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  • mad_machine

    Oct. 5, 2009 8:07 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    Dr. Hess wrote:

    Fortunately, the only doctors I look at on a regular basis are my wife (D.C.) and the one in the mirror. My mother, on the other hand, has the same problems you state out in the PRC. She had one that spoke Afrikaners, which is close enough to Dutch that they could talk in it. The rest were Russian, Hindi, and various other odd ball languages.

    say what you want about Hindi.. but I have had two doctors for my crohnes. The current is about as white american as it gets and I can rarely get more than 5 minutes with him as he is so pressed for time. Good doctor, but too stressed.

    My first doctor, and the one that diagnosed me, was from India. he was not an "illegal" but came here to live. He was a very kind, thoughtful, and methodical doctor. It was a shame he died of a heartattack on the oprating table during a stent operation.

  • NYG95GA

    Oct. 5, 2009 8:09 p.m. NYG95GA SuperDork

    wbjones wrote: the only thing left in my home town paper that is worth reading is the funnies...

    Same here. They've shrunk the Sunday color comics down so small, you almost need a magnifying glass to read them.

  • Gimp

    Oct. 5, 2009 8:24 p.m. Gimp Dork

    RX Reven' wrote:

    thatsnowinnebago wrote:

    RX Reven' wrote:

    All your children are belong Obama

    Godwin's Law in the first line. I think that's a new record for losing all credibility.

    Hi Nebago,

    Bhahaha…you’re right.

    I just stumbled onto that site while looking for a clip of the “Mmm-Mmm-Mmm Barack Obama” indoctrination song the K-2 kids performed.

    Note-To-Self…drill down into sites a little before posting links to them.

    Sorry about that, Brett

    No hard feelings on my part as well Brett. I saw the opener on that site and just assumed pure crazy on your part. Sorry! We may differ, but that's one of my favorite things.

  • Dr. Hess

    Oct. 5, 2009 8:31 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

    mad_machine,

    There are certainly good "imports." And some not so good. It is always bad to generalize, but MARGIE STARTED IT. Anyway, Chron's Disease is a real Biatch, as I'm sure you know fully. It is hard on the doctors to manage the patient too. I had many Chron's patients when I was in General Surgery.

  • asterisk

    Oct. 5, 2009 9:43 p.m. asterisk New Reader

    As a member of said profession I just have to say like any industry we've been hit hard. The real advertising fallout started before the big financial hurt so things have been grim for a while. As you probably have guessed copy desks have been hit hard everywhere, content is king so editors are hard pressed to give up writers.

    On the other hand I still think local papers serve an important job in their communities. I just hope the industry as a hole can figure out how they fit on the 'net and start getting back to what their are good at rather than selling off every bit of content to the highest bidder.

  • erasmus229

    Oct. 5, 2009 9:58 p.m. erasmus229 New Reader

    I think that with the media representative misusing the word "hole" we can assume this sad, floundering thread officially done. Nice way to defend your industry. As for the Obama bashing, how dare he encourage children to work hard and take ownership of their education. Of all the liberal claptrap....

  • Wally

    Oct. 5, 2009 11:07 p.m. Wally SuperDork

    asterisk wrote: On the other hand I still think local papers serve an important job in their communities. I just hope the industry as a hole can figure out how they fit on the 'net and start getting back to what their are good at rather than selling off every bit of content to the highest bidder.

    I agree that a local paper serves an important function. Unfortunately we don't have one anymore. The Poughkeepsie Journal used to be a very good local paper. Then the good folks from Gannett took it over. First they moved the printing to another plant where they make some other papers, then they started removing local news and replacing it with wire stories from around the country. I have a feeling that except for one or two letters to the editor each week that the same paper is printed all over the country under a hundred different names

  • BobOfTheFuture

    Oct. 6, 2009 7:21 a.m. BobOfTheFuture Reader

    erasmus229 wrote:

    As for the Obama bashing, how dare he encourage children to work hard and take ownership of their education. Of all the liberal claptrap....

    When H.W. Bush did it he was put before a congressional tribunal.

    Obama was praised by the MSM.

    I'd like to keep the indoc to a minimum, how about you? At least keep one more attempt at it out of schools. Let alone singing songs about the new, dear leader.

    Its not what he said, That was the usual talking points of anyone in a position of power to school children. Stay in school, don't do drugs, you are the future, etc, etc.

