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If Marie-France Larouche is skipping at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts, it's a safe bet she'll be playing after the round-robin is done.
As family ties go, it would be hard to top Kevin Folk's.
It was supposed to be another coronation for Rachel Homan at the 2012 Ontario women's curling championship in Kenora, but Tracy Horgan and her team from Sudbury had other ideas.
As the 2012 Tim Hortons Brier wore on in Saskatoon in early March, two storylines became apparent.
When two-time Scotties Tournament of Hearts champion Kelly Scott decided her team needed a shakeup prior to the 2009 season, she scoured the British Columbia curling scene looking for a replacement for her long-time lead Renee Simons.
Losing the final at the Manitoba men's championship to Rob Fowler was a crushing disappointment for Denni Neufeld and his teammates with the Mike McEwen squad from Winnipeg.
When Kaitlyn Lawes is on your curling team, good things tend to happen. The young vice-skip for Jennifer Jones' Winnipeg quartet has been piling up successes on the pebbled ice for a decade now, winning a closetful of provincial and Team Canada jackets dating back to her first provincial title in 2002 when she won the Manitoba 13-and-under title.
Based on the bloodlines alone, Dallan Muyres should enjoy a productive curling career.
For Andrew O'Dell, who curls out of the Capital Winter Club in Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2011 was a very good year.
When Rachel Homan's Ottawa curling team graduated from the junior ranks, it was on the lookout for an experienced lead who could immediately fit into the team dynamic.
Scott Seabrook clinched his third trip to the Tim Hortons Brier in grand style on February 11 in his home town of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
She just led Team Alberta to the gold medal at the M&M Meat Shops Canadian Junior Women's Curling Championship in Napanee – and that's no surprise when you look at Jocelyn Peterman's curling resume.
When it comes to colourful curling outfits, Laine Peters has a closet that might be the envy of curlers across the country. Her current cashspiel outfit as the lead for Heather Nedohin's Edmonton team features a shocking pink shirt and jacket emblazoned with various logos.
Carter Rycroft has never been one to seek the curling spotlight, but it always seems to find him because ever since he finished his junior career, he's played on some of the best curling teams on the planet.
Like so many accomplished junior curlers, Colin Thomas began his career thanks to the support of a curling family.


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Rated 4.2 out of 5 by 229 reviewers.
Rated 4 out of 5 by CountCurt No Surprises Just as noted. The room was pleasant and clean. Service as expected. Friendly front desk staff. Nicely equipped fitness center. Reasonably priced. March 18, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by sandibudd Great campus view Perfect for stay for SU game trip. Club level benefits are nice. Parking is convient. Would stay here again. Always impressed with SPG hotels. November 14, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by gail43 hotel is conveniently located Easy access to campus. We stayed on the club level. The staff went out of their way to make our stay comfortable. Fitness center is very clean February 12, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by kelsey78 Room The renovations to the room were excellent. The only suggestion we have is that the counter top in the bathroom should be raised higher. August 12, 2013
Rated 2 out of 5 by TheHarper Room Comfortable The constant running of the HVAC machine makes it extremely difficult to sleep. The mattress and sheets are also extremely comfortable. January 11, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by JT44 Great Stay Wonderful stay at this hotel. The room was quiet, clean and comfortable. The staff was helpful and friendly. Would stay there again. October 24, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by SUStudent Pinstripe Bowl It was nice to be able to come back to syracuse university after the bowl game in NYC and have a place to stay at 3AM in a storm. December 31, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5��by suparent1 SU Parent The Hotel just raised its points to 10,000 per night, however, nothing was upgraded or renovated in the hotel. Not worth it. May 6, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Melissa0988 Great Customer Service I am extremely pleased with the customer service in the club lounge! It is always well staffed, appointed and welcoming. May 2, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by ramos55 hotel has excellent staff and decor All personnel treated my family with great respect but my wife wasn't able to get a mother's day breakfast or brunch. May 14, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by diegofan448 Nice stay I enjoyed my stay at the Sheraton. The bed was very comfortable, the staff was nice and the location was perfect. August 16, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by momanddadof4 Super stay! The best place I have stayed in years. Even with four young children we were completely satisfied with everything. October 31, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Chama3075 Great service & amenities The hotel was very nice & the staff extremely helpful. Not thrilled with the quality of the food at the resturant. October 2, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 Lovely hotel We were in and out in 24 hours but have plans to visit syracuse for longer and will definately stay here again. November 19, 2012
Rated 1 out of 5 by JB1982 Horrible Toilet overflowed into room. We got a new room and the toilet still didn't work properly. Not worth the money. March 18, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 Happy with this hotel Location is very good for visiting Syracuse University and town. Friendly staff. Room and towel are clean. July 7, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Marce64 Very comfortable hotel in all aspects A very comfortable hotel, spacious rooms, very clean, friendly staff, in front of Syracuse University. April 28, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by M470 A very comfortable hotel! A great combination of service, comfort, location, and quality. Highly recommended when in Syracuse. January 9, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by joe31 Joe The room was ok--There were smokers on the floor and smell permeated the hotel hallway into my room February 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Charlie good place to stay It was the perfect to stay for the week long event I attended at the adjacent Syracuse University. May 20, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by marlin704 FG Great hotel! Great Location! Great personal service and recognition. The renovations are terrific. August 11, 2012
Rated 3 out of 5 by alltmd4 convenient to Syracuse U, but room rate too high for a weekday & breakfast not worth it. parking cost extra. pool was not clean July 8, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Henry1 Excellent Stay Was only there for one night but would recommend the hotel. Staff very friendly and accomodating. February 4, 2013
Rated 4 out of 5 by RedSoxFan They have recycle bins in rooms! This is the first hotel I've stayed at with recycle bins in the guest rooms. Bravo! Excellent! June 18, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by SFO123 GREAT PET POLICY WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HOTEL AND THEY ACCEPT PETS FOR FREE. THAT IS WONDERFUL AND VERY CONVENIENT. August 8, 2012
Rated 2 out of 5 by unman1234 room was disappointing The bed was lumpy, the sheets were starched so much, it was like sleeping in tinfoil. the sheets were loud and uncomfortable. The TV didn't work. the Free coffee downstairs in the lobby was no longer free, in fact it was more expensive than outside the hotel. The elevator was being upgraded on the single busiest day of the year (the hotel was sold out months in advance). They knew this, yet still had the elevator floor being replaced (new tile. really? this day?). the hotel bar has been renovated to look like a "lounge". This is a hotel ON CAMPUS, yet the previous bar decorations of the campus was removed and a lounge look as installed. It smells of corporate decision. 90% of the visitors are Syracuse University (SU) alumni or game visitors- why would they abandon the SU look? lastly, when I was checking out, I was asked how my visit was, I offered up the above complaints.... to no reaction. All that tells me is that she really didn't want to hear my complaint, wasn't interested in my feelings and had no control of any situation to correct. I come to this hotel once a year, every year for the last 6 years. I am an SPG member. very disappointed. we shall see how this review is responded to. February 14, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by drybones Great Stay Wonderful staff quiet floor and quiet room. Clean. Enjoyed our four nights. October 20, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by LisaD66 Perfect location for visiting Syracuse Univ. Great location for visiting Syracuse Univ. Parking was convenient. August 10, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by GMS82777 Great for SU Great to have a hotel like this right on campus. Enjoyed my stay! July 15, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by lutherII Judge This hotel was very clean and comfortable. Meals were wonderful.. September 17, 2012

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Date and Time: Rescheduled for fall 2014
Location: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
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Please join us as we bring together faculty and students from across RBHS and the greater Rutgers community to highlight some of the innovative and interdisciplinary outcomes research studies underway. The symposium will feature scientific presentations as well as opportunities to display posters. RBHS Chancellor Brian Strom MD will be a keynote speaker at this year's symposium.
Please email the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, or call 973-972-5455 for more information about the RBHS Research Symposium.


