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Safety and Hazards in Oil and Gas Industry
Occupational Hazards in Oil & Gas Industry
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Dr Salahedin Bendak
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Mohammad Alghafri U00017849
Design for Environment & Safety Engineering.
Design for Environment & Safety Engineering.
Table of Contents
What is oil and gas industry? ………………………………….…2 How oil and gas is drilled for? ……………………………………2 Occupational Hazards …………………………………………….…4 Occupational Hazards in Oil and Gas Industry ……………5 Safety implementation ……………………………………………13 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………17 References ………………………………………………………………18
What is oil and gas industry?
Oil and gas provide the world's 6.9 billion people with 60 percent of their daily energy needs. The other 40 percent comes from coal, nuclear and hydroelectric power, "renewables" like wind, solar and tidal power, and biomass products such as firewood. As fuels, they keep us warm in cold weather and cool in hot weather; they cook our food and heat our water; they generate our electricity and power our appliances; and they take us by car, bus, train, ship or plane to places near and distant. We all feel the economic pinch when the prices of gasoline, home heating fuel or electricity increase sharply, even though in many developed countries, they still cost less than some brands of bottled water. As petrochemical feedstock's, oil and gas are the raw materials used to manufacture fertilizers, fabrics, synthetic rubber and the plastics that go into almost everything we use these days, from toys to personal and household items to heavy-duty industrial goods. The oil and gas industry, commonly called the petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum (oil) is also the raw material for many chemical products, including pharmaceuticals, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides, and plastics. Petroleum is vital to many industries, and is of importance to the maintenance of industrial civilization in its current configuration, and thus is a critical concern for many nations. The world consumes 30 billion barrels (4.8 km³) of oil per year, with developed nations being the largest consumers. The United States consumed 25% of the oil produced in 2007. How oil and gas is drilled for?
Whether employed directly by an oil company or under contract from a private firm, geologists are the ones responsible for finding oil. Modern oil geologists also examine surface rocks and terrain, with the additional help of satellite images, Modern oil geologists also examine surface rocks and terrain, with the additional help of satellite images, or finally, and most commonly, they use seismology, creating shock waves that pass through hidden rock layers and interpreting the waves that are reflected back to the surface. Although the entire process and equipment required drilling for and acquiring oil and gas I complicated, we feel it is necessary to point out the major components which are directly related to our study of occupational hazards. A short description of an oil rig components and process is detailed below: * Rotating equipment - used for rotary drilling
* Swivel - large handle that holds the weight of the drill string; allows the string to rotate and makes a pressure-tight seal on the hole * Turntable or rotary table - drives the rotating motion using power from electric motors * Drill bit(s) - end of the drill that actually cuts up the rock * Casing - large-diameter concrete pipe that lines the drill hole, prevents the hole from collapsing * Circulation system - pumps drilling mud, mixture of water, clay, weighting material and chemicals, under pressure to extract oil. *...
References: 1. http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osh/os/osar0013.htm
2. http://www.ngoilgasmena.com/article/Gas-hazards-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry/
3. http://www.hse.gov.uk/offshore/healthrisks.htm
4. http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/02/06/drillings-dangers-what-might-reduce-worker-deaths/
5. http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/programs/oilgas/projects.html
6. www.wikipedia.com/
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There's an art that goes into designing every condo show suite — working with the space provided, staying within budget, going for the wow factor each and everytime — but the biggest challenge is trying to please everyone.
"You don't want to walk into a show home and see a wall paper or feature wall or some other design element that you hate and turns you off, that defeats the purpose of the show home," says Kristina Hutchins.
"Of course, that really depends on who the demographic is for the show home, but you generally don't too much of a high contrast in the colour schemes," says Kendra Halluk. Together, Kristina and Kendra develop all the show home designs for Cardel Homes and its multi-family arm, Cardel Lifestyles.
There are, of course, differences in how to go about designing a single-family home and an apartment-style condo, but for the two, it's all about achieving "livability" in the home.
"Our goal is to make everyone feel like this is a home where they can see themselves living in," Kristina says.
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The Walden Place show suite, The Palliser — an 897-square-foot two-bedroom two-bathroom home — has been particularly appealing to couples starting out and downsizers scaling down.
"It has modern touches like the chrome bar stools the quartz countertops and the high-gloss cabinetry, but we balance this with warm colour tones to achieve a blend of contemporary and traditional styles," Kristina says. "It's our way of pleasing everyone, yet creating a memorable, livable space where visitors can imagine themselves staying in."
Getting the right scale in furniture is key — stainless steel appliances come standard with each unit in Walden Place — but Kristina and Kendra have to think of everything else that would turn open-concept floor plan into an enticing place of imagined living.
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The living room relies on set pieces like the Stylus fabric sofa from Urban Barn to establish scale. The drapery — the hardest to do in any home or show home — they had to sew themselves too. "We pick the drapery from Designers' Edge and sew them ourselves to fit each show suite or show home," Kendra says.
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The shiplap-style feature wall is brings a rustic touch counterbalanced by the totally modern metal sculpture from Mercana. The Avalon planks Barrel Oak vinyl flooring from Richmond Reflections add to the warm tone of the show suite.
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- In a large bowl, beat the confectioners' sugar with butter until smooth. Stir in the egg and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar; mix into the batter until well blended. Cover and refrigerate dough for 2 to 3 hours.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Divide dough in half and roll 3/16 inch thick on floured surface. Cut dough with cookie cutters and sprinkle with white sugar. Place cookies onto greased baking sheets.
- Bake for 7 to 8 minutes in the preheated oven, or until delicately golden.
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Great recipe. I followed the above reviewers addition (3 cups of flour instead of 2 1/2) and it turned out very well.
This is an okay recipe. I wouldn't try it if I were you.
Great recipe. I followed the above reviewers addition (3 cups of flour instead of 2 1/2) and it turned out very well.
Good cookie to make using cookie cutters. It spreads a lot while cooking so place them far apart on your baking sheet
This recipe I give 4 stars only because it was lacking a few ingredients. You need more flour or they will sink after you take them out of the oven. Add 3 cups flour and 2 tablespoons maple sy...
it was such a light and airy cookie it doesn't have that salty flavor to it like most do i realy loved it.i had to hold something underneath cause they were so tendor not to mention it too...
This recipe is the exact same as Mary's sugar cookies minus 1/2 teaspoon almond extract. I dont understand why this has gotten any negative reviews. These cookies are absolutely wonderful. They ...
good recipe, i rolled mine a little to thick so they ended up a little doughy but had a good taste. my 5 yr old loved them with cream cheese frosting from this sight!!!
Thank you for being here, I have used this recipe for many years and lost it in my move this year. I love it and my kids and grandkids say it wouldn't be Christmas without my sugar cookies
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This recipe is ah-mazing. I tried it out for my Christmas dinner! EVERYONE LOVED IT!!


