATLS-style trauma care. The ATLS training program, developed by the American College of Surgeons, simplified and standardized the treatment approach to trauma patients. The premise of ATLS is to treat the greatest threat to life first. The memory aid, or mnemonic, ABCDE, sets the order of handling injuries. A stands for airway; B for breathing; C for circulation and bleeding control; D for disability or a neurological evaluation of brain function; and E for exposure and environment, meaning the patient is safe from environmental hazards. Doctors intubated Kennedy through the wound the bullet had caused in his trachea by placing a tube into the trachea to protect his airway and provide a means for mechanical ventilation. There was no heart or respiratory activity. • Today's outcome: "The bullet tore his skull apart completely," Housinger said, noting that JFK would have no chance of surviving today. https://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/famous-assassinations-who-could-doctors-save-today/article_978d85a3-6f92-5b79-84dc-a3389e7d2b44.html

Here's a fascinating must-read by the author of "Rating America's Presidents," the only book in which presidents are rated on the basis of how good they were for America. (I finally ordered that book and absolutely couldn't put it down.) This article gives some details of history that few of us might know. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Presidential Assassinations Have Always Aided the Democrats There have been four assassinations of presidents in American history, and every one of them has aided the Democrats. This is not to say that the Democrat party engineered the assassinations for its own advantage, but nevertheless, it's true: each time a president has been killed, the Democrats were the beneficiaries. If Donald Trump had been murdered on Saturday evening, it would not have been the killing of a sitting president, but once again, the left would have reaped the benefits. [...] https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/07/15/presidential-assassinations-have-always-aided-the-democrats-n4930718

Surprised at no Hurricane Beryl thread all this time. This piece is right on the money (except that Cat 1 is a small storm, not major). I'm in this worthless outfit's service area and was out of power for 62 hours -- and I'm one of the lucky ones. A neighbor not given to exaggeration says that the top 20 executives of CenterPointle$$ need to be fired, amidst other overhauls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is the Power Still Out in Houston? Yes, a major hurricane blew through Texas. We all understand that. But it's been a week and the power is still out in significant portions of the Houston area. What is taking so long? Governor Greg Abbott has returned from his diplomatic visit to Asia and his patience is clearly wearing thin. This has brought renewed attention to CenterPoint Energy, the company responsible for managing and maintaining the power grid in the region. Abbott is not only demanding that they get the power back online, but they quickly prepare and submit plans that will allow them to do better in the future. If they fail to comply, he is threatening to impose his own requirements on the company via executive action. You can't really blame him. This situation is long past the point of being ridiculous and is turning significantly dangerous. [...] https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/15/why-is-the-power-still-out-in-houston-n3791822

Further to our hurricane discussion, see and man: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/15/why-is-the-power-still-out-in-houston-n3791822

The father owns the house.

Exclusive: County Officer Warned of Seeing Man With Rangefinder Before Trump Was Shot A Beaver County police officer warned a command center of seeing a man with a rangefinder before former president Donald Trump was shot on Saturday. The officer had also warned the man was scoping out the roof of the building he was stationed in as a counter-sniper, and that the man returned with a backpack before ultimately scaling the building. Despite all of those warnings, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park was able to continue in his plan to become Trump's would-be assassin. [...] https://beavercountian.com/content/daily/beaver-county-officer-warned-of-seeing-man-with-rangefinder-before-trump-was-shot

Justified indictment of the media. Look at some of those headlines! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Revulsion Derby: Media Coverage Of Trump Attack Following the shocking assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on Saturday, the biggest story aside from the incident itself has been the corporate media's appallingly unprofessional reaction to it – ranging from downplaying the attack that left one innocent bystander dead and two more seriously injured to outright blaming Trump for the attack. [...] https://amac.us/newsline/society/revulsion-derby-media-coverage-of-trump-attack/

Ex-Mrs.-T-B., Mini-B., and the Rojo just landed in Ecu.

It's really too bad if a booster is required. The current Covid strain brings symptoms like those of a mild cold. Regardless, you have to follow whatever the rules are.

Gracias, D ma'am. To those who wonder, we will be precisely Many years old, si man. Smell our armpits and know that this has been accomplished, si man!

Thrilling Monday report, see man: After Mini-B. left, we had to thoroughly brush miu fully Many (2x2x2 -1) -- si man, Many (2+2+2+1) -- times, needy miu man. Mini-B. & ex-Mrs.-T-B. popped by to pick up Mini-B.'s V.R. Oculus set, risk theft in Ecu man. It enabled us to hug Mini-B. again and Mini-B. to say goodbye to miu again, si man. Unfortunately, his departure set off the neediness of the miu anew, man. Ex-Mrs.-T-B. asked for a hug, too, hug ex-she man we man man. "When we go to Ecu, I miss you, si man," said ex-she man to we man man. "And then you remember why you divorced us, si man," said we man to ex-she man man. United flight #Many is over Nicaragua/Costa Rica, going Many mph at Many,000 feet, precisely man. Lunch was toucans of chicken noodle soup, ingest we man. Din-din was Tuna Glop, ingest we man. We have resolved to lose weight during everyone's Ecu absence, done before on bachelor diet man. Our planned diet is as follows, see man: -- breakfast or downstairs snacks = a banana, foreseeably ingest we man -- lunch = onebag nuked mixed vegetables or corn, foreseeably ingest we man -- din-din = Tuna Glop or Modified Tuna Glop, foreseeably ingest we man -- upstairs snacks = dry Froot Loops, foreseeably ingest we man. However, we shall probably cheat on Tuesday, devious we man. Local Chinese buffet* offers half-price buffets on people's birthdays, absolutely irresistible man. *not the one with our Chinese "girlfriends," calm down Bro G. man So far today, miu has asked for, see man: -- Many (2+1) brushings, at least one more sure to come man -- Miu-breakfast, ingest miu man -- Two servings of miu-treats, another sure to come man -- Two miu-lunches, mess up next Chewy.com auto-order miu man -- Miu din-din, very very soon man At Many a.m. today, miu loudly announced her demand for Daddy to throw feather-rollers, man. We should not complain about this, remember euthanasias of previous mius we man. Raucous, uninhibited party with the rubias tonight and every night, bachelor status we man. And that was/is our thrilling Monday, report we man.

Wimp, man. We have consumed 'za that has been left out for many days, so there man. We have ingested and spoken (and lived to tell about it), iron man we man.

In a lot of ways, so was I. However, if the VP role is indeed "worth less than a bucket of warm spit," her capabilities could be used elsewhere to far greater effect -- e.g., SecDef, Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs, or just about anything else, in fact. I think that she'll make an excellent President someday.

Not to have given it to him from the start was not only stupid but cruel, given his family history. His own father was murdered, for God's sake.

A hijack post was split from this thread and moved to the Work Visas forum.