I watched a hospice nurse administer an extra hot shot of morphine to my COPD afflicted mother, 10 years ago...to help her transition forward (how I prefer to believe) than to give her just a smidgen of the good stuff, to string her out for another month or two.

The opiod crises... It is all manufactured. Who is to blame? The creators, the pushers, the marketers/advertising - or the front line doctors who were busy prescribing the strongest drugs for people with the slightest of actual aches?

Those kinds of drugs should only be prescribed for very short periods of time by reputable doctors/nurses/practitioners. Everyone else who got greedy - they need to be shaken of every last dime they've earned - or incarcerated for taking the easy way out and prescribing the equivalent of black tar heroin to every single whining patient who had great insurance or easy pay wallets - for minor symptoms.

I'd love to have about 250 of those original badass oxycontin pills. The same strength that Rush Limbaugh was addicted to for several years.

But I want them for my 89 year old father who is enduring insufferable back, neck and hip pain in addition to not being ambulatory. If he gets addicted to opiods at this point, it might be the most dignified way to pass on.

I'll pay a premium to obtain these pain killers.

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They look like Wallace and Gromit characters

Don Junior tossed his lovely (though dim-witted) wife on the trash heap for that abomination?

Can you imagine the kind of bloke who would flirt with let alone go down on THAT hot bottle blonde mess..?

I don't recognize the cocaine overdosing brunette in the middle, but she's probably Gargoyle's side-piece.

Hey Buzz, have you ever seen those pictures (and there a literally thousands of pictures) of people from the Democratic or Republican point of view who are trying to protest the appearances or speeches from American Presidents since Dwight Eisenhower?

Protests only work when they attract the attentions of people who are upwardly successful yet inconvenienced by the activities of the protesting faction.

Should people protesting petroleum production and usages - picket homeless enclaves under our nation's bridges?

Should they hold their protests in Timbuktu or Katmandu or Shangri La?

One day, Buz - I hope something preturbs you enough that you will join an active protest and see what it really feels like to jump into the minority and scream truth to power.

Native Americans vs oil pipelines (and all the shit that entails) would be a good one for you to dive into.

Hey, the murdering Oscar Pistorious often competed against world class athletes and was accused of having an edge against athletes with two functioning pair of legs.

If there are enough transgendered participants - let them have their own Olympics events. You want to go all transgender vs the world - that can be accomplished with exhibitions not unlike the US collegiate All-Stars and All-Americans playing against the previous years Super Bowl winner - as was done for over 20 years - back in the old hazy days of long ago.

Want to engender respect and devotion and get the public on your side? Become like the Harlem Globetrotters. Travel and show the world your talents.

This whole other shit that's been occuring - is just that. Shit. Shit for everyone concerned.

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3 billion in federal funding has been approved for high speed rail from Southern California to Vegas 🔥

Picking the low hanging fruit. It's easy and economical to create that right-of-way and build it right the first time - all elevated, and all 200 mph. We need some of those Japanese manufactured trains though. Why reinvent the wheel on locomotives, just use what's available and modern and well equipped. Save a coupla billion being smart.

That 'Hi-Line' from Minneapolis to Seattle should be 200 mph elevated rail also. Don't have to bulldoze a shit ton of people's houses out of the way for that to occur.

If you build it - they will come. There's a boatload of people who can't afford cars or $75,000 pick up trucks that will never see a day's honest work. Parking prices per day/month/year in many cities along the east coast megaregion almost prohibit driving cars into the cities from the suburbs.

Of course, Covid19 did drive home to employers and corporations - "It's cheaper to have our hive bees working from their homes - spending THEIR money on heating/cooling/electricity - and just keeping up the whole working from home deal - and they can quit leasing building spaces too!

America will have hi-speed rail about 100 years before global warming innundates all the coastlines of the world, flooding all the major cities - and their hi-speed rail. But, we'll have achieved it.

Bezo's and the South African aparthied devotee's grandchildren might one day ride a 200 mph American train. But they have better odds of flying to Mars to join the America First Colony.

America fucked up super fast commuter rail over 100 years ago, hell they don't really care about superfast freight service either. Or super safe freight service.

Fuck a bunch of trains, planes and automobiles - we should be traveling via Transporter technology anyway. De and Re-moleculization is where it's at, man.

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damn

Wut...

Is my observation off a kilter or three

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In bed this morning. We made love while listening to our favorite band, SCALP.

