NYDailyNews.com
There is finally an explanation for a Los Angeles TV reporter’s slurred gibberish during a live broadcast Sunday night, which puzzled millions.
Serene Branson’s bout of babbling was caused by a complex migraine, her physician, Dr. Neil Martin, told The Los Angeles Times.
Branson’s nightmarish 10-second report after Sunday night’s Grammy broadcast from the Staples Center began: “Well, a very, very heavy burtation tonight,” before her words became even more incomprehensible.
The original video posted here from Today on NBC was pulled.
16, Alfred,
Agreed. But Bobbo may have a problem with it because the woman had the good luck of being physically attractive.
Heh, heh. guyver. NOTHING I said speaks against personal responsibility. There I’ve said it twice.
You aren’t THAT stupid. Just that self centered then?
Well, kiddie. Sure. Think everything in life is a direct result of only your own hard effort.
What about the NewLady above? I’ll bet she worked hard her whole life==then a stroke. Why are you not “lucky” not to have had a stroke?
How about Alfie? How successful could you be if you were born as retarded as him? No “luck” for the arrangement of your genes/your innate intelligence?
As with so many thinks: analysis is defective when entire subsets of relevant information is left out. Think of two overlapping circles: one is everything you intentionally do, the other is luck.
The bad luck that damages your life is most undeniable. The lady above. How about a meteor than shoot down and takes off your leg? Would that affect your ability to succeed in life as you define it? Is being hit by a meteor “luck” or the product of your hard work in avoiding it?
Good luck is more subtle. Pearls before swine.
Speaking of strokes leading to coma’s, anybody notice that both of the deposed tyrants are now in a coma? Kinda like all those ex-patriot Russian spys coming down with radium poisoning?
Luck? Ha, ha.
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2011/02/mubarak-ben-ali-in-a-coma-middle-east-deposed-dictator-syndrome/
19, Bobbo,
And NOTHING I’ve said implied being self-centered. You just assumed that from your dogmatic view of things as your “luck vs. Pukes” comment alluded to.
IMHO, 90 to 95% is due to hard work or making the smart / common sense choices. The rest can be attributed to “luck” or chance.
Whether or not she worked hard at all is irrelevant. She used what she was born with and applied herself. As for why I haven’t had a stroke, the answer to that question is I don’t know. Two of my family members have had it and I don’t wish it on anyone.
You liberals obsess over what you see as your superior “intellect”. I don’t Alfred from anyone else on this forum. Regardless, in Life, you can have brilliant failures and successful duds. I’ve seen many smart people who fail in Life and it wasn’t because of bad luck. It was what they chose to do that dug them deeper into a hole. Don’t kid yourself into thinking high IQ beats common sense every time.
And in my Venn diagram (and I would argue most people’s), luck is dwarfed by making the right choices and applying myself.
Really? That’s your come back to defend bad luck? Seriously?
Look there are UNAVOIDABLE accidents in Life. There’s nothing to debate on that. Most of what liberals like to label as “bad luck” are almost entirely avoidable.
How we choose to live, work, spend, network / mingle drives a lot of what happens to us. Much of that is not luck.
But sure, if you want to turn this into a meteor coming down to take my leg off then knock yourself out.
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Guyver–you speak against yourself. You take “all the luck you are born with” and start a zero based game.
Is this a typo, or just a revelation of your hypocrisy: “Whether or not she worked hard at all is irrelevant. She used what she was born with and applied herself.” /// What is the distinction between working hard and applying herself? and isn’t what she was born with a major part of the “luck” involved here?
You dismiss and disparage the HUGE role your parents have in your upbringing–even the very values you have in enjoying and having the opportunity to work hard.
Now, take your parents and you at age 5 with fully engaged personality as formed, and move you to a foreign country that experiences political revolution. Any change to your life?
You really do not recognize the role of “good luck.” a short review: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Luck
Well, since common sense avoid you, perhaps summarizing it as “its definitional” would be another whack at the mole? But then maybe too much of your self image rests on thinking you are the captain of your own ship? I’m thinking of survivor syndrome: all those dead, why did I make it?==same as the others, just luck.
Emotions. I guess you would not be so deserving of life’s riches if you had to admit more luck than you wish to?
I thank god for all my good luck: my brains, my health, my parents, nothing “really bad” ever happening to me. and I worked hard: 35 hours a week for 3.5 years while getting a double BA in college. Work, work, work. And I prefer my life over those less able who fail the intellectual challenge to recognize the larger tableau. Take my money (taxes) but leave me my health, my education, my experiences–a bargain I will take everytime. How can I caste myself as the “victim” after such an excess of bounty?
