jerryskids

No worries, this is a chat board, your contribution to chatting is welcome. However, I didn't say the court ruled Trans isn't a suspect class. I pointed to concurring opinions that indicated three of the justices feel that way. Which makes me think that Roberts joined the majority so that he could write a more restricted opinion. Had he not, a majority of the majority likely would have written a much more sweeping majority decision.

Well, yeah, but this Islamic stuff is just pawns on the chess board. The end game is China and Taiwan. And China got a clear message this week. Certainly YOU never use exaggerated language.

I don't want a war. And we don't have a war yet. Nor do I think we will.

Livestream on The Free Press discussing it. I apologize if login is needed: https://www.thefp.com/livestream

What is this beef bacon?

Guess he didn't wait for two weeks and TACO.

Throat cancer; a large tumor blocking a lot of my airway. A squamous cell carcinoma in my supraglottis, for those playing doctor at home. Yes I've been throating hogs like @DonS. In fact he and I have been PM'ing as I've started this journey a few weeks ago. TL;DR: It is operable, and I will have surgery in a week or two. Post op treatment TBD. Prognosis looks pretty good as of this weekend but there is a long way to go and several risks described below. Symptoms started maybe 4 months ago in hindsight; a slight cough maybe once every day or two. I was also training for Pat's Run and commented to my wife that I felt like I wasn't quite getting all of the oxygen I thought I should. While I'm fit I'm not a runner so, what did I know? With Covid floating around and the symptoms just sorta hovering I figured I had it and was experiencing some of those longer term effects they mentioned. In May or so I occasionally noticed that I'd choke a little occasionally when I was eating. I figured I was getting old and just needed to chew my food better. It never occurred to me that they were all related. Swallowing became increasingly difficult and I started coughing consistently whenever I swallowed anything, even water. I became convinced that something was wrong with whatever isolates the food pipe (esophagus) from the air pipe (trachea). I hoped… prayed… meditated? that it was irritation from drinking too much. Did I mention that I was drinking too much? I was. I also used to chew, a lot, but quit that 5+ years ago. Anyway, I stopped drinking altogether around when I noticed some blood in my mucus (there wasn't much mucus so it probably had been there for a while and I didn't notice). Finally called an ENT. After some Covid test delays he saw me last Friday and was confident, based on my fitness, that it was just acid reflux. He stuck a camera down my nose into the area and… oops, big ass tumor. Covers more than 50% of the area. Just above the vocal cords but isn't growing on them. He thought I should look a lot worse, so I've got that going for me. He is friends with an ENT at Mayo who is the teaching doctor in the state, maybe country, for a laser procedure that cuts it out from the inside. He called him that evening and said "you need to see this guy ASAP." Got a call Monday to go to Mayo for another Covid test (I'm quite Covid free it appears), saw the surgeon Tuesday, CAT scan Wed, PET Thurs, results on Mayo patient portal Fri including a summary from the PA. Meeting rad/onc Tuesday. Somebody mentioned recently how much better a place like Mayo is than other clinics. All of this under one roof (well, two campuses and multiple buildings), and so far you can set an atomic clock by their keeping appointment schedule. Since I can breathe fine even while laying down, the surgeon wants to collect the above data and review with their cancer board this week. Probably surgery next week is my guess. The good news from the tests is that carcinoma is the best cancer you can get, and as hoped it hasn't spread to other parts of my body. It did go to the lymph nodes on that side of my neck, but that is expected apparently. Also no sign of other tumors brewing. I was particularly skeered about it metastasizing, because it might have been growing there for years. Post-surgery depends on if they can get it all, if they can save my vocal cords, and if they can avoid a permanent tracheostomy (breathing thru a hole in my throat). As the doctor said, I should get back to normal, but I may have a new "normal". I expect I'll be eating smoothies for a few weeks, and not allowed to talk much if at all in that period. Anyway, I'm sure there is more but for now LOOKATMEEEEEEEEE!1!!!!11!!!

It's mostly good. Perfect would be nothing on the scans. Occam's Razor says that the spot is scar tissue related. But, you never know. I'm also quite heartened to learn that if it is more cancer, the Keytruda should be an effective treatment, and/or some of these new treatments.

