It’s more than a No Fly Zone

March, 2011

abortion — 2 Comments
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Mar 11

Spontaneous Abortion in Other Species

Jill Stanek’s blog featured some Aggie News, relating equine behavioral and biological phenomena to the abortion issue. Pharmer, being Pharmer, can’t pass up such hot issues as animal husbandry (that’s breeding livestock …ok.)

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It’s been noticed that bringing in outside male zebras to prevent inbreeding at zoos has resulted in an extremely high miscarriage (abortion) rate among the mares. Horses share this difficulty, as do other animals such as some rodents. In the presence of the males from the home location, the mares which have been bred by outsiders will often lose their offspring. Some of the mares will copulate with the home males, and if unable to do so will be more likely to abort. It is surmised that this is a biological adaptation to the fact that the male equines will very often kill the offspring which resulted from relations with outside males. It is believed to result in a conservation of energy and resources for the mare to lose the offspring before birth rather than go through the effort of delivering a foal which will be killed anyway.

In one of the fluffy news pieces describing the phenomenon among horses, it was suggested that the mares could actually will the loss of the pregnancy if the circumstances regarding the presence of non parental males were untoward. Pharmer supposes that this notion is no more crazy than man-made global warming.

In a somewhat related phenomenon, the smell of urine from newly introduced males who did not breed with the female mouse will elicit failure of implantation, but does not cause loss after that stage. This is referred to as the Bruce effect, in which production of a functional corpus luteum is prevented. This effect is abated by the presence of familiar males, even if they did not breed with the female mouse. The Bruce effect is not seen in rats, and is a good deal different than what is being observed in horses.

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Mar 11

Doing the Right Thing – Japan Does Not Heed UN

via FRANCE 24 – Despite UN recommendation, Japan will not widen evacuation zone.

The UN, full of whacko alarmists who believe in Global Warming, are recommending for Japan to expand the evacuation around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Japan, which has “been there, done that”, is doing its own monitoring and should be left to make its own decisions.

It’s time for the clamoring nutjobs at the UN to shut up and let the Japanese concentrate on cleaning up the mess.

Looks as though they’ll be burying Fukushima Daiichi in concrete, however.

On the Advance of Civilization

The United States is at a cross roads. Some of our representatives have gotten a hold of this idea. They have correctly recognized that social issues and economic issues of the United States are intertwined, and that the social issues have to be addressed in order for the economic issues to be resolved.

This is the reason:

The Advance of Human Civilization is fueled by the desire to alleviate human suffering and human need.
If the suffering and need are concealed or erased by killing the victims, there will be no advancement.

We can see this already happening in the countries with socialized medicine. They have decided to stop treatment, and/or kill off those who have too many difficulties, or whose existence is not seen as profitable for the society as a whole. You can see what has happened to their capacities for medical and others scientific innovation. Which country still fosters the most scientific advancement, so that the most gifted people of the world flock here in order to accomplish their aims? It is still U.S.

If we decide to kill people because they have unmet needs, we will cease to advance as a civilization. All sorts of innovations will grind to a halt. We will enter a prolonged depression and dark age.

Listen to the likes of Bachmann, Palin, Cain, West, and the ones who came before them. They have a gut understanding of the main point, given above, though they might not be able to express it in as few words.
These people have the charisma to convey a more hopeful future for humanity, and lead others to it.

-K. L. Brauer

medical news / medical oddities — No Comments
31
Mar 11

More Maggot Medical News From Ohio

Morbidly obese man found fused to chair he sat in for two years dies in hospital | Mail Online.

This one is from Bellaire, Ohio…. where a morbidly obese man had become fused to his chair, in a matrix of his skin, feces, urine and maggots.

His girlfriend had undertaken to feed him by hand since he had become too big to leave the chair. The man apparently refused to accept medical help for an arthritic condition in his knees which had made it impossible for him to ambulate.

The individual, yet to be named was finally found unconscious by his girlfriend and was transported to a hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia where he later died.

islam / sex / sex abuse / Uncategorized — No Comments
30
Mar 11

Bill O’Reilly – Qaddafi Brutalities

Bill O’Reilly speaks to Wafa Sultan, author of the book, “A God who Hates”. Dr. Sultan discusses the plight of women under Sharia law, which persecutes/kills women who dare to bring charges of rape.

