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resistance to colistin, the drug of last resort has grown much faster than anticipated...... -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 12, 17:14
Police shoot and kill a pit bull that was attacking a woman in Long Beach. Woman says the dog is hers and has a history of aggression ?!? -- (link) - Meg Jun 12, 17:12 4
- * Bulldog -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 17:16 2
  - Yeah, sorry, I really do know better. -- nm - Meg Jun 12, 17:20 1
    - :) -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 17:46
- ugh. after the initial attack (and wtheck for that), he was probably trying to protect her. :/ -- nm - b. Jun 12, 17:15
The Post pretty much hates Katy Perry's new album -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 12, 16:49
Well, that was fun. - znufrii Jun 12, 16:47 7
- have you considered installing an indoor slide -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 12, 17:22 1
  - or fireman's pole -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 12, 17:22
- Ouch :( This is why we made sure the stairs were carpeted before we moved into our place with a 6 month old - Beryllium Jun 12, 17:10
- Did you fall on your butt and went "Clunk Clunk Clunk" as your butt hit each stair? -- nm - Amoxy Jun 12, 17:00 1
  - Pretty much. -- nm - znufrii Jun 12, 17:06
- Since you are not hurt, lol.. - Marlowe Jun 12, 16:50
- no laughing, ouch indeed. I'm glad you weren't seriously hurt! -- nm - b. Jun 12, 16:48
Now watching Cleopatra (not as detailed as Rome, but it follows the plot pretty close) -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 16:40
SS Royce Lewis goes #1 in the draft. -- nm* - David Jun 12, 16:17 5
- Noyce. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 17:07
- And the Braves steal Mop's beloved Kyle Wright at #5 overall. - David Jun 12, 16:42 3
  - I'm sure the Braves will enjoy how their top draft pick can't stand up to real competition. -- nm - Mop Jun 12, 18:12
  - That's shocking. I hadn't heard of the 1.1 -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 12, 17:01 1
    - Apparently, most people felt the top 5 guys this year were all about the same. - David Jun 12, 17:13
Game 5 Poll: GS or CLE? -- nm - Strongbad Jun 12, 15:22 23
- In all likelihood. -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 17:26
- cast members from the national tour of "hamilton" will be doing the national anthem tonight. -- nm - b. Jun 12, 17:17
- Kevin Love showed up in his UCLA letterman jacket. I think he's trying to hide. -- nm - jnine Jun 12, 16:42
- Golden State is going to beat the shit out of the Cavs. -- nm - Bacon Jun 12, 16:34 1
  - I hope so too.. (NM) - Marlowe Jun 12, 16:38
- GS, and Cleveland's going to wish that the refs could stop the fight. -- nm - David Jun 12, 16:18 5
  - I need to know before I place my wager. Do you THINK GS is going to win, or do you HOPE GS will win? Your hope will crush them. -- nm - Bacon Jun 12, 16:45 4
    - You are now the Curse of the Blitz, you have stolen my powers. -- nm - Bacon Jun 12, 16:46 3
      - ? -- nm - David Jun 12, 16:49 2
        
        Falcons, Preds, I need to know who you WANT to win. -- nm - Bacon Jun 12, 17:07 1
        
