Celestial Discharge: Ms. Lorraine Bayless, Trailed by Media Mayhem.

March 5, 2013March 6, 2013 ~ Pharmer ~ 2 Comments

Prayers for the peaceful repose of Ms. Lorraine Bayless, and prayers for her family, which, by all appearances, is being victimized by a bumbling news media and generally uninformed public.

Prior to her natural death, following a collapse in the dining hall of the Glenwood Gardens Extended Care Facility, the 87 year old Ms. Bayless was residing in the independent living section of the facility. Her condition precipitated a call to 911, by an unnamed nurse. The 911 dispatcher, in a much publicized call, begged the nurse to administer CPR. When the nurse refused, the dispatcher begged her to find someone else who would.

The daughter of Ms. Bayless, also a nurse, has stated that she is satisfied with the care given to her mother at Glenwood Gardens.

What has precipitated the media storm, foaming at the mouth, and gnashing of teeth by so many uninformed people, is a statement by KGET television of Bakersfield, California, that the elderly lady had not signed a DNR form.

Interestingly, over in the UK, the Daily Mail says just the opposite, that the women had indeed signed the DNR form. Most who are commenting at that source are wondering what is causing the big fuss in the U.S.. In their minds, the Glenwood nurse was fulfilling the lady’s wishes.

The two opposing claims are juxtaposed below.

NO DNR:

YES DNR:

Your friendly Pharmer would like to add that not all elderly people want to be bagged and thumped when they are in the process of leaving this world. Many truly do opt out of it, as they have accumulated too many health ailments, or fear doing so. Some realize that the success rate of CPR is not all that terrific, and the outcome for an elderly person very seldom involves springing back to the prior state of health. CPR is also generally painful after the fact, due to cracked ribs, and many other possible injuries.

None of us know the circumstances of Ms. Bayless, nor do we know her final wishes, since reports are conflicting regarding her paperwork. She need not have used a form to convey how she wished to go, and might have made her intentions known by other means.

Please avoid the temptation to ascribe this event to Obamacare (which is much worse than being allowed to die a natural death in old age). Please also withhold judgment on the nurse who stayed with Ms. Bayless as the emergency care was summoned. It would also be good to avoid assumptions about the daughter of this lady, about whom we know little, other than that she does not intend to rain down legal punishments upon Glenwood Gardens extended care facility.

Having attended a good number of code blue events, Pharmer quite understands the choice of people to opt out of CPR, and expects to make this choice for herself long before the age of 80. Many health care professionals actually feel guilty when they have to perform it on an elderly person who has not expressed their wishes on the matter.

Update from newsok.com: “City fire officials say Bayless did not have a “do not resuscitate” order on file at the home. Her family said, however, “it was our beloved mother and grandmother’s wish to die naturally and without any kind of life-prolonging intervention.””

Click here for a statement from the family of Lorraine Bayless, and please don’t hound them! If the first link does not work, try THIS.

Lefties Are At It Again: Claiming Without Proof that Rape Is An Efficient Means of Reproduction

March 4, 2013March 4, 2013 ~ Pharmer

The leftie press is cooking another republican, this time, Celeste Greig, president of the California Republican Assembly. She stated that the she thought pregnancies from rape are rare, due to the violence of the act, and the “body is traumatized”, while at the same time criticizing Akin for using the wrong word about rape.

Like Pavlov’s dogs, the Republican party will hear the bell rung by the leftist media, as dinner is served, and immediately begin salivating and eating their own. This time, the entree is a smaller portion: a little female politician but look for them to devour her just the same.

The media knows they totally HAVE the republican party on this, and they know how to keep the republicans gnoshing on their own people, and driving the rest of us away from the party in disgust at the cannibalism. Dems would be crazy not to keep doing what works.

There is no definitive conclusion on the rate of pregnancy resulting from rape, because there is no systematic retrospective study. The idea that stress and trauma decrease fertility has come from physicians who noted that in the old days (prior to legalized abortion on demand) they did not encounter very many pregnancies from rape, and sought to explain why. Meanwhile, some leftists have tried to claim that rape actually is associated with greater fertility. At the same time, these people buy into all sorts of alternative medicine, stress relieving regimens in order to gain health. Is rape a stress reliever to them, that increases physiological efficiency?

Why it has suddenly become a sin to repeat an idea which seems to fit with so much of the rest of medicine, telling us to reduce stress in our lives in order to achieve health and optimum bodily function?

Why have the republicans adopted the practice of eating their own, at the behest of the leftists?

