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It took until 2012 for them to check the call records on a phone stolen from a murder victim???

My husband is an assistant news director at a station in Louisiana. When we lived in Baton Rouge, he had an index called Jay-Con. He'd know how serious a weather event was gong to be based on Jay Grymes's sleeves.

• Rolled down, jacket on, tie tight=Jay-Con 5, nothing to see here
• Rolled down, no jacket, tie tight=Jay-Con 4, rain showers in the area
• Rolled to the wrist, no jacket, tie tight=Jay-Con 3, severe thunderstorms
• Rolled to the elbow, no jacket, tie loose=Jay-Con 2, tornados, wall-to-wall coverage
• rolled to the elbow, no jacket, no tie=Jay-Con 1, hurricanes or ice storms

We found an extra level last year during the floods: jay-con 0 was a short-sleeved polo. Short-sleeves! It doesn't get more serious than that.

They really do take cheating super seriously.

I was on a "college week" episode of a game show once and my university's mascot was there. He kept trying to wave to me, but the game show people wouldn't let me interact with him at all. That poor, fake tiger's drooping, dejected head will haunt me forever....

This response is taken from another comment he's made in this thread:

I believe I have been consistent throughout my political life in terms of my basic values and what I stand for. Obviously, when you are a United States senator working in a conservative environment, you often have to do the best that you can within the circumstances that you find yourself. Two particular examples: last year, I helped write the most comprehensive veterans legislation passed in many years. Trust me, I had to change my position on very important aspects of veterans' health care in order to get it passed. In terms of health care, I am an advocate of a Medicare-for-all single-payer program. I voted for the Affordable Care Act, not because I think it is the end place as to where we should be, but because I was able to get a major provision in it that greatly expanded primary health care -- which is helping many millions of people today. So the bottom line is that you have to stick by your values but when you're in an elected position, especially when you're in a conservative Congress, now and then you're going to have to compromise.

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I donated bone marrow to a 16 year old kid with FA back in 2013. They were pretty tight-lipped about him, so I never really got a good explanation about how a transplant would help him. Since it's an AMA... do you have any insight you could share about this? How does bone marrow help with FA?

Also, we nearly did the transplant for him back in 2009 (did all the extra testing and everything), and then they decided not to do it. They obviously changed their minds after a few years, but I never understood why the start-and-stop. The BeTheMatch people all remarked on how unusual that timeline was. So...is FA something that can flare up and then go into remission?