From what I can gather, those doctors killed Garfield with their prodding and poking under unsanitary conditions.
Posted on 02/25/2007 4:29:07 AM PST by Laverne
I have an original copy. I just need to get it back from my son.
See how I bend over backward trying to be charitable to the french? No matter how hard I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, the outlook for them remains bleak.
Garfield's 2 1/2 month death cycle was far more interesting than his presidency. I remembered the story about the metal detector that didn't work because of the mattress springs, because the first time I read it, I shouted at the book, "So why didn't they move him?"
The Bush team utterly failed to:
1. Drill in ANWR.
2. Start nuke plants in the US.
3. Close the borders.
4. Pursue the terrorists into Syria, Iran.
They had the momentum and lost it.
We have a great military. They have had worse leaders.
Thanks for the post. I'm familiar with the Tesla. Cool car, isn't it?
I'm personally waiting for the plug-in hybrids. You can get them now, but have to arrange to have the adaptors installed aftermarket. Once Toyota or someone else offers them as standard equipment, I'll probably take the plunge. At that point the economics of a hybrid become much more favorable.
I agree with the point that you don't have to be miserable to conserve energy or become energy self sufficient as a country. So you install a fluorescent instead of an incandescent bulb at your house. So what? The fluorescent will last longer and cost you less over time. So you'll fill up your car with biodiesel or ethanol and plug it in at night. We're just not talking horrible adjustments, and the little things do add up.
The environwhackos are their own worst enemy in this respect. They don't pitch the advantages of conservation, just the "virtues" and "nobility" of self-sacrifice.
"One exception does not a rule make."
And how has centralized control (or "leadership" to use the euphemism) over airline safety, schools, food, or just about anything else proven to be a great success over time? So where are these virtues of leadership I keep on hearing about? How are the lives of us poor and ignorant proles improved by these strong leaders?
I think it's completely overblown. People will usually do the right thing for themselves given the time and half a chance.
I think you've hit on what is a very basic problem with the conservative mindset circa 2007. We're too busy waiting for revelations and messianic leaders rather than actually creating a conservative society in our own midst.
From what I can gather, those doctors killed Garfield with their prodding and poking under unsanitary conditions.
Supposedly, box spring mattresses were a relatively new invention, and people didn't know Garfield's room had one. By the time they figured out what was going on, infection had already set in. But yes, it's not a very convincing explanation.
From Wikipedia:
Most historians and medical experts now believe that Garfield probably would have survived his wound had the doctors attending him been more capable. Several inserted their unsterilized fingers into the wound to probe for the bullet, and one doctor punctured Garfield's liver in doing so.
Ouch!
The hole that doctor made not only could have brought on the infection, but it also deceived the other physicians about where the bullet might have been.
Well said, RKBA-D... I hope we'll see some good Republican candidates saying many of the things you did in your reply and avoiding the "unhinged ignorance" of a Senator McCain.
Thanks for the nice note. We'll see who the GOP nominates.
In my view, the idea all along has been is to create a conservative society and culture in our midst. Partisan politics is just one tool that may or may not help to achieve that end.
James A. Garfield was the first and last time a former Classics professor was elected President of the US. The nation hasn't dared try it again, although he did less harm than the former history professor who was elected in 1912.
I'm afraid I will always be an incandescent (or at least halogen) light holdout, because I like the aesthetics of those lights, but otherwise I agree with you.
The envrionmentalists have been treating this as a religion and the earth as their God. i'm not convinced that the earth particularly wants sacrifice.
I still wonder if we couldn't do something with the excess ice in the arctic ice caps that's supposed to melt and increase sea levels, instead of just waiting for it to happen. My somewhat wimsical idea is to clean out oil tankers and send them to take the ice back to Dubai, where the new Arctic Lakes subdivision Phase IX (phases I to VIII sold out in six weeks, you know) could use the water.
I liked Mark Steyn's column about American ingeneuity and how we seem to have stopped using our brains and started throwing up our hands. This seems to be a very leftist ethos, and it doesn't seem like anything to be particularly proud of, either.
After all personally I'd really like global warming. Wouldn't we all rather have warmer winters?(*) If we could figure out a way to reduce the impact on sea levels, global warming might be a win-win situation for the whole planet.
D
(*) Global warming is known to affect winter more than summer and cold areas of the world more than warm. In fact, warming is not expected to occur at all in the warm areas.
Insightful..
Don't get me started on the GOP in Congress. The Senate was atrocious. At least the House stood up a little on the alien invasion.
I am all for doing what is necessary now. The more troops, the more weapons, the better.
"I liked Mark Steyn's column about American ingeneuity and how we seem to have stopped using our brains and started throwing up our hands. This seems to be a very leftist ethos, and it doesn't seem like anything to be particularly proud of, either."
If you haven't read his book, you should. One of very few books that I've read and then turned around and started re-reading again. He speaks at length about the west's loss of it's confidence. Or as I prefer to phrase it, the loss of it's mojo.
You know you take a look around you and notice that no one is starving, most of us live material existences that are the envy of the rest of the planet, yet we skulk around as a culture like the world is going to end tomorrow. It isn't going to. In my view, it's a spiritual sickness. I loved the one quote he used the book: "societies die from suicide, not murder."
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