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March 28, 2014

Aw: Woman Fitted With Cochlear Implants Hears for the First Time In Her Life
— Ace

She was born with Usher syndrome, which made her deaf since birth and then struck her blind in her mid-20s.

a rare genetic disorder associated with a mutation in any one of 10 genes resulting in a combination of hearing loss and visual impairment and is a leading cause of deafblindness.
It is incurable at present. The condition is characterized by hearing loss and gradual loss of vision.

The below video, definitely worth a watch, shows her reaction to hearing sounds (and human speech) for the first time in her life.

The cochlear implant catches sounds itself, then sends those impulses directly to the auditory nerve, bypassing the broken circuit of her actual ear. The implant transmits basic sounds, not the rich range natural hearing offers, but at this point, I guess, she's not complaining.

Actually she does say "everything sounds so high-pitched," which her nurse assures her will change once her brain figures out what sounds are being transmitted by which part of the auditory nerve.

But that's a curious thing -- how the heck does a woman deaf since birth know what "high-pitched" is?

Faker.

Just kidding.

She called the experience "overwhelming," which is borne out by the video.

"The switch-on was the most emotional and overwhelming experience of my life and IÂ’m still in shock now. I have to learn to recognise what these sounds are as I build a sound library in my brain.
"Hearing things for the first time is so emotional from the ping of a light switch to running water. I canÂ’t stop crying and I can already foresee how itÂ’s going to be life changing." The operation also means Joanne has been able to hear her own -- and othersÂ’ -- voices for the first time. She said: "IÂ’m so happy. Over the last 48 hours hearing someone laughing behind me, the birds twittering and just being with friends... they didnÂ’t have to tap my arm to get my attention which a massive leap."

I guess also she's still blind. But one miracle at a time.

Thanks to @mflynny (NDH).

And in further "awww" news, firefighters serenade a child trapped in an elevator with the song "Let it Go" from Frozen, to calm her down.

That's from @drewmtips.

And speaking of miracles -- @sonnybunch and @comradearthur share this incredible video of a cat who learns how to do a Bane impression for the first time.

Posted by: Ace at 04:43 PM | Comments (167)
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1 Hi Horde, I will watch later. I'm still @ work.

Posted by: Carol at March 28, 2014 04:45 PM (s0f54)

2 Unpossible. 2nd?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 28, 2014 04:46 PM (tuRu0)

3 Cats are delicacy on Endor, aren't they?

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 04:47 PM (+/r5v)

4 I was wondering if by "high" she meant "loud". When you've never heard any sound, even normal conversation must seem quite loud. But, just imagine the horror of not being able to see or hear. You are utterly dependent upon others. God Bless her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 28, 2014 04:49 PM (DmNpO)

5 There are numerous "cochlear implant turned on for first time" videos on youtube. Every one of them is great.

Wouldn't you love to have a job that provides so much joy? Even if it's only a 9-to-5 one?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 04:51 PM (1CroS)

6 On POI they call Root the Cochlear Kook.

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 28, 2014 04:51 PM (vFh9Q)

7 Be better if she was hot.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 04:52 PM (+/r5v)

8 Few things are really "awesome". This is.

Posted by: tu3031 at March 28, 2014 04:52 PM (yagOO)

9 We have 'cochlear implants' that allow the deaf to hear, but we do not yet have 'common sense implants' that allow the lefitst to understand.

Posted by: The Emperor of Searchlight at March 28, 2014 04:52 PM (o+SC1)

10 sadly when she was told her first sound was an obama speech she screamed, feel to the floor and began shoving pencils into her ears.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:53 PM (rDidD)

11 Time to turn the sock inside-out.

Posted by: JEM at March 28, 2014 04:53 PM (o+SC1)

12 @10 - "Is that what that dick was saying? My God, rip these things out!"

Posted by: JEM at March 28, 2014 04:54 PM (o+SC1)

13 I was wondering if by "high" she meant "loud". When you've never heard any sound, even normal conversation must seem quite loud. ----------------------------------- I remember having lost 40-50% hearing in one ear due to an infection. A few months later after I was over it, they cleaned the gunk out with a blast of warm water. For the first day afterwards it sounded like the volume in that ear was turned up much louder.

Posted by: Tobacco Road at March 28, 2014 04:54 PM (4Mv1T)

14 How did she recognize the sounds of the words if she's never heard them before??? How would she know what the speaker was saying?

