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Eurocat
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re: Spirit airline on the brink of insolvency, future flights could be in doubt
Posted by Eurocat on 4/17/26 at 7:45 pm to SuperSaint
DOJ should have approved the merger with Jet Blue about five years ago.
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re: Hungary's new PM Magyar Péter Rejects the EU Migration Pact
Posted by Eurocat on 4/17/26 at 10:53 am to Bobby OG Johnson
Bravo.
re: The racial murder of the white lady jogging in Atlanta was an anomaly.
Posted by Eurocat on 4/17/26 at 5:39 am to SouthEasternKaiju
A functional autistic person is easily capable of doing this. I don't have a link (its been too many years, too long ago) but I think most of the kids who were in the "Trench Coat Mafia" and shot up Columbine were previously diagnosed with autism.
But we are losing for the forest for the trees, there must be some reason this was not acted upon, and I doubt it was simply "leave them alone, they are black", there must be something else going on here, I sense we are not getting the full story.
But we are losing for the forest for the trees, there must be some reason this was not acted upon, and I doubt it was simply "leave them alone, they are black", there must be something else going on here, I sense we are not getting the full story.
Why isn't the school taking action against the attackers? I may ne naive but there has to more than simply "well, let's let them go, black kids and all that". I mean, does one of them have a parent on the school board? A parent who works in the police department and dropped it? Did the autistic kid do something like pull a gun? There has to be something we are not being told here.
In any event the autistic kids parents should sue the hell out of the school and the attackers.
In any event the autistic kids parents should sue the hell out of the school and the attackers.
Merrdith Brooks bitch
re: China and Ukraine conspired with the Dems to launder money and steal votes
Posted by Eurocat on 4/16/26 at 1:32 pm to keks tadpole
Nixon set himself up and he said so in his autobiography (in an indirect but very clear way).
re: China and Ukraine conspired with the Dems to launder money and steal votes
Posted by Eurocat on 4/16/26 at 1:19 pm to Captain Rumbeard
I have a tough time believing this because there are ALWAYS three or four steps between the boss and the underling that co-ordinates so as to preserve deniability. Nixon was one of the few that made the mistake of being too close to the action and every leader has learned from him.
To use a made up example if Trump supported a Chinese attack on Japan (I repeat, made up ridiculous example) he himself is not going to call Chinese Leader XI or one of his officials on the phone and break it all down how to do it. That task will be done by the deputy-deputy-deputy Department of War dude talking to the deputy-deputy-deputy of the Chinese embassy (in reality it will be their main spy here and we will know it) and there it goes.
Plus I find it had to fathom something like this would be talked about over the phone. If nothing else Z would know that the Americans at least are recording the call and it could come out. This is the kind of mistake a childish "Gangstah" makes, planning some plot out his jail cell over the pay phone.
COULD it be true? Yes but I find it unlikely.
To use a made up example if Trump supported a Chinese attack on Japan (I repeat, made up ridiculous example) he himself is not going to call Chinese Leader XI or one of his officials on the phone and break it all down how to do it. That task will be done by the deputy-deputy-deputy Department of War dude talking to the deputy-deputy-deputy of the Chinese embassy (in reality it will be their main spy here and we will know it) and there it goes.
Plus I find it had to fathom something like this would be talked about over the phone. If nothing else Z would know that the Americans at least are recording the call and it could come out. This is the kind of mistake a childish "Gangstah" makes, planning some plot out his jail cell over the pay phone.
COULD it be true? Yes but I find it unlikely.
Trump pulls millions from funding of Catholic Charities after war of words with Pope Leo
Posted by Eurocat on 4/16/26 at 11:47 am
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Funding cuts for the charity come as Trump has repeatedly attacked the pope in recent days, calling him “weak on crime” and criticizing his stance on foreign policy, particularly his opposition to the war.
On Tuesday, Trump asked that the pontiff be reminded of the thousands of innocent protesters killed by the Iranian regime after nationwide protests there in January.
Following Trump’s comments, Leo delivered a speech in Cameroon and warned that the world is being ravaged by "tyrants." He has emphasized peace and warned against justifying violence through religion, signaling a clear disagreement with U.S. policy.
