Maru Kitteh
Maru Kitteh's JournalHe can't even go golfing at his own house now.
That miserable sob, who was too lazy to even go 'campaign' today, is now stuck looking out the windows of that mouldy mausoleum at a golf course he owns but can't play on. I know this was on a different course of his, but it seems likely that all of his courses will be closed down for a massive security review. - and that would force him to find other amusements for a while but beyond that - how PARANOID is this guy going to be now? He's going to end up going full Howard Hughes. He's going to see a gunman behind every berm, lurking at the crest of every dune. He was a jittery mess after his ear got scratched in Butler, PA. I don't think that's going to improve much!
A man of few real interests, he's about to have his most famous amusement and coping skill removed or seriously curtailed. He's going to blow a gasket.
You know who can go golfing RIGHT NOW if they really feel like it? Taylor Swift. She can.
Could I just say what a miracle it is to feel HOPE again?
I'm watching our Vice President and Tim Walz at this event with tears running down my face. I know we can do this. She's right. When we fight, we WIN. I see so many YOUNG people and older people and people of every color and people dressed up in rainbows. What a perfect, beautiful tapestry we see there.
I'm going to go get some tissues and pull myself together. This is AWESOME.
TFG getting his ASS KICKED (verbally of course) at Black Journalists RIGHT NOW.
I am watching him squirm on CNN as we speak. He's going to walk, you can feel it. 
Thank you. To suggest otherwise is DISRESPECTFUL and denigrating to JOE BIDEN.
Have some respect for Joe Biden and HIS DECISION, because Joe Biden HAS never and WILL never be pushed into anything. This was HIS decision and his decision alone. He is an exceptionally strong and noble leader and he wants you to get behind Kamala Harris.
I, for one, TRUST JOE BIDEN.
2MW: Biden to go on camera to deliver statement on Trump shooting
I don't know if it's recorded or live - now on CNN.
I have a plausible explanation for Pres. Biden's recent trouble and obvious return to vigor.
This has been gnawing at me like a post-apocalyptic dog on the last bone at the edge of the Sonoran desert. How on Earth could Joe have been that muted, in every way, on that debate stage? No - he wasn't gone ala Mitch McConnell, but he was undeniably muted. Slightly softer, slower.
I don't buy the notion that George Clooney is some evil elitist oligarch. I think he's scared, like many people have been and remain even now. Clooney saw something on the eve of that fundraiser, and he was reminded of it on debate night. He then acted in fear. Clooney has a lot of company in many people I still believe to be good persons like Adam Schiff. I will not call for the collective heads of natural allies for expressing their thoughts and fears - because we are not a personality cult. We shouldn't be in the business of asking people not to think, not to be afraid, not to worry, and not to speak their minds. Let the Trump party do cults with their hands over their eyes and ears. That should never be our way.
I'm not a neurologist. I'm not a medical doctor. I am a BSN RN with advanced education and years of experience in geriatrics. I'm also the wife of a man diagnosed with sleep apnea, as Joe Biden was almost exactly one year ago.
I think much of what has been happening with the President may be explained by his diagnosed struggles with sleep apnea and the effects thereof. If I'm right, I think this is potentially very good news because I think the same theory explains his steady but now readily apparent return towards vigor.
When a person has sleep apnea, it's so much more serious than the often comically depicted problems with a partner's snoring. The body of a person with sleep apnea may enter a waking state 200 times or more every night. When this happens, every cell in your body is starved of the oxygen needed to live. The damage done on both a micro and macro level is cumulative as the lack of oxygen injures the cells of vital organs and other tissues which must then expend more energy and need more time to heal and recover. Those with untreated apnea may have increased fatigue causing daytime sleepiness and confusion that can lead to problems like increased trouble with word finding and mental slowness. It can also lead to problems with concentration, irritability/agitation, decreased muscular coordination, poor reflexes, and decreased response times.
The very good news? Appropriate therapy can reverse many of the effects and with consistency, over time, restore function and vigor. This usually involves CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) therapy with or without supplemental oxygen.