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Return of Security Deposits
Generally your security deposit will not be returned to you until after you move out. If the landlord intends to keep all or a part of your security deposit, the landlord must send you a letter within 30 days after you have moved out stating why you owe the landlord money. It is very important that you give the Landlord a mailing address where you can receive the security deposit or the letter notifying you that the landlord is keeping the security deposit.
If you get a letter from the landlord stating your security deposit will not be returned to you, you must send a letter within 15 days to the Landlord stating that you do not owe the money and want you want your security deposit returned. Keep a copy of your letter.
If the Landlord does not send the letter to you within 30 days or if you objected to the Landlord keeping the security deposit, then your next step is to sue the Landlord in small claims court. You can sue your landlord in the County where your landlord lives or in the County where the property you rented was located.


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A new set of heritage trails for Woolwich promoted in print, on site and digitally – creating a full rounded experience.
The trails are explained in print in concertina leaflets which open out to reveal map and details. The children's trail is sized slightly smaller than the adults in order to clearly differentiate and to make it easier to handle for smaller hands.
Two alternative trails are detailed on the leaflets with maps to follow which make it easy and show how the trails relate to each other.
The adults' trail includes interesting facts about each of the sights on the trails.
The children's trail incorporates activities and tasks to complete as you go around the trails.
Online: the trails can be downloaded and further information for each of the sights on the trails is available. The online platform allows for more information to added as it is discovered.
Stickers on the various locations in the trail provide links to the website where more information can be discovered. The use of stickers which can be removed without damaging any surfaces allowed them to be used on listed sites.
Further development of the Friends scheme for the Trust engaged with already established local groups to create one strong membership group all focused on heritage in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The new offer was promoted via a flyer at local events leading with rebellious copy, and a leaflet to be picked up at Charlton House and the Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Creating a suite of literature to promote events across the Trust's site and act as a visitor guides for the two main attractions – Charlton House and Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Creating a dynamic responsive website which would represent each of the Trust's sites and retain audiences who already love their attractions.
Supporting a newly established trust by making a bold mark and setting out it's positioning.


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Please handle all situations calmly. If you are unsure why your deviation was rejected or something or other, do not throw a fit. Your case will be closed and you may or may not be blocked.
There is no warning system as of yet. That means, if you screw up a little bit from time to time, I probably won't notice. But if I feel you've crossed the line or you simply have a complete disregard for basic rules, I will handle you as I please!
Be respectful to other members! I won't tolerate petty wars in this club as far as I can handle them.
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Sometimes things we go through in life are hard.
And it doesn't mean we've done something wrong,
That we deserve it,
That it's not fair.
It is just life.
Being life.
Sometimes it's hard,
Sometimes it's wonderful,
Sometimes it's boring.
You can do all those things.
You've got this.
I believe it's OK that things are hard sometimes.
I don't mean I love it.
I mean I no longer make it mean it's the end of the world.
I see it now as just part of my growth,
Part of the experience of being alive.
So instead of being afraid that something is terribly wrong,
I now live in,
"It's ok that it's hard sometimes,"
"I can do difficult."
Not my preferred traveling method,
But I can do that too.
For the sake of who I'm becoming.
For the sake of being more open and real in the world.
The same kick-ass you that carries you through your victories,
Through the peaceful times,
Through the duller times,
She's still there in the hard times.
The same kick-ass you,
About to become more.
You usually don't see that at the time though.
Hard times ask us to grow.
To question things we are holding as knowns in our life,
For the sake of loosening our grip on our current definition of life,
And expanding outside our edges.
It's beautiful out there too.
Be kind to you when you're growing.
Things are hard because they are new.
Things are scary because old ways of thinking about your life
Are gently,
And not so gently,
To let more light in your life,
Than you could have imagined.


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Make this easy brownie recipe to welcome your kids home from school. Melted chocolate chips make a delicious topping.
1. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line an 8-inch-square baking pan with nonstick aluminum foil.
2. Combine 1 cup of the chocolate chips (half the bag) and butter in a medium-size microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 1 minute. Stir until smooth. Whisk in sugar, then eggs. Stir in flour and salt until smooth. Fold in 1/2 cup of the chopped walnuts and the vanilla. Transfer batter to prepared pan.
3. Bake brownie 350 degree oven for 23 to 25 minutes. Finely chop remaining 2 tablespoons walnuts.
4. Sprinkle remaining 1 cup chocolate chips over brownie and return to oven for 2 minutes. Remove from oven, and spread melted chips until smooth, to form a frosting. Top with finely chopped walnuts. Refrigerate 20 minutes to firm chocolate, then cut into squares. Store at room temperature. Makes 16 brownies.


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Pentagon Awards $214.3 Million in Defense Contracts
The Department of Defense awarded 10 defense contracts Monday, worth $214.3 million altogether. Among the companies winning contracts:
- L-3 Communications won a $50.9 million firm-fixed-price, multi-year contract to supply Automated Installation Entry hardware and software to the U.S. Army for use at up to 35 military installations by April 13, 2018.
- General Dynamics subsidiary American Overseas Marine LLC was awarded a $32.7 million option exercise to operate and maintain seven large, medium-speed, roll-on/roll-off ships for the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command for one additional year, through April 2015.
- BAE Systems won a $6.7 million contract to supply 14 AN/UPX-41 (C) Digital Interrogators and 33 Mode 5 Identification Friend or Foe field change kits to the U.S. Navy, along with two Digital Interrogators and 12 IFF kits to the Government of Japan. Delivery is due December 2015.
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Week 45 Storage Pod 2b
I am stepping away from my project parameters briefly, to better understand the construction of storage pod." Now that I have explored how to create the angled opening and the fullness of the pod, it is so easy to construct it with zero-waste, and adapt the pattern to the quantity of fabric available.
For this pod, I used a 60" x 44" sarong. Folding it into quarters, my pattern from my 2nd draft fit easily on the fabric.
I cut one full 44" lenght piece, 2" wide to create the tab and the binding.
I replaced the curved opening, originally adapted from a sleeve pattern, with a diamond shape, in this case 7" x 7". This is where adjusting the size of the opening can be correlated to the amount of fabric being used. Here, there are two pieces of fabric, 44" x 29", but if the fabric was 36" x 20", for instance, the opening could be reduced to a 5" square.
When the centre back seams are sewn together, there are two long edges left to be gathered. The 7" square cut for the opening, is now used to attached the gathered edges to.
Putting two of these together and finishing the opening with the 2" bias tape, there is the perfect amount of fabric left to create the hanging loop.


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Los Angeles Baseball - Red
Los Angeles Baseball - Red
Let your Pup show some team spirit!
Our company, and the production and final product being this bandana, are in no way produced by or associated with the team or organization displayed on the fabric. This bandana is a handcrafted and independently made with fabric purchased from a licensed distributor.
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British Values
We are committed to serving our community
British Values
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We are committed to serving our community. We recognise the multi-cultural, multi-faith and ever-changing nature of the United Kingdom. We also understand the vital role we play in ensuring that groups or individuals within our School community are not subjected to discrimination, intimidation or radicalisation by those wishing to unduly, or illegally, influence them.
