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Ohio's most liberal Representative to Congress is Betty Sutton
August 12, 2010 — buckeyerino
Need some good reasons to vote for Tom Ganley for Congress? There are boatloads of them. Some of the most obvious reasons, for voters who are paying attention, would be the contrasts between Tom Ganley and the Democrat incumbent representing Ohio's 13th Congressional district, Betty Sutton.
If you are unfamiliar with Tom Ganley, the Republican nominee, I would urge you to visit his campaign website for an introduction to him.
If you're a 13th district voter, you should already know U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton.
Did you know that, in the 111th Session of Congress, she has voted the Democrat Party line, as defined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 99% of the time? This ties her with 9 others for 15th place on the list of those voting the Democrat Party line. Only 14 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are ahead of her on that list, and one of those 14 is Nancy Pelosi. Another one of those 14 ahead of her is Pelosi's Number 2, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, but his voting record only supersedes hers by one-tenth of one percent. ONE-TENTH OF ONE PERCENT SEPARATES HER FROM THE NUMBER 2 DEMOCRAT IN THE U.S. HOUSE! Keep in mind that there are 433 (two vacant seats, otherwise 435) House members, and that 255 of them are Democrats. 15th place is rarefied air, indeed.
If you're curious about how loyal other Democrat members of Ohio's delegation are to Nancy Pelosi, the Washington Post presents this webpage. 56 Democrats are ahead of Tim Ryan, with a voting record that's 98.4% in line with Nancy Pelosi. Mary Jo Kilroy and Charlie Wilson clock in with 98.1%. Marcia Fudge is pegged at 97.7%.
By contrast, no Ohio Republicans show as much loyalty to the Republican Party line as these 5 Ohio Democrats do to the Democrat Party line. Overall, Democrats in the U.S. House are more monolithic in their loyalty to the Democrat Party line than Republicans are to theirs. Are Congressional Republicans the monolithic obstructionist "Party of No?" With only 180 Republican members of the U.S. House, to begin with, Republicans have very little power to block the majority party. When legislation that Pelosi wants is "obstructed" from passage, defectors from her own party made that "0bstruction" possible. The record shows, however, that defection is more rare among Democrats than among Republicans. I can only interpret that to mean that Republicans are more bipartisan.
Oh, you wanted to know the rest of the Pelosi-loyalty numbers for Ohio's Congressional Democrats: Marcy Kaptur, 96.2%; Steve Driehaus, 94.7%; John Boccieri, 93.8%; Zack Space, 93.2%; Dennis Kucinich, 91.6%. OK, Kucinich is far more liberal than this Pelosi-loyalty percentage would indicate, but I still maintain that he's not as liberal as Betty Sutton.
In my book, Nancy Pelosi is uber-liberal, firmly entrenched in the left-wing of the left-wing of the Democrat Party, as is her constituency back in her San Francisco & vicinity home district, California's 8th Congressional district. Here's a map of Pelosi's home district, just so you can get an idea of who her constituents are. Therefore, in my book, the more one votes the Democrat Party line, which line is defined by uber-liberal Nancy Pelosi, the more liberal one is likely to be, with few exceptions. By that standard, Betty Sutton is Ohio's most liberal Representative to the U.S. House, and our state has some fairly liberal Congress members.
I know some of you will say "Dennis Kucinich doesn't vote as often with Nancy Pelosi because he's even further to the left than Pelosi is." I disagree. There may be a very small handful of issues where Kucinich is further left than Pelosi, but I can think of a number of occasions, particularly during Presidential Democrat Primary debates, when Kucinich has made statements that are much more mainstream, some of which even I, DJW, had to agree with. I truly believe that both Pelosi and Sutton are more liberal than Kucinich.
Now, I want you to look at this map of Ohio's 13th Congressional district, covering the northern half of Lorain County, a wide stripe of southern Cuyahoga County, a wide stripe of northern Medina County, and the western half of Summit County. Now I ask you, which community in that district is as liberal as Betty Sutton? I don't think Lorain or Elyria are. I should know. I've campaigned in those communities, myself. Oberlin is the most liberal community in Lorain County, and it's in Marcy Kaptur's district, not Sutton's. Does the constituency of Betty Sutton's home district resemble the constituency of Nancy Pelosi's home district? I don't think so. I think there's a terrible mismatch between the pulse of the 13th district and the ideology of Betty Sutton, and I think it's high time that the voters knew that Sutton is out of touch with them.
(By the way, how frequently is she hosting live, in-person town hall meetings?)
In 2006, when U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown left the 13th District seat open in order to vie for his Senate seat, there were crowded fields in both the Democrat and Republican primaries to succeed him. In the nomination contests, no candidates reached a majority (over 50%) of each respective party's votes. Carpetbagger Betty Sutton was nominated with 31.29% of the Democrat vote. Two keys to her nomination victory were Sherrod Brown's endorsement and Emily's List's backing. Emily's List, by the way, is a PAC that endorses female candidates who embrace uber-liberal feminist political positions (as opposed to mainstream feminist political positions), with the most important tenet to embrace being support for abortion-on-demand. To Emily's List, Sarah Palin is the most disgusting piece of crap on the planet.
Lorain Mayor (at the time) Craig Foltin was nominated with 37.46% of the Republican vote. I was an unabashed supporter of Foltin, and gave some help to his campaign as a volunteer.
Betty Sutton won the seat in the November 2006 elections when anti-Republican sentiment had reached its high-water mark in Ohio in the wake of some widely publicized scandals that tarnished some of Ohio's Republican politicians. It was a difficult political environment for Foltin to campaign in that year.
There was a former U.S. President who had a campaign mantra, "It's the economy, stupid!" Oh yeah, that was Bill Clinton. Way back then, I guess Sutton wasn't paying attention. Should we forgive her for it?
Besides knowing the district and its needs very well, Foltin understood a number of things about economics, unlike Betty Sutton, who has to be told how to vote on economic issues because she can't figure out such things by herself.
In 2008, I endorsed Dave Potter for Congress over Sutton, and much of my decision was based on their relative understandings of economics. Potter knew economic principles quite well, while Sutton has to rely on others for guidance on economic decisions, and those those guiding Sutton seem to be more rooted in mythology than reality.
At the time of Sutton's campaign against Potter, this is what she touted as her economic record:
Rep. Sutton supports the suspension of purchases of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) temporarily. Filling the SPR takes 70,000 barrels of oil off the market each day, even though the reserve is 97 percent full with enough to meet our national security needs. At a time of record prices, suspending these government purchases, as we have done in the past, could reduce gas prices by 5 to 24 cents a gallon — a critical first step for America's families, businesses, and the economy.
Rep. Sutton has joined with other Freshman House members to urge the President to temporarily suspend purchases of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This would allow more oil to remain on the market and could drive down the price of gas for consumers by as much as $.25 a gallon.
Rep. Sutton is also a cosponsor of H.R. 5473 to temporarily suspend shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Rep. Sutton is a cosponsor of H.R. 2372 – WEAN Off of Oil Act (DeLauro) – Imposes a 50% tax on crude oil profits over $50 per barrel by major oil companies and directs proceeds to the Strategic Energy Efficiency and Renewables Reserve.
House passed bill to deal with price-gouging/fixing at the wholesale and retail level: Rep. Sutton cosponsored and the House passed H.R. 1252 – Federal Price Gouging Prevention Act (Rep. Stupak) – Protects consumers from price-gouging of gasoline and other fuels by setting criminal penalties and permitting states to bring lawsuits against wholesalers or retailers.
House passed bill to address price fixing at the OPEC level: Rep. Sutton voted for and the House passed H.R. 2264 – No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC) – Authorizes the Justice Department to take legal action against OPEC state-controlled entities that participate in conspiracies to limit the supply, or fix the price, of oil.