Right now, it's between you and Colin who gets more sex reguarly. You do realise this 'contest' is betwen you and a 'guy' who brags about havinge multiple many-ways with dozens of other women...?

I love LushStories. Where can any of us go to be this entertained by people trying to kick the door open on their acting careers.

Okay, thank you for the invitation.

You're an obsequieous, over infatuated, full of yourself sort of whore. Who thinks that everyone should line up and take tickets to fuck her.

Your kind has been seen here for the entirety that Lush has been alive (since December 2006). You talk/type the languague which only morons have the ability to understand. You get it, but few other people with working brains do understand.

You're a fucking outlier.... I mean who gives a shit what kind of sex you enjoy - you wanna tell everyone in the world about your fantastic sexual life - and 4% of the rest of the globe gives a shit about your lust. Except the incels... they are hanging on your every breath.

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So now you want the Vietnam war explained to you? As I understand it, the negotiations in Paris between the warring parties had broken down. Nixon nudged the North Vietnamese back to the negotiation table.

Oh ffs. Like what you just read off of Wikipdiea qualifies you as a knowlegeable person?

GTFOH... You are one of the most divisive and wrongest people on this forum. Are you actually AI pretending to be a human being?

I started to reply to you, but found myself struggling to find an adjective which might apply to you, which wasn't perjorative or obnoxious,.

You've won by being more ...that.

Kissinger was almost universally despised. Here, he's celebrated as if he was a saint or a mastermind. Within the criminally minded Nixon regime, Kissinger had tons of clout and total leeway to conduct the war as he recommended.

He didn't coin the term collateral damage, but he certainly didn't give a shit about innocents in SE Asia.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/ - good riddance.

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I think many avoid posting to these threads because they read people posting comments like "You're sick, you're a sick evil bitch.", etc.

Generally those forms of response are a direct reply to the total lack of empathy being put on display by people who can barely spell the word, can't use it in a coherent sentence and find it difficuult to practice it with actual emotions when speaking of 'other people'. In this case, those others are the homeless poor.

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Not if you buy him or her a burger.

Mighty impressive. For your next trick, hand someone $500 and mention - "Here's a little help towards your monthly expenses."

Imagine how they spoke up for and eulogized Idi, Saddam and Muammar. The Pol Pot celebration of life must've been grand!

Just happened: https://www.rawstory.com/fani-willis-trump-2666265686/

“These confidential video recordings were not released by the State to any party other than the defendants charged in the indictment, pursuant to the discovery process as required by law,” the filing said.

“The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant.”

To this end, the prosecutors said they would no longer share video depositions directly with opposing counsel and would instead only let lawyers representing defendants view the depositions and take notes.

Happened 4 days ago: Lining up and using GOP proxies to harass the courts -- https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4305179-former-prosecutor-on-elise-stefaniks-ethics-complaint-ny-fraud-trial/

A former federal prosecutor went after Rep. (R-N.Y.) on Friday, saying her ethics complaint against the judge presiding over former New York business fraud trail is “irresponsible.”

“She knows better,” told MSNBC on Friday. “And that is really — this idea that it’s constantly a step too far and it’s now normalized where you have somebody in Congress doing that and the judge is just doing his job.”

Trump and his minions have been attacking all the people associated with the four separate trials he's undergoing. This is how Roy Cohn taught Trump to behave when he's being investigated and in particular, when he or his company have been indicted.

Of particular interest in this video is the 21:00 point in time, but you should watch about 20 minutes which precede this 'wow' incident.

It helps greatly when these stupid motherfuckers recorded themselves with their own phones and gopro cameras & then plastered that shit online somewhere to brag and boast of their seditious behaviour.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/11/09/how-ryan-nichols-responded-to-trumps-mike-pence-tweet/

I’m more interested in the details of Ryan Nichols’ plea. Nichols is a former Marine who drove from Texas to DC, with four guns in his truck, with a buddy. He carried a crowbar to the Capitol.

As he was marching to the Capitol from the Ellipse, he heard about Trump’s tweet targeting Mike Pence. In response, he gave a long, recorded speech responding to Trump’s news that Pence was not going to overturn the election by promising to drag politicians in the streets.

[ I’m hearing that Pence just caved. I’m hearing reports that Pence caved. I’m telling you if Pence caved, we’re gonna drag motherfuckers through the streets.

You fucking politicians are going to get fucking drug through the streets. Because we’re not going to have our fucking shit stolen. We’re not going to have our election or our country stolen.

