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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    12/05/09

    In reply to Rise, Shine, Avoid Murder On The Way To The Shower, Please
    When will these Tiger Woods stories end?
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    In reply to Rise, Shine, Avoid Murder On The Way To The Shower, Please
    The prescription was for cytotec, a medicine designed to treat stomach ulcers that is also used to end pregnancies. Cops did not explain how the pharmacy wound up dispensing the medicine.

    Okay, so they're saying she forged the prescription, but why did the pharmacist dispense a potential abortifacient to an obviously, 8-month pregnant woman? No multiple-page warnings on the dispensed med?
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Not multiple page, but big enough: [www.pfizer.com]
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @Mike Jahn: She dated a married man for 3 years, had no idea he was married and falls for a stunt like this? What woman in her 8th month doesn't question every.single.pill she puts in her mouth?

    I'm exasperated because some folks just put the vibe out there that they want to be victims. No questioning of the big, bad world at all. *shakes head*
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Gotcha.
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    Image of Helio Helio
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: not only that, but what kind of pharmacist doesn't know you shouldn't give a pregnant woman this particular pill. Remind me to never go to this pharmacist.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @Helio: It makes me queasy to think about it.

    Everybody needs to be their own advocate when it comes to every aspect of healthcare.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    12/05/09

    @[gawker.com]

    Nobody in this drama sounds like they are brain trusts.

    Plus, this will be on L&O within 4 weeks.
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    Edited by miss_msry at 12/05/09 11:08 AM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @miss_msry: Guaranteed, but instead of the near miss, the baby will be lost, complete with dramatic confession in the interrogation room and multiple co-conspirators.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/05/09

    @miss_msry: Right! With Stabler kicking the shit out of the pharmacist.
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    Image of Six and a Quarter Six and a Quarter
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: Maybe the pharmacist was an accomplice? If so, would explain why the victim never caught on.

    I'm more intrigued by the fact that Jones tried to disguise the poisoned milk in two 20-ounce Poland Spring bottles. She was criminally savvy enough to figure out the abortion pill part, but opted to finish him off with an amaturish move like sending breast milk to the hospital in used water bottles?

    #morningblotter
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    Image of Senator Sully Senator Sully
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: AND, she takes drug to ensure baby doesn't have Down's Syndrome? She hasn't read enough pregnancy books or remembered enough middle school science to know that Down's Syndrome is caused by an extra chromosome? You either have it or you don't. There's no "catching" or transmitting of it.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @Senator Sully: I know, I know! My brain hurts from it all!

    In medicine, there's an (*ahem*) unofficial diagnosis that's thrown around among clinicians when the patient is apathetic, lazy, etc., etc., in their healthcare that sort of says it all: Too Stupid To Live-osis
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: I had a crazy-ass clusterfuck this week at a compounding pharmacy. I told my doctor and she called the pharm and they were sorry and said if they were me, they would never come back there again. Good to see folks taking responsibility but let this be a lesson.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: Seriously, it's very "assembly line" here in the United States. If you aren't doing the double checking, then no one is doing the double checking.

    I have a pal who is a pharmacist and she's considering leaving the profession (when she pays of her student loans) because of the high stress, high demand and demented people she has to deal with. Daily she has to engage with what they call a "drug seeking" patient. People who try to fake prescriptions for narcotics, and the like. The stories she tells are insane.
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    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: word. I do everything as holistically as possible so I thought this compounding place would be different, and they were very nice people who took their time with me, but what ensued while they filled my perscription was a scene out of Mr. Magoo. Five major mistakes.

    I double and triple check everything, always when it comes to medical stuff. I am a giant (but always polite) pain in the neck and I catch things all the time.