Was she reading the speakers lips as she was listening for the first time?

Posted by: gastorgrab at March 28, 2014 04:55 PM (FX38i)

15 You know it's weird. All I ever hear is "wha wha wha wha whaaaa".

Posted by: Charlie Brown at March 28, 2014 04:55 PM (1CroS)

16 >>>and then struck her blind in her mid-20s.

How is she seeing to communicate?

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 28, 2014 04:55 PM (Iyg03)

17 I have heard that the Koch Brothers already try to take her implants away!

Posted by: Crimson Widow at March 28, 2014 04:56 PM (k0mcV)

18 I was wondering if by "high" she meant "loud". When you've never heard any sound, even normal conversation must seem quite loud. imagine what it would sound like here

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:56 PM (rDidD)

19 Usher syndrome was created in a conspiracy so that people would have to buy implants from the Kochlear Brothers.

Posted by: Dingy Harry at March 28, 2014 04:57 PM (08jH8)

20 Listening to Usher made her go deaf, yikes that's horrible.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 28, 2014 04:57 PM (WdbF7)

21
"7 Be better if she was hot."

She ain't bad, I'd hit it. Then feel bad that I might be talking advantage of disabled person, then I hit it again.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 04:57 PM (IV4od)

22 She's going, "oh, fuck, I have a British accent?"

Posted by: t-bird at March 28, 2014 04:58 PM (FcR7P)

23 Rather have Usher Syndrome than Kanye West Syndrome, any day.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 04:58 PM (+/r5v)

24 huh, it never occurred until now that the reason they blur the lips of people they bleep for swearing on television is because of deaf people. fuckin ruining it for everyone.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 04:58 PM (rDidD)

25 She may have been able to "hear" some sounds by transmission through bones. Beethoven used this method after the onset of deafness - he'd bite one end of a stick with the other pressed against the piano. The sound would have a definite bass bias.

Posted by: DamnCat at March 28, 2014 04:58 PM (mx8H4)

26 I would assume that she understood speech the same way as Helen Keller - with a waffle iron. I mean, by feeling the vibrations on people' s throats.

Posted by: Eric Burdon, winner at March 28, 2014 04:59 PM (8MjqI)

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 28, 2014 05:00 PM (8MjqI)

28 She may have been able to "hear" some sounds by transmission through bones. They used to call her the Bone Whisperer.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 05:01 PM (+/r5v)

29 She may have been able to "hear" some sounds by transmission through bones. bone phone

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 28, 2014 05:02 PM (rDidD)

30 bergerbilder@27: ""

Just a moment. I need to turn up the volume in my eyes. Could you repeat that?

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 05:02 PM (1CroS)

31 I'm not really sure why my allergies seem to act up after videos like that.

Posted by: Burn the Witch at March 28, 2014 05:03 PM (gBnkX)

32 <\b>

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 28, 2014 05:04 PM (8MjqI)

33 Wait, how do these heart-warming, life-affirming things satiate my desire for constant doses of outrage? Next you'll tell us the entire world isn't going to hell and that good things happen even during bad times.

Posted by: I Live For Outrage Porn at March 28, 2014 05:04 PM (ZPrif)

34 Wow, quiet here tonight. I expected more comments from when I opened Ace's blog on my phone.

Posted by: Carol at March 28, 2014 05:05 PM (s0f54)

35 What is with the love for the fat guy from NJ? First ABC now Kelly? Give me a break.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:05 PM (0FSuD)

36 >>I'm not really sure why my allergies seem to act up after videos like that. Because Bane Cat can screw with your allergies through the intertubes.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 28, 2014 05:06 PM (g1DWB)

37 As I mentioned in an earlier thread, she faces some serious challenges. Cochlear implants work best on people who have had hearing and lost it, like Rush Limbaugh. Your brain already knows what sound is and how to process it. Beyond that, she faces ostracization and hostility from the deaf community. It's a veryÂ….oddÂ…community at times. Very insular. Very disdainful of the hearing world. My wife was a deaf ed major for several years in college and finished with a minor in it. We went college in St. Augustine, FL, which is where the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind is located. As part of her education, my wife taught dance classes at FSDB. There was a young girl there who got cochlear implants. She was completely shunned, mocked and bullied by other students. My wife found her crying and trying to rip the implants out. I hope this woman receives all of the benefits and none of the trials that go along with the implant. Also, they typically only do one ear at a time. My wife knows much more about the procedure, but apparently it destroys any chance of further surgery or procedures. A cochlear implant is all or nothing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 28, 2014 05:06 PM (GEICT)

