Update
I am doing some better, though I
will never be completely out of the woods even if I go back to functioning as I
was in February. My FEV numbers (litters of air I can expel in a second) are up
from an average of 0.91 on 7/7 to 1.30 0n 7/18. Mostly because I figured out that
blowing as hard as I could, as they have told me to do at the PFT (Pulmonary
Function Test) was counter productive, causing collapse in the airway. So now I
try to balance between blowing hard enough to get some volume, but not causing
collapse. My oxygen use is down to 3 LPM for activity, 1 LMP at rest. In Rehab Friday,
and walking around the Framer's Market around the Wisconsin Capital on Saturday
I stayed at about 95% oxygen saturation.
The Madison Framer's Market is a
very interesting place. Lots of good stuff I can't eat, and the surrender
monkeys were out in full force. I wore my "Some
People Just need Killing, That's Why We Have Marines" tee shirt. They
avoided me, didn't let out a peep. Apparently an old Marine on oxygen is still
intimidating. But at least four people came up to say what a great shirt it was
and one woman took a picture to send to friends. While we were there, there was
a parade demonstration against Israel
One of the women who complimented me on my tee shirt told me
there is now a bumper sticker: "Don't F*** Fluke--She Can't Afford Birth
Control." Crude but funny. ~Bob
General News and Comment
Sheriff: Suspects
beat man with bat, but call cops when he fires gun
Excerpt: Two homeless men who attacked a man with a baseball
bat called police after the victim fired two rounds from a shotgun into the
air, the Coos County Sheriff's Office said.
Judge Says Incest No
Longer Taboo Thanks to Abortion
http://godfatherpolitics.com/16341/judge-says-incest-longer-taboo-thanks-abortion/
http://godfatherpolitics.com/16341/judge-says-incest-longer-taboo-thanks-abortion/
Excerpt: But if a judge in Australia has his way, incest will
no longer be considered wrong. Why? Because any possible pregnancy created
through incest can be aborted, removing any danger of birth defects.
When a billion
Indians start flushing
Excerpt: This increased the coverage of rural India
with latrines from 10% to as much as 30%. Yet, while the construction drive had
been a success in multiplying the number of toilets, the vastness of the task
is daunting. There are still about 650
million Indians without adequate toilets. Many have neither knowledge of
such facilities nor desire to use them. And the problem isn’t restricted to
rural areas. India ’s
teeming, rapidly growing cities are “large water sinks generating great amounts
of sewage,” explains environmental journalist Nitya Jacob. (That's about 50% of
the Indian population who have to defecate in the street. Tell me again about
poverty in America ,
where a majority of th poor have cars, refrigerators, AC, cell phones and TVs.
We will always have the poor with us, because we can always redefine it. Many
of the poor in America
are well off by third world standards. ~Bob)
The ‘perfect Aryan’
child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish
Great story. ~Bob. Excerpt: The newlyweds came to Berlin as students, a
pair of Latvian Jews who wanted to make it big in singing. In 1934,
just after Adolf Hitler took control of Germany , the young Jewish woman
became pregnant with a child who would soon become known as the “perfect
Aryan.” The photo was everywhere. It first adorned a Nazi magazine that held a
beauty contest to find “the perfect Aryan” and then was later splashed across
postcards and storefronts.
"Navy
Chief" rank now racist?
Graveyard of
desecration: Grave robbers. Ghoulish tourists taking pictures on their mobiles.
Corpses left to rot: A shocking dispatch from the grim crash site. By Ian
Birrell
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698563/Graveyard-desecration-Grave-robbers-Ghoulish-tourists-taking-pictures-mobiles-Corpses-left-rot-A-shocking-dispatch-grim-crash-site-IAN-BIRRELL.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2698563/Graveyard-desecration-Grave-robbers-Ghoulish-tourists-taking-pictures-mobiles-Corpses-left-rot-A-shocking-dispatch-grim-crash-site-IAN-BIRRELL.html
Excerpt: For this is the grimmest of graveyards. Here on the
gentle rolling hills of eastern Ukraine ,
beside an abandoned Soviet-era poultry farm, lay the innocent people whose lives
were extinguished so suddenly in an explosion at 33,000 feet on Thursday
afternoon. (when Romney said Russia was our greatest enemy, the
"Smartest Man In The World" mocked him, saying, "The 80s
called--they want their foreign policy back." ~Bob)
Russia supplied
missile launchers to separatists, U.S.
