Today's lung Bronchoscopy
had mixed results. The pulmonologist seemed pretty concerned after it was over.
The good news is that the slough (dead cells called "sluff") is
decreasing, and they will debride more at the surgical bronchoscopy scheduled with
Dr. Maloney, my surgeon, for Friday, 4/11. The bad news is it leaving scar
tissue that is building up. Good if it strengthens the airway wall to prevent
dynamic collapse when I breathe in, but bad if it builds enough to block the
airway. Hard to tell now. They will likely try more balloons expanded in the
lung to stretch it. No telling how all this works. The before picture of the
stent was so covered in mucus that it looked like a complete gray blockage of
the air intake--no wonder I pant hard getting dressed. He leaned at as much as
he could get. If recent history is a guide this will improve things for a few
days, then get worse as it collects again. So a long term prognosis is
basically just guess work, so thy avoid it, for good reason. But almost every
lung transplant patient I've met or talked with has had some problems, rarely a
straight forward recovery. It's a complex, difficult and high-risk procedure,
despite a great medical team. In any case, Charlie Med is standing by, I'm
fighting like hell, the enemy is in the wire and I'm on the horn to arty. Thanks
as always for everyone's kind words, support and prayers. I'm reminded every
day how fortunate I am, to have lived to 68 (on 4/15), to have been born in a
free-market, western society, to have had sucha great family, to have had the
support of the voters in my district every time I ran and to have earned the
privilege of wearing the Marine uniform. Our pastor had to conduct a funeral
this week for a 3-month old girl who died suddenly of heart failure. I'd pull
an oxygen tank 30 years and go through three lung transplants before having to
face what that family just did, so prayers for them too. Semper Fidelis. ~Hall,
Out.
Healthy SOS for Old Vets
Good
Column: The Seven Red Lines That Matter. By
Andy Weddington
Excerpt:
What struck me while reading, and thinking about national defense (and
protecting others), is that no other creature deliberately postures itself
to be weak - survival demands otherwise. To cower means one thing - to
become a meal. And inevitably extinction.
Excerpt: There are several race and sex issues that need
addressing. Let's look at a few of them with an ear to these questions: Should
we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment? And just how equal are people by
race and sex in the first place? According to the National Institutes of Health, male
infants 1 to 3 months old should be fed 472 to 572 calories per day,
whereas their female counterparts should receive 438 to 521 calories per day.
That's an official sex-based caloric 10 percent rip-off of baby females. In
addition to this government-sanctioned war on women, one wonders whether the
NIH has a race-based caloric rip-off where they recommend that black newborns
receive fewer calories than white newborns.
Excerpt: The IRS’s ongoing effort to stifle conservative
speech is only the latest in 60 years of Democrat efforts to marginalize
conservatives. In this latest
attempt, the Democrats have proved willing to give up several valued parts
of their agenda – including funding for pre-kindergarten, funds for
the IMF, and more dollars for ObamaCare – in order to keep proposed
new IRS rules that would institutionalize the harassment of tea party
groups currently under investigation.
How Foreign Is Our Policy?: Part II. By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Would Vladimir Putin have sent Russian troops so
boldly into Ukraine
if the Ukrainians still had nuclear missiles? The nuclear disarming of Japan and Ukraine shows how easy it is to
disarm peaceful nations -- making them more vulnerable to those who are not
peaceful.
Fighting
for Independence
Excerpt:
The elections for the European Parliament are coming up in a few short weeks,
and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) is currently surging in the
opinion polls. Our British correspondent JP sends a couple of samples of
commentary on UKIP and the EU, and includes this note: 'Here’s evidence of the
UKIP surge in action — see the following best-placed comment for depth of
passion, particularly the closing paragraph.'
Excerpt:
Which brings us to Putingate, the latest
Nigel-fluff that the Westminster elite is convinced will sink him.