Yours truly is not impressed nor cowed by shrieking lefties who put all sorts of unstated ideas into the mouths of those who think that sex from violent rape is not a very efficient means of reproduction.
Your friendly Pharmer is even less impressed by the entire body of leftists which supports planned parenthood and its concealment of child sex abuse, incest and rape, as well as its support for pimps managing their sex-slaves. Yes, you can find the successful lawsuits, the audio recordings, and the videos online. The abortionists been observed in their own habitat…. with hidden cameras, in a manner harking back to the work of Jane Goodall and her primates.

Not so far from now, when we’re in the same unsustainable, population decline as Russia and Japan, we can look forward to a dementedly unethical, leftist clinician designing a prospective study of the influence of rape on pregnancy rate.

Societal Rot Fostered in School : Students Suspended for Disarming Gunman

March 3, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Three Cypress Lake High School Students in Fort Myers Florida, have been suspended for disarming a fellow student, a 15 y o football player. The latter student, had pointed his loaded .22 pistol directly at another student on the bus, and threatened to shoot him.

The three students were suspended immediately, for 3 days, without a hearing. It is said that they will be permitted to go back to school on Monday.

The gunman is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Punishment and stigma is the consequence for defending the lives of others on school property. This is training for the new leftist order.

A Reason to Reconsider Your Application to DePaul University

March 3, 2013March 3, 2013 ~ Pharmer ~ 2 Comments

De Paul University, Chicago, has mismanaged itself into an untenable situation.

Kristopher Del Campo, chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom was found “guilty” of “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others” and “Judicial Process Compliance.” This conclusion was reached at a De Paul University tribunal which did not allow Del Campo to have counsel.

That charge sounds so horrible!

What he actually did, was release the names of vandals who admitted to destroying a pro-life display that his group had put up on campus with permission of the University. His organization posted a copy of the university’s incident report online, just like THIS. <—- Click it!

We have not heard that the vandals will be expelled for their “Disorderly, Violent, Intimidating or Dangerous Behavior to Self or Others”, but that’s what is likely to happen to Mr. Del Campo, 13 weeks before he was to graduate.

So…… for giving out information which would have been public record in any other locality, Del Campo appears to have wasted six figures of tuition dollars to attend this university, which punishes the victims rather than the criminals.

Pharmer advises you not to similarly waste your yearly $32,000 tuition/fees, and $6,500-$11,000 room and board to attend this institution. You might wind up being flushed out of the university for doing what journalists and bloggers do routinely: pasting reports of crimes online. We’ve all grown up with the first amendment, and have expected freedom of speech. At the nominally Catholic De Paul University, it’s considered a crime to report a criminal act.

Frequently, private or ivy league colleges find themselves to be serving as the babysitters of spoiled, or sometimes mentally ill, children of wealthy individuals, or diplomats. These institutions attempt to keep the misdeeds of their wards hushed up as a service to the parents, who might return the favor with contributions to the institution well in excess of the tuition dollars.

This might have been the intention of De Paul University to protect the reputations of their benefactors and their income stream.

With the internet, and cameras everywhere, it is much more difficult to keep a lid on such things. The administrators of De Paul as well as their benefactors, need to understand that criminal activities cannot be expected to be shrouded in secret anymore, and that they cannot guarantee such complete protection to some of these “children” they are babysitting.

The situation of De Paul University, which finds itself punishing the victims instead of the criminals, results from a failure to connect with today’s reality, and it is likely to hurt their income stream more than the loss of the 13 spoiled brats involved in the vandalism.

Colion Noir: Excellent 2nd Amendment Spokesman

March 2, 2013March 4, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Colion Noir has a Youtube channel supporting the rights of U.S.citizenry to protect themselves with firearms. As you might imagine, the NRA would welcome this well-spoken man as a contributor to their NRA News. Pharmer suspects that Mr. Noir has a big future ahead of him, as a charismatic purveyor of common sense on the 2nd Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. He’s educated in Law, and wouldn’t you wish for such a guy to move into national politics 🙂

There’s a permanent Link on the sidebar to Colion Noir’s Youtube Channel, and of course Right Here too!.

Day Gardner Slams Cecile Richards for Murderous Racism

March 2, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Spotted at Jill Stanek’s is an amazing video put out by pro-life leader Day Gardner, of the National Black Prolife Union. Be sure to check out the video on Youtube before they take it down. Ms. Gardner is NOT fooling around- she means business!!

Pharmer used to think Richard Nixon was pretty much a boyscout compared to Clinton and Obama, until finding out that he supported abortion. Some of his reasons why (appearing on his famous tapes) have made him much more unattractive than before.

