When I was about to get out of the VA Hospital on April 14,
the internal medicine doc told me the IV and antibiotics would fix the short
term problem of the infection, but that the long term problem of the slough and
blockage of the airways was still a challenge. Both were true. My O2 needs have
dropped to 2 lpm for walking around. But my breathing is getting more labored,
and I'm not coughing up as much mucus. I think it's collecting on the stent,
plus coughing hurts due to my back muscle pain, though that is much better. And
the last few days I've felt very tired moving around, though I feel fine
sitting reading or at the computer. So another surgical bronchoscopy Monday,
4/28 to debride the slough, clean out the junk and remove to stent to see how
it goes. It will be Monday afternoon, but nothing to eat or drink after
midnight, so a long day. I can take my meds, but I found out they don't
consider Scotch a "med"--go figure! I don't know when they reach the
point of diminishing returns on this process. Maybe God will cut me a Hus. I
will update my readers when I know more.
Meanwhile, some interesting news and comment captured below.
~Bob
Liberal Compassion for Little
Leeches
Dixon Diaz has a page called "The Libtard Show." I
disapprove of using the term "libtard," as name calling makes us no
better than them. In this case, it is also offensive to many people who wish to
stop use of the word "retarded" (which once was the word of choice to
replace the offensive "feeble minded" in use before retarded).
Nevertheless, there is a report, posted on my blog at the link above, that Diaz
wrote a piece on Chelsea 's
baby which she posted on her Facebook page. A troll named Anne de Devine posted
this comment: "At least it won't be a little leech with Down's
Syndrome." Doubtless a reference that Sarah Palin didn't abort Trig, as
liberals, supporting planned parenthood's goal of reducing the
"unfit" (minorities and the mentally challenged) think proper. Now that's offensive. I once danced with a
teenage dancer in Glasgow
who had Down's Syndrome. She was a lovely, happy person and a better dancer
than most--she was not a leech to be destroyed before birth. ~Bob
Ala. Dem Offers
$100K for Proof of White Families Adopting Black Kids; Families Show Up.
Lawmaker previously lashed out against Clarence Thomas by referencing his
interracial marriage. By Andrew Johnson
Excerpt: Mixed-race families from across Alabama rallied outside the state capitol
recently to demand $100,000 in cash — or at least an apology — from a state
representative. Earlier this month, Alvin Holmes, who has represented the
Montgomery-area 78th District for 39 years, bet a substantial purse on his
claim that Alabama
whites were incapable of tolerating black children. “I will bring you $100,000
cash tomorrow if you show me a whole bunch of whites that adopted blacks in Alabama ,” Holmes said.
“I will go down there and mortgage my house and get it in cash in $20 bills and
bring it to you in a little briefcase.”
Excerpt: The controversy over Cliven Bundy’s “racist”
remarks has taken a new turn after longer unedited footage emerged showing the Nevada cattle rancher
making pro-black and pro-Mexican comments that were excised out of media
reports. ... We’ve progressed quite a bit from that day until now, and sure
don’t want to go back; we sure don’t want the colored people to go back to that
point; we sure don’t want the Mexican people to go back to that point; and we
can make a difference right now by taking care of some of these bureaucracies,
and do it in a peaceful way. ... Now, let me talk about the Spanish people. You
know I understand that they come over here against our constitution and cross
our borders. But they’re here and they’re people – and I’ve worked side-by-side
a lot of them. Don’t tell me they don’t work, and don’t tell me they don’t pay
taxes. And don’t tell me they don’t have better family structure than most of
us white people. When you see those Mexican families, they’re together, they
picnic together, they’re spending their time together, and I’ll tell you in my
way of thinking they’re awful nice people. (Well, in my book, Bundy is still
ignorant. And he doesn't get an excuse for not paying the fees he owes--he's
not Obama budge Charlie Rangel, after all. But as many conservatives pointed
out, while he may be legally in the wrong, there were better ways to handle it,
and the stench of big lobbyist money wanting that land needs to be fully
explored and made public, to clear the charge or stop the grabbers. And the
media editing out stuff that doesn't fit their narrative has become standard on
outlets like MSNBC, as they did with the George Zimmerman 911 call. ~Bob)
CNN Talks To Black
Bundy Bodyguard: ‘He Is Not A Racist. He’s Pretty Much Treating Me Just Like
His Own Family’
More Tea Party
Racists?
