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  1. My dad went into the hospital early in February. He'd been in and out so many times over the past 5 years that I often didnt know he'd even been there (he lived in Oregon.) I talked to him about every 2-3 weeks so he could easily spend a few days or even a week there for another bout with pneumonia or liver issues or whatever else. But in early February he was back in and this time they found cancer in his liver, lungs and about everywhere else. He already had a pretty severe cirrhosis issue. He was my dad but we'd fallen out a long time ago and he'd burned pretty much every bridge he'd ever had. But, I planned a trip when they found cancer. Figured he had several months at least but I decided to go up a week or so later. He got the cancer news on a Thursday and had a meeting with oncology Friday morning. He thought he would have treatment options until he saw the oncologist. I was in contact with his doctor that week and he knew I was planning on coming. Friday afternoon the doc called me and said "I cant tell you anything for sure but the sooner you can get up here, the better. Like maybe tomoorrow." I was on an 8 am flight out of IAH and in his hospital room just after lunch time. Dad was awake and recognized me but it was obvious he was fading. Spent all afternoon and evening with him. Came back early Sunday morning and he was non-responsive to voices or stimuli but breathing in his own. I left to go get his personal papers and start getting ready for whatever was next. He had a living will and a DNR so it seemed like just a matter of time. I was scheduled to meet hospice at noon and was on my way back go the hospital around 11:15 when the doc called me and said "How far out are you? If you can get here soon." I was about 5 minutes from the hospital. I got to his room and he was laboriously breathing. Sat there with him until the hospice worker showed up. Maybe 10 minutes the breathing got shallower and very slow. One or two struggling breaths and then a sort of whoosh. And he was gone. He had been a major jackass for most of his life to pretty much everyone he ever met but the sumbitch went out quickly and quietly. Almost peacefully. I was grateful to have been there so he didnt die alone or with strangers. This whole COVID thing is a big shit sandwich and we're all taking a bite.
    22 points
  2. Hey @Brisketexan, can I bring this guy as my plus 1 to the ledge?
    16 points
  3. 15 points
  4. Leftover steak means steak sandwich in this house. This iteration complete with fresh tapenade, grilled onions and cotswald cheese with Dijon and a helping of mayo.
    12 points
  5. 100% behind this. My dad is in the hospital for the 5th time since early March, first an aortic aneurysm repair and 4 followup visits and exploratory surgery tomorrow to find out whats still bleeding; well occasionally bleeding. Anyway he's 89, but I've realized that his time may be near - but it's a struggle, but the worst part is not being able to go to the hospital and realizing that the last time I might have seen him was on his birthday 2 weeks ago through a window at his assisted living center. I've always thought it was weird that people took long journeys for a last visit to an aging relative who was near passing, seemed overly emotional, people need to deal with reality and quit being such a pussy. And then this happens, and I realize that I am a big fucking pussy....fuck it's getting dusty in here typing this one out.
    10 points
  6. Yep...Life isn't fair - their population isn't as dense. I don't think we need a one size fits all policy here stateside. I do feel much safer about opening things up if we were testing/tracing a lot more. Testing without tracing isn't nearly as effective. Let's see how things shake out the next two weeks. Some really smart MF are working on all of this. And I maintain this is still the greatest country in the world when it comes to innovation... Our demise has been greatly exaggerated.
    10 points
  7. [Dennis]/I'm sure he'll rebound/[Rodman]
    10 points
  8. Who wants to tell him there was no "America" in 1775 and that Washington wasn't President until 1789?
    9 points
  9. 1000000% sure he hasn't read a book.
    9 points
  10. I just saw that my friend was taken off the ventilator today. They'de been trying to bring him out of a coma to remove it for a few days. I learned he was in with this on April 6, today's the 21st. That's a motherfucker, but I'm glad he made it. Just updating for the well wishers. Thank you.
