Does This Guy Have It Right or What?
From The American Spectator
"If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others. He pursued his goal obstinately, they would say, without filtering his thoughts through the medical research establishment. And he didn't share his research with competing labs and thus caused resentment among other scientists who didn't have the resources or the bold -- perhaps even somewhat reckless -- instincts to pursue the task as he did. And he completely ignored the World Health Organization, showing his contempt for international institutions. Anyway, a cure for cancer is all fine and nice, but what about AIDS?"
By Ralph R. Reiland
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More on Hanoi Jane
Is she a twit or what?From The American Spectator
Nobody's had a simple life, but I know many people who've had a normal life, and what I mean by that is a life without major crises and traumas, without any deep psychological wounds... " Ah yes, the simple lives of the salt of the earth, so free from the pain that great spirits like Fonda must traverse. In fact, Fonda needs to take respite among these uncomplicated souls from time to time:
Paul Beston
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by Jalal Talibani
Through their democratically elected representatives, the people of Iraq have entrusted me with the office of the presidency. After 50 years of political struggle against discrimination and dictatorship, this is a grand honor and a humbling moment. As we look ahead to a new Iraq based on tolerance and equality, federalism and unity, democracy and freedom, we remember those whose sacrifice made this possible -- Iraqis, Americans, Britons, Poles, Italians, Czechs and so many others from around the world.
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Bolton-The Poor Man
For he is under attack by the Senate Democratic vicious dogs for the mere act of being nominated by President Bush. The man dresses down his employees, horrors. None of us have been scolded by our boss! What else? Hmmm, pretty much nothing.
From the Opinion Journal
All of this, in short, is political smoke designed to disguise what is really a policy dispute. Mr. Bolton's opponents don't want to promote a blunt-spoken supporter of Mr. Bush's foreign policy to help reform an obviously dysfunctional United Nations. They prefer someone who'll subjugate U.S. interests to the "multilateralism" that is their, and the U.N.'s, dominant ethic. Democrats who vote against Mr. Bolton will be saying they want an Ambassador to the U.N. who represents Kofi Annan, not America.
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From Rich Lowry- Townhall.com. Gotta love that bit about a liberal and a fight.
This is Bolton's key disagreement with those Democrats who are content to have the U.S. led by the nose by the lowest common denominator of recalcitrant foreign actors. This attitude is the international version of the old definition of a liberal as someone who won't take his own side in a fight.
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And the Cruelest, Most Vicious Attack of All
Take a close look at the picture below. This is poor Mr. Bolton, would-be nominee for ambassador to the U.N. The liberals are out en masse and they have their long knives. Because given nothing else to rant about, it seems the man can't even dress properly.
The fellow in the picture below, well he's no candidate for Gentlemen's Quarterly. He looks, hey, sort of like a government bureaucrat, imagine that! Go on and read the Wapo's columnist comments about this poor man's attire and tell me if you don't think it's a bit harsh.
Excurpts from a Vicious Washington Post columnist:
That tidy 1970 haircut -- no long hippie locks for Bolton -- has evolved into a bureaucrat's hairstyle, one that is willfully dismissive of the value of a polished appearance -- a kind of intellectual style-snobbery.
A more vain man would -- ill-advisedly -- dye his mustache, trim it down so that it did not look like it should be attached to geek glasses and a rubber nose, or shave it altogether. But not Bolton. It sits there in all of its 1980s "Magnum, P.I." glory. But Bolton is not Tom Selleck and so the image is more likely to stir thoughts of Wilford Brimley and walruses.
For all of the testimony about his spiteful dealings with both colleagues and underlings, and his denials of such behavior, he managed to look mean.
His attire was not merely bland but careless. His hair was so poorly cut, it bordered on rude. Bolton might well argue that appearance has nothing to do with capabilities. But it certainly can be a measure of one's respect for the job.
Someone needs to tell this witch that "rude" is showing up for a wedding in a sweat suit. Rude is wearing your underwear to greet expected guests. Rude is not Bolton's attire. And he doesn't "look mean" to me. An "intellectual style-snobbery"?
