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Ain't none of us gettin' any younger. Bath tubs can be fitted with grab bars to help in tub entry and exits. I put in a walk-in tub for the wife who has a bad hip. She's not as spry as she usta be, either. I keep telling her that her creaks and aches are just her body's way of telling her that the warranty is almost up.

One of the big problems about major surgeries is that a general anaesthetic compromises the immune system for weeks, even months. There may be a non-invasive treatment for arthritis- a long, hot bath with Epsom salts followed by a body rub with...believe it or not, peanut oil. This takes a bit of time but it does work.

Should older seniors risk major surgery? New research offers guidance -Kaiser Health News. Nearly 1 in 7 older adults die within a year of undergoing major surgery, according to an important new study that sheds much-needed light on the risks seniors face when having invasive procedures. Especially vulnerable are older patients with probable dementia (33% die within a year) and frailty (28%), as well as those having emergency surgeries (22%). Advanced age also amplifies risk: Patients who were 90 or older were six times as likely to die than those ages 65 to 69. The study in JAMA Surgery, published by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, addresses a notable gap in research: Though patients 65 and older undergo nearly 40% of all surgeries in the U.S., detailed national data about the outcomes of these procedures has been largely missing. "As a field, we've been really remiss in not understanding long-term surgical outcomes for older adults," said Dr. Zara Cooper, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Center for Geriatric Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Of particular importance is information about how many seniors die, develop disabilities, can no longer live independently, or have a significantly worsened quality of life after major surgery.

That's a pretty broad brush- Katz had a shady reputation before becoming mayor, and yet he got elected anyway. You get what you pay for and in Katz's instance, you pay for what you get.

Signs of Another Humiliating Loss Send Russia Into Denial Mode -Getty News Russian forces may be preparing to leave the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which Russia has occupied since the early months of the war this year, according to Ukrainian authorities. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said Sunday he believes Russian troops will be leaving the power plant as Ukrainian forces continue to make advances in occupied territories. “Russian servicemen will leave the Zaporizhzhia NPP, as their line of defense is gradually moving towards the borders of the Russian Federation,” Podolyak said in an interview with Freedom TV. Russian news outlets have also been hinting at a possible withdrawal from the plant, Petro Kotin, the head of Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company Energoatom, said Sunday. “There are some signs showing that they might be going to leave the Zaporizhzhia NPP,” Kotin said. “There have been a lot of publications in the Russian press saying that the Zaporizhzhia NPP could be left and handed over to the IAEA's control.”

Looks like the noose on Sam Katz is tightening- there is an ongoing RCMP investigation into his land swap deals while he was mayor. There are allegations of directed reports over-riding professional opinions and shredded reports. Hmmm.....

Trump Demands Kari Lake Be Made Arizona Governor After Her Defeat. Lake, a 2020 election denier, has refused to concede in the state’s gubernatorial race. Former President Donald Trump called for defeated Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to be named victor and appointed governor on Monday while repeating baseless voting fraud conspiracies that he has similarly used to contest his own 2020 defeat. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, claimed without supporting evidence that the former TV news anchor-turned politician was a victim of “another criminal voting operation” and that her Democratic opponent, Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, “ran the election.” “Massive numbers of ‘BROKEN’ voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to ‘FIX’ them made them worse. Kari had to be taken to a Democrat area, which was working perfectly, to vote,” he wrote. “Kari Lake should be installed Governor of Arizona.”

Who?

I am thankful that I am retired and am able to manage my pain, and that is preferable to undergoing surgery in Winnipeg with the state of cleanliness and infection control as it is now. Apparently the province is negotiating to be able to send patients (with a companion) to Thunder Bay or Columbus, Ohio, but I think this is just smoke and will not avail myself of these if offered. BTW: the above-mentioned companion does not have to undergo surgery (😆).

I have been waiting for 26 months now for my knee replacement. To tell the truth, the hospitals are now staffed so poorly and the Home Care so financially starved that family members now have to come into hospitals to help the patients with toileting, linen changes, washing up and so forth. A friend who is a retired nurse had to come in and change dressings as well. Its not the staff's fault- its the deliberate strangling of healthcare. If I am called, I think I might wait until next year. I got analgesics.

The death of Lukashenko's foreign minister was probably a warning. Due to Lukashenko’s refusal to participate in the war in UA, information has leaked that there are preparations for an assassination on him. The plan is to kill him and have him replaced by CSTO sec.-General Stanislav Zas who’d surrender Belarus’ army to Putin.

