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A Bit Of Truth In Humor
An Israeli doctor said to a medical conference, “Medicine in my country is so advanced, we can take a kidney out of one person, put it into another and have him looking for work in six weeks!”
The German doctor stood up and said, “Well, medicine in my county is so advanced, we can take a lung out of one person and put it into another and have him looking for work in four weeks.
The Russian doctor got up and said “My country is even more advanced, we can remove half a heart from one person, put it into another and have them both looking for work in just two weeks.
Not to be outdone, the American doctor stood up and addressed the conference, “Well” he said “My country is so far advanced in medicine, we can take an asshole out of Chicago, put him in the White House, and have half the country looking for work in just 24 hours!”
My New Home
Pssst!!! Hey – guess what? I have a new place!! You can visit my new home here. Don’t worry though – I’ll come back and visit!!
Senate to Troops: Screw You
I cannot even begin to tell you how much this pisses me off.
Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.
Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.
While earmarks are hardly new in Washington, “in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year,” said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information, an independent research organization.
Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called the transfer of funds from Pentagon operations and maintenance “a disgrace.”
“The Senate is putting favorable headlines back home above our men and women fighting on the front lines,” he said in a statement.
Mr. Wheeler said that senators took most of the cash for the projects from the “operations and maintenance” or O&M accounts.
“These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles, weapons, ships and planes, food and fuel,” Mr. Wheeler said.
Excuse me??? Are they serious?? Soooo…lemme get this straight. They are taking funds away from the men and women who are proudly serving this great country, and using them for pet projects so they can get headlines and pat themselves on the back? Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
I simply don’t understand what is happening to this country. We have elected officials who are so far in their own little world, they are putting our troops at risk. This is not the country I grew up in, nor is it the country I want my child to grow up in. 2010 cannot come soon enough for me…we need to get these POS OUT!!!
WHISKEY!! TANGO!! FOXTROT!!!
There are some things in the world that are just impossible to fathom. And NO, I’m not talking about the Prez winning the Nobel Peace Prize for having done nothing. I’m talking about this…and I’m going to attempt to keep my language in check.
Forrest City, AR 10/08/09) Doctors have determined that a mentally challenged teenager is fit to stand trial for raping his eight day-old daughter.
Reginald Davis was 18 years old when police say he raped and beat his infant daughter in the mother’s Forrest City, Arkansas home. The newborn was rushed to the hospital September 1, 2008 after Davis visited the child and her mother. Doctors said the newborn had vaginal bleeding and a fractured skull. Police arrested Davis after the child’s 15 year-old mother said she took a shower and left Davis alone with his newborn.
Okay – we have an 18 year old getting a 15 year old pregnant. That in and of itself is against the laws of most states.
In a forensic report submitted to the court, doctors say he understands right from wrong. Under questioning, Davis told investigators different stories, but “finally admitted that he caused the injuries to his child”. He claimed he “accidentally penetrated the baby” and “accidentally dropped” her. At the time, Davis’ mother said her son was set up and that it’s not in his nature to hurt a child
Accidentally?? ACCIDENTALLY??? Tell me friends – how does one accidentally penetrate an 8 day old? I suppose he accidentally took off the diaper. Then he accidentally pulled down his pants. He then accidentally got aroused, and accidentally…Lord – I can’t even think about it.
“Whatever happened over there, I hope they just come out with the truth and tell it because all I know when I talked to him he said something about a baby and he didn’t do that,” said Jacqueline Smith.
According to the forensic report, Davis grew up in a violent home. Doctors say with an IQ of 59, the Special Ed student has “mild mental retardation”. Juvenile courts determined him delinquent and put him on probation for robbery. Experts say with his history, Davis may not have been prepared to care for a child.
“Have they been taught? Have they experienced what it is like to be cared for and have they been taught how to care for another person,” asks Nancy Williams of the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.
WHAT??? Is this person actually making excuses for this abomination?? Seriously??? We’re talking an 8 day old baby here lady!!!
Davis has told investigators another man sexually assaulted his daughter. He is still behind bars and could go to trial next month. Despite Davis’ mental handicap, doctors think he knew sexual contact with a child was against the law.
Let’s gain a little perspective here folks. THIS is an 8 day old baby.
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I don’t give a shit what someone’s IQ is, nor do I give a shit about their upbringing. Anyone who can do this to such a precious innocent is not fit to walk this earth.
Health Care
I received this in an email – you may have seen it before, but it’s worth repeating…
Let me get this straight — Obama’s health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it, and whose members are exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes in secret, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke.
