Hey folks - if you have been considering the merits of our medical system, I encourage you to read this article by Ms. Karen Fraase:
“There’s been a mistake. That can’t be my lab reports. I don’t feel that bad.” Those were my husband’s first words upon learning ...
Lord, if you can’t make me a better man, don’t worry about it. I’m having a real good time like I am.”
A thought provoking article.
Last year more than 6,500 people died.......
Oh, did I mention I smoked in a ‘public access building’. A good old fashion glare at non-smokers was all it took. Should I blush?
June 27 - 2003 - Environment Canada issues numerous warnings for PEI. Heat warning, air quality warning (thank you Ontario and US), and humidex warning. We are told that even healthy people should stay inside.
June 27 - 2003 at 3 AM our brand new $12,000 central air conditioning system in office decides it is time to shut down. Calls to service establishment indicate we are in the que and they will get to us soon. This of course is an Island thing, tell the customer what he wants to hear regardless of intentions.
2 PM - temperatures outside have reached 32 with humidex readings in the 40’s. One co-worker has almost passed out and been rushed off to doctor. I am told a pedestrian has died on sidewalk out front.
3 PM - desperate action required. Call goes out to the local beer rep (married to a co-worker) - free beer chits dropped off and brave souls head for the cold beer depot in air conditioned truck. Parade of cold beer and ice comes through the office door.
6 PM - air conditioner is repaired - we don’t care!
Life is good.
Cabinet Minister Jeff Lantz saying, “I am not convinced that pesticides are harmful to people.” Yep, he actually said that publicly.
The US Supreme Court has struck down the ability to prosecute sodomy there. One of the Justices implied there are problems with Judeo/Christian thinking on matters relating to this (actually homosexuality). Gay people are (pumping) jumping for joy. And I noticed the rednecked, (their-version-of-the) bible-thumping, twisted-minded little shits of preachers are screaming their self-righteous, dim-witted little squawkboxes off about how this opens up the proverbial ‘pandora’s box’ (colorful imagery there!) of ever-increasing opportunities to sin. Hallef*ckingllulia- if that be the case Let the sinning begin....
What’s with these numb noodles? They take all this personally to heart as though it has something to do with them. They imagine that simply because their minds hold a concept to be true, that makes it so and the rest of humankind needs get with the program- or else.
Newsflash, bigots: You’re sounding an awful lot like the Taliban/Bin Laden freakazoid bunch. Of course, you don’t see it that way. And that’s the real tragedy here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,983714,00.html
Oh dear!
It’s one of the burning questions of the moment: how easy would it be for a country with no nuclear expertise to build an A-bomb? Forty years ago in a top-secret project, the US military set about finding out. Oliver Burkeman talks to the men who solved the nuclear puzzle in just 30 months
It was 30C here today - really it was!
Lets suppose you have a dog. You also work, so you arrange to have a neighbor come in and let your dog have a run each day. Now lets also assume that your neighbor lives right next door and takes your dog to her yard to have a some exercise.
Now lets assume that an electric utility truck pulls in to read your neighbor’s meter and runs over your dog - and leaves without telling anyone. Your dog gets rushed to the vet and $2300 later your dog is home.
When you speak with the utility they offer to pay $500 of the bill.
This is all hypothetical of course, but what would you do?