"The Death Book for Veterans"

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Friday August 21, 2009 · 8:29 AM PDT

2009/08/21 · 08:29

[Edited for more catchy title]

They tried with Death Panels. It fizzled. Now they're trying a new strategy. The VA. A disgusting WSJ Op-Ed by Jim Towey who calls it "The Death Book for Veterans".

Of course, if they can't get you pissed by telling you President Obama wants to kill grandma, now they want you to believe he wants to kill off our soldiers.

Towey tells us of an ominous 52 page booklet, entitled "Your Life, Your Choices"(pdf) first published in 1997 that, according to Towey, "the Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use." Also, according to Towey: "Unfortunately, under President Obama, the VA has now resuscitated "Your Life, Your Choices". Never mind the fact that he states earlier in this same paragraph: "Last year, bureaucrats at the VA's National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated [this book]" (last year =/= President Obama, that would be Bush)

Follow me below the fold and we'll discuss "The Death Book for Veterans" in more detail.

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 6:53 PM PDT

2008/10/31 · 18:53

Disclaimer: This is a repost. It didn't get a lot of exposure the first time, and it's pretty important to me.

"That oil is our hope," Jim Crosby said Wednesday. "In each bottle is all my hope, my dreams and my prayers."

The Crosby Mint Farm is the oldest mint farm in the country, located in St. John's, MI. Founded in 1912 by Jim and Linette Crosby's great-grandfather. The 140 acre farm is in danger of being taken by the bank.

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Crosby still circa 1925

They have only until Saturday, November 1, 2008, to sell ~~70,000~~ 62,000 bottles of peppermint and spearmint oil to make up the $348,000 they need to keep the lender from confiscating their equipment and inventory.

The representative of Greenstone Farm Credit Services stated that even if they didn't have the money on November 1, it would take a few days to get things started on a takeover anyway, so I think we should ignore the deadline and do what we can.

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 6:58 AM PDT

2008/10/30 · 06:58

Update [2008-10-30 11:21:35 by second gen]:: Well, it appears this diary has slipped off the page rather quickly.

Apparently, Joe the Plumber stood John McCain up, and that's pretty important. But, thank you for reading, and if you have an inclination, please keep trying to get on the Crosby Mint Farm website and buy a few bottles.

Thanks.

"That oil is our hope," Jim Crosby said Wednesday. "In each bottle is all my hope, my dreams and my prayers."

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Crosby still circa 1925

They have only until Saturday, November 1, 2008, to sell 70,000 bottles of peppermint and spearmint oil to make up the $348,000 they need to keep the lender from confiscating their equipment and inventory.

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 7:58 AM PDT

2008/10/27 · 07:58

MSNBC is reporting:

CHICAGO - Police searching for Jennifer Hudson’s missing 7-year-old nephew found the body of a young black boy in an SUV Monday. There was no confirmation on the identity of the body.

Hudson’s nephew, Julian King, hasn’t been seen since Friday, when Hudson’s mother and brother were found shot to death in their home. Police issued an Amber Alert for Julian, who lived in the home, and were looking for a 1994 white Chevrolet Suburban.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office and Chicago Police Department sent officials to the scene of a white SUV on the city’s West Side Monday. Police refused to comment.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 5:41 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 17:41

Michigan's absentee voter rule says that if you register to vote by mail (for example, through one of the many voter registration drives) you must request your absentee ballot in person so that the clerk can verify that you actually exist and you're really a living, breathing person.

[Republican] Attorney General Mike Cox wants to make it more difficult for students who live away from home to submit absentee ballots. County Clerks have tried to make it easier, stating: "We feel this is the right thing to do for the voters, and that's the only thing we're interested in."

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 11:04 AM PDT

2008/10/10 · 11:04

He endorsed John McCain in the presidential primary, but now former Republican Gov. William Milliken is expressing doubts about his party's nominee.

"He is not the McCain I endorsed," said Milliken, reached at his Traverse City home Thursday. "He keeps saying, 'Who is Barack Obama?' I would ask the question, 'Who is John McCain?' because his campaign has become rather disappointing to me.

"I'm disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign, when he ought to be talking about the issues."

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Wednesday September 24, 2008 · 9:31 AM PDT

2008/09/24 · 09:31

It used to be, you put up a campaign sign, it might get stolen, defaced, or knocked over.

Nowadays, you get racially charged mail. If someone sees an Obama sign in your yard in Flushing, Michigan, they might take down your address and send you a picture of a black man superimposed with a monkey.

That's what happened to a few residents of this Michigan town this weekend.

More after the fold...

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Ignored, it is just some ignorant Schmo who is trying to upset people

41 votes

Reported and investigated fully, it's a hate crime

151 votes

Baked in a pie

19 votes

What the Germans are saying: "McCain braucht Sarah Palin als Krankenschwester" Updated

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 5:35 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 17:35

"McCain braucht Sarah Palin als Krankenschwester"

Translation: "McCain needs Sarah Palin as a nurse"

Rough translation of portions of the hilarious article below the fold...

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 6:12 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 06:12

Every time a pundit is trying to talk about how awesome Barack Obama's speech was last night, a new "BREAKING" bit of information comes across the wire about how Sarah Palin had a charter plane pick her up last night. Or how Mitt Romney is already in Dayton. Then more "BREAKING!!" that Mitt ISN'T in Dayton, but we've gotten word from Pawlenty that he's NOT the choice.

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 3:38 PM PDT

2008/08/21 · 15:38

Due to all of the cries from the wingnuts that Barack Obama's birth certificate was a forgery, Factcheck.org has sent it's investigators to Chicago to actually, physically view Obama's birth certificate.

What they had to say, below the fold.

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Monday July 28, 2008 · 11:36 AM PDT

2008/07/28 · 11:36

There's a new kid in town. It's call Cuil (pronounced cool) which was created by former Google engineers Tom Costello and his wife Ann Patterson and Danny Sullivan, also joined by Russell Power and Louis Monier. (Monier of eBay search, AltaVista and BabelFish fame)

It claims to provide much faster lookups than the usual search services.

But what got me was their privacy policy.

More below the fold.

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Saturday July 19, 2008 · 10:18 AM PDT

2008/07/19 · 10:18

A blogger in my local paper, Aubrey Marron, wrote today with some awesome insight tying John McCain's comment against Cindy McCain's makeup wearing habits, her addiction to pain killers, and how it might all tie into John McCain, the tortured "war hero".

It's an excellent, yet scary read. What initially looks like yet another opinion of McCain's nasty screed against Cindy, it's much better. It is a look at Cindy McCain's drug abuse in a different light.

The meat of the article, below the fold

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