Market Manipulation: Rep. Sutton is a cosponsor of the Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act, H.R. 594 (The PUMP Act). This bill would amend the Commodity Exchange Act to extend its jurisdiction to certain: (1) "included energy transactions" traded on an electronic trading facility; and (2) certain energy commodities involved in over-the-counter transactions. This would address market manipulation on the commodity level and empowers the Commodities Futures Trading Commission to impose civil and criminal penalties for price manipulation and other violations of such Act.
Oil savings from the Energy Independence and Security Act: The bill increases fuel efficiency standards to 35 miles per gallon in 2020. The fuel economy and renewable fuel standards combined will save the U.S. 2.3 million barrels of oil a day in 2020, which is about what we import from the Persian Gulf today. This act is important as we reduce our dependence on oil. The fuel economy provisions alone will create 149,300 jobs, and save consumers $22 billion at the pump every year starting in 2020 ($700 – $1000), even after paying for the fuel-saving technology needed to meet the standards.
The Energy Independence and Security Act also invests in clean renewable energy. (Since the bill did not repeal all of the subsidies paid to big oil, Rep. Sutton joined with other Freshman House Members and signed two letters urging Congressional leadership to continue to pursue an increase in a renewable electricity standard (RES) and to pass renewable energy and efficiency tax incentives paid for by ending subsidies to big oil companies. Sutton also voted for H.R H.R. 5351, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Act, which passed the House. This bill contains provisions to end unnecessary subsidies to big oil companies and instead provide tax incentives to invest in clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Long-term Reinvestment in Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing. Rep. Sutton wrote a letter, co-signed by several other members of Congress, to the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development urging funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Incentive Program. This program was authorized by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and provides low interest loans to automobile manufacturers and component suppliers. The loans would cover up to 30% of the cost of retooling a manufacturing facility in the United States to produce advanced technology vehicles or their key components, e.g., engines and transmissions.
My own take on the above bullet points is as follows:
Sutton's measures vis-a-vis the Strategic Petroleum Reserve=a drop in the bucket, so that wipes out the first 3 bullet points. In hindsight, those measures did not bring about the savings they projected. Other marketplace factors, such as supply and demand, brought the gasoline prices down from record highs.
The fourth bullet point just means that when oil prices were already high, she wanted to add more taxes to make the prices higher.
5th bullet point, redundant. We already have state laws that protect us from retail price gouging.
6th bullet point, silly, because our Justice Department can't really take on OPEC countries, and going after the companies only induces a shell game.
7th bullet point, half measure. The whole futures market is in need of overhaul. Tweaking is insufficient. Even as of August 2010, we still don't have the kind of marketplace reforms that our economy needs.
8th bullet point, 2020 is a long way off, so, nice maneuver to look like you're doing something when, in the short run, the status quo is maintained. Further, is it the government's responsibility to dictate to the automobile manufacturers what the consumers want? Or are consumers capable of buying what they want and skipping over what they don't want? Do car companies want to respond to what consumers want, in the interest of selling cars? Or would they rather thumb their nose at consumers, and have cars rust on the sales lots?
9th bullet point, Sutton signed two letters.
10th bullet point, Sutton wrote a letter.
As the 2008 campaign season was winding down to a close, the matter of government bailouts came before Congress. There were two votes held on a bill to bail out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion, because the first try didn't succeed. Sutton voted no the first time, but she didn't seem to know why it was a good thing to vote no. The bill was no better the second time around. But in between the first vote and the second vote, Sutton set up a conference call between Presidential candidate Barack Obama and freshman Democrats who voted no. Hitching her wagon to the Obama juggernaut, I believe, is what interested Sutton in changing her vote. No matter if you embrace Keynesian economics or, like me, reject the government's economic manipulations prescribed by Keynesian economics, the gist of the bill did not change, therefore, votes should not have changed. But some people, like Sutton, switched their votes, which means they don't have an inner compass that guides them on economic issues. Peer pressure, lobbying, twisting arms, fear tactics–those are the reasons people would change their vote.
When Sutton held a press conference to explain the vote switch, it was heavily scripted, and spoken like an automaton. The Cleveland Plain Dealer had a clip of it that you can see here. Those aren't genuinely her words that are being spoken. It was an act of ventriloquism, and she was the dummy. But even if you took her words at face value and gave her the benefit of the doubt that those words did originate from her, the message still makes no sense.
Since then, she hasn't met a bailout she didn't like, including the bailout for state education budgets across the nation that was voted on two days ago.
Her support of cap-and-trade clearly shows she has no interest in defending your pocketbooks from being emptied. If enacted, the public will see sharply increased electric bills, especially in Ohio.
Tax cuts are expiring, and the tax codes will change the way you calculate deductions–for the worse.
We should definitely mention "Cash-for-Clunkers." Sutton was all about "Cash-for-Clunkers." For about a month or so, consumers were given a window of opportunity to trade in their old cars for new ones and reap the benefit of a government subsidy to do so. Are subsidies free money? When the government offers a rebate on a purchase, do they just wave a magic wand, and a fairy godmother makes it all happen? No. The government must either confiscate more of the public's money, or print more of their own money. Did "Cash-for-Clunkers" prime the pump? What do you think? What's the economy like, right now? Today? This very minute that you are reading this? If you don't measure the value of "Cash-for-Clunkers" in dollars squandered by the government in a failed attempt to stimulate the economy, but measure the value in terms of reduced carbon emissions, what do you think? Did it work? Are polar bears partying on the ice floes because carbon emissions were actually reduced? I don't think even one little ice cube in the Arctic Ocean was saved from melting because of "Cash-for-Clunkers."
The government can subsidize, it can bail out, it can rebate, it can stimulate this aspect of the economy, and that aspect of the economy, and we needn't worry about where the money comes from, for the majority caucus is firm on its commitment to be budget neutral–no increase in budget deficits, no increase in the national debt. Inefficiencies can be weeded out, and that will pay for all these proposals. That's especially true in the case of Obamacare. But I'm here to tell you that it's all a myth. Sutton has worked to propagate just such a myth. Obamacare will have REAL costs, and you'll feel them acutely when you file your taxes next year.
With no economic moorings, Sutton has just gone with the flow, been driven by the wind, and tossed by the waves. Spend. Spend. Spend. Spend. $$$$$$$$$$$$$
She's all excited because she gets to make a difference! She's delivering on providing all the social supports she always wanted to! She's subsidizing the common folk. She's giving health care to those who couldn't afford it. Oh, business is being adversely affected? Don't worry, we'll bail them out. She's putting lots of money into renewable energy because the industry can't be profitable and certainly can't yield the output our economy needs, but what price can you put on being loved by the environmental special interest groups? Isn't being loved more important than the dollars squandered on ventures that won't yield returns? Enrollment might be dropping at the public schools in your area, but, don't worry, teaching staffs won't be cut! Congress to the rescue! She has such compassion for those who are out of work, so she'll vote to extend unemployment benefits again and again and again. By the way, the federal government might be hiring, so, why not apply? She plans to keep voting for government expansion, so if you don't get hired by the government today, try again another day.
Doesn't Betty Sutton know that she's feeling giddy because she's on a shopping spree to end all shopping sprees with money that comes for free? It's not free money, but she's not ready to learn where all the money comes from right now. She's not done dispensing her government charity for worthy causes. When every constituent group has been cared for, that's when she'll have a chance to be schooled on where the money comes from.
Let's boil it down to this: Sutton clearly believes in a centrally planned economy.
