Archive for the 'death' Category
Collateral Murder
read Greenwald, now please:
As the video demonstrates, the soldiers in the Apache did not take a single step — including killing those unarmed men who tried to rescue the wounded — without first receiving formal permission from their superiors. Beyond that, the Pentagon yesterday — once the video was released — suddenly embraced the [...]
A REAL Tragedy
Stupid show-offs who kill themselves because they aren’t responsible gun-owners is not a tragedy. Stupid people who kill their infant son because they believe in faith-healing is a different story:
On the last day of Kent Schaible’s life, his parents and pastor intensely prayed over his 32-pound body, which, unbeknown to them, was ravaged by bacterial [...]
More on Ida
As I said in the post below, Ida defied medical science for years. To her, this must have been just as much a curse as it was a blessing, because after Grandpa Ray died in the late 1970s (early 1980s?), Grandma never took another partner. Much of the rest of her life was spent [...]
Read More..>>“I Continue to Defy Medical Science!”
That was my grandmother Ida Skwire’s, nee Ancelitz, motto for the past 5 years, perhaps even the past ten years. But everyone has their time, and Grandma’s came last night around 11:00 PM. she’d been sick for a long time, and in fact it was almost 6 months ago that the doctors gave [...]
Read More..>>Bob Casey Is an Immoral Monster
I was bopping around the Intertubes this morning when a chance visits to Glenn Greenwald took me to Andrew Sullivan’s place, where the answer to the following question was illustrated in the starkest colors:
[The Israeli] assault on top of a blockade, carried out with an “iron fist” as the US was in transition from one [...]
Philadelphia Newspapers LLC Files for Chapter 11
Has McCain Had a Stroke?
I first saw this video at Americablog this morning. In slow motion, watch Mr. McCain’s face go slack several times before he wanders around the stage, totally lost.
Let’s be blunt here: Mr. McCain is a VERY old man. He’s been diagnosed a number of times with melanoma. His personality has changed drastically from [...]
Call Me Classless…
… but after returning from a bluegrass festival and seeing the outpouring of grief over Tim “Pumpkinhead” Russert and calls for civility, I’m wondering what the big deal is.
The guy was a classic example of the banality of evil, a fat backslapping bloviator who was probably a nice guy, but who was also Dick Cheney’s [...]
CIGNA: The Heartless Company, the Shame of Philadelphia
Heartless:
CIGNA’s decision to deny teen a liver transplant until it was too late highlights flaws in health care system.
When insurance company officials arbitrarily denied a California patient life-preserving care recommended by her doctor, the case provoked outrage and inspired the hope that medical coverage for all citizens can eventually become law.
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Sarkisyan had battled leukemia for [...]
On Nothing
I think I really shocked my friend Alex last night when I conceded that I don’t believe in anything, and I am utterly faithless in both God (which doesn’t exist) and humanity (which doesn’t deserve to exist). You’re born, you live about 80 years, you die. End of story. No afterlife.
“You mean you [...]
