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The Doctors' Chat Joke

Doctors Chat: Joke of the Day 12th November 2008 - I'm keeping this one.

A British doctor, a German doctor and an American doctor were chatting.

The British doctor said, "Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man put it in another and have him looking for work in six weeks."

Then the German doctor bragged, "That's nothing, we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another and have him looking for work in four weeks."

The American doctor, not to be outdone, says, "You guys are way behind. We took a man with no brain out of Texas, put him in the White House, and almost immediately afterwards half the country was looking for work."

Professor William Friedrich: The Expert

Mr Justice Eady is in the news because of Paul Dacre's attack on his alleged monopoly of newspaper privacy cases; in particular, his recent decision in favour of Max Mosley.

Mr Dacre (editor of The Daily Mail - hardly a newspaper I would normally wish to be associated with) accused Mr Justice Eady of "singlehandedly using human rights laws to curb the press’s freedom to expose the moral shortcomings of those in high places."

I will post about this but that is not for today.

In the course of researching such a post, I came across the extraordinary decision of his in Lillie & Another v Newcastle. The judgment is so long that it had to be published in two parts but you can access the second part from the first.

It is a masterly judgment and concerns a travesty of justice inflicted on two nursery school workers by Newcastle City Council who decided that they were guilty of sexual abuse involving 2-3 year olds. To avoid the serious misreporting originally involved, there was also at least one four year old.

The title link leads to an overall summary of the case which seems reasonably accurate. There seem to be dodgy adverts on the site, however. In case you need telling, you are not the 999,999th visitor to anywhere ever at all - alright, there is, as roughly as makes no difference, a one in a million chance that you are. So do not click on anything that tells you that you are because they do not care if you are or are not. Think about it: if their page was only viewed by one in a million people who visited a third party site, why would they bother? Their total click throughs would be a number less than one. (NB: for US visitors people who click on these sites are called "mugs" in the UK or, possibly, in US terminology, "marks").

The case is also notable for the level of criticism directed at Professor William Friedrich (author of Psychological Evaluation of Sexually Abused Children and Their Families to distinguish him from any other Professors of the same name).

The Lion Man, The Credit Crunch And Sarah Palin

Nothing beats worrying about the global financial crisis than watching a couple of episodes of The Lion Man. I, at least find it immensely calming and the theme tune (accompanying the above and below videos) puts aside worries about bankruptcy for at least its duration.



The only other video to have this calming effect is the following. I will explain why after you view it.



At least McCain lost. That is nothing against him but the USA did not get her.

Well you might say, at least she has been inoculated against witchcraft:



But McCain has said she has a future. She has said she intends to run for President.

BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. THE USA HAS PREVIOUS ON ELECTING STUPID PEOPLE TO THEIR HIGHEST OFFICE.