Crap Throwing Monkey
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After reading your coment and several others, I have come to the conclusion that you are not a parent. Perhaps you and some of the others failed to read the part that gives the little girls age as 5. This is a kindergarten class, not a military boot camp.
As per the teachers statement, this was to serve as a disciplinary action. That type of action MAY be suited for a young adult, but most definitely not a 5 year old child. The result of that DISCIPLINARY ACTION has a consequence. This one resulted in this child reverting back several years in her bathroom training and has affected numerous day to day activities of which I won't enlighten at this time.
I will however say that this event has disrupted the entire family in there day to day activities plus having to place this child under doctors care.
As to some of the other coments, YES she has a serious disorder and has had it since birth. Also, every teacher in that school was spoken to by her mother advising them of this disorder, including the principle and staff.
Now as to the $$$$ that has some of you concerned. The only reason a lawyer was brought into this was because the school dropped the ball when it came to paying for the doctors expense. THAT IS THE ONLY REASON THE PARENTS OBTAINED AN ATTORNY. Publicity, notoriety, or seeking a stage is the LAST thing that the parents of this child were/are seeking.
Would you subject you child to this type of exposure? I would hope not. This came about because of the insensitivity/stupidity of the media.
How do I know about this? Well, I have been very close friends with this family for 10 years and spend a lot of time with the parents and the kids on a weekly basis. In fact, I was the first person called when this incident occurred. Having 3 children of my own, along with 7 grandchildren and 16 years as a teacher gives me a little insight to this unfortunate incident.
My hope is that this never happens to any of YOUR children.
16 years as a teacher, and you can't spell "principal"?
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More of the story's coming out. Apparently the guy was a Chinese national here illegally...and wasn't entirely in his right mind anyway (insisted he'd only talk to the President). And the police identified a timing device and wires in one of the suitcases...which, when they detonated it, turned out to be a watch and a CD player.
Though it should be sometimes, being stupid isn't exactly terrorism...luckily for some of the people here.
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Well you are right... broken glass can be used to cut someone up... the umbrella can be used to impale someone... but add the nail file and you might be able to use it as a screw driver and get into a restricted area where you can then use your champagne bottel and umbrella to take over the plane.... just a thought...
by the way how come you think your so enlightened to KNOW ithas nothing to do with increased security???? are you omnicent?
Or just bring a screwdriver. They typically don't mind (never confiscated any from me), and aside from being used as a screwdrive, it makes a pretty good shiv.
No manicure scissors, though...THOSE they'll confiscate.
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Yeah, he's a couple trees over.
And what is it with that dickhead anyway? He tosses out enough monkey sh-- for four or five regular monkeys. Is there anything he doesn't pretend to know? He gives the rest of us crap-throwing monkeys a bad name.
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Not such a good day for analogies, huh? Even tho my mention of a phone was to show how a prescription was received for the simple fact that people actually do still use paper prescriptions, rather than the phone physically giving a patient RU-486, etc. But whatever. WingNut needed to get to class....
Good points. Pharmacists legally can't tell you what brand of cough medicine is good, unless you ask them to recommend one, but they can reverse a doctor's course of treatment.
If you don't want to do the job, the whole job, and nothing but the job, then find another line of work.Only fair points. I mentioned them for the sake of discussion, not to espouse a position of my own.
Were I to espouse a position of my own, I'd say that any pharmacist that STOCKS a drug shouldn't have a moral objection to dispensing it, and that there is a difference between a pharmacist telling a customer "I won't prescribe RU-486", and saying "We don't stock RU-486." At the very least, the latter doesn't put the pharmicist in the position of invalidating a doctor's medical judgement...and reasonably, if a pharmacist refuses on moral grounds to prescribe RU-486 but still carries the drug in stock, he's a confirmed hypocrite.
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And exactly what reality is that? What exactly has happened on our soil since 9/11? NOTHING. And it has nothing to do with "tighter security," because 99% of it is simply window dressing. No nail files on planes? Give me a freak'n break. United Airlines gave my wife and me a GLASS BOTTLE of champaign when we flew on our honeymoon ONE MONTH after 9/11. I think a broken bottle can be a bit more dangerous than a nail file. But I guess terrorists can't pretend to go on a honeymoon.
I'm sick of the "it's ok, because it's making me safer" bullcrap, because all it's doing is taking away more and more civil liberties and NOT making anyone safer. At all.
CW
Three weeks after 9/11, I flew first-class on TWA. Couldn't even get a plastic spork in the airport because it was a "dangerous weapon", the flight was delayed 40 minutes because the pilot was detained for trying to bring nail clippers on...but with the first-class meal I asked for and got a metal, serrated steak knife.
Admittedly, things were quite confused those first few months (and I curse the "shoe bomber" with every breath when I fly...thanks to that dumbass's looney idea, I have to take my shoes off EVERY TIME I go through airport security), and things are a LITTLE more sensible now. But even so...visible security is less about security and more about PR. The stuff you CAN'T see, on the other hand...
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"Patriotism includes shutting up at times"
Anyone else wishing AKC were a little more patriotic in this thread?
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Ok, and Maybe David Caresh was just an average collector of guns who liked to hang out with a large group of friends at his ranch.