Right to the bottom of the ocean. Farage’s sin was to say that he admires Putin
as a political leader, although not as a
human being. Why this is controversial, I have literally no idea. Farage made
it abundantly clear that he regards the Russian leader as a despot (“How many
journalists in jail now?”); he simply thinks that he outwitted Obama on Syria
Excerpt:
Reports today that David Cameron is planning to ban the Muslim Brotherhood from operating in Britain Downing
Street has shown an alarming tendency to support the protests
erroneously known as the Arab Spring without giving any serious thought to the
likely consequences of their action.
British
sniper in Afghanistan
A
British sniper in Afghanistan killed
six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a
suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt. The
20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target
from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and five others
around him caught in the blast.
VIDEO:
The Twelver Apocaplyse. By Baron Bodissey
Excerpt:
Andrew Bostom has written a new book, Iran’s Final Solution for
Israel: The Legacy of Jihad and Shi’ite Islamic Jew-Hatred in Iran.
In it he analyzes jihad and Jew-hatred in the Persian theocracy over the course
of history. In his view, the relatively secular Pahlavi dynasty in the 20th
century was an anomalous interval in an otherwise continuous history of
apocalyptic Shi’a jihad in Iran Persia
Global
Warming Will Cause War, Pestilence, Famine and Death Says New IPCC Report
Inevitably. By James Delingpole
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/31/Global-Warming-Will-Cause-War-Pestilence-Famine-and-Death-Says-New-IPCC-Report-Inevitably
Excerpt: The real take-home story of the new report we already learned last week: that the latest estimates of the economic costs of "climate change" are considerably lower than previous projections; so much lower, in fact, that the costs could be offset by just a month's global economic growth. It's to obscure this inconvenient truth that the Big Green Propaganda Machine will now be cranking into overdrive. Over the next few days - watch and listen: they'll be all over the MSM like a suppurating pox rash - "expert" after "expert" will be dragged out of the woodwork to testify that, no, this time it's serious and as a measure of the serious seriousness of it all it's really about time we silenced those Big-Oil-funded climate deniers for good.
Excerpt: The real take-home story of the new report we already learned last week: that the latest estimates of the economic costs of "climate change" are considerably lower than previous projections; so much lower, in fact, that the costs could be offset by just a month's global economic growth. It's to obscure this inconvenient truth that the Big Green Propaganda Machine will now be cranking into overdrive. Over the next few days - watch and listen: they'll be all over the MSM like a suppurating pox rash - "expert" after "expert" will be dragged out of the woodwork to testify that, no, this time it's serious and as a measure of the serious seriousness of it all it's really about time we silenced those Big-Oil-funded climate deniers for good.
Real
Housewives of Jeddah. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt:
Two weeks ago ABC announced a new series: "Alice
in Arabia " is a high-stakes drama series
about a rebellious American teenage girl who, after tragedy befalls her
parents, is unknowingly kidnapped by her extended family, who are Saudi
Arabian. ... Sounds interesting - and not untrue to life: more than a few
children of western-Arab marriages have wound up shanghaied back to Saudi. But
then the professional grievance mongers got wind of it:
Excerpt: A local couple called 10News concerned after they
received an envelope from the state's Obamacare website, Covered
California. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a
registration card pre-marked with an "x" in the box next to
Democratic Party. The couple – who did not want their identity revealed –
received the letter and voter registration card from their health insurance
provider Covered California ,
the state-run agency that implements President Obama's Affordable Care Act.
