On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:23:04 GMT, "Doug Donaghue"
<ddonaghue@access4less.net> wrote:
>
>"Angrie.Woman" <noemail@myhouse.nope> wrote in message
>news:7tPEg.8798$xp2.4470@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>> Doug Donaghue wrote:
>>> "Angrie.Woman" <noemail@myhouse.nope> wrote in message
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>>>> Doug Donaghue wrote:
>>>>> "Angrie.Woman" <noemail@myhouse.nope> wrote in message
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>>>>>> Brother Larex wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:25:39 GMT, "Doug Donaghue"
>>>>>>> <ddonaghue@access4less.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "UncleDave" <dhyndman(at)sasktel.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>>>>> "Brother Larex" <rick@meisarx.com> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>> news:3dg9d2pvn5j1ubfjsttl7du00ckfs51rt0@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:15:04 GMT, "Angrie.Woman"
>>>>>>>>>> <noemail@myhouse.nope> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> UncleDave wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> "Doug Donaghue" <ddonaghue@access4less.net> wrote in message
>>>>>>>>>>>> news:P8uAg.9325$157.2349@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's 1430 local and it just clouded up and started raining like
>>>>>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> motherfucker!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now it's turned into lightening and thunder and the temperature
>>>>>>>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>>>>>>>> dropped to 80F. It's fuckin' August fer Chrissakes. Where the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> fuckin'
>>>>>>>>>>>>> hell did *this* come from??
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Where the fuck is all this *Global Warming* shit I keep hearin'
>>>>>>>>>>>>> about?
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm freezin' my ass off down here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It won't be long before the Merkin weathermen are blaming us
>>>>>>>>>>>> again for the
>>>>>>>>>>>> cold weather!! ("Cold air mass moving down from Canada".) Like
>>>>>>>>>>>> it's our
>>>>>>>>>>>> fault, or something.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Not the cold air, but I'd like to kick your ass over the health
>>>>>>>>>>> care crap.
>>>>>>>>>> Dave isn't exactly a loyal supporter of Canada's health care
>>>>>>>>>> system!
>>>>>>>>> The biggest problem we have with it is elective surgeries. Wait
>>>>>>>>> lists are too bloody long!
>>>>>>>> Shit, Dave. Down here most Health Insurance doesn't even *cover*
>>>>>>>> elective surgeries.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> True but joint replacements aren't considered as elective in the US.
>>>>>> Yet. The Democrats will have us making soap out of the old people if
>>>>>> they get a chance though.
>>>>> That's probably true. And their skin makes a pretty fair lampshade
>>>>> (especially if they had a tatoo) So much they learned from the Third
>>>>> Reich <g>
>>>>>
>>>> That revelation is actually new to me.
>>>
>>> There are (or used to be) some fairly nasty examples of such things in
>>> the museaum at Buchenwald.
>>>
>>>> I was an off-topic conversation about health care with retired
>>>> government employee, a liberal who drives foreign cars and likes the
>>>> fact that the Mexicans can afford to open a bakery near her because they
>>>> don't have to pay so many taxes. (Let them eat cake, did you say?)
>>>
>>> Hehehe. It's good to be Liberal when you're on top of the heap <g>
>>>
>>>> She supports public health care, no surprise, but I had to let the
>>>> conversation drop when the discussion of finances went straight into not
>>>> spending very much on the old people to save money. "Do you know that
>>>> 90% of a person's medical expenses occur in the last year of their
>>>> life?" was the exact statement. For the sake of peace in the group, I
>>>> e-walked away.
>>>
>>> Good idea. Those types really can't be reasoned with.
>>>
>>> But it *does* beg the question of when it's time to pull the plug.
>>>
>>>
>> The real question is who gets to make that decision? I'd really prefer it
>> *not* to be Uncle Sam.
>>
>> I was just reading some stuff on long term coma patients who wake up. Few
>> and far between they are, but when they do wake up researchers are all
>> excited to have somebody to study. Turn it over to the government and
>> watch how many of them are never given the opportunity.
>>
>> There's no acceptable margin of error here.
>
>It needs to be the patient and it needs to be done *before* the situation
>occurs. And it needs to be understood by all concerned that if the patient
>has refused to make their wish(es) known in such an event, they're gonna get
>the plug pulled.
>
>And if I ever end up in that situation, there are four people in the World
>who'll be headin my way and, whichever one of them gts there first, gets to
>pull the plug (just in case some asshole tries to milk an insurance company
>at my expense.) If I'm out for over 10 days, pull the fuckin' plug.
>
>
>Doug
>
>
Can I wear the bunny suit?
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