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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:25 AM
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I've been wondering--How do you get onto a Death Panel?
Is it a full-time job? Is it paid or volunteer? I kinda think I'd like the work, if the hours and pay are OK.
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:26 AM
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1. Join the Republican party...n/t
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:27 AM
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2. Its like the Selective Service panel - except with cookies
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Curtland1015 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:27 AM
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3. It's done "Hollywood Squares" style.
B and C list actors mostly.

With Shadow Stevens in the bottom right square.
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FirstLight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:49 AM
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16. Perfect!
:thumbsup:

now that's funny!
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:43 PM
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25. Yup... Charles Nelson Riley to block....
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:28 AM
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4. Apply for the job
at a health insurance company.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:35 AM
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12. ding..ding..ding....
:hi:
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:28 AM
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5. Participate in a thread like the one referenced below. Join the Death Panel!
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jbnow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:30 AM
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6. The Angel of Death makes the selection. If a cold boney
finger taps on your shoulder you might get an interview
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:30 AM
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7. I assume you have to be dead first. Or at least brain dead. n/t
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:31 AM
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8. I hear Cigna, United HealthCare, and Aetna are taking applications.
Some of them will even pay you a bonus for killing off the highest number of sick policy holders.
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:36 AM
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13. They offer the most steady work in this field.
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SCantiGOP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:33 AM
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9. I've already sent in my application
I can't wait: Senator DeMint, you're next. Please try to justify your miserable existence to the panel.
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peace frog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:34 AM
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10. Gosh, do ya think they're hiring?
Cuz I know a bunch of godless commie pinko liberal scumbags who want to apply!

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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:34 AM
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11. See? I knew I qualified.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:39 AM
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14. Apply for a job at an insurance company.
Those are the death panels.

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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 10:44 AM
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15. It will probably pay only $5 / day like jury duty
But you will be doing a public service.
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Turbineguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 11:17 AM
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17. I wonder if you can choose
who gets the benefit of your thoughtful consideration.

For example: Grover Norquist's Death panel.

"Sorry, no treatment for you! Oh, and no pain killers either!"
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 04:34 PM
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20. That would be the whole point, as far as I'm concerned.
I don't think we should just be waiting for them to turn up sick. We need to be proactive.
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:22 PM
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21. "We need to be proactive."
lol! :thumbsup: O/P, J-Rad. :)
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 07:01 PM
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31. Your qualifications are beyond question. You're already killing me.
:rofl:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 11:27 AM
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18. There's going to be a tv show called American Death Panel
Auditions coming to Wisconsin in September. You have to stand up in front of Rahm Emanuel, Max Baucus, and Regina Benjamin and make a case for your qualifications to be a judge of who lives and who dies.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 11:29 AM
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19. I think somebody needs to ask Sarah Palin that question
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:28 PM
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22. First, you have to join Union 666....
The fees are steep, but the annual B-b-q is hot, hot, HOT!
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:30 PM
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24. Will you watch it!
That was one of the secret provisions of Project X. Now you've gone and blown it.
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chollybocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:15 PM
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28. Don't worry; the invitations are still in Limbo.
;)
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:58 PM
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30. I sure hope you're right....
You could get bumped off the project, ya know.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 05:29 PM
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23. You have to quit American Idot...
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:09 PM
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26. It's very important that you dress correctly for your job interview,


in order to make a good impression.

sw
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 10:31 AM
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32. Aw Jeez, looks like I'm gonna have to lose weight
if I'm sposed to look decent in an outfit like that. I mean, that model looks downright anorexic.
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 06:25 PM
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33. Don't be silly. The color black is very slimming.
:)
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 07:12 PM
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36. Wow, you're right.
I put on a black turtleneck this evening & lost 8 lb. already.
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zeos3 Donating Member (912 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:11 PM
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27. Here. Dr Peeno WAS on a death panel.
Check out her testimony from 1996.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-13-09 06:16 PM
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29. Klingon style. You gotta find one and apply some death to a current member. (nt)
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 06:27 PM
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34. Maybe Madeline or Operations can help you out or Nikkita.
The only death panel who ordered cancellations seemed to have been in fiction.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-14-09 06:45 PM
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35. Is it like American Idol?
Candidates up for death get to perform for the viewers' votes. Last one standing gets the same insurance plan Congress critters get, and their miserable life is spared, even if they don't want it to be.
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