Stefanie wrote:
...and yet, there are still some who claim the Mafia doesn't exist.

See... they bust the one kid for robbery, but they don't bust the kid for not having a permit or health inspection.

RE: Boy's Lemonade Stand Robbed...

Many patients with gangrenous or non-healing wounds
have been treated successfully with
Maggot Therapy

At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California, and at the University of California in Irvine, CA, we have treated patients with pressure ulcers ("bed sores"), diabetic foot wounds, venous stasis ulcers, and post-surgical wounds, since 1989.

A few of these patients have volunteered to be photographed for educational purposes. These photographs are presented here, in hopes that people with similar needs, or with an interest in the medical uses of maggots, might have a chance to "see" how the maggots have helped these patients.

There's pictures!

Patients Treated with Maggot Therapy

Not quite aging gracefully

Micheal Jackson Faces

Decius wrote:

Oscar the cat seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours.
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His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live.

"He doesn't make too many mistakes. He seems to understand when patients are about to die," Dr. David Dosa said in an interview. He describes the phenomenon in a poignant essay in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Many family members take some solace from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one," said Dosa, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.

After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He'd sniff and observe patients, then sit beside people who would wind up dying in a few hours.

Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously and is generally aloof. "This is not a cat that's friendly to people," he said.

Creepy...

I wonder if there's a connection between people who are liked by cats and life expectancy. Or, maybe the cat is killing these people by spreading the illnesses from person to person.

RE: 'Furry Grim Reaper'

Experiments in Galvanism is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst's bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with a blue ethernet cable leading into its splayed abdomen. The computer stores a website that enables users to trigger physical movement in the corpse: the resulting movement can be seen in gallery, and through a live streaming webcamera.

Garnet Hertz - Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver

Dead Milkmen Lyrics

"Dead Milkmen Peter Bazooka lyrics"

Tuesday - yes, it was Tuesday
When I saw my congressman coming out of the titty bar
He didn't look like my congressman, but that's okay
Nobody really looks like themselves anymore
I think its got something to do with that crap
They've been pouring into the water
I decided it might be wise to follow the congressman
Just to see what he was up to.
After all, my tax dollars do pay his salary.
The congressman got into a taxi, so I hailed a taxi
Despite the obvious dangers involved
And the coloured voices in my head began to sing:

All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can hear it all, yes I can hear it all
All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can even hear the little insects crawl

The congressman was in taxi number 23
And I was in cab 17
But numbers are meaningless in this kind of cat and squid game
My driver was an Aries
And he laughed when I said "Follow that cab!"
And he kept laughing until he saw the cold blue steel of Little Elvis
"Keep your god-damn hands off that radio!" I warned him
"I work for the government!"
This is actually a half truth
I'm really a bike courier
But I make a lot of deliveries to government offices.
That's where I heard about the cheese.
And the coloured voices in my head kept singing:

All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can hear it all, yes I can hear it all
All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can even hear the little insects crawl

There's this super secret government program called
"Operation the cheese stands alone"
It's the congressmen's pet project
They claim that they're giving surplus cheese to the needy
I, of course, have my suspicions
After 15 very quiet minutes
The congressman's cab pulled up outside a warehouse
I had the Aries circle around the building and drop me off.
He seemed to be grasping the importance of my mission
Since he said I didn't have to pay him.
As long as I promised to stay very far away from him and his taxi.
I swear, some people just don't want to get involved.

All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can hear it all, yes I can hear it all
All I gotta do is put my ear to the wall
And I can even hear the little insects crawl

So I walked into that cold dark place
Little Elvis drawn and ready for action
I too was ready -
Ready for the moment when I would be a real American

All I gotta do is bang my head on the wall
And I can have it all, yes I can have it all
All I gotta do is bang my head on the wall
And I can even make the little insects crawl
[x3]

RE: TSA to police: Look out for possible terrorist attack 'dry runs' - CNN.com

In this photo released by Fuda Cancer Hospital, Chinese man Huang Chuncai is carried on a stretcher to undergo surgery to remove a 15-kilogram tumor from his face in Guangzhou, southern China, Tuesday, July 24, 2007. The patient suffered from a facial tumor with a perimeter of 97 centimeters (38.2 inches) and measuring 57 centimeters (22.4 inches) long, according to the hospital. (AP Photo/Fuda Cancer Hospital, HO)

"hmm... I dunno... Think I should go to the doctor? This pimple really hurts..."

Yahoo! News Photo

n an overwhelming majority of 17 to 4, and in defiance of a threatened veto by President Bush, the US Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to expand child healthcare using a large increase in tobacco tax. Most of the Republicans on the Committee joined the Democrats to vote in favour of the bill.

I'm glad that Bush is going to veto this piece of crap. I'm of the opinion that ideally, your tax dollars should go toward something you would want to support. Smokers don't give a shit about your fucking kids. Smokers probably don't give a shit about you either... Hell, smokers don't even care about themselves. There's probably more people who smoke who are struggling financially than there are financially secure. Taxing these people because you can't afford to care for something of yours which could have been prevented with a condom is just victimizing poor people with an addiction. Using the tax dollars in helping them quit, or in their own healthcare makes sense... other than that it's bullshit.

A better idea would be to legalize marijuana. Pot smokers would be more than happy to pay for your fucking kids in exchange for legalization.

Senate Panel Approves Huge Tobacco Tax To Fund Child Healthcare

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These are brilliant.

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