Socialized medicine leaves scissors, scalpels inside patients-always will

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• No mention of anyone being fired--that's the difference in socialism. Why not slack off--who cares?

• above instruments found inside patients

BBC, 5/30/10: "Forceps, needles, fragments of a bone drill and swabs are among the objects left inside Scottish patients during operations, it has emerged.

• Some patients also had organs punctured accidentally while in operating theatres, the Press Association found.

Scotland's largest health board, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, said six patients left hospital with swabs inside their body since January 2008.

• The NHS board said the checks system it has in place failed on those occasions.

The hospitals involved are Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Southern General Hospital, Stobhill Hospital, Victoria Infirmary and Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

• Greater Glasgow and Clyde said up to three people, from a total of 12 with objects left inside their bodies,
  
• became unwell as a result.

A spokesman said: "All swabs and instruments are counted in and out during every open operative procedure."...

• "The patients involved receive an apology from the principle clinician involved."...

NHS Grampian said eight incidents occurred between January 2008 and February 2010 in which objects were left inside or assumed to have been left inside patients....

• "No patient should have to endure another operation or have their life put at risk because the pre and post checks are not rigorously carried out."

The details were released after a Freedom of Information request to all 14 health boards in Scotland by the Press Association." ***photo bbc

• Socialism has never worked wherever it's been tried up to and including today. It only succeeds in keeping greedy, thug billionaires in luxury. ed.
  

Electric cars would need massive nuclear power to keep going

Tweet 5/25: "Switching all cars in the country to electric would drain the National Grid of nearly a fifth of its capacity unless

• the equivalent of another six new nuclear power stations are built, claims a report."...Telegraph UK

Chinese child chained to pole by father who tried to sell him as a slave

Tweet 5/27/10: A thin 8 year old Chinese boy is chained to a pole by his father who tries to sell the child as a slave to passers by. UK SUN, Nick Parker

Obama informs fawning media he knows they're biased in his favor

Tweet 5/25: "In one sense, the press, or at least some members of the press, have only themselves to blame.

• Obama treats them with contempt because he knows that when big tests come,
  
• they've always been on his side.

There's no reason for him to think they won't be there in the future. "Most of you covered me," he told the media elite at the 2009 White House Correspondents' Association dinner.

• "All of you voted for me.""

"Fawning press now gets cold shoulder from Obama," B. York, Washington Examiner

At least 9 suicides this year at Communist Chinese electronic sweat shop, 30 others about to jump were stopped

Tweet 5/25, BBC: "But the company has admitted it stopped a further

• 30 people trying to throw themselves off high buildings in a three-week period earlier this year. "...

5/21: BBC: They report 11 have been attempted, 9 successfully. Communist China is well known to try to keep bad news quiet, even paying people to shut up. The BBC of course helps, putting the name 'Taiwan' in the headline, allowing a reader to assume the deaths occurred in Taiwan. I read the article several times and still could not tell where exactly the deaths occurred and had to do extra research to find out. Being a Taiwanese company it is of course responsible. But the factories are in Communist China, that's where these young people are apparently being worked to death. "Ninth worker death at Taiwan iPhone firm Foxconn"

Chicago Tribune does not state Arizona law correctly, allows Obama rep statement without clarification.

Tweet Chicago Tribune, 5/19: "(DHS ICE head John) Morton said his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona officials. The best way to reduce illegal immigration is through a comprehensive federal approach, not a patchwork of state laws, he said.

• "I don't think the Arizona law, or laws like it, are the solution," Morton said." (item at end of article).

(Article has blaring headline about immigration crackdown in Illinois--right, sure. Remember George Bush? If he wouldn't crackdown on illegal aliens, certainly Obama won't do it).

• First, the Arizona law is nothing more than a mirror of existing federal law. If that isn't good enough, "laws like it" will cover existing federal law. The Tribune allows an Obama official to say--well into his term of office--that he disregards current federal law, and lets this stand without amplification. The Tribune places this item at the tail end of the article-where many won't see it.
  

This is how the Tribune reporter himself described the Arizona law:

• "The law makes it a crime to be in the state illegally and requires police to check suspects for immigration paperwork."...

This is not correct. How can a reporter not know this? Police are not required-nor allowed-- to check people suspected of being illegal aliens. They are only allowed to do so if a person has been stopped for another violation.