38 The comment in 32 was in bold 400 pt. Is that better?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 28, 2014 05:06 PM (8MjqI)

39 NCAA Thread?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:06 PM (0FSuD)

40 Hate it when people put stupid stuff on old cats who cannot fight back.

Posted by: NCwoof at March 28, 2014 05:08 PM (aUQgu)

41
bone phone

Posted by: yankeefifth

Buddy, they're not all they're cracked up to be.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner [/i][/b] at March 28, 2014 05:09 PM (AA6QE)

42 So does this mean she will get a cell phone and start "blindly" driving like the rest of the women in cars? I denounce myself.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:09 PM (0FSuD)

43 "I'm not really sure why my allergies seem to act up after videos like that."

Bane Cat kinda got me right there too.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 05:09 PM (IV4od)

44 Makes you wonder if at some point there will be a way to restore sight by bypassing the eye and optic nerve?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 05:10 PM (oFCZn)

45 Did you guys know that H.G. Wells was a man whore? He banged everybody and kids up the wazoo. Margaret Sanger Rebecca West Maura Budberg (aunt of Nick Clegg and stalinist spy) ...and more!

Posted by: Pug-De-Da! at March 28, 2014 05:10 PM (vFh9Q)

46 Someone shut this fat guy up.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:10 PM (0FSuD)

47 NCAA Thread? Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 09:06 PM (0FSuD) Tennessee hanging on...

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:11 PM (N8MbR)

48 They said Cock-lear...heh heh...

Posted by: Guido at March 28, 2014 05:12 PM (15qFH)

49 Five points 28 sec? Tough

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:15 PM (0FSuD)

50 bergerbilder: "The comment in 32 was in bold 400 pt. Is that better?"

The font is fine. It's the invisible, virtual toner. I suggest off-white until our eyes can adjust.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 05:15 PM (1CroS)

51 You know what's ironic? Mayor Decommio of NYC wants to ban carriages because he wants to reduce horseshit.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:15 PM (Mogjf)

52 The look of joy on her face, it caused an emotional reaction.

And not a vapid shit for brains actor in sight.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 28, 2014 05:16 PM (0AKks)

53 Man those uniforms, headache.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:16 PM (0FSuD)

54 Five points 28 sec? Tough Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 09:15 PM (0FSuD) 3 points 23 seconds.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:16 PM (N8MbR)

55 one point 10 sec

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:17 PM (0FSuD)

56 O wow what a game!!!

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:17 PM (oMKp3)

57 52 I recall reading that DeCommio has some busedies in Real Estate development that would very much like to have the land the Horse stables reside on.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 28, 2014 05:18 PM (ojnk6)

58 Listening to usher makes you deaf? Who'd have known

Posted by: Navycopjoe at March 28, 2014 05:18 PM (3uIOB)

59 Michigan might actually lose this, he stepped out.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 28, 2014 05:18 PM (291hy)

60 Unreal!!!

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:19 PM (oMKp3)

61 Go Tennessee

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:19 PM (oMKp3)

62 Makes you wonder if at some point there will be a way to restore sight by bypassing the eye and optic nerve?

They're working on it: http://tinyurl.com/booh7kk

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 28, 2014 05:19 PM (0AKks)

63 I am torn, sister when to UT Have lots of Blue friends, looks like Blue is choking.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:19 PM (0FSuD)

64 I want michigan knocked out

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:20 PM (oMKp3)

65 Iowa State is also hanging in there.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:20 PM (N8MbR)

66 White House looks to regulate cow flatulence as part of climate agenda Linked on Drudge. Cow farts, the audible menace.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:21 PM (Mogjf)

67 WTF was that call

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:22 PM (0FSuD)

68 *charge* ...Bad call.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 05:23 PM (lq3Ak)

69 63 Makes you wonder if at some point there will be a way to restore sight by bypassing the eye and optic nerve? They're working on it: http://tinyurl.com/booh7kk Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 28, 2014 09:19 PM (0AKks) Thanks. Fascinating stuff.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 05:23 PM (oFCZn)