What could possibly go wrong?
Never Forget – Parts II and III
As I knew she would, The Ol’ Broad has done quite a bit of posting on 9/11. For another view or two, take a gander over here. The Chad and I have each posted our thoughts, memories and views of that fateful day.
Please, never NEVER forget what happened that day eight years ago. We were attacked – pure and simple. Attacked on our own soil by those who put absolutely no value on human life.
Continued prayers to those families who lost loved ones in that attack.
I’m Angry!!!
I posted this comment yesterday on Facebook and Twitter:
“If I’m EVER gonna blog again, I gotta start getting angry!! My life must be much too content these days, which is a good thing for me, but a bad thing for blogging!!”
Well guess what? I’m angry!!
The Mexican family of an illegal immigrant shot after threatening a U.S. Border Patrol agent is suing the federal officer who pulled the trigger as well as the U.S. government.
The incident occurred in 2007 about 150 yards north of the Mexico-Arizona border between Bisbee and Douglas. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett apprehended a group of Mexican illegal aliens when one of them, Francisco Dominguez, became aggressive and attacked him with rocks. Fearing for his life, the federal officer shot Dominguez and killed him.
After meddling by the Mexican government, Corbett was charged with murder and the prosecution’s key witnesses were the illegal alien relatives—two brothers and a sister-in-law—that made the desert journey with the shot man. A Cochise County jury hung and prosecutors retried Corbett, but charges were dropped after the second jury hung.
This week Dominguez’s family in Mexico filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Tucson federal court claiming the border agent violated the illegal immigrant’s constitutional rights by using unlawful deadly force in the course of his duties as a U.S. government employee. Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the lawsuit points out, the U.S. government is liable for a negligent or wrongful act of its employees.
The complaint further says that Corbett was very vocal about his “hatred of Mexicans” and that the U.S. Border Patrol should have known about the agent’s history of “ethnic hatred” before allowing him in the field. The agency’s negligent hiring practices essentially led to the illegal immigrant’s death, according to the complaint.
Violence along the border has escalated in the last few years as federal agents encounter heavily armed Mexican drug traffickers and human smugglers that attack them with weapons ranging from firearms to big rocks and Molotov cocktails—makeshift bombs made of a breakable container filled with flammable liquid. Prosecuting the federal officers who confront the danger in the course of guarding the nation’s borders seems rather bizarre.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.
The U.S. Government Employee violated an ILLEGAL immigrant’s constitutional rights?? WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?!?!? When in the HELL will people, the courts included, realize that if you are in the country illegally, you should not HAVE any contitutional rights? Not only that, this POS started getting aggressive toward the patrol agent and the agent, in fear for his life and DOING HIS JOB, fired at him. And then, to add insult to injury, the patrol agent is prosecuted??
We’ve been seeing far too much of this lately. What kind of back-asswards country are we becoming when someone sworn to uphold the law is prosecuted for doing his job by trying to keep these scumbags out of our country? And then the scumbags and/or their families are afforded the same rights as those of a U.S. citizen??
Who in their right mind would want to become a border patrol agent with these scenarios hanging over them? Or is that the plan of the left? Hmmmmm…
Chili Time Part II
Well, since the Ol’ Broad had the unmitigated gall to post some photos of me in this post, I thought I’d get her back!! If you want to see some more pictures from that awesome day, check this out. And yes, I will be posting more, but after my computer decided to reboot after spending oodles of time on that post, I decided to publish it and save some for Chili Time Part III. Besides, I don’t want to give everything up all at once!! 
The Chadcast
You may or may not have noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet both on this blog and the other blog. The reason for this is twofold. One, I’ve had a lot of stuff going on in my life recently, because YES – I DO have a life outside of cyberspace. Two, I’m just having a hard time getting worked up over current events. It seems like it’s the same crap, different day. Oh, I know that eventually something will get me worked up, but with everything else going on, it’s just not happening lately.
ANYWAY…the Chad has once again started podcasting. In the first part of this week’s podcast, Chad reflects on his wedding. I posted my thoughts on the wedding here. I enjoyed hearing the groom’s take on that wonderful day.
In the second part of the podcast, Chad opines on Cash for Clunkers. I really don’t have much to add to that because, as often happens, he pretty much said exactly what I think about the whole situation.
Go on – take a listen!!
WWGD? (What would the government do)
This post got me thinking about another scenario.