A few days prior, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has often referenced religion in his public speeches, asked Americans to pray for the success of the U.S operation in Iran “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
Funding cuts for the charity come as Trump has repeatedly attacked the pope in recent days, calling him “weak on crime” and criticizing his stance on foreign policy, particularly his opposition to the war.
On Tuesday, Trump asked that the pontiff be reminded of the thousands of innocent protesters killed by the Iranian regime after nationwide protests there in January.
Following Trump’s comments, Leo delivered a speech in Cameroon and warned that the world is being ravaged by "tyrants." He has emphasized peace and warned against justifying violence through religion, signaling a clear disagreement with U.S. policy.
A few days prior, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has often referenced religion in his public speeches, asked Americans to pray for the success of the U.S operation in Iran “in the name of Jesus Christ.”
re: Alito: 'Election Day, like Labor Day or Independence Day, means one specific day'
Posted by Eurocat on 4/16/26 at 11:40 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
So will early voting be banned?
Let's hope not. Since I was a kid (I am pretty up there in years now, we are talking a long time) you could go to the local fire house and vote for a week before the election. Saved an incredible amount of time.
I'm a huge Islander fan but since we are out I am with the Sabre's
Also Anaheim, Columbus and a little bit Carolina.
Also Anaheim, Columbus and a little bit Carolina.
Updated April 15, 2026, 12:11 p.m. ET
When an Alabama man visited a hospital in Florida in August 2024, he reported a pain in his left side, near the spleen. Three days later, he died on the operating table, missing a different organ, his liver, on his right side. A grand jury in Walton County, Fla., on Monday indicted a surgeon, Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky, 44, on a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the death of the patient, William Bryan, the Office of the State Attorney for the First Judicial Circuit said.
Dr. Shaknovsky was arrested on Monday morning and has since been released on bond, the Walton County Sheriff’s Office said. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Walton County Circuit Court on May 19. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. A lawyer for Dr. Shaknovsky did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The hospital where Mr. Bryan was treated, Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital in Miramar Beach, Fla., said in a statement that surgeons face “rigorous credentialing standards” and must hold a license from the state to practice Dr. Shaknovsky, the statement added, “was never a Sacred Heart Emerald Coast employee and has not practiced at any of our facilities since August 2024.”
In August 2024, Mr. Bryan, 70, and his wife, Beverly, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., were visiting their rental property in Okaloosa County, Fla., when Mr. Bryan was seized by pain. Mr. Bryan underwent diagnostic imaging at the hospital on Aug. 18 that indicated his spleen was possibly enlarged, according to an account that Florida’s Health Department gave in an emergency order suspending Dr. Shaknovsky’s license in September 2024. There was blood in the membrane lining Mr. Bryan’s abdomen, but no signs of hemorrhaging, the filing said. Dr. Shaknovsky told Mr. Bryan that he needed to have his spleen removed, a minimally invasive procedure that is still considered major surgery, with a recovery time of up to six weeks. The procedure, which was not regularly performed at Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast Hospital, could have serious complications, the Health Department statement said.
Over three days, Mr. Bryan declined to have the surgery and said he wished to return to Alabama for further medical care, but the Health Department said Dr. Shaknovsky “continued to pressure” Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan eventually agreed to have the surgery in Florida and the procedure was scheduled for the afternoon of Aug. 21, 2024, the Health Department said.
Colleagues in the operating room “had concerns that Dr. Shaknovsky did not have the skill level to safely perform this procedure,” the Health Department said. The signs of trouble came almost immediately. Dr. Shaknovsky began the procedure as a laparoscopy but switched to open surgery because he could not clearly see the organs, having failed to document that Mr. Bryan had a distended colon that would have partly obstructed the view, according to the Health Department.
