DUmmie FUnnies 05-26-05 ("My blog is under assault by the graveyard rats" ---Pitt)

As you can tell from the twinkle in his eyes and his ever moving eyebrows, Li’l Beaver is a rather impish critter. And today Li’l Beaver decided to smoke out a Rat by the name of William Rivers (Pied Piper) Pitt. Ever since Andy Stephenson’s operation yesterday at Johns Hopkins, there has been a blanket of silence in Dummieland thrown over the fact of whether or not he had surgery for Pancreatic Cancer. Every mention of “pancreatic cancer” in DUmmieland has been instantly deleted and thrown down the Memory Pitt by Skinner. Fortunately, a few such deleted posts have been preserved on the DUmmie FUnnies Free Republic thread for posterity. Meanwhile, Skinner’s STONEWALLING partner, Pied Piper Pitt, has maintained an eerie silence over the exact nature of Andy’s surgery. One would have expected that today Pitt would have POSTED something in his Blog about Andy but NO. Instead Pitt posted the usual Leftist bilge without the SLIGHTEST MENTION of Andy despite the fact that he finally completed his surgery. That is, Pitt didn’t mention Andy UNTIL Li’l Beaver set fire to Pitt’s Blog with his ever present cigar. Suddently Pitt’s Blog received more attention than ever before. Unfortunately for Pitt all the posts were requests that he come clean about the fact that he was shilling for weeks for an unnecessary Johns Hopkins operation for Andy. Yes, Andy could have gotten his surgery performed in Washington state but that would have precluded raising funds for which NO ACCOUNTABILITY was given in DUmmieland while Skinner sat helplessly by while the scam was being perpetrated. So since yesterday’s operation the words “Pancreatic Cancer” have become verboten in DUmmieWorld. However, thanx to Li’l Beaver’s successful effort to smoke out the one who spouts constantly with thesaurus inspired bloviations, Pitt has broken from the DUmmie game plan and flat out declared his unsupported belief in the pancreatic cancer scenario as you can see in his whining DUmmie THREAD whiningly titled, “My blog is under assault by the graveyard rats.” So let us now observe Pied Piper Pitt dashing from the heat of his Blog as he coughs up his latest erroneous Andy proclamation in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, dining on smoked rat, is in the [brackets]:

[No wonder your fellow students used to beat the crap out you on a regular basis back in the 8th grade, Pitt. They didn’t like sniveling crybabies. “WAAAAAAH!!! MOMMIE!!! MAKE THEM STOP REMINDING EVERYBODY ABOUT WHAT I SAID ABOUT ANDY’S PANCREATIC CANCER!!! WAAAAAH!!!”]

[Thanx for providing us with a link to your bloated blog, Pitt. Now let us go over there and see what all the sniveling is about.]

Yesterday, Andy went into surgery to remove his tumor. The surgery lasted 7.5 hours, and thankfully all of the tumor was extracted. The doctors also removed half of his pancreas. The tumor itself has been sent to a pathology lab to determine exactly what kind of cancer this was, which means Andy is not out of the woods yet. The cancer could be one of two kinds, and forgive me for not knowing the terms. One kind will mean Andy is looking at good health, and one kind means he will be facing more trouble in the future. We all have our fingers crossed for that pathology report, which should come sometime next week.

[Why the sudden indecisiveness as to the nature of Andy’s problem? Here is what you said on May 18 PDA Blog, Pitt: "I have come to a few absolutely concrete conclusions. First, Andy does in fact have pancreatic cancer…”]

I would like to take a moment now to speak a bit about the graveyard rats that have infested this blog….

If you scroll through the other blog posts here, you’ll see a bunch of empty entries by someone named ‘Anonymous.’ Before I cleaned up, these were posts left behind by ghouls who have stapled their reputations to the conspiracy theory that Andy did not have cancer and was scamming. They have been pushing this idea for weeks, and have only recently been forced to deal with the fact that their lies and unutterably disgusting motives have been exposed.