This baby was born at 28 weeks gestation. For those of you who don't like math, that means he was born three months premature. His parents didn't get to hold him at birth, as he was whisked away by doctors and nurses. When the doctors came to talk to the parents, the news was frightening. They were told that if this little boy survived, there was a very real possibility that there would be mental and/or physical abnormalities. Over the next few days, a machine helped that child breathe. He was fed through a tube. He was hooked up to all manner of machinery.
Over the next few weeks many tests were done. The parents were told that in a baby that premature, particularly a boy (don’t know why, but prematurity affects boys more severely than girls), there was a high likelihood that there would be bleeding on the brain which could lead to brain damage. The child also had a condition called Retinopathy of Prematurity which will have one of three outcomes 1) it would correct itself…2) he would need glasses as a toddler or 3) he would go blind. The baby’s birth weight was 3 lbs, 3 oz but dropped dangerously to 2 lb 5 oz.
Months later, that baby went home, but his parents had more than a year of follow-up with various doctors, physical therapists, what have you.
If we had government run health care, would the decisions that were made by the parents and the doctors have been the same? Or would the bureaucrats in Washington have decided that the financial risk on this child was too high?
Meet that baby, my son, 12 years later.
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He is a happy, healthy, normal 12 year old boy. Well, as normal as one can be with me as a mom!! It makes me physically ill to think what may have happened had we not had the freedom to decide what is best for our son. It literally brings tears to my eyes as I write this to think that had it been up to the government, my beautiful son may have been "too high a risk" for the healthcare system to save.
Think about it friends. It can happen to you.
Health Care – It’s Personal
by Paul Miller
Emotions are running high in America as the country is entrenched in the debate over health care. Conventional wisdom dictates that rational thinking must always prevail over irrational judgment that almost always accompanies human emotion. However, as a victim of child-hood cancer, I can tell you as I live and breathe today, it is our humanity that must triumph in our national discussion that may ultimately decide who lives — and who dies.
Twenty-four years ago this month I found myself on an operating table in a suburban Chicago hospital undergoing what was supposed to be routine surgery. Doctors were removing a mass of calcified tissue that was present for a few years in my right arm, but finally, the growth had caused this 14-year old baseball fanatic to lose the zip on his fast-ball, or so it would seem.
When I awoke from surgery, I learned that I didn’t have a harmless calcium deposit – I had cancer.
The decisions and actions taken after the diagnosis would determine if I would live or die. My fate would ultimately be transcended by choices that were made by my parents and doctors.
The cancer discovered was described by doctors as “rare, mean and deadly.” It was almost unheard of to be found in a teenage boy. My pediatrician advised my family and me to seek treatment at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. I transferred there the next day. A team of oncologists reviewed my case and they recommended I see “one of only two doctors in the country that have ever treated this type of cancer.” This time my path to survival would take me to the University of Chicago.
In less than a week’s time after my cancer diagnosis, countless medical professionals, including some of the finest medical minds in Chicago, had reviewed my case and advised my family how to save my life. Every step of the way, my parents and I were always given options, ultimately allowing us to have control and make the final decisions.
Amputation or Radiation Treatments were the choices presented and explained to me by the doctor that countless of other medical professionals agreed was my best hope for survival. My doctor and his team took into consideration numerous intangibles such as age, type of cancer, location in my body, but possibly most important; my quality of life.
When my family and I made the decision to proceed with Radiation therapy I was fully aware that if my cancer returned (reoccurrence) an amputation would most likely be required to save my life.
Two years later my cancer returned and my right arm was removed.
Over twenty years later I’m alive, married with two beautiful boys and lying awake at night knowing that if my medical care in 1985 was left to politicians and bureaucrats, I most likely would be pushing up daisies and my children would have never been a twinkle in their mothers eye.
If America was under government-controlled health care when I was first diagnosed twenty-four years ago, would I have received the medical care necessary to save my life? No.
No honest-thinking person would ever claim that government is efficient or personable. Imagine the bureaucratic nightmare my parents would have had to endure if they had to go through a system that is derived from the same service mentality that created the Internal Revenue Service or Department of Motor Vehicles. Wasn’t my family suffering enough? Didn’t they have enough to worry about after learning their first-born son had cancer? Wouldn’t a humane society like ours embrace what is the fastest and most efficient manner to save a human beings life and not try to add to the suffering already taking place?
Read the rest here.