    9 points
  11. https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/de-blasios-social-distancing-tip-line-flooded-with-obscenities/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons De Blasio’s social distancing (just the) tip line flooded with penis photos, Hitler memes Mayor Bill de Blasio’s critics let him know how they really felt about him ordering New Yorkers to snitch on each other for violating social-distancing rules — by flooding his new tip line with crank complaints including “dick pics” and people flipping the bird, The Post has learned. Photos of extended middle fingers, the mayor dropping the Staten Island groundhog and news coverage of him going to the gym have all been texted to a special tip line that de Blasio announced Saturday, according to screenshots posted on Twitter. One user sent the message “We will fight this tyrannical overreach!” to the service and got an automated message that in part said, “Hello, and thank you for texting NYC311.” “F–k you!” replied @MorganLSchmidt1, along with a meme showing Adolph Hitler and the words “TO THOSE TURNING IN YOUR NEIGHBORS AND LOCAL BUSINESSES — YOU DID THE REICH THING.” “Start flooding their reporting text numbers with this pics!” the tweet added. Other profane messages included a photo of a bowl of gummy candies in the shape of male genitalia and a sign saying “EAT A BAG OF D–KS.” It was not immediately clear whether any of the posters actually lived in New York City. An NYPD source said that “dick pic” photos of real penises have also been texted to 311, and a caller phoned in a tip that de Blasio was seen performing oral sex on someone “in an alleyway behind a 7-11” early Sunday. “He looked at me…and coofed in my direction,” the caller said, according to a photo of the 311 operator’s computer screen provided to The Post. “Coof” is a newly coined term for coughing while infected with the coronavirus, according to the Urban Dictionary website....(snip)[/No Bobbitt]
    9 points
  12. Wonder how that would have worked if he'd told the 98% that didn't have it they couldn't leave their home.
    8 points
  13. I got your vitamin D right here!
    8 points
  14. I can't wait for this to pass, because I'm tired of actually liking a Sooner-- I'd really enjoy getting back to hating you properly.
    8 points
  15. Ha. I'm really enjoying the kids out front. I'm one of these guys who is always really careful about learning new things - I walked at 18 months and rode a bike at 7 I think. In other words, a pussy. There are two twins down the road - six, and one of them was riding the bike at the beginning of the pandemic, and the other -- the thoughtful one who talks to me about what he's reading, just couldn't get it. He kept going up and down on his razor, and then was on the little practice bike. About a week into the pandemic, when I was starting to really stress out for him because he was looking really bummed, he figured it out. May have been high point of this nonsense for me so far. Was stoked!
    8 points
  16. Dude got vid of hotties behind his fatty bae like a sneaky horndog genius. Potentially in SPI.
    8 points
  17. This example of victim complex reads like it was copied and pasted from texags.
    8 points
  18. You don't get out much do you? 31 countries where the 'American Dream' is more attainable than in the US US Ranks 15th in Freedom Perhaps it's time to turn off Fox News, get out of the trailer park, and travel a bit.
    8 points
  19. I have no idea why, but the Chris Hansen thumbnail on the second link killed me while I was skimming the thread.
    8 points
  20. That said, Americans will be able to eat all the ham and delicious bbq ribs we want. (With the exception of maybe some spot shortages.) 27% of the US hog kill is exported, and most of the reduced kill capacity (because of plant shutdowns) will take away from that. Once again American Agriculture is hauling mail. We can cut 27% off of pork production and still eat. I know farmers and American agriculture are not universally liked on this board, and we are not above criticism. But what our people have gone through the last 12 months is just incredible. I hope you guys come to appreciate it.
    8 points
  21. At the end of the day, all of this was entirely foreseeable. You elect a bankrupt corrupt narcissist to be the leader or your country, it shouldn’t be hard to foresee that your country would become just as bankrupt as every other endeavor the narcissistic president had done in the past. America’s only saving grace is that it really didn’t elect this guy. It’s failure is that somehow he is still the president anyway. And going on.
    7 points
  22. so we ran out of syrup the other day. we rarely use syrup, but we ran out. there is a box sitting outside my house today from Sam's club. it is pretty heavy. I ask my GF and she says it is probably syrup. she says there was no delivery charge so she ordered syrup. I open it up and there are 2 - 64 oz jugs of syrup.
    7 points
  23. I love his "if we did nothing a bunch more people would have died!" quotes. Like if Mack Brown had said after the 2000 OU game, "if we hadn't practiced all year we probably would have lost 100-0 instead of 63-14."
    7 points
  24. For your morning livestock update, beef prices have now taken out the first spring high, pretty solidly too, and hogs are getting closer to $70, with the recent high being $80, and bellies are close to 100 now. It sounds like packers are still able to meet standing sales orders to retail, but very little spot pork to be had.
    7 points
  25. Why is the media so obsessed with small groups of idiot protesters? It's kind of interesting, like a train wreck I guess, but these are a small fringe, the same idiots who carry bazookas into McDonalds 'cause 'murica. But they don't represent the public, and it's a distraction. They aren't going to overcome the science of how and when we can start opening shit up, so why again are they taking such an inordinate amount of media?
    7 points
  26. The president is yelling on twitter about Morning Joe and his press conference ratings during the midst of a pandemic. That makes me so mad because it just reminds me of how unpresidential Obama was when he rode a bicycle.
    7 points
  27. he's not wrong. not political because this is beyond parties. the shit is broke. turn sound on. warning, lots of yelling and cursing. https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/g53j6j/to_stay_calm_while_telling_the_government_what_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
    7 points
  28. Govt nailed that one, didn't they?
    7 points
  29. 7 points
  30. The markets had already priced this in.
    7 points
  31. For all the sound and fury over when to reopen and Sweden vs the rest of the world, my prediction for the last couple of weeks has been that most areas (outside of NYC metro) are headed for a Sweden-like policy very soon. For better or worse, they just didn't go into to the government-mandated lock down that we went through first, but we will ultimately end up with very similar policies (I think that's largely their point about sustainability). Large crowds and gatherings will be banned, strong social distancing and hygiene will be encouraged, and masks potentially mandated, but many business will reopen soon. There's really not much practical choice. Widespread testing and tracing and quarantining would be ideal, but it's a pipe dream.
    6 points
  32. Oil: The Storm Before the Really Big Stormby Peter Zeihan on April 21, 2020West Texas Intermediate, the oil grade most associated with American production, plunged down to -$40 April 20. You read the right. For a while yesterday, sellers had to pay people forty bucks to take a barrel of crude.As with any product, the business of oil isn’t a once-and-done. It must be produced, shipped and processed, and then the refined product must be shipped and retailed. What happened April 20 is a bottleneck in that process. Production surged ahead of pipeline shipping capacity, leaving some producers with nowhere to put their crude.The real kicker is that this is not the “negative prices” outcome I predicted a couple weeks back. “All” the April 20 event was was a single facility in a single country running out of future leased storage capacity for the month of May. The April 20 price crash will happen again in the same place and it will be bigger: June WTI futures contracts are now spazzing, and America’s Cushing oil storage and transport nexus undoubtedly will be actually full by then. But even this is nothing but the warmup for the big show.That will happen when the world runs out of storage.Numbers are fuzzy in this corner of global oil markets. In part because everyone classifies and categories their oil storage capacity differently. In part because they should (gasoline storage is functionally different from raw oil storage). In part because some countries don’t share data because they’re lazy or secretive. But no one thinks there’s a whole lot of storage capacity left. Global oversupply of crude right now is over 20mpbd (with 30mbpd seeming to be the “average” guestimate). Most folks in the know are now musing that what storage remains will be filled up completely sometime in May or early-June.And filled up it will be, because that is the express goal of the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi price war started out as a spat with the Russians over carrying the burden of a production cut. It has since expanded into