starri
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I'm surprised as well. I'm not entirely sure that I'm excited though.
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2 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:
The third case, with Daddy and Baby Huey son suing defendant was ridiculous. Daddy plaintiff had no agreement or contract of any kind with def., yet thinks because he, sonny and some other guy managed to collect 30 signatures between the three of them that def owes him money. The funniest part is that it was Huey who ripped off his own dad and kept the $500 for himself.
Apparently, it's hard to collect Republican signatures in Kings County (Brooklyn). Which is interesting, because the neighborhood Defendant mentioned has both a Republican member of Congress and a Republican state senator.
Apparently they didn't want to bother walking over to Bensonhurst.
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On 5/13/2016 at 5:28 PM, AngelaHunter said:
The car dealer creeps were too much. Ten year old Altima craps out shortly after plaintiff buys it, and def (who gave her a warranty) refuses to fix it because, well, SHE caused the problem, according to their hearsay of what some guy supposedly told them. Proof? Sorry, we don't have that, but trust us. Love that JM gave plaintiff all her money back.
Angry JM is the best JM. She's usually so measured, and when she finally gets to the point where she just releases the kraken, it's like an explosion of justice.
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23 hours ago, PumpkinPK said:
Why focus on Easter and neglect Halloween? So many families do not celebrate Easter. Halloween is celebrated by all kids.
Halloween is not a universal celebration. There are plenty of fundamentalist Christians who consider it far too pagan. Why Christmas isn't in there too, I don't know, but there is many a church that will find some alternate, more godly activity on October 31st.
There's an old joke about Baptists. Baptists are against pre-marital sex because it can lead to dancing.
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It has nothing to do with the show's quality. It's outstanding. It's because its ratings are really bad.
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59 minutes ago, ByaNose said:
I was confused by this part. Was the sister-in-law of the deceased recordings done before or after the interview Erin interview? That seemed suspicious to me
She made that call shortly after he was killed (three days later, I think). The tape only surfaced after Erin had done her interview.
It seemed like the only two people that were interviewed after the verdict were the grandmother and Jane.
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I would have been very interested in hearing from the jury. My gut feeling is that it was murder, but gut feelings shouldn't count for a hill of beans when it comes to the justice system.
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I'm not entirely sure that the relationship wasn't abusive, but I doubt it was physical even if it was. It really says something that even after the police brought in a forensic accountant to track down where the family money had been going.
I feel bad for the son. He's lost both of his parents, and was probably lying for his mom on the stand. And he's changed his last name from Laut to his mother's maiden name, Laubacher.
Erin was saying on Twitter that she was surprised by the verdict. She was really expecting manslaughter.
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My husband and I lost one of our cars in Sandy (this is pre-NYC, when we had more than one). Ain't no way that car condom would have done anything to hold back the storm surge. There's no way that two-sided zipper was water-tight. It might work in six inches of floodwater, but not in a few feet.
I did enjoy Robert's being nonplussed by the Chevy Volt. I guess Mr. Fun Shark can't conceive of a world where not everyone drives a sports car that sounds like a jet and burns a gallon of gas for every 11 miles. I assume they had to have the electric car because they couldn't have exhaust on the set.
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Not just that, they've discontinued both their original Breathometer and a wearable version (what possible utility could that have?) to focus exclusively on the bad breath one.
It reminds me of a small-scale version of the shell game that aspirational blood-testing company Theranos is running.
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I'm going to disrupt the breath analysis business right here. If you need to know if you're hydrated, check and see if you're thirsty. If you're wondering if you have bad breath, see if your significant other wants to kiss you.
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So, it's Daymond who's the Pinball Wizard. I am very, very digital (I haven't purchased a physical book that wasn't a textbook in years), and I'm going to be totally screwed when the EPM comes, but I guess I'm a Luddite when it comes to pinball. The fun part of pinball is watching Chaos Theory in motion, and also I like the way the ball rolls on the track. It's like a virtual slot machine, there's no satisfaction without the tactile sensation. Also, someone should tell Beardo that there's no crying in pinball.
I'll admit straight-out that I probably act inappropriately younger than my almost-middle age. However, perhaps it might be suggested to Wet Hot American Summer that it might be time to put on his Big Boy pants. Also, if this is seasonal business, and they do it in summer camp offseason, it seems that at least the New York market, going upstate or into the Poconos would be goddamn chilly to slide down your adult-sized Slip-N-Slide. If you just want to go out into the woods and drink, you don't need to play dress-up in matching t-shirts, short shorts, and athletic socks.
Teentrepeneur....nope nope nope.
