tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90614744109211825372024-03-18T22:07:01.536-05:00Ramblings by Alexisa disharmonious mix of humor, recipes, news and whatever else---designed to entertain, enlighten and inform you of the news and information you may be missing. and, yes, i sometimes do bring my soapbox along.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00264655900013055987noreply@blogger.comBlogger2590125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061474410921182537.post-38720065331209651632016-01-18T20:30:00.000-06:002016-01-18T20:30:04.309-06:00Losing It Isn't So Bad<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>A 23-year-old Texas man who killed four people in a drunk driving accident was sentenced to life in prison Friday, proving that penalties are harsh for those not afflicted with “affluenza.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Rashad Owens had a blood alcohol content level of .114 when he plowed into a crowd of people during the 2014 South by Southwest festival in Austin.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>On the other hand, Ethan Couch had a blood content level of .24 when he killed four people in 2013, resulting in the 16-year-old teen to receive a ten years of probation.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>The difference is that Couch suffered from affluenza as pointed out by a psychologist hired by his family to testify on his behalf.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>That basically meant that because Couch came from an extremely wealthy family, he was not expected to know right from wrong.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>The way the local media reports it, Owens got off easy because he could have received the death penalty.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Not suffering from affluenza, Owens knew that very night that he had screwed up, telling the arresting officer he was regretful and never meant to kill anybody.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>One of the arguments his attorney tried to make that as a black man driving a stolen car being chased by police, he was in fear for his life.</b></span></div>
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According to the <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/Driver-accused-in-fatal-SXSW-crash-gets-life-in-6615676.php?cmpid=fb-mobile" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0045b5; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">San Antonio Express-News:</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Mitchell had taken Owens to a parking garage near the Austin Police Department’s headquarters to question Owens, according to the newspaper.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>“You are not going to kill me, are you?” Owens asked Mitchell from the back of the police cruiser. Mitchell responded, “No!”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>At another point, Owens said, “Sir, all I care about is me not killing nobody. I didn’t mean to hurt nobody. I was just scared. I didn’t mean to.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Owens also displayed remorse during the trial, shedding tears and placing his head into his hands as relatives of the victims testified about their loved ones.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Couch, on the other hand, showed no signs of remorse during the hearing in 2013 in which a judge ensured he would not spend a day in jail for his actions.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>It was already Couch’s second run-in with the law over his drinking, having been cited a year earlier for drinking in a car where a cop found him with a passed out 14-year-old girl.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Couch <a href="https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/01/affluenza-teen-manhunt-highlights-disparities-bias-in-legal-system/" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">last month became an international fugitive</a>when he violated the terms of his probation, traveling to Mexico with his mother, who paid more than $2,000 for his strip club bill before she was deported to Los Angeles on charges of hindering the apprehension of a felon.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Couch is currently sitting in a Mexico City jail to await his fate at the hands of Mexican officials who are much easier to bribe than American officials, so perhaps affluenza will benefit him down there as well.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>While it can be argued that Couch was a juvenile and Owens is an adult, the same Texas judge who gave Couch probation sentenced another 16-year-old teen to 20 years in 2004 for killing two people while driving drunk.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Eric Bradlee Miller had a blood alcohol content of .11, less than half of Couch’s .24.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>But Miller <a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/fort-worth/article3840394.html" style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">grew up poor, raised by a grandfather </a>who was unable to hire a lawyer, much less a psychologist to argue on his behalf.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b>As a result, he is still serving his sentence.</b></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With Tomatoes and Pickles</span></i><br />
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">Cooking Time: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10min</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #bf9000;">Recipes Makes: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Calories: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>513</span></b><br />
<span style="color: magenta;">Carbs: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>28g</span><br />
