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Dad is in rehab. He complains that they make him do things(!!!) for two whole hours! Why it's just horrific. They are good people there. It's clean and safe. But I know he'll go back to his old ways once they discharge him. Mom got sicker and sicker over last weekend. We rushed her to the big hospital, and someone finally did a CT scan. Now she had just had one a few weeks ago and they didn't find anything. But this radiologist (bless him for being competent) found all sorts of things. Next thing I know I'm being called because Mom is getting an NG tube and being rushed into ICU. Apparently you can just start growing random tissue in your body that just start strangling things. Next day they are rushing her into surgery because nothing they've tried is working, and her bowel will die without being untwisted. Five hour exploratory. Surgeon was brilliant woman, managed to fix everything, but it's a wait and see if the bowel will start working again. She'll likely miss Thanksgiving. For now she still has the tubes in and she *hates* it. They are giving her the good drugs, and she keeps telling me about things that happened two months ago as if it happened today lol.

Seems like the left engine was on fire and then ejected itself from the aircraft and the right engine failed. They barreled into everything at high speed. Really terrible. I know my grandpa would have been fascinated by this one.. severe maintenance failure?

This all sounds like rich people problems. Not a question if they get divorced but when.

Not a single kid this year. Very strange indeed. Seems most were driven in to a neighbor's house for party. We've had crazy Halloween displays in the neighborhood this year so I thought surely there would be kids, but someone has had their house fully decked out in Christmas displays since two weeks ago.

The 32 year old is still in custody, the 35 year old has been released and had nothing to do with it.

A fun story that had a sort of happy ending: A week ago my husband managed to put his Switch in a case on top of a vehicle and drove off. An hour later he realizes and I get a frantic phone call if I could search the neighborhood. I head out and search for a couple hours, checking roads and ditches.. find it very unlikely it would have maintained it's position on the car for long enough to get on 95 or anything. The worst case scenarios were it had rolled off and bounced into the river, it rolled into the woods somewhere, or had been smashed by a car. The other possibility was that someone could have picked it up. Nintendo support was sympathetic (you won't believe how many people this happens to???) and helped lock down the account and de-register the unit. He was too embarrassed to file a police report but I did have some contacts to put on notice that there was a reward. By some miracle we got a knock on the door from some teens that had found it after school and had not much to go on but his username since they could not get into his account. Needless to say they happily got a cash blessing for Halloween. The unit was pristine! A real testament to how good the case was and how sturdy a device Nintendo makes and it's nice that there's still some honest good kids out there.

Does this affect anyone that's a K1 and adjusting?

Is your license not written in English? If it is not you can get an IDP which will translate it for anyone that might question. Having your license already will waive you from doing some of the young or early driving requirements such as road hours, but it will not exempt you from a written test, road test, or other documentation requirements. You will need to refer to PA's MVA instructions. Most state's will want proof of residency such as your name and new address on a bank statement or bill, I94, EAD or green card, and a SSN. If you are arriving on a K1 getting all that will take a while. So once you've arrived it's important to get the ball rolling on documents you need.

Sometime.. this month I think? I heard a thud. You know what has happened when the thud occurs.. Yes, he fell again, this time quite a lot of blood and somehow narrowly missed hitting his head on the toilet. 911 again, with neighbors gawking. I tell the hospital, please don't kick him out, because if you do we will just be on repeat. But of course, they never listen. They send the nurse over who is nice enough but then starts asking questions about why he's falling so much and the level of care. It was hard to keep my composure. I can't keep explaining enough about how many doctors he sees that all have an 'opinion' on his condition. One adds a medication, another removes it. Others don't take it seriously. Dad doesn't listen, I can't make him listen. He gets hostile and on top of everything else I'm dealing with I can't force a grown-### elderly man to do something he doesn't want to do. They asked have I considered putting him in a home or getting a full time nurse. On what planet do you think poor people can afford these things? What home? The one the hospital tried putting him into that was filthy and inhumane? The nurses they send are so useless. Within hours of them leaving, I'm having to rebandage everything. It took seven months for his last injury to heal. That new skin that had him looking like a burn patient? All destroyed again. I really have to hand it to my grandparents man.. they never expected their kids to be their sole caregivers when they got old. They had everything planned for. Something got lost in translation with the next generation I guess. . Also wills are important for most people I think. When Dad goes I *know* my siblings are going to have one heck of a fight because he refused to get one. My grandma used to tell me a story about how our family once had a lawsuit about a single piece of porcelain once someone passed.

