Monthly Archives: January 2010
Pensioner Declared Dead By A Doctor Is Found To Be Alive By Undertaker As He Was About To Seal The Coffin – Daily Mail
A Polish beekeeper pronounced dead after he suffered a suspected heart attack was about to be sealed up in a coffin when a funeral director miraculously discovered a faint pulse.
Jozef Guzy collapsed as he started work among his beloved hives near the southern city of Katowice.
An ambulance was called and an experienced doctor declared that the 76-year-old had died.
Jerzy Wisniewski, a spokesman for the Regional Ambulance Service in Katowice, said: ‘The patient was not breathing, there was no heart beat, the body had cooled – all are the characteristics of death.
Three hours later, an undertaker arrived to take Mr Guzy’s body away.
Funeral director Dariusz Wysłuchato placed the man’s body in a coffin and was about to seal the lid when his wife, Ludmilla, asked him to remove his watch.
As Mr Wysłuchato fiddled with the watch chain he happened to touch Mr Guzy’s neck and detected a pulse.
He said: ‘I touched around the neck artery and suddenly realised he wasn’t dead after all. I checked again and shouted, “It’s a pulse!”
‘I had a friend check and he noticed the man was breathing. God, it was a miracle!”
The ambulance was called again and the same doctor returned. He confirmed the pensioner had ‘come back from the dead’.
Mr Guzy was taken to hospital where puzzled doctors failed to find anything wrong with him.
After a few days rest, he was sent home.
Mr Wysłuchato said: ‘Thank God I did not close the coffin – if I had done that it would have been a tragedy.
‘Something touched me to touch his neck – I’m so pleased he’s alive.’
His wife, Ludmila, said: ‘I could not believe it when they said he was dead. The doctor put a white sheet over him and three hours later local undertakers pulled up.’
Mr Guzy added: ‘The undertaker saved my life. The first thing I did when I got out of hospital was take him a pot of honey.’
It comes just weeks after a hospital in southwest China prematurely sent a man injured in a motorbike crash to a mortuary.
Zhang Houming, 46, was found breathing and with a faint heartbeat in his coffin by his family.
He was taken back to hospital, but died an hour later.
His family, from the city of Neijiang in Sichuan province, are now claiming £136,000 in compensation.
Kim Priestcap: Those terorists must really love Obamas’ America!
She must be right, I mean just check out how many folks, can’t call them terrorists anymore, are trying to fly over and say hi!
I heard on the radio a few days ago that the UK had raised their terror alert level. It seems the United Kingdom is finding that an “unusually high” number of people on their no-fly lists are trying to board flights to the US:
Two men were stopped boarding US-bound planes at Heathrow days before Britain’s terror threat was raised to “severe”. News of the incidents came hours after Home Secretary Alan Johnson lifted the threat level amid fears that al-Qaeda is planning an attack.
The new level, which means an attack is reckoned “highly likely”, is second only to “critical”.
Security sources say an Egyptian was stopped last Saturday as he tried to board an American Airlines flight to Miami. A man from Saudi Arabia was banned from boarding a United Airlines flight to Chicago the next day and sent back to Saudi.
The incidents and the raised threat level follow the failed Christmas Day bombing on a plane over Detroit.
Anti-terror officials said the past week had seen an “unusually high” number of people on their no-fly list trying to board US-bound planes.
The Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said that there are more people like him in Yemen who are ready to strike US planes. Whether these unusually high number of no-fly listed people are those same people, we don’t know at this point.
*VIDEO* Obama Uses Teleprompters During Speech At Elementary School
It just doesn’t get much more pathetic than this.
What others are saying
Another House Democrat Bites The Dust – Bluegrass Pundit
The latest democrat to abandon ship is Rep. Marion Berry (D-AK). Rep. Berry is from a district John McCain won in 2008.
From the Washington Post:
Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry is expected to announce his retirement tomorrow morning, according to three sources briefed on the decision.
Berry will become the sixth Democrat in a competitive seat to leave in the last two months but the first to announce his retirement since the party’s special election loss in Massachusetts last Tuesday.
“The message coming out of the Massachusetts special election is clear: No Democrat is safe,” said National Republican Congressional Committee communications director Ken Spain.
Berry, first elected in 1996, had been noncommittal about his re-election bid for months although, privately, his allies insisted he was planning to run for re-election.
Arkansas will be a huge focus of Republican efforts in the fall with Berry and Rep. Vic Snyder (D) retiring and Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) in deep trouble as she seeks re-election.
