Politisite: May 2009

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Free Market Response to the ABC News / Obamacare Infomercial

Based upon the tremendous work and the town hall meetings started across the nation by Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin on the issue of health care reform, they have been asked to participate in the Free Market Response to the ABC News / Obamacare Infomercial. The event is scheduled to take place Wednesday, June 24, 12:00 Eastern, in Room 210, of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The event is sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform, Media Research Center and the Health Care Freedom Coalition. The panel will be chaired by Grover Norquist. Panelists include Congressman Tom Price, Senator Jim DeMint, Doug Holtz-Eakin, Ph.D.: Why Government Health Care Is Expensive and CBO Is Correct, Merrill Matthews, Ph.D. (CAHI): Why a Government Plan Is a Bad Idea, Greg Scandlen, (CHCC): Why Mandates Are Bad Ideas, Victor Schwartz, Esq.: Medical Malpractice Reform, Rick Scott (Conservatives for Patients Rights): Grassroots Update, Amy Menefee (Patients United Now): Grassroots Update, Amy Kremer and Jenny Beth Martin (Tea Party Patriots): Grassroots Update.

As a fledgling organization operating on a shoestring budget, we need your help. Amy and Jenny Beth just returned from a road trip to D.C. for the Health Care Town Hall at their own expense, and we're looking for a few generous folks willing to help them fund this return trip on short notice. If you can help with a donation (non-tax deductible), please contact me at mark@teapartypatriots.org, and I will help to arrange the donations. We apologize for the short notice, but we need to know today so we can book flights and make all the arrangements.

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Mark Meckler
National Coordinator
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Sacramento - Organizer Email: Mark.grassroots@gmail.com              Ph:    530-274-9900
Twitter: @markmeckler                              Cell: 530-210-6080
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Monday, June 22, 2009

V.A. Hospital: a Model for health Care? Not if you have Cancer

V.A. Hospital: a Model for health Care? Not if you have Cancer

For patients with prostate cancer, it is a common surgical procedure: a doctor implants dozens of radioactive seeds to attack the disease. But when Dr. Gary D. Kao treated one patient at the veterans’ hospital in Philadelphia, his aim was more than a little off.

Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient’s healthy bladder, not the prostate.

It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but disappear.

He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the prostate, investigators said.

The revision may have made Dr. Kao look better, but it did nothing for the patient, who had to undergo a second implant. It failed, too, resulting in an unintended dose to the rectum. Regulators knew nothing of this second mistake because no one reported it.

On a personal note, I am a former health care provider for the VA. I am also a patient. Recently I went to see my doctor for medication renewal and found my Harvard Doctor had been replaced by a nurse pracicioner who did not have the scope of practice to treat all of my disabilities. She was unable to write perscritions for some of my medications. What happened next was that one of my medications I had been on for nearly ten years was not refilled. If this medication is stopped abruptly, serious side affects can result. During a 90 mile drive, the reactions was so strong that I lost control of my vehicle and ran off the road. I became quite dizzy and had vertigo that could have been deadly to myself and others.

The concern is that if this type of treatment is hapening to other veterans due to budget issues, how much more dangerious would it become if the VA Modality is used for Health Care Reform? Not too long ago in several VA Medical Centers, endoscopy equipment was not properly sterialized and thousand of Veterans were exposed to HIV, Hepititis, and other deseases.

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Failed Prostate Procedures at the Philadelphia V.A. Document Reader: Inside a Patient’s Medical Records

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Columbia assault victim, Nettie Britt is Young Republicans leader

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Columbia Police are investigating an assault that occurred at a residence on Luvalie Street.

The victim is a Young Republicans leader in Richland County. The Richland County GOP says Nettie Britts is in intensive care with a fractured skull.

It happened sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning.

The suspect broke into her home, and the statement released by the party says Britts woke up with a gun to her head. It's thought that the suspect then hit her with a gun numerous times.

Columbia Police are asking for this community and all communities to be vigilant and to report any suspicious behavior by calling 911.

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Friday, June 19, 2009

News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media

by Judy Gombita – June 19, 2009 · Audience, Communication, Culture, Journalists, Media, Social media, Web 2.0 -

I’m briefly interrupting the wonderful debate on CPRS’s new definition of public relations to let you know that a new, two-part CBC Radio show, produced by Ira Basen (of Spin Cycles fame), begins on Sunday, June 21st: News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media.

Both segments are one hour in length. Part one will air at 11 a.m. North American ET. Part two is slated for Sunday, June 28, 2009, but note that this segment is slated to begin one hour earlier, at 10 a.m. NA ET.

Canadians can tune in via conventional radio (part of the Sunday Report show) in any of the four time zones. International listeners can use the web-based live stream for CBC Radio One. It is also available to subscribers of satellite at Sirius Radio 137. A link to the show should go live this weekend.

