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Abbas Gets a Catheter

Thu, May 1, 2008 at 6:24:02 pm PST

Being the head of a terrorist organization that’s trying to keep up a front of not being a terrorist organization is evidently very stressful: Erekat: Abbas ‘doing very, very well’ after heart procedure.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas underwent an unannounced heart procedure at a Jordanian hospital on Thursday, adding new uncertainty to already troubled peace talks.

Aides to Abbas, 73, said he was doing well after a catheterization procedure they described as successful, and that he was expected to leave Jordan Hospital later in the day.

Abbas is due to return to the West Bank on Friday, they said, adding that they expect him to return to work immediately after his arrival. Spokesman Nabil Abu Rdeneh said a doctor recommended Abbas undergo the procedure during a routine medical examination Thursday.

Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Abbas, said he spoke to the Palestinian leader from the West Bank on Thursday afternoon. “He’s doing very, very well. He’s in very high spirits. He even joked to me,” Erekat said.

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#1 Racer X 5/01/08 6:25:17 pm 8

He has a heart?

#2 rawmuse 5/01/08 6:25:28 pm 0

Getting a catheter is not difficult. Unless you have no penis.

#3 Dianna 5/01/08 6:26:40 pm 7

Oh, well. Maybe he'll start exercising and go on a diet.

But the quickest way to lower his stress level is to stop hating Israel.

#4 Seraphym 5/01/08 6:26:41 pm 1

I hope it was about the size of a Qassam.

~S~

#5 Dianna 5/01/08 6:27:10 pm 0

re: #2 rawmuse

I have heard it's something like traumatic if you're female.

#6 nyc redneck 5/01/08 6:28:11 pm 3

why didn't he get his procedure in pali land? does he see the irony there, at all? they are helpless and worthless.

#7 rawmuse 5/01/08 6:28:22 pm 0

re: #5 Dianna

I have heard it's something like traumatic if you're female.

Females don't have prostate glands. I think. Maybe some Code Pinkers do.

#8 Dianna 5/01/08 6:28:38 pm 0

How come we all immediately assumed it was a urethral catheter? I did, and was wondering why this was something that would be in the news, until I read the article.

#9 Last Mohican 5/01/08 6:29:19 pm 1

It's not that kind of catheter! This one goes in a few inches more to the side, and ends up in your heart, if you have one.

#10 Bacchus's daddy 5/01/08 6:29:22 pm 0

Prior to the operation, he no doubt wished he was flying to Israel rather than Jordan for the procedure.

#11 jcm 5/01/08 6:29:40 pm 0

re: #5 Dianna

I have heard it's something like traumatic if you're female.

It's easier to administer one on female, less plumbing to contend with. As to the experience, I could not comment.

#12 Ma Sands 5/01/08 6:29:53 pm 0

73! I did not realize he was that old. Hmmm.....

#13 Dianna 5/01/08 6:30:14 pm 0

re: #7 rawmuse

Catheters are used for both sexes; I think the prostate might add to the discomfort, but someone mentioned that it was extremely unpleasant.

#14 song_and_dance_man 5/01/08 6:30:22 pm 0

If Arafish were alive he'd want one.

Through the back door please.

#15 Last Mohican 5/01/08 6:30:30 pm 0

re: #11 jcm

Yes, but the orifice is usually harder to find.

#16 Opinionated 5/01/08 6:30:34 pm 2
He even joked to me,” Erekat said.

He told him the good one about a President of the United States who believes the Arabs want to live in peace with Israel.

That one always cracks me up too.

#17 snowcrash 5/01/08 6:30:38 pm 0

re: #8 Dianna
I think because the thread headline says gets a catheter vs, gets a catheterization.

#18 jcm 5/01/08 6:31:08 pm 0

re: #9 Last Mohican

It's not that kind of catheter! This one goes in a few inches more to the side, and ends up in your heart, if you have one.

This coronary cath normally is feed in to the femoral artery in the groin. Big fat artery straight to the heart close to the surface.

#19 Dianna 5/01/08 6:31:14 pm 0

re: #11 jcm

I have been told, but (thankfully) have no experience.

