Important Stuff -- Or Not: Speaking of Science, This is Just Nuts

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Speaking of Science, This is Just Nuts

What do the following hospitals have in common? California UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif. Scripps Mercy, San Diego, Calif. Colorado Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colo. Delaware Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del. Georgia Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Ga. Illinois Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill. Indiana Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind. Kansas University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan. Kentucky University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky. Michigan Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich. Minnesota The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. New York Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y. North Carolina Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. Ohio MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio Pennsylvania Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn. St. Luke's Regional Resource Trauma Center, Bethlehem, Penn. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn. Tennessee University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tenn. Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, Tenn. Texas Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam, Houston, Texas Utah University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah Virginia Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Norfolk, Va. Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va. Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va. West Virginia West Virginia University/Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Morgantown, West Va. The FDA has authorized all these facilities to use Northfield Lab's experimental blood substitute Polyheme in randomized phase III clinical trials without patients' informed consent. So, let's say you're driving along and you meet tugboatcapn coming in the other direction in his truck. If you are admitted to one of these hospitals, they will pump this Mobil 1 into you without your knowledge unless you are wearing a blue, opt-out wrist band. You can get a band by contacting the hospital or going to Northfield Lab's site. Or, maybe you think being a Borg would be cool.

2 comments:

tugboatcapn said...: I try not to put more than one or two people per week in the hospital for driving in the opposite direction.

As a matter of fact, the number of casualties inflicted during my 16 years as a truck driver and political commentator is surprisingly low.

Most of the driving public has very little to worry about from me.

Thanks for the link, however. (I think...); 9:35 AM
Lone Ranger said...: I know that sounds clumsy. To save my life, I just couldn't describe two vehicles approaching each other on a two-lane highway. To make up for my writer's block, I've given you a permanent link on my short but high-quality blogroll.; 12:50 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.