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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
— Stephen Vizinczey
Your DNA or your children's DNA could be stored in a DNA warehouse
This is disgusting. A blurb:
Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase, president of the Citizen’s Council on Health Care (CCHC). “The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research,” she states. “It does not require consent and there are no requirements to inform parents about the warehousing of their child’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research. Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the Minnesota ‘DNA warehouse’ have been subjected to genetic research without their parents’ knowledge or consent.”
Someone during a meeting was complaining about how much is spent on inmate health care, I replied that’s because [those] people routinely get the shit kicked out of them.
— Anonymous clinician I was just speaking with
Unqualified Paramedics are putting patients in avoidable danger
…unqualified paramedics are putting patients in avoidable danger, according to a newspaper report.
At least two people died in Texas and another was left permanently disabled after paramedics transporting patients bungled the insertion of a breathing tube and deprived them of oxygen, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its Sunday editions.
—-http://www.statesman.com/
The Pomposity of Paramedics: pompous, strutting, stupid, preening, idiotic CREEPS who think they're smart. Chest and ass, perpetually poked out as they strut around in that goofy gait of theirs
“…man was mistakenly declared dead in a traffic accident and sent to the morgue in a body bag, his family has filed a lawsuit against the county and several paramedics.
“Larry Donnell Green was walking along… when he was hit by a car… Paramedics responding to the accident declared him dead, although they didn’t thoroughly examine him.
“Green was zipped into a body bag and sent to the… morgue, where the coroner later saw him breathing.”
Being Sick Arouses Contempt in the Paramedic Heart
Appears to be the website of an actual paramedic.
Apparently this kind of thing is more rampant that we know. They’re like cops… being sick arouses contempt in the paramedic heart.
Who woulda thunk it.
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(Well, that and being poor.)
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The Chat Noir was a bohemian nightclub, the author of this particular vintage ad, often featured cats in his advertisement art. I bought two of these, to go along with my other favorite vintage ad, the White Cat Milk one. Too cute.