Replies to post #434128 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[DesertDrifter]

At least you have time to prepare. Are you going to use an Abbot chair for awhile or will you be able to stock up on groceries, etc. ahead of time? (I have no idea of what type of rehab you will have)

[blackhawks]

Oh the humanity! Stupidity? Idiocy?

[blackhawks]

Instruct the surgeon to magic-mark the knee to be replaced, for obvious reasons.

And be sure to also instruct him not to use a conservative artificial knee.

You want a knee without a 'jerk' reaction.

[Zorax]

That's interesting about the clown shoes. That's a conservative cartoonist I believe.
But why not? Both sides should get eyes.

[blackhawks]

Next up, 'Australian Space News'.

Scroll to 3:20 for the science based determination of what is up and what is down.

[BOREALIS]

McCarthy: GOP wants ‘solution’ as speaker pressure builds

By LISA MASCARO and FARNOUSH AMIRI ,15 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure mounting, Republican leader Kevin McCarthy huddled privately with GOP colleagues Thursday at the Capitol after two days of failing to win enough votes from them to become House speaker. He emerged determined to persuade holdouts to end the stalemate that has blighted his new GOP majority.

“We’re having good discussions and I think everyone wants to find a solution,” McCarthy told reporters shortly before the House was prepared to gavel into session again.

But despite endless talks, signs of concessions and a public spectacle unlike any other in recent political memory, the path ahead remained highly uncertain.

What started as a political novelty, the first time in 100 years a nominee had not won the gavel on the first vote, has devolved into a bitter Republican Party feud and deepening potential crisis.

McCarthy is under growing pressure from restless Republicans, and Democrats, to find the votes he needs or step aside, so the House can open fully and get on with the business of governing. His right-flank detractors appear intent on waiting him out, as long as it takes.

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