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1/6/2009: 8:58 pm: Marknews, News from the World of Medicine

We need a more permanent solution to our problem♠

I have been tired. My wife tells me that it is a side effect of the Meclizine. Other side effects include vertigo. Hey, that’s why I’m taking it, so it’s a lot like those drugs for depression which, waning, might cause thoughts of suicide, although not nearly as serious.

Except when one wishes to write and/or blog. I purpose to kill those two birds with this ‘ere stone, but only because this is my blog.

I have something to say about the Rollie Burris situation, but I cannot do it with aplomb, Or a finger in my pudding. But Harry Reid has his finger up something or other There is no escape from this for him, not that it will do any lasting damage to him or to his party either way. He’s damaged goods as it is

Seat Burriss. When the time comes, seat Caroline or Mario’s brat. For the love of the rule of law, which calls for the seating of Burris, he ought not to seat Goofy Al until the courts are done with this. When 21 precincts had more votes counted than people who voted, something is neither democratic nor just about this But something is corrupted, just let it not be the U.S. Senate in this case.

With Franken and Webb in the same Senate and on the same side as the Dem President of the United Stats, it will be a fine time for pundits, but I’m tired of the nonsense. I’m finishing Ralph Ketcham’s bio of Madsion, though, and the nonsense has been with us since the beginning.

Tomorrow is another day. Your prayers are indicated. Thank you for them.

1/5/2009: 5:05 pm: MarkNews from the World of Medicine

More Health Issues

Everything is so unstable these days. I discovered last night, I felt strange, certainly, but after I’d relaxed in bed next to my wife, reading the end of Ralph Ketcham’s bio of James Madison, my wife directed me to get a little, white lynx-point named Molly off of the cable box, and the world shifted. Several times. I maintained my balance but was glad to be back in b ed.

This morning, I awoke, and it was worse. My wife called my ear doctor, and he demanded that I go to the E.R. to be evaluated. I hear the advocates a taxpayer-funded health care wailing that in the current system, the E.R. is often the doctor of first resort because the uninsured do no have a doctor. Well, boo and hoo. Right. I pay for insurance and I have several doctors, and I was referred to the emergency room as a first resort.

Listen, to me this was cancer. I also had a tumor on my forehead, just above my hairline. I’d beaten it once, I could beat it again, etc., but I realized that I should wait at least until it was actually diagnosed.

We went to the E.R. across town. I hadn’t been there since 1987, when I had to get stitches at about my eyebrow. (It’s a sad story, really, or at least pathetic.) The E.R. doctor wanted to know who was the President, and I assured him that it was still the President of his youth, Roosevelt. My Dad thought it funny, but the poor doctor was just trying to see if here were anything more serious wrong with me. Hey, I was in great spirits. The President, actually, was Reagan.

This time, the place didn’t look like I remembered, but a few decades might do that. My wife and I waited while the staff did their triage thing, even though there were not a lot of people there at noon. There was, however, a lady who looked to be a heroin addict. The sun was bursting through the glass, and the lady sang Paul McCartney: “Good day, sunshine.” I smiled at her.

After all this and that, they called me back to the actual E.R. The nurse had to punch in a special code to gain access, and I wondered what would happen if she had forgotten the code. I figured that someone else would enter it for her, then she would look for a job somewhere else.

The nurse asked questions and left. The young E.R. doctor, Dr. Bosclaugh, looked in my ears and diagnosed what I told him I had: an inner-problem causing vertigo. He said that since I had just been checked for a recurrence of the cancer thing, it probably wasn’t that messing with me. He prescribed an anti-biotic and something for the symptoms, which is fine. We waited for the scrips, about half an hour. My wife helped to the car, once I’d step out of the wheel chair they’d loaned me so I didn’t have to walk.

You know, the young Dr. Bosclaugh told me that the tumor on my forehead was an ingrown hair that would probably burst on its own. After he’d gone, my wife and I speculated on interesting places for this to happen. In a Confessional, when pulled over for a traffic violation, at the Chinese buffet. I wonder if it will make a noise.

