Posted on 01/19/2005 9:51:40 AM PST by Mo1
This is news? I've been saying that for nearly 2 years.
Well, I suppose I'd better go to bed. I've stayed up too late already catching up on some work. Think I'll go in a little late tomorrow. Night, Lynn. Sweet dreams.
A Czech prisoner locked up on theft charges has been freed and allowed to go back home to his wife after getting a permanent erection.
The 37-year-old man was serving a six month sentence in Plzen jail in the southwest of the country - and woke wardens in the early hours of the morning complaining he had an erection that would not go away.
He told staff it was extremely painful and after prison doctors called to examine the erect member were unable to help, the man had to be taken to a specialist hospital in Prague where surgeons were forced to operate to treat the problem.
They said the man had been suffering from a rare condition known as priapismus in which blood becomes trapped in the penis during an erection and can only be treated through immediate surgery, local daily Pravo reported.
After surgery however the man was allowed to go home where medical experts said he would be better off being cared for by his wife than in the prison hospital.
Ain´t that the truth?
too many of those little blue pills huh?
LOL....Your are right!!!
We've been Winter Texans this year. Gone from home and in the RV since late January. Not a vacation exactly as we have run our business all that time. But still a LOT of fun!
I am supposed to put my trust in a man who imagines that while relaxing in the tub he has been attacked by fresh water sharks? That Sharkey?
ROTFL! Words fail me.
I see your dilemma.
Sure you are. Here's my IRS encounter: Twenty-five years ago I returned from an overseas assignment. Before going there I had sold a house and, as the military was allowed to do, had deferred the capital gain. Upon return, in order to avoid the capital gain tax I needed to purcahse a house of greater value than the one I had sold four years earlier.
These were the Carter years of astronomical interest rates and negative amortization which made home buying very difficult. Additionally, even if I could have afforded a more expensive house with Mr. Carter's interest rates, I was assigned to a place where there was very little new construction and even less appropriately priced housing. So I bit the bullet, completed the proper forms and sent the IRS a check for the deferred capital gains taxes.
A few months passed. Then one day I received a refund check from the IRS for the amount that I had paid. I knew that it was an error so I called until I found someone who could tell me how to mark the check void and where to send it. I did so.
After a few months I received a certified letter: It read "SECOND NOTICE" (although there had been no first notice). "Unless you immediately make payment of $ (whatever the figure was) U.S. Marshals will seize your house."
I called the IRS and asked who could help me with this matter. The official said "The Accounting Department." I asked that he connect me or give me the number. "Oh," he said, "no one is allowed to contact the Accounting Department and they have no incoming telephone lines."
After a day or two of similar Catch-22 logic, I found a rational human who promised to take care of the matter and to call off the swat team. I never did get an explanation for the IRS error, for the threat or for the incredible maze one must negotiate in order to talk with a knowledgeable IRS representative. I did spend several anxious days wondering if I would hear the late night knock on the door ....
Good Luck, Nully.
Geeeee, thanks.
I think...
Navy vs Air Force
From former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jim Holloway
One thing about Air Force pilots is that they lie a lot. You simply can't trust them at all. We had an argument one night at the Belvedere Inn, across from the main gate at NAS Pax River, a bunch of our F-14 Tomcat Pilots at Strike were arguing with some F-15 Eagle drivers from Langley about who was better at what and which airplane was better. Well, we decided to settle it the next morning in the restricted area over the Chesapeake Bay. This is where we found out about how much Air Force pilots lie!!! We all agreed to meet nose on at 35 thousand and settle it once and for all. Don't you know those lying, sneaky bastards showed up at 40 thousand. God, what a bunch of lying, low lifes those Air Force types were, showing up with a 5 thousand foot altitude advantage. Hell....if we hadn't been at 45 thousand, those lying Air Force dirtbags would have had us for breakfast!!!!!!!
What a great pic of Nermal, thanks! That part under his ears, on his face, is sooooo precious!
Hoooow'dy BQ beware of feeding tubes!:)
Nice to see you. Did you notice the shark is back stirring thing sup again?
I think your expectations were way too high!
I can't believe he got out of his trap and is here! Let the good times roll :)
Hey there Resty!
I WAS NOT AWARE MY HUSBAND DIED IN Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
The National Consensus Project (NCP), comprised of
· American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
· Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
· Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
· Last Acts Partnership
· National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO),
announces in a press release the publication of Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. These guidelines are to be the standard for palliative care services across the country. The guidelines acknowledge the support of
· Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
· City of Hope National Medical Center
· Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care
· The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
· Massachusetts General Hospital
· Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
· National Hospice Work Group
· National Institutes of Health, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center
· New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, Division of Nursing
· Palliative Care Center and Hospice of the North Shore
· San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care
· University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
· Vitas HealthCare
In an effort to define palliative care, the manual provides a diagram similar to the following diagram. The guidelines position palliative care opposite life-saving therapy, as shown here:
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