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Again, Dr. Tommy Murph makes short work of these lower anterior teeth, using the 301 elevator and 151 forcep. Patients will, also, understand when the dentist says he will call you back and that he is with a patient, he may be very well be busy.

Here is the pre-operative radiograph (x-ray):

And, a pre-operative photo of the teeth:

Enjoy your Daily Extraction.

Dr. Murph is a South Carolina dentist who practices general dentistry who really excels in extracting teeth. For patients in the Myrtle Beach area, I can heartily recommend Tommy as YOUR dentist.

For dentists, Dr. Murph has a number of resources for you in extracting teeth, including one on one courses in his office.

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According to the latest PPP poll:

Job Approval Vs. Disapproval:

• Barack Obama 47% Vs 45%

Favorabile Vs. Unfavorable

• Mitt Romney – 37% Vs. 45%
• Mike Huckabee – 36% Vs. 45%
• Newt Gingrich – 27% Vs. 57%
• Sarah Palin – 31% Vs. 61%
• Scott Walker – 22% Vs. 37%

Head to Head:

• Obama – 48% Vs Romney – 41%
• Obama – 50% vs. Huckabee – 41%
• Obama – 53% Vs. Gingrich – 37%
• Obama – 55% Vs. Palin – 35%

President Obama won Michigan in 2008 with a 16 point margin. He is not leading by that amount this time but GOP candidates are underperforming.

Obama could be vulnerable in Michigan for sure. But consider this- despite that weak 78% approval with Democrats, he gets 85-90% of the Democratic vote against each of these five Republicans. There are enough Democrats who don’t like Obama that a Republican could get the support necessary across party lines to win the state- it’s just far from clear that any of these Republicans could get the support necessary across party lines to win the state. Obama may not win the state by as much as last time but for now Michigan’s looking like a second tier swing state.

Agreed. Republicans always hope for a pick-up in Michigan. But, unless the GOP nominates someone other than the four in this poll, they will lose again.

The entire polll is here.

These are my links for March 25th from 07:02 to 10:15:

• California Census: O.C.’s ‘most Republican’ status continues to slip – Orange County is still the 800-pound gorilla of California Republican politics, thanks in good measure to the size of the county and the number of major donors. But O.C. continues to slip in its ranking of the state's most GOP counties. And that gorilla may be shedding a few pounds.
  In 1999, the party fell below 50 percent of all county voters for the first time since 1984. In 2001, it lost its spot as the California county with the highest percentage of GOP voters. By 2007, it ranked ninth among the 58 counties.

  It is now 18th, with a 43-percent share of registered voters, according to Secretary of State rankings released last month. And the slide could well continue.
  The party has had difficulty attracting the Latino vote statewide – Meg Whitman won among non-Latino whites in last year's governor's race, but only garnered about 20 percent of the Latino vote. And the Latino population is growing faster in Orange County than statewide, with Latinos projected to become a majority of the county population by 2040.

  GOP strongholds

  Smaller counties now carry the highest GOP saturation. Modoc County Republicans lead the list, with 49.5 percent of voters, followed by Placer County with 48.2 percent, and Lassen County with 48.1 percent.
  Alameda County leads the list for Democrats, with 56.7 percent, follow by San Francisco County with 56.1 percent and Marin County with 54.9 percent.
  Orange County Democrats, with 31.9 percent share, rank 10th from the bottom.
  Statewide, Democrats have a 44 percent share to Republicans' 31 percent.

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  The Census demographic shift away from a white or anglo population has been ongoing for decades.

  Now, it will affect politics as racial groups are polarized to vote against Republicans.

  But,will it last?

• Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Connecticut Dental Board Reviewing Whether Teeth Whitening Should Be Classified as "Dentistry" – Connecticut Dental Board Reviewing Whether Teeth Whitening Shuld Be Classified as "Dentistry"
• President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Mike Huckabee Has a Slight Edge.. But.. | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Mike Huckabee Has a Slight Edge.. But.. #tcot #catcot
• Video: Why Sarah Palin Calls a Truce With LAMESTREAM Media? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Video: Why Sarah Palin Calls a Truce With LAMESTREAM Media? #tcot #catcot
• The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : DeMint’s Defense of RomneyCare is Ignorant…And Dangerous – Sen. Jim DeMint's Defense of RomneyCare is Ignorant…And Dangerous
• Tea party leader says he’d endorse Daniels | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com – President 2012: Tea party leader says he'd endorse Mitch Daniels
• The American Spectator : Scapegoating Mitch Daniels – President 2012: Scapegoating Mitch Daniels
• Flap’s Links and Comments for March 25th on 06:38 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 25th on 06:38 #tcot #catcot
• Flap’s Links and Comments for March 25th on 06:38 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for March 25th on 06:38 #tcot #catcot

Not really….

Sarah Palin responds with is missive on her Facebook page.

“Let’s keep pivoting around media bias, and not get distracted with the vulgar personal shots. Call out lies and set the record straight, but always keep the ball moving. No one ever won a game only playing defense.”

Upon my return from an outstanding and productive trip to India and Israel, I’ve been inundated with requests to respond to petty comments made in the media the past few days, including one little fella’s comment which decent people would find degrading. (I won’t bother responding to it though, because it was made by he who reminds me of an annoying little mosquito found zipped up in your tent; he can’t do any harm, but buzzes around annoyingly until it’s time to give him the proverbial slap.)

I’ve given this a lot of thought, and I’d like to share my thoughts on the never-ending issue of media bias.

When it comes to responding to the media, the standard warning is: Don’t pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel because calling out the media and holding them accountable is a risky endeavor. Too often the first instinct is to ignore blatant media bias, crudeness, and outright lies, and just hope the media instigator will grow up and provide fairer coverage if you bite your tongue and not challenge the false reporting of an openly hostile press. But I’ve never bought into that. That’s waving the white flag. I just can’t do it because I have too much respect for the importance of a free press as a cornerstone of our democracy, and I have great respect for the men and women in uniform who sacrifice so much to defend that First Amendment right. Media, with freedom comes responsibility.

Friends, too often conservatives or Republicans in general come across as having the fighting instinct of sheep. I don’t. I was raised to believe that you don’t retreat when you’re on solid ground; so even though it often seems like I’m armed with just a few stones and a sling against a media giant, I’ll use those small resources to do what I can to set the record straight. The truth is always worth fighting for. Doing so isn’t whining or “playing the victim card”; it’s defending the truth in fairness to those who seek accurate information. I’ll keep attempting to correct misinformation and falsehoods about myself and my record, and I will certainly never shy from defending others who are unfairly attacked. This is in the name of justice.

But two decades in politics have taught me that when it comes to picking battles, often it’s best to ignore the truly petty, ugly personal media shots because engaging in a counter argument with disreputable, intolerant people doesn’t vindicate me; it merely gives those people the attention they seek. It wastes my time and it distracts from what we should focus on.

We must always remember the big picture. The media has always been biased. Conservatives – and especially conservative women – have always been held to a different standard and attacked. This is nothing new. Lincoln was mocked and ridiculed. Reagan was called an amiable dunce, a dangerous warmonger, a rightwing fanatic, and the insult list goes on and on. (But somehow Reagan still managed to win two major electoral landslides, and this was in the days before the internet and talk radio when all he had were three biased network news channels spinning reports on him. If he could do so much with so little and still be such an optimistic and positive leader, then surely we can succeed with the new media tools at our disposal.)

Let’s just acknowledge that commonsense conservatives must be stronger and work that much harder because of the obvious bias. And let’s be encouraged with a sense of poetic justice by knowing that the “mainstream” media isn’t mainstream anymore. That’s why I call it “lamestream,” and the LSM is becoming quite irrelevant, as it is no longer the sole gatekeeper of information.

Let’s keep pivoting around media bias, and not get distracted with the vulgar personal shots. Even with limited time we can try to call out lies and set the record straight, but always keep the ball moving. No one ever won a game only playing defense.

I’ll keep correcting false reporting, and I’ll defend others to the hilt; but I won’t spend any more precious, limited time responding to personal, vulgar, sexist venom spewed my way.

