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Go to the doctor or clinic. Tell them you think you have an ear infection and it's starting to hurt. They'll look with an otoscope and see what's up. If it hurts to any degree inside the ear, my guess is it's infected; and it'll hurt more at its own pace, but that gets exponential fast, and any pain in the face isn't something you can just forget about. If it is, they'll probably write you an Rx or give you a sample of something like drops and/or a Z-pack and suggest a warm water bottle (you know... the red rubber ones) to take the edge off a little. Whether it happened because of the sea water [James shrugs and says "Meh"] or it's something that's been brewing for awhile and you're mis-attributing it, I would start wearing wax or silicone earplugs in the water. And don't use Q-Tips.

Medal-winner in Mitt Romney veep stakes won't be known until after Olympic Games : Ohio Sen. Rob Portman (3:1) and ex-Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (8:1) head list of likely running mates Probably will be Portman.

To wit: Q-Tips of Mass Destruction by Rod Moser, PA, PhD.

After which, you gently flush it with lukewarm water with one of those ear bulb syringes. The water combining with the peroxide... uhmmm... well, it's been awhile since chemistry class... but it deactivates/neutralizes the peroxide. And no, this isn't bad. Using peroxide every so often to fizz away wax buildup is fine. But don't mistake, wax in the ears is a good thing. It should fall out naturally in small bits/balls --- that is the sign of a healthy ear. I don't know whether it would help with "salt in the ear" tho, if that is the OP's actual problem. A trip back out through the ear canal and/or Eustacean tube drainage probably should have taken care of any sea water before it evaporated and left salt deposits.... Don't f'ing use a Q-Tip. They are the root cause of many ear infections. The skin inside near the eardrum is like paper-thin. Even being "gentle" you irritate that, it becomes red and damaged and prone to infection taking hold. This is straight from ENT doctors.

I don't remember the exact course, but during the settlement, their insurance company pointed that out and the judge basically like 'What the ---- does that matter? The dog attacked and bit them.' The owners destroyed the dog about two months after the incident. I wrote socialized by the Facebook pictures they had of it with people and other dogs; I get that this isn't a diagnosis but it's just a judgment call. Allowing the dogs to be in a situation so as to come across the road at us was pretty stevestojanny, but I get the impression that they weren't terrible owners otherwise. My father was an ACO for 20 years when I was young and I often went along, just to qualify. My opinion of pit bulls / cane corsos / fighting breeds has definitely been imprinted. I don't see why anyone would want one other than to show off how tough they think they are. And all too often, even if they are trained and such there come moments where they are too much dog for the owner to handle. You see the papers and read about kids and even adults being mauled and killed. I respect your beliefs, as I've read numerous times here. But as I wrote, until you've been on the business end of an attack by one of these, you're talking theory. I normally hate gov't intervention like soda bans, etc. but I think these breeds ought to be ordered out of the genepool. Familiar breeds might bite at similar rates or whatever the statistics are, but the thing is that when a Golden or a poodle or a lab bites, it's usually quick and a nip. When pit bulls and fighting breeds bite, they don't let go. More like... Tom would go all Hannibal Lecter vs. 'Multiple' Miggs, and calmly coerce the lad to swallow and choke to death on his own tongue.

Thinking about it the other day, and with the S4 finale ending as it did, with everything tidied up, all the operations ceased, and what appeared at the time like a clean break and that Walt and Jesse could go their separate ways --- to me, that just ensures that we're not going to have that kind of finale where these characters just walk away, b/c we've already seen that. I would probably end the series --- the final scene --- with Walt Jr. watching a breaking news story about whatever had just happened in the denouement (the penultimate scene having left some questions that are answered by the story). That would just seem like a great way to end it all. Because we all watch these stories every night and there's rarely, if ever, any kind of extrapolation or closer look into the nitty-gritty. Just would be a great point in how all we (the everyday American) get is a sanitized view.

Poor Pres. Obama!

Pit bull and a boxer attacked me and my pup on a scenic back-road. Really thought they were going to kill him and possibly me. Ended up with hand bites and my dog had some pieces of torn flesh in ~5 minutes before the owner heard the shouting, came outside and pinned them down. And come to find that these were socialized, obedience-trained dogs. Alaska Darin et al. come here and say that they have to be taught to fight or not taught anything. And I used to agree with that. Suffice to say that my view of pit bulls/fighting breeds changed utterly that day. Until you experience the business end of a pit bull or other breed whose instinct, once it's on, is to bite and not let go your opinion is ing WORTHLESS.

Link No hypocrisy here.... Obama derides Romney for outsourcing when he had stepped away and was CEO in name only, but... he will accept campaign cash from the people at Bain who did the outsourcing post-Romney. Still, I remember a time when damn near every politician said globalization was the cat's breasts. Money in a globalized world is like a beautiful woman --- you need to treat it right or it goes elsewhere. How does the left not get this?

Actually, I would chalk up last year's win to rattling Brady and that offense. George Wilson completely laid out Edelman with a hit you could hear and that was the tone of the day. Brady was flustered and threw... was it 4 INTs? As Kyle Williams said leading up to the game, 'We may win, we may lose, but by the end, they are going to feel and know they just went through Hell.' That was a defensive victory. Up 'til there, it was always a given that Brady would be throwing for 400 yards and Welker would toast you. Well, as one poster's sig line here reads, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Fitz and the offense was able to capitalize on a horrid Pats* defense, especially their pass D which was last in the league. Looks like they may have reloaded, tho. The game plan should still be to beat them up, take advantage of their OL losses, get to Brady and shake him up. That's how we won, that's how the Giants beat them in the SB.

