Author: Pharmer

a rural-dwelling, pro-life pharmacist

Lowering the Bar for Presidential Behavior

~ Pharmer

Inside the Beltway – Washington Times.

Pharmer always thought that  Lefties were revealing something personal about themselves when they took up use of the term “Teabagger” to denote the Tea Partiers.

You remember what Teabagger means, and that most of the Tea Partiers had never heard of that particular kinky sex act before the libs told them all about it.

Now Obama has taken up the use of “Teabagger” to disparage the opposition, and, yes, Pharmer feels certain that he’s telling us something about himself as well.

Nurse News

~ Pharmer

Keeping track of the pro-life nurses…….

Remember  Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, who sued Mt Sinai Hospital in New York this past summer for coercing her to participate in an abortion procedure under falsely represented circumstances ? Though no medical emergency existed,  this nurse was threatened with loss of her job and nursing license if she did not assist with the procedure.

Cenzon-DeCarlo, with the Alliance Defense Fund  has initiated a second suit against the hospital  in the State of New York, in addition to the initial Federal lawsuit which is on appeal, based on violation of her rights of conscience.

Meanwhile, eight more nurses  have received an apology from Nassau University Hospital in Long Island for disciplinary action after they refused to take part in non-emergency abortion procedures.

Abortion Coercion by the Dept. of Human Services in PA?

~ Pharmer

Did DHS pressure teen to get abortion? | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/03/2010.

The attempt to squelch this story indicates that it is  true.

A 16 year old foster child, pregnant for the second time,  is said  to have been told that her first child would be taken from her if she did not get a late term abortion.  According to the news report, this claim comes from her foster mother and  her social worker, formerly employed by Concilio and subcontracted by DHS.

The girl  was eventually taken from school to a clinic in  New Jersey because abortions at 24 weeks are not permitted in Pennsylvania.

The Philadelphia daily news gives  a detailed coverage of this story, and VERY IMPORTANTLY,  notes the attempt by the Dept of Human Services to have the story squelched.

This story is spreading fast in the prolife news venues,  but  hasn’t been spotted by the Pharmer on national  wires yet.

The long report is worth reading for the main story of abortion  coercion,  the claim that the social worker, Marisol Rivera, was fired for refusing to take the girl for an abortion,  and some  DHS  statistics enumerating the abortions in which they have played a role.

Excess Flu Vaccine after the Shortage

~ Pharmer

We saw this after the last flu panic too……  loads of wasted flu vaccine after incidents of rationing and vaccine hoarding.

U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses | Reuters.

The same thing happened this year after the H1N1 panic.  Vaccine became widely available only after the flu had abated.

Interested in obtaining the vaccine waned when it became apparent that the panic was overblown, and as usual, the  CDC and other government advisory groups had  little knowledge about this strain of flu virus.

What’s left is the usual government waste:  almost 70 million  unused H1H1 flu vaccine doses.

Note that the above linked article pretends to have a figure of  U.S. deaths caused by H1N1 virus.   That number is actually unknown.

From the memory division of the Pharm,  here’s  a blast from the 2004/2005 flu season  when the fears of  shortage drove Illinois governor Blagojevich to order unapproved vaccines from Europe, which were eventually wasted..

Your tax dollars at work………

Artificial Deflation of Unemployment.

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My Way News – GAO: Census has computer problem.

The above linked article tells you all about the ineptitude of the government, its  inability to handle the census data, and the extreme waste of money going into the collection of it.

One figure of extreme interest is that 635,000 people have been hired to visit a total of 48 million American homes.   Each person is trained for four days, and then expected to visit homes which did not respond using the census forms.  This translates to 76 homes per census worker.  While it is understood that some of these households are remote,  it is obvious that census employment is VERY TEMPORARY.

This job is without benefits,  it may require utilizing the automobile of the employee, and it removes this person from the unemployment rolls, whether they are actually engaged in work, or whether they are waiting, without pay in the census employment pool.

Please remember this artificial deflation of the unemployment figures while you are evaluating government generated employment statistics.

Also remember that malfunctioning computer programs are being used for accumulation and analysis of the census data.

Pope Benedict Cleaning House

~ Pharmer

The real reason Archbishop Favalora of Miami was made to resign.

A Conservative Catholic watchdog group formed in Miami reports on the early resignation of Archbishop John Favalora.   He stepped down 8 months before usual retirement time based on a canon law allowing this to happen if there is a significant reason a bishop cannot perform his duties.

Given that the Bishop has no serious health problems, the reasons for the resignation are attributable to the house cleaning efforts of the Vatican over the last several years.

In a nutshell, the archdiocese of Miami has had a bunch of  practicing gay priests, as well as other significant departures from church teaching.   Vatican officials have been paying visits to US Seminaries  since 2005.  Seminarians in Miami report a change of climate in the recent period preceding the resignation of Bishop Favalora, with more tolerance of the orthodox  traditionalists.   The much more conservative Thomas Wenski, a bishop from Orlando, is slated to assume leadership  of Miami Archdiocese.

The scrubbing continues.

Penalty for Inaccurate Census Form

~ Pharmer

Obama’s census form offers window to race views – Washington Times.

Yes, we are supposed to fill out our census form accurately.   There’s a penalty for not doing so.

Obama represented himself as being only of one race  (the least significant contribution to his genome and upbringing) on his census form.

It is most appropriate for people of mixed or uncertain ancestry to leave the race portion of these forms blank.

Number one, it brings forth the idea that race is not such a big deal since  most people are acturally  mixed race if one looks back far enough.

Secondly leaving a blank spot or checking ‘other’, when possible, averts the problem  of  inaccuracy.