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The New York Times has an informative story on a growing trend in hospital management:  eliminating inpatient beds for pediatric patients and swapping them out for rooms for more profitable adult patients, eliminating hospitals where ill children can be treated.

The change is spurred specifically by profit motive:  adult patients tend to be in the hospital for more expensive–and profitable–procedures like hip replacements, heart surgeries, or elective procedures.  Children, on the other hand, primarily use up hospital beds for low-margin treatments or observation:  a sick child needing a drug or a chronically ill patient who is medically unstable.

In April, a Richmond, Virginia hospital, Doctor’s Hospital, announced it was closing its pediatric in-patient unit.  Tufts Children’s Hospital in Boston–note the name:  Tufts Children’s Hospital–said in July it was closing its unit.  Shriners Children’s New England in Springfield, Massachusetts will close its pediatric inpatient unit by the end of the year.  Other hospitals in Colorado and Pennsylvania have also closed or are in the process of closing their units. 

The Russian national security police, the FSB, has arrested eight individuals it says are responsible for the truck bomb that damaged the Kersh Bridge, the only over-road link between Russia and Crimea that Russia was using to bring supplies to its troops occupying Ukraine, NBC News reports.

Saying Ukraine’s military intelligence service and its chief, Kyrylo Budanov, was responsible for the attack, the FSB announced that it arrested five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia it claims were the operatives who carried out the attack.

A press officer for Ukraine’s military intelligence service, Andrii Yusov, trolled Russia excellently, saying of Russia’s claims, “We are not commenting on the statements made by terrorists.”

A Connecticut jury on Wednesday absolutely annihilated conspiracy shitbrain Alex Jones to the tune of $965 million in damages in the defamation case brought by 12 of the families of the children massacred at the Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012, the AP reports. Jones had for years tormented the families with his “false flag” and “crisis actor” bullshit and will now be paying for it for the rest of his life. Gay frogs rejoice, for your oppressor has been vanquished.

Jones reacted by pleading to his fans to send him money, assuring them that since he’s bankrupt, it would go to him personally and not them. Now setting aside the obvious ghoulishness of such a claim, isn’t that like an open admission of conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud or something?

Let’s go ahead and assume this assclown, whatever his name is, patronized the Taco Bell on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, the one nearest to Wall Street. It is indeed an expensive location relative to ones out in the suburbs – a basic bean burrito that costs $1 on Long Island goes for $2.39 at Fulton Street. But that’s still fucking nine bean burritos before sales tax, or 10 if you skip the soda.

There is virtually no way an adult human could eat $28 worth of food at Taco Bell in one sitting and still be able to function the next day. If he ordered two of the $9 Modelo Especial drafts they have there and had a Crunchwrap plus a taco or two then okay, maybe it really was a $28 lunch.

Actually that might make a lot of sense as an explanation, that he was about to explain that part of the bill but suddenly realized mid-sentence that he probably shouldn’t be telling a national television audience he had been day drinking at Taco Bell on a Tuesday.

Like most Republicans, GOP Florida Governor and kid picked last for the kickball team Ron DeSantis keeps getting himself in trouble:  now, the federal Treasury Department has opened an investigation into Florida’s claims that he directed federal money sent to Florida for Covid relief programs for his political stunt, Politico reports.

The Treasury’s inspector general’s office confirmed to members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation that they were investigating the claimed use of Covid funds to fly asylum seekers from Venezuela from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts after a brief stopover in Florida.

The agency “review the allowability [of Covid-19 relief funds sent to Florida] related to immigration generally, and will specifically confirm whether interest earned on (the) funds was utilized by Florida related to immigration activities, and if so, what conditions and limitations apply to such use,” Richard K. Delmar, deputy inspector general for the Treasury Department said in a letter sent to Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey and five Democratic House members from the state.

Detestable piece of shit Senator Ron Johnson leads Lt Governor Mandela Barnes 52% to 46% among likely voters in the latest Marquette Law survey, while Governor Tony Evers MAGA dickhead Tim Michels 47% to 46% – though there’s what looks like pretty big asterisk to this poll.