70 68 WTF was that call You tell me, we'll both know

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:23 PM (oMKp3)

71 I FUCKING LOVE THESE VIDEOS! I'm saving that. They are like the Anti-News. Seriously goddamned good things happening to people. And if anyone in the HI and deaf community give her shit she should yell I CAN'T HEAR YOU at them, because they're bitches. I did work for about a year with the community, it's certainly not all of them but there were some I called "Deaf Supremacists," effing freaks.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 28, 2014 05:25 PM (qyfb5)

72 Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 09:21 PM (Mogjf) Thank goodness the Obama clowns have a sense of priorities, otherwise they'd be doing some really stupid shit!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 05:25 PM (o3MSL)

73 Man... you hate to see such a good game get all sloppy right near the end.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 05:25 PM (lq3Ak)

74 Now the EPA is getting to work regulating methane.Another way to suppress drilling.Yet Obama continues to take credit for increased gas and oil production.

Posted by: steevy at March 28, 2014 05:25 PM (zqvg6)

75 Back inside, and the Vols appear to be game. Lets see what the last 2.9 holds, shall we?

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 05:25 PM (6NGyP)

76 If only NC State could make free throws.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:26 PM (0FSuD)

77 hate to see such a good game get all sloppy right near the end. My life experience has been that everything gets sloppy right at the end.

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (oilWS)

78 Dang it

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (oMKp3)

79 Wow Michigan dodged a bullet

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (WdbF7)

80 *Yeeelch*

...Muck Fichigan.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (lq3Ak)

81 Have to give credit to Tennessee for the comeback, but it was not enough (and then there were the referees).

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (N8MbR)

82 Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at March 28, 2014 09:06 PM Interesting. My five-month old has severe-to-profound hearing loss, and will soon be getting hearing aids, with cochlear to possibly follow if things don't work out. We've almost taken for granted that, one way or the other, she will hear one day, and we do thank God for the advances. My nephew has cochlear implants and he has done great with them, but I suppose we shouldn't just assume that all will work out.

Posted by: Paul Zummo at March 28, 2014 05:27 PM (ZNIRz)

83 Well, UT probably beat the spread by coming back. So they paid?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (0FSuD)

84 75 Now the EPA is getting to work regulating methane.Another way to suppress drilling.Yet Obama continues to take credit for increased gas and oil production. Posted by: steevy at March 28, 2014 09:25 PM (zqvg6) Just rode 400 miles with someone who needs some serious regulatin'... swear the guy is dying from the inside out? Could probiotics be of help? Serious question.

Posted by: tubal at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (7JVJC)

85 He banged everybody and kids up the wazoo. Phrasing!

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (mx5oN)

86 Two Big Tens in the Eight, one more to go.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (IV4od)

87 In the meantime, the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky is now shut down for the upcoming game.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (N8MbR)

88 I know I'll catch shit for saying it out loud, but I've always thought that the Hellen Keller story was bogus. Or exaggerated. Something. I don't know how you can go from being an illiterate blind-deaf-mute to speaking and writing at an advanced post-collegiate level in the span of a couple of years.

I know it's supposed to be the whole 'miracle' of her development, but that's what makes it hard to believe.

Plus, there's the socialism thing. And the advocacy. All social-justice advocates are suspect, in my book.

I don't know. I've had too much to drink. But I'm skeptical even when I'm sober.

Posted by: Phinn at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (i5GO4)

89 "My life experience has been that everything gets sloppy right at the end."
Posted by: garrett

That was teed up, and I'd expect nothing less from the horde.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 05:28 PM (lq3Ak)

90 87 Two Big Tens in the Eight, one more to go. Wahoo's to take care of MSU. So two teams will be all you get. I think the Hoo's might win it all.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:29 PM (0FSuD)

91 Vaccines cause Usher syndrome. Also, Bush causes it.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's 9cm Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at March 28, 2014 05:30 PM (HxSXm)

92 87 Two Big Tens in the Eight, one more to go. Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 09:28 PM (IV4od) And I thought the Big 10 seemed weak. I mean Nebraska moved up to #4 in the conference and we've been in the basement no matter what the conference for ages. Weird stuff.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 05:30 PM (oFCZn)

93 ....but I've not a glimpse of how others see a faker... Ch-ch-ch-changes....

