What A Long Strange Trip It's Been

Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired — and arguably corrupted — millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102.
Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in Burg im Leimental, said Doris Stuker, a municipal clerk in the village near Basel where Hofmann moved following his retirement in 1971.
For decades after LSD was banned in the late 1960s, Hofmann defended his invention.
"I produced the substance as a medicine. ... It's not my fault if people abused it," he once said.
The Swiss chemist discovered lysergic acid diethylamide-25 in 1938 while studying the medicinal uses of a fungus found on wheat and other grains at the Sandoz pharmaceuticals firm in Basel.

Bed Bugs & BallyHoo Continued

Bed Bug-Sniffing Dogs Pinpoint Pests In Seconds

'K-9 Detectives' Cost Thousands Less Than Exterminators
NEW YORK (CBS) ―

Bed bug infestations have hit epidemic proportions in the tri-state area, so much that earlier this year New York City health officials created a bed bug "task force" after receiving thousands complaints about the microscopic critters. Now there's a new weapon in the fight against bed bugs, and its barking up a storm where the bed bugs bite. Smaller than a poppy seed, beg bugs nest in just about everything – not just beds – which makes it very hard to get rid of them.

Carl Massicott is a professional bed bug fighter who knows the pests are nearly impossible to get rid of. Homeowners, he says, will spend a tens of thousands of dollars to combat them, with no guarantee they'll be gone for good. Massicott has a weapon of a different kind to battle bed bugs. Unlike exterminators, he doesn't use high-tech devices to locate the bugs. Instead, he relies on "Radar," one of the specially-trained bed bug-sniffing dogs called the Advanced K-9 Detectives used to sweep homes, hotel rooms, and apartments. It's Radar's nose, Massicott says, that knows just where to find the nesting bugs. "Radar's found them in telephones, clock radios. We've found them everywhere," he said. "I'm booked for the next month solid."

Professional Bed Bug Fighter?????? If that gig don't get you laid I don't know what will........

This is a barracks; it's not a bordello.

Pro-family" organizations and members of Congress are continuing the push to limit the range of reading materials available to members of the military.

House Rep. Paul Broun (GA-10), with 15 co-sponsors and the support of organizations such as the Alliance Defense Fund and the American Family Association, recently introduced a bill that would strengthen the ban on sales of adult-themed publications on U.S. military installations.

While the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997 bans the sale of "sexually explicit material" on property under Department of Defense jurisdiction, the Pentagon doesn't consider certain items explicit enough to take off of base store shelves; a certain percentage of a film or magazine's content would have to be considered "sexually explicit" for sale or rental to be barred.

Rep. Broun has introduced H.R. 5821, also known as the Military Honor and Decency Act, which would close what he calls a loophole that allows the continued distribution of pornography to soldiers, to their moral detriment, with the help of taxpayer funds.

"As a Marine, I am deeply concerned for the welfare of our troops and their mission," Broun said on April 17. "Allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad. Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit. The ‘Military Honor and Decency Act’ will right a bureaucratic--and moral--wrong."

"We're asking these people to risk their lives to defend our Constitution's principles," said law school professor and ACLU head Nadine Strossen toUSA Today last November, "and they're being denied their own First Amendment rights to choose what they read."

"Let me get this straight," The Carpetbagger Report's Steve Benen added."U.S. troops are fighting two wars, neither of which are going well, and the American Family Association’s biggest concern is what kind of magazines the troops can purchase on base?

"Here’s a radical idea: maybe those who wear the uniform and put their lives on the line for their country should be able to read whatever they want."

The text of H.R. 5821, introduced on April 16, can be viewed at this link.

If St. Matthew Was A Bushie

The Gospel According To George Bush

For I was Hungry, and you gave me food riots.

I was thirsty, and you diverted my water.

I was a stranger, and you deported me.

I was naked, and you mocked me.

I was sick, and you told me it was a pre existing condition.

I was in prison and you suspended Habeas Corpus.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.....

And Adolf Knew A Thing Or Two About Keeping Labor Costs Down Too.........

Republican presidential candidate John McCain got a deal when his campaign rented gathering space from the city of Homewood for a private fundraiser earlier this week.

His campaign was given a discount of about 80 percent off the standard booking rate for Rosewood Hall. In September, Jefferson County Democrats rented the same facility and were charged the full rate.

The McCain campaign was charged $250 to use two rooms in the hall, which normally would book for $1,200 on a weeknight. The campaign also was given free labor from Homewood City Jail inmates to set up tables and chairs for the event, avoiding a $100 set-up fee, but did pay a standard $50 cleaning fee.

