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September 22, 2008
Good news. Governor Palin's "road to nowhere" has just opened and now you can take it there. If that's your destination:
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's transportation department has completed a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of a bridge that Palin, as John McCain's vice presidential…
September 22, 2008
Mrs. R. made the very same comment that Echidne of the Snakes did regarding John McCain's prescription of how to fix the US health care system:
Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices…
September 21, 2008
Hats off to fellow blogger Stephen Soldz and his colleagues, leaders of a coalition within the American Psychological Association that campaigned to put the APA on record declaring participation in torture interrogations at US prisons at Guantanamo Bay and similar prison camps an unethical breach…
September 21, 2008
There are creationists and creationists. One of those creationists (which one?) wants to be just a 72 year old's cardiac arrhythmia away from being President of the United States. It would be historic, although more historic for the rest of us than for the potentially almost President, Governor…
September 20, 2008
Listen to the person who John McCain says knows more about energy than anyone in the United States. Maybe he learned all he knows about energy from her? If so, maybe he'll explain it to the rest of us:
LOL.
September 20, 2008
Generals are often said to be fighting the last war and public health officials likewise are managing the last crisis. At the end of May 2007 we had the notorious flying lawyer with TB flap (see our multiple posts here), so in June 2007 CDC quietly instituted their public health version of the "No…
September 19, 2008
George Bush has consistently gone beyond his legal and constitutional authority and it appears this is still another way John McCain would like to be President McBush:
At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) for…
September 19, 2008
John Conyers (D., Michigan) is a liberal Democrat. As head of the Judiciary Committee he has always carried water for the IP crowd. He's at it again. And he isn't alone. When it comes to paying off campaign contributers this is a non-partisant issue:
These sort of copyright issues cut across the…
September 18, 2008
So with socialism Republican style (socialize the losses, privatize the profits) both Obama and McCain are saying the saw the meltdown coming. We know Barack Obama gave a prescient speech on the financial markets 6 months ago. It wasn't covered much because it wasn't a very interesting sounding…
September 18, 2008
Steve Novella at Science-Based Medicine, a level headed and judicious advocate of better use of scientific evidence in clinical medicine, has written his own view of the BPA issue we covered in a post the other day. Orac pointed to it in the comments as "another take" on the issue. We aren't sure…
September 17, 2008
Devilstower over at Daily Kos does what I think is an effective job of eviscerating John McCain (admittedly this doesn't take a lot of effort these days, but I still admire this take down). Poor Al Gore keeps getting tagged with saying he invented the internet (something he never said, by the way)…
September 17, 2008
We've discussed the component of plastics bisphenol A (BPA) here before (here, here) but yesterday the Journal of the American Medical Association published a significant paper with an accompanying editorial that deserves mention. A panel of the FDA was scheduled to meet the same day to review FDA'…
September 16, 2008
It's those damn lefties at the Wall Street Journal again, nitpicking poor John McCain. Just because McCain said that the Governor hadn't sought any earmarks or special interest spending for her state:
Last week, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said his running mate, Alaska Gov.…
September 16, 2008
As blogger Roy Poses at Health Care Renewal wrote, some things you can't make up. Trying to compete with the Department of Veterans Affairs in the "can you imagine what they did" sweepstakes i fruitless, as I have cause to know. They are perhaps the most dysfunctional federal agency I have ever…
September 15, 2008
That anyone would think -- much less say -- as John McCain did of Governor Palin that she "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America" means either McCain is one of the stupidest people in America (doubtful, since the competition is too strong); or that he…
September 15, 2008
Two of my grandsons were here today. They are just babies (16 months and month and half) but one of them is a little colicky. He looks like he is having cramps after downing his formula. But compared to some babies in China, it's nothing. The formula they've been drinking was adulterated with…
September 14, 2008
Suppose you were a cattle dealer and the US Food and Drug Administration, one of the federal agencies tasked with keep the food supply safe issued you a court order, twice, prohibiting you from putting your product into the food supply until you complied with a legally required record keeping…
September 14, 2008
I'm getting tired of Governor Palin. Maybe I'll move on to her running mate, what's his name. The serial liar. McCain. But before we leave the Governor, this being Sunday Sermonette and all, here's Bill Maher on the subject:
Bill Maher aside, what do we know about Palin's religious views and how…
September 13, 2008
Brought to you without comment:
WALLACE: Senator McCain, if I may -- Senator McCain, you didn't like it much when Governor Romney said recently that he spoke for the Republican wing of the Republican party.
Who's more conservative: you or Mitt Romney?
MCCAIN: I think it's pretty obvious that that…
September 13, 2008
It's not like no one thought Galveston could ever be hit by a monster storm. The city was almost destroyed in The Great Storm of 1900 which struck on September 8 of that year and killed 6000 people. The Thomas Edison Company has historic film footage of the destruction. So it seems a bit odd (I…
September 12, 2008
This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information.…
September 12, 2008
Bush has announced he will reduce the forces in Iraq by 8000 by early 2009. My first thought (after "that's it? I thought we were victorious"; and let's get all of them out now as fast as we can) was to wonder what condition they will be in and what's in store for them in the future? I thought…
September 11, 2008
This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information.…
September 11, 2008
I heard it again the other night. One of the TV chin strokers talking about this poll or that poll showing Obama (or McCain) ahead with a "statistically insignificant" lead, and I thought to myself, no one who knew much about statistics would use a phrase like that. Strictly speaking, while there…
September 10, 2008
This is another in our Daily Dose of Sarah Palin, because even if John McCain didn't think it was that important to learn a lot about the person who might be the next President should some medical event befall the 72 year old cancer survivor should he be elected, most people want more information.…
September 10, 2008
We're well into September and flu season is approaching. Seasonal likely won't peak for another four or five months in the US and Europe but we should expect to start seeing cases in the northern hemisphere soon. A pandemic strain could happen at any time. The 1918 flu's second wave started in late…
September 9, 2008
The newsmedia are being tested to see if a bald-faced lie in a McCain ad will pass without comment. So far they are acquitting themselves well. Sarah Palin's lie that "she said thanks but no thanks" to the Bridge to Nowhere (accompanied by the Road to Nowhere), a lie proudly repeated by John McCain…
September 9, 2008
This week CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) has a quick statistical snapshot of the percent of adults (over the age of 18) who used Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by sex and selected conditions. CDC defines CAM as
A group of diverse health-care systems, practices,…
September 8, 2008
We've come to expect politicians to shade the truth on occasion and we've seen some recent high profile examples of outright lying. For example, John McCain's repeated claim that Sarah Palin sold the previous governor's luxury jet on ebay and even "made a profit". Every part of that claim is a…
September 8, 2008
With all that's going on we sometimes forget about all that went on, even all that went on recently. Like "solving" the anthrax attacks case. Fortunately the New York Times reporters on the case are still on the case. And so is Congress:
A month after the F.B.I. declared that an Army scientist was…