We accept admissions from all those entitled to an education under British law, including students of all faiths or none. We follow a rigorous diversity and equality scheme, which seeks to eradicate discrimination against any individual or group, regardless of faith, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability, political or financial status, or similar. We aim to serve all of our community.
The Government emphasises that schools are required to ensure that key 'British Values' are taught in all UK schools. The government set out its definition of British Values in the 'Prevent Strategy' – values of:
We use strategies within the curriculum and beyond to ensure these values are communicated and acted upon.
At Maritime our 'Learning For Life' (SMSC – spiritual, moral, social and cultural) education permeates through the Academy's curriculum, supports the development of the 'whole child' and includes the teaching and development of British Values.


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The Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, which runs from April 20 to April 29, 2018, is recognized as the largest film exhibit of popular Asian cinema. For this year, the FEFF chose the Philippines as its "Country of Focus," as part of the celebration of the 100 years of Philippine cinema.
As FEFF's "Country of Focus," the Philippines, through the efforts of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), will be leading a big delegation of Filipino filmmakers, artists, and members of the academe.
Two restored classics, Ishmael Bernal's "Himala" and Marilou Diaz Abaya's "Moral," will be showcased on April 26-27. Meanwhile, there are three Philippine films in competition at the FEFF: Fatrick Tabada and Rae Red's "Si Chedeng at Si Apple," Raya Martin's "Smaller and Smaller Circles" and Loy Arcenas' "Ang Larawan," whose filmmakers were supported through the FDCP's International Film Festival Assistance Program (IFFAP).
"Through FDCP's IFFAP, we were able to bridge Filipino filmmakers in International Film Festivals. These are a few of the opportunities that we are proud that we were able to provide to level the playing field when it comes to the Global Arena, because these films can actually deliver and can compete head on given the proper support from the government," said FDCP Chairperson and CEO Liza Diño.
Furthermore, FEFF will also feature "Sandaan: Philippine Cinema Centennial Talks" on April 26. Speakers include Mr. Ed Lajano, Festival Director of QCinema, Bianca Balbuena, CEO of EpicMedia, and renowned actress Elizabeth Oropesa for "Filipino Popular Cinema."
Film Historian and documentarist Mr. Nick Deocampo will also host a panel at the FEFF entitled "Discovering the Past: Asian Film History – Filipino Cinema during WWII" on April 27.
"I am pleased to say that The Sandaan: Philippine Centennial Talks is our way of sharing our history and our way of filmmaking to the world as we celebrate this important milestone ," said Chairperson and CEO Liza Diño.
The Far East Film Festival runs from April 20 to 29, 2018. For more information, visit the FEFF official site.


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May you know the blessing of the Lord this Ascension Day!
Alleluia! sing to Jesus!
His the scepter, His the throne.
Alleluia! His the triumph, His the victory alone.
Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood.
Jesus out of every nation has redeemed us by His blood.
Alleluia! not as orphans are we left in sorrow now;
Alleluia! He is near us, faith believes, nor questions how;
Though the cloud from sight received Him when the forty days were o'er
Shall our hearts forget His promise,
"I am with you evermore"?
Alleluia! bread of angels, Thou on earth our food, our stay;
Alleluia! here the sinful flee to Thee from day to day:
Intercessor, Friend of sinners, Earth's Redeemer, plead for me,
Where the songs of all the sinless sweep across the crystal sea.
Alleluia! King eternal, Thee the Lord of lords we own;
Alleluia! born of Mary, Earth Thy footstool, Heav'n Thy throne:
Thou within the veil hast entered, robed in flesh our great High Priest;
Thou on earth both priest and victim in the Eucharistic feast.
William C.Dix (1837 - 1898)
For more wonderful hymn lyrics, visit: www.cyberhymnal.org. If you would like to study more about the Gospel account of the Ascension, my husband's site www.biblicalstudies.org has this article reprinted from the Tyndale Bulletin.
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In this episode, I get the privilege to speak with Bruce Fredrickson, who was my childhood Pastor. Bruce is a retired US Army Chaplain, has served also in the Marine Corps, was an Assemblies of God Pastor, and is currently working as a Chaplain in a Cancer Unit. We tackle the age-old, top google-searched question of "Why does God"… allow pain and suffering? This question gets personal as Bruce has been diagnosed with cancer within the last year and a half. We will hear him speak about how God is faithful amidst life's circumstances. We will be reoriented to a Biblical worldview that provides the groundwork for how we should approach this question as Christians. This conversation came at the most opportune time for me to listen and to take part in; and I'm praying the same over you, as well!
Quotes and Bible Verses From Our Conversation:
The Bible reminds us that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. God is still in this. And I trust.
This is how most people will frame this question: 'Because there is evil and suffering in the world, how can there be a good God? How Can there be a sovereign God?'
God is the creator.
Psalm 33:6-9
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made,
their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
He gathers the waters of the sea into jars;
he puts the deep into storehouses.
Let all the earth fear the Lord;
let all the people of the world revere him.
For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
If we could see the whole quilt of life; we would ask the questions: Who made you? Why were we created? To know others, to love others, and to serve others
If we put this topic of suffering into a greater context of life in Christian ministry in knowing others, loving others, it wouldn't become a vocal point. It is part of our human experience.
(Referring to his diagnosis of Neuroendocrine carcinoid):It has made me a better listener, more compassionate- all of those attributes have been heightened.
I think we won't ever know the exact reason or answer this side of Heaven- we don't know why God has allowed suffering or sin to enter the world, but we know that God has allowed free will. -Rachel
God will not rob us of our free will; that's where we can choose between right and wrong. That's an area of our life where God has given us the ability to choose.
The problem is that many people choose to do evil over doing good.
The brokenness of our world is undeniable- we see it all around.
From the fall, we know that the whole created order is since out of kilter.
The idea or truth that we have free will, we live in a broken world and the third reason that God allows suffering is that suffering can draw us to God.
It is so true that He uses suffering. Phillippians 1:21: for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. And so, that is how God using suffering to draw us, His people, closer to Him. Because we know that in those sufferings, in those trials, and in those sufferings.
I had nothing else, I had nowhere else to turn. I just had God in that moment.
There is a quietude that can come when we accept something in our life, when we stop fighting it and we surrender ourselves to God- whatever the issue is, whatever the problem is- and we say, "God, I don't understand everything, but I'm going to trust you."
I don't have to like it, but I have to accept it.
Suffering definitely does jolt us to that desperate point of needing Jesus.
It is really a way that God can speak quite loudly.
Because we listen more when we go through suffering. -Rachel
God doesn't cause suffering so that we will listen, but He definitely uses suffering to speak to us. – Rachel
We have to take the time to give our complete undivided attention. Sometimes that silent empathy is so appropriate.
There are moments when we need to not say anything, but to just be there. –Ministry of presence. That can be a very sacred space in moments like that.
Expressive compassion: sometimes when I'm speaking people and they are telling their story, one of the ways we can validate that with people is when they tell something like that that is dramatic is to say something like, "Well, no wonder that you were scared?"
