"But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation."
Jason Collins has strong political connections. Bill Clinton said: “I have known Jason Collins since he was Chelsea’s classmate and friend at Stanford."
And Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was Collins's roommate at Stanford: "For as long as I’ve known Jason Collins he has been defined by three things: his passion for the sport he loves, his unwavering integrity, and the biggest heart you will ever find. Without question or hesitation, he gives everything he’s got to those of us lucky enough to be in his life. I’m proud to stand with him today and proud to call him a friend."
Collins has been in the NBA for 12 years and will be a free agent at the end of the season. Does he face abuse within sports? He says he's led a "double life has kept me from getting close to any of my teammates." There's always politics. The man has some powerful friends there.
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857 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 801 – 857 of 857Way to step up, Commuter!
Ah, now the decomposing old cunt pulls the stalker card.
Because this is her site, and nobody is allowed to say anything about her sainted drunken ass.
Hey, but maybe she can accuse people of cybercrimes for having the audacity to bring up the personal information she constantly posts.
You are a pathetic old crone and the world will be a much better place when you are worm food.
Inga said...
And Matt, the term is still being used, you are a strange one, I would wonder why anybody needs to sit up with a child with controlled juvenile diabetes. I think you may be lying or you are obsessive, whatever the reason, it's not normal.
4/30/13, 10:43 AM
How I care for my daughter is none of your fucking business. Controlled diabetes does not guarantee safety and you should damn well know that. Now stop talking about my daughter. Jesus, you claim not to get personal but you won't drop it. Fuck off.
And as I said, if you have a problem with the term being considered archaic, bring it up with Merck.
While looking it up, it became clear that many people find the usage of "brittle" offensive. You want to keep calling people the diabetic equivalent of "retard" that is your business.
YOU brought up your daughter, I genuinely asked about her, you misread ENTIRELY what I meant and went off on some strange rant you are continuing even now.
Someone told me yesterday to be careful, there are very strange people out there, "Matt" you are one of them.
Inga said...
Matt, now I know you are lying, it's a term to describe diabetes, it is in no way offensive. How can you use your sick child like that? THAT my dear man is offensive, you need help for your obsessive problem.
4/30/13, 10:54 AM
Every nasty thing ever said about you on this site... 100% deserved. Do a fucking web search for "brittle diabetes" and you will find forums where people say it is offensive. Not me. I had never even heard the term before last night. It is archaic. Our doctors do not use the term.
Imagine you are working the ER when a family comes with child going hypo. Imagine their reaction when you ask if "she has always been that brittle" when the term is not widely used anymore. They would give you a look like, "WTF are saying trying to suggest our child is brittle." Sure, you might apologize and explain but the damage would be done. If you were our nurse and said that, we would ask for a different one.
Now fuck off and stop talking about my daughter one who claims to never get personal. You are vile.
Folks, Commuter is not President Mom Jeans.
Inga, I looked it up. Marquette does indeed have an MSN program. Which means squat supporting any claim you make about having an MSN.
"Awww, I'm sorry that is happening! I am a very bold person and I would be inclined to tell the Dr/nurse that every time they use the term "brittle" it is offensive to you."
Read that you fucking bitch and then say that the term is not deemed offensive by some.
Source: http://forums.childrenwithdiabetes.com/showthread.php?t=56154
So, Inga, I PROVED that the term use is offensive to some people - exactly as I previously stated - are you going to apologize for your disgusting attack now? Doubtful. Decency is no part of your character.
"I would let them know that the term is an offensive one. Often people really don't realize that."
http://forums.childrenwithdiabetes.com/showthread.php?s=73d25e0f15d3fd1893f77d67c986afd2&t=56154&page=2
Come on, Inga, you fucking coward. Double down on your disgusting shit.
Jesus Christ, I didn't say EVERYONE finds the term offensive. I said some people do. Just like not everyone is offended by "retard". And Merck has deemed "brittle" archaic.
Your response is to say I am using my sick daughter. You are fucked up in the head and a nasty person if you cannot see what is wrong with your response.
The Forum on Childhood Diabetes Matt got his quote from
Matt at this point I know I'm just facilitating your obsessive issue, but scroll down to number 5 in the thread, this young lady says she does not find the term offensive at all. The term was and still is used to describe blood sugars that rapidly vary from very high to very low. Any current doctor or nurse will tell you this. If a person's blood sugars are stable, they usually have no need to be watched all night. Matt I'm sure that medical person has told this to you along the way at some point.