• Perhaps the Tribune reporter went to public schools and is not well educated.

For decades, elected officials ordered police NOT to ask for immigration status even if a crime, including murder, had been committed. This has been the case in New York City (where I live) for decades. Even when Rudy Giuliani was mayor-much to my surprise at the time. He did not want anyone's illegal alien status to ever be revealed. To me this is a crime against citizens who are not criminals and grounds for impeachment of any elected official. Do you get the idea now that elected officials are completely out of touch-even the ones labeled as "conservative?"
via MichaelSavage.com

Germany bans some forms of short selling-BBC

Tweet 5/19, "The German financial regulator has banned traders in the country from "naked" short-selling of euro-denominated government bonds and of shares in the country's 10 most important financial institutions.

• Short-sellers usually borrow shares, sell them, then buy them back when the stock falls and return them to the lender, keeping the difference in price.

"Naked" short selling occurs when a trader sells a financial instrument that has not yet been borrowed."...

Multi-millionaire Obama insists struggling Mass. taxpayers pay bills for his Aunt Zeituni

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5/17, AP: Obama's Aunt Zeituni lives for "free" in Boston off the taxpayers. No one in the US press dared mention her existence before Obama's election. She's only 57 so has many years to go taking the spot of a poor lifelong US citizen who paid taxes all his or her life. It wouldn't be quite as bad if Obama didn't preach 'taking care of our brother' as a pious cornerstone of his obviously phony persona. A multi-millionaire who not only won't help his aunt, but is completely disconnected and contemptuous of hard working American taxpayers.

• "Obama wasn't involved in the Boston hearing. The White House also said it was not helping Onyango (Obama's aunt) with legal fees."...(And not a word of thanks to Massachusetts taxpayers. Judge a man by his actions, not his words. These are just the facts. Facts are distasteful to the far left, so they avoid all but one. They have exactly one fact in mind at all times, as per Saul Alinsky: blame the vicious right wing (bloggers) who pay Obama's bills. It's not only the money. The wage earner gives time in exchange for money, time away from his family, sometimes sacrificing his health. Obama refused to do that for his aunt, but has no problem expecting everyone else to.)ed. photo above Obama in Kenya with his aunt in his 20's. from RushLimbaugh via Gateway Pundit
  

Green Party in Norway goal is 30 hour work week

Tweet Current demand is for 35 hour week (with an eye to 30) as long as it provides for their welfare system.

American doctors now approve female genital mutilation-Allahu Akbar

Tweet "Mark Steyn had a lot to write about this week. And he started with Eric Holder's obvious discomfort when confronted with questions at a congressional hearing about whether "radical Islam" motivates people to commit terrorist acts:

At Fort Hood, Maj. Hasan jumped on a table and gunned down his comrades while screaming, "Allahu Akbar!", which is Arabic for "Nothing to see here" and an early indicator of pre-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Times Square Bomber, we are assured by

• The Washington Post, CNN and Newsweek, was upset by foreclosure proceedings on his house. Mortgage-related issues.
  
• Nothing to do with months of training at a Taliban camp in Waziristan.

Listening to Attorney General Holder, one is tempted to modify Trotsky:

You may not be interested in Islam but Islam is interested in you.

• Islam smells weakness at the heart of the West. The post-World War II order is dying: The European Union's decision to toss a trillion dollars to prop up a Greek economic model that guarantees terminal insolvency is merely the latest manifestation of the chronic combination of fiscal profligacy and demographic decline in the West at twilight. Islam is already the biggest supplier of new Europeans and new Canadians, and the fastest-growing demographic in the Western world.

Therefore, it thinks it not unreasonable to shape the character of those societies - not by blowing up buildings and airplanes, but by determining the nature of their relationship to Islam.

A lest you think America is immune, Steyn points out that it isn't only Holder:

Last week, the American Association of Pediatricians noted that certain, ahem, "immigrant communities" were shipping their daughters overseas to undergo "female genital mutilation." So, in a spirit of multicultural compromise, they decided to amend their previous opposition to the practice: They're not (for the moment) advocating full-scale clitoridectomies, but they are suggesting federal and state laws be changed to permit them to give a "ritual nick" to young girls.

A few years back, I thought even fainthearted Western liberals might draw the line at "FGM." After all, it's a key pillar of institutional misogyny in Islam: Its entire purpose is to deny women sexual pleasure.