If we find out you politicians voted for it, we’re going to drag your fucking ass through the streets. Because it’s the second fucking revolution and we’re fucking done.

I’m telling you right now, Ryan Nichols said it. If you voted for fucking treason, we’re going to drag your fucking ass through the streets. So let us find out, let the patriots find out that you fucking treasoned this country.

We’re gonna drag your fucking ass through the street. You think we’re here for no reason? You think we patriots are here for no reason? You think we came just to fucking watch you run over us? No.

You want to take it from us, motherfucker we’ll take it back from you. ]

Later, at the Capitol, he pepper sprayed cops guarding the Tunnel, then called others to take up weapons. “If you have a weapon, you need to get your weapon,” chanting, “ Pence.”

At the end of the day, he again recorded himself, explaining how the mob had listened to Trump, learned Pence “did the wrong thing, and so they stopped the vote.”

I watched patriots gather and on the way down Pennsylvania Avenue after we listened to President Trump speak, we heard that Pence did the wrong thing. And as we got [sic] the Capitol building the consensus across the board was the same, that if Pence did the wrong thing and sold us out, then we have to fight.

[snip]

They showed where Pennsylvania said yesterday, “hey, we screwed up. We want to change this,” but Pence did the wrong thing and allowed them to continue with the vote. So we stormed the Capitol building, and they stopped the vote. And went down in to the tunnels and hid, like the fucking cowards they are.

Instead of coming out there and addressing “we the people,” they ran. Because they knew they were doing the wrong thing. So we clashed with Capitol Police.

90% of the above 'words' comes from the mouth or fingertips of the defendant - Ryan Nichols

Maybe those Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations since 2001 haven't been the best solution implemented for the majority of Americans. But let's blame Obama or Biden or even Bill Clinton. Forget that Reagan also started the huge tax cut giveaway to the wealthiest amongst us in 1981 (before many here were born).

It's always Republicans who are seeking to cut taxes for the wealthy and raise taxes on the middle class and less economically advantaged.

https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1717892094373629981

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9ctwT6W4AExURk

This video was almost as difficult to locate as a Yeti/Sasquatch - itself. Bigfoot knows 9/11 was an inside job, too.

I agree with the ACLU... the gag orders placed on the Grifter King need to be specified more clearly - so create a boilerplate which targets what he can't say. And enforce it the very first time he broaches the order.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-gag-order-2666062207/

https://www.rawstory.com/jenna-ellis-trump-2666053416/

Does this 'official state measure' in Oklahoma (related to state measures in Texas & Florida) violate the free speech clause of school teachers in Oklahoma? Welcome to the solution decided upon by Republican majorities in America - simply don't mention past transgressions or race relations in these states. Burn all text books and books in school libraries (public libraries will be their next targets). Ban the very mention of crimes committed against minorities in the good ole USA.

https://sde.ok.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/HB%201775%20Emergency%20Rules.pdf

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/oklahoma-teachers-dont-know-if-its-legal-to-teach-killers-of-the-flower-moon/

But in Oklahoma, where the murders took place, teachers say they aren’t sure they’re allowed to teach it in class. Under state measure HB 1775, schools are prohibited from teaching the idea that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously” or that “any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.” (The law is similar to the policies in states like Florida and Texas, among a handful of others, that aim to block the discussion of themes like systemic racism, unconscious bias, and privilege.)

Of course, HB 1775 doesn’t specifically ban Killers of the Flower Moon. But the law is so vague that some educators reportedly say that they have avoided assigning the book and other texts out of fear of punishment. According to the Oklahoman, for instance, a Dewey High School teacher said last year she decided against adding the book to her curriculum “because she feared discussing the racial dynamics of the Osage murders could prompt an HB 1775 complaint.” And according to the ACLU, which filed a lawsuit challenging the legislation in 2021, “school districts in Oklahoma have instructed teachers to no longer use certain terms, including ‘diversity’ and ‘white privilege’ in their classrooms, and have removed seminal works of literature such as ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and ‘Raisin in the Sun’ from its list of ‘anchor texts.'”

Trump's already proclaiming loudly to anyone who might listen: Sidney Powell was never my attorney!

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3 years ago, she was a valued member of his attorney team --

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I look forward to Mayor Giuliani spearheading the legal effort to defend OUR RIGHT to FREE and FAIR ELECTIONS! Rudy Giuliani, Joseph diGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis, a truly great team, added to our other wonderful lawyers and representatives!