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POPSSwine BOO !!!! With this court order, mandatory vaccines are temporarily suspended pending a follow-up court hearing on October 30.
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POPSObamacare Means $1,700 More in Insurance Premiums for a Typical Family 
And, with a government subsidy, you gain nothing by paying for all those years when you don't need insurance. So Obama's program turns out not to be one to spread insurance and thus spread the risk of costly illness, but one to make people pay 7.5 percent of their incomes once they get sick, with the government picking up their remaining premium and the health insurance customers paying for the medical expenses. Some deal! So tote up the cost of this bill on the middle class: -- $1,700 more in insurance premiums for the average family. -- Medical devices like wheelchairs and hearing aids get taxed. -- Those who are sick must pay an average of about $600 more a year in income taxes because the bill raises the threshold for deducting medical expenses from 7.5 percent of income to 10 percent. -- A $404 billion cut in Medicare. -- Ending the subsidized Medicare Advantage insurance for costs over and above Medicare. Without Medicare Advantage, the elderly can only .
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POPSWho’s Behind the White House War on Fox News? Or about the joint White House-ABC News health care reform infomercial that aired earlier this summer. Some “opinion journalism” is more equal than others. Debates about the blurred lines between opinion and journalism are all well and good. But don’t the talking points-crafters in the Oval Office have something better to do than carp about the talking points they don’t like hearing on the one cable network that hasn’t been completely overrun by Obama sycophants? The corruptocrat affiliations of Obama’s communications team are illuminating. His press shop can’t rise above the fray because they’ve been entrenched in the Beltway fray for years. They can’t help themselves. Democratic media consultant Dunn’s claim to fame is her decade-long service as chief strategist for disgraced Democrat and former Senate Majority Leader-turned-health care lobbyist Tom Daschle. She was in the thick of his failed re-election campaign as Daschle asserted a bogus property-tax
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POPSIn search of silence in a sickeningly loud world
More: It should come as no surprise that rats exposed to a buzzer sounding for six out of every 30 seconds, seven hours a day for 35 days suffer from high blood pressure. There is some sign of habituation over time, but these buzzer-rats are still darting back and forth across their cages by day 35, while rats in quieter cages have markedly lower blood pressure and tend not to pace so nervously. For humans, six hours of exposure to 90-decibel sound significantly elevates the heart rate and leaves it there up to an hour after the noise is gone. Nearly every significant study looking for a link between exposure to noise and risk of heart attack has found one. In 2005, research in Berlin hospitals looking at more than 4,000 cases (half of them heart attacks) revealed that people subjected to loud environments are at a 50 percent greater risk of having a heart attack. Among school kids, the effect of noise shows up in the form of learning disabilities.
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POPSWhite Coats passed out to Docs A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama’s pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress. The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image. But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses. So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area. ‘You look very spiffy in your coats.’ Obama told the group of doctors after his aides had handed out a great many of them. UPDATE: Patterico is not sure that all of the doctors in attendance at the President’s photo op were even pro-ObamaCare . According to the testimony of one doctor who was invi
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POPSThe Rise of the Uncouth Hypocrites. It's just that now it's their ox that's being gored and with the internet, bloggers, and "un-named sources" there is no hiding anymore.
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POPSHearing Aids Consumer reviews and reports about the hearing aids that people may use to make the sounds more accessible to them.
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POPSFrench Government To Use Swine Flu Threat In Crack Down On Liberties "The news comes on the back of last week's revelations that the French government plans to impose a mass swine flu vaccination program on the entire population. According to a leaked internal document singed by the French Health Minister and the Minister of the Interior, the program would be focused around regional vaccination centers and would be carried out by H1N1 injection teams, completely bypassing medical establishments and GP’s. According to the document, schoolchildren will also be vaccinated by mobile injection squads who will travel from school to school, covering the entire country. Babies from 6 months old will also be given the shot. To date just fifteen people have died of swine flu related complications in France. "
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POPSThe Next Industry on the Chopping Block game plan hasn't worked out so well for Venezuelans. And check out the poor schlub sitting next to her. You can almost read his mind. How the heck did I get stuck sitting next to this national embarrassment? After "reforming" health care, the National Socialist Democrats will target the energy industry. Whether through cap-and-tax or some other stealthy mechanism, Democrats will punish more job creators as certainly as night follows day. And If Waters is really the best that Californians can do, I would recommend that residents start evacuating now. Posted by directorblue
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POPSKennedy Wanted To Guarantee Dem Stranglehold In Senate Post Death, Replacement Debate To Rage In September Kennedy’s death after a 15-month battle with brain cancer robs the Democratic Party of its crucial 60-seat majority in the Senate, just as lawmakers are set to return next week to debate bills on health care reform and climate change. But the proposals have triggered a storm of grassroots protest, leaving their passage in the US Congress uncertain. Kennedy, who had thrown his support behind Obama, made health care reform one of his lifelong causes, and mourners at his funeral on Saturday, including one of his grandsons, urged that the campaign go on. Some observers have called for Kennedy’s senate seat to be temporarily filled by his widow, Vicki, until new elections can be organized. But she is said not to be interested. The Boston Globe reported Monday that Joseph Kennedy, a former congressman and son of Robert Kennedy who was assassinated in 1968, could now run to replace his uncle.
