Posted on April 30, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2009 by nuke
“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 [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 26, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by nuke
Posted on April 24, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by nuke
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.
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by no2liberals
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.
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Posted on April 22, 2009 by Robert D
Posted on April 20, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 19, 2009 by nuke
Posted on April 17, 2009 by nuke
Fat Man in the Bathtub. Enjoy! Have a great weekend, y’all.
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by nuke
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
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by nuke
Posted on April 16, 2009 by nuke
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 [...]
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