Excerpt: The United States
has confirmed that Russia
supplied sophisticated missile launchers to separatists in eastern Ukraine and that attempts were made to move them
back across the Russian border after the Thursday shoot-down of a Malaysian jet
liner, a U.S.
official said Saturday.
Important: The Hockey Schtick: New paper finds only ~3.75% of atmospheric CO2 is man-made from burning of fossil fuels
Important: The Hockey Schtick: New paper finds only ~3.75% of atmospheric CO2 is man-made from burning of fossil fuels
Settled science? ~Bob. Excerpt: A paper published today
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics finds that only about 3.75% [15
ppm] of the CO2 in the lower atmosphere is man-made from the burning of fossil
fuels, and thus, the
vast remainder of the 400 ppm atmospheric CO2 is from land-use changes and natural sources such
as ocean outgassing and plant respiration.
Six Astounding Examples of Left-Wing Hypocrisy. By Daniel J. Mitchell
Excerpt: Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmental activist
who is spending $100 million to help elect Democrats this fall, is rallying
support for energy taxes that could impact everyday Americans. But when he ran
his own hedge fund, Mr. Steyer sought to help wealthy clients legally avoid
paying taxes, confidential investor memos show. Mr. Steyer’s strategy included
establishing funds in tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Mauritius …
Excerpt: The city's water utility has been shutting off
service to thousands of homes, many with the elderly, the poor and children
inside. The story of how this has happened — and on the shores of one of the
largest bodies of freshwater in the world — is not as
simple as one of government incompetence or indifference to the poor. The
Detroit Water and Sewerage Department says that nearly half of its
customers haven't been paying their water bills, (First the
Democrat machine drove the last Republicans out. Cheers. Then the race riots
and crime ruined what businesses served the minority community, and drove
professionals, business people and the middle class--black and white--from the
city. Cheers--get rid of those rich bastards. Then the Democrats bought votes
promising that someone else would pay for everything, from food, housing and
water, to birth control. Cheers--free stuff. Then it was discovered,
shockingly, that there was no one to pay the bills. Detroit is what happens when you demonize the
productive and folks with money to win votes from the unproductive and poor.
This is your future, America .
~Bob)
Operation Choke Point
Hearing Reveals DOJ Threats And Strong-Arming
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/18/operation-choke-point-hearing-reveals-doj-threats-and-strong-arming/
http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/18/operation-choke-point-hearing-reveals-doj-threats-and-strong-arming/
Excerpt: A Justice Department fraud prevention program came
under fire Thursday for allegedly morphing into actively pressuring banks to
deny financial services to businesses for political reasons. Operation
Choke Point functions as a partnership between the Department of Justice (DOJ)
and various other federal agencies which deal with bank regulations,
specifically the Treasury and the SEC. The objective of the project is to
choke-off fraudulent businesses from accessing financial services, in an effort
to protect consumers. The controversy, however, is over allegations that the
DOJ is pressuring financial institutions to decline doing business with
so-called “high risk” industries which line up squarely against the political
leanings of the current administration. (Once the government pursued Chicago gangsters. Now the
government IS Chicago
gangsters. ~Bob)
Obama Prepares Pardons for Terrorists. By Cliff Kincaid
Excerpt: Bill Ayers’ recent appearance on Megyn Kelly’s Fox
News program appears to be part
of a systematic campaign to whitewash the activities of the
communist terrorists who
were murdering policemen and FBI agents during the 1960s and
70s, and to set the
stage for their release and rehabilitation.
‘Send an Ambulance’:
How a Florida
Excerpt: When a father walked in on an 18-year-old baby-sitter who allegedly
had his pants around his ankles in the act with his 12-year-old son, he didn’t
ask questions. The dad beat the purported attacker Raymond Frolander, 18,
senseless and then dragged his body into the living room for the police to pick
up. (If they charged the dad, I'm on the jury, dad walks. ~Bob)
Cops: Teens Attacked
Adult Near Taste Of Park Ridge
Excerpt: It was a vicious attack: The alleged beating of a
man by teenagers amid a large crowd in northwest suburban Park
Ridge ’s Hinkley
Park Park Ridge , hometown of
Hillary "Dead Broke and Morally Bankrupt" Clinton , is pretty upscale. We lived next
door in Des Plaines
with the common folk. ~Bob)
Old, but worth reading: In Defense of Elitism. By
Jonah Goldberg
Excerpt: Some things are better than other things. Some
cultures are better than other cultures. Some things are more worth studying,
celebrating, and emulating than other things. Or as the late William Henry III
put it in his wonderful book, In Defense of Elitism, “It is scarcely the same thing to
put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose.” No doubt, if I were to
say this in an Ivy League faculty room today (or yesterday, or last year, or
ten years ago) it would be considered scandalous — not because it isn’t true,
but because it is. The war on what I like to call “factual correctness” is a top-to-bottom cultural project.