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I have been asked the following questions a lot of times or seen them posted on the Internet (with many variations of them)...
How do I unblock MySpace at work / school? How do I bypass my work / school Internet filter to unlock Facebook? How do I get YouTube at work / school? Help! They blocked Bebo at my work / school and I can't access it! What is a proxy and how do I use it to access MySpace at work / school? Do you have any really new proxies that are not blocked? This article and video tutorial will answer all of the above questions. I am sure there are many of you out there like myself that work or go to school at an establishment which implements an Internet filter. That filter blocks some of your favorite websites. Some of the more popular ones that it blocks are MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and Bebo. Through some diligence I have learned about methods of bypassing work and school filters. These methods revolve around proxy unblockers (aka "proxy", "proxies" and about 5 other names). I have learned how to create my own proxy unblockers and host them on the Internet so anyone can use the proxies to access their favorite sites at work or school. Eventually I became tired of creating new ones all the time because they all eventually get blocked so I created a proxy list. On that list I post fresh, new proxies everyday from various proxy webmasters around the net. I have also created a couple of Google and Yahoo group newsletters that are emailed once or twice a week which give you the latest proxy unblockers. Some of you may ask, "What is a proxy unblocker?" A proxy unblocker is a website that acts as a secret gateway to the Internet. This gateway allows you to access almost the entire Internet filter-free at work or school. I say, "almost" because the vast majority of proxies do not allow you to access email sites like Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail.
The following Bypassing Work and School Filters video tutorial will guide you through the following steps… 1. You will be taken to a website which contains a Proxy List page that is updated daily with fresh, new proxies 2. An explanation and example will be given on how-to use proxy websites 3. In case the Proxy List page is ever blocked you will learn about alternate methods of obtaining fresh, new proxies every week via Google and Yahoo "Groups" 4. You will learn what Google and Yahoo "Group" are and how to join these email Groups for free The website and email groups linked below were the ones used in the video tutorial. You are welcome to join our Google or Yahoo Email groups for free! Daily Updated, Proxy List page ClearTechInfo Google Email Group ClearTechInfo Yahoo Email Group
rogerpenskefan12 replied on Permalink
i clicked on unblockers but the thing that u copy with shows up. im talking about the "I" that appears when u want 2 copy
Joey replied on Permalink
You clicked on the
You clicked on the unblockers, so I assume you went to this page? http://www.genxyz.net/u
Then you highlighted the unblocker site(s) and attempt to Copy them but could not?
Guest replied on Permalink
The "I"
The "I" that he is talking about is the one that blinks on and off.
it does not show up when he wants to copy.
he could try to use the mouse's pointer like a courser and try to click and drag may get the highlight affect.
once highlighted you could right click (the button you never use on the mouse)
right click when you got the pointer over the highlighted letters.
1. click and drag to highlight.
2. move pointer over highlighted address.
3. right click.
4. select copy.
5. I bet you will get that blinking "I" on the address bar so
so you should be used to that process as usual.
Joey replied on Permalink
Thanks for your answer :-)
Thanks for your answer :-)
Guest replied on Permalink
But the proxy sites you posted are still blocked by school filters
Joey replied on Permalink
ClearTechInfo Proxy Email Group
Join the ClearTechInfo Google Email Group. They get sent out the proxies ahead of time so you get to use them first. The email group also gets some proxies that are not posted on the site.
Click below to join the ClearTechInfo Google Email Group
rogerpenskefan12 replied on Permalink
proxies blocked!!
is there other proxies cuz the one u used is blocked!!!!!i think thers othersky
Joey replied on Permalink
Newest this week
Here are some new ones...
https://www.guardtunnel.com )
Joey replied on Permalink
New Proxies - 07/08/09
COPY and PASTE each one into your browser.
c-tunnel replied on Permalink
Since proxies always get
Since proxies always get blocked your best bet is to join a yahoo group like the Unblock Myspace Group:
You'll get a few new proxy links everyday via email.
=-Hope this helps ya!!


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Yesterday I had a long email exchange with Madeline Fletcher, the Consulting Director for the Newburgh Community Land Bank, covering various topics including the issue of conflicts of interest. I had asked her if anyone had ever covered Karen Mejia's situation since she serves as a councilperson but she also has a part-time job with the Greater Newburgh Partnership and sits on the Newburgh Community Landbank as the council's representative. Ms. Fletcher was not immediately aware of anything.
I decided to contact the NYS Comptroller's Office to see if they could help, and, as it turned out, they could. Brian Butry from the press office cited these two passages from NYS code :
Not-for-Profit Corp Law § 1605. Board of directors.
(c) Any public officer shall be eligible to serve as a board member
and the acceptance of the appointment shall neither terminate nor impair
such public office. For purposes of this section, "public officer" shall
mean a person who is elected to a municipal office. Any municipal
employee or appointed officer shall be eligible to serve as a board
GML § 802. Exceptions. The provisions of section eight hundred one of this
chapter shall not apply to:
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f. A contract with a membership corporation or other voluntary
non-profit corporation or association including, but not limited to,
rural electric cooperatives….
In other words, from the first passage Ms. Mejia is eligible to serve on the landbank board even though she is a councilperson, and from the second passage, the "exception" it is referring to is conflict of interests enumerated in the previous passage, therefore, since the Greater Newburgh Partnership is a non-profit corporation it is exempt from the conflict of interest problems.


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Mark Shurtleff has heavily promoted the Utah attorney general's office's aggressive online presence in the fight against Internet-based crime. But the ambitious Republican politician found out Tuesday his enthusiastic deployment of technology can backfire.
Shurtleff tweeted himself in the foot.
What he thought were direct, private messages to a campaign insider instead went to his public Twitter.com profile. He spilled his plans to raise $2 million to challenge Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, in the 2010 election.
Shurtleff's social-networking pratfall isn't unique. Other politicians, celebrities, top business people and many regular users of the microblogging service have "mistweeted." But this probably is the first time a serious planned U.S. Senate campaign has been blown open on Twitter by the candidate himself.
I'm guessing Bennett doesn't tweet. For one thing, he hasn't ever needed to use guerrilla tactics to win. He's been able to mail in his re-election campaigns in safely GOP Utah. He's the "Oh, yeah, he's the other senator" vanilla sidekick to the publicity hound Sen. Orrin Hatch.
Shurtleff must be hoping to tap the populist sentiment arising from the economic collapse and the ever-sorrier image of Congress and all of its incumbents. But maybe he should hire a savvy social-networking campaign aide to keep him out of further Twitter troubles.


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I sent this letter to the Commercial Appeal concerning their ban and the recent armed car jacking. If they publish it, I will be surprised. The main reason to send it is that I put it out in front of the public that there are people who are willing to stop doing business with them because of their decision. You know the mall would rather such publicity just die out as it is not positive. The more we run that up the flag pole so to speak for all to see the more attention the mall management has to pay to it. They are not going to air their dirty laundry, so we have to air it for them. People have to know that bans and signs do NOT make their visits to the mall safe.
So here is my letter to the editor of the Commercial Appeal. I have already received an email confirming they received it, now I just wonder if they will publish it.
Sam Cooper
Memphis Tennessee
Your paper reported on a carjacking at gunpoint by two persons in the Wolfchase Galleria mall Thursday.
What should be noted is that Wolfchase mall bans the carrying of weapons on their property and this ban is posted on signage at the entrances to the mall and their parking lots. This event is proof positive that criminals are not detered by bans such as this. These bans only serve to prevent law abiding citizens the ability to provide for their own protection as it is obvious that mall security and the police can not be everywhere all the time.
Bans such as these and postings only advertise to criminals such as this that at this location they will have a very low chance of encountering a victim who is capable of defending themselves.
By posting this ban, the sense of security that people may feel because they think they are entering a gun free zone is totally false as proven here. How safe do you think this lady will feel about entering this property again?
A search of various crime tracking data bases on line shows in the last 12 months, at the address of Wolfchase mall there have been 27 assaults, 2 agravated assaults, 10 cases of intimidation, 4 individual robberies, 62 thefts from motor vehicles, 24 thefts of vehicle parts and accessories among many other crimes listed in other catagories.
We all remember the fate of the Mall of Memphis. High crime resulted in it being tagged the "Mall of Murder" and it had a very short life eventually being closed and torn down. Crime is going to follow the money and this event is proof positive of that and their posting will do nothing to slow it down.


