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Post by Laura on Mar 16, 2009 15:50:53 GMT -5
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Post by puhlease on Mar 18, 2009 21:17:11 GMT -5
Thanks, Patty. Esophageal cancer is one of the worst. He seems to have hung on a long time. The truly sad thing in the article, though, is how he was ostracized in Hollywood for changing his political point of view after September 11. Everyone is entitled to their political views. Rest in peace, Ron Silver. This is a bit of a strange coincidence, because Monday, the 23rd, will mark one year since my mother's passing, also with esophageal cancer. She actually had complications from the surgery, which is a major, major procedure due to the location right in the middle of the chest area and diaphragm. She was never able to start her chemo treatments due to those complications and when she had nearly recovered enough to consider starting with it, it was too late. She never left the hospital. It is a very aggressive cancer and very sneaky. After doing a research paper on Barrett's esophagus for my pathophysiology class and watching my mom's course with the disease, I can tell you this. Do not ignore acid reflux!! After years of uncontrolled acid reflux the cells lining the esophagus change to a different type of epithelial cell. This is the precursor to the cancer. My mom had followup EGDs with biopsies every 6 months for 2 years after they caught the Barrett's, then, according to the "association guidelines" she was switched to a 3-year monitoring interval. Her doctor didn't like that, and told her to come back in 2 years. I didn't like that, and told her to go back in 1, but she waited 2 years and that is when they found the tumor. So please, please, if you or anyone you love deals with acid reflux on a recurring basis and has trouble controlling it, don't take it lightly. It is a very serious condition. At the least, they should ask their doctor if they are at risk for Barrett's esophagus and whether a screening EGD would be recommended. If I can help one of you avoid this terrible thing, or someone you love, I will be happy. |
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Post by nanalinda on Mar 18, 2009 23:54:05 GMT -5
I'm so sorry to hear of your mom's passing, Lynn but thank you for all the information. Acid reflux is, I thought, one of those not so serious ailments that you treat with one of those remedies they are always touting in adverts and not that big a deal.
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Post by Laura on Mar 19, 2009 12:55:04 GMT -5
I too am sorry to hear of your mom's passing Lynn. I have heard acid reflux can be dangerous and can easily turn to esophageal cancer. Toward the end of my mom's life, she suffered with acid reflux, quite serious, but since she was already at the end of her life with complications from Parkinson's, acid reflux didn't have a chance to turn cancerous. I will pass this information you've given us to anyone I know who has this condition.
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Post by Fairweather on Mar 26, 2009 18:21:50 GMT -5
www.theboot.com/2009/03/26/pop-country-hitmaker-dan-seals-dies-at-61/Don't let the "country hitmaker" fool you; although he did have some minor hits on the country charts in the early 1980s, most notably a duet with Marie Osmond called "Meet Me in Montana", to the ones of us who came of age in the seventies he'll always be England Dan of England Dan and John Ford Coley. Light up the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer. . .RIP.
