Lone Star

GEORGE CARLIN'S NEW RULES FOR 2008 New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting. New Rule: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for http://classmates.com! There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain of the football team is doing these days --- mowing my lawn. New Rule: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Lobster? New Rule: Stop saying that teenage boys who have sex with their hot, blonde teachers are permanently damaged . I have a better description for these kids: 'Lucky bastards.' New Rule: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Good, we're done. New Rule: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole aisle of this crap at the supermarket, water, but, without that watery taste. Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water. New Rule: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a 'decaf grandee, half-soy, half-low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra dry, light ice, with one Sweet-n'-Low, and One NutraSweet,' ooooh, you're a huge asshole. New Rule: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering My PIN number, pressing 'Enter,' verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don't want Cash back, and pressing 'Enter' again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Mars Bar. New Rule: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn't make you Spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass. And it translates to 'beef with broccoli.' The last time you did anything spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not spiritual. You're just high. New Rule : If you're going to insist on making movies based on crappy old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the Cineplex a remote so we can see what's playing on the other screens. Let's remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn't good enough to be a movie. New Rule: And this one is long overdue: No more bathroom attendants. After I zip up, some guy is offering me a towel and a mint like I just had sex with George Michael. I can't even tell If he's supposed to be there, or just some freak with a fetish. I don't want to be on your webcam, Dude. I just want to wash my hands New Rule: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place. New Rule: If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than Minimum wage, then for God's sake don't pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If so, then plan your future around saying, 'Do you want fries with that?'

I can only speak with authority on the protocols I know......but it seems to me, that most protocols would address this issue speciffically. The ONLY time I can stop for an accident that I drive up on is if the unit is EMPTY....no patients on board. Once you make patient contact, you're committed to that patient. If you stop and 'check on ' another patient, you've just committed ABANDONMENT, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Once you've abandoned your patient (even if its 'for just a moment', you can kiss your license and your career goodbye. There is no justification for abandonment, nor are there any 'degrees of abandonment'....kind of like being pregnant or married....either you are or you are not...end of story. The flip side of this is, even if you stay with your stable patient while your driver/partner checks on the other patient....he/she has made patient contact, and even though the secondary patient is stable and has to wait for the next unit, once your partner leaves that scene to proceed with the original patient, your driver/partner has committed abandonment, and the cycle starts over again, except now its him/her that can kiss their license goobye.....

"Blaze of Glory" - Bon Jovi

And therein lies the heart of alot of the problems! If there were more 'passion' for self and country, then the United States wouldn't be screwing itself and her citizens to give the jobs of the American people to some third world country that will NEVER be able to afford the very products they're producing. Had the American people supported the American economy, instead of buying all the Chinese and Japanese imports (and thereby supporting their economy), this country wouldnt be in the deep shit its in now! I hear almost on a continuous basis, how Bill Clinton was the 'greatest president ever'. Well, let's open our eyes to something that 'Uncle Bill' Clinton did to his supporters on the way out the door..... He signed two bills, NAFTA and GATT, which allowed the jobs to go overseas, (obviously in the favor of big business.) Prior to those two bills by federal law, not more than 10% of total production could be done outside this country. Another problem I've seen in those "20 years on you", is that the desire to stand up and be ready to defend this country that we all call 'home'! At the risk of opening old wounds, after September 11th, the loudest screaming I heard, was the 'patriotic indignity' from those people that couldn't be 'bothered' to stand ready to defend this great country! These are the same people that allowed the sorry state of affairs to happen, because they couldn't be 'bothered' to stand up and vote! It's high time we turn back the clock, and start doing things a little differently! We need to get rid of all this tree hugging/grass eating/everybody is happy bullshit, and realize that you only get out of life what you're willing to put into it! We need to stop trying to accomodate everyone else's ways of life, while sacrificing our own ways. Just because you try out for the team, doesn't mean you're going to be 'on the team' and it sure as hell doesn't mean 'everybody plays'! As Dust said, this B/S psychbabble was disproved back in the 70's because the whole concept of a 'kinder, gentler America(world) was bullshit then, just as it is now! The generation that is coming into 'control' now, I refer to as the 'time out kids', and from where I stand, they don't really know anything, because they've never had to actually WORK for something, becacuse it's all been handed to them on a silver platter! Everybody I see is working so hard on trying to be 'politically correct' and not 'offending' someone else these days, while the minority groups continually force their ways and ideals down our throats. I say it's high time we start exercising OUR rights to tell them to sit down and shut the hell up for a while. We've become so 'accepting' of other people, that most have no idea what to actually stand up for! (Lone Star gets off his soapbox, and puts it back in the closet)

Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes

"All I Have To Do Is Dream" (The Everly Brothers)

Well said, Dust! With the latest 'fad' of rushing to convert to the muslim religion, it is the fastest growing religious sect. From what I've seen in the news, the intent of the Islamic religion, is to either convert the population of the world, or eliminate those that will not be converted. This is no secret! The medical profession and health care in general cannot be expected to cave in or bow down to 'religious preferences and practices' while sacrificing sterility, and trying to prevent cross contamination of patients, because someone 'objects' to cleanliness for 'religious reasons'. If your religion 'prevents' you from staying clean, then the medical field is NOT the place you should be!