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The legal war is on between Pennsylvania and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body of college athletics, over Penn State's fine in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case.
Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is suddenly in the middle of the skirmish. He was named by the NCAA in its suit against the commonwealth.
To recap:
- The NCAA hit Penn State with a $60 million fine and other sanctions.
- The state legislature passed a bill, and Governor Tom Corbett signed into law, a measure mandating that the $60 million be used in Pennsylvania.
- The NCAA called that law unconstitutional and sued the governor, treasurer and auditor general.
Basically, the NCAA says Pennsylvania doesn't have the power to pass laws thwarting NCAA jurisdiction. DePasquale says it can, it has, and for now the cash is staying in the commonwealth.
"If the court says the legislature and the governor had no right to do that, we would deal with that at that point, but right now we have a law on the books," DePasquale said.
Interestingly, DePasquale played baseball in college. He was a student-athlete. He concedes that if every school that gets fined by the NCAA had its lawmakers pass laws to keep the money in the home state, it would be chaos.
Speaking after a noon-time appearance at the Pennsylvania Press Club, DePasquale seemed to acknowledge that the law may be on shaky ground, but he also stressed that the NCAA made several missteps in the Sandusky case that forced the hand of the legislature and the governor.
"On this whole issue, you have to start at the beginning, how did we get to this point in the first place, and that was by an NCAA investigation that never really happened," DePasquale said. "They simply took the Freeh Report and levied sanctions. There should have been a more deliberative process by the NCAA."
It's now up to a court to decide and DePasquale will carry out the wishes of the legal system, but he wishes it didn't come to that.
"I think it makes sense across the board for everybody to take a deep breath and try to figure out how we got here and how we fix the problem moving forward as opposed to just try to figure out whose lawyers are better than whose," he said.
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CATEGORIES Horror, Deals, RumorMonger, Celebrities and Controversy, Fox Atomic, Movies, CinematicalThe horror debate has been simmering for a while now, not just between movie bloggers and fans, but amongst bigger names in the biz. Earlier this month, Joe Carnahan threw up a big ol' rant about torture porn on his website. Then Stephen King added his two cents to the discussion, and said of a BTK Killer film*: "It makes me feel creepy just to think about it. It's almost like exploiting murder for the sake of murder." Finally, the other day, Ryan posted about Eli Roth's MySpace rant that R-rated horror was in danger. Now the simmer is becoming a full-fledged boil, and we've got news about the increasing backlash.
First, the Hills Have Eyes' studio Fox Atomic is apparently taking a step back from the horror biz. B-D says that the only horror flick that is currently being made by the company is a PG-13 remake of The Entity -- an interesting choice for youth-friendly fare, as it's a supposed-to-be-true story about a woman tormented and sexually molested by an invisible demon. BD speculates that no one should hold their breath to see the next 28 Days Later installment, which was planned to work up to 28 Years Later.
But that's not all: B-D also points to a recent chat between MTV and Brittany Snow, the Hairspray actress who just shot a remake to Prom Night -- or rather, a re-invention: "It's just taking the same name as Prom Night the original, but it's a different script. It's actually more in the vein of Fear, with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg." Yeah, yeah. But here is the kicker: "It's more of a thriller. There's no blood, guts or gore." On the one hand, I could ask why they'd bother to refer to it as a remake of the 80's slasher film, when there's no blood and an entirely different script. On the other -- is this backlash going overboard? And what does this mean? Will the victims fall all old-school cowboy style, with a grimace and an exaggerated collapse?
I'm all for a radical shakeup and rethinking of horror -- in a way where women aren't tortured captives, and with blood and guts that's a little more subdued. Or heck, revive the heyday of fake blood and guts. Instead of insisting everything looks completely real, there's something fun about the Kill Bill 'geysers of blood' style of gore.
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here is another video of the year in review 2006 for federal forces and army operations.
here is another video of the year in review 2006 for federal forces and army operations.
[*******#0033ff]30 Nov 2006][/COLOR] /АRMS-ТАSS/A Mi-17 helicopter pilot training center outfitted with Russian-made unique equipment opens in Mexico on November 28.The Centre providing the personal training of pilots with training results being entered into a computer has been created in especially built premises in the territory of a Mexico AF base, Veracrus state, on the shore of the Mexican gulf.Speaking at a ceremony arranged on the occasion, Navy minister vice-admiral Marco Antonio Peirot Gonsales highly appreciated the new training centre having all conditions necessary to ensure integral training of personnel. Under a contract with Rosoboronexport, St. Petersburg-based aircraft repair plant 'Spark' carries out repair and maintenance of Russian-built helicopters.Minewhile, on November 28 there was held a parade of Mexican Navy units with the involvement of Russian- made helicopters. At present Mexico has about 60 such aircraft in service.
Can any one confirm this info about the plant in mexico that will repair the Mi-17s.
This is great, great, news. It can even serve to train south american pilots.
Russian technicians that train personnel of the Mexican Air Force.
i like the commitment to the Mi-17 and Russian vehicles, making the acquisition of the SU27/30 that more plausible.
here is a link to a very recent article about the Mi17 in service and also a reference to the Su27 negotiations
Great news.I hope Colombian Mi-17 pilots take advantage of what our Mexican brothers have in the unique training facility.
Any of you guys has the video or picture of the oficial photo of the Chivas team with mx army troops?
These are the photos I have found so far.
Gunmen ambush soldiers: One dies, another hurt
By MIGUEL TIMOSHENKOV, LAREDO MORNING TIMES
NUEVO LAREDO – Unknown attackers ambushed two officers in the Mexican Army Intelligence Service in the southwest part of the city, killing a captain and injuring a colonel, officials said Thursday.The attack occurred near 7 p.m. Wednesday night as the two Army officers were driving on the highway to the airport near its intersection with Avenida Dr. Mier.
Civil authorities identified the deceased as Capt. Agustín Moisés Salazar, but did not give the officer's hometown. Meanwhile, the injured colonel was taken to a military hospital in Mexico City. His name was not released.
A rare official report of the attack came from Nuevo Laredo city police, who responded to the initial call about reports of gunfire in the area. Officers said they arrived to find a Ford Explorer with Veracruz license plates crashed into the fence of a school building.
Inside, according to the police report, officers found the two soldiers. The driver was dead, and his injured passenger was in the front seat next to him.
The injured soldier asked police officers for help, asking them to call for reinforcements from the regiment stationed at the Army fort in Nuevo Laredo, according to the report.
Once they were told about the attack, Army officers and soldiers in three Hummers promptly arrived and cordoned off the area, gave emergency treatment to the colonel and took over the investigation. They also attended to the slain officer.
"Our police officers arrived at the scene, but didn't touch anything. They only provided assistance and asked for reinforcements," said one city police official.
In the city police report, officers said they saw official documents and tags inside the vehicle, as well as weapons, a radio and other equipment. There were also numerous spent .223-caliber shells scattered around the area; that's the ammunition that is usually used in semi-automatic and automatic weapons.
Federal preventive police officials said they were told about the attack, and said the Army is investigating.
"They have the case, but we can assist them," the official said.
No one ventured a guess about the possible motive for the attack, but soldiers have been in the area as part of the federal government's efforts to battle drug trafficking. Army helicopters have been seen patrolling Nuevo Laredo skies in recent days.
Neighbors in the ambush area, who did not want to give their names, said they heard the report of machine guns and then the screech of tires on the pavement as vehicles sped away.
Not everyone thought it was gunfire.
"We just heard loud bangs and then someone taking off," said one boy. "We thought they were firecrackers."
Groups from the Special Forces Battalions arrive in search of the aggressors.
Llegan BFEs a Nuevo Laredo
Nora Morales Morales
Luego de la emboscada a dos militares, donde uno murió y otro fue herido, en la noche del pasado miércoles, elementos de los Batallones de Fuerzas Especiales, implementaron operativos en esta ciudad.
En caravanas de 10 a 15 unidades, entre camionetas y hummers, los soldados prácticamente tomaron las calles de esta ciudad fronteriza, realizando rondines por diferentes rumbos, así lo ha revelado la propia ciudadanía comunicándose a este vespertino.
En cada vehículo viajan por lo menos de 4 a 8 elementos de las fuerzas armadas. Fue el jueves cuando llegaron los elementos de las fuerzas especiales para apoyar el operativo, en busca de los responsables de la emboscada a dos militares, un capitán y un coronel, del Ejército Mexicano
Este vespertino, observó parte este operativo en la colonia Hipódromo, en el crucero de Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez y Coahuila, donde cerraron la circulación para revisar a algunas personas y vehículos, cabe decir, que no hubo detenidos.
De ahí siguieron su marcha hacia el poniente de la ciudad, desconociéndose los lugares donde aplicaron los retenes, y dado el hermetismo con el que opera las fuerzas armadas de la milicia, se desconocen los resultados de los demás operativos realizados durante el día de ayer.
the attack happened on boulevard colosio which leads to the airport , its a sp****ly populated area so i am not surprised that no one heard anything , the army presence is being concentrated in the southern part of town , primarily in colonia infonavit, hipodromo, and maestro.
You should take a couple of pictures of the special forces tuercas.


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Wordless Wednesday: Burning bush
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- October 3, 2012 at 7:08 am
I miss those! We used to have one in our front yard! What I don't miss is that I would usually get about 3 days of looking at the beautiful color before a wind/rain storm would come along and blow all the leaves off.
- October 3, 2012 at 7:11 am
Gorgeous! Oh how I love the colors of autumn — my favorite season.
- October 3, 2012 at 7:58 am
I love those!!
- October 3, 2012 at 8:59 am
Great photo. Those bushes are so beautiful!
Where is the "Like" button when you need it?
- October 3, 2012 at 9:59 am
Oh that is so stunning! Really, really lovely.
- October 3, 2012 at 1:42 pm
So aptly named!
- October 3, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Gorgeous, though I thought I'd see something much more naughty when I saw the title before I clicked over…
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Yummy food for your brood
Dec 13, 2013
Easy, Kid-Friendly Christmas Cookie Recipes
You've got to leave some snacks for Santa as he makes his long journey, so fill his plate with these delectable holiday treats!
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Marshmallow Snowmen
These no-bake treats are fun to make! Use caramel as the glue between large marshmallows. Add pretzel rods for arms – and candy for the mouth and eyes. That's all you need to do to create these marshmallow snowmen from Better Homes and Gardens.


