I've had about 15 colonoscopies without sedation, only one with sedation, which I regret bitterly and several gastroscopies which are much tougher and even 2 cystoscopies all without sedation. As far as colonoscopies go, the doctor makes a huge difference.

They are fascinating and it's not only good to be able to talk to the doctor, I can remember them even when all the records have been lost. Unfortunately with gastroscopies you end up facing the wrong way and can't see the monitor.

Also I hate it when they give you sedation or anaesthesia with midazolam. Midazolam knocks out your ability to remember what has happened. It should be considered a human rights violation to do that to a person. Especially doing it without asking permission. These days I always ask not to be given midazolam and they usually don't.

Really? Because it seems to me the problem is people thinking they can expect to take what anyone tells them at face value and not to have to think about it at all. Every single time you see this Newspeak term ‘fake news’ being used, you can bet somebody’s trying to get you to believe whatever they’re pushing without questioning, trying to get you not to believe things they would rather you’d not been told, or otherwise looking to trick you about what should be straightforwardly either truth or not.

If I, for instance, don’t believe whatever new horseshit has become the official party line, I notice now I’ll be ‘confronted’ for believing fake news. Tell a Democrat there may have been substantive reasons to be glad Clinton hadn’t been elected, and you’ll stand a very good chance of being told you must be getting ‘fake news.’ Tell a Democrat you’re not particularly worried that Russians are hiding under your bed, there’s a significant chance they’ll write you off as a Breitbart reader. Tell a Republican the sky is blue and they’ll tell you that’s ‘fake news’ and that tax cuts for the very wealthiest will take care of that. ‘Fake news’ is right up there with ‘secret evidence’ and ‘WMD slam dunk’ in terms of vacuous, ought-be-alarming weasel words.

The term ‘fake news’ is useless because it’s nearly impossible to sort out whether it’s being used, in any given instance, to mean propaganda, counter-propaganda, or an infinite regression of these meanings into utter meaninglessness. The mere presence of the term in a discussion reveals the conversation is irredeemably polluted. Best of luck to Jimmy in all his endeavors, and I’m sure he’ll pull down some significant funding from this, but this is going to be a cacophony of Newspeak.

Among the allegations, Schlussel claims that while at an appearance in Detroit which they both attended, Hannity invited her back to his hotel.

Schlussel says that after she turned down his advances, she was not invited back on his program.

I don't know why it would be that absurd of a thing. If I ask you out or to bed and you say no, chances are it's going to be awkward and I don't want to be around you anymore. In her case she is a pundit invited to be on the show, he no longer wanted to invite her because it would be awkward, I don't see where it was wrong in this case. O'Reilly had a horrible track record that included millions in payouts.

The only way you can construe it as absolutely wrong is if he said, sleep with me or you're done on my show.

As far as I know (and for Belgium), am I the only copyright holder of all the works I make. Even in commission, the art work's copyright stays mine unless agreed upon differently. With using other people's work, for instance a photo or a logo, I officially need permission to use it for that project. I usually differ here between a commercial commission (for stores, businesses) and private commissions. For the commercial ones you bet I will ask for permission, mostly via the business that gives out the commission. It goes something like this: "That logo is copyright protected, am I allowed to use that without any legal consequences?" Answer (99.9%): "Yeah sure. You do that, under my responsibility, eventhough I am not sure if it is allowed." Then again: I am not a lawyer, but an ordinary painter with a flamboyant way of expressing. My roots tell me not to bother, my wallet states otherwise. It's a very unclear business. I understand all the photography, the biting by newbies, even the shameless taking of names, but when a company crammed with high-end lawyers just do that, they will end up on top. They have more dough.

Actually what we're talking about here is not being rich. Having a couple million dollars and a 6-figure household income is being rich. What we're talking about here is being obscenely, disproportionately wealthy to the point where you can control governments, brainwash the masses, have small armies at your disposal, and not give a crap about the consequences of any your actions because you have multiple places to hide if all goes to hell.