Staff members in the operating room later reported that Mr. Bryan’s colon “burst out of the abdominal cavity” after Dr. Shaknovsky opened his abdomen, and they began suctioning blood to clear visibility, the documents say. Dr. Shaknovsky then took a surgical stapling device to a vessel that he planned to cut to remove the organ, and fired the stapler. Mr. Bryan immediately began hemorrhaging and went into cardiac arrest, with blood pouring out as nurses and other medical staff members attempted to suction it. They began an emergency transfusion and tried to revive him, the report said. Dr. Shaknovsky did not ask his colleagues for a clamp or cauterizer to quell the bleeding, and instead continued to dissect Mr. Bryan’s organ “even though the abdomen was full of blood,” the state said.
He eventually removed Mr. Bryan’s liver, thinking it was his spleen. The Health Department noted in its report that, in addition to being on different sides of the abdomen, “spleens and livers are anatomically distinct, have different consistencies, and are different colors.”
After Dr. Shaknovsky removed the organ, “The staff looked at the readily identifiable liver on the table and were shocked when Dr. Shaknovsky told them that it was a spleen,” the state documents said. “One staff member felt sick to their stomach.”
In follow-up interviews with the Health Department, Dr. Shaknovsky claimed that he dissected the spleen from its surrounding tissue when an apparent aneurysm in the spleen ruptured suddenly, and caused severe bleeding — an account that conflicts with those of other witnesses in the operating room. An autopsy revealed that his liver was missing, but his spleen was intact and there was no evidence of a ruptured aneurysm.
Joseph A. Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, suspended Dr. Shaknovsky’s medical license one month after Mr. Bryan’s death.
Dr. Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from Mr. Bryan was his spleen, the Health Department said in its report.
The Health Department had sanctioned Dr. Shaknovsky before, finding that he erroneously removed part of another patient’s pancreas instead of an adrenal gland in 2023. Dr. Shaknovsky said at the time that the adrenal gland “migrated” to another part of the patient’s body, the documents say. State records show that Dr. Shaknovsky paid $400,000 to settle a medical malpractice claim in that case.
Mr. Bryan was a retired boilermaker and a U.S. Navy veteran who loved being by the ocean, Beverly Bryan said in an interview. The couple had two daughters and one son. Ms. Bryan, a retired nurse, received the news of her husband’s death from Dr. Shaknovsky at the hospital chapel, where she was waiting with her daughters for her husband to get out of surgery. “I never even imagined that he wouldn’t come out of that surgery alive,” she said. “Living without him is almost unbearable,” Ms. Bryan said. “He would want his death to be the reason that more people didn’t get hurt by that doctor.”
re: Yahoo! News: ‘Thank you, Mr. Tariff!’: The US just posted a massive 55% deficit cut
Posted by Eurocat on 4/14/26 at 6:20 pm to OccamsStubble
Applied to nothing, there is still a deficit, it was cut in half not gone compeltely. And this is the TRADE deficit not the budget deficit.
Florida doctor indicted for making what I would call a pretty big mistake -
Posted by Eurocat on 4/14/26 at 3:28 pm
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A Florida doctor has been indicted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man who had the wrong organ removed during surgery.
Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 21, 2024, during what was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky accidentally removed the victim's liver instead of his spleen. The move resulted in "catastrophic blood loss and the patient’s death on the operating table," a press release said.
In a phone call, the victim's widow, Beverly Bryan, identified her husband, Bill Bryan. "When I tell people what happened, it still sounds too awful to be true that, that could happen," she said. "I still have trouble believing it happened myself. Can you imagine?"
A Florida doctor has been indicted in connection with the death of a 70-year-old man who had the wrong organ removed during surgery.
Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 21, 2024, during what was scheduled to be a laparoscopic splenectomy, Shaknovsky accidentally removed the victim's liver instead of his spleen. The move resulted in "catastrophic blood loss and the patient’s death on the operating table," a press release said.
In a phone call, the victim's widow, Beverly Bryan, identified her husband, Bill Bryan. "When I tell people what happened, it still sounds too awful to be true that, that could happen," she said. "I still have trouble believing it happened myself. Can you imagine?"
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Helmut Sterz is a veterinary that likes conspiracy theories. He is not “Pfizer insider” on the COVID-19 vaccine. He left the company 12 years before the pandemic began and was never involved in the development of the vaccine.