It really doesn't matter who is the president. If the military wants to get involved somewhere, we get involved. See: Obama nosing into Libya while we still had two fronts. If the military doesn't want to close GITMO, GITMO doesn't get closed. If the military wants to hold Bradley Manning in solitary confinement, despite every liberal/progressive saying that he's a "hero" then there he is. If the military wants to start using drones more and strike inside of countries like Pakistan, Yemen, etc., then it happens. If the military wants to launch STUXNET, it does. If a president, especially one with no military background, says no to something the rank and file military wants to do... that's dangerous ground. There won't be much of a difference.

It's entirely possible that Gus will be back via flashback. Spoiler-y (then again, this news was released last month in a Gilligan interview): Next week will introduce a character that is a (now-)former associate of Gus Fring.

He added regulations that took pre-wage/salary costs for employers up to ~$12K per year. He got passage of the ACA, which means that employers with over 10 employees graciously get to pick up the tab for health insurance. I hear that this policy makes businessowners want to stop looking at their spreadsheets and get out there and hire, hire, hire so they can have the privilege of paying for more healthcare. Rather than approve the Keystone pipeline that would reduce fuel and energy costs, Pres. Obama courageously said 'No' because... why would anyone in business want less expensive fuel sources? We can get by for another 50-100 years until alternative energy / fuels are widely available and perform as efficiently as traditional sources... right? And if we get four more years, just imagine how much more he could do for small businesses!!!

Wonder what he's going to do WRT the forthcoming $200M renovation....

Hey, no fair!! I had it first!!!!

OK, but would a direct call to an evidence lock-up warehouse be the same as calling a police department?

Maybe go out on the deck and scream "Let's go Buffalo!!!! WOOOOOO!!!" But otherwise, I'd act like I've been there before.

The perfect summation of the president's mindset.

As I understood it, Mike was calling to confirm whether they'd searched and seized yet. He was pretending to be a postal regulator and inquiring about a postage meter that was ostensibly in Gus's office at Pollos Hermanos, where the laptop was. He got confirmation that APD did have a meter, so they know the office has been searched and the laptop is sure to have been taken into evidence. It was also a mechanism of finding out which law enforcement agency had possession of it. If they followed up... well... do you really think a government desk jockey is going to be that curious and actually show that kind of initiative that means they have to do more work? That would be a first, to my recollection. Even if they did call back, could also easily chalk it up to being a wrong number, etc. and that's the end of that.

I would add that the first few years of Two and a Half Men before it became a kind of meme of itself. Jon Cryer is an excellent straight-man with the physical comedy. Another that I just thought of is Ed --- the bowling alley lawyer --- that starred Tom Cavanaugh and Julie Bowen. It wasn't everyone's cup of tea, but I have to admit I enjoyed its quirkiness.

The Olympics are ostensibly about each country collecting the best of its country and showcasing their own. I suppose you can chalk this up as akin to the IOC loosening standards of citizenship of the athletes, say, from the US being allowed to compete for another country because their grandparents were born there. There was a girl I went to high school with who played for Greece in the Athens games under these terms. I get that it happens. But that doesn't mean people have to like it. And again, a number of people who have a hand in supporting the US team don't like the symbolism of this. I wasn't under the impression of anyone/very many advocating burning them at this point. That's highly impractical, if not impossible to re-purpose with less than a week until the opening ceremonies. And as much as I'm upset about it (and at how much we import crappy wares and counterfeit materials from China in general), burning them might be quite offensive to the Chinese. The overriding opinions seem to be to wear them for this games b/c the news broke way too late to do anything feasible, but for there to be rules in place for these to be made in the USA for all future Olympics.

Surprised no one has mentioned it. Frasier. What, it didn't win enough Emmys? It was many times better than it's offshoot source. Ten years ago this would've been sacrilege, but Seinfeld has NOT aged well. Not at all. M*A*S*H is eminently watchable still. A few people thought they were bigger than the show, but Alan Alda's Hawkeye made it what it was. He was a perfect match for that kind of character. I loved the British series Yes, Minister / Yes, Prime Minister. Comedy gold. I was a little young to get everything, but I remember Night Court pretty fondly. The reverse of Seinfeld, I think The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has aged well, for what it was.

The safety and legal implications inherent in that sentence are just... wow. I get that you and others think it's fairly innocuous, but Rx drugs like class-2 narcotics shouldn't be given out by non-professionals like candy, even to someone who rationally might have use for them. You don't give Rxs to anyone who isn't named on the bottle. Also, I believe there are old/expired/unused medication collection efforts every now and then to try to keep these substances out of the water system. You might look online or call your local health dept.

Well, it always was e.g. the dinner with Hank where Walt started drinking and flapping his gums. He thinks he's so much smarter than everyone. As Walt Jr. says that "Uncle Hank was just toying with [Gus Fring] the whole time" the coming build-up and face-off between them is going to get good. Advantage Hank, tho. Walt at this point is believing his own bullstevestojan. I just wonder when the intro scene will be picking up. I'm not sure it's going to be this mini-season, even. But it looks like Walt's cancer is back in it.

They think they can save their seats if they say this and don't go to the Democrat convention next month. They think they can change their constituents' impressions of them bu distancing themselves from Obama. What they can't change is their voting records and party affiliations that give the Democrats control of the Senate Rules, which means that whatever Harry and Obama don't like, they push to the side. Not to mention that it'll just remain for the Senate to ratify the UN Arms ban treaty that would underminethe Second Amendment, which is all being discussed very quietly --- or at least the MSM here isn't going to say Boo until it's right on top of us --- on the Old Continent.