Things To Do In Denver

DENVER -- Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments calling for riots in Denver during the Democratic National Convention this summer.

He said the riots would ensure a Democrat is not elected as president, and his listeners have a responsibility to make sure it happens.

"Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don't elect Democrats," Limbaugh said during Wednesday's radio broadcast. He then went on to say that's the best thing that could happen to the country.

Isn't inciting a riot a crime in Colorado? Why is that fat fuck not in jail?

How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times As These... Continued

From The NYT

After struggling with soaring heating costs through the winter, millions of Americans are behind on electric and gas bills, and a record number of families could face energy shut-offs over the next two months, according to state energy officials and utilities around the country.

The escalating costs of heating oil, propane and kerosene, most commonly used in the Northeast, have posed the greatest burdens, officials say, but natural gas and electricity prices have also climbed at a time when low-end incomes are stagnant and prices have also jumped for food and gasoline.

In New Hampshire, applicants for fuel subsidies under the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program received an average of $600 in a one-time grant and up to $975 for the extremely poor who rely on heating oil or propane, the costliest fuels. But those grants, which in recent years have covered 60 percent of heating costs, covered only about 35 percent of those costs this winter, said Celeste Lovett, director of the state’s energy aid program. The state will have given aid to about 34,500 people by the end of April, Ms. Lovett said, a 5 percent increase over last year and the highest number ever.

Like a Frightened Turtle.

George: Elaine! Do women know about shrinkage?
Elaine: You mean like laundry?
Jerry: Like when a man goes swimming... afterwards...
Elaine: It shrinks?!
Jerry: Like a frightened turtle.
Elaine: Why does it shrink?
George: It just does.
Elaine: I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.


KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.

Tough Choice? Really?

I was at the 'Span today, and riding home on the train I had an interesting chat with a nice woman from NOAA.  She said she found the 2004 Bush / Kerry choice to be tough, and felt the same way this year. I asked her if she still thought the '04 choice was tough knowing what she knows today. She said no, so I said: well then apply that this time. We progressives are not smarter than you, we just came to the only possible right conclusion a bit sooner. 

I think I made some progress with her.... and of course I did mention that Mc Johnny is "fucking insane". So much for my ability to offer reasoned debate.

Life, The Universe, And Everything

Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. 

If there is life elsewhere in the universe, Hawking asks why haven't we stumbled onto some alien broadcasts in space, maybe something like "alien quiz shows?"

Hawking's comments were part of a lecture at George Washington University on Monday in honor of NASA's 50th anniversary. He theorized that there are possible answers to whether there is extraterrestrial life.

One option is that there likely isn't life elsewhere. Or maybe there is intelligent life elsewhere, but when it gets smart enough to send signals into space, it also is smart enough to make destructive nuclear weapons.

Hawking said he prefers the third option:

"Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare," he then quickly added: "Some would say it has yet to occur on earth."

So should you worry about aliens? Alien abduction claims come from "weirdos" and are unlikely. However, because alien life might not have DNA like us, Hawking warned: "Watch out if you would meet an alien. You could be infected with a disease with which you have no resistance."

The 66-year-old British cosmologist, who suffers from ALS and must speak through a mechanical device, believes "if the human race is to continue for another million years, we will have to boldly go where no one has gone before."

Hawking compared people who don't want to spend money on human space exploration to those who opposed the journey of Christopher Columbus in 1492.

"The discovery of the New World made a profound difference to the old. Just think we wouldn't have had a Big Mac or KFC."

What; Tom Delay Was Busy?

Bush names former pest-control exec as housing secretary

By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers

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WASHINGTON — President Bush's nomination Friday of Steve Preston to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development came under fire for the nominee's lack of housing experience amid the worst national housing downturn in memory.

Critics and some key lawmakers said that Preston, who heads the Small Business Administration, was a lawn-care and pest-control business executive before Bush put him at the SBA in 2006.

"In seeking to fill this important Cabinet post I looked for a leader with an impressive background in finance; someone who understands the important role the housing market plays in the broader economy," the president said. "I sought a reformer who would act aggressively to help Americans obtain affordable mortgages ... and be able to keep their homes."

One key Democrat wasn't impressed. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, which holds jurisdiction on many housing issues, said the agency needed a strong leader who could keep troubled homeowners in their homes and restore confidence in the sagging mortgage market.

"These priorities call for a leader with expertise in housing issues, yet the president's choice has no apparent housing background, which raises questions," Dodd said in a statement.

ACORN, a housing advocacy group that's been critical of the administration's handling of the housing crisis, also wasn't pleased with the nominee.