Marquette screened 801 registered voters down to a 652 likely voter sample. Among the registered voters Barnes and RonAnon tied at 47% each, while Evers leads 48% to 41% over Michels. In fact among those who didn’t say they were “Absolutely certain to vote”, Barnes leads a staggering 51% to 31%, which would might indicate that this is not even close to a done deal.

The Munn family of Texas, whose hilariously heartwarming January 2021 family vacation adventure to save America from Soros ended with federal indictments, guilty pleas, and ultimately jail time for the parents and probation sentences for their dumbass adult kids on Wednesday.

The one whose face is blacked out was a minor at the time and was not charged. The two daughters on the left, Kayli, 20, Kristi, 30, and the son on the right, Josh, 25, were each sentenced by DC Circuit Judge Beryl Howell to three years of probation – including drug testing. Josh and Kristi were also hit with 90 days home detention. Parents Dawn “Maw” Munn, 57, (center, looks like Ted Cruz) and Tom “Paw” Munn, 55, (right, looks like meth personified) both got 14 days in the clink, plus 90 days home confinement, plus three years probation. All details by CBS News workaholic Scott MacFarlane in a long, long ass thread full of Howell berating the Munns.

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday ruled that disgraced former President Trump cannot delay discovery in the defamation case brought by writer E Jean Carroll, whom the fat degenerate almost certainly raped in the changing room of an upscale department store in 1992.

The latest Quinnipiac Polling survey of Georgia likely voters finds Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock leading pro-choice deadbeat father Herschel Walker 52% to 45%, which is unchanged from last month, even as the sampling was conducted October 7th – 10th, starting four days after the Daily Beast reported Walker had paid for an abortion circa 2009. The governor’s race was also unchanged, with incumbent Republican Brian Kemp statistically tied at 50% to 49% with Dem Stacy Abrams, a better showing than what most other pollsters have found for her.

ATTN Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit: I skimmed your open letter to Republican National Party Chairwoman Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel and let me start off by saying I agree with you she’s a weak and worthless excuse for a leader whose fecklessness and cowardice is surpassed only by Kevin McCarthy’s. She should have fallen on the sword after overseeing the GOP losing the House, the Senate, and the Presidency in the span of less than two years, yet she remains on the job.

This next paragraph was going to start with “However, where we disagree is…” but upon reflection I actually kind of like your idea to discourage your readers from voting early, be it in person or by mail in jurisdictions which allow it. While in some crucial states and districts that could result in another “Red Mirage” in which the same-day vote favoring Republicans ends up getting reported first before the Dem-heavy mail-in ballots are processed, that’s kind of already priced in for us after 2020. Plus it’ll be less pronounced this year as certainly some folks who voted by mail in 2020 for fear of COVID exposure will go back to doing so in person, though plenty others will probably have developed a preference for voting by mail and will do so as long as they’re allowed.

Back from the Jewish holiday now. As usual, two things can be true at once: Kanye's moves toward pro-life, faith, and family conservatism are encouraging; his "death con 3" posts and Black Hebrew Israelite language are clearly anti-Semitic and disturbing.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 12, 2022

Florida man Ian Baunach, a Trump-loving Liberty University alum, and body builder, was charged Tuesday in a Tampa federal court with possession of an unregistered firearm, the day after he was hit locally with charges of first-degree murder, failure to report a death to the medical examiner and 12 counts of possession of controlled substances without a prescription, the Daily Beast reports. Sickening story short, Baunach’s ex-wife Katie stopped the house in Hendry County, Florida to pick up some of her stuff. In a rage over Katie successfully filing for a restraining order against him over allegations of child abuse, Ian apparently killed her and burned her body in the backyard. Cops suspect this this because they found a partially intact mandible after executing a search warrant.

The extremist Iranian regime on Wednesday apparently throttled internet access across the nation in an attempt to squash ongoing violent anti-government protests the erupted after the murder of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini by police, the AP reports. Advocacy group NetBlocks said traffic had dropped by as much as 75% as cops swarmed into Tehran ahead of a planned noon protest.