Soviet bloc governments used to centrally plan economies. Look what happened to them. Their propaganda stated that it was for the public good. North Korea still has a centrally planned economy. North Korea's propaganda states that it's for the public good. How are they faring?
Sutton also says it's for the public good.
Sutton is so liberal, she's a Soviet.
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March 21, 2014 Matt Gottesman
The Associated Students Organization (ASO) participated with the American Red Cross in collecting blood donations during their monthly blood drive, Wednesday March 19, according to the Associated Student Organization.
Students came to the event from 9 a.m. until 3:15 p.m. to enjoy snacks, tunes, and save some lives.
ASO President Gus Sandoval helped organize the drive, and pointed out that the ASO has worked with the Red Cross in the past.
"We've had a long-standing relationship with the Red Cross," Sandoval said. "It's part of our community welfare outreach."
The Red Cross has provided a consistent, comfortable atmosphere at every oncampus drive, according to Sandoval.
The nonprofit organization hosts theses events at Pierce for free.
"They want us to start getting fair market value for the use of our facilities," Sandoval said. "Our administrative services are pushing to make sure that happens."
Courtney Caldwell, a Red Cross donor recruitment representative, said Pierce's ASO helped find more donors.
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The Red Cross usually sets up four blood drives every semester that draws an average of 300 units of blood a year, according to Caldwell.
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"I was really nervous because a lot of people were like, 'you'll feel really dizzy after'," Morgan said. "But I felt fine."
Students and faculty that missed the drive can go to the Red Cross' Woodland Hills Donor center to give blood or visit www.redcrossblood.org to make an appointment.
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Abortion!
Half of Americans and 57% of Southern Californians View Abortion as MURDER
Abortion has been linked to a 100 fold increase in autism, ADHD, ADD; world's highest rate of obese children taking 400,000 lives and costs $100 billion EACH YEAR; a tripling of the cancer and breast cancer rate; the 128 point drop in SAT scores; the ten fold increase in fetal deaths; and our death estrogen-soaked water supply
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Numbers 35:33
For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life, Leviticus 17:11
One in a series "Killing Christians Through Better Medicine"
"In keeping with our rejection of the common law understanding of a woman's role within the family [read: God's Law], the Court held in Danforth that the Constitution does not permit a State to require a married woman to obtain her husband's consent before undergoing an abortion" Sandra Day O'Connor. 428 U. S., at 69
By age 45, 43% of women in the United States have had at least one abortion
Roe v. Wade didn't give American women the "right" to have 58 million abortions–it simply criminalized the right of American men to object
If we were to rely strictly on the above table from the US Statistical Abstract, we'd believe that Black women are 3.5 times more likely than White women to have an abortion. But reality is far different from that, because included in the "White" category are Hispanic women who are much more likely than White women to have an abortion.
From the Now Discredited Guttmacher
� Non-Hispanic white women account for 36% of abortions, non-Hispanic black women for 30%, Hispanic women for 25% and women of other races for 9%.[6]
� Thirty-seven percent of women obtaining abortions identify as Protestant and 28% as Catholic.[6]
Since Hispanic women are 15.3% of the population and 25% of all abortions, they are over-represented by two thirds. Of the 668,000 abortions in 2007 attributed to White women, 167,000 were actually Hispanic women and 501,000 were White women. Thus the abortion rate of White women is 10.4, which means that Black women are actually 4.7 times rather than only 3.5 times more likely to have an abortion.
Abortion pictures, these are the pictures of abortion. The pictures of death
Over 4,000 of these precious children are killed by abortion each day in America alone. When will it end?
Picture after picture – These are the photos of death. Of abortion.
What women don't know about abortion
JAMA reports that abortion more than doubles the odds of a miscarriage.
Researcher Dr. Janet Darling: abortion increases the risk of breast cancer 35%.
Brent Rooney, Medical researcher: abortion is quackery.
Abortions lead to post abortion stress syndrome.
Abortion increases women's suicide rate 6 times.
Abortion increases women's risk of being murdered or killed accidentally 12 times.
Abortion reduces the fertility rate of Greek women.
10,000 women die each year from botched abortions.
Richardson & Dickson: miscarriage rate for women who aborted is 2.3 times higher than for those with no abortion (17.5% vs. 7.5%)
Ireland, who never legalized abortion, has the lowest maternal mortality rate.
Additional facts about abortion that you probably don't know.
Killing Teen Women With Better Medicine–RU-486.
Proponents of abortion:
The U.S. Supreme Court.
American jews.
Abortion doctors.
Three quarters of Americans oppose legalized abortion:
Gallup Poll: 73% oppose abortion-on-demand and 48% believe abortion is murder.
Zogby Poll: 61% voted for pro-life candidates, only 31% voted for pro-abortion candidates.
Barna Poll: only 42% believe abortion should be legal all the time or most of the time.
Los Angeles Times Poll: "57% of respondents say they consider abortion to be murder".
Statistical Handbook of the American Family--only 40% support the legalization of abortion.
Abortion quiz: less than 12% believe baby should be aborted due to poverty or inconvenience.
Activists against abortion:
Senator Steve King: end "legalized abortion".
Norma McCorvey (the Roe of Roe v. Wade) wants laws against abortion restored.
Anti-abortion candidates win big time:
73% supported by pro-life Anthony's List WON!
64% supported by pro-life CWPAc WON!
81% supported by pro-abortion Emily's List LOST!
91% supported by pro-abortion NARAL LOST!
Justice Scalia: no right to abortion.
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The increase in a woman's probability of dying from breast cancer due to abortion is 12 times greater than the amount by which wearing a seatbelt reduces her probability of death in a traffic accident. For such women, putting on a seatbelt is about like using a sock to stop bleeding from the carotid artery, or putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound
Thanks to affirmative action, "our" US Supreme Court is now populated by known incompetents and anti-Christians who can't even comprehend the absurdity of legalized abortions. It took on authority which was prohibited to it by the US Constitution, by legalizing abortion in 1973 with Roe vs. Wade. It did so contrary to two centuries of case law to the contrary, and in violation of the spirit and intent of our Forefathers who rightly outlawed such sins and abominations against God. It did so against the will of two thirds of the American people who oppose the legalized abortions which are currently taking place, and against the will of one half to 57% of Americans who view abortion as murder. It did so against the instructions of the Holy Bible and in violation of the principles of 290 million Americans who are Christians, against the teachings of Jesus Christ, and against God's will. It did so against the will of eighty million Catholics whose Pope issued dire warnings about the consequences. It did so to the great detriment of the forty million Americans who have been aborted to date, and the economy and government to which they would have been productive employees and taxpayers. It did so against the will of men, even those whose children were conceived in marriage, by removing 100% of his authority in such an important decision while granting 100% of this authority to the mothers who proceeded to kill forty million of their own children.
It left American men with zero legal rights to prevent even one of the 40 million babies murdered in the womb in the last three decades.
This obscene Supreme Court decision left a field mouse with even more "human rights" than a human baby, much less his putative "father". It made the womb of an American woman eight times more dangerous to God's Children than Nazi Concentration Camps were to jews, IF all their ludicrous stories had been 100% true. It contributed to a doubling of the divorce rate, a tripling of the murder rate, a quintupling of the illegitimacy rate, and a ten fold increase in the number of American men behind bars.
Like a bucket of cold ice water in the face, it didn't even reduce the pregnancy rate, and instead led to a 5% increase. Even coupled with the birth control pill, it reduced child birth by a mere 20%. It trivialized marriage so much that 50 million American men of marriageable age refuse to marry or stay married, leaving 50 million women and mothers in poverty, at the altar, with 20 million illegitimate children whom they cannot rear nor discipline, raising children under the stigma of welfare, most of them cruel addicts of drugs, alcohol, the arrogant husband called "government".
