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Title: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 10, 2012, 05:36:48 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002927507

Quote from:  grasswire (34,149 posts)

 
The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes

Last edited Tue Jul 10, 2012, 06:02 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

So says a conservativecave.com member "formerlurker". This person hopes that the freepers and wingnuts will be vindicated from the accusations that they hastened Andy's death through their interference in his medical care.

It's on this thread:

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,75121.30.html

This is good news to everyone who values truth and transparency!! (Of course, if snopes should contact any of the miscreants involved, they will probably lie and distort and deny.)

If any DU-ers are contacted by snopes, please pass the word.


Looks like Grasswire is trying to keep hope alive undead in the Andy Stephenson affair.  Good luck with that.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 10, 2012, 05:38:46 PM
So, we invent post-op infections and made Andy fly around with a "weeping" wound?
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 10, 2012, 05:42:03 PM
So, we invent post-op infections and made Andy fly around with a "weeping" wound?

Its part of VRWC bioweaponry program, I'm sure.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Bad Dog on July 10, 2012, 05:42:36 PM
"grasswire (34,150 posts)

2. oh, by the way ---- to the mole


The sour franksolich says I've been talking to one of his moles here on DU. Well, well. Imagine that. "

Oh nowes!! grasswire is on to Frank.  Well, maybe not.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 10, 2012, 05:45:32 PM
I'm starting to come around to DU's new openness involving referring to the former 'sites that shall not be named' - It doesn't do any good anthropology-wise - However, it makes shaking the proverbial 'ant farm' so much more fun.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Skul on July 10, 2012, 05:46:36 PM
Quote
Response to grasswire (Original post)
Tue Jul 10, 2012, 05:50 PM
 hlthe2b (41,442 posts)
1. Damn... I hoped Snopes does a thorough job of exposing what really happened. So do we.

We all be devastated if they "white-washed" the entire incident.
They won't.  :lmao:

I doubt the Snopes site will even bother with it.
The primatives will go ape, over the conspiracy and cover-up. :rotf:
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Kyle Ricky on July 10, 2012, 05:48:55 PM
The DUmp playing hard ball again? Or are they just playing with their balls, er, I mean each others balls again?
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 10, 2012, 05:51:29 PM
Snopes should bust the "Marxism works it has just never been properly applied" myth.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: formerlurker on July 10, 2012, 05:58:42 PM
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This person hopes that the freepers and wingnuts will be vindicated from the accusations that they hastened Andy's death through their interference in his medical care.


Is that what I hope?   
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: BattleHymn on July 10, 2012, 05:59:09 PM
The DUmp playing hard ball again? Or are they just playing with their balls, er, I mean each others balls again?

(http://i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o528/dummieland/balls.jpg)
Wait- did you just say, 'playing with balls?'  










(http://i1146.photobucket.com/albums/o528/dummieland/balls2.jpg)
I LOVE playing with balls!!  
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Skul on July 10, 2012, 06:00:24 PM


Is that what I hope?   
Of course.
Aren't they always telling us what our own best interests are?
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: formerlurker on July 10, 2012, 06:00:49 PM
They won't.  :lmao:

I doubt the Snopes site will even bother with it.
The primatives will go ape, over the conspiracy and cover-up. :rotf:

They may google the whole sordid affair and walk - very quickly - away from it, or they may actually make a simple call to paypal and the hospital to obtain some facts to present.    

Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: zeitgeist on July 10, 2012, 06:06:22 PM
Snopes should bust the "Marxism works it has just never been properly applied" myth.

I am thinking that one should actually be sent to "Myth Busters".   :popcorn:
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 10, 2012, 06:09:11 PM
I am thinking that one should actually be sent to "Myth Busters".   :popcorn:

I suspect they wouldn't do it - after the 'Pyramid Power' myths, they said they were done with doing any further 'woowoo' myths.- And the magic necessary to make Marxism "work" certainly qualifies as such.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: zeitgeist on July 10, 2012, 06:10:58 PM
I suspect they wouldn't do it - after the 'Pyramid Power' myths, they said they were done with doing any further 'woowoo' myths.- And the magic necessary to make Marxism "work" certainly qualifies as such.

