Posted on 03/30/2005 8:05:06 AM PST by RadioActive2
Beginning last November, the city of San Francisco began a program whereupon clinically obese men between the ages of 18 and 55 could undergo a procedure whereupon approximately 1/2 an inch is removed from each vas and the ends are sealed - commonly referred to as a vasectomy - completely free of charge. The overwhelming turnout led the State of California to follow suit, and now California is the first state in the Union to offer state-funded vasectomies to men who have been diagnosed as obese. ... If we are to make this procedure mandatory, we must clearly draw the lines where physician judgment is concerned.
(Excerpt) Read more at pnmj.org ...
"Ve vill breed a race of ubermenschen! The subhumans will be eliminated, and the sacred Reich of California will rise triumphant!!!"
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From the same "Pacific Northwest Medical Journal" site:
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Oh, please. You didn't think we'd go silently into that good night, did you? Yep, it's Joe and Bill again. Hi. Yes, this is a FAKE Medical Journal website for a FAKE medical association, complete with a fake voicemail system. Most of the stories and articles you read here are true... Just not that one that probably brought you here. Sorry about that. I know how badly you wanted it to be true (because hey, it wouldn't have made the news under your name if you DIDN'T). Alas, it's not. We made it up. Why, you ask? Well, we're still tired. Once again, we've proved that so-called "journalists" at so-called "reputable news agencies" are so-called "F***ing lazy". It's not like we didn't drop about two billion clues that this particular article might not be full to the brim with medical fact, you know. In fact, we set up a voicemail system to log calls to the Pacific Northwest Medical Association specifically to track just how many reference and source checks were made by you, the mass media. The integrity part of Journalistic Integrity has been left completely by the wayside, and reporters / writers / disc jockeys / what-have-you are simply scraping sites like Fark.com and BoingBoing.net without so much as a verification call. And we, two members of an extremely annoyed American public, are now formally asking that you guys knock it off. We want NEWS, folks. Not ratings. Not sensationalism. Not "I got there first." No one cares about your scoop or your career - what we DO care about is that you maintain the journalistic integrity that you supposedly adhere to in that career. We care that you give us NEWS. Real, no kidding information -- not conjecture and rumor. We're sick of it, guys. And we want you to help us, an incensed American public, get the information that we rely on you for. We TRUST you, and we want you to quit abusing that trust. So here's a bit of actual, no kidding news that you can start with: We're not done yet. Not by a long shot. These little pot-shots at entertainment and social "news" are just the beginning. Bill and Joe are just getting warmed up. And we won't stop until you make it absolutely certain that our job is done. Yep, you have the power here. All you have to do is YOUR JOB. Research the stories you cover, make calls, verify facts. Give US, those who trust you, real information - not just your best guess or your next pulitzer. Joe and Bill (*Edited for language)
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Hoax? Prolly, funny part is, why bother cutting the jewels off from the launch tower? They're hauling around the best form of Birth Control going. Pounds and Pounds of flab and the whole world can see it too.
Not to mention, really obese folks have a uhm, lets just say, a disappeared winky.
Oh, it's a hoax.....see post #17
I would think this is a joke.
Especially as "obese" people are not genetically inferior. The ability to store fat easily --- and to have an efficient digestive system --- is an important survival trait for humans.
Most of human history contains times of feast and famine. We are now in a very unual "feast" period. Hence why this trait is so common --- ancestors of fat people lived, while skinny people (with their inefficient metabolisms) died.
One day --- say after a nuclear or biological war --- this trait will come in handy again.
LOL!!!!
I'm confused. I'm on http://pnmj.org/0032205_curing_obesity.asp Where is this disclaimer?
Gotta give 'em points for creativity... pretty funny.
Today it's obesity.Next,people with addictions,mental illness,retardation,physical disabilities,....I recently read an article where a "doctor" recomended estrogen injections to reduce aggression in males.
Disclaimer -- http://www.pnmj.org/last.asp
How about instead of sterilizing these people, we just put them on atkins?
Too much Dr.90210
Eugenics.
Thanks.
For the record, I don't think their pranks are very funny.
Maybe if they had the link to the disclaimer ON THE PAGE with the article.
"I recently read an article where a doctor recomended estrogen injections to reduce male aggression."I hope that was bogus as well.
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