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In the discussion thread: Former vice president dick chaney undergoes heart transplant - Update [View all]

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Sat Mar 24, 2012, 08:21 PM

underpants (105,621 posts)

66. How can we not make Darth Vader references?

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127 replies	Author	Time	Post
Former vice president dick chaney undergoes heart transplant - Update [View all]	Javaman	Mar 2012	OP
Usually they don't give transplants to people in their 70s	mucifer	Mar 2012	#1
Money talks. Or perhaps threats.	kestrel91316	Mar 2012	#5
Probably paid for ...	aggiesal	Mar 2012	#34
When a neighbor was 79 (last year)	Suich	Mar 2012	#10
My dad had a kidney transplant at the age of 48, but due to the anti-rejection	pacalo	Mar 2012	#60
If you are in the 1%, you will get whatever you need	liberal N proud	Mar 2012	#67
now you know where much of the money went	shanti	Mar 2012	#101
I met a number of people at UCSF who had heart transplants after age 70	The Second Stone	Mar 2012	#106
If Dick got a heart, somone had to die for him to get it. n/t	fasttense	Mar 2012	#112
I thought his was replaced with some whirring (non beating)	annabanana	Mar 2012	#2
He was!	freethought	Mar 2012	#26
It's called an LVAD...	3waygeek	Mar 2012	#39
Why is an old alcohol abuser getting a heart? eom	Kolesar	Mar 2012	#57
He has an entire health team that travels with him wherever he goes, just	crunch60	Mar 2012	#100
Since he wasn't born with one, how will they hook it up?	TheCowsCameHome	Mar 2012	#3
No doubt this is a better heart ...	aggiesal	Mar 2012	#22
Should be "implant".	Scuba	Mar 2012	#4
yep!	Pryderi	Mar 2012	#65
Here's a link	cbayer	Mar 2012	#6
Ah, I thought this was an Onion article. Darth was reported to have been suffering greatly.	freshwest	Mar 2012	#7
He has a heart?	Initech	Mar 2012	#8
He does now.	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#47
No. Not really.	Left Coast2020	Mar 2012	#90
Who had to die for this?	surrealAmerican	Mar 2012	#9
Some unfortunate Chinese activist? They sold organs to the highest bidder, didn't donate them.	freshwest	Mar 2012	#63
No, Lynne or Liz just ripped it out of the chest of some poor innocent person....	Pachamama	Mar 2012	#69
I wonder how many younger folks he stepped in front of at age 70	bigtree	Mar 2012	#11
They don't necessarily go by age alone. There are a lot of factors.	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#85
good info	bigtree	Mar 2012	#108
I would hope that he had to wait his turn on the list just like everyone else	bluestateguy	Mar 2012	#12
Ha. That'll be the day...please...	CTyankee	Mar 2012	#64
So the Wizard of Oz does exist? And he can give a heart	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#13
If you do ever reconsider	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#21
A Hammond B3?	aquart	Mar 2012	#29
A Hammond B3	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#36
Win	mackattack	Mar 2012	#74
Just saw that at his castle...very cool!	FailureToCommunicate	Mar 2012	#82
A very nice B3 (and bass pedals) with Leslie 122, there is no sound like it!!!	winstars	Mar 2012	#104
The back ground to the joke is	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#107
I'm not planning on going anywhere soon.	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#46
LOL - "Wizard of Oz" was trending on Twitter at the same time as "Dick Cheney"	NYC Liberal	Mar 2012	#45
.................	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#48
And the even funnier part is I'm pretty sure it was just coincidental!	NYC Liberal	Mar 2012	#96
The Chimp still needs brain	pstokely	Mar 2012	#111
I got lost on the yellow brick road...duh! nt	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#117
Everybody! Hum along	RufusTFirefly	Mar 2012	#14
Was it a pigs heart?	BootinUp	Mar 2012	#15
Compatibility is very important	Xipe Totec	Mar 2012	#17
Nah, Rush wouldn't sell his. Maybe it was Breitbart's. n/t	TheCowsCameHome	Mar 2012	#25
+ 1000!	El Supremo	Mar 2012	#71
I would like to suggest	OnyxCollie	Mar 2012	#78
I must reconsider my donor card.	rug	Mar 2012	#16
+ 1 n/t	peace13	Mar 2012	#19
I hope he lives long	frogmarch	Mar 2012	#18
'Aide Says Cheney Had Heart Transplant'	elleng	Mar 2012	#20
waste	marshall gaines	Mar 2012	#23
Will they have to drive a stake through his old one? Or bury it as toxic waste?	LongTomH	Mar 2012	#24
Aw, now, you...	freshwest	Mar 2012	#88
If he feels better, maybe he won't be such an asshole. nt	Deep13	Mar 2012	#27
All those years of smoking....	Julian Englis	Mar 2012	#28