Werd.   :lol:
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: hillneck on July 10, 2012, 07:50:30 PM
[quote author=Bad Dog link=topic=75232.msg906362#msg906362 date=1341960156]
"grasswire (34,150 posts)
2. oh, by the way ---- to the mole
The sour franksolich says I've been talking to one of his moles here on DU. Well, well. Imagine that. "
Oh nowes!! grasswire is on to Frank.  Well, maybe not.
[/quote]



Coach is really living it up rent free in the old grasswipe's cranium cavity.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 10, 2012, 08:07:20 PM
Didn't Paypal debunk this back in the day? Or were they in on our evil cabal to give Andy pancreatic cancer, make him fly all over the country giving an incoherent message on paper ballots instead of seeking treatment, and then putting silverfish in his hospital room at the hospital that wasn't Johns Hopkins?
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Revolution on July 10, 2012, 08:17:09 PM
Well, well, theree hasn't been a post since the asswire primitive last talked about Frank. Nobody wants to thoin the CC Callout? I find that hard to believe.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Airwolf on July 10, 2012, 08:27:08 PM
Dummies never learn. They think their whole lives is some episode of the X-files.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 10, 2012, 08:30:01 PM
Dummies never learn. They think their whole lives is some episode of the X-files.
One can hardly fault them for that. Many of them resemble the creatures Mulder and Scully chased after.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: dandi on July 10, 2012, 11:00:59 PM
Does this mean we're in for another round of Ninja lawyers and having our names sown in salt or whatever the alcohol-soaked threats were from the cessPitt?

 :rofl:
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 11, 2012, 04:10:00 AM
One can hardly fault them for that. Many of them resemble the creatures Mulder and Scully chased after.

 :werd:

H5, BTW.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Tucker on July 11, 2012, 05:20:16 AM
Dummies never learn. They think their whole lives is some episode of the X-files.

They think that they are representative of the left as a whole. They're totally deluded.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on July 11, 2012, 07:59:00 AM
I'd be suprised if Snopes was dumb enough to get sucked into their stupidity.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 11, 2012, 04:16:30 PM
I'd be suprised if Snopes was dumb enough to get sucked into their stupidity.

Frankly, I don't think Stephenson is important enough to even bother with.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: BadCat on July 11, 2012, 06:22:09 PM
Frankly, I don't think Stephenson is important enough to even bother with.

The fat fag is beyond worm food at this point, but moonbats have bad cases of OCD when it comes to stupid things.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: zeitgeist on July 11, 2012, 06:38:15 PM
They think that they are representative of the left as a whole. They're totally deluded.

FIFY :rotf:
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Revolution on July 11, 2012, 09:08:44 PM
The fat fag is beyond worm food at this point, but moonbats have bad cases of OCD when it comes to stupid things.

Poor worms got HIV...
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Wineslob on July 12, 2012, 10:17:03 AM
"In other news, Andy is still dead"
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Duke Nukum on July 12, 2012, 10:39:18 PM
I seem to vaguely remember that Paypal was contacted back in the day and they said they don't put holds on accounts. It was just another lie made up by the scammers.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Ptarmigan on July 13, 2012, 12:05:42 AM
They still obsess about Andy Stephenson? Wasn't it DU's fault for the questionable fund raising?
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: vesta111 on July 13, 2012, 09:48:10 AM
They still obsess about Andy Stephenson? Wasn't it DU's fault for the questionable fund raising?

I came in, after the fact and am still trying to understand both sides of the problem.

What I get so far is a member of DU became ill and asked for help paying his hospital bills.

Some how along the way the information about his health sounded odd and our Frank looked into it.   For all we know Frank may have been on the point of writing out a check to help Andy.  Frank came from a medical family and wanted to know what was going on, perhaps there were alternative treatments at less cost. 

Some where along the line Andy posted health up dates and those with any medical training began to questern him.   Frank was only one of those that from a dozen that wondered what was going on.

 Seems Andy set up a Pay pal account for donations for his health care.  I have no idea how much he pulled in from there or how the money was spent.

Poor Andy died, seems no amount of money could have saved him.  Matter of fact had he been viabible even without a plug nickle he would have received the same treatment and care as he would have gotten had he had unlimited money.

