Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Moderators: Elvis, DrVolin, Jeff

Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby RocketMan » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:01 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/05/us/po ... heney.html

By supplementing the amount of blood pumped through the body, Mr. Cheney’s pump allows him to do many things he would do with a working heart. Such patients can bicycle, golf, play tennis, drive, shop and generally do what they did before they developed severe heart failure. They need to take an anticoagulant, like warfarin (sold under the brand name Coumadin), and have blood tests to monitor the amount.

Mr. Cheney’s pump was placed near his heart. With most patients, a power line emerges about waist level and connects to a controller, a minicomputer that plugs into a pair of one-and-a-half-pound, 12-volt batteries. Patients wear a black mesh vest over their clothing that holds the controller and batteries.


Image
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
User avatar
RocketMan
 
Posts: 2813
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:02 am
Location: By the rivers dark
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:42 pm

Mazars and Deutsche Bank could have ended this nightmare before it started.
They could still get him out of office.
But instead, they want mass death.
Don’t forget that.
User avatar
seemslikeadream
 
Posts: 32090
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:28 pm
Location: into the black
Blog: View Blog (83)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby beeline » Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:58 pm

Image
User avatar
beeline
 
Posts: 2024
Joined: Wed May 21, 2008 4:10 pm
Location: Killadelphia, PA
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby Nordic » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:10 pm

Where's a good EMF weapon when you need one?
"He who wounds the ecosphere literally wounds God" -- Philip K. Dick
Nordic
 
Posts: 14230
Joined: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:36 am
Location: California USA
Blog: View Blog (6)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby psynapz » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:25 pm

Nordic wrote:Where's a good EMF weapon when you need one?

Careful! His zombie corpse is still under State protection...

Image
“blunting the idealism of youth is a national security project” - Hugh Manatee Wins
User avatar
psynapz
 
Posts: 1090
Joined: Mon Nov 10, 2008 12:01 pm
Location: In the Flow, In the Now, Forever
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby Stephen Morgan » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:40 pm

Nordic wrote:Where's a good EMF weapon when you need one?


A simple, home made, HERF gun would probably do the trick.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that all was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, and make it possible. -- Lawrence of Arabia
User avatar
Stephen Morgan
 
Posts: 3736
Joined: Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:37 am
Location: England
Blog: View Blog (9)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby dqueue » Wed Jan 05, 2011 1:52 pm

Stephen Morgan wrote:
Nordic wrote:Where's a good EMF weapon when you need one?


A simple, home made, HERF gun would probably do the trick.


With him goes the knowledge of his treasonous crimes and crimes against humanity. I imagine his last breath is one of relief.
We discover ourselves to be characters in a novel, being both propelled by and victimized by various kinds of coincidental forces that shape our lives. ... It is as though you trapped the mind in the act of making reality. - Terence McKenna
User avatar
dqueue
 
Posts: 432
Joined: Mon May 02, 2005 5:02 pm
Location: DC
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby Simulist » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:18 pm

Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

If the earth is a place where the dead come to be made alive again, then Dick Cheney has valiantly resisted all treatment.
"The most strongly enforced of all known taboos is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego."
    — Alan Watts
User avatar
Simulist
 
Posts: 4713
Joined: Thu Dec 31, 2009 10:13 pm
Location: Here, and now.
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby RocketMan » Sun May 08, 2011 5:44 pm

Dick Cheney: Reinstate the torture program

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that President Barack Obama should put waterboarding back on the table.

Intelligence derived from the Bush-era enhanced interrogation program "probably" contributed to the death of Osama bin Laden, Cheney told Fox News' Chris Wallace.

"Which raises the question, if we were to now capture another new high value target, which is certainly more likely given this apparent trove of information that they recovered in bin Laden's compound, should the president reinstate enhanced interrogation including waterboarding?" Wallace asked.

"Well, I certainly would advocate it," Cheney replied. "I'd be a strong supporter of it."

"We went to a lot of trouble to find out what we could do, how far we could go, what was legal and so forth. Out of that emerged what we called enhanced interrogation. It worked. It provided some absolutely vital pieces of intelligence."

"It was a good program," he continued. "It was a legal program. It was not torture. I would strongly recommend we continue it."

CIA Director Leon Panetta has said waterboarding is torture but the former Vice President disagreed.

"Waterboarding and all of the other techniques that were used are techniques that we use training our own people. This is stuff that we've done for years with own military personnel. To suggest that it's torture, I just think is wrong."

The former vice president called the Obama's administration's investigation of CIA interrogators that may have abused detainees an "outrage."

"These men, all devoted, capable officials shouldn't have to look over their shoulder and worry if they follow the orders of this president to carry out this interrogation program at some point down the road when there is a change in policy, they can expect to be prosecuted," he said.


I find it very, very harmful to my belief in the inherent goodness of the universe that this.... this THING is still not only alive in some technical sense, but so hale & hearty as to be able to give interviews vigorously supporting officially sanctioned torture.
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
User avatar
RocketMan
 
Posts: 2813
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:02 am
Location: By the rivers dark
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby MinM » Sat Mar 24, 2012 7:37 pm

March 24, 2012 7:01 PM

Dick Cheney receives heart transplant

Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced.

A statement from the former vice president's office said the 71 year old is now recovering in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., outside Washington.

The statement said Cheney had been on the transplant list for 20 months and did not know the identity of the donor.

"Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift," the statement read.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162- ... ransplant/

Angleton and Cheney
Earth-704509
User avatar
MinM
 
Posts: 3287
Joined: Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:16 pm
Location: Mont Saint-Michel
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby beeblebrox » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:38 pm

That picture of Cheney with the Queen is hilarious. She has a glare that makes even Cheney look uncomfortable.
beeblebrox
 
Posts: 114
Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:52 pm
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby Nordic » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:54 am

An illustrator was on hand to document Dick's acquisition of the new heart:

Image
"He who wounds the ecosphere literally wounds God" -- Philip K. Dick
Nordic
 
Posts: 14230
Joined: Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:36 am
Location: California USA
Blog: View Blog (6)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby Luther Blissett » Sun Mar 25, 2012 4:40 pm

I wonder who really needed the transplant and died in his stead.
The Rich and the Corporate remain in their hundred-year fever visions of Bolsheviks taking their stuff - JackRiddler
User avatar
Luther Blissett
 
Posts: 4991
Joined: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:31 pm
Location: Philadelphia
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby RocketMan » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:25 pm

Can someone please explain to me what this man is doing still "living"?
-I don't like hoodlums.
-That's just a word, Marlowe. We have that kind of world. Two wars gave it to us and we are going to keep it.
User avatar
RocketMan
 
Posts: 2813
Joined: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:02 am
Location: By the rivers dark
Blog: View Blog (0)

Re: Dick Cheney & his heart pump - The dead walk the earth

Postby beeblebrox » Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:30 pm

Luther Blissett wrote:I wonder who really needed the transplant and died in his stead.


I was thinking about the same thing.
beeblebrox
 
Posts: 114
Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:52 pm
Blog: View Blog (0)

Next

Return to General Discussion

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 162 guests