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Polygamy on trial – why it shouldn't fly
The B.C. Supreme Court is in the final stages of its hearing to determine whether Canada's ban on polygamy is an infringement of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
You can follow the proceedings live in what is a first for Canadian courts, at this link.
There's an unusual cast of characters in this drama, ranging from the two fundamentalist Mormons who ran rival sects at the B.C. community of Bountiful, to the provincial government, anti-polygamy movements, and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.
Charges against Winston Blackmore and James Oler were stayed when a court found the B.C. had been "prosecutor shopping" before finding someone willing to press charges.The government then asked the B.C. Supreme Court to decide whether Canada's anti-polygamy law violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. An official statement from provincial attorney general Mike de Jong read: "Until Canadians and the justice system have clarity about the constitutionality of our polygamy laws, all provinces, including ours, face a lengthy and costly legal process in prosecuting alleged offences."
I've written on this issue for The National Post. My perspective is that of someone who grew up in the adjoining community of Creston and saw the sect first take root there.
A reading of Daphne Branham's book, The Secret Lives of Saints (Random House) will eliminate any doubts you may have about the devastating consequences of religious polygamy on its innocent victims. She has an amazing story in the Vancouver Sun today on the trafficking of young girls between B.C. and the United States.
Eight out of ten Canadians favor enforcement of the anti-polygamy law, according to public opinion surveys. I share that view. Allowing exploitation and brain washing of young people by any religion is bad enough, but it's worse when the result is a lifetime of subjugation and child-bearing for girls as young as fourteen.
Surprisingly, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association opposes the present ban, but admits polygamy can and does cause harm. But it's no worse than the harm that can come from monogamous relationships, they say.
I wonder. How many conventional relationships are based on a dictate to produce as many children as you can, by as many wives as you can garner, in order to occupy the highest rank next to god in heaven?
The Civil Liberties argument reminds me of the gun lobby and their cry – "guns don't kill people. people kill people."
The current hearing can have only one rational outcome – to reaffirm the present ban. Polygamy shouldn't fly.
Democracy's future — the issue of issues
It was billed as a rally on "The Future of Canada's Democracy" and it turned out to be that and much more. Only hours before, the election had been called for May 2 . The timing changed it from a Town Hall-type meeting to an enthusiastic campaign kickoff for Dr. Ted Hsu (pronounced shoe), Liberal candidate for Kingston and the Islands, one of the fifty ridings the Globe and Mail has identified as key to the election outcome.
Several hundred people filled the Memorial Room of Kingston's historic City Hall to hear the candidate, supported by Dr. Carolyn Bennett, the Liberal MP for Toronto St. Paul's, deplore the anti-democratic practices of the Harper government. Examples included prorouging Parliament to avoid accountability, refusing to spell out the $40 billion costs of buying fighter aircraft and building unneeded prisons — all culminating in the historic vote that found the Harper regime in contempt of Parliament. That brought down the government Friday and set the election machinery in motion.
Retiring MP Peter Millikan, whose even-handed performance as Speaker of the House of Commons has won him much praise, got a huge standing ovation from the mostly partisan crowd. There were a few Conservative voters there. One stood and admitted he'd made a mistake in 2008, and would never again vote for Stephen Harper & Company.
The issue that turned him around was the government's insistence on closing prison farms, a big issue in a riding with four federal penitentiaries. Shutting down the farms is symptomatic of the Harper government's preference for vindictive punishment rather than reform and rehabilitation. Better to keep men locked idly in cells, they seem to think, than let them practice responsibility and healthy work — useful habits that just might motivate a few to take up a law-abidng life. The Liberal party has pledged to reopen the farms, which incidentally pay for themselves many times over in what they produce.
The former Conservative voter paid tribute to the 26 Kingston people, ranging in age from 14 to 76, who suffered arrest in protesting the closures. Outside City hall stood Bossy the cow, symbol of the campaign.
There was talk of Coalition and its role in Parliamentary life. Hours earlier, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff had made clear the party's position. His exact words were:
"Whoever leads the party that wins the most seats on election day should be called on to form the government. If that is the Liberal Party, then I will be required to rapidly seek the confidence of the newly-elected Parliament. If our government cannot win the support of the House, then Mr. Harper will be called on to form a government and face the same challenge. That is our Constitution. It is the law of the land."
(This is more or less what I had written a couple of days ago. Ignatieff went on to pledge that a Liberal government would enter no Coalition with the NDP and would never countnenance a partnership with the Bloc Quebecois.)
Campaign coverage today has Mr. Harper still pushing his Coalition strategy, claiming he needs a majority to stop the Liberals and NDP from ganging up and installing a government which hasn't won the most votes. It's a clever message — will it work?
It's hard to see how this issue will last until voting day. Liberals will try to get the campaign back on ethical and economic issues — the lack of ethics in the Harper government and its economic mismanagement. Far from handling the economy well, Conservatives have blown the surplus they inherited and through unwise tax cuts for banks and corporations, have crippled our ability to get out of deficit.
Another word about the Future of Canada's Democracy. Never have we had a government so centralized and controlled by one man. This has put Parliament, according to Dr. Bennett, in a vice between an ever more powerful executive branch, and an activist judiciary. It's usually the right wing that complaints about the power of judges. But when you add judicial power to the power of the PM's office, it emasculates Parliament and its authority, reducing MPs to constituency social workers helping people to get their passports on time.
Not exactly what the Magna Carta — or the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — is all about.
Coalition is the Canadian way
With the election campaign underway, party strategists are bidding to frame the "ballot question" that Canadians will be looking to answer when they cast their votes.
Conservatives would like the ballot question to be a choice between a Harper Majority and an Opposition Coalition — an"unholy alliance" of Liberals, socialist NDPers, and separatists of the Bloc Québécois. The Tory message is a powerful one and it is clear it has set the tone for the first few days of the campaign. It's also a clever way to dodge answering the real questions facing the electorate.
Conveniently forgotten in the hurly burly is both the budget and its "little goodies" and the historic vote on which the Harper regime fell — branded as the only government in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament.
The media have taken up the cry of Coalition, demanding a more explicit answer from Michael Ignatieff than he has so far chosen — or been able — to provide. And they're not likely to let up.
