An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 01/04/09
VA hospital: Colon test tools may be infected
York VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro is offering veterans free testing and additional medical care after using potentially contaminated equipment during colonoscopies.
Hospital spokesman Chris Conklin says tools used to perform colonoscopies at its Lebanon Pike location may have been infected.
Our vets deserve the BEST care, yet the VA uses ‘infected’ tools? Just how did the ‘tools’ get infected? Someone asleep at the switch…..AGAIN? Haven’t they already given enough for their country? Shouldn’t they expect the type of care from a grateful nation that we’d want ourselves?
Pat Robertson: God says U.S. will accept socialism
“The Lord said the economy of your nation will recover,” Robertson told a group assembled at Founders Inn on the campus of Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., a university Robertson founded.
Robertson said God also declared, “The steps taken will lead to a dramatic increase in the power of government. The people will welcome socialism in order to relieve their pain. Nothing will stand in the way of a plan by Obama to restructure the economy in the same fashion as the New Deal in the ’30s.”
Two things here: It’s quite obvious that Mr Robertson is reading from a different Bible. You know the one that says we are to give freely….not one that says it’s ok for the gubmint to steal. Hmm… I’ve listened to this guy a couple of times recently, for a few minutes. It’s becoming more and more apparent….that elevator is NOT going on the way to the top. “Nothing” will stop Obama? Well, no, I guess not, if people like him has that kind of attitude. I’m thinking he’s referring to BO as a tool of the other side….and I don’t mean the lefties, although, THEY are tools too. What bugs me, is that conservative Christians are allowing themselves to be used too….by their silence.
Iraqi army says female bomber kills at least 35
The attack during one of the holiest periods for Shiite Muslims came just as Iraqi forces took the lead on security under an agreement with the United States that went into effect on New Year’s Day. Under that agreement, U.S. forces take a back seat on security issues in much of the country following the Dec. 31 expiration of a U.N. mandate for foreign troops.
The bomber blew herself up a short distance from the shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim, one of the holiest men in Shiite Islam, the army said, adding that many Iranian pilgrims were among the casualties.
The office of Iraqi army spokesman Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said a woman wearing an explosives vest was responsible for the attack, which occurred just before noon in the northern Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah.
This is going to be about crude as I’ll allow myself to be…. The more women that blow themselves up, the fewer future homicide bombers there will be. So, maybe it’s not a bad thing women are taking up the ‘traditional’ role of men, eh?
I know I’m suppose to love my enemies, but I’m also suppose to hate evil. Well, to me, this kind of insanity is pure evil. Am I rationalizing my disgust for these pigs?
Burris lawyer prods Senate Democratic leaders
Attorney Timothy Wright also tells the Chicago Tribune he plans to go to court if the Senate refuses to seat Roland Burris.
Blagojevich’s action has draw criticism because he faces corruption charges that accuse him of trying to profit from the appointment. He denies that.
Excuse me, but why would anyone go to all that trouble if he KNOWS no one wants him, no one will be able to trust him, and the country has made it quite plain he wouldn’t be accepted? Does the man have NO pride at all????
Sudan parliament speaker calls for war crimes trials against Israelis
A Sudanese state news agency reported that Al-Tahir emphasized that leaders should respond to “Arab peoples’ demands for severing relations with the Zionist entity, opening of the passageways with Gaza, support to the Palestinian resistance and the unity of the Palestinian rank.”
Sudan has strong political ties to Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement that rules Gaza strip, where battle was joined today between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters.
Kind of funny coming from a country that is one BIG ‘war crime’. Once again, the ignorance/stupidity/hatred of the Muslim world rears it’s ugly head.
Gaza civilians left exposed in Israeli invasion
As Israel’s offensive against Hamas moves from pinpointed airstrikes to ground fighting and artillery shelling, Gaza’s civilians are increasingly exposed. Some two dozen civilians were killed within hours after the start of Israel’s ground invasion Saturday night.
Israel says eight days of aerial bombardment, followed by the ground invasion, seek to undermine Hamas’ ability to fire rockets at the Jewish state. So far, more than 500 Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed. Palestinian and U.N. officials say at least 100 Palestinian civilians are among the dead.
One HUGE difference between the Israelis and Hamas? The Israelis do NOT intentionally target civilians! Hamas DOES! How many of those Katushas hit military targets? NONE. They hit schools, civilian neighborhoods, etc. The Israelis have been targeting Hamas strong holds and head leaders. Yeah, some civilians have died, mainly because the pigs use them as shields.
NY mayor makes solidarity trip to Israel
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Bloomberg said he fully understood Israel’s actions. “You should rest assured, if anyone in New York was being threatened, my instruction to the NYPD (New York police) would be to use all the resources at their disposal to protect civilians,” Bloomberg said.
“I think as a New Yorker, we’ve been attacked twice by al-Qaida itself,” said the mayor, who is Jewish. “We’ve seen enormous devastation and courage and after that you sort of feel you have a bond, if you will, for those who live in a dangerous world and are subject to someone trying to kill them.”
Bloomberg blamed the current situation entirely on the Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip and began launching rockets against Israeli towns in the south after its six-month truce with Israel lapsed last month.
Dang! Bloomberg just up a notch in my estimation. After listening to conversation of Jews from New York at the Western Wall, I was under the impression they didn’t give a happy crap about Israel at all. Hmmm… Maybe not ALL of ‘em think that way? Well, I know of one or two who are pro-Israel, but they weren’t there at the time.
S.S. D.D.
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Haven’t we already accepted socialism? Not hard to prophecy something that’s already happened.
There are now a couple of generations that have been trained to look to the government for answers. It’s a sad state of affairs. It might actually take the failure of government to meet all those ‘needs’ for folks to relearn self-sufficiency and ‘love for neighbor’ = a personal act of help, not something you pawn off on ‘the government’.
Well, Robertson might have, but I sure don’t.
I think you’re right….we do need to relearn so much we have lost, and if it takes total collapse….. sigh… Well, I suppose whatever is HIS will, is what we will learn to deal with.