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GPT can answer this for you.
IRAN WAR Catch-All
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We had a dog when I was a kid who would eat our crayons if we left them on the floor. Only case I ever saw of Technicolor shits.
You never fed a baby green peas and sweet potatoes?
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A “caca”phony of colors! It’s the having to count change that was swallowed that makes it real!
Yes. But this was different. Each turd was like a kaleidoscope depending on how many crayons the dog had eaten. It got to where my brother and I could only color at the dining room table. This was a long time ago, but somethings just stick with you as the decades go by.
My first born actually swallowed a dime that lodged in his throat and started making this horrid rasping sound. We rushed him to the emergency room and they suggested after x-rays that we give it some time while we waited. You could see a perfect disc centered in his throat. Things being considerably less formal in 1976, instead of admitting him formally, they gave us a lounge with a baby bed. After a shift change, the doctor in charge came in, said that we had waited long enough and they took forceps and removed it. Ended up sending us home and telling us to meet him in the parking lot the next morning and he'd check his breathing. Seems like we must have looked about as poor as we were then.
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There are good doctors-lots of them-not concerned about $$
My first born actually swallowed a dime that lodged in his throat and started making this horrid rasping sound. We rushed him to the emergency room and they suggested after x-rays that we give it some time while we waited. You could see a perfect disc centered in his throat. Things being considerably less formal in 1976, instead of admitting him formally, they gave us a lounge with a baby bed. After a shift change, the doctor in charge came in, said that we had waited long enough and they took forceps and removed it. Ended up sending us home and telling us to meet him in the parking lot the next morning and he'd check his breathing. Seems like we must have looked about as poor as we were then.
And then there are others
uncleradar
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I practiced from 1976 to 2015. In my early years you had a lot more freedom to save people money- house calls, seeing patients in the office at 3am so they didn't get an ER charge, arbitrarily reducing surgery bills, etc; as medicine became more corporate and doctors became employees (and sources of income for larger organizations) those things were lost.
It was always a lot of fun though-
It was always a lot of fun though-
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Yep, my doctor in middle and high school was an OB/GYN because my mom was the office admin there and he would see me for free on weekends if I ever needed anything.
Milk and Cookies
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These "CENTCOM readies final blow plan" releases the last couple weeks all reek of desperation as smoke screen for acting tough but really just going home without fighting anymore.
If the GOP didn't enjoy defending the kinetic part of this mess I'm sure they can't wait for the next phase where people ask if 13 American lives, 380 casualties and billions in spending was worth...this.
If the GOP didn't enjoy defending the kinetic part of this mess I'm sure they can't wait for the next phase where people ask if 13 American lives, 380 casualties and billions in spending was worth...this.
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. https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-ea...2?st=b5Cjvj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink“… In Hormuz, “Iran was able to create a crisis of market confidence. But disruption is not control,” said David Des Roches, a former director responsible for Persian Gulf policy at the Defense Department. “With the U.S. blockade, it’s facing a reckoning.”
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The risk of a spiraling crisis has split Iran’s political system between moderates such as President Masoud Pezeshkian and hard-liners including Saeed Jalili, a former presidential candidate who leads Iran’s most conservative faction.
The moderates believe in holding fire and negotiating a favorable deal with President Trump, whom they view as eager to get out of the messy war as soon as possible. They worry Iranians are growing tired of the conflict after an initial nationalist uptick.
“The regime has to do something to break this deadlock,” Saeid Golkar, who studies Iran at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. “Moderates want a deal because they think more destruction is political suicide,” he said.
growing camp of hard-liners believe Iran has to take the military initiative and start a shooting war again to send oil prices soaring higher and increase the pressure on Trump. They argue that the blockade goes beyond the sanctions Iran has faced down in the past and amounts to an act of war that must have a military response.
… “The blockade is increasingly viewed in Tehran not as a substitute for war, but as a different manifestation of it,” said Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in the Middle East at SWP, a Berlin-based research institute. “As a result, Iranian decision makers may soon come to see renewed conflict as less costly than continuing to endure a prolonged blockade.”…”
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I carrier group left
You are correct, the Ford left in last few days after about 11 months deployment between the two wars. I'm still seeing the Bush & Lincoln in the area unless that is incorrect?
So the markets think this is good? Just my opinion, but I will really be surprised if there is anything in the proposal that moves the ball toward a resolution. But we might get a clue if Iran is feeling any pain is they give a little. So there's that to watch for.