August 2, 2010

Darth Cheney has no Pulse

Because he has no heart. From the Dept. of shit we already knew

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it.

The pumps are partial artificial hearts known as ventricular assist devices, and they come in various models. Mr. Cheney’s kind is about the size of a D battery and leaves most recipients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own pulsatile beat. Most such pulse-less patients feel nothing unusual. But they are urged to wear bracelets or other identifications to alert emergency room doctors as to why they have no pulse.

Most vampires don't.

6 comments:

Cirze said...

You know he's been in the hospital receiving round-the-clock care on our dime for weeks now?

How many of us peons would have been bounced out on our ear under the Medicare rules before now?

Just askin'!

S

Labrys said...

Damn. Where is Van Helsing when you need him?

Undeniable Liberal said...

I hear ya, Susan!

ThePoliticalCat said...

I don't get why this slimy, etc., dick gets multiple replacement bits and stays and top-notch care when thousands of good, decent people are dying every day for lack of *access* to care.

Big Em said...

He's probably had ethyl-glycol transfused into his blood so he can become a "Mr Freeze", ala one of those Batman movies. Asshole. If there's anybody who deserves to be serving the rest of his life in prison for war crimes/crimes against humanity, it's that shithead.

Phil said...

Who do I have to call for Zombie Control?
We are paying for this half dead mother fucker, just so he can get up, shoot some ignorant fuck in the face again, drink a two litre of fresh kitten blood and go through his mail looking for checks to cash from Halliburton and XE, while not having to worry for one second about paying one red cent for all this high tech medical attention.