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:30 PM (ZshNr)

94 I heard about the "deaf supremacy" thing. My cousin went to RIT, and they have a "deaf dorm," I think. For some reason, she had to live there.

Anyway, she had a number of stories about how she was treated. Noisiest dorm on campus, by a long shot. They went out of their way to harass her, and as they are a protected class, she had no recourse.

Posted by: grognard at March 28, 2014 05:30 PM (S2juK)

95 Thanks Sen Hagan for helping keeping mercury out of our air. WTF? Mercury? I worry about that every night.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:30 PM (0FSuD)

96 Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 09:30 PM (ZshNr) Just put on a fucking Big Band Station, already!

Posted by: garrett at March 28, 2014 05:31 PM (oilWS)

97 Just rode 400 miles with someone who needs some serious regulatin'... swear the guy is dying from the inside out? Could probiotics be of help? Serious question. - I know someone who is a those intolerant in spades. The slightest bit of dairy and it's like Mount Vesuvius except more unpleasant.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:32 PM (Mogjf)

98 Shit, ISU is coming back against UCONN. 5 pts 21 sec

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:32 PM (0FSuD)

99 As to the video I'm not impressed much. There's an earlier part not included above in which the first thing she claimed to hear was Barry smiling.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 28, 2014 05:32 PM (oFCZn)

100 96 Thanks Sen Hagan for helping keeping mercury out of our air. Well dammit, now how am I supposed to deliver messages from Zeus?

Posted by: Mercury at March 28, 2014 05:33 PM (mx5oN)

101 Damon spellchecker! Lactose intolerant.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:33 PM (Mogjf)

102 I did work for about a year with the community, it's certainly not all of them but there were some I called "Deaf Supremacists," effing freaks.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at March 28, 2014 09:25 PM (qyfb5)

Any group of people will devolve into those who want to dominate, and others who want to be left alone. In America we call the first group the Left.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 28, 2014 05:33 PM (291hy)

103 "And I thought the Big 10 seemed weak."

We kind of beat up on ourselves and the records reflected it. Looking back, Minnesota should have gotten a bid also.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 05:33 PM (IV4od)

104 I have been assimilated. Whenever I hit the shed and sports aren't on, I automatically turn to this Station. It's like he worst time machine in the world.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:33 PM (ZshNr)

105 101 96 Thanks Sen Hagan for helping keeping mercury out of our air. Well dammit, now how am I supposed to deliver messages from Zeus? Posted by: Mercury at March 28, 2014 09:33 PM (mx5oN) You mean when we rolled the stuff around with our bare hands when we were kids was a bad thing? The stuff is really cool.

Posted by: tubal at March 28, 2014 05:35 PM (7JVJC)

106 Just saw this on Black Five, RADM Jeremiah Denton has passed away. Talk about someone you should know. Number three wire Sir.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2014/03/radm-jeremiah-denton-rip.html

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 05:35 PM (IHAZk)

107 105 I have been assimilated. Whenever I hit the shed and sports aren't on, I automatically turn to this Station. Sports not on??? Are you crazy ??

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:35 PM (oMKp3)

108 "WTF? Mercury? I worry about that every night."
Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 09:30 PM (0FSuD)

You've discounted our tractor beam!

*grabs a Planet*

Muah-ha-ha-hah!

Posted by: Those Eeeevil Coke-Broz! at March 28, 2014 05:35 PM (lq3Ak)

109 OK, we're past 100 comments and already off-topic. This is something I've been wanting to link all day, since a commenter at Neo-Neocon pointed it out. It's an exploration of the pathology of leftism: http://www.scifiwright.com/2014/03/the-unified-field-theory-of-madness/ It is absolutely a must-read.

Posted by: rickl at March 28, 2014 05:36 PM (sdi6R)

110 UConn beats Iowa State. Somebody needs to give Heather a hug.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 05:37 PM (oMKp3)

111 Not on radio, and I'm a fan of radio sports.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:37 PM (ZshNr)

112 Nip - Are you outside of Charlotte city limit?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 05:38 PM (aDwsi)

113 this is the last time ace is sober until monday afternoon

Posted by: The Savage Weiner at March 28, 2014 05:38 PM (6j8ke)

114 UConn beats Iowa State. Somebody needs to give Heather a hug. Posted by: grammie winger at March 28, 2014 09:37 PM (oMKp3) And at least one beer.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:39 PM (N8MbR)

115 but I happen to live in an area that used to be under a 1000 foot deep glacier, 10,000 years ago
---------

Aha! Proof of global warming.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 05:39 PM (aDwsi)

116 And *zap* goes a comment. Fully operational. And no wimpy exhaust ports unguarded.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 05:39 PM (IHAZk)

117 "It is absolutely a must-read."

