Cuba DOES have a lot of unemployed doctors. You read those articles about how professionals in Havana turn tricks to make ends meet...
Sighh...
So sad. It's all so fucking sad.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Sep 05, 2005 9:33:37 pm PDT #4852 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Strega - Sep 05, 2005 10:06:35 pm PDT #4853 of 10002
I can't play the video of Olbermann right now; is it the same as this entry in his blog?
aurelia - Sep 05, 2005 10:20:18 pm PDT #4854 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
multiple news sources are picking the tone up and running with it
That and journalists were right there. I don't know how many reporters I saw crying on air. They were letting people use their cell phones, flagging down ambulances and doing what they could to help. They're as pissed as the rest of us.
Theodosia - Sep 06, 2005 1:47:35 am PDT #4855 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That, and the public officials being caught out in bald lies and/or dreadful misapprehensions, showing their lack of caring/ information / bureaucratic direction, such as Bush's "No one could have predicted" or Brown and Chertoff's repeated assertions about being warned about the consequences of a Cat 5 storm, or conditions on the ground in NO starting on Monday morning.
brenda m - Sep 06, 2005 3:46:30 am PDT #4856 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
The Cuba thing, though...we can't verify that they are in fact doctors, and the Castro administration has tried in the past to send us people from their jails. So there's a possibility that "1100 doctors" means "1100 folks we want out of our prisons."
Cuba does have more doctors per capita than the US. And last time I checked, equal or better life expectancy, so they can't all be turning tricks.
billytea - Sep 06, 2005 3:58:47 am PDT #4857 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Cuba does have more doctors per capita than the US. And last time I checked, equal or better life expectancy, so they can't all be turning tricks.
According to the CIA World Fact Book, it's currently about half a year shorter than in the US. Close enough to be treated as equal in practical terms. It has a slightly lower infant mortality rate.
Australia, on the other hand, has a life expectancy at birth that exceeds that in the US by over 2.5 years. Our infant mortality rate is 72% that of the US, which I have to say is lower than I expected.
Kalshane - Sep 06, 2005 4:34:51 am PDT #4858 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Timelies,
Call me Gronky McGronkerson this morning. Ugh. I think I managed 4 hours of sleep last night with maybe 2 of it being sequential. I wanted to just turn the alarm off and hide under the pillow this morning, but if we call in sick the day after a holiday we don't get paid for the holiday.
Australia, on the other hand, has a life expectancy at birth that exceeds that in the US by over 2.5 years. Our infant mortality rate is 72% that of the US, which I have to say is lower than I expected.
But how is that possible? I thought 95% of your native fauna was ridiculously deadly. Why would the Crock Hunter lie to me?
brenda m - Sep 06, 2005 4:40:21 am PDT #4859 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And what about the dingoes? That can't be right.
Sue - Sep 06, 2005 5:02:05 am PDT #4860 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Kalshane - Sep 06, 2005 5:06:32 am PDT #4861 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
And what about the dingoes? That can't be right.
No kidding. I mean, dingoes. And babies. Dingoes!
I may be a little slap-happy right now. Sleep-dep is worse than alcohol sometimes.