I ask, "Is there anything else" I give them silence. And then, after the silence, I will say, "Are you sure?"
That is an example of being in moments of ministry with people and to take the time so that they know we are not in a hurry. We aren't checking our phone, checking our messages.
Again, we don't have the answer. So in moments like that, we can just be there for them. And they will know that we are there.
We don't fix the spiritual need that is there; we nurture it. God, alone, can fix it.
Matthew 11:28- "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
Revelation 21:4- "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
The future hope that we have is that there will be no more suffering.
John 16:33- "I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! For I have overcome the world."
Pastor Bruce's answers to our last three questions:
He lives practically for the Lord day in and day out by:
More about being and not about doing.
I simply just pause.
Praying daily.
Time to reflect.
Look for moments throughout my day to have a heart of gratitude.
I'm trying to live my life in an environment of gratitude and thankfulness only because of God's grace.
I'm comfortable in my being in Christ and focusing less on doing.
Resources that cultivate his heart for God:
Phillip Yancy: Where is God when it Hurts
Douglas John Hall: God in Human Suffering
God has lavished His Unaltered Grace again and again in Bruce's life through:
Family. I'm so blessed to have a tremendous family. My wife- incredible. My son and daughter- living for the Lord. And I still am blessed to have my parents here.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
What's the upside of importing Ebola?
It's beyond idiotic for the media to keep condescendingly instructing Americans that they are more likely to die in a car accident, from food poisoning, skin cancer or heart disease, than from Ebola.
We know that. We have rationally accepted the tradeoffs in order to get places quickly, dine in restaurants, walk on the beach and eat steak. Those are risks prudently taken in exchange for something we deem more valuable.
What's the upside of bringing Ebola here? And why on earth is the Obama administration preparing to import non-citizen Ebolees? It's perfectly logical for Americans to ask, "What are we getting out of this?" But the only answer they get is: We can't build a fence around the country!
We're not seeing "panic." What we're seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.
Labels: Coulter, Ebola, Obama, The Press, TimesLies, Virginian Pilot
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Men have a bigger gender gap than women.
|The "Gender Gap"
Labels: election, gender gap
Secret Service Agents Pay a Visit to Anti-Obama Artist Sabo — and the Entire Exchange Is Seemingly Captured on Video
Labels: Art, Obama, Politics, secret service
Some background to the "Chickenshit" controversy
Who's really chickenshit .... and the stupid JV team?
Very succinctly, the Obama Administration came in to office thinking it could either force Netanyahu to make concessions, or force his government to fall...However, Obama and his advisors missed several contrary factors. The Israeli public never liked Obama, never trusted him due to his well-known associations with various anti-Israel leftists such as Rashid Khalidi. Israelis' impressions were solidified by major blunders made by the Obama Administration, which did not get much attention in the U.S., but did in Israel. First, the Obama Administration informed the Israeli government that written assurances given to it by the Bush Administration about U.S. policy, given in response to prior Israeli concessions, were null and void. One of those assurances was that Israel would keep major settlement blocs in any peace deal, an assurance that ran counter to Obama's first major initiative, a total settlement freeze. Undermining the promises of a president who was very popular in Israel, and making it clear that assurances from American governments have a very short expiration date, was not a way to win over Israeli public opinion....But from the administration's side, they expected Netanyahu either to concede to American wishes (i.e., "make bold moves for peace"), or be voted out by the Israeli electorate. Instead, Netanyahu has managed to stay his own course, and still is in no danger of losing his parliamentary majority. Hence administration frustration and "chickenshit."
Labels: Israel, Obama, Obama Fail
MSNBC Host Krystal Ball Silent On Her Involvement In 'Stop Rush' Pressure Campaign
MSNBC host Krystal Ball refuses to talk about her participation in the "Stop Rush" campaign targeting conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh's advertisers...."Stop Rush" is a campaign principally organized by Angelo Carusone, who is now a Media Matters executive vice president embroiled in controversy after TheDC published racist and anti-Semitic blog posts that he wrote.
Labels: Liberalism, Limbaugh, media, MSNBC
Why must the moderator of a political debate be a member of the press? In Glenn Reynold's words, they are Democrat operative with bylines. Candy Crawley, call your office.
Labels: debate, Dem operatives with bylines, election, Liberalism, The Press
Md. Board of Elections Probe Republican-To-Democratic Ballot Switch Claims
It's getting harder to vote Republican in Maryland. It could explain one of the reasons Republicans are
Labels: Voter fraud
College students for post-birth abortion
They have a point. There really isn't much difference between killing a baby just before or just after birth. How about before it's five years old?
Anecdotal evidence by leaders of prolife groups such as Created Equal and Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust said in interviews that not only do they see more college students willing to say they support post-birth abortion, but some students even suggest children up to 4 or 5-years-old can also be killed, because they are not yet "self aware.""We encounter people who think it is morally acceptable to kill babies after birth on a regular basis at almost every campus we visit," said Mark Harrington, director of Created Equal. "While this viewpoint is still seen as shocking by most people, it is becoming increasingly popular."
Labels: Abortion, Academia, Culture
La Raza Promotes Washington Post Guide On Where People Can Vote Without An ID
Labels: election, illegal immigration, La Raza, Liberalism, Voter fraud
State Department plans to bring foreign Ebola patients to U.S.
US soldiers' Ebola quarantine in Italy causes alarm
Labels: Ebola, Military, Obama Fail
Over 214,000 Doctors Opt Out of Obamacare Exchanges
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Will Mark Warner Support Bringing Foreigners With Ebloa Here?
Mark Warner supported the Obama agenda 117 out of 117 times on the Senate floor when Obama took stances on legislation this year, according to reports.
So when the State Department moves to bring foreign nationals infected with Ebola into the US, you can be sure that mark Warner will be standing shoulder to shoulder with Obama to bring Ebola home.
Vote for Ed Gillespie. We have enough infectious diseases int he US without importing them from overseas.
Labels: Ebola, election, Mark Warner
The following entities exist within the Executive Office of the President:* Council of Economic Advisers* Council on Environmental Quality* Executive Residence* National Security Staff* Office of Administration* Office of Management and Budget* Office of National Drug Control Policy* Office of Science and Technology Policy* Office of the United States Trade Representative* Office of the Vice President* White House OfficeIn addition, the following entities exist within the White House Office:* Domestic Policy Council* Office of National AIDS Policy* Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships* Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation* White House Rural Council* National Security Advisor* National Economic Council* Office of Cabinet Affairs* Office of the Chief of Staff* Office of Communications* Office of the Press Secretary* Media Affairs* Research* Speechwriting* Office of Digital Strategy* Office of the First Lady* Office of the Social Secretary* Office of Legislative Affairs* Office of Management and Administration* White House Personnel* White House Operations* Telephone Office* Visitors Office* Oval Office Operations* Office of Presidential Personnel* Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs* Office of Public Engagement* Council on Women and Girls* Office of Intergovernmental Affairs* Office of Urban Affairs* Office of Scheduling and Advance* Office of the Staff Secretary* Presidential Correspondence* Executive Clerk* Records Management* Office of the White House Counsel
Substantially all Washington reporters and editors are Democrats who went into journalism in order to advance a liberal agenda. They buried the computer story because they feared it would hurt Democrats and help Republicans in next week's election. That's my guess, anyway. At one time, reporters thought their job was to dig out information and make it public. Now, most reporters and editors see themselves as blockaders of information: they think their primary job is to make sure that citizens don't get news that might confuse them or that they are better off not knowing. Especially when a tough election for the Democrats is looming.
