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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
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HA! How do I order one?
I AM A THEIST!
lulz
I want one.
It is beautiful. Like a fine dagger, perfectly balanced and honed.
that would make a nice trivet.
Meh. No ears.
It should be half-white.
My trivets haven’t needed ears, for the most part.
You must not care much about asparagus, Sarah.
Obama: Fisher of NewHopeChange
Asparagus, who, now?
Needs feet and wings and an evolved halo.
Nope. No religious fervor there, zoney…
How often do you pray facing Chicago?
do you know the biggest problem i have with mccain is? the sheer narcissism, the superego, the overweening ambition that drove him to seek the nomination.
it would have been far better for the party to support someone younger.
his med reports will be released next week…..for 90 minutes.
he got away with that 8 years ago….i don’t think its gonna work so good for him this time around.
from the link.
The delays have occasioned some dark speculations, but McCain’s people are pleading logistical difficulties. And that may be so — because what the McCainiacs have in mind is not really a release of medical records but a carefully managed press event. The plan, detailed by Dan Nowicki in an excellent Arizona Republic article earlier this month, is to convene a gathering where three of McCain’s docs will hold forth and a small gaggle of journalists from the Washington press corps will get to peruse the candidate’s medical records for a grand total of 90 minutes. Many more journos — up to 750 — are expected to participate in a teleconference, but it appears they won’t have any direct access to the files themselves.
The dossier that a privileged few reporters will get an hour and a half to digest is likely to be voluminous. When McCain last gave the press a peek at his medical records in 1999 — under roughly the same terms as he’ll show them this time — the mound of paper comprised over 1,500 pages. And since then, eight years have passed and McCain has undergone a serious bout with stage II melanoma that necessitated extensive surgery.
Bowron, an internist by specialty, tells the Monitor he has a hard time seeing any legitimate point to the exercise. “If they’re trying to frame a public disclosure about his health issues, why would you make it as hard as possible? I can see if they said, all right, if you really want to know, it’s all here. Here’s your 2000 pages. Go home. But to give them [a huge file] and only give them 90 minutes, it sounds like a game show to me.”
Bowron wonders why McCain doesn’t just authorize his doctors to release a comprehensive History and Physical — a standardized summary report known among physicians as an H&P. “A History and Physical has a section for past medical history and previous surgeries and the medications he’s on — all that kind of stuff,” notes Bowron. “Typically there’s a short social history, and then the first chief complaint, then their past medical history, their past surgical history, their allergies, their habits — do they smoke, do they drink? — then their medications, a family history, their physical exam and lab findings, and at the end, an assessment of plan: Here’s their major medical problems, and here’s what we’re doing about it. And I can tell you that a comprehensive History and Physical is not 2,000 pages. So why wouldn’t they just have [McCain] authorize his doctors to put together an H&P to give to the press? I don’t get the Easter egg hunt. Unless you’re trying to be evasive.”
aw, I made that bet a day early. : (
“I am the Algore and the Obama, the beginning and the end . . . “
the sheer narcissism, the superego, the overweening ambition that drove him to seek the nomination.
He can change the world!
He is. The One.
He is a filcher…
well, that and mccains voice….his hight pitched nasally creepy old person voice.
it always sounds like he’s whining.
a lot of ppl will be turned off by that in a debate i bet.
;)
Oh. That’s that George Soros website, nishi. I don’t think I’d quote George Soros stuff. George Soros could be a pederast I think.
oh..since this thread is here to bait me, i think you all should read my homeslice’s elegant fisk of Levin’s and Goldberg’s anti-Pinker-anti-science-anti-technolgy screeds.
The Right’s doomed and futile effort to slay the technodragon (or at least put a bridle on it) is just putting technology on the side of the list of things that are no longer under the control of the Right.
Like, media, the judiciary, academe, the arts, culture, the white house, and congress.
I asked Dr. Pournelle what this might mean, and he said think jimmy carter.
But i think this will be much, much worse.
and for those of you that wont link, here’s the gist:
I love science. Science a lot explains how the molecules fit together to make donuts and baby turtles and antibiotics. Science is one of the more fun things I think.
one more for the IQ challenged here–
And again, on the subject of human dignity, Pinker suspects that the term is being used as a token, emotionally colored but semantically dubious, to promote ideas he strongly disagrees with  specifically, it seems he thinks, to insinuate the dogmas of some specific religious sects into our national policy, where they do not  where they Constitutionally do not  belong.
I love science and George Bush and Winona Ryder and anything with amaretto. But science mostly. And then George Bush.
since this thread is here to bait me,
Actually I think this thread is here so we can laugh at you.
Which we’re all doing.
feets you should not hang with these old ppl…..
collins is right….you should go have vast quantities of glorious recreational sex.
;)
You know what else though? I think Baracky is being used as a token, emotionally colored but semantically dubious. This is kind of alarming cause I think people don’t get much chance to really get a look at Baracky’s agenda.
those neuro-horomes aren’t gonna last forever.
;)
Oh. Recreational sex. Yay! I promise I’m gonna make that a priority sooner rather than later I think. But in LA unless you do that cheesey Internet hookup thing it for real is a lot expensive and I want to finish building my computer first.
well..if you use the computer you wont get cyber-stds i guess.
;)
Oh. Hah. That came out way wrong. Meaning for real I don’t like using the computer cause my favoritest part almost is the part between where you meet and you go home, and it’s better really if that’s not all the same day I think. So everything has a sort of patina of dignity. But that part gets expensive cause there’s like parking and then sometimes cover and then drinks and probably something to eat and then it just sort of snowballs if you get all infatuated. Unless maybe if you just go for coffee but then everybody has coffee breath.
Also you have to get your car washed. It’s an LA thing.
I don’t think LA (or much of Cali in general) is conducive for having non-recreational sex, HF. Most of the gals my bil meets (he’s in San Fran) want … well, it’s the same thing Allah used to complain about. Alpha males with great big bulging … wallets. Sure, they’ll hang with my bil for a while … while they’re waiting to meet their Mr. Right.
His first wife put up with him for a while during her “I don’t care about money” phase. I think she just married him to rebel against her father. But, apparently, a “non-material” life is not joke – it means you don’t get to spend 2 months of the summer in the Riviera riding around in million-dollar race boats and wintering in Sun Valley. No, it was better for her to leave him (while he was serving his country in Bagdad) for one of her father’s (rich) friend’s sons. Now, I’m sure she’s back to living how she grew up.
Oh, and her parents are LIBERAL. I mean, raving.
Unlike the Darwin Fish, it seems Obama has no legs…
So am I the only one who has to look twice at the O!fish to be sure it says “Obama” instead of “drama?”
Great, but where’s the sickle?