Democrats will be quick to point out 14 Republicans have announced plans to retire. The difference is most of these republicans are from districts that are considered safe.
MSNBS exec defines unprofessional in an odd way
At least to me, and Da Techguy, and to most people who have an ounce of common sense. But, MSNBS is, well ya know
And while things have been relatively calm lately, there was a bit of a flare-up between two top hosts during the week. Scarborough described a rant by Olbermann on Scott Brown as “reckless” and “sad.” (Last night, Olbermann admitted to being “a little over the top lately. Sorry.”)
Griffin now tells Huffington Post’s Danny Shea that “this week’s issue came right up to the line,” and prompted a memo urging civility among the hosts.
From: Griffin, Phil (NBC Universal)
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 3:02 PMMSNBC is THE place for viewers to get the best political analysis and opinion in today’s vast marketplace of ideas. We don’t tell our hosts what to say. We don’t have talking points. We encourage our talent to voice their opinions strongly and smartly, always rooted in fact. All of this has brought us great success, culminating in last year’s victory over CNN.
Hosts strongly voicing their OWN opinions can no-doubt lead to spirited, substantive disagreements. This debate is encouraged. What we’re doing at MSNBC is something our competition is not. And it is difficult. We have many strong personalities with differing, passionate opinions, but it is important to remember that we are all on the same team. I want to reiterate my long-standing policy: We do not publicly criticize our colleagues. This kind of behavior is unprofessional and will not be tolerated.
As Da Techguy notes, MSNBS has dedicated its’ nightime line up to pandering to the far Left, and I suppose Griffin is more concerned with kissing Leftist ass than having any credibility.
Who is ready for more Liberal Maladies?
Liberals seem prone to suffer from several Liberal Maladies that I, Doctor Gator, have diagnosed over the years. One of these is Consistent Inconsistentitis. This dreaded malady causes Liberals to lose all principles and the ability to avoid becoming gigantic hypocrites. I fear we are about to see yet another outbreak of this my friends.
ReliaPundit reports on one of the Lefts’ darlings, Hugo Chavez, and his latest attempt to crush all dissent.
NYTimes/AP: Anti-Chavez Channel Removed From Cable
Venezuelan cable television providers stopped transmitting a channel critical of President Hugo Chavez on Sunday, after the government cited noncompliance with new regulations requiring the socialist leader’s speeches be televised on cable.
Radio Caracas Television, an anti-Chavez channel known as RCTV that switched to cable and satellite television in 2007 after the government refused to renew its over-the-air license, disappeared from TV sets shortly after midnight.
RCTV was yanked from cable and satellite programming just hours after Diosdado Cabello, director of Venezuela’s state-run telecommunications agency, said several local channels carried by cable television have breached broadcasting laws and should be removed from the airwaves.
Cabello warned cable operations on Saturday evening that they could find themselves in jeopardy if they keep showing those channels.
”They must comply with the law, and they cannot have a single channel that violates Venezuelan laws as part of their programming,” he said.
Now, you may be wondering how this ties in with the ideological inconsistencies of Liberals. Well, we heard over and again that “dissent was patriotism” and that Bush was “crushing dissent” from the Left during the past eight years. OK, we all know that Bush never crushed dissent, nor banned radio or TV stations, or demanded to control what they broadcast. Yet, the Left accused him of it constantly. And, they often held up Chavez as a man who loved “social justice”, you know “power to the people” and all of that.
So, now that we have another example of Chavez crushing dissent, will the Left be outraged? Will they turn on Hugo Chavez? Will they denounce him, and demand “social justice” for the people of Venezuela who dissent against Chavez? Don’t hold your breath for that to happen my friends. The Left will be too stricken with Consistent Inconsistentitis to protest.
And The Global Warming Fraud Continues
Chairman Of IPCC Used Bogus Himalayan Glacier Melting Scam In Fund-Raising – Bluegrass Pundit
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), used bogus claims about Himalayan glaciers melting to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. Pachauri is alleged to be a glacier expert and should have easily known the claims were false. Some people are wondering if his actions were criminal.
The Times reported:
The chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Rajendra Pachauri’s Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion’s share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 – an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report.
Since then, however, The Sunday Times has discovered that the same bogus claim has been cited in grant applications for TERI.
One of them, announced earlier this month just before the scandal broke, resulted in a £310,000 grant from Carnegie.
An abstract of the grant application published on Carnegie’s website said: “The Himalaya glaciers, vital to more than a dozen major rivers that sustain hundreds of millions of people in South Asia, are melting and receding at a dangerous rate.