Labels: hacking, media, Obama Fail, Russia, The Press
Chicago Activists Unchained, Destroy Black Leadership
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
The Press Fears the Country
Labels: biased reporting, Democracy, Ebola, Liberalism, media, The Press
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Could non-citizens decide the November election?
The Washington Post, a Notorious Right Wing Rag, has an article that show how illegal aliens can hand the election to the Democrats.
Labels: Voter fraud
Friday, October 24, 2014
Willfully missing the blazingly obvious
Late in September, the Islamic State's spokesman, Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, urged Muslims to murder non-Muslims in the West. "Rely upon Allah," he thundered, "and kill him in any manner or way however it may be. Do not ask for anyone's advice and do not seek anyone's verdict. Kill the disbeliever whether he is civilian or military, for they have the same ruling." He also addressed Western non-Muslims: "You will not feel secure even in your bedrooms. You will pay the price when this crusade of yours collapses, and thereafter we will strike you in your homeland, and you will never be able to harm anyone afterwards."Al-Adnani told Muslims to murder non-Muslims with any weapon at hand, or anything that could be used as a weapon: "If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him." Zehaf-Bibeau found a bullet. Rouleau found a car.
Before Zehaf-Bibeau's identity was known, CBC's Doug Stoffel tweeted: "Amid the speculation in the #OttawaShooting in #Canada, it's important to remember #ISIS hasn't shown interest in attacks abroad." Once Zehaf-Bibeau was identified as the shooter and was known to be a Muslim, ABC News one-upped Stoffel's flagrantly counter-factual statement with the claim that "authorities in Canada are trying to understand what motivated a gunman to kill a soldier in the country's capital Wednesday."
... in the wake of the Ottawa shootings, the police chiefs of Toronto and Ottawa wrote to local Muslim leaders, assuring them of their good will and urging Muslims to contact them in case of a "backlash." These politically correct police chiefs seem to have imbibed the lesson well: after every jihad attack, Muslims are the victims, and need special reassurances. Of course, there should be no "backlash" against any innocent people and almost certainly won't be, but this endless pandering is grotesque.
Labels: Canada, Islamofascism, murder, Muslim, Political correctness, terrorism, The Press, violence
Facilitating voter fraud, fomenting lynch mobs, and supporting failed policies as a matter of racial solidarity will not win black Americans greater respect
But after the incredible failures of the First Black President, it's all the Democrats have left.
The Department of Justice introduced an "expert witness" to a North Carolina court considering that state's voter identification law who calmly explained that the requirement in inordinately onerous to black citizens because they tend to be "less sophisticated," "less educated," and "less attuned to public affairs" than other Americans.
Can you imagine the outrage from Liberals in the press if a Republican had said this?
Facilitating voter fraud, fomenting lynch mobs, and supporting failed policies as a matter of racial solidarity will not win black Americans greater respect, and it won't solve any of the daunting problems that disproportionately affect their community. The Democrats clearly believe that black voters aren't educated or sophisticated or attuned enough to public to see through their cynical ploys, and will now even express this opinion under oath, but real progress will be measured how far this fails.
Labels: Democrats, election, Obama Fail, Race, Race Obama, The Press
Thursday, October 23, 2014
The Hunter Biden Chronicles
This is why we need an "alternative media." Because you won't get this from the New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media.
Michelle Malkin
Everything you need to know about Beltway nepotism, corporate cronyism and corruption can be found in the biography of Robert Hunter Biden. Where are the Occupy Wall Street rabble-rousers and enemies of elitist privilege when you need them? Straining their neck muscles to look the other way....Hunter's first job, acquired after Joe Biden won his 1996 Senate re-election bid in Delaware, was with MBNA. That's the credit card conglomerate and top campaign finance donor that forked over nearly $63,000 in bundled primary and general contributions from its employees to then Sen. Biden. ...Hunter zoomed up to senior vice president by early 1998 and then scored a plum position in the Clinton administration's Commerce Department, specializing in "electronic commerce" before returning to MBNA three years later as a high-priced "consultant." ...Hunter got himself appointed to multiple corporate board positions, including a directorship with Eudora Global. It's an investment firm founded by one Jeffrey Cooper, head of one of the biggest asbestos-litigation firms in the country. ...Hunter also was previously a top official at Paradigm Global Advisors, a hedge fund holding company founded with Vice President Biden's brother, James, and marketed by convicted finance fraudster Allen Stanford. ...which went bust amid nasty fraud lawsuits.Continually failing upward, Hunter snagged a seat on the board of directors of taxpayer-subsidized, stimulus-inflated Amtrak, where he pretended not to be a lobbyist, but rather an "effective advocate" for the government railroad system serving the 1 percenters' D.C.-NYC corridor.
Read the whole thing as the MSM keeps its gave averted.
Labels: Biden, corruption, culture of corruption, Democrats, Liberalism, nepotism, Scandals
'Calibration error' changes GOP votes to Dem in Illinois county
Well, this is Chicago, where the Democrats always win. And this is how it's done.
Early voting in Illinois got off to a rocky start Monday, as votes being cast for Republican candidates were transformed into votes for Democrats.Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library."I tried to cast a vote for myself and instead it cast the vote for my opponent," Moynihan said. "You could imagine my surprise as the same thing happened with a number of races when I tried to vote for a Republican and the machine registered a vote for a Democrat."
Labels: Chicago, Democrats, election, Voter fraud
Climate change PROVED to be 'nothing but a lie', claims top meteorologist
John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible.Instead, what 'little evidence' there is for rising global temperatures points to a 'natural phenomenon' within a developing eco-system.In an open letter attacking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, he wrote: "The ocean is not rising significantly."The polar ice is increasing, not melting away. Polar Bears are increasing in number."Heat waves have actually diminished, not increased. There is not an uptick in the number or strength of storms (in fact storms are diminishing)."I have studied this topic seriously for years. It has become a political and environment agenda item, but the science is not valid."
Labels: Academia, fraud, global warming, Liberalism
Why do Democrats win when the margin of victory is small? Coincidence or election theft?
Dan McLaughlin analyzed the data:
I took a look at all the statewide Senate and governor's races from 1998 through 2013 (thanks to Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics for a big assist with the data) as well as all the statewide results in the presidential elections during that period. Let's begin with the very closest races, those decided by less than one percentage point. There have been 27 such races since 1998, and Democrats have won 20 out of 27:
Remember, you don't just have to beat them. You have to beat them beyond the margin of fraud.