Must hurt a lot.	aquart	Mar 2012	#30
not to worry folks, I'm sure his body will reject anything even	ladywnch	Mar 2012	#31
Brava	AngryOldDem	Mar 2012	#37
Isn't it wonderful	jehop61	Mar 2012	#32
So what worthy soul didn't get a heart today? nt	onehandle	Mar 2012	#33
Probably someone like the people Olbermann featured on Countdown during the health care debate.	AngryOldDem	Mar 2012	#42
Maybe the Good Lord wanted to give me	Turbineguy	Mar 2012	#35
This will probably be deleted, but....	Th1onein	Mar 2012	#38
There's still a chance. Go to the light, Dick. Go to the light!	Hassin Bin Sober	Mar 2012	#103
I am somehow reminded...	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#40
Cheney had a sphincter transplant and it rejected him...	Snarkoleptic	Mar 2012	#41
One more person dies for cheney	Ohio Joe	Mar 2012	#43
who did he have killed to get it?	notadmblnd	Mar 2012	#44
Travon Martin. NT	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#51
You beat me.	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#97
Change of heart? Naw... (nt)	reACTIONary	Mar 2012	#49
I wonder who they killed to get a match	larkrake	Mar 2012	#50
Travon Martin. NT	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#52
really? Utterly insensitive and out of line IMHO	auntAgonist	Mar 2012	#68
I agree, a 71 year old war crimminal getting a heart is Utterly insensitive and out of line	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#122
Palpatine. nt	guitar man	Mar 2012	#53
And so he takes out another loan against humanity. nt	Poll_Blind	Mar 2012	#54
wouldn't it be considered an initial installation rather than a replacement.	olddad56	Mar 2012	#55
I won't share what I am thinking right now!	Rosa Luxemburg	Mar 2012	#56
A human could have used it.	marias23	Mar 2012	#58
Bravo! n/t	rzemanfl	Mar 2012	#80
I wonder if the heart will reject the body? n/t	davepdx	Mar 2012	#59
I couldn't help but wonder too. Hmmm.	Glimmer of Hope	Mar 2012	#84
Isn't Dick President Obama's 8th cousin ?	Grassy Knoll	Mar 2012	#61
Yea something like that. I wonder if Cousin Barack will send him a get well card. n/t	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#86
Let's hope Obamacare will stop things like this	BamaFanLee	Mar 2012	#94
I saw a science fiction show once where a person got a transplant and then	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#102
His new heart,	penndragon69	Mar 2012	#62
Well said....	Pachamama	Mar 2012	#70
How can we not make Darth Vader references?	underpants	Mar 2012	#66
>>>	El Supremo	Mar 2012	#72
He must have gone to Oz	mackattack	Mar 2012	#73
Well hopefully he lives long enough to pay for his crimes.	Fearless	Mar 2012	#75
Heart to Heart talk	qbhawk	Mar 2012	#76
That was exactly the plot of John Carpenter's They Live	LongTomH	Mar 2012	#113
My question is was he given special consideration in getting the heart	cstanleytech	Mar 2012	#77
I don't think so. The average waiting time is between six months and three years.	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#81
Thank you.	cstanleytech	Mar 2012	#121
Breaking News - Heart rejects Cheney	jerseygal	Mar 2012	#79
somewhere there is a dead unicorn	Douglas Carpenter	Mar 2012	#83
But it's family profited handsomely	Canuckistanian	Mar 2012	#89
Maybe He'll live	sorefeet	Mar 2012	#87
It would be ironic	mackattack	Mar 2012	#91
Some sociopath must have recently died...	Thor_MN	Mar 2012	#92
I Don't Want To See Anyone Ill......	queerart	Mar 2012	#93
You are very kind	Marthe48	Mar 2012	#127
the flames of h@ll are licking at your a$$ Dick.....	rppper	Mar 2012	#95
Who did he kill?	avaistheone1	Mar 2012	#98
He should have been living	hyphenate	Mar 2012	#99
So Chandra Levy's heart finally rejected him?	BiggJawn	Mar 2012	#105
Waste of a perfectly good transplant heart	GreydeeThos	Mar 2012	#109
Don't they give federal prisoners health care?	pstokely	Mar 2012	#110
The attitudes expressed on this thread do no credit to DU n/t	SylviaD	Mar 2012	#114
How many other people in their 70's get heart transplants? I'm betting....zero	teewrex	Mar 2012	#115
can i take that bet?	onenote	Mar 2012	#123
Cheney finally gets a heart.	avaistheone1	Mar 2012	#116
Oh, well.	Solly Mack	Mar 2012	#118
miserable piece of shit has "government-run health care"	Doctor_J	Mar 2012	#119
Where did they find one small enough	Spirochete	Mar 2012	#120
How can a person who never had a heart get a transplant?	ohiolover	Mar 2012	#124
if you believe that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.	William769	Mar 2012	#125
Bbwaaa!	ohiolover	Mar 2012	#126

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