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War 71-Year-Old Man Gets a Heart Transplant
Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:53 PM
This tweet is not uncharacteristic:
You do everything you can to live a good and honest life. Only to have your heart end up inside Dick Cheney.
1
I have a general policy of not wishing premature death on anyone, but in Cheney's case I guess it wouldn't be premature, so it's perfectly ok to hope a piano falls on his head tomorrow and that heart goes to someone more deserving, like Lucifer.
2
Actually Cheney has been in forefront of LGBT rights, supporting his daughter, who is a lesbian.
So, nice job cutting off your noses to spite your faces.
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Though he always supported his daughter, he never actually fought for LGBT rights while in power. She, too, sold out for a position in the administration.
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Cheney offers support for gay marriage:
Cheney has made similar arguments in support of gay marriage in the past, including during the run-up to the 2004 election.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/01…
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That Cheney, in any way, might have voiced support for marriage equality, in no way forgives him the uncountable woes and calamities directly attributable to him.
@2, 4
How does someone like you even remember to breathe?
@2, 4
How does someone like you even remember to breathe?
6
Cheney's support for marriage equality? States' rights! From the very article cited above as evidence of his support:
I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support.
Cheney doesn't support anything that isn't in his personal interest.
I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support.
Cheney doesn't support anything that isn't in his personal interest.
8
somebody gave him a heart ?. fuck. you were supposed to burn the old one, separate the head from the body and bury them in different states.
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Normally there is some risk of the recipient's body rejecting the new organ. Do you think this heart might instead reject its new home?
12
@SROTU,
Dude, Cheney ran for election on a 2004 ticket bolstered by a coordinated campaign of putting Gay-bashing on the ballot in order to fire up the base. That he has on rare occasions refused to express hatred for his own daughter doesn't quite make up for that.
Dude, Cheney ran for election on a 2004 ticket bolstered by a coordinated campaign of putting Gay-bashing on the ballot in order to fire up the base. That he has on rare occasions refused to express hatred for his own daughter doesn't quite make up for that.
14
I just signed up to be a bone marrow donor, and checked the organ donor box when I got my new driver's license. This almost makes me reconsider those decisions.
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@14 Just remember, most of the people on transplant waiting lists deserve the chance. Just because one evil war criminal got lucky doesn't mean the whole concept is invalid.
16
No historian here, but looking back to the founding of the republic, has any commander in chief (and we all know he was the real president) better demonstrated such a total disregard for the laws of the nation, his citizens, and the well-being of the world than Dick Cheney? Has anybody been so gleefully eager to wreck his nation and others for the purpose of starting wars? Has any president been a more faithful and assidous servant of the wealthiest 1%? When Eisenhower warned, "Beware the military-industrial complex," he was peering forward through the decades directly at Dick Cheney. We had him for a full eight years. Like Reagan with all those bullets, the man has been walking around with every type of heart ailment and he just won't die, Jason Vorhees or Michael Meyers. I totally wouldn't put it past him that he knew about the 9/11 plot and simply let it happen (you can't say that!) because it served his purposes. His apparent total absence of empathy and conscience is breathtaking.
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There must be a really good Wizard of Oz joke lurking in here somewhere. I just haven't found it yet.
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I would rather start believing in the bizarre fairy tales of religion, on the odd chance of living forever, than to die & perhaps give my heart to Dick "The Dick" Cheney - who truly proves that only the good die young.
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@14 although I agree with your feeling, he probably would have just bought one on the black market. Then some poor Indian or other 3rd world person would have had to die for him. (with so much blood on his hands 1 more would hardly be noticed).
I assume the "surgery" was akin to the scene from Indian jones where Cheney just ripped the heart out himself.
I assume the "surgery" was akin to the scene from Indian jones where Cheney just ripped the heart out himself.
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@16: I lump Cheney right in there with Robert McNamara, Nicolae Ceausescu and Bashar al-Assad. I hope that they, and others like them, will spend eternity entertaining each other in a particular circle of hell. Feel free to expand my list.
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@21 Unfortunately, there is no hell (for the rest of us, fortunately) - hopefully his conscience eats at him as that's all the hell that actually exists.
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If there is any truth to the anecdotes that transplant recipients receive memories along with their 'new' organ, one can hope the Cheney is in for a dose of humanity.
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