Apparently, medicine is finally catching up to the benefits offered by the AoS lifestyle. In fact, as the following story proves, doctors are adapting their techniques to incorporate the AoS lifestyle into their practice.

What other conclusion can be drawn from this article, in which a woman HAS HER GALLBLADDER REMOVED THROUGH HER VAGINA!!!

Let me repeat that for those of you who might be a little slow: GALLBLADDER. REMOVED. VAGINA.

My biggest question? How did they get it past the teeth?

To the blockquotes!

Doctors in New York have removed a womanÂ’s gallbladder with instruments passed through her vagina, a technique they hope will cause less pain and scarring than the usual operation, and allow a quicker recovery. The technique can eliminate the need to cut through abdominal muscles, a major source of pain after surgery.

I told ya!

Interest in this idea heightened after doctors from India made a video in 2004 showing an appendix being taken out through a patientÂ’s mouth. The patient had abdominal scars that would have made conventional surgery difficult.

Ladies, if your gyno asks you to "open up and say 'Ahhhhhhhhh'" you might want to be even more skeptical than usual. Especially if your gyno is named "Tushar D".

The New York patient, 66, had her gallbladder removed on March 21 and is recovering well, said her surgeon, Dr. Marc Bessler, the director of laparoscopic surgery at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Bessler said he thought it was the first time the operation had been performed in the United States, and he plans to show a video of the operation at a gastroenterology meeting in Las Vegas on Sunday.

A video? That's HOTT! Number of ejaculations? 5.

Then again, you have to wonder if this was an elective procedure. A 66 year old woman is probably happy to have anyone interested in probing her vagina at this point.

Of course, some are not pleased by this latest advancement.

Dr. Christine Ren, an associate professor of surgery at New York University’s school of medicine, called the vaginal procedure “repulsive” and said: “As a woman I find it very invasive, physically and emotionally. To me it’s quite distasteful. You will really have to prove to me that there is a benefit.”

Ohh...meee-owwwww. I think someone is a little jealous that their va-jay-jay isn't the center of attention anymore. You know how catty women can be.

Other doctors (obviously patriarchal oppressors) were a little more positive:

Dr. Bessler said his patient agreed to the procedure (two others had declined) because he told her he thought it would have advantages for her, and she accepted his judgment. She was the first in a study that is to include 100 women who need gallbladder surgery, appendectomies or biopsies taken from inside the abdomen. All the procedures will be done through the vagina.

Remember what I said about 66 year old women? In another 40 years or so, I'm gonna score big time at the retirement home. I can read you post-menopausal women like a book.

But where are we heading in this brave new world? The future is scary my friends....

Eventually, Dr. Bessler said, he expects to use the natural-opening technique on men as well as women, with instruments passed down the throat or into the rectum to cut through the wall of the stomach or intestine to reach the gallbladder or other organs. But first, surgeons have to develop techniques to make sure that the cuts in the stomach and intestine can be sealed completely after the operation so that they do not leak into the abdomen, which could cause serious complications. Incisions through the wall of the vagina rarely cause leaks, he said.

OK...this whole rectum idea? Now that's just crazy talk.

In related news, rumor has it that Andrew Sullivan just signed up to be a test subject.

In any event, ladies, you've been warned.

And all I ask is that the next time you are in the stirrups, you think of me.

It's the least you could do.

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Actually he's not quite sure if she's 11 or 12.

He's angry that she's not there to pick up his scheduled call.

This is nearly Paul Anka territory -- "I'm gonna straighten your ass for you... you are a rude, thoughtless little pig."

Except it's worse. Because, you know, it's his 11 (or 12? who can know such things?) year old daughter.

Print account here.

Question: How fucking stupid do you have to be to leave this kind of a nasty rant on an answering machine belonging to an ex-wife whom you allegedly smacked around?

Thanks to reliapundit.

Well, I'd say that's just about all for Alec Baldwin. "Verbal violence" against one's daughter is, as Obamessiah instructs us, similar to shooting up a school.

Alec Baldlwin Duets On "Daddy's Little Girl:"

Heart-breaking!

Slublog put that together.

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Which, if you follow the left's logic, means the case for the war was twice as powerful as we used to think.

Iraq could hold almost twice as much oil in its reserves as had been thought, according to the most comprehensive independent study of its resources since the US-led invasion in 2003.

The potential presence of a further 100bn barrels in the western desert highlights the opportunity for Iraq to be one of the world’s biggest oil suppliers, and its attractions for international oil companies – if the conflict in the country can be resolved.

