And then Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, every one.” Followed immediately thereafter by Jim Inhofe throwing him down a flight of stairs because of the UN assault on home schooling.

Who’s waging the war on Christmas again?

A minor nitpick — it’s really “multi-national” killing spree if you don’t forget Poland Iraq.

And this is why I just can’t be an organ donor.

Nerdy tangent here-in the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, one of the main threads is about how certain people are secretly guarded and kept alive by the villains because the villains intend to sacrifice them to God and thus gain ultimate power. What the sacrifices all have in common is that they’ve all committed such horrible taboos against God and nature that’s given them the requisite pseudo-supernatural oomph to be successfully sacrificed in the first place.

Anyway, that’s probably why Dick Cheney is still alive.

Well luckily Demjanjuk was 91 so that ticker don’t gotta lot of mileage left on it. ;-)

I still say Dick, while he was Secretary of Defense, had thousands of nerve gas canisters placed all over the planet set to detonate upon his death.

It’s the only explanation for why the government keeps paying for every new body part he consumes.

It’s the great cycle of being. Someone gives you the gift of life, you go and kill something. It’s in the Bhagavad Gita.

Or maybe it was Star Wars.

I’m also impressed that the people who brought us the Roomba have now developed a water heater that can follow you around so you can shower anywhere.

Oddly, the news articles fail to mention the name of the young Indian man AKA organ donor who conveniently and “unexpectedly” passed away in the vicinity of Cheney’s hospital suite.

Hunting and fishing, eh? Well, we already know what Cheney’s idea of hunting is and I daresay it’s probably not too taxing to the ticker to shoot a bunch of tame birds. I wonder what his version of fly fishing is like.

Cheney prefers “catch, load with buckshot, and release” fishing.

They should have transplanted the donors brain as well.

Pity the poor White House intern who has been tasked with finding and destroying the last horcrux. I just hope he succeeds in time…

Geez, answering this is like shooting fish in a barrel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChwQtlcI6Yg

I’d like to think Gawd is keeping dick around for his own personal pillory in the town square(which town? All of them, it would be a traveling performance) with government provided, genetically modified offal…..but then, I’m an old fashioned romantic and given to completely improbable musings…

On my ‘bucket list’ is going and pissing on the headstones of politicians I have hated (and outlived!). Nixon and Reagan are already done, I figure I got a chance at seeing Dubya’s demise. But if Cheney keeps getting these fresh hearts…yet another reason to hate the old bastard.

In other Cheney-related news (h/t Charlie Pierce) Robin Yount bagged a blue-capped manager bird..

Fishing smishing, I wonder what the heart donor process is like.

I’m amazed at the difficulty they seem to have fixing his heart. Surely it can’t be that hard to affix a new lump of plutonium…

Well luckily Demjanjuk was 91 so that ticker don’t gotta lot of mileage left on it. ;-)

No worries, Mr. Cheney’s never had much use for a heart his whole life, other than the mechanical part.

I am thinking this could be an idea for a movie – evil genius receives heart of anonymous donor, and after recovery he find that his body rejects his attempts to conduct his usual evil activities. Slapstick humor and hijinks abound!

In response to jnfr @ 3

I appreciate this might be an attempt at humor, but it is a slam against a really important subject.

For every undeserving bastard, there are at least 100 people who will need something we won’t at all need anymore.

If my heart was in Dark And Evil, I would not notice.

Let’s not forget that medical science was helped by what was learned in his surgery and processes leading up to it.

We just get to hope that in the first day of his next life, he will be taking a crap in an extremely warm place.

Finally, a religious hope to believe in.

Damn, sometimes one wonders about that Hippocratic oath.

this VILE BLOODLINE,should be punished if not totally shunned

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5160

Does this transplant prove there is or is not a god?

barrel.
fish.

I’m voting for “not”.

I’ve heard all the “works in mysterious ways” yadayada, but the fact that this guy gets the best healthcare our tax dollars can buy while deserving, actual humans die from lack of care in the US pretty much seals the deal for me.

Did Cheney get anti-gravity devices, like his role model Baron Harkonen, along with a new fresh heart? Stands to reason since both Cheney & Harkonen enjoy sacrificing others for their own, uh, “needs.”

