Comments on: Apropos of Nothing in Particular… http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/ You have to be a monster to argue with butterflies-Julie Borowski Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: ZZMike http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55958 ZZMike Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:26:20 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55958 As for "this and this" - it could never happen here. A bit off topic: I saw this a few days ago, and am still having cold chills. It's our friend, China. Remember the stories about harvesting organs from executed criminals? This is even worse: <a href="http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/c-wnhol.html" rel="nofollow">A Holocaust of Little Girls</a> "from the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), repr. in World Press Review, September 1995, p. 39" . . . Mei-ming has lain this way for 10 days now: tied up in urine-soaked blankets, scabs of dried mucus growing across her eyes, her face shrinking to a skull, malnutrition slowly shrivelling her two-year old body. The orphanage staff call her room the "dying room", and they have abandoned here for the very same reasons her parents abandoned her shortly after she was born. She is a girl." Search for 'china dying rooms'. As for “this and this” – it could never happen here.

A bit off topic: I saw this a few days ago, and am still having cold chills. It’s our friend, China. Remember the stories about harvesting organs from executed criminals?

This is even worse:

A Holocaust of Little Girls

“from the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), repr. in World Press Review, September 1995, p. 39″
. . .
Mei-ming has lain this way for 10 days now: tied up in urine-soaked blankets, scabs of dried mucus growing across her eyes, her face shrinking to a skull, malnutrition slowly shrivelling her two-year old body. The orphanage staff call her room the “dying room”, and they have abandoned here for the very same reasons her parents abandoned her shortly after she was born. She is a girl.”

Search for ‘china dying rooms’.

]]> By: dick, not quite dead white guy http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55899 dick, not quite dead white guy Fri, 29 Jun 2012 19:37:07 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55899 <em>There might be a word for that</em> The active verb is <em>to kervorkian</em>. There might be a word for that
The active verb is to kervorkian.

]]> By: geezerette http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55887 geezerette Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:58:51 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55887 When Indian ladies got old ,lost their teeth so they couldn't chew hide and couldn't reproduce they were put in the horse pen to try to survive on their own. Men were allowed to live because they could make babies and tell the children stories about Indian history. When Indian ladies got old ,lost their teeth so they couldn’t chew hide and couldn’t reproduce they were put in the horse pen to try to survive on their own. Men were allowed to live because they could make babies and tell the children stories about Indian history.

]]> By: staghounds http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55871 staghounds Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:52:32 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55871 (in 2009) Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients' lives - that's more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-5711689.html (in 2009) Medicare paid $50 billion just for doctor and hospital bills during the last two months of patients’ lives – that’s more than the budget of the Department of Homeland Security or the Department of Education.

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18560_162-5711689.html

]]> By: staghounds http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55869 staghounds Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:49:45 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55869 I hate to say this, but we all die. Medical treatment, like a house or a car, is a commercial good. I don't see why I should be compelled to provide a stranger with a hospital bed any more than I should have to provide a stranger a bed at the Four Seasons at Koele. How many lifetimes of tax slavery will we compel people to endure just to pay doctors to prolong life another few months? I hate to say this, but we all die.

Medical treatment, like a house or a car, is a commercial good.

I don’t see why I should be compelled to provide a stranger with a hospital bed any more than I should have to provide a stranger a bed at the Four Seasons at Koele.

How many lifetimes of tax slavery will we compel people to endure just to pay doctors to prolong life another few months?

]]> By: PeggyU http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55860 PeggyU Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:12:32 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55860 *off me Going to get coffee now. *off me

Going to get coffee now.

]]> By: PeggyU http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55859 PeggyU Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:12:01 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55859 As far as I'm concerned, anybody who tries to deliberately off should come with me. Can I put that in a living will? As far as I’m concerned, anybody who tries to deliberately off should come with me. Can I put that in a living will?

]]> By: DougM (jackassophobe) http://www.sondrakistan.com/2012/06/29/apropos-of-nothing-in-particular/#comment-55819 DougM (jackassophobe) Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:47:20 +0000 http://www.sondrakistan.com/?p=23266#comment-55819 Rule 1 for surviving institutional decisionmaking: never be worth more dead than alive. That includes the concept: worth = cost avoided. Budget crunch? That's a slaughterin'. What are <em>you</em> worth? Rule 1 for surviving institutional decisionmaking:
never be worth more dead than alive.

That includes the concept: worth = cost avoided.

Budget crunch? That’s a slaughterin’.

What are you worth?

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