Excerpt: As a professional
scientist, a physicist with 40 years experience in aerospace and extensive
knowledge of atmospheric physics, I can tell you that, indeed, the
science is settled, but not the way the AGW extremists would have you believe. ...
A basic principle of science is that correlation does not prove
causation. Climate scientists are working overtime fudging temperature
related data showing global warming over many decades that correlates with the
industrial revolution and increasing use of carbon-based fuels. Climate
scientists are boldly asserting that this correlation proves global warming is
caused by increased CO2 in the atmosphere. Real scientists would demand to know
the physics of how increased CO2 in the atmosphere causes global
warming.
More Than 20,000 NC
Voters Have Fake Registration Addresses
Excerpt: The Voter Integrity Project of North Carolina,
today, submitted data to the NC State Board of Elections that show 20,532 NC
voters were registered at street addresses that do not exist and 13,027 (or
63.4%) of them listed a post office box as their alternative mailing address.
“We are amazed that counties allow people to vote with a
non-existent registration address,” said Jay DeLancy, “and wonder how election
officials can correctly assign these voters to a precinct when they give a PO
Box as their secondary address.”
Worth Reading
Excerpt: It all seems very strange now in retrospect, but in
his defense, you can understand how seductive this notion must have been. The
whole world — at least the parts of it that Obama listens to — was telling him
that replacing George W. Bush with Barack Obama was just the ticket for what
ailed the planet. The fervor was all so detached from facts on the ground that
the Nobel Committee even gave Obama a Peace Prize for the stuff they were sure
he was going to do, eventually.
It’s Hard to See Racism When You’re a Collectivist.
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: It’s not that the left believes that affirmative
action isn’t racist. It’s that it believes that there is no such thing as
racism against white people. Like the Knockout Game or white students who
qualify on merit but can’t get into college because of racial diversity quotas;
it’s an invalid category. A myth. And if it’s a myth, then there’s nothing
wrong with a little racial violence or a few racial preferences.
Obama’s dirty
watchdogs. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: The Obama administration doesn’t have watchdogs. It
has whitewash puppies. The president’s Chicago
bullies have defanged true advocates for integrity in government in D.C. from
day one. So the latest report by the Senate
Homeland Security and Government Operations Committee oncorruptocrat
Charles K. Edwards, the former Department of Homeland Security inspector
general, isn’t a revelation. It’s confirmation.
Excerpt: Migrants from Central America often pay smugglers
to enter the US
illegally, but are frequently abused by their traffickers. They can hold
migrants in captivity to extort more money from the victims' relatives.
Republicans distance
selves from Nevada
Excerpt: But Bundy’s GOP defenders, including Sens. Dean
Heller (Nev. ) and Rand Paul (Ky. ), rapidly abandoned him on Thursday
following reports of incendiary remarks that the white rancher made about
minorities. Bundy wondered aloud whether blacks would be better off as slaves
picking cotton, and alleged that people of color are “against us.”
7 Reasons Nothing Should Stand in the Way of the Keystone XL Pipeline
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/25/7-reasons-nothing-stand-way-keystone-xl-pipeline/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell
Excerpt: The Washington Post slammed the administration’s continued delay of a Keystone XL decision, calling it “absurd” and “embarrassing.” And for good reason – in fact, many good reasons. We have compiled 7 of the most compelling.
http://blog.heritage.org/2014/04/25/7-reasons-nothing-stand-way-keystone-xl-pipeline/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell
Excerpt: The Washington Post slammed the administration’s continued delay of a Keystone XL decision, calling it “absurd” and “embarrassing.” And for good reason – in fact, many good reasons. We have compiled 7 of the most compelling.
Federal prosecutors
plan to file charges against Rep. Grimm, attorney says
Excerpt: New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm's attorney
confirmed late Friday that federal prosecutors plan to file criminal charges
against the congressman. The decision follows a two-year FBI investigation
into various aspects of Grimm's business and campaign history.
Army Chaplain’s
Impassioned Speech on Gun Rights Silences Every Liberal In The Room
http://conservativevideos.com/2014/04/army-chaplains-impassioned-speech-gun-rights-silences-every-liberal-room/
http://conservativevideos.com/2014/04/army-chaplains-impassioned-speech-gun-rights-silences-every-liberal-room/
Excerpt: His impassioned speech was incredible. He
emphasized lawmakers’ lack of knowledge on the subject of firearms,
and berated them for their willingness to let let off those who abuse guns in
crimes so that the criminals can offend again.