the Saudis targeting the end markets of every single one of what the Saudis’ consider to be inefficient producers. The Saudis are directly targeting markets previously serviced not just by US shale and Russian, but those serviced by Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan and Libya and Iraq and Iran and Malaysia and Indonesia and Mexico and Norway and the United Kingdom and Nigeria and Chad and you get the idea.As of this morning, there are still at least 24 supertankers carrying at least 50 million barrels of Saudi crude en route to the U.S. Gulf Coast. Most will arrive in May, seeking to fill up as much of what remains of U.S. storage as possible. Similar volumes are in route to Europe and even bigger volumes to Northeast Asia. In most cases the destinations are the transshipment nodes that enable distribution of inland-produced oil to coastal locations: Rotterdam, Suez, Singapore, Korea.Assuming you’ve got deep pockets, and Saudi Arabia’s are some of the world’s deepest, it isn’t a stupid strategy. If the Saudis can push prices firmly negative, it will absolutely crush many of the world’s energy producers. My back-of-envelope math suggest some 20 million barrels per day of production capacity – one-fifth of global output – will go offline for years. And then Riyadh will have what it wants: the ability to raise prices as much as it wants and to reign supreme over the world of oil for at least several years. (There are still a veritable swarm of flies that will need to be dealt with in that particular ointment, but the Saudi plan seems sure of generating plenty of ointment nonetheless.) The WTI price crash on April 20 confirms that if the Saudis didn’t realize the potential for their strategy’s explosive success before, they certainly do now. They have no reason to back down.There are a few producers worthy of callouts. Canada’s Alberta province has the most to lose. Not only landlocked, it must sell all its oil into the American market that is already so saturated. Its production must be shut in for years. Venezuela was facing civilizational collapse due to mismanagement before oil prices tanked. As oil is the government’s only remaining income stream, this marks the end of Vene as a country. Its oil will not come back for at least a decade, and even then only if an outside power first physically invades the place to rebuild the country from scratch. America’s sanctions regime against Iran has been so successful the country isn’t an oil exporter any longer. Its output will absolutely collapse this summer, and the country lacks the funds to bring in foreigners to help restart it or the skills to do the work itself. Russian fields are in swamps and permafrost. Drilling is only possible during the winter. Any shut-ins means the wells freeze solid, necessitating completely new drilling. Last time this happened it took the Russians nearly 15 years to get production back. Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are both dependent upon other countries (in some cases, Russia) to transit their crude to market. High production costs plus finicky neighbors equals long-haul shut-ins. Nigeria is a mess on a good day, and the supermajors who have made Nigerian output possible have steadily moved offshore to get away from the chaos and violence. Once they turn off their wells, they won’t even consider returning until global prices rise to the point that they are once again willing to subject their staff to frequent kidnapping. That’s several years off. Iraq has been in a state of near civil war for some 15 years. The country is now producing over 4mbpd, the income of which helps hold the place together. Negative prices will remove the “near” from the country’s political condition and (at best) make the place a ward of the Arab states of the Persian Gulf. It is also worth noting that the speed that this could all go from head-spinning to head-chopping is intensely short. Right now there’s still a fair amount of spare oil tankers to shuttle about the world. The Saudis have been leasing out every tanker they can find, so before long all the the world’s tankers will be full as well.Oil has been a panacea for all sorts of inefficient, compromised, and in some cases evil regimes for decades. Huge demand in the West and Northeast Asia allowed a raft of previously insignificant or morally reprehensible leaders and societal situations to effectively print dollars out of the ground and count the industrialized world as a hungry customer. Not anymore. Demand patterns have shifted, the United States is now an exporter of crude oil and products, and the petro-economy that has kept ayatollahs and ideologues afloat is crumbling. Before anyone cheers it’s worth remembering that things will get a lot uglier before they have any hope of improving.
    6 points
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