LastPommerFan

Williams off the air, at least temporarily. (source: all the news except msnbc) I really liked his style, too bad he was also exactly what we don't need on the news. A pathologic liar and chronic exaggerator.

happened almost 2 years ago at the U-18 world championships (Division IIA) http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1593292-lithuanian-hockey-player-is-not-pleased-throws-stick-at-referee-during-tantrum This was the game he, Danielius Nomanovas, threw the stick, it was not even called a penalty: http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/337/IHM337907_74_3_0.pdf He played the next game: http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/337/IHM337910_74_5_0.pdf I find that weird.

There is no way win finish better than last. ' We have GM Rainman. This team might not score two goals in the same game after the first week in march, let alone win.

Weight Gainer 2000. According to his hockey cards, Chara went from 230 to 255 between 2000 and 2003. Myers is right around 230 now.

Lindy play a backup?

I'm not sure everyone on this board is ready for Cyanide and Happiness.

Thanks everybody. There is still an immense amount of work for me, my wife, and most importantly, Ollie, to do, but it's pretty great to have clarity on what we should be working towards. Thanks for letting me share this crazy journey with a bunch of supportive strangers. It's weird, but it really helps make the challenges slightly less challenging and the victories slightly more victorious.

Halak has been on a slow downward death spiral since november. At this pace he'll be a sub-.850 goalie by then end of the month, and they'll win their last game in early March.

Finally got into the Kirsch center for Ollie's official ASD diagnosis. non-shocking news: Ollie has Autism. The doc described him as exactly medium on the spectrum. Fantastic: the care team at Kirsch was head and shoulders better than the intake staff we had to deal with while trying to set up the appointment over the past year. F'N Fantastic: Despite the initial testing done last january, the doctors don't believe Ollie has any cognitive disabilities, in other words, his ability to learn isn't compromised, and his Autism is exclusively affecting his speech and social brain functions. He also doesn't have any other complicating factors (it's common for kids with ASD to have other brain disorders that tag along with Autism), except possibly ADHD, but even that they said he was borderline. They explained that "Cognitive Disabilities" and "Complicating Factors" are the key indicators for long term success, along with responsiveness to intervention. His scores on the developmental testing have improved greatly this year, so that indicates that he is very responsive to the interventions. So they gave Ollie a pretty awesome prognosis. He's ALWAYS going to have social interaction problems and trouble with speech, but those things can be overcome a bit with coping skills that his therapists can teach him over the next 15 years. When describing the potential long term goals for Ollie she used words like "College" and "Job" and "Married". My wife and I made it out of the hospital ok, but once she called her sister, and I my brother, and recounted the information, we both completely broke down crying. All of the good parental crying. It was F'N Fantastic.

YAY!

I've been through this exact dilemma and have some advice. I found that my wife, despite not really even liking her mother in the slightest, always bent over backward to let her have as much of "her way" as was physically possible. This resulted in my MIL essentially choosing our first apartment, our first house, our dog, which church we attended, etc. We were in Cincinnati, so the nice part was that most of the time I could choose off the menu at a restaurant without her knowing that I had exercised my free will. This pattern continued for 3 years (I'm kind of a pushover, probably explains the pommer love) right up until the moment it completely stopped. I remember it very very clearly. Our first son was born, and we named him after my only brother, with his middle name after my wife's only brother. My wife's brother is NOT her mother's son. He is her father's son with his second wife. MIL was absolutely terrified that the child had not one name commemorating her family. While we were still in the hospital she requested that we change the middle name to her Maiden name. Looking at my wife, I could see the years of repression, the veil of her childhood PTSD lifting as she very calmly told her mother that this was not at all up for debate and that it would be best if she left the hospital immediately. She has not deferred to her mother on a single decision since. So my advice: Knock her up.

A battle of similarly colored teams working on dissimilar streaks.

well done.

I wish so badly for this to be true. Tragically, it is all false. Except the pizza part, that's just solid advice.

jeebus. who the hell wrote that? And I JUST sat down with my first beer! My apologies to all...

I've been sending tevares and helak free tickets to Disneyland for 2 months now.

I will never understand why embedded war correspondents feel the need to add "I" statements when recounting the story. Walter Cronkite reported what happened to the people in Vietnam. If you reread his stuff it's like he was a ghost wandering through. Never an statement about what happened to him. Only what happened around him. That's how you report news. You, the reporter, are not important. But I guess celebrity journalists make for better ratings.

For me personally it matters. I'd like to think I raise my kids with a sense of social responsibility. Vaccination is a part of that responsibility, even if there is the possibility of potential risks, IMO.

Can you say definitively that listening to the Rolling Stones doesn't make it worse? Even if the MMR shot made things worse your you guys, it may be a unique case. We can definitively say that it doesn't make things worse for the vast majority of children with ASD. All these kids are so different, the brain is so complicated, I wouldn't be surprised to find thousands of triggers on top of just a handful of underlying root causes. Vaccination is difinitively not a root cause. I can't say definitively that it's not a trigger for a small subset of the 1:68 that have ASD. But if there's a huge gain to be made for everyone by the use of something that causes trauma for a handful of children, it seems the path of least harm is the right one. Anecdotally: Stop Signs cause Ollie to go into a stim-fest for some reason. I don't know if it's the colors or the reflective paint, or the shape, but he rolls through his stims for like 5-10 minutes every time he sees one, driving to the store can set him back for the day if he happens to be looking out the front window. I don't think it would be right suggest that we remove all the stop signs.

Yup in 1980, when everyone was getting vaccinated, and whole diseases were in the process of eradication, autism rates were lower than they are now, when thousands of kids are going un-vaccinated. On a side note: the "drugs" aren't strong, They are incredibly weak. That's how they work. Neither of us caused our child's Autism when we chose to protect them against measles. It appears, however, that telling vaccine skeptics that vaccines are safe actually makes the problem worse: http://www.npr.org/2015/02/04/383724467/the-psychology-behind-why-some-kids-go-unvaccinated

Still plenty of time for the comeback!

I just want to feel like we're winning something.

I have one suggestion: Could you multiply the data by (-1)? I think it would better provide a CHL/Tank feel to the graph.

That's exactly the type of pick I'd expect the 12th best QB in the league to throw with 20 seconds left in the Superbowl. Especially when set up for failure by his worthless sack of bones and slime of a coach.

No one is more crotchety than Swamp is when he thinks about the tank. And yet he finds his way into a thread dedicated solely to the tracking and promotion of said tank. I believe this to be the Enroth Strain of the Stockholm Syndrome.