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Post by moonstone on Mar 26, 2009 18:45:00 GMT -5
www.theboot.com/2009/03/26/pop-country-hitmaker-dan-seals-dies-at-61/Don't let the "country hitmaker" fool you; although he did have some minor hits on the country charts in the early 1980s, most notably a duet with Marie Osmond called "Meet Me in Montana", to the ones of us who came of age in the seventies he'll always be England Dan of England Dan and John Ford Coley. Light up the world, shine on me
Love is the answer
Shine on us all, set us free
Love is the answer. . .RIP. This is too bad.  I LOVE that song. Just sentimental, I guess. |
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Post by Fairweather on Apr 25, 2009 16:02:41 GMT -5
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Post by g1 on May 5, 2009 14:18:09 GMT -5
Very sad news. I still laugh when I think about Dom's star turn at the end of Blazing Saddles, and his co-starring with Jimmy Stewart in the animated Fievel Goes West. |
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Post by puhlease on May 5, 2009 20:04:06 GMT -5
Loved him with Burt Reynolds doing anything. They probably had a better interpersonal relationship than Burt ever had with a woman. I loved to see him genuinely laugh from deep down in that way he had. |
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Post by g1 on May 31, 2009 17:43:53 GMT -5
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Post by moonstone on May 31, 2009 18:04:18 GMT -5
Guns don't kill and hate doesn't breed hate. And despite being paid millions of dollars per year for SOMETHING, O'Reilly has no influence on anyone's behavior. Well, nobody's perfect. Isn't that about how it will go? And did you ever notice how vigilante justice is A-OK with the law-and-order crowd? Talk about judicial activism. They don't even bother running for judge before taking it upon themselves to pass judgment. Sheesh. |
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Post by nanalinda on May 31, 2009 22:45:11 GMT -5
Guns don't kill and hate doesn't breed hate. And despite being paid millions of dollars per year for SOMETHING, O'Reilly has no influence on anyone's behavior. Well, nobody's perfect. Isn't that about how it will go? And did you ever notice how vigilante justice is A-OK with the law-and-order crowd? Talk about judicial activism. They don't even bother running for judge before taking it upon themselves to pass judgment. Sheesh. You're absolutely correct, Moon. They'll say it's Dr. Tiller's fault that he's dead. He shouldn't have stood in front of a bullet.  |
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Post by Aunt Ornery on Jun 1, 2009 4:08:58 GMT -5
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Post by Fairweather on Jun 1, 2009 12:20:43 GMT -5
Guns don't kill and hate doesn't breed hate. And despite being paid millions of dollars per year for SOMETHING, O'Reilly has no influence on anyone's behavior. Well, nobody's perfect. Isn't that about how it will go? And did you ever notice how vigilante justice is A-OK with the law-and-order crowd? Talk about judicial activism. They don't even bother running for judge before taking it upon themselves to pass judgment. Sheesh. I was, admittedly stupidly, hoping that Tucker Carlson wouldn't go over to the dark side once he joined Fox News, but today's livechat www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/29/DI2009052902325.html(he does this weekly in tandem with Ana Marie Cox) proves otherwise. In particular, this answer--which actually avoids half the question--pisses me off: **************************************************** Anonymous: Over the past few years, Bill O'Reilly has made the following comments about Dr. Tiller: - He "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." - He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," - a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida - "This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union" - "operating a death mill" - "has blood on his hands" - "executing babies about to be born Tucker, I'm not saying Billo wanted some kook to kill him, but isn't this playing with fire? Is there some quote by Olberman or any other liberal commentator that even comes close? Who has the craziest of the liberal left murdered lately? Tucker Carlson: Every one of those descriptions of Tiller is objectively true. I sincerely think it's appalling that he was murdered. But Tiller was a monster, no doubt. **************************************************** See the avoidance of answering the last part of the question. Tacitly he's saying that Bill O'Reilly's foul rhetoric is true, which makes his "appalling that [Tiller] was murdered" followed by "[he] was a monster, no doubt" disingenuous--and that's the kind term for it-- since we all want to kill "monsters"? Tucker no longer can hide behind the libertarian BS. The man has become, at the age of forty, precisely the kind of wingnut, unthinking, anti-intellectual moron one has to be to work for Fox. May they have joy of him. I was, however misguidedly, a fan from his CNN days on, loved shouting at the TV when he made some really stupid point--but he's beyond the pale now. He's now Billo Jr. Oh, and just for reference: I can count on no fingers the most recent LEFT wingnut who's killed anybody for their political beliefs. NO LIBERAL HAS. Only the crazies who think Billo, Hannity, Rushbo, Beck and their vile ilk are gods. |