I don't know, it's kinda long and it ain't got pictures.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 05:40 PM (IV4od)

118 The Big Ten usually does a face plant in bowl games ad in the NCAA tourney. This year, in basketball, is an exception.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 28, 2014 05:41 PM (291hy)

119 Aww, I missed TB3K? Phooey.

Posted by: DC in Towson at March 28, 2014 05:43 PM (6NGyP)

120 118 I don't know, it's kinda long and it ain't got pictures. Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 09:40 PM (IV4od) Stay with it. It explains a lot.

Posted by: rickl at March 28, 2014 05:44 PM (sdi6R)

121 She-bop.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:44 PM (ZshNr)

122 rickl at March 28, 2014 09:36 PM (sdi6R) Gonna bookmark that and read it later. Read a bit of the beginning and it sounds great but too much for Friday night. Thanks

Posted by: JackStraw at March 28, 2014 05:44 PM (g1DWB)

123 No Hannity tonight. They are airing a special 'Surrendering America'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 28, 2014 05:45 PM (DmNpO)

124 Well the dream is over gentlemen, Katherine Webb and AJ McCarron are now engaged. Best of luck to that lucky bastard.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 28, 2014 05:47 PM (WdbF7)

125 It is absolutely a must-read.

Posted by: rickl at March 28, 2014 09:36 PM (sdi6R)

Thanks, saved it for later. Evil is the easiest and most reductive explanation of Leftism.

Posted by: cm9000 at March 28, 2014 05:48 PM (291hy)

126 110 Thanks for the link rickl. Only partway through it, but a good read so far.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 28, 2014 05:48 PM (ojnk6)

127 Blame America first! ObamaÂ’s Take on Putin: This May Be Payback for the WestÂ’s Treatment of Russia After the Fall of the Soviet Union

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:48 PM (Mogjf)

128 Who got TB3K'd?

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 28, 2014 05:50 PM (Iyg03)

129 Call me!

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:50 PM (ZshNr)

130 114 Nip - Are you outside of Charlotte city limit? Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 09:38 PM (aDwsi) Nope.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 05:50 PM (0FSuD)

131 Posted by: rickl at March 28, 2014 09:36 PM (sdi6R) Fantastic, but depressing, read!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 05:51 PM (o3MSL)

132 Amazing what we take for granted. Good to stop and listen from time to time.

Posted by: Mike in the Hinterlands at March 28, 2014 05:52 PM (DNpio)

133 Who got TB3K'd? Posted by: rdbrewer at March 28, 2014 09:50 PM (Iyg03) I briefly saw the comment that was erased but you pretty have to be refreshing constantly to catch it sometimes. It wasn't a regular. It's lots of fun when it's someone who keeps commenting, so you're clicking the refresh button like a madman.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:53 PM (N8MbR)

134 Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 09:48 PM (Mogjf) Sad to say, I can't tell if that is real or fake!

Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 05:53 PM (o3MSL)

135 The only time I feel all right, is by your side.... I believe you and me .last forever.....

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 28, 2014 05:54 PM (ZshNr)

136 Imagine though the shock from isolation, When she suddenly can hear and speak and see.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 28, 2014 05:54 PM (V4CBV)

137 There are numerous "cochlear implant turned on for first time" videos on youtube. Every one of them is great. Wouldn't you love to have a job that provides so much joy? Even if it's only a 9-to-5 one? Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at March 28, 2014 08:51 PM (1CroS) Medical. Device. Tax. You're, welcome!

Posted by: Obamacare at March 28, 2014 05:56 PM (AymDN)

138 Imagine though the shock from isolation, When she suddenly can hear and speak and see. Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 28, 2014 09:54 PM (V4CBV) You can't pin anything on me!!1!