Even the leftist Gallup Organization notes that only a quarter of Americans support the abortion-on-demand that we now have and that half of them view abortion as murder http://www.gallup.com/poll/indicators/indabortion.asp How could even this amoral quarter of the population support a law which killed forty million babies which they KNOW is viewed by 137 million of their Americans as nothing less than the government-sponsored murder of potential fellow Americans?
It gave feminists like Shere Hite the chutzpah to brag before a shocked American audience on "network TV" that "seventy percent of American women commit adultery within 5 years of marriage", causing the birth of four hundred thousand children in families who aren't even genetically linked to their "fathers":
"Some physicians doing tissue typing for organ donations estimate that maybe 20% of people are not genetically related to the men claiming fatherhood" Barbara Rothman, "Recreating Motherhood", page 225
Since that ruling was made, against the majority will of the American population, against the good common sense of the 264 million Christians in this country, contrary to common sense and decency, against God's will, in violation of the teachings of the Holy Bible and every Pope for the last two millennia, against the principles of most other world religions, in contradiction to the vast majority of the preachers and pastors and priests of this country, but to the delight of mental health workers, abortion doctors, judges, jew lawyers, prison guards, jailers, jew doctors whose businesses skyrocketed:
130 million American women got pregnant.
40 million American women have had "abortions" [read: murdered babies in God's most sacred environment].
90 million gave birth.
27 million gave birth to children out of wedlock.
63 million gave birth to children in families.
12.6 million wives gave birth to children who are not even the biological offspring of the husbands of those families.
THAT bears repeating: 12.6 million wives have given birth to children who are not the biological offspring of the husbands of those families.
12.6 million wives have given birth to children who are not the biological offspring of the husbands of those families?
American men don't ask much of their women. They know that men constitute 95% of our ponderous prison population and women only 5%, even though women are 59 times more likely to murder their children than fathers–but they do nothing. They know that the high accident rate of women causes the deaths of an additional 6,200 men annually in traffic accidents, giving us a motor vehicle fatality rate almost three times higher than England–but they do nothing. They know that women pilots are four times more likely than men pilots to crash–but they do nothing. They know that women are five times more likely than men to be acquitted of the same crime, that they are 16% less likely to be convicted if tried for the same crime, that men receive prison sentences 2.7 times longer than women for the same crime, that wives are twice as likely as husbands to initiate a contract to kill their spouse–but they do nothing. They know that American men are 1,000 times more likely than Japanese men or Italian men or Greek men to be accused, tried, and convicted of rape, and that half of those convicted don't even match the DNA evidence from the "crime scene"–but they do nothing. They know that women own 65% of the wealth in the nation even though men earn 43% more than women, and that men are 99.993% of the battle deathsin the wars we have ever fought, and women only 0.007%–but they are content with that.
All they ask is that married women bear their husband's children!
But they killed 40 million babies in the womb instead.
Observe the fingers of a baby in the womb holding the finger of a surgeon, and then tell me about "my body, my choice".
As bad as that is, far worse is cheating on their husbands so frequently that 12.6 million children are subjected to the shame, social pathologies, and stigma of not even being biologically linked to their own putative fathers.
And worse than that? There are 12.6 million men who were STUPID enough to trust women enough to marry them and believe that their oaths to God to honor and obey them would be upheld, who were forced to pay to raise their mailman's or gardener's children, at the very same time that they were robbed of their heritage and their heirs.
If this 12.6 million adulterous women were to be punished as the Holy Bible demands that they be and as they should be to bring this practice to a halt, rather than men being 95% of the two million inmates in our jails and prisons, women would be nine out of then of fifteen million inmates. But punishing wives who commit adultery would REDUCE crimes committed by men, as well as prevent women from committing adultery, which would leave far less than 2 million men in prison.
ABORTION INCREASED UNWANTED PREGNANCIES
The worst part of the abortion hoax is that, as abortions accelerated 25 fold (from less than 65,000 prior to Roe v. Wade to more than 1.6 million in 1990), "unwanted pregnancies" and "unwanted child births" (as reflected by the percent of teen births to unmarried women) skyrocketed four fold. Not only that, but the birth rate of unmarried teens doubled as abortions became more and more available to them, and as their own parents were removed from their serious decisions regarding an abortion, demonstrating that such a dramatic change in our laws DID adversely affect their moral principles, something that was not an improvement for any class of citizen.
From a feminazi web site
Results of an informal abortion poll.
I recently asked readers to answer some questions regarding their views on abortion. Although only 78 people who responded, a couple important points immediately made themselves clear:
Men should not be making the decision as to the legality of abortion. In fact, a few of the women who responded to the poll felt nobody should be making that decision, including women! Of all the women polled, over two thirds of the women felt that men should not be involved in the decision-making process.
The term pro-life should be changed. Almost one quarter of the women who said they were pro-life believed that women should have the choice to have an abortion. That, at least in my point of view, means that these women are not pro-life. They are pro-choice! But saying that you are pro-choice, and thus NOT pro-life, has such a negative connotation.
Girls Talk About AbortionYoung women who've had or wanted an abortion talk about the experience.www.standupgirl.com
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Who doesn't want to be "pro life"? The term just doesn't make sense as the opposite to pro-choice. I am "pro life"… I mean I'm certainly not "pro death," but I am also 100% pro-choice. This doesn't make me pro-abortion. I don't run around touting abortion as the best form of birth control, and I honestly don't know that I could have an abortion… but I do know that I am certainly not going to impose my views on any other woman. So perhaps the more accepted term should be "anti-choice," or "anti-abortion," instead of "pro-life". I think more women could identify with "pro-choice" if it weren't the opposite of "pro-life."
Results of the Poll
American women are confused?
Of the 78 women who answered the poll, 73% of them considered themselves to be pro-choice, while 27% felt they were pro-life. I'm not surprised by the amount of pro-choice views, considering the answers were solicited from the women's issues site, which tends to contain more pro-choice readers.
Of the 57 women who stated that they were pro-choice:
33% said that they would not choose to have an abortion.
Only 19% had ever been to a pro-choice rally, but 68% of them were willing to attend one.
72% of the women stated that partial-birth abortions should remain legal.
Of the 21 women who said that they were pro-life:
81% said that they believe abortion should be illegal.
24% believed that women should have the choice of having an abortion.
95% would still remain friends with a woman who had an abortion.
24% have attended a pro-life rally, and 57% would attend if available.
43% said they were pro-life because of religious reasons.
57% said they would tell a stranger not to get an abortion.
95% stated that they would tell their friends not to get an abortion.
Of all the women polled:
71% believe that men should not have the right to determine the legality of abortions. (24% of the pro-life women, and 88% of the pro-choice women).
24% of the women had obtained at least one abortion – and all of these women considered themselves to be pro-choice.
36% of the women have considered having an abortion (29% of the pro-life women, and 39% of the pro-choice women).
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Presented at Acquia Engage APAC by Luis Andrade, Director, Digital Experience - Global Marketing, UL.
To digitally empower a large organization, broaden your focus and build the necessary supports. You're not just giving your marketers and technologists a sandwich: you're providing the tools they need to make their own sandwich whenever they need one.
Creating a robust digital platform for building, deploying and maintaining online properties — it's a lot like building a deli. Make sure you have all the right components to build the various sandwiches people want, over and over again. Bread, main filling, toppings, spreads: these are the items covered in your platform architecture and your digital style guide or pattern library plus your toolkit for rolling out new sites, including each and every component they can use. These components serve up your content types, your calls-to-action, landing page structures, translation workflows, personalization opportunities, and much more.
