• Dentistry,  Dr. Tommy Murph

    The Daily Extraction: Upper Decayed Anteriors

    March 13, 2011 /

    Dr. Tommy Murph extracts teeth numbers 6, 8, 9 and 10 with a 301 elevator and 151 forcep

    Dr Murph goes right after these carious maxillary anterior teeth. Note how he works the 301 elevator and uses the forcep without breaking the very decayed remaining crown.

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

    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.

    Dr. Murph’s website is here and his extraction manuals are here on e-Bay.

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  • Pinboard Links

    Flap’s Links and Comments for March 13th on 18:19

    March 13, 2011 /

    These are my links for March 13th from 18:19 to 18:24:

    • President 2012: Going Rogue on Ailes Could Leave Palin on Thin Ice – Before Sarah Palin posted her infamous “Blood Libel” video on Facebook on January 12, she placed a call to Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. In the wake of the Tucson massacre, Palin was fuming that the media was blaming her heated rhetoric for the actions of a madman that left six people dead and thirteen others injured, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

      Palin told Ailes she wanted to respond, according to a person with knowledge of the call. It wasn’t fair the media was making this about her. Ailes told Palin that she should stay quiet.

      “Lie low,” he said. “There’s no need to inject yourself into the story.”

      Palin told Ailes that other people had given her that same advice. Her lawyer Bob Barnett is said to have cautioned her about getting involved. The consensus in some corners of Palin's camp was that she faced considerable risks if she spoke out.

      But, this being Sarah Palin, she did it anyway.

      Ailes was not pleased with her decision, which turned out to be a political debacle for Palin, especially her use of the historically loaded term "blood libel" to describe the actions of the media. “The Tucson thing was horrible,” said a person familiar with Ailes’s thinking. "Before she responded, she was making herself look like a victim. She was winning. She went out and did the blood libel thing, and Roger is thinking, 'Why did you call me for advice?'”

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      Sarah Palin sealed her 'not ready for prime time run" fate with her Tucson "Blood Libel" Debacle.

      Since then her polling has been even worse.

    • California Census data mean big changes in legislative/cogressional districts – When the Census Bureau released details of the 2010 census in California, therefore, political bean counters immediately massaged the data to calculate which Assembly, Senate and congressional districts must be changed dramatically to equalize their populations.

      The detailed over/under data on the 120 legislative and 53 congressional districts confirm what the gross census numbers implied – that there must be a major shift of seats from Democratic-voting coastal areas, such as the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles County, to the more conservative-leaning interior counties.

      A decade ago, for instance, 40 state Senate districts were equalized at about 850,000 constituents each. The 2011 census told us that they now should be about 931,000 because the state's population increased by 10 percent. In fact, however, those districts now range from 87,615 persons under that number (Senate District 22, represented by Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles) to 284,527 over (SD 37, held by Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Hemet).

      De León's and Emmerson's numbers reflect the startlingly small growth recorded for Los Angeles County, just 3.1 percent in 10 years, and the explosive, 30 percent growth in adjacent Riverside and San Bernardino counties. And it may indicate that, as many demographers suspect, the census missed many Los Angeles residents, especially illegal immigrants.

      But the census, accurate or not, is official and the huge urban-suburban disparity – also evident in Assembly and congressional district numbers – means that the redistricting commission, if it does its job well, will be making immense changes in the state's political maps.

      It will shift districts from slow-growing coastal urban areas to fast-growing interior counties, opening opportunities for some politicians while discomfiting others.

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      It will hurt Democratic incumbents in the California Legislature as they all try to shift due to term limits.

      But, GOP Congressional members may be in more jeopardy.

  • Pinboard Links

    Flap’s Links and Comments for March 13th on 17:53

    March 13, 2011 /

    These are my links for March 13th from 17:53 to 17:59:

    • Mark Steyn: Now even cowboys dependent on Washington – How mean-spirited are House Republicans? So mean-spirited that they would end federally funded cowboy poetry! Tuesday, Harry Reid, the Majority Leader, took to the Senate floor to thunder that this town ain't big enough for both him and the Mean-Spirited Kid (John Boehner).