Go to The Blaze for an update on the story of Iman al-Obeidi who was raped by Qadaffi supporters and has publicly accused them of this crime.
Possibly world-wide publicity of her precarious situation will cause her life to be spared.

planned parenthood — 1 Comment
30
Mar 11

Live Action Video: NO Mammograms at Planned Parenthood

Live Action fact checked the info from pro-lifers that no planned parenthood clinics offer mammography services.

Live action phoned a bunch of clinics asking for mammogram services. There were none to be found.

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26
Mar 11

Parasites Tear Up London

Anti-cuts demo: Protesters occupy Fortnum & Mason as half a million march on London | Mail Online.

It started as a Labor Union protest of the budget cuts in the UK, but then the anarchists added their special touch.

Yes the UK is broke, and has to cut the budget. The parasite class, is expecting money to fall from the sky (same as in Greece) to fund the dependent lifestyle to which they have become accustomed.

Anarchists utilized the opportunity to tear up the Ritz Hotel, and other landmarks of central London.

More pics and a timeline are available at the the Telegraph.

democrat — No Comments
26
Mar 11

Reporter Locked in Closet at Biden Fundraiser

Orlando Sentinel reporter Scott Powers was designated as the pool reporter to cover a Biden Fundraiser at Alan Ginsberg’s “Winter Park” house in Florida.

The reporter was confined to a closet by Biden staffers during most of the event to keep him from mingling with the guests, and was only let out to hear Biden’s prepared remarks. He was then confined back to the closet.

Powers sent an image of his “holding cell” to his editors, and that is available for a short time the Drudge Report.

The host of the event later apologized to Powers, saying that he was only following the lead of the Democrat staffers, and claimed that he had no idea that the reporter was confined to a closet.

A Whole lot of Transparency Going on in the Democrat Party.

Update: an interview with Scott Powers is at Breitbart.com

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26
Mar 11

Government Electric Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com

G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether – NYTimes.com.

Jeffrey Immelt has a special position as Obama’s Liaison to the Business Community, and as Chairman of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

Immelt’s Company, General Electric is numero uno among U.S. corporations in Tax Avoidance. Their net payout on (5 billion in profit) to the IRS is Zero.

The company has managed to balance it’s financial statements of profit from the U.S. and abroad so as to be paying zero U.S. taxes.

These kinds of strategies are out of reach for normal U.S. taxpayers, and of course we are not serving on Obama’s special committees. So we do not have most favored Tax Status. Ronald Reagan had noticed such outsized advantages for large corporations and eliminated many loopholes, while drastically lowering the tax rates for everyone. In succeeding decades the large entities regained much of their preferential tax advantages.

In the last 8 years, GE has reduced US employment by 20 percent and has increased overseas employment. Cumulative overseas profits have increased from $15 billion to $92 billion in that period. Declaring profits in countries with much lower taxes than the U.S. is highly beneficial to the bottom line

Wouldn’t you like to be multinational too?

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25
Mar 11

San Francisco Man is looking for a WIFE

Find This Guy a Wife, Get $10K | NBC Bay Area.

Chas McFeely will pay $10,000 to the lucky person who introduces him to the woman he will marry.

There’s a match up website for one out there, featuring McFeely himself. Check him out and see if one of your female relatives would find him interesting. Seems that a guy in San Francisco has to put up a big effort to find an eligible Female companion.

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25
Mar 11

Ky teen may face adult charge in couple’s slaying – Yahoo! News

Ky teen may face adult charge in couple’s slaying – Yahoo! News.

After an amber alert and car chase, a 15 year old KY kid is charged with killing his 50 year old second cousin and her husband. The couple, Gary and Barbara Holloway, had taken this incorrigible kid in and cared for him after his mother had given up on him.

Their adult son had gone to check on them, after he had been unable to reach them by phone, and found them dead in their bed.

The apparent cause of contention: the Holloways had tried to prevent the teen from dating a 12 year old girl.

Single comment from Pharmer’s hubby: “Hope he likes guys.”

Uncategorized — No Comments
25
Mar 11

Redundant expression for War

‘Kinetic military action’ or ‘war’? – Jonathan Allen – POLITICO.com.

Remember when the lefties began using an alternate term for the A word. You know……. Choice = Abortion.

Now there’s a new word for another kind of killing. It’s “Kinetic“. Kinetic used to mean ‘of or pertaining to motion‘, before the lefties got a hold of it. Of course, action is pretty much a similar thing. So you have extreme redundancy surrounding the term ‘military’ to refer to WAR when the lefties do it.