Mr. Ignatieff needs to dispose of the Coalition conundrum once and for all.Given how the Conservatives have managed to distort the issue, painting the prospect of a Coalition as something that would rob voters of whatever choice they might make on election day, he is going to have to find a way of putting the issue to rest.
It's well-known he was a reluctant supporter of the Stephan Dion bid to push aside Mr. Harper after the 2008 election with a Coalition of Liberals and the NDP, backed by a pledge from the Bloc for a year of support. The Bloc's involvement enabled the Conservative to tar the Coalition as a bed-in with the separatists, something they (horror of horrors) would never allow.
Of course, Mr. Harper conveniently overlooks that he tried to get exactly the same deal from the NDP and the Bloc in 2005 during the Martin minority.
Coalition government is totally consistent with our parliamentary system. And Mr. Ignatieff can answer the question clearly and unashamedly. Being the gifted writer that he is, he should have no difficulty. Here's how he might put it:
"The party that wins the most seats on election day will form the government. Our aim is to see that this is the Liberal party. Whatever government is formed, it will have to meet Parliament and win a confidence vote. And if it cannot, the Governor General will be obliged to give the next largest party — Liberal or Conservative — a chance. In either case, it would be entirely proper for either one to seek the support of another party if that is necessary. That's the Canadian way."
Beyond that, he need not answer hypothetical questions. What party would he ask for support, what terms would he offer, would he take members of another party into his cabinet? All those are questions that could be equally directed to Mr. Harper, and they are questions that need not and could not be answered ahead of the fact.
Most European countries, including the United Kingdom, are governed by coalitions of parties. Canada had a coalition government during the dark days of the First World War.
Mr. Ignatieff needs to put the Coalition question to rest. Then we can get on with discussing the real issues of the campaign — including economic recovery, health care, the outlook for our involvement in Libya, and the future of the nuclear industry in Canada.
Until then, the spectre of Coalition is a giant distraction, working to the advantage of the Harperites who would prefer not to have to answer to their own undemocratic and spendthrift ways.
Are eBooks changing the way we read — and write?
The launch of Apple's iPad II in Canada this weekend is a great time to discuss the effect of such new reading devices on both the way we read books, and the way we write them.
I've had a Sony Reader for over a year. As one of the first eBook readers, its technology is pretty basic and it's already been surpassed by the competition — the Kindle, the Kobo (from ChaptersIndigo), the iPad, and the new RIM Playbook.
For that reason, my reading pattern is probably not typical. When I get around to buying one of the newer products I'll be better able to measure the difference. For now, I can only say that I've used the Sony mainly to download classics I had never gotten around to reading, and specialist books that I would not be inclined to buy in print. For "real" reading, I still prefer the paper version.
But others have a different take on the effects of the more than ten million electronic reading devices already in use in North America.
Time magazine book reviewer Lev Grossman says these new devices are forcing people to read in different ways:
They scroll and scroll and scroll. You don't have this business of handling pages and turning them and savouring them."
As a result, he adds, you get very fast reading, picking up snatches here and there as we do with news off the Internet, with little or no lingering on the language.
Once we lose the desire to absorb the nuances of descriptive narrative and the beautiful language that the best writers evoke to tell their stories, what point will there be to that kind of writing? Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, E. L. Doctorow — will anybody be reading them? Will their like be seen among future writers?
One of my favorite pieces of writing — in Mark Hume's River of the Angry Moon (Greystone Books, 1998) — has taken me back time and again:
"The river is fed by the sky. It runs over a bed of shattered mountains, through the dreams of a great forest and into the mouths of ancient fishes. It starts in clouds as grey and heavy as the sea and ends in a windswept estuary haunted by ghosts. It is a place where white swans dance on dark mud flats and salmon lay fragile eggs in nests of stone."
You can't get this in the 140-word bursts of books being written on Twitter. Stories that are written to grab your attention for a moment, for readers who are not very interested in style and beautiful language.
Right now, most eBooks are of course only an electronic version of the original print. But as eBook sales pick up and outpace their hard copy parents (as has happened on Amazon already), writers, agents and publishers are going to be looking at what sells online, and adapting their narratives accordingly.
Already, writers are being forced to speed up their narratives. At the eBook sites, sales are triggered by brief excerpts or quick overviews. More than ever, writers will have to hook readers right away.
"You're going to want to have blood on the wall by the end of the second paragraph," adds Lev Grossman.
eBooks are changing the world of publishing in all respects, from pricing to author's royalties to the opening up of the marketplace to self-publishing. There's a potential new audience of millions of readers who have seldom or never bought books before.
Whether what they'll buy — and what they'll be offered — will represent books as we have known them, only the future will tell.
So go ahead and try out the electronic reader — the reviews says the iPad II is great and that RIM's new Playbook will be a tough competitor. Remember that the $500 it costs will buy you a dozen or more hard cover titles — and what it brings you may never match what you already have.
Lies, damn lies, and attack ads
Advertising is a deceptive craft at best. At its worst, advertising can be duplicitous, false, and harmful to the public interest. The scale runs the gamut from the simple bullshit of hair dye commercials to the "Big Lie" fostered by the Nazi Party and others of evil genius.
Advertising can be as crass as TV's ugly used car salesman pitching his heaps from a littered lot, to the intellectually challenging, graphically inspiring theme of the historic (and since unmatched) Apple Computer "1984" ad. Advertising of this nature requires immense creative and literary talent.
So where do political attack ads — particularly those of the Conservative Party of Canada — rank on the scale?
I'd say somewhere between misleading and fraudulent.
The latest example is an attack ad on Michael Ignatieff's alleged position on corporate taxes. It supposedly unravels the Liberal leader's "plan" to increase taxes. Actually, it's another attempt at character assassination .Dissect this ad piece by piece, and here's what you find:
Claim: That Ignatieff is pushing for a $6 billion tax increase. Fact: A Liberal government would cancel the Conservative government's planned $6 billion reduction in corporate taxes.
