Cuz Merica

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Trump to CDC: These Seven Words Are Now Forbidden

 

Do you want your medical treatment to be based on science? The Trump administration disagrees. It has now banned the top US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from using seven words or phrases: “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.”

 

Prominent public health advocates have expressed outrage. For example, Sandro Galea, an epidemiologist and dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, tweeted “This is astonishing. It would be a parody of a flailing effort to limit the effectiveness of #publichealth if it did not suggest a real problem. #7words.” Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, stated that “Among the words forbidden to be used in CDC budget.......

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/trump-to-cdc-these-seven-words-are-now-forbidden/

[john510]

That's an odd request from Trump but i doubt it will make a difference with disease control.

[racerx]

If the word does not exist, then maybe in their world or the world that they want to portray, those symptoms don't exist.

[john510]

Of those seven words only one could be associated with a symptom ? And if you called transgender a symptom you would probably be in big trouble with somebody.I don't agree with Trump on this.The story i read doesn't give an explanation or any suggestion as to why he did it.

[datzenmike]

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/trump-to-cdc-these-seven-words-are-now-forbidden/

 

This is made of shit.... Trump would call it fake.

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Alcee Hastings says $220,000 sex harassment settlement should not have been paid

 

Asexual harassment accusation against U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings resulted in a $220,000 lawsuit settlement — money that the congressman said should not have been paid because he did nothing wrong.

 

The allegations about conduct that former staffer Winsome Packer said occurred from January 2008 to February 2010 — which the Broward-Palm Beach county congressman has repeatedly denied — wended their way through the legal system and congressional ethics process for years.

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-reg-alcee-hastings-harassment-settlement-20171211-story.html

[VFR800]

Forbidden words - communist much? 

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Democratic senator says GOP tax bill doesn’t do enough to help the rich:

 

Sen Dianne Feinstein‏Verified account

@SenFeinstein

 

The Republican tax bill caps the mortgage interest deduction at $750,000 for new mortgages. In California, seven counties have average home prices that are more than $750,000: Alameda, Marin, Orange, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

 

https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/942471021923307520

 

Is California the welfare capital?

 

When Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature overhauled the state’s welfare program last month, some people learned a jarring fact for the first time: California has one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients.

 

That California has a lot of people on welfare was not a secret. In addition to its size, the state has a long history of heavy focus on social services, in part because of years of Democratic dominance in Sacramento.

 

But the size of California’s welfare rolls is disproportionate when you consider the state has only 12 percent of the nation’s population. Some of it has to do with the benefits being more generous than in many other states, but experts also point to various economic and social factors.

 

There’s more to support the notion that this is the welfare state. California:

 

• Pays out one of the highest maximum monthly cash grants to the average family on welfare, $638.

 

• Continues aid for children even when the parents lose eligibility.

 

• Provides benefits even to some who find a job and helps with child care and transportation while attending school or training.

 

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-welfare-capital-of-the-us-2012jul28-htmlstory.html

[racerx]

They also imposed time limits. Used to be no time limits, now its only 48 mos.

[paradime]

"Trump's Seven Dirty Words" Even this Times article sees it's a total left wing media over reaction blown out of context meaning and proportion. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-trump-banned-words.html

 

 

 

To be fair though, Trump has been politically attacking the scientific community from all angles.

 

Nominated a non-scientist to be the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/08/15/reject-this-incompetent-trump-appointee-hes-not-a-scientist/#2dd3252b17b1

 

Bringing Down the House: A Hostile Takeover of Science-Based Policymaking by Trump Appointees

https://blog.ucsusa.org/andrew-rosenberg/bringing-down-the-house-a-hostile-takeover-of-science-based-policymaking-by-trump-appointees

 

Barring Government-Funded Scientists from Serving on Panels

 

Use of the Congressional Review Act To Rescind Regulations Without Scientific Review

 

Appointing Science Advisors With No Scientific Experience or Background

 

Censoring Language in Grants, Websites, or Publications (Actually strategic self censoring in grant writing going on for long time)

 

Trump's Political Agenda Threatens The Future of Scientific research, objectivity, and Integrity. 

 

 

 

 

Little wonder why research scientists are feeling a bit threatened and twitchy these days. 