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POPSHouse Dems Rally Behind Public Option Nice to see the Democrats rallying behind the causes that got them elected by such sweeping majorities. If you support the public option, call your congresscritter and tell them so. Sign the petition at Citizens For A Public Option Don't give up, and keep the pressure on Congress. If the people lead, the leaders will follow!
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POPSScreaming at Healtcare
"I think people are getting the feedback that they're having very good conversations about what's in the legislation -- what people would like to see, what options they want to have, why they think it's important," he said. "I said this yesterday, I'll say this again: while I appreciate that you all have decided that every town hall meeting ends in pushing, shoving and yelling...they're not completely indicative of what's going on in America." Still, the administration will continue trying to rebut attacks on Obama's proposals, he said. "I think he believes very strongly, as we talked about yesterday, that it is important to address misconceptions or misimpressions that have been left out there about the bills. I do believe that the president feels strongly that when he makes his case, it helps the case for overall health care reform," Gibbs told reporters during his daily briefing. "So he felt very satisfied with what happened in New Hampshire. He was able to address conc
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POPSTo The RNC: WAKE UP The Republicans have for years presented themselves as "conservatives" and the party of "family values." Why is it that "conservative" doesn't include calling for EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE SCAMMERS TO BE THROWN IN PRISON and WHY IS IT THAT I KEEP HEARING ABOUT SOME FLOOZY SCANDAL FROM THESE SO-CALLED "FAMILY VALUES" CHAMPIONS? The ONLY difference between the RNC and DNC is that the DNC tells me up front that the Democrats intend to gang-rape me at the outset. The Republicans claim to intend to protect me, but then after I lower my guard I am violated from behind without warning. This is unacceptable but if I am forced to choose between being warned first and being lied to I'll take the warning thank you very little. I made clear to THE RNC that if they want one thin dime from me they can call again when every Republican Senator and Representative masses together on the steps of the Capitol and states in one loud, clear voice for all in America and every TV Network
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POPSObama's Aunt Zeituni Returns to Her Boston Slum UNBELIEVABLE - OBAMA IS THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, HE'S GETTING SLOSHED AT HIS BEER SUMMIT AND HIS POOR AUNT IS LIVING IN A DUMPSTER. THIS MAKES ME FURIOUS. SHE'S YOUR AUNT FOR CHRIST'S SAKE OBAMA? DO YOU HAVE A HEART? DAMN THIS MAKES ME MAD.
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POPSBarney Frank Admits Overloaded the Schedule, Conyers Cant Read Bills = Aliinsky Rule # 8 - Overwhelm Its amazing what small things you pick up when you actually PAY ATTENTION to the Government as they cover up their tracks. Aside from the Obvious story re: the Transparency and Vision of the Federal Reserve, Cross reference this with another story that dovetails into this one. CHUCK TODD, W.H. Correspondant describes a principle Rahm Emmanual Learned about HOW TO PASS Bills in D.C. "Dont just deal with one big issue.. Any bill Can be killed if you give opposition time to unite and organize around it." ~ Chuck Todd, , political Dir. and chief White House correspondent for NBC News, on Rahm Emmanuel's learning experience from Clinton healthcare crash, and how he intends on fixing that mistake.
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POPSEmanuel: Changes To Health System Take Time Senate Inches Forward On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid acknowledged what had become obvious in recent days " that the full Senate would not vote on health care in August. "It's better to have a product based on quality and thoughtfulness rather than try to jam something through," Reid said. But he said the Senate Finance Committee would produce a bill and work on it before the August recess begins. Still, many members of Congress have raised concerns about leaving incomplete legislation unfinished over the summer to be picked apart. Emanuel dismissed the idea that this would bring down the bills, noting that 14,000 people a day lose their health insurance. "The public wants health care reform that fundamentally doesn't put the insurance companies in control of the process, which is where they fundamentally are," he said. He also said lawmakers would welcome hearing from people in their districts about the issue. "Hearing from constituents will
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