Solve for your large, diversified and distributed organization's digital problems by delivering a unified brand identity and experience to a broad range of audiences the easier way. Empower your marketers through a single flexible platform, including digital guidelines and best practices — this is your deli, which allows consistent-quality sandwich-making on a scale that can't be done without all those disparate pieces in place. This prevents your whole organization from starting from scratch every time.
This session will show how UL and development partner Genuine have used Acquia Cloud Site Factory and Acquia Lift (with Content Hub) to deliver a platform that reduces cost, time and effort to build and maintain online properties, freeing up staff and budget to focus on experiences that will result in an optimal user journey. Learn how we've leveraged each tool to deliver this platform, challenges we've overcome and lessons we've learned along the way. Learn how to build your own deli.
Imagine that your company's main product is a plain turkey sandwich. It is quite enough to support your mission to feed hungry people around the world.
Now imagine that, after over 100 years with almost no competition, your sandwich is the most recognized product in your country and your brand is widely respected for its quality, consistency and integrity.
In the past 20 years the world has changed at a progression and a pace unlike any other time in human history.
It became smaller and more connected. It became more diverse and refined. It became more demanding and way harder to predict.
In short, everything around you became a lot more complicated.
And now, your simple Turkey Sandwich is... Just. Not. Enough.
For 120 years, UL has been working to make the world a safer place.
Our safety standards test pretty much everything you see around you (the lights in this room, the furniture, the wall's insulation, clothes, phones, computers) and also a lot of things you do NOT see (like electronic transactions, wifi signals, water and air quality).
UL's 'Turkey Sandwich' has evolved a lot over the years but the challenges our clients face today are different and, to remain relevant in our mission, we needed to diversify our business even more.
So, in the last 15 years we grew from 300Mi to almost 2Bi in revenue, from 7K employees to over 14K all over the world.
We also acquired over 40 new business. In fact, we had 14 new acquisitions in a single year. That's basically a new acquisition announcement per month.
Layering all of these new things and they get difficult to "stay together"
This rapid expansion provoked a clash in between the Corporate side of the company (high governance, high control and centralized processes, with low tolerance for change) and the business side of the company (high flexibility and adaptability, focused on innovation, revenue and speed-to-market).
Unable to achieve their goals through corporate options, our business divisions went 'rogue'. They built their own systems, websites and processes with little in common with each other.
Over 400 distinct digital properties, the majority of which had no relation or connection to each other in any way. Each site trying to represent some aspect of our portfolio of services, with more than 300 sub-brands.
In our original audit, we estimated a total of 200,000 pages across the entire digital landscape, only 15% of those coming from our main ul.com property and half of them with no updated content in years.
Just to give you a sense of proportion, at the time, we had about 300 people working in Marketing across the globe. That meant EACH marketing person in the company had around 1.5 digital properties w/over 600 pages (interns and contractors included).
OUTLINE DETAILS - STEP 4 - What are you hungry for?
We needed to solve this problem, but it was clear that following the traditional corporate conventions was not going to bring us any closer to the solution.
What if, instead of trying to put that genie back in its bottle, we embraced our own complexity? What if, instead of combining everything back again into a single website (the definition of insanity anyone?), we found meaningful ways to connect them and let them target their users experiences without fragmenting our brand?
That's when we realized we needed to move our marketing people away from managing sites and into authoring content. We needed to stop them from caring about designing pretty pages so they could care more about creating better content.
In short, we we needed to build a whole system of distributed gourmet kitchens where our stakeholders would be free to create any sandwiches they could ever imagine.
But first we needed to understand what our Stakeholders were using their sites for and try to find a common thread or pattern across all of our digital properties (official or rogue) and understand what was the real purpose behind each one. For that we spent almost a year talking to different business stakeholders and hearing the stories and strategies behind each channel they built or maintained.
Content was either very generic, talking to broad audiences about our company as a whole (our brand, our mission, our approach and thought leadership) or very segmented, talking to very specific audiences about a very specific 'things' (an industry, a persona, a region, etc).
Everything in between lacked clear purpose and, not surprisingly, many did not provide any real ROI.
to defined a new approach for site governance based not on central control but on strategic purpose and distribution. An approach that could promote the right behaviors and incentivize our Stakeholders to focus their time on content creation.
This led to a governance model akin to real state, with rules and policies based on zones according to your main use of the property (like residential, commercial and industrial zones).
The next (and hardest) step was to define a full set of standards for content syndication, with relationship rules and shared taxonomies.
To help explain these ideas and gain agreement from executives around the globe, we created several videos and presentations selling our vision for a new Digital Experience Platform.
A platform where Marketing content could be created anywhere and published everywhere in our landscape. We called that CAPE.
<LUIS> With the vision defined, budget secured and enough supporters drafted, it was time to make it real.
Let's think of our marketers sandwich artists to borrow from a company that has a pretty good handle on the sandwich market. What we wanted to do is provide them with the quality equipment, tools, floor plans, branding, well-sourced ingredients and even signature sandwiches to successfully serve their customers.
One of the first things we did was to head to a test kitchen and develop a very simple proof of concept. In this case, we wanted prove out our content syndication model, which was a key component of the vision. To do so, we partnered with a development group to devise a hackathon where we pitted 2 development teams against each other to develop solutions that would target existing UL sites (many of them on Wordpress) and scrape structured data (content) into a centralized "aggregator" for viewing.
After 3 days of development, the teams demoed their solutions to us, neither of which became the foundation for the solution we ultimately implemented (more on that in a second). But the value of the hackathon was that it really set the tone for the two years that followed: Namely, a spirit of partnership that was built on a willingness to think differently, experiment together, and approach things in new ways.
suffice to say since we're here at Engage, UL ultimately chose to go with Drupal and Acquia -- and it really was a no-brainer.
There were a number of things that really drew UL to Drupal and Acquia, but I think most importantly to the project, two of Acquia's products aligned extremely closely with UL's vision for the platform.
Our platform is being built in Drupal 8, using the Acquia Cloud Site Factory product and using Acquia Lift for both personalization and to power content syndication through Acquia Content Hub, which is bundled with Acquia Lift.
We were drawn to site factory because it enabled the digital experience team to build, deploy and manage sites at scale from a centralized dashboard, addressing a HUGE pain point with the current set-up. And, with the ACSF JumpStart workshop offered as part of the subscription, soon after all the contractual fun was worked out, we spent 2 days with Renee Stephen from Acquia tackling a whole host of architecture questions to help us chart a path forward.
And, because content syndication -- the CAPE model that I outlined -- was so critical to the platform, we also needed a way to achieve that at scale. And it turned out that Acquia Lift, which packages up Acquia Content Hub met the majority of our needs. With content hub, every site on the platform automatically publishes content to the Content Hub. Then individual sites can "subscribe" to specific content on their site and that content will then be syndicated to their site, retaining canonical references, etc.
So every good deli needs quality equipment -- deli case, refrigerator, slicer, etc. For our platform, beyond the Acquia products I mentioned, we needed to align on a standardized set of tools and equipment for our platform. This ranged from the basic site building blocks like CTA banners, image carousels, sliders and related content views; to more complex integrations with best-in-breed enterprise tools like Marketo and Cloudwords, and even integration with other internal UL systems like our Commercial Resource Center and our Tradeshow Management application. Regardless of the complexity, the approach was the same: build the functionality in an abstracted manner that lives at the base level and then can be customized and configured (depending on governance decisions, etc.) at the individual site type or even individual site level.