"To the extent that the Federal Housing Administration (part of HUD) is being asked to play a major role in solving the foreclosure crisis, nothing in this guy's resume indicates he's that right person," Steve Kest, ACORN's executive director, said in an interview. "To have someone overseeing HUD that has no experience in this area and no demonstrated concern for people losing their homes seems a disaster in the making."

Poem For Pasover

I've Run This Before ( Last November) But I Think It's Right For This Special Night

Shabbat Poem

When evening falls, I'll sit with you

When the glass breaks in the street

I'll stand with you

Through the long night I'll prove with you

Love burns brightest of all.

Hey Tom: The Pope Says Fuck You

Rep. Tom Tancredo blasted the pro-immigrant message of visiting Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, accusing the pontiff of using "faith-based marketing" to boost foreign-born attendance at parishes in the United States.

"I suspect the pope's immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church," said Tancredo, a former Catholic who now attends an Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Tancredo, a vocal critic of illegal immigration and guest-worker proposals because he considers them to be "amnesty," has criticized the Catholic church in the past for social programs and advocacy geared toward helping illegal immigrants.

Benedict urged the United States "to continue to welcome the immigrants who join your ranks today, to share their joys and hopes, to support them in their sorrows and trials and to help them flourish in their new home."

Tancredo interpreted that as a call for lessening restrictions on illegal immigration and said intruding in American politics is not part of the pope's job description.

I Know I Left That Can Of WD-40 Someplace..Hmmmm

Staff at a Philippine government hospital are under investigation after a former patient threatened a lawsuit over a YouTube video clip of his rectal surgery, officials said Thursday.

The clip showed hospital staff, including nurses and surgeons, laughing and cheering as a blue canister was removed from the male patient's rectum during the January 3 operation at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Centre in the central city of Cebu.

Staff present during the procedure could be suspended or have their licences revoked if found culpable, hospital authorities said.

"There will be sanctions for sure," hospital spokesman Emmanuel Gines told GMA television in an interview, adding that the in-house inquiry would be completed shortly.

The unnamed patient told the station that he and his family suffered humiliation and ridicule when he was identified as the patient of the clip posted to the popular video sharing website YouTube and being passed around by cellphone users.

Gines said it appeared that a larger than usual number of people were in the operating room at the time and many of them taped the surgical procedure using their cellphones or other video recording devices.

It Wont Go Well For Them On Judgment Day

Wall Street Winners Get Billion-Dollar Paydays

By JENNY ANDERSON

Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, even in Wall Street’s rarefied realms.

One manager, John Paulson, made $3.7 billion last year. He reaped that bounty, probably the richest in Wall Street history, by betting against certain mortgages and complex financial products that held them.

Mr. Paulson, the founder of Paulson & Company, was not the only big winner. The hedge fund managers James H. Simons and George Soros each earned almost $3 billion last year, according to an annual ranking of top hedge fund earners by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine, which comes out Wednesday.

Hedge fund managers have redefined notions of wealth in recent years. And the richest among them are redefining those notions once again.

Their unprecedented and growing affluence underscores the gaping inequality between the millions of Americans facing stagnating wages and rising home foreclosures and an agile financial elite that seems to thrive in good times and bad. Such profits may also prompt more calls for regulation of the industry.

Even on Wall Street, where money is the ultimate measure of success, the size of the winnings makes some uneasy. “There is nothing wrong with it — it’s not illegal,” said William H. Gross, the chief investment officer of the bond fund Pimco. “But it’s ugly.”

Here's To You Joe DiMaggio

Some really like it hot.
In the sordid tradition of peddling raunchy video footage of celebrities a la Paris Hilton, a long-buried sex movie of Marilyn Monroe recently hit the market, a top collector told The Post.

An illicit copy of the steamy, still-FBI-classified reel - 15 minutes of 16mm film footage in which the original blond bombshell performs oral sex on an unidentified man - was just sold to a New York businessman for $1.5 million, said Keya Morgan, the well-known memorabilia collector who discovered the film and brokered its purchase.


The footage appears to have been shot in the 1950s. When it came to light in the mid-'60s, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had his agents spend two weeks futilely trying to prove that Monroe's sex partner was either John F. Kennedy or Robert F. Kennedy, according to declassified agency documents and interviews, Morgan said.
The silent black-and-white flick shows Monroe on her knees in front of a man whose face is just out of the shot.
The feds eventually confiscated the original footage - but not before the informant made a copy of it, which is what was just sold by his son, Morgan said.

According to the documents, "Former baseball star Joseph DiMaggio in the past had offered [the informant] $25,000 for this film, it being the only one in existence, but he refused the offer.

I think Joe really loved her.