Labels: Democrats, election, Instapundit, Voter fraud
Islam, Terrorism, and White Priviledge
Meanwhile in Liberalville, twitter has a post blaming White Privilege.
Damn you, whitey! MT @MazMHussain Newest form of white privilege: convert to Islam, commit heinous act, die, brown/black people take heat
Labels: Canada, Islamofascism, Obama, terrorism, The Press, TimesLies, violence
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
According to the Dept of Education's interpretation of Title IX, that's known as sexual assault.
President Obama grabbed a woman and kissed her. She did not consent prior to the sexual contact.
By the standards of campus rape culture he is totally a rapist.
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
Labels: Obama, sexual politics
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
About that campus rape epidemic
If only 12% of campus sexual assaults get reported, then only 1 in 32 women at Ohio State are sexually assaulted, not 1 in 5.
And if the White House is right, then roughly 100% (98.14% to be exact) of female students at Ohio State are sexually assaulted.
Assuming that only 12% of campus sexual assaults at OSU are reported.
Assuming that 1 in 5 women at OSU are assaulted over 4 years
There's a huge, irreconcilable statistical problem here. Using actual reported crime statistics on sexual offenses at almost any US college and applying the White House claim that only 12% of campus sexual assaults actually get reported, we have to conclude that nowhere near 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college. Alternatively, if the "1 in 5 women" claim is true, the percentage of sexual assaults that don't get reported to the campus police would have to be much lower than 12%. In other words, the claims that the White House uses don't work together and they therefore both can't be simultaneously correct.
Here's an updated analysis of sexual assaults at the Ohio State University, summarized in the top table above. Over the most recent four-year period from 2010 to 2013, there were 104 reports of "forcible sexual offenses" to the OSU's Department of Public Safety, which included incidents that allegedly took place on campus, in university residence halls, on non-campus properties including fraternity and sorority houses, and on public property adjacent to or accessible from the campus. Using the White House claim that only 12% of campus sexual assaults get reported, there would have been 763 unreported forcible sexual offenses at OSU during that period, bringing the total number of sexual assaults (reported + unreported) to 867 (see top table above).
Labels: Academia, Obama, rape, sexual politics
Stuffing the ballot box
"A person wearing a Citizens for a Better Arizona T-shirt dropped a large box of hundreds of early ballots on the table and started stuffing the ballot box as I watched in amazement," said A.J. LaFaro, chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party.
The Maricopa County GOP chairman provided the Arizona Daily Independent with the following account of what happened during the Aug. 26 primary election cycle:
Guy: "What's your problem?"
LaFaro: "I don't have a problem."
Guy: "Stop watching me. You're annoying me."
LaFaro: "One of your ballots isn't sealed."
Guy: "It's none of your business. What's your name?"
LaFaro: "I'm the chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party. What's yours?"
Guy: "Go f*** yourself. I don't have to tell you who I am."
LaFaro said he later submitted a public information request and obtained this surveillance video from 12:30- 1:30 on Aug. 25 (audio unavailable):
The mainstream media tells me this doesn't happen. Who are you going to believe, the Virginian Pilot or your lying eyes?
Labels: election, The Press, Virginian Pilot, Voter fraud
Monday, October 20, 2014
Klavan: The Mainstream Media: Stupid and Corrupt.
The Revolting Truth
Now, of course, with the very elite of the elite running the country, we find that — what do you know? — this statism dodge doesn't really work all that well. And there are two reasons for this. The first is that the statist premise is wrong. In fact, ordinary people left at liberty to do as they will are actually better at running their lives and businesses and country than the geniuses in Washington. Central planning works great in the imaginations of the elite, but in the real world… not so much.
And the second problem is that the elite are stupid. No, really. They're educated and sophisticated and they dress well and speak well. They may even have high IQs. But in the immortal words of Forrest Gump's mother: "Stupid is as stupid does." And the elite are stupid.
Labels: humor, Klavan, media, Obama, The Press, video
Defending Rove?
Labels: Iraq, Rove, TimesLies, War, WMD
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Stewardship of Love
1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)
1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
Labels: Bible, Christianity, love
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Obama's "Affordable Health Care" Making health care unaffordable.
Patricia Wanderlich got insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, and with good reason: She suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2011, spending weeks in a hospital intensive care unit, and has a second, smaller aneurysm that needs monitoring.But her new plan has a $6,000 annual deductible, meaning that Ms. Wanderlich, who works part time at a landscaping company outside Chicago, has to pay for most of her medical services up to that amount. She is skipping this year's brain scan and hoping for the best."To spend thousands of dollars just making sure it hasn't grown?" said Ms. Wanderlich, 61. "I don't have that money."
Labels: Communism, Ebola, health care, Liberalism, ObamaCare, socialism
Naked Politics: The Ebola Czar Has No Clothes
|All the president's men and women apparently weren't enough.
1. We shouldn't need an Ebola czar.
2. We already put somebody in charge of corralling federal bureaucracies and coordinating local responses to national emergencies. His name is Barack Obama.
3. He has a chief of staff, the nation's chief operating officer, Denis McDonough; a homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco; a national security adviser, Susan Rice; a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and a Cabinet full of secretaries.
4. That should be enough.
by Ron Fournier .. read the whole thing.
(Notice the girls drinking tea)
Labels: Ebola, Obama, Obama Fail, Politics
This is why Wiki is not a reliable source.
WMD conjecture in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq concerns the failure by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group (ISG) to locate undeclared stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction both before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[1]
Labels: Iraq, Liberalism, Lies, media, Wiki, WMD
Katy Conrad - CBS News "Journalist" is Achingly Stupid
Tweets' snark "not sure when [Rand Paul] become a doctor?" Deletes tweet when informed he IS a doctor.
Labels: Ebola, Liberalism, Rand Paul, The Press
For Obama, Ebola is seen not as a health issue for America but as a political problem.
It's self evident: the appointment of a political "fixer" as Ebola czar.
Ron Fournier (who was an Obama shill when being an Obama shill was cool) makes the point nearly as well as I did:
The choice makes sense if Obama's main concern is a) the incompetence of his team, or; b) midterm politics. My strong hunch is it's "b". The Obama White House is not self-aware. It is nakedly political. The uneven response to Ebola threatens to be a toxic issue for Democrats, and the president is under pressure from his party's desperate candidates to do something.
Labels: Ebola, Obama, Obama Fail, The Press
Friday, October 17, 2014
Ebola: First, do no Harm
Good article in the American Thinker about the CDC and Thomas Friedman.
