Memorial Day
I wish you all a good Memorial Day. I’m off to work so I will post a link to ProJo.com where columnist Bob Kerr, himself a veteran, interviews Earl Northrup. “Some people say that didn’t happen,” says Earl, jabbing at a photograph he says he took with a forbidden camera as his unit entered Dachau [...]
That’s Reassuring
I’m relieved that a fish contaminated with the deadly radioactive isotope Strontium-90 found in the river near the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant is just a normal radioactive fish. They don’t think it came from the plant, because all that’s leaking from there is Tritium. They think the fish picked up the radioactivity from decades of [...]
What’s This Pill For, Anyway?
That’s what you should ask your doctor if you are taking any unidentified pills. Follow this link to new evidence that proton pump inhibitors increase risk of fractures, especially in the elderly. These drugs cut down stomach acid, and they are good for people who have ulcers or bad acid reflux. Otherwise, I suspect, they [...]
Don Botts Challenging Peter Palumbo in Cranston District 16
Well, the news is out on Facebook. Don Botts, a local Republican activist and Facebook controversy stirrer, is going to challenge Peter Palumbo (DINO of all DINO’s) for his State Representative seat. What will be the result of this daring move? Will Democrats in Cranston support Don in an effort to oust Palumbo? Could Don [...]
Mea Culpa
I have to apologize to Rand Paul and all his loved ones. I snarked at him unjustly here when I accused him of making up the claim that Obama admin people were blustering about putting their ‘boot heel on the throat’ of BP. He said it sounded ‘un-American’ and it does. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [...]
Care Where It’s Needed
Very cool news out of Cranston, a new medical director at the ACI… CRANSTON — For decades, from apartment buildings in the devastated South Bronx to a medical practice in rural Foster, Dr. Michael D. Fine has been trying to reinvent the medical-care system. Now, he’s going to prison to do it. Since February, Fine, [...]
Blind to the Good of Socialized Medicine
Again, not to pile on Rand Paul, but health care is my thing, and I’ve spent the last winter freezing my garbanzos at rallies for health care reform. So this is intensely interesting to me. Should the taxpayers have to carry the burden of some old guy’s cataract surgery, or should we just let him [...]
Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live
Regular readers of Kmareka know that I spent my teens attending a Pentecostal church and that I was exorcised to cast out the demons of depression. I can now say that like the song goes, I try to ‘Always Look on the Bright Side of Life’. It actually didn’t do me much harm, but our [...]
Striking Out
If politicians were only politicians—if all they created were bombast, spin, and strange bedfellows—they might be moderately tolerable. The way any varmint is tolerable. You begrudgingly accept their existence, with the understanding that they will be a nuisance but do limited harm. Sort of like cockroaches, only less attractive. And harder to squash. Anyway, politicians [...]
Rand Paul Beat Up by Straw Man
Okay, I’m not piling on, but I have to say this because no one else is– Rand Paul is putting un-American words in the President’s mouth, or claiming that some shadowy entity in the Obama administration is using this kind of language… “What I don’t like from the president’s administration is this sort of, ‘I’ll [...]
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