True, many of us hapless Western men find we deny women sexual pleasure without even trying, but we don't demand genital mutilation to guarantee it. On such slender distinctions does civilization rest.

A ritual what? How very multi-cultural of them. Perhaps we can arrange it so the AAP doctors can all get a "ritual nick." I mean, how painful can it be, really?

Read the rest of this brilliant, troubling essay." 5/15, American Thinker by Rick Moran

Scott Brown, maybe your dysfunctional childhood is finally showing

Tweet I've followed Scott Brown's statements on controversial issues since his election to the US Senate. More than the positions he's taken, it is the casual manner, like a brush-off he's used in letting us know about them. It's been nothing less than stunning-and educational. Now he has a brief meeting with a supreme court nominee. Everyone knows there are decades of evidence to explore about any nominee. The last thing a senator should do is tell constituents that the nominee is ok simply because you had a chat with her (unless he has total contempt for his constituents). Brown may have long since decided she was fine with him, but to give such a casual explanation to independent voters and conservatives who invested so much hope in him-who have almost no elected officials representing them-is disgusting. Brown, you're as revolting as any other two-faced Beltway slob. Good bye. Politico44, via MichaelSavage.com
Chris Christie for President. ed.

The message in the Tea leaves, grassroots and independent voters- the country belongs to us, not you

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• I agree with most of this with one observation. If the author thought Bob Bennett's demise was a quick, last minute thing, he's missing one particular website. I knew it was likely months ago from reading one mostly volunteer website (ie people who are tired of professional politicians).
  

5/13 "The question arises as to whether the GOP understands this course of events. The signs are not encouraging. Shortly after the passage of ObamaCare,

• Sen. John Cornyn, one of the party's old bulls, announced that the party would make no effort to repeal the bill. He was echoed by Sen. Bob Corker and several House members -- a nonentity named Richard Burr, and one or two others whose names slip my mind.

No clear rationale was given, and none was required.

• ObamaCare will be embraced by the GOP mainstream because it represents a return to the status quo ante 2006 --` it represents a mammoth opportunity to practice what George Washington Plunkitt called "honest graft": trading earmarks,
  
• placing US HealthCare installations in your district, and, not the least, guaranteeing that your
  
• supporters get to jump the line
  
• after rationing starts.

Voters? They get to do what they're told.

• But of course, they're not doing what they're told. And since Cornyn is insulated from the voters' wrath this year, they instead turned the phaser banks on poor Robert Bennett.

It can be argued that Bennett didn't deserve to be let down so harshly, that he was a conservative of sorts, and that we shouldn't batter members of our own team. All good points. But none of them will play this year. Because, quite apart from all that,

• Bennett had sold out, and more publicly and completely than many.

There was the broken pledge not to serve more than two terms, the vote for TARP (some form of bailout might have been necessary, but not that one), and his "bipartisan" health-care bill, of which the best that can be said is the fact that it went nowhere. Bennett was much the same as Bob Dole, and George H.W. Bush, and today's Newt Gingrich:

• a member of the managerial elite. Somebody who, apart from the rhetoric, is simply another cog in the legislative machinery (or like Newt, would like to be once again).

• Arguing that Bennett was no worse than anyone else was not going to save him, not in 2010.
  
• And it won't save anyone else either.

Will the Republicans get the message? That remains to be seen. It often appears that Republicans are not a message-getting species. 2006... 2008... ObamaCare... the dominos fall and make no impression in the elephantine mind. They still believe they can continue playing the numbers game, rewarding each other with earmarks, making deals across the aisle, and playing both ends against the middle.

• The voters will never notice.
• Well, the Utah voters sure noticed.

To avoid Robert Bennett's fate, the GOP must do things.

• ObamaCare must either be repealed or emasculated (if a veto-proof majority cannot be put together). The illegals problem must be solved firmly and quickly. The southern border must be secured before it explodes. The plague of PC that has overwhelmed political decision-making in this country since the first Bush administration must be ended. These only comprise a start. What people are demanding is a rollback.

They will get it, or the politicians who stand in their way will wind up on the same ashheap as Bennett.

It happens that what the people are calling for matches the platform of the GOP almost point for point. The Republicans can prevail simply by being themselves, living up to their own standards and rhetoric. But we should never underestimate the Republican capacity for blowing a two-foot putt. Remember Dede Scozzafava, for one example.

