You never write… You never call…
As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, 2-1/2 years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he’s never written to complain. There’s no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness monster, which at least does us the courtesy of showing up as a indistinct gray blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he’s in no condition to get up.
He also has the good sense to quote this blog. What a guy!
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1. kynna:Mark Steyn is so good. He really nails the left in every article he writes.
He’s particularly good when he writes about national health care. Anyone supporting such a thing after reading Steyn is just in denial.
Oct 24, 2004 - 9:22 am 2. richard mcenroe:But Steyn inspires me to a great idea! Let’s just print the labels for the pills in French right here in the States and the price of the medications will magically go down!
Oct 24, 2004 - 9:29 am 3. Terrye:Mark Steyn has the ability to make plain things plain in a world in which people have the maddening desire to complicate all things.
He does do a good job on health care issues. Have you all read the articles he did on SARS in Canada? I still don’t understand why Bush gets blamed for a contaminated batch of flu vaccine.
I also agree with him on OBL. I think Hoffa is dead too, but I doubt if they ever find proof. same difference.
Oct 24, 2004 - 9:50 am 4. heather:One of my relatives worked for years as a nurse administrator in the burn unit of a large Alberta hospital. She was in charge of the nurses, but had no authority over the cleaning staff (one of those ‘efficiency’ moves on the part of the bureaucracy).
Now, in burn units, cleanliness is REALLY IMPORTANT. The unit had isolation rooms, in which people with ’super bugs’ were placed, so they couldn’t contaminate the rest of the patients – and where they were treated with silver ointment, a pre penicillan treatment, because antibiotics don’t work on them…
Anyway. My relative developed high blood pressure while in this job. Why? well, the cleaners would wash up the isolation wards, and then move on to the rest of the ward USING THE SAME CLEANING RAGS THEY HAD USED IN THE ISOLATION WARD. Since they were under a different bureaucracy, my nurse relative could do nothing about this.
Also, it is well known that – with the advent of antibiotics – personal cleanliness, ie, washing one’s hands – has been forgotten. After all, you can just pack the patient with drugs, and everything will be ok, right??
Then there are the nurse unions as well as the cleaning staff unions … oh well. Just stay healthy, and make sure you wash your hands… and wish very hard that Florence Nightingale could come back again…
Oct 24, 2004 - 11:10 am 5. Kyda Sylvester:I agreed with Mark Steyn way back when he first said it: “Osama bin Laden to rest”.
Oct 24, 2004 - 3:03 pm 6. Buddy Larsen:Somebody oughtta cover Steyn covering politics. It oughtta be a sportswriter, whoever covers the ring, the fights. Two-fisted writing.
Oct 24, 2004 - 3:51 pm 7. GunnyBob:Counting terrorists before they’ve hatched is simply taking one’s eye off the ball. Won’t say I told ya so. (did I miss a cliche?)
Gunny
Oct 29, 2004 - 2:37 pm