    What matters is Who said it and Why.

  • RX Reven'

    Oct. 6, 2009 11:19 a.m. RX Reven' Reader

    Hi Bob,

    The original agenda included an assignment for the children to write a paper about what they could do to help “President Obama”. Not help America, not help their school, not help them selves, not even help the President of the United States but help “President Obama”.

    The fact that conservatives found out about this and applied sufficient pressure get it removed from the agenda doesn’t affect the underlining insight we’re given; it’s not about the office, it’s about the man.

    Hi asterisk,

    “getting back to what their are good at”…come on buddy, it’s “they’re”.

  • poopshovel

    Oct. 6, 2009 12:36 p.m. poopshovel SuperDork

    I think I speak for all my government-educated numbtard bretheren when I say: This thread sucks ass.

  • wbjones

    Oct. 6, 2009 8:53 p.m. wbjones Reader

    NYG95GA wrote:

    wbjones wrote: the only thing left in my home town paper that is worth reading is the funnies...

    Same here. They've shrunk the Sunday color comics down so small, you almost need a magnifying glass to read them.

    at my age .."almost need a magnifying glass to read them" is not and almost

  • Will

    Oct. 6, 2009 9:02 p.m. Will Reader

    I have a screen grab of foxnews.com misspelling their lead headline: "Protecting a town from Devistation." Perhaps outsourcing copy editing to countries where it's not the native language is a poor choice after all.

  • EastCoastMojo

    Oct. 6, 2009 9:49 p.m. EastCoastMojo Dork

    I'm not really sure what we are talking about anymore, but I'm sure this is relevant.

  • suprf1y

    Oct. 6, 2009 9:59 p.m. suprf1y Reader

    petegossett wrote: one of the major local papers ran a front-page headline Saturday about Chicago loosing their Olympic bid ... it's just a sad day for the English language.

  • oldsaw

    Oct. 6, 2009 10:44 p.m. oldsaw Reader

    suprf1y wrote:

    petegossett wrote: one of the major local papers ran a front-page headline Saturday about Chicago loosing their Olympic bid ... it's just a sad day for the English language.

    Yeah, some of the posters on this thread are guilty of spelling errors.

    Yet, only one has confessed being a member of the journalism corps, and he/she committed not one, but two, errors in the same post.

  • NYG95GA

    Oct. 6, 2009 11:43 p.m. NYG95GA SuperDork

    EastCoastMojo wrote:

    I'm not really sure what we are talking about anymore, but I'm sure this is relevant.

    An oldie but a goldie! Cetainly as relevant as any other post in this thread.

  • Dr. Hess

    Oct. 7, 2009 8:09 a.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

    Being certified dyslexic, I have an official (protected) excuse for misspelling. Pick on me and I'll sick one of The O's Brown Shirts on you. I also make no claims of being a journalist. My professions have always required thought, or at least some type of skill. Anyway, in addition to the spelling errors, the gross punctuation errors bordering on run-on sentences in that above post really don't reflect well on the journalism profession either.

  • andrave

    Oct. 7, 2009 9:11 a.m. andrave HalfDork

    they were discussing newspapers and the futuere of print media on NPR the other day, and as a commentator pointed out, for what it costs for an annual subscription to the new york times, you could buy a netbook and a year's worth of high speed internet.

    kinda puts it in perspective.

    My mother subscribes to the morgantown paper here in WV and they do a good job reporting local issues. She's talking about dropping her subscription down to weekends only because she doesn't get the chance to read them. The thing is, if the local paper falls through, there won't be local reporters here. Local reporters are the ones that are breaking the stories and out finding and making the news that national media outlets report.

    If all the local papers fall through, CNN isn't going to come into WV and find the fish kills that the coal mines cause, or do a story on a special needs school that could use donations...

    I'm not sure there is future forever in print media, but the local media establishments have to be preserved in some form. Its a necessary element to a sucessful democracy.

  • Oct. 7, 2009 9:28 a.m. petegossett Dork

    suprf1y wrote:

    petegossett wrote: one of the major local papers ran a front-page headline Saturday about Chicago loosing their Olympic bid ... it's just a sad day for the English language.

    Oh, I never said I can spell. There's reasons I'm not in journalism. Hell, my high-school diploma was hand-written on the back of an old napkin leftover from prom that they'd bought at the local Ben Franklin(back in the days before Walmart, for you young folk), and even it was misspelled.

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