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2009-03-21 Olde Tyme Religion

Top Sunni cleric: Use death row prisoners' organs for transplant

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 What would Larry Niven say?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-21 04:39|| 2009-03-21 04:39|| Front Page Top

#2 He'd say soon afterwards that we'd establish the death penalty for executives who accept bonuses for at least $250,000 from companies who accept large amounts of federal aid.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-03-21 09:30|| 2009-03-21 09:30|| Front Page Top

#3 ..cause it's the exec's or the parts from 535 Congresscritters who craftily authorized such bonuses in documents that no one reads and you really don't know where those parts have been. Not exactly a warm fuzzy that those parts won't be subject to FDA recall later.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-03-21 11:14|| 2009-03-21 11:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Larry Niven would very likely not make a pronouncement on the death penalty for the execs and the congress critters.

He'd point out the fellow in one of his stories, who faced the death penalty for having six parking tickets.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-21 11:24|| 2009-03-21 11:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep I remember reading that story. (I do love science fiction, it's a wonderful tool for exploring ideas)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-03-21 12:15|| 2009-03-21 12:15|| Front Page Top

#6 That's what inspired Grom's comment, mom. "The Jigsaw Man", published originally in Dangerous Visions.

Of course, Larry Niven knows all about shady moneymaking. It's in his ancestry. He's the a great-grandson of Edward Doheny, implicated in the old Teapot Dome scandal.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-03-21 15:25|| 2009-03-21 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I suspect Tantawi has a bad kidney....

Posted by Ulealet Hapsburg9929 2009-03-21 17:05|| 2009-03-21 17:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Have a heart.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-03-21 19:22|| 2009-03-21 19:22|| Front Page Top

#9 That's Esther Friesner, mojo.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-21 20:47|| 2009-03-21 20:47|| Front Page Top

#10 I thought it was Robert Bloch who had the heart of a young boy...

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-03-21 21:55|| 2009-03-21 21:55|| Front Page Top

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