Wednesday, June 03, 2015

THE FUTURE of emergency medicine?


I’M SO OLD, I can remember when 128 MB was a lot. That's nothing. I'm so old I can remember when 4 KB was a lot (and it was stored on punched cards, 80 characters at a time).

Read the comments for a trip down memory lane. Commenter 'spiritu' is just a wee tad younger than I am....
WAR RESISTER DAY: the dumbest idea for a holiday yet.

Progressives: has there ever been a tradition they haven't tried to destroy? Or a dumb idea they've failed to embrace?.
SURPRISE: Most Democrats think illegal immigrants their friends and relatives should be allowed to vote.

Harsh? I would tend to say so -- until I watch/listen to the mainstream media.
SPEAKING OF 'opting out' of the United State of Obama (see previous post): a new tool to fight the EPA.
MICHAEL BARONE: Is it time for civil disobedience of kludgeocratic bureaucracy?

Heh. Once again, the world is slowly catching up to me. I have posted frequently over the past six years that Americans should be civilly disobedient and ignore Obama, the Obama administration, and progressive nannies generally.

Welcome aboard.
‘SUIT UP’: NASA’s documentary celebrating 50 years of spacewalks.
WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS, says Bernie Sanders, is less deodorant. What it really needs is far fewer Democrats.
PARAPROSDOKIANS are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected. Here are some examples:
Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

They begin the evening news with 'Good Evening,' then proceed to tell you why it isn't.

To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism. To steal from many is called research.

In filling in an application, where it says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put DOCTOR.

I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look sexy.

Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.

A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.

I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Nor is there any future in it.

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why you are wrong.
And then there's this one, apropos to a comparison between Barack Obama and Albert Einstein: the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has limits.
MUSLIM WORLD reacts to Obama's latest speech:



Okay, I'm sure the subtitles don't reflect the actual transcript, but they mirror my interpretation of Obama pretty accurately.