When you walk into a Jimmy John's or Subway, whether in Anchorage, AK or Zeeland, MI, you'll know it. In the same way, we wanted to ensure that no matter which digital property in our ecosystem a user visited or how they got there, it was clear that they were visiting a UL-owned experience. We knew that we wanted to enable consistent yet flexible design patterns and theming so that a marketer building a site, or a section of the site, could configure an experience and build out their content in the best possible way to achieve their particular business objective. In other words, we wanted to allow them to focus on optimizing the journey while still ensuring the consistency of experience that protected our brand. In order to enable this, we worked closely with the UL UX and design teams to align on a consistent set of patterns and theming from fonts and colors, to card and button styles, to universal navigation that would be enabled at the base level of the platform. Then enabling a degree of freedom and flexibility to alter/modify these patterns at the site type or even the individual site level through sub-theming. The result is an experience that looks and feels consistently UL, regardless of where you are in the UL ecosystem.
Graphics: Show elements of the pattern library? Maybe an animation of scrolling thru it?
One more key element that no deli would be complete without: The menu. Picture this: 2 customers come in at the same time, the first customer orders a Reuben on wheat instead of rye holds the sauerkraut, and the second orders a Reuben as listed but with extra russian dressing. Now, we can debate whether the first order is still, in fact, a Reuben, but the point is, the customers had a starting point from which to customize their sandwiches. In our platform, the equivalent is our site types. We knew that different business needs and experience goals would, by their nature, necessitate a certain set of feature and functionality, so we defined a number of site types -- in our platform that would serve as a starting point for further customization.
Another key building block to any successful deli, is sourcing the right high-quality ingredients - and it's important that the ingredients aren't so specialized and specific that they can only be used in one sandwich. We had a similar mindset when we architected the various content types for the platform. We wanted to create content types that would be consistent throughout the platform -- something that was essential to our content syndication vision, but that also provided the flexibility to the content owner to communicate their content as they saw fit. This took some trial and error. As Luis mentioned before, we adopted this notion of content domains based on user needs (knowledge, events, etc.) and, at first, we got really granular with the content types -- 3-4 different news content types for example -- but we collectively came to the realization that that approach might prove to be too difficult to manage and maintain as the platform evolves and grows. Instead, we chose to use Drupal Paragraphs extensively on each content type to give marketers the flexibility to create individual content items exactly how they wanted. The result is 1 content type per content domain with a minimal number of required fields to ensure content syndication can be achieved platform-wide, and then a whole bunch of freedom and flexibility per content type for individual authors to deliver their content as they see fit, while remaining on-brand.
Stir your vision & strategy for as long as you can, mixing it with Executive support. There's no wrong at this point so put all you have into it.
Pour data and heat it up to create enough sense of urgency.
Add a full guiding coalition of stakeholders and partners. Stir well to keep it from losing steam.
Spread short-term wins during the entire process to keep general interest and support.
Combine communication with as much flexibility as needed.
Sprinkle good luck if available.
Reduce complexity at every possible juncture.
Expect, and plan for, change.
OUTLINE DETAILS - STEP 8 - The Dinner Deli is Ready!
So how did we do? Well, the jury is still out. Our 'Deli' platform is ready for use and "cooks" across the entire company have started to play with it, creating their content and solutions on it.
Early feedback is positive and we even had the biggest possible proof of our approach and vision: A month before the launch of the platform, we had a major reorganization in the company.
Our 3 main business units were mixed together and combined into 2 new BUs. This changed the structure of all of our Divisions and impacted all of our stakeholders.
And, still, we had less than a week impact to our platform development, since its architecture had already been designed for flexible, distributed and always changing business structures/taxonomies.
The work we did allowed us to be flexible and serve the needs of the organization.
For all of you insipired chefs trying to build the perfect menu, my last point is that it is worth taking the time to think your solution for the long term.
AND WE ALSO STILL SELL TURKEY SANDWICHES!!
10. WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR?
22. The Sandwich Deli is Ready!
23. WE ALSO STILL HAVE TURKEY SANDWICHES!!


Before his appointment to the Royal Institution, Vincent worked as a translator and editor for the publishers Gilbert and Rivington. While at the Ri he produced a new printed catalogue of the library as well as new editions of Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Dictionary of Biography. A Sandemanian like Michael Faraday, he made his confession of faith in 1832, was a Deacon from 1844 and an Elder in the Church from 1849 to 1864.


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I haven't listened to this song in forever! It is a really good song.
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Even before the RFA's second Sioux Falls promotion in April 2015, Soares and Martin had piqued White's interest.
"I guarantee you that within the next 12 to 18 months, that the UFC could potentially come here," Soares told the Argus Leader while attending the Summit League basketball tournament at the Premier Center in March 2015.
While that turned out to be prescient, there was a final hurdle to cross: Lifting decade-old Sioux Falls ordinance which prohibited MMA bouts from being held at city-owned properties, including the 12,000-seat Premier Center.
"The way the ordinance was written, events couldn't happen at the Premier Center," said city councilor Christine Erickson. "Here we had built this great, big building and we couldn't use it for [for MMA] because of an outdated ordinance on the books."
Erickson spearheaded the ordinance's repeal, which passed unanimously last October, clearing the way for a potential UFC event in town.
"It's exciting to think how fast it happened," Erickson said. "Really the intent of the legislation was to open the conversation of having these events in Sioux Falls."
Add in three successful RFA events — Friday night's was the fourth — and the help of several local sponsors, and suddenly the city had clout in the sport where none existed a few short years ago. The emergence of Next Edge Academy, which shares space with Martin in the downtown-based gym, has provided high-level training for fighters under the guidance of MMA veteran and Brazilian jiu jitsu blackbelt, Bruce Hoyer.
The pieces have fallen neatly into place — and at a remarkable pace.
UFC president White sees S.D. fighters shine at RFA 37
"I really didn't anticipate it coming along this quickly," Martin said, "but I just think it's because of the fan base. I always knew it was here and knew there were talented fighters here. We just didn't have the opportunity to showcase it."
White agrees with that sentiment and spoke glowingly about MMA in South Dakota, citing a devoted fan base and growing talent pool. As to whether fighters with local connections will compete at the July event — that's still up in the air. But White has a history of pairing athletes with hometown crowds.
"Obviously it would be fantastic to come back here with some South Dakota guys, but we'll build the card before we get here," White said. "I love giving opportunities. It's everybody's dream to fight in the UFC in their hometown. So, obviously I like making that happen."
South Dakota fighters gave White a firsthand look at RFA 37, and didn't disappoint. David Michaud — a UFC alum from Pine Ridge — dominated his welterweight match, winning via submission, while Sioux Falls' Bryce Logan won his lightweight match. In the evening's co-main event, Devin Clark won the inaugural light heavyweight championship with a third-round TKO (injury) of Brazil-based Rafael Viana.
Clark's path to MMA title fight has roots in childhood
Clark is a prime candidate to get a call up to the UFC, and the roughly four months before the July card would provide ample time for training camp.
"Dana came back and talked to me a little bit. He gave me a little bit of good news, said I might be expecting a call," Clark said. "Maybe to get something happening this summer."
Webster native and four-time all-american wrestler Logan Storley bullied his way to a TKO victory as well. Clark and Storley appeared on the televised portion of the promotion (on AXS TV), which serves as the UFC's unofficial developmental league.
"Without events like this, we couldn't do what we do," White said. "We need events like this. These events are the backbone of the sport."
Though the Pentagon's 3,200 seat capacity is a perfect fit for the RFA, a UFC event requires the ample space afforded by the Premier Center. The live gate revenue for comparably sized UFC venues commonly reaches millions of dollars. And tickets don't last long — the recently-billed UFC Fight Night in Canada's capital city of Quebec sold out in under two hours.


