The single biggest misconception about Canada’s Healthcare system.
“I just think with the amount of shortage of doctors in this town, and that it’s a government provided service, I don’t really feel that they should be able to deny,” she said.
Phony Scandal
CIA is polygraphing operatives regularly, in an "unprecedented" attempt to keep Benghazi secrets, sources tell CNN, @DrewGriffinCNN reports
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 1, 2013
Follow the info breaking on Tapper’s feed.
Update: full story now online.
Plus – Remember when Rand Paul asked Hillary about gun running in Libya?
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Political scandals come in two flavors:
1. “A Republican Culture of Corruption That May Have Started From the Very Top”
or:
2. “Some Guy”
I Miss The Canadian Wheat Board.
No I don’t. And neither does anyone else.
Reset!
Strong horse: Putin grants Snowden one year asylum
It’s Probably Nothing
The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an “electromagnetic pulse” so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.
Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth’s typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.[…]
“There had been a near miss about two weeks ago, a Carrington-class coronal mass ejection crossed the orbit of the Earth and basically just missed us,” said Peter Vincent Pry, who served on the Congressional EMP Threat Commission from 2001-2008. He was referring to the 1859 EMP named after astronomer Richard Carrington that melted telegraph lines in Europe and North America.
More background here.
Update: As expected, lots of discussion in the comments. Go read ’em.
The Liberal wing of Elections Canada
You know, in the military, if you don’t pay your debts, they garnish your wages until the debt is gone. I count three debtors who are still employed by the public, Stephane ‘Can we do this interview again’ Dion, Ken ‘Give me a minute I’ll spit it out’ Dryden and Hedy ‘Crosses to bear’ Fry.
Take their wages and let them deal with it like the rest of us have to. But then, they’re Liberals, so they’re entitled to their entitlements.
Shepard Smith: “This government didn’t get my signature.”
Restoring Science To Its Rightful Place
As executioner of the less fashionably patterned;
How much money does it take to eliminate 3,603 barred owls from select Pacific Northwest zones to make more room for the endangered spotted owl? Well, if you’re the federal government, $3 million over the next four years.
According to an article in the Los Angeles Times, using a permit allowing the killing of non-game birds, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to conduct an experiment over three states to see if by decreasing the number of barred owls (a bird that migrated to the Northwest from the East Coast) will make room for spotted owls (a bird at the center of a heated debate between loggers and environmentalists) to flourish.
If only they’d migrated from Mexico.
h/t Meatriarchy
Reader Tips
Tonight we feature a little country music from husband-and-wife duo Doyle and Debbie, as Doyle steps up to the mic to clarify his predilections with the uptempo stomper I Ain’t No Homo (But Man You Sure Look Good to Me).
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Back from the Dead
SPIEGEL: Basic first aid teaches us that the brain is very fragile. Three to five minutes after the heart stops, the brain incurs permanent damage due to lack of oxygen.
Parnia: This is a widely-held misconception, even among doctors. It’s mostly based on research done in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. In those days, doctors concluded that brain cell death was inevitable in such a short time. Now we know that if treatment is correct, it really can take hours for brain cells to die. And only if all the treatments that we know today are not implemented, the damage can become apparent after as little as five minutes without blood flow. Part of the problem is that we all live in the past — patients, doctors, nurses and legislatures. We have preconceived ideas about death. For thousands of years, death was a clear, precise moment: The heart stopped beating, and that was it. Nothing could be done from then on. You either were alive or not. But since the arrival of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) more than 50 years ago, we know that this view is no longer correct. Death is not a fixed moment anymore. From a cellular perspective, it is a process that proceeds at various speeds in the different tissues of the body after the heart stops.
h/t peterj
It’s Probably Nothing
Computers manufactured by the world’s biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo, have been banned from the “secret” and ”top secret” networks of the intelligence and defence services of Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, because of concerns they are vulnerable to being hacked.
Multiple intelligence and defence sources in Britain and Australia confirmed there is a written ban on computers made by the Chinese company being used in “classified” networks.
The ban was introduced in the mid-2000s after intensive laboratory testing of its equipment allegedly documented “back-door” hardware and “firmware” vulnerabilities in Lenovo chips. A Department of Defence spokesman confirmed Lenovo products have never been accredited for Australia’s secret or top secret networks.
Update: As I expected, there’s lots of fact checking going on in the comments. Go read ’em.
h/t Max
What We Really Need Is Democracy
Michale Totten: Tunisia on the Brink
Y2Kyoto: 1,122 Record Cold Temps
You know what this means, of course.
Al Gore is in Chicago.
A Conversation on Race and Justice Hustling
Bill O’Reilly continues his campaign against the race hustlers. Unfortunately most in the media are in bed with them.
More here from Mary Katherine Ham.
“US economic history will be rewritten this week”
Via Kevin B., who notes “1984 wasn’t a warning; it was a playbook”.
Don’t like how high debt-to-GDP figures are? Revise ’em. Unhappy at the post-‘recovery’ growth rates? Revise ’em. Disappointed at the pace of economic improvement in the last decade or two compared to the rest of the world? Revise ’em. This week “we are essentially rewriting economic history” as the BEA is set to revise GDP data from as far back as 1929.
The Mysogynist Left
Weiner Comm Director Goes On Epic Tirade Against Former Intern: ‘F*cking Slutbag,’ ‘F*ck You, You Little C*nt’
Reader Tips
In tonight’s Tips music we listen to a little country-style gospel, as Emmylou Harris sings If I Be Lifted Up.
The comments thread is open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Thank Goodness for the 22%
There are “low information voters” but what do you call people who know the facts but still support a perverted creep?