Posted on 06/28/2006 5:51:42 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Of course, but they all don't post every day. Many of those accounts are dead or dormant.
I believe the last time I checked the numbers (it's been several months) they showed that on average between 3000-4000 distinct posters post messages and/or articles on any given day.
Isn't that like being a kamikaze pilot with decades of experience behind him?
...gads, there's a visual I didn't need...
I went to school with someone who had that misfortunate last name, but back then, it was only a name.
I just got out of the shower and have the towelhead thing going. I'm going to go smoke a faggot then I'll check your edit job.
No wonder they are DUmmies. Hasn't anyone told these dolts that tissue is BIO-DEGRADABLE....and sponges are magnets for germs and bacteria?
These people (and I use that term loosely) are certifiably STUPID!!!!
LOL !!!!!!!!!!
I am involved in the discussion with BenBurch over at Wiki about the DUFU link.
Its amazing the vitriol a small link to the DUmmie FUnnies illicits amongst these people.
No, not really, when one understands that these people make the Ku Klux Klan of old look as if a benevolent organization.
I never in my life met people so vigorous, so enthusiastic, about Hating--Hating anything and everything that moves or does not move.
They seem to have some sort of subconscious collective death-wish, and are angry because the rest of us don't want to go down with them.
"Isn't that like being a kamikaze pilot with decades of experience behind him?"
LOL! It took a couple of seconds for that one to sink in.
"Still, I think we need to put our version of what happened [with the Scamdy incident] on the site [Wiki entry for FR; see post #59 above for the link to the thread]. What's there makes it sound as if we gave him the cancer, withheld treatment, and then to make sure, sneaked into his room, and put a pillow over his face."
Oh, I agree 100%, rikkir! We DO need to edit that site. I'm pinging several other FReepers who are among the most knowledgeable about what happened. Any of them could fix it with no problem. What say you, fellow FReepers? Any takers?
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Don't try to sound smart by using "whom" instead of "who" if you're not actually smart enough to know when to use "whom" instead of "who"?
SD
I didn't see your post#99 until late last night. I tried to stay up and go through summaries of the AndyScam that I had written but too tired.
BB says, "Wikipedia articles are maintained through editorial consensus."
So, if this is true, Wiki. is an online encyclopedia whose only test for the accuracy of the information it prints is how many Wiki editors agree that it is accurate.
How much confidence can users of this service have in the reliability of the information provided, if, as in the "Andy Stephenson Situation" they use George S. Howland's articles without vetting them.
Does Wikipedia have in-house, or outside legal counsel to check information submitted to its editors as fact?
If George S. Howland claims he interviewed Karen Johnson and Johnson's remarks as quoted by Howland seem to indicate that Andy Stephenson did indeed have pancreatic cancer, shouldn't the Wiki. editors consider interviewing Karen Johnson to insure that she was correctly quoted?
Karen Johnson, is a nurse, and maybe a physician's assistant, at Country Doctor Clinic in Seattle. Andy Stephenson referred to Johnson as his primary care person.
The fundraisers used HIPPA (Hospital Insurance and Patient Privacy Act) to justify not revealing the true diagnosis, although there is nothing in HIPPA prohibiting a patient from realeasing this information himself.
At the time Johnson spoke to Howland, Stephenson was still alive. There was no reference in Howland's article to Johnson being in violation of HIPPA by discussing her patient so freely with a reporter.
Johnson might welcome the opportunity to clarify Howland's use of her remarks to him, explaining the conversational context of her remarks, so that her professional reputation is not compromised by Howland's story in which she appears to have violated HIPPA by discussing her patient's medical history.
Since Wikipedia would not want to risk creating a false impression of Johnson's bona fides by promoting a story that essentially does just that, a story whose fitness to appear in Wikipedia was determined by "editorial consensus" perhaps they might want to "go to the source."
Stephenson's surgeon also worked at the clinic, and has, like other clinic doctors, staff priveleges at Swedish Medical Center Hospital where most of Stephenson's tests and surgical procedures were performed according to the billing records briefly posted, then pulled at DU.
Wikipedia might want to fax the medical records department of SMH in Seattle asking for a record of W. Andrew Stephenson or Andrew W. Stephenson's periodic stays in early and late spring and early summer of 2005.
A check of the Social Security data bank online could reveal if someone named W. Andrew, or Andrew W. Stephenson, aged 43, had died in Seattle, Washington on July 7 at 9:43PM PDT as originally posted on DU. A telephone inquiry to SS asking if Stephenson's SS card was still active is another route.
A quick call to Virginia Mason, better fax, to ask if Stephenson, aged 43, has ever been in their system, particularly during parts of June and July of 2005 where he languished, ignored by nurses, sickened by roaches and silverfish, while perplexed doctors held a consult at Stephenson's bedside and George S. Howland took notes.
"You got any ideas, Sid?"
"Beats the hell out of me. Hey Buzz, you picking up anything on this case in the residents lounge."
"We think it's the cheap dye from his Orioles cap, or maybe the chanting."
"Yeah, and what's with the fat broad taking pictures of the poor guy. Gee-zuza, that's sick."
Okay, Purr. Got to go. Let me know what you want me to do, if anything.
Check your FReepMail.
Hey, did Fat Che's Dead Rose Society get yanked from Wikipedia?
I can't find it there, but I'm not sure if I'm looking correctly. Below is an exchange from the other conservative web-site:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Rose_Society_%28website%29
Its there, but his ben burch one isn't.
Boo!
Barset, do not give meanings of acronyms without notes.
HIPAA - Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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