And if you don't think this columnist and the Wapo isn't biased, let's look at this same author's dress assessment of John Kerry.
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Candidate Kerry -- he of the dramatic jaw line and a 59-year-old physique that looks particularly fetching in a motorcycle jacket -- has a thatch of hair that always looks as though it is one percentage point of humidity away from floating up and off his head. But on arid days, Kerry's hair has a thick, glamorous quality. It edges toward dashing, hints at vanity but steers clear of roguish. It is leading-man hair with a politician's part.
Wow, "fetching", "glamorous", "dashing", "leading-man".
Sometimes liberals really do show their real color. All dark and evil and very, very nasty.
Review-“No Mercy”-John Walsh
John Walsh is the host of the Fox program-“America’s Most Wanted”. He is also a man whose son was murdered after being abducted from a shopping center.
He is also full of himself, or so the reader might conclude after reading this book.
Myself has mixed emotions about it in that this really was an entertaining book though I was constantly amused at the crimes the aforementioned television series solved, to include the riddle of the Black Dahlia, all crimes of Jesse James and just who killed Jonbenet.
Or at least it seemed to this reader.
There is, however, no denying that the “America’s Most Wanted” has helped to find the perpetrators of many crimes, over 400 as of this book’s writing.
Walsh chose some of the more interesting to detail in the book and soon this reader was intrigued by the details behind the search that simply cannot, due to time constraints and viewer interest, be covered in any one show.
While most of the tales were of crimes not of national notoriety, the reader is treated to a behind-the-scenes account of the search for the infamous gay serial killer, Andrew Cunanan. “America’s Most Wanted” had absolutely nothing to do with the capture of this fellow though I had to wade through much prose and hype before determining this. The television show, in the form of John Walsh, did get the first scoop about the houseboat thing but that’s all and I’m not sure that counts as any sort of greatness for the series.
The most interesting vignette in the book, at least to this reader, was the story of how John List was finally captured. The story of John List, the meek accountant who brutally murdered his mother, wife and children then took off to a new life, had been one I’d read in more detail in another book. There was a certain sense of finality in reading how “America’s Most Wanted” put out the word and how this awful man was finally bought to justice. This some seventeen years after his heinous act and with the aid of an artist talented enough to take a much younger picture and compose it into what the criminal might look like currently.
There was an extensive story of the Polly Klass murder. I’d heard, through many rumor mills, that Walsh and Klass, both fathers of murdered children, were rivals of a sort. The reader would never deduce this by the kind prose as penned by Walsh. Still, the reading was interesting if for nothing else but the expectation that soon Walsh would begin to blast Klass.
The book is chock full of the headaches and triumphs of running the hit series, how decisions on what criminal to display are decided, how ratings and public sensibilities determine what is aired and what is not.
Seems Government Health Care Ain’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
From:GOVERNMENT of CANADA;
Province of Ontario Ministry of Health
To: Humbler River Regional Hospital
Re: Reducing Hospital Costs
In an effort to reduce costs this year, the following measures are effective
immediately. Please share this information with all patients and physicians
as soon as possible.
1. Food service will be discontinued immediately. Patients wishing to eat
will want to get their families to bring them a brown bag meal, or you may
make your own arrangements with Subway, Dominoes, etc. Coin-operated
telephones will be available in patient rooms for this purpose.
2. Our Switchboard operators have all been let go, so if you are walking
through the lobby and hear the telephone ringing, please answer it.
3. We have found it necessary to make substantial reductions in our
transport team so we ask the cooperation of all patients. One transporter
will take at least six patients in wheelchairs at a time to Radiology,
Cardiology, Respiratory Therapy and other services. Please form a "train" by
holding tightly on to the handles of the wheelchair in front of you.
4. Our Emergency Room is really busy from 3 PM to 11 PM so, if you can,
please have your accidents and heart attacks in the mornings or early
afternoons. That would really help to reduce your wait.