Women's Median Income Declines. From The Patriot Post
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the
last recession ended in June 2009. (You can stop laughing now.) Barack Obama
has spent the last five years waging class, race and sex warfare, with the
latest push being to dupe women voters with his phony "war on
women." Yet the real war on women is being waged by his economic policies.
Since Obama was elected, the median income of women is down more than 4% in
constant dollars. Furthermore, the highest median income for women 15 and older
was $23,169 in 2007. We can't remember who was president then, but it wasn't
Obama.
1.5B More Hours of
Paperwork. From The Patriot Post
One-and-a-half billion hours of burdensome paperwork has
been added by the regulatory state since 2010, according to an analysis by
American Action Forum, which pegs the additional economic cost at $43.8
billion. The report finds, "In 2010, the nation's total paperwork burden
was 8.8 billion hours; today, it's more than 10.3 billion hours, an increase of
1.5 billion hours, despite the attempt at regulatory reform. For perspective,
it would take 786,000 individuals working full-time to complete the new
paperwork added since 2010." Recall that Obama tasked agencies with
reducing this workload via executive order, though the results have evidently
gone backward like the rest of his agenda. Two EPA proposals alone are
estimated to cost $12.3 billion, wiping out the $10 billion purportedly
"saved" in other areas.
From Greatness to Whiteness. By Dennis Prager
Excerpt: When Americans over the age of, let us say, 45,
look at any of the iconic paintings of America's Founders – the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, the signing of the Constitution, George Washington
crossing the Delaware, any of the individual portraits the Founders – what do
they see? They see great men founding a great country. If you ask recent
graduates of almost any American university what they see when they look at
these paintings, chances are that they see something entirely different. They
are apt to see rich, white males who are not great and who did not found a
great country. And it then allows that those who are nonWhite and not from some
obvious upper middle class background are therefore more empowered, and are
permitted the kinds of actions that would be instantly rejected if some White
person did them. It says the values of the minority culture are somehow
automatically superior and can be imposed on everyone else whenever desired. Of
course, none of this really helps anyone progress or solves social problems,
but hey, PC on a roll never has to say its sorry. --Del )
Driver Suing Boy She Killed for Emotional Distress. She's
also suing other teen bicyclists she hit. By Evann Gastaldo
Excerpt: On a rainy October night in 2012, 17-year-old
Brandon Majewski and two of his friends were riding their bikes to get hot dogs
when they were hit from behind by an SUV. Majewski was killed; the other teen
boys were injured. Now the 42-year-old woman driving the SUV, Sharlene Simon,
is suing all three—plus Majewski's parents and brother, who has since died,
the Toronto Star reports. Simon says she suffered
emotional trauma in the accident, which happened about 55 miles north of Toronto , and is claiming
$1.35 million in damages. "They did not apply their brakes properly,"
her lawsuit states. "They were incompetent bicyclists. (Here's a new
record. The driver who couldn't see the boys on bikes on the road ahead of her
and could not hit her brakes at all before plowing into them, wants to sue them
and their families for her emotional distress. It doesn't get any stupider or
more self-obsessed than this. Hopefully the court will bounce her case right
out the door. Still, the emotional distress she has put the families in is
reprehensible. What an arrogant, self-important witch. [use a w, use a b,
take your pick.] --Del )
It is time for the
West to move ahead without Russia
Excerpt: John McCain, John Barrasso, John Hoeven and Ron
Johnson, all Republicans, represent Arizona , Wyoming , North Dakota
and Wisconsin ,
respectively, in the Senate. We recently visited Norway , Estonia ,
Latvia , Lithuania and Moldova . In each country, our
allies want a stronger immediate response to Russia’s
annexation of Crimea and its ongoing
subversion of Ukraine. They also believe, as we do, that Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s latest acts of aggression require an enduring strategic
response from the United States ,
Europe and NATO. It should be clear to all
that Putin’s Russia
has taken a dark turn. There is no resetting this relationship. We cannot
return to business as usual.
In a tangle over euphemisms for affirmative action.