In response to repeated inquiries about travel bans to and from Ebola-riddled nations, Dr. Tom Frieden has said from his very first appearances onward, that our highest moral obligation is "to first, do no harm." He claims that implementing travel bans would harm the very people we are trying to help -- that bans and quarantines would restrict humanitarian aid (despite the fact that exceptions can be made for charter and/or military flights to bring supplies and care in and out of the region) and disrupt economic and political stability in the region. Moreover, he and other experts claim that there would be a negative impact on the economies of these already faltering nations.In fact, Representative Tim Murphy personally spoke to Dr. Frieden about travel bans and he responded that "cutting commercial ties would hurt these fledgling democracies." Murphy further questioned the good doctor at congressional hearings about the source of his comment -- whether it was his opinion, the CDC's, or advice from the administration or one of its agencies -- a question he conveniently ducked. But a quick perusal of the CDC's Mission Statement at CDC.gov, proves that it is not tasked with the job of nation building or ensuring the economic success of any country. There is no way one could recast the words in its "Pledge to the American People" or the bullet points about the Role of the CDC, to read "Thou must first do no economic or political harm to any fledgling democracies." The Mission Statement is ironclad about the tasks of the CDC -- even Obama himself, the Master of Slick Talking -- couldn't make these words fit Frieden's assertions:
CDC works 24/7 to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable, human error or deliberate attack, CDC fights disease and supports communities and citizens to do the same.CDC increases the health security of our nation. As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats. To accomplish our mission, CDC conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.
The bottom line: the CDC's responsibility is to protect America, not the rest of the world. Read the whole thing.
Labels: CDC, Ebola, Liberalism
Obama pays attention to Ebola, time to panic.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Who To Blame When You Get Ebola: A CDC Guide For Healthcare Workers
From the Happy Hospitalist:
Atlanta, GA -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new flowchart guidelines Monday to help healthcare workers understand who they could blame once they contract Ebola in the hospital setting. The new recommendations follow declarations by Dr Thomas Friedman, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that nurse Nina Pham in a Dallas, Texas hospital contracted Ebola due to 'protocol breach' while caring for the now deceased Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan.
Nurses are used to getting blamed for everything. In fact, most nursing programs teach nurses how to take one for the team when bad things happen. Getting blamed for spreading Ebola is naturally accepted by most nurses as business as usual.
"After speaking with representatives from the American Nurses Association, everyone agreed blaming nurses for spreading Ebola was just the easiest thing to do," said Jason Fenster, a CDC spokesman who blamed his nurse last year for undercooked eggs while hospitalized for an undisclosed infection contracted at a CDC laboratory.
Following the release of these CDC guidelines, officials at the Dallas, Texas hospital confirmed they are probably going to blame three or four nurses for spreading Ebola while taking care of Mr. Duncan, including one on maternity leave for the last six weeks.
"I've been in the hospital CEO business for 30 years. Whenever bad things happen in a hospital setting, we can count on at least one nurse to take the fall. In fact, I'm so confident that a nurse is always at fault, we built an entire section into our hospital rules and regulations titled 'How To Blame a Nurse For Anything Bad That Could Lead To A Lawsuit," said Jed Brainer, CEO of Texas Presbyterian Hospital.
A spokesman at the CDC, who wished to remain anonymous, says guidelines to be released next week for non-healthcare workers and pets who contract Ebola will likely blame nurses as well.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
New York Times: The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons. "From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein's rule. In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs."
Ace of Spades documents the lies the Times printed.
Progressives deeply invested in the lie during the Bush years that no WMD were found in Iraq. Bush gave many reasons for the war, but progressives seized on just the presence of WMD and then pretended it was the only reason for war. We've known they've been wrong about the lack of WMD for many years now. But, upon the chance that ISIL will find and use any remnants of WMD, however, progressives have had to modify their story even more.
Now, progressives have finally admitted that Hussein's stockpiled weapons were found during the Iraq War, but claim these were not the weapons Bush said would be found. This is just one more lie. And they've compounded it with another lie: that the sole reason for the Iraq War was an active weapons program.
As I have demonstrated from Bush's own contemporaneous words, an active weapons program was not the sole reason for war. In fact, an active weapons program was not even mentioned in the multiple speeches Bush delivered to the American public and to an international audience.
Do not let the NYTimes get away with its false history of the Iraq War. The war was not made solely based on claims of an active Iraqi weapons program. It was made because, as President Bush explained repeatedly to the American public: Saddam Hussein possessed old weapons of mass destruction, desired to evade inspections so as to keep them, hoped to restart his weapons programs in the future, and could pass weapons to terrorist groups with ambitions to harm the West.
Labels: Bush, Iraq, TimesLies, WMD
There really is an Obama White House censor's office. And the media has been using it.
Labels: censorship, Fascism, media, Obama, The Press
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
An uprising of the facts is making the management of the news cycle impossible.
By this time in the election cycle, the public should have been awash with stories about how a poor, minimum wage worker at Walmart has lost her health insurance due to corporate greed and why that greed has is leading America closer to single payer. Everyone should now be focusing on how the resurgent economy would be trending on Twitter were it not for the sabotage of conservative news outlets — paid for by the Koch brothers.
Reality has gotten so far inside Obama's OODA loop that MSM is having difficulty propping up the Dems. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that Reality has gotten inside MSM's OODA loop, making it difficult for them to prop of the Dems.
Labels: Belmont, Obama, Scandals, The Press
Sunday, October 12, 2014
There is a God
Labels: God
Friday, October 10, 2014
Moe Tucker Interview
Moe Tucker: No country can provide all things for all citizens. There comes a point where it just isn't possible, and it's proven to be a failure everywhere it's been tried. I am not oblivious to the plight of the poor, but I don't see any reason/sense to the idea that everyone has to have everything, especially when the economy is so bad. I see that philosophy as merely a ploy to control.
My family was damn poor when I was growing up on Long Island. There were no food stamps, no Medicaid, no welfare. If you were poor, you were poor. You didn't have a TV, you didn't have five pairs of shoes, you didn't have Levi's, you didn't have a phone; you ate Spam, hot dogs and spaghetti. We all survived! I am not against food stamps, welfare or Medicaid, if only they would oversee these programs properly!
I am also against the government taking over the student loan program, car companies, bailouts and the White House taking control of the census (what the hell is that all about?); [about] any First Lady telling (I know, I know, "suggesting to") us what to eat, the mayor of New York City declaring "no salt" (screw you, pal!), the mayor/city commissioners of Anytown, U.S.A. declaring you can't fly a flag, can't say the Pledge of Allegiance and can't sing the National Anthem. I'm against a President dismissing any and all who dare to disagree; the water being turned off in (central) California, at [an] area where they've turned off the water because they want to save a one-inch fish -- turning that huge area of farming land into another dustbowl -- the insipid start of food supply control methinks! The government deciding what kind of lightbulbs we can use (all you "think green" people, three objections to this b.s.: 1) Those bulbs give off the light of a candle; 2) They're very expensive; 3) They have mercury in them - how the hell are we supposed to dispose of them?).
I am against the government now thinking about bailing out unions. The unions made the contracts which include insane pensions; the U.S. government didn't. I'm against the government closing down offshore drilling in the Gulf with one hand and with the other giving (lending?) Brazil money to help them do way deeper offshore drilling -- rather curious. I'm against a government that will not defend our borders; and on and on and on.
