Dick Cheney Has No Pulse

Given Dick Cheney's decades-long heart problems, and his reputation as Darth Cheney, there has long been a lot of dark humor about his health. You know, he'd have a heart attack, and people would say, "impossible, he has no heart." Or robot/android/replicant/cyborg jokes.  But this time it isn't a joke. The former vice president has a new pump in his heart. And that means he no longer has a pulse, and he actually has to be plugged in to a wall socket at night.  There are few people lower down on my compassion list than Cheney, but I don't wish him ill.  I don't wish him well, either. I mostly don't wish anything about him, except that he should fade from public view (and take Liz with him).  He probably should also buy a generator.

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Sen. Ted Kennedy Health Crisis

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This news is recently breaking, and has already changed from the first link I went to. Initially, it was reported that Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy had experienced a stroke. Now, it is being called a seizure. These high-level politician health crises are often pretty vague at first, even after a few days. Remember Yassir Arafat? He's dead. . .no he's alive! Nope, whoops, dead. Not that I'm comparing the two men, mind you, only that political health problems are usually sketchy at best on the details.

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Kennedy hospitalized after seizure

Edward Kennedy's primary care physician said the senator is "not in any immediate danger" after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday.

Dr. Larry Ronan said preliminary tests showed the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat has not suffered a stroke. Ronan said Kennedy was resting comfortably and would undergo further evaluation to determine the cause of the seizure. . .

Read more (with video) at: MSNBC