Oh Canada

I took 'Tasha last night and went to see Kathleen Edwards at the Birchmere. Why she isn't a huge star yet I can't imagine, other than the fact that most people wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass. I thought going in that she was the real deal, and I left the show convinced that she derserves everybit of the acclaim she has gotten from critics. The girl rocks, she writes great songs, she's sexy and funny, and swears like a fucking salior. Shit...I think I'm in love! That being said, her hubby Colin Cripps plays a mean guitar(s). ( The dude has a collection of axes worthy of Nigel Tufnel).



My advice? Buy her new CD "Asking For Flowers". And if you were a Ex Pat Brit plugger.... try and sign her.

From The Department Of Tough Shit:

The New York Times is reporting Sunday that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is having a hard time finding a job at a law firm:

He has, through friends, put out inquiries, they said, and has not found any takers. What makes Mr. Gonzales's case extraordinary is that former attorneys general, the government's chief lawyer, are typically highly sought.

A longtime loyalist to George W. Bush dating to their years together in Texas, Mr. Gonzales was once widely viewed as a strong candidate to be the first Hispanic-American nominated one day to the Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he carried an impressive personal story as the child of poor Mexican immigrants.

Despite those credentials, he left office last August with a frayed reputation over his role in the dismissal of several federal prosecutors and the truthfulness of his testimony about a secret eavesdropping program. He has had no full-time job since his resignation, and his principal income has come from giving a handful of talks at colleges and before private business groups.

The Story In Your Eyes

WASHINGTON — He shot his hunting partner, but Vice President Dick Cheney apparently doesn't fly fish with naked women.

Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney with a caption that said he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho.

The photo is a tight shot of Cheney's face sporting dark sunglasses and his trademark grin.

What's stirring all the buzz is the reflection in the vice president's dark glasses. Some thought that the reflection looked like a naked woman and, this being Cheney and this being the Internet Age, they immediately shared that thought with the world.

In a Google search for the words "Dick Cheney" and "sunglasses," 79,300 hits came back at mid-afternoon on Thursday. By 7 p.m., the count was 130,000.

On DemocraticUnderground.com, the discussion starts with this question: "Notice anything ... interesting ... reflected in his sunglasses? Something that has little to do with conventional 'fly-fishing'?"

Ahhhk I got yer fly fishing....Agggggg....

Drilling Down Into The Data

WASHINGTON — Public approval of President Bush has dipped to a new low in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll, driven by dissatisfaction with his handling of the economy.

A survey released Thursday showed 28 percent approve of the overall job Bush is doing. That was statistically tied with his previous low in the poll of 30 percent last month and in February.

So my question is this: who in the hell makes up the 28%? Once we get past the management of Fox News and the folks at the RNC; who exactly is it that still supports this disaster of a President? I thought it might be useful, or at least fun to see if we could come up with some descriptors for the 28 Per-centers.

Mix and Match and pick and paste  descriptors to the following:

George Bush is still supported by____________________ and _________________ who make up some 28% of the population.

Morons, nincompoops, fools, brain dead veggies, dip shits, people as dumb as a brick, assholes, dimwits, numb nuts, people with shit for brains, ding bats, ding dongs, brain surgeons, rocket scientists, fucktards, cheese-heads, goofballs, scrotes, ignoramuses, jerk offs, jag offs, scum-bags, douche bags, sports fans, limp dicks, candy asses, mental midgets, perverts, boot lickers, Nazi's, dead enders, butt surfers, geeks, dweebs, freaks, horn dogs, ass wipes, complete fucking idiots, Texans, hockey pucks, pussies, pansies, blow hards, blow holes, Bill O"Riley, rest stop attendants, toe suckers, and Britney Spears.

Achtung Baby!

Formula One motor racing chief Max Mosley is today exposed as a secret sado-masochist sex pervert.
The son of infamous British wartime fascist leader Oswald Mosley is filmed romping with five hookers at a depraved NAZI-STYLE orgy in a torture dungeon. Mosley-- a friend to F1 big names like Bernie Ecclestone and Lewis Hamilton-- barks ORDERS in GERMAN as he lashes girls wearing mock DEATH CAMP uniforms and enjoys being whipped until he BLEEDS.
The multi-millionaire son of Sir Oswald, who was a pal of Adolf Hitler, plays a concentration camp commandant in a FIVE-HOUR torture chamber video.
At one point the wrinkled 67-year-old--who publicly likes to give the impression he has put his father's evil legacy behind him--yells "she needs more of ze punishment!" while brandishing a LEATHER STRAP over a brunette's naked bottom.