As a lead-in to the next part of your question: Today it was announced that there would be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients because "there's no inflation." I'd love to know what makes them think that! Where the hell do they shop? Prices have been rising for over a year. Inflation is a natural happening, I know. But why is it that suddenly food prices don't go up two or three or five cents, but instead they're going up 40, 50, 60 cents at a clip? No inflation my ass!
My anger stems from the unbelievable (criminal!) waste of money on pork and earmarks. It drives me nuts to see that X millions are being allocated to build a turtle tunnel, a donkey museum, a salamander crossing, etc, etc, etc. Billions spent every friggin' year on totally unnecessary crap so that these Congressbums can tell their constituents that they "brought home the bacon" and get re-elected. I'm sorry, but I don't want to pay for any Congress SOB's vote buying, and sure as hell not in these very very worrisome times!
What specifically about the current administration do you disagree with?
I disagree with spending / borrowing / printing -- damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! I disagree with the "we won" attitude, which is the cowardly way of saying fuck you! I disagree with an administration that for twenty months blames Bush. If the President and his minions are so damn smart, why didn't they know the severity of the situation? The president has actually said (and I saw it on video) that they didn't know!
What would you like to see change?
The current administration!
How did you get involved with the local Tea Party movement?
I'm not "involved" with the local movement. I went to the first Tea Party in June or July of 2009 because it was within striking distance and I wanted to be counted.
Are you still involved in Tea Party activities?
I do my own protesting via email and postcards. Anyone who thinks I'm crazy about Sarah Palin, Bush, etc. has made quite the presumption. I have voted Democrat all my life, until I started listening to what Obama was promising and started wondering how the hell will this utopian dream land be paid for? For those who actually believe that their taxes won't go up in order to pay for all this insanity: good luck!
What are some misconceptions that people have about Tea Parties (and their attendants) in general?
That they're all racists, they're all religious nuts, they're all uninformed, they're all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever. Those "arguments" are presented by the Dems in order to keep their base of uninformed voters on their side. In my opinion, as soon as you start name-calling, your opinion is immediately deemed invalid!
Have you always had conservative views?
To be honest, I never paid attention to what the hell was going on. My always voting Democrat was the result of that. My philosophy was and is all politicians are liars, bums and cheats. I make decisions on an issue by issue basis. I'm far more of an independent than a conservative or liberal. I don't agree with all of either side, and I think anyone who claims to is either a fool or a damn liar.
Did your experience working at Wal-Mart influence you?
I don't think so. I did some protesting there, too!
When you consented to an interview with that television reporter, did you envision that your words would be spread online a year and a half later?
No. I'm amazed at this.
What are your feelings about the online reactions? Many people seem upset or outraged.
I'm stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant. I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colors, all hair colors! Peace, love, bull! Curious they have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who doesn't think exactly as they do. You disagree and you're immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist. That's pretty f'd up!! I would never judge someone based on their political views. Their honesty, integrity, kindness to others, generosity? Yes. Politics? No!
And yet there is also a minority that agrees with you.
There are a lot more than you think who agree with me.
Have you heard from Lou [Reed] or John [Cale] about it? Other artistic/musical friends?
No, haven't heard from anyone, but anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a fool, a racist, a Nazi. Anyone who knows me knows I'm afraid of flying, afraid of bugs, but not afraid to say what I think.
In your experience, are there other closet conservatives in the music/art world? (Without naming names, of course.)
I don't consider myself a "closet" anything! That TV reporter was the first who ever asked me what my political views might be. I'm sure there are plenty of conservatives in the music/art world since I don't believe there's any group, club, organization or profession in which all members think exactly the same.
Moving away from politics: Are you still involved in music? Have you continued recording or songwriting these past few years?
No time for it anymore. I take care of my eight-year-old grandson and it's a full-time job. He wears me out, keeps me laughing, and I love him to pieces!
Labels: Tea Party
Wednesday, October 08, 2014
The Man Who Knew Nothing
Sultan Knish on Obama
Let's take Obama at his word for a moment and assume that he really is a clueless dilettante who doesn't know anything about anything until it appears in bold type on the front page of the New York Time. But then what exactly does he do besides give speeches at fundraisers, golf, vacation and blame Congress for not passing some gimmick bill that even his own party loyalists wouldn't touch in an attempt to divert attention from the latest disaster he only found out about through the media?He tried to force amnesty through Congress and instead caused a border crisis. After blowing a billion dollars on a contractor with a top family friend executive, the ObamaCare website went 404. His stimulus funds went into the trash. His Green Energy recipients went into bankruptcy court. He's still claiming credit for fixing unemployment by convincing the unemployed to drop out of the economy.And now he's stuck being a third-rate Bush, bombing Iraq while trying to explain that the Al Qaeda he's bombing now is not the Al Qaeda he claimed to have defeated when he was running for reelection....Obama didn't want to do anything about ISIS. He didn't want to do anything about the VA. He didn't want to acknowledge knowing anything about the IRS targeting and he didn't care about how well or how badly the ObamaCare website would work until he realized its impact on his approval ratings.Obama's incompetence and ignorance are expressions of his contempt for the people beneath him. His policies implode because he never bothered to understand how they would impact real people. He chooses not to know, because he chose not to care.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: ISIS, Liberalism, Obama, Scandals, The Press, TimesLies, Worst President Ever
Kowtowing to Headchoppers
Has the President of the United States sent an emissary to your house of worship to commend it for its good works? Our humble little low church on the near westside hasn't yet been so honored, despite its many commendable efforts on behalf on the poor and unfortunate, so we're feeling a bit slighted. The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City recently got a high-ranking visit and official effusive thanks, after all, and none of our congregation have beheaded anyone.The mosque wasn't being thanked for the beheading, we are assured, but rather for its past support of the rescue and recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating tornado last year in the nearby town of Moore. We don't mean to diminish the mosque's good works, and will freely acknowledge Islam's longstanding reputation for charity, but there's no shaking a suspicion that the official effusive thanks from our government has more to do with the more recent beheading committed by one of the mosque's newest converts against a former co-worker in that very same nearby town. Islam also suffers a longstanding reputation for such brutality, especially lately, and by now it's an obligatory rite to respond to every Islamist outrage with official pronouncements that Islam is a religion of peace and has contributed greatly to world civilization and most Muslims aren't going to chop your head off and the rest of the familiar boilerplate.
The practice began shortly after Islamist terrorists slammed airliners full of terrified passengers into the World Trade Center Towers and the Pentagon, when even good old President George W. Bush felt compelled to immediately rush to the nearest mosque and pose for a religiously tolerant photo-op ...
Labels: Bush, Europe, Islamofascism, Liberalism, Multiculturalism, Norman, Obama, Political correctness, War, War on Terror
Tuesday, October 07, 2014
Ted Cruz Interview
Labels: Cruz
Monday, October 06, 2014
Democrat Allison Grimes Lies about Kentuck Coal.
Labels: coal, Democrats, election, Environment, Obama
Liberals and Unicorns
Labels: Liberalism, unicorns