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I just read a Fb post by Esso's wife, Marla, that he is in the hospital. She didn't say the reason, but that his BP is very high and that he is in a lot of pain.
Please keep our dear friend in your thoughts and prayers today.
When government gains the power to control the use of private property, it becomes possible for the politically dominant to profit by high commodity prices using government regulation to constrain supply. One merely drives competitors out of business by manipulating the perception of risk to a land use preferred by a democratic majority. - Mark Edward Vande Pol
Hang in there, buddy; our thoughts and prayers are with you.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Sorry to hear that. He's sure had more than his share of problems since he had that accident.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
I just read a Fb post by Esso's wife, Marla, that he is in the hospital. She didn't say the reason, but that his BP is very high and that he is in a lot of pain.
Please keep our dear friend in your thoughts and prayers today.
Will do. I'm beginning to suspect something like glass-shrapnel in him that got overlooked or plastics that also might not be visible in x-rays. I actually know of such a case where the doctors and nurses thought nothing of a glass shard being the possible source of pain but it was and was removed weeks later at home when discovered but no thanks to them.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I had an accident a long time ago and had glass work out from under my skin (mainly in my forehead) for close to a year.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
I was in church when I was about eight. I think we were going through Catholic indoctrination training or something....kneeling and sitting.
Well, I sat in the pew after kneeling and got speared in my right thigh with a pencil. The lead part stuck in my thigh and to this day, I think that is why I'm brain damaged.
I'm afraid to look and confirm this fact fifty years later.
Correction: It stuck in my left thigh. I can still see it. And I'm still brain damaged.
You got off lightly with glass.
Fear not, Fred. I accidently jammed a pencil lead into my left arm once and eventually I couldn't see it there anymore so I figure, like the glass JD mentioned, that it must have worked its way out and yours will too. Besides, we could both be wrong and maybe it only looked like lead but was really just graphite.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Says there that it's considered the highest grade of coal and made almost entirely of carbon atoms - sort of comparable to diamonds but it's called a "writing stone" instead of a gemstone.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
I guess so. (not sure, haven't seen the movie that I think you might be referring to)
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
One of my classmates jabbed me in the right arm with a pencil. Maybe that is what causes the brain damage, lol!
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
I don't think so and I bet you wouldn't have thought so either. That accident just about ended my stay on this plane of existence.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
No, I actually watch very few movies. Really loved Lord of the Rings but I am not current on the movies they are showing these days.
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends. Paul Craig Roberts
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." Frederic Bastiat
Shit. I also just learned someone's Grandma got run over by a reindeer. Heckuva Christmas. And JewyCon Silly Sally kicked off into Zio Gluten Free Glory. Sheesh... who follows this show.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
I spoke with Marla. Jim slipped on wet pavement outside of a social establishment very late Tuesday night landing flat on his face. He sustained broken bones around his right eye and sinus area, a frontal lobe fracture, and there was bleeding in the brain.
The bleeding has stopped and they are moving him out of the intensive care unit today, so he is improving.
Marla said that it will be a long and slow healing process.
She texted me a photo of him sleeping and he's got a swollen very black right eye.
Damn. oh well, it is the Esso. I'm not worried but will remain vigilant in thought and prayer. Did he have Aflac ? Lol
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
“Anti-semitism is a disease–you catch it from Jews”–Edgar J. Steele
“The jew cries out in pain, as he strikes you.”–Polish proverb
“I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless quotes I published in my tag lines. I am very sorry and ashamed. I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights."- Hmmmmm
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
I suppose slipping was maybe related to his coordination / balance issues from the accident.
That, and a wee bit of lubrication from the social establishment.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
That, and a wee bit of lubrication from the social establishment.
No, alcohol actually mitigates the effects of the positional vertigo for me. But since this happened outside of a bar, the diagnosis is suicidal drunk. When my foot slipped on the surface and the vertigo brought me down, I landed on the right side of my face causing multiple fractures in my right orbit, some brain bleeding, a bloody nose and multiple minor scrapes to my hands and arms. Hell, last winter I spent so much time falling down it felt unnatural to stand up.
Marla got me out of the hospital and home yesterday noon. I wasn't doing good yesterday or today and figured out it was the meds they had me on. Once I stopped those, I'm feeling a thousand times better. I have one helluva a black eye and the white part of my right eye is bloody.
Today's lesson: Falling 6 feet onto a blacktop surface is not a reliable method of suicide. Being forced to eat hospital food and to take their pills certainly seems to be.
The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. My Man Godfrey (1936)
Hell, last winter I spent so much time falling down it felt unnatural to stand up.
Interrupting your message to laugh my ass off.
Now, back to your post.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Please get yourself some really good gripy type shoes and hold on to Marla's shoulders when exiting clubs and other such establishments.
God made women to support us in time(s) of need.
Get well, be well, stay well, your 4um friends.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