(Hey, North Korea
per-marks the ballots for the only party, and they get 100% turnout and
Young-Un gets 100% of the vote. Just doing what works for all-powerful
government. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Continuing its steady and unrelenting assault on
the laws that limit the ability of wealthy Americans to influence the course of
electoral campaigns, the Supreme
Court today declared that regulations that limit the aggregate amount
donors can give to electoral campaigns in a single election cycle are
unconstitutional. This is a campaign finance limit you probably haven’t thought
much about, and it’s one that affects a relatively small number of donors (at
least up until now). (Opinion disguised as news. ~Bob)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Now, it was always foolhardy for Republicans and conservatives
to stake their objections to Obamacare on the number of sign-ups; Social
Security is going bankrupt despite 100% enrollment. The reality is that Obama
was always destined to hit his required numbers because, after all, he has
the power of government to compel action. The real problem with
Obamacare has little to do with the number of people signing up, and a lot to
do with the restrictions on insurance companies and reimbursement rates to
doctors. Nonetheless, the 7.1 million statistic is a meaningless one. It’s
meaningless for a variety of reasons:
Did Michigan
Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented
effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that
gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes. At issue
is what's known as a "constitutional convention," a scenario tucked
into Article V of the U.S. Constitution.... “Based
on several reports and opinions, Michigan might
be the 34th state to issue such a call and therefore presents the
constitutionally-required number of states to begin the process of achieving a
balanced budget amendment,” Hunter wrote. (Be careful what you wish for. A
convention packed with progressives could be brought about by the power of the
media and Obama controlling government--and could eliminate the Second
Amendment and other guarantees of freedom. ~Bob)
The War on Poverty — $21 Trillion Later. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: Fifty years and trillions of dollars after the “War
on Poverty” was launched, poor Americans aren’t much better off, according to a
study published by Republican reformers in Congress. The War on Poverty has
barely made a dent in actual poverty, states the 205-page report unveiled last
month by the House Budget Committee, which is chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan
(R-Wisc.). (How can you say the "war on Poverty" was a failure, when
it fed billions in tax dollars to Democrat interest groups to reward their
support, just as it was intended to do? ~Bob)
Excerpt: The reason we have so many problems in health care
is that almost everywhere we look, people face perverse incentives — patients,
doctors, employers, employees, etc. When they respond to those incentives they
do things that make costs higher, quality lower, and access to care more
difficult than otherwise would have been the case. At the root of those
perverse incentives is bad public policy.
School Employee Tells
Five-Year-Old She Can’t Pray For Lunch
Excerpt: Lawyers from Liberty Institute fired
a stern letter on Apr. 1 to administrators at Carillon Elementary School in Oviedo , Florida
At least 81 dead
people have been voting in North
Carolina
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/at-least-81-dead-people-have-been-voting-in-north-carolina/#ixzz2xlWHCwgJ
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/at-least-81-dead-people-have-been-voting-in-north-carolina/#ixzz2xlWHCwgJ
Excerpt: The North Carolina State Board of Elections
indicated that voter fraud may be at play in a report Wednesday after finding 81 instances
of the names of dead people on voting rolls on dates later than their deaths….
But the State Board of Elections reported finding other instances of potential
fraud: they found 765 instances of voters in North Carolina who also voted in
another state in the 2012 general election.
Report points to
possible voter fraud in NC
Excerpt: A report presented
Wednesday by Elections Director Kim Strach to the Joint Legislative Elections
Oversight Committee said 81 voters have a voter history later than the date of
their death. The audit further identified 13,416 deceased voters on voter rolls
in Oct. 13. ... The audit showed 155,692 registered North Carolina voters whose first and last
names, dates of birth and last four digits of their Social Security number
match those of voters registered in other states, but who most recently
registered or voted elsewhere. A total of 35,750 voters with matching first and
last names and date of birth were registered in North Carolina and another state, and voted
in both states in the 2012 general election.
Report: EPA tested
deadly pollutants on humans to push Obama admin’s agenda
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/report-epa-tested-deadly-pollutants-on-humans-to-push-obama-admins-agenda/#ixzz2xlUKGjzU
http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/02/report-epa-tested-deadly-pollutants-on-humans-to-push-obama-admins-agenda/#ixzz2xlUKGjzU
Excerpt: PM is a “mixture of harmful solid and liquid
particles” that the EPA regulates. PM that is 2.5 microns or less is known as
PM2.5, which is about “1/30th the thickness of a human hair.” These small
particles can get into people’s respiratory system and can harm human health
and even lead to death after just short-term exposure. The EPA set PM2.5
primary standards at 15 micrograms per cubic meter of air on an annual average
basis, but the agency exposed test subjects to PM levels of 600 micrograms per
cubic meter — 40 times what the EPA sets as an acceptable outdoor air standard.