#20 bosforus 5/01/08 6:31:28 pm 0

I wonder which country did the research for that heart procedure.

#21 Seraphym 5/01/08 6:31:56 pm 0

re: #1 Racer X

He has a heart?

Looks like the IDF Sayeret Duvdevan missed a chance to fix that.

~S~

#22 jaunte 5/01/08 6:32:15 pm 3

More hummus, Abbas?

#23 Dianna 5/01/08 6:32:35 pm 0

re: #17 snowcrash

That might explain it.

Mostly, I think it's because it's the end of Thursday, and we've all about had it with anything even vaguely serious.

#24 yochanan 5/01/08 6:33:16 pm 1

die terrorist die

#25 rawmuse 5/01/08 6:34:13 pm 0

Sorry, when I hear the word "catheter", my legs cross.

#26 snowcrash 5/01/08 6:34:57 pm 0

re: #24 yochanan
Not from a medical procedure! Besides no one dies in the Cath Lab.(get put on a pump and sent to the OR)

#27 NoSubmission 5/01/08 6:35:26 pm 2
“He’s doing very, very well. He’s in very high spirits. He even joked to me,” Erekat said.


Was it a knock-knock joke?

Knock knock.
Who's there.
Terrorists.
Terrorists who?
BOOM!

#28 NoSubmission 5/01/08 6:35:52 pm 0

re: #25 rawmuse

Sorry, when I hear the word "catheter", my legs cross.


Weren't they made of glass originally?

#29 Seraphym 5/01/08 6:35:58 pm 0

Now that's funny!

#30 jcm 5/01/08 6:36:08 pm 0

re: #14 song_and_dance_man

If Arafish were alive he'd want one.

Through the back door please.

Arafish preferred the old style ridgid sigmoidoscope, know by it's nic....
The Silver Stallion.

#31 NY Nana 5/01/08 6:38:15 pm 0

He has a heart? Who knew?

#32 hayseed 5/01/08 6:38:39 pm 0

OT...they hate Chuck Norris over at kos

/who would have thunk

#33 EE 5/01/08 6:38:52 pm 6

Abbas is a passing shadow. Abbas wants to live long enough to get some concessions from Israel that will threaten Israel's security and go against Israel's vital interests, as well as make Judea and Samaria Judenrein, and get Israel to make a promise that would open the door in the future to having millions of Arabs who were not born in Israel flowing into Israel to end the existence of the Jewish state. At some point Abbas will be gone, and Hamas will take over the West Bank and pocket the concessions that Israel makes.

The Olmert government needs to understand that any concession it makes to Abbas is a concession that eventually will be pocketed by Hamas.

#34 snowcrash 5/01/08 6:39:10 pm 1

re: #31 NY Nana
But it is a diseased one. Now we know for sure.

#35 song_and_dance_man 5/01/08 6:40:03 pm 2

re: #30 jcm

Arafish preferred the old style ridgid sigmoidoscope, know by it's nic....
The Silver Stallion.

No one is really sure what Arafat died from, but many think he got it from some Palestinian asshole.

/sorry just had to say it.

#36 wolfie 5/01/08 6:41:41 pm 1

re: #28 NoSubmission

Weren't they made of glass originally?

His legs? :O

#37 jcm 5/01/08 6:43:23 pm 0

re: #32 hayseed

OT...they hate Chuck Norris over at kos

/who would have thunk

One would think that before Norris started proposing "final solutions" to "problems" of people who "aren't like us," he would have realized that the Nazis, through the experiences of their mobile killing units, the einsatzgruppen, discovered that shooting wasn't a very efficient way of killing large numbers of people. How long until Norris or one of his buddies takes the next step, and advocates gas chambers?

Just how the [deleted] do the kostards make the jump from drawing a line that says "do not cross or else" to rounding up and exterminating people?

Maybe we should have one of 'em cross the "authorization" line around Air Force one to demonstrate the difference.

#38 Racer X 5/01/08 6:43:45 pm 1

re: #32 hayseed

OT...they hate Chuck Norris over at kos

/who would have thunk

Some people have an organ donor card. Chuck Norris' card includes his mustache.