    My former neighbor is a cardiac intensive care nurse and she says that the patients who get the best care are the ones who can ask questions and stay focused and whose spouses/loved ones ask, ask, and ask again. She appreciates it too. [and she's not a warm, fuzzy type at all. She's a tough cookie type who borders on rude at times...]
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    Image of BitchyD BitchyD
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: And after all the insane bullshit that he ultimately put her through she still names the child after him.
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    Image of PaisleyPajamas PaisleyPajamas
    12/05/09

    @Banjo-Sea Kitten: With the focus on costs, effectiveness and inefficiencies my hope is that people will see how inadequate allopathic care is (the stuff that's shoved down our throats by insurance companies) and turn to holistic. I'm like you in that I seek out alternatives, pay out of pocket, do what I have to do in order to get better care, rather than being a good little lemming and going along with what the insurance company tells me to in order to be covered by them. If medical studies were done for the right reasons, they'd be doing them on people who die of kidney and liver "failure" (<<<such a catchall term) to determine if it was a naturally-occurring disease process or the result of taking so many medications. The whole system is corrupt, overburdened with over-care and so inept at every level it's a wonder anyone makes it out alive.
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    12/05/09

    @PaisleyPajamas: That's my best guess. I fear for her kid in the big bad world. Like a dumb jaguar you would see on Animal World. Except I don't think Animal World has ever shown anything this Darwin-Award-worthy.
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    Image of oudemia oudemia
    12/05/09

    @BitchyD: It's sort of the most shiv-like "fuck you" to the wife, though, no?
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/05/09

    In reply to Rise, Shine, Avoid Murder On The Way To The Shower, Please
    Well, I guess that's ONE way to reduce the number of strollers in Park Slope.
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    Image of Tattertotter Tattertotter
    12/03/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Wow, instant superstar. I haven't been very vocal about gay marriage because I figure it's inevitable and will absolutely happen in the near future. For some strange reason, I feel like it's not my issue.

    AIDS was my issue and it nearly killed me--not the virus itself thankfully, but literally fighting for access to new medicines, watching all the best people I knew die, and feeling so horribly guilty because I was spared. Not a day goes bye that I don't cry for the dead.

    Gay marriage seems so light-weight in comparison. My rational mind, of course, knows that that isn't true--it's absolutely vital and Americans are eventually gonna realize it's an irresistible force coming their way, like Gavin said "whether you like it or not!"

    I'm going to watch this clip again and then I'm gonna send this woman money for her re-election.
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    Image of mimigoliath mimigoliath
    12/03/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Want my legal right to marry? It's on eBay!

    [cgi.ebay.com]
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    Image of psybab psybab
    12/03/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    I really do hope y'all are contacting your senators. Especially if you live in astoria and LIC, because there's no way that area doesn't overwhelmingly support gay marriage.
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    Image of Urbania Urbania
    12/03/09

    @psybab: Onorato's term is his last. I promise you we will unseat him.
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    Image of psybab psybab
    12/03/09

    @Urbania: Onorato is the one we should be gunning for, I think. He shouldn't survive a primary. The guy's been there since Astoria was really old school Greek, and I understand that, but his time is up.
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    Image of bodegacat bodegacat
    12/03/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Things like this make me wonder what more I could be doing...
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    Image of Lucky Lucky
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    I don't know what's worse – having gay marriage voted down by a large number of bigoted assholes, as it was here in CA, or by a small number of bigoted assholes, as happened today. It's hard to believe there still has to be an argument about whether or not people deserve equal protection under the law.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776:
    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    Frederick Douglass, Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852:
    Fellow citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?…
    I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! … The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… This Fourth of July is yours, not mine…
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    Image of Six and a Quarter Six and a Quarter
    12/02/09

    @bodegacat: Not to get all soap-boxy, but there have been too many times throughout history when actions that should be axiomatically permitted and rights that should intuitively exist are denied. If interracial marriage is still being challenged in some parts of this country (thank you The South), how fucked is the gay marriage cause.

    When our government restricts the economic liberties of businesses it is the act of fascists, but when it prevents someone from doing what is essentially for humans the next step up from eating and breathing, then it is somehow preserving the American way of life? Up is down and down is up, and once again the world makes a little less sense.
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    bodegacat promoted this comment Edited by Six and a Quarter at 12/02/09 9:48 PM Six and a Quarter was starred Six and a Quarter was unstarred
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    12/02/09

    @Six and a Quarter: I'm not sure I catch your drift, or that you caught mine. I thought it was pretty obvious from those quotes that I find this vote abhorrent and archaic, denying basic human rights, but everything I thought to write seemed trite in comparison. Hence turning to someone like Frederick Douglass.
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    Image of Six and a Quarter Six and a Quarter
    12/03/09