Nope, we found him a good attorney. Managed to keep his home, his kid, and is much better off financially. If he hadn't had that representation that was familiar with the tactics being used against him, no doubt he would have lost a lot. What I'm saying is... they were a financially stable couple to begin with good jobs and a nice house - that didn't matter. It came down to her issues, greed, and unfaithfulness. Couples can have marriage, finances, a house, and kids.. and still be fundamentally unhappy and break it all.

Why is there such an emphasis on the contract of marriage as if that solves every problem vs stable and committed relationships entered into by responsible and lovingly compatible individuals? I don't dispute the author's pointing to economic and wage factors as one reason why people aren't getting married. But his title is to make men marriageable again? While having financial stability is a plus for both men and women, this does not make a man a man, or a marriageable one either. After helping our friend through a messy divorce, it certainly wasn't finances that broke the marriage that's for sure.

Yep. You could have literally screamed in my dad's face and he wouldn't have had a clue what was going on. The paramedic tried pinching somewhere to see if it would bring him around.. nothing.

Man I remember the time my dad had one of those. Acted like an absolute mental patient before he collapsed.

I wanted to try and look at some additional background on this case: when the MD Supreme Court ruled on this, it was 6-1. The dissent noted that it could ensnare a person convicted of small crimes or petty crimes because the law has been advocating for harsher sentences. Why yes, as I mentioned above the feds wanted to prevent people even convicted of minor drug crimes to lose their weapons. The ban in this case is a federal issue, not really a state one. The state followed the law. Now I have also heard that the guns in his possession were actually illegally possessed to begin with, because he like... stole them, and attempted to pawn them. I don't believe this individual has a history of being an upstanding citizen gun owner. This case had multiple issues and questions such as, should the state of MD follow the federal law? (Well, what choice do they have under the law and the appeals courts ruled as such?) Should a person that is a convicted criminal and now also caught stealing and possessing guns he shouldn't have to begin with because of that federal law, be in bigger trouble? Certainly the act of stealing the guns would have landed him in felony territory anyway and he still would have had illegal possession charges because he stole them? He argued that he was a law abiding citizen, which is also dubious. How his lawyers attempted to frame it: I understand this is being framed as a 2A issues, but man there are questions here. He's real mad about the child support thing, and he's real mad he got caught stealing guns. He was not a previous gun owner. He didn't go to a gun shop and say "I want a gun please let me fill out the background check"... nope, he just stole them for whatever purposes. I can only conclude he is not a good person or a responsible gun owner.

MD state law says that anyone convicted of a violation of common law crime which can involve prison time brings down such prohibition. These type of crimes could be something violent but could also be something such as shirking your parental responsibilities by being a longtime deadbeat. If attempts at getting child support fail in other ways, the state can use this sort of harsher conviction. Such crimes are not felonies but federal law says anyone convicted of any crime that may result in over a year of prison time should prevent possession of a gun. As the article states, if he had been convicted of even a lesser misdemeanor, it still would have triggered the federal block. Because of this prohibition he was convicted a second time of illegal possession of guns. These type of laws were designed to prevent those convicted of drug crimes or abuse from obtaining weapons. You can imagine many people might get caught up. I cannot speak to the 2A claims, but if he lives here he should know the laws here. How did he obtain the guns illegally? Why or how did he obtain them and get himself into even deeper hot water? Also deadbeats need to pay their child support to avoid getting themselves into trouble.