I don't mind his release; holding him without bail seems egregious. Besides, maybe he'll flee back to Syria and get his old job with UNRWA, where he can help them help Hamas steal UN aid from Palestinian citizens.

I thought about replying something clever like, "I wouldn't bet against it," but instead... You missed the point. Whoever Sandy Loam is listed "Murcan" things like baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. I added the Dodger's bloated payroll to the list of such things -- buying championships is the American way! HTH.

For the Dodgers, don't forget "$338M payroll to buy a championship." Murca$#@! Tim was driving the F-150.

Of course not. They just need to enrich their own uranium for power plants, because they don't have enough oil and natural gas. Also they refuse to buy it already enriched, they need to do it themselves. We should respect that can-do initiative, since nuclear plants are so critical to their survival. Also: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/06/1164291

Thanks all! Meeting went well. Doc pushed back on the PET scan because scar tissue, in growing quickly, could glow on the scan similar to cancer, so it wouldn't provide any conclusive info. Plus the CT that accompanies the PET is low-res. So the plan is to do another CT in 6 weeks, and see if it has grown. If not, probably not cancer and we'll just watch it. If so, we'll probably do the PET and determine treatments as indicated. A few bits of good news, should we go down that latter (not preferred, obviously) path. One, the analysis of the tumor they removed in April showed that it was more receptive to Keytruda than the previous sample 4 years ago, and Keytruda worked well then. So Keytruda should be viable, and we would probably try that without chemo first. Also, there are new treatment options, also monoclonal antibodies like Keytruda. One is something called Erbitux (cetuximab), and another is a study for a promising drug called petosemtamab, which basically enhances the capabilities of Keytruda (he said he can get me into the study). So we would have options. Anyway, it's likely scar tissue/granuloma, and I'm going to act like that's the case until I learn otherwise.

Yes, we would give all our tax revenue to the climate hoax, and be eating mashed bugs for protein. Wheee!

The "murdering" comment was in response to me saying it might take a MOAB or two, which was in the context of the nuclear facility, not civilian areas, and you know this, but you leapt to the "murdering" card because that's what you've been trained to do.

I don't care if we drop a MOAB or two on the nuclear facility, if Israel can't get it. Iran's nuclear capability must be destroyed. I do wonder though: why doesn't Israel have a B-52 and a couple of their own MOABs? I learned from the smart anti-Zionists here that we give them all our money and let them do whatever they want.

That's not what I asked you to acknowledge. You said Israel is murdering Iranians. Acknowledge that you are full of shiot: Israel could bomb any population center they want, but they don't. They also warn a city if they are taking out a military target near there. Iran is indiscriminately launching missiles at Israeli cities. Acknowledge this.

Murder? You aren't a serious poster. Israel could bomb any population center they want, but they don't. They also warn a city if they are taking out a military target near there. Iran is indiscriminately launching missiles at cities. Acknowledge this or I'm done. You havent said a bad thing about Iran in all this.

Thanks! Quick update: Nodule was surgically removed two months ago; they had clean margins. CT scans yesterday showed a "lump" at the suture point which the radiologist thought looked suspicious. Most likely it's scar buildup (like granuloma) since it is a weird coincidence location, and it is hard to believe something went from nothing to 9.5mm in two months. But a PET scan would answer this question, so that's what I'll mostly ask about. Wish me luck!

Peace through strength. Strength might require a MOAB or two. Your solution is to continue cuddling Iran's nut sack until they develop nukes and give them to their terrorist proxies. Thank goodness you are not in charge of this.

This is a timely bump. In about 15 minutes my wife and I are driving up to Mayo to meet our oncologist and discuss my latest scan results from yesterday. I'll try to provide an update this weekend.

They have their nuclear development capability to surrender. Surely you know this.

Donald wasn't butt hurt; did you miss the part where I said he laughed? Gutter thinks the path to peace is to keep licking Iran's ball sack like we have since 1979. How is that working out? Every major terrorist organization in the ME is their proxy. We want that group to get nukes?

Like I said, hate the game, not the player. Your issue is with our government and the people in it. HTH

Once again, code monkey proves that he is an expert negotiator in foreign affairs. I feel like a broken record, but you Lefties think that other cultures respond the way ours would. That's a fallacy. Also, when you view everything through a lens of anything Trump does is by definition bad, wrong, evil, stupid... you get your pablum.