dawgdoc

"Last Resort" was on ABC and was cancelled after one season; I think "Last Ship" has always been on TNT.

On a related note, anyone watch "The Last Ship" on TNT?  I just finished season 1 in anticipation of season 2 that starts Sunday.  Also "Falling Skies" season premiere will be in 2 weeks.  Both are TEOTWAWKI shows, and now the "The Last Ship" is back on the mainland.  The surprise reveal of the last episode had a Soylent Green feel to it.   For a network founded by a big liberal, both shows heavily lean toward the issues that many of us embrace.  I've always thought it was a gutsy move to give Noah Wyle, who plays the principal character on "Falling Skies" an AK.  To us, it makes sense because he is a teacher turned soldier who apparently had little firearms experience, but to the average American, AKs are the bad guys' guns.

Kit Harington has said in interviews that he is gone, but I believe even when a character is dead in a funeral scene, the actor still gets credit.  I won't believe Jon is dead until his head is separated from body (like his father and brother), or he is burnt.  In fact, according to what we have seen at the Wall, those are the only two methods to make sure a person stays dead, and I sincerely doubt they would not show it.   Same for Stannis, although I can easily see someone bringing his head to Ramsey and Ramsey getting mad that he wasn't the killer, thus setting off a hunt for Sansa, Theon, and now Brienne (who has been really terrible at her assigned jobs, by the way).  

I'm not sure if it was clear on the show, but in the book, when a khal dies, the khaleesi is taken to their one city to live the rest of her life as a crone.  That is part of what cause the break in her khalasar.  So if these guys know who she is, they would take her to her "rightful" place.  If they don't know who she is, then they would gang rape her and one might take her as a wife.

I remember seeing the leaves on the trees in detail for the first time.  Now I think I need bi-focals; I can't read the date on my watch clearly.

Fun Fact:  Restasis for the treatment of KCS was first invented and patented as a medicine for dogs for the treatment of KCS (by a Georgia veterinarian, no less).  I was using topical cyclosporin for KCS in dogs for a long time before the human version was approved.  Most medicines shared between the species start on the human side and then are adopted for animals.   Probably costs a lot more for humans, though.

  I think the snow drifts get high against that side of the castle.  And remember that guy with the eagle and Bran with his wolf and Hodor?  I think Ghost is somewhere with Jon's mind right now.  They conveniently reminded us that Ghost has been hanging around the castle recently.  Death is the only way to break a vow to the Night's Watch.  Maybe now Jon will be free to pursue other interests.

I'm nearly 99% sure what does happen to her, and while it is not that, you may be happy with what does happen. I base this on reports of a certain scene that was filmed.

At least you know what it isn't.  Now you'll need to go to an ophthalmologist.  Did they give any idea as to what they thought it could be, or just say go to an ophtho?

  Yes, but they may be considered spoilers.   I saw a tall guy with lots of red hair and a bushy red beard at the Chattanooga Market today; I had to resist the urge to approach him an comment, "I hope everything works out well for your people tonight."  If he was a GOT fan, he would probably laugh.  If he wasn't, he would have thought I was making a ginger joke.  

My corneal abrasion healed quickly (and animals usually do also).  I shot a basketball toward the hoop, a piece of sand fell into my eye, which caused an instinctive closing of the eye, and then the ball came down and hit right on my face.  The doctor assumed that the ball dragged the grain of sand across my cornea.  Completely random accident.  At first everyone (I was in elementary school) just thought that the sand was stuck in my eye, because that is what it felt like.  My mother took me to the doctor after school when the irritation wasn't resolving.   The only other similar feeling was when I had LASIK surgery, which involves cutting a flap into the cornea, so the feeling was almost the same.  I took Advil after the surgery, which seemed to help the irritation.  That and will power to not mess up the surgery is the only thing that kept me from rubbing my eyes.   I have used those two experiences to influence how I treat animals with corneal ulcers (in terms of expected pain, speed of recovery, etc.).  

You could also try to compare your pupils.  In animals, when there is a severe pain, it causes a spasm that ultimately results in constriction of the pupil.  So if your affected pupil was smaller than the good eye, it might be due to a similar effect, and could explain the inability to focus you eye.  I'm not a (real) doctor though, so I don't know if the same is true for primates.  Mammals have many similarities in their eyes, but there are some significant species differences.

If you had something simple like a corneal scratch, then I would assume any urgent care place should be able to do a fluorescein dye test.  It is relatively simple to do and interpret in animals, so I would think one of those urgent care docs should be able to muddle through it.     (Human doctors are just like veterinarians who specialize in only one species. :rofl: )

Well, my patients can't talk, but I did have a scratch on my cornea once.  It felt like sand or a hair was in my eye constantly (like I wanted to rub and flush my eyes, but it had no effect).   When animals have corneal ulcers they will have similar symptoms--spasms of eye, excessive tearing, redness, and sometimes a constricted pupil.   I would go to an ophthalmologist.  An optometrist is more focused on correcting visual deficits with lenses.  An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who then specialized in diseases of the eye.  Their education overlaps, but the ophthalmologist will have more training and experiences with eye diseases.

