DukeNukeEm

Eh its not all bad. If we come out of the draft with a lot of spots to earn in camp we'll be more attractive to the better UDFA's, that's where a large base of good ST players come from, plus you never know what you'll find there. Not much of a silver lining really, but something to consider.

Huh

How about we not let this one die. Went to Antelope Island today, saw some bison, hiked up about 5ish mi. They were heli-lifting Bighorn Sheep for some reason, so I saw some Bighorn Sheep flying around in nets. Its a nice state park, the views kinda get ruined by SLC's smog problem though. Getting ready to put in for the Mt Whitney lottery. I'm reading the books, just getting prepared mentally for the switchbacks. Kinda been training by sleeping at high elevations (9-10k feet) just to see where my altitude tolerance is at. So far I've been pretty good, I'm going to try crawling around the Wasatch Front in the spring and if I can do Half-dome just to acquaint myself. I know for most of you the outdoors at the moment are unpleasant, but now is the time to start making those spring/summer plans.

Hmmm would Chicago, IL do something catastrophically stupid with serious long term ramifications if it can score some political points in the present?

You can't trust CPD stats outside homicides and even when it comes to homicides you kind of wonder if there was pressure in the department to classify as many deaths as possible as natural causes to soften the stat sheet. Also, 420 homicides is not an accomplishment in the slightest and the city should still be f***ing humiliated by it.

Not if they can't fund it themselves or via insurance (no insurance policy in the world is going to cover a dead person). Then it becomes the financial hardship of someone else, once that line is crossed you longer deserve control over the situation because you are dictating the use of someone else's money. My whole ideology swirls around the fact that codependency and shared sacrifices create situations just like these and the only instances where collective action is required is the defense of civil and property rights from foreign and domestic threats. The only reason it works in that regard is because the benefit is universal and financial burden of maintaining a military is ethically impossible in a market economy not to mention impossible. Their freedom to keep the corpse's heart beating ran out when they could no longer afford it. I've mentioned before healthcare could also be a possible exception (though I'm not willing to subscribe entirely to that idea) but that would only apply to living people. Not corpses.

How is this inconsistent with my ideology? And I've lost people I care about. By pure bad luck I've also seen a lot of people who I don't know die.

God bless whoever voted for Rose. Thomas seems like a lock.

Yup, so why be fodder when you can just go play for the NCAA title.

Gus Malzahn is going to stay at Auburn 3 years minimum. He's going to wait until he gets the perfect HC opportunity, Cleveland is not that opportunity.

You know things are screwed up when you run a sweep on 3rd & 15 when your QB just won the Heisman. Auburn scores here and its over, FSU is so clearly outclassed it might be over anyways.

Florida State kind of sucks.

Gus Malzahn is brilliant.

If all the current Bears free agents walk and we cut those 5 were down to 25 guys (if my math is right). Add 7 assuming everyone we draft makes the team, that's 32. That leaves 21 spots to fill in FA and UDFA's.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. The general population of the USA has this blend of gluttony, fundamentalism and stupidity that will make this much more common once the threat of bankruptcy dissapears as a natural barrier to this kind of s***.

We should also learn how to write, because I'm clearly f***ing awful at it.

One of the best reasons to have a manual transmission: http://m.wikihow.com/Push-Start-a-Car

But how many times is this going to happen? How many people, who aren't particularly educated, are going to think "We'll keep our babies corpse loosely clinging to 'life' because the government is picking up the tab"? My guess, in a country like ours where the vast majority treat everything like Old Country Buffet, is a lot. Enough for it to make a difference. Let it be known I was against this idea of shared healthcare from the start, but now that reality in imminent and we better start learning to force irresponsible stupid people into doing something they don't want to.

This is sickening, right? I can't be the only one who finds this attitude repulsive. Life is important, and there's definitely some virtue in protecting it, but this is just... I dont even know. I've lost people I care about. It wasn't pleasant but there is a feeling that the suffering they were dealing with is over and they have moved on into whatever happens next. I just don't think that's something to be so afraid of, and while I understand (and mostly subscribe) to the idea that death is something we should generally avoid but a line can easily be crossed where the dead are just not allowed a peaceful exit from our world. To me that's something we should all be entitled to, that finding out what's next (even if it is the void) is the natural progression of our life cycle and our attempts to play god inhibit that very fundamental aspect of our existence.

So do they have to wait for the fetus to die before pulling the plug? I mean, if the fetus can make it I see no reason to pull the plug because a life actually hangs in the balance there but if not that just seems barbaric.

But she is dead. Look this has turned into a national story and I have a major concern that the crazy, nonsensical brand of hope these people are holding out that the dead body will somehow reanimate is going to inspire others to feel the same way. We are transitioning into a system where medical costs are shared amongst the public. Its one thing if its emergency surgery, or even Reddy's vocal chord exam... I'll be an indignant little b**** and whine about it but I'll comply. But if we don't have the balls to tell families "Look, your daughter is dead and while that is sad this f***ing game where you are trying to mechanically pump the heart of a corpse is retarded and will end now" and will instead funnel millions into a hopeless endeavor to avoid looking unempathetic the idea is just completely doomed to failure. This is a colossal waste. A waste of doctors, a waste of a room, a waste of a life support machine and a waste of countless people's time. This hospital assuredly has people in it who's lives are hanging in the balance and this distraction is soaking up resources. Normally I don't think I'm in much of a position to comment on something like that, but if my brother was in that hospital fighting for his life I would be irate. A dead body is receiving superior medical care to 99.9% of the world's living population.

Its been a month. They've been providing medical care to a corpse for a month. This isn't something where it takes a day or two to say goodbye and accept what has already happened, that's understandable. The hospital tried repeatedly to get it through to this family that there was no hope. They declared her legally dead, and I'm no doctor or lawyer but I would assume the legal and medical requisite to being declared dead does not leave much room for interpretation.

I've driven in worse. Should get ~400 miles tomorrow as long as the fuel additives keep the diesel from freezing up. Same s***, different day. Wyoming initiated me weeks ago to misery that far exceeds what the Midwest is going to get. I've got 44,500 lbs in the box so I should have enough traction to keep at 50 mph through this crap. Grow a pair, Chicago. Large swaths of this country endure much worse and do just fine.

Its not a decision! Its not! We don't get to decide when people die. Its not up to us. We can try to save people, we can try to give them the best chance to recover but death is death.

Im not heaping praise on whatever caused a fairly routine minimally invasive surgery to kill someone. What I would commend is a family and medical professionals who agreed that this individuals life is over and spending any effort to preserve it is foolish. What's done is done, this corpse isn't going to spring up and go for a walk.