Are you kidding me? This is what it's come down to? The stinking hospital gives an unreasonable deadline to the family? They offer to pay to move her to Illinois, to a hospital that will accept her. Completely at their cost.
But the family must decide RIGHT NOW. No waiting until tomorrow. The offer expires in a few hours. The family gets to decide if it's OK to send her far, far away with only a few hours or no deal.
This is sickening.
UPDATE: The Real Ugly American's thoughts on this. There but for the grace of God….
UPDATE: John Hawkins.
Captain Ed beat me to the shoulder flash for the 101st Fighting Keyboard Brigade but I will be damned if he gets to post the opposite camp's flash first. Ladies and gentlemen, I present the 82nd Bedwetters Brigade official insignia!
I actually made one just like this a couple of days ago, but was waiting for the right moment to post it. Timing is everything! Captain Ed wins.
UPDATE: Thanks to The Beagle Express for linking. (Sorry it took a while to acknowledge, for some reason it only showed up today).
I know Enron and the scandal of it's collapse are so yesterday these days. Still, Jeffrey Skilling, one of the guys who led the company to ruin is on trial. Jacques over at
Carry On America actually has confidential sources who are observing the trial. If you have any interest, you might want to check him out.
After bravely capitulating to the mob and rolling back the proposed legislation to help employers actually be able to fire younger workers, the President of France was rightly worried about how he would be remembered. Jacques Chirac has unveiled, at long last, his visionary plan to make a place for himself in French history. He is providing funds for a new search engine to rival Google and a bunch of other tech projects. All of this is designed to challenge American domination in world culture.
Most important of all, Chirac has launched a move to finally replace the beret as the semi-official headgear of the Republic, Because, after all, the American military subverted it into a symbol of their military. Vive la France!
We managed to get a photo from the grand announcement!
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are always on top of the very latest news. The other day we brought you the story of the Killer chimpanzees. About twenty of them escaped from a sanctuary and killed a taxi driver. They also mauled three other men. We speculated yesterday that the felons were heading for Spain so they could get the vote, but it seems we may have been wrong. We have just had an astonishing update on the story. It turns out that the chimps are not only still on the loose, but that one of them is Osama bin Laden. We are not making this up. That's one of the escapee's names.
NOW we know where he's been. He's been in Sierra Leone all this time.
We've provided yet another helpful photo to aid in identifying the miscreant. Good hunting everyone.
I see today that Teddy Kennedy's opposition to the off-shore wind energy farm is going to be attacked by some others in the Senate. What's funny here is that Ted "I'll Drive" Kennedy portrays himself as a champion of "liberal" causes. Which means he's for alternative energy, right?
Not in Ted's backyard, though. My God, don't you realize what that would do to the sailing? (I claim credit for inventing NITBY as a new acronym!)
I've written on why wind energy is a pie-in-the-sky concept. But I actually have thought up a way to make it efficient and make up for not building the off-shore farm, too.
We simply install a windmill in front of every, single Senator pompously proposing solutions to the gas price situation! It is a no-lose situation, folks. It would have to be a real heavy duty one in front of Teddy, though.. He's very windy…..
UPDATE: Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been around here very long…..
500 MWH on the hoof
I would just like to know who among those who consider themselves to be on the left or leaning left will denounce the vandalism at an ROTC facility at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill? You complain that people on the right question your patriotism.
Prove you do care about your country and your fellow citizens.
Denounce this poisonous behavior.
The judge who presided over the just completed plagiarism lawsuit brought against the author of the Da Vinci Code put his own secret coded message in his written decision.
LONDON, April 26 — Justice Peter Smith's 71-page ruling in the recent "Da Vinci Code" copyright case here is notable for many things: the judge's occasional forays into literary criticism, his snippy remarks about witnesses on both sides, and his fluent knowledge not only of copyright law but also of more esoteric topics like the history of the Knights Templar.
But there is more to it than that. Embedded in the first 13½ pages of the ruling is Justice Smith's very own secret code, one that when partly solved reveals its name: the Smithy Code.
According to the Reuters story on the same incident, the correct name is "Smith Code", they also provide the exact text: "smithcodeJaeiextostpsacgreamqwfkadpmqz."
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard have a crack team of cryptographers (have you noticed the immense resources we bring to bear on every issue?) from the Arbo School of Code breaking, Cryptography and Shoe Shinery. Pounding away madly on typewriters like monkeys writing Shakespeare, they have already cracked the code.
The message reads: Smith Code: Please send lots of money to Blue Crab Boulevard.