<b><span style="color: #990000;">Fat: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>39g</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: lime; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Protein: 15g</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><u>Ingredients</u></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>2 pieces of bread</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>3 slices of American Cheese</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>thinly sliced pickle slices, dabbed dry</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>1 thin slice of tomato</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Good handful of potato chips (Ridged chips work best)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>tablespoon of butter </b></span><br />
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<b><i> (Assemble bottom to top: bread, cheese 1, pickles, tomato, cheese 2, chips, cheese 3, bread)</i></b><br />
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Heat 1/2 tablespoon of butter in a pan over medium heat, once bubbling carefully add your sandwich.</span> <br />
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Lightly press the sandwich down with a spatula or here I used a pot lid just to apply a little pressure to the sandwich. </span><br />
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about 3-4 minutes, lift sandwich up, add the other 1/2 tablespoon of
butter and flip the sandwich to grill the other side. (At this point you
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too quickly because you need the cheese to melt...) </span>
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Again, apply light pressure to the sandwich. </span><br />
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After
another 3-4 minutes or so, turn off the heat. (If cheese still isn't
totally melted, allow the sandwich to sit in the pan covered for a few
more minutes.) </span>
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Slice with a serrated knife and enjoy!</span></b><br />
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much more at</span> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Directions%20(Assemble%20bottom%20to%20top:%20bread,%20cheese%201,%20pickles,%20tomato,%20cheese%202,%20chips,%20cheese%203,%20bread)%20%20Heat%201/2%20tablespoon%20of%20butter%20in%20a%20pan%20over%20medium%20heat,%20once%20bubbling%20carefully%20add%20your%20sandwich.%20%20Lightly%20press%20the%20sandwich%20down%20with%20a%20spatula%20or%20here%20I%20used%20a%20pot%20lid%20just%20to%20apply%20a%20little%20pressure%20to%20the%20sandwich.%20%20After%20about%203-4%20minutes,%20lift%20sandwich%20up,%20add%20the%20other%201/2%20tablespoon%20of%20butter%20and%20flip%20the%20sandwich%20to%20grill%20the%20other%20side.%20(At%20this%20point%20you%20may%20want%20to%20turn%20the%20heat%20to%20low...you%20don't%20want%20the%20sandwich%20to%20cook%20too%20quickly%20because%20you%20need%20the%20cheese%20to%20melt...)%20%20Again,%20apply%20light%20pressure%20to%20the%20sandwich.%20%20After%20another%203-4%20minutes%20or%20so,%20turn%20off%20the%20heat.%20(If%20cheese%20still%20isn't%20totally%20melted,%20allow%20the%20sandwich%20to%20sit%20in%20the%20pan%20covered%20for%20a%20few%20more%20minutes.)%20%20Slice%20with%20a%20serrated%20knife%20and%20enjoy!%20%20much%20more%20at%20http://www.kitchensnaps.com/2012/03/grilled-cheese-with-tomato-pickles-and.html" target="_blank">Grilled Cheese n'Chips</a></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">Four North Carolina schools were recently placed <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/15/homeland-security-conducts-unannounced-school-lockdown-drill/" target="_blank" title="Homeland Security Conducts Unannounced School Lockdown Drill">on lock-down</a> by <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">police</span>, after a “suspicious person” was seen entering Richlands Elementary School on September 19th.<span id="more-37740"></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">An initial <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">investigation</span> turned up empty handed, but two weeks later the police announced that they solved the mystery behind the suspicious person at the school.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">The “suspicious person” that caused <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">the lock</span> down was not actually an intruder, but was one of the school’s teachers, who had decided to celebrate “talk like a pirate day”, by dressing up for students.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">A school representative <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD11">explained</span> to local reporters that the district has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/18/middle-school-student-military-style-jacket-sparks-police-action-school-lockdown/" target="_blank" title="Middle School Student in ‘Military-Style’ Jacket Sparks Police Action and School Lockdown">reports of suspicious people</a>.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;"><em>“We have this new psy lock system, </em><em>there was an immediate lockdown done of the school and check in with all <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8">the teachers</span> to make sure to make sure everybody was safe and secure. Law enforcement of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">course</span> came to the scene,” </em></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Suzie Ulbrich, a spokesperson for Onslow Co. Schools said.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10">The staff</span> member, whose name has not yet been revealed by police, was allegedly wearing a full pirate costume, complete with a pirate hat and a plastic sword. Another member of the staff who was not in on the joke was apparently threatened by the teacher’s costume, and notified the school office, who then called police.