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You've most likely heard that working with an alternative EMC SAN support provider can help you save up to 40% on your hardware maintenance costs. You might even be aware that third-party maintenance options could free up budget funds for important innovation projects.
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Dr. David's Corner: Why Rushing A COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be a Disaster
Post category:COVID-19 / Immunity & Preventative Medicine / Vacine Consideration
by DAVID BERGER, MD, FAAP
People who know my philosophy on vaccines know that I am a firm believer in informed consent coupled with personal choice. In other words, patients should be provided all relevant information and then be allowed to make an informed decision based on what is best for themselves and their families.
With this in mind, I want to address the federal government's apparent approach, known as "Operation Warp Speed", which can lead to rushing the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine to the general public before adequate safety and efficacy testing has been done (though "adequate" is in the eyes of the beholder). Vaccine experts are warning against this, and history shows why they are right.
Rushing the Vaccine Approval Process: Hard Lessons Learned
Under normal circumstances, the FDA will only approve a vaccine after evaluating data, gathered by scientists through large-scale studies that prove it is safe and effective, which takes years. Historically, when the vaccine approval process has been circumvented (i.e., not meticulously conducted with due diligence), there have been disastrous outcomes.
For example, in 1955 the government approved the first vaccine to protect children from acquiring polio. One company's batches accidentally contained live polio virus, which resulted in an outbreak (see The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to a Growing Vaccine Crisis).
In another case, in 1976 scientists discovered a new swine flu that was a novel virus like COVID-19, and predicted a pandemic would develop. After being persuaded by advisers, President Ford decided to make immunization compulsory. As a result, according to the CDC, in roughly seven months 40 million people got vaccinated against the swine flu. It was later determined that this aggressive vaccination campaign was linked to cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a hyper-inflammatory neurological condition that can cause muscle paralysis, weakness, and difficulty breathing.
The Danger of Widespread Distrust of the System
After several of these types of incidents, some Americans understandably started distrusting vaccines. Widespread mistrust can be detrimental to overall public health because vaccinations, when produced responsibly, can provide protection from the virus or bacteria being targeted.
The potential for mistrust is applicable in the fight against COVID-19 because roughly 35% of Americans currently report they will not get the COVID-19 vaccine when it first becomes available (see Poll: 35% Of Americans Won't Get COVID Vaccine). This suggests "Operation Warp Speed" is not instilling confidence in people. The FDA recently announced it may provide Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a vaccine before the larger (though in my opinion still not large enough) Phase III studies are complete. This move would likely further reduce people's confidence.
According to Dr. Howard Markel, a pediatrician, distinguished professor, and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, "All it takes is one bad side effect to basically botch a vaccine program…. [Rushing it is] a prescription for disaster." Source: Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid' (CNN)
"Being ready is reasonable. Cutting short phase 3 trials before you get the information you need isn't," said Dr. Paul Offit, a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia immunization expert who sits on the FDA's vaccine advisory committee. Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor University's tropical medicine school, would be "very concerned" if the FDA uses an emergency use authorization to approve a vaccine before knowing if it works and is safe. "It gives the appearance of a stunt rather than an expression of public health concern" (see: https://apnews.com/71e616bb423c6d3e97fbaa7a97bca7e7).
As time passes and more data becomes available, I will continue to share my thoughts about the forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines. To say the least, right now I am approaching the prospects with much trepidation.
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At least 10 of the alleged gang members were in jail last year on federal charges. But a defense attorney sent one of them a letter with Coffey's name. The letter leaked out.
Soon, there was a $20,000 bounty on Coffey, and he was shot to death in June.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Gardner told all this to a federal judge in Baltimore last week.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. - September 17 marked the first day of a scheduled five-day jury trial for a suspect in a gang-related homicide in Hagerstown that happened spring of 2017.
Jason Carter, 19, of Hagerstown faces charges for his connection in the fatal shooting of Eddie Ragland, 20.
Police say there was ongoing tension between two local gangs, the BG and Yo gang, which led to the fatal shooting the on Noland Drive and Sherman Avenue back in May of 2017.
The court spent the first day going through jury selection. Easton Blickenstaff who was also charged in the case, has a trial scheduled in January of 2019.


The Miller® Bobcat® 250 is a 250 amp gasoline engine driven welder and 11,000 generator in one. The Bobcat® 250 is fuel efficient and very quiet. The smaller and lighter design means the Bobcat 250 is easier to transport and maintain. The electrical portion of the welder/generator is covered by Miller's True Blue™ 3 year warranty. The Kohler twin cylinder, 23 Horse Power gasoline engine is covered by Kohler's 2 year limited warranty.
Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 would use 10w30 oil and holds approximately 1 1/2 quarts.
The Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 can weld aluminum using a spoolgun..If you plan to weld aluminum in the 1/4" or thicker range you will need to add a 30a Spoolgun (130831) or a 15a Spoolgun (195156) plus a WC 115A Control with contactor (137546)..If you are planning to weld lighter gauge aluminum using up to a max of 150 amps and a max wire size of .035 you can use the 3035 Spoolgun (195016) plus a SGA100c Control with contactor (043857)..
Does it use Scratch start tig welding?
Can I run a miller dynasty off of this machine in order to do critical tig jobs, or a small suit case Mig machine like the ones miller sells?
The Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 is not a great choice for mig or tig welding aluminum. It does not have the circuitry to run an aluminum spoolgun without adding a spoolgun adapter box and the cost for this adapter box can be over $1000.00 . To upgrade it to aluminum tig capabilty will also be around $1000.00 and you will not have any remote amperage control capability.(No Footpedal) A better choice would be a Miller Trailblazer .
what is the shipping time to 74016?
What does the GFCI do and what is the advantage to an electric fuel pump? What is the advantage of EFI?
The GFCI that is offered as an option on the Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 is a device that shuts off the auxiliary power circuit when it detects that current is flowing along an unintended path, such as through water or a person. It is used to reduce the risk of electric shock. The standard fuel pump used on the Bobcat is a vacuum style pump. At higher altitudes the vacuum pump will lose some of its efficiency. In this case the electric fuel pump is recommended.Just like in today's cars EFI is more efficient than a carburetor. It provides easier faster starts, smoother operation and better fuel economy.
I am interested in the bobcat 250 but can i run a spoolgun for aluminum off this if so what do i need. I have a 30a spooolgun to use.
If you purchase a Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 it will be shipped to you by common carrier (large truck). We can request that the truck have a tail gate lift to get the machine to the ground. Once it is on the ground you will need a way to get it off of the tailgate lift.
The $3925.00 price for the Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 is our current everyday price.
Is this cv machine so I can run a 12 vs?
How does the $500 rebate work?
Can I run my multimatic 200 off the bobcat 250?
Is this running on gas or diesel?
Can you weld aluminum with this machine ?
what form is this rebate? is the rebate deducted from the purchase price or is there a credit to buy something else at a later date?
The rebate on the Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 is a mail in rebate. When you purchase the machine you will pay the posted price and you will receive a rebate form. You must complete the form and send it along with copy of your purchase receipt to Miller.. They will send you a check for the rebate amount in four to six weeks.
would i be able to run my synchrowave 210 off this machine ?
Miller does not recommend running a Syncrowave 210 off of a Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001.
I purchased this $3,818.00 Miller machine Oct 15th, on line, thru CyberWeld. How do I get the $500.00 rebate?
In order to qualify for the Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 rebate you would have had to purchase $500.00 worth of Miller family accessories along with the machine. If you have done this and did not receive a Miller rebate form with your order please let us know and we will send you a form asap. If you did not purchase the $500.00 in accessories you are not eligible for the rebate.
Does Miller make a "remote amperage control" (potentiometer box, peddle, or finger slider) available for this machine?
This is a new unit and not re-built?
