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a liberal court is the #1 reason to stop trump.
We'd hear about it more often if they did, 'cause that shit is morbidly hilarious.
Well done, Supremes, even with one short. I thought it might come down to a tie. This ruling means Texas would have lost even if dead-Scalia wasn't dead.
So yes, even if you don't like Hillary much, hold your nose and vote for her anyway, or Drumph will be choosing Supreme Court Justices for the next 4 years. *shudder*
@8: 90% of what I know about peritonitis I learned from James Herriot's books. And from what I understand, the advent of antibiotics hasn't made the condition much less unpleasant, although it has increased survival rates significantly.
@11: Some people need to get totally knocked out to do the colonoscopy. Most people get a mix of general and local anesthesia which leaves them in a state of consciousness. but they aren't really "all there." Many people retain no memories of the actual procedure.
@13: Reading James Herriot always made me wonder how the hell any clove hoofed creature gives birth naturally without momma and calf dying horrible deaths.
Generally colonoscopies don't require full-on anesthesia; rather a mild sedative is administered (which for SOME people is completely ineffective), so the fatality risk would have to be due to some other cause, such as perforation, as @8 suggests.
Consider the mortality rate for abortion vs. childbirth: 0.6/100K vs. 8.8/100K = American women are 14 times more likely to die from childbirth than getting an abortion.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22270…