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Organ Donation: It's all about LIFE

There are two essential steps to saving lives through organ donation

1. SHARE YOUR LIFE. Decide to be a donor.

Transplants provide hope for thousands of people with organ failure. In addition, hundreds of thousands more can be helped with tissue transplants. Unfortunately, the need for donors is much greater than the actual number of donors. Your commitment to organ and tissue donation can save lives.

2. SHARE YOUR DECISION. Tell your family.

The most important part of deciding to be a donor is telling your family. Talking about donation doesn't mean talking about death. It is talking about the opportunity to give another person a second chance at life. Even if you have signed a donor card or indicated your wish to donate on your driver's license, you need to tell your family since they will be consulted before donation can take place.

	Important facts about donation:
•	There is no national registry of organ and tissue donors. Even if you have signed something, be sure you have told your family of your wishes as they will be consulted before donation can take place.
•	All major religions approve of organ and tissue donation and consider donation the greatest gift.
•	An open casket funeral is possible for organ and tissue donors.
	•	There is no cost to the donor's family or estate for organ and tissue donation. Funeral costs remain the responsibility of the family.
	•	People of all ages and medical histories should consider themselves potential donors. Your medical condition at the time of death will determine what organs and tissue can be donated.

Organ Donor Card
You can download and print out an organ donor card. But remember, completing this card alone is not enough. You also need to discuss your wishes with your family.

Click to Download PDF version or Download JPEG version

To find out more about organ donation, visit the web site of the Coalition on Donation: www.shareyourlife.org


Bone Marrow Donation: The Living Gift of Life

Marrow transplants are the only hope for survival for many children and adults with leukemia, aplastic anemia, and other fatal blood diseases and cancers. Unfortunately, nearly 70 percent of these patients cannot find suitably matched marrow donors within their families. They need to find unrelated marrow donors - people who have volunteered to donate marrow if ever matched with any patient in need. A national registry of marrow donors is maintained by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).

Because tissue types are inherited, and some tissue types are unique to certain racial or ethnic groups, a patient's best chance of finding a match is within his or her ethnic and racial group. Currently, the majority of the volunteers on the NMDP Registry are Caucasian. While all volunteer donors are welcome, there is a critical need for minority donors to help the many minority patients searching the Registry.

You can become a volunteer donor through your local donor center if you are between the ages of 18 and 60 and are in good health. To find out the center closest to you, and to learn more about the donation process, go to the National Marrow Donor Program Web Site (www.marrow.org) or call 1-800-MARROW-2.

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[BigWaveBetty]

Yo! Sup T? A little instant message lingo fer ya.

I had a hard time picking out the Chelz from all the muppets.

That Brokennewz.com is a hoot. Example:

After my loss in 2000, I was so despondent, I tried suicide . . . but, since I drive an electric car, I just got really dehydrated.
~ Al Gore

[BigWaveBetty]

Apparently we're in the wrong business. It pays very well to be a feckless UN weapons inspector.

Stockholm - Former chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix was named the winner of the $50 000 Olof Palme Prize on Monday for his work in trying to stem the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

"He has under circumstances of strong external pressure demonstrated an independence and a commitment to principle which have inspired respect and admiration throughout the world," the Olof Palme Memorial Fund for International Understanding and Common Security said.

The award is endowed by the family of the slain Swedish prime minister and the governing Social Democratic Party. The memorial fund board, which chooses recipients, said Blix "worked throughout his life for the benefit of international law, peace, and the United Nations". Link

[Teacup]

Hey!!! BWB, how ya doing? I'm doing just fine. (In my Budwiser cowboy voice).

Yes, poor Chelsea. She does look like a muppet.

" I just got really dehydrated." That is too funny.

[BigWaveBetty]

I'm being sooo lazy today.

Hope you and Mr. T and the kids had a great Christmas. Big parties going on up there to ring in the new year? I'm staying home with my sweetie and a magnum of some bubbly this year. That is unless the sweetie tells me there's a party he's RSVPed and forgot to tell me (it's been known to happen).

[mountaineer]

Whew, running errands today, but now I can sit down to catch my breath. Nice to see you, T - hope all the kiddos and doggies are fine. We're not planning any new year's eve partying either, BWB, but after the holiday we're heading to Miami (thank goodness for rich, generous friends with condos).

You're right, Chelsea was lost in a sea of Muppet-like creatures, but I always thought Hillary resembled a certain well-known porcine Muppet:

The presidency in 2008, it's all I want, Kermie.

[BigWaveBetty]

....

Like mother like pig, er daughter.

Look at Bill's head... Is that where the expression "toe head" came from?

Pick me up on the way down to your rich friend's house in Miami!! ;-)

[mountaineer]

Gee, I hope you had a chance to soak up his cosmic aura:

(Detroit, December 29, 2003, 7:44 a.m.) Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean will be in Michigan today to talk about jobs. He'll be unveiling his initiative to strengthen the nation's cities. He's planning to make an afternoon campaign stop in downtown Detroit.