If the truth hurts, change the definition of truth. Facts that might
inconveniently intrude upon the self-esteem of others must be demolished. So,
as grade schools eliminate keeping score at games, postmodernists try to
eliminate the notion of keeping score at anything, ever. Scores, you see, imply
winners and losers, and if anybody feels like a loser then they feel bad — and
anything that makes you feel bad is necessarily illegitimate.
Twelve bodies found
in Massachusetts
Excerpt: An investigation into a former Massachusetts
funeral-home operator has turned grisly, with authorities discovering 12 bodies
at a storage unit outside Boston
leased by the man, Joseph O'Donnell, authorities said. (this would have made a
good episode on the reality show "Storage Wars." ~Bob
Obamacare News
This Newest Obamacare
Blanket Exemption May Have You Considering a Move to Guam or Puerto
Rico
Excerpt: Thursday the Department of Health and Human
Services website announced that a vast number of Obamacare regulations will no
longer apply to all U.S. territories. Two of the main components of the plan, the
individual mandate and the premium subsidies, have never applied to the
territories, however. They will be exempted from guaranteed coverage, community
rating, single risk pools, rate review, the medical loss ratio, and “essential”
benefits.
Undocumented Democrat News
Obama aides were warned of brewing border crisis. By David Nakamura, Jerry Markon and Manuel
Roig-Franzia
Excerpt: Nearly a year before President Obama declared a humanitarian crisis on the border, a team of
experts arrived at the Fort Brown patrol station in Brownsville , Tex. Texas
patrol stations in 2013.
Excerpt: Democrats who oppose changing the law to allow
quicker removals of families and unaccompanied young people illegally crossing
the southwestern border into the U.S. often argue that those entering the
country illegally are entitled to a "day in court." ... Young people
should be given "a meaningful day in court to protect their rights under
our laws," added Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez. Now, new numbers released
by the House Judiciary Committee show the "vast majority" of
unaccompanied minors seeking asylum are granted it before even appearing before
a judge.
Most border invaders are not children; they’re working age.
By Ernest Istook
Excerpt: Most of those invading America ’s southern border are not
what we normally call “children.” They evidently are 16 years old and older —
working age. They are labeled children to promote political agendas, even
though most are teens and adults, according to those willing to break down a
White House-imposed wall of secrecy.
Religion of Peace News
The Never Ending
Arab-Israeli War: This Much is True. By Robert A. Hall
8 Rock Solid Points
in Defense of Israel
Excerpt: Shocking: Maher basically agreed with everything
the conservative Weinstein had to say, and made some points of his own.
A Word From Israel
Worth Viewing. ~Bob
WATCH John Kerry Tell
CNN’s Candy Crowley She’s Aiding Terrorists’ Publicity Campaign!
Poll: Should courts
be prohibited from recognizing Sharia law?
IS Jihadists stone Syria
Excerpt: Jihadists in the northern Syrian province of Raqa
IDF troops hit 260
targets in Gaza
Excerpt: On Friday morning, IDF soldiers uncovered eight
shafts leading to smuggling tunnels, as troops clashed with militants in the
Strip. Another 13 similar tunnels were also uncovered a short time later,
bringing the total number to 21 so far. The finds align with the government
declaration that the IDF's main targets in their ground incursion would be
tunnels in use by Hamas.
Trojan Horse: Leaked
report reveals 'aggressive Islamist agenda' in Birmingham
Excerpt: A report into the "Trojan horse" scandal
in Birmingham
schools has uncovered evidence of "co-ordinated, deliberate and sustained
action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some
schools in the city". The conclusion is contained in a leaked draft of a
report, commissioned by the former education secretary Michael Gove and written
by Peter Clarke, the former head of the Metropolitan police's counterterrorism
command, which is due to be published in the next 24 hours.