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An African cinema history lesson happening at MoMA, here in NYC, today, and again on Wednesday... the kind you probably won't learn in film school; I didn't see or hear the name Jean Rouch (the French expatriate filmmaker) until I picked up a copy of Manthia Diawara's African Cinema: Politics and Culture (which I strongly recommend), and that wasn't so long ago. I'm still learning... Here's the program description:
A program of rarely screened ethnographic films that Jean Rouch recorded in the West African countries of Mali and Niger, preserved by the Archives françaises du film du CNC, Bois d'Arcy. Rouch (1917–2004) radically transformed nonfiction cinema and anthropology. His more than 100 films shattered any quaint notions of objectivity or unmediated, singular truth, irrespective of whether his subjects were the cultures, ceremonies, rituals, attitudes, music, and magic-making of the Songhay tribe of the upper Niger or those of his fellow Parisians. Even today, Rouch's films remain provocative and controversial in their interrogations of racism, colonialism, self-portraiture, the imaginary and the unreal, improvisation, the aura of the camera (what he called the "ciné-trance"), and the condition of observing and being observed.
The series includes the following films:
In the Land of the Black Magi - 1946–47. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. Rouch's earliest surviving film, which depicts the Sorko of Niger on a hippopotamus hunt. 12 min.
Initiation into Possession Dance - 1948. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. Ritual possession dances among the Songhay of Firgoun, Niger. 22 min.
The Magicians of Wanzerbé - 1948. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. "Screened at the first ethnographic film conference of the Musée de l'Homme, [this film] depicts rituals of Songhay magicians who are descendants of Emperor Sonny Ali from the village of Wanzerbé, Niger, [including scenes of] the Wanzerbé market, children's games, Mossi the magician, dance of the magicians, and sacrifice made to the village mountain spirit" (Rouch). 29 min.
Cemetery in the Cliff - 1950. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. Rouch records funeral rituals among the Dogon on the cliffs of Bandiagara, Mali, centering on a sacrifice to the spirit of the water, the return of the cadaver, and the interment of the body in the cemetery. 18 min.
The Men Who Make the Rain - 1951. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. "Rain rituals with possession dances among the Songhay and Zarma of Simiri, Zermaganda, Niger" (Rouch). The spirits speak through the voices of the dancers they have chosen, including the spirit of the wind, goddess of the cemeteries, the rainbow, master of the lightning, master of the thunderbolt, and master of the thunder and the rain. 28 min.
Today's screenings are already underway (sorry, I should have announced this earlier - they started at 1:30pm EST); but you'll get a second chance on Wednesday, October 26, at 4pm. I plan to attend then.
Ticket and other info HERE.
I couldn't find much of his work translated to, or subtitled in English, but here's a tiny sample:
Josh Siegel | October 23, 2011 6:41 AM
thanks for the post! We're also showing rare Jean Rouch films about architecture tomorrow at 4pm:
Architectes Ayorou
1971. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. "For several years, the young people of these villages in western Niger have constructed a new habitat on the island, appealing to mutual aid: they employ ancient techniques of banco masonry and waterproof coatings, while they are inspired by the architecture of the modern cities" (Rouch). 29 min.
Homage à Marcel Mauss: Germaine Dieterlen
1977. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. "Dieterlen recalls the façade of the paintings on the Songo sheds that display the grand myths of the creation of the world among the Dogon. Then, in the refuge cave where the first inhabitants of the village of Bongo established themselves, she provokes a discussion on the architectural remains of ancient human establishments" (Rouch). 20 min.
Ispahan: letter persane (La Mosqueé du Chah à Ispahan) (Ispahan: A Persian Letter [The Chah Mosque at Ispahan])
1977. France. Directed by Jean Rouch. "A ciné-portrait of Iranian filmmaker Farrkh Gaffary, who discusses the dynamic architecture of the Chah mosque and the ambiguous rapport of Islam with filmic representation, with sex, and with death" (Rouch). 35 min.


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It seems Boston is the front runner for lee, and kirk is headed back to Chicago. Do we try Shannon Brown as a option? He played combo guard in LA and played limited minutes in Phoenix. Can known down the 3 and highlight finishes when driving the lane but are Mason, Martin, Evans more reasonable?
He doesn't take away a lot of minutes from Crawford and Beal if he can play back to wall a little. He averaged 23 minutes per game last year but had a long stretch where he played limited minutes if not at all.
Yay or Nay?