In a case like this the word "immoral" is too soft. I would maybe use "depraved". But these people are just a consequence of the society they live in. Ask people around you if they admire Bill Gates, or Michael Bloomberg, or Mark Zuckerberg, or any other billionaire of your choice. I'd bet most people will be telling you about how much they admire them and how awesome they are. We live in a society where greed is virtuous and compassion is scorned. Hell, these people even use "charity" as a means to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, and to get people to think they're philanthropists.

Well mine won't find anything because I never use my real name, except at places where I shop. I also do not use Twitter or Facebook. Unless my Doctors know my strange user names, and the very obscure websites I hang out on, it's simply not going to happen. There are also no pictures of me OL. There never have been and there never will be. I was always security conscious when I used Windows and that has not changed since I switched to Linux distros .

Ok, Snapzu is not an obscure website,but the chances of one of my Doctors coming here,spotting me, knowing I am indeed one of their patients, and reading my sometimes entertaining comments is a slam dunk goose egg.

That being said,I can't imagine why they would bother in the first place. If they really want to talk to me,and learn about my very boring life, they can simply ask when I show up for an exam,or even phone me.

Was wondering what that blogging stuff was about. I don't personally run a blog but I know a couple friends that do and I'll let them know about the big launch.

At the same time, how do you balance a budget for the State's? It's a slope that hurts, but what are we supposed to do? Where do we cut funding? Maybe we ask the colleges to drop sports and other things like that? Everybody needs to be involved in the crunching and cutting though, never expect a grant to be there forever, but at the same time maybe the states should have publicly talked about cutting the budget on higher education. I just see this as an everybody loses situation.

Most Trump "fans" do, they just don't realize it, they've found it depends on how you ask the question as to whether people think it's good or bad and sadly a lot of America has no clue what it means at all. Also, the government asks the question in a way that most American's would think it's bad.

Source

EDIT: For source.

Why do these guys ask questions if they don't like the answers?

In any event, kudos to Nye for doing this. It needs to happen much more.

I only have it because I'm cheap, I don't pay for data and I pay by the minute on my phone, so their Messenger app is basically free texting for me because anybody I really wanna talk to is on that. I do my best to avoid personal data on the page too and ask everybody to never share photo's of me, doesn't work 100% but it's better than posting every step I take like some people.

Yep. This is what you do if you have an IQ greater than 80 or so. If you don't know what to do with the money, go ask someone who does. It's not like you can't pay them for their services.

Hello Adele, Thanks for the comment about my blog and articles. I am a new blogger who writes about the things I like and use. I am just getting know more about this website. I think I know my path from now on. Again, thank you for the good words and taking your time to comment on my profile, Adelle. Hope to talk to you soon.

I think your blog entries are original, well-written, informative as far as I can tell, and a clear cut above the bulk of the self-promoting linkjacked blogspam that's posted all the time at Snapzu. Even the fact you're in the comments asking for thoughts and puzzling over downvotes puts you in a class apart from, daresay, most bloggers shopping their work at Snapzu. That you're asking for feedback marks you as special as well.

However, what's working against you has gotta be that you're only ever posting your own stuff. There has long been a 10%-sharing rule, the thrust of which is to make your own work only a part of what you share here. You're far from the only one exclusively posting their own work. Also, that rule may change as Snapzu gets more popular. Regardless, your stuff may be mistaken as commercial — even though it's never seemed that way to me — and that's probably why people are marking it down.

Writing this out, I feel bad for not having upvoted most of it. For encouragement, if nothing else. Except for this last one, you really phoned that one in! ;}

Why not just ask him?

Did the FBI and NYC ask for permission to biomonitor everyone entering the island? No, and they never will because the government and their 3rd party providers think they are above us all.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

That was a truth a century ago, back when "Student" was publishing results from Guinness production to forward the field. It is kind of why you always need to ask about raw data, methodology, sampling, population size, etc. The same people who were lobbying criticisms at various polls across the political spectrum for pushing different agendas already should know it is not a matter of "if" but a matter of "when". The same reason why NASA put forward this statement.