#39 Reno911 5/01/08 6:43:48 pm 0

He's probably already dead.

#40 jaunte 5/01/08 6:45:02 pm 2

re: #38 Racer X

Chuck Norris' organs donate you

#41 offendi 5/01/08 6:45:34 pm 0

No doubt Abbas has returned to the important business of using the dumb European's money, and sadly, the U.S.A's to add more terrorist goodies for the Al Aksa scum, and keep those good old Swiss bank accounts full.

"Partner for peace", indeed.

#42 Racer X 5/01/08 6:46:59 pm 5

re: #40 jaunte

Chuck Norris frequently donates blood to the Red Cross. Just never his own.

#43 offendi 5/01/08 6:47:03 pm 0

When he does go will Abbas be buried on top or underneath Arafat?
I think that's a damn good question, you know.

#44 Natasha 5/01/08 6:48:02 pm 0

Just a catheter? Would be a lot more fun if he got an enema... By means of JDAM...

#45 Killgore Trout 5/01/08 6:48:10 pm 0
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas underwent an unannounced heart procedure at a Jordanian hospital on Thursday


Non-Jewish doctor? Blasphemy!

#46 ggt 5/01/08 6:49:45 pm 3

I love Chuck Norris-isms.

#47 Alouette 5/01/08 6:51:01 pm 4

re: #42 Racer X

Chuck Norris frequently donates blood to the Red Cross. Just never his own.

Jack Bauer wears Chuck Norris pajamas.

#48 Yishai 5/01/08 6:53:30 pm 3

re: #47 Alouette

When children go to sleep they wear Superman pajamas. When Superman goes to sleep he wears Chuck Norris ones.

#49 Racer X 5/01/08 6:53:58 pm 3

OK a few more:

Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is based on a true story: Chuck Norris once swallowed a turtle whole, and when he crapped it out, the turtle was six feet tall and had learned karate.

Chuck Norris once bet NASA he could survive re-entry without a spacesuit. On July 19th, 1999, a naked Chuck Norris re-entered the earth's atmosphere, streaking over 14 states and reaching a temperature of 3000 degrees. An embarrassed NASA publically claimed it was a meteor, and still owes him a beer.

Chuck Norris once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

#50 Last Mohican 5/01/08 6:54:04 pm 0

Why do I get the feeling that the Lizards care more about Chuck Norris than Mahmoud Abbas? I mean, the poor corrupt self-aggrandizing two-faced genocidal mass-murdering terrorist son of a bitch just had a cardiac cath, shouldn't we show a little love?

#51 Yishai 5/01/08 6:54:25 pm 0

Hey Abbas, I hear there's a great heart center in Ashkelon.

#52 Yishai 5/01/08 6:55:30 pm 3

When Chuck Norris does push-ups he doesn't push himself up, he pushes the Earth down.

#53 Racer X 5/01/08 6:56:06 pm 7

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris has allowed to live.

#54 Yishai 5/01/08 6:57:08 pm 0

To watch Chuck Norris read some Chuck-Norrisisms:
[Link: www.youtube.com...]

#55 Syrah 5/01/08 6:57:33 pm 3

I hear that the Aztecs run a cheap heart clinic at their Temple of the Sun.

Maybe Abbas should get a second opinion.

#56 Dianna 5/01/08 6:57:38 pm 3

re: #50 Last Mohican

Ah, no.

I'm enjoying this.

#57 beachkatie 5/01/08 6:57:43 pm 0

re: #50 Last Mohican

Why do I get the feeling that the Lizards care more about Chuck Norris than Mahmoud Abbas? I mean, the poor corrupt self-aggrandizing two-faced genocidal mass-murdering terrorist son of a bitch just had a cardiac cath, shouldn't we show a little love?

Hell no! Duh......

#58 Racer X 5/01/08 6:57:47 pm 4

Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.

#59 shibumi 5/01/08 6:58:09 pm 2

re: #50 Last Mohican

I mean, the poor corrupt self-aggrandizing two-faced genocidal mass-murdering terrorist son of a bitch just had a cardiac cath, shouldn't we show a little love?