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EDTA Chelation Therapy
EDTA (EthyleneDiamineTetraAcetic Acid) is a
synthetic amino acid related to vinegar. EDTA was developed by
the Germans in 1931 to reverse heavy-metal poisoning from the
ingestion of lead, mercury, aluminum, cadmium, and more.
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This page contains several different articles about
the effectiveness of EDTA Chelation Therapy for cardiovascular
disease. Click the headings below to jump directly to these
You can order EDTA Oral Chelation Powder from the
NaturoDoc Store.
Benefits and Uses
EDTA Oral Chelation: Four Reasons to Consider
Excerpts from Chelation Can Cure by Dr. E.W.
Chelation Therapy and High Blood Pressure
"The $35 Billion Boondoggle," a review
of the book Heart Frauds in the Townsend Letter for Doctors
It removes the effects of a heart attack.
It removes or reduces angina pectoris -- chest
It removes or reduces cardiac stress intolerance.
It reduces shortness of breath in coronary artery
It can bring back the elderly from senility, and
improve memory and reduce the incidence of Pick's Atrophy and
Alzheimer's disease.
It reduces blood pressure in about 60% of high
blood pressure patients.
It can eliminate intermittent claudication (leg
cramps and leg pain and numbness due to poor circulation).
It can reverse diabetic gangrene. It can
restore impaired vision, particularly in the diabetic whose
suffering from macular degeneration.
It improves memory, can prevent the deposition of
cholesterol in the liver, it reduces blood cholesterol levels, it
reverses toxic effects from digitalis excess.
It can convert and normalize 50% of irregular
heart rhythms. Chelation reduces or relaxes excessive heart
contraction. It reduces heart irritability and increases
potassium within the cells of your body.
Chelation removes lead and cadmium and other heavy
metals from the body.
It removes calcium from arteriosclerotic plaque.
It dissolves kidney stones, reduces serum iron and protects
against iron poisoning and iron storage disease of the liver.
Chelation reduces heart valve calcification,
improves heart function and detoxifies several snake and spider
venoms. It reduces dark pigmentation associated with
varicose veins.
It heals calcified necrotic ulcers. It can
improve the vision in diabetic retinopathy. It dissolves
small cataracts. It makes arterial walls more flexible.
It helps to prevent and reduce osteoarthritis.
It reduces and alleviates the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
Chelation helps to smooth skin wrinkles, lowers insulin
requirements for diabetics. It even dissolves large and
small clots or thrombii.
It can reduce or reverse the effect of a stroke,
particularly after the stroke, but even as late as two years
following a stroke. It can reduce the effects of
scleroderma. It reduces the need for bypass surgical
procedures. EDTA can greatly reduce the need for lower
extremity amputations.
Grants and aid for research on EDTA chelation
therapy have been given by:
The National Institutes of Health
The U.S. Public Health Service
The National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic
The University of California
The American Cancer Society
The Charles S. Hayden Foundation
The Oscar Meyer Foundation
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
The John H. Hartford Foundation Providence
Hospital Research Department
The U.S. Public Health Department -- Division of
General Medical Sciences
The Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Foundation
A search through the medical literature of the past
will turn up no less than 1,554 mentions of chelation therapy.
Chelation therapy is not a new treatment -- it is one of the best
guarded secrets that is known for health improvement.
Chelation therapy will remove excessive levels of 13
minerals from your body -- lead, mercury, nickel, cadmium, and
aluminum -- all toxic minerals. It also will remove some good
minerals from your body as well -- such as chromium, copper, iron,
magnesium, manganese, and calcium. It is important to take
mineral supplements to counteract this while on chelation therapy.
What happens if you take chelation therapy for
several months and your chest pain disappears, you're able to walk
up a mountain, you feel wonderful and have thrown your
nitroglycerine tablets away, and as far as you're concerned, you're
cured? What will happen to you? If you do nothing after
chelation therapy, surely and slowly your disease process will
return upon you.
Chelation therapy is not a cure. It backs out
disease very well, opens blocked blood vessels, and restores
circulation, but it is not a cure. If you do not pay attention
to diet, if you don't stop smoking, if you don't take the proper
nutritional supplements, if you don't exercise regularly, if you
don't make those very important basic changes which control the
disease, then surely the disease process will settle back in upon
you at some point in the future.
It is believed that in addition to following good
diet and exercise, taking supplements, and not smoking, you should
be taking additional maintenance doses of EDTA on a continual basis.
Oral Chelation
Four Reasons to Consider It
EDTA Oral Chelation has a rejuvenating effect on the
body, slowing down the biological clock of aging because of its
powerful anti-oxidant, free-radical scavenging ability. EDTA
is a weak, synthetic amino acid related to vinegar that was
developed by the Germans in 1931 as a solution for heavy-metal
poisoning (due to the ingestion of lead, mercury, aluminum, cadmium,
etc.). It also has been found to have a wide range of positive
results in many other health conditions.
1. Cardiovascular disease is today's number
one killer. EDTA can be the solution to many people's health
problems, because it cleans out the cardiovascular system not only
of heavy metals, but also of the plaque and calcium that restricts
and impedes the flow of blood and oxygen to the organs and
extremities. In an 18-year study, Dr. Walter Blumer of
Switzerland used EDTA to reduce the incidence of heart disease and
cancer in his patients by 80 percent.
2. EDTA offers a solution for reversing
osteoporosis or bone loss. Through a complex action of the
parathyroid gland, EDTA actually stimulates bone growth. Thus,
while it's removing calcium from plaque in blood vessels, EDTA has
the ability to make bones stronger and denser. Women have
reported the reversal of bone loss in as little as two months using
EDTA Oral Chelation.
3. Persons having diabetes can benefit from
EDTA Oral Chelation. It has produced great results in diabetic
retinopathy, macular degeneration, cataracts, floaters, and
preventing diabetic gangrene by restoring blood flow and circulation
to the body extremities and appendages.
4. If you or someone you know is on any kind
of blood thinner, be aware that people can get off these drugs with
the use of EDTA Oral Chelation. A 31-page supplement published
in the British medical journal Lancet in November 1996 pointed out
that common anti-clotting drugs such as aspirin and coumadin are
effective against only one-third of the cases of excessive platelet
aggregation and coagulation. None of them gets at the whole
problem. EDTA, on the other hand, appears to work against all
clotting mechanisms, acting as a preventative in keeping the blood
sufficiently thin so that one does not fall victim to heart attack
and stroke.
Chelation Can Cure
By Dr. E.W. McDonagh
Ethylene Diamine Tetra-acetic Acid (EDTA) is a
non-toxic amino acid that was synthesized in Germany in 1931.
It was designed to treat patients who were severely lead-poisoned.
Prior to its development, little could be done for these unfortunate
people. They died because of the tremendous toxic effect of
lead on the brain, nervous system, and other major organs.
Chemists in the food processing industry are quite
familiar with chelation chemistry and EDTA. The research
literature contains more than 3,000 reference papers concerning
EDTA. EDTA is used as a preservative in countless foodstuffs
-- canned, bottled, and dry-packed.
The chemistry of blood banking is another source of
EDTA information. The substance is used in the performance of
many blood tests. Small amounts of EDTA are added to banked
blood to prevent blood cells from breaking down.
EDTA is known to be a calcium-blocking agent and a
potent coronary vasodilator. In other words, EDTA can bind or
chelate calcium, as well as other minerals in the body. It
removes calcium particles deposited in arterial wall plaques and
atheromas. In addition, EDTA blocks the slow calcium currents
in the arterial wall, resulting in arterial vasodilation.
Probably the major underlying condition leading to
cardiovascular disease is atherosclerosis, also known as hardening
of the arteries. In time, this degenerative disease can narrow
or block arteries in the heart, brain, and other parts of the body.
It may begin early in life. The linings of the arteries become
thickened and roughened by deposits of fat, cholesterol, fibrin (a
clotting material), cellular debris, and calcium.
As this buildup on the inner walls becomes hard and
thick, arteries lose their ability to expand and contract. The
blood moves with difficulty through the narrowed artery channels.
This makes it easier for a clot to form that will block the channel
(lumen) and deprive the heart, brain, and other organs of the
necessary blood supply. In such a situation, how can dilator
drugs possibly be effective?
When a complete blockage occurs in a vessel to the
brain, the result may be a cerebral thrombosis, a form of stroke.
Based on what is known, scientists acknowledge the relationship
between the amount of cholesterol and saturated fats in the
bloodstream, and coronary artery disease -- a blockage of the
arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle itself.
To review precisely what chelation is, consider the
following: the electromagnetic attraction of fats and proteins for
divalent calcium that has wandered through the injuries in blood
vessel walls is the same process that enables EDTA to remove calcium
and fat from the plaque that occludes the vessel. A study of
over six hundred human aortas has demonstrated alterations in the
elastic tissue with accumulations of calcium prior to the deposition
of fat and cholesterol. (Blumenthal, 1944).
Calcium has two positive charges which are called
valences. Hence, calcium is divalent. Calcium is
strongly attracted electromagnetically by the open-ended molecular
structure of EDTA that is circulating in the blood during the
chelation treatment. This results in the calcium ion being
incorporated into the EDTA molecular structure, forming a closed
ring. When this process takes place, the metal is said to be
chelated, and EDTA is termed the chelating agent.
When calcium (or other divalent metals such as lead,
mercury, cadmium, aluminum, etc.) is chelated by EDTA, the original
electromagnetic attraction is lost, and the fatty debris is
dissolved by circulating blood and metabolized. The
calcium-EDTA molecule, now inactive and non-toxic, is carried by the
blood until it passes through the kidneys. It then is removed
from the body via the urine.
The solid sticky plaque goes into solution and is
harmlessly removed. By this unique mechanism, dangerous solids
are converted to a liquid, then transported away to be eliminated.
This is a natural, normal phenomenon of body chemistry.
Norman E. Clarke, Sr., M.D., a cardiologist at
Providence Hospital in Detroit, was the first American to discover
the many beneficial effects of EDTA chelation. When he treated
battery factory workers for lead poisoning, they reported relief of
their symptoms of chest pain (angina), arthritis, intermittent
claudication (severe leg pain due to plugged arteries in the legs),
as well as their symptoms of lead poisoning.
Dr. Clarke, now in his eighties and very active in
practice and on the lecture circuit, is recognized as a chelation
pioneer in the Soviet Union. The Russians use chelation
therapy as the second most common treatment for arteriosclerotic
artery disease. It is also the preferred method of treatment
in Czechoslovakia. EDTA chelation is administered with great
success for blood vessel disease, stroke, senility, diabetes, kidney
diseases, and other degenerative diseases in Germany, Switzerland,
Mexico, and Canada, to name just a few countries.
Therapy and
High Blood Pressure
People with greatly elevated blood pressure commonly
have symptoms of dizziness, shortness of breath, headache, and
blurred vision. In mild to moderate blood pressure elevation,
there may be no symptoms. The diastolic or resting heart
pressure is the second number of the blood pressure reading.
In younger patients with diastolic pressures of 110 millimeters of
mercury or higher, headaches in the morning are common.
Breathlessness produced by easy effort, such as slow
walking, is common. The patient may notice pulsation of neck
veins, which may also be swollen and distended. A clicking or
roaring or ringing in the ears is a frequent finding.
High blood pressure patients commonly complain of
frequent need to urinate after they have gone to bed for the night,
even though kidney function may be normal. Hypertension
commonly occurs as the result of local ischemia (loss of oxygen
carried by the blood) which has resulted from atheromatous narrowing
(occlusion) of an artery in the brain, heart, or lower limbs.
As the pressure continues its abnormal rise, death
or damage to the heart, brain, or kidneys is likely. The heart
will enlarge, kidneys begin to fail, and uremia is present.
Stroke is common.
These patients commonly range in age from forty to
seventy. Their blood pressure is above 110 millimeters mercury
diastolic. Systolic pressures (the first number of the blood
pressure reading) range from 130 to 170 or more. In a
35-year-old man with a normal blood pressure of 120/80, the risk of
death over the next twenty years would double if his pressure were
142/90. That risk increases 2.2 times at 142/95. At
152/95, the twenty year mortality risk is 2.5 times. LDL
cholesterol is directly and independently associated with
cardiovascular risks. HDL cholesterol, on the other hand,
appears to offer protection.
Aerobic exercise, liver function, and
supplementation with digestive enzymes and selected amino acids can
enable the patient to favorably adjust the HDL/LDL ratio, and hence
reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
In addition to selenium deficiencies, these patients
usually have reduced magnesium and potassium. Protein and
microscopic bleeding are commonly found in the urine. Damage
to the retinal membranes of the eye results from leaking arterioles.
Flame hemorrhages, cotton wool exudates atrioventricular nicking,
and scaling of the arterioles can be seen on examination. As
blood pressure rises, the arterioles constrict and eventually give
way to the pressure. Leakage occurs and this seeing membrane
(retina) swells. Visual loss results.
Similar damage occurs in the brain. Patients
with abnormally high blood pressure and increasingly severe
headaches can progress eventually to impairment of brain function
and stupor. The brain swells as plasma leaks out from the
arterioles. Abrupt onset of neurological signs such as
numbness, nausea, vomiting, loss of muscle function in the face,
arm, or leg, followed by unconsciousness signifies the onset of
bleeding inside the skull. This is a stroke. EDTA
produces remarkably beneficial effects in the human body.
Every cell benefits. Results are seen first in the blood
vessels, notably the arteries.
Abnormal calcium is removed, and the occluded
(plugged-up) vessels are reopened. This effect is produced
only upon metastatic calcium (calcium found in areas where it should
not be), and not upon normal tissue calcium, as shown consistently
by the lack of development of osteoporosis or of increased dental
caries. Increased X-ray bone density is observed in cases of
osteoporosis after they have been treated with EDTA.
This process may go on for months and explain the
frequently described phenomena of continued clinical improvement
after chelation has ceased, such as improved joint function, because
arthritic joint deposits are decreased.
Some critics have complained that treatment with
EDTA is not "permanent." These uninformed experts would know, if
they had any experience with the treatment, that the results are
probably more permanent than any other vascular treatment utilized
in this country today. Once the occluding slag and sludge is
removed from the inside walls of the arteries, they can carry blood
efficiently once more and elasticity returns. In other words,
ischemic atherosclerosis is reversed.
Tissues, organs, and cells downstream of the
formerly plugged artery can now obtain the nutrients and oxygen that
were once denied. These cells which were once dormant, or
partially dormant, can now revive and carry on their normal
metabolic chemistry. Toxins and waste products that have not
been properly removed due to inadequate circulation are eliminated
as the perfusion normalizes.
EDTA chelation treatment can help patients with very
advanced chronic diseases and in the majority of cases bring the
patient back to normal functioning. The treatment can clean up
the blood vessels and organs of even the most severely ill patients,
and many times the patient can then be successfully treated with the
usual conventional treatments. Another common medical practice
in this country is that of treating patients only when they exhibit
symptoms of chronic illness. The rule seems to be, "If it ain't
broke, don't fix it," which is fine, as long as it's someone else's
health that needs to be "broken." How much better would it be if we
could spend more resources and attention on keeping people well,
rather than concentrating on trying to make people better after they
are sick. We should concentrate on health improvement and
Treatment with EDTA has many advantages that
conventional medicine can never offer. This treatment can:
Treat several areas of illness in the body at the
same time.
Be combined with drug, antibiotic or other therapy
to treat the disease conditions. The patient makes a faster
response, and can then be weaned from drug therapy.
Chelation and supplementation can complete the recovery.
Eliminate the need for hospitalization for most
chronically ill patients.
Greatly reduce the costs to patients for drugs.
Keep wellness (health) intact longer, once it has
been attained.
Greatly increase the effectiveness in the
treatment of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, gangrene, retinitis,
macular degeneration, kidney disease, and many other difficult
medical conditions.
Unlike intravenous chelation therapy, NaturoDoc's
EDTA powder is taken by mouth. A small one-ounce scoop comes
inside each bottle, and twice a day, morning and night, you place a
scoop of our oral EDTA underneath your tongue and hold it there for
a few minutes without swallowing to let it be absorbed through the
mucous membranes of the mouth. We recommend you just keep your
bottle of EDTA next to your toothbrush. A bottle lasts about a
month at this rate, after which you should stop and reevaluate
before possibly continuing for another month.
How does EDTA taste? Quite tolerable,
actually; it's somewhere between salty and sweet.
Oral EDTA should be taken away from meals so that
its action does not remove the beneficial nutrients in your food.
You should also supplement your diet with B vitamins and minerals
while taking EDTA.
The body absorbs about 50 percent of the oral EDTA,
and this sublingual (under the tongue) administration is much
quicker, easier, and cheaper than intravenous (IV) administration.
While the IV method does get 100 percent of the EDTA into your
bloodstream, it is much more costly, time-consuming, and requires a
medical technician and thus an office visit.
NaturoDoc's oral EDTA powder is the most
cost-effective, convenient way we have found to make the vast
benefits of chelation therapy available to all.
The $35 Billion Boondoggle
Reviewed by Irene Alleger
At a time when health care costs are threatening to
bankrupt the nation, too little attention has been paid to
procedures and treatments that have failed to show benefits, and not
surprisingly, are some of the costliest medical interventions
around. There is so much talk about unproven treatments and
quackery aimed at the alternative medical practices that few people
ever stop to question or investigate the efficacy, or even safety,
of high-tech medical procedures.
Even research that shows that over 80% of bypasses
and angiograms being recommended are not necessary has failed to
change the lucrative methodology of cardiologists. Since heart
disease accounts for a major portion of our health care dollars, it
is a perfect example of how vested interests manipulate the public
and bury any criticism of the methodology in the name of profit.
In Heart Frauds, Dr. Charles McGee documents
the statistics, studies, and hidden failures surrounding the
treatment of heart disease, particularly angiograms and bypass
surgery. Although one-third of the population now prefers some
alternative medical care, when it comes to heart attacks, the scare
tactics used to sell these procedures are almost foolproof.
Doctors tell the frightened heart attack patients they have a "widow
maker," referring to a blocked artery, or that they are living with
a "time bomb." Coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty are said to
be absolutely necessary to get them through the next few days alive.
Few people in this situation (usually drugged, as well) can mount an
intelligent argument against these "specialists."
If alternatives are discussed at all, such as the
recent publicized results of diet and lifestyle changes, they are
shrugged off by the cardiologist as too time-consuming, difficult to
comply with, and haven't really been proven to work.
Specialists, particularly, have made medicine into business, and in
business, as any American can tell you, it's only the bottom line
that counts.
Dr. McGee uses satire and humor in his presentation
of an appallingly unethical use of balloon angioplasty as "the
invasive cardiologist's claim to a lifestyle of the rich and
famous." Ironically, the bypass surgeons saw the cardiologists
using angioplasty as enemies initially (to their bank account), but
soon learned that there was a big enough pie for all to share.
As more angioplasties were performed, the number of Coronary Artery
Bypass Grafts (CABG), referred to routinely and affectionately as
cabbage, also increased.
"Surgical procedures on the heart resembled a
bottomless pit …. If more physicians begin to divide up a
medical pie, doctors can increase the size of the pie simply by
recommending more procedures." In 1990 cardiologists performed
about 285,000 balloon angioplasties, and cardiac surgeons cracked
380,000 chests. "It is not unusual to see patients who have
had 3 or 4 balloon procedures followed by a 'cabbage,' all within 4
or 5 months, and all failing to help."
Dr. McGee cites the studies done on these procedures
in detail, and it is clear that the public has been kept ion the
dark. In three major controlled studies, bypass surgery was
shown not to extend survival rates past 11 years, and that "early
surgery is unlikely to increase the prospect of survival."
In an editorial that accompanied one study, Eugene
Braunwald, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, pointed
out that an increasing number of patients were being operated upon,
not because of the presence of intractable angina, but because of
the hope, "largely without objective supporting evidence at present,
that coronary bypass surgery prolongs life."
He further stated that "this rapidly growing
enterprise is developing a momentum and constituency of its own, and
as time passes, it will be progressively more difficult and costly
to curtail it materially.…" He wrote, "I believe that this
operation should and increasingly will be restricted to patients in
whom intensive medical therapy has failed, or in whom improved
survival after surgery has been unambiguously demonstrated, rather
than as a panacea for coronary artery disease." These remarks were
made in 1977 and his fears that this "enterprise" would become more
difficult to curtail were fully realized in the decade following.
Although angiography and bypass surgery are the most
high-profile and costly abuses in the treatment of heart disease,
Dr. McGee shoots down the cholesterol theory, too, as another failed
approach to treating heart disease. The pharmaceutical drugs
to "treat" high cholesterol have not only failed to show efficacy,
but are known to be dangerous as well. Perhaps the worse
consequence of these hyped treatments is that patients do not get
better, as they might on the diet and lifestyle change programs.
The first half of Heart Frauds is a careful examination of
the rationale and results of this "standard of care," and Dr. McGee
has no problem documenting the failure of these treatments to
benefit heart patients.
Although it may take some time to dislodge the
"enterprise," in the second half of the book, ample evidence is
given of the alternative, non-invasive (and inexpensive) treatments
that have shown efficacy in the treatment of heart disease.
The diet and nutritional approach to treating coronary artery
disease is documented by many recent studies, especially Dr. Dean
Ornish's program, and Dr. McGee brings them all together, showing
the consistent success of this approach.
Interesting studies are cited showing the long-term
effects of the introduction of refined carbohydrates into our diet;
for instance, EDTA chelation therapy is given top billing as well
for its documented ability to reverse artery disease. An
important aspect of these approaches is that they prove that
coronary heart disease can be reversed, and that the body will heal
itself if we will do just two things: remove the things that make
us sick, and augment the things our bodies are lacking.
Nutrients are examined in detail, citing studies
that show the anti-oxidants, in particular, to be greatly preventive
of heart disease, and some of the more widely studies nutrients
associated with heart disease. Other risk factors, such as
lack of exercise and chlorinated water, are explored as well.
Dr. McGee speculates that the cholesterol theory is
so well established now (as part of the "enterprise") that it will
take time for the oxidative theory of the development of
atherosclerosis to replace it, despite the plethora of new studies
on anti-oxidants. However, as you may have noticed, change is
the watchword of the day; old institutions and old ideas are
changing rapidly at the end of this century, and especially in the
area of nutrition and lifestyle.
Heart Frauds is a well-documented expose' of
the waste of approximately $35 billion a year in the standard
treatment of heart disease, wasted because these approaches to
treating heart disease are not shown to be beneficial, yet take a
huge chunk out of the healthcare dollars. Dr. McGee
acknowledges that the basic problem is politics and commercial
interests -- putting profit ahead of the welfare of the patient.
Becoming informed, with the help of books like this one, is the
first step toward changing the standard of care, both for patients
and doctors alike.
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Associated Press - July 26, 2010 4:54 AM ET
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) - City leaders in Brandon are taking a gander at ways to manage a flock of more than 150 Canada geese that ties up traffic by crossing a heavily traveled road near Crossgates Lake.
Alderwoman Yvonne Bianchi says she's had calls saying traffic was backed up to U.S. 80,
She says the city is considering only humane, no-kill solutions. Last month, Ross Barnett Reservoir officials called off a plan to euthanize 150 Canada geese after public outcry.
Mayor Tim Coulter says it's a complicated issue - partly because the lake is on private property and partly because the birds can fly back.
He says they've considered putting out pellets that repel geese, and asking people not to feed the ducks and geese in certain places.
Information from: The Clarion-Ledger, http://www.clarionledger.com
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Flights from Malaysia Airports From Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo (KUL to HND)
Flights from Malaysia Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Kota Kinabalu to Tokyo (BKI to HND) From Penang to Tokyo (PEN to HND) From Langkawi to Tokyo (LGK to HND) From Kuching to Tokyo (KCH to HND) Flights from Indonesia Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Surabaya to Tokyo (SUB to HND) From Medan to Tokyo (KNO to HND) From Jakarta to Tokyo (CGK to HND) From Bali to Tokyo (DPS to HND) Flights from Thailand Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Phuket to Tokyo (HKT to HND) From Chiang Mai to Tokyo (CNX to HND)From Bangkok to Tokyo (BKK to HND) Flights from Singapore Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Singapore to Tokyo (SIN to HND) Flights from Cambodia Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Phnom Penh to Tokyo (PNH to HND) Flights from Australia Airports (via Kuala Lumpur) From Melbourne to Tokyo (MEL to HND)
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Checked baggage is excluded in these online fares, but may be added for a fee. Please ensure you read the important fees & charges info for our low cost flights. Advanced bookings are recommended for best availability of cheap flight tickets. Fares are subject to change.
• 通過信用卡、借記卡或簽賬卡付款需支付處理費,該費用將無法退還。 • 費用包括燃油附加費、碳抵銷附加費 (為來往歐洲之航班而設)和機場稅(除某些機場外,該機場稅於出發地點時收取)。• 機位有限,可能不會在所有航班提供 • 只於新訂購生效 • 所有航費只作單次旅程(單程)報價 • 除特別註明外,所有稅款必須於訂購航班時交付•外國航費需按外匯兌換率計算 • 優惠受制於機位以及亞航之運載條款及細則 約束• 付款後不得退款• 乘客需於離境時提供所有必須的旅遊證件(例如有效護照、適用簽證等) • 亞航保留不允許沒有適當證件之乘客登機的權利 • 訂購時需支付全部費用 • 航班及日期可更改,但須付更改費 • 不可更改乘客姓名 • 凡是透過直接付款、信用卡、扣帳卡或簽帳卡來支付第一期款項都須收取手續費,而且不可退款。• 只適用於www.airasia.com的網上預訂
While there are no giant monsters battling it out on the streets of Tokyo, the reality you will find here is every bit as exhilarating. Welcome to one of the busiest cities in the world, where Tokyo's fast paced lifestyle is paired with an unshakeable obsession for the latest trends and technologies as seen in areas like Harajuku and Akihabara, making it one of the most exciting cities to be in. In the midst of modernity, lies the traditional charm of rustic Japan with numerous temples such as centuries-old Sensou-ji in Asakusa or Shibuya's own Meiji Jingu. Museums ranging from Tokyo National Museum to whimsical Mitaka Ghibli Museum and beautiful gardens are scattered throughout the city's landscape. Of course, come and enjoy a picnic in Ueno Koen, famous for sakura viewing in Spring. Those seeking tranquility and serenity must pay the Imperial Palace East Gardens a visit--rich in history, infused with the perfect blend of culture and modern times.


