Cheney is sick again:
Doctors discovered a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney’s left leg Monday, a condition that could be fatal if left untreated.
The 66-year-old Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, will be treated with blood-thinning medication for several months, said spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride…
…Cheney’s health has long been an issue.
In 2005, he underwent six hours of surgery on his legs to repair a kind of aneurysm, a ballooning weak spot in an artery that can burst if left untreated.
He has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a special pacemaker in his chest.
With my luck I’ll have one heart attack and it will be all over. I’ll never get to start an ill-advised war that results in over 600,000 innocent civilian casualties, 25,000 killed or wounded allied troops. I’ll never get to tell a sitting U.S. Senator to ‘go fuck [him]self’. I’ll never get to enjoy an apology from a man that I’ve just shot in the face. I’ll just be dead.
Here’s to Cheney’s health. I hope I can wish him continued good health without Fox News questioning my good taste. After all, it’s not like I said, like Bill Maher:
“I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow…I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”
I could say that. But I didn’t. L’chaim.
“only the good die young!” Guess I am not good either!
“Only the young die good”
Yeah, maybe you didn’t say it. But you TYPED it.
With implications of glee.
speak for yourself. I tend to focus on the 600,000 more than any emotions of glee.
Hmm. I guess I should have specifically indicated that I was kidding, since you denied both my “allegation” that you typed it (well, shoot, you did in fact use a keyboard to produce all of the post, duh) and you also denied my “allegation” that it possibly involved some glee (duh).
In these times, it is indeed dangerous to comment on the life and safety of the criminals who control the U.S. government. (Unlike right-wingers like Coulter who get a free pass for threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices, congresspeople, etc.)
But if you want to dance up close to that line, you need to keep your sense of humor about it.
I was thinking, but will not actually say it, that “the third time is the charm.” That’s an old saying, you know.
What was it last week? Oh, yes, that incident in Afganistan, was it?
actually, I cut and pasted it.
just as I figured it would — Cheney having to step down due to “health issues”, with two consequences:
In any rate, the damage has been done — over 3000 of our own troops and countless thousands of Iraqis killed for the lies of this misAdministration, and we’re no closer to getting out than we were at the start of this mess…
He is blessed by the devil.
When he is gone, it’ll be him and Ken Lay, hanging out in the more comfortable zones of hell.
Or the equivalent space vehicle.
Privilege of THIS sort never fades.
AG
Cheney has blood?
Alas, the actual substitution of oil for blood has yet to be scientifically achieved.
WW didn’t know you were on.
Hello! Switch to e-mail or you in bed?
M
Billions of gallons of it.
He collects it.
A hobby of sorts.
A sideline perk to his real gig.
Amassing wealth for those lacking in common morality.
Front man for the Sociopathic Party.
So it goes.
it’s a dirty job, but something has to dpo it.
AG
yes, he slashes the necks of Iraqi children and drinks it straight from the arteries.
Dear Bill: regardless of Cheney’s position, people die needlessly every day & would continue to do so were his crippled black heart to cease beating tomorrow. After all, there’s no historical shortage of deranged, murderous vampires among us. Cheney’s a symptom (parasitic though he may be) of humanity’s spiritual flatulence, not the problem (say, an omnipotent diety with a harsh sense of humor).
AG
May it travel towards the brain!
The funny thing is that the treatment for blood clots is Cumodin otherwise known as RAT poison…