But in five of the studies, people were subject to levels higher than what they
signed on for. (Not sure what they have been spraying overhead for three days
but after being immersed in a dense, oily fog this morning, my gloriously
blooming azaleas are shriveling and dying in 7 hours. --Barb.)
Video: GM’s Barra
Pleads Ignorance
Excerpt: Barra admitted to not reading all the documents
submitted by GM, and had few answers when she appeared in front of a
Congressional committee investigating GM’s recalls. ("Our success should depend not on
accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our
dreams. That's what drew our forebears here. It's how the daughter of a factory
worker is CEO of America's largest automaker." That line referred to
General Motors CEO Mary Barra, invited by
Michelle Obama to the address and sitting near the First Lady. --Jim
Geraghty, Morning Jolt.)
Liberals Can't Stand
To See Republicans Succeed In N.C.
Excerpt: If there's one state that's drawn the ire of
Democrat activists, it's North
Carolina , a blue state turned bright red, thanks to
dissatisfaction with President Obama. Liberals can't stand the fact that North
Carolinians, after voting for Obama in 2008, thought better of it and voted to
fire him in 2012, the only swing state to do so. The anti-Obama sentiment also
swept Republicans into power in both the statehouse and governor's mansion for
the first time in more than a century. (We're in the national news! I have to
say I was only partially aware of the interesting statistics about how many
improvements have gone on, like the big drop in unemployment. Of course we
don't even see all that touted in the NC media. And finding out it was Bev
Perdue who didn't tighten up on Duke Energy, not the current governor, is
really interesting. Not that I think everything the GOP has done here is great,
the marriage protection act is far too narrow, and they have other flaws as
well. But the glass is not half-empty at all, not with the lowered unemployment
and the major improvement in the business tax climate rating. I think they will
do OK again this Fall. --Del )
Obama subsidizes
private jets for high-flyers abroad. By Timothy P. Carney
Excerpt: Americans who own private jets need to pay more in taxes, President Obama argues.
So it seems odd that foreign executives riding Gulfstream jets from Shanghai to Mumbai get U.S. subsidies from Obama's
favorite export agency. The Export-Import Bank of the United States
recently announced a milestone: Under Obama, the agency has subsidized
the sale of $1 billion in private jet sales to overseas customers.
The Cost of Waiting
Times
Excerpt: How much does waiting for medical care in Canada cost?
$1.1 billion in 2013, says Nadeem Esmail, director of health policy studies at
the Fraser Institute. Waiting times -- the delay that Canadians have to suffer
before they can receive necessary medical care due to rationing -- can be
calculated in order to illustrate the burden of waiting for health care. In Canada , the
average wait time per patient was 9.6 weeks.
Gov. Scott Walker
refuses to take down religious tweet
Excerpt: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes he can do all
things through Christ, but an atheist group charges that he cannot do all
things through Christ on his official social media platforms. The Freedom From
Religion Foundation has demanded Walker remove posts from his official Facebook
and Twitter feeds that read, “Philippians 4:13.”
Excerpt: California
is the lifestyle incubator of the nation. And now the trendy anti-Semitic
thuggery that debuted at California ’s public
universities has metastasized across America , all the way to the elite
halls of Vassar.
A World War of Community Organizers. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: War is what Obama does best. The War on Women. War
on Poverty. Class War. Race War. Walk up to a union member snoozing on a bus, a
Latino man crossing the street, a gay cowboy poet earning minimum wage, and
community organize him along with a few hundred thousand others into the latest
battle in the social justice war that never ends. (A very insightful view of
how things work, and the comparisons and contrasts between Putin and Obama. Some
will call it a radical attack, but it seems to make good sense to me. --Del )
While I do not pretend that the Israelis never make any
mistakes, by and large they bend over backwards to be humanitarian, the prisons
that hold the assorted Palestinians who are there for crimes including horrific
murders of Jews are closer to being a resort with locks than the kind of
prisons we put our violent criminals in. But that the world is still well
equipped with fervent anti-Semites is all too true, even beyond the fanatic
Jew-hating Muslim radicals. And the UN is the place that has been the great
playground for anti-Israeli propaganda for decades now. (The only country that
gets even a fraction of the attacks Israel gets is, wait for it....
