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n2doc's JournalThe weird world of Rightwing 'art'
Here's an offering from Dan Lacey, the "Painter of Pancakes," featuring Speaker John Boehner's tears.
Oh, and please, feast your eyes upon Margaret Thatcher as an angel of the Lord. Artist Ben Moore displayed this painting around the time of her death.
For more inspiration, or perhaps a nice holiday gift for a loved one, see rightwingart.tumblr.com.
http://www.thewire.com/politics/2013/11/weird-wonderful-world-right-wing-art/355583/
implied here, folks....
Untreated Cancer Pain a ‘Scandal of Global Proportions,’ Survey Shows
New global study led by ESMO reveals a pandemic of intolerable pain affecting billions, caused by over-regulation of pain medicines
Date : 28 Nov 2013
Lugano, Switzerland –- A ground-breaking international collaborative survey, published today in Annals of Oncology, shows that more than half of the world’s population live in countries where regulations that aim to stem drug misuse leave cancer patients without access to opioid medicines for managing cancer pain.
The results from the Global Opioid Policy Initiative (GOPI) project show that more than 4 billion people live in countries where regulations leave cancer patients suffering excruciating pain. National governments must take urgent action to improve access to these medicines, says the European Society for Medical Oncology, leader of a group of 22 partners that have launched the first global survey to evaluate the availability and accessibility of opioids for cancer pain management.
“The GOPI study has uncovered a pandemic of over-regulation in much of the developing world that is making it catastrophically difficult to provide basic medication to relieve strong cancer pain,” says Nathan Cherny, Chair of the ESMO Palliative Care Working Group and lead author of the report, from Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. “Most of the world’s population lacks the necessary access to opioids for cancer pain management and palliative care, as well as acute, post-operative, obstetric and chronic pain.”
“When one considers that effective treatments are cheap and available, untreated cancer pain and its horrendous consequences for patients and their families is a scandal of global proportions,” Cherny says.
more
http://www.esmo.org/Press-Office/Press-Releases/ESMO-Press-Release-Untreated-Cancer-Pain-a-Scandal-of-Global-Proportions-Survey-Shows
more casualties of the war on drugs....
Mortgages Without Risk, at Least for the Banks
By FLOYD NORRIS
Published: November 28, 2013
There was no single cause of the financial crisis, but a chief one was surely the way mortgage loans were made by people who believed they had no reason to care if the loan was repaid.
That was why the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law included risk retention — called “skin in the game” — as a major reform. For all but the safest loans, someone connected to the loan had to keep a stake in it. If such a loan went bad, then that lender would suffer along with those who bought securities containing it.
“To me,” said Barney Frank, the former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee and co-author of the law, “the single most important part of the bill was risk retention.”
But it now appears that section will be rendered moot as multiple regulators give in to pressure brought by an odd coalition to classify virtually every mortgage as exempt from the risk retention law.
That coalition includes large parts of the banking industry, which seems to have no desire to stand behind its loans, as well as consumer advocates and the housing industry. The latter groups say they are worried that poorer people will be unable to obtain loans if all loans cannot be securitized.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/29/business/mortgages-without-risk-at-least-for-the-banks.html?pagewanted=all
Where Is the Love?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
When I’ve written recently about food stamp recipients, the uninsured and prison inmates, I’ve had plenty of pushback from readers.
A reader named Keith reflected a coruscating chorus when he protested: “If kids are going hungry, it is because of the parents not upholding their responsibilities.”
A reader in Washington bluntly suggested taking children from parents and putting them in orphanages.
Jim asked: “Why should I have to subsidize someone else’s child? How about personal responsibility? If you procreate, you provide.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/kristof-where-is-the-love.html?smid=re-share
Republican Party in Florida being taken over by gay 'thugs': Tea Party leader
Danita Kilcullen voiced her sentiments in an email about Republicans in Broward County, denouncing Log Cabin Republicans and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which she says would force her to 'hire someone with orange hair, body/neck/face covered with tattoos, multiple piercings, or a man in a dress ... or for that matter, a demonstrative effeminate male or purposeful butch-looking female.'
PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Danita Kilcullen, from her mug shot from May 2011 after police say she kicked an officer with her stiletto high heels during a political rally, has slammed gay activists in the Republican party.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republican-party-florida-gay-thugs-tea-party-leader-article-1.1531963
A Hospital buys the naming rights for a sports stadium for 4.5 million
The 15-year-old BI-LO Center has been undergoing interior renovations over the last few months, and the façade will also get an update as the Bon Secours Wellness Arena after a $4.5 million deal with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System announced Wednesday.