• If the Republicans drop the ball this time, if they toss aside their principles, break their promises, lose themselves in deals, Bennett's downfall will expand to the level of massacre. 2012 will become the year of the third party, a serious third party, not the vanity productions of Ross Perot, but something we haven't seen since 1912. And more than likely led by a populist crank of the Ron Paul variety. The last such upsurge by the Perotistas gave us Bill Clinton. And the next one...?

The GOP is being given that rarity in politics, a second chance. There will not be a third. Learn the lesson of Robert Bennett, or go to the wall. " American Thinker, JR Dunn, "Will the GOP wake up and smell the tea?"

'Obama stands with Muslims as he promised'

Tweet 5/6: "We have to ask that question now because our president and his people will not.

So in the end, Barack Obama has brought about the exact scenario he has worked so hard to avoid. If Americans were assured

• that our president and our national security employees are doing the necessary watching and profiling, then we would also know we don't have to do it. We could be nice, hospitable, and open to our American Muslim neighbors and coworkers.

But when we know that the people paid to fight terrorism refuse to see the obvious, then we are necessarily put on high alert.

• We take on their jobs. We watch. We stare. We shy from the company of those we know might become our worst nightmare." American Thinker, K. Shiver

Screaming Muslims beat Swedish man for cartoon, 2010

Weak personas reap what they sow

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UK election map, 2010. via RedMass

Allen West says media completely makes up garbage of Tea Partiers as racists

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Allen West running for congress as a
republican. photo NYTimes.

• Allen West says media created false image of Tea Partiers as racist. 5/4/10, "Black hopefuls pick this year in GOP races"

"Most Black republicans since reconstruction run for congress," Atlantic Wire, 5/5/10, by Max Fisher

RAPE TREES IN ARIZONA, PANTIES OF YOUNG GIRLS RAPED BY MEXICAN ILLEGAL TRAFFICKERS-THAT'S OK, JUST DON'T ASK FOR ID

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Bank foreclosures set all time record, 4/15/10-Bloomberg

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• The news most media hides while telling you there's a recovery.

4/15/10, Bloomberg: "Foreclosure filings in the U.S. rose 16 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier and bank seizures hit a record as lenders stepped up action against delinquent homeowners, according to RealtyTrac Inc.

• A total of 932,234 homes, or one out of every 138 households, received a default or auction notice, or were repossessed by banks, the Irvine, California-based firm said today. In March, filings rose 8 percent to the most in any month since RealtyTrac began publishing reports in January 2005.

• “The banks are finally working through it,” Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac’s executive vice president for marketing, said in a telephone interview. “We’re seeing a resolution for properties that were in foreclosure but where seizure was delayed.”

Unemployed and “underwater” homeowners, or those who owe more than their property is worth, are driving foreclosures. The U.S. jobless rate was 9.7 percent in March, unchanged for a third month, the Labor Department reported April 2. More than a fifth of mortgaged homes were underwater in the fourth quarter, according to real estate data firm Zillow.com....

• 2010 Forecast

RealtyTrac is forecasting more than 1 million bank seizures this year and at least 4 million foreclosure filings, both potential records. Foreclosures won’t level off until next year, Sharga said.

• Foreclosure prevention efforts such as the U.S. Treasury’s Making Home Affordable Program may have “slowed down the normal foreclosure timeline,” James J. Saccacio, RealtyTrac’s chief executive officer, said in today’s report.

The number of homes seized by lenders rose 35 percent from a year earlier, RealtyTrac said. Auctions increased 21 percent from the same period in 2009.

RealtyTrac reported 304,799 default notices in the quarter, down 1 percent from a year earlier. The number peaked at more than 342,000 in the third quarter of 2009.

• Nevada’s Top Rate

Nevada had the highest foreclosure filing rate for the 14th straight quarter. One in every 33 households got a notice, more than four times the national average. A total of 34,557 Nevada homes got filings, down 16 percent from a year earlier, RealtyTrac said.

• Arizona had the second-highest rate at one in 49 households, three times the national average.
  

• Florida ranked third with one in 57 households and California was fourth at one in 62.

Utah ranked fifth, with one in 88 households, and had the biggest annual increase -- 75 percent -- among states with 10 the highest rates." "US Foreclosure filings rise 16% as bank seizures set record" by Dan Levy