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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.

Thanks. Yeah, that was the epiphany I had when reading it. I was like Holy Ish, this is exactly happening on my lightly-trafficked low-rent FF message bored$#@! I decided to call it out yesterday; it seems I didn't make any friends in doing so (well, maybe you ), but it needs to be said. Too bad none of the folks the article describes will read it.

He's negotiating, genius. The other day some reporter asked him if he was going to bomb Iran. He laughed and said something like, "look at this jamoke thinking I'm going to answer that question." He then did a Trumpian "Maybe. I dunno. We'll see. Could happen."

Oof, that didn't quite work either. Let me try again. See if this works, there was a "share" button: https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-the-woke-right-is-coming?r=vlmot&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

So, your objection is that Israel successfully lobbies for its benefit. Which is what... every industry, country, and special interest attempts to do. Do you hate Michigan if it successfully gets relief for auto workers in a piece of federal legislation? Don't hate the player, hate the game. Jews have been curb stomped for most of the past several thousand years. In that experience they have developed a very tight knit community. They tend to live close together, help each others families, get jobs for each other. It's not so much hating you; that's a lot of hubris on your part. It's about prioritizing themselves over others. And prioritizing family, education, personal responsibility... the things successful cultures do. The things we used to do.

Please give a specific example. For instance, do you believe like @Frozenbeernutsthat Israel has back room deals with Arab countries to attack them so that they can get more aid?

https://archive.is/DAyUq

The only point made about Israel in this sidetrack is that we've given them too much money. That's a fair objection, but three comments. One, in economics that would be called a "sunk cost." The question is: does it make sense to marginally help them to eliminate Iran's nuclear capabilities. IMO the answer is an indisputable Yes. It doesn't matter how much we've given in the past. Two, the other comments are just anti-Jew. Waving chickens? Cmon now... Three, a lot of that money comes back in the form of Israel buying US military equipment. Not terribly important, but I thought I'd mention it.

True, I don't trailblaze hating Jews as a hip new "in" belief. I've pretty much never spoken well of Islam, which is consistent with your making shiot up about me. And I literally listed the Jew-hating things in my post. Otherwise, good post, good effort. This is why you are part of the Woke Right. Like you, the Woke Left is driven by young people who have no life wisdom but somehow think we should listen to you, because you think you know important things.