Archive for July, 2010
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From a remote location on an island off Alaska’s coast, former Governor Sarah Palin is blasting what she describes as the “sick puppies” in the media who immediately and ruthlessly attacked her when Sen. John McCain picked her as his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.
In exclusive remarks to The Daily Caller, Palin described “hordes of Obama’s opposition researchers-slash ‘reporters’” descending upon Alaska in the days after she was picked by McCain.
She said the media became a key reason she decided not to finish out her term as governor and faults, in part, the McCain campaign for failing to vigorously defend her.
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The effort to discredit and demonize Sarah Palin after her VP nomination was quite coordinated and profound.
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A week after financial statements showed Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer with more than 11 times more cash on hand than her Republican rival, a consultant for GOP candidate Carly Fiorina this morning predicted Fiorina would about match Boxer's spending and might be set to write her campaign a check.
In a panel discussion at a meeting of the American Association of Political Consultants in Sacramento, Fred Davis said, "I think, at the end of the day, both of these campaigns are going to end up with roughly similar budgets."
Boxer last week reported having $11.3 million on hand. Fiorina had about $950,000.
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Fiorina will not be wanting of funds in this race.
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In the hours after Sen. John McCain announced his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate in the last presidential race, members of an online forum called Journolist struggled to make sense of the pick. Many of them were liberal reporters, and in some cases their comments reflected a journalist’s instinct to figure out the meaning of a story.
But in many other exchanges, the Journolisters clearly had another, more partisan goal in mind: to formulate the most effective talking points in order to defeat Palin and McCain and help elect Barack Obama president. The tone was more campaign headquarters than newsroom.
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When I was writing about Palin, the negative comments were coordinated and profuse.
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Everyone knew most of the press corps was hoping for Obama in 2008. Newly released emails show that hundreds of them were actively working to promote him.
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shocking….NOT
Now, after learning I'd been targeted for a smear attack by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I'm inclined to amend my response. Not to say there's a media conspiracy, but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism.
My guess is that this and other revelations about JournoList will deepen the distrust of the national press. True, participants in the online clubhouse appear to hail chiefly from the media's self-identified left wing. But its founder, Ezra Klein, is a prominent writer for the Washington Post. Mr. Klein shut down JournoList last month—a wise decision.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Say it ain’t so, Chris.
You mean the LEFT-leaning MSM and New Media folks actually participated in group-thinlk promoting their causes and candidates, like Barack Obama?
I guess so and The Daily Caller has been publishing the archives of Journolist which were deleted by Ezra Klein when it became apparent that the “journalist” corruption would be further exposed and after Dave Weigel was fired (resigned) from the Washington Post.
Let’s look at the listsev when their candidate Barack Obama won the Presidency:
Nov. 3:
DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It’s all I can do not to start bawling.
LUKE MITCHELL, HARPER’S: I’m picturing something like VJ Day in Times Square. Seriously!
JOHN BLEVINS, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW: It’s all I can do to hold it together.
Nov. 4:
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’m looking
across the street at my polling place, and the line is wrapped around
the block. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. I’m feeling like
today is closing the door on a terrible era, and opening another. I’m
glad you started this thread because I was feeling kind of like I was
the only one who is deeply emotional today.
HENRY FARRELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I had
to close my office door yesterday because I was watching YouTube videos
of elderly African Americans saying what this meant to them and tearing
up.
JOSH BEARMAN, LA WEEKLY: 11 months
ago I burst into tears by myself on a plane while watching Hardball when
my mind wandered to the image of President Obama being sworn in. I’ve
been fighting it ever since.
EZRA KLEIN, AMERICAN PROSPECT: OHIO!
ALEC MCGILLIS, WASHINGTON POST: If you need further
proof that VA is looking to go blue, check out what’s going on in VA-5
in deepest Southside Virginia, where Tom Perriello, my college roommate
and a very good guy, is now up .06 percentage points — 2,000 votes —
against Virgil Goode with 88 percent reporting.
GREG ANRIG, THE CENTURY FOUNDATION: This is really happening.
ADELE STAN, THE MEDIA CONSORTIUM: At last I can breathe.
SPENCER ACKERMAN, WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT: YES WE DID!
STEVEN TELES, YALE UNIVERSITY: I’m not sure why, but
this part of the Battle Hymn of the Republic came to me . . . . Glory!
Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.
SPENCER ACKERMAN: [quoting Obama] “…we may not get there in one year or in one term, but America I promise you, we as a people will get there.”
HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT.
MICHAEL TOMASKY, THE GUARDIAN: I’m just jelly. Lord!
HAROLD POLLACK, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: I am awed by
the responsibility we have taken on. Tomorrow a desperately ill
African-American woman will present at my university hospital for care,
and she will be turned away. She will expect us to live up to what we
feel tonight. So we’ve got a lot to live up to.
ADAM SERWER, AMERICAN PROSPECT: My take.
SPENCER ACKERMAN: Goddamn, did an Obama speechwriter ghost that post? That’s pitch-perfect, Adam. Take a bow.
