UConn James

Oooo... going back and re-reading that sentence, it's not quite as I imagined what I was saying (that the ER doctor might have been expected to be a voice of reason b/w the two sides; instead it seems like he just stood there and now is speaking against his own hospital's rules How long does he stay employed there?), but even then it still had a lot to learn from your explanation. Thanks for your input, aj. It just makes Mr. Kennedy's actions even less defensible. You're in PPP. Now, like that opening scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"... step back carefully on the same footprints you came in on.

Intent on testing the waters. Doesn't sound like he's envisioning being back. I just hope the experience with what even a half-way decent TE can do has opened Chan's mind to the position.

Ummm... yeah. If my own father did this, I would feel the same. I would cuff him myself. There is no person for whom this is allowable. What the !@#$ kind of question is this?

BURP!!! (Sorry. With our blue laws there's no liquor sales on Sundays, so....) But yes, under the discussion section, they did not note how in CT our illustrious Gov. Dann-uh-uh-uh-el Ma-uh-uh-uh-lloy actually increased spending by $3B in the two-year budget when we were already $3.5B in the hole. He then increased the income tax withholding by b/w $1,000-$3,000. People who found out that at $50K, they were the ones Ma-uh-uh-uh-uh-lloy called "the rich" during the 2010 campaign got slightly pissed. He is a one-term governor, but not before he sinks this state even deeper in debt and economic despair (at least, outside of Greenwich/Fairfield County). He gets three death threats per day, according to my state trooper neighbor, who was asked to be part of his security detail but declined.

He is entitled to do that, with the proper security clearance WRT recent safety measures that hospitals face liability for, as Jack related. Imagine the headline "Kennedy Baby Kidnapped!" People are sick these days. It happens. He is not entitled to be physically combative when staff need to follow protocol... or hell, even if they are being asshats, he has no right to kick people in their midsection and put his own newborn at risk by initiating such action while holding it. I've held newborns; you need to be so careful with their head and neck. Patrick Kennedy felt he was "entitled" to walk through security at LAX without screening his huge bag because he thought everybody knew him and that he was a congresscritter and he was late for his flight. "Do As We Say, Not As We Do" is inscribed on their family crest.

RFK's son struggles with nurses at NY hospital Regardless of whether Mr. Kennedy thought the nurses were in the wrong: 1) What the hell is the mindset of pushing and kicking at people while holding a newborn? 2) If an ER doctor (a family friend of the Kennedys) was accompanying him, why did this man not speak up during the altercation? You'd assume there's some semblance of hierarchy that RNs would defer to a doctor. 3) I don't know exactly what the nurses' contentions were ... perhaps an identification issue (there are people who swipe babies from maternity wards) or something. Security prevented him from leaving, so it would seem that he was breaking rules. Again, I don't know. 4) Whatever, there's no justification for kicking someone in the midsection (there is video of an altercation and a nurse falling to the floor). If you think they're wrong, you take the baby back to the room and sort it out quickly with hospital admin. 5) What the !@#$ is it about the Kennedys that they feel the rules don't apply to them and when someone gets in their way, they're within rights to shove and kick women who are trying to do their jobs?

Something I mentioned upthread that received a terse "Shut your trap!" from Juror#8. He doesn't want to have this part of the conversation. And I'll say it again, this thread was started as a conceit to post a smarmy video.

I would. It's been forever since I've eaten out anywhere but Subway or the like (Rare for that, too. I like to make my own food for reasons of cost and quality.) I never quite got why I should be socially bound to give 15 percent to someone who simply scratches down an order and walks your food 10-20 feet to your table. The people in the kitchen are the ones doing the majority of the work while a waiter/waitress plays a social role. Maybe it's just me....

http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2012/02/the-pursuit-of-powerlessness.html I thought I had gotten this at the time, but I'm still going to have to give this a revisit soon.

You would smell less if you wiped after using the toilet.

Your avatar sucks.

Que? Selmon's health class book is his special bathroom reading material.

And something else, Juror.... this election is an exact copy of 2004? We haven't even got a nominee for one side and you're saying this? The 2004 election was about the liberal-left's (or for our purposes, a hard-core of the party ideology) influence in the primary, who nominated a guy who couldn't beat --- at the time --- the most unpopular president ever, according to polling. A Romney nomination, and this election has 1980 Redux written all over it. Santorum or Gingrich... might give you your 2004, but even then I doubt it just based on political realities of electoral college shift from the census and that there are states Obama has no prayer of winning again now that he has to run on a record.

The point was that you bandy about the charge that Romney is / business leaders are "automatons" as if they don't live in the real world and aren't impacted by very human problems. You can continue with the canard that these machines need to lube up, but it only means you're the one who has to go through life as a reductive * who has to looks through the lens of stereotype to be able to see anything. You are painting with so broad a brush (Academics vs. Businessmen) that you're discounting personhood. When you're dealing with a set of 44 examples, each of whom was a product of his time, from which to make inferences, what the !@#$ do you hope to prove? Because Hoover was a "businessman" but didn't live in a 24/7 CNN world, he made decisions based on day-to-day profits? That long-term thought and strategy isn't something 'non-academics' can get? He didn't realize the concept that the machination in any process takes time to produce something? Romney doesn't get this? Because you say so? Who the !@#$ do you think you are, pretending to know how these men thought/think and calling them automatons? you.