@Neuro24de
Helmut Sterz is a veterinary that likes conspiracy theories. He is not “Pfizer insider” on the COVID-19 vaccine. He left the company 12 years before the pandemic began and was never involved in the development of the vaccine.
re: It may not be so bad in Hungary.
Posted by Eurocat on 4/13/26 at 9:42 am to TigerAxeOK
From the political platform of the winning party -
* Lift defence spending to NATO's target of 5% of GDP by 2035.
* Suspend new permits for workers from outside the EU from June.
* Not accept the relocation of migrants from western Europe and opposes EU migration quotas and its migration pact.
* Seek a bilateral strategic partnership with the U.S. focusing on energy diversification, security and transparent economic cooperation.
* Strengthen Hungary's European and Western orientation.
* Clamp down on corruption and cut back on unjustified public investments.
* Cut the budget deficit from 5% to below 3%
* Limit state intervention in the economy and markets.
* Not send troops to Ukraine and does not plan to revive conscription.
* Greater transparency in public procurement, tougher conflict-of-interest rules.
* Two-term limit for prime ministers.
* Cut income tax for 2.2 million workers earning below the median wage. The current 15% rate would stay in place for higher earners.
Doesn't sound like any kind of loss at all, Just Orban without the absurd levels of corruption.
* Lift defence spending to NATO's target of 5% of GDP by 2035.
* Suspend new permits for workers from outside the EU from June.
* Not accept the relocation of migrants from western Europe and opposes EU migration quotas and its migration pact.
* Seek a bilateral strategic partnership with the U.S. focusing on energy diversification, security and transparent economic cooperation.
* Strengthen Hungary's European and Western orientation.
* Clamp down on corruption and cut back on unjustified public investments.
* Cut the budget deficit from 5% to below 3%
* Limit state intervention in the economy and markets.
* Not send troops to Ukraine and does not plan to revive conscription.
* Greater transparency in public procurement, tougher conflict-of-interest rules.
* Two-term limit for prime ministers.
* Cut income tax for 2.2 million workers earning below the median wage. The current 15% rate would stay in place for higher earners.
Doesn't sound like any kind of loss at all, Just Orban without the absurd levels of corruption.
re: LA 2026 Senate Race Related: For these Republicans, the ‘war on woke’ starts at home
Posted by Eurocat on 4/13/26 at 9:34 am to ragincajun03
Letlow knew exactly what she was doing back then she is now just backtracking.
re: Hungary has fallen: Viktor Orbán concedes to Péter Magyar
Posted by Eurocat on 4/12/26 at 5:17 pm to imjustafatkid
Several countries have said they will not follow the immigrant quotas, it is possible to do that.
re: Hungary has fallen: Viktor Orbán concedes to Péter Magyar
Posted by Eurocat on 4/12/26 at 5:09 pm to Neutral Underground
quote:
Why? Give me a reason besides what Liberal media propaganda has told you.
He pretty much stole a radio station from an American company about 15 years ago.
LINK
re: Hungary has fallen: Viktor Orbán concedes to Péter Magyar
Posted by Eurocat on 4/12/26 at 3:36 pm to hawgfaninc
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When Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary this past week, he spoke at and praised Mathias Corvinus Collegium, an educational institution set up to create a new conservative elite in step with the Russia-friendly and MAGA-aligned views of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Mr. Vance’s laudatory remarks on Wednesday about the 10-year-old college, known as M.C.C., as a bastion of free thinking and common sense, however, stuck in the craw of Zalan Alkonyi, one of its researchers focused on Russia. The college, Mr. Alkonyi said in an interview at his book-filled home in Budapest, has many serious scholars, but it puts pressure on them to speak and publish in support of the government’s line.
“For years I had to practice severe self-censorship on Russia and the Russian policy of the Hungarian government,” said Mr. Alkonyi, 28.
He recounted feeling pressure to support, or at least not contradict, Mr. Orban’s view that Ukraine, not Russia, was the main threat to European security and that the European Union had been foolish in helping Kyiv resist Russian attack.
With Hungary about to hold a general election that could end Mr. Orban’s 16 years in power — an outcome that neither Washington nor Moscow wants — Mr. Alkonyi is among a growing list of defectors from institutions that the governing Fidesz party for years counted as loyal allies.