Officials announced the naming rights agreement on the floor of the arena, complete with stage, spotlight and a curtain obscuring the new logo. Jeff Gilstrap, chairman of the Arena District board, which oversees the center, said that the board had talked with four or five organizations regarding the naming. Details of the deal with Bon Secours had been worked out over the last five weeks, he said.
Some changes will be immediate, like those to the website, said the arena’s general manager Roger Newton, but signage must be approved by the City of Greenville and should be in place in about eight weeks.
Bon Secours St. Francis CEO Mark Nantz said that the bold partnership aligns with the health system’s mission of ministering to the mind, body and spirit. “It’s a unique opportunity to bring health and wholeness to the community where people live, work and play,” he said. Nantz added that it was the “next step in the partnership with the community.”
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http://upstatebusinessjournal.com/news/bi-lo-center-renamed-bon-secours-wellness-arena/
Tell me again how these poor hospitals are going broke?
Tom Corbett Went From Establishment Republican to Tea Party Allly. Bad Move.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's popularity, or lack thereof, has just hit a new low. A Public Policy Polling survey released Tuesday found his approval rating has slid to 24 percent, making him the least popular governor of the 43 states PPP has polled recently. Nearly two-thirds of Pennsylvanians disapprove of Corbett, including 51 percent of his Republican peers. If next November’s election were held today, Corbett would lose by double-digit margins to a wide array of Democratic challengers.
The poll is no outlier. Survey after survey finds that Corbett—who cruised into office two years ago as a conservative, corruption-busting prosecutor—is widely reviled in a state that, so far, has never failed to re-elect an incumbent governor.
But why? How has a mild-mannered governor like Corbett so enraged Pennsylvania’s typically placid electorate? Corbett’s own failings—from his reclusive nature to his bumbling legislative strategy—are mainly to blame. But it is also clear that Pennsylvanians, a largely moderate lot that have voted Democrat in the last six presidential elections, have little taste for truly conservative governance. In a purple state that has been steadily swinging left in recent years, Corbett looks increasingly anachronistic.
By temperament, Corbett is an establishment Republican, not a Tea Partier. But there isn’t much daylight between Corbett’s policies and those of the party’s right wing. He signed Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge, is fighting gay marriage in the courts, has aligned himself with the state’s growing fracking industry, and has decimated education funding. Recently, it is the school cuts that are most hurting Corbett in the polls. Three years ago, a Franklin and Marshall poll found that only four percent of Pennsylvanians considered education the state’s most pressing problem. In September, education was the top priority in the survey, with 21 percent.
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http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115767/tom-corbett-poll-approval-rating-pennsylvania-governor-plummets
An article to really stir up the wing nuts: End presidential term limits
By Jonathan Zimmerman,
In 1947, Sen. Harley Kilgore (D-W.Va.) condemned a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict presidents to two terms. “The executive’s effectiveness will be seriously impaired,” Kilgore argued on the Senate floor, “ as no one will obey and respect him if he knows that the executive cannot run again.”
I’ve been thinking about Kilgore’s comments as I watch President Obama, whose approval rating has dipped to 37?percent in CBS News polling — the lowest ever for him — during the troubled rollout of his health-care reform. Many of Obama’s fellow Democrats have distanced themselves from the reform and from the president. Even former president Bill Clinton has said that Americans should be allowed to keep the health insurance they have.
Or consider the reaction to the Iran nuclear deal. Regardless of his political approval ratings, Obama could expect Republican senators such as Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and John McCain (Ariz.) to attack the agreement. But if Obama could run again, would he be facing such fervent objections from Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)?
Probably not. Democratic lawmakers would worry about provoking the wrath of a president who could be reelected. Thanks to term limits, though, they’ve got little to fear.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/end-presidential-term-limits/2013/11/28/50876456-561e-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html
Tons of whales feasting on anchovies near Monterey California
Monterey --
It began with the anchovies, miles and miles of them, their silvery blue bodies thick in the waters of Monterey Bay.
Then the sea lions came, by the thousands, from up and down the California coast, and the pelicans, arriving in one long V-formation after another. Fleets of bottlenose dolphins joined them.
But it was the whales that astounded even longtime residents - more than 200 humpbacks lunging, breaching, blowing and tail flapping - and, on a recent weekend, a pod of 19 rowdy orcas that briefly crashed the party, picking off sea lions along the way.
"I can't tell you where to look," Nancy Black, a marine biologist leading a boat full of whale watchers last week, said as the water in every direction roiled with mammals. "It's all around."
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http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tons-of-whales-feasting-on-anchovies-near-Monterey-5019949.php
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