“One authoritative study reported that most of the glaciers in the region “will vanish within forty years as a result of global warming, resulting in widespread water shortages,”
The Carnegie money was specifically given to aid research into “the potential security and humanitarian impact on the region” as the glaciers began to disappear. Pachauri has since acknowledged that this threat, if it exists, will take centuries to have any serious effect.
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Who loves Obama? Obama!
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Highlights from President Obama’s speech at yesterday’s “Main Street” rally in Elyria, Ohio, with emphasis added:
Well, listen, it is great to be here in Elyria. Thank you so much for the great hospitality, the wonderful reception. Look, it’s just nice being out of Washington, let me say. (Laughter.) I mean, there are some nice people in Washington, but it can drive you crazy. (Laughter.) Am I wrong, Sherrod? (Laughter.)
For two years, I had the privilege of traveling across this country, and I had a chance to talk to people like you, and go to diners and sit in barbershops, and hear directly about the challenges that all of you are facing in your lives, and the opportunities that you’re taking advantage of, and all the things that we face together as a nation. And the single hardest thing — people ask me this all the time — the single hardest thing about being President is that it’s harder for me to do that nowadays. It’s harder to get out of the bubble.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, the White House is a wonderful place to work. You live above the store — (laughter) — which means I’ve got a very short commute. I’m having – I see my daughters before they go to school and I see them at night for dinner, even if I have to go back down to the office. And that makes everything so much better. But the truth is, this job is a little confining, and that is frustrating. I can’t just go to the barbershop or sit in a diner. I can’t always visit people directly.
This is part of the reason why I’ve taken to the practice of reading 10 letters, out of the 40,000 that I get, every night just so that I can stay in touch and hear from you. But nothing beats a day where I can make an escape, I break out. And so I appreciate the chance to come here and spend a day.[. . .]
I knew it would be unpopular — and rightly so. But I also knew that we had to do it because if they went down, your local banks would have gone down. And if the financial system went down, it would have taken the entire economy and millions more families and businesses with it. We would have looked — we would have been looking at a second Great Depression.
So in my first months in office, we also had to save two of the big three automakers from a liquidation bankruptcy, complete collapse. Some people weren’t happy about that, either. I understand that. They felt like if you’re in a business, you make a bad decision, you ought to reap the consequences, just like any business would. The problem was, if we let GM and Chrysler simply go under, hundreds of thousands of Americans would have been hurt, not just at those companies themselves, but at auto suppliers and other companies and dealers here in Michigan, up in — here in Ohio, up in Michigan, all across this country. [. . .]
Now, here’s the message I want you to take away — and we’re going to have a lot of time for questions, but I want to make this absolutely clear. I did not run for President to turn away from these challenges. I didn’t run to kick these challenges down the road. I ran for President to confront them — once and for all. (Applause.)
I ran for this office to rebuild our economy so it works not just for the fortunate few, but for everybody who’s willing to work hard in this country — (applause) — to create good jobs that can support a family; to get wages growing and incomes rising; to improve the quality of America’s schools and lift up great community colleges like this one so that people are constantly learning, constantly retraining for the jobs of the 21st century; to make higher education affordable for the children of working families — and, yes, to deal with the problem of runaway health insurance costs that are breaking family budgets and breaking business budgets and breaking our national budgets. (Applause.)
Now, since this has been in the news a little bit this week — (laughter) — let me say a little something about health care. I had no illusions when I took this on that this was going to be hard. Seven Presidents had tried it, seven Congresses had tried it — and all of them had failed.
And I had a whole bunch of political advisors telling me this may not be the smartest thing to do. “You’ve got a lot on your plate: the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression; two wars. You may not get a lot of cooperation. you’re going to have a lot of pushback from the insurance companies and the drug companies. It’s complicated. Don’t do it.”
Now, let me tell you why I did it. I knew that insurance premiums had more than doubled in the past decade. I knew that out-of-pocket expenses had skyrocketed. I knew that millions more people had lost their insurance, and I knew that because of that economic crisis that was only going to get worse. When you lose 7 million jobs, like we lost over the last two years, what do you think happens to those folks’ health insurance? What happens when their COBRA runs out?
I took this up because I wanted to ease the burdens on all the families and small businesses that can’t afford to pay outrageous rates. And I wanted to protect mothers and fathers and children by being targeted by some of the worst practices of the insurance industry that I had heard time and time again as I traveled through this country. (Applause.)
