Monday, August 30, 2004
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Did We Land on the Moon?
For years people have tried to convince me that we never landed on the moon, and I resisted their 'proof' and trusted the Government. The photographic evidence was, in my opinion, bunk. However, looking at this display of previously unseen shots.well..it's starting to make me wonder.
Especially Exhibit G. It's got me thinking. A LOT.
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Cat Eats Dog
Keep your dogs away from the water in Gueldendorf, Germany! There's a big old hungry catfish there that evidently ate a dachshund this past week. Usually catfish are scavengers, but this fishy has become quite voracious. It is emptying the lake of all the other fish and reportedly dragged the little dachshund doggy under the water and ate it, much to the chagrin of the pup's owner.
Folks at the Gueldendorfer Fisherman's Club have been trying to catch the fish via rod, reel, nets, and electroshocks but to no avail.
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Jaw Dropping Medical Advances
9 years ago a man, we'll call him Patient X, lost his jaw bone due to cancer. During that time he has subsisted on mushy foods and such. Now, he can gum his food! Doctors rebuilt his face after GROWING A JAW BONE ON HIS BACK!
Most folks would be able to just get a bone graft from somewhere else on the body, but Patient X was taking blood thinners to control an aortic aneurysm, so that wouldn't be wise in his case. After taking a CT of Patient X's head, the docs made a Teflon model of what a jawbone should look like in this head. They covered it with a titanium cage, removed the Teflon, and filled the cage with bone mineral blocks, bone marrow and proteins to accelerate bone growth. And inserted it into Patient X's back to grow and grow and grow for 7 weeks.
Then they took the jaw from his back and put it where it belonged, and within 4 weeks it had grown enough for Patient X to be able to chew chew chew. Well, gum gum gum.
Next on his list are teeth. Docs say he can have them in a year.
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(Sorry, a soapbox moment)
Ooops!
Jim Malone has spent the past 8 years battling depression and losing weight due to his 1996 diagnosis of being HIV positive. After being told he was positive, he began going to support group meetings and accepting free meals and such from an AIDS charity, and has basically been living to die.
Apparently he never bothered to return for medical tests or follow up care to check his T cell counts or anything of that sort. Since 1996.
So now he's mad that he just got a letter from his doctor that pretty much says "Oops! My bad! You're not positive."
Says Malone: "He told me, 'We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job.. I said, 'You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?'"
Yes, it's bad that the medical facility screwed up, and didn't make known the second result of negative from a follow up blood test. It rots.
HOWEVER...color me unfeeling, but do ya think maybe Malone could have popped out of his ball of self pity for a moment to have some ongoing care that would have quickly and easily shown that he was negative? Just a thought.
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Cat Dog
Te Huot from Cambodia has an interesting claim. He says that his 10-year-old dog, Knou, gave birth last Tuesday to a gray tabby kitten.
He says that a forest monk visited prior to the blessed event and claimed that the dog had mated with a tiger. "This animal cries like a cat, and its face is like a cat, but its feet are bigger than a cat's and look more like a dog's feet," state local media.
People are coming from miles away to burn incense and give donations to the dog and its baby kitten, which Te says is a sign from the gods.
A sign of what, nobody knows.
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When Good Chimps Go Bad
Feili is one tough monkey. She used to be sweet. But she has transformed from a 'gentle girl' into a 'shrew' due to sexual frustration. She can't find the right stud at her zoo in Xinhua, and to satisfy her oral fixation she has taken up smoking.
How does she get the smokes, you ask? NO, she doesn't hang outside the 7-11 and get someone to buy a pack for her. She's much wiser. She's gotten into the habit of begging visitors for smigs and spitting at them when they don't comply. When they throw butts at her, she scoops them up and smokes them.
Frustration is such a terrible thing..
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Did We Land on the Moon?
For years people have tried to convince me that we never landed on the moon, and I resisted their 'proof' and trusted the Government. The photographic evidence was, in my opinion, bunk. However, looking at this display of previously unseen shots.well..it's starting to make me wonder.
Especially Exhibit G. It's got me thinking. A LOT.
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Cat Eats Dog
Keep your dogs away from the water in Gueldendorf, Germany! There's a big old hungry catfish there that evidently ate a dachshund this past week. Usually catfish are scavengers, but this fishy has become quite voracious. It is emptying the lake of all the other fish and reportedly dragged the little dachshund doggy under the water and ate it, much to the chagrin of the pup's owner.
Folks at the Gueldendorfer Fisherman's Club have been trying to catch the fish via rod, reel, nets, and electroshocks but to no avail.
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Jaw Dropping Medical Advances
9 years ago a man, we'll call him Patient X, lost his jaw bone due to cancer. During that time he has subsisted on mushy foods and such. Now, he can gum his food! Doctors rebuilt his face after GROWING A JAW BONE ON HIS BACK!
Most folks would be able to just get a bone graft from somewhere else on the body, but Patient X was taking blood thinners to control an aortic aneurysm, so that wouldn't be wise in his case. After taking a CT of Patient X's head, the docs made a Teflon model of what a jawbone should look like in this head. They covered it with a titanium cage, removed the Teflon, and filled the cage with bone mineral blocks, bone marrow and proteins to accelerate bone growth. And inserted it into Patient X's back to grow and grow and grow for 7 weeks.
Then they took the jaw from his back and put it where it belonged, and within 4 weeks it had grown enough for Patient X to be able to chew chew chew. Well, gum gum gum.
Next on his list are teeth. Docs say he can have them in a year.
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(Sorry, a soapbox moment)
Ooops!
Jim Malone has spent the past 8 years battling depression and losing weight due to his 1996 diagnosis of being HIV positive. After being told he was positive, he began going to support group meetings and accepting free meals and such from an AIDS charity, and has basically been living to die.
Apparently he never bothered to return for medical tests or follow up care to check his T cell counts or anything of that sort. Since 1996.
So now he's mad that he just got a letter from his doctor that pretty much says "Oops! My bad! You're not positive."
Says Malone: "He told me, 'We made a very big mistake. We did not do our job.. I said, 'You mean to tell me that all you have to say is you are sorry? Sorry that I lived for all this time believing I was going to die?'"
Yes, it's bad that the medical facility screwed up, and didn't make known the second result of negative from a follow up blood test. It rots.
HOWEVER...color me unfeeling, but do ya think maybe Malone could have popped out of his ball of self pity for a moment to have some ongoing care that would have quickly and easily shown that he was negative? Just a thought.
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Cat Dog
Te Huot from Cambodia has an interesting claim. He says that his 10-year-old dog, Knou, gave birth last Tuesday to a gray tabby kitten.
He says that a forest monk visited prior to the blessed event and claimed that the dog had mated with a tiger. "This animal cries like a cat, and its face is like a cat, but its feet are bigger than a cat's and look more like a dog's feet," state local media.
People are coming from miles away to burn incense and give donations to the dog and its baby kitten, which Te says is a sign from the gods.
A sign of what, nobody knows.
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When Good Chimps Go Bad
Feili is one tough monkey. She used to be sweet. But she has transformed from a 'gentle girl' into a 'shrew' due to sexual frustration. She can't find the right stud at her zoo in Xinhua, and to satisfy her oral fixation she has taken up smoking.
How does she get the smokes, you ask? NO, she doesn't hang outside the 7-11 and get someone to buy a pack for her. She's much wiser. She's gotten into the habit of begging visitors for smigs and spitting at them when they don't comply. When they throw butts at her, she scoops them up and smokes them.
Frustration is such a terrible thing..
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