Does cancellation of a tax decrease amount to a tax increase? Continuing to pay the same tax rate hardly constitutes an increase. (To say nothing of the merits of the issue: should we be borrowing money to cut government revenues by $6 billion at a time when Ottawa is running a $56 billion deficit?)
Claim : That Ignatieff's "tax increase" would be paid for by workers. Fact: If there's anything to be paid (which is debatable) it would be paid by corporations and their shareholders, whom Ignatieff would deprive of yet more largesse from the public coffers, courtesy of Stephen Harper.
If Ignatieff were calling for an increase in corporate taxes, you could argue that companies would pass the cost to consumers. But that's not the case here: products are already priced relative to current taxes (not some future lower rate). The competitive climate doesn't allow companies to boost prices beyond any increases in real cost.
A question the ad doesn't address: Would still lower corporate taxes lower prices and boost jobs? Debatable, according to leading economists. Look at Ireland, which has cut its corporate tax rate to the lowest in the world. Today, it's an economic basket case.
Claim: "He didn't come back for you." Fact: Another personal slur on Michael Ignatieff which reduces political discourse to the level of a chicken coop diatribe polluted by arguments unworthy of consideration by any intelligent voter. A "Big Lie" perhaps?
The Liberals have had their share of attack ads but none have descended to the depravity practiced by their Conservative opponents. The Green party, less flush than the two big old line parties, can safely boast they'll not play this game:
The skill of the ad writers for the Conservative party cannot be questioned. But I leave it up to you to decide if your ability to twist, distort and lie about your competition is a quality you'd want to put on your resume.
Foreign money and Canadian books
The debate on the role of foreign ownership in Canadian book publishing never seems to go away. Publishing reporter John Barber of The Globe and Mail weighs in today with a long article urging changes in our foreign investment rules to allow foreign publishers to invest in — or buy out — Canadian publishers.
The whole issue of foreign investment in publishing is under review now by Conservative culture minister James Moore.
Barber concedes current rules "helped produce a spectacular literary flowering." And while allowing that small presses are doing a good job, he laments their lack of financial heft to properly promote their writers.
More Canadian writers are published by the smaller Canadian-owned publishers. But the best sellers usually come from the branch plants of multi national publishers. They have the money to sign — and then promote — the best-known Canadian names. Barber's argument, shared by some small presses, is that foreign investment in their operations would enable them to better compete with the big branch plants — all to the benefit of both writers and readers.
Facing the digital-only future
Newspapers as well as books are migrating to electronic sales. Montreal's La Presse, long considered the top daily of French Canada, may be getting ready to phase out its print edition. Its Sunday edition already gone, the paper has assembled a digital team that could move it totally into the digital world.
" … there is a strong possibility that there will no longer be a print edition of a La Presse within three to seven years,' says the head of the Quebec journalist's union.
The Montreal daily wouldn't be the first. Several American papers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, have shut their print editions and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has launched the first all electronic newspaper designed for Apple's iPad — The Daily.
My own E-Book – Boy in the Picture
So maybe now's the time to mention that my recent book, The Boy in the Picture, is now available as an eBook from Chapters Indigo, among other online retailers. A bargain at $7.79. Thanks, Dundurn Press, for opening up this wider market for me.
When police are above the law
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is out with a report calling for a public inquiry into police actions during the June, 2010 G20 meetings in Toronto.
The report, Breach of the Peace, is here.
While the call is predictable — and in my opinion, fully justified — it's not likely anything will come of it. But consider how the CCLA sums up the findings from its own public hearings::
During these two days, 1,105 people were
arrested by police – the largest mass-arrest in Canadian peace
time history. Media, human rights monitors, protestors and
passers-by were scooped up off the streets. Detained people
were not allowed to speak to a lawyer or to their families.
Arbitrary searches occurred in countless locations across the
city, in many instances several kilometres from the G20 Summit
site. Peaceful protests were violently dispersed and force
was used. In an effort to locate and frustrate a small cohort of
vandals, police disregarded the constitutional rights of thousands."
A key point of the report is that the atmosphere for the repression of legitimate public protest was set during the planning stage when various security forces were given a free hand to do largely as they wished, without consideration of constitutional rights such as those entrenched in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The report singles out the lack of transparency surrounding the designation of the security perimeter (the fence) set up around the G20 meeting sites. Police misled the public into thinking anyone could be arrested in the vicinity of the fence. Indeed, for a time they genuinely thought this to be the case. But even when they found out differently, they refused to properly instruct their officers or to advise the public.
Most of the arrests took place far from the security perimeter. The police raid on the dormitories of the University of Toronto, and the attack on peaceful protesters taking a break in Queen's Park — where Premier McGuinty had invited to them set up a protest zone — were all part of what Ontario's Ombudsman has called the biggest violations of civil rights in Canadian history.
(Yes, bigger than the War Measures Act in 1970, used to round up suspected separatists following the FLQ kidnappings in Montreal).
Ironically, during the one occasion during the G20 meetings when violent protesters began smashing shop windows in downtown Toronto, the police were nowhere to be seen. They hung back, letting the vandals do their worst. The magnitude of this blunder raises the question of whether there was some intentional strategy to escalate the threat, thus justifying the hard crackdown on non-violent protesters that followed.
Premier McGuinty has flatly refused to endorse a public inquiry. Prime Minister Harper hasn't been heard from. After all, it was Harper's plan to bring the G20 leaders into downtown Toronto, tie up the city on a June weekend, and spend a billion dollars on security.
The Premier's excuse is that five separate inquiries are already underway into this sad episode. However, none will have the cleansing, cathartic effect of a full-fledged, judicially directed public inquiry.
It has become acceptable since 9/11 to accept massively repressive interventions into normal life. In too many instances, the police are being put above the law. Despite filmed evidence of countless physical attacks carried out by police on peaceful citizens, only one member of the Toronto police force has been charged. The excuse is that the offenders can't be identified — they had removed their badges, itself a violation of police regulations.
On the evidence, the police conducted themselves as above the law on G20 weekend. How does their behavior differ — in principle — from that of that of the police or the military in other countries who attack their citizens during public protests? Think Egypt, think Libya. Admittedly, no one's shooting at people on Canadian streets — not yet.
