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Veterans: A Mesothelioma Announcement

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

My father is recovering from prostate surgery. He served as an engineer, mostly on amphibious assault ships, back before the dangers of materials like asbestos was widely known. Thus, I amy sympathetic to the need to take care of old duffers wherever you find them, and present this post as a public service announcement:

The Financial Hardships of a Veteran with Mesothelioma

by Douglas Karr

Veterans are people who have served our country and put their lives on the line for other people.  This is why it is unfortunate that veterans are the most likely to get mesothelioma.  Mesothelioma is a very fatal cancer that happens if a person is overly exposed to asbestos.  Asbestos can be found in old walls and construction materials, and being exposed to it for a very long time can be a major problem.  Mesothelioma is often deadly because it is not normally caught until it is in its late stages. Read more

Category: Military

LIVE AT FIVE: 08.17.12

Posted on | August 17, 2012 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
At Least 35 Dead As South African Police Gun Down Machete-Wielding Miners

Police surround the bodies of slain miners at the Lonmin mine


New union clashing violently with government-aligned National Union of Mineworkers

Verdict, Protests Loom For Pussy Riot
Put your undies on your hair like you just don’t care

Ecuador’s President Claims Moral Superiority In Granting Asylum To Assange
UK vows not to allow rapist out of the country; critics say Correa using Assange as smokescreen for domestic persecution of press



POLITICS
Beer But No Bumper Cars As Obama Magic Slips In Iowa

President, First Lady speak to small crowd in Davenport


Independents, liberal Republicans not buying the BS this year

Shooting At Family Research Center Sets Off War Of Words

Air Marshals Face Assault Charges After Drunken Brawl In Michigan Bar

Poll: New Yorkers Biased Against Atheists, Born-Again Christians In Politics

Inside The Beltway, The Answer-Free White House Continues

Retired President Of Border Patrol Union Indicted On Fraud Charges

US Chamber Of Commerce Calls Elizabeth Warren Threat To Free Enterprise



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil At Three-Month Peak On Stimulus Hope, Middle East Worries; NYMEX $95.60, Brent $114.23
Merkel Says Germany Backs Draghi’s Conditions For ECB Help
Facebook Stock Slides 6% As Insiders Finally Allowed To Sell
Best Buy, Founder Disagree On LBO
Walmart Slows International Expansion
Who’d’a Thunk It? Tech Stocks The New Dividend Leaders
NOAA Predicts Drought Will Linger But Won’t Get Worse
Apple In Talks With Cable Industry About TV Project?
Verizon, Comcast Agree To FCC Airwave Demands
Twitter Clamps Down On Developers With Restrictive API Rules
Five Ways Windows 8 Overhauls The PC
Apple Accused Of Overstating Damages In Samsung Case
State Department Cancels $16.5 Million Kindle Touch Order
Blizzard Unveils “Mists Of Pandaria”
Nokia/Zynga Partnership Brings Blockbuster Games To Nokia Asha Touch Phones



SPORTS
Backed By Five Homers, Ex-Twin Liriano Notches First Win For Pale Hose

Francisco Liriano making the pitches


White Sox match season record in homers with 7-2 win over Toronto

Rangers Rally, Outslug Yankees To Avoid Sweep

Price Notches 16th Win As Rays Blank Angels 7-0



Red Sox Beat O’s 6-3 To Avoid Sweep

Harvey Drives In Two, Holds Reds To One Run In Mets 8-4 Win

Crisp, Cespedes Homer As A’s Blank Royals 3-0

Yes, The WNBA Is Still Playing



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Jenny McCarthy, Brian Urlacher Split Up

McCarthy & Urlacher


Chicago Bears linebacker officially friendzoned

Did Al Roker Just Call Out Matt Lauer?

Jennie Garth Holds Hands With New BF Noah Abrams



Pattinson Clams Up When NYT Press Drone Compares His Troubles To Those Of British Royal Family

Jen Aniston Hunting Leakers Among Acquaintances By Spreading Disinformation

Katie Holmes Decamps From Beverly Hills Mansion She Shared With Tom Cruise



FOREIGNERS
Pussy Riot Member Claims Victory In Letter To Supporters
Japan To Deport 14 PRC Activists Who Landed On Senkaku Island
Syrian Civil War Spreading To Lebanon?
PRC Court To Announce Verdict In Heywood Murder Case On Monday
Wave Of Attacks Kills Dozens Across Iraq – Yeah, It’s The End Of Ramadan, How’d You Guess?
Indian PM Moves To Cool Panic As Thousands Flee Northeast Cities, Fear Of Muslim Backlash
A Saudi Overture To Iran



BLOGS & STUFF
Riehl World View: Wisconsin Moves To True “Toss Up” Status
John McCormick: Ryan Says “Your Payroll Taxes Should Go To Medicare And Social Security, Not Obamacare”
Breitbart.com: MSNBC’s Toure Claims Romney Engaged In “Niggerization” Of Obama
Power Line: Are Democrats Starting To Lose It Already?
Neo-neocon: White House Announces We Will Have Joe Biden To Kick Around Some More
Weekly Standard Blog: Axelrod Won’t Rule Out Biden Being Dropped, Cracks Joke Instead
Wake Up America: Business Owners Posting Notice – They Built Their Businesses, Not Obama
Duffel Blog: NBC Cancels “Stars Earn Stripes” After Entire Cast Killed In Afghanistan
Lonely Conservative: Small Biz Owner Says No To Joe
Weasel Zippers: Jesse Jackson Says Biden’s “Chains” Rhetoric “Not Helpful”
Legal Insurrection: SPLC’s Hatewatch Gives Cover To Hate
Allahpundit: Oh My! Romney Busts Out The Whiteboard On Medicare
Deroy Murdock: Physician, Heal Thyself
Jawa Report: Obama Is Literally Not His Brother’s Keeper
John Fund: Serial Fraud Kept Congressman In Office
Artur Davis: Obama’s Hidden-Hand Politics

Category: Live at Five

Creepiest Thing You’ll Read All Month

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

ACRP Wire:

A new paper in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail what its authors call an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.

The paper is coauthored by Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ellen Feder, associate professor of philosophy and religion at American University, and Anne Tamar-Mattis, executive director of Advocates for Informed Choice.

The pregnant women targeted are at risk for having a child born with the condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), an endocrinological condition that can result in female fetuses being born with intersex, or more male-typical, genitals and brains.

RTWT. It goes downhill from there. *shudder* The horror movies write themselves.

Category: Culture

Tapper Makes Carney Eat BHO’s Remarks About Romney’s Dog

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

Props to Jake Tapper for playing the Seamus card on über-tool Jay Carney:This is a Mark-1, Mod-0 interaction with a Progressive munch:

  1. Progressive makes some high-minded claim,
  2. Progressive confronted with the reality that facts belie the high-minded claim,
  3. Progressive does one of:
    • posit some artificial distinction
    • whine about context
    • changes the subject
    • play the ‘everybody is guilty‘ card

If all you’re going to be in life is a sad little munch, Carney, please consider falling off the planet.

via CuffyMeh

Update: thanks, Instapundit!

Category: Democrats

Dave Mustaine: Want A More Outrageous Accusation Than Harry Reid’s?

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

There is some legitimate concern about the White House’s actions in Operation Fast & Furious, which resulted in the death of Brian Terry. In trying to connect the dots between the Obama Administration and the recent spate of gun violence, though, Dave Mustaine is over-achieving.

A good-sized chunk of Americans think that this creep-show administration is over the line, but immoral/unethical/illegal allegations are best served with a subpoena. As with Birtherism, the Obama Administration, in its full perverted glory, gets to engage in finger-pointing at Mustaine, who must ‘clearly’ harbor raaaaacist tendencies.

Only the truly depraved, like Harry Reid, can make wild accusations at no cost. Hopefully your taxes are all in order, Mr. Mustaine.

Category: Celebrities

Paul Ryan: ‘I Like My Skyline Five Ways’

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 26 Comments

Paul Ryan speaks at his alma mater, Miami (Ohio) University, Aug. 15, 2012

DAYTON, Ohio
Paul Ryan “made news” yesterday, as they say, by declaring that he and Mitt Romney are ready to debate Medicare with Obama: “We want this debate, we need this debate, and we will win this debate.”

That line is quoted not only in my American Spectator column today, but also in reports by Associated Press, NBC News, Politico and other news organizations.

The real news, however, was Ryan’s endorsement of the “Five Way” served at Skyline Chili, an Ohio-based chain that also has franchises in Kentucky, Indiana and Florida. Here’s video of Ryan’s opening remarks at Miami (Ohio) University, where he endorsed the “Five Way”:

After yesterday’s rally, I met up with Miami University business professor Bryan Ashenbaum and his fellow members of the Liberty Township Tea Party, who took me and my son Jefferson, 13, to Skyline Chili on High Street in Oxford — the same restaurant where Paul Ryan ate as an undergraduate. Rather than try the “Five Way” I had two Cheese Coneys, while my fellow diners explained to me that the “Five Way” is spaghetti, chili, cheese, onions and beans.

We were joined at Skyline by Becca Lower, an Ohio activist who worked on Rick Santorum’s campaign. Becca displayed her Paul Ryan “math” poster the candidate autographed after the rally:

While we were at Skyline, our waitress explained that she had not been scheduled to work that day. She had come by the restaurant to check her schedule and the manager — swamped by the influx of patrons after the Ryan rally — asked her to help out.

“I’ve never seen so many Republicans in my life!” the waitress said of the afternoon crowd. I explained to her that it was probably due to Ryan’s endorsement of the “Five Way,” and told her this surge of business was “the start of the Romney-Ryan recovery.”

The huge size of the crowd at Ryan’s Miami event was a good omen, as one of Instapundit readers observed:

“Granted, as an alum, Paul Ryan could expect a nice crowd at Miami U; but what’s really amazing is that most freshmen don’t move in until tomorrow and most upperclassmen not until the weekend. Given Miami’s bucolic, rural setting (i.e. in the middle of nowhere), I imagine most of those folks drove at least 30 minutes from Dayton or Cincinnati.”

As I explain in my American Spectator column today:

Republicans now appear fired up for a fighting campaign this fall, and nowhere will the fight be fiercer than in Ohio, a state whose 18 Electoral College votes have been decisive in previous elections.
“Ohio is so important,” Ryan told the crowd who turned out for his homecoming visit to Miami University. “You know this. You’re used to it. The Buckeye State could very well determine the future of our country for a long time.… This is the kind of election that shapes generations.”
Ryan concluded by expressing confidence that the Republicans will win that election: “We can get this economy growing. We can keep the government limited. We can get the job done. We can put people back to work. Together we can get this done.”

Read the whole thing.

 





 


Category: Election 2012, Ohio, Paul Ryan

I’ll Bet Hinderaker His Beverage Of Choice That Biden Is Out

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 51 Comments

by Smitty

Power Line:

Is there any chance that President Obama will dump Biden from the ticket, as some are urging? I don’t think so. The Obama campaign, more than anything else, is feverishly trying to preserve the illusion that everything is going fine. Replacing Biden would be seen as an act of desperation and–even worse from Obama’s perspective–an admission of error.

Obama is about winning. Everything after the tactical consideration, even the long-term security of the country, is something “We’ll get to.” Biden is a liability to the campaign of a daily increasing magnitude. A reporter is going to bring up the Medicare question, for example, and Biden is going to blame state-level mismanagement.

Biden, don’t you know, is ‘experiencing early-onset Alzheimers’, or something. The narrative will shift to what a swell, compassionate guy Obama has been to keep Uncle Choo-Choo ’round these years. Alas, Obama, as a servant of the American people, cannot avoid the hard decisions. Obama has to put his deep affection for Biden aside, and accept Joe’s inability to support the ticket again this fall. With much weeping. Make sure the light hits them alligator tears.

Biden’s gaffes will be reported with increasing frequency and faux emotion between now and the DNC in Charlotte, starting on 03 September. Joe’s ‘illness’ (I’m not a doctor, he may have a no-kidding problem) will be a great, big, fat, emotional freebie. Joe becomes the human sacrifice, savaged by the plans of the evil Republicans. Barack is the savior of the AARP, fighting off that young wolf Ryan, who’s going to fix everything until thoroughly destroyed, don’t you know? Sorry that Ryan was able to take out Uncle Choo-Choo. Or did Biden bravely lay down his political life for the cause? A little martyrdom ain’t so bad, as long as it doesn’t thug any halo from Obama.

The major flaw in my theory is: Who replaces Joe? Who has the national name recognition to enhance the ticket, while posing no intellectual threat to anyone with a reading level above fourth grade? Who brings in the donors and freshens things up, while knowing how to lay by their dish? Do you trust Hillary? Can ManBearPig be persuaded that he can suck up a third VP term, if that’s what it takes to please Al Gore, Sr.? Do you try to counter the Ryan wave with some out-of-the-blue gutsy call?

I guess we’ll have to wait and see what Valerie Jarrett decides. More at Ace of Spades.

Category: Joe Biden

Ryan Works the Rope Line

Posted on | August 16, 2012 | 8 Comments

DAYTON, Ohio — At yesterday’s rally at Miami University, I deployed my 13-year-old son Jefferson to get photos of Paul Ryan shaking hands with the crowd afterwards.

Jefferson snapped the above photo, of Ryan reaching up to shake hands with the guy next to him. Immediately after this photo was taken, Ryan shook Jefferson’s hand. Click the image to enlarge. It’s a great photo, don’t you think?

Category: Election 2012, Ohio, Paul Ryan
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