Now it seems after a few years when this happend before I got here, someone at DU is using Andy's dead body to cast aspersions on others.  Why, and most particularly on our Frank.   He was not the only one to ask questions, just one of a few dozen.

What does DU have against our Frank, darn he is just a nice young man, the nicest man one can meet, a gentleman and a scholar.   

Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: miskie on July 13, 2012, 04:39:53 PM
What does DU have against our Frank, darn he is just a nice young man, the nicest man one can meet, a gentleman and a scholar.   

DU needs a boogeyman to rally against. And franksolich has that dubious honor in the AS affair. Somehow, the mythology surrounding the AS affair has built up to the point where franksolich & his team managed to interrupt a Paypal account, and actually forced a hospital to cancel surgery on AS because of it.

Both of these points are demonstrably untrue, but they believe them anyway.

A) Paypal would not suspend an account just because a 3rd party said to do so.

B) A hospital would proceed with life-saving surgery on schedule regardless of the patient's finances.

Stephenson died from a post-operative infection. With a procedure as complex as the Whipple for pancreatic cancer, Stephenson's odds of recovery were not in his favor. (20% survival for one year, and about 4% survival for five years on average) 
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: ChuckJ on July 13, 2012, 04:45:37 PM
DU needs a boogeyman to rally against. And franksolich has that dubious honor in the AS affair. Somehow, the mythology surrounding the AS affair has built up to the point where franksolich & his team managed to interrupt a Paypal account, and actually forced a hospital to cancel surgery on AS because of it.

Both of these points are demonstrably untrue, but they believe them anyway.

A) Paypal would not suspend an account just because a 3rd party said to do so.

B) A hospital would proceed with life-saving surgery on schedule regardless of the patient's finances.

Stephenson died from a post-operative infection. With a procedure as complex as the Whipple for pancreatic cancer, Stephenson's odds of recovery were not in his favor. (20% survival for one year, and about 4% survival for five years on average) 

It also helps that the collective intelligence level of DU is slightly half that of a rock with mental problems.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: franksolich on July 13, 2012, 06:29:30 PM
A) Paypal would not suspend an account just because a 3rd party said to do so.

Bingo.

Quote
B) A hospital would proceed with life-saving surgery on schedule regardless of the patient's finances

Bingo again.

Too bad for the primitives.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: BlueStateSaint on July 13, 2012, 07:11:36 PM
It also helps that the collective intelligence level of DU is slightly half that of a rock with mental problems.

Rocks everywhere thank you for their inclusion on the positive side of that equation.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: obumazombie on July 13, 2012, 07:17:37 PM
Bingo.

Bingo again.

Too bad for the primitives.
Everyone on this forum seems happier with greater presence here. The opposite applies to DU.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: GOBUCKS on July 13, 2012, 10:27:15 PM
No matter how hard DUmmy grasswipe Judy Smith searches, she will never stumble onto the secret of how coach iced the sodomite.

It was brilliant.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: obumazombie on July 13, 2012, 11:39:43 PM
Everyone on this forum seems happier with greater presence here. The opposite applies to DU.
I meant to say "your" presence, meaning franksolich.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: franksolich on July 14, 2012, 12:52:26 AM
No matter how hard DUmmy grasswipe Judy Smith searches, she will never stumble onto the secret of how coach iced the sodomite.

It was brilliant.

Thank you, sir.

It was one of my finest moments, how that was pulled off.

But I'm sure that sooner or later, even finer stunts will be pulled.

Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Bad Dog on July 14, 2012, 08:40:04 AM
Thank you, sir.

It was one of my finest moments, how that was pulled off.

But I'm sure that sooner or later, even finer stunts will be pulled.



One can only hope.
Title: Re: *CC CALLOUT* The Andy Stephenson--Paypal matter has been submitted to Snopes
Post by: Airwolf on July 14, 2012, 12:45:55 PM
Thank you, sir.

It was one of my finest moments, how that was pulled off.

But I'm sure that sooner or later, even finer stunts will be pulled.



We all seek to become one of your followers Frank and learn the ways of the Sith. LOL.