The guy got tackled. If he was innocent, he'll get the ton of money he feels he deserves for it. If he was up to something, lives may have been saved.
Maybe the police could have waited longer, maybe they could have set up a remote location and come up with an hours long game plan. And maybe a loud BOOM goes off during that time.
It was a case of weighing the risks, i guess.
It's ALWAYS a case of weighing the risks. Life is risk management.
In this case...I can't help thinking the Capitol Police were precipitous at best (stupid at worst). Expressing surprise and fear at seeing people with suitcases outside public buildings that are popular tourist destinations a few blocks away from a major commuter hub is just a little short sighted.
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Better safe than sorry.
Listen, the world is a suspicious place since 9/11.. especially that area of the world.
If you want to stand around, dressed i all black, with two matching suitcases next to you, and not respond to yelled commands, do it at home.
So the guy got tackeled... Good for them.
Don't worry. If he got a brush burn or two, he'll likely get several hundred thousand or more.
Before you jump to any conclusions, consider that the Capitol is only a few blocks away from Union Station...the place where trains come in, lots of travellers come through with luggage, maybe with some time to kill...a nice day, sunny, temps in the 60's today...a short walk to the Mall...
There's a very good chance this guy was just someone who arrived on the train with some time to burn before a meeting or hotel check-in...
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Ok, no time left, I have to get ready for class. So here's the analogy that I think fits best:
OB-GYNs are licensed by the state. If a patient wants an abortion, the doctor should be forced by the state to perform it, or be stripped of their license.
Anyone who thinks pharmacists should be forced to sell 'morning-after' pills should be in full agreement with this.
That's not precisely the same. OBGYN's don't require a script from another health care provider to perform a procedure. Pharmacists, on the other hand, need to be "authorized" by a prescribing doctor to "dispense treatment".
Therein lies what concerns me about the idea of pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions...doesn't that then put them in the position of in effect overriding the medical judgement of the prescribing doctor? Is it really appropriate for pharmacists to override doctors' medical judgement based on their personal ethical beliefs? An OBGYN refuses to perform a procedure on personal moral grounds, it more likely than not only involves the OBGYN. A pharmacist refuses to dispense properly prescribed medication on personal ethical grounds...that's controverting another party's medical judgement on purely non-medical considerations - even more, non-medical considerations having NOTHING directly to do with the patient. If a pharmacist can dispense a given medication, he should not have the option of declining on strictly personal grounds.
IF he can dispense the medication. Pharmicists can determine their own stock, I assume. Most pharmacies don't stock every medication; I've not infrequently had to go to specialty pharmacies for some odd or obscure formulations. If a pharmacist is morally opposed to a medicine, he should simply refuse to stock it, not refuse to prescribe it.
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"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated,"
And yet, voter turnout increased by about 15% over the 2000 election, and was the highest since 1968.
Try again, you cheeseball. *SPLAT*
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Really? Given that the prescription medication industry is a regulated and licensed one, I wouldn't count on that. It may very well be that a licensed pharmacist is required by whoever licenses him to fill all prescriptions as they come in.
I don't really know...but my point is, I don't think you do either, and saying that pharmacists have a choice in filling prescriptions is a pretty big assumption to be making.
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No, Catholics don't bash themselves. Protestants do, because they want to be Catholic. Ergo, when Catholics bash Protestants, they're actually bashing Catholic wanna-be's, and in effect bashing their own religion and hence themselves.
Didn't you read beausox's posts? It's all in there. Of course, maybe it only makes sense to me as a crap-throwing monkey.
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Oooh, sh---throwing fight! *SPLAT* *SPLAT* *SPLAT* *SPLAT*
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But at least she didn't have her homework graded in red.
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Best reason in the world to keep Korea divided right here.
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Yeah, tell that to Dan Rather.
The election was inherently nasty on both sides of the aisle. Screaming about left wing victimization by right wing smear tactics while ignoring the reverse simply masks the fact that Kerry was a piss-poor candidate, to such a degree that he couldn't beat another piss-poor candidate. And the simple fact that the Democratic Party put on their ticket a candidate who couldn't beat the most politicall vulnerable candidate in 25 years is in itself pretty clear evidence of how undirected and bereft of true leadership the Democratic Party is right now. Again. Still.
ebola outbreak spreading
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Most previously identified Marburg cases have been in places where Western medical treatment has been available...thus, the roughly 30% mortality rate. In the middle of nowhere, Angola, where the per capita health budget is maybe $10 per person...sure, it's going to be close to 90%. Neither one of you is wrong. And for all anyone knows, this is a new strain of Marburg...there are at least four strains of Ebola with widely differing mortality rates, so it's not unprecedented.
At least on that particular topic. On others...you're whacked. Known strains of Marburg and Ebola do not spread so easily that one person can take one plane and wipe out the world (the effective spread of either requires close contact with infected bodily fluids, which is why previous outbreaks and epidemics have been stopped cold by ending the practices of sharing needles and African funeral rites.) Marburg is not more deadly than Ebola, at least for being more treatable (anti-coagulants are very successful in treating Marburg, actually). Beads of sweat aren't highly contagious...but patients start to hemmorage through their skin, and their blood is highly contagious.