More Miscellaneous.

In what must be one of the most ironic suicide notes ever written, D.C. Madam Deborah Jean Palfrey called her case a "modern day lynching," and she decided to rectify this injustice by lynching herself.

Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree or else she had a sick sense of humor.
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In case of a pandemic, forget about age and disability discrimination laws; if you are deemed an inconvenience, doctors have the right to off you.

Just WHO is targeted for elimination? The usual burdensome ones:

# People older than 85
# Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings.
# Severely burned patients older than 60.
# Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer's disease.
# Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes


It's a new twist on the old "lifeboat ethics."


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