By George F. Will
Excerpt: Anodyne euphemisms often indicate an uneasy
conscience or a political anxiety. Or both, as when
the 1976 Democratic
platform chose “compensatory opportunity” as a way of blurring
the fact that the party favored racial discrimination in the form of
preferences and quotas for certain government-favored minorities in such
matters as government hiring, contracting and college admissions. Since then, “affirmative action”
has become the ubiquitous semantic evasion. (I loath euphemisms. If
I don't survive this lung thing, please tell people I died, not that I
"passed away." Croaked, bought the farm, got a mole for a mailman,
etc. are all okay too, because they are not attempts, like "passed away,"
to make it sound not so bad. ~Bob)
Sixth grader
suspended for taking razor blade away from suicidal student, throwing it away
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/20/sixth-grader-suspended-for-taking-razor-blade-away-from-suicidal-student-throwing-it-away/#ixzz300FVaszg
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/20/sixth-grader-suspended-for-taking-razor-blade-away-from-suicidal-student-throwing-it-away/#ixzz300FVaszg
And they wonder why people think educators are idiots. ~Bob.
Excerpt: A Virginia beach
middle school suspended sixth grader Adrionna Harris for ten days — and
recommended expulsion — because she was briefly in possession of a razor blade
after she confiscated it from a friend who was trying to kill himself. (After the
local media got involved, they cleared her record. ~Bob)
Obama's War on the Poor: U.S.
Excerpt: As temperatures plunged to 16 below zero in Chicago in early January and set record lows across the
eastern U.S. ,
electrical system managers implored the public to turn off stoves, dryers and
even lights or risk blackouts. A fifth of all power-generating capacity in a
grid serving 60 million people went suddenly offline, as coal piles froze,
sensitive electrical equipment went haywire and utility operators had trouble
finding enough natural gas to keep power plants running. The wholesale price of
electricity skyrocketed to nearly $2 per kilowatt hour, more than 40 times the
normal rate. The price hikes cascaded quickly down to consumers. Robert
Thompson, who lives in the suburbs of Allentown ,
Pa. Del )
Obamacare News
Competence: WH Has Missed More Than Half of Own Obamacare
Deadlines. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: The administration has failed to meet 44 statutory
deadlines required under Obamacare, according to a new report by the
Congressional Research Service (CRS). The report, released on Monday, documents
every provision with a specific deadline within the health care law and the
administration’s actions taken as of April 15, 2014. The Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) has missed more than half of the 83 deadlines
mandated since March 2011.
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/204303-oregon-to-abandon-obamacare-exchange
Excerpt: The decision follows months of severe technical
issues that have made Oregon 's
marketplace one of the worst in the country.
About $130 million has been spent on Cover Oregon, but it is
the only ObamaCare enrollment system that won't let registrants buy coverage
and qualify for tax credits in one sitting.
If you like your
health plan, you might lose it. Again.
Excerpt: The Obama administration is quietly trying to stamp
out some of the skimpiest health plans, a decision that industry officials say
could trigger yet another wave of cancellation notices.
The administration is targeting a type of coverage called
fixed benefit or indemnity insurance, which give patients a fixed sum of money
whenever they visit the doctor or land in a hospital.
ObamaCare is Hurting
Business, General Electric Says
Excerpt: General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt today
doubled-down on acknowledgements by his company that ObamaCare is hurting the
business sector, saying in response to a question posed by the National Center
5 Lives Wrecked By Obamacare. By John Hawkins
Excerpt: Liberals support cruel policies that decimate
people's lives; yet they like to think of themselves as compassionate and kind.
So, they judge programs based on the good intentions they claim to have had,
not the actual results. Liberals started out by telling everyone
that, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." They
said, "If you like your doctor, you can keep your
doctor." They said it would "save the average family $2,500
on its premiums."
Chinese Invasion
Mexican Border - YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtAAUegOz28
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtAAUegOz28
Religion of Peace News
Suspect in custody
after bomb scare at Kemah Walmart
Excerpt: A man with a knife and several suspicious devices
was arrested Saturday in a Walmart parking lot, after a four-hour stand-off
that kept customers and employees trapped inside the Kemah store. Mehrzad
Malekzadeh, 35, of Sugar
Land
Jihadists Now Control
Secretive U.S. Base in Libya
Excerpt: A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al
Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special
operations forces on the Libyan coastline to help hunt down Islamic militants,
according to local media reports, Jihadist web forums, and U.S. officials.
(More fruit from Obama's non-congressionally-authorized, lead-from-behind war.