Dean says he wants to help put people back to work by creating a $100 billion "fund to restore America." The fund would be aimed at adding at least a million jobs in the first two years it is in place. source

There's that $100 billion - out of the pockets of us poor ol' taxpayers - with no explanation as to how this program is going to do what Howie advertises.

[Timeout]

Hans Blix was named the winner of the $50 000 Olof Palme Prize on Monday for his work in trying to stem the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

"He has under circumstances of strong external pressure demonstrated an independence and a commitment to principle which have inspired respect and admiration throughout the world...

Gag me! Note, in typical lib fashion, it doesn't say Blix actually accomplished anything. He "demonstrated an independence and a commitment to principle...". HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FINDING WMD'S, YOU IDIOTS! It IS a wonder the world survived these twits.

[Timeout]

Yeeeaaaa! Best of the Web's back today! I thought he was gone until after the new year.

[Endeavor]

I've seen a cow or two sporting that look (the coatless scarf) on reeeeallly cold days here. Perhaps its something Hilly started way back when she used to be from Illinois and our cows just picked up on it. (grin)

[Endeavor]

The dems have been fighting the war on poverty for 40 years with no success and Dean thinks we're gonna allow him to tax us for this kind of spending on a philosophy which is dead in the water?

I wish he'd shut up so he wins the nomination because we will kill him in the General.

[BigWaveBetty]

I said the same thing when it came to my inbox today! :-)

Hardball... this is so much fun, watching the dems yelling at each other over Dean. hehehe! Looks like Dean's poll numbers are up all over...OK - AZ - SC - WI - GA Link

[pubmom]

Pubmom renames the Olof Palme prize the Gutless Turd Award, and yes, Hans is the most appropriate recipient I can think of.:)

[Timeout]

Boy, the dems were really b-slapping each other on Hardball, weren't they?! Never thought I'd see the day I'd agree with Peter Finn on anything.

I don't want to get overconfident, but it looks to be setting up as a very interesting election year...just the way the Toons planned it.

[BigWaveBetty]

I like the way you think.

[BigWaveBetty]

These dems are makin' it really hard to not be over confident. Will there be a Sat. Night Live skit depicting this?

Sen. John Kerry "suddenly began dropping his g's" last week "as he sought to project a common touch during his 'Fighting for Working Americans' tour across Iowa," the Boston Globe reports:

.... He spoke of "goin' deer huntin' " and "goin' to war as a last resort," while "runnin' down the list" of President Bush's budget mistakes that had led to "cuttin' cops" and "shuttin' firehouses."

"If we're gonna make America fair, we gotta get somebody in there who understands what you folks are doin' every day," Kerry said of next year's presidential election. "We gotta get somebody in there who understands what it means to be a workin' person in America." BestoftheWeb

On Hardball, I know Hitchens is a socialist but I so enjoy it when he gives his opinion of democrats. What was one of the things he called Dean, not human? lol

[pubmom]

Nothing like trying to be someone you're not, was Kerry wearing a flannel shirt and a baseball cap while giving that "gem" of a speech?

Lookie here, Michael Jackson's spokeman has run away after last night's disaster. Pop Star Michael Jackson's Spokesman Resigns

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Michael Jackson (news)'s chief spokesman resigned on Monday, citing "strategic differences" with other members of the embattled pop star's team over the handling of child molestation charges.

Stuart Backerman stepped down a day after CBS News broadcast an interview with Jackson in which the onetime "King of Pop" said he still saw nothing wrong with sleeping with children and claimed to have been mistreated by police.

"I resigned today over strategic differences with the way things are going," Backerman told Reuters in an interview. He declined to elaborate on those differences. "The one thing I will say is that I love Michael Jackson and his fans."

Backerman said he had no firm plans for the future and did not know who would replace him as spokesman for the 45-year-old entertainer, who was charged less than two weeks ago with nine counts of child molestation.

Jackson is being represented in that case by high-profile Los Angeles lawyer Mark Geragos, who sat in on the CBS interview and in one case prevented his client from answering a question from TV personality Ed Bradley.

Geragos could not be reached for comment after business hours on Monday evening.

[Iowa Granny]

Geragos could not be reached for comment after business hours on Monday evening.

I guess the cord on his phone isn't long enough to reach under his bed where he is hiding.

What an absolute mess. Everyone deserves to be tried before a jury of his peers,,, but where in the world will they find 12 people like Jacko?

[pubmom]

Maybe they'll get lucky and find prospective jurors when the circus comes to town. If not, they'll just have to settle on a group of regular Hollywood weirdos.:)

[Iowa Granny]

It's not likely we'll see a conviction coming from a jury of Hollywierd Leftists. It may be all a waste of time.