Yes! the good old USA .
Why we pay so much to support the UN has been a mystery to me for many years.)
UN's musical
chairs: Richard Falk’s wife is top nominee for a post on the Human Rights
Council. By Hillel Neuer
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/UNs-musical-chairs-344116
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/UNs-musical-chairs-344116
Excerpt: As UN chief Ban Ki-moon today joins foreign
ministers from around the world in Geneva
to inaugurate a month-long session of the United Nations Human Rights Council,
he should tell the 47-nation body to stop a controversial appointment that will
expose itself to ridicule. The secretary-general is surely looking forward to
the upcoming exit of Richard Falk, the council’s pro-Hamas investigator of “Israel ’s
violations of the principles and bases of international law.” (And the game
goes on at the UN, as the article explains. --Del )
CODE
PINK PHOTOGRAPH: Obama Admin Considers Texting Fat People to Remind Them They
Are Overweight
Excerpt:
The Washington Free Beacon’s Elizabeth Harrington reported last week that NIH
had spent nearly $3,000,000 in recent years to fund studies looking into the
possibility of using text messages and web tools to treat obesity. That sort of
Big Government intrusion into your mobile phone might strike you as outrageous.
But that’s not even the half of it.
Excerpt:
Weakness begets contempt, and you can’t blame the rest of the world for
assuming that only a profoundly weak, sickly
country would put the likes of Barack Obama and John Kerry in charge of foreign
policy. As Obama and Kerry pave the way to
Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullahs repay us with a gob of saliva in America’s face: 'Iran has named a member of
the militant group that held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran for 444 days to be
its next ambassador to the United Nations.'
Islamizing
Britain
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-bawer/islamizing-britains-schools/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/bruce-bawer/islamizing-britains-schools/
Excerpt:
The most important single element of stealth Islamization is the effort to
convert Western schools from centers of secular education into hubs of Islamic
indoctrination. Fortunately, there are plenty of dhimmi teachers and school
administrators eager to help out, convinced that they’re serving the interests
of multicultural peace and harmony. These days, for some reason, this form of
dhimmitude seems to be most prevalent – and to take its acutest form – in England
Excerpt: Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanese terror organization Hizballah, announced in recent days that he does not seek conflict
with Israel , but quickly
added that in the long-run, armed conflict with Israel was the only path forward.
Hagel Mulls Banning
Smoking in Military
Excerpt: Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gave his
support Monday to moves by the services to consider banning tobacco
sales on bases and ships. (I used to smoke and encourage everyone to stop. But
there comes a time when intrusion into personal choices impacts morale. Already
the pressure on those who drink has resulted in less than 50 total Officer's
Clubs in the entire military. The Corps only had 10 Officer's Clubs as of 2009.
We can send a young man or woman to face the Taliban in a gunfight, yet we are
going to unilaterally make a decision that smoking is too dangerous? I am so
glad I retired when I did. --MasterGuns)
By Surrendering
Control Of Internet, Obama Surrenders Our Freedoms
Excerpt: Kowtowing to global pressure, President Obama has
unilaterally decided America
should give up its oversight of the Internet's most vital infrastructure.
Specifically, Obama's Commerce Department is making plans to
surrender protection of the Internet's domain name system (DNS) and the vital
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to some unknown international
bureaucrats — a dangerous abdication of authority that could take place as
early as next fall. (Even many Democrats think it's not a good idea to give
away the control of the Internet. But Obama is so far into trying to please the
world in general that he's ready to go for it. This is one of his worst ideas,
and so utterly unnecessary by any standards. I can hardly wait to see the
effects of having the "international community" taking over running
the Internet. Let's see, that means that China ,
Cuba , Venezuela , Pakistan ,
Iran ,
and lots of other enlightened nations will be voting on how people will be
allowed to use it. What could go wrong? --Del. Obama probably thinks we stole
it from the Native Americans. ~Bob)
ATF Agent Attempts to
Illegally Scan Gun Owner Forms of Pac N Arms Multiple Times – Threatens to
Revoke Dealer's License
Excerpt: Last year, Gun Owners of America warned that the "ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives) is going from dealer to dealer, copying the
information on these forms (4473), and feeding it into a database." We've
seen, in recent weeks, how this unconstitutional agency is illegally
terrorizing small business owners, such as Ares Armor, and raiding their establishments to gather information on their customers, in what many people
believe is part of the plan to create a national gun registry database. Now
comes another story out of Maine .