Can this welder be converted to propane fuel?
why might i want or need the electric fuel pump?
Electric Fuel Pump* #300 976 Field For gas models at high altitude. Improves engine starting and high-output performance.
can this welder be shipped on truck with hydraulic tailgate lift ?
Miller Bobcat 250 Welder 907500001 is shipped with a truck equipped with a liftgate.
do you get cables with this welder or do you purchase those seperately?
Is this machine fuel injected ?
I see that these new units are lighter in weight. Are the coils still made of copper? I have had problems with aluminum coiled welder burning up and too much maintenance. Thank you. Thomas Rockriver/ Rockriver Welding & Maint.
The Bobcat 250 will run at 3,600 RPM (max rpm) when being used to run power equipment.
Very Satisfied with this machine!
This was a replacement for a 2005 model. I was amazed at how much smaller and quieter this new machine is. It also has much less vibration than the older machine and as usual welds great.
Just what I want,arrive in good condition no problems at all.
Exactly what I needed!! Gets the job done like a pro!
Great light weight welders. Easy on fuel. Plenty of power for welding and tools. Extra quiet. Why spend the same for a Honda generator when all you have is a generator.
ProsDependable , reliable , long lasting , runs 2 8 hour days of hard welding on a tank of fuel .
ConsI wish it could be made entire US parts.
Bobcat 250 takes care of all power and welding needs, quality, toughness, and power, glad I got Miller.
ConsLabel that says Assembled in USA with Chinese writing next to it . Leads me to believe .... Chinese parts. I hope not .
You can really feel the power drop while welding and using the outlets, fine adjust must be in 10 to get full electric. The older ones are better and don't Rev up to use just power.
I searched all over the internet for the best price and found it with Cyberweld. I was skeptical about service and delivery, but to my surprise I received my Bobcat 250 within days and Customer Service was outstanding. I will be buying my next welder at Cyberweld.


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OCRA Nederland is a sports association with the purpose to promote and regulate (the exercise of) the obstacle sport within the Netherlands.
We want to ensure the obstacle sport is a fun and safe sport.
- Promote safety by facilitating minimum standards and ground rules.
- The care and organization, or supervising the organisation, of race series, training programs, and activities.
- Managing/directing championships, competitions, and providing guidance for participant preparation.
- Recognition of the obstacle sport at the NOC*NSF.
The Alliance of European OCR associations is a union of European governing bodies for obstacle course racing (OCR).
The alliance originally was set up for the purpose of administering the European championships for obstacle racing.
The alliance is commited to promote and regulate (the exercise of) Obstacle Course Racing and to achieve uniform rules and standards for our sport.
The membership fee is 24 euros per year.
As a member of OCRA Nederland you are insured during obstacle runs both domestically and abroad and during training for obstacle runs. Membership is more than just insurance and discounts at more than 2,500 partners. As the national governing body we represent individual obstacle runners in the field of safety, regulations and their interests at race organisations. This includes umbrella sport organisations and governmental authorities. The association is committed to the promotion and professionalization of our sport, leading negotiate with (local) authorities to create more OCR specific training locations. We hope that everyone who loves the sport will support us, as an independent and overarching sports association, by becoming a member.
OCRA Nederland is dedicated to promoting safety and setting minimum standards within Obstacle Course Racing.
Before local authorities issue permits for obstacle course events, often a technical inspection of the various obstacles is needed to ensure safety.
As an independent Association for obstacle course racing we have the expertise for such safety inspections.
Our experts have been working in the field of outdoor and leisure events for many years and have a wealth of experience in both obstacle running and survival running.
They are familiar with all applicable NEN standards and the guidelines of SBN, VEBON and RECRON.
They will also apply the Nibra developed "Safety guidance for public events", tensile and break strength of wood and rope materials, The L3G 06.05.C.07 - Scaffold Building Regulations, the timber data sheet of the control section softwood and hardwood of the Royal VVNH and Delft University of Technology.
They will make recommendations on barrier taping, perceived temperature and traffic safety.
The results of inspections and related recommendations will be discussed directly on the day.
After the inspection, our experts will draw up a clear and transparent inspection report in which recommendations for any repair, replacement or modification will be given.
No soil, water samples or measurements will be taken.
Obstacles and course inspections will be carried out according to rules and regulations, but do not replace the obligations concerning licenses and insurance etc. Neither will an inspection take away all the risks (on an inspected course accidents can still happen), Inspections will only lead to recommendations.
Dutch 8 o'clock news - about: OCRA Nederland Course Safety checks - april 23, 2016.
Quite often insurance companies refuse to pay after a sport injury. The argument usually states: "extreme sport" If the insurance does not pay after a sports accident, the consequences could be disastrous. Physical disabilities as a result of a sports accident can cause huge financial uncertainties.
Some insurance companies make practical distinctions between absolute and relative sport risks. Sports as motocross, Downhill Mountain biking, skateboarding at a competitive level or boxing are classified as absolute recklessness. However the companies concerned, emphasize that such lists are only examples. These are not exclusive lists.
The OCRA Nederland has taken out a collective accident and liability insurance for its members through the sports cooperation NKS.
The insurance coverage is through Meeùs The Hague.
Both insurances offer secondary coverage. This means that if there is another insurance that you can make a claim to (e.g. a private insurance of the causer of the damage), you must report it there first. Only if this policy does not provide cover, or if there are costs that are not reimbursed by this insurance, and if our insured is legally liable for the (injury) damage, only then the damage is eligible for reimbursement by the insurance of the OCRA Nederland.
The accident insurance of OCRA Nederland compensates damage in the event of permanent disability or decease. The regulatory own risk is not eligible for reimbursement.
The liability insurance of the OCRA Nederland covers with liability. Sports and games have a special position within the liability law. Some matters are considered unduly outside of sports but are often not within sports. Unfortunately, the probability that an athlete incurs an injury during an event or training, is always present. Damages incurred during sports therefore usually do not lead to liability of a fellow athlete. On this the court has made several rulings, which concluded that in sports a harmful act is considered often less unlawful. These rulings now provide guidance for the assessment of liability.
The insurance covers permanent disability or decease while participating in events / competitions within the field of OCRA Nederland. (Obstacle Course Racing). There is also cover if a participant is preparing/training for an event/competition. For this coverage there must be a causal link between the activity/game and preparing/training for obstacle course racing.
The insured under the policy are among others the organization (OCRA Nederland) and the individual members of the organization. There is cover on the policy if such persons are responsible for damage to third parties.
OCR is currently the fastest growing sport in the world!
OCR stands for "Obstacle Course Racing" and is better known to the general public as "obstacle running"
"Obstacle Course Racing is a running event where the participants encounter various obstacles along the way.
Often, the route goes through nature and on their way participants meet mud and water.
Examples of obstacles are wooden walls, crawling under barbed wire, swimming through ditches, jumping over fire, climbing on rope nets and sometimes even get shocked by electricity.
The goal is to encourage participants to find and push their physical and psychological limits.
Who invented this slightly sadistic sport and why on earth di they do it!
The first real Obstacle Course Race took place in England in 1987, where the British soldier Billy Wilson (using the pseudonym "Mr Mouse") conceived a 10-mile-long obstacle course with mud pools, ditches and military exercises for his event Tough Guy.
Harvard student Will Dean trained at that time for triathlon and marathon, but as he found this training boring. Tough Guy was an ideal solution!
Dean saw the international opportunities for this type of event and wrote a research paper on Tough Guy at Harvard.
Once back in the U.S.A. Dean organized Tough Mudder, an Obstacle Course Race of about 20km with 4,500 participants. Today Tough Mudder is one of the largest Obstacle Course Races of the world.