The Red Haired Step-Child stands up

Mis-Quote of the week.
"You are a coward." Jim's quote to Cochran at last night's tribal council.
Was last night fun or what? I can compare it to your neighbor's wife finding out that her husband, (that guy you who never returns the tools he borrows from you and is a real tool himself) went to a strip club and she is berating him on the front lawn. All you do is pull it out a lawn chair, open up a beer and enjoy the show.
Savaii Day 18
This tribe continues to bitch about and berate Cochran to his face and then say those words that I hate, "Don't take it personnel." It reminds of that one phone commercial where the lady is watering her plants and her husbands comes in and says he just signed them up for some new phone service and she bitches that she should have married the other guy.........and then he says it was all for free. Yeah lady, shut your pie hole. Yes, tell me I ain't worth crap to my face, "but don't take that personnel." I am going to say those words that people hate, "I told you so." Last week this same tribe bitched at Cochran, not because of a decision he made but rather for one they made in voting Ozzie out. More on this later.
Redemption Island
Ozzie beats Christine and Ozzie is back in the game. Polite golf applause and cut.
Okay, Christine who liked nobody and nobody liked her and who had zero chance of winning is now gone. The tribes are merged, there is a feast and we move on.
Oh yeah, Ozzie tried to sell a story of being blindsided to those in attendance and nobody bought it.
Post Redemption Island
For a tribe that openly doesn't want Cochran around and think he is a piece of crap, they sure are putting a lot of faith and trust in this guy to do the right thing, the right thing for them, not necessarily him. We don't like you or want you around but this is what we want you to do. As I am watching this I am thinking, are you people that stupid, really?
Post Merge
Cochran spills the beans to Coach about how he is being treated etc. and Coach, to his credit isn't buying any of it. However, Coach tells him they will protect him if he votes with them. We then see Cochran talking with Dawn and she breaks down because she doesn't think she can vote against people she gave her word to. God love her but she is not Survivor material.
The two tribes.
Savaii has made a pack that they want a tie vote and go to picking marbles. If you aren't familiar with this it means if two people tie then a re-vote is taken and you can only vote for those two people. The difference in the second vote is the two people who tied don't get to vote the second time. If there is still a tie, then the two people who tied are now immune and safe and the remaining people pick marbles and whoever gets the black marble is out. So in effect you now have a one in ten chance of going home.
Challenge
Balancing a coconut on two strings while balancing yourself on a block of wood. Try this at home sometime, it ain't easy. Dawn wins immunity for the women and Ozzie for the men.
Pre-Tribal
Both tribes are working Cochran hard. I understood each side doing their best to keep all six votes going to one person. The only question was if Cochran was going to flip.
Tribal
I wrote down that I think Cochran is going to flip prior to the vote. Jim says there is a zero chance that someone will defect. Edna says someone who isn't incorporated into their tribe may flip, how poetic. Sophie tells the group that Ozzie's tactic at the Redemption Island challenge were pathetic and this has Ozzie admitting the same.
The vote is taken and then Ozzie gives his idol to Whitney. Whitney? I didn't get this at all. Tie vote between Rick and Keith and then Cochran flips and Keith is sent packing. But my question is where? It appeared he was sent to Redemption Island.
The fallout and next week.
Jim calls Cochran a coward and won't talk to him, Whitney has words for Cochran and Ozzie has lost his faith. You know what, too bad. Unbeknownst to you he might have just saved you from picking the black marble you knucklehead. You should be thanking him. You people treated him like crap.
The fun has begun.