[“Ghouls” that broke through the DUmmie inspired blanket of silence as to the nature of Andy’s surgery. BTW, how do you even know whether or not Andy is scamming since you have NO INFORMATION as to how much Andy took in for his PANCREATIC CANCER operation. Since Andy’s pleas, aided by your cheerleading, appeared on over a hundred websites, those funds should add up to quite a chunk of change. Of course, you have NO IDEA of just how much that is.]

The confirmation provided by Skinner, administrator of DemocraticUnderground, the documentation I have seen with my own eyes which put the tab for this surgery at $50,000 and confirms that Andy does have pancreatic cancer, and the conversations I have had with Andy and the others in the hospital have left these graveyard rats standing in the ashes of their own lies.

[Um, actually NO Pitt. There was NO confirmation of pancreatic cancer by Skinner. In fact, not only did Skinner NOT mention pancreatic cancer but ALL REFERENCES to pancreatic cancer were quickly deleted in DUmmieland and tossed down the Memory Pitt. However, it is nice to know that you put your head on the chopping block, ONCE AGAIN, with your misinformed declaration that Andy had pancreatic cancer.]

This won’t stop them, though. I will delete any trolling they do in other threads here, but I will leave what they post in this one alone. You will get the chance to see what true wretchedness looks like when they post here, and they will, because their shabby reputations are in ruins and they stand today in disgrace.

[Wretched, wretched Freepers who dare to question the Ingsoc Party Line. Andy has pancreatic cancer. Andy has ALWAYS had pancreatic cancer. And the five fingers you see before you are really four fingers.]

Watch them. They are graveyard rats, and they make me hope devoutly that there is indeed an afterlife where the acts and actions of a lifetime are judged, and judged harshly.

[The only RAT I’m seeing right now, Pitt, is the Big RAT that got smoked out from his Party Line position of SILENCE a few hours ago. And now let us see what your fellow DUmmies in Dummieland are saying, Pitt..]

Last time Will posted about Andy. The comments were utterly vile. I can imagine what the deleted ones were like.

[They were horrible, HORRIBLE! They dared to question the DUmmie Ingsoc Party Line about NOT mentioning the words, “pancreatic cancer.”]

[You are also not seeing any mention by Skinner of the words, “pancreatic cancer.”]

[You mean the vile DUmmies who gloated over Laura Ingraham’s breast cancer in such a way that even Elizabeth Edwards was disgusted by them?]

They're deeply disturbed, inhumane, vindictive, pathetic losers Who have nothing better to do but plot against a hospital patient who's fighting for his life. It's inexplicable. I've never met anyone this cruel in real life. Who can explain it?

[…You REDEEMED yourself by posting a link to the DUmmie FUnnies in DUmmieland. May I add you to the DUFU PING List?]

OMG! These people are f*cking evil. I mean I knew they were assholes, but some of that shit is just beyond the pale.

[DAMN them for not swallowing Andy’s scam served up by the ever compliant Pitt.]

[Lock those ISP numbers in the same ice cream chest where you keep the strawberries, Captain Pitt.]

[Yeah. Post the words “pancreatic cancer” in DUmmieland and count how many seconds it takes for Skinner to delete your post.]

I deleted the posts in the other threads because they were off-topic. It does serve a purpose. It creates a billboard for why we have to win. Right now, the sentiments in that post are the ruling mindset of this country.

[Correct Pitt. It’s that HORRIBLE ruling mindset that narrowmindedly thinks their should be some sort of financial accountability in fundraisers.]

If they were fundraising for one of their own, I would at least respect them for that.

[If we were fundraising for one of our own, we would establish an ACCOUNTABLE fund SEPARATE from the person who needs the money. For example a bank account for that purpose from which the money would be transferred DIRECTLY to the hospital doing the medical procedure. As it stands now, you have NO IDEA how much Andy has scammed via the websites which number over a hundred.]

I think it's important - I'm glad Will left it up. THIS is who's been attacking Andy, attacking us for helping Andy, attacking Dan Rather, attacking Hillary Clinton, attacking John Kerry, attacking Newsweek. Let's see them for what they are - hardly human. It's a fight to the death and they've proven it. Bring them out into the sunlight - they can't survive.

[DAMN those Freepers to HELL for exposing as forgeries the letters Dan Rather used to smear Bush. Have they no shame!]