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">When police received reports of a strangely dressed person carrying a weapon, they shut down every nearby school in the district and searched each school with police and K-9 units. Each search turned up empty handed and the <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/26/school-locked-mom-arrested-signing-went-console-autistic-son/" target="_blank" title="School Locked Down, Mom Arrested for Not Signing in When She Went to Console Her Autistic Son">lock-down</a> was lifted after three <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">hours</span>. It is not yet clear as to whether the festive teacher knew that the lock-down was intended for them at the time.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">“<em>After a thorough review of this incident, it has been determined that school personnel working in conjunction with law enforcement agencies handled the situation in a very professional manner and followed all protocols <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6">to the letter</span></em>,<em>“</em> </span><a href="http://www.wcti12.com/news/richlands-school-staffer-dressed-as-pirate-prompts-4-lockdowns/28338302" style="color: #7f6000;" target="_blank">Jerry Morse of the Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.</a></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7f6000;">The <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/08/21/nanny-state-police-state-unite-arrest-boy-bringing-word-gun-school/" target="_blank" title="Nanny State and Police State Unite to Arrest Boy For Bringing the Word “Gun” to School">Nanny state</a> seems to be running amok. Last month we reported the story of <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/09/18/middle-school-student-military-style-jacket-sparks-police-action-school-lockdown/" target="_blank" title="Middle School Student in ‘Military-Style’ Jacket Sparks Police Action and School Lockdown">a middle school being placed on lockdown</a> for a student <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/middle-school-student-military-style-jacket-sparks-police-action-school-lockdown/" target="_blank">wearing a military-style jacket.</a> A few weeks before that, an entire campus was shut down and <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/swat-team-descends-college-campus-response-man-carrying-umbrella/" target="_blank">SWAT descended on Cal State San Marcos</a> in response to a man carrying an umbrella. After witnessing these reactions to such minuscule and irrelevant matters, is it any surprise that police are so quick to shoot first and ask questions later?</span></b></div>
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<b>Ebola Sneeze - Public DomainHealth experts all over the United States are promising us that we do not need to be worried about Ebola whatsoever. Even though one case has already been confirmed in Dallas, Texas and another potential case is being monitored, health authorities assure us that we have the greatest health system in the history of the planet and that we will be able to handle any isolated cases very easily. And all over the mainstream media on Wednesday, there were headlines declaring that the arrival of Ebola in America is a non-event. One example is this headline from Bloomberg: “Ebola in America? Don’t Worry About It”. So are they right? Should the rest of us just kick back and relax because a bunch of really smart guys are assuring us that our health system can easily deal with anything that Ebola can throw at us? The following are 10 quotes from prominent experts promising us that Ebola will not be a problem in this country…</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">#1 Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: “We feel confident that there won’t be an outbreak.”</span></b></div>
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<b>#2 University of Chicago professor Michael Z. David: “While this all sounds very frightening, there’s no need to worry at this point about Ebola spreading widely here.”</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf9000;">#3 Gerardo Chowell-Puente, an associate professor of mathematical epidemiology at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University: “Math and history show us that decisive efforts to isolate those who are infected with Ebola and to follow up quickly with the potential contacts of the infected can help to get an outbreak under control. We’re lucky that we have such capacities in the United States; even with the Ebola case in Dallas, the epidemic should not get much of a foothold here.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">#4 Texas Health Director David Lakey: “This is a very sophisticated city, a very sophisticated hospital, … and the chances of it being spread are very, very scarce.”</span></b></div>
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<b>#5 Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health & Human Services: “This is not Africa. We have a great infrastructure to deal with an outbreak.”</b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #134f5c;">#6 Dr. William Shaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center: “We’re very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening—a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">#7 Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC: “It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #783f04;">#8 Dr. William Shaffner: “Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent—I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #741b47;">#9 Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston: “The Ebola virus is not easily transmitted from person to person, and we have an outstanding infrastructure in place both to contain the virus and trace contacts. There will not be an Ebola epidemic in the United States.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">#10 Thomas Frieden: “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country.”</span></b></div>
