Archive for July, 2010
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The White House responded swiftly and sharply to publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents painting a bleak picture of the Afghanistan war, calling the leak “irresponsible” and saying that the source – the whistleblower website WikiLeaks — “opposes U.S. policy in Afghanistan.”
WikiLeaks said its "Afghan War Diary" consists mostly of reports "written by soldiers and intelligence officers … describing lethal military actions involving the United States military." WikiLeaks gave three news organizations – The New York Times, The (British) Guardian and Germany’s Der Spiegel – advance access to the "war logs" trove.
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This will reignite the debate here in USA regarding the Afghan War and Obama's role in escalating the conflict.
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Expect this story from the New York Times to restart the discussion on U.S. policies and strategies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Under the headline “Pakistani Spy Service Aids Insurgents, Reports Assert,” a team of Times reporters summarize and analyze a huge batch of secret U.S. intelligence reports on the war in Afghanistan. Those reports show, in compelling detail, that Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) has been actively – and regularly – aiding insurgents fighting Americans in Afghanistan.
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Is the Obama Admin trying to buy some cover?
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Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers.
The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished.
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Reads like a rationing plan to me…..Gad.
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Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected.
Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”.
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered widespread cuts planned across the NHS, many of which have already been agreed by senior health service officials. They include:
* Restrictions on some of the most basic and common operations, including hip and knee replacements, cataract surgery and orthodontic procedures.
* Plans to cut hundreds of thousands of pounds from budgets for the terminally ill, with dying cancer patients to be told to manage their own symptoms if their condition worsens at evenings or weekends.
* The closure of nursing homes for the elderly.
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No surprise here – socialized medicine ultimate works by rationing care
Duh!
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
President Obama and his merry Leftists, including Attorney General Eric Holder, do believe in governing by fear and intimidation.
Isn’t it obvious?
The achieved high office by Saul Alinsky tactics and a weakened Bush-led GOP. So, let’s play the race card and scare the voters some more.
But, they have failed in major political policy decisions both domestic and in foreign policy and Americans have suffered.
The price they will pay will be realized in November.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The Journolist flap is really not surprising. The conservative blogosphere has been bitchin’ and moaning about it for years.
Remember CBS, Dan Rather and the fake/forged George W Bush memos?
As more and more is revealed by the Daily Caller of the archived list, there will be more embarassments. But, will ANY of these so-called journalists decry these activities?
Doubtful. The LEFT will try to find a comparable RIGHT list or demonize someone to change the subject.
Pretty standard.
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The "heavy lifting is over" when it comes to the Obama administration's legislative priorities this year, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday evening.
Biden said now that Wall Street reform is finished and signed into law, the administration could go out and make its political case for its accomplishment.
“Now that the heavy lifting is over, we can go out and make our case,” Biden said at a fundraiser in North Carolina, according to a pool report.
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A pretty weak resume of accomplishment
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Salon’s Rebecca Traister agreed Olbermann regularly displayed his contempt for women. “Olbermann has a terrible record of going out of his way to talk about young, attractive women he believes to be stupid in grotesquely dismissive and oversexualized terms.”
Traister had written the same thing in her columns for Salon, for instance calling Olbermann out when he “felt free to call [Paris] Hilton a slut on air and speculate about whether anyone had ever ejaculated in her face.”
Blogger Lindsay Beyerstein said maybe the time was now to take down Olbermann. “When we liberals were fighting for political survival after 9/11, it was important to be disciplined and to pick our internal battles very carefully. Now that the Democrats are in charge and progressivism is ascendent, we can afford to demand more from our leaders.
“We can certainly afford to smack down Keith Olbermann when he spouts misogynist garbage,” she said.
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And, the material keeps coming…..
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North Korea said it would counter U.S. and South Korean joint naval exercises with “nuclear deterrence” after the Obama administration said the government in Pyongyang shouldn’t take any provocative steps.
North Korea will “legitimately counter with their powerful nuclear deterrence the largest-ever nuclear war exercises to be staged by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet forces,” the National Defense Commission said, according to the Korean Central News Agency.
The maneuvers, which involve 20 vessels and 200 aircraft from the U.S. and South Korea, pose a threat to the country’s sovereignty and security, Ri Tong Il, an official with North Korea’s delegation to the Asean Security Forum, told reporters in Hanoi yesterday.
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Well, this has been brewing for a few years now. Obama and Clinton had better show some resolve.
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Public Policy Polling (D)
7/16-18/10; 630 likely voters, 3.9% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
(PPP release)
Nevada
Job Approval / Disapproval
Sen. Ensign: 38 / 47 (chart)
Favorable / Unfavorable
Catherine Cortez Masto: 22 / 27
Dina Titus: 38 / 47
2012 Senate
45% Generic Democrat, 43% Ensign
48% Ensign (R), 38% Masto (D)
51% Ensign (R), 41% Titus (D)
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He probably should step aside for Lowden or Tarkanian take a shot. Ensign will NOT win re-election.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Yes, Chris, it has been rumored there is a developing new JOURNOLIST by Ezra Klein et. al. called the CABALIST.
Blogosphere, please join me in celebrating the birth of Cabalist, the wittily-named successor to Ezra Klein’s infamous Journolist, the listserv of liberal bloggers, pundits and academics that inadvertently brought down (very temporarily) the ex-Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel, and which is now the subject of an endless and embarrassing (for certain former Journolist participants) investigation by The Daily Caller, which has discovered e-mail chains suggesting that certain Journolist members were secretly devising partisan campaigns to advance Democratic Party interests.
Guess the LEFT loves the GROUP THINK and need to coordinate their political messages for their political hack friends. Or maybe they just need some therapy and reassurance that their message is acceptable?
I belong to a listserv called Rightblogs which is run by that Truth Laid Bear guy and if anyone thinks the RIGHT journalists try for group think? Uhhhhh NO!
Well, ask Rob and he can mail you the archives.
For a price, of course.
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