Comments on: I’d Give My Liver To See Her Shiver

By: Automata

Automata — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:39:02 +0000

All you lovers of government control and haters of free markets surely realize that the current law requires donors to give their body parts to big, profitable corporations that can then sell them however they want. Right?

“Current law proscribes the compensation of donors, ostensibly for their protection. But it also allows virtually anyone else to buy and sell tissue. Publicly traded companies are pumping out treatments that use the remnants of the dead to cure the bodies of the living;”

http://www.reason.com/news/show/118517.html

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:02:02 +0000

(and yeah, I know that’s a Simba B nymstealer)

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:01:21 +0000

Is there an e-mail list that will let us know when this shit stops?

The WATB list? I do believe you’re already on it.

Where’s The Kid From Kounty Meath to tell you to bite your own dick when you need him?

If you’d stop blowing him, he might get a word in edgeways.

By: Simba B

Simba B — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:03:47 +0000

Jonny Scrum-half said,

July 15, 2009 at 21:53 (kill)

actor212 —

Jonny Scrum-half said,

July 15, 2009 at 21:55

Jonny Scrum-half said,

July 15, 2009 at 22:26 (kill)

actor212 —

etc., etc. and so forth. Is there an e-mail list that will let us know when this shit stops?

Also:

They are so out-of-touch, for whatever reason (rich, sheltered, Asperger’s – take your pick)

Where’s The Kid From Kounty Meath to tell you to bite your own dick when you need him?

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:45:36 +0000

and since brains are not transplantable, zombies would thrive as the food source expands….

no more need to slowly, lurchingly chase the living through deserted streets !!

By: LD

LD — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:58:29 +0000

While the dangers of allowing rich people to buy organs are pretty clear, the problems with allowing poor to sell them have been a bit more obscure.

Of course, a sort of forced sale is one possibility, but I think bigger risk would be poor donors. Right now there is lack of donors, but if they were paid good money for the kidneys, the donors might line up for the operations. However, not every donor can be accepted. Some deseases and drug use will likely remove you from acceptable donor list.
So, what to do when you want to cash in on the money? Get some less honest doctor to stamp you as healthy, in exchange of small part of the money you get from your kidney. Sell kidney, and pay off the doc. Sure, it hits news sooner later, big scandal, doctor taking money, killer kidneys etc. Headlines scream, but the damage is already done.

I suggest the “everyone is donor”, unless the opt out via free report.
Hospitals would be drowning on kidneys then.

By: N__B

N__B — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:29:34 +0000

the confidence artistes

The preferred term is “ecdysiast.”

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:23:44 +0000

#3 is “There is to be no abusing the Abbos….if anyone’s watching”

#4 is “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO POUFTAHS!”

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:19:29 +0000

And Principle number 2 reads “Government of the confidence artistes, by the confidence artistes, and (most importantly) for the confidence artistes, shall not perish from this Earth.”

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:14:51 +0000

When did they grow a pair and get “principles”?

Now, now, Libertarians have principles. Number 1 is “Never Give A Sucker An Even Break”

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:11:19 +0000

I use saltines in my leberknoedel

That must hurt!

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:10:26 +0000

I do generally agree with Libertarian principles

When did they grow a pair and get “principles”?

By: actor212

actor212 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:09:11 +0000

stop by the Chemical Corn Bank on my way to the ‘Toad

Where do you go when you’re Toad Away?

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:07:37 +0000

round here, any response that doesn’t contain POOP, PENIS, TEH BUTTOCKS or dancing badgers IS a substantive response.

By: LittlePig

LittlePig — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:45:39 +0000

Scrumbob, the Niven references and "Dr. Goldman Sachs" *were* substantive responses, were it not for your naive libertarian belief that people would never do anything like that..

By: zombie rotten mcdonald

zombie rotten mcdonald — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:29:56 +0000

why rent a vagina when a latex version can be had at a fraction of the cost? On the shelves right next to the dildos (humorless)

By: Polyp in Gary's ass

Polyp in Gary's ass — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:05:34 +0000

Pere Ubu said,
Logically, of course, Megan should therefore support prostitution on the grounds that if it’s okay to sell parts of the human body it’s likewise okay to rent them retail.

Exactly! This is the same kind of person who has problems with me wanting to RENT a vagina!

By: Mayor Drop-Your-Laguardia

Mayor Drop-Your-Laguardia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:30:34 +0000

Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard said,

July 16, 2009 at 1:59

I concur with Johnny.

I also think we need to get rid of the excess regulation in the meat industry.

LITERARY REFERENCE WIN.

By: Mayor Drop-Your-Laguardia

Mayor Drop-Your-Laguardia — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:28:49 +0000

Bob “You don’t have to wear a clock around your neck to know what time it is at Bob’s” said,

I’m in bed asleep (like even Fletcher is sometimes) and you guys are busting out with the obscure Firesign references. Bleah!

I got to go sell some demons (the dog’s not for sale, though) and then stop by the Chemical Corn Bank on my way to the ‘Toad.

By: N__B

N__B — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:21:02 +0000

…and Scotland will retain an Inspector of Anatomy.

In the US we seem to have an Anatomy Inspection Corps, judging by the large numbers of roving guidos wearing a uniform of stained jeans and “Bikini Inspector” tee-shirts.