Friday, January 4, 2013

Pelosi photoshops black women into Democrats' photo

Well, technically Pelosi photoshopped in black women and an angry perm. Diversity.


Like I've asked before: Why are Democrats so racist?
Posted by Milton Wolf at 7:02 PM

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Obamerica: The New Hubris

 
Welcome to 2013. Here is the grim reality we face...
These are the most foreboding times in my 59 years. The reelection of Barack Obama has released a surge of rare honesty among the Left about its intentions, coupled with a sense of triumphalism that the country is now on board for still greater redistributionist change.

There is no historical appreciation among the new progressive technocracy that central state planning, whether the toxic communist brand or supposedly benevolent socialism, has only left millions of corpses in its wake, or abject poverty and misery. Add up the Soviet Union and Mao’s China and the sum is 80 million murdered or starved to death. Add up North Korea, Cuba, and the former Eastern Europe, and the tally is egalitarian poverty and hopelessness. The EU sacrificed democratic institutions for coerced utopianism and still failed, leaving its Mediterranean shore bankrupt and despondent.

Nor is there much philosophical worry that giving people massive subsidies destroys individualism, the work ethic, and the personal sense of accomplishment. There is rarely worry expressed that a profligate nation that borrows from others abroad and those not born has no moral compass. There is scant political appreciation that the materialist Marxist argument — that justice is found only through making sure that everyone has the same slice of stuff from the zero-sum pie — was supposed to end up on the ash heap of history.
This is from Victor Davis Hanson's sobering piece: 2013: Welcome to Very, Very Scary Times (via Instapundit). Please read it all.

We are not the first profoundly arrogant yet hopelessly misguided generation lulled into believing that we are somehow immune from the brutish realities of collectivism, that we are somehow detached from history and human nature. We believe we will spared the death and destruction of statism because -- why exactly? -- because we're smarter or more enlightened or more virtuous than those who murdered and starved tens of millions? Of course, that's what each of those generations thought as well.

America without the American idea -- limited government, rule of law instead of rule of men and individual liberty and responsibility -- is not America, no matter what name you put on a map.

This is why we fight.

Posted by Milton Wolf at 10:46 AM

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts calls $600 billion tax hike "tax relief"

Face, meet palm.




Pardon my Kansan here, but: Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.




Posted by Milton Wolf at 1:16 PM

Monday, December 31, 2012

Rand Paul on the fiscal cliff

Here is Senator Rand Paul today on the Senate floor who cuts through the smokescreens and explains the real cliff before us.


via Legal Insurrection

Rand Paul 2016 rumors are swirling. I don't  get too excited about anyone who hasn't announced but I will say his would be a welcomed voice. We need somebody on our side who will steel the spines of the others.
Posted by Milton Wolf at 6:11 PM

Spin Machine Alert: Hillary's "concussion" story not vindicated by blood clot episode UPDATE: Maybe so, but probably not


The Clinton spin machine is once again in high gear. They want you to believe that the blood clot that Hillary is currently suffering from is somehow related to a previous concussion.

Let me be clear: Head concussions do not cause leg or lung clots.

Team Clinton has reported that Hillary is suffering from "blood clots" and is being treated with anticoagulants. They are being purposefully vague about the site of those blood clots but they are almost certainly in her legs. Hillary has a history of clots in her leg veins known as deep venous thrombosis or DVT. These are usually easily treated with anticoagulants but can be deadly if they mobilize and travel to the lungs which is known as pulmonary embolism or PE.

Recall that NBC's David Bloom died from a pulmonary embolism in 2003 while embedded with U.S. troops during the invasion of Iraq when a DVT traveled from his leg to his lungs.



What does this have to do with a head concussion? Nothing. Head concussions don't cause leg vein clots.

Did you get that? Head concussions do NOT cause leg vein clots.

Look closely how Team Clinton operates: First, Philippe Reines, a deputy assistant secretary, said in the statement that the clot stems from a concussion Clinton sustained several weeks ago. No it didn't. Then apparatchiks in the mainstream media report that the concussion caused the blood clot. No it didn't. And left-wing hacks attack anyone who ever doubted the head concussion story.

I still doubt the head concussion story.

Hillary's concussion story is highly suspicious and conveniently allowed her to escape testifying about Benghazi (just like the stomach virus story that proceeded it). I still haven't seen the evidence that Hillary ever suffered a concussion.

Was she ever evaluated in an Emergency Department? Did she even go to the hospital? Did she undergo head CT scanning? This is standard of care for head trauma patients. As a radiologist, I see these every day. This is med school 101.