Best of luck to your daughter with her diabetes, and Matt you seriously need to chill.
And I didn't say that you using the term made you a bad person or nurse. Hell, once I looked it up, I didn't even take offense at it.
Instead, I pointed out that the term is already no longer used by many and that some people find it offensive. I provided supporting evidence for my position to which you reply that I am using my sick daughter.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MY DAUGHTER!
The fact you would counter in that way shows some deep seated problems with your character. Seriously, why the fuck wold I suggest I was using my daughter? What is wrong with you?
"If a person's blood sugars are stable, they usually have no need to be watched all night. Matt I'm sure that medical person has told this to you along the way at some point."
Hey, listen up, you no jack shit about my family situation so why don't you mind your own fucking business. If you had half a fucking clue you would know that even stable people can have off days because of what they ate or activity level that day. Seriously, mind your own fucking business.
Matt, you should take some solace in the fact that Inga is old, very old.
As you can plainly read in this thread, her mental capacities are diminishing rapidly. I don't think they started out with very much to begin with.
The relentless march of Father time will continue take its toll on both her mind and flabby old body. She probably will be stuck in a nursing home within the next 10 years, certainly within 15, and not much of a life expectancy after that.
No one is immortal, and her drinking problems will probably hasten the decline of her health. One of the benefits of youth is the my security in the knowledge that I will be alive and kicking long after Inga's worthless corpse is in an advanced state of decomposition.
Perhaps she will have some utility to society at that point, as fertilizer. She certainly is full of shit.
Tick tock.
Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime, is on my side.
LOL, PMJ. She is seriously disturbed. She cries about being the victim but then says nasty, personal shit about people and sees no connection between the two.
Which is ironic because what drew me into this thread we her hypocrisy charges. The truth is by far the biggest hypocrite here and, quite frankly, of anyone I can recall... and that includes a lot of politicians.
Inga said...
Matt get help.
4/30/13, 11:36 AM
You really, truly are completely clueless and self-deluded. Wow. Just wow. I pity you. Your age and so little self-awareness. It makes me think that I might be beating up a "retard".
Alas, have at it, Inga! Rant like one of the homeless on State Street!
Funny story... one day while living in Madison, I was walking down State when a homeless woman came around the corner engaged in a heated discussion with... herself. As we approached each other, I smiled warmly but I think she could see that I was thinking, "She's a nut!"
As we passed, she whapped! me on the arm with her thermos.
"Hey!" I said to her.
"Oh," she answered, "I hope I didn't ruin your day!" I LOLed. Hmmm... Maybe that was Inga...
So, no, Inga, you did not ruin my day. I just hope you find some time for a little introspection. Now kindly fuck off.
Funny PMJ, what a joker. I am 61 years old. I live in a house on a lake that is valued at $700,000. Perhaps stalker Commuter would like to verify that.
Matt it was you that stated you sat up with your daughter EVERY night , which prompted me to ask you the question about the severity of her blood sugars. I was expressing a genuine concern. A normal person would have understood that.
Matt that you have taken this crazy discussion this far tells me my first instincts about you were correct.
Seek help.
How long do you think you are going to live, you rotten old cunt?
The house you live in (not that I believe you for a second, charity case), its proximity to bodies of water, nor you incessant internet postings will not prolong your miserable life.
Heavy drinking certainly will put you life expectancy less than the national average. I just hope that you don't suck up too much taxpayer funds as you waste away.
Tick tock, tick tock.
Fine. Email me your full name and I'll have my secretary verify academic, employment, and residence history. All I will say in response on this site is that you are indeed an MSN whose opinions should carry appropriate weight on health subjects and that you are a well-to-do retiree living upscale.
If you are not willing to supply your name then any claim you make and then specifically challenge the reader to verify without providing tracking information indicates that claim is probably false.
I am not a stalker, lady. My very first address to you was a polite friendly warning that you were mistaken about someone requiring your permission to reference personal information that you yourself published. I believe I gave you several legal terms for you to research so that you would understand the concept that threatening legal actions without basis is itself actionable. Your response to that was to purposely confuse or conflate me with someone else and accuse me of stalking.
Whatever negative responses you get in reaction to the way you treat others is less than you richly deserve. You may have supportive family but I would be amazed if you have friends.
And LMAO Commuter, I should send my address to a STALKER?
Well, I think I've proved my point. Your protestations and claims are so much hot air.
You should research both stalking definitions and stalking laws. I won't bother giving you any referent terms to start with.