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<b>Meanwhile, Barack Obama continues to act as if nothing has changed either. Even though a number of other nations have shut down all air traffic to Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, Obama still refuses to restrict air travel to and from those countries…</b></div>
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<b>In mid-August, Korean Air and Kenya Airways announced they were halting flights to the West African countries ravaged by Ebola, and British Airways and Air France also decided to suspend service to the Ebola hot zone a few weeks later.</b></div>
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<b>“France is recommending that its citizens leave Sierra Leone and Liberia, two of the countries hardest hit by the worst ever outbreak of the disease,” Jessica Plautz reported forMashable. “The government said the increasing spread of the disease prompted its request that the airline to suspend flights.”</b></div>
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<b>Yet the Obama administration made no such request to U.S. airlines and government flights, despite the Center of Disease Control advising Americans to avoid “non-essential travel” to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea several weeks ago.</b></div>
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<b>Would that be the same “extensive screening” that some CNN employees recently experienced?…</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/10/02/dont-worry-10-quotes-health-experts-promising-ebola-will-problem-america/" target="_blank">http://www.dcclothesline.com/</a> for the rest of the story</div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(NaturalNews)</span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> If you've heard about Fukushima radiation spreading to the Pacific Coast of North America but were "corrected" by sources both official and expert that this was based more on rumor than reality, then consider the information presented at the October 2013 North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) annual meeting.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirmed that the radioactive plume from Fukushima is indeed reaching the shores of Canada and the United States - and was detected at least six months ago - carried both in the ocean surface water and the atmosphere on similar but slightly different courses.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In a presentation titled "Communicating the forecasts, uncertainty and consequences of ecosystem change," (read here: http://www.pices.int) the Canadian researchers gave evidence that the bulk of radioactivity from Fukushima is shifting almost entirely from the western portion of the North Pacific (Japan) to the eastern portion (North America) over the course of the next five years. As of 2012, it had already reached the central region of the Pacific Ocean, and a previously unpublished map shows that, as of 2013, it had reached the shores of Alaska and British Columbia, with the most intense area of the plume yet to arrive.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fall 2013 discussion centered around competing calculations of the severity of effects from cesium-137, based around two differing models of the radiation's trajectory. The first, published by German researcher Erik Behrens and his colleagues at the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in 2012, drastically understates the potential dangers, predicting only modest levels of 2 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m^3) by 2015 for the 49th parallel near British Columbia and Washington state - scarcely above the background levels from the continued fallout of Chernobyl.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the second, published by Vincent Rossi and other colleagues from the Climate Change Research Centre in 2013, presents a much more consequential picture. It predicts alarming maximum levels reaching 25 Bq/m^3 at their monitoring station in British Columbia by 2015 and peaks above 30 Bq/m^3. Cesium levels at the 30th parallel - reaching Baja California in Mexico - wouldn't peak until about 2019, though projected maximum levels would reach only about 15-20 Bq/m^3.</span></b><br />
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OK, this blog will continue, but in a different format. I'm going to shy away from too much politics and news, and stick mostly with humor, recipes, various tidbits, and a few news stories that I feel are worthwhile.<br />
I just don't have the time or energy to keep it moving at it's previous pace. I've got some new lung issues that I'm on a regimen of heavy antibiotics for treatment, and they aren't the most fun to take. Not only are they wrecking havoc is my stomach, but they seem to tire me out, bother my heart at times, and just sort of run me down. I continue to do my 1 day a week volunteering at the local university hospital, and all that walking tires me out too----but I do enjoy doing it. Most of the tasks are menial, but someone has to do them. It's amazing to hear that this hospital has over 1400 active volunteers at any one time. Many are college students planning on a career in medicine, but many former employees. former patients and community members also volunteer in various ways. It is an awesome program at an even more awesome hospital. I myself fall into the former (and present) patients and local community members categories. It's also fun to watch all of the many construction projects going on at this hospital----a huge new state-of-the-art children't hospital is the big one, but they are adding onto several floors in certain wings (horizontally), putting more floors on top of other wings, and simply building new additions. The eye clinic just got a huge donation from a well-to-do- businessman, and I'm sure they'll be doing some more amazing stuff with that money. Oh, well......enough of my rambling for tonight. </div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>No matter what amenity the Manager mentioned, she replied, "But I didn't use it!" and the Manager countered with his standard response. After several minutes discussion, and with the Manager still unmoved, she decided to pay, wrote a check and gave it to him. </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>"That's correct I charged you $200.00 for sleeping with me." "But I didn't!" "Well, too bad, I was here, and you could have."