Daily Archives: June 30, 2004

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Goin’ down the road feelin’ good….

This entry was posted in Modulator Music on June 30, 2004 by Steve

Leaving now (noon) for
The Dead….
Boise Thursday,
Portland Friday,
The Gorge Saturday (with the Allman Bros)
Eugene for 4th parties Sunday-Monday
Oh yea, blogging will be sparse.
…not fade away…

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Acronyms of Pain

This entry was posted in Health Care Language on June 30, 2004 by Steve

It’s unlikely that you will find these acronyms in an IM chat:

The dry-erase boards scream profanity across the ER.
Letters of blue roar:
“OOC (out of control — usually after crack or methamphetamine)!”
They cry:
“ICH (intra-cranial hemorrhage),
AMS (altered mental status),
SSCP (substernal chest pain),
GIB (gastrointestinal bleed),
AAA (abdominal aortic aneurysm),
SBP (spontaneous bacterial peritonitis)!”
They mock:
“AOB (alcohol on breath)!”
HOD (heroin overdose)…”

Via Hermes.
(Ed. colors added)

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Supremes Sing for bush?

This entry was posted in bush Conscription Constitution Domestic Terrorism Federal Government Iraq Law Libertarianism Patriot Act War on Terrorism on June 30, 2004 by Steve

Arthur Silber isn’t very happy with the rulings in Hamdi, Padilla and Rasul:

…as Turley notes, the fact that these questions arose in this form in the first place — questions that lie at the very foundation of what was our original system of government — is a very ominous sign, a sign whose significance a great many people appear not to appreciate fully, if at all.
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MORE CONFIRMATION: Of my view — if the Wall Street Journal is pleased about the Supreme Court’s rulings, you can be pretty damned sure that they’re bad news for the defenders of individual rights:

Now I’m not as happy with these rulings as I was two days ago.

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