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Robert Nkemdiche | Defensive End | Loganville (Ga.) Grayson High | From: Clemson to Ole Miss?
SB Nation's Steven Godfrey covered this one in amazing detail after spending time with Nkemdiche's brother Denzel, an Ole Miss linebacker, and various Mississippi sources. Read: O brother, where are though? How Ole Miss might land Robert Nkemdiche
Alex Anzalone | Linebacker | Wyomissing (Pa.) High | From: Notre Dame to Florida?
Anzalone has long been rumored to be leaning to Florida, even after he committed to Notre Dame. His father is a Gator alum and Anzalone recently visited to take in Florida's win over LSU. Rivals Mike Farrel sees him flipping as well ($)
Rumor had it that there were two silent defensive commitments to come out of that game, that Anzalone had already filled out enrollment paperwork for Florida and when he cancelled his official visit to Notre Dame for the BYU game this past weekend, that pretty much sold me that this is over. Now, it's only a matter of Anzalone saying it out loud.
Tramel Terry | WR/RB | Goose Creek (SC) High | From: Georgia to Clemson?
Terry recommitted to Georgia in early March after previously committing in 2011. However Terry been seriously considering Clemson after taking an official visit a in early October, and there is even word that Clemson may consider allowing Terry to play running back.
Terry's coach spoke with Palmetto Sports recently.
"He's got a good relationship with Coach (Tony) Elliott," Reedy said. "Clemson has been recruiting him real hard and he's giving it some thought, but he has not said anything to me about wanting to change his commitment.
Georgia still expects Terry to take an official visit to Athens, and won't give up easily.
Alex Collins | Plantation (Fla.) South High | From: Miami to Florida State?
I recently discussed Collins in Run on running back recruits coming: Green, Collins, Bryant
Collins has been committed to Miami since January, but has never seemed solid. He reciprocated overtures from Wisconsin and Florida State, and after taking in the FSU-Miami game, tweeted the following.
Been doing alot of thinking , close to decision time seems like .— alexander collins (@Budda03) October 22, 2012
The wording on that tweet is interesting, as Collins is currently a committed player. A committed recruit usually doesn't need to make a decision unless he plans to make a move.
Elijah Daniel | Defensive End | Avon (In.) High | From: Clemson?
Daniel is a very talented player who committed to Clemson in June. But since then, it's been clear that his commitment to the Tigers is anything but firm. He's spent multiple weekends on Indiana's campus, and may elect to visit Florida. He claimed that a decommitment announcement from his Twitter account over the weekend was the result of someone hacking his account, but his connection to Clemson seems tenuous at best.
Max Redfield | Safety | Mission Viejo (Calif.) High | From: USC to Notre Dame?
Redfield has been committed to USC since July, but his commitment to the Trojans hasn't been solid, as he continues to have interest in Notre Dame.
See: Max Redfield recruit scouting report
He loved his visit to South Bend and told Rivals ($) that he now has a tough choice ahead of him.


