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I'm not really buying the whole medical marijuana movement . . . seems like a pretty transparent ploy to smoke marijuana for fun. On the other hand, I could not possibly care less whether people want to smoke marijuana for fun. Every time I say that, someone asks whether I smoke it. The...

Su ingles esta muy bueno. Mi espanol no esta muy bueno. Espanol de escuela. Your English puts my Spanish to shame . . . and I never did learn to understand a native speaker; it's just too fast.

This is the best advice you'll get on any internet forum.

Very cool photos, I'm glad you shared them. I was going to comment on the iron of the ambulances in the first few photos with one yellow light bar, while the one I drive has lights of every color on every part of the truck with a control panel that looks like it takes a college degree to control...

I wear department t-shirts all over the place. I've worn them to school on color spirit days (Wear Blue on Friday!) But when I go running, the BVM bag keeps slapping against my upper leg and it drives me crazy, so I stopped. Running, that is.

I don't quite understand . . . do you somehow have to lift the backboard, or do you just need to lift your end with the other end on the ground? You're doing well building strength. If you need to test again in a short time, though, the fastest way to improve is by building skill. That...

Something else may have been going on, anything from the pressure and excitement of the day to an argument or problem you didn't know about. Down Syndrome causes mental retardation, but the thing to remember about mental retardation is that it is literally retardation--as in slowing down. A...

I know you're from the cornfields, but what region of Illinois? Springfield area? I'm south of Springfield, but close enough that that's where people shop and work.

I don't know what it's like in your area, but the course I'm taking through the local volunteer bunch costs the price of the textbook, and that's it. We're doing six hours every Sunday from January through June. I could not afford to do it for $1000 myself . . . but then, I'm only working this...

Seems like a bad idea to me . . . and if you have time to travel for your clinicals and such, there's probably way for you to take the course through a local community college or in-house with a local volunteer service. The course I'm taking is being instructed by the head of EMS at a...

You know, I must admit that bothered me when I saw it, and I didn't do anything about it.

Working on my ancient house, reading, writing, politics, reading, shooting, reading . . . . "working out" should be in there, but it's not.

That's simple enough. It was presented to us as a choice, with the NREMT being discouraged because it was supposed to be so much more difficult than the state exam, but I fear no written exam.

Sooo . . . if I might want to go to Texas at some point, I'd be better off taking the NREMT than the Illinois state test? I've been wondering about that. I looked into Tennessee, and it didn't seem like there was any advantage to the NREMT over Illinois state. I don't know for certain that...

I necro'd the thread . . . I don't know how long ago Sasha posted that. Might have been a long time ago.

Mostly bad.

Is there anything Vagisil can't do? I got nothing to match these stories (I'm not even sure why I'm still reading them) but all the Vagisil mishaps reminded me of Pat Rogers. World-class tactical trainer, former NYPD and Marine. Lubricates AR-15 rifles with Vagisil just to irritate people...

My dad could fix anything except injured toes. His method was to step on your toes and ask you if the other injury still hurt. He was pretty sure any acute pain could be drowned out that way, similar to turning up the radio to fix a car.

Don't let the system keep you out of volunteering . . . just get some lights for the top of your car, stock up a big jump bag, a couple of O2 bottles, and maybe a backboard (might have to use one of those takedown scoop stretchers if you have a small car) and keep a scanner handy. Show up on...

Cop permit? I have a Pennsylvania non-resident, but of course it's no good in Illinois. Yet.