I'm perfectly content not to go to war for a Ukrainian neo-Nazi coup government. We in the U.S. are too busy with our own color revolution for an all-out nuclear war meant to soothe the jittery nerves of Ukrainian fascist paramilitaries. Maybe next time.

Ask around. See how many people here feel that way. Can’t wait to see what number you’d say you came up with. Three to five million, maybe?

Looking through the wired article:

“Trump and others have been misreading our research and exaggerating our results to make claims we don’t think our research supports,” Richman says. “I’m not sure why they continue to do it, but there’s not much I can do about that aside from set the record straight.”

Richman himself is not backing down from his initial findings. He says that even if some people did check the wrong citizenship box, enough respondents repeatedly reported voting as noncitizens to indicate that some noncitizens do in fact vote. Even some of Richman’s detractors, such as Rick Hasen, author of the Election Law Blog, acknowledge that “noncitizen voting is a real, if relatively small, problem.” Richman says those on the left are just as wrong to reflexively claim that voter fraud doesn’t exist at all as Trump is to continue insisting voter fraud is a national conspiracy.

Here’s what the math should look like (that is, if Richman’s initial study was accurate—which many researchers doubt). If 6.4 percent of the estimated 20.3 million noncitizens in the US voted, and if just 81.8 percent of them voted for Clinton (the percentage who voted for Obama in his 2008 study), that’s an added margin of a little more than 835,000 votes. In other words: Even with all of those supposedly fraudulent ballots, Clinton still would have won the popular vote by more than 2 million votes.

AKA ... that didn't disprove the republican nutters I linked. If anything, it didn't provide an accurate critique of Richman's results, found here. You have to go for a paywall for that. But there's an app for that. These researchers accept the results. These one only acknowledge that it caused controversy. And that is just by going off of the only 6 papers that cite the original article through google scholar.

So no, even reading the critique, and reading the wired piece, I am still convinced that more then "0" noncitizens voted. So yes, Trump is insane, and going on about 2 million. However, much like the project veritas videos, the dead voter turnouts in Colorado, and California, the all smoke and no fire with the machines in Detroit, this is another case of another story refusing to die when it comes to election fraud in the States. Calling everything fake news only leads to more people actually reading brietbart, and RT.

And why wouldn't the left champion voter ID if it can fall under the bracket of government services? And it is a little bizarre to think that offices could not have a geographical minimum requirement, and only offer voter ID. People do happen to get passports and drivers incenses issued by the government all the time with minimal issues. It is almost as if Voter ID can be wrapped into these services. Looking at wikipedia, it seems you have seven states already with strict photo ID laws, and non strict photo ID in another ten. People can fill out a form, submit it with original and photocopied* documents/passport photo, and have the final ID mailed out, with minimal fuss. I would think solidifying attacks from political opponents by tackling the same problem, and providing a solution that falls under social services would help ensure these offices stay open. Plus, voter ID is once every 5 years. A day to get proper ID is not an issue, even with the "brass tacks corruption. "

You're right, Voter ID does sound simple enough. I have been dealing with it all my adult life, and as far as I ...

I think I'll leave you under your bridge, to find a careless traveller to ask your riddles about so-and-so's massive, in-person voter fraud and what fraction of a vote such-and-such a person has.

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They can be very litigious....and horrible to deal with.

I can only ask you to stop your obsessive behaviour.

I'm not interested.

So why,when I had a colonoscopy (was awake during it) did the Dr. not look inside my appendix? He showed me the opening, to it. Next time,I'll ask for a peek inside.

Rasmussen also had Romney beating Obama right through the 2012 election. Maybe they got it right this time because nobody outside GOP circles knew to Crosscheck their results. You know, it's math that's real and math you do that makes you feel good as a Republican.