Let's face it, if Cheney wants a heart transplant, they will find him one.....

[KansasVoter]

and take it away from someone who is in line in front of him.
You KNOW they will break the rules to get this guy a donor heart.
And someone might die because he decided to ask for a transplant.
I am not a conspiracy nut, but you know strings are going to get pulled in this case.

[sarge43]

1. I'll be surprised if it doesn't go down exactly as you described. n/t

[Tippy]

45. Ditto..........

[DrDan]

2. I was thinking the same thing as I watched that interview - if he decides he wants it, he

will jump to the top of the list.

[Deep13]

3. *insert obligatory Cheney-has-no-heart joke here.* nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

14. okay: "Dragonheart"

[firehorse]

4. He's probably mining potential matches from one of his prisons

that he owns, or from prisoners at Guantanamo.

[niyad]

5. I remember when erma bombeck needed a transplant--she refused to be put at the top of the list--and

died waiting for the organ.

but mickey mantle got his.

[The Backlash Cometh]

18. Erma Bombeck.

We left reality when that one died. She really knew how to look at life headon.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

6. This guy is willing to donate

n/t

[av8rdave]

7. Can an organ donor specify that they do NOT want any organ going to someone in particular?

If any of my organs get donated I obviously want it/them to go to the first match on the list, regardless of anything. But you should be allowed ONE exclusion, IMO.

Just sayin'

[upi402]

8. This is not America as intended

It is not; of, by, and for the people.

[11 Bravo]

9. I'm cool with that (as long as Sarah Palin is the donor).

[Vinnie From Indy]

10. People are dreaming if they think Darth Cheney is going to wait

I have no doubt that this evil piece of shit will go the same route as leaders in China, Saudi Arabia and other authoritarian countries have gone - they will whack a suitable donor. It might be a prisoner or even a guy off the street. They find a match and then kill the poor SOB and take his heart, liver, kidney or whatever they need.

[Ian David]

11. Put a note in your wallet next to your license that says, "Do NOT Donate my organs to Dick Cheney."

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. You get my vote for the best response.

[Tippy]

47. I'll second that.........

[Erose999]

12. He will probably go to China or somewhere where they do black market transplants

if he hasn't already. The irony of ironies is that Cheney's new heart will probably belong to a Chinese political dissident.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japans-rich-buy-organs-from-executed-chinese-prisoners-470719.html

[Lint Head]

13. Maybe they could torture someone to death to get one.

[WhiteTara]

15. don't go duck hunting with dick! n/t

[Sal Minella]

16. That's what I was thinking. If I were a healthy 20-year-old guy

and Dick Cheney asked me to go on a quail-hunting weekend with him, I would say "No" SO incredibly fast.

[WhiteTara]

53. hell, you can be old and decrepit...he's still a face shooter

I saw that duck on his table behind him...I thought that was a warning to Harry.

[no limit]

17. Let's face it, maybe Obama wasn't born in Hawaii

I mean sure, I have no evidance for this claim. But as your OP clearly shows we don't need no stinkin evidance!

[KansasVoter]

19. What? Are you drunk? No idea what you mean.

[no limit]

22. I just mean you are making the claim that Cheney can magically jump in front of the line

yet you state in your OP you have no evidance for this, it's just a gut feeling you have.

Well if all we need these days are gut feelings then lets face it, maybe Obama wasn't born in this country. Or maybe Area 51 is a secret alien storage area. Or maybe the masons control our government. Or maybe global warming is a giant fraud by the scientific community.

Unless ofcourse you do have evidance that Cheney will get special treatment, then by all means, please do share it.

[KansasVoter]

27. Naive much? I have a guy feeling about you! Want to hear it?

[no limit]

30. Yup, anyone that doesn't embrace conspiracy theories without evidance is naive

I mean shit, you really think Bush had nothing to do with 9/11. What? Are you stupid?

:sarcasm:

[KansasVoter]

38. So, you think NO ONE has ever jumped in the front of the line? You are the stupid one!

[no limit]

40. Can you show me some examples of someone jumping in front of the line?

[KansasVoter]

48. No, I asked you, do you think ANYONE has ever pulled strings to get a transplant sooner? Yes/No?

[no limit]

49. I don't know. Until I see evidance I won't assume that they did

you do know that asking someone to prove a negative is a form of logical fallacy. Right?

[KansasVoter]

50. LOL....Yes or NO. Simple, even for you!

[no limit]

51. Ok, I guess you are incapable of understanding simple concepts. So I'll just say no

for the sake of the argument.

Your turn to prove me wrong.

[KansasVoter]

52. Read about Larry Hagman, Micky Mantle and Greg Allman....

Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey, only 5 hours on the list. Most wait months.
Hagman and Mantle, huge drinkers and immediately got a transplant.
If you were a heavy drinker you would never get one.
Can I prove it 100%? No. But enough evidence to question the process.
Sorry, the process is not perfect like you would like it to be.

[no limit]

54. So waht wait list guidelines did these people violate?

In what way were they given special treatment?

[MadHound]

36. Actually a lot celebrities can and have jumped to the front of the transplant line

Mickey Mantle was won, got a new liver just two days after being put on the national registry.