First off, congratulations! You made an interesting point here about how you 'never stop learning, and the minute you do think you know it all, its time to find a new job'. As you've probably learned already, there is no 'routine call' in EMS. Even your 'gomer slings, granny runs, or what ever term you use to describe the mundane, non traumatic, low adrenaline calls; no two will present the same. NOTHING in the medical field is in 'black and white', there are no absolutes!

I am is the shortest sentence in the English language,.... "I do." is the longest! I can only reply when I know theres something to reply to!

To me, its this simple: Comply with the rules, or get out! As healthcare providers, we're not supposed to ADD to the problems the patient already has, (ie: by cross contamination). We're not supposed to be the vehicles to spread these diseases (ie: MRSA/VRSA, etc) Either conform to the rules, despite your 'religious objections') or get out of the field entirely!

They're just trying to double up on Christmas gifts!!!

WOO HOO!!! I finally got a whole 6-pack of rolley eyes!!!

I should hope so! It's so nice to see all that money you've been spending at Sylvan Learninng Centers is paying off!

A million dollar mind, completely cluttered by totally useless information!!

Y'all are complaining about lightweights here! I had a pt that I had to move in a regular basis that tipped the scales at 1685 pounds (764.303 143 45 kilograms) Yes class, I said one THOUSAND, six HUNDRED, eighty-five pounds! She was featured on a special Jerry Springer....before he started the current 'inbred trailer trash' format *DISCLAIMER* Just because aomeone lives in a 'mobile home', 'modular home', or a 'trailer'....I am not implying they are 'inbred trailer trash'!!!! Jerry Springer actually tried to get her professional help, with counseling, weight loss and medical assistance. Unfirtunately, she died before it could be completely arranged.

Somehow I think that kind of misses the point.......could be just me though.....who knows?

I keep telling you Richard, great minds think alike! We need to figure out what it is we're doing alike, and maybe tone it down a bit! Chat with ya!

Well, great minds think alike Richard! How else could we both come up with that at the same time? Richard, While those are certainly good references to the topic of using human skin for strange things, let me direct your attention to a more recent 'practitioner' in that arena. I submit for your consideration and research, one Edward Gein. It seems that Mr. Gein's 'notoriety' has been the stuff of Hollywood fodder for many years. While his crimes did include 2 convictions for murder, he is belived to have killed as many as 6 people. To that, police estimate that he opend up to 40 graves, and collected the skin from the interred. http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers...ein/bill_1.html http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...mp;GRid=5089170

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals If God hadn't wanted us to eat the cute 'woodland creatures', He would have NEVER made them out of MEAT!

Larry, As you can see, all you gotta do is make a right turn from here! Let me know what dates you're available to travel.....ROFLMAO

WHOA, NELLIE! You have got a lot of nerve talking about putting people down! Since you completed your paramedic course, all anyone has seen from you is your arrogant bullshit directed at anyone you now consider 'inferior'! You talk about how 'pathetic' a person is to put someone else down in order to build their own self esteem, and yet you're just as guilty as the people you're calling 'scum'. Remember the old saying about glass houses and throwing stones! I'm not the only one that has seen it, nor the only one to come to this conclusion...but I WILL be one who speaks up in this case! Before you tell someone to get off of their 'high horse', you should make damn sure that yours is unsaddled as well! I'm not trying to start a pissing match here, just calling 'em like I see 'em.....but remember, I'm not the only one who sees it this way! Since when did dispatchers start signing the company checks?

Bravo, Richard! If one is going to resort to the ceremonies of the civilized, one must also abide by the protocols thereof.

Any comment I had planned to make was highly inappropriate, due to the fact that children do come to this site and read the forums. I for one believe that if I dont want MY own kids exposed to comments like I was going to make, then I'd best not make them where it will expose other peoples children to them. (call it a quirk of my upbringing) If curiosity is getting to you THAT much about the comments I decided not to make, let me know and I'll send a few of them to you in PM

Im not surprized, as they're running out of loser males for suicide bombers, they've been recruiting women now........ I figure that if they're recruiting women, they would probably take anyone right now that they thought might further their 'cause'. Talk about going out with a 'BANG'!

:shock: Dang it! After typing several responses, none of them looked quite 'appropriate', so I'll just sit here, shake my head and shut up!