CIA Takes Bullet for
Obama on Benghazi
Excerpt: Deputy CIA Director Michael Morell testified before
Congress this morning that the CIA ignored a key piece of information that was
the exact opposite of what then-U.S. ambassador to the U.N Susan Rice told the
American public about Benghazi,
Libya shortly after the
attack on the U.S.
embassy compound. The CIA’s station in chief in Libya wrote an email on Sept. 15,
2012 to Morell that the attack was “not an escalation of protests” and there
was no anti-American demonstration that sparked the attack
Daylight Saving Time
Makes Bomb Go Off Early and Kills Bomber
http://godfatherpolitics.com/15027/daylight-saving-time-makes-bomb-go-early-kills-bomber/#AoWhJab7XOV02pro.99
http://godfatherpolitics.com/15027/daylight-saving-time-makes-bomb-go-early-kills-bomber/#AoWhJab7XOV02pro.99
Excerpt: But here is a good outcome of Daylight Saving Time
that’s going to make it a little easier for me to take. I'm only sorry that a
Volvo SUV got blown to bits as well: “Police believe a device may have exploded
in Dublin on
Sunday because a gangster forget about the Daylight Saving Time change. “A
blundering bomber was being hunted last night after a powerful device he
attached to a car exploded in his face.
Disregard? FBI, military hunt ex-Army recruit
suspected of plotting 'Ft. Hood-inspired jihad'
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is searching for a recent Army
recruit believed to be planning a "Fort Hood-inspired jihad against U.S. soldiers,"
FoxNews.com has learned.... The alert, a copy of which was obtained by
FoxNews.com, was sent out by the FBI's Kansas City Division on Friday and
distributed through the U.S. Marine Corps.... The alert is titled, “Planned
Fort Hood-inspired Jihad against US Soldiers by Army Recruit” and was issued
“to inform and protect officers who may encounter this individual or others
exhibiting the same aspirations.” (Heard Hannity mention this on his broadcast
last night during reporting on incident. He said Fox had been contacted by FBI
and asked to "disregard the report" as erroneous. "Then,"
he said, "This happened." --Barb)
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity,
respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the
nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and
create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice
but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years,
primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I
realized the need to also engage in the political process.
Excerpt: Alfonso Lopez, a
Democratic candidate for Congress, slammed Fox News host Eric Bolling
for denouncing Lopez's resolution honoring the
30th anniversary of the controversial Virginia mosque. Bolling criticized
the resolution because of Dar al-Hijrah's ties to
American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and convicted Fort. Hood shooter
Nidal Hassan during a March 19 broadcast.
Government oppression
in action in this country
The video that is available through this link is the most
disturbing one I have ever heard about the use of government power to harass
honest citizens. It's 7 minutes, not long, yet far too long simply because of
the content. This is a story that should be heard by anyone who believes in America ,
and the rights of individuals, and that abuse of government power against
individuals should be anathema. If this same story had been told 7 years ago,
it would have been front page news for the NY Times and everywhere else. Please
take a look and make you own conclusions. --Del
Excerpt: The soldier who shot three people
to death at Fort Hood apparently did not see combat during a
tour in Iraq
three years ago but was clearly troubled, under treatment for depression and
anxiety and being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder. (Who knew you
could get PTSD from not seeing
combat? Given both my timing and the fact that as a Radio Relay Team Chief, i
was assigned to Regimental Headquarters, my combat exposure was keeping my head
down during a couple of rocket or mortar attacks. So I missed enough to get
disability three times over--I'm putting in! Best of all there are groups that
basically coach you in PTSD. [Do you have flashbacks? Nightmare? Trouble
sleeping? Thoughts about hurting yourself? Etc.] Once they finish asking the
questions to evaluate you, you know what to say. Read the great book Stolen Valor for more on the subject.