Today, our country is faced with seemingly overwhelming challenges. We have an unsustainable and immoral $14 trillion debt problem which, combined with a self-inflicted energy crisis, could bring America to her knees. The President of the United States is manipulating an energy supply by refusing to develop our U.S. energy resources. Shouldn’t that be the media’s focus today? Wouldn’t you like more information on the deficit that for last month alone was the highest in our history at $223 billion? That single month’s deficit was more than the entire deficit for the year 2007! We still have a 16% real unemployment rate. We had 2.9 million home foreclosures last year alone, with this year predicted to be even worse. Americans who are struggling to make ends meet are now hit by rising food and energy prices – exacerbated by the Fed’s decision to drop that $600 billion money bomb known as QE2 on us. Gas has already hit $4 per gallon in some areas. And let’s not forget that our men and women in uniform are deployed far from home today. From Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, to who-knows-where tomorrow under a clouded, confused Obama Doctrine, our armed forces are in harm’s way, defending our interests and protecting our freedoms.

Now these are the real concerns to Americans. These are times when real leadership is needed. We must never be distracted from these real concerns.

Petty comments from the small-minded are used to distract. Stay focused, America. Don’t wave any white flag. Simply put, let’s spend our precious time on causes that are worthy.

- Sarah Palin

I wonder what would happen if anyone called the homosexual Maher a homophobic slur?

Yeah, their business would be boycotted and the pickets at their homes would commence.

Would it be too much to ask of the LEFT to know off the Saul Alinsky tactics of ridicule and demeaning people for who they are and concentrate on a discussion of the issues?

These are my links for March 25th from 06:38 to 06:55:

• President 2012: Scapegoating Mitch Daniels – Over the past year, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has been a case study in how not to seek the Republican presidential nomination — if indeed that is his intention.
  Despite having a generally conservative governing record, in the run-up to a possible candidacy, Daniels has managed to alienate all parts of the GOP’s so-called “three-legged” stool. He has rattled economic conservatives by floating the possibility of a VAT tax, unnerved national security hawks by talking about defense cuts and seeming indifferent about foreign policy, and angered values voters by calling for a “truce” on social issues while the country confronts the national emergency of our fiscal crisis.
  It’s the latter comments that have drawn the most heat, giving his potential rivals an easy opening at conservative events to say that yes, social issues are a priority.
  But while Daniels has become a popular target for social conservatives who understandably don’t want to see their issues downplayed, the reality is that Daniels’ crime was to say explicitly what most of the other potential candidates are saying and doing implicitly — that is, emphasizing the importance of economic and fiscal issues over moral matters.

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  Read it all.

• Sen. Jim DeMint’s Defense of RomneyCare is Ignorant…And Dangerous – Jennifer Rubin alerts me to these disturbing comments Sen. Jim DeMint made to the Hill in defense of RomneyCare:
  “One of the reasons I endorsed Romney [in 2008] is his attempts to make private health insurance available at affordable prices,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.), a GOP kingmaker.
  DeMint blames Democrats in the Massachusetts State Legislature for adding many of the features to Romney’s plan that many on the right decry.
  “It just depends on how he plays it. For me, I think he started with some good ideas that were essentially hijacked by the Democrat Legislature,” DeMint said.
  To start with, blaming everything on the Democratic legislature is simply not an accurate account of what happened. Romney helped craft the basic architecture of the health care plan, and pursued it even though he knew that he was working with an overwhelming Democratic legislature who he knew would override his symbolic line-item vetoes of parts of his bill. He signed the bill with Ted Kennedy at his side, and did so knowing he wasn't seeking reelection and that it would almost certainly fall on a Democratic governor to implement it….

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  Read it all

  Sen. Jim DeMint is turning out to be just another POL.

• President 2012: Tea party leader says he’d endorse Mitch Daniels – Gov. Mitch Daniels: the tea party pick for president?

  That could happen, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, said Thursday.

  Armey, now the leader of the tea party group FreedomWorks, was in Indiana to begin a three-day campaign-training seminar his group is conducting along with the Indiana-based tea party group America ReFocused.

  He met with Daniels privately before a Statehouse ceremony honoring the governor with a "legislative entrepreneur award" and told reporters he encouraged Daniels to "think about the service he could do for this nation as president."

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  Some on the right are scapegoating Mitch Daniels but Dick Armey knows Daniels is a credible conservative office holder with a track record.