So there you have it: War = Kinetic Military Action.

The bonehead who may be credited with this latest idiocy is Deputy National Security Advisor, Ben Rhodes, and here’s his statement quoted at the Politico:

“I think what we are doing is enforcing a resolution that has a very clear set of goals, which is protecting the Libyan people, averting a humanitarian crisis, and setting up a no-fly zone,” Rhodes said. “Obviously that involves kinetic military action, particularly on the front end. But again, the nature of our commitment is that we are not getting into an open-ended war, a land invasion in Libya.”

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23
Mar 11

The SEIU Plot to Take Down Banks

There’s a video under heated discussion showing SEIU leader Steve Lerner (who headed the Justice for Janitors effort). His bright idea was a sort of mortgage strike….. everyone refuse to pay, in order to take down the lenders. You will want to see the transcript, and especially the last line of it at the Blaze. The initially presented video and an uncut version also are there.

The SEIU seems to have a problem with capitalism.

That Lerner is no longer holding his former position with the Union might be used to exonerate SEIU of this plot to destabilize the US economy, (similarly to planned parenthood firing Some of their errant employees after they were caught aiding and abetting child prostitution.)

Here’s a copy of the video at Youtube.

More on Steve Lerner, and some history of his SEIU career is at the Blaze.

congress / obama / Uncategorized — No Comments
23
Mar 11

Biden: Going to War Without Approval of Congress

is an impeachable offense.

Blast from the past:

But this does not apply to Obama.
Meanwhile, Germany is backing out of NATO surveillance in the Mediterranean. Italy wants to withdraw the use of its airstrips for military flights if the operation is not NATO controlled. No one wants to lead this war, and Obama still says no ground troops no matter what.

government / obama — No Comments
22
Mar 11

White House: Helping install ‘a democratic system’ is goal in Libya – TheHill.com

White House: Helping install ‘a democratic system’ is goal in Libya – TheHill.com.

Remember what Obama said about avoiding war, ending US involvement in wars, avoiding nation building……..

NEVERMIND!

The Libyan mission has morphed from doing nothing, to saving the lives of the Libyan rebels, and now to installing a democratic government in Libya, which is REGIME CHANGE.

“Oh by the way”, Obama has finally notified Congress that we’re at war.

It appears that no one wants to lead the war, and France is proposing a steering committee.

media / news media — No Comments
22
Mar 11

New Washington Times is Baaaaack

New Washington Times hits stands | Washington Business Journal.

The Washington times has been purchased by investors connected with Rev. Sun Myung Moon who had originally founded the newspaper.

It is back out, with it’s sports page, down to half price at the news stands, and set to put up a revitalized website in the near future. Delivery has also resumed.

Rev. Moon’s paper has been a standout for having reporters who dig harder on many stories, are more careful with details, and …….. report accurately on medical matters!

The availability of a right leaning opinion section is always a plus.

Jennifer Harper of the Washington Times is linked here on the Times.

planned parenthood / sex abuse — No Comments
22
Mar 11

Planned Parenthood would like to bury this

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but You should see it first. It’s a message from planned parenthood of Illinois to their activists, concerning three bills that regulate abortion clinics. One of the bills, which would require all personnel working at the abortion clinic to report visits by victims of child sex abuse, was met by the protest that such reporting would overload the department of children and family services.

Apparently the people at planned parenthood feel that there are a huge number of abused underage girls utilizing their abortion services. This kicker is in the second paragraph of the letter linked above. Check it out.

Planned parenthood has since backed away from this a bit….. realizing that their opposition to this bill (particularly after having been caught in aiding and abetting child abuse) is not good for public relations, and further government funding. They have since taken the offensive paragraph out of the letter at their website.

See also the “NEVER MIND” letter from Illinois affiliate of NARAL to their activists here.

See more detail at Jill Stanek’s place. She’s got some supporting audio here.

Lefties / leftist / Leftists / Union — No Comments
22
Mar 11

Deroy Murdock Chronicles the Leftist Propensity Towards Violence

Death Threats by the Dozens in Wisconsin – Deroy Murdock – National Review Online.

In the National Review Deroy Murdock has compiled a sampling of the death threats and unsavory behavior of the leftist Union supporters in Wisconsin.