[a.d._510_n_ok]

To be fair though, Trump has been politically attacking the scientific community from all angles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[john510]

"Trump's Seven Dirty Words" Even this Times article sees it's a total left wing media over reaction blown out of context meaning and proportion. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/health/cdc-trump-banned-words.html

 

 

 

To be fair though, Trump has been politically attacking the scientific community from all angles.

 

Nominated a non-scientist to be the chief scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2017/08/15/reject-this-incompetent-trump-appointee-hes-not-a-scientist/#2dd3252b17b1

 

Bringing Down the House: A Hostile Takeover of Science-Based Policymaking by Trump Appointees

https://blog.ucsusa.org/andrew-rosenberg/bringing-down-the-house-a-hostile-takeover-of-science-based-policymaking-by-trump-appointees

 

Barring Government-Funded Scientists from Serving on Panels

 

Use of the Congressional Review Act To Rescind Regulations Without Scientific Review

 

Appointing Science Advisors With No Scientific Experience or Background

 

Censoring Language in Grants, Websites, or Publications (Actually strategic self censoring in grant writing going on for long time)

 

Trump's Political Agenda Threatens The Future of Scientific research, objectivity, and Integrity. 

 

 

 

 

Little wonder why research scientists are feeling a bit threatened and twitchy these days. 

Yea they're feeling threatened alright.They're publicly funded money tree is getting trimmed.We need science but we don't need to support a giant community of scientists that all pretty much agree on everything.

[datzenmike]

All I want is another 20 years. 25 would be nice... then I'm out of here and you're welcome to pick up the pieces. Hell is other people, and I'm looking at hell right now. There is so much wasted skin walking around right now it's no wonder things are fuckt. What we need is a pandemic to clear away about 3 billion people. Another billion would be lost to 'loss of services' that kept them alive and breeding. What this planet needs is a selective culling of the herd.

[tr8er]

All I want is another 20 years. 25 would be nice... then I'm out of here and you're welcome to pick up the pieces. Hell is other people, and I'm looking at hell right now. There is so much wasted skin walking around right now it's no wonder things are fuckt. What we need is a pandemic to clear away about 3 billion people. Another billion would be lost to 'loss of services' that kept them alive and breeding. What this planet needs is a selective culling of the herd.

You've got my vote in 2020

[datzenmike]

 gato would never allow what he calls a 'socialist' in office. I would end up fixing your health insurance for you. (can't have that)

[racerx]

All I want is another 20 years. 25 would be nice... then I'm out of here and you're welcome to pick up the pieces. Hell is other people, and I'm looking at hell right now. There is so much wasted skin walking around right now it's no wonder things are fuckt. What we need is a pandemic to clear away about 3 billion people. Another billion would be lost to 'loss of services' that kept them alive and breeding. What this planet needs is a selective culling of the herd.

...walking dead

[a.d._510_n_ok]

gato would never allow what he calls a 'socialist' in office. I would end up fixing your health insurance for you. (can't have that)

 

Canada’s health-care wait times hit new record high, again

December 7, 2017

 

Provinces such as British Columbia (26.6 weeks) and Alberta (26.5 weeks) have reached their own historic highs, Quebec has broken the 20-week mark for the first time since 2003, and patients in New Brunswick can expect to wait almost a full year for treatment (41.7 weeks). In fact, in certain provinces, patients can routinely expect to wait more than a year to receive orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery. In many cases, physicians routinely report that their patients wait longer than they (physicians) consider clinically reasonable (never mind what patients would prefer if they had their way).

 

http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/canadas-health-care-wait-times-hit-new-record-high-again/

 

Canadian Health Care Is Failing Our Refugees

05/26/2017

 

Despite policy changes last April to Canada's refugee health care program, many people continue to be left without adequate access to health care.

 

That's the finding that comes out of a series of interviews we conducted recently with refugee service providers in Ottawa.

 

Health care for refugees in Canada falls under the responsibility of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), and it has had some tumultuous years.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/y-y-brandon-chen/canada-refugee-health-care_b_16806790.html

[paradime]

Yea they're feeling threatened alright.They're publicly funded money tree is getting trimmed.We need science but we don't need to support a giant community of scientists that all pretty much agree on everything.