I was driving through St. Elmo in Chattanooga today, and I think the old sing has been removed.  When I was last there a few years ago, they had a very large no guns sign.  From the road, I noticed there was an empty pole where I thought that sign used to be.  Didn't stop to confirm, though.

If anyone goes, check to see if they still have signs posted at Camp Jordan.  I have been playing with the idea of suggesting that the city ask for volunteers to do some "maintenance" at the park that consists of removing signs.  One of my friends thinks they would use liability concerns to reject the idea.  Still, the Vice-Mayor of East Ridge, Marc Gravitt, is also a state representative, and he voted for the parks bill.  

So I called the Department of Revenue and explained that I didn't feel comfortable putting my SSN into the website.  To my surprise, she immediately explained how I could get a waiver from using the website.  She said that I could fax the waiver and mail a check on the same day.  I gave it a few days after faxing the waiver request to see if anyone would call or email.  No one did, so I sent a check the old-fashioned way.   I assume by the fact that they have a process set up for bypassing the website that maybe other people have had the same issue.  We'll see if I have any problems.   I saw that my tax money is going to good use helping to pay for the new hideous state logo; I'm glad the government is being such a good steward of our money.

I'm always getting the numbers wrong, even when I have a second window open on Lexis-Nexis.  I meant to write 1359; I at least quoted the section I was trying to cite.

  Weren't there reports of Maryland cops targeting out-of-state cars?  There was at least one case where a guy from Florida was detained and his car searched because they knew he owned a gun (that he left at home), and the authorities refuse to explain how the officer knew that the victim had a gun.  Presumably it was because the Florida carry license is connected to his driver's license or license plate, and Maryland somehow had access to that database.   Here is one story: http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/01/robert-farago/are-md-cops-targeting-out-of-state-gun-owners-for-traffic-stop-searches/   And more about their license plate readers in general with mention of the Florida gun owner:  http://phasezero.gawker.com/inside-the-military-police-center-that-spies-on-baltimo-1700670585

  I think it might be 39-17-1313:   

    What about shipping a disassembled gun as "machine parts?"  Technically, only the part with serial number is the firearm, right?  Does that affect the cost and the labels on the package?     FWIW, I know a guy who has traveled from Delaware to Georgia with an AR; it makes my sphincter clench just thinking about the trip through Maryland.  I advised him to disassemble it and keep it buried beneath luggage (and never to consent to a search).  So far he has made the trip twice without problems.  I guess we hear about the horror stories of people stopped in the bad states more often than the hundreds of non-event trips because of the sensationalism.

    The way Bass Pro is going, it looks like it will still be a dirt pile next year.  

I'm a veterinarian, and I have wondered about this same issue.  I routinely drive through the Chickamauga Battlefield, which is federal land (the notion makes me sick to think about).  The deer there have very little fear; they just stroll across the roads sometimes.  No one can hunt the deer.  Cars hitting deer are common.     One day, I might come across a dying deer.  On one hand, the Veterinarian's Oath and the laws of the State of Georgia say that I should euthanize it if it cannot be saved.  On the other hand, I suspect that there is some stupid federal law that probably does not have an exception in it, whether about the killing of wildlife in the park or discharging of firearms (they have signs about the latter).  One of the problems is that you cannot just look up these laws easily, so you never know what is exactly legal.

My own research meshes with the links in DaveTN's links.  Basically, if a state agency asks for a SSN, they are supposed to tell you whether it is voluntary or required, and tell you what they do with it, and what law gives them the authority.  Apparently tax authorities are required to request your SSN as proof of who you are, but they are still supposed to give the referenced information.  At a minimum, the state has failed to do that.

I have question that maybe some of y'all might be familiar with.  Namely, what laws govern whether the state of Tennessee can require a Social Security Number?   Here are the specifics:  I hold a Tennessee veterinary license.  I, along with several thousand other people of various licensed occupations in Tennessee, must pay a $400 privilege tax to the state each June.  This is different from the license fee.  Last year, the state required everyone to file the tax online with no other option to pay.  They also made it so that you could given them checking account information and pay $400, or use a credit card and pay an additional 2.49%.     This year, as I went to pay the onerous tax, the webform asked for my SSN in addition to name, address, license number, etc.  It would not take the information without the SSN.  The state already has my SSN on file with various other personal information, so I do not see why they would need it again.  It seems like they should just be able to use the license number, since that is unique to each licensee.  I tried leaving the form blank, using all zeroes, X's, etc, but it won't accept it.  I take that to mean that they already have the number.   I'm more than a little leery of putting my SSN into some government computer that doesn't really need it, and also associating my checking account with that information.  To add to my unease, here is a quote from their Privacy Statement:       So is there some law somewhere that would prohibit the Department of Revenue from requiring my SSN for this particular function?  I have a vague notion about a law somewhere that SSN are only to be used by either the SS Administration or the federal government in general, but that could be some urban legend.  I know that is not actually the reality, since everyone asks for it.   I realize at this point that there is nothing I can do about it, since the tax is due June 1, but if anyone can offer any ammunition to use when I try to contact the dipwads in charge, I would appreciate it.  At this point it is the principal.  Maybe I am paranoid, but I would rather limit the number of online places to which I give my number (preferably 0).