Monday, October 31, 2011
3 more deaths reported to FDA in Triad alcohol wipes case
3 more deaths reported to FDA in Triad alcohol wipes case - JSOnline
Daily Tribune Video: Officer shoots teen
The Wood County Sheriff’s Department has released video of a Wisconsin Rapids police officer’s shooting of a 16-year-old boy who was carrying a knife
Daily Tribune Video: Officer shoots teen | Video Library | Wausau Daily Herald
Concealed carry law boosts handgun sales
Sales associate John Dunning, left, goes over a handgun John Popp just bought Thursday at Central Wisconsin Firearms on Washington Street in Wausau. / Xai Kha/Wausau Daily Herald
Concealed carry law boosts handgun sales | Wausau Daily Herald | wausaudailyherald.com
FACT CHECK: GOP lawmakers spin funding tall tales - Yahoo! News
Ramsey, Dakota counties at odds over case of 8-year-old beaten at school by mom - TwinCities.com
The Ramsey County attorney's office charged Socorro Eaton with malicious punishment of a child. (Photo from Ramsey County sheriff's office.)
Ramsey, Dakota counties at odds over case of 8-year-old beaten at school by mom - TwinCities.comAnother Somalia suicide bomber may have Minneapolis ties | StarTribune.com
Another Somalia suicide bomber may have Minneapolis ties | StarTribune.com
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Just Another Day in the Life of a Firefighter
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Vast Weapons Stockpile Found in Libyan Desert - Photo Essays - TIME
Vast Weapons Stockpile Found in Libyan Desert - Photo Essays - TIME
Most state buildings get OK for guns - JSOnline
Most state buildings get OK for guns
Carrying concealed weapons allowed; open carry debated:
By of the Journal Sentinel
State of Wisconsin Most state buildings get OK for guns - JSOnline
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Top Ten Things Overheard At Moammar Gadhafi's Funeral
Late Show Top Ten
Top Ten Things Overheard At Moammar Gadhafi's Funeral
10. "Honestly, how the heck did he spell his name?"
9. "It's a shame he didn't live long enough to promote himself above colonel"
8. "Is it too soon to hit on the Ukrainian nurse?"
7. "After the services, come back to the house for cake"
6. "Where's his hot daughter Kim?"
5. "And now, a few words from Moammar's closest friend, Loni Anderson"
4. "At least he died doing what he loved best — begging for mercy in a storm drain"
3. "Incoming!"
2. "Nice of Leno to send flowers"
1. "Let's bury this guy"
Top Ten Things Overheard At Moammar Gadhafi's Funeral
10. "Honestly, how the heck did he spell his name?"
9. "It's a shame he didn't live long enough to promote himself above colonel"
8. "Is it too soon to hit on the Ukrainian nurse?"
7. "After the services, come back to the house for cake"
6. "Where's his hot daughter Kim?"
5. "And now, a few words from Moammar's closest friend, Loni Anderson"
4. "At least he died doing what he loved best — begging for mercy in a storm drain"
3. "Incoming!"
2. "Nice of Leno to send flowers"
1. "Let's bury this guy"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Ex-pastor from Gibbon, Minn., faces criminal sexual conduct trial | StarTribune.com
Ex-pastor from Gibbon, Minn., faces criminal sexual conduct trial | StarTribune.com
Another pastor charged and these guys want to run our moral lives by being involved in politics.
Another pastor charged and these guys want to run our moral lives by being involved in politics.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Bishops begin fight for marriage vote | StarTribune.com
Bishops begin fight for marriage vote | StarTribune.com
Perhaps first they clean up the pedophiles working for them. It is a bit of hypocrisy that they condone sexual child abuse, but don't want gays to marry.
Perhaps first they clean up the pedophiles working for them. It is a bit of hypocrisy that they condone sexual child abuse, but don't want gays to marry.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Maplewood church leader admits molesting teen - TwinCities.com
Maplewood church leader admits molesting teen - TwinCities.com
Another one, how many priests, pastors, and other so called people of God will it take before we realize what these religious nuts are all about.
Another one, how many priests, pastors, and other so called people of God will it take before we realize what these religious nuts are all about.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Government in Action!
