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Go look at the Elizabeth Weller pregnancy issue that was made public. What happens when you have a nonviable pregnancy but the mothers life isn’t in immediate danger? Water breaks at 18 weeks, pregnancy has virtually zero chance of viability, mother isn’t dying today but doctors would end the pregnancy under any prior circumstance? What about a case where a mother is diagnosed with cancer and treatment is dangerous to an early term fetus? What about an older women that has an unplanned pregnancy that puts her in an extremely high risk situation where the doctor believes her life is in danger later in the pregnancy but is not today? What about a prenatal screening that shows the baby has Trisomy 13 or some other catastrophic early life death sentence? Should the mother have to carry to term, have the baby, all the while knowing the baby will not live to see 1 or likely end up stillborn? What qualifies as a medical emergency? Does the fact that it will become a medical emergency later in the pregnancy but isn’t today valid for terminating today?

You keep saying that last sentence, but the only case it is allowed is if the mother’s life is in danger as I read it. There are other medical emergencies that would cause a doctor to terminate a pregnancy that aren’t allowable based on the law.

I don’t know the numbers, but I do know the OB practices I work with deal with a number of medical emergencies that end in a terminated pregnancy and still born babies induced/born annually. They can’t even agree amongst themselves how to handle some of these situations now because our law here is any terminated pregnancy is an abortion (which is bullshit to call it that) and illegal based on how our law is written. I don’t know the details of your particular states law, but here it is black and white. Prosecutors in the larger districts have come out and said they will not prosecute, but it still has doctors in a no win situation on a medical issue. I don’t know that I would historically consider myself pro choice, but I don’t see how the cases like the 10 year old girl and all the others don’t make everyone realize that where we are is a bad situation.

I tried the randy method and the jt method and both lists sucked.

The books are worth a read if you like this genre. There are some other similar writers, but Greaney does a good job.

Books get into it further, but his father was a SWAT trainer and ran a training academy that both sons worked in and ran training in. It wasn’t a random encounter with an inmate.

Late mid year check in, I’m closing in on my college weight which was my goal when I started trying to drop a few pounds a year or so ago. Down close to 50 at this point from making some simple diet changes and walking every day. I can eat the same thing every day, so I pretty much eat the same breakfast and lunch almost every day and gave up a few things like bread/pasta/potato’s in the process. I’m going to see where my weight settles at some point before making any more significant changes. Refocused and made some adjustments in early June and have dropped 15 of it since then and still going.

To be fair the pool and 2000 square feet of patios were done in about 5 months. The building has been the delayed part. It started 3-4 months after the pool finished and has been mostly done for 6+ months now, just waiting on floor and finishing items and parts for the gas lines. TN, rained once in 6 weeks since starting on putting out about 50 rolls of sod. He spread it out over 3 different installation times to help, but sprinklers have been running for the last month and a half. We are finishing up an addition, moving all drainage underground, and reshaping some areas also, so we have new sod all over the place.

Travertine for the patio area finally showed up after 6 or so months. Looks like we’re finally in the home stretch almost 2 years after digging a hole. Hopefully inside a week or so we’ll be able to put out the furniture that’s been sitting in the garage for months, get the TV installed, and snap a somewhat completed project picture and be almost done with this phase. We’re still waiting on the shake shingles to replace the temp shingles, but that is what it is at this point.

If your are looking on the Brooklyn side, we stayed at the Williamsburg in May and it was a nice hotel in a good location. It was a few blocks to the ferry and right off of Berry St where all the restaurants were at. The rooms were incredibly small, but we didn’t spend much time there. They have a nice pool area and a bar in an old water tower with great views of the City.

Based on what I’ve seen out there, $110k seems pretty fair for it. It’s pretty well fully optioned.

Putting my Nautique up for sale if anyone is looking for a nearly new wakeboat. Sitting at about 23 hours at this point, never even put numbers on it. Kids have gotten too old with too many other things going on. I’m tired of messing with pulling a boat in and out and I don’t want to put in a lift for it as little as we use it. Going pontoon only for a while and see what comes along.

If you’re that particular that you need to open your burger up in the drive through line and check it because you’re too lazy to walk inside, maybe eat at home.

This all depends on the circumstance in my view. If you are double checking everything is in the bag, I don’t see much of an issue with that although I’m not going to do it. If you’re double checking your special order requests, you’re the one that complicated things so you need to get out of the way to check.

Everything in the food hall is good, especially if looking for something quick and/or not fancy. We eat at Bang Bar and the breakfast place at least once each trip.

Paxlovid, my doctor said here’s 2 ibuprofen, go to the ER if you can’t breathe at any point and that was it. Other than some residual congestion, I’m good now after it really hitting Monday at lunch.

Every state has different nuances on what they tax in retirement. The same goes for property taxes in retirement. It is further differentiated based on income levels in the same state and what is then taxed at those income levels. Sales tax catches everyone though so pay attention to that one as well.

Been the same although much earlier in the timeframe at the moment. Our youngest has had pretty significant congestion only for going on 10 days now which is why we thought she just had a sinus infection. I went through the flu like symptoms checklist the first day and a half, but my fever spiked to 103 over about two hours and has been gone since. Now it’s the rotating in and out of other stuff while feeling perfectly fine the other times. The hardest part is trying to sleep and as soon as I lay down the coughing/congestion turns up to 11. Wife and oldest are just dealing with bad headaches and nothing else. Weird part is none of us tested positive on rapid tests. May take another one now just to see what it shows.

This stuff has been the suck. The inconsistency in symptoms has been the most annoying thing. Feel like death for an hour or so at a time and then feel perfectly fine the rest of the day. Think I overdid it with my day off today, so feel pretty shitty now. It doesn’t help that the air went out upstairs last night and half the downstairs is closed off for never ending renovations, so four of us plus the dog plus a 14 week old puppy I’m about ready to adopt out are stuck in 3 rooms.

TN has a steady stream also, no state income tax is the biggest thing I hear besides politics. Property is also still cheap here although that has changed drastically the last 2-3 years. I can still find tracts for relatively cheap as long as it doesn’t have ducks or a farmer isn’t after it, but those numbers are going up steadily.

Not in TX, but we’re also looking at making a run to more blue pastures. We would have probably moved before but our oldest is dead set on graduating from the school she has attended all her life. Both kids have already said they are leaving the state post graduation, all the parents are entering hardcore GQP territory, so there isn’t anything holding us back other than my job which I should be able to just fly in for a couple times a month. We looked pretty seriously at buying a condo in Chicago, but IL is a clusterfuck for different reasons as well. We’ve been looking hard at coastal NC lately although I’m not sure it qualifies as a lot more blue/purple and climate change is probably going to screw it. If the oldest ends up at UNC like she plans, that probably becomes the most realistic option. Going to be interesting the next few years as like minds migrate to like areas. We are way down the rabbit hole at this point and only going further.

Same here, youngest brought it home with her. Hit me a week after she got home and it sucks so far. First go round in our house.

I ended up right around 3:15 for two 5-5.5 pound birds. The temps probably were in the 260 (or a little hotter) range for most of the time.

We ate at Reserve Cut a month or so ago and it was excellent if you are looking for a higher end steakhouse. It was a large group and everyone thought it was a great meal. You can always hop on a ferry and go to any number of places. Taking the kids in October for their first trip. Staying at the Lotte and going to let our 16 year old plan the entire trip around what she wants to do. She has been on us for years to take her and Covid set it back a couple of years.

I still keep them in my backpack when traveling and carry one when out in the bigger cities. If someone has a sign up (which I’ve still seen in Chicago and NYC recently), I’m fine being the guy that puts one on when asked.