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Post by moonstone on Jun 1, 2009 12:43:07 GMT -5
Guns don't kill and hate doesn't breed hate. And despite being paid millions of dollars per year for SOMETHING, O'Reilly has no influence on anyone's behavior. Well, nobody's perfect. Isn't that about how it will go? And did you ever notice how vigilante justice is A-OK with the law-and-order crowd? Talk about judicial activism. They don't even bother running for judge before taking it upon themselves to pass judgment. Sheesh. I was, admittedly stupidly, hoping that Tucker Carlson wouldn't go over to the dark side once he joined Fox News, but today's livechat www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/29/DI2009052902325.html(he does this weekly in tandem with Ana Marie Cox) proves otherwise. In particular, this answer--which actually avoids half the question--pisses me off: **************************************************** Anonymous: Over the past few years, Bill O'Reilly has made the following comments about Dr. Tiller: - He "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." - He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," - a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida - "This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union" - "operating a death mill" - "has blood on his hands" - "executing babies about to be born Tucker, I'm not saying Billo wanted some kook to kill him, but isn't this playing with fire? Is there some quote by Olberman or any other liberal commentator that even comes close? Who has the craziest of the liberal left murdered lately? Tucker Carlson: Every one of those descriptions of Tiller is objectively true. I sincerely think it's appalling that he was murdered. But Tiller was a monster, no doubt. **************************************************** See the avoidance of answering the last part of the question. Tacitly he's saying that Bill O'Reilly's foul rhetoric is true, which makes his "appalling that [Tiller] was murdered" followed by "[he] was a monster, no doubt" disingenuous--and that's the kind term for it-- since we all want to kill "monsters"? Tucker no longer can hide behind the libertarian BS. The man has become, at the age of forty, precisely the kind of wingnut, unthinking, anti-intellectual moron one has to be to work for Fox. May they have joy of him. I was, however misguidedly, a fan from his CNN days on, loved shouting at the TV when he made some really stupid point--but he's beyond the pale now. He's now Billo Jr. Oh, and just for reference: I can count on no fingers the most recent LEFT wingnut who's killed anybody for their political beliefs. NO LIBERAL HAS. Only the crazies who think Billo, Hannity, Rushbo, Beck and their vile ilk are gods. Big DITTO to this entire post. Excellent insight. My only quibble is that I've thought Tucker was beyond redemption for a long, long time. It's in his eyes.  I promise I won't post the blue shirt picture again, but this one does seem appropriate for someone who's clearly been drinking the Kool-aid. Blue raspberry apparently. One question for clarification: I read the article and wondered why Ana Marie Cox doesn't say anything here. If it's the format, that's one thing. But I personally find that silence deafening. |
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Post by Fairweather on Jun 1, 2009 13:32:18 GMT -5
I was, admittedly stupidly, hoping that Tucker Carlson wouldn't go over to the dark side once he joined Fox News, but today's livechat www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/29/DI2009052902325.html(he does this weekly in tandem with Ana Marie Cox) proves otherwise. In particular, this answer--which actually avoids half the question--pisses me off: **************************************************** Anonymous: Over the past few years, Bill O'Reilly has made the following comments about Dr. Tiller: - He "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." - He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," - a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida - "This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union" - "operating a death mill" - "has blood on his hands" - "executing babies about to be born Tucker, I'm not saying Billo wanted some kook to kill him, but isn't this playing with fire? Is there some quote by Olberman or any other liberal commentator that even comes close? Who has the craziest of the liberal left murdered lately? Tucker Carlson: Every one of those descriptions of Tiller is objectively true. I sincerely think it's appalling that he was murdered. But Tiller was a monster, no doubt. **************************************************** See the avoidance of answering the last part of the question. Tacitly he's saying that Bill O'Reilly's foul rhetoric is true, which makes his "appalling that [Tiller] was murdered" followed by "[he] was a monster, no doubt" disingenuous--and that's the kind term for it-- since we all want to kill "monsters"? Tucker no longer can hide behind the libertarian BS. The man has become, at the age of forty, precisely the kind of wingnut, unthinking, anti-intellectual moron one has to be to work for Fox. May they have joy of him. I was, however misguidedly, a fan from his CNN days on, loved