Now, let me dispel this notion that somehow we were focused on that, and so, as a consequence, not focused on the economy. First of all, all I think about is how we’re going to create jobs in this area. All I think about is how do we get banks lending again. I’ve been doing that the entire year. So have folks like Sherrod and Marcy and Betty. But what I also know is, is that health care is part of the drag on our economy. It’s part of the eroding security that middle-class families feel.
So here’s the good news: We’ve gotten pretty far down the road. But I’ve got to admit, we had a little bit of a buzz saw this week. (Laughter.)
Now, I also know that part of the reason is, is that this process was so long and so drawn out — this is just what happens in Congress. I mean, it’s just an ugly process. You’re running headlong into special interests, and armies of lobbyists, and partisan politics that’s aimed at exploiting fears instead of getting things done. And then you’ve got ads that are scaring the bejesus out of everybody. (Laughter.) And the longer it take, the uglier it looks.
So I understand why people would say, boy, this is — I’m not so sure about this — even though they know that what they got isn’t working. And I understand why, after the Massachusetts election, people in Washington were all in a tizzy, trying to figure out what this means for health reform, Republicans and Democrats; what does it mean for Obama? Is he weakened? Is he — oh, how’s he going to survive this? (Laughter.) That’s what they do. (Laughter.)
But I want you – I want you to understand, this is not about me. (Applause.) This is not about me. This is about you. This is not about me; this is about you. I didn’t take this up to boost my poll numbers. You know the way to boost your poll numbers is not do anything. (Laughter.) That’s how you do it. You don’t offend anybody. I’d have real high poll numbers. All of Washington would be saying, “What a genius!” (Laughter.)
I didn’t take this on to score political points. I know there are some folks who think if Obama loses, we win. But you know what? I think that I win when you win. (Applause.) That’s how I think about it.
So if I was trying to take the path of least resistance, I would have done something a lot easier. But I’m trying to solve the problems that folks here in Ohio and across this country face every day. And I’m not going to walk away just because it’s hard. We are going to keep on working to get this done — with Democrats, I hope with Republicans — anybody who’s willing to step up. Because I’m not going to watch more people get crushed by costs or denied care they need by insurance company bureaucrats. I’m not going to have insurance companies click their heels and watch their stocks skyrocket because once again there’s no control on what they do.
So long as I have some breath in me, so long as I have the privilege of serving as your President, I will not stop fighting for you. I will take my lumps, but I won’t stop fighting to bring back jobs here. (Applause.) I won’t stop fighting for an economy where hard work is rewarded. I won’t stop fighting to make sure there’s accountability in our financial system. (Applause.) I’m not going to stop fighting until we have jobs for everybody.
That’s why I’m calling on Congress to pass a jobs bill to put more Americans to work — (applause) — building off our Recovery Act; put more Americans back to work rebuilding roads and railways; provide tax breaks to small businesses for hiring people; offer families incentives to make their homes more energy-efficient, saving them money while creating jobs. [. . .]
So long as I’m President, I’ll never stop fighting for policies that will help restore home values, to redeem the investment that folks have made. We’ve seen some of those values return in some places, in some pockets, but it’s still tough out there. We’re going to have to do more this year to make sure that banks are responsive to folks who are working hard, have been paying their mortgage, but have found themselves in a tough situation.
I’m not going to stop fighting to give our kids the best education possible — (applause) — to take the tens of billions of dollars we pay banks to act as middlemen on student loans and invest that money in students who actually need it. We don’t need the middlemen — cut them out. (Applause.)
I won’t stop fighting to give every American a fair shake. That’s why the very first bill I signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Act to uphold the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women alike — (applause) — especially when families need two paychecks to survive. (Applause.)
So long as I’m President, I won’t stop fighting to protect you from the kinds of deceptive practices we’ve seen from some in the financial sector. That’s why I signed a Credit Card Bill of Rights into law, to protect you from surprise charges and retroactive rate hikes and other unfair rules. That’s why I’m fighting for a tough consumer financial protection agency to protect you against those hidden overdraft fees that can make a single ATM withdrawal cost 30 bucks. (Applause.) That happened to you, didn’t it? (Applause.)
I won’t stop fighting to open up government. Now, this is hard to do because we don’t control every branch. But I can tell you we have put in place the toughest ethics laws and toughest transparency rules of any administration in history. In history.
By the way, this is the first administration since the founding of the country where all of you can find out who visits the White House. First time in history. And that’s just one example of how we’re trying to constantly open the process.
