Friday, January 9, 2026

America’s Most Common Drugs by Medicare Spending

 

Data from the Visual Capitalist.

Reformated to make it easier to read. 

Added later while Quicksilver is playing

The court heard how the 48-year-old Belgian male victim escaped from his home in Grobbendonk on March 18, 2025, barefoot and wearing only underwear and a T-shirt, when he fled a dog kennel where his wife, Anna V., had locked him. He staggered to a nearby home and knocked on a kitchen window, begging for help. 

You cannot make this stuff up...

A female prisoner was thrown into a locked cell (solitary confinement) at a Massachusetts prison after she told authorities she (had been) raped by one of at least four transgender sex predators housed there, a report has claimed.

According to an investigation conducted by The Hill, MCI-Framingham, the state's all-female prison, is punishing biological female inmates who speak up about alleged abuse at the hands of transgender inmates who also call it home.

"Always believe the woman".

"If I say that I am a woman today, then I am a woman and you have to believe everything I say and write because it is impossible for me to lie."

Random thought

It occurred to me that the number of genders is now roughly equal to the number of the members of the House of Representatives and Senate. 

If Noah came again, he would need an entire deck devoted to the Green-Blue-and-Purple Haired Obstrepottimii.

14 comments:

  1. See a lot of ads on TV for those. Hmmm, could the tube/screen be shaping consumer behavior?

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  2. I note the expenditure on diabetes drugs. I used to have Type II diabetes but now I don't. Presumably the cause is that I lost a lot of weight.

    I claim no moral merit: it happened spontaneously - and indeed has been so extreme that my GP feared that I had stomach cancer. But tests suggest not.

    I have also stopped suffering from sleep apnoea (British spelling) for, I take it, the same reason.

    I'm not quite as light as I was at age 21 but I'm getting close. So I sympathise with people who take the weight-loss drugs; I only hope that they prove to be as safe as is claimed. After all, we know that Public Health officials routinely lie; the Covid totalitarianism left no room for doubt.

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    1. Was going to comment that the taxpayers could save a lot of money if only there were an organic, natural way of preventing diabetes in young people.....................

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  3. What a disgustingly sad statement on our society.
    We're a fat, lazy, slovenly species that would rather poison ourselves into poverty than live right and eat real food.

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  4. If I'm reading this right, is boiled Chihuahua the next weight loss craze? Asking for a friend.

    Neck

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    1. I believe that they chew on your upper and lower lips thereby making the intake of food highly painful. But I could be wrong.

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  5. I think God would close the ark's door before the Obstrepottimii made it to the ramp. "Oh look, water from the sky!!"

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  6. What a fine pot "O Porridge our host Joe has dropped before us :-)

    Wow, Joe, just wow.

    The crazy, it burns...

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  7. I am the walrus
    Goo goo g'joob

    If arrested I demand to go to Sea World.

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  8. The rainbow group would not be allowed on the ark.

    Diabetes is hugely profitable.

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    1. Diabetes is profitable for big Pharma. Expensive for everybody else.

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    2. It's also profitable for doctors and hospitals, who get to charge for endless consultations and amputations . It's also profitable for insurance companies, who get a cut of every dollar that passes through their hands, to pay for all that medicine and consultations and amputations.

      There is enormous incentive to encourage bad diet and medicines which manage but don't cure, and that's exactly what we see.

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  9. Sigh... leopards and 'others' don't change their spots, regardless of what they call themselves.

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  10. The prices of Ozempic, Eliquis, Xarelto, and Entresto will be cut dramatically when their Trump Most Favored Nation pricing agreements kick in. They should drop out of the top 15, despite their popularity.

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