</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">The news: Japan is ardently encouraging the United States to build a high-speed, ultra-futuristic maglev train line along the Northeast Corridor. In fact, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is so devoted to the project that he’s offered to comp the first 40 miles of such a line, which could stretch between D.C. and Baltimore. Were it to be built, the blisteringly fast maglev would permit commuters to travel between New York City and the nation’s capital in under an hour, far quicker than a three-hour Acela ride and even swifter than the hour-and-15-minute flight between the cities.</span></h1>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00264655900013055987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061474410921182537.post-76573550304732438832013-11-19T19:47:00.004-06:002013-11-19T19:47:31.009-06:00Throwing a party? Here are some NOM ideas (23 photos + recipes)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Nov. 17, 2013, the volcanic eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, was captured on video.<br /><br /> Mount Etna is the most active volcano in Europe, and in this video you can hear it rumbling as its lava shoots towards the sky, lighting up the sky above the Italian island.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Somehow it seems to have reactivated itself and made its way along the work surface where it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it," fireman Helmut Kniewasser told The Daily Mail. "I don’t know about the allegations of a robot suicide but the homeowner is insistent that the device was switched off—it’s a mystery how it came to be activated and ended up making its way to the hotplate."</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Great news! Obama admin still hasn't fired "black nationalist" at DHS who advocates murdering whites </i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ayo Kimathi was placed on administrative leave from the Department of Homeland Security after it was revealed that he ran a black supremacist website calling for the murder of white Americans, but he still hasn’t been fired. Four months later, Kimathi is still an employee of the Obama administration. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee who was placed on leave almost four months ago for running a website that espouses the mass murder of whites has still not been fired, an agency spokesperson told National Journal.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Southern Poverty Law Center first exposed Ayo Kimathi in August, prompting a small media firestorm that led DHS to place the procurement officer on administrative leave with pay pending review. DHS deputy press secretary Gillian Christensen confirmed that his status has not changed and that he is still on leave pending review.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Kimathi, using the online nom de guerre “the Irritated Genie,” called for “ethnic cleansing” of “black-skinned Uncle Tom race traitors” on his website, which envisioned a massive race war on the horizon. “In order for Black people to survive the 21st century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites—more than our Christian hearts can possibly count,” he wrote.</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In other postings, he warned that whites and their enablers like President Obama are trying to “homosexualize” black men in order to make them weaker, and suggested that a woman’s primary role in life should be to “keep a strong Black man happy.” He also seemed to hold anti-Semitic views, claiming in a Facebook post that his website was under attack from a conspiracy of “zionist smallhats, the Uncle Tom koons,” and, naturally, “the haters.”</i></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the record, Kimathi was one of the people at DHS in charge of buying firearms and those millions of rounds of ammunition that have made news in recent months. If the Obama administration can’t legally fire this guy, we’re screwed. How backwards could our legal system possibly be that this would not be grounds for permanent dismissal?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"> BOOM! Justice Depart files court briefing admitting Obamacare will end MOST employer health plans </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After promising Americans that they could keep their health insurance plans, President Obama now erroneously claims that only 5% of Americans will lose their plans under Obamacare. However, the Justice Department just filed a brief in court saying that up to 80% of employer-provided health insurance plans will lose their grandfathered status be forcibly cancelled under Obamacare’s regulations. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>According to the administration’s numbers, nearly 80 million additional Americans, “a majority” of those on employer-sponsored health plans, may also be out of luck.