But on the upside, I am swallowing much better. If this continues, I probably won’t need the electrodes. Is that kewl, or what?

1/4/2009: 1:19 pm: Markpolitics and politicians, news

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review

Sunday, January 4, 2009

PREFACE:

Opening ABC’s This Week, Israeli President Shimon Peres asserted that Israel had no desire to crush Hamas or occupy Gaza; rather, they wanted to eliminate terror.

Next up for host George Stephanopoulos was Dick Durbin, who appeared to indicate that he would be willing to seat Burris provisionally until the Senate could investigate and determine if Blago played by the rules in appointing him. That would be an easy out for Harry Reid from his self-made mess.

Then on TW, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell pointed out that half of the American public was represented by a Republican Senator, and the GOP would be a part of the process.

On FOX News Sunday, House Dem Leader Steny Hoyer said that the Obama Spending Package (stimulus) will not be “overloaded with earmarks,” but that he will not give the Obama Administration an “informal veto.”

Next up on FNS, former President George Herbert Walker Bush endorsed his son Jeb for the U.S. Senate if that is what Jeb wants: “I’d like to see him be President.”

On MTP, Harry declared that Senators can decide who can be a Senator and who cannot. He denied that he is a racist because a black woman was once his second choice to be a federal judge.

On FTN, host Bob Schieffer went through a partial list of the vacuous lefty lunatic howls and Vice President Dick Cheney withered them with calm and factual logic. So. There.

First on LE, Palestinian (Hamas) “negotiator” Saeb Erekat blamed Israel for attacking innocent Palestinians in Gaza. He called for an immediate cease fire so that the international community could sort things outl.

Next up on LE, Benjamin Netanyahu pointed out that Israel could have done a Dresden on Hamas but sought to diminish civilian casualties.

Then Mark Sanford and Jon Corzine were Blitzer’s guest on LE. Corzine argued that Obama’s spending package was a “partnership with the federal government,” not a “bailout.” Sanford argued that it is daft to get the federal government to “solve” a problem by throwing money at it when the government was the root of the problem.

Read the full Review at RedState.com

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1/3/2009: 9:30 am: Markpolitics and politicians, news

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: preview

For Sunday, January 4, 2009

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will discuss the first 100 Days of Dem Congress, 2009, with Steny Hoyer.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk to Senators Roland Burris (D-Illinois), Dick Durbin (same), and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory talks to Harry Reid about his mounting woes.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer has his last interview with Vice President Dick Cheney.

Late Edition (CNN): I think John King will be taking over, and I’m sure he’ll talk to lots of nice folks.

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I applaud Stephanopoulos for interviewing Rollie Burris, and contra what I implied, he’s not yet a Senator. It will be interesting to hear what Durbin has to say about this. Reid is addled, but he might say something controversial, and I wonder if Steny will purport to speak for Nancy.

The Sunday Shows return to the Front Page at RedState on Sunday afternoon.

1/2/2009: 3:03 pm: Marknews

Senate GOP to block early seating of Franken

I tried to post this at RedState, but someone got thie story there first.

Senate Republicans, led by John Cornyn of Texas, will block any attempt by Reid and the Dems to seat the goofy Al Franken before all court action has concluded and the election is certified.

As of now, goofy Al holds a 49-vote lead over Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman, but the Democrats would need 60 votes to seat him early. On paper, they do not have the requisite 60, unless a few Senate Republicans defect. Heaven help them if they do. (If this transpires, be sure to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose the early seating of goofy Al.)

Cornyn’s threat means it is probable that Minnesota will have only one senator when the new Congress convenes on Tuesday. A court challenge and possible appeals could keep it that way for several months.

This would the same representative condition as that of the State of Illinois if Vegas Reid and the Dems refuse to seat duly appointed Senator Roland Burris. (The Dems might try to stall on Burris, perhaps until the governor they call Blago is given the boot.)

The Dem controlled Senate is defining itself. Again.

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