By attacking innocent civilians, and forcibly confining them without charges, two types of crimes were committed — assault and kidnapping. Police argue that the law allows them to take individuals into custody when it is suspected a crime has been committed. But when there is no valid suspicion? No evidence? When all but a handful of those arrested on G20 charges are released without charges?
The CCLA has rendered a great public service in pursuing this outrage. Its report concludes:
The many violations of civil liberties
that occurred during the Summit, such as illegal detentions and
searches and excessive uses of force, cannot have simply been the
actions of a few bad apples. Rather, given the scope and severity of
the violations of rights that occurred during the G20, it is difficult
to view this situation as anything other than a failure of policy and
This is why a public inquiry is still needed.


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On the basis of a brief listen to the E model a while back, +1. Pity nobody makes a reproduction 755 these days, aside from Line Magnetics, who do the field coil at an 'if you have to ask...' price, and the top end according to Clark Blumenstein is MIA so not sure what's happened there.
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Yeah, I'm surprised the Asians haven't, considering that over a decade ago Nick [Lambda Acoustics] found that the OEM still had all the molds, etc. to make the diaphragms, but wanted something like $100 each in lots of 10 k IIRC, way too much for a small company, but not a worldwide provider.
Hmm, it's pretty much done by 10 kHz, so would need a super tweeter today, but when it was designed, ~11 kHz/F10 was the 'bleeding edge' of reproduction capability. GM
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even though I only heard it "open-air" at Bud Purvine's place a year or so ago, the Fostex F200A is kinda nice as well
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You, sir, have excellent taste Sadly, I own neither but I feel very lucky just to hear them when I can.
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Real 755As have a superb balance, seem to have more subjective HF than measured and produce bass in the proper proportion to the HF. It is still just about my favorite speaker, although a bitch to set up right. Easy to make it sound awful. Who knows what that LM 755EX is...it seems to deviate quite a bit from 755A specs. 8 ohm instead of 4 ohm, efficiency is a bit down, fs is far lower than a real 755A according to the factory website (68 vs 95hz). and the biggie... field coil vs massive Alnico donut magnet. It might be a good speaker but it is probably best viewed as its own thing rather than anything to do with a WE 755A except looks from the front. Attempts were made in Japan to make repro 755As and replacement cones but nobody ever pulled it off to the satisfaction of people who know what real 755As can do. I am a big fan of 755As but they just cost too much to take seriously unless you have stoopid piles of loose cash laying around--or if you get lucky and find some in the wild. I just spent a few days hanging out with the top 755A experts in the world, Mukai and Doi of Western Sound Inc (Mr. Doi is resident WE expert at Stereo Sound and Tube Kingdom)...I put some of their comments on my blog at junkboxjukebox.com in posts about the 755A. |
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Wharfedale Super 8/FS/AL for me. When compared to Fostex FE208Sigma (haven't tried any other 'greats') these surely better them: highs without shrillness, open mids and way better lows. Convinced me finally that there's a connection between voice coil in full range drivers being one inch or smaller and faithful reproduction of mids/highs...
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I went to the walk-in clinic with chest pain yesterday
When they found out I was uninsured, they agreed to check me out - but I had to make a $108 down payment. Who knows how much the entire visit will cost. So basically, I had a choice: Go to the ER, where there would be no down payment but the cost of the visit would probably be much higher, or pay a $108 down payment to get checked out at the clinic.
I paid the $108. Can't wait for Obamacare to catch up to me... or better still, the public option.
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40 replies | Author | Time | Post |
I went to the walk-in clinic with chest pain yesterday (Original post) |
Flying Squirrel | Nov 2012 | OP |
flamingdem | Nov 2012 | #1 | |
MADem | Nov 2012 | #2 | |
Flying Squirrel | Nov 2012 | #7 | |
seabeyond | Nov 2012 | #14 | |
MADem | Nov 2012 | #24 | |
1monster | Nov 2012 | #34 | |
Liberal_in_LA | Nov 2012 | #35 | |
hrmjustin | Nov 2012 | #3 | |
WiffenPoof | Nov 2012 | #4 | |
Flying Squirrel | Nov 2012 | #6 | |
Care Acutely | Nov 2012 | #10 | |
phleshdef | Nov 2012 | #13 | |
riverwalker | Nov 2012 | #26 | |
Lint Head | Nov 2012 | #5 | |
lunatica | Nov 2012 | #19 | |
Fridays Child | Nov 2012 | #8 | |
MiniMe | Nov 2012 | #9 | |
LittlestStar | Nov 2012 | #11 | |
CaliforniaPeggy | Nov 2012 | #12 | |
grahamhgreen | Nov 2012 | #15 | |
bvar22 | Nov 2012 | #18 | |
ProSense | Nov 2012 | #36 | |
bvar22 | Nov 2012 | #38 | |
ragulli | Nov 2012 | #16 | |
Honeycombe8 | Nov 2012 | #20 | |
Raine | Nov 2012 | #17 | |
Honeycombe8 | Nov 2012 | #21 | |
Raine | Nov 2012 | #32 | |
Honeycombe8 | Nov 2012 | #37 | |
Raine | Nov 2012 | #40 | |
Patiod | Nov 2012 | #28 | |
Raine | Nov 2012 | #33 | |
HopeHoops | Nov 2012 | #22 | |
hunter | Nov 2012 | #27 | |
HopeHoops | Nov 2012 | #31 | |
bvar22 | Nov 2012 | #23 | |
Patiod | Nov 2012 | #29 | |
bvar22 | Nov 2012 | #30 | |
Patiod | Nov 2012 | #39 | |
Jasana | Nov 2012 | #25 |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:12 AM
flamingdem (35,630 posts)
1. I agree and really want to know the details
because I'm not sure that I can celebrate yet, I'm hoping to reduce my premiums mostly, and my deductible is ridiculous. If I go to the emergency room it's essentially out of pocket even though I get raked each month for premiums.
Glad you're okay and it's always better to check yourself out when it comes to the heart! What I really don't like is that they presented you with a decision when you're not well. |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:18 AM
MADem (135,078 posts)
Was it a heart attack, a pre-heart 'incident' or a bad meal repeating on you?