The latest of these was Viktor Norman Virag, a former senior member of the National Bureau of Investigation, who on Wednesday told Partizan, an opposition media outlet, that 80 percent of his work involved “meeting political expectations,” which in one case meant dropping a case against a Russian suspected of being a cybercriminal.
I considered myself a right-winger, too, but I’m not sure anymore,” he said. “I have a crisis of identity like the whole country.” “I decided to speak up about Russian interference,” he added, “because this is not a distant issue happening in Moldova or Georgia but in my own country.”
Deciding that Fidesz’s rule might not be eternal after all, Mr. Alkonyi last month put a Tisza banner on the balcony of his apartment overlooking a busy Budapest avenue. Shortly after that, he posted a message on Facebook denouncing “Russian intervention in the Hungarian elections” that he said was “unprecedented in the European Union in its methods and sophistication.” That directly contradicted the government’s line — reinforced by Mr. Vance in public statements during his visit to Hungary — that the only significant interference in the election has come from “bureaucrats” at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, and from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
As part of its election program, the opposition Tisza party has promised to claw back assets — primarily shares in a big state oil company — given to M.C.C. by the Fidesz government. The party says it will “end the practice of using public funds to build political networks.”
When Vice President JD Vance visited Hungary this past week, he spoke at and praised Mathias Corvinus Collegium, an educational institution set up to create a new conservative elite in step with the Russia-friendly and MAGA-aligned views of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Mr. Vance’s laudatory remarks on Wednesday about the 10-year-old college, known as M.C.C., as a bastion of free thinking and common sense, however, stuck in the craw of Zalan Alkonyi, one of its researchers focused on Russia. The college, Mr. Alkonyi said in an interview at his book-filled home in Budapest, has many serious scholars, but it puts pressure on them to speak and publish in support of the government’s line.
“For years I had to practice severe self-censorship on Russia and the Russian policy of the Hungarian government,” said Mr. Alkonyi, 28.
He recounted feeling pressure to support, or at least not contradict, Mr. Orban’s view that Ukraine, not Russia, was the main threat to European security and that the European Union had been foolish in helping Kyiv resist Russian attack.
With Hungary about to hold a general election that could end Mr. Orban’s 16 years in power — an outcome that neither Washington nor Moscow wants — Mr. Alkonyi is among a growing list of defectors from institutions that the governing Fidesz party for years counted as loyal allies.
The latest of these was Viktor Norman Virag, a former senior member of the National Bureau of Investigation, who on Wednesday told Partizan, an opposition media outlet, that 80 percent of his work involved “meeting political expectations,” which in one case meant dropping a case against a Russian suspected of being a cybercriminal.
I considered myself a right-winger, too, but I’m not sure anymore,” he said. “I have a crisis of identity like the whole country.” “I decided to speak up about Russian interference,” he added, “because this is not a distant issue happening in Moldova or Georgia but in my own country.”
Deciding that Fidesz’s rule might not be eternal after all, Mr. Alkonyi last month put a Tisza banner on the balcony of his apartment overlooking a busy Budapest avenue. Shortly after that, he posted a message on Facebook denouncing “Russian intervention in the Hungarian elections” that he said was “unprecedented in the European Union in its methods and sophistication.” That directly contradicted the government’s line — reinforced by Mr. Vance in public statements during his visit to Hungary — that the only significant interference in the election has come from “bureaucrats” at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, and from President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
As part of its election program, the opposition Tisza party has promised to claw back assets — primarily shares in a big state oil company — given to M.C.C. by the Fidesz government. The party says it will “end the practice of using public funds to build political networks.”
re: Hungary has fallen: Viktor Orbán concedes to Péter Magyar
Posted by Eurocat on 4/12/26 at 3:19 pm to timdonaghyswhistle
If he wanted to be corrupt it would have been easy, he was one of Orbans confidantes. But he chose to do the right thing. Not every politician in the world is a corrupt a-hole.
re: Hungary has fallen: Viktor Orbán concedes to Péter Magyar
Posted by Eurocat on 4/12/26 at 3:16 pm to John somers
What proof do you have that it is a lie?
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