56, I started having problems with anemia last year, doc ran it to see where my blood was vanishing to, found 17 polyps but no cancer.

But the rule of thumb is, if they find more than one, you come back and do it again.

6 more + stage 2 cancer.

It didn’t make it out of the colon though, so the surgery got it all. I just don’t have a sigmoid colon anymore.

So, yeah prep sucks, but get checked!

Again, you are willfully misunderstanding what the statistic is stating:

Here are the total number of PEOPLE killed by dogs.

Of that number, here’s how many PEOPLE were killed by each breed.

This isn’t tracking bites, or overall attacks, it’s tracking human deaths.

A similar stat would be tracking vehicular accident deaths, if in a year you have accidents involving “brand x” accounting for more vehicular fatalities than all other brands combined, that points to a massive, massive problem with the brand.

It doesn’t matter how many cars there are, that’s not what the stat is tracking.

But if you really want to know, Google says there are around 90 million dogs in the US and 4.5 to 18 million pit bulls depending on how you count. So 5% to 20% of the dog population accounting for 66% of the human deaths.

The number of dogs is irrelevant because the statistic is counting human deaths by dogs.

You wouldn’t say “well, how many people are there?” either.

The “Hannibal Directive”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

“Shoot the hostage” - Israel edition.

As used on October 7th:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000

The real question is “why would you believe that?”

They were bred to kill bulls, bears, and rats, in pits so that none of the animals could escape.

If you look at the chart “mixed breed” is it’s own category and they excluded reports where the breeds were unknown.

The number of dogs doesn’t matter, it’s tracking the number of human beings killed by the breed.

Yeah, Chihuahua might bite you, they aren’t going to kill you.

Dogsbite.org is super diligent about showing the supporting evidence. For example, the last complete year they have is 2019:

https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-fatality-citations-2019.php

Each death marked with multiple citations.

Doctor: “We’re going to do a colonoscopy and endoscopy.”

Me: “Oh, a spit roast!”

Doctor: “. . . Please don’t call it that.”

Stage 2 colon cancer folks! Get checked!

When you look at annual statistics of dog bite fatalities, pit bulls aren’t just the #1 cause of dog bite deaths, they account for more deaths than all dog breeds COMBINED.

Fortunately they are not all the same. For example, there is no comparison between the Taliban in Afghanistan with the UAE.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates

When it comes to complaints about Islam, notably stuff like “Honor” killings and such, that is not part of the faith or the Koran. It’s a primitive tribal belief system that’s a holdover from before Islam existed.

https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur'an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Honor_Killing

So, no, you can’t paint them all with the same brush.

Oh, it won’t. Dude is absolutely toast. He can bow out now, or lose to Susan Collins. There is no other option.

People like me saying “Don’t wait! Do it now!”? I’m fully supportive that she came forward, but she literally picked the worst time to do it.

She had the opportunity to stop him before he ever got this far, and only choosing to do it now, even true, adds suspicion to the accusation where there should be none.

Don’t mistake questioning the timing with not believing it happened.

She comes out with it now, one week before the deadline instead of during the primary? Or at any other time since 2021?

When the first allegation came out, that would have been a perfect time to #MeToo! and she did not. She could have dropped it with the Nazi tattoo stuff “Oh, yeah, not just a Nazi, but a rapist too!”

It likely happened the way she described it, and It will absolutely tank his candidacy, but the timing smells. She SHOULD have killed him in the primary.

I care less about the tattoo than I do the fact he got a permanent body modification without understanding what he was doing.

That’s not the mindset of someone who should be enacting laws that impact the rest of us

Yes, it was a Nazi tattoo in this case, but I wouldn’t vote for someone with a language tattoo they can’t read either.

The problem is, he has less than a week to decide to drop or not.

The impact on his candidacy won’t be known until AFTER the deadline to drop.

Which is why people are saying the accuser is politically motivated.