Inquiring minds want to know!!!!! Hope you came out of it all well, and only a hundred and eight bucks poorer for the fright... |
Response to MADem (Reply #2)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:20 AM
Flying Squirrel (2,957 posts)
7. Just a muscle strain apparently
Had been moving some heavy equipment. Have had high blood pressure for 10+ yrs
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #7)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:45 AM
seabeyond (110,159 posts)
14. isnt it something. do i go, do i not. is it really something. wont i feel like a fool
if i dont go and then...
it is a tough call. i am glad you went, and all is well. |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #7)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:38 PM
MADem (135,078 posts)
24. Thank goodness--take care of yourself, now! nt
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #7)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:30 PM
1monster (11,012 posts)
34. Are you on medication for the BP? Many of them are only $4.00 per month and
more than well worth the cost...
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #7)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:31 PM
Liberal_in_LA (44,397 posts)
35. Glad it wasn't anything serious.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:18 AM
hrmjustin (69,490 posts)
3. I hope you stay healthy. Good luck!
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:19 AM
WiffenPoof (1,995 posts)
4. So...What The Hell Happened????
You can't just leave us hanging. Was it a heart attack? What!!!!!????
Apparently you are fine and I am happy for you...lol. -Paige |
Response to WiffenPoof (Reply #4)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:19 AM
Flying Squirrel (2,957 posts)
6. It was just a muscle strain apparently
I have had high bp for 10+ yrs and got worried about the chest pain after moving some heavy equipment.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #6)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:53 AM
Care Acutely (1,370 posts)
10. OK. Is your high blood pressure under control? If not, why not?
Many HTN meds are way cheap.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Reply #6)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:43 AM
phleshdef (10,895 posts)
13. Sounds like Costochondritis.
I've had it off and on for about 3 years now. Its rib inflammation, can mimick heart attack pain sometimes and can be short lived or chronic.
Response to phleshdef (Reply #13)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:48 PM
riverwalker (7,814 posts)
26. if it's "reproducible" it's usually muscle
or costochondritits. Meanng, if you push or rub an area and it brings on the pain or makes it worse, it's probably not your heart.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:37 AM
Lint Head (13,433 posts)
5. If you hadn't had the $108.00 would they let you just have a heart attack?
This is despicable. Staying alive should never be for profit.
Response to Lint Head (Reply #5)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:52 AM
lunatica (33,333 posts)
19. He would have gone to the emergency room
He's saying he had a choice, which I'm glad he did. It'll get better when Obamacare kicks in. And hopefully it will lead to real universal healthcare for all citizens.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:34 AM
Fridays Child (23,993 posts)
8. So, reading your OP made me want to look up the current thinking on the public option...
...and I found this: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/11/15/the-public-option-alive-and-well-in-obamacare/
It says that "in 2014, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the small agency that runs the federal civil service, will administer at least two nationwide health plans to compete against private insurance. OPM will be responsible for negotiating the new health plans medical-loss ratio, profit margins, and premiums. "The OPM-sponsored plans will automatically qualify to compete against private health plans in the new state exchanges and thus will not be subject to the same qualifications and standards outlined in Obamacare for private plans in the exchanges. OPM must contract with an already existing large insurer, because such a plan must be offered in 60 percent of states in year one. "These government-sponsored plans will be the only plans that can compete nationwide under a separate set of government rules. Moreover, such plans would have a clear advantage over private plans in the exchanges." It's clearly a scare tactic-style article designed to rally health care industry lobbyists. And the fact that it's from the Heritage Foundation even further exposes the writer's agenda. But, is it true? Will we really have an option to buy our insurance from better priced federally operated plans, no matter which state we live in? If this is true and the threat to the big health insurance companies is high, will this option become a bargaining chip for Congressional 'pukes to strong-arm Democrats with? If so, we need to do everything we can to convince our Congressional Democrats to protect it. I hope you're feeling better! |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 01:50 AM
MiniMe (15,427 posts)
9. You did the right thing to have it checked out
I was in the same type of situation 2 years ago. It cost me a bit less, don't remember how much I had to pay, but I left the clinic in an ambulance to the hospital. It was Christmas day, and I was really hoping that it was a muscle strain, but unfortunately, I was having a heart attack. Obviously, I am fine now, but it turned out that it was a good thing that I went to the clinic and was checked out. I still have an unpaid 36k hospital bill, but they took care of me in the hospital, put a stent in my heart, and I spent a few days in the CCU. You never know with those kind of things.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:30 AM
LittlestStar (224 posts)
11. Well I hope you are ok!
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:41 AM
CaliforniaPeggy (121,500 posts)
12. I'm relieved it was only a muscle strain......
You were smart to have it checked out.
IF your blood pressure is not being controlled via medications, you should immediately seek help. Uncontrolled high BP is damaging not only to your heart, but also your kidneys. I speak as a retired RN, BTW. Perhaps there is a low-cost clinic you could visit? |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:53 AM
grahamhgreen (15,741 posts)
15. Go to a "community health center" in your area,
It's the best part of obamacare
Response to grahamhgreen (Reply #15)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:44 AM
bvar22 (39,909 posts)
18. Community Health Centers pre-date "ObamaCare".
I was going to our Community Health Center while Bush-the-Lesser was president.
Response to bvar22 (Reply #18)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:40 PM
ProSense (116,464 posts)
36. "expand community health centers and double the number of patients "
President Obama on Tuesday signed a historic health care reform bill. We are not a nation that scales back its aspirations, Obama said of the decades-long struggle to pass the measure. Millions of workers, families, seniors, small business owners stand to benefit from lower health care costs, improved coverage and strong consumer protections. The landmark legislation will extend coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, and reduce federal budget deficits by $143 billion in the coming decade. A provision by Senator Bernie Sanders will dramatically expand community health centers and double the number of patients receiving primary care, dental care, mental health counseling and low-cost prescription drugs. Sanders joined other members of Congress at the bill-signing ceremony in the White House East Room.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=50d57889-6180-4592-a4be-94d3918b73ac It's a good thing, law of the land and all. |
Response to ProSense (Reply #36)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 10:25 PM
bvar22 (39,909 posts)
38. Many are under the impression that the Affordable Care Act created Community Health Centers,
....an "impression" that was fostered BY the people marketing the Affordable Care Act.