shouting at the TV when he made some really stupid point--but he's beyond the pale now. He's now Billo Jr. Oh, and just for reference: I can count on no fingers the most recent LEFT wingnut who's killed anybody for their political beliefs. NO LIBERAL HAS. Only the crazies who think Billo, Hannity, Rushbo, Beck and their vile ilk are gods. Big DITTO to this entire post. Excellent insight. My only quibble is that I've thought Tucker was beyond redemption for a long, long time. It's in his eyes. I promise I won't post the blue shirt picture again, but this one does seem appropriate for someone who's clearly been drinking the Kool-aid. Blue raspberry apparently. One question for clarification: I read the article and wondered why Ana Marie Cox doesn't say anything here. If it's the format, that's one thing. But I personally find that silence deafening. Yep, that about not wanting to interrupt Tucker's "dialogue with our shared audience" was weak, to say the least. My question would be, WHAT dialogue? |
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Post by nanalinda on Jun 1, 2009 13:37:41 GMT -5
Guns don't kill and hate doesn't breed hate. And despite being paid millions of dollars per year for SOMETHING, O'Reilly has no influence on anyone's behavior. Well, nobody's perfect. Isn't that about how it will go? And did you ever notice how vigilante justice is A-OK with the law-and-order crowd? Talk about judicial activism. They don't even bother running for judge before taking it upon themselves to pass judgment. Sheesh. I was, admittedly stupidly, hoping that Tucker Carlson wouldn't go over to the dark side once he joined Fox News, but today's livechat www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/29/DI2009052902325.html(he does this weekly in tandem with Ana Marie Cox) proves otherwise. In particular, this answer--which actually avoids half the question--pisses me off: **************************************************** Anonymous: Over the past few years, Bill O'Reilly has made the following comments about Dr. Tiller: - He "destroys fetuses for just about any reason right up until the birth date for $5,000." - He's guilty of "Nazi stuff," - a moral equivalent to NAMBLA and al-Qaida - "This is the kind of stuff that happened in Mao's China, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Soviet Union" - "operating a death mill" - "has blood on his hands" - "executing babies about to be born Tucker, I'm not saying Billo wanted some kook to kill him, but isn't this playing with fire? Is there some quote by Olberman or any other liberal commentator that even comes close? Who has the craziest of the liberal left murdered lately? Tucker Carlson: Every one of those descriptions of Tiller is objectively true. I sincerely think it's appalling that he was murdered. But Tiller was a monster, no doubt. **************************************************** See the avoidance of answering the last part of the question. Tacitly he's saying that Bill O'Reilly's foul rhetoric is true, which makes his "appalling that [Tiller] was murdered" followed by "[he] was a monster, no doubt" disingenuous--and that's the kind term for it-- since we all want to kill "monsters"? Tucker no longer can hide behind the libertarian BS. The man has become, at the age of forty, precisely the kind of wingnut, unthinking, anti-intellectual moron one has to be to work for Fox. May they have joy of him. I was, however misguidedly, a fan from his CNN days on, loved shouting at the TV when he made some really stupid point--but he's beyond the pale now. He's now Billo Jr. Oh, and just for reference: I can count on no fingers the most recent LEFT wingnut who's killed anybody for their political beliefs. NO LIBERAL HAS. Only the crazies who think Billo, Hannity, Rushbo, Beck and their vile ilk are gods. Excellent post, Katie. Fox should be held accountable for what their crazies say and do. Beck, although always a buffoon, has become a raving, hate- and fear-mongering wingnut since he moved to Fox. Carlson, when he was at MSNBC, always seemed to be quite bland and inoffensive. It makes me believe that the powers-that-be at Fox instigate and even insist on this type of right-wing rhetoric. What the dumbarses who listen to them don't understand is that they are being brainwashed, albeit willingly. Fox's actions make it so easy to see how Hitler was able to brainwash much of Germany. |
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Post by g1 on Jun 1, 2009 15:21:09 GMT -5
If/when someone takes aim at one of the wingnut commentators or their proxies, you can bet the squealing about the dangers of libruls will reach a decibel level not heard before. They define themselves by their victimization.
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Post by g1 on Jun 3, 2009 17:51:47 GMT -5
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Post by rory on Jun 4, 2009 9:46:26 GMT -5
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Post by g1 on Jun 4, 2009 10:51:42 GMT -5
Very sad news about Mr Carradine. Surprising and shocking. I hope there's a full investigation. |
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Post by puhlease on Jun 4, 2009 13:07:21 GMT -5
I saw her once, too, about 20 or 25 years ago. She was phenomenal. Blew me away. RIP |
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I LOVE that song. Just sentimental, I guess.
