Just as black, just as funny, just as scary without make up, but no Stedman, no Gayle, no money--and a job from hell.
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We all suspected it was a load of horse manure but now we have confirmation. Cell phones don't interfere with lifesaving equipment. Grandpa didn't die because you sent a text message to your boyfriend, he died because he was old and sick--that happens to a lot of really old sick people.
So why do hospitals ban the cell? It is pretty obvious. People who talk on cell phones in public places loud enough for others to hear are extremely annoying.
One lady next to me talking on a cell phone was so irritating I wanted to take the phone and shove it up her nose. After that I started monitoring my own cell phone conversations and have started really paying attention and modulating my voice.
Unfortunately most people are not that introspective, and don't care that we have to hear the business end of them yelling at their teenagers, some customer service drone, their hard of hearing grandma or engaging in sexy banter with their spouses. They should. Someone should make a video tape of these conversations and send it to them with enhanced audio, showing people's facial expressions during these ridiculous exchanges, they would be shocked at how not pretty they look.
But this leaves us with the Health Care industry and their big lie. Why not just say that cell phone use is disruptive to patient care. Why deny people who are trying to contact family members near and far about their sick relative, or not allow patients to talk to relatives who are not local.
According to the article there are still some skeptics in the medical industry that are suspicious of cell phones and still believe it may interfere with sensitive medical equipment. I don't believe it. They are just covering their asses because they knew they were making it all up.
A few years ago I worked on a Medicare Unit of a prominent Seattle hospital. The patients were mostly elderly and we did not have a bunch of monitoring equipment. We had some IV pumps and wound vacs and nothing else that I would consider high tech and life sustaining. One time we had a code and even the ER doc who came to help said he thought everyone on this unit was a no code (which reminds me of the joke what do you call a medical student who graduated last in his class? Doctor). Anyway you get the idea. There was this huge sign near the elevator with a cell phone enclosed in a red circle with a line drawn through it stating the cell phones interfere with life sustaining equipment. One day I asked the charge nurse which life saving equipment and she said there is none we just don't want people using cell phones up here.
I am sure some facilities will still keep the signs and keep the lie alive, but now you know the truth and this truth is just another chunk removed from the Medical Industrial complex's armor. What's next?
Universal Health Care? I know--way too much, we need to take baby steps.
Charging $5 for an aspirin?
I watch the program Intervention on A&E and I have become convinced that George W Bush needs an intervention badly.
What for?
Drugs and Alcohol?
No
Causing the horrific and painful deaths of hundreds of thousands of people?
No
Trying to turn the Presidency into a Dictatorship?
No
Then whay pray tell?
George W Bush needs an intervention to stop him from speaking Spanish.
Someone has led him to believe that he can speak Spanish and he does it whenever he is around the Spanish speaking.
Don't the people south of the border have enough trials and tribulations to deal with do they really need our Imbecile in Chief babbling on incomprehensively to boot.
The English speaking world knows Bush is a simpleton with a border line speech impediment. However, I would suspect the rest of the world doesn't know that. They see Bush as some tough talking kick ass President of the richest and most powerful nation in the world and they just assume he is an intelligent and mesmerizing speaker. How else would he have risen to such an exalted position? Well now the Spanish speaking world knows he is a simpleton and worse maybe even a little crazy.
I was watching the news and heard him speaking Spanish. I didn't understand what he was saying, I understood the words but they did not make any sense. I speak Spanish, not perfectly, but I have been told by the Spanish speaking I speak "bastante" which means ok or good enough. And I definitely know enough Spanish to know our President was speaking gibberish.
So here is my plan.
Get Jeb who can speak Spanish, his Mexican American wife, their half Mexican offspring, his parents, Rove, Cheney, Condoleeza and some of his golf buddies, Blair and of course Alberto Gonzalez together for a pre invertention meeting. I would volunteer to facilitate this meeting as I have a degree in Linguistics which I have never ever ever ever used until now.
At the meeting, they can all write heartfelt letters expressing how much they love George W, but the Spanish speaking has to stop. There will be a lot of crying and hugging and of course George W will insist that he can speak Spanish and start making incomprehensible statements in Spanish with his Texas accent. It will be very painful but I think eventually he will get the message and agree.
And just as he is about to leave promising never to speak Spanish again, he will turn around and remember that he is the Commander in Chief. He runs America and everything he does is to help the American people. He will tell them that he will continue to speak Spanish because that is his job to represent America all over the world. The people of Guatemala, Mexico and other countries understood him perfectly.
He will storm out.
Yo soy el Presidente
Yo soy el comandadero el Jefe
Yo hablo Espanol, no el la verdad, no es la verdad, no la verdad no es, no yo hablo la verdad espanol, correcta, verdad.