It didn't. Community Health Centers pre-date the Affordable Care Act by many years. Increasing the funding to Community Care Centers IS a good thing, but probably wouldn't have been included in the ACA without the efforts of Bernie Sanders and a handful of other members of the Progressive Caucus who worked together and basically shamed the Party Leadership into doing this after they discarded the Public Option. I would like to think that ANY Democrat would increase funding to this program in and of itself, because it is a good program, and is successful at delivering Health Care where it is needed. The Community Center My Wife & I have been using since the Bush Administration (2006) in rural Arkansas offers a sliding scale based only on last year's income (bring a copy of your tax return), and a 30% discount for paying cash on delivery for both Medical and Dental services. The increase in funding and expansion of this program is a GOOD thing, and I fully support it. |
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 04:03 AM
ragulli (3 posts)
16. Clinic or ER?
I worked over night unloading trucks and at the end of my shift on a Saturday AM I started having chest pains so I clocked out and drove over to my clinic. It was early, I was the first person there and I explained to them what was going on. I did have insurance so everything started going pretty fast. I was laid on a gurney, they drew blood, hooked me up to a EKG and 15 minutes later they called an ambulance to rush me to St Luke's on the South side of Milwaukee, about 50 miles away. Once there they wasted no time either, sending a probe from my groin up to my heart where they found a few problems that took some work to fix. I was stabilized, anesthetized and on Monday morning I had a Quad Bypass. If I had not had insurance I would have died because there was absolutely no time to go through any red tape.
Response to ragulli (Reply #16)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:57 AM
Honeycombe8 (19,047 posts)
20. What kind of clinic did you go to? The only clinics I've seen here in Dallas`
are those emergency stop clinics like PrimaCare. That kind of clinic? They are not low cost. They're just easy to get into. They take walk-ins. I've been there a couple of times for emergency type things. It was great. Quick to get in and out. But they were pretty pricey. (I have ins. The co-pay was $50, as opposed to $25 for a dr. I think I have to pay $150 for it now, under my current lousy ins.)
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 04:45 AM
Raine (21,562 posts)
17. I'm glad you are OK. I'm uninsured too
and I worry all the time, I'm doing my best to hang on till 2014.
Response to Raine (Reply #17)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 08:59 AM
Honeycombe8 (19,047 posts)
21. Do you have any low income clinics in your city? I looked online to find some
here in Dallas. We have only a couple, and they are very far from me. I have ins., but I wanted to know where these clinics are, in case I lost my job and got in trouble financially. But it was good to see that at least we had a couple. I'm sure the people going there have to wait a looooong time to get seen.
Response to Honeycombe8 (Reply #21)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 07:09 PM
Raine (21,562 posts)
32. I don't know about low income clinics. There are some Urgent Care places that are no appointment
necessary. I went to one when I had an ear infection had to pay (can't remember how much). I'll have look in the phone book and internet to see if there is a low income clinic. I imagine they would be farther away though because I live in an affluent area even though I'm not affluent myself (it's the house my parents had). THANKS for the suggestion.
Response to Raine (Reply #32)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 10:13 PM
Honeycombe8 (19,047 posts)
37. I found a site listing free or no ins. or low income health care places....
Click on your state.
http://www.needymeds.org/free_clinics.taf Those urgent care places you're talking about are like any other care provider. They take regular ins., are pricey, they will take no ins. if you pay for the treatment at the time. They're great for, well, urgent care. I've been a couple of times when I couldn't drive far enough to a regular dr., or wait very long. I have a pretty good urgent care place near me where wait time is short. There's a high co-pay for them, in my ins., though. They don't want us to go there. I guess they don't have contracts with them, or their prices are higher than normal. My co-pay is like going to an E.R., I think. |
Response to Honeycombe8 (Reply #37)
Thu Nov 22, 2012, 06:16 AM
Raine (21,562 posts)
40. THANKS SO MUCH, this will be a reall help! I really
appreciate it.
Response to Raine (Reply #17)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:11 PM
Patiod (11,808 posts)
28. Have you thought about an HSA?
My SO and I are in good health, and I pay $200 for me (age 52) and $179 for him (he's a smoker and 50).
We get almost nothing for this but we are protected from catastrophe, and from losing the house if there is a huge medical bill. Also, the $5000 we have in the account rolls over each year, and we feel better about that than we do about paying insane amounts for insurance each month and getting very little for it. |
Response to Patiod (Reply #28)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 07:11 PM
Raine (21,562 posts)
33. THANKS I will look into that. nt
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 09:14 AM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
22. I've done the ER thing a few times (ambulance included) - it's fucking expensive.
I hope the pain doesn't imply anything serious. It's better to get checked out and ignore the collection agency calls than to ignore the pain and see what happens. Vibes.
Response to HopeHoops (Reply #22)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:00 PM
hunter (25,874 posts)
27. I'm very good at ignoring collection agency calls.
There hasn't been a day since my wife and I last had good insurance (back in the 'eighties) that we haven't had medical bills we can't pay. My wife now has insurance through her work, but it's not very good. There's a lot that doesn't get covered and too many claims get denied and have to be fought for. It's $500 here, $180 there, and it all adds up. I've been avoiding my own doctor this past year because I owe him money. I don't think he cares, but I do.