        Dude, those teams were the underdogs in every playoff game/series this year. - David Jun 12, 17:11
- GS by 40 -- nm - budice Jun 12, 16:09 1
  - :) - - b. Jun 12, 16:18
- Courtside seats sell for 133k -- (link) - zeitgeist Jun 12, 16:02
- i'll go with the wild guess and the game will have to be evacuated by some threat later proven false -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 12, 15:54
- Cavs -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 15:52
- GS -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 15:36
- Warriors by 22. -- nm - Volnelk Jun 12, 15:34
- Cleveland--More questionable calls will lead to Cavs winning, I think actually pretty big, tonight -- nm - Flavorize Jun 12, 15:31 1
  - We've seen one of these "gimme" games, the last couple rounds--each time, the opposite team wins big--lebron is a monster in these situations -- nm - Flavorize Jun 12, 15:46
- Golden State. curry will be back in form tonight -- nm - Amoxy Jun 12, 15:26
- GSW -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 15:23 1
  - one of the most unfortunate sports team acronyms ever -- nm - crash davis Jun 12, 16:01
Ah, damn, that sinking feeling you get when your mechanic tells you not to bother putting any more money into your car, to get out of it as soon as - IrishStephen Jun 12, 15:20 7
- Listen to them. I put over $10k in mine in a year and a half thinking this will be it each time. When I was going to have to do $4k more, I gave up. -- nm - jnine Jun 12, 16:35 1
  - Oh yeah, we're not putting anymore money into it. He's never steered us wrong before. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 17:14
- Only after I've sunk several thousand already. Like my last one, 1500 to replace the AC, turns out the noise was deep in the engine -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 15:55
- "it's at peace now." -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 15:45
- Ugh! Sorry. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 15:36 2
  - I mean at least I have an honest mechanic, but yeah, not looking forward to finding a new car. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 17:11 1
    - That's a good point. It's nice that he was honest about the situation. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 17:25
The Fighting Nubbys were honored today at the White House. -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 12, 15:20
“Iowa’s individual health market has collapsed as result of the Affordable Care Act,” -- (link) - Strongbad Jun 12, 15:11 3
- More accurately, "many health insurers are quitting the state-based markets created by the ACA amid uncertainty over the law’s future." -- nm - mara Jun 12, 15:17 1
  - "Accurately", lol. - znufrii Jun 12, 17:07
- We need to stop saying it's a result of the Affordable Care Act. It's a result of not supporting the act and undermining it with uncertainty. -- nm - pmb Jun 12, 15:14
"[Bill Smith] has the name recognition to make this a difficult race" - Article about the upcoming mayoral race Jun 12, 14:59 1
- Is he from Canmore? -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 14:59
Eric Decker latest cap casualty of the Jets. -- nm - David Jun 12, 14:53
I love that people are calling Drumpf on the "tapes" and his announcement "soon". - Mel Profit Jun 12, 14:47 2
- He made a point of privacy, so no tapes, like what was he thinking, he could hold his loyalty pledge as a get out of jail card? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 16:19
- Personally? I think he honestly has some calls from his cell phone recorded. And I doubt that is considered legit. -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 14:53
Session to invoke Executive Privilege for tommorow testify -- (link) - Amoxy Jun 12, 14:42 2
- Trump will try to blocl Sessions' testimony via executive privilege is what I read. right? -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 14:57 1
  - nvm. reading throught this now. what a shit show. -- nm - Jovian Jun 12, 14:59
"Scientists Once Gave LSD To Dolphins In The Hope Of Learning To Communicate With Them" -- (link) - prayformojo Jun 12, 14:39 2
- so that's why they swim around in circles with one flipper in the air -- nm - Max Jun 12, 14:45 1
  - "Sharksharkshark look at me I'm a shark" -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 14:57
Someone please remind me to stop trying to help people understand alternatives when they have obviously already made up their minds. -- (edited) - ReluctantCynic Jun 12, 14:33 2
- Have you considered hitting yourself with a wrench instead? -- nm - Mop Jun 12, 14:53 1
  - Never! -- nm - con_carne Jun 12, 15:11
WWE: bray wyatt's divorce goes public...cheated on wife with allegedly with Jojo -- (link) - Remlik Jun 12, 14:16 10
- Little known fact is that even during this affair, he took the pin fall. -- nm* - Qale Jun 12, 15:32 1
  - heh -- nm - Remlik Jun 12, 17:05
- Interesting. I just read this Chipper Jones article earlier today. -- (link) - David Jun 12, 14:25
- TIL: Bray's dad is Mike Rotunda. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 14:23 6
  - Bo Dallas is his brother. -- nm - Tim Jun 12, 16:10 1
    - That I did know. - IrishStephen Jun 12, 17:19
  - His grandfather is Blackjack Mulligan, and he's named after his uncle, Barry Windham. -- nm - David Jun 12, 14:25 3
    - Yeah, pretty good wrestling lineage there. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 14:26
    - And his mother was a gazebo -- nm - Beryllium Jun 12, 14:26 1
      - and his father smelt of elderberries -- nm - Strongbad Jun 12, 14:28
Nice to see Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still alive. -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 14:11
I am totally serious when I ask: What did CNN used to talk about? - Spawn Jun 12, 14:02 8
- also, police shooting unarmed citizens -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 12, 16:03
- Larry King had a show for a few years -- nm - Peglegpete Jun 12, 14:12 1
  - Breaking News: I have a new wife! -- nm - Larry King Jun 12, 14:14
- Airplanes that disappeared. -- nm - mara Jun 12, 14:09
- Panels of talking heads about Obama nudging the hill to do something, anything, half the panel saying it's bad so nothing is better cause they - zeitgeist Jun 12, 14:06
- Well, for starters, HLN was all the same stories repeated every 30 minutes... -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 14:03 2
  - That was a decade or two ago, they had Nancy graceless ranting about missing blonds and .....I swear this is true, a topic called... - zeitgeist Jun 12, 14:09 1
    - Spawn did not specify a time frame for his "used to". -- nm - Ender Jun 12, 14:11
Bachelor Paradise: contestents are talking.... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 12, 13:39 11
- The game was at most 3-weeks and they're pissed some quit their jobs and won't be able to cash in? - Will Hunting Jun 12, 13:50 10
  - I'm curious what it means by a 3rd party complaint , doesn't seem like either of the contestants were? -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 13:55 8
    - one of the first stories I read said it was the producer who was there when spoils -- (edited) - Peglegpete Jun 12, 14:00 5
      - The fuck? nm - ralph wiggum Jun 12, 18:12
      - you've read the stories about it, know there were witnesses, know they shut-down the filming, yet are still framing it that she might have been -- (edited) - b. Jun 12, 14:23
      - It seems like the contract for being on one of these shows would include some type of Consent clause. - Spawn Jun 12, 14:16 2
        
        you would consent to be filmed, you wouldn't consent to be raped. -- nm - Andie Jun 12, 14:17 1
        