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Hébergement Espagne Murcie Polaris World La Torre Golf Resort
Photographies Infrastructures Carte Streetview Revues
'Polaris World La Torre Golf Resort' is an articulate complex surrounded by a Golf Camp of 18 holes and excellently located only a few Kilometres from the seaside and Airport. It contains uncountable accommodations such as Villas, luxury Apartments and Penthouses.
Each property is decorated with the very best finishes, it is fully furnished and equipped with everything required to spend the perfect holiday.
Located within the Polaris World Resorts with secure 24 hour access, the properties enjoy a privileged location with panoramic views, gardens, recreational areas, swimming pools, large terraces, supermarket, bars and restaurants.
In addition, various services are available such as buffet breakfast, half and full board, cleaning, laundry and maintenance, as well as all the other facilities on offer in the resorts.
The homes on 'Polaris Golf Resort La Torre' are all traditionally Spanish in style with white washed walls and orange roofs.
There are two type of homes available on the resort:
-2 bedroom/1 bathroom apartments
All the Apartments are fully furnished with capacity for up to four people and one or two bathrooms. Our reception is open 24/7 and the cleaning service is included in the price. The kitchen is fully equipped with everything that you need. There is TV (Satellite), parking, air conditioning/central heating and a lovely terrace with views to the Golf Camp. We provide you with towels and sheets.
Swimming pool
Gardens and children play area
Tennis Court
Golf Camp of 18 holes
Hairdresser (50, 00€ per week per person)
Bank and Cash Point
Internet area
Medical Service
Security and access control 24h
Restaurants and bars
-2 bedroom/2 bathroom villas
Although these properties have different features they all meet the same quality standard requirements. These are the highest in the region and amongst the highest in Spain.
In La Torre Golf Resort there is a magnificent town centre. This has been built around, a splendid lake and offers a broad variety of services including the following ones:
Social Centre
Bars and Restaurants
Swimming pool complex and heated swimming pool
Hotel complex
Supermarket including home delivery service
Conference centre
Business premises
Day care & medical centre
24 hour security
On site rentals and management
18 hole Nicklaus design golf course
-Pack Mr. Breakfast: 1litre bottle of fresh semi-skimmed milk, 1.5l Bottle of water, 1 litre tetra brick of Orange Juice, Sliced Bread, Margarine, Cereals, Cooked Ham, Strawberry Jam, Instant Coffee or Tea at additional cost
-Pack SUPER Mr. Breakfast: 1l bottle of fresh semi-skimmed milk, 1.5l Bottle of water, 1 litre Carton of Orange Juice, Sliced Bread, Margarine, Cereals, Cooked Ham, Strawberry Jam, Instant Coffee or tea. Red Wine, Bacon, Frankfurters, Eggs at additional cost
-Half-Board Adults (consists of breakfast and dinner (drinks not included) at additional cost
-Half-Board Children (up to 7 years) at additional cost
-Full-Board Adults at additional cost
-Full-Board Children (up to 7 years) at additional cost
From Murcia Airport:
Take Highway A7 towards Alicante, Exit Murcia - Balsicas and Highway C32 until Exit Sucina - El Garruchal, cross over the Highway and get to the Service Station through Exit Urbanización until you get to 'La torre Golf Resort'.
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Winship Cancer Institute
Fighting Cancer One Gift at a Time
A former competitive cyclist, Jim Kennedy understands what it takes to conquer a tough hill. In the world of medical research, finding a cure for cancer is among the toughest. That's why Kennedy, chairman of Cox Enterprises, and his wife, Sarah Kennedy, have given $4.7 million to Winship Cancer Institute. In addition to supporting the recruitment of researchers like Keith Delman (pictured above) and the development of Winship's survivorship program, the gift funds key research priorities, including helping young cancer investigators develop new and potentially groundbreaking ideas that ordinarily would not meet federal funding guidelines.
Inspired by the hope of finding a cure for cancer, private donors gave more than $142 million to support cancer research, treatment, and care at Emory. Going forward, top priorities for Winship include recruiting and retaining researchers through endowed chairs and professorships and establishing and supporting research programs.
"We very much appreciate the Kennedy family's outstanding commitment to supporting cancer research here at Winship," says Walter J. Curran Jr., executive director of the Winship Cancer Institute. "We have further demonstrated the value and importance of this gift through support of these terrific cancer researchers."
The Kennedy Seed Grant Research Awards are presented to cancer research faculty through three programs designed to support innovative projects, encourage career growth, and foster greater collaboration among investigators. Recipients of the career growth grants are called Robbins Scholars, named in honor of the Kennedys' friend Jim Robbins, former president and CEO of Cox Communications. Awardees, working alongside a senior cancer researcher, receive $50,000 for up to two years to support high-impact cancer research. Robbins passed away in 2007 after a bout with cancer. He was known for his belief in new ideas and is remembered for his vision and his dedication to employees, customers, and the communities that Cox Communications serves. The Robbins Scholar Awards will carry on his legacy of innovation in the service of others.
"The Kennedy Seed Grant supported our collaboration with Emory's world-renowned transplant and immunology group, enabling us to develop a program to monitor melanoma patients' blood over time. We aim to identify traits that may predict recurrence, relapse, or response to therapy," says Keith Delman, associate professor of surgery and program director of Emory's General Surgery Residency Program. "Using the existing comprehensive registry of more than 2,000 melanoma patients and the information we are gathering, we hope to develop personalized therapies for patients with this complex disease."
Delman received a Kennedy Seed Grant Research Award to fund a collaborative project, "Analysis of Immune Phenotype and Functionality with Correlation to Survival in Patients with Malignant Melanoma." He is investigating the function and characteristics of T-lymphocytes—a kind of white blood cell—in patients with melanoma by comparing T-cells in patients with recurring disease to those in patients in remission.
Brian Pollack, assistant professor of dermatology and pathology/laboratory medicine, also received a grant to fund his project, "Defining the Impact of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Signaling on the Expression of MHC Class II Genes." Pollack discovered that "driver" mutations support tumor growth and allow tumor cells to escape detection and destruction by the immune system. He is investigating whether targeted therapies can undo the latter effect and, in essence, make cancer cells visible and therefore subject to the immune system.
The Kennedy gift will help attract the best and brightest researchers and will provide seed grants to help those investigators develop their ideas. This gift, along with many others, enables a positive cycle of recruitment, research, and funding. Grateful patients and friends are creating named programs, centers, and chairs to honor loved ones and support the fight against cancer.
The Wilbur and Hilda Glenn Family Foundation has generously supported breast cancer research and other projects at Winship. Their total gift of $14 million to the breast cancer program established the Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship to support research priorities, faculty recruitment and retention, clinical and patient support programs, and the Glenn Scholars pilot grant program. The foundation also endowed the Louisa and Rand Glenn Family Chair in Breast Cancer Research, held by Ruth O'Regan. With the Glenn Family Foundation's support, researchers successfully launched a breast cancer biospecimen bank and a new data management system, which integrates patients' demographics, disease stage, and treatment data with their banked biospecimens. The Glenn family has enabled Winship to create a breast center that defines a high standard for coordination between basic and translational research and compassionate and innovative breast cancer care.
The Cooper Family Foundation has established a breast cancer initiative within the Glenn Family Breast Center at Winship, building on a series of studies funded by the foundation over the past six years focused on understanding the long-term consequences of breast cancer and its therapies. William P. Timmie Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Andrew Miller and radiation oncologist Mylin Torres lead the Cooper Family Foundation Breast Cancer Initiative. Problems including long-standing anxiety, irritability, depression, fatigue, sleep difficulties, and difficulties with memory and concentration occur in up to one-third of breast cancer survivors and significantly impair quality of life. Already the initiative has led to important discoveries about where in the brain these problems occur and how activation of the body's immune system plays a critical role.
"Dr. Miller's research findings offer great hope that this area of research will lead to meaningful improvements in the quality of life of breast cancer patients. My family and I are pleased with the work Emory is doing in this vital area," says foundation chair Fred Cooper.
In the area of head and neck cancers, Lynne and Howard Halpern have made a $2.5 million planned gift to recognize one of the country's most accomplished researchers and support the development of new therapies for these challenging cancers. The Lynne and Howard Halpern Chair in Head and Neck Cancer Research honors Fadlo R. Khuri and recognizes his role as deputy director of Winship and his leadership of the head and neck cancer program. Howard Halpern's successful treatment for cancer at Winship inspired this generous commitment.
"Dr. Khuri and his team saved my life," Halpern says about his beloved physician and friend. "Lynne and I can hardly express the depth of our gratitude for the extraordinary care we received at Winship. Our hope is that the gift of an endowed academic chair to support Dr. Khuri's vital work will result in discoveries that save many more lives from head and neck cancers."
For prostate cancer, Winship Advisory Board chair John Kauffman, chair and CEO of Kauffman Tire, has made a $500,000 gift through his family's foundation to support multidisciplinary research at Winship.
Along with these and many other investments in cancer at Emory, grateful patients and friends are creating new professorships, funding key research, and supporting patient-centered and clinical programs.
To learn how you can support the fight against cancer at Emory, call Vicki Riedel, executive director of development, at 404.778.5939.