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“It is projected that more group health plans will transition to the requirements under the regulations as time goes on,” DOJ lawyers wrote in response to court challenge to the law’s requirement that insurance plans provide coverage of contraception. “Defendants have estimated that a majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end 2013.”</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The DOJ cites the June 17, 2010, edition of the Federal Register, which acknowledges that within the first year of Obamacare’s employer mandate, the insurance plans offered by many employers will be canceled because their policies will not be grandfathered under the administration’s regulations. ”The Departments’ mid-range estimate is that 66 percent of small-employer plans and 45 percent of large-employer plans will relinquish their grandfather status by the end of 2013,” the Register says. “The low-end estimates are for 49 percent and 34 percent of small and large-employer plans, respectively, to have relinquished grandfather status, and the high-end estimates are 80 percent and 64 percent, respectively.”</i></span></b></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is President Obama’s own Department of Justice, using the Obama administration’s own numbers. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Obama continues to lie to the American people on a daily basis. He knows that Obamacare’s central function is to push people onto new government-run plans. This is by design. It is how Obamacare works.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bottom line is this: you <em>will not be able</em> to keep your health plan…period. You can keep whatever plan Obama says you can keep until he says you can’t.</span></b></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00264655900013055987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061474410921182537.post-64524405262181507312013-11-19T19:17:00.002-06:002013-11-19T19:17:25.150-06:00This Is Really Cool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ink Calendar designed by Oscar Diaz. <em>The ink will slowly color each day of the month as time passes by.</em></span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">literally the coolest darn thing i’ve ever seen.</span></b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00264655900013055987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061474410921182537.post-87925085379053701732013-11-19T12:16:00.004-06:002013-11-19T12:16:23.505-06:00 This Baptist Minister of Music is a "REAL ENTERTAINER"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Motor City Muckracker obtained the videos from a source whose identity was withheld due to safety concerns. Investigative journalist Steve Neavling declined to publish all the videos, describing them as “humiliating.”</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The two he did publish depict black men making ape-like faces and motions on the orders of police, who filmed them.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #a64d79;">An officer identified as Mike Najm instructs one black man to </span><span style="color: #b45f06;">“Go ahead. Do your song.”</span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> Another photo shows a black man riding in the back of a wagon attached to a truck. The officer who texted the picture included the caption, </span><span style="color: #b45f06;">“Got to love the coloreds.”</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Huffington Post reported that Najm’s ex-wife may be Neavling’s source. </b></span><b style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neavling told The Daily Caller that the rest of the videos and pictures contained similar, racially-demeaning content.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">“It’s a lot of the same kind of stuff where black men are asked to sing or make noises that are chimp-like that [the officers] wanted them to make,”</span><span style="color: #a64d79;"> he said.</span><span style="color: #b45f06;"> “It’s these humiliating things that they are having them do.”</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Grosse Pointe Park is an affluent suburb bordering the city of Detroit. The police department did not respond to a request for comment, but released a statement promising to investigate the matter.</i></b></span><br />
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<b>Source: <a href="http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/scientists-we-cant-do-anything-about-the-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-that-will-soon-kill-millions-of-us">Michael Snyder, Guest Post</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b> The “wonder drugs” that we have been using since the middle of the last century are rapidly losing their effectiveness, and medical authorities are warning that the emergence of very powerful antibiotic-resistant superbugs represents “<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/superbugs-could-erase-a-century-of-medical-advances-experts-warn-8944617.html" target="_blank">one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine</a>“. </b><b> Of course the “wonder drugs” that I am talking about are known today as antibiotics. </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These drugs attack bacteria, and when they first began to be developed back in the 1950s and 1960s they were hailed as “miracles” that would save countless numbers of lives. Well, it turns out that nature is having the last laugh. All over the planet bacteria are developing resistance to these drugs, and scientists are warning that they can’t really do anything to stop these superbugs. With each passing year these superbugs are gaining ground, and there appears to be not much hope on the horizon of being able to fight them. In fact, no new classes of antibiotics have been invented <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/039425_gram-negative_superbugs_antibiotics.html" target="_blank">since 1987</a>, and none are being developed right now. Meanwhile, scientists are telling us that many current antibiotic treatments will be completely obsolete by the year 2030. Are you starting to understand why so many high profile members of the scientific community are using the words “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/11/superbugs-antibiotics-bacterial-diseases-infections" target="_blank">catastrophic threat</a>” to describe this crisis?