If I were Will I'd complete the cycle and link back to the FR thread where they are slapping themselves on the back for such a great group effort they are doing with this.

[That’s the SECOND time you’ve posted a link to the DUmmie FUnnies, DUmmie Stephanie… I think I’m in LOVE!!!]

I have NO desire to register over at, but since I'd been doing some research on pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer maybe one of you might want to point a couple things out to Will and Sindawe. She's trying to back up his "won't know what kind of cancer it is post Feel free to use as much or as little of this as you wish:

"I belive the terms you are looking for are malignant and benign. Malignant being aggressively spreading, benign being happy to stay where it is for the most part.
I hope the cancer Andy had was benign, so that he pulls through with a good recovery."

You are confused. Benign means NONCANCEROUS. No Malignancy. A tumor can be cancer, but it doesn't have to be.

However, given that these doctors are some of the best in the country (Mr. "I NEED THE BEST CARE AVAILABLE" Stephenson would have no less)...something that most of us with REAL jobs and decent health insurance wouldn't be able to get, nor would anyone on any taxpayer funded healthcare program, they would have been able to know with fairly good accuracy whether Andy had malignant cancer BEFORE surgery. Andy said he had all the recommended tests (according to the JH website):
A CAT scan will "...visualize approximately 9 out of 10 pancreatic cancers."
An ERCP "...can detect an abnormality suspicious of cancer in about 9 out of 10 patients...Patients who have very small cancers, less than 2 cm, that currently do not alter the main ducts of the pancreas or the bile duct will not be visible." (REMEMBER ANDY SAID THE TUMOR COLLAPSED HIS BILE DUCT SO HIS TUMOR WOULD HAVE BEEN VISIBLE).
EUC (Ultrasound): It is the most accurate method for detecting the spread of cancer...In one comparative study of diagnostic methods, the sensitivities for tumors smaller than 3 cm, were 93% EUS. Fine Needle Biopsy FNA: Considered the "gold standard" in diagnosing PC. The diagnosis of a pancreatic tumor...is highly accurate, approaching 99%. However, it is only between 50-70% accurate in determining whether the tumor is benign or malignant. Because the amount of tissue obtained is so small, the absence of malignant cells in the sample cannot exclude the possibility of malignant disease altogether.

As the JH website points out, combining the data from all tests provides an extremely accurate diagnosis...his doctors, who treat thousands of PC patients and perform hundreds of surgeries, would KNOW what they were dealing with. Which leads to the surgery. There are ONLY 2 kinds of surgery performed for PC: the "whipple" (what everyone was led to believe Andy would have...though someone at one time mentioned a "mini-whipple"), done when the cancer is at the top of the pancreas, and a Distal Pancreatectomy and Splenectomy, done when the tumor is at the bottom of the pancreas. Since Andy said his tumor collapsed his bile duct, it's pretty obvious he would have had to have a whipple.

Yet, right here in this blog, Will Pitt, you say PART of his pancreas was removed. No way in hell is one of the top cancer doctors in the country going to risk his reputation, the reputation of his hospital and a world famous treatment center removing only part of the pancreas instead of doing "a pancreaticoduodenectomy (whipple), which is the removal of the gallbladder, common bile duct, part of the duodenum, and the head of the pancreas." It just WOULD NOT happen.

And there's still the "small" matter of Andy's weight. Granted, since doubters have been going on and on about this, someone FINALLY mentioned it on DU (you evidently have to see him up close to notice). Let's get real here. If Andy was diagnosed a few months ago by this time he would have lost a SIGNIFICANT amount of weight. Recent pictures don't support that, I mean the camera may add 10 pounds, but please! Because of the pancreas' role in digestion, the cancer eats almost all the nutrients the body takes in. It also tends to be very aggressive since it can secrete cancer cells along with the fluids it releases to aid in digestion into nearby organs.

4-6 months is the usual life expectancy without treatment (most of which would have to be spent in hospice care receiving pain medication...it's not a fun way to die). I realize Andy was way too busy saving the world from vote-stealing republicans, but the man shouldn't have been able to walk around by now, let alone jet set around the country. Again, perhaps JH isn't the place to be since oncologists dealing with ANY kind of cancer tend to want to operate YESTERDAY and childish little "paperwork" snafus aren't going to get in the way...he's not buying a new steam iron here.