      "The mean-spirited bill, HR 1 … eliminates the National Endowment of the Humanities, National Endowment of the Arts," said Sen. Reid. "These programs create jobs. The National Endowment of the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival. Had that program not been around, the tens of thousands of people who come there every year would not exist."

      "Tens of thousands" would "not exist"? There can't be that many cowboy poets, can there? Oh, c'mon, don't be naïve. Where there are taxpayer-funded cowboy poets, there must surely be cowboy poetry festival administrators, and a Bureau of Cowboy Poetry Festival Licensing, and cowboy poetry festival administration grant-writers, and a Department of Cowboy Poetry Festival Administration Grant Application Processing, and Professors of Cowboy Poetry Festival Educational Workshop Management at dozens of American colleges credentialing thousands of cowboy poetry festival workshop co-coordinating majors every year. It all adds up. In Western railroad halts where the Last Chance Saloon shuttered in 1893, dusty one-horse towns are now glittering one-grant towns, where elderly hoochie-koochie dancers are being retrained to lead rewarding lives as inspectors from the Agency of Cowboy-Poetry Festival Handicapped-Access Compliance. Used to be a man could ride the range for days on end under lonesome skies with nuthin' on the horizon 'cept a withered mesquite and a clump of sagebrush, but now all you see are clouds of dust and all you hear's the mighty roar of thundering hooves as every gnarled ol' wrangler in the territory races for the last hitching post outside creative-writing class.

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      Read it all

    • Hugh Hewitt: Obama’s oil production protest fails fact-checking – "So any notion that my administration has shut down oil production might make for a good political sound bite, but it doesn't match up with reality." So declared President Obama Friday with the practiced firmness of voice and direct look into the teleprompter that signals to veterans of the Obama watch that the chief executive has strayed far from the truth.
      In May of 2010, Obama's secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, issued a six-month moratorium order for drilling on the outer continental shelf. When the courts struck down that illegal order, Team Obama switched to a slow-roll strategy, demanding new permits for exploration, and accomplished the same thing as a moratorium.

      Jonathan Tilove, the New Orleans' Times-Picayune's Washington correspondent, set a standard that few met national reporters met when he collected the statements of Louisiana legislators in response to the president's whopper:

      "The gap continues to widen between what President Obama claims to be true about domestic energy production and what Louisianans know is true," said Sen. David Vitter, R-La.

      "With prices at the pump climbing toward $4 per gallon, the president is asking us to believe that his administration supports expanded drilling off the Gulf Coast," Vitter continued. "I guess that's true only if you don't actually need a permit."

      "Someone should tell the president that April Fool's Day is still weeks away," said Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., told Tilove. "Today's news conference is another example of the president misleading the American people regarding his energy policy.

      Tilove got similar quotes from Louisiana Republican Reps. Charles Boustany (the "president's remarks … are wholly untrue"), Rodney Alexander, Bill Cassidy and Steve Scalise. They all provide variations on the same theme: The president isn't telling the truth about oil production and his administration's war on new supplies.

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      Obama has NO energy policy and is frankly voting present.

    • General Electric-designed reactors in Fukushima have 23 sisters in U.S. – The General Electric-designed nuclear reactors involved in the Japanese emergency are very similar to 23 reactors in use in the United States, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission records.

      The NRC database of nuclear power plants shows that 23 of the 104 nuclear plants in the U.S. are GE boiling-water reactors with GE's Mark I systems for containing radioactivity, the same containment system used by the reactors in trouble at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The U.S. reactors are in Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont.

      In addition, 12 reactors in the U.S. have the later Mark II or Mark III containment system from GE. These 12 are in Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington state.

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      Time to re-examine the entire nuclear power industry through Congressional hearings.

      Past time for the Obama Administration to develop a national energy plan.

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    Flap’s Links and Comments for March 13th on 17:25

    March 13, 2011 /

    These are my links for March 13th from 17:25 to 17:33:

    • California Redistricting and the 2010 Census – Musical chairs in Congress – California's addition of 3.4 million residents over the past decade allowed it to keep its 53 congressional seats – but the more dramatic population shifts within the state all but guarantee that some comfortable incumbents are going to be out of office in two years.

