actor matthew perry's near death experience

 

Matthew Perry: "Oh..., my... God! It's real. It's real. Heaven is real. Eternal life is real. God is real. And he's, like, totally accepting and forgiving."

God: "Oh no. Not him."

the ineluctable modality of fox news

 

I have just read an article on the Fox News website.

The reason I read the article is because it was headlined thusly:

"MATTHEW PERRY REVEALS DARK SIDE OF ADDICTION JOURNEY, OPENS UP ABOUT NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE IN NEW MEMOIR"

The reason such a headline on a Fox News website would cause me to read such an article is because the phrase "near death experience," in common parlance has come to mean a claim by the participant to have experienced something supernatural while in danger of dying and I thought it would be rum to see what a Hollywood celebrity might have encountered with regard to such things.

The Matthew Perry article had no mention of the supernatural beyond the very famous and accomplished actor Matthew Perry claiming that being on a ventilator machine was a Hail Mary play.

Fox was using the phrase "near death experience," merely to indicate the actor claims he nearly died and to lure gulpens like me into reading it.

I read the whole article copiously waiting for some reference to an encounter with the Deity.

Then I read it again just to check.

No it was the same anodyne drugs and booze rubbish with the classic cliche claim beloved of rich celebrities that his addiction issues  arose after a jet ski accident when he became addicted to pain killers.

The article was insufferable tripe.

No special guest appearance by the Almighty.

Just maunderings about nearly dying from a life of excess.

I myself could become addicted to pain killers after readiug it.

I feel cheated.

top ten journalists of all time.

1. Malcolm Flash Gordon, sometimes called the hippie muckraker, who without financial backing and working alone from his apartment, unmasked boxing promoter Don King's institutionalised subversion of boxing and exploitation of boxers, as well as King's Cosa Nostra mafia connections and links to other criminal entities. In 1976 and 1977 Malcolm Gordon was instrumental in forcing the American television network ABC to cancel a televised tournament which King had rigged for the mob. He reached his public by printing his own news sheet called Tonight's Boxing Program on a copier in his apartment and sold it for 35 cents outside boxing venues.

2. Freddie Forsyth who in 1970 revealed the scale of the civil war and famine in Biafra, a breakaway State from Nigeria. Influential elements within the British Foreign Office and civil service establishment were attempting to suppress the truth on the matter in order to convince the public that British withdrawal from former colonies was proceeding successfully.

3. David Wood. A philosopher scholar who has played a key role in promoting public debate with Muslims and in breaking a worldwide conspiracy of silence as to the origins and history of the religion of Islam. His greatest achivement has been his role in encouraging Muslims themselves to examine and critically assess the basis of their faith.

4. Mark Steyn. A master of literary stylings and an insightful advocate on various issues. Has probably been a key figure in the breaking of at least three journalistic stories of global significance, to wit: The societal demographic death spiral created by contraception and abortion culture erasing what would have been our future generations; The Jihad threat to humanity as a whole; The manipulations and falsehoods underlying the actions of advocates of the reality of Climate Change... For his commentary and expositions on two of these stories, Jihad and Climate Change, Steyn has faced serial spurious legal actions intended to ruin him. Conversely these concerted attemtps to criminalise him through the courts have at times made Steyn bigger than the stories he was reporting. His own travails in these matters are at least as fascinating as the issues he's raised. They remain largely unreported in the West which gentle travellers of the internet, is why Western media groups are bankrupt.

5. Sean Hannity. A broadcaster with Fox News who spoke out in an attempt to prevent the judicial murder of Terri Schiavo by her husband Michael in the year 2005. Michael Shchiavo used the courts to have food and water withdrawn from his hospitalised wife, falsely claiming that she was brain dead. The family of Terri Schiavo were willing to look after her. She showed clear signs of joy when her mother and father were present. She was in no way brain dead. The family believed her injuries were inflicted by Michael Schiavo himself and that his motive in seeking to use the Judiciary to force doctors at the hospital to murder her was his fear that she mighr regain the power of speech and identify him as her assailant.

6. Me, I suppose, although self praise is no praise the gulpens say.

7. Er, that's it.

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Footnote: My disagreement with Mark Steyn and Sean Hannity's advocacy of the Presidency of Donald Trump in the United States has not led me to downgrade their journalistic accomplishments.

an indian doctor in an irish hospital

 

Someone had told me Sheila Fennessy was expected to live no more than a day or two.

So I was a bit surprised to see her getting out of a rather stylish new car on Kilcullen Main Street.

She looked  limber and enthusiastic.

I gaped a bit.

A woman of mature years, throughout her life she's had loads of operations for various condidtions including a hip problem that dates from a childhood injury.

Recently or so I was told, she'd lost the will to live after a bad fall undid whatever had been attempted in the latest operation.

On Main Street she explained to me her recovery.

"I was lying in bed in the hospital. An Indian doctor came to the bedside and told me that if I didn't eat I'd die. I told him that if I ate I'd simply vomit on him. He asked what I'd eat if I was at home. I said Granola. He said: 'If I get you some Granola will you eat it?' and I sort of groaned. About twenty minutes later my mobile phone rang. It was him. He was in the supermarket. He said there were three types of Granola to pick from and sent me pictures of them on the phone. I picked one. Then he came back to the hospital and fed me in bed. After that I just got better and better."