5. To expedite surgery cases, all AM admits and outpatient surgery patients
are asked to be at the hospital 3 hours prior to surgery. Go to SPD, pick up
a clean instrument tray and surgery pack and proceed to the Operating Room
Holding area. To help us reduce drug costs, please take several Aspirin
tablets prior to arriving at the hospital for surgery.
6. Patients anticipating the need for a bedpan can check one out from the
gift shop. They will be available in a wide variety of colors and styles to
meet the aesthetic and physical requirements of our patients. A deposit
will be required but is fully refundable if bedpans are returned clean.
7. To reduce patients' lengths of stay, nurses will have a choice of using
in-line skates or skateboards. To expedite response to patient's needs the
call bell systems will be modified and will be wired to a collar worn by
nurses, which will deliver a mild shock when pushed by the patient.
8. Taking a cue from the airlines, Respiratory Therapists will be replaced
by oxygen masks which will, should the need arise, automatically drop from
the ceiling over patient beds. If this occurs, please place the mask over
your nose and mouth and breathe normally.
9. The hospital got a real sweet deal on surplus white waiters' jackets and
these will be issued to all physicians. Doctors, we apologize in advance
because the jackets already had a first name embroidered on the pocket. We
will work with you to find a name that you can live with. If you also are on
the staff at the University Hospital, we hope this won't be a problem. We
recognize that in academic settings, "length of coat status" is very
important.
10. All first time moms are asked to volunteer to help out on the Pediatrics
floor - not only will this reduce hospital costs, but it will give you much
needed experience and a dose of reality after ogling over your own precious
sleeping bundle of joy.
11. Housekeeping and physical therapy are being combined. Mops will be
issued to those patients who are ambulatory, thus providing range-of-motion
exercises as well as a clean environment. Family members and friends of
patients and ambulatory patients may also sign up to clean public areas to
receive special discounts on their final bill. Time cards will be provided.
12. Plant operations and Engineering are being eliminated. The hospital has
subscribed to the TIME-LIFE "How to....." series of maintenance books. These
books can be checked out from administration and a toolbox will be standard
equipment on all nursing units. We will be receiving the series at a rate
of one volume every other month. We already have the volume on Basic Wiring,
but if a non-electrical problem occurs, please try to handle it as best as
you can until the appropriate volume arrives.
13. Cutbacks in the phlebotomy staff will be accommodated by only performing
blood-related lab tests on patients who are already bleeding.
14. Physicians will be informed that they may order no more than two x-rays
per patient stay. This is due to the turnaround time required by LOBLAW'S
photo lab. Two prints will be provided for the price of one, and physicians
are being advised to clip coupons from the Sunday paper if they want extra
sets. UNIPRIX will honor all competitors' coupons for one-hour processing in
emergency situations, so if you come across coupons from other vendors,
please clip them and send them to the Emergency Department.
15. In light of the extremely hot summer temperature and the high A/C bills
that we receive in the summer, our new policy is to have fans available for
sale or lease in the hospital gift shop. For those patients who do not wish
to use electric fans, the old reliable hand held cardboard fans on a stick
are free upon request.
16. The cost of hospital gowns continues to escalate so patients are asked
to bring their own pajama top which nurses will be happy to slit up the back
for you. Pajama bottoms are not permitted on patient units.
17. On the way to the hospital, please stop by Zellers or Wal-Mart and pick
up two sets of twin bed sheets. Should you require extra linens during your
stay, coin-operated washers and dryers are available for patient use.
18. Administration is assuming responsibility for grounds keeping duties. If
an Administrator cannot be reached by calling the Administrative Offices, it
is suggested that you walk outside and listen for the sound of a lawn mower,
weed-whacker, etc.
19. All patients scheduled for a mammogram are to stop first at "Hooters"
for a preliminary check out. If you have any questions regarding these
cost-cutting measures, please drop a note in our " RECYCLE BOX" box.
Thank you for your cooperation.............................
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