News that the 71 year-old Dick Cheney has received a heart transplant practically begs for incivility, or at least snark of all kinds. I want to use a little self-restraint. The only thing I’m willing to say publicly about this is that they really ought to have had a box to check on organ donor cards that let us opt out of donating to people who favor torturing people and starting wars on false pretenses. Someone, after all, donated their heart to this man. I know that civility calls for treating our ex-presidents and vice-presidents with perhaps a little more respect than they’ve actually earned, but some of us see Dick Cheney as a straight-up war criminal in the same general category as Slobodan Milošević. I know I feel that way, and it’s part of what motivated me to start this blog.
That said, I hope his transplant is successful and he recovers. I’m just glad he didn’t get my heart…for a couple of reasons.
Once again, it’s your tax money at work.
I hope he recovers so he can be brought to the Hague.
untried,
Yes I would not like to see him go to the sweet serenity of death, untried.
And, of course. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIdcUxdgo0
I hate to pick nits but you can’t transplant something that was never there. It’s a heart implant.
He’s probably got 3-4 years, realistically. The transplants do not give you normal lifespan.
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He got the latest model from China.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."The only question I had is that isn’t he a little old to get an implant?
Darth Cheney, no longer will he be heartless.
Given that there is a tremendous shortage of donor organs in this country, and given that a lot of potential recipients would have much better prospects of long-term survival than the 71-year-old Cheney, I’m less concerned with who he got the heart from than who didn’t get the heart instead.
others have said, it but I dont recall if there is an answer. Isnt’ 71 too old to get a brand new heart.
Reports I saw was he was on the wait list for 20 months… About twice the normal wait.
But I don’t know what the normal wait is for war criminals
Booman Tribune ~ Heartless Observation
20 years to life…
Civility invites civility; compassion invites compassion. Indifference invites indifference. Ergo, Cheney can shit, die or go blind & I don’t give a rat’s rear end.
What have you got against Rat rear ends?
my understanding is it was an 15 year old boy-child they purchased from the black market.
As incense smoke cascaded from the censers and under the glow of a ghastly flickering light from the tallow candles, rendered from the fat of Cheney’s unluckiest foes, the Dark Lord wheeled in on his Rascal. Cheney’s watery eye focused like a laser on the poor trembling youth, who was only just beginning to grasp the horror that awaited him. Cheney lifted his hand, palm facing the young man. Guttural sounds that could only be a language forgotten in the mists of time emanated from Cheney’s mouth, an incantation of sorts that widened the boy’s already terrified eyes.
the unfortunate youth looked at his chest, and could see his heart beating through his own ribcage. Indeed, it was as if his sternum had become jelly as his heart thumped harder and harder, physically fighting to escape the boy’s chest cavity.
Weeping now in pain and terror, the boy fell to his knees. “Please sir, please let me live,” he begged, fruitlesly.
In fact, to Dark Lord Cheney the child’s fear was as much an aphrodisiac as the heart he was willing into his own decrepit chest was new life. With every beat of the child’s heart, Cheney’s penis swelled until it was as tumescent as an over-boiled blood sausage. Finally, in a miasma of blood and muscle, the still-beating heart burst from the boy’s chest. Cheney ripped open his shirt; the heart shot across the room as if attracted by some unholy magnet, and meeting the liver-spotted, edemic flesh of the Dark Lord, literally melted into his chest cavity.
“I LIVE,” Cheney cried. “I. LIVE AGAIN.”
“Now someone get me a tissue,” he ordered. “I seem to have ejaculated in my pants. Dammit, this ALWAYS happens.”
The deed done, the unfortunate youth was donated to McDonalds, one of the billions and billions served.