Excerpt: The new “caliphate” of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the
Islamic State, formerly “ISIS”—recently made clear that it means to follow in
the footsteps of the original caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Sadiq (632-634),
specifically by directing its jihad against fellow Muslims, in Islamic
parlance, the “hypocrites” and “apostates,” or in Western terminology,
“moderates.” (We need to keep in mind that the vast majority of victims of
jihadist allahmurders are other Muslims, just as the vast majority of victims
of violence and crime from black thugs in the US are other blacks--some rival
thugs, but many decent people who just want safe lives for themselves and their
kids. ~Bob)
PA Claims US Plotting
to Torpedo Middle East, ISIS is Jewish
Excerpt: "The US
is using extremists as human shields fighting on its behalf, so that American
soldiers will no longer be in danger of returning home in coffins," it
says, adding that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), Islamic
Front, and Al-Nusra factions in Iraq
and Syria
are part of an American plot. It then bizarrely claims that the ISIS - the
Islamist sect conquering Iraq in an Islamic turf war deemed "too
extreme" for Al Qaeda - is "led by Jewish extremism, as
represented by [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and [Israeli
Foreign Minister Avigdor] Liberman."
Worth Reading : The
other Iraq : Iraq
Excerpt: Ever since the U.S. invasion toppled Saddam
Hussein, they've been running Iraqi Kurdistan as a semi-autonomous region, and
now see the country's disintegration as an opportunity. Kurdistan
is largely peaceful, safe, and, thanks to carefully invested oil wealth,
increasingly prosperous. (If I had the power, I'd create an independent
Kurdistan from the Kurdish regions of Iraq ,
Iran and Turkey . This is
from The Week news magazine. I read
it because it doesn't try to tell you what to think, but tries to give both
sides. Generally does a good job and is pretty balanced. ~Bob)
Questioning Islam: Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the
Muslim Religion by Peter
Townsend
It says the Kindle version s free. Check for strings, of
course. ~Bob
Excerpt: At least 21 Egyptian soldiers were killed on
Saturday when heavily armed gunmen attacked a border guard post near a remote
desert oasis, according to an army spokesman.
The death toll appeared to be the highest for the military
in a single attack in recent memory, and came as the
Egyptian government has expressed growing alarm at threats from neighboring
countries, and especially from Libya ,
an increasingly lawless state that shares a long border with Egypt. (Boy, Obama better
explain to Egypt that arms and trouble can't be coming from Libya--he
led-from-behind a war there to depose Muammar
el-Qaddafi,
didn't even bother to ask Congress for authorization as
Bush did, so everything must be cool there. ~Bob. Tweet from Andrew Exum @abumuqawama: Three
years after the intervention, militants and weaponry continue to bleed out of Libya
... to disastrous effect.)
Tweet from PzFeed Top News @PzFeed
Hamas leader's son killed in Israeli shelling in eastern
Gaza Strip.
As someone told me " it aint no fun when the rabbit got
the gun." Keep up the excellent work Israel .
Editorial in the left-of-center Washington Post: Hamas is playing a dangerous game with
Gazan lives
Excerpt: Why would Hamas insist on continuing the fight when
it is faring so poorly? The only plausible answer is stomach-turning: The
Islamic movement calculates that it can win the concessions it has yet to
obtain from Israel and Egypt not by striking Israel but by perpetuating the
killing of its own people in Israeli counterattacks. More than 200 people,
including a number of children, have already died in Gaza ;
Hamas probably calculates that more deaths will prompt Western governments to
pressure Israel
to grant Hamas’s demands.
Excerpt: A senior al Qaeda leader who is based in Syria and has close ties to al Qaeda's General
Command in Pakistan
said that six of his "dearest comrades" were killed in an airstrike
in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. The six al Qaeda operatives were likely
killed in a US
drone strike on July 10.
In Raqqa, an
All-Female ISIS Brigade Cracks Down on Local
Women
Excerpt: Shortly after the Sunni militant group the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) retook control of Raqqa earlier this year, it created
the al-Khansaa' Brigade, an all-female unit operating in the city. Its purpose
is to apprehend civilian women in Raqqa who do not follow the organization's
strict brand of Sharia law, including a mandate that all women be fully covered
in public and that they be accompanied by a male chaperone.
Iraqi Christians flee
after Isis issue Mosul
Excerpt: Iraqi Christians are fleeing Mosul after Islamist militants threatened to
kill them unless they converted to Islam or paid a "protection tax". A
statement issued by the Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant (Isis ) was read out at the
city's mosques. It called on Christians to comply by midday on Saturday or face
death if they did not leave the northern city. (The Islamists' goal is both a
Judenfrie and a Christian-free Middle East .
Their war will only end if they are all dead or the world is free of Jews,
Christians and other infidels. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Two men described as leaders of a Philadelphia mosque were accused of trying to
cut off the hand of a suspected thief, whose wrist was sliced so deeply it required
hospital treatment, police said on Friday. (Just following Shari'a Law, which
the New York Times and some of our
courts consider a benevolent cultural expression of religion, appropriate to
use in legal cases. ~Bob)
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