Since Andy will now be entering into the vaccine trial BECAUSE THAT WAS THE REASON JOHNS HOPKINS WAS CHOSEN IF WE'RE TO BELEIVE ANDY AND HIS INNER CIRCLE (the first treatment begins 8-10 weeks after surgery) and also includes radiation. I assume he's going into the one currently recruiting (they need 60 patients), he'll be spending a great amount of time in Baltimore...sometimes in the hosptal, sometimes as an outpatient, but treatment will significantly curtail his jet setting lifestyle. I expect we won't be seeing him at too many meet-ups, teach-ins or love-ins as I'm sure he won't want to miss a treatment, nor will he probably feel up to it. I realize someone "pulled some strings" to get him into an ongoing trial (unnecessary since they're currently recruiting and he just has to meet the criteria), but...wait, lets digest this for a minute. These scientists are doing life and death research that could impact the lives of thousands, they are currently in the middle of a specific trial, but because somebody knew somebody who is a high mucky-muck in baseball and supports the cancer center, they are going to risk tainting their data to let our little Andy in...riiiiight!

More likely, is that our favorite vote fraud maven had pancreatitis. If you skip on over to the gastroenterology section of the JH website: http://hopkins-gi.nts.jhu.edu/pages/latin/templates/index.cfm?pg=disease4&organ=4&disease=24&lang_id=1, you'll find an array of options (surgical and otherwise) available for treatment of acute or chronic pancreatitis. Surgical options include everything from partial pancreatic removal to the whipple. If you need a second opinion the Pancreas Foundation, http://www.pancreasfoundation.org is also a good resource.

Interestingly enough, pancreatitis DOES tend to make one bloated, which recent pictures certainly do support. Now, that's not to say pancreatitis isn't dangerous...especially if the sufferer is unwilling to give up those things that make it worse: smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating fatty foods. Surgery costs about the same, but it isn't necessary to have it immediately. And considering the hero-worship Andy seems to enjoy among leftists, he could probably have raised the money by being truthful.

What's really sad about this...people gave that didn't have it to give...YOU know that Will. Little kids took money out of their piggy banks. People who had cancer or other debilitating diseases gave because they were told Andy's life and work were so important and they wanted to help someone who was also suffering, perhaps even facing death. There were students donating from college funds, people on fixed incomes, and others willing to let their electricity bill go unpaid for a month...and the dollars rolled in. Still, no one but Andy knows how much was collected. For all we know he could be sitting on 6 figures, even after paying JH.

At every turn, people who asked for some kind of accountablilty were silenced by the cacaphony of screeching harpies (including you) who'd rather discredit some donor than offer transparency yourselves. They answered your call, but you were unwilling to answer theirs. "It's true because I say it's true." Isn't that what you said when someone dared question Andy's illness? They didn't want their money back...they wanted to make sure their donation was being used properly. When you decided to ask for public funds, you should also have understood that meant public scrutiny. Over 120 websites and organizations put the word out to save Andy's life. All they needed to were bills for treatment, the kind we all get every time we go to the doctor for a sore throat or a flu shot. You say those of us unwilling to BELEIVE are "what true wretchedness looks like", that we are "graveyard rats", but I'll be able to look in a mirror and know I didn't lend my name and reputation to a cause deemed so important that disabled people, people on fixed incomes sent their last dimes to support. I can look at myself and know I didn't take donations that could have gone to people who were really dying of cancer, even if they weren't VIP's like Andy. Can you say the same, Will?

By the way Will, a little investigative journalism and you could have found all this information out, too. You wouldn't have had to sacrafice your reputation for a lie that I think you are smart enough to figure out...otherwise YOU wouldn't have had so many questions along the way. There were an awful lot of people who donated because they didn't know Andy but they "trust Will". Still, I'd really like to know...what is it that Andy is holding over you to get you to continually to support his lies? Or are you really just a piss-poor journalist?

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