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An article about these superbugs that appeared in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/superbugs-could-erase-a-century-of-medical-advances-experts-warn-8944617.html" target="_blank">the Independent</a> the other day got a lot of attention all around the world. That article claims that prominent British doctors are warning that these superbugs could undo “a century of medical advances”…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Drug-resistant “superbugs” represent one of the gravest threats in the history of medicine, leading experts have warned.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Routine operations could become deadly “in the very near future” as bacteria evolve to resist the drugs we use to combat them. This process could erase a century of medical advances, say government doctors in a special editorial in The Lancet health journal.</i></span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">That sounds quite serious.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So what would life be like without antibiotics?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, before antibiotics were invented if you scraped your knee and got an infection, there was a good chance <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/10/22/239247134/antibiotics-cant-keep-up-with-nightmare-superbugs" target="_blank">that they would cut off your leg</a>…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the period before World War II … people that got infections, they had to cut it out. They had to cut off limbs, cut off toes, because there weren’t antibiotics. And oftentimes, when people talk about the fact that we might have to go back to a pre-antibiotic age, that’s what they mean — that a simple scrape on the playground could be fatal.</span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are you ready to go back to such a time?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You might not have to wait long. According to one very prominent doctor quoted by <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477273/Weve-reached-end-antibiotics-Top-CDC-expert-declares-miracle-drugs-saved-millions-match-superbugs-people-overmedicated-themselves.html" target="_blank">the Daily Mail</a>, we have already reached the end of the age of antibiotics…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>A high-ranking official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared in an interview with PBS that the age of antibiotics has come to an end.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>‘For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics, question mark?”‘ said Dr Arjun Srinivasan. ‘Well, now I would say you can change the title to “The end of antibiotics, period.”’</i></span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And all over the world the number of people becoming infected with these superbugs is rapidly growing.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact, right now <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/more-23-000-killed-superbugs-us-each-year-cdc-says-8C11167661" target="_blank">23,000</a> people a year are being killed by these superbugs in the United States alone…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>More than two million people are infected by drug-resistant germs each year, and 23,000 die of their infections, federal health officials reported Monday. The biggest killer by far is C. difficile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its first big overview of a growing problem.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Doctors have been warning of the problem for decades, yet up to half the prescriptions written for antibiotics are unnecessary, the CDC report says. And all these unneeded antibiotics are making the superbug problem worse.</i></span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Most Americans have never even heard of many of these superbugs, but they can be extremely deadly…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>C. difficile has become a scourge of hospitals and infection is often made possible when patients are heavily treated with antibiotics to fight other infections. It can cause unstoppable diarrhea and the<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/sounds-gross-works-great-fecal-transplants-cure-nasty-c-diff-1C6436545" target="_blank"> latest treatment</a> doesn’t even involve antibiotics, but a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/fecal-transplant-mom-cures-ailing-toddler-1C6600023" target="_blank">transplant of so-called good bacteria</a> from healthy patients.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>CREs are a group of bacteria that resist even the strongest antibiotics. They include Klebsiella pneumoniae, which saw its infection rate <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/more-bad-news-about-nightmare-bacteria-cdc-says-1C8701174" target="_blank">jump 550 percent</a> between 2001 and 2011.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>“CRE is a nightmare bacteria we reported on in March, bacteria that can resist virtually all antibiotics,” Frieden said.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Gonorrhea may not be immediately life-threatening, but it’s developing resistance to the drugs that used to easily treat it.