Month: March 2011

LOOK: All Girls Allowed

~ Pharmer

Home | All Girls Allowed.  < –  –  –   click here.

Check out this non-governmental organization which works in China to encourage women not to abort, kill or abandon their female offspring.  Boys outnumber girls by more than 35 million in China now, due to cultural and economic pressures and the strict governmental limits on reproduction.

This group operates in places with the most significant shortages of girls, to encourage the moms to  keep  their female babies.  This is done through education and by supplying funds for child care to the women who decide not to get rid of their  baby girls.

 

Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC

~ Pharmer

Maine gets break in federal health care overhaul – CNBC.

Another Obamacare waiver for the whole state of Maine!   This will be a three year reprieve from the requirement that insurers spend “80 to 85 cents of every premium dollar on medical care and quality improvement”.  It includes a review in two years.

This was provided in the face of the threat that MEGA Life and Health Insurance, which provides 37 percent of the states  insurance for individuals would withdraw entirely from the market.

The plan for Obamacare had been that insurance companies could survive until the the government had organized sufficiently to take on the single payer system.    This is obviously not working.

NPR CEO Resigns

~ Pharmer

NPR president Vivian Schiller resigns | Poynter..

It’s imploding over there at NPR in the wake of James O’Keefe and Co’s latest caper, embarrassing two top execs of the fundraising department.

Scroll down for the video which led to all this uproar, and note that it says .. “to be continued”.

It is said that James O’Keefe targeted NPR after the firing of Juan Williams. One of his compatriots, Shaughn Adeleye was particularly irritated by that turn of events.

Inquiring minds want to know if the “to be continued” part of the video is leading to the rapid melt down.

Update.. Ron Schiller, the exec implicated in O’Keefe’s video, has given up his prospective job at the Aspen Institute, a ‘non profit research’ entity.

Scared Intruder Dials 911

~ Pharmer

“I Just Broke Into A House And The Owner Came Home,” Intruder Tells 911 Operator | The Smoking Gun.

Why was the perpetrator scared?  The female homeowner came home with German Shepherd dogs and he also feared that she was armed.

So the guy, possibly afraid  that he would be shot and utilized for dog food, locked himself in the bathroom and dialed 911.

Only in Portland…

Odd news brought to you by the Smoking Gun.  Click on that link above and listen to the two 911 calls,  one from the intruder, Timothy Chapek and one from the homeowner, Hilary MacKenzie.

 

Club Gitmo T-Shirts to Remain a Fashion Classic

~ Pharmer

Networks Allow Scant Coverage of Obama’s ‘Stunning Reversal’ on Guantanamo, Harassed Bush | NewsBusters.org.

Rush Limbaugh will celebrate his “I told you so”, Guantanamo Bay preservation moment with his listeners and very few others.

NewsBusters catches the media, which formerly covered Guantanamo obsessively under the Bush administration, almost completely ignoring Obama’s 180 degree turn on the issue.

Asked how he had been  so sure that Guantanamo would never be closed down,  Rush Limbaugh attributed it to his understanding  that liberals always lie. He stated that using this premise, a person would be right far more often than they would be wrong.

Given Limbaugh’s record on predicting future events in politics, one has  to grant  credit where it is due.

James O’Keefe Has Done It Again, this time to NPR

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National Public Radio is undergoing some upheaval as senior executive Ron Schiller and Director of Institutional Giving, Betsy Liley have been featured in a video, lunching with two undercover members of the Veritas Project.
Posing as members of MEAC, a fake Muslim group funding education, (complete with phony website) two Veritas ‘agents’ proffer funding to NPR, and obtain all sorts of fun statements from the two NPR execs that would never have been offered up to the public under normal circumstances. The video ends with a “to be continued…..” so keep your eyes open for more.

Schiller, who is said to have already announced plans to leave NPR by May, has been instructed to leave earlier than originally intended by CEO Vivian Schiller (not a relative).

As Funding Cuts are being debated in Congress, NPR has quickly accumulated major Egg on its Face.

Thirteen year old California girl Ran Away to Avoid Marriage in Pakistan.

~ Pharmer

according to Police.

Police: Calif. Girl Jesse Bender Ran Away to Avoid Pakistan Marriage.

This is a hard one.  Jesse Bender, of Hesperia, California,  was afraid that she would be married off in Pakistan during a two month vaction with her father who is native to that area.

Her mother had reported to investigators that a facebook contact had led Jesse to run away, which touched off a federal kidnapping investigation.   Relatives later led Police to a nearby hotel where Jesse was hiding out.  She and her younger siblings are now in public custody as matters are sorted out.

Baby Joseph Update, Ontario Canada

~ Pharmer

Although the medical records should be released to Joseph’s Maraachli’s parents upon request, according to law, London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, is witholding them. This appears to be an effort to prevent the transport of Baby Joseph to a U.S. hospital where a tracheotomy can be performed.

Health care professionals are standing by and donated medical equipment is available to manage the difficult condition of Baby Joseph which appears to be far beyond the capabilities and fiscal reach of Ontario, Canada. (This is the kind of health care system intended for the U.S., under Obamacare).

According to advocates, the only thing standing in the way of providing for home care for Baby Joseph is this withholding of medical records. One wonders if legal experts at the hospital are combing the medical records for any improprieties before passing them on in this very public case.

Highschools exhibit reduced enthusiasm for Obama commencement speech

~ Pharmer

» Obama Blames US High Schools For Dissing Him – Big Government.

Last year about 1000 high schools vied in a competition to have Obama appear as commencement speaker.

This year, as of  Feb. 22, there were only 14 applications very shortly before the deadline on the 25th….. so it must be that the schools are procrastinating.

Who wouldn’t want Obamanator as the commencement speaker, talking about himself again?   Pharmer hears that he needs a teleprompter even for that, to get the story straight.

The Whitehouse is extending the deadline to march 11, and trying to drum up some more applications.  By the end of February there were said to be 68 applications.

Sign of the times….. tells you more than any fake media poll.