It’s legal to spend campaign funds to upgrade one’s rented dwelling, but it might not be good for the struggling single mom image.
With the added $131,000 that Wendy Davis apparently spent on her rental upgrades in Austin, she might have raised herself into the more rarified lifestyles of the abortion industry’s upper echelon. Her 2012 income from legal work with Newby-Davis is listed as $275,000.
According to the Washington Free Beacon, Davis has charged some fancy rental expenses to her campaign funds, while in Austin, and her living circumstances have been steadily upgraded with each passing year. Details of her luxury lifestyle can be obtained HERE.
These years of high living appears perfectly legal thus far, and would be just fine (even laudable as a stimulant to the economy) if Wendy were not campaigning on the poverty bus.
Davis is not keeping up with the Palins of 7 years ago (before they got rich), with respect to the charitable contributions. She’s a little more like the Clintons and the Gores of old, according to the small numbers revealed by the Texas Tribune.
The Georgetown birth control gurl, Sandra Fluke will be filing to run for the seat vacated by Rep. Henry Waxman of the 33rd district in California.
What she has actually done so far is to file with the California Democrat party for an endorsement to run in the election.
Sandra’s star power comes from being recognized as the one who needed families, whose average income amounted to her yearly tuition bill, to pay for her birth control.
That ought to qualify her as a congressional Democrat right there…
UPDATE 2/5: NEVERMIND! Sandra has decided to downgrade to run for California State Senator instead. (Perhaps she knew that most of the country would be laughing at her if she ran for Congress)
Programmers linked to the government of Belarus claim to have supplied some of the code used in the Obamacare website. Valery Tsepkalo, of the Belarus government backed High Technology Park in Minsk, claimed (on Voice of Russia radio) that the HHS “is one of our clients” and that “we are helping Obama complete his insurance reform….. Our programmers wrote the program that appears on the monitors in all hospitals and all insurance companies- they will see the full profile of the given patient“. This interview is said to have occurred on 6-25-13, but security officials did not learn of it until early January.
This has U.S. intelligence agencies worried that there might be malicious code which could compromise the private data being entered into the health care network. Belarus is a former Soviet state and remains closely allied with Russia. Last year, a month long diversion of internet data, involving Belarusian networks, rerouted a great deal of U.S. traffic to Belarus.
Despite the admission from Given Industries that it’s Pill Cam is not as efficient as the traditional colonoscopy with respect to image quality, the FDA has given it the go-ahead for use in the U.S. The target market is to be those who cannot tolerate the usual hosing, or fail the exam process, and perhaps those who absolutely refuse it. This alternative has already been approved in other countries and is potentially much cheaper and less nasty than the colonoscopy procedure.
Obama’s recently sold off Government Motors has a new CEO, Mary Barra, and because she’s a female, hiring her was a fiscally responsible thing to do. As you know, the Obama administration has been hiring women at deep discounts at least since the time of his first presidential campaign.
There has been a persistent rhetoric from Obama concerning the pay disparity between men and women, but Government Motors Company has hired Ms. Barra at 48% of the salary which had been paid to departing Dan Akerson (who had no prior experience in the automotive field). Barra’s total compensation is $4.4 million vs Akerson’s $9 million pay package. Their base salaries are $1.6 million and $1.7 million respectively.
As an outside senior adviser, Akerson will continue to outpace the new CEO, with a compensation package of $4.68 million.
Pay is said to be based on tenure and experience, but the 33 years spent by Ms. Barra at GM is not enough to compensate in this Obama-nation for the fact that she has ovaries instead of testicles.
Apparently Barra’s prior total compensation package was $4.94 million when she was VP of global product development. It seems that her “promotion” has actually gotten her a salary cut.
AMAZING!
As is the case with so many other little details, the Obama Regime had no inkling of this as they hosted CEO Mary Barra, a shining example of income disparity, while Obama decried the practice during State of the Union address.
Gabriel Magee, JP Morgan’t technology VP, 39, fell from the 33 story skyscraper in Canary Wharf, and landed on the 9th story roof. His girlfriend had reported him as missing the prior evening. His time of death is estimated at 8am on Jan 28.
One wonders how they would know for sure, since abortionists in such states as California don’t have to report abortion procedures. The CDC has sort of been guessing, and some believe that Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood. somehow has a better count.
The Guttmacher people would like to credit the increasing use of indwelling coat hangers….er…IUDs for the drop in abortions, even though those devices can operate to stop pregnancy after fertilization or after implantation. They would also like to credit the economic decline as impetus for people to be more diligent with their birth control.
The WaPo author goes further, to mention the state abortion restrictions which may be impinging on availability of the procedures.
A major source of Continuing Education, which Pharmer utilizes for keeping updated, and which serves both pharmacists and physicians, had downgraded the concept of linkage between abortion and breast cancer to the status of “rumor”. This was done in the face of a large body of peer reviewed research, and meta analyses which had produced conflicting results.
Under normal circumstances, a competent educator would conclude that there is a possible link, but that so far the analysis of data is conflicting or inconclusive. Further study is warranted. If an educator were not invested in the ideology that at least one abortion is a necessary female rite of passage into the Pentagonal Order of the Gaia Green Sisterhood, health professionals would be advised to be alert to the possibility of abortion breast cancer linkage and await further results.
Well, a new meta analysis from China is out now, showing a stronger link between abortion and breast cancer, as well as a sort of dose effect (the later the abortion, the bigger the linkage). Click on the image below, or click this link to see the reference.
Pharmer has not paid great attention to the theory of abortion breast cancer linkage, because so many abortion customers likely have such a high risk tolerance, that a 30 or 40 percent increase in the rate of breast cancer would be meaningless to them. It might be more useful to a woman who has been impregnated against her will, rather than as a result of willingly assuming personal risk. Public policy makers might have more interest in that linkage, as an impetus to control health care costs. The current crop generally likes population control and abortion so much that they are unlikely to be swayed.
This example is supplied mostly to inform people that their health care professionals are often being “educated” by ideologues rather than dispassionate purveyors of medical information. Consequently, the things that your health care professional tells you might be fairly inaccurate, or even opposite of the truth.
In conclusion, abortion (and late child bearing) probably do have a positive association with the increased breast cancer rate, but as always, further study is warranted. It’s not such a big deal that a person should need Xanax three times a day due to anxiety over breast cancer, but getting the mammograms and being a bit more vigilant would help if either of these life style options applied to you.
Your friendly Pharmer thinks that there are much bigger reasons to avoid abortion.
The NFL has stuck to their gun-lessness (and bilateral absence of gonads). The Daniel Defense Ad will still be absent from the Superbowl. Your friendly blogger is studiously avoiding all ads and ad previews on Youtube, as well as the Superbowl itself, this year. Yes, it’s true that the commercials are often more interesting than the game, but every single Superbowl related thing will be avoided. The owner of Daniel Defense doesn’t believe in boycotts, and is not calling for one. To each his own. Pharmer spends time and money judiciously. Click HEREfor a presentation from the NRA on the NFL decision to reject the home defense ad from the gun manufacturer. Joe the Plumber is hosting it.