Kinda makes you think, doesn’t it? I sincerely do NOT understand the so-called intelligent people who think that this is a good idea. Do they not understand that ultimately, if Obamacare passes, that the government will have the power to decide who lives and who dies? Do you really want the government using some sort of ridiculous “formula” to determine whether it’s financially worthwhile for your loved one to receive the treatment he/she desperately needs to save his/her life?
Friends, this is beyond scary.
H/T Real Debate
No Shoes, No Shirt, Say WHAT?
Okay, I understand rules are rules, but c’mon dude…seriously???
SUNSET HILLS, MO (KTVI – FOX2now.com) – No shoes, no shirt, no service: there is word that the manager of a St. Louis County restaurant threatened to kick out a six-month old baby and her mother because the baby wasn’t wearing shoes. The infant’s mom says the restaurant is taking the policy too far. Jennifer Frederich said the manager of the Sunset Hills Burger King at 10734 Sunset Hills Plaza cited ‘health concerns’.
Frederich said her daughter, Kaylin, was too young to even get her feet dirty; she couldn’t walk, couldn’t crawl, her feet still pretty much too small for shoes.
“Everybody loves baby feet,” she said.
Yet she said those feet nearly got the baby, her mom and her grandmother, booted from the restaurant, as grandma was holding Kaylin at the counter and the cashier took their order.
“The manager was standing next to him said, ‘you can order “to go” but you’re going to have to leave if she doesn’t have shoes on’. He said, ‘it’s against health code’,” Frederich said.
Frederich said she was taking her church youth group to the Rock the River concerts under the Gateway Arch, Sunday; she, her mother, daughter, and about 25 others, stopped at the Burger King on the way; Frederich’s mother went in with the baby first; then Frederich came in with the rest of the group.
“The guy was still saying, ‘that lady is still here with that baby without shoes’,” Frederich said. “I just looked at him and I said, ‘that’s my daughter. She doesn’t own shoes. She’s only 6 months old’… she doesn’t walk. She’s not touching the ground. So there’s no reason for her to have shoes on.”
Still, a sign on the door did say, “shoes and shirt required”. So, Frederich said she put socks on the baby in an effort to comply; but the manager threatened to call police, so the group ate hurriedly and left.
The restaurant’s management referred Fox 2 to Burger King’s corporate office for comment on the incident. After repeated calls, Fox 2 had yet to get a response Tuesday night.
My question is why in the WORLD did they stay and eat?
Oh Cry Me a River
Now this, my friends, epitomizes the entitlement generation.
NEW YORK (WPIX) – She graduated college with hopes of swiftly finding a job in her field – but when the recession hit and jobs became scarce – the 27-year-old ran to court instead of the unemployment office and filed a lawsuit against her alma mater.
Trina Thompson filed a lawsuit last week in Bronx Supreme Court suing Monroe College for $70,000 – the total amount of hard earned cash she shelled out for tuition. Thompson claims she hasn’t been able to find gainful employment since she received her information technology degree in April.
Thompson claims the school’s Office of Career Advancement did not provide her with essential leads and career advice to help her chances of landing a job. She claims she was sent only three emails from the college with little job advice.
“They have not tried hard enough to help me,” Thompson is documented as saying in court papers. “I need a full-time job placement and that’s what they said they were going to help me with and they didn’t.”
Monroe College spokesman Gary Axelbank, says Thompson’s lawsuit is completely without merit. He said the college does its best to help find students jobs out of school but it is not guaranteed.
Seriously? The widdle bitty baby couldn’t find a job, so she’s suing the school?? Wake up sweetheart!! Look around you – there are more qualified people than you out of work. It is NOT the college’s responsibility to get you a job…sure, they may send leads, but it is up to you and ONLY you to secure employment.
Good grief – talk about entitlement! Sounds like this little chicky had everything handed to her on a platter. What about personal responsibility? I’d like to know what efforts SHE made in securing employment, or did she just sit around and wait for the college to do it for her?
Hmmm – I’d like to see what kind of company would EVER hire her now! Talk about a legal liability!
How I Spent My Saturday
As y’all know, I’ve been doing reviews on The Chadcast – okay, mostly promoting The Chadcast, but I DO voice my thoughts! 
And YES, I am behind – there is another podcast I haven’t posted yet.
ANYWAY, what I’m trying to get to is that there won’t be a podcast for at least a week, and here’s why!
CONGRATULATIONS CHAD AND HOLLY!!!!
Congratulations!!!
Word on the street is that our friend Brian Fraley and his wife Sara welcomed a beautiful daughter into the world today. Welcome Lillian Joyce Fraley!! Congrats to the happy family!!