Posted by: Uncle Ernie at March 28, 2014 05:57 PM (AymDN)

139 131 114 Nip - Are you outside of Charlotte city limit? Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 09:38 PM (aDwsi) Nope. ------------- Okay..., well my condolences on the sudden loss of your Mayor.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 05:58 PM (aDwsi)

140 Sad to say, I can't tell if that is real or fake! Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 09:53 PM (o3MSL) - Read it and weep. http://tinyurl.com/l6use2n

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 05:58 PM (Mogjf)

141 >>>I briefly saw the comment that was erased but you pretty have to be refreshing constantly to catch it sometimes. It wasn't a regular.

Catch a name?

Posted by: rdbrewer at March 28, 2014 05:58 PM (Iyg03)

142 Catch a name? Posted by: rdbrewer at March 28, 2014 09:58 PM (Iyg03) Sorry, no.

Posted by: Vendette at March 28, 2014 05:59 PM (N8MbR)

143 141 Sad to say, I can't tell if that is real or fake! Posted by: Hrothgar at March 28, 2014 09:53 PM (o3MSL) - Read it and weep. http://tinyurl.com/l6use2n Posted by: WalrusRex at March 28, 2014 09:58 PM (Mogjf) What a wimpy, pathetic putz.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2014 06:00 PM (mx5oN)

144 Okay..., well my condolences on the sudden loss of your Mayor. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 09:58 PM (aDwsi) We are sooo upset. The latest gossip? He's ghey. The FBI apt where they did the sting? They gave Cannon a key so he could bring his boy friend over.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 06:00 PM (0FSuD)

145 Read it and weep. http://tinyurl.com/l6use2n Posted by: WalrusRex ------------------ As Obama brings to bear his years of experience and insight. Of course, it is possible that he is taking his cues from Biden..., or Kerry.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 06:00 PM (aDwsi)

146 *taps chin and ponders*

Do I expend $1.99 for a novella by Tom Kratman called Big Boys Don't Cry as a Kindle?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 06:00 PM (IHAZk)

147 I HATE fucking links like the Blaze link that won't let you leave their site. Fuck them.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 06:02 PM (0FSuD)

148 147 *taps chin and ponders* Do I expend $1.99 for a novella by Tom Kratman called Big Boys Don't Cry as a Kindle? Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 28, 2014 10:00 PM (IHAZk) Buy a 40 instead.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 28, 2014 06:02 PM (mx5oN)

149 We are sooo upset. The latest gossip? He's ghey. The FBI apt where they did the sting? They gave Cannon a key so he could bring his boy friend over. Posted by: Nip Sip ------------------ Have you read the affidavit associated with the indictment? Pretty amazing that the guy is that dumb..., well..., no , it isn't. I have a feeling that this ain't over either. I expect a couple more rats to be flushed out. I was amazed to see that the CO on the front page actually approached the question as to why this wasn't carried out *prior* to the election.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 06:03 PM (aDwsi)

150 Imagine being deaf and getting your cochlear implants and the first voice you hear is that of your wife, Fran Drescher. The most beautiful sound ever...

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at March 28, 2014 06:03 PM (g4TxM)

151 So I went out on a limb and bought one of those semi-cheesy Amazon produced "100 best..." albums the other day. 1960s surf rock. Most of it is crap, and this song I'm about to link isn't all that good, except for one thing - imagine right now, before you listen, what it would sound like if Wes Anderson (the movie director, for those not in the know) was talking to his drug dealer.

Now that you've done that, how close to what you imagined is this: http://tinyurl.com/kx2b8mt ?

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 28, 2014 06:03 PM (AaZLR)

152 I love these stories. Hopefully, Free Markets will triumph in the Age of Federal Government Regulation and "Elite Approval".

Hoping the FDA, (amongst many others), flames out in spectacular fashion is a dream.

The Feds can suck my Peer-Sponsored, Peer Reviewed lemons.

-as an aside; As I get older, I find I get more stuff in my eye. Perhaps my eyes are wider, more open and vulnerable to foreign substances.

...my eyelashes are thinner, after all.