This is a man who could be a guidance counselor for Satan.

Cheney’s Christmas gift to his friends. Shooting them in the face at a canned wingless bird outfit.

He just needs someone to drive him there.

Afterwards there was pound cake and coffee. Decaf, because it was late.

It’s the little added touches that make me love TBogg. Other people wouldn’t mention the decaf detail.

How’s breitbart doin’?

Why does that chant from IJ: Temple of Doom keep running through my head?

Kali Ma! Kali MA! KALI MA!

Oh how the great have fallen!

“As for Mr. Cheney, he does not have any more interviews scheduled, although his daughter said he was flooded with requests. Aside from working on his book, he has been meeting with foreign dignitaries, hosting policy luncheons around his kitchen table (it seats 10) and spending a fair amount of time at his other homes, in Wyoming and on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.”
New York Times article April 24, 2009

I love the part about his kitchen table, “it seats 10!”

Lesley, I so agree with you about the decaf detail. These things are important.

But I must confess the description of Lynne’s new robe was what me fall in love with this post. ;-)

…with gussets, yet.

Dick Cheney’s heart. Quite the oxymoron. I understand he also doesn’t like his first name and is looking to get a “Dick” transplant.

The fish-in-barrel thesis:
Maybe, but it sounds too small-scale for our Dick. I think a full-size lake and dynamite are involved. Cheney likes Big Effects.

BTW, TBogg, the juxtaposition of brilliant headline and photo cheered the winter evening here at our place.

Great investigative photojournalism, too. I had no idea the Man-Sized Safe was equipped with arms and legs.

the former Vice President was being kept alive using the latest in aquarium pump technology until a suitable heart could be found since Mr. Cheney’s case presented the rare risk of not only his body rejecting the heart, but the possibility of the organ rejecting its new home

As I understand it, the real problem was that they had to wait until they could find a heart small enough for Cheney.

You mean like the “love-able Dick.”

I hear Darth is writing a book about his experience as the consumer recipient of a new heart.

And then Tiny Tim said, “God bless us, every one.” Followed immediately thereafter by Jim Inhofe throwing him down a flight of stairs because of the UN assault on home schooling.

This may be an opportune time to mention that Israel Keyes, the recently caught Alaskan serial killer was born to Mormon parents in Utah, home-schooled, and attended an Aryan Nation anti-Semetic Christian church as a child.

tells us that “I feel great,” and that he has returned to a vigorous schedule of writing, hunting, fishing and even cross-country driving.

It may not seem like much, but I’ve been training/driving 26.2 5 days a week for years now.

X-Country driving is a whole different animal. Finely tuned quatrain-athletes like Cheney are indeed rare. If he continues to live, and strive to be the best of the best of the best, I would think he’d try to mimic those pigeon-catching French catfish…

Based upon the photo above, Hannibal Dick Lecter Cheney appears to be more fit than he’s been in years. In fact, I would even suggest that he’s up for some international travel. I understand the Hague is very nice this time of year.

LMAO!

A few years ago, I noted that Cheney was penning a memoir about his role in starting the Iraq War and setting up Guantanamo and a torture regime; I noted that it was to be titled Infinite Guest.

I see now that the title will also be suitably descriptive of this latest event in his life, in regard to the donor heart.

Slightly off-topic: If the possibility that someone whom you feel may not deserve to be at the top of the donor list at the time of your demise is the only thing keeping you from being an organ donor, you can authorize what is called a “directed donation” of specific organs to an individual, or limit organ donations to family members. Make sure of copy of this document is inserted in your medical records.

“And when the sound, that hideous sound, like the beating of a hundred thousand hearts, just increased in volume so it seemed surely that his dinner guests must hear it too, just then the doctors called to say “Sir, we’ve traced that sound — it’s coming from the inside! Run!!”

Travel, you say? Perhaps a nice trip to Europe to say….um….the Netherlands?

Dick plans to stay alive to see his Fourth Deferment Liz elected to the Senate from Wyoming. If I were Enzi or Barrasso I would accept no quail hunting invites from the former Veep.