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Thursday, December 18. 2025

Thursday morning links


Image stolen from Ace 


 Stop forcing patients to choose between pain or addiction


 Five Years Too Late: NIH-Funded Stanford Scientists Finally Admit mRNA COVID Vaccines Can Cause Myocarditis


 Climate Doom Threatens Christmas Classics Or Something


  Birthright Citizenship? I Think It's An Open Question


 Ford Now Dropping All-Electric F-150 Lightning Amid $13B EV Losses


Victor Davis Hanson: ‘It’s Road Warrior Out There’: Illegals Plaguing Our Highways and Health Care


 Chile’s new president, Jose Antonio Kast, is good news for the U.S.


  For First Time, Over Half Of First-Graders In Vienna Don't Speak German

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Stop forcing patients to choose between pain or addiction.

When my father was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, with the tumor wrapping around his spine, the physicians sent him home with aspirin for medication. Unsurprisingly, aspirin did nothing for the pain of the tumor wrapping around his spine.

My mother soon confronted the physicians. "Why only aspirin for such intense pain?"

"We didn't want him to become addicted." With terminal cancer---he died 12 weeks later---addiction was the least of my father's medical worries.

Fortunately, the physicians got the message, and my father lived pain-free the remainder of his life.
#1 Gringo on 2025-12-18 09:29 (Reply)
The nursing home docs did the same thing to my mother. She was starving to death and dying in pain and they didn't want her to become addicted. Stopped surgery on my grandfather to cut facial nerves due to unbelievable pain because he was going to die on the operating table. Unforgivable in our eyes.
#1.1 JC on 2025-12-18 10:54 (Reply)
Doctor's wanted to stop low dosages of Prednisone for my mother in law as it might cause her issues later in life. Her life expectancy was 12 months.
#1.1.1 don on 2025-12-18 11:35 (Reply)
Most suicides are by patients enduring pain that could be prevented by prescription pain killers but the laws tie the hands of the doctors. A friend of mine shot himself after his doctor cut his pain killers because the government implemented policies to reduce opioid prescriptions. Sadly he botched the suicide attempt and blew his jaw and the front of his face off and it took him a week to die. Terrible for him and his family. Totally unnecessary. A case of bureaucrats creating and enforcing policies with no regard for those it affects.
#2 OneGuy on 2025-12-18 10:11 (Reply)
Re: Birthright Citizenship

I am in no way a lawyer but I don’t see how a lawyer can conclude that birthright citizenship is an open question. As Menton says, everything hinges on the phrase in the 14th Amendment, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…”

If the amendment was meant to provide citizenship to anybody and everybody born in the US, there would be no reason to include “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” So it must limit birthright citizenship in some way. The only question is how does “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” limit it.

I suggest that a country has jurisdiction over its citizens (eg. the ability to tax) if they are out of the country so perhaps at least, until a citizen formally renounces his citizenship to his home country, he should he should continue to be judged under its jurisdiction. Of course another way to renounce your citizenship would be to legally become a citizen of the US (i.e. go through the process of becoming a naturalized citizen).

Since the amendment already does not apply to diplomats or tourists, who would the amendment apply to? How about former slaves since integrating them into the country was the whole purpose of the amendment in the first place.
#3 mudbug on 2025-12-18 10:43 (Reply)
Re: Birthright Citizenship

I am in no way a lawyer but I don’t see how a lawyer can conclude that birthright citizenship is an open question. As Menton says, everything hinges on the phrase in the 14th Amendment, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…”

If the amendment was meant to provide citizenship to anybody and everybody born in the US, there would be no reason to include “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” So it must limit birthright citizenship in some way. The only question is how.

I suggest that a country has jurisdiction over its citizens (eg. the ability to tax) if they are out of the country so perhaps at least, until a citizen formally renounces his citizenship to his home country, he should he should continue to be judged under its jurisdiction. Of course another way to renounce your citizenship would be to legally become a citizen of the US (i.e. go through the process of becoming a naturalized citizen).

Since the amendment already does not apply to diplomats or tourists, who would the amendment apply to? How about former slaves since integrating them into the country was the whole purpose of the amendment in the first place.
#4 mudbug on 2025-12-18 10:44 (Reply)
mudbug: If the amendment was meant to provide citizenship to anybody and everybody born in the US, there would be no reason to include “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”

That is incorrect. According to the debate, the clause was added to exclude diplomats and Indians not taxed (those living within the boundaries of the United States but living as independent nations and not subject to its laws). It did include, as debated, nomadic people, such as 'gypsies'.

If undocumented aliens were not under the jurisdiction of the United States, then they couldn't be tried under its laws. In fact, they are subject to the laws of the United States.
#4.1 Zachriel on 2025-12-19 08:08 (Reply)
Glad to see that you are linking to VDH's / Daily Signal channel and not the AI fakes.
#5 ChrisP on 2025-12-18 12:18 (Reply)
Original intent!

The 14th amendment was designed to deal with a single issue; the citizenship of former slaves. There was a genuine fear that the Democrats would declare them to not be citizens and try to deport or ostracize them. That's it! It wasn't intended for anything else. Not new immigrants who had a clear p-path to citizenship and certainly not for anyone who broke our laws to get here since there was a clear path to legal deportation for them. Sadly like almost every law and proclamation from our government it was written kind of poorly. I do believe that in 70% of those laws and decisions that is by intent for reasons they cannot defend in a debate. The other 30% or so is stupidity/ignorance. We see it time and again, especially from our judges and Supreme Court. Rulings that open more questions than they answer when it is obvious what they should have ruled. And of course our legislators who write laws that require interpretation by judges but until they are challenged are used to punish essentially innocent people. Our leaders, most of them, are at best disgusting and dishonest people who are only there for the power and the money.

I predict the Supremes will not give a clear ruling and will only cause more problems with whatever ruling they do make up. The only correct ruling should be that the 14th amendment only applied to former slaves and children of former slaves and once the last former slave died the 14th amendment is moot.
#6 OneGuy on 2025-12-18 12:54 (Reply)
re Ford Now Dropping All-Electric F-150 Lightning Amid $13B EV Losses

One would think that senior executives would be dismissed after presiding over a debacle that rivals Bud Light's.

But I guess not. They are still there to burn more mountains of investors' cash.
#7 feeblemind on 2025-12-18 17:33 (Reply)
re Image stolen from Ace

Why am I not surprised? It strikes me that this image is right up BD's street.

It is kinda cool.
#8 feeblemind on 2025-12-18 17:37 (Reply)

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