RYAN DONMOYER, BLOOMBERG NEWS: Best quip I heard
today, courtesy of a Facebook friend: “I wonder if Sarah Palin is still
unclear about what a community organizer does.”
Nov. 5
SETH MICHAELS, MYDD.COM: there are flag-waving whooping crowds around the white house. afl-cio hq is insane here.
KATE STEADMAN, KAISER HEALTH NEWS: i can’t
imagine anything like it except a world series/superbowl win, and
several of my co-walkers told me it never gets the entire city so riled.
i think what makes it even more amazing is the incredible diversity in
this city and how we all came together for this, especially in victory.
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’ve never felt anything like U Street tonight. Huging, kissing strangers…everything.
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Nov. 3:
DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It’s all I can do not to start bawling.
LUKE MITCHELL, HARPER’S: I’m picturing something like VJ Day in Times Square. Seriously!
JOHN BLEVINS, SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE OF LAW: It’s all I can do to hold it together.
Nov. 4:
MOIRA WHELAN, NATIONAL SECURITY NETWORK: I’m looking across the street at my polling place, and the line is wrapped around the block. I nearly burst into tears when I saw it. I’m feeling like today is closing the door on a terrible era, and opening another. I’m glad you started this thread because I was feeling kind of like I was the only one who is deeply emotional today.
HENRY FARRELL, GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: I had to close my office door yesterday because I was watching YouTube videos of elderly African Americans saying what this meant to them and tearing up.
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The fourth estate indeed.
How corrupt can you get?
Maybe the Right blogosphere was right about the LEFT MSM. Wait they were….
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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.
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More group think from the LEFT
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Dr. David Blumenthal, the Obama administration's National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, said on Tuesday that patients can choose to omit procedures such as abortions and positive HIV tests from the electronic health records (EHR) that every American is supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year.
Blumenthal's office, a subdivision of the Department of Health and Human Services, was created by the stimulus law specifically to generate the standards and regulations that will govern the federally mandated use of EHRs.
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Do we really want government involved in this?
Hell No……
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The White House did a sudden about-face Wednesday and begged for forgiveness from the black Agriculture Department employee whose ouster ignited an embarrassing political firestorm over race. She was offered a "unique opportunity" for a new job and said she was thinking it over.
With lightning speed, the controversy moved from Monday's forced resignation of a minor U.S. Ag official in Georgia to Tuesday's urgent discussions at the White House amid a rising public outcry and then to Wednesday's repeated apologies and pleas for Shirley Sherrod to come back.
Sherrod said she resigned under White House pressure after the airing of a video of racial remarks she made at an NAACP gathering. But Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said repeatedly on Wednesday that the decision had been his alone.
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Background: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an inflammatory marker produced by the epithelial cells of the prostate acini. In the presence of inflammation or malignancy of the prostate, PSA levels are ?4 ng/ml. This preliminary study was conducted to evaluate any association between periodontitis and PSA levels in chronic prostatitis patients.
Conclusion: Subjects having comorbidity of CAL ?2.7 mm and moderate/severe prostatitis have higher PSA levels than those with either condition alone.
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Get those routine dental cleanings, folks
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Patients typically have no idea what their doctor jots down about them after an office visit, and rarely read those notes, even though they have the legal right to do so. Now, an ambitious project called OpenNotes aims to change that, by giving patients access to the notes recorded after every medical encounter, according to today’s Informed Patient column.
In a paper published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers detailed the decidedly mixed reactions they received in the planning stages of the project, when they surveyed doctors and patients on their attitudes about opening doctors’ notes to patients. In an unusual move, they are now widening that net, offering both medical professionals and the lay public the opportunity to weigh in with their own reactions in an online survey and on the Annals website.
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Read it all
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Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.
An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials. Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.
It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 — with annual 12 percent raises — and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people. Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.
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Where has the Los Angeles County Grand Jury been?
AWOL
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Examples of Meth Mouth
And, there is much more research required to break the cycle of methamphetamine addiction.
he UCLA School of Dentistry will use a $1.86 million award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to expand research reported in the Journal of the American Dental Association on the relationship between methamphetamine use and increased dental disease.
“Given that dental disease is a prominent comorbidity of methamphetamine use, dental professionals are in a unique position to help in the early detection of undisclosed MA use and participate as integral members of a collaborative care team tending to those who use MA,” the UCLA research team said in JADA 2010 Mar; 141(3): 307-318.
Dr. Vivek Shetty, a professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery and the project’s principal investigator, aims to
build on research described in JADA as “one of the first systematic investigations of the meth mouth phenomenon.” More information on Methamphetamine Use and Oral Health (Meth Mouth) is available at www.ada.org/goto/meth.
Tags: Dentistry, Methamphetamine
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Well, Chris, the redistributionist, re-regulation schemes of President Obama and the Democrat Congressional leadership have paid big dividends for the American economy, right?
Unemployment, debt and slow economic growth.
Employers in the private economy are uncertain about the future and have been frozen out of the credit markets. Of course, state governments are cutting back because they are broke and unlike the federal government cannot print more money.
So, what will happen?
Not much until after the November midterm elections and a more clear political path is determined.
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