Supreme Court Justice Souter To Retire

from NPR April 30, 2009 · NPR has learned that Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the court’s current term. The court has completed hearing oral arguments for the year and will be issuing rulings and opinions until the end of June. Source: npr.org Souter, 69, is said [...]

Obama staffer is “probable” for swine flu

WASHINGTON (AP) – A member of the U.S. delegation that helped prepare Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s trip to Mexico City has demonstrated flu-like symptoms and his family members have tested probable for swine flu. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Thursday that three members of an aide’s family are being tested to see if they [...]

Houston toddler spent day at the mall

A mystery of sorts involving the 23 month old from Mexico who died in a Houston hospital has been solved. “There is a three-and-a-half day gap no one is accounting for,” said Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos.  “We need to look at the possibility that he may have contracted this somewhere either en route to [...]

Swine Flu, Pregnancy and Fertility

Here is an interesting article by Colette Bouchez that I saw over at NowPublic. Naturally, this article is of particular interest to me, as young Nuke Jr. and his bride are expecting their first in early September.  (P.S.  sonograms say it’s a boy…. Nuke III, maybe?) If flu occurs, here are the recommendations … The [...]

Mexico to shut government in flu fight

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government is suspending all nonessential activity of the federal government and private business as the number of confirmed swine flu cases jumped. The decision came as global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the [...]

Captain Trips roundup

Here’s a collection of recent links about the hybrid flu … New information about where the toddler who died in Houston from the swine flu visited before his death. “There is a three-and-a-half day gap no one is accounting for,” said Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos.  “We need to look at the possibility that he [...]

Mayhap it is, and mayhap it ain’t

WHO has raised the Pandemic Threat Level from the hybrid flu to Level 5. “All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans, Dr Chan said. “This is a signal to governments, the pharmaceutical industry and business community to take action.”  source This is serious stuff.  It will get worse.  Plan on it.  Prepare [...]

WHO disputes ’150 swine flu deaths’ in Mexico

A MEMBER of the World Health Organisation has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world. Reports have put the likely death toll from the virus at 152, with Mexican officials confirming 20 deaths. The number of cases under observation [...]

Country don’t mean dumb

“Where the hell it got all these genes from we don’t know, but this is a real super-mixed-up virus….” “The scary thing is that this virus seems enormously transmissible.” Robert Webster, a flu virologist at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital (source) —- Today’s reader’s email at BBC continues to paint an increasingly bleak picture for [...]

Paging Captain Trips

More from “have your say” at BBC I am a doctor and I work in the State of Mexico. I don’t work in the shock team; I am in the echocardiography team, but I do get some news from my colleagues in the hospital. There have been some cases of young people dying from respiratory [...]

M-O-O-N, that spells swine flu

More from BBC “I’m a specialist doctor in respiratory diseases and intensive care at the Mexican National Institute of Health. There is a severe emergency over the swine flu here. More and more patients are being admitted to the intensive care unit. Despite the heroic efforts of all staff (doctors, nurses, specialists, etc) patients continue [...]

Baby can you dig your man?

An interesting comment from “Have your say” at BBC News … I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from “under control”. As a doctor, I realise that the media does not report the truth. Authorities distributed vaccines among all the medical [...]

Leftist faux outrage is boring

FDIC Friday: Times like these

Four more bank failures were announced today by the FDIC.  If anyone’s keeping score, that makes 29 so far this year. Bank Closing Information – April 24, 2009 These links contain useful information for the customers and vendors of these closed banks. First Bank of Idaho, Ketchum, ID First Bank of Beverly Hills, Calabasas, CA [...]

The judgement to lead

No big surprise if you don’t remember this. It was buried by the other comments he made at the same San Francisco fundraiser — the famous “clinging to guns and religion” statement.

Thomas Paine Responds To The TaxDay TeaParties!

In an update from this earlier post, Mr. Paine is encouraged, and enthused. It is time to take it back, we have been slacking off for too many years.

R.I.P. Common Sense

2nd Anniversary of The Reid Doctrine™

It has been two years since the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, declared the war in Iraq as a defeat for the United States. We named his policy of pre-emptive surrender, The Reid Doctrine™ “Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision [...]

Man-made disasterists have work accident

Work accident in the overseas contingency operation. Obviously these man-made disasterists need themselves a good products liability lawyer. Michelle Malkin says: “Reality doesn’t fit Hollywood’s narrative … Must be lovely to live life immunized from the truth.” Well, there’s no hiding from the truth in this video. I laughed. I cried. It’s the feel-good hit [...]

Words Have Meaning – More on the DHS Report

Words have meaning

Friday Feat!

Fat Man in the Bathtub. Enjoy! Have a great weekend, y’all.

Surviving a post-American presidency

Carolyn Glick’s “Surviving a post-American world” expresses my unspoken concerns and worst fears for the future of American liberty from the Obama presidency in a way that I have simply been unable to find words for. Here is an excerpt from Jewish World Review … Somewhere between apologizing for American history — both distant and [...]

FDIC Friday

Two more banks have failed, one in Nevada, the other in Missouri … Nevada State Bank, Las Vegas, Nevada, Assumes All of the Deposits of Great Basin Bank of Nevada, Elko, Nevada April 17, 2009 Metcalf Bank, Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Assumes All of the Deposits of American Sterling Bank, Sugar Creek, Missouri April 17, 2009

The truth is out there: WFFOT

The truth is out there!

OOPS! Sebelius “forgot” about $200,000 donation

Letter reveals more corruption from Obama’s pick to lead HHS A second financial revelation has cast further doubt on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ representation to the Senate Finance Committee of the nature of her relationship with late-term abortionist George Tiller. Sebelius is President Obama’s nominee for the secretary of the Health and Human Services (HHS). She [...]