Recent Comments:
Elderly and Demented Won't Be Treated in a Pandemic {Asylum}
May 8th 2008 8:09PM Anyone ever heard of "Triage"? As a paramedic I am well versed in the concept, as are any health professionals. For you uninitiated and uninformed, triage is the concept of classifying victims into 3 groups based on severity of injury or illness. The first group is those only mildly incapacitated or injured: they can wait. The second group is those needing immediate attention but who have a good chance of surviving if they ARE attended to immediately. The third group are made up of those unfortunate souls who are so critically injured or ill that they either have a very small chance of living at all, or will take up so many valuable resources, (and those include the time a doctor would have to spend with them as well as medicines and plasma or blood, etc.), that they will, by being treated, deprive others, who have a better chance of survival, of needed supplies or attention. These are cold, hard facts that must be faced in an emergency situation. The elderly and the demented would automatically fall into the third group. The elderly because they would succumb more quickly to any trauma or illness due to their compromised immune systems, and the demented because they would be so difficult to treat that they would take up more than their share of personnel and supplies that could better be used on an otherwise healthy, contributing member of society. You don't have to like it, but if push comes to shove, that's how it works. The article didn't mention it, but children are lumped in with the elderly in criterion. Otherwise healthy young adults will be treated preferentially as they can live on and contribute the most. Children will not be productive members of society for years to come, and indeed take up valuable resources to raise them to adulthood. I am a mother of a three year old. I don't have to like this reasoning, but I DO have to realize that it is what will happen. Personally, I will steal what I need to immunize my son and my loved ones, and all other health care workers I know will make the same decision. Fair? No, but that's the way it will be.
Nic Cage's Son Will Haunt Your Nightmares {TMZ}
Apr 17th 2008 9:49PM I sure wouldn't go to sleep with this 'kid' in the next room, or even in the same house. Scary! Daddy should have put his foot down a LOOOONG time ago, before he got this bad. Or maybe the foot should have gone somewhere else....! No child of MINE will ever look like that at 17! Nor act like that nor use language like that in public. I mean, really people, doesn't anyone see anything WRONG with this?
Oklahoma Leaks 10,000 Social Security Numbers {Switched.com}
Apr 16th 2008 3:33PM Yeah, used to be it was fairly inexpensive, even if you wanted full back-up, to get a new identity complete with social security # change, but now it's outrageously expensive. Last time I checked, ID change with full backup was over $30,000! Granted, it's worth that, but still, with that much money to waste move to another country with no extradition and live like a king. Patagonia, for instance....Bolivia.......! LOL!
Man Accidentally Kills Wife During Botched Satellite TV Install {Switched.com}
Mar 26th 2008 12:44PM He just did it so he wouldn't have to share the remote....! No, seriously though, what kind of redneck idiot shoots a gun thru his roof to drill a hole to run a cable?!? Did it even occur to him he might hit electrical wiring or a water pipe, or ANYTHING else in his house? Absolutely, this was not a gun issue, it is a STUPIDITY issue. Sure hope they didn't have any children.
A Dangerous Woman {TMZ}
Feb 9th 2008 9:55PM I'm only 44 but I hope I age as well as she, with as little help! Obviously she doesn't go in for plastic surgery or botox or even a professional makeup artist. But then, why should she? You go, Girl!
Brit Gets the Last Laugh ... for Once {TMZ}
Dec 14th 2007 12:28PM Doesn't this woman have enough money to pay someone to buy her smokes and drive her car? I mean, honestly, you'd think she'd figure it out. If she doesn't want to be photographed, then don't go out in public!!!! Fame has a price, but she's been well paid for it. I have NO patience with idiots like her. Poor little rich girl. STUPID little rich girl. I'm glad she's losing her kids. She needs to grow up before trying to raise children of her own.
Small Child Kills Large Bear; Davy Crockett Smiles From Heavenly Perch {Fanhouse Backporch}
Dec 12th 2007 11:01AM I hunt, and was brought up doing so, but not at the tender age of 5! I got to go hunting at the age of 7. And we hunted deer, which we subsequently ate. Did they eat the bear? If not, THAT is what would offend ME. Why would you kill something if it wasn't bothering you, or killing your livestock, or posing a threat to you or your property if you weren't going to eat it? Boy, that does send the wrong message to the 5 year old. "Lets kill it just because we want to and we can." UMMM, who DOESN'T see something wrong with that message?!?!?
Yoga is the same as the devil, according to some parents {That's Fit}
Jan 11th 2007 8:14PM You know, it's things like this that give Christians a bad name. These parents are complete idiots and their stupidity and small-mindedness reflect badly on other Christians. It's a shame they can't do a little research before condemning something they obviously know nothing about. The very idea that Yoga, the practice or teachings, is in ANY way connected with the devil is ludicrous. These parents have just proven to the world how ignorant they truly are. I sure wish they weren't so quick to call themselves Christians, makes the rest of us look bad!
