Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent treatment for tumor on pancreas, Supreme Court says

[ADW & JOP 146]

3 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I had a good friend of mine who died almost a week after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was getting ready to retire and was having stomach pain and let it go for far to long. Finally he went to ER about it and came back with stage 4 pancreatic cancer and died 5 days later. 

 

He was due to retire 4 weeks from his death. He was a really good guy and a mentor to a young me at the USGS. 

I'm sorry to here that. Pancreatic cancer is probably up there in terms of the worst cancer to get. It can happen to anyone. The symptoms are so vague, its not unusual for people to ignore it.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

9 minutes ago, Cyberfx1024 said:

I don't see him calling for more justices though do you? The only people I see calling for that is the Left because they are still sore about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.  

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/31/politics/democrats-supreme-court-packing-politics/index.html

 

  No, but I did see him trying to alter the playing field according to better suit his ideology. Which is why we are having stuff like this come up now.

 

   McConnell and the conservatives tried to exert their influence to get the outcome they wanted even when it looked really bad. Liberals might something similar by adding more justices. Both perfectly legal I guess. The complaint should be about the morality of it, but the complaint should be about both sides. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

5 minutes ago, ADW & JOP said:

I'm sorry to here that. Pancreatic cancer is probably up there in terms of the worst cancer to get. It can happen to anyone. The symptoms are so vague, its not unusual for people to ignore it.

Yeah I know and it happened so fast that when we first heard of him passing we thought it was a joke because he was a joker. But when it hit home it made me cry

[Steeleballz 7,550]

10 minutes ago, ADW & JOP said:

I'm sorry to here that. Pancreatic cancer is probably up there in terms of the worst cancer to get. It can happen to anyone. The symptoms are so vague, its not unusual for people to ignore it.

 

   Ginsburg had early stage pancreatic cancer treated successfully in 2009. There were no symptoms at all. It was detected because she has a CT scan done as part of her routine annual physical. Obviously this time could be really bad, but at the same time, we are not necessarily looking at the typical end stage pancreatic mass either. As you said in your earlier post, no where near enough information for anyone to know her actual prognosis.     

[TBoneTX 46,013]

6 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

CT scan done as part of her routine annual physical

Merely observing here that I haven't heard of too many CT scans done at routine annual fizzicles*.

     *this should be the spelling, like "tyre"

[TBoneTX 46,013]

Read this only tonight -- extremely interesting:

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/23/the-path-forward-for-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

 

Discussion?

[luckytxn 2,265]

6 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Read this only tonight -- extremely interesting:

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/23/the-path-forward-for-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

 

Discussion?

Yeah I wanted Amy Coney Barrett myself when Trump nominated Kavanaugh. He should have done it then and to designate her for Ginsburgs seat was wrong. It would have been awesome for Barrett to be handing down opinions next to Ginburg so her last days sitting on the bench will be a misery that chokes her to death. I do enjoy her trying to hold onto dear life hoping to outlast Trump though.

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12 minutes ago, luckytxn said:

 I do enjoy her trying to hold onto dear life hoping to outlast Trump though.

She should of resigned from the SCOTUS after her idiotic comments about Trump when he was still a candidate

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2 minutes ago, Falcon Cara said:

She should of resigned from the SCOTUS after her idiotic comments about Trump when he was still a candidate

I agree she should have but all the same her showing her true colors and the spectacle of her holding on to try to outlast Trump is pathetic and will end up being her true legacy is a sweet poetic justice in itself.

[Falcon Cara 378]

12 minutes ago, luckytxn said:

I agree she should have but all the same her showing her true colors and the spectacle of her holding on to try to outlast Trump is pathetic and will end up being her true legacy is a sweet poetic justice in itself.

So true

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40 minutes ago, Falcon Cara said:

She should of resigned from the SCOTUS after her idiotic comments about Trump when he was still a candidate

Agree and Roberts weighing in on no Obama or Trump judges was not only poor judgment,  it was complete BS

[Steeleballz 7,550]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Merely observing here that I haven't heard of too many CT scans done at routine annual fizzicles*.

     *this should be the spelling, like "tyre"

 

     Celebrities and wealthy people sometimes do it as a screening tool. It’s $1000 or so out of pocket for a full body CT scan. It’s also possible  she was in a known high risk group for cancer and chose to do it for that reason. I actually see full body CT marketed as a preventative tool nowadays. It can catch some cancers earlier but there are also risks of false positives leading to unnecessary  testing, and also the cumulative risks from radiation exposure over time. I don’t know if they are that useful, but I guess if I had money to flush down the toilet, I might consider having one done.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

35 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Agree and Roberts weighing in on no Obama or Trump judges was not only poor judgment,  it was complete BS

 

   Too much partisan screwing around with the SC appointments has led to this. It has basically turned the SC a 3rd legislative chamber. Rather than stacking the court or arbitrarily adding more justices, I would like to see the next party to control both branches of congress come up with a way to fix it.

 

   It has been suggested that a good fix would be returning to linking the number of justices to the number of federal circuit courts, and having the replacement come from the corresponding circuit. So the 6 SC justice would always come from the 6th circuit court, the 9th justice would come from the 9th circuit and so forth. The SC court worked this way for the first 100 years or so.  I don't know enough to know if that is the ideal solution, but what they have now is not what the SC is meant to be.  

Edited August 25, 2019 by Steeleballz

[Steeleballz 7,550]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Read this only tonight -- extremely interesting:

https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/23/the-path-forward-for-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

 

Discussion?

 

  Won't happen. If this group was capable of compromise, Garland would have been on the SC and Kavanaugh  wouldn't have been dragged through the ringer like he was. It is no longer about finding the right person for the job, it's about finding the right ideology for the agenda.

 

  At my age I've accepted some things most likely won't be fixed in my life time. The supreme court is one of them. My suggestion is finding some good popcorn and just watch the clown show whenever we go through this process, because that is where we are at. 

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12 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Merely observing here that I haven't heard of too many CT scans done at routine annual fizzicles*.

     *this should be the spelling, like "tyre"

Cancer survivors, in particular those who have had many different cancers - as she has - this would be routine. My mom had one every six months, and only after many years of clean scans did the doctor feel comfortable to bump her to one done every year unless specific blood test markers point to something needing to be found. My dad currently is on a six month rotation for CT scan and MRI.