I use a Purple Pillow seat cushion for my back issues. It makes sitting very comfortable by redistributing your weight. It is up to about $100 on Amazon but you can return it if you don’t like it. It is a game changer for me and people I have recommended it to have been happy with it.
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Good idea if I could sit in a straight chair and not be in searing pain in 45 seconds from two vertibrae crushing my sciatic nerve. Cannot drive while prone. I was 4 hours in an ER this morning trying to not writhe on the floor in agony. They would not supply a gurney so the floor seemed the only other option to get prone. It was that bad. I did not get on the floor but sure played with the idea
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I hope the docs and therapists can help bigly with your current pain and the problem longer term. Hang tough, Darr (we know you will)!
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Please take care, Darr, hope this pain is relieved for you soon
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OT here, but relevant to many comments on this morning’s MM. We get the printed Sunday Times, and just tonight I noticed a special section published on Oct. 6. The entire first page had the headline, "30 Days until the Election: Here’s What you need to know. Head lines underneath: “Harris and Trump on the Issues”; “Craft Your Own Path to 270”; “When to Cast your Ballot”; “The Closest House Races”; and “Track Senate Tossup Races.” Pages 2–4 summarize each candidate’s positions on the following issues, in this order: Abortion (p. 2), Climate (p.3) Crime (p. 3 -4), and Democracy (a small corner of p. 4 under only one sub- heading, “Transfer of Power” – the other issues each received a number of sub-headings. It doesn’t matter that their account of Trump’s position is mildly effective in condemning him by simply presenting facts while maintaining a neutral tone. This should have been their first topic and should have been covered at least as thoroughly as the others.
Talk about normalizing Trump and his fascistic campaign. At least The Times did not omit “Democracy” altogether, the way they did “The Economy” and “Foreign Policy.”
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I’ve got scoliosis as well as stenosis in my lower back but manageable so far.
Hope you get relief very soon.
My prostate cancer is treatable and expected to be non-fatal. Pissing is another matter.
Maybe I won’t hit 100, 21 1/2 years from now.
What do your x-rays show? Is surgery indicated? What does your orthopedist say?
If it’s none of my business, then never mind, as Ernestine suggested.
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NYT: “The head of The Los Angeles Times’s editorial board resigned on Wednesday after the paper’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris.”
Another rich toad tries to defeat democracy.
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Oh, man! Sorry about your sciatica. Get better soon.
(Ed: One of my favorite Bloom County frames: the boys after having been told to evaluate what is most important to them.)
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My PC left Banner, but I was fortunate to find him again. My daughter was a P-ICU/N-ICU nurse for them but has also quit I am working to separate my care from them.
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Creepy, Weird. I am now sure why but to me as a woman this down right frightening
Tucker Carlson says father Trump will give ‘spanking’ at rowdy Georgia rally
DULUTH, Ga. — Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson warmed up the crowd at Donald Trump’s rally here Wednesday night with a dark metaphor, bashing Vice President Kamala Harris and declaring that “dad” was coming home to mete out discipline.
“He’s pissed!” Carlson said to extended cheers. “Dad is pissed. … And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now.’”
“‘And no, it’s not going to hurt me more than it hurts you,’” Tucker added. “‘No, it’s not. I’m not going to lie. It’s going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me. And you earned this. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl, and it has to be this way.’”
The riff set the tone for Trump’s rally in the swing state of Georgia less than two weeks from Election Day, underscoring themes of retribution that have long propelled the former president’s campaign. The Republican presidential nominee is pitching himself as a paternalistic protector for the country while also threatening punishment for his critics and enemies — cheered on by a rowdy base of supporters.
“Daddy’s home!” the crowd chanted later after Trump took the stage at Gas South Arena in the Atlanta suburbs.
The rally took place as Trump’s critics intensified their warnings that the Republican presidential nominee is not a protector but a dangerous authoritarian. Trump’s former chief of staff, John Kelly, had just asserted that his old boss meets the definition of a fascist, and Harris said at her own Wednesday night event that she agrees. Trump has also been criticized for recent comments that the military could be deployed against people he has referred to as the “enemy from within,” including Democratic lawmakers. In interviews at early-voting sites in Georgia, it was clear that many voters had heard about the military comments in particular and feared Trump would govern like a “dictator.”
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At Trump’s rally in Duluth, however, the crowd reveled in the idea of father Trump doling out punishments. T-shirts sold outside Trump’s events have long cast him as a “Daddy” figure, but Carlson took that idea much further on Wednesday.
James Singer, a Harris campaign spokesperson, simply declared it “weird.”
In an hour-and-a-half-long speech, Trump reprised some of his favorite attacks on Harris, mispronounced her name and took aim at her intelligence. “She’s a low-IQ person,” he said. “She’s an international joke,” he added later.
Trump also brought up President Joe Biden’s rhetoric about him this week. “We’ve got to lock him up,” Biden said Tuesday, before seeking to clarify: “Politically lock him up.”
Trump was convicted this year of falsifying business records. Trump has not been sentenced, and other criminal charges have yet to go to trial.
“He said, ‘We got to lock him up.’ This is illegal,” Trump said in Duluth.