We await the deluge of cash. Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: The actual code was decyphered fairly rapidly after the initial reports. It turns out to be, well, stupid. "Jackie Fisher, who are you? Dreadnought". We like our translation much better. We await the deluge!
The soon to be former Northern Kentucky University instructor who instructed her students to exercise their free speech rights by silencing other students has been charged by the County Attorney. Six of the students were also charged. The charges include criminal mischief, theft by unlawful taking and for the professor, criminal solicitation. The professor's attorney still maintains that tearing up the crosses was just free speech.
"The intent was just an expression of freedom of speech," Grubbs said. "She saw harm coming from it, and she was just expressing her attitude towards the harm."
Obviously, the professor still needs a bit of education on what free speech is. Maybe a bit of time in the County pokey will illuminate her.
Here's a translation from US
Central Command of the entire tape released by Zarqawi.
We haven't had one of these for a while now, but we found a good one. A man and a woman, both recent parolees, were apprehended after a bank robbery. Police had an easy time spotting their getaway vehicle.
A 2006 Cadillac limousine. Talk about your stylish getaways!
This is not the first time a limo has been used:
"This is the second time in a couple of years that a limousine has been used as a getaway car in a bank robbery," Gardner said. "I've been doing this job a long time and nothing surprises me any more."
Note to would be bank robbers. Nondescript is good. Big, easily recognized car is bad.
A British magazine, FHM, polled it's readers and crowned Keira Knightly as the world's sexiest woman. We here at Blue Crab Boulevard don't know if we'd know Keira Knightly if we tripped over her*, however, as is always the case in stories like this, it provides us an opportunity for gratuitous linkage. WARNING - at least one picture at this site is NOT work safe.
*Actually, we would know her, but it sounded better that way!
Riehl World View has an absolutely astonishing post up. It asks a pretty simple question: is the story that won Dana Priest a Pulitzer simply a rehashed bit of old news spun in a new way?
The answer would appear to be a definitive yes. What's disturbing here is that the Washington Post archive of the 2002 story can't seem to be found. If this is a "down the memory hole" moment, they screwed up. Other places cached the story.
And just as a matter of curiosity, why is it that the above article is no longer available at the Washington Post on line? Archiving, most likely. At least I hope so. Fortunately, a web site archived the article, as did others - just not the Washington Post. Is it possible the story didn't get the traction and cause the hearings some might have thought before the 2004 election?
Frankly, this looks like it might be more than a bit embarrassing for the Pulitzer committee, don't you think?
John Hawkins has the latest news I could find on this travesty. What's really appalling is that Ms. Clark is aware of what the hospital is going to do to her. She is not in a coma, she is alert enough to ask for a Whopper from Burger King.
Keep up whatever pressure you can, folks.
Dean Esmay has a rather good how-to guide for spotting conspiracy theories.
1) Conspiracy Theorists rely on evidence that they themselves have carefully put together, even though none of them are experts in the subject. They then ask you to draw your own conclusions, even though you're not an expert either.
2) In events with huge numbers of eyewitnesses, it is entirely normal for there be people who are confused, misremember things, contradict themselves, or contradict each other. You see it every day: people don't even agree with each other on what they just saw on the news last night, let alone some big scary event where things are blowing up and people are screaming and running for their lives. But such normal contradictions are used by Conspiracy Theorists as evidence that something is very deeply wrong.
3) Conspiracy Theorists also require that very large numbers of people–hundreds, even thousands–are involved in carefully plotted and carefully timed events, and then all (or mostly all) keep their mouths shut, and continue to hide the "real truth."
4) Conspiracy Theorists tend to have an explanation for everything, or to expect you to. In real life there are often ambiguities and things people don't quite understand. This is normal, but the Conspiracy Theorist uses it, again, as evidence that something is very deeply wrong.
5) Conspiracy Theorists have an overpowering narrative to explain the whole thing which involves something very sinister, such as world domination, spreading an Empire, swinging an election, exterminating Jews, blacks, white Christians, or whatever.
This handy guide is part of a discussion on one of the more loony conspiracies going on out there right now. That somehow the events of 9/11 were a vast conspiracy. What's frightening to me is that people swallow this nonsense. I overheard some guy in a restaurant expounding this exact theory not long ago. The guy he sitting with had a look on his face that pretty well showed he thought the other guy was insane. I found that encouraging.
As dean points out, yes there was a conspiracy carried out that sunny fall day. A conspiracy by Islamist extremists against all of us here in America. To try to blame it on someone else is to ignore reality.
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