Day: February 8, 2009

RNC Scrambles To Cover Butt

A spokesman for Michael S. Steele defended the new Republican National Committee chairman yesterday against claims by a convicted felon that Steele misused campaign funds from his 2006 Senate bid.

Curt Anderson, a political consultant and Steele spokesman, said the allegations had been “fabricated” by Steele’s former campaign finance chairman, who was seeking a more lenient sentence in an unrelated criminal case.

The Washington Post outlined the accusations in yesterday’s editions, including a claim that Steele’s campaign paid money to a company owned by his sister for services never performed, and the improper use of tens of thousands more in campaign money.
The accusations come from Alan B. Fabian, a former finance committee chairman for Steele’s Senate bid, as he was trying to cut a deal with Baltimore-based federal prosecutors. Fabian, of Hunt Valley, was indicted in August 2007 on fraud charges.

Steele denied the allegations through a spokesman. But attorneys said the confidential charges, which appear to have been mistakenly disclosed to a reporter, would dog Steele and endanger Fabian by branding him as a snitch.

Steele, Maryland’s former lieutenant governor, was elected national party chairman on Jan. 30, becoming the first African-American in the position. The Post described four instances of alleged wrongdoing raised by Fabian, who claimed Steele paid a law firm $75,000 for work never done, which the firm denied; improperly transferred more than a half-million dollars from a state campaign account to another account; used state campaign funds to pay for federal campaign expenses; and gave $37,262 in Senate campaign funds to Brown Sugar Limited, a defunct business run by his sister, Monica Turner.

And so it begins……Now the Repubs will have to do damage control on ALL the talk shows and will be a story for the next week…..it will be interesting to see who cover this and if it is given equal coverage by the media.

Watch What Finger You Use

A Portsmouth, N.H., man has been jailed on a felony charge of violating a protective order after he allegedly showed his middle finger to the person who filed it. The two were dining separately at a restaurant on Jan. 24 when police said a 42-year-old man made the gesture.

A police affidavit said the man eventually left “with some assistance from restaurant staff.”

Police Sgt. Kuffer Kaltenborn said violation of protective order charges can be brought as felonies when the allegations are second offenses. However, he said, the city prosecution office is expected to dismiss the felony against the man on Monday, leaving a misdemeanor count of stalking.

Geez!  That finger is used daily on the roads of my city.  Thank God these people around here have not thought of charging someone with this…I mean we have some of the dumbest laws….but this one they have missed….I am sure they will eventually correct the oversight.

Investigation Into The 8 Babies Doctor

The spotlight on the mother of octuplets is turning to the fertility doctor who helped her give birth not once but 14 times by implanting Nadya Suleman with fertilized embryos.

The Medical Board of California investigating the doctor — whom it did not name — to see if there was a “violation of the standard of care,” board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said Friday.

Suleman, 33, of Whittier, already had six children when she gave birth Jan. 26 to octuplets. The births to an unemployed, divorced single mother prompted angry questions about how she plans to provide for her children.

But the backlash seems to have extended as well to Suleman’s doctor.

In the United States, there is no law dictating the number of embryos that can be placed in a mother’s womb. Multiple embroys can be implanted to improve the odds that one will take.

However, there are national guidelines which put the norm at two to three embryos for a woman of Suleman’s age, in order to lessen the health risks to the mother and the chances of multiple births.

When asked why so many embryos were implanted, Suleman told NBC: “Those are my children, and that’s what was available and I used them. So, I took a risk. It’s a gamble. It always is.”

According to state documents, Suleman told a doctor she had three miscarriages. Another doctor disputed that number, saying she had two ectopic pregnancies, a dangerous condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than in the uterus.

This all sounds like a plan for books and made for tv movies…..from the doctor and the baby factory….why else would she need a publicist?  This is gonna be a big story when all is learned about players in this drama.