I really liked that Car Condom guy eventually developed moral issues with repo-ing cars. Especially because his awakening came when, instead of having to punish poor people for the crime of being poor, he had to start ruining the day of middle-class white people.
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Dazzler-Thor, a refugee from Battleworld, showed up in the most recent A-Force. The new creative team also gave Original Recipe Dazzler's new look a much-needed refinement.
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Renewed. I'm kind of shocked.
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1 minute ago, SmithW6079 said:
Are you as offended when the show mocks Catholics? Or is that OK? Other than "cool" Jesus, I think the show is taking the position that all religions are worthy of being mocked.
There's a lot of balance to the presentation of Catholicism: the only true intolerance we've seen with that came from the grandmother. There was far less of it in the portrayal of UU as being the official religion of hackysack and patchouli.
We've seen that the Catholic Church still has a lot of meaning in the lives of many of the characters. It certainly does to Kenny. But we got one "cool mom" and a bunch of touchy-feely hippie cliches on the other hand.
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1 hour ago, UsernameFatigue said:
But I guess not as apparently the jury bought his lies, right down to the sobbing on stand without so much as a tear shed.
They didn't actually. The jurors interviewed said they didn't buy his tears for a minute, their manslaughter conviction was based on the prosecution not having sufficiently proved intent.
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8 hours ago, Tiger said:
I get that Kenny isnt an everygay, but it seems like we only see one type on tv: a flamer who acts like a middle-aged woman.
I still don't understand what you mean by that.
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3 minutes ago, Sandman said:
Would the bleeding varices or other problems have been eased or worsened by giving him booze? That part I didn't get.
Neither. But he'd been out on the street and ruptured a varix, he'd either have bled to death, or choked on his own vomit.
8 minutes ago, Sandman said:If Mr. Gleason had been a heroin addict, I don't think anybody would have blinked at managing his withdrawal with methadone, or given a second thought to his preference for getting a fix of heroin. But that's not nearly as dramatic.
We'd also just done heroin with the girl with porphyria and her addict father. Also, opiate detox is not fun, but going through it on your own won't kill you.
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Just now, izabella said:
In this patient's case, the alcohol actually would help him since that is what his body craves. What was hurting him, making him throw up and seize and cough up stuff, was the withdrawal from the alcohol. They said the withdrawal could kill him. So forcing him to continue detox could have led to his death, which qualifies as actively harming him, I think.
Cold-turkey withdrawal is often fatal. With an Ativan or Librium detox protocol (which he was getting), the worst side effects are avoided. What he was experiencing was unpleasant, but it wasn't going to kill him. Now, the bleeding varices and everything else that was wrong with him would have. Halstead even said that he looked like he'd just walked out of a textbook.
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It happened at the speed of drama.
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5 minutes ago, CoyoteBlue said:
I missed the part where Halstead explained why it was necessary to put him through detox. Like, there's such a thing as AMA if a patient doesn't want treatment. And fixing the immediate danger didn't require detox, did it? So I would have liked more about why the patient HAD to submit to the treatment. (I'm actually a little surprised he didn't try to make a run for it since he wasn't restrained.)
In all the laundry list of things that you can get addicted to, there are only two, alcohol and benzodiazepines that will kill you if you withdraw from them. Ironically, you use the latter to withdraw from the former. Drunko came in because he'd broken his leg, not because he was in withdrawal. That only started once he'd been there for a while without a drink. Once he started with the DTs, he was a danger to himself, and that puts him into involuntary commitment territory. If Dr. Charles and Reese hadn't been off in the geriatric harem, this is where we'd probably have seen him this week.
I wonder if he was a heroin addict, would Sharon have been as quick to pass him a needle?
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1 minute ago, tvaddict44 said:
I guess I'm totally morally corrupt because I would have told the religious couple we did it the no-blood way and gone ahead and done it properly when they ran into trouble in order to save his life.
That's not even a question of being morally corrupt, it's medical battery. There are two exceptions to Jehovah's Witnesses and their (pardon this) frankly stupid blood donation policy: an emergency where the patient doesn't have capacity to refuse, and under no circumstances can a parent refuse it for a minor child. What makes it even more ridiculous is that in cases--this has more to do with Christian Scientists--where a child needs a procedure done, you convene a judge to come in and act in loco parentis. Nine times out of ten, the parents wanted the kid to have the procedure, but they have to put up nominal resistance. I think the JW blood policy is dumb--especially because they can still receive fractionated blood products (like hemophiliacs get), just not whole blood, packed red cells, white cells, platelets or plasma.
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What exactly what he doing that was "like a woman?"
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Code Black In the Media
in Code Black [V]
A very cynical part of me half-expects her to be among the cast changes.