Attention is called to it here because the Leftist media will not speak out against its own people, in the same way that Attorney General Eric Holder would not prosecute his own people for crimes committed.

There is not even a pretense of respect for the rule of law under the Obama administration. We have become a banana republic.

medical news / prolife — No Comments
21
Mar 11

Baby Joseph receives tracheotomy at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center

Baby Joseph Maraachli Receives Tracheotomy Today at U.S. Hospital | LifeNews.com.

One Canadian death panel decision has been averted with Baby Joseph’s transfer and treatment in a U.S. hospital.

It will remain to be seen if there is further help available to treat his neurological disorder, which has not been well characterized or explained in media reports.

Japan / nuclear / Uncategorized — No Comments
21
Mar 11

Nuke reader help: I Sievert = 100 Rem

For conversion purposes when reading the Nuke articles. Sieverts radiation dose units used everywhere else, and Rems are used in the U.S.

1 sievert is 100 rem

milli is a one thousandth.

1 rem is 10 millisieverts.

It appears that the approved yearly permitted radiation dose for workers at the Fukushima plant has been jacked up to the level that the shuttle astronauts are permitted to take per mission.

Japan wouldn’t need to ban all the food from the farms near Fukushima. A lot of the radioactive contamination has short half life. The produce would become edible after some time in the can or freezer, even if initial levels are too high for immediate consumption, after washing. (When the glow starts to go, chow down.) Moving food and processing it will be a much bigger job than usual in some of these areas.

The radioactivity in the water found in Tokyo is below safety limits thus far.

In the AM of today, some smoke is rising from the spent fuel storage of reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi, and the workers have scooted out of there for a bit.

Wouldn’t you know it, the Fukushima Daiichi data is being amassed at Wikipedia. It’s a starting point for learning about this, not the final word, and the article even indicates this at the top. The wiki piece is pretty comprehensive and appears to be infinitely more useful than the garbage coming out of the media.

This timeline at Wikipedia is being kept current.

Union — No Comments
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Mar 11

Leftie Wisconsin Judge halts new union restrictions.

Dane County judge halts collective bargaining law – JSOnline.

Maryann Sumi, a Wisconsin District Court judge in Dane county has temporarily halted promulgation of the new law curtailing collective bargaining by public employee unions.

Hope she likes having her decisions overturned, because that’s what’s going to happen if she rules against the validity of the law.

Judge Sumi is a waste of tax dollars.

Japan / nuclear — No Comments
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Mar 11

Nuclear Zone- Japan.

Elderly hospital patients left to die in Japan’s nuclear zone as more than 400,000 fight to survive in tsunami humanitarian crisis | Mail Online.

Nuclear Panic has caused extra deaths. Nursing home staff ran off, leaving 128 elderly to die.

The Mail from the UK brings you the pictures. Check out their story, above, which underscores the problems of the elderly, who are holed up in shelters in cold conditions, without their prescription meds.

More chill pills to treat Nuclear Panic are below.

From the International Atomic Energy Agency, here’s the latest on actions at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants. Daichi reactor 4′ fuel had been unloaded.

From the Nuclear Energy Institute:

“Site radiation doses have been decreasing since March 16. Radiation dose rates are fluctuating based on some of the relief operations, such as adding cooling water to the used fuel pools. Recent readings at the plant boundary are about 2 millirem per hour. Radiation dose rates at reactor 3 range between 2,500 and 5,000 millirem per hour.”

Learn about background radiation, and what have been considered acceptable occupational levels of radiation (varies with occupation). This info comes fom the MIT News, but it’s not news.

Federal occupational standards allowed 5000 millirems per year for those working with radioactive sources. That which is allowed for astronauts is much higher : 25000 milliremgs (cosmic radiation) per space shuttle mission.

Click here (radiation protection at the EPA ) for Radiation Doses in Perspective.

Bis Sis, who caused radiation exposure with her full body scanners, is now needlessly checking for radiation from Japan.

Union — No Comments
18
Mar 11

Union Contract Protects Job of Drunk BusDriver in Albuquerque

No job loss for a city bus driver in Albuquerque, New Mexico to show up for work drunk! He gets a suspension of 20 days and counseling for the first offense.
The case in this video is more complicated because the breatholyzer test was supposedly done incorrectly. Imagine, suspension with pay and counseling. Would you fare so well on your job if you showed up trashed? If not, you NEED to JOIN a public employee UNION! ;-)