Do not ever threaten me. ESPECIALLY, do not ever threaten me with legal action. For once display some modicum of intelligent restraint.
Ha, loving seeing the bug eyed boozy bitch (yay alliteration!)going through her usual routine.
You may be barking up the wrong tree this time, you crazy victim complex piglet, as I don't think Commuter is as good natured about your threats as I am.
"Matt it was you that stated you sat up with your daughter EVERY night , which prompted me to ask you the question about the severity of her blood sugars. I was expressing a genuine concern. A normal person would have understood that."
We went over that and moved on. Now, we were talking about whether or not "brittle diabetes" is an archaic and offensive term. I said to SOME it is. You said that it was not. I provided supporting evidence. You said that I was using my daughter, which is both laughably stupid and incredibly mendacious.
You lack any and all self-awareness. You are a very sad and demented individual.
And to think that you can spend hours telling someone they are a psycho, to shut up and go fuck themselves to later turn around and say, "So, how's your daughter doing?" without them expecting the worst of you, then you are truly deranged.
It is clear that you are attempting to do with Ritmo did with Palladian: get some personal info on them and then shit on them without repeatedly. And, sure enough, that is exactly what you did. So fuck you and your phony concern you twisted, sick shit stain.
I think its quite possible you're verging on or well into dementia. In no more than a couple of dozen comments back you challenged me to verify personal information that you offered. You did so twice and concerning separate claims. So I told you to provide me the information I would need to meet your challenge. Now you're pretending that you are being stalked by me. You are either incapable of understanding the meaning of what you typed or you do not recall typing it 60 minutes later.
I know that there are several if not many physicians among the commenters here and it has puzzled me why they have not called you out. Its been my experience, and deep experience at that, that physicians are very sensitive to nurses, especially LPNs diagnosing, and will censure them for doing so. I think the same applies for attorneys commenting here. They are well aware of what defines stalking on so on. Being relatively new here, I can't speak to the history of reactions to you but I would find it implausible that you haven't generated at least a few head shaking remarks from various professionals. The fact that I haven't see them in my time here is very likely because they don't and/or no longer see you as worth correcting.
So I'm going to assume you are an individual to be pitied rather than one whose comments should be challenged and leave you to your posturing victim hood.
Commuter, I want to gay marry you and I'm not even gay. (Assuming you are male, of course.)
Sorry, Matt. According to Inga, we're the same person. I don't see Same Self Marriage getting any traction in the near future.
Then again, if politicians sense that there are votes to be bought...
"Commuter", physicians haven't "called me out" because I am correct and it would make them look foolish if they refuted what I have said about the terminology. As for "Commuter" existing, I also doubt that, as I said, very very sick PMJ or one of the several Psychos that inhabit this blog.
Also you continue to refer to me as an LPN, nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with being an LPN, they work damn hard and are oftentimes more knowledgable than many RNs. I have a MSN, I do not have to prove a damn thing to you, you fucking psycho.
Stop stalking me.
Inga, I refuted you with Merck saying the term was obsolete and comments of parents who found the term offensive. Are you dense? Just because YOU do not think the term is archaic and offensive does not mean EVERYBODY does. What a tool!
And your response to my using actual examples to refute you is to say I am using my daughter. What a pathetic degenerate you are.
Inga said...
Matt, you have no diabetic daughter, you sick fucker. You most likely are not married and have NO children.
4/30/13, 2:02 PM
Whatever you need to tell yourself to justify your hate. "I didn't use your daughter against you; she doesn't exist!"
Eat shit and die.
Wow.
Inga--you know I luvs ya hun--but you're pretty far off the rails. Maybe dial it back just a bit?
I think it's official that Inga is clearly displaying signs of dementia or Alzheimer's. She's right there in that age bracket. The pathology of how she interacts on althouse has been consistent and systematic. She's delusional, often drunk, constantly bickers and meanders about the most needless and senseless points of discussion. She flies into fights of rage, followed by the usual "I'm rubber, you're glue" styles of argumentation, then transitions into flight from said discussions only to return moments later with another cascade of mindless and ceaseless accusations of hypocrisy and sub-categorical exclamations of psychopathy on the part of others she doesn't agree with. Her latest set of symptoms have been to use the collective blame and shame tactic of trying to hold the comments of people that don't agree with her on others of like ideological or political persuasion. This is a new pathology that has manifested in relationship to the discussion of sexual persuasion.
