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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51137)8/14/1999 7:07:00 AM
From: 10K a day  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
Hey buddy,
Excuse me,
Can you show me
Where
In this job description,
It say,
I have to clean up dead people,
I mean,
I know the dude isn't stiff yet,
And I know he needs to be cleaned up,
But can you show me
where,
In this job description,
It says I have to physically clean up
a carcass,
I mean,
Let the HMO pay to have somebody clean the dude up,
I mean
I know it's kind of humorous,
But the only thing humorous,
Is that people somehow find it humorous,
And it's not really sad,
Because it's humorous,
On some level,
But the thing that is sad about it,
Is that he does need to be cleaned up,
Because the family hasn't seen him,
And I guess they deserve some compassion
In all of this,
At least they deserve some air freshener
or something,
Does it say that in my job description,
That the dude,
Although dead,
Is entitled to a little air freshener,
And I know we don't have to do report on the dude,
But can't the morgue do the actual real time
Air freshening,
Don't they get paid to do that,
Don't the people who use those cadaver kits,
Get paid for that,
And why we're here,
What the heck is up with that,
What the heck is a cadaver kit,
Isn't that a little freakin crude,
Can't we call it an expiration kit,
Or a
stiffy
No wiffy,
Outa here
in a jiffy,

<<gg>>
can't we call them something like that,
I mean
really....
Those black bags,
How the heck much does one of those cost,
And why does the HMO
Not pay for that,
I'm sure they don't have to pay
For the dude
Getting cleaned up,
Cause after all,
He's dead,
Which technically,
At that moment,
I feel that all of my further responsibilities,
With the dude,
Cease to really matter,
And I don't really care about
Public relations
If the dude is dead,
And if the dude smells,
Then heck,
Just use some air freshener,
Or call the President of the HMO
To come down here
and clean the dude up,
Because they're not paying me to clean
Up a smelly dead man,
I mean,
He was laughing 30
Minutes ago,
And then Bamm
Dead,
Not stiff,
Just Dead,
And then
There is this smell,
And I'm not sure that the HMO
Pays for smell reduction in dead people,
I mean,
The Physical Therapist can't come in here,
And bill for services at this time,
We could probably still order a few meds,
And bill for those services at this time,
At least that's the attitutude that the HMO takes,
They think we are down here with a
Tally sheet
Billing for services on dead people,
It's like they have to justify their job,
By denying payment for dead people,
Can you believe that,
They willl claim that he is dead,
So he didn't really need that
MRI last week,
It's like,
Heck no,
I won't pay for that Medicine
He had last week,
The dude is dead,
And he smells,
And I ain't paying for that either??
Oh,
And one more thing,
When you bring that gurney up,
From the morgue,
Make sure you bring a really cold one,
Bring one of those that
Is so cold,
It's stiff,
It's like thawing out,
As we speak,
You know what I mean,
One of those that has steam
Coming off of it,
He can't feel it any way,
Just cause it's stiff,
He can't feel it,
So just do it,
Ok,
Cause I'm not cleaning the dude,
Up,
No matter what it says,
I don't care if he gets,
Really stiff on the frozen gurney,
And then it's really hard to clean him up,
Cause I ain't doing it,
They can get mr HMO suit,
Down here to clean his frozen backside,
As far as I care,
My job duties,
Cease to happen when the dude,
Checked out?..

impristine.com



To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (51137)8/14/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 108807
 
The last straw was the unveiling of the B-2 bomber. The USSR could not afford to duplicate it. They no longer had the money to squander, which they had been doing all along at the expense of the people. The stealth technology gave the USA the undisputed edge in war.

The odd thing is that the Soviet Union had no need to duplicate it. This technology was designed for a war that would never have been fought in any event, the great WWII-style armored thrust into Western Europe. The Soviets would have had no particular reason to do this, they were doing a much better job sitting back and subsidizing brushfire wars in the third world. What ruined them was not the arms race, but their own stupidity in Afghanistan, which put them on the other end of an equation they had played very effectively against us. The difference was that we could afford a quagmire and they couldn't.

I realize that the Soviet Union had contingency plans for an invasion of Western Europe, but I don't believe there was ever any serious intention to put them into use. Too much to lose, too little to gain.