Year: 2011

Conscience Tug-of-War in Washington | Daily News | NCRegister.com

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Conscience Tug-of-War in Washington | Daily News | NCRegister.com.

National Catholic Register covers the back and forth seesawing of the Washington Board of Pharmacy on the issue of conscience and pharmacy practice.

Eventually most of the board members gave in to their masters, returning to a decision which had already been met with a court challenge.   This judicial process will have to go forward.

Riding underneath the seesawing was the possibility that pro-abort  Governor Gregoire would be picked to join the Obama administration and occupy Elena Kagan’s  former position as solicitor general.   Later it is said that Gregoire’s enthusiasm for that position cooled, but we do not know if it means she did not make the cut, or whether she actually asked to be taken off the list.

The Board of pharmacy serves at the behest of the governor.

Dominos Pizza Delivers

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Alert pizza delivery driver saves customer’s life – WMC-TV 5 – Memphis, TN.

They delivered to a Memphis TN lady daily for three years.   Dominos driver Susan Guy noticed that her regular customer hadn’t ordered her large pepperoni pizza for three days, and decided to check up on her. After much knocking and checking with neighbors,  the pizza delivery specialist made a call to 911.

The responding police discovered that  elderly customer, Jean Wilson had fallen and couldn’t get up to her phone to call for help.  ]

Thanks to driver Susan Guy,  Wilson has received medical attention and is recovering in a local hospital.

MMM MMM MMM, Michelle’s Munchy Vacation!

~ Pharmer

WOW!!!

Coffee-braised Short Ribs With Ancho Chile Recipe – Food.com – 102536.

You could gain a half pound with each entree, unless you can ski it off!

1575.8 calories per SERVING.   Looks great, but not on the middle aged body.     Pharmer wants some, but can’t afford it for two reasons, price and …….

This vid shows a much younger person.  Gotta go do my version of this thing at class  tonight.  OUCH… hahahaha….. cannot afford more junk in the trunk.


Eimi Kurita is killer 😀

Dr. Bernard Nathanson R.I.P.

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Dr Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving founder of NARAL, who later renounced abortion practice, has passed on at age 84.   The irrefutable evidence of ultrasonography, made available in the 1970s,   helped Dr. Nathanson to find his right mind,  causing him to spend the last half of his life as a pro-lifer.  He produced the Silent Scream, and Eclipse of Reason videos to convince  others of what he had come to understand from a  physical and medical standpoint. Among his writings on the topic are the books, ” Aborting America” and “The Abortion Papers”.

During this pro-life  portion of his life,  Nathanson, once an atheist, began to address the spiritual matters as well.   After a good bit of searching, he  was assimilated into Catholicism in 1996. (…. resistance is Futile.)

‘WRTolkas’, over at CNS news, connected John Newton and Bernard Nathanson, and that makes really good sense.  Listen up.

Prayers for Dr. Nathanson and his loved ones.

Weekend Business: Repeal of Bush’s Conscience Protections for Health Care Professionals

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It’s a whisper in the news……. You’d have to dig hard to find it.  Obama gutted the  regulations Bush had put into place to protect conscientiously objecting health care professionals from discrimination.

There were essentially no new provisions in Bush’s executive order, except to cause institutions to worry about receiving federal funds if they discriminated against health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.

Obama has returned the situation to its previous state:  toothless conscience legislation, nearly unenforceable because  unemployed health care professionals usually lack  funds to bring civil redress when incidents of discrimination occur. Also,  what remains of “protection” will only apply to what is obviously recognized as abortion to a layman,   and sterilization.   Objection to chemical abortions at the early stages of human development, and use of various biotech medical devices, unethically derived drugs, vaccines, transplants, implants  (from killed humans) will not be covered.

Actually the situation is worse than it was previously, as the department of Health and Human Services has utterly no interest in hearing or cataloging incidents of discrimination.   The head of this department, Kathleen Sebelius   had no interest in enforcing medical standards applicable to abortion clinics in her home state of Kansas.

It is fortunate  that the new Congress has shown some interest in this situation, otherwise it might be missed entirely by the public.

The actual  repeal is gibberish,  unless one has intimate  familiarity with the underlying laws and regulations.  Heritage Foundation has pretty much put it in English.

The Sebelius HHS will effectively leave conscientiously objecting health care professionals without protections,  and  all should be prepared to find new jobs or careers should a conflict between the employers mandates and personal conscience ever arise.

As  previously, the protection of conscience for health care professionals will largely lie in the power of the internet, to expose  institutions  which  discriminate against health care professionals who refuse to kill, and reduce private business, and  the sources of charitable   donations, funds and grants.

FDA Can’t Handle Drug Shortages, and in Some Cases, is Causing them

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Drug Shortages: A Deadly Problem With No Cure in Sight – DailyFinance.

Pharmer’s going to be featuring some articles describing what is seen in the hospitals in the past couple of years……….. ever worsening shortages of chemotherapeutic and injectable drugs.   This has become a severe public health problem due to inability to treat some cancers, and   unnecessary deaths due to unavailable treatments or errors involving drugs used as substitutes.

Here is the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists drug shortage management resource center.

Pharmer thinks this problem has several underlying causes : supply and demand, need to import raw materials,  economic pressures, taxes,  outsourcing, government incompetence, an increasingly useless FDA, natural selection, and death panel philosophy.

The last factor curbs  government enthusiasm for addressing the drug shortage problem vigorously.   Increased deaths lighten the load on social security, medicare and medicaid, and therefore  the shortages  become a means of obamacare  cost control.

House Votes to Defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

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House blocks funding for health care law – On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2012 Election – USATODAY.com.

Congressional Republicans are fairly productive today,   Let’s hope they keep up the pace.  Attached to the bill that will keep the government running are amendments to defund IRS collection of mandatory health care payments, an spending of the Dept of Health and Human Services on Obamacare.    They should also pinch off Kathleen Sebelius’s salary ;-).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49830.html

Funding for  Abortion and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider which has been a prime feature of this blog in the last month,  has been cut off.  This has been a special project of Indiana’s Mike Pence.  Be sure to watch some wonderful videos shot at Planned Parenthoods if you haven’t seen them.  Scroll down.  The New York and New Jersey videos are the best.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/house-passes-amendment-to-block-funds-for-net-neutrality-order-20110217

Funding for the implemenatation of the mis-named net neutrality has also been blocked.

Happy Friday.