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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Nomination for National Jackass Award
And the NJA goes to...Pat Robertson! He'd like to thank the academy, his loyal brain-dead legions of supporters and his own sub-human intelligence.
Yes Pat Robertson, our national clown prince of jackassery, has today suggested that God smote Sharon for "dividing the holy land." Sharon's stroke really was sad news, we finally had a hawk with the credibility to create major change in the so-called Holy Land, and right when he's about to found a moderate party based on peace with the Palestinians, his morbid obesity kills him. Or his doctors at least. No one was keeping an eye on his PT and PTT? How could they let the leader of their country bleed out like this? The article reads: "He was dividing God's land, and I would say, 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course to appease the [European Union], the United Nations or the United States of America,'" Robertson told viewers of his long-running television show, "The 700 Club." "God says, 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone,'" he said. And what is with these people who think they've got the BatPhone to god? Seriously, does Robertson really believe he has a have a red phone in his chapel that flashes when God needs to share his mysterious plans with him? I want a phone like that. The good news is he's probably pissed off the Jewish AntiDefamation League with this one and will get a serious ass-reaming for it. |
3 Comments:
Is there really anything that can be done to prevent a 400lb, 78 year-old man from having a stroke?
I would have guessed that maybe 18 years ago he could have done something (lost 1/2 his body weight?) but that he was hopeless at this point.
What say ye, Dr.?
3:35 PM, January 06, 2006
You'd think that ol' Pat would have said that God should have smitten Trygve Lie for heading up the UN during the initial division of Israel and Palestine in the first place. Or perhaps the post-WWI Brits/French for divvying up the old Ottoman lands. What a jackass.
3:39 PM, January 06, 2006
Well, the drugs they were giving him were meant to prevent him from having a stroke due to a clot, namely Heparin/Warfarin (aka blood thinners). These drugs are very effective at preventing a clot and really eliminate a patient's risk of stroke. However, you are supposed to monitor these patients very carefully with the Prothrombin times (referred to as the PT and PTT), a measurement of a patient's ability to clot.
If you over thin their blood they have a potential to bleed out anywhere in their body, including the brain such as in this case, especially if the blood pressure isn't simultaneously controlled.
This could have been a total freak accident, he might have had high blood pressure and weakened vessels in his head that decided to blow this week of all weeks, or it could be that they weren't paying close enough attention to his clotting speeds. Shit happens, you know? Heparin saves more lives than it takes, but when it kills you, this is how it does it.
Sounds like he's toast though, blood in the brain causes swelling followed by necrosis, very bad. It's very sad, I hope Kadima doesn't fail without him.
3:58 PM, January 06, 2006
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