If confirmed, it would raise Iraq from the worldÂ’s third largest source of oil reserves with 116bn barrels to second place, behind Saudi Arabia and overtaking Iran.

The study from IHS, a consultancy, also estimates that IraqÂ’s production could be increased from its current rate of less than 2m barrels a day to 4m b/d within five years, if international investment begins to flow.

That would put Iraq in the top five oil-producing countries in the world, at current rates.

Geologists believe the abundance of Iraqi oil was caused last year when Dick Cheney crapped on a goat carcass.

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I've been watching this. It's available online here in two parts.

Here's Fred Barnes' interview with the filmmaker/actual scientist, Steven Hayward.

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"My view of it is this: they say our president lied to us. Well, he didn't lie to us, everybody else had the information he had."

He also seems to think this cat in Iran is sort of dangerous.

What a kook!

I like this question from Radar -- absurd. After Voight pans the media for being sensationalistic and agenda-driven, this twit asks:

But there's still a role for journalism in democracy, right?

As if his answer would be "No, journalism must not exist in a democracy. We must repeal the first amendment posthaste."

Liberals truly are stupid people. Stupid? Okay, let me use the phraseology they use to suggest Bush is stupid: They are determinedly intellectually incurious about any sort of thought that is different from their own.

Here's how he answered.

Of course. You bet. There's a place for good actors in movies too. But you can do damage to a decent movie by going off in the wrong direction too. My brother Chip [Taylor] wrote a song—he wrote "Wild Thing" and he wrote it at 2:00 in the morning—one of the lyrics was very telling: "The trouble with humans is they're only human / The trouble with trouble is it's always around." That's the deal. We have to fight against gravity to stand up. We should help each other. And the truth is very important. Journalism can be helpful too, but once it bends to sensationalism and commercialism and becomes agenda-driven, it's not so good.

Duh.

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Content warning. It depicts simulated sex -- well, simulated near-rape. Actually, it's pretty much sex. I remember the days of dry-humping in high school, and it wasn't "simulated sex" so much as "almost sex."

Details via Media Take-out:

MediaTakeOut.com has learned that the girl getting "freaked" in the video may only be 14 years old.

And that's not all. MediaTakeOut.com spoke to a person claiming to be the child's guardian - and she's furious. According to the woman, the young girl was plucked from the audience by Akon's security and pushed up on stage.

The woman explains, "When she went up [on stage], Akon started throwing her around like a doll ... and made all kinds of sexual gestures to her. ThatÂ’s not for a grown man to do to a child." The lady continues, "The man could have killed her - you should have seen her when she [came] home. She was covered in bruises."

Hot Air notes that CBS, which just fired Imus for misogyny, owns Akon's record label.

Of course, the Rutgers Womens Basketball team were the victims of "verbal violence," Barack Obama tells us, and violence is much harder to recover from.

Or something.

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At least when they blow a stunt. Cringeworthy stuff here (no deaths, but some nasty head-first falls).

Via Steve Silver, via Gib, who links the story of a sheriff who got into a traffic accident, and then dutifully issued himself a ticket.

Related:

What?

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Note that the more palatable way to sell a withdrawal is to declare victory -- or at least as much victory is possible -- and then conclude that since what goals can be accomplished have been accomplished, there's nothing more to do in Iraq.

That's sensible as PR, and it's salable. And it at least attempts a bit of window dressing on American defeat (or American failure to achieve a conclusive victory, at least).

But the Democrats don't want that. They always have wanted us to lose this war, and they will not be content with anything short of a declared failure. But don't question their patriotism:

"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

It would take a fool or liar to claim that the surge isn't accomplishing anything. Fortunately for the Democrats, they have both in surplus.

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This guy does those crafty edits where politicians' words are grabbed from speeches and reassembled to sing the lyrics of a song.

This really isn't an example of that -- it's just speeches about freedom set over a techno beat -- but I figured you'd appreciate the trilogy of Ronald Regan, Barry Goldwater, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's George W. Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Thanks to Gordon.

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This dog, I tell ya, is virtually human. He's on the cusp of watershed evolution.

Tool manipulation is a sign of advanced intelligence, right? Let there be no doubt this dog can manipulate his tool.

I'd splash a content warning, but this video has such profound scientific and metaphysical implications I don't believe it's necessary.

I'm pretty sure this is the most important post that's ever appeared on this site.

Thanks to Uncle Jefe.

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