I've commented several times about how harmful it is when we go along with the transcrazies' Orwellian language and say "gender" when we mean "sex". We really need to stop this. Not just on internet forums, but in real life too. Ask a pregnant friend if she knows the baby's sex, not if she knows its "gender". Filling out a paper form that has a blank labelled "gender"? Cross it out and replace with "sex" before answering. Official documents and forms with a field labelled "gender" is a very new deveopment, and entirely done in response to the transcrazies' demands.
What's significant about this is that it shows Rubio now wants Trump's endorsement. Think through what a huge change this is from 5 years ago. It's like the tectonic plates of US politics have shifted . . . and Trump is the shifting force.
The most adorable thing about this is that the little tot has zero interest in any of the other people on the screen, and seems not to even notice their presence. It's like the rest of the TV screen isn't even there. The only person she sees is her Mama.
It depends what the problem is. If you're dying of cancer and have tumors all over your bones including your spine, ibuprofen certainly won't do the trick. But 99.9% of the people who are prescribed these opioids don't need them. And aspirin needs to become the go-to painkiller again. It's safer and more effective that ibuprofen or acetaminophen and has a whole bunch of side benefits too. The mountain of data re aspirin's benefits in preventing certain types of cancer and preventing spread/recurrence of others is huge and growing. Someday someone will do a serious epidemiological study showing how many people unnecessarily died of cancers that would have been prevented with routine aspirin use instead of other OTC painkillers for routine self-treated pain. The difference for any one person is small (with just casual use for occasional pain -- much bigger with long-term daily use for other purposes), but on a population basis, it's huge.
Addiction can make people kill people. Usually not via deliberate murder, but addiction can make people do all kinds of horrible things that they normally wouldn't do. Mug people to try to get money or saleable valuable to buy drugs with (which can easily result in the unintended death of a victim). Stealing widowed grandma's wedding ring to sell it. Leaving very young children to fend for themselves while out trying to obtain drugs, or failing to feed young children because all the money is going to drugs. Driving while under the influence and killing someone in an "accident". And addicted physicians can be extremely dangerous as they treat patients while under the influence or are so preoccupied with getting their drug or not getting caught that they dangerously neglect patients. Remember the surgeon who left a spine surgery patient on the operating table to go deposit his paycheck? Turned out later that drug addiction was at the root of his behavior.
As for "hardly any need oxycodone anymore", obviously they never needed it in the first place.
Yes, I deleted my comment after I saw an article with the info that he'd been seeing the doctor, who had cut off his pain meds.
Physicians really need to get serious about NOT prescribing powerfully addictive opioids. They are just not a solution for pain, except in people who are actively dying, e.g. from cancer with excruciating bone or other pain, and in hospitals for people who are being monitored after major surgery and/or trauma that really involves exceptional amounts of pain.
Handing this poison out routinely should be a crime, and prescriptions for out-of-hospital use should be rare and require more than one physician to sign off on the prescription (one who is specialized in the area related to the cause of the pain, e.g. orthopedics, oncology, and the other a general practitioner or pain specialist). A patient claiming "it really hurts bad" should not be enough to get a prescription for this stuff.
Do not ever take these "pain meds, i.e. oxycodone and other strong opiods. Doctors hand them out like Kleenex. Many surgeons prescribe them routinely, even for very minor surgeries, before the patient even mentions having any pain. DO NOT TAKE THEM unless you are actively dying of cancer or some other incurable condition.
If you are hospitalized, do not allow these medications to be given to you except upon your request, for each administration, when the pain is excruciating and other medications and pain control measures have been tried and failed. I remember being in the hospital after a surgery and a nurse arguing with me that I need to get these drugs (by IV) because it's important to "head off the pain". I didn't have any pain that required any medication at all -- not even aspirin or tylenol -- and I never developed any such pain from that surgery.
Not only was Chauvin's knee not on Floyd's neck, it was also clear from camera angles other than the one the MSM ran nonstop, that he didn't have most of his weight on the knee that was on/over Chauvin's shoulder blade. Most of his weight was clearly on his other leg.
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? At the time of my comment (and yours) the two air conditioning technicians who were shot -- one killed and the other critically injured -- had not been identified, so (as I made clear in my comment) they could have been black, in which case their killing/shooting would obviously not have been "black-on-white crimes". Since that time, they have both been identified, and it turns out that they are both white.
He killed the doctor, the doctor's wife, and the doctor's 2 grandchildren -- all white. He also killed an apparently unrelated 39 year old man who was doing some work on/at the house. We don't know what color that man was. Out of respect for him and his family, I don't like to see his death lumped in with the "black-on-white crime" label.
I'm not really sure what he's done besides being Rudy's son, but the name recognition and strong base of NYC support for Rudy might make Andrew the most viable Republican candidate. At any rate, he certainly couldn't be as bad as Cuomo.
Sorry, but Gaetz is going down. He's a faker, and a politician to the core. The stuff about the 17-year-old is a sideshow. It's what everybody in Florida and DC political circles has known about him for a long time that's finally getting around to biting him in the ass. The whole "extortion" thing is bizarre, but real, and the reason he was a target for this kinda-sorta-extortion attempt is that he has a LOT to hide.
Pennsylvania was just ordered by a court to remove dead voters from its rolls. Seems to me that will result in making it possible to come up with a solid (like hold-up-in-court solid) number of dead voters who "voted" in the 11/3/20 election.