The Republican presidential nominee went on his usual tangents. At one point he noted, “I don’t like my hair tonight.” At another, he said he decided against recording his White House conversations with world leaders because of the tapes that helped end Richard M. Nixon’s presidency. A conspicuous gap in a recording of Nixon talking to his chief of staff contributed to the Watergate corruption scandal that led Nixon to resign.
Trump said he wished he had tapes of his negotiations with foreign leaders to show off.
“The problem is then I start thinking about Richard Nixon did that, and I say, ‘You know, let’s do without the tape. We’ll do without the tape,’” he said.
Trump also repeated his claim that CBS’s “60 Minutes” deceptively edited an interview with Harris to obfuscate her real response and again dangled a threat to sue — the same day that the network’s lawyers told the former president his demands were built on a “faulty premise.”
“They changed her answer. … Should we sue ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS?” Trump asked the crowd.
A host of surrogates got the crowd fired up before Trump’s appearance at the event held with the conservative group Turning Point Action. There was right-wing commentator Benny Johnson, who thanked Georgia authorities for giving Trump a great mug shot; Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his independent presidential bid to endorse Trump; Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who has also become a vocal Trump ally; and country singer Jason Aldean, among others.
Carlson, who was fired from Fox last year, assured the crowd they were not “freaks and misfits,” and railed against Democrats as “the party of weak men and unhappy women.” He bashed Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, a frequent target of crude insults at Trump events.
“None of the normal people are supporting the Democratic machine,” Carlson said. “Tim Walz is supporting the Democratic machine. A man you would never allow to babysit your own children.”
The crowd at one point broke into chants of “Tampon Tim!” — a Trump rally staple that alludes to a Minnesota bill Walz signed into law to provide access to menstrual products in public schools.
Later, Carlson turned to Harris, declaring that the vice president “has no skills” and asking: “How did we wind up with a system where Kamala Harris, she couldn’t change the tire on your truck, much less drive it. How did she wind up at the top of the pyramid?”
“You can’t allow that,” he continued, segueing into his metaphor about disciplining children and telling the audience that “if you allow your 2-year-old to smear the contests of his diapers on the wall of you living room, and you do nothing about it … you’re going to get more of it.”
The “spanking” comments that followed drew ridicule online, echoing past backlash to comments about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). In 2021, a Michigan Republican leader apologized after saying the state Senate had “spanked” Whitmer.
But the language was not out of place at a Trump rally, where he and his surrogates routinely lob harsh and crude insults. As rallygoers filtered out afterward, they were met with T-shirt vendors shouting, “Say No to the Ho!” — a gendered slogan targeting Harris that has become a fixture at the former president’s events.
Jonathan Edwards and Maegan Vazquez contributed to this report.
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Suspect in shootings of Democratic office in Arizona had over 200 guns in his home, officials find
Tempe, Arizona (AP) — An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the three-time shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 200 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.
Maricopa County prosecutor Neha Bhatia said at Jeffrey Michael Kelly’s initial court appearance on Wednesday that federal agents told her about the large seizure made after Kelly’s arrest. Scopes, body armor and silencers were also found, she said. A machine gun was discovered in the car he was driving.
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MAGA Pastor Compared Women To Pigs With Gold Nose Rings
Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon compared women to pigs with gold nose rings in a recent sermon. Webbon is a rising star in Trump’s GOP.
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So what went wrong?
Raskin’s wasting his time. Sending a letter to Trump is not going to do shit and he knows it.
If Democrats and GOP’ers inclined to preserving America as it is want to change things they should aim at Trump’s enablers. Particularly the immigrant ones. Murdoch, Theil and Musk. The 3 used what America offers to obscenely enrich themselves and are now using that money to turn on America.
Musk’s flagrantly breaking the law paying people to sign a petition. If you or I did that we’d already be in the can. Not him. He just got a letter. There’s a mindset behind that and it should be Raskin’s target.
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“You didn’t say which nation.”
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He wasn’t sending the letter to them as a threat; he was sending it into the record for the history books and as a warning to those who have not yet voted before the election is over. Politics is often played at multiple levels. Carry on.
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Yes, plus it’s all part of the process. Just because DT and his campaign staff are petulant children doesn’t mean congress, etc shouldn’t do their due diligence.
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Yes, 100%, the way to deal with those bent on corrupting our sphere of communication and information, and eventually our history; document, document, document, every single step and consequence.
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The usual, just like Boeing, they allowed a bunch of MBA’s into the C-suite and they began ruining it.
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Giant company buys well run former University hospital where we knew each other and respect was common. Immediately Banner started screwing with systems in place that worked well. Here is an odd example. The hospital had a central well run and large cafeteria. Now huge Banner hospital has a couple small spots to get coffee and cookies and not a full meal. Employees must go off campus to get a full meal. Or bring their own.
I was forced of necessity yesterday to spend 4 hours in the ER with a severe spine problem. I was given a chair. How does one take pressure off lower spine and pelvis in a straight backed chair? I asked while writhing in pain for a gurney to lay on. “We don’t have any” was the answer. Imagine that. Not that anyone cared.
That cafeteria I mentioned? It’s now unused office space
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