The disdain for taxes reveals the very small mind. The mind who does not appreciate their good fortune in life. The hypocrite. Too many thus situated are not satisfied by the good life they have, they must also deny others the same opportunities to make their way.
I had a friend in High School. Just as smart as me. We made our own kayaks and went river kayaking. both our dad’s were alcoholics. Mine just made sarcastic remarks (hah!) but his was violent. I am successful, he has disappeared in life but it wasn’t looking good for him. Parents. Like that story a few months ago of “That other (whats his name”–Two black guys with the same name. One is very successful, the other in jail. Parents.
Point of view isn’t it?
That clears that up. What’s the scoop with Palin’s blabbering?
#19 How about Alfie? How successful could you be if you were born as retarded as him? No “luck” for the arrangement of your genes/your innate intelligence?
How relevant is luck to success? When Bobbo asks this, it naturally gives rise to another mystery…
Can you love mother nature, considering what she has done to you?
#24 Bush, Palin, Coulter…derangement syndrome…
There must be a cause and effect relationship between complex headache…and progressivism.
I don’t get it…she’s blonde…but she doesn’t work for FOX…
I thought the cornered the market on newsy blondes…
Not complaining mind you, I like it.
Alfie–I’m not responding to you, but rather the random words that got posted after your name.
I tried to make it abundantly clear that my hard work and luck, those gifts from Mother Nature, the time and circumstances in which I was born, raised, found employment==have all made me a WINNER! Course, being humble, I must add–depending on how you define it, but still.
Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself–I can’t avoid my knowledge of the other 99% of people ever born that I would not change places with.
All seems rather axiomatic to me. The universe is a meaningless place and we are all products of chance. How successful would we be in a universe where the gravitational constant was .05% stronger?===and it cascades from there.
Another friend of mine called up wanting to complain about the $1000′s of dollars he was going to have to pay in taxes because a tax shelter he was in was just invalidated. I reminded him of a mutual friend who had just died in a traffic accident he could not have avoided. Luck.
How much of anyone’s life should be taken up lamenting the HUGE income one makes and the resulting tax, versus being killed in a traffic accident? versus all so many other things?
Be happy–arrange for the happiness of others as much as possible. Who even WANTS TO live in a country where bad luck is allowed to play out without correction/help from the government? Not me, and I’m willing to pay for it. You who don’t need the very mental health services I’m willing to provide for you. Ha, ha.
Silly little self centered miscreants.
i’m really getting tired of this troll fest.
Alphie distracted her.
“How relevant is luck to success?” Ask every successful person. The answer tends to be very relevant. Of course there are those who also make their own luck.
Complex migraine my arse.
she did not wince, grimace or hold her head.
i saw no pain in her face, only fear.
-s
Probably a migraine aura. I occasionally have the visual type. Once when I was driving I noticed that the car in front of me had no left tail light. If I turned my head the tail light would appear. Then the zig-zags started. I found simulations on youtube by searching for zig zag vision.
There is speculation that Picasso suffered from migraine auras and his paintings reflect that view of the world. The aura tends to precede the headache. In my case the headache never shows up.
This reporter had probably gone through it before, knew what was happening and explained it to the paramedics resulting in no trip to the hospital. The expression on her face was probably “Oh damn! Not now!”
Migraine? Called it.
There is no luck. There is just a omnipotent God who screws with your life all day long and demands constant worship and adoration. Life is a theological North Korea.
#9 1873 Colt (may we call you 18?) said, “I would immediately call 911″
Right you are. I’m still in disbelief that no one insisted she be examined. Even if it’s happened before – the next time MIGHT be a stroke.
I’ve heard of this symptom associated with migraines and, more often, tension headaches. Never seen a patient with it, though.
Question to all in this blog. Why the HE** does everything have to have a Right wing or Left wing political viewpoint on this blog??
Is it easier to relate/complain about political viewpoints and make insults/snide remarks than to discuss the topic at hand?
Sigh
-Hope Serene Branson is doing better.
#38 Scooter
Because it takes no thought whatsoever and since nothing ever changes, you can continuously make precisely the same arguments, endlessly, by remote control.
The color red is better than the color blue!
No, the color blue is better than the color red!
No, the color red is better than the color blue!
No, the color blue is better than the color red.
As the wealthy laugh their asses off at these silly, stupid, screaming dummies, doing as they were programmed to do their entire lives:
No, the color red is better. Believe it or I’ll kill you!
No, the color blue is better. Believe it or I’ll kill you!
Ad nauseum…
WmDE #17 you win…she was on CBS this morning and that was the diagnosis. Her mother has a history of migraines. She’s going to have a long-term relationship with a neurologist.