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 06:03 PM (lq3Ak)

153 I was amazed to see that the CO on the front page actually approached the question as to why this wasn't carried out *prior* to the election. Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 28, 2014 10:03 PM (aDwsi) They really couldn't avoid a story. The comments were killing them, that and the local TV stations.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 28, 2014 06:05 PM (0FSuD)

154 ONT!

Posted by: Slapweasel at March 28, 2014 06:05 PM (lq3Ak)

155 actually pretty cool. Life is a mfr, and folks with disabilities get a double dose of it, so +1 to anything that makes someone's life better. Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 06:05 PM (x3YFz)

156 This was very very moving, back to a rum and diet coke

Posted by: drunkineastmesa at March 28, 2014 06:09 PM (l7HsE)

157 Life is a mfr, and folks with disabilities get a double dose of it, so +1 to anything that makes someone's life better.

Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: tangonine at March 28, 2014 10:05 PM (x3YFz)

Seconded. And yet, right at this very moment, there is some shitheel upset that the grants that supported the research that led to this technology didn't go towards guaranteeing spotted owls the right to gay-marry...and I only slightly exaggerate.

Posted by: StPatrick_TN at March 28, 2014 06:10 PM (AaZLR)

158 OT- Turn on CNN Richard Quest and Don Lemon are squabbling.

Posted by: Baldy at March 28, 2014 06:14 PM (2bql3)

159 Phinn, for a very long time Helen Keller did not speak; she communicated through the deaf alphabet spelled out in her hand. She was still relatively young when her teacher broke through language to her. Plus, she was already learning words before the illness that left her blind and deaf.

As far as the socialism, that might have been through the influence of her beloved Teacher. The woman was Irish and grew up in a home for those with sight and hearing issues. She knew poverty and a great deal of discrimination; even Helen's parents were hesitant about her when she first arrived to work with their daughter. The woman picked the wrong way to try to right the wrongs she saw.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at March 28, 2014 06:15 PM (yE8uc)

160 The Bane Cat is truly a miracle. I've always wondered how the brain perceives orange molecules as smelling like oranges or red as looking like red.... How does it "know" that an orange molecule "smells" like an orange or that the red frequency of light "looks" like red?

Posted by: eleven at March 28, 2014 06:16 PM (fsLdt)

161 Whoopsie daisies -- ONT. Whoooosh........

Posted by: eleven at March 28, 2014 06:20 PM (fsLdt)

162 Sometimes I swear they do that on purpose.

Posted by: eleven at March 28, 2014 06:21 PM (fsLdt)

163 More good news, the Piers Morgan reign of terror is over for a little while. Last show was tonight.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 28, 2014 06:21 PM (IV4od)

164 I saw the sign off of Piers Morgan. He preached about gun control and said God Bless (America & the UK). He really is a big, arrogant bore.

Posted by: Baldy at March 28, 2014 07:03 PM (2bql3)

165 Rush Limbaugh said a couple of weeks ago that he's being tested for getting a second cochlear implant. The one he has now, only 6 of the 12 electrodes are still active: they had to turn off the others because they were causing some kind of problem/interference. (Tinnitus?)

Anyway, he got his in, what, 2002 or something? so I'm sure they've improved the tech since then. He says he wants to get stereo-locating hearing back. It was quite interesting: he went into the technical deets pretty extensively on one of his shows last week.

Posted by: Beverly at March 29, 2014 01:13 AM (u08H+)

166 "#CancelColbert because white liberals are just as complicit in making Asian Americans into punchlines and we aren't amused." Suey Park, Asian American Activist [AAA] White Liberal Racistsssssssss induce vomit episodes. Cobert: "I Feel Your Rage." "#CancelColbert because white liberals are just as complicit in making Asian Americans into punchlines and we aren't amused." Suey Park, Asian American Activist [AAA] White Liberal Racistsssssssss induce vomit episodes. Cobert: "I Feel Your Rage." THAT is redistribution for you...like Hillary and Bozo, Cobert's effort at "I take full responsibility" with a non-apology. People sick of hearing, "I feel your pain," somehow going to buy that a White Liberal feels anything for anyone but himself? "I feel your RAGE?" When subscriptions drop, you bet. Now who's not amused.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 29, 2014 03:15 AM (/vO0r)

167 I did a technology report on cochlear implants a while ago. It's a lot harder for adults to learn speech if they've been deaf since birth (prelingually deaf) than it is for children to learn it. Much like learning a foreign language when you're young compared to when you're in college. That and there's a "deaf culture" movement that is vehemently against giving children this life-changing technology.

Posted by: Otto Zilch at March 29, 2014 06:33 AM (5uQlQ)

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