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#632039
Topic
Random Thoughts
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My wife's grandmother is 96 years old.  Two weeks ago she was quite healthy for a woman of her age.  She lived with my wife's parents, but because they were going out of town for a couple of weeks, they thought it would be best to temporarily put her in a rest home.  In 8 days' time, they managed to break her femur getting her into or out of a wheelchair (they've been quite vague on the details).  But wait, why were they using a wheelchair?!  She walks quite well for her age.  Well, in the hospital they surgically repaired her leg and inserted a metal rod.  Then they sent her back to the same rest home to recover.  There she developed a pressure sore on her coccyx (very easy to prevent with even just a little attention), she has hardly eaten or drunk anything, and her injured leg has begun to stiffen and turn inward.  When I brought it to the attention of the LPN there, she said, "Oh, well, we heard some crackles in her lungs so we're going to take care of that first."  Obviously breathing takes a priority over extremities, but you mean to tell me that in all the time you spend neglecting this woman, you cannot address both issues simultaneously.  And why is this the first we're hearing about crackles in her lungs?  Of course I was too polite to say this, but the other advice I offered was brushed off with that smiling "don't tell me how to do my job" face.  Now she's back in the hospital with fluid in her lungs due to heart failure (she already had minor heart problems, but they should have been picked up on sooner than this), receiving care in the ICU.  Her blood pressure continues to drop really low, and though most of what I get is second hand from my mother-in-law, it appears she is going into septic shock.  I understand she's quite elderly and everyone has their time to go, but there's no need to rush the process.  This rest home has essentially killed my wife's grandmother.  I haven't even mentioned the unkind things the nurses have said about her and my mother-in-law when they thought no one was listening, nor the various other shortcomings my in-laws have been documenting.

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#632037
Topic
Last movie seen
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Sports movies generally feel very cliched.  However, there is one that really stands out to me: Miracle, starring Kurt Russell.  Compared to most "based on a true story" films, this one is actually very, very accurate, at least as far as how the games played out.  It captures the feeling of the era of US/Soviet rivalry, the excitement of a realistic hockey game (they taught hockey players how to act, rather than teaching actors how to play hockey, and it shows), and it carries some fine drama with it.  Most sports movies are meant to inspire, but to me they fall short.  This one did not.

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#631970
Topic
A New direction for Lucasfilm Animation
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Tobar said:

darth_ender said:

I know it will take place at some untouched timeframe, but what does that mean?  The only virgin Star Wars times are what, at least 150 years post ROTJ?

They said in a time not yet covered by film or television. Which is why I think it'll be a tie-in series to the new trilogy.

Good point.  You're probably right.  Gosh, it frustrates me to no end that they wouldn't do something to tie up that series in a nice package.  To me it's the best product from the prequel era...everything they could have been.  I hate that they "solved" the Sifo-Dyas plot hole with a comic, and I'd hate for them to do the same sort of thing with The Clone Wars. :(

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#631904
Topic
Is there an into thread?
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blowfish said:

I came back here to make an apolgy but you dickwads apperently think its funny to make fun of a guy behind his back. I've gone to lots of other Star Wars site sand they think I'm real cool there but you guys just make fun and criticize my spelling. The only cool one here is Adwyn and he is the only reason I joined this site anyways. Blowfish says go blow yourselfs!!

So much for leaving.  Try calming down a bit and you'll find most of us are pretty likable.  Yes, that includes Bingowings and TV's Frink ;)

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#631903
Topic
The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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Warbler said:

darth_ender said:

http://news.yahoo.com/judge-making-morning-pill-available-204902870--politics.html

I definitely advocate for this.  If it truly does no harm to a fertilized egg (and evidence overwhelming shows it does not), then I'd rather give this out like candy than see more teenagers have abortions.  Call me a RINO, but I see it as saving life, not costing it.

so this pill stops a pregnancy before the sperm cell hits the egg cell?    If true, I have no problem with it.

That is my understanding.  If only other Repubs would see it that way.  I'm not a fan of teens being sexually active, but I'm even less of a fan of dodging the consequences with abortions.  At least this will reduce the latter.

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#631822
Topic
The thread where we make enemies out of friends, aka the abortion debate thread
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http://news.yahoo.com/judge-making-morning-pill-available-204902870--politics.html

I definitely advocate for this.  If it truly does no harm to a fertilized egg (and evidence overwhelming shows it does not), then I'd rather give this out like candy than see more teenagers have abortions.  Call me a RINO, but I see it as saving life, not costing it.

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#631821
Topic
STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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Let me give a simpler explanation.  At night, go into an empty field with no nearby objects that would get in your peripheral vision when you look straight up.  Note the pattern of the stars.  Walk 20 paces to the left and look up again.  Any change?  Now walk 30 paces forward and look up.  Still no change?  When you are talking about celestial distances, there is very little change when you move so little.  Even when our planet is on the opposite side of the sun (half a year from the observation date), the pattern of stars remains unchanged to the naked eye, and only fine instruments can detect the minuscule differences in their relative positions.  Since those lines in hyperspace are created by stars, there is really no change no matter where on the ship you sit.

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#631801
Topic
What do you want for the future of Star Wars?
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I kinda like Jaitea's idea, though I agree that it couldn't be the Mon Cal.  Their best analogy might be the French.  Some other faction of the former good guys would have to turn, somebody big who could sorta serve as a USSR analogue.  Maybe the Corellian System or something like that.  They could be former allies with different ideologies and post-war plans, and pretty equally armed.  The idea really intrigues me.

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#631793
Topic
A New direction for Lucasfilm Animation
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I probably am the only one here who bothered to sign it, but I did my my name on the petition to save the Clone Wars.

http://www.causes.com/actions/1733395-allow-star-wars-the-clone-wars-to-remain-on-the-air-till-the-end

I doubt the Clone Wars protest groups are big enough or cohesive enough to change Disney's/LFL's mind, sadly.

Another article with a little more info on the Filoni interview:

http://screencrush.com/star-wars-the-clone-wars-dave-filoni-future/

And an interview from a couple of the guys from Lucas Animation and how in the dark they have been about TCW ending or how the "bonus material" will be released.  I'm starting to think we may get more than two arcs at least.

http://emertainmentmonthly.com/2013/04/05/interview-with-the-clone-wars-supervising-animation-editor-jason-tucker-and-assistant-animation-editor-nate-cormier/