“The incident is likely to further limit the free flow of information amid protests,” said NetBlocks in an assessment. Nevertheless, video captured Wednesday of at least 30 women in Tehran removing their headscarves and chanting “Death to the dictator!” while passing cars honked in support still made it out amid the slowed data traffic. Sounds like the Ayatollah could be in deep Shiite!

Hahaha! Get it? The Iranians are Shiites and when we say “deep Shiite” it’s really funny because it’s spelled very similarly to “shit”! That’s the kind of cutting edge humor we specialize in here.

Incumbent Nevada Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez Masto leads Republican former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt 46% to 44% in the latest USA Today/Suffolk University survey. MAGA Sheriff Joe Lombardo leads incumbent Democrat Gov Steve Sisolak 44 to 43 percent.

Senator Rev Raphael Warnock leads pro-choice deadbeat father Herschel Walker 46% to 43% in the latest University of Georgia survey. Scumbag Gov Brian Kemp leads Stacy Abrams 51% to 41%.

Even though many agents’ cell phones had their contents curiously erased, the Secret Service has turned over more than one million documents from agents involved in the protection details of the President and Vice President from before and on the day of the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress.

According to NBC News, the communications include things like emails, radio transmissions, Microsoft Teams chat logs and other methods that can help detail the planning for the day.  Questions about the Secret Service’s operations arose when agents tried to remove Vice President Mike Pence from the Capitol, and Donald Trump reportedly tussled with Secret Service agents to drive him to the Capitol to lead the assault; the agents returned him to the White House.

Secret Service communications have also come into question because Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes reportedly told members of his group that he had direct contact with at least one member of the Secret Service, saying he had a direct line to Trump.  Rhodes and four other Oath Keeper leaders are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy and other charges.

The president of an historically-Black college in Raleigh, North Carolina accused the sheriff’s office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina of targeting a bus from the college carrying students to an economic conference in Atlanta, ABC News reports.

Shaw University President Dr. Paulette Dillard said the bus was targeted for a minor traffic infraction, which was used as a pretense to search the bus and the students who were on board.  Even though the issues for which the deputy pulled over the bus were minor, the traffic stop was long enough for a sheriff’s unit with a drug-sniffing canine to arrive.  The dog searched the students’ luggage, but nothing illegal was found.

The incident mirrors a harassment tactic used by many law enforcement officers to delay targeted groups.  Similar harassment happened to the Delaware State women’s lacrosse team traveling to a game in Georgia earlier this year.

“Please, get on board.  Help me win reelection.  Help us do that.  Get your entire family to donate to me,” Utah’s other Republican Senator Mike Lee pleads to Senator Mitt Romney as Lee’s reelection race against Independent challenger Evan McMullin tightens–all while Fox’s chyron mocks Romney with the “Pierre Delecto” tag, the name on Romney’s “off the books” Twitter account.

According to footage obtained by Motherboard, the Tucker Carlson interview with rapper, mental patient and influencer Kanye West was a Tuckerfuck of anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories that Fox opted to edit out of an already off-the-rails interview.

Speaking about abortion, West brought up Margaret Sanger, a “known eugenics,” as he put it, who founded Planned Parenthood with the KKK “to control the Jew population,” adding, “When I say Jew, I mean the 12 lost tribes of Judah, the blood of Christ, who the people known as the race Black really are.  This is who our people are. The blood of Christ. This, as a Christian, is my belief.”

West told Carlson in another segment edited out about a conspiracy to fill his house with “fake children” to apparently spy on him:  “I mean, like actors, professional actors, placed into my house to sexualize my kids,” claiming an associate’s “so-called” son was fake.

Ultimately, 747 ripped apart the salmon – and the competition – to seize his 2nd crown as the 2022 Champion.

Time to celebrate & do the happy dance jumbo jet jiggles!

— Katmai National Park (@KatmaiNPS) October 12, 2022