We're better off now then the time my wife and I were both forced to work as independent contractors and we ran out a COBRA from her previous job. That was when we discovered we were uninsurable. My wife had to go on a state run "last resort" insurance plan. We bought separate health insurance for our kids. I got by with no insurance and cut my meds back to mere survival mode. Chronic medical problems suck. Accidents and chronic diseases can happen to anyone. The USA is not a first world nation because it lacks a national health care plan. |
Response to hunter (Reply #27)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 06:03 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
31. Well said. Even "good" insurance sucks.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 09:23 AM
bvar22 (39,909 posts)
23. What exactly do you expect ObamaCare to do for you?
"There will be four different categories of plans available on the exchange: bronze, silver, gold and platinum (as well as a catastrophic plan available mostly to young adults). The benefits of the four plan types will be similar; all will cover a package of comprehensive essential health benefits yet to be determined by the secretary of Health and Human Services. What will vary is a familys cost-sharing responsibility for each of the plan types. Someone in a bronze plan can expect it to cover 60 percent of average medical costs in the plan, for example, while someone in a silver plan can expect 70 percent of plan costs to be covered, and so on."
http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/why-would-i-sign-up-for-a-bronze-plan/ "For a bronze plan, the insurance would cover 60 percent of all health care costs for an average person. Enrollees, on average, would be responsible for paying 40 percent of the costs."
http://101.communitycatalyst.org/aca_provisions/coverage_tiers If I am hospitalized for a heart attack, it won't really matter if I have to pay 40% or 100%, the outcome is the same. They will STILL take everything I own and have worked for my whole life. In civilized countries, the term "Medical Bankruptcy" is virtually unknown. |
Response to bvar22 (Reply #23)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 02:14 PM
Patiod (11,808 posts)
29. I agree 100%
No one should go bankrupt from a medical emergency.
Health insurance shoudn't be an employer's responsibility We need universal care NOW Until then, I got an HSA so that everything over $5K/years is covered 100%. I do not want to lose my house to a hospitalization. |
Response to Patiod (Reply #29)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 05:37 PM
bvar22 (39,909 posts)
30. You are fortunate in that you have access to and can afford a HSA in addition to Health Insurance.
Millions can not, especially the unemployed over 50.
Mandated "Bronze" Insurance won't really help them either, though many don't realize that in addition to the cost of their premiums and deductibles, they will also be responsible for 40% of the actual Medical Costs. My Wife & I (over 55, self-unemployed, no insurance, but own property and have some assets) are positioned to benefit from the Medicaid Expansion since the means testing portion is supposed to be dropped, but the Medicaid Expansion is under attack. The Supreme Court has Struck Down the original Mandatory State Participation, and changed it to Optional State Participation. I have a creepy feeling Means Testing for eligibility will also be resurrected before 2014, and returned to If you own anything you don't qualify. I don't think that 2014 will go over well, especially when those millions (40 - 70 Million projected uninsured by 2014) try to convert their "ObamaCare" "Bronze" Insurance into actual Health Care. There are going to be a bunch of angry Americans, and ALL the Republicans have to do is say, "Yep! We voted against it." |
Response to bvar22 (Reply #30)
Thu Nov 22, 2012, 02:55 AM
Patiod (11,808 posts)
39. I'm self-employed and >50
I pay $200/mo and husband pays $179. I don't expect to actually use it much, but got it to protect the house. Haven't run it by an accountant yet, but I couldn't sleep worrying about losing the house to a medical bankruptcy. Couldn't wait for 2014 - one hospitalization and we're toast.
Response to Flying Squirrel (Original post)
Wed Nov 21, 2012, 12:59 PM
Jasana (490 posts)
25. Good Christ! And I'm an Atheist...
What if you had been having a heart attack and the "do you have $108.00?" had delayed your treatment? What the hell is this heathcare system coming too? If someone comes in with heart attack symptoms, they should be taken straight to the ER and seen by a qualified doctor immediately. They can sort of the $108.00 later. Oh this pisses me off! I hope you're okay and feeling better now. Take care.


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Comfortable because you can do it at home as the XanthRemover will be sent to you by mail. All you need to do is order the XanthRemover online and also send us as many clear pictures as possible of your Xanthelasmas by email.
A description of your own story will also help assess your case as well, but it is not strictly required. Our Specialists will assess your case and prescribe and have your XanthRemover custom-made to your condition and skin-type. Then the XanthRemover will be dispatched to you.
- There is a second group of people who still prefer to have their Xanthelasma surgically removed.
This is can be done without leaving any scarring as well. However, although the end results are the same, the costs are many times higher than using the XanthRemover or other appropriate peels. The prices range between 2000 and 4000 USD depending where you are in the world.
Unfortunately these higher costs do not mean better results, and on top of it the chances of scarring are dependant on the ability of the operator. Should you still prefer to opt for cosmetic surgery, at Areton we also provide free Xanthelasma removal for Clinical studies
Should you reside in the UK just email your pictures and we will be in touch to arrange an appointment for you to be part in our studies, however please note that we will require to publish your pictures as well as the results in our websites after the free removal.
These are people who want to treat their Xanthelasmas as cheaply as possible. Should you prefer to go down this route, we provide all the information for you to do it yourself, and we provide it free of charge! You can read the information and go to source the ingredients yourself from your local Chemist, Ebay, Amazon or anywhere else you like. Then you can go ahead and treat the Xanthelasmas yourself. These are treatments that do work and many people have removed their Xanthelasma successfully this way. However we recommend to always seek specialists' advice before purchasing peels yourself to remove your Xanthelasma. Although we offer this service included in the price of the XanthRemover it does not matter whether you use our specialists or others', as long as you are advised properly.
If you prefer to go down this route, you have to guesstimate the best peel formulation to remove your xanthelasma. This is because each case of Xanthelasma and skin type is different and each should be treated differently. However should this be your preferred route we can even help you giving you the best formulation for your Xanthelasma and skin type.


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If we are looking at RB's that are an injury risk, sign me on for Ahmad Bradshaw.
If we are looking at RB's that are an injury risk, sign me on for Ahmad Bradshaw.
We already have two RBs prone to injury. If we add a third, then we might have a complete back who can finish a season.
1. Carl Lawson-DE/OLB Auburn
2. Marcus Williams-FS Utah
3 Jake Butt-TE Michigan
3B. Raekwon McMillan-ILB tOSU
4. Ahkello Witherspoon-CB Colorado
5. Eddie Vanderdoes-DT/DE UCLA
6. Josh Malone-WR Tennessee
7. Tarik "The Human Joystick" Cohen-RB/WR/PR, NCA+T
Most teams hold onto their RB's when they are sturdy and good. Unfortunately we drafted an oft injured space cadet so now have to pick through the old and oft injured cast offs to try and improve our crappy runningback stable. Yeah, we'll probably draft a RB. But right now we only have Dwyer and Barron Batch signed on for sure for the season...with Redman more than likely coming back as well. If Dwyer, Redman, Draftee, and Batch are all the Steelers feel they need then so be it. I would personally try and draft two RB's this draft.
he looked much slower this past season than he did in other years... that's why the giants let him go. wouldn't touch him..