~Bob)
Equality Fever: Turning the Tables on the Left. By Selwyn Duke
Excerpt: If a famine befell us and you couldn’t save
everyone, would you withhold the food you had and let every citizen starve
rather than endure the inequality of just saving some? If recent history is any
guide, certain leftists just might say yes. A good example of this phenomenon
was a multiple sclerosis patient in Gothenburg, Sweden, who was
denied a more effective and expensive medication — even though he was willing
to pay for it — because, wrote columnist
Walter Williams in 2009, “bureaucrats said it would set a bad precedent and
lead to unequal access to medicine.” No wonder Winston Churchill said that
socialism’s “inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Palin, Fallon Mock
Vladimir Putin In 'Tonight Show' Skit
Too funny. ~Bob
The
Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage. By Michael Teitelbaum
Excerpt:
A compelling body of research is now available, from many leading academic researchers and
from respected research organizations such as the National Bureau of Economic
Research, the RAND Corporation, and
the Urban Institute. No
one has been able to find any evidence indicating current widespread labor
market shortages or hiring difficulties in science and engineering occupations
that require bachelors degrees or higher, although some are forecasting high growth in occupations that require
post-high school training but not a bachelors degree. All have concluded that U.S.
higher education produces far more science and engineering graduates annually
than there are S&E job openings—the only disagreement is whether it is 100
percent or 200 percent more.
Great
Legs & No Jobs: UPS Fires 250 Employees for Staging a 90-Minute Protest to
Defend Co-Worker. By Hayley Peterson
Excerpt:
The company dismissed 20 of the workers after their shifts Monday and issued notices of termination to another 230 employees, notifying them that
they will be fired once the company has trained their replacements, UPS
spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider. The workers were protesting the
dismissal of longtime employee and union activist Jairo Reyes, who was fired
over an hours dispute, according to Gaut. The New York Daily News first
reported on the firings. Local politicians are threatening to cancel city
contracts that give UPS millions of dollars in breaks on parking fines.
How
Anti-Jewish Jokes Hurt the Palestinian Cause. By Nuzha Nusseibeh
Excerpt:
It happens every time I visit the U.S. Jerusalem Britain
Excerpt: Currently, three California state senators are either under
felony indictment or already have been convicted. ... What is the common
denominator with all three California
senators – aside from the fact that they are still receiving their salaries?
One, they are abject hypocrites who campaigned against old-boy insider
influence-peddling so they could get elected to indulge in it. Two, they
assumed that their progressive politics shielded them from the sort of public
scrutiny and consequences that usually deter such deplorable behavior.
Twilight
of the Red and Green. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt:
The left has never adapted to the transition from nationalistic wars to
ideological wars. It took the left a while to grasp that the Nazis were a fundamentally
different foe than the Kaiser and that pretending that World War 2 was another
war for the benefit of colonialists and arms dealers was the behavior of
deluded lunatics. And yet much of the left insisted on approaching the war in
just that fashion, and had Hitler not attacked Stalin, it might have remained
stuck there.
Excerpt: While
Bush only overthrew Saddam, Obama overthrew Mubarak, Ben Ali, Gaddafi and
Saleh. The difference lay not only in the scale of their respective regime
change operations, but in their relative impacts on regional stability. Saddam
had invaded other countries and cultivated terrorists, while the governments
that Obama helped overthrow, aside from Gaddafi, were not expansionistic, were
not obsessed with building up WMD’s and had helped maintain regional stability.
Bush had sought to stabilize the Middle East
by removing Saddam. Obama instead destabilized it by trying to remove every
government that was in any way friendly to the United States
Well
done, Mrs. Smith: Hillary Clinton flees protest led by mother of man killed in Benghazi
Excerpt: There is one thing that will make Hillary pass up a
venue. The mother of one of her victims.