Time for someone to step up and draw a line about this procedure and limit the number of fertilized eggs to 2 or 3….8 is too damn many and needs to be investigated from all angles.

Geez! Boomers Just Cannot Have Any Fun!

Crap!  The Boomers are blamed for everything that has gone wrong recently…..economic crisis, global warming, etc…and now they want to suck all the air out of the last enjoyment some have…..Pricks!

The arrival of the “swinging 60s” may have heralded a rise in sexually-transmitted cancers, say researchers.

Rates of anal, vulval and vaginal cancers rose for “baby boomers” born in the decades after the Second World War.

The culprit is the human papillomavirus (HPV), acquired during sex, said the King’s College London study.

Some estimates suggest that up to three out of four people will be infected with HPV at some point in their lives, although the immune system is normally able to destroy it

There has been a steady rise in anal cancer rates over that period in both men and women, but with women born in the 1960s three times more likely to develop it than those born 20 years earlier.

Although vaginal and vulval cancer rates have fallen away in modern generations, they are higher in the 1960s generation of women compared with those born in the first half of the 1940s.

Dr David Robinson, who led the study, said: “These results have revealed a snapshot of just how much rates of these cancers have increased in the post war generations.

“For anal cancer, rates are now higher in women than in men – however, programmes of vaccination against HPV, whilst aimed primarily at reducing the burden of cervical cancer, may also help to reduce the incidence of cancers at these other sites.”

Dr Lesley Walker, from Cancer Research UK, said that it was important people understood the dangers linked to HPV.

“Using a condom will lower the risk of exposure to the virus. HPV vaccines are an important advance for future generations, but the cervical screening programme remains vitally important in detecting any changes that might lead to cancer.”

Gia-normous Tah-Tahs!

A woman from Texas has reportedly undergone nine breast enlargement operations to become the proud owner of the world’s largest breast implants — size 38KKK.

American doctors had refused to carry out any more operations on Sheyla Hershey, 28, when her breasts were a staggering 34FFF, but that didn’t stop her from going under the knife for the record breaking surgery.

“To me, big is beautiful. I don’t think I have anything to worry about,” the Houston-resident said.

Still determined to increase her bustline, Hershey jetted off to Brazil where there are no limits on the size of implants.

The surgery required a full gallon of silicone.  (eeewwwwwww!)

Her British ex-boyfriend, who initially paid for her plastic surgery, was dumped after he begged her to stop with the surgery.

“I loved him very much but I had to leave him to follow my dream,” she said.

It has been said that she could face the problem of her breast exploding….thinking……

This is where I usually have something very clever to say……..but all I can think of is…….DAMN!

Coffee’s Not All That Drips

Another Sunday arrives and not much news to post on….so the SEX has it!

The prevalence of quinolone-resistant gonorrhea has increased rapidly in Ontario – Canada’s most populous province – from a rate of 2% in 2001 to 28% in 2006, found a study published in CMAJ http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg287.pdf. Infections in heterosexual men appear to have contributed to the increased rate of resistance.

Other studies have associated quinolone-resistant gonorrhea with men having sex with men, antibiotic use, over 35 years of age and travel to Asia.

“The magnitude of the rate of resistance to quinolone in Ontario is unusually high by any threshold reported in North America,” state Dr. Susan Richardson from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and coauthors. “Given Ontario’s large population and its status as a major economic centre and national transit hub, its epidemiology is likely to influence epidemiological trends in other provinces of Canada.”

After several years of declining infection rates, Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections are on the rise in Canada and many other countries, with health ramifications as the disease can cause infertility and serious blood, joint and immune complications.

The study findings underscore the current recommendations in Canada not to use quinolones for treatment of N. gonorrhoeae infections. Ongoing testing for antibiotic resistance is necessary, although new testing methods are replacing methods that test for susceptibility. “The importance of using culture diagnostics for N. gonorrhoeae needs to be communicated to clinicians, laboratories and public health organizations,” conclude the authors.

In a related commentary http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg268