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Ojo Rojo

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  1. Damn it's good to see our hitters getting well, our pitchers kicking ass and the team winning!
  2. We started the 5mg Focalin last Saturday. We waited a little while after we received the scrip because my wife and I were both out of town at different times and we wanted to be together so we could both watch him closely. I told our son that we were giving him medicine for his brain. He already knows and is very open about the fact that he's got something going on with his brain. He's very casual about it and it's not weird at all, which I'm grateful for. I'd like to think it's because my wife and I have been very careful to be casual about it and not act weird or ashamed or distraught or anything when we talk to him about it. Anyway, we went to a restaurant with extended family for lunch and we saw some immediate and strong effects of the medication. He got one of those kid's menus that has activities and shit you can color and whatnot. He focused INTENTLY on that the entire time. It was almost like a dog with a new bone. He didn't want to let it go. I had to take him and his little brother to the bathroom to change their clothes and he took that paper and the crayons into the bathroom and continued working on it up on the counter. So, at least initially, his ability to focus on a task has been tremendously affected by the medication. A downside is that he seems to be more aggro, which is not good. If we ask him to do something like brush his teeth or something that he doesn't want to do, he gets angry and screams instantly. That was kind of normal before, but it seems more severe and constant right now. We're just keeping a close eye on it, getting feedback from his teachers at school, who know what's going on, and then we'll decide if we need to talk to the pediatrician about maybe changing the dosage or medication. Too early to tell right now. He's also started occupational therapy. I'm about to run out to take him to his appointment now. It's only his second appointment so too early to see any effects. The OT and meds are all we're doing right now. We had the option of a group therapy session, but we decided maybe that was too much and we're just sticking with the other things right now. The group seemed to really help him last fall, so maybe if he struggles during the school year again we try to start that up again. We still don't have an answer for school next year. Most likely he's going to go to the public school in our neighborhood. We have no idea if it's going to work or be good for him long or short term. It's just a crapshoot and there's no amount of data or information that is going to make that decision any clearer. We're just going to have to try something and see how it goes then constantly reassess and respond accordingly.
  3. Musgrove is close on some of those numbers, but this has to be a reliever with only 9 IP. *Edited* It's Raley. On Pena and Correa, if Click et al let Carlos go because they knew what they had in Pena, then my hat is off to them.
  4. I read this guy's bio. What, exactly, qualifies him to be a U.S. Congressman? He's good looking and probably has a rich daddy? He's a college dropout. Seems like a major douchebag with bad behavior. Has no appreciable work experience.
  5. Why do they have to keep jacking with the ball? Is it impossible to standardize the thing? Forced manipulation to get numbers up or down sucks for the game and for fans.
  6. That is dicta and would not be controlling if ever such a case came before the court. But it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the makeup of the court.
  7. I'm not enough of a con law scholar to know if there has ever been a case reversing a case reversing a case. In my silver lining example, though, the future case reestablishing the right to legal abortion would be based on an entirely different part of the constitution than Roe. So it wouldn't really be a reversal of a reversal. It would be a whole new thing.
  8. I've been searching for a silver lining to all of this. The one thing I came up with is that many pro-choice advocates and legal scholars never liked Roe, including RBG herself, because they knew that tying legal abortion to the right to privacy was subject to attack. They were right and here we are now. RBG felt, as others did, that a stronger foundation for legal abortion would be based on gender discrimination. Here is an article that explains it a little further: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/ruth-bader-ginsburg-roe-v-wade.html My thought was, "Okay, now is the chance to go back and do this the way it should have been done from the beginning. Tie the right to a stronger constitutional basis." Except then I remembered that it doesn't matter how effective the argument, how perfectly the facts of a potential case would line up with constitutional guarantees or anything else other than the makeup of the court. If there is a majority conservative SCOTUS then there will be no legal right to abortion in this country. Period. And it's going to be years before the balance of the court tips.
  9. To prove just how pro life they are, I think they should make this crime eligible for the death penalty.
  10. Or Bill Miller.
  11. Yeah, that video seemed quite purposeful for horseplay.
  12. Agree 100%. And it's not just courts. It's every politician in the country.
  13. If you think about it, getting an appointment to the Supreme Court is really just a contest to see who can most deftly avoid answering the only questions that matter.
  14. Because they wouldn't get the appointment to the bench.
  15. Correct. And that's bullshit. It's the ONE thing we really need to know.
  16. I'm jealous that you can read people's minds so you know their intent. Their appointments were political; their judicial opinions are not. They are simply the worst examples of tools of the conservative presidents who appointed them and the conservative senators who approved their nominations.
  17. Y'all are having a pointless argument. We all know that the conservative appointees would overturn Roe if given they chance. We also know they can't say that during the confirmation hearings. It's all part of the bullshit fabric of our fucked up government. Nothing can just be fucking real.
  18. I don't have a problem with the leak, regardless who did it. I think it reflects poorly on the court, whose reputation is already tarnished, but there are far bigger reasons to disrespect the court than the leak. Namely, that Gorsuch's appointment is illegitimate because it was stolen from Obama and because the entire nominating process is entirely political and fucked. I also don't have a problem with what is said during the confirmation hearings. They should just do away with the confirmation hearings altogether. It's all just political theater and grandstanding. Utterly pointless. Nothing said during the hearings changes one senator's vote. The biggest problem with the Supreme Court is not that the justices are political hacks, because I really don't think they are. They each have their own judicial philosophies and they hold to those without an eye to politics. I really believe that to be true. The biggest problem is that the nominating process is 100% political. So what happens is that the nominating person and approving entity are acting with 100% political intent trying to install someone on the court who they think will do what they want most of the time. No one, and I mean no one, is asking things like, "Are they a good jurist? Are they intelligent? Are they fit for the position?" And most especially, "Will their nomination be good for the country?" The point in Washington is to win at the game of politics to get more money and power for yourself, not win at the game of governing effectively and for the good of the people. Until masses of voters stop paying attention to the wrong shit, believing shit that is not true and acting against their own self interest this will not change.
  19. Sometimes I am able to take a macro view and think big change is glacial and made up of thousands of tiny movements and that we just happen to be in a relatively short period of tiny movements that are in the wrong direction. Other times, I think that we are on an inevitable trajectory toward fascism, repression, injustice, suffering and death. Those times at least I can say, "Well, hey, I'm a white male. As long as I keep my mouth shut and my thoughts hidden they won't kill me." It's comforting.
  20. Is Goodrum in at 2B? Why? Did Altuve reaggravate? Or is precautionary with a large lead?
  21. Practice. Lots of practice.
  22. You know, contrary to popular belief, whipping a chimpanzee's ass with your bare hands is actually quite hard. You'd get wrecked, I'm told.
  23. Are you really a Sooner? I need to know before I start repping your posts.
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