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I spent time yesterday watching videos on James. 2010 was the year when he had a "veteran" O-Line and he was phenomenal. His potential is sick. I'd like to hear how others evaluate him. Some games had me comparing him to Sanders. They are similar in size. Other games he was less successful but never did I see a hint of Quit. Inside, outside, sometimes both, James impressed me. Rate the new RB.
Barry Sanders, Jr.?
Blair Thomas?


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World Cup 2010 Group A: Football Manager Analysis0
The World Cup 2010 is well underway and we have had the chance to look at the majority of the teams. World Cup fever has not been missed by the Football Manager Britain community and staff. As always what we favour most is how different teams and cultures come together and show off a variety of tactics. But then how […]Read more ›


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Worst of the Worst
According to the Gallup Organization, the United States Congress reached a four year high this month in their national approval ratings. Due to the fact that 57% of brain-dead Democrats believe that the crooks in Washington are doing a stand-up job, their approval rating has climbed to a whopping 39%. This is up 25 points since the middle of 2008, when the Congress recorded an all-time low approval rating of 14%.
The improved numbers in this poll are driven by partisanship and ignorance. I would venture to bet that when the Congressional approval was at 14% in mid-2008, many of the dimwits who were polled actually believed that Republicans controlled the Congress. George Bush was president at the time, so the Congress must have been Republican – right?
Obama is now the president, so if you use the same ignorant logic as the base of the Democrat Party does, the Congress must now be controlled by the Democrats – makes sense?
During the 2008 election, Zogby International did a poll of Obama voters for John Ziegler and his great website howobamagotelected.com. The poll showed that 57% of Obama voters believed that Republicans controlled both houses of congress at the time. It's really not a surprise that the chronically ignorant are responsible for the now sky-high (ha!) congressional approval ratings.
Approval ratings aside, the United States Congress has pretty much turned into a pathetic joke! These clowns could easily make a person laugh if they weren't so busy trampling on the Constitution and chipping away at our personal freedoms through their outrageous and criminal legislation.
I would actually like to see a poll conducted on who people believe is the worst of this bunch. Then again, I also know that a poll like that couldn't be viable because the vast majority of people (especially Obama voters) probably can't even name their own representatives in Congress, much less other members.
Anyway, this is my blog; so I'm free to fantasize about being polled for the first time in my life. In this fantasy, the pollster would ask: "who do you believe to be the worst member of the United States Congress?"
I wouldn't have to look too far, or think too long to answer the question. I would immediately and unequivocally give that honor to our own (New York's) Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer! This creep is the perfect stereotype of an arrogant – power hungry – crooked - politician. Schumer is so low, and so slimy, that if only he had a tail and scaly skin, he would be crawling around on his stomach using his forked tongue to snap up insects.
Schumer is all too typical of your average member of congress. The "Schmuck" graduated from law school in 1974, then immediately ran for political office. Being a Democrat in New York, it wasn't that difficult to be elected to the NY State Assembly in his first try at the age of 23. After serving three terms in the Assembly, he ran for United States Congress in 1980, and of course, he won. He was then re-elected to his congressional seat eight times before running for the U.S. Senate in 1998 - winning once again. He has now been in the U.S. Senate for over ten years with no end in sight – thanks to the moronic Democrats that dominate New York City. In fact, Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer has never held a job outside of government. He has never made a penny working in the private sector!
Now that Queen Hillary has jumped to the State Department, Schumer has become the senior senator from New York. He's now more arrogant and smug than ever before. If I had to list all of Chuckey's outrageous and deceitful transgressions while he's been in office, I would not only bore everyone outside of NY to death, I would probably come down with severe Carpal Tunnel Syndrom. That being the case, I'll only go over a few recent examples of Chuck being a Schmuck!
In July of 2008, Schumer caused a "run" on IndyMac Bank of California, when he made public a letter he wrote to the OTS (Office of Thrift Supervision) and the FDIC. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) In the letter, Schumer expressed concerns about the banks "viability." Notice he wasn't too concerned about the viability of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. Anyway, the letter was somehow leaked, causing the depositors of the bank to withdraw more than 1.3 billion dollars in about 11 business days.
Many people in the banking industry believed that Schumer may have broken the law by causing the "run" on IndyMac. Predictably, the media didn't give the story much play, and Schumer slithered away Scot-free. Crazy "right-wing" conspiracy kooks (the same ones who tried to screw Bill Clinton) even went as far as to theorize that Schmuck Schumer intended to damage the economy in order to hurt John McCain and Republicans in the upcoming election. What could possibly make anyone think that Chuck Schumer would do a thing like that?
In February of this year, when Obama and the Democrats were ramming through congress their $800 billion buy-the-vote stimulus bill, there was some controversy over billions of dollars of "pork" that was inserted into the already massive spending legislation.
At that point, Chucky took to the floor of the Senate and had the chutzpah to say the following:
"And let me say this to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments, the American people really don't care."
Then last week when the brouhaha erupted over the AIG bonuses, the Schmuck took to the floor again and sternly put out the following warning:
"If Mr. Liddy does nothing we will act and we will take this money back and return it to its rightful owners, the taxpayers," Schumer warned. "So for those of you who are getting these bonuses, be forewarned — you will not be getting to keep them."
Alright then, Schumer snickers at billions of dollars in pork, but is outraged over a mere $165 million in contractual bonuses paid out to AIG executives; bonuses that were protected by Democrat legislation and the Obama administration. This is too rich, even for Schmucky! Also notice that he says "we will take this money back and return it to its rightful owners, the taxpayers." Really now Chucky – do you mean return it to the people who pay the taxes, or back to the U.S. Government? I think we all know what he means by that.
I know we have dozens of losers in the United States Congress who, if not for their positions, would be wearing stripped prison uniforms with numbers across their chests. We have Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, Jack Murtha and Chris Dodd to name a few; but in my opinion, many of them still pale in comparison to Chucky Schumer whose dishonesty is so immense, that he makes Bernie Maddow look like the late Mother Teresa.
So without further fanfare, I herby nominate Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer from my hometown – the once great state of New York, for The Worst of the Worst Award for 2009! I believe it's a well deserved nomination, Chucky worked very hard for this honor.