Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall

I am not a praying man any stretch of the imagination... but in this case, good lord, please bless this woman.

holy shit that laundry list of accidents & medical issues is something else! Dollars-to-donuts she'll shake it off like it's no big deal.
Damn...... old people are tough-as-nails.

Get ready for Trump SCOTUS pick #3!

If she dies or has to step down during the next two years, I will curse her name forever.

Gosh, that's a shame.







Naw, I hope she's okay.

How fast until the left pulls a Weekend at Ginsburg movement.

I do hope she gets better but every leftist in the country just screamed out in terror.

Poetic that she's been taken to George Washington University Hospital, since she was there when George himself founded it.

I wish her a speedy recovery and a relaxing retirement.

Not me. I was aware that she'd broken ribs before and kept silent about it for months.

She works out with a personal trainer twice a week. She'll be fine.

RBG is in better shape than most of us. A few cracked ribs ain't no thing. The recovery might take a while but she'll bounce back.

My great-grandma fell and broke her hip at 93. She lived another 7 years.

Your Supreme Court should follow the British model and have judges retire at a fixed age (in our case 75).

I hope for a speedy recovery. Get well, RBG!

Nice try, person trying to suck their own dick.

and I bet she never complained either! When I was in high school I had to do a report on an elderly person. The only one I knew in the area was the guy who ran the lumber mill where myself & my step-dad worked. What an eye opener! Dude had been burned over 2/3 of his body when a disgruntled employee put gasoline in his kerosene lantern trying to kill him (mission 2/3 accomplished I guess) had a gun pulled on him when selling christmas trees in Chicago (long story) been pinned in his logging tractor all-fucking-day while working by himself in below freezing Wisconsin winter weather way back before cell phones. And this last incident happened just before I did the report! He & his wife lived on carrots for months at one point when they were really poor when first married. One time a big log rolled off the back of a truck and broke both his feet. One time at work he cut his finger really deep and calmly got out a pocket knife and was going to finish the job by cutting off the end of his finger until one of the other employees talked him into going to the doctor to try to salvage his finger. But always the stoic class act he never talked shit about all these things until I interviewed him for my report. I guess you could kind of compare him to old Mike on "Breaking Bad".

I have no idea what the statistics are, but from a purely anecdotal standpoint, I've heard a great many stories that go something like...

"Did you hear? Doris died."
"Oh, really? She was really getting up there...Was she sick?"
"Well, she fell last year and broke her hip and just went downhill after that..."

I don't know if broken bones are the cause (the trauma kicks it off) or the symptom (whatever made her fall is the real culprit) of the decline. But they certainly seem to correlate with the decline.

What kills people with hip fractures is not the fracture itself, but the resulting immobility which, especially in a hospital or nursing home setting, often leads to pneumonia.

The more you know...

I'm sure she, like many, thought that the Democrats would own the white house for quite some time longer. But I say as long as she is of sound mind, she has a right to stay as long as she wants

She probably reasoned that Hillary would win the White House, and that there was a good chance of a less conservative Senate coming in on Hillary's coattails to approve her successor.

As it turns out, she reasoned incorrectly. But it probably makes little difference. If she had retired late in Obama's term, her successor would've gotten the Garland treatment, and Trump would've gotten two picks right off the bat.

My understanding is that often the reason that older people fall is because the hip breaks while they standing or walking. Hip breaks = then they fall down.

Being healthy and active is not always enough as an elderly person of her age. It is the best possible thing from a starting position, but things can go pretty fast. Stroke from blood clots and healing is more likely. Rib injuries cause painful breathing which might cause her to be less mobile and you lose more muscle quicker at that age and do not recover. Though it does sound like she will be dedicated to exercise which is helpful. This is one of the common ways older people get taken out by starting a series of problems that just keep on escalating quickly.

As much as I don't want donnie little hands appointing a new rapist to the court, I also think RBG has served many fine years and maybe she should retire for herself. Maybe she enjoys having a purpose and retirement is not something she wants.

She is a wicked woman.

God loves her, and wants her to repent.

I've always heard "fell down and broke hip" and not the other way around. But I don't know from direct experience, so you may be right.

So I guess alito was a wicked man who god took straight to hell using your logic?

Shut the fuck up, asshole

Dems controlled the Senate as recently as 2014, at which point she was 81. That would have been the time to go.

Given your views towards women anyone you disapprove of is probably doing something right.

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Dear lord....


I'm really glad to hear that RBG is doing better. Up and about and working from her bed and all that... Thanks for that. I would not be so egotistical to believe that her recovery had anything to do with that last prayer of mine... Especially the part about taking me instead. So.... uh... um... You didn't take that seriously, did you?

Love Alpha.