Just like Spin cycles, the two-parts will eventually be available as audio files off of the dedicated website; however, first the tapes need to be re-mixed, to delete copyrighted music. (Ira Basen chooses his musical accompaniements with great care, and assures me that “The radio version will be better.”)

The first program, on Sunday, June 21, 2009, features:

- Paul Sullivan, formerly of Orato.com
- Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur
- Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody
- Paul Gillin, author of The New Influencers

The second program, on Sunday, June 28, 2009, features

- Kirk Lapointe, The Vancouver Sun
- Mathew Ingram, Community Manager, Globe and Mail
- Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine and author of What Would Google Do?
- Jay Rosen, PressThink
- Michael Tibbet, NowPublic.com

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DeMint: Boxer Is "Loose Cannon" Who "Speaks Before She Thinks"

California Senator Boxer scolded a General for calling her Ma'am yesturday. She related to the General that she sould be identified as "Senator" as she worked so hard to get that title. Senator Boxer must be unaware that under military protocol an officer who is haigher in rank is called "sir or Maam" Interesting enough that She did not refer to him as General in the rebuke. It should be noted as well that the General also called Male senators Sir.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) opined Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) demanding a general to call her "Senator" at a hearing yesterday.

Mr. DeMint called Mrs. Boxer "a loose cannon."

"For her to try to embarrass him in front of the public -- I just can't put up for that kind of thing -- if people think too much of themselves," he said.

He added that "ma'am" is "the highest title" -- higher than senator or congressman.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Stimulus Package full of Pork Barrel Spending (See List)

Sen. Tom Coburn is offering a GOP counterpoint to a recent White House report that extolled the early successes of the $787 billion stimulus program.

The White House report focused on 100 projects that administration officials believe demonstrate the wisdom of the massive fast-spending effort to jolt the economy back to health.

Coburn's report essentially says "Wait one minute there, fellas." It's called "A Second Opinion on the Stimulus," and it features 100 projects that the senator and his staff believe show the waste and foolishness of some stimulus spending.

An LA Times story this morning says the report "contends the Obama administration's stimulus program is fraught with waste and incompetence -- evidenced by a turtle crossing in northern Florida that will cost more than $3 million and a snafu in which thousands of Social Security checks went out to people who had died."

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Monday, June 15, 2009

David Letterman issues a full Appology for Palin Joke

David Letterman issues a full Appology for his Palin Joke on tonights Late Show with David Letterman. Since this is what conservatives and others have asked of him, one might concider his apology as valid. During the unscripted racially charged joke given by Don Imus on Imus in the Morning no amont of appologising seemed to make those concerned happy. One hopes that America has moved beyond that and will accept the apparnt heart felt appology of Mr. Letterman. Still groups intend to picket his studios despite the appology. "he made the joke and he can't take it back" said one in a womans group near New York. Hopefully folks understand what the word forgiveness really means.

I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception" of the joke by viewers, he said during Monday's taping of "Late Night with David Letterman," according to a transcript given to Reuters.

"And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke," he said. "It's not your fault that it was misunderstood, it's my fault."

"I would like to apologize especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I'm sorry about it and I'll try to do better in the future," he said.

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Obama Woo's Doctors on Health Care Reform - Consider the VA

The New York Times is rporting on Todays speech to The American Medical Association (AMA) on Government Health Care Reform. Many appear skeptical over the Government intervention on any front these days. One should look at past and present take overs by the government and review the sucess rates of each. Many concider Veterans medical care as an example of what Obama-care would look like. The Militray Medical insurance systems as well as the Veterans health care turned to Quanity of care rather then Quality of care as a matter of record in the early 90s. The auto take overs should look at AMTRAK and the Banks should look at Government accounting. Many as does this writer has reservations on the Governments ability to do anything at resaonble costs of efficently.

WASHINGTON — President Obama took his health care overhaul proposal to one of its more skeptical audiences, telling doctors at the American Medical Association conference in Chicago that the United States is “not a nation that accepts nearly 46 million uninsured men, women and children.”

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Mr. Obama’s much-anticipated address appeared carefully calibrated to woo doctors to support — or at least, to not actively oppose — his sweeping health proposals. He also sought to reassure doctors who are skittish about his proposal for a government-run insurance plan as one option from which consumers could choose.

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Famous People Top 20 stupidest Quotes

(On September 17, 1994, Alabama's Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.)
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?
Answer: 'I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,'
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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'Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.'
--Mariah Carey
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'Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,'
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign .
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'I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body,'
--Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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'Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country,'
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'That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it,'
--A congressional candidate in Texas .
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'Half this game is ninety percent mental.'
--Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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'It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.'
--Al Gore, Vice President
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'I love California . I practically grew up in Phoenix .'
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'We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need ?'
--Lee Iacocca
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'The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.'

--Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst.
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'We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.'
-- Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instrutor.
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'Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances.'
--Department of Social Services, Greenville , South Carolina
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'Traditionally, most of Australia 's imports come from overseas.'
--Keppel Enderbery
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'If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record.'
--Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Report details recent North Korea terror links to Iran & Hezbolla

A CRS Report on North Korea requested to be updated by the office Senator DeMint details the the most recent links Pyongyang has to supporting terrorism. The report contains information on recent evidence that North Korea is working with terrorists groups like Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) and Hezbollah. North Korea was taken off of the State Sponsors of Terrorism list in October of 2008, not because they had stopped supporting terrorism, but in misplaced hopes by the Bush Administration that it would encourage Pyongyang would stop their pursuit of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

Last week, Senator DeMint led a group of senators that wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, urging her to relist North Korea as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. They also introduced an amendment to force the Obama Administration into action, but Majority Leader Harry did not allowed a vote.

This past Sunday, Secretary Clinton was on ABC News and was asked to respond to the senators' letter:

Asked whether she had evidence of the North's support for international terrorism, Clinton said: "We're just beginning to look at it. I don't have an answer for you right now."

Here are some examples of the North Korea's latest terror links from the CRS report:

[PAGE 21] North Korea’s relationship with the IRG appears to be in two areas: (1) coordination in support for Hezbollah and (2) cooperation in ballistic missile development. Reports also suggest that North Korea cooperates with the IRG and other Iranian entities in the development of nuclear capabilities or nuclear weapons.

[PAGE 22] State Department’s Fact Sheet asserted that the IRG “has assisted Hizballah [Hezbollah] in rearming” since the 2006 war, presumably including the supply of new longer-range missiles described by the 2008 Israeli intelligence estimate.

[PAGE 23] Later in 2006, it was reported that North Korea had made an initial shipment to Iran of its new Musudan intermediate range missile. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated in November 2007 that North Korea had supplied Iran with missiles with a range of 1,562 miles (probably the Musudan). North Korea and Iran reportedly carried out joint tests of the Musudan. In April 2008, several publications reported the existence of a new Iranian missile research and development site that had the same appearance as North Korea’s Taepodong missile assembly facility inside North Korea.

Several reports in 2009 described Iran seeking and receiving the assistance of North Korean missile technicians in preparing to launch a missile bearing an artificial satellite. The launch on February 2, 2009, was successful. A delegation of up to 15 Iranians, from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (a company connected with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards), reportedly were observers at the site of North Korea’s test of a Taepodong II long-range missile on April 5, 2009. Officials from this company and IRG officials reportedly also had observed North Korea’s missile launches of July 4, 2006.

[PAGE 26] The Sankei Shinbun report of July 12, 2008, also described two visits of high level Iranian officials to North Korea in February and May 2008. The Iranian delegation included officials of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization and National Security Council. The apparent purpose of these visits, according to the report, was to ensure that North Korea would maintain secrecy about its nuclear collaboration with Iran in its negotiations with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill.

The Sankei Shimbun report of September 12, 2008, also described two forms of non-nuclear military cooperation between Iran and North Korea inside Syria. One of these reportedly involves North Korean scientists and military personnel working with Iranian and Syrian counterparts at a chemical weapons plant in northern Syria. The second reportedly involves a plan by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to deploy small, North Korean-made submarines in a military port in Syria.

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Keep digging, Rev. Wright: Them Zionists

Keep digging, Rev. Wright: Them Zionists By Michelle Malkin • June 11, 2009 04:30 PM

The more Jeremiah Wright opens his mouth, the more he sounds like…well, James Von Brunn. Or vice versa.

Sammy Benoit points to the new “clarification” of Rev. Wright’s “Them Jews” jibe:

Yesterday President Obama’s former religious mentor the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said “Them Jews Aren’t Going to Let Him [Obama] Talk To Me” Today he corrected himself. When Interviewed on “Make it Plain” with Mark Thompson, he said I didn’t mean ALL Jews just Zionists.

Ohhhhhhh. Well, that clears things up!

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Where is the liberal or feminist outrage when

Consider this for a moment -

Why is it there is no liberal (or feminist) outrage when:

1) Playboy runs an article defaming several prominent conservative women, fantasing about raping them.
2) Carrie Prejean is attacked for espousing a revolutionary concept - that marriage is a union between a man and woman.
3) David Letterman makes fun of Sarah Palin’s daughter, suggesting “A-rod” would impregnate her during the baseball game.

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Monday, June 08, 2009

So What Do You Do, Candy Crowley?

