When I was in the hospital, I had 8 different doctors and not only that, but I also had other doctors that would fill in for them. Since most doctors can't do much any more other than push pills, the drugs were coming fast and furious in there. Don't get me wrong. A lot of them I needed, and they saved my life. At the time, I was in no shape to be asking questions, which is one of the reasons I had a stroke. Had I known better and asked the right question to the right doctor, I would have never had the stroke. Anyway, one of the doctors started me on a statin drug. Statin drugs are a family of drugs used for high cholesterol. I didn't think much about it at the time and put it into the hand full of pills I had to take daily. One of the major drugs I had to take was a steroid. I was taking large amounts to fight my disease. I had to be weaned off of them slowly. As I was weaning off of them, I started having joint pain. The less amount of steroid I took, the worse the pain became. I finished up my last steroid dose a week ago, and by that time my joint pain has been so bad that some days I could not do anything other than lay on the couch. My wife started looking at some of the side effects of the drugs I am still taking (down to just 3 now) and found out that statin drugs has joint pain as a side effect for some. I decide to stopping taking it, but had to wait to talk to my doctor so I could do that safely. I've been off of it less than 3 days now, and although I still have some joint pain, it is quickly going away, and I feel like a new man. This is just a long way of telling you guys that if you have joint pain and take a statin, that may be the problem. If your doctor gives you a statin, be careful of that side effect.

I wish I would have went this year. I keep meaning to make it. Hate seeing yesterday, a Wednesday, was the last day. Maybe run into you over there next year Keith.

And what's with the Yankees this year? With all the money they spend on their players, they should be way out front in the league.

We have freedom of speech. But if the company I work for does not like what. I say, they have the freedom to fire me or silence me.

Say what you want. Understand some language has penalties.

But sadly, this is only motivated by money as a bunch of sponsors and advertisers were gonna pull money if Kimmel wasn't removed.

Remember, IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.

Don't forget FCC head, Brendan Carr, threatening ABC. Unconstitutional as all heck.

I don't get people who don't watch Kimmel celebrating that he was taken off the air. It's how leftists act.

Lying about someone is generally protected under the first amendment. Defamation has to be proved in court. The accuser has to prove that the statement in question was presented as fact and not opinion, that it was done with the express purpose of harming someone's reputation, and, importantly, that the statement in question is actually false, and that the accused knew it was false.

ABC news, for example, couldn't run the headline "Bernie Sanders's teeth are brown because he eats poop" as a news story because they know it's false,it's presented as fact, and done to harm his reputation. Jimmy Kimmel, though, could do a story about Bernie Sanders eating poop, because everyone knows his show is opinion-

[quote=loosegoose]Lying about someone is generally protected under the first amendment. Defamation has to be proved in court. The accuser has to prove that the statement in question was presented as fact and not opinion, that it was done with the express purpose of harming someone's reputation, and, importantly, that the statement in question is actually false, and that the accused knew it was false.

ABC news, for example, couldn't run the headline "Bernie Sanders's teeth are brown because he eats poop" as a news story because they know it's false,it's presented as fact, and done to harm his reputation. Jimmy Kimmel, though, could do a story about Bernie Sanders eating poop, because everyone knows his show is opinion-based.