      And at least one of those out-of-luck members of Congress is likely to come from the Bay Area.

      Tony Quinn, one of the state's pre-eminent analysts of politics and demographics, said it is hard to look at the numbers in official U.S. Census data released last week and not conclude that the Bay Area will lose a House seat through redistricting. Population has remained fairly flat in the Bay Area, while rising sharply in once-rural areas to the east – a pattern that is replicated in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire.

      "The loss of one (Bay Area) congressional incumbent seems likely," he said.

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      The Dems will start eating their young soon in the Bay Area.

      With the new top two electoral system and geographically based legislative and congressional districts, there will be political upheal for both Dems and the GOP. Look for many incumbent retirements or forced relocations.

    • President 2012: What We Learned: Here Comes The Mitch – Daniels That Is – Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) is sounding more serious about a presidential campaign, and his "Meet The Press" appearance Sunday will give a telling hint of his intentions. And with a recent NBC/WSJ poll showing two-thirds of GOP primary voters more likely to back a candidate who puts more focus on the economy/deficit than gay marriage/abortion, his "social truce" isn't as unpopular with the base as the CW has suggested.

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      I think ultimatley Mitch Daniels WILL run for the Presidency.

      To be honest, he knows the field is weak.

    • IN-Sen: Could Republicans Lose Major Party Status in Indiana? – WISH-TV reports a Democratic lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Charlie White's (R) status "on the ballot last November because his voter registration was allegedly false (a contention backed up by grand jury indictments.) If a judge rules in the Democrats' favor and White is disqualified, the Republicans would not receive the 10% of the vote in the Secretary of State race that is required to maintain major party status."

      Possible ramifications: "The lack of major party status would make the 2012 Senate race a convention battle rather than a primary for the GOP. Richard Mourdock's chances of upsetting Richard Lugar would be greatly enhanced in a convention."

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      Sen. Richard Lugar would be toast and I doubt he wuuld run for re-election.

      I doubt he runs anyway.

  • Mitch Daniels,  Richard Lugar

    IN-Sen Video: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels Supports Sen Richard Lugar for Re-Election But…..

    March 13, 2011 /

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    Why, of course, you would expect Mitch Daniels to endorse Indiana U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (towards the end of the video above). Mitch Daniels is a political protege of Lugar.

    Daniels had his first experience in politics while still a teenager when, in 1968, he worked on the unsuccessful campaign of fellow Hoosier and Princeton alum William Ruckelshaus, who was running for the U.S. Senate.[8] After the campaign Ruckelshaus helped Daniels secure an internship in the office of then-Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar. In 1971, Daniels worked on Lugar’s re-election campaign and then joined his mayoral staff. Within three years, he became Lugar’s principal assistant. After Lugar was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1976, Daniels followed him to Washington, D.C. as his Chief of Staff.[15]

    Daniels served as Chief of Staff during Lugar’s first term (1977–82); and, during this time, he met Cheri Herman, who was working for the National Park Service. The two married in 1978 and had four daughters; they divorced in 1993 and Cheri married a second husband. Cheri soon divorced her second husband and remarried Daniels in 1997.[6]

    In 1983, when Lugar was elected Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Daniels was appointed its Executive Director. Serving in that position (1983–84), he played a major role in keeping the GOP in control of the Senate. Daniels was also manager of three successful re-election campaigns for Lugar. In August 1985, Daniels became chief political advisor and liaison to President Ronald Reagan.[15]

    Daniels even met his wife as a result of his service with Lugar. But, note what Daniels specifically said under the radar:

    Daniels said that he never intervenes in primary elections, admires Lugar, hedged on whether he would appear with Lugar (i.e. campaign with him) and implied that perhaps Lugar deserves another term – “if he wants it.”

    Sounds to me that in a subtle way, Mitch Daniels is telling his old mentor that it is time to retire and NOT want to run for re-election.

    But, make no mistake about it, Mitch Daniels WILL do ads for Senator Lugar if he runs for re-election.

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