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Speaking on ITV’s This Morning, the teenager from Chelmsford, revealed she had a difficult childhood as her severe case of neurofibromatosis had left her with disfiguring growths.  But the brave youngster battled through and after having several operations in the U.S, she has just celebrated her 18th birthday.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2085794/Neurofibromatosis-I-told-I-die-Brave-girl-18-describes-growing-rare-condition-causes-tumours-grow-body.html#ixzz1jSAIeJw3

Our health care system is the envy of the world.  Which is a little odd, because it is also the cornerstone of the world’s healthcare systems.  Once we debase it with ObamaCare, the whole world will be worse off.

Some of the nonsense you keep hearing:

First Trust Advisors economists Brian Wesbury and Robert Stein argue that labor force concerns are overblown. The latest jobs report, they say, was the best since the economic recovery started. “Let’s not make up reasons to be disappointed when the numbers are getting a little bit better every month,” they wrote in a Monday dispatch.
–Investor’s Business Daily

We’re not making up reasons–we’re swamped in reasons to distrust and loathe the numbers and explanations which squirt freely from this administration.

The blunt fact here is that a real recovery feels like boom, tempered only by the fact that people know it’s all making up for lost time. And that’s the problem here. No matter how much “recovery” happens, we’re … Continue reading →

Those two Marines should be reprimanded, but only for doing it wrong: first you piss on the Taliban’s foreheads, THEN you shoot them, and then by God, there will be peace.

Trust me, the Afghan good guys who have suffered under the Taliban see it this way, and our squeamishness is why they do not trust us. Pretending that this is a war between uniformed forces is a disaster. This is a battle against savage animals.

At least *somebody* is trying to to win the F’n war over there.

Besides, in my world (as in, when I’m king), Taliban don’t get funerals–they get composted. So good on ya Devil Dogs! Providing not only fresh fertilizer, but irrigation to the farms of Afghanistan. That’s COIN-plus, right there.

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My guess is that the only thing new about this is the publicity.

The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as illegal immigrant, outbreak, drill, strain, virus, recovery, deaths, collapse, human to animal and trojan, according to an impact asssessment document filed by the agency.When its search tools net an account using the phrases, they record personal information.

via Tweeting the word drill could mean your Twitter account is read by government spies | Mail Online.

Great Night!

via ブルーマンとクリスマス①1203 – YouTube.

Government funded job retraining programs are an awful idea. If there is an industry need for this training, it will be provided by companies to employees or new hires who seem a good match. If there is not a need for it, industries will know this long before the government.
Federal job training programs are a form of welfare, an intentional distortion of unemployment figures, and another method to entrap a dependent underclass of non-productive voters. Even the best-run government training program cannot match a mediocre industry-run program, and at any rate, the goals are not at all the same.

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