Not a lot to say this morning. I feel bad about Teddy. Of course, people go through just as bad – and worse – every day. People whose families – on top of having to deal with the potential loss of a loved one and provider – don’t have the means to pay for the best treatment money can buy. So I reckon Teddy at least doesn’t have to worry about the money aspect.
Unfortunately for Teddy, “the best healthcare money can buy” probably means an aggressive combination of chemo and radiation, followed by periodic aggressive chemo treatments. In other words, he’ll more or less be tortured to death while being lauded for his fighting spirit, because staying alive at any cost no matter how miserable that makes your final days is what it’s all about (at least for the medical/pharmaceutical industrial complex).
Better to have 18 months of miserable, undignified life than six months spent with your loved ones being made as comfortable as possible and taking time to smell the roses, right? That extra time spent puking your guts out or rotting in hospital waiting rooms is more than worth it, isn’t it?
I hope somebody lets him smoke pot, at least.
I dunno. Why the hell does Teddy have to have a brain tumor, while Bush, Cheney, et al live to fuck the world for yet another day?
The day of the end term luncheon as arrived and I can’t think of a believable excuse not to go. Oh well.
The results of the toxicology report on the first baby hawk that died, is in and no surprise, the cause was rat poison.
http://www.palemale.com/
Gotta go to work first. better get ready. Have a good one.
:dancers: Let’s start the day off on a lighter note. :dancers:
I had no idea you guys are such talented performers.
“no surprise, the cause was rat poison.”
what a tragedy.
UCSC birders too late to rescue falcons
Just a year after UC Santa Cruz biologists rescued endangered peregrine falcon eggs from a precarious nest on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a team of researchers who returned to the site to repeat the feat Monday were not so fortunate.
I think Bush already has a brain tumor. We all know Cheney has no heart.
Don’t you have to have a brain to have a brain tumor? That pretty much eliminates the possibility of Bush having one.
On a more positive note…
if you get a chance to see Obama live, DO IT! I was about 20 feet away from him on the floor of the St Pete Times Forum in Tampa. (That is, he was on a stage and I was on the floor 20 feet away from the stage.)
(And don’t ask why an arena in Tampa is named for the St Pete newspaper. Tampa city council hates it, which perversely makes me like it.)
Anyway, just to watch and listen to him deliver a speech is fascinating. He is forceful yet never threatening, intelligent but empathetic, hunorous but with something serious to say.
Not to mention what a treat it was when young women would occasionally call out “Obama we love you!” and without breaking stride he would respond “I love you right back!” 😀
I found him to be completely sincere, so if he’s faking it, he’s really good at it.
20,000 strong went home happy. Including me!
:banana:
On the day it was announced that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage opened his show by interspersing audio of Kennedy singing “Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes” with clips of news reporters discussing Kennedy’s diagnosis and audio from Kindergarten Cop in which Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character says, “It’s not a tumor.” Later, Savage played the Dead Kennedys song
http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210001
There is one thing that is certain: these wingnuts have no class.
I’m sure all of you have been wondering how I did on my trig. test. I got a whopping 84%- not excellent, not horrible but tolerable. Now if I can pass my final it’s on to possibly Cal. I with Analytic Geom..
Oh, and I have a week off until my next class :banana:
That’s awesome Travis! 84% is nothing to be ashamed of fer sure. Not in trig. :fist: