OBAMA: You know, if -- frankly, it's not really something I've followed closely. I didn't even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
Obama Makes announcement on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion...
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
(Bastiat)**"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place.
Cuba 50 Year Celebration Tour
“Castro is very selfless and moral, one of the world’s wisest men” (Oliver Stone).
Who Was the "And remember what my dearly departed little poodle admitted: “If the Missiles had remained, we would have shot them against the very heart of the U.S., including New York city.” (Che Guevara to Sam Russel of the London Daily Worker in November 1962.) Che?
Obama’s Latino Problem
(Beatnews) Have you been missing your favorite artist from your local radio station lately? An artists' coalition says something fishy is in the air, or on the air.
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Virus Starts Like a Cold But Can Turn Into a Killer
I’m no hypochondriac at least I don’t think I am but I had this virus last week. I had a normal cold and thought I was over it but all of a sudden I’m having chills fever and short of breath. Almost went to the hospital. I took some hot baths and fought it off but the virus is real.
Infectious-disease expert David N. Gilbert was making rounds at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon in April when he realized that an unusual number of patients, including young, vigorous adults, were being hit by a frightening pneumonia.
“What was so striking was to see patients who were otherwise healthy be just devastated,” Gilbert said. Within a day or two of developing a cough and high fever, some were so sick they would arrive at the emergency room gasping for air.
“They couldn’t breathe,” Gilbert said. “They were going to die if we didn’t get more oxygen into them.”
Gilbert alerted state health officials, a decision that led investigators to realize that a new, apparently more virulent form of a virus that usually causes nothing worse than a nasty cold was circulating around the United States. At least 1,035 Americans in four states have been infected so far this year by the virus, known as an adenovirus. Dozens have been hospitalized, many requiring intensive care, and at least 10 have died.
Read more: WP
Filed under: Infectious disease, Virus, health, pneumonia
Imagine if Pope Benedict gave a speech saying the Catholic Church has had it wrong all these centuries; there is no reason priests shouldn't marry. That might generate the odd headline, no?
Doctor opposition to health care overhaul proposals is broad and deep, revealing concerns not just about soaring costs, declining care, possible rationing and a lack of limits on malpractice suits, but also about government competence and motives, detailed responses to a new IBD/TIPP Poll show. As reported Wednesday, 65% of the 1,376 practicing physicians who responded to a mailed questionnaire over the last two weeks said they opposed health care plans that have emerged from the administration and Congress. Just 33% supported them.
Maureen Dowd's Descent into Fury** she has become increasingly angry and increasingly shrill. The old gray mare ain't what she used to be.
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
Mark describes the various aspects of socialism and how it all eventually leads up to tyranny and totalitarianism. Mark describes, “statists,” and how the liberals are increasingly moving towards socialism. Redistributing wealth is not a positive for the common good.
