Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Is it 1984 already?

The glorious leader has decreed that everyone in the 'Land of the Free' is to undergo psychiatric testing to identify those with 'mental disease' and start them on drug therapy (or worse).

This Orwellian nightmare isn't a fantasy of the conspiracy theorists, it's real and it begins THIS year with all school-age children.

Ironically, it's been given the name 'The New Freedom Initiative'.
That's pretty sick but I suppose no more sick than the equally ironically named, Constitution raping , 'Patriot Act'.

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R.I.P. Pope...

I'm not a huge fan of 'The Catholic Church'® for various reasons (idolatry, the inquisition, etc.)

However, all that aside, I have to say that this last Pope was probably the best one in at least modern history. Hopefully the next one will be cut from the same cloth.

Anyway, my condolences to all the legions of Catholics® that I'm sure read this little blog of mine.

Rest In Peace Karol Joseph Wojtyla

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Monday, April 04, 2005

Caption contest

Ok gang, let's have a caption contest.
This is a frame I grabbed from a real video. (ie it's not a Photoshop job)

Best caption wins...ummm
Fame and the admiration of your peers.



Here's a few to get you started....

- "Hey Saddam!"
- "Hey Kerry!"
- "Hey America!"
- "Hey Social Security!"
- "Hey conservative right that elected me!"
- "I got your balanced budget right here"

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Selling Schiavo

So people are talking about this still. How this poor woman was 'murdered'.

Good grief. My own sister-in-law was ranting on about the evil Husband and the poor family and parents, and all the other crap ranting that she's been spoon fed by the right wing media she chooses to watch.

Please. The guy had the doctors try every therapy he could find, including an experimental electronic brain implant (that's the spot on Terry Schiavo's CT scan that everyone's seen lately).
When all that did absolutely nothing for her, he decided to go to medical school. He got his nursing degree and became a licenced nurse. His claimed intent being to have the knowledge to better evaluate what to try next, and to be able to take care of her himself at home. After this medical training however, he came to have the knowledge to realize that what the doctors were telling him was correct. Terry would never, ever recover. She was essentially the living dead. At this point is when he ceased all therapy and treatments. Because it was a waste of time and money. You can't exercise, or talk, or drug, or beg a brain to grow back. And that's the one and only thing that would have 'fixed' her. A large hole where your cerebral cortex is supposed to be is a permanant end to a person's meaningful life. But still the 'Save Terry Inquisition' want's to argue otherwise. Despite the years of therapy already tried. Depsite the CT SHOWING the large hole in her brain. Despite the flat EEG showing no brain activity. Despite everything.
They all want to demonize her husand and believe all the BS her parents put out to the press.

Well, I've got news for all of you, her parents have made a deal to sell the mailing list for all the people that donated money to their 'cause' to a marketing agency. Gee, maybe their selling out their supporters will help dull their grief.

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