Do you feel safe? ~Bob)
Experts Warn More
European Muslim Youth Are Radicalizing. By Abigail R. Esman
Excerpt: So violent, so bloodthirsty, is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a
Syria-based jihadist group, that even al-Qaida will have nothing to do with
them. But young European Muslims will – and do.
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Punjab:-clan-gang-rapes-seven-year-old-Christian-and-kidnaps-father-to-stop-him-reporting-them-30906.html
Excerpt: Sara was raped by four men in a Muslim village in Sialkot . The little girl
is hospitalized in a "critical condition". The rapists kidnapped her
father, Iqbal Masih, forcing the family to not press charges. Activists and
human rights organizations demand justice.
Declaration Signals
Growing Split in Al-Qaida. By John Rossomando
Excerpt: A pledge signed by nine al-Qaida commanders from Afghanistan , Turkmenistan
and Iran is the latest
example of how the terrorist movement's once monolithic structure has begun to
crumble under stress from Syria 's
civil war. The "Khorasan pledge," which was signed April 9, announces a shift in loyalty from al-Qaida
chief Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
‘A Direct Affront’ to
Kerry: With ‘Little Fear’ of Washington Israel
Exerpt: President Obama’s relentless push for some sort of
first-stage Mideast peace deal by the end of
this month was dealt a strong blow by Fatah and Hamas deciding to put aside
their differences and unite. Hamas’ information office said the pact between
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas political bureau leader
Khaled Mashal was simply implementing the previous unity agreements signed
years ago in Doha and Cairo — pacts followed by years of vicious fighting
between the parties. (Here's a major kick in the head for any "peace
process". --Del. John Kerry's chase of the Peace Process is like the
70-year-old guy in the back row at a topless bar winking at the stripper. Only
he thinks he's got a chance. ~Bob)
The double threat for
gay men in Syria
Excerpt: In Syria ’s
savage war, it seems incongruous to single out the experiences of one group.
Yet many gay men there face a double threat: They’re being persecuted by the
Syrian army and by militant groups while their families often reject them, or
worse. (Liberals: Opposing gay marriage in the US ? Disgusting homophobia.
Murdering gays in Islamic lands? It's their culture, who are we to condemn.
~Bob)
Why Iranian Women
Can’t Have Any of It
Excerpt: Regardless of whether Yazdi’s remarks that women
cannot run for president of the Islamic Republic can be attributed as an
official pronouncement of the Guardian Council—the 12-member body that Yazdi is
a member of and which is charged with vetting election candidates according to
their Islamic credentials—it matters precious little for the women that make up
more than half of Iran’s total population of around 77 million people.
The real issue is that hijab—or proper Islamic dress—is
still compulsory for
women in Iran’s streets and public places and failure to cover accordingly can
result in imprisonment or a hefty fine.
The real issue is that in today’s Iran divorce is a husband’s
unilateral right but if a woman seeks to divorce her husband she must
prove he has either abandoned her or is mentally ill, abusive, or a
drug addict. The real issue is that...
Excerpt: The Obama administration on Wednesday criticized Iran ’s election to the U.N.’s Commission on the
Status of Women (CSW) – but neither the U.S.
nor any other delegation objected when given the opportunity to do so, thus
allowing Iran
to get the seat “by acclamation.” Iran will now serve on the CSW, a
body dealing with gender equality and the advancement of women, for another
four-year term, having already been a member since 2011. (Their idea of women's
rights is to control the size of the stones used to kill women, including rape
victims, accused of adultery, all to the silence of the "war on
women" crowd. ~Bob)
Excerpt: It was supposed to be a routine “operation.” The
parents of 13-year-old Soheir al-Batea, from a village in Egypt ’s Nile Delta, took her to be
circumcised at the local clinic that had been recommended by friends. They had
done the same with her older sister a year before. A doctor typically cuts off
the whole clitoris or a part of it, sometimes in extreme cases removing the
labia as well, in a procedure that is now illegal but still deemed necessary by
many Egyptians to preserve the purity of the child and control sexual
desire. (But it's their culture and liberals say all cultures are equally
valid...~Bob)
Vow of Freedom of
Religion Goes Unkept in Egypt
Excerpt: Nine months later, though, Egypt ’s
freethinkers and religious minorities are still waiting for the new leadership
to deliver on that promise. Having suppressed Mr. Morsi’s Islamist supporters,
the new military-backed government has fallen back into patterns of
sectarianism that have prevailed here for decades. (I know, you're shocked.
~Bob)
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