Government in Action! An open-government advocacy group's survey of federal agencies, released in July, revealed that eight of them have unresolved Freedom of Information Act requests that are over a decade old, including one pending for more than 20 years. (The 1976 FOIA law requires resolution within 20 business days, with a 10-day extension under "unusual circumstances.") [National Security Archive, 7- 4-2011]
Also, regarding the FOIA, a June 2011 request by the city of Sioux City, Iowa, for background documents regarding the recent Postal Service decision to move jobs from Sioux City to Sioux Falls, S.D., was met promptly -- by the Postal Service's forecast that the likely fee for the documents would be $831,000, even though under the law the first two search hours and the first 100 documents are free. [Sioux City Journal, 7-27-2011]
In August, the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general revealed that a $1,200 cash award was paid by the agency in 2010 to one of the very employees who had been specifically singled out for allowing Bernard Madoff to talk his way out of SEC inquiries in 2005 and 2006, before his epic Ponzi scheme was exposed in 2008. (The IG helpfully recommended that, in the future, awards not be given to employees who have recently been facing potential disciplinary action for poor performance.) [Legal Times, 8-4-2011]
Among the aftershocks of the 9-11 attacks on America was the colossal budget-busting on "homeland security" -- a spending binge that, additionally, was thought to require something approaching uniform disbursement of funds throughout the 50 states. (Endless "what if" possibilities left no legislator willing to forsake maximum security.) Among the questionable projects described in a Los Angeles Times August review were the purchase of an inflatable Zodiac boat with wide-scan sonar -- in case terrorists were eyeing Lake McConaughy in Keith County, Neb.; cattle nose leads, halters and electric prods (to protect against biological attacks on cows, awarded to Cherry County, Neb.); a terrorist-proof iron fence around a Veterans Affairs hospital near Asheville, N.C.; and $557,400 in communications and rescue gear in case North Pole, Alaska, got hit. [Los Angeles Times, 8-28-2011]
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general denounced the agency in September for promiscuously continuing to pay pension benefits to deceased federal retirees -- citing a 70 percent rise in bogus payments over the last five years. However, another federal inspector general (the Social Security Administration's) chastised its agency for the opposite reason: About 14,000 people each year are cut off from benefits after erroneously being declared dead. [Washington Post, 9-22-2011] [Chicago Tribune-CNN, 8-17-2011]
Also, regarding the FOIA, a June 2011 request by the city of Sioux City, Iowa, for background documents regarding the recent Postal Service decision to move jobs from Sioux City to Sioux Falls, S.D., was met promptly -- by the Postal Service's forecast that the likely fee for the documents would be $831,000, even though under the law the first two search hours and the first 100 documents are free. [Sioux City Journal, 7-27-2011]
In August, the Securities and Exchange Commission's inspector general revealed that a $1,200 cash award was paid by the agency in 2010 to one of the very employees who had been specifically singled out for allowing Bernard Madoff to talk his way out of SEC inquiries in 2005 and 2006, before his epic Ponzi scheme was exposed in 2008. (The IG helpfully recommended that, in the future, awards not be given to employees who have recently been facing potential disciplinary action for poor performance.) [Legal Times, 8-4-2011]
Among the aftershocks of the 9-11 attacks on America was the colossal budget-busting on "homeland security" -- a spending binge that, additionally, was thought to require something approaching uniform disbursement of funds throughout the 50 states. (Endless "what if" possibilities left no legislator willing to forsake maximum security.) Among the questionable projects described in a Los Angeles Times August review were the purchase of an inflatable Zodiac boat with wide-scan sonar -- in case terrorists were eyeing Lake McConaughy in Keith County, Neb.; cattle nose leads, halters and electric prods (to protect against biological attacks on cows, awarded to Cherry County, Neb.); a terrorist-proof iron fence around a Veterans Affairs hospital near Asheville, N.C.; and $557,400 in communications and rescue gear in case North Pole, Alaska, got hit. [Los Angeles Times, 8-28-2011]
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general denounced the agency in September for promiscuously continuing to pay pension benefits to deceased federal retirees -- citing a 70 percent rise in bogus payments over the last five years. However, another federal inspector general (the Social Security Administration's) chastised its agency for the opposite reason: About 14,000 people each year are cut off from benefits after erroneously being declared dead. [Washington Post, 9-22-2011] [Chicago Tribune-CNN, 8-17-2011]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Sunday, October 9, 2011
PSA Tests, from a cancer survivor.
Recently the government came out with another absurd medical recommendation. They said PSA tests don't save lives and are not accurate in determining prostate cancer for healthy men. Well, I disagree. I have never had a serious illness in my life and no history of prostate cancer in my family. I went to the doctor to get an annual physical. Everything checked out fine again, and then my doctor asked me if I had ever had a PSA test. I had never had one so my doctor recommended one. The results came back with a PSA score of 8.8. I was immediately referred to a urologist and after several tests was told it did not look good at all. My Gleason score was very high and the Doctor said I probably had prostate cancer for several years. He ruled out all treatment except the possibility of surgery, which he didn't hold out much hope.
Well the bottom line is, when he operated, he was able to get all the cancer. I went back to him once for post operation check up. He told me I was very lucky my doctor decided to do a PSA test, as we caught the cancer before it metastasized to my internal organs. He told me honestly he didn't expect my life expectancy was more than 6 months when he first saw me. I am now cancer free, and get a PSA test every 6 months. All have been normal.
I think recommendation for men not to get a PSA test is nuts, and I think everyone should get one yearly and this is from a person whose PSA test saved his life.
Ken Kjer
Well the bottom line is, when he operated, he was able to get all the cancer. I went back to him once for post operation check up. He told me I was very lucky my doctor decided to do a PSA test, as we caught the cancer before it metastasized to my internal organs. He told me honestly he didn't expect my life expectancy was more than 6 months when he first saw me. I am now cancer free, and get a PSA test every 6 months. All have been normal.
I think recommendation for men not to get a PSA test is nuts, and I think everyone should get one yearly and this is from a person whose PSA test saved his life.
Ken Kjer
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Quote of the Day, 10/22/1843
“I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad. So far as I can see, it is the principal cause of the decadence so visible today in the Muslim world and, though less absurd than the polytheism of old, its social and political tendencies are in my opinion to be feared, and I therefore regard it as a form of decadence rather than a form of progress in relation to paganism itself.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 – 1859), Written in a letter to Arthur de Gobineau, 22 October 1843, reproduced in the “Tocqueville Reader”, p. 229.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
Voter ID laws might affect millions, study finds | StarTribune.com
Voter ID laws might affect millions, study finds | StarTribune.com
I am still of the belief that these laws are a poll tax, unless the ID required is free.
I am still of the belief that these laws are a poll tax, unless the ID required is free.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Envoy Medical hearing aid video goes viral; 2 million+ views in a week
Envoy Medical hearing aid video goes viral; 2 million+ views in a week
Girl born deaf gets her hearing back.
Girl born deaf gets her hearing back.