And there is no way on earth that a person -- any person, let alone the Secretary of State -- could be suffering the effects of head trauma for three weeks without undergoing something as simple and common as a CT head scan. Most Emergency Departments order dozens of these every day.

Until they show us the evidence, I will continue to doubt that Hillary ever suffered any serious head trauma.

And don't let MSM apparatchiks confuse you. Some are promulgating a theory that Hillary's blood clot is not in her legs but is instead located in her brain. They claim this caused or was the result of her fainting spell and head trauma. This is wrong. Head trauma can, of course, cause intracranial hemorrhage and even damage to the arteries supplying the brain but not leg vein clots. Furthermore, Hillary is being treated with anticoagulants (blood thinners). Every medical student knows you don't give anticoagulants to post-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage patients. They will bleed more and may die.

Let's hope that doctors can successfully treat Hillary's blood clot and, as Smitty from The Other McCain says: "May Secretary of State Clinton receive better treatment than Ambassador Stevens, Smith, Woods or Doherty."


UPDATE: Even NBC is starting to raise questions.

UPDATE 2: CNN is reporting that Hillary's blood clot is "located between brain and skull" specifically within the dural sinuses. These are specialized high-capacity veins for the brain (and have nothing to do with the nasal sinuses).

Sinus thrombosis (clotting of the blood in the dural sinuses) is thankfully a very rare abnormality. I've probably seen 5 or so in my career, including my training at a very busy neurosurgical hospital. It is distinguished from post-traumatic intracranial bleeding (typically subdural or epidural hematomas or subarachnoid hemorrhage). In this condition, blood clots are not in the brain itself but rather is confined within the dural sinuses.

Here is normal MRI venography imaging of a patient's dural sinuses:


Patients with sinus thrombosis commonly have headaches and are at a significant risk of stroke. These "venous infarcts" are also at risk of direct bleeding in the brain.

Sinus thrombosis is typically caused by blood clotting disorders but can be caused by trauma. Typically the trauma must be substantial and include a skull fracture that directly crosses one of the sinuses however there are exceedingly rare case reports of sinus thrombosis attributed at least to trivial trauma, however these may be coincidental.

This may explain Hillary's condition however, considering that she's a known "clotter," it's actually more likely that her thrombosis was spontaneous and unrelated to her reported minor head trauma. In either event, I trust her doctors will perform appropriate blood analysis to determine any possible need for long-term blood thinners. However most are treated similarly to leg vein clots, which are enormously more common, with temporary blood thinners.

If I was premature questioning the honesty of a Clinton, I apologize.


UPDATE 3: Dr. Aaron S. Dumont, director of cerebrovascular surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, agrees with me...
“It’s probably a coincidence,” he said of Clinton’s fainting spell and the clot. He noted, however, that her history of a blood clot in the leg may indicate a predisposition to clotting.
Assuming the concussion story wasn't fabricated in the first place. They still haven't provided any confirmation that it was real.
Posted by Milton Wolf at 8:27 AM

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Heh: @DavidGregory tweets of the day







Posted by Milton Wolf at 2:40 PM

Gun Owner Map Backfire: Outing unarmed homes makes them sitting ducks

It takes a special kind of intelligence to do such dumb things.


The same liberals who can find the right to privacy in the Constitution now want to treat law-abiding gun owners like registered sex offenders. They believe that "outing" gun owners will pressure them to disarm. Hardly. They just outed the unarmed residents who will now feel an urgency to buy a gun to get off the sitting duck list.

They just created a map that tells criminals which houses to avoid. If I was a non-gun owner in White Plains, I'd be furious. And then I'd buy a gun and demand The Journal News to update their map with a big red dot on my house.


Personally, I want would-be criminals to know that I'm armed. If you choose to remain unarmed, that is certainly your right but I advise you, for your own safety, to not advertise that fact.
Posted by Milton Wolf at 10:40 AM

It's Time We Ban the Assault Car

BEIJING (AP) — A man angered by a court ruling in the murder of his daughter rammed a car loaded with a gas tank and firecrackers into a group of middle schoolers, injuring 13 in the country's latest attack on students.

The man ran down 23 students at Fengning No. 1 Middle School in northern China's Hebei province on Monday, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday, citing local police.

Xinhua said the man, identified as 48-year-old Yin Tiejun, later lit a bottle of diesel in an attempt to set his car on fire.
Thank goodness guns are banned in China or else somebody just might get hurt ... like the 22 school children stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder on the same fateful day of the Newtown, Connecticut shooting.

Posted by Milton Wolf at 10:10 AM
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