Not to mention the fact that those with money can get on to more organ waiting lists. Yes, there is more than one list, and if you have the money and resource to travel around the country and get put on multiple lists, then you are going to get your transplant sooner.

Like many other things in this world, if you are rich, you can game the system in your favor. I would be shocked if Cheney wasn't doing that right now.

[no limit]

44. What specific wait list guidelines did Mickey Mantle violate?

I can't comment on how you get on multiple wait lists but since one of the guidelines is where in the country you live I can see how that could be possible. I would think those guidelines are set up that way for a reason, I could be wrong.

[WinkyDink]

56. "Magically"? The guy was VICE-PRESIDENT, FGS! Yes, he---or Biden---would get priority.

[undergroundpanther]

61. Evidence,here

http://donttellthedonor.blogspot.com/2007/11/hospital-donors-get-preferential.html

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/nursing-care-more-effective-on-level-playing-field/

http://www.pinnaclecare.com/about_pinnaclecare/resource_center/articles/the_wealthy_seek_out_health_advisors

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/will-countrywides-vip-program-details-ever-be-revealed/19076553/

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. Breaking the rules to get a donor heart--isn't there a movie with that plot?

Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg starred in it.

Really dark movie. Very complicated. The FBI and Witness protection were the bad guys.

[no limit]

23. Did you see the movie 2012?

I mean shit, it's a movie so I guess it must be true. You better build a bunker.

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. Of course it's a movie. I said it was a movie.

Why are you getting your panties in a teezy?

[no limit]

26. Because after the Giffords tragedy....

I find it just a bit hypocritical for people around here to be wishing death on this guy or suggesting that he is going to somehow cheat the system without any kind of evidance behind that claim.

When Cheney was in the hospital a few months back there was no shortage of people wishing death on him around here, the mods were perfectly fine with that, those posts were allowed to stay. Looks like not much has changed. Just imagine even the fraction of the shit being flung at cheney directed at Giffords, the person doing so would be banned instantly and called insane. But when it's Cheney, who the fuck cares. Right?

[KansasVoter]

28. Wow, take a chill pill. Whine much?

[The Backlash Cometh]

29. On the contrary. I wish Cheney a natural death.

He made horrible mistakes that cost many people their loved ones. And he has yet to pay for those mistakes. My hope is that he will live long enough to see the inside of a prison.

[no limit]

31. He will see prison the day Obama does

[The Backlash Cometh]

34. You really are putting a damper on my day.

[no limit]

35. My apologies for ruining your day by brining up the fact that if Cheney is a war criminal

then so is Obama.

I thought this was common knowledge around here, I guess I was mistaken.

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. I don't believe Obama is as culpable as Cheney.

However, Obama is not helping the Democratic cause by being complicit in a cover-up. Especially since the information is bound to be leaked out eventually, making the Cheney to Obama Administration one of the darkest periods in American History.

[no limit]

39. It's not just the cover up. Obama is continuing many of the same policies

in some cases expending on them (drone attacks, rendition, etc).

If you say Cheney is a war criminial then so is Obama. You can try to argue that he is a lesser war criminal but that's kind of a silly argument to be making, don't you think? A war criminal is a a war criminal, I don't think an international court would care to what degree.

[The Backlash Cometh]

43. Obama's next two years will be interesting.

If there's reason to his madness, we should figure it out by then.

[no limit]

46. I wish I was as optimistic as you. But I guess we'll find out

:toast:

[WinkyDink]

57. Take your Cheney Admiration Society of One where you can recruit new members.

[Sal Minella]

58. You might consider the thousands of people on whom Cheney has

inflicted death and suffering and misery, and then consider the same for Rep. Gifford?

Is there no such thing as "culpability" in the world wherein you live???

No one (on DU or anywhere else) has the slightest cause to "fling shit" at Giffords, whereas Cheney richly deserves being flung at. Am I making the slightest bit of sense to you? No? Thought not.

[mimitabby]

25. the sad thing is that it won't help

the moment a new heart is put in his chest it will turn evil and black just like the old one.

[Jefferson23]

32. Can donor cards to be updated to read, " not for purpose of use by war criminals" ???

A technicality one should be allowed to consider imo.

[Matt_in_STL]

33. I thought it worked differently

Don't they just send someone down into the mine to break off another piece of coal?

[SOS]

41. The guy is 70 years old

Dick goes to the back of the line.
A 25 year-old with congenital heart disease comes first.

[sarge43]

59. Yeah. That's the way it should work.

And the last I heard you shoot an innocent bystander in the face, minimum you don't get an apology from said bystander and you get to spend quality time with your lawyer and the local constabulary.

When was the last time the Dickster played by our rules?

[old mark]

42. K&R- They will find him one if they have to kill someone to do it...

After all, he is "IMPORTANT!!!"


mark

[toddwv]

55. I wouldn't be surprised if everyone left in Gitmo is a tissue match.

The man is just that creepy.

[Taverner]

60. Chances are it will be taken from a dead soldier who died in one of his wars

Because that's the kind of guy DICK is