    @bodegacat: Sorry for the clumsy ineptitude in explaining myself. Comes from being really irate, really hungry and really tired at the same time. I was agreeing with you and adding my own endorsement- hence the soap box language. Hoped that was clear in my post, but apparently not.
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    Image of bodegacat bodegacat
    12/03/09

    @Six and a Quarter: hey, my clumsy ineptitude can beat yours any day of the week. I was tired and irate too, which no doubt contributed to my non-capisce-iness. Our agreement leads me to the one encouraging thing in all this, besides Diane Savino: to see the increasing outrage over these votes as their archaic & cruel nature becomes glaringly obvious to more people.
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    Image of Six and a Quarter Six and a Quarter
    12/03/09

    @bodegacat: Cheers to that! Maybe one day all of our mutual irateness will lead to positive changes in the status quo.
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    Edited by Six and a Quarter at 12/03/09 5:08 AM Six and a Quarter was starred Six and a Quarter was unstarred
    Image of Bindlestiffy Bindlestiffy
    12/03/09

    @bodegacat: Gay /= Oppressed Former Slave
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    Image of bodegacat bodegacat
    12/03/09

    @Bindlestiffy: ya think? You have me confused with someone who needs that reminder. I was quoting someone I admire who knew something about the subject at hand. I wasn't trying to establish a hierarchical scale of suffering. I'll leave that to you.
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    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    I'm telling you, if there was a "Day Without a Gay" movement, bitches across the country would be rethinking gay marriage.

    So many industries would grind to a halt.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    12/03/09

    @BowlingForDollars: Hair salons would have to go to the bench, that's for sure.
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    Image of manchops manchops
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    MARRIAGE EQUALITY RALLY IN TIMES SQUARE AT 6 PM AT THE TKTS STEPS.
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    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Hiram Monserrate's district office : (718) 205-3881 and Albany office: (518) 455-2529
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    Image of Bindlestiffy Bindlestiffy
    12/03/09

    @manchops: No home phone?
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    12/03/09

    @Bindlestiffy: No way, we wouldn't want to do that and interfere with his rights to privacy. you know like the privacy of loving whoever you want, right?
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    Image of Heneage Heneage
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    I hope someday people will get tired of being on the wrong side of history.

    Today is not that day.

    Fuck.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    Just another pathetic failure
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    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    12/02/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: On whose part?
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    12/02/09

    @Wrapitup:

    Don't you blame everyone? The coward politicians and the bigoted constituency that supports them.
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    12/02/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: No. I blame us. We expect them to change out of the goodness of their hearts without any marketing and campaigning from us.
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    12/02/09

    In reply to New York State Senate Votes Down Gay Marriage
    It's time for Bloomie to nut up and go all Gavin Newsome on this and clod just announce that NYC is going to allow gay marriage anyway. When they come to stop it, throw wave after wave of pro bono lawyers at 'em until they GO AWAY.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/02/09

    @BaconCat: 'Nut up'? I think that was one of the sanest things Gavin Newsom has ever done.
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    Image of crazy_prophylactics crazy_prophylactics
    12/02/09

    @Lysergic Asset: I think "nut up" was meant in the testicular sense, as opposed to the "crazy" sense.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/02/09

    @crazy_prophylactics: Ah, yes. (Yo soy sin cojones.)
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    Image of Atilla the Bun Atilla the Bun
    12/02/09

    @crazy_prophylactics: Yes--"nut up or shut up" was the catchphrase uttered by the Woody Harrelson character in the flick "Zombieland." The movie probably did not coin the phrase, but it was the first time I had heard it. And I loves it.
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    12/02/09

    @Atilla the Bun: Oh, totally. And if any big-city mayor has the sack-ability potential w/r/t gay marriage, it'd be Bloomberg. I mean, I don't live in New York or anything, so what the hell do I know, but the guy seems basically untouchable. Plus, I figure if my burg (Cleveland) can get a domestic partnership registry passed despite the opposition of the many local trogs, NYC's got to be able to get some gay marriage up in its business.
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