rusty shackleford

At least it wasn’t the dreaded finger gun again.

I'll pass along a travel tip for clothing that I discovered a few years ago and has worked out well. If you are traveling between a cold and hot climate (like departing Buffalo in the winter to the Caribbean) pick up a pair of casual/outdoor/athletic khakis that zip the pant legs off and become shorts. It works out great trying to shield yourself from the brutal windchills in the morning but then get off where it's 90s a humid. Especially if going to a place like Punta Cana where you deplane right on the tarmac and into a shuttle bus.

Yeah that has to be tough coming back home to a quiet house. At least getting out and going to work can keep your mind off it and busy. I have been work from home for many years and my dogs were my administrative assistants. They sat next to me in my office all day every day, so it was hard sitting home alone all day without him. The other dog didn't want to sit in the office afterwards, he would just pace through the house looking for him. I know you said money is tight, but it might help if you could talk to a professional. It can really help, especially if you can't talk about it with your family. We were really struggling with losing the dog and a few other stressful live events that all came together around the same time so we did a one time session with a counselor. It helped us quite a bit.

I went through it about a year and a half ago. It's one of the hardest things in life you end up having to do. I had a similar situation where we brought our dog in for surgery to remove a few bad teeth and remove an abscess on his gum. He took a nose dive during recovery a few days after the surgery. Turns out the abscess that the vet dismissed as a concern months earlier and again at the time of surgery as anything to worry about, was indeed cancerous. It triggered a response that fast forwarded other tumors he had internally on his liver and his kidneys shut down. He wouldn't eat, could barely walk, and couldn't make it outside. Even when we brought him back to the vet when his was struggling to eat, it was dismissed as just an older dog being tired from the stress of surgery. We brought him to the Orchard Park emergency hospital for a second opinion, got a full examination (scans and whatnot) and an overnight stay. Once we learned there was nothing we could do to help him and he would die in a few days anyways, we made the choice to do it right then. The choice to put him down wasn't that hard because we wanted to end his suffering. But I was second guessing our choices and not getting other opinions months back when we might have been able to do more for him. I was deeply depressed over it for weeks, drinking heavily, not sleeping. My other dog who was a rescue and together with him for years was at a complete loss, just pacing the house, not knowing what to do. After awhile it gets easier, but never really goes away. They are family after all. We were fortunate to have another rescue fall into our laps about two months later, which brought a lot of happiness back into the house. The other dog started acting like himself again, so we have that as a silver lining... Also switched vets to the OP clinic and have been happy with them.

His throwing hand/wrist looks like it might have taken more damage than it seemed. Fingers crossed he’s okay.

They should probably sit him this week after throwing those two INTs.

Good point. Nobody cares who he managed money for, the public wants to know his child prostitution clients. And yes, a successful criminal wouldn't incriminate themselves with a bad people only list. He most likely covered up record keeping of the illegal activity using his real business as a front, which will just make it harder to decipher it all with him being dead.

I just hope when the details are released it will show who the true discussing pedos are no mater what their political affiliations are or what social standings they have. I worry though that it will just show a bunch of people who Epstein socialized with, and that doesn’t give us a lot above what was already known… we need his client list, not just people that he shook hands with

Thanks after the initial summary by google: The Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal, upholding her 20-year sex trafficking conviction. The denial means Maxwell's conviction and sentence will stand, and her only remaining potential avenue for release is a presidential pardon or commutation. Lawyers for Maxwell stated they were "deeply disappointed" but would continue to seek other legal options. I saw a few articles, including this unfavorable one by CNN. Didn’t see much on Trump giving her a break though, especially not on a preferential treatment situation. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/18/politics/what-we-know-epstein-files

Sorry, I said the Biden admin, not Biden himself but it auto corrected… But what and when did Trump do to give this POS special treatment? Generally don’t know from not having followed that part closely.

I’m wondering if anyone else saw that situation and thought… bait

Okay yes Maxwell is probably the only person still alive that know details of Epsteins clients. Maxwell appealed her conviction. On July 25, 2022, Maxwell was transferred from Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn, to a low-security federal prison for female inmates at Federal Correction Institution, Tallahassee… why did the Biden admit allow that to go through?

I’m not a political junkie like a lot on here so please inform me on the broad strokes that I’ve missed, but why was the connection between DJT and Epstein dropped like a hot potato by the media and all Trump opponents back in 2019 when Epstein was arrested? It seems like if that was a real issue for Trump with any substance it would have “Trumped” the news cycle over the Ukraine impeachment, stormy daniels, the 34 felonies, Covid, and Jan 6… …but it went dead silent for ~7 years while both Trump (x2) and Biden were president. Didn’t come back up again until Trump himself brought it up himself that he wanted to release the files then pulled back on it. So what changed in that whole timeframe? We already know that Trump and all his socialites across all political aisles in that crowd knew that scumbag for many years. Do the new files show who went to his Caribbean island or penthouse in New York and committed these despicable acts? If so then I think crule and unusual punishment should be brought back for the guilty.