The standard reply from someone who's lost the argument.

And friends... that's saying something!!!

No stevestojan. Maybe you should come back when you have two brain cells to rub together. This may have some direction/basis in reality if Romney had no experience other than as a CEO. But as it stands, you don't acknowledge that he led an Olympic Games that was $800M in the hole from corruption and graft when he got there and which ended up making $300M in an era when almost EVERY Olympic endeavor has lost money hand over fist and any city and nation that bids for it looks upon it as a tourism advertising effort. You write your crap as if Romeny didn't have to deal with construction, budget, contracts / litigation, and security/terrorism issues a few months after 9/11. He then was elected governor of a state, and brought it back to fiscal sanity, wrapped up the Big Dig, responded to major flooding in 2005 when we in the northeast had 20 straight days of rain including dam breaks that threatened a 20,000-population city, he did the best he could with an 85% Democrat state legislature... and the place didn't turn into a Mormon Theocracy. Businessperson or not, Romney has had success at every increased-responsibility challenge he's ever faced. The Peter Principle hasn't hit him yet. Pres. Obama, on the other hand, has largely proven to be out of his depth. How has being an academic helped him? If he actually had a stevestojan-sliver of experience in the Real World where you actually have to produce a product, have to own fiscal responsibility and the realities that irresponsibility causes, and not just blame other people for every !@#$ing problem... this country might be able to go somewhere. I don't get your statement about having multiple places where he's lived/worked/owns a house. This is 2011. Obama used his moving around as an argument in his favor vis. that he could relate to different groups of people (Hawai'i, Indonesia, Kansas, Illinois, D.C.). How doesn't this apply to Romney as a positive, other than you & the Left saying the case is different for anyone with an R after their name? This point alone proves that you're a !@#$ing idiot who's just throwing stevestojan out there and basically created a RomneyBad thread so you could link a smarmy video.

Just wanted to mention Whaley said that, since many media outlets are reporting and fans are saying that it's 0% / completely off the table. Per the Ass't GM, it's not.

At the rate the women are going, I wouldn't be surprised to see a mixing via drawing buffs from a bag in two weeks at the earliest. Men vs. women is an interesting idea in the abstract, but when it comes down to it, the women can't compete given the immunity challenges that have been picked, where a team is only as good as its physically weakest player. There ought to be some that are not a matter of fastest, strongest. Blaming the loss on having boobs was... kind of cheap, but they may have a point. With some of them, that was an extra 4-5" to have to work around at a point that is highly disadvantageous WRT center of balance. Having to lean out that extra bit to accommodate the volume of two sets of ta-tas was marginally unfair.

You replaced Stupendous Man with a little infant? Really, gringo? REALLY?!!!?

In a chat session on BB.com, Doug Whaley just wrote that putting a franchise tag of SJ is still "a possibility" but that it would be "a short-term fix."

"Amelie" is not available on Netflix streaming. Doesn't bother me, as I bought it on DVD. That was a movie where you were just smiling throughout... at a time when everybody needed to smile. Loved the character of the 'glass man' artist and he spoke slowly and clearly enough for me to follow (with out captions) with my high school French. The lead was originally supposed to go to Emily Watson <shudder down James' spine> but she was committed to "Gosford Park". (Which is another nice little movie in its own right and available on streaming, last I checked.) "Midnight in Paris"... well, I did a little pre-Oscar write-up on my blog, but I'll paste it here:

Maybe Mike Mularky's buyin'.

A significant proportion of douche-bags live in New York. And it's nice to see this thread attract the attention of a former President! Classing up the place, huh?

Yup. It's going to save his butt, he'll get his core among the guys and if that follows through the merge... tonight's 'Go away, we can't have you here!' has a chance of peeving him. Talk about not good at communication skills. What they needed to say was: "Colton, you need to play with the guys right now. The time to be with us is after the merge. We gave you the idol to ensure that you have a good shot of lasting 'til then. You can't play 20 moves ahead and exclusively hang out with us or you will be voted out the first or second opportunity the guys get." For all that dude's quote about Colton "making Russell look like a schoolgirl" I don't know.... Colton has shown ZERO sophistication in how to play the game until now and I'm sure he'll find a way to screw it up. The women are in a friggin' shambles. I don't get it. When they talk, they just have to 'validate' each other so much. Like the black chick said, the guys don't talk like this. They say what they have to say and move on. If anyone has their feelings hurt if one guy says another didn't try as hard as he should have, well, it. Instead, the girls sit around and kvetch about how Kat jumped off the beam twice and athletic this / experience that. What the hell?!? Kat didn't get it done in the challenge because she doesn't seem very good at challenges. And they need to win challenges right soon or they're done. Just really craptastic that they voted by boot-the-old-people alliance rather than actual worth to the tribe. Looks like Monica and Christina are next unless someone has an epic fail or pisses off some of the other girls, and even then....