So What Do You Do, Candy Crowley? Although she's "grown to love journalism," CNN's Candy Crowley started out with far different plansBy Brian Stelter – February 5, 2007

Candy Crowley began her career as a gopher at WASH-FM in Washington, and has risen all the way to senior political correspondent at CNN. Along the road, she's worked everywhere from UPI and Mutual Broadcasting to the AP and NBC. Not bad for someone who's a writer at heart and only got into the TV business because it "fulfilled the need to have a paycheck." TVNewser's Brian Stelter caught up with Crowley to ask about her career.
Name: Candy Crowley
Position: Senior political correspondent, CNN
Company: Turner
Education: Randolph-Macon Women's College
Hometown: born in Michigan, raised in St. Louis

Did you always want to be a journalist?
I always wanted to be a writer. But the problem with being a writer is, unless you've written your first book, they don't pay you a whole lot to sit at your house and write. So this fulfilled the need to have a paycheck. And since then I've grown to love journalism.

But the first motivation was the motivation to write.
Well I always liked history papers more than I liked English essays. I was always driven toward true things, as opposed to fiction.

How'd you get your foot in the door?
My first job was at WASH-FM when it was a MetroMedia station in Washington. I just worked this minimum wage split shift thing. Basic gopher work, calling around to find out what happened the night before.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Ex-KGB agent pleads against deportation

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Yep, Aint Canada, just a friggin peach? When a Russian family legally immigrates to Canada from Russia in the late 1990s, with the father telling Canadian immigration officials his induction into the KGB, cause as anyon know, if the KGB call you better join or else. There are no indications the Man did anything wrong criminally than serve his country as a translator for the KGB, such as wiretaps. Every country in the world do it. The man should be allowed to stay and not be treated as a criminal and deported.

Certainly not the case with hundreds of immigrant criminal elements currently living under false pretenses and walking our streets who are welcomed with open arms by our government who know exactly what these people are doing and continue to do.

One can only surmise if this Russian Immigrant stated, he helped Blow up a plane full of Asian passengers over the coast of Ireland (Air India), or perhaps sent their entire family to Afghanistan to join Bin Laden and kill innocent men, women, children (Khadr Family), or gunned down Vancouverittes because they wanted to control the drug trade (UN Ganga and Red Scorpions), My goodness the list is endless of the immigrant criminals who came to this country bent on destroying our culture or ensuring other cultures in far off lands cease to exist. Mind you these hundreds if not thousands of criminals in Canada were not forced to join these criminal enterprises, but joined willingly.

The man and his family make Canada their home, the man gets a decent job, not welfare, his son is an A student, Then their world comes crashing down. Flashback to the present has the Federal Government rethinking it's decision to let him stay, but then when your as Lily White as the Driven Snow, your rights are trumped by the Rich Fabric of Multicultural Diversity Canada has come to be. And that is the real Criminal Element.

Some will think of this post as Racist, when in truth when you background check all the criminal elements allowed to stay in this Province, the facts are crystal clear!

OTTAWA — After travelling to the nation's capital from their home in Burnaby, B.C., former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov, his wife and son overcame nerves and shyness Tuesday to plead their case for allowing a loving family to stay together and live in Canada.

The decision to try to meet face-to-face with two federal ministers who could keep the family together was spurred by a June 3 deportation order hanging over Lennikov's head.

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North Korea threatens attacks on South

North Korea has threatened to attack the South following checks for weapons of mass destruction on its naval fleet.

Pyonyang was already facing internationals after the nuclear test at the weekend but this unequivocal act of war is being seen as a major escalation in the North's international relations.

The threat is thought to have been provoked after Seoul joined a US-led initiative to check vessels suspected of carrying nuclear equipment.

A North Korean army spokesman also said the country was not obliged to maintain the armistice signed at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War because Washington had ignored its responsibility as a signatory by drawing South Korea into its naval initiative.

The threat comes after South Korean media reported that Pyongyang had restarted the Yongbyon plant that makes weapons-grade plutonium.

A spokesman for the North's army said: "Any hostile act against our peaceful vessels including search and seizure will be considered an unpardonable infringement on our sovereignty and we will immediately respond with a powerful military strike."

South Korea had confirmed it was joining the naval exercise, called the Proliferation Security Initiative.

Pyongyang also appeared to have fired a third short-range missile after it added to tensions with a launch of two others.

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Monday, May 25, 2009

Red Bull Cola energy drink banned for containing cocaine

Cocaine was removed from Coca Cola and replaced with Caffine in 1903. But in a recent test in Germany the "high"ly popular RED BULL was found to contain traces of cocaine. One might say that it is the REAL Coke.

Officials in Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia and Rhineland-Palatinate have banned the drink after health officials noted trace amounts of cocaine in cans of the cola.

"The coke is not harmful, but it violates food law," said Thomas Schulz, a spokesman for the Thuringian Ministry of Health.

The North Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Health and Work (LIGA) found traces of cocaine, from a leaf stem that had supposedly had all the cocaine extracted from it. Therefore, according to the ministry, the cola should not be be classified as a food product, but falls instead under the jurisdiction of the German Narcotics Act.

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