<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/settle-down-no-sex-superbug-us-despite-reports-6C9802756" target="_blank"> Patients can be left infertile</a>, and, in January, Canadian researchers reported that seven percent of patients <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/health/untreatable-gonorrhea-threat-rises-u-s-canada-1B7898279" target="_blank">weren’t cured</a> by the only pill left to treat gonorrhea.</i></span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>And this is just the tip of the iceberg. E</i>xperts are warning that we could soon see millions of people a year die from these superbugs all around the globe.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So why haven’t we heard more about this?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why is this not being widely publicized?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some are suggesting that some of the governments of the western world are engaged in an effort to keep this under wraps. For example, just check out what has been going on <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/11/17/ottawa-blocking-information-on-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-infecting-thousands-of-canadians-each-year-scientists-say/" target="_blank">in Canada</a>…</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The federal government is hobbling efforts to control antibiotic-resistant microbes by sitting on reports about bacteria that sicken and kill thousands of Canadians each year, several doctors say.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Infectious disease experts say Ottawa is treating national microbial surveillance reports like “sensitive government documents.” And the doctors are so frustrated, they are releasing the data they can obtain on their own website.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Otherwise, it’s years before we see it on the federal website,” says Dr. Mark Joffe, president of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada (AMMI), which represents physicians, clinical microbiologists and researchers.</span></b></blockquote>
<b><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What would the motivation be for doing this?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Are they trying to avoid panic?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or is a more sinister motive at work here?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ultimately, this is a crisis that is only going to get worse as time goes by.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Antibiotic-resistant superbugs are rapidly spreading and becoming more powerful.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meanwhile, scientists all over the world are telling us that there is not a thing that they can do to stop them.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u><a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/Scientists%3A_We_Can%E2%80%99t_Do_Anything_About_The_Antibiotic-Resistant_Superbugs_That_Will_Soon_Kill_Millions_Of_Us/30441/0/38/38/Y/M.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">http://www.blacklistednews.com/Scientists-We_Cant_Do_Anything_About_The_Antibiotic-Resistant_Superbugs_That_Will_Soon_Kill_Millions</span></a></u></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00264655900013055987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061474410921182537.post-45177161085993445982013-11-19T11:27:00.001-06:002013-11-19T11:27:07.829-06:00Only 8.5 Trillion Not Accounted For?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ve repeatedly documented that military waste and fraud are the core problems with the U.S. economy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, we’ve noted that we wouldn’t be in this crisis of hitting the debt ceiling in the first place if we hadn’t spent so much money on unnecessary wars … which are horrible for the economy.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it goes far beyond actual fighting. We could easily slash the military and security budget without reducing our national security.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, homeland security agencies wasted money on seminars like “Did Jesus Die for Klingons Too?” and training for a “zombie apocalypse” instead of actually focusing on anti-terror efforts.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Republican Senator Tom Coburn notes that the Department of Defense can reduce $67.9 billion over 10 years by eliminating the non-defense programs that have found their way into the budget for the Department of Defense.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BusinessWeek and Bloomberg point out that we could slash military spending without harming our national security. Indeed, we could slash boondoggles that even the generals don’t want.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BusinessWeek provides a list of cost-cutting measures which will not undermine national security. American Conservative does the same.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moreover, we’ve shown that the military wastes and “loses” (cough) trillions of dollars. See this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(see story for all of the actual links--alexis)</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former Secretary of Defense acknowledged in May 2012 that the DOD “is the only major federal agency that cannot pass an audit today.” The Pentagon will not be ready for an audit for another five years, according to Panetta.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reuters quantifies these numbers today:</span></b><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China’s economic output last year.</span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-11-18/%E2%80%9C85-trillion-taxpayer-money-doled-out-congress-pentagon-1996-%E2%80%A6-has-never-been" target="_blank">http://www.zerohedge.com/85-trillion-taxpayer-money-doled-pentagon-never-been</a></span></b></i><br />
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