This Is What a Failure Looks Like

12-17-09 - Update on the original post below. Go figure?


Winnipeg Blue Bombers 2009 season record:

7 wins - 11 loses

Need we say more?

You know our world is imperfect when...

We poor Canadians certainly face many problems. A broken parliamentary system, rife with erratic and self-serving leaders. Endemic abuse at the hands of usury bankers. An inherent inability to provide fairness and justice for all. A spill-over of undue and banal US influences that leave the kind of taint only Hannibal Lechter could love. Too many petulant and misguided wieners. And, too many idiots!

These, and a myriad of other challenges, are undoubtedly concerning - at least to a certain extent. But before we start feeling too sorry for ourselves; read this item from South Africa:

TB Patients Sell Sputum to Grant Fraudsters

September 14, 2009 - by Brenda Nkuna

Cape Town — Desperate for an income, unemployed people are paying TB patients for sputum samples so they can dupe doctors into getting them onto the social grant system.

TB-ridden residents in Khayelitsha charge R50 to R100 for sputum samples in a ruse which involves 'sputum sellers' keeping a stash of sample bottles smuggled out of government clinics which are then handed, with the infected sample, to unsuspecting health workers.

Using the infected TB sample, healthy people get a card from the clinic indicating they have TB and use this to fraudulently obtain a temporary disability grant ....

Enquiries in Khayelitsha quickly revealed three TB infected residents willing to sell their sputum in order for fraudulent grants to be obtained.

This reporter approached one of them, a 54-year-old man who legitimately receives a disability grant for his illness, who sold two bottles with sputum samples for at total of R50.

He said on average he made about R500 per month selling his sputum to people wanting to fraudulently obtain grants.

But he said business was "not good" because so many people were infected with TB in the township, which meant he had a lot of competition.

Paid R50, the man, who cannot be named in order to protect his identity, provided two samples of fresh sputum, each in a health department bottle obtained from a stack he kept in his bedroom.

Going to the Nolungile clinic in Site C, Khayelitsha, for a TB test, this reporter was given two bottles by a health worker who said a sputum sample in each bottle was required for the tests.

The health worker did not insist the sputum be coughed up in front of them so it was easy to swap the bottles with those which contained the purchased samples.

Fortunately for the sputum seller, but unluckily for this 'client' the samples came back negative, indicating that the man who sold the sputum had likely been taking his TB medication.

.... some TB patients deliberately neglected to take their medication in order to remain on the grant system, in effect trading their health for money. .... [giving rise to incidences whereby] patients abandoning their six-month course of medication led to multiple drug resistant (MDR) TB or even extreme drug resistant (XDR) TB.

The World Health Organization's Global TB Report 2008 ranks South Africa fourth in the world for TB infection, with an incidence rate of 940 cases per 100 000 people - a major increase from 338 per 100 000 population in 1998.

The Western Cape health department said there were 50,156 TB cases in the province in 2008...

*** Don't know about you, but I am starting to believe that maybe (just maybe) the world is a relative place. And that, on any given day, we should all remember that some (though not all) of our problems aren't really all that bad?

Winnipeg Blue Bomber Coach - you sir are a putz!

Dear Winnipeg Blue Bomber Coach:

Mr. Kelly, heard you say tonight in the post game show that we must "Believe"? We must believe??? With respects sir - tonight I believe I paid too much to watch a desperate team with a horrific case of OLED (Offensive Line Erectile Dysfunction). It was a shameful and painful event to witness. Were it not for the D-Line I would have left at half-time. Jesus, tonight I spent more time booing my own team than quaffing ales - and that sir, just in case you are unsure, that is always a bad sign!

Christ, when the biggest cheers of the night are for the two drunken hammerhead losers who ran onto the field and then evaded Stadium Security by jumping over the 16 ft South barrier fence... well then you know you've got a problem. LeFors threw for just 30 yards Reid only ran for 32! At the end of the third quarter, Winnipeg had just two first downs and 73 net yards. Total offense for the night = SUCKAGE!

New system? New personnel? 'Everybody's gotta' believe'? Gimme a break you petulant arrogant fuck! You had a training camp to work these issues out. If I wanna see only eight first downs by the home team in an entire e'ffn game I go to my 10 year old son's flag football games in the spring. At least their offense has heart, their QB has an arm ... and, most importantly of all, the receiver's know how to run their routes. Tonight's travesty rests solely with the coaching. I do not blame all our boys on the O-line for this disaster... because clearly the coaching is inept.

A bloody disgraceful display! Mr. Kelly, thanks to you, my 10 year old turned to me tonight on the drive home & said quietly: "Dad, I'm not cheering for Winnipeg anymore. I don't wanna come to anymore games unless Montreal is here." Well done asshole - now he's a Montreal fan!

Coach Kelly you will find below the particulars of my Ticketmatster's account for tonight's game: trust you will contact me via email regarding a refund. After all, I was lured to the Winnipeg Stadium (yet again) under false pretenses - I was promised a game - not a Gong Show!

Sincerely,
One Lone and disgusted Fat Arse




Winnipeg Blue Bombers vs. Toronto Argonauts
Canad Inns Stadium, Winnipeg, MB
07/24/09 - 06:30 PM

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