 

Often the out come of a scientific study leans toward the mind set of the funder. Nowhere is this more evident than in climate research. That being said, when it comes to any inexact science, I've never seen scientists agree on pretty much anything.

 

Psychology research is politically loaded and inexact as any field of science. Researchers are deeply divided along two theoretical lines, Cognitive (examining thought processes) vs Psychodynamic (examining unconscious processes}. At the vanguard of psych research these two camps spend most of their energy fighting for academic supremacy, and will not allow ANY blending or acknowledgement of the other side. Even though it doesn't take a God damn genius to recognize both are at play in human psychology and behavior, the division seem to defy all reasoning or logic; That is until you see where the research funding comes from. In addition, these people have invested their entire research career on the foundational premise of their side. These divisions all but insures there will never be a unified theory. 

 

My area of research is developing therapeutic interventions for narcissistic personality disorder. Typically a very difficult population to work with. My approach is using Narrative therapy (cognitive oriented) and transitioning into Object Relations therapy (Psychodynamic oriented). How much funding have I gotten for this? NONE. I don't really catch shit from either side, but am always being preached to about the weaknesses and failures of the other. Being an unfunded outsider has it's advantages though. My research is mine.

[angliagt]

Democratic senator says GOP tax bill doesn’t do enough to help the rich:

 

Sen Dianne Feinstein‏Verified account

@SenFeinstein

 

The Republican tax bill caps the mortgage interest deduction at $750,000 for new mortgages. In California, seven counties have average home prices that are more than $750,000: Alameda, Marin, Orange, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

 

https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/942471021923307520

 

Is California the welfare capital?

 

When Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature overhauled the state’s welfare program last month, some people learned a jarring fact for the first time: California has one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients.

 

That California has a lot of people on welfare was not a secret. In addition to its size, the state has a long history of heavy focus on social services, in part because of years of Democratic dominance in Sacramento.

 

But the size of California’s welfare rolls is disproportionate when you consider the state has only 12 percent of the nation’s population. Some of it has to do with the benefits being more generous than in many other states, but experts also point to various economic and social factors.

 

There’s more to support the notion that this is the welfare state. California:

 

• Pays out one of the highest maximum monthly cash grants to the average family on welfare, $638.

 

• Continues aid for children even when the parents lose eligibility.

 

• Provides benefits even to some who find a job and helps with child care and transportation while attending school or training.

 

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/sdut-welfare-capital-of-the-us-2012jul28-htmlstory.html

 

 

                     I call it "The PEOPLE'S FREE REPUBLIC of CALIFORNIA" - Everything's free,if you don't want to work.

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The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

 

An ambitious U.S. task force targeting Hezbollah's billion-dollar criminal enterprise ran headlong into the White House's desire for a nuclear deal with Iran.

 

In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.

 

The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.

 

Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.

 

They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.

 

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/

[VFR800]

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Women’s March organizer accused of covering up sex abuse

December 18, 2017

 

Controversial Muslim activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour bullied an underling to cover up sex-abuse allegations in her Brooklyn office, a report said.

 

Asmi Fathelbab told blog The Daily Caller that a man repeatedly rubbed his crotch on her while she worked for the association under Sarsour in 2009.

 

But when Fathelbab reported the abuse, Sarsour — a self-proclaimed feminist and co-founder of the Women’s March organization — fat-shamed the woman and threatened to blacklist her from political jobs, the woman told the website.

 

https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/womens-march-organizer-accused-of-covering-up-sex-abuse/

[flyerdan]

It's playing out just like I thought it would; just heard on the radio (Armstrong & Getty show) that some senators are thinking that they acted too hastily in calling for Franken's resignation, which lends an incredible amount of credence tp the theory that his delayed resign announcement was predicated on this going away.  Hey, since the terrorist spokes groups and funding organizations CAIR and LaRaza did a balls to the wall effort to whip up voter frenzy, and quite possibly assisted by Acorn type busing in of voters from MS and GA managed to defeat Roy Moore, there is really no value in going after one of our own anymore.

[Jesse C.]

[datzenmike]

Did Kim get rid of one of his generals? What's the latest on he-who-eats-his-own?