This is the best I can muster: as a human being, I feel for anyone who has to have any kind of heart surgery.

As for this human being in particular, I personally hope his doctor is Jewish. You know, for irony. In an Archie Bunker kind of way.

#60 Racer X 5/01/08 6:59:15 pm 11

When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.

#61 ggt 5/01/08 6:59:21 pm 0

re: #59 shibumi

Heart procedures can be life changing. While I do hope he recovers, I don't hold a lot of "hope" for "change".

sad really.

#62 Yishai 5/01/08 6:59:25 pm 0

re: #50 Last Mohican

Why do I get the feeling that the Lizards care more about Chuck Norris than Mahmoud Abbas?

Heh. Chuck Norris is so much more fun.

#63 ggt 5/01/08 6:59:50 pm 0

re: #60 Racer X

LOL!

#64 Racer X 5/01/08 7:00:04 pm 0

While urinating, Chuck Norris is easily capable of welding titanium.

#65 nyc redneck 5/01/08 7:00:49 pm 2

chuck norris doesn't read, he doesn't have to, he just stares a book down until it gives up the information.

#66 David IV of Georgia 5/01/08 7:00:54 pm 0

IIRC, "Catheter" comes from a Greek word meaning "to cleanse". So his heart still works, but the catheter was a failure...

#67 Racer X 5/01/08 7:01:01 pm 1

OK I'm crackin up. Stop or keep going?

#68 jaunte 5/01/08 7:01:30 pm 0

re: #67 Racer X

Keep going. Can't type..

#69 Syrah 5/01/08 7:01:36 pm 0

re: #67 Racer X

Yes

#70 beachkatie 5/01/08 7:01:47 pm 0

re: #67 Racer X

OK I'm crackin up. Stop or keep going?


Keep going!

#71 nyc redneck 5/01/08 7:02:13 pm 7

chuck norris went into a burger king and ordered a big mac. and he got it.

#72 ggt 5/01/08 7:02:14 pm 0

keep going!

#73 beachkatie 5/01/08 7:02:41 pm 1

re: #71 nyc redneck

chuck norris went into a burger king and ordered a big mac. and he got it.


Love it!

#74 jaunte 5/01/08 7:02:52 pm 4

Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name that he uses for the world.

#75 Racer X 5/01/08 7:03:00 pm 6

In the beginning there was nothing...then Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked that nothing in the face and said "Get a job". That is the story of the universe.

#76 Racer X 5/01/08 7:03:54 pm 4

If you Google search "Chuck Norris getting his ass kicked" you will generate zero results. It just doesn't happen.

#77 jaunte 5/01/08 7:04:29 pm 5

When Chuck Norris wants an egg, he cracks open a chicken.

#78 DesertSage 5/01/08 7:04:39 pm 0

re: #75 Racer X

In the beginning there was nothing...then Chuck Norris Roundhouse kicked that nothing in the face and said "Get a job". That is the story of the universe.

So Chuck Norris is the creator?

/don't tell Killgore

#79 x-wing 5/01/08 7:05:24 pm 2

Chuck Norris can impregnate a woman by just staring at her..He can also do the same to men.

#80 NY Nana 5/01/08 7:05:55 pm 0

re: #34 snowcrash

But it is a diseased one. Now we know for sure.

Indeed it must be spewing a poisonous substance.

This is a cardiac catheterization, which is what he had, not a urinary catheterization, Lizards!

Any comment that I am sooooo tempted to make would be [deleted]!

May he need a urinary catheterization that will cause a very fatal infection, given to him by a nurse that looks like this.

#81 Racer X 5/01/08 7:05:58 pm 0

Chuck Norris invented the bolt-action rifle, liquor, sexual intercourse, and football-- in that order.

#82 snowcrash 5/01/08 7:06:08 pm 7

Chuck Norris won’t ever get a heart attack, because a heart knows better than to attack Chuck Norris.

#83 beachkatie 5/01/08 7:06:33 pm 0

re: #77 jaunte

When Chuck Norris wants an egg, he cracks open a chicken.

lol but sick! :)

#84 song_and_dance_man 5/01/08 7:07:11 pm 0