And so long as I’m President, I won’t stop fighting to cut waste and abuse in Washington — to eliminate what we don’t need, to pay for what we do; to rein in exploding deficits that we’ve been accumulating not just last year but for the last 10. (Applause.)
And I’m going to keep on fighting for real, meaningful health insurance reform. (Applause.) We expanded the Children’s Health Insurance Program to include four million kids — we already did that. But we are also going to fight to hold the insurance industry accountable, to bring more stability and security to folks who are in our health care system. And, yes, I want to make sure that people who don’t have health care right now can get some. (Applause.) It’s shameful that we don’t do that.
Now, these are some of the fights we’ve already had, and I can promise you there will be more fights ahead. I’m not going to win every round. We’re having a fight right now because I want to charge Wall Street a modest fee to repay taxpayers in full for saving their skins in a time of need. (Applause.) We want our money back. (Applause.) We want our money back. And we’re going to get your money back, every dime — each and every dime.
But it’s going to be a fight. You watch. I guarantee you when we start on financial regulatory reform, trying to change the rules to prevent what has caused so much heartache all across the country, there are people who are going to say, “Why is he meddling in government — why is meddling in the financial industry? It’s another example of Obama being big government.”
No, I just want to have some rules in place so that when these guys make dumb decisions, you don’t end up having to foot the bill. (Applause.) That’s pretty straightforward. I don’t mind having that fight. (Applause.)
You know, I said at the beginning how much it means to me to be able to travel this country, and how much it means for me to be here. And that is true now more than ever, because there’s no doubt that it’s easy to get a pretty warped view of things in Washington. But then you start talking to the guys working on those machines, creating products all across the country, you go into the diner and you meet folks who are raising their kids and working hard and trying to keep things together, and I’m reminded of the strength and the resilience and the perseverance of the American people. I’m reminded of the fundamental character of the Americans that I’m so privileged to serve.
It’s that character that has borne our nation through the roughest of seas, a lot rougher than the ones we’re going through right now. That’s the character that will carry us through this storm to better days ahead. I am confident of that, because of you. And I’m very grateful for all of you taking the time to be here today. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.)
Your Daley Douchebag is…..
Via Support Your Local Gunfighter we have today’s Douchebag
Nevada has hired the first legal male prostitute. And call me crazy, but the guy looks like he’s missing a chromosome.
BEATTY, Nev. — A brothel in a Nevada desert town has hired the state’s first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States.
The Shady Lady Ranch successfully won state and county approval to clear the way for the “prostidude,” as Nevada’s newest sex worker is already being called. The male prostitute — known as “Markus” — has quickly become the center of attention in Nevada’s brothel industry.
He has been criticized by female counterparts for not being willing to have sex with men. And he created a dustup after telling Details Magazine that his pioneering role in the sex business was “just the same” as civil rights icon Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat and move to the back of the bus.
Now tell me, does this guy look about as bright as a box of rocks 0r what?
A proper top 99 most desirable women list? I think not!
Lance points out some problems with AskMen.com’s list of the 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010 list.
who the hell was taking part in this poll, and why have they no standards? Not that the women who made the list are ugly or anything. Not at all. It’s just…no Danica Patrick. She’s not on the list. Ditto Hayden Panettiere. Nowhere to be found.
What’s that, you say? Hayden’s a character in a comic book TV show, and Danica’s a race car driver, and AskMen.com’s readers are more sophisticated than that?
You want to explain how Emma Watson – known exclusively for her role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies – made #55, then? Not to mention that chick from those teenage-angst vampire movies?
They make the list, but Danica and Hayden don’t?
Suspect. Very, very suspect.
I would add this. Who votes for the overly skinny, and I mean overly skinny as in for the love of God woman will you eat something, supermodels on this list! Sorry, but women THAT skinny ain’t desirable. They are malnourished. And Salma Hayek #34? Halle Berry #66? Jessica Simpson #82? Those are top ten easily.
The most distessing thing though, is that this woman was NOT on the list
How can Cote de Pablo NOT be on this list? She is HOT, and she is a star on the highest rated show on TV, NCIS. So again, who votes on a list of desirable women and omits this woman?
Again, how are we supposed to take such a list seriously, or AskMen.com seriously. Again I ask these idiots, you REALLY left this woman off the list?
Really?
Lance and I think not!
Bob Belevedere rocks!
His blog, Camp of the Saints is a MUST-READ! And to boot he links here often, so you know he recognizes his fellow bloggers of greatness! Ed and I appreciate that he appreciates us appreciating him.
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