More on the Censorship Habit at the Whitehouse

March 1, 2013March 1, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Two years ago, the Obama administration was outed in San Francisco for threatening to exclude reporter Carla Marinucci and other Hearst journalists from future appearances, after she included a video of a protest outside an Obama April 2011 appearance in that city. The editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, Phil Bronstein, reported on the threat the following day, which the White house officials then denied.

This prompted Chronicle editor Ward Bushee to call the officials out on their lie. He revealed a day of correspondence between the editors and the White house, which finally resulted in the rescission of the ban.

A portion of the behavior of the media is based on a fear of losing access if they do not faithfully serve the interests of the administration. The net effect is that Americans have news which is not news, but is merely government feed.

Archives: From the San Francisco Chronicle: Obamastyle “transparency”

Journalists Report Threats from the White House for Articles Critical of Obama

February 28, 2013February 28, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Bob Woodward reports that he has angered the Obama administration so significantly that he has been threatened by a “very senior person” at Whitehouse. They did not appreciate Woodward reminding us that Obama originated the sequestration and signed the bill which contained it, on August 2 of 2011, and then threatened veto of any bill which rescinded any part of it.

Woodward also has objected to Obama’s changes in military maneuvers, and blaming the sequestration for these changes.

From Business Insider: “Earlier today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Woodward ripped into Obama in what has become an ongoing feud between the veteran Washington Post journalist and the White House. Woodward said Obama was showing a “kind of madness I haven’t seen in a long time” for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.”

Lanny Davis, who served as advisor to former President Clinton reports that he received similar threats from the Obama administration for columns that he wrote in the Washington Times. In an interview with WMAL radio, Davis said that his editor, John Solomon got a call from a white house official who said “that if he continued to run my columns, he would lose, or his reporters would lose their White House credentials.”

Celestial Discharge: C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General

February 27, 2013March 2, 2013 ~ Pharmer ~ 1 Comment

The most memorable of our surgeon generals, C. Everett Koop was celestially discharged at the age of 96, on Feb 25th.

Koop was well known, and disliked by leftists for his adherence to Hippocratic standards of medical ethics. A devout Christian, he was known for praying at the bedside of his patients. Pro-lifers saw him as a man of conviction, driven by empathy for the sick and suffering.

It remains a mystery to most of the ‘journalosts’ that a man who opposed homosexual activity would be a staunch advocate for HIV research. Most of the media, when recounting the accomplishments of Dr. Koop, have been remarking on this as though it is somehow contradictory. The rest of us see no contradiction or anomaly. Helping the sick is the natural thing to do, regardless of how they acquired the illness.

Dr. Koop began his medical career as a pediatric surgeon, and by 1959 had become professor of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania medical school, and professor of Pediatrics in 1971. In his 90s, he remained a professor of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine. He was founder and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Pediatric surgery. Koop’s 8 year tenure as U.S, Surgeon General was at the behest of President Ronald Reagan, and up until the time of his death, he remained famous throughout the country for his service.

Author of hundreds of articles and books on medical practice and policy, Dr. Koop remained a prominent figure in medicine decades after most practitioners retire. He remains recognized for his pioneering work in the area of pediatric surgery. His first wife, Elizabeth Flanagan passed away in 2007, and in 2010, Dr. Koop married Cora Hogue. She and three of his children, Allen, Norman and Elizabeth Thompson, as well as seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren remain with us. Prayers for the good physician and his family to be covered with God’s grace.

Pharmer takes this opportunity to pay respect to all of the surgeons who pray with their patients as Dr. Koop did. A surgeon who knows he’s not God inspires confidence. 🙂

ABC hides Michelle Obama’s Gaffe

February 27, 2013 ~ Pharmer

Michelle Obama weighed in on the death of Hadiya Pendleton in a Chicago gangland shooting, during a Good Morning America interview. The televised version was edited to remove Michelle’s false claim that automatic weapons were involved, while the web version retains the gaffe. In fact, the shooter used a handgun, which was not an automatic weapon, to fire on people who were not involved in his gang war.

ABC claims that the editing was done for time constraints.

Caught by the Washington Examiner:

The ABC broadcast edition

“She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids grow – grew – up, where our house is. And she was caught in the line of fire. I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.”

The ABC web edition with gaffe included.

“She was standing out in a park with her friends in a neighborhood blocks away from where my kids…grew up, where our house is. She had just taken a chemistry test. And she was caught in the line of fire because some kids had some automatic weapons they didn’t need,” she said. “I just don’t want to keep disappointing our kids in this country. I want them to know that we put them first.”