Reports: Trump Praised Extremist Nick Fuentes At Mar-A-Lago Dinner Donald Trump this week praised his dinner guest Nick Fuentes, one of the most prominent young right-wing extremists in the nation, according to a report Friday in The New York Times. The former president reportedly announced that he liked Fuentes after hearing him describe himself as a member of Trump’s base who liked when Trump went off the cuff during speeches. (A source told Axios that Trump said he “really” liked Fuentes.) “He gets me,” Trump said of Fuentes, the Times and Axios both reported.

Unless Mitchell has a wish to be dismembered, he will be elsewhere.

The Convoy lawyers probably worked pro bono or for wat less than usual in the hope of creating a greater profile for themselves. But yes, these were not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

It was the worst winter on record, and the bitterly cold, extended winter probably took its toll on all manner of city equipment, staff, vehicles and so forth.

But Trump is deluded enough to think that he can both court the racist extremist view and attract the relatively sane by vaguely denying complicity. Bizarre, to say the least.

Trump’s Holocaust Denier Dinner Creates A Massive Problem For Republicans as Donald Trump confirmed that he had dinner with a Holocaust-denying white supremacist in what is the latest major headache for the GOP. Former President Donald Trump hosted white nationalist and antisemite Nick Fuentes at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Tuesday night, according to multiple people familiar with the event. “This past week, Kanye West called me to have dinner at Mar-a-Lago,” he wrote. “Shortly thereafter, he unexpectedly showed up with three of his friends, whom I knew nothing about. We had dinner on Tuesday evening with many members present on the back patio. The dinner was quick and uneventful. They then left for the airport.” However eventful, the dinner reflects a remarkable moment in an extremely early 2024 campaign cycle: the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination breaking bread with a man who frequently posts racist content and Holocaust revisionism, brought there by a rapper who is launching his own presidential campaign under the shadow of his own antisemitic remarks. Trump spent Thanksgiving week hanging out with Holocaust-denying white nationalists and being sued for rape. Even if the mountain of potential criminal cases is set aside because Republican primary voters don’t care about them, the idea that the 2024 Republican nominee could be both found to have raped a woman and is palling around with Holocaust deniers could wreck entire Republican ballots across the country. Every candidate that appears on a ballot with Trump will be asked about Fuentes and Holocaust denial. A smaller version of this effect was visible in the Pennsylvania midterm where having Doug Mastriano at the top of the ballot led to Republicans getting their clocks cleaned in race after race. John Fetterman successfully Mastriano to Mehmet Oz. The Republican candidate for governor’s name became shorthand with Pennsylvania voters for radical extremism. Trump has a wide open path to the Republican nomination because the party is on track to repeat the mistakes of 2016 by running a bloated field of dozens of candidates that will allow the former president to win primaries and caucuses with 30% of the vote. If Trump is the nominee in 2024, Republicans will be badly beaten again, and the dinner with Holocaust deniers is a taste of what is coming for the GOP in 2024. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/11/25/trump-white-nationalist-nick-fuentes.html

Not to mention the racist, misogynist, threatening statements by the Freedumb protesters, and the accumulated firearms and plans to kill police and others that happened at the Coutts, Alberta incident.

Kanye ‘Ye’ West Reveals Trump ‘Screamed’ at Him in Bombshell 2024 Campaign Video Kanye ‘Ye’ West continued on his path of complete self-destruction Thursday night, releasing a string of videos including a two-minute campaign promo dissing Donald Trump. The rapper, 45, announced last week that he plans to run for president again in 2024. “The thing that Trump was most perturbed about [is] me asking him to be my vice president,” Kanye said in one of the videos published on his recently-unlocked Twitter account on Thanksgiving night. “I think that was, like, lower on the list of things that caught him off guard. It was the fact that I walked in with intelligence,” he says. Even after the video was posted, Kanye’s adviser took aim at Trump in no uncertain terms. Of the videos and Ye’s relationship with Trump at present, Milo Yiannopoulos told The Daily Beast: “As a connoisseur and an intimate of several mercurial billionaires, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to find them laughing about it in the near future. Assuming Mr. Trump isn’t too wounded, of course.” Though, he continued: “Trumpworld is in crisis tonight.” “In my personal view, the former president has only himself to blame. This is an overdue reckoning. President Trump has neglected and betrayed everyone who loved him most, from the cancelled personalities who helped him into office to his abused supporters on January 6. He might like to reflect on whether he could have done more to acknowledge and support his most loyal fans over the years,” the far-right provocateur said. “Habitual, callous ingratitude has a way of catching up with you.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/kanye-ye-west-releases-bombshell-campaign-video-for-2024-presidential-election-talks-trump-kim-kardashian?ref=home

That's why the phrase "W... T...F....?" was coined.

Sounds like your typical abrasive rider fan.

Nothing new here. The Russian commanders have been at least indifferent to the atrocities and often complicit. Girls as young as 6 and grandmothers were reported to be victims of gang rape.

But the stench and stain persist.