        You are right. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 14:20
    - Producer? -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 13:57 1
      - Let's go to the videotape for the evidence we need to convict -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 14:01
  - Springboard, obvie. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 13:54
I thought that my kitchen and bathroom renos would be terrible and super costly but they turned out pretty ok. - amanda jones state university Jun 12, 13:36 1
- And it's amazing how clean your kitchen stays given all the cooking you do -- nm - decline Jun 12, 14:43
ST, I demand that you spend the next 15 minutes praising me. - David Jun 12, 13:32 22
- Darn, I missed it. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Jun 12, 15:26
- Your wife is amazing -- nm - Amoxy Jun 12, 14:41 1
  - Yes. Yes she is. -- nm - David Jun 12, 14:53
- David, I know I'm late to the party, but your knowledge of steak sauce is unparalleled in human history. - ReluctantCynic Jun 12, 14:35 2
  - These weren't supposed to be serious replies, but that's a very thoughtful IM. Thank you. - David Jun 12, 14:54 1
    - Oh, I know. :-) - ReluctantCynic Jun 12, 15:07
- Your favorite sports teams aren't evil, so I often find myself rooting for their success. -- nm - IrishStephen Jun 12, 14:28
- I missed the love fest but you're the sun that brings warmth and brightness to this board. - Krusty Jun 12, 14:27
- Your levels of crazy have dimished and your Disneyland rhetoric is superior. - Epiphany Jun 12, 14:01
- -15 Qale Points -- nm - Qale Jun 12, 13:59
- I'm currently trying to trade DeVondre Campbell because I don't think he's on the field in your nickel package. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 12, 13:48
- of all the ears that could make targets out there, your ears make the best targets -- nm - crash davis Jun 12, 13:47 1
  - :P -- nm - David Jun 12, 13:48
- I can't thank you enough for the privileges you've given me and the leadership that you've shown. -- nm - mara Jun 12, 13:42
- Your teams make 2nd place look soul-crushingly underwhelming. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 12, 13:41
- For this year of 2017 you're not as wrong as much as you were at this time in 2016. -- nm - Remlik Jun 12, 13:40
- we are all blessed for this opportunity -- (edited) - mud Jun 12, 13:39 2
  - Well played. -- nm - David Jun 12, 13:40 1
    - we shall henceforth call you Kim Jung Dee -- nm - mud Jun 12, 13:42
- Trump got 10 minutes. Schumer got 23 seconds. - Spawn Jun 12, 13:34 2
  - I am clearly 50% better than Trump. - David Jun 12, 13:36 1
    - Okay, I would tell you but, you know, the media. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 13:42
John Cena interviews Bill Gates about ending polio... -- (link) - Remlik Jun 12, 13:32
Cars 3 69% (11/5), 47 Meters Down 60% (3/2) -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 13:31 2
- The only "grade" I care about for Cars 3 is how it compares to Cars 2. - Spawn Jun 12, 13:33 1
  - This. -- nm - Strongbad Jun 12, 13:47
I didn't see it posted, jeff immelt to step-down as ceo of GE, another insider, john flannery, to take the position. -- (link) - b. Jun 12, 13:28
TV PSA: American Ninja Warrior, Shadowhunters, So You Think You Can Dance, Raw, Cavs vs Warriors, Southern Charm, Who's Line is it Anyway, Stitchers, -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 13:27 4
- is this regular ANW or more "team ANW" or "college ANW" or "USANW vs the world"? I just want regular ANW! -- nm - amanda jones state university Jun 12, 13:33 2
  - this is the new season's first episode -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 15:54
  - I believe regular ANW has started back up again. -- nm - Reagen Jun 12, 15:46
- Superhuman, Spartan, Better Call Saul, Southern Charm Savannah, Angie Tribeca, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Jun 12, 13:27
Boston Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy just announced that he has cancer again. -- nm - David Jun 12, 13:22 3
- I wish him well and for a full recovery. -- nm - Krusty Jun 12, 14:26
- I honestly don't know how I'll feel when he is no longer calling games. He's the right mix of baseball guru with strategy and stories. - Mel Profit Jun 12, 14:13
- :( -- nm - kelly Jun 12, 13:39
Trump tied his highest disprovable in the Gallup poll today and is one off from his biggest net negative - Reagen Jun 12, 13:16 1
- I am sure his cabinet's kind, unprompted words will drive that up. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 13:27
This is hilarious and sad at the same time (about the new Senate health care bill) -- (link) - decline Jun 12, 13:08 1
- I read Politburo for a second -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 13:14
nmb crash davis - ReluctantCynic Jun 12, 13:08
when I see AG Sessions in a headline, for a second or two I think its meetings on a new farm bill -- nm - crash davis Jun 12, 13:06 2
- Well let me tell you about that apparently slavery was primarily about agriculture -- nm - zeitgeist Jun 12, 13:09 1
  - If we had a wise president back in the day... -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 14:07
Right about now. -- nm - Spawn Jun 12, 13:04

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