Damned NFL package - i watch sooo many games... I had a Falcons fan come over and watch games with me one day... I knew Michael Turner was gone, too...
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2017 Mock (Revised)
1. Takkarist McKinley, OLB, UCLA
2. Joe Mixon, RB, Oklahoma
3. Jake Butt, TE Michigan
Hmmm...People don't want Wells because he has been injured but you want to take Lattimore in the draft? Wells has been "Banged up" at many times but nothing significant. Lattimore had two significant knee injuires in college and hasn't seen the field since the last one. I'm not trying to offend & won't even say the word...But really?
If Wells could come cheap...Why not? We are talking about someone who will be 25 this year. 23 starts in 51 games over 4 years. 625/2,471 (4 avg) 24 Tds. On a team that had 1 winning season over the last 4 years going 28-36. He may or may not be a feature back but the Steelers won't get one of them in FA.
Redman will be 29 and he is a role player. Dwyer will be 24 & is the only player on this roster with any chance of being a rotation guy. Everyone loves Batch as a person but he is a ST RB & there is significant room for upgrade above him. You still draft a RB in the mid rounds who could be a feature 3 down back. Lots of questions at RB and Redman & Dwyer will be playing on 1 year deals. If they felt sure they were the answer...They wouldn't be. Wells went on notice after his release...I would take a chance on that and hope the Steelers see the reward. There is a very good chance one of Dwyer or Redman won't be here after 2013. There is a chance one doesn't make the final cut if the Steelers upgrade. Don't buy any Redman, Dwyer, and Batch jerseys. They all will need to seperate themselves if the want to stick around.
I hear ya... but, there's a few simple reasons it would make sense... Lattimore would be cheaper, at the cost of a 4th or 5th round salary.. he's also a better runner than Beanie, dare i say, "when healthy"... that's the big thing, IMO. If i take an "oft injured" player, why not swing for the fences?
Besides, there's another difference in "knee injury" vs "banged up many times"...
These days, knee injury, you're out a year, you're back -- heck, Willis McGahee has gone on to a "solid" career after a very gruesome injury... knee injuries are freak injuries that aren't career ending like they were 30 years ago.
OTOH, banged up many times, is a pattern - who knows, maybe genetics... not enough bone density, bad muscles/joints, maybe they're just wimps with a low pain tolerance... DeAngelo Williams? Joseph Addai? love their talent... wouldn't touch them... At this point, if Polamalu was a FA coming from another team, not sure I'd want him...
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2017 Mock (Revised)
1. Takkarist McKinley, OLB, UCLA
2. Joe Mixon, RB, Oklahoma
3. Jake Butt, TE Michigan
Cheaper financially yes...But that is it. Using a 4th round pick investment...Add that in. Wells has been injured but he has shown production. Lattimore was productive in college as was Wells. Wells went 585/3,382 (5.8 avg) 30 Tds in college. Lattimore went 555/2,677 (4.8 avg) 38 tds in college. Lattimore had two severe knee injuries and Wells already has an NFL resume. It won't get easier for Lattimore in the NFL. The concern ALWAYS for bigger backs coming into the NFL is durabilty concerns because they will be getting hit by bigger faster players. Since he already suffered two significant knee injuries...How well can he hold up to Ss taking out his knees? BIG Red Flag. So I am a "Pass" on Lattimore.
There are far more examples of players who suffer knee injuries and never return to form or are forced out early than comeback stories. Saying "not enough bone density, bad muscles/joints" isn't any different than saying weak ligaments cartilage when it comes to knee injuries. Knee injuires are far more significant than someone just being banged up. Like you said, players miss seasons with knee injuries and threaten their output level. "Banged up" could equate to games missed...Which has been Well's case. I agree 100% about toughness to being "banged up". Toughness goes to the line of a young player coming into the NFL and commitment. Wells got cut after being a 1st rounder. That could be the benefit of the Steelers if he heeds that wake-up call. Simple advice to Wells...Which you hope the light went on with the release: You aren't a kid anymore...You are a professional. There is a difference between being hurt & being injured. Sometimes a change of scenery...A better organization....And your "last chance" contract has a way of turing it around.
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Through history? sure. But, there's probably more examples of moms dying in childbirth... We're talking today's expectations...
In recent history, there's more examples of coming back than not... is anyone suspecting RGIII won't be back? Is anybody saying, "we need a 1st round TE, cuz Heath will never be back!"
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2017 Mock (Revised)
1. Takkarist McKinley, OLB, UCLA
2. Joe Mixon, RB, Oklahoma
3. Jake Butt, TE Michigan
Lattimore played in the big boy league of college football against the closest thing to NFL talent college has and has been a feeding ground for NFL teams.
I think it is unfair to Lattimore to even reference the first knee injury like that's a huge deal. He was playing very well which showed me his first ACL injury was heeled. There should not be much of a concern because by next year, that knee will now have 2 years of recovery under it's belt.
It's his latest knee injury which should be the primary concern since it did injury 3 ligaments.. Without last year's injury, Lattimore would have been the first RB taken in this year's draft.... no doubt.
No way should we pass on him in the 4th.... if he's even available there.
Nobody is saying people don't come back from knee injuires. Todays expectations? Multiple torn knee ligaments or sprained ankle? It is ridiculous to compare knee injuries against all other injuires in expectations of recovery. You are making it sound like you are more confident in someone coming back to form off a torn ACL than a high ankle sprain.
You don't consider how many high school & college football player careers ended before they began with knee injuries. People come back...I'm not disputing that. How effective they can be at their related position is always a concern. You start piling them up...Then end is near. You want a college RB who tore every ligament in both knees & never played an NFL down over a kid who had sprained ankles, turf toe, or pulled hamstring with an NFL resume. I'm not going to argue your preference. Teams aren't setting their draft board and lumping together "concerns" on players in the "knee surgery, concussion, boo boo" column.