Signs of this early onset of Alzheimers or dementia are aggression, unnecessary and needless outbursts, fits of rage followed by perpetual victimhood. Accusatory declarations of ideological ownership projected onto others, while emotionally attaching herself on the coattails of higher intellectually functional commenters that she feels an ideological connection to as a method of validation and affirmation of her very limited reasoning skills and intellectual prowess. Coupled with her lack of knowledge on many topics that she feels she holds some level of expertise.
It is clearly evident that she is cracking at the seams like a Bangladeshi garment factory. Collapse is imminent and I'm afraid we will have to see it unfold before our eyes. Poor dear.
It's time to get over this don't you think?
It's time to get over this don't you think?
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What's to get over in my case? According to Inga I don't exist. I'm a figment of her imagination and my comments really aren't there.
All snark aside, I said I'd concluded that she's to be pitied rather than engaged and I'd leave her to it. And so I shall.
I reread the thread after I left last night. Lots of humor; lots of bitter.
I don't think Inga misused the term brittle as it appears to be a term of art, and she used it in a matter of fact way. I hope she gets some R & R.
The Inga Zone #22
The Inga Zone #22
^^^^^ Lol. Nice.
Can I just say that this dwindled down to being the lamest Althouse thread ever? And that's saying a lot.
Matt - sorry if you find "brittle" offensive. HCP can talk in a way that is a bit removed. Good bedside manner is nice. But if you want an emotionally involved physician on all levels at all times, you're probably getting a shitty bargain. Also, there's probably a difference between whether everyone would agree to finding "retard" demeaning (except when applied to actual retards like Palladian - a joke! you suddenly sensitive connies) and something having to do with control of diabetes. I'd not be surprised if there were more disagreement on that among diabetes than there is between trisomy 21 people and the other term described.
As for this...
Thanks. I'm a fucking tank, that's what these pipsqueaks fail to understand.
No doubt. I've seen pictures. You look like the drummer for Finnish rock group His Infernal Majesty's Gas Lipstick.
And also, that attempt to pretend you're so much more sensitive about yourself, and about so many more things, than you are about others, well, yes - I believe it. Can I call you "immature" without you taking offense on behalf of all the peter pans and actual, little kids in the world?
Someone who can bounce around the "F" word in a literal sense humorously should sure as hell be able to have some fun with their own shortcomings. None of y'all is perfect, despite how much your worldview requires you to tell yourselves otherwise.
Unless you want to re-define "conservative" as someone who thinks they're perfect while extolling the virtues of humility, then you should just knock it the f off.
Gracias.
Ritmo said,
"Matt - sorry if you find "brittle" offensive. "
I took offense before I knew the context Inga was using it in. Once I understood, I apologized to her (and later was made to regret it).
As I later stated, I do not find "brittle diabetes" offensive. SOME parents do. Plus, it is an outdated term that is going the way of "retard" - so says Merck and others. Inga doesn't like those two FACTS so she lashed out at me in a vile and disgusting way. It is her nature.
Sometimes people are just coming from different perspectives. Health care workers are in a position were any deviation from being as objective as possible about a patient's condition can be professionally fatal. Oftentimes this requires some degree of distancing, or the use of language that seems dehumanizing because you are focusing on a disease and physiology, and losing sight of the fact that a dignified human is attached to it. Hopefully this fades the closer you come to the person and the more you engage in your just as necessary dealings with them on the human level, but an ability to be somewhat objective and even detached when required is absolutely crucial.
So of course, we rely (even more and moreso nowadays) on the input of patients to help us understand what they require to feel better, independent, respected and involved in their care. Sometimes this requires revisions of medical terminology, as well.
Ritmo Segundo said...
Unless you want to re-define "conservative" as someone who thinks they're perfect while extolling the virtues of humility, then you should just knock it the f off.
Is this as inappropriate as the biggest asshole on the site advising others on commenting etiquette?
LOL! It came back, after the merciless smoking that it got last night! Good evening, woodsy owl, ready for another drubbing?
Not as ready as I hope you'll be for next winter.
Are you threatening to sit on me, or something?
I see Fight Club for the antisocial is at it again. Maybe there's a nice gymnasium that will accommodate you after that horrible backlash the real world gives you for your supposedly kind, gentle, not at all resentful of lacking a father figure, and too talented for a real job ways.
You don't realize what a delusional self-parody you've become. I do hope there's a clinic that can see whether a diagnosis and treatment for some kind of delusional thinking is available to you. ANd that's not an insult. I mean that seriously. Get help.
Hope your hatred of me keeps you warm at night. If nothing else does.
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