Former Secretary of State and potential Democratic presidential candidate,
Hillary Clinton, recently cancelled her plans to appear as the keynote speaker
for the 17th Annual Western Healthcare
Leadership Academy
on April 11 in San Diego , amidst planned fervent protests from local San Diego residents.
Protesters have organized under the banner of “The Difference Matters” coalition, a group
that primarily consist of local San Diego women
who refuse to allow Clinton into their community
because of her role in the Benghazi
cover up scandal.
Red Tape under Obama
Excerpt: The United
States is in desperate need of regulatory
reform, say James Gattuso and Diane Katz, research fellows in regulatory policy
at the Heritage Foundation.
Over the last five years, the Obama administration has
issued 157 new major rules at an annual cost of $73 billion. That number
includes 26 new major rules in 2013 alone, twice the annual average of George
W. Bush. And already, regulators have identified 125 more major rules that they
plan to work on in 2014.
Protesting
in Paris
Excerpt:
Inspired by the surprise success of the recent Swiss referendum limiting
immigration, the demonstrators demanded a similar opportunity to
vote on this heated issue in France France
Excerpt: Back in the 50's and 60's the America Mafia
employed a team of high-priced lawyers that would show up in court, mount a
defense against charges of running prostitution rings, gambling rings,
extortion, or even murder. The Mafia called them "mouthpieces" and
they served as front line troops who allowed the criminal Mafia to lay low.
This seems to be the only talent our current President has. Last week, when
principled leadership was required over when the G-7 were meeting and scurrying
in fear like little rats from the might Putin, Obama executed a "massive
fail". So this week Barack is back in the states and doing what he does
best...hitting the campaign trail, making speeches about the minimum wage,
kissing elderly women at a Rosie the Riveter reunion and raising massive
amounts of cash for his liberal brethren. So BHO is back in Chicago where he'll raise millions and will,
no doubt, visit local cemeteries and sign up dead people to the Democratic
voting rolls.
Excerpt: Herrin admitted that he employs a lot of illegal
aliens and bitterly complained that they lived in fear of "Border Patrol
and deportations." (But, apparently, he doesn't live in fear of admitting
he's violating our immigration laws.) ... He said his illegal alien employees
deserved amnesty because if "we keep them here and not do anything for
them once they get old, that's really extortion." ... Taxpayers have been
subsidizing Chuck Herrin's underpayment of his illegal labor force for decades,
with skyrocketing taxes to pay for schools, roads, bridges, food stamps, health
care and so on. Now Herrin thinks "we" are supposed to support his
illegal employees in their old age, too. Here's another idea: How about a
federal law mandating that employers of illegal aliens take responsibility for
the people they hire? Why is the taxpayer on the hook for illegal aliens' food,
housing and medical care, when Chuck Herrin got 100 percent of the profit from
their cheap labor?
I thought this might be an April Fool but the author
says it's true (Kate): Study: Vegan and Vegetarians Less Healthy Than
Meat-Eaters. By David Atherton
Excerpt: This study even
concluded that a "..growing body of epidemiological, clinical and
experimental evidence suggesting that regular cheese intake may reduce the risk
of cardiovascular outcomes." On alcohol those who drink moderately
have far lower
levels of heart disease and consequently live longer than tee
totallers. The WHO's study into
passive smoking also found no statistical significant correlation with lung
cancer and heart disease.
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Robert, we have a little in common; our birthdays are three days apart, we're both cold war warriors, saw time in Vietnam and have an abiding love of our country. You are trying mightily to invite an alien lung to make itself at home in your chest and I live with part of one gone to lung cancer a few years ago. We are still both "warriors" that don't give up easily and i'll be damned if I'm going to give up on you. Each morning just as the sun rises over the mountains I send a hell of a strong prayer your way...so don't sweat it; one of these fine days that new lung is going to accept your gracious invitation to settle down and feel right at home, just mere inches from that warrior heart in your chest. Semper Fi.
ReplyDeleteBob, you are a continuous inspiration to a guy who does
ReplyDeletenot inspire easily. You will know who I am when I sign
off.
Your pal............... One Note Johnny