P. A. R. K.. In The U.S.A.

Cogito Park Sum

I noticed something the other day here walking to my office in the county office building. The cars in the employee lot here are less expensive and more American than the cars in the parking garage I use on Capitol Hill. I also have noticed that county workers vs. Capitol Hill types are older, bigger , and like their cars; seem to have more miles on them. I can think of several reasons why this might be, the Hill attracts younger better educated folk than a county (even one as big and progressive as Montgomery MD where I live and work.)

Also I don't think anyone raises an eyebrow if a Hill staffer shows up in a BWM 650. Here it would trigger a gossip tsunami. Maybe all of this is for the good, if the guy getting paid with your tax dollars drives a Buick...chances are things are on the up and up.

What do I drive you ask? Er umm well it's not exactly from Detroit..but the nice lads in Coventry at least speak proper English.... unlike those Bavarian bastards who built the 650 Graftmobile.

This Seems Like It Might Be Important

From The BBC:



Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.
They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun.
Martin Dominik, from the St Andrews University, UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought.
And he told a major meeting that astronomers were on the brink of finding many more of them.
The St Andrews researcher said this planetary system, and others like it, could host terrestrial planets like Earth. It was just a matter of time before such worlds were detected, he explained.

Follow The Plastic Hallway.......

I had the pleasure of stopping in the Dubliner the other evening for a glass or two with a few friends from Capitol Hill and XM Radio. We got to talking about what drew each of us here, and what sorts of folks wind up in DC. My theory is this: DC is OZ for people who love politics, process, or just good journalism. Some how we start out in small towns and strange places all over the land.... and then follow our own yellow brick road until we find ourselves here. Of course this place also attracts dweebs, geeks, whores, and scumbags of all stripes. I think that's why I felt at home here after all those years in the music biz. So with a glass held high I offer a toast to my fellow residents of the not quite Emerald City, and bring a quote from the late Herr Doktor Thompson which though aimed at the music industry, could well apply to our life here in Washington.


"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

I'm Sorry..Did I Say Blow Me? I Meant To Say Good Morning...

From Raw Story:

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft drew the ire of students at liberal Skidmore College this week when he confused the name of Barack Obama with that of Osama bin Laden.

"All I'm saying about the Patriot Act," Ashcroft began, "is that the elected representatives of this country, including Osama ..."

His words were met with a roar of disbelief and disapproval, as he continued stammering, "uh ... you know ... not ... Obama."

Ashcroft attempted to say "I'm sorry" but was drowned out by prolonged boos. "I did not mean to ... I'm sorry about that ... I apologize publicly," Ashcroft went on as the boos gradually subsided.

Ashcroft's appearance at the highly liberal college, which was arranged by a small group of conservative students, had proved highly controversial even before his arrival.

Hey Karl... Fuck You

From The Raw Story:

WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove says a one-time Republican campaign worker who has accused him of dirty tricks against a former Alabama governor is a "complete lunatic," and he calls CBS a "shoddy operation" for airing her allegations.

In an interview with GQ magazine, President Bush's former political guru says he has never met Jill Simpson, an Alabama attorney and GOP campaign volunteer who has claimed that Rove tried to sabotage Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman's career.

CBS says it stands behind the "60 Minutes" program from February in which Simpson said Rove asked her to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife. Rove declined to respond to her allegations on the program.

The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Body Substance Isolation Gear

As posted I was in Charm City last week for the EMS Today annual conference. Good continuing education for EMS weenies like me. One session I attended featured the head doc at Shock Trauma ( the best place in the world if you need fixing up in a hurry). He spoke about some emergency med advances on the horizon thanks to our wonderful experience in Iraq. One item which gained  my attention was something they've been working on that amounts to fix a flat for people. Here's how this stuff works: Let's say you have a big bleeding tear in your liver after a nasty crash boom boom. You may bleed out internally and die before you get to an OR for surgery. Well, yer handy future para pup medic boy just shakes up a can of the magic stuff, makes a little hole under your belly button, sprays the can in... and voila: bleeding stops, and your liver holds together for a couple of hours. On the operating table the docs pull the now hard foam out and toss it, sew up your liver, close you up... and odds are good you walk out of the hospital before too long. That's cool stuff!

The Bush Core Principals of Goverment

Also, Paulie could do anything.Like run up bills on the joint's credit.
And why not? Nobody will pay for it anyway.
Take deliveries at the front door and sell it out the back at a discount.
It doesn't matter. It's all profit.
Then finally, when there's nothing left...
...when you can't borrow another buck from the bank...
...you bust the joint out.You light a match.

Or maybe just invade a mid east country....

April Fool