That's a Question

Let's say you want to be an organ donor.  You fill out the card they give you with your drivers license.  That's it.  When you die the doctors will make a decision about what can be used and harvest it for the benefit of others.  Basically its one last charitable donation on your part as you head off to the afterlife.

There is a great need for it.  The numbers of people waiting for a replacement organ are much greater than the available organs.  One person dies, and another lives.  The first death is unavoidable, irreversible and regrettable but the gift of life is remarkable.

So what about death row inmates?

Child Killer's Last Request Before Execution Is Surprisingly Sweet

He is going to die.  His last request is to donate his usable organs.  Should they let him?

Wait there is more.  Strictly speaking this isn't legal.  Most states require that the prisoner die by lethal injection, these injections tend to toxify the organs killing the subject. The suitability of the organs for transplant is compromised.  Generally this must happen in the confines of the department of corrections, not a proper hospital facility.    Strictly speaking, this isn't exactly ethical for a doctor to do either.  What is required to make this happen is a different method of execution AND a doctor harvesting tissues and organs form a healthy living individual only to let that person die.

So what do you think?

Are you lethally practical, or do other considerations out weigh the potential benefits?

Weekend Update

Maybe not a weekend update exactly, more of a weather update. 

I gather from the news that the rescue attempt of the global warming scientists in Antarctica has hit another snag.  It appears that they got another ship stuck in the ice.  Oh well, I'm sure they will get it free eventually.  In case you don't realize it, its summer in the south pole.  I seem to remember that Al climate scare billionaire Gore said that there wasn't going to be any ice left at the south pole come 2013.  These poor eco-scam scientists were down there checking it out and discovered that, no Virginia there isn't any man made global warming. 

Of course there are calls coming from the loony left for America to pitch in more cash for the rescue efforts.  It may surprise you but I agree.  I agree that at least one American should foot the bill for the rescue.  Al Gore, these poor delusional fools believed you and your pontificating about no polar ice.  Why not put your money where your mouth is?

That sound you don't hear is crickets not chirping.  They aren't chirping because they froze to death.

In other weather related news: if you are reading this on Sunday or Monday, the predicted wind chills where I live are ranging from -35 to -55.  That's degrees BELOW zero.  I'm posting this now because I expect to be freezing my tail off and it is entirely possible that my fingers will be too cold to type for a couple of days..

Go Joe!

Back to Work?

So did everyone make it back to work today, or are you able to hold out till Monday morning?

I've especially enjoyed the last two days off.  Even though it was in the middle of the week it was the first two day weekend that I've had all year that didn't involve me using PTO time to get off.  That's right my first back to back two days off for 2013 was the last day of the year and the first day of 2014.  Not sure that it counts as a weekend, but I was glad to get it.

My new years resolutions are basic.  I need to lose weight.  More importantly, and maybe connectedly, I need to get a real job.  It's hard to believe that 5 years have gone by without meaningful employment.  I'm not saying I've not had work, because I have.  I've always been able to scare up something, road construction, burger flipping, coal mining, etc.  It's just been so long since I had a career type job that I'm afraid that meaningful employment is now unlikely. 

On another note:  For those of you who received a book from me for Christmas, they are due back to the Library on Tuesday.

It's a new Year

True Story

I know this would be a great day for New Years Resolution Jokes, but I'm a little short on those right now.

True Story from Police Academy

This really happen to me when I was in the police academy....

One day the instructor asked us a very simple question......What would you do if you saw your mother run a red light....

A. pull her over and give her a ticket...

B. pull her over and give her a warning....or

C. just let her go, after all she is your mother?

When it came my turn to answer everybody looked my way because I was always cutting up in class...but being very serious I said..."The first thing I would do would be call for back-up"

Another woman in the class said, "it was very apparent that I knew nothing about the law."

To which I answered that it was apparent that she knew NOTHING ABOUT MY MOTHER!!!....


P.S....On the state exam I was the only one who answered the question correctly.