CPAP, though, has a notorious failure/non-compliance rate. People find it difficult to strap a big mask and tube to their face and go to sleep every night. It's often noisy, feels awkward and unnatural, kills spontaneous intimacy, and it can cause gastric upset, flatulence, sore throats and bad breath. It's pretty easy to understand why even people who need the therapy very badly and have the best of intentions to do what their doctor orders, still find reasons not to use their CPAP and eventually stop therapy.
As I said, Joe Biden was diagnosed with sleep apnea just over a year ago according to media reports. My theory is that insidious symptoms before diagnosis contributed to increased difficulty with the old nemesis of stuttering, physical upsets like stumbles, and decreased vitality.
It seems reasonable to speculate that like most people, Joe Biden has had some compliance issues with using his CPAP. I also think you throw in a mild illness, a crazy schedule, some international travel and the crushing demands of the most important job in the world and you could easily get the debate performance that fed this firestorm.
If I'm on the President's medical team and he comes to me and asks about ways to improve his endurance and sharpness one of the first things I pull up to look at is his sleep data. When it comes to everyday recovery, healing and maintaining health and life, NOTHING is more important than sleep. You die without it. It's a thing. Look up Fatal Familial Insomnia sometime, it's awful. I suspect he's back on his CPAP and maybe with his covid history they've thrown a little oxygen on him at night as well. I would. I don't know how many of you saw him yesterday at that rally, but that guy got his sleep. That guy got his sleep and ate his Wheaties and that guy can take it to Trump. Keep it going Mr. President.
I don't pretend to know what the future holds but I know it was never going to be easy, either way. If it was sleep apnea, I hope they share that openly, because CPAP is something 33 million Americans struggle with and relate to. Joe looked and sounded amazing yesterday. He was the robust, fierce fighter we need to hold fascism at bay. He's still fighting for me, so I will fight for him. I'm still ridin' with Biden.
Rape-Related Pregnancies in the 14 US States With Total Abortion Bans: 64.5 THOUSAND
To estimate the contemporary incidence of vaginal rape nationally, we analyzed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 2016 to 2017 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence survey (which used special methods to accurately ascertain reported and unreported rapes). We adjusted for the fraction of survivors who were female individuals aged 15 to 45 years using data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) annual survey on criminal victimization (which is known to underestimate rapes5)3 and further adjusted for the percentage of rapes that are vaginal.1 We calculated 95% CIs using measures of uncertainty from the CDC survey. The CDC and BJS surveys do not include state-level data; thus, we apportioned the 2022 nationwide rape estimate among states based on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most recent Uniform Crime Reports, which include rapes reported to law enforcement in 2019.
To estimate rape-related pregnancies, we multiplied the state-level estimate of vaginal rapes by the fraction likely to result in pregnancy (eMethods in Supplement 1)6 and then adjusted for the number of months between July 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024, that a total abortion ban was in effect. We used Stata, version 16.1 (StataCorp), to analyze the BJS survey data and Microsoft Excel for other calculations.
Results
In the 14 states that implemented total abortion bans following the Dobbs decision, we estimated that 519 981 completed rapes were associated with 64 565 pregnancies during the 4 to 18 months that bans were in effect (Table 2). Of these, an estimated 5586 rape-related pregnancies (9%) occurred in states with rape exceptions, and 58 979 (91%) in states with no exception, with 26 313 (45%) in Texas.
Source: JAMA
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A simple poll on the second amendment.
In light of the Michigan shooter, I wondered where we all are right now.
His Brother's Keeper
Once again, I present Monte and July.
July is the tiny sniglet being watched over by his loving big brother. They are not littermates, had different mamas but fell in love the moment they bumped noses at the Humane Society.
Man allegedly invades Studio City home, threatens Jewish family, yells 'Free Palestine'
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-25/home-invasion-suspect-reportedly-threatened-to-kill-jewish-family-in-studio-city-yelled-free-palestine
BY CHRISTIAN MARTINEZSTAFF WRITER
PUBLISHED OCT. 25, 2023 UPDATED OCT. 27, 2023 7:10 PM PT
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A man was arrested early Wednesday morning after allegedly attempting to break into a Studio City home and threatening the Jewish occupants — an incident authorities say is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
The home invasion was reported around 5 a.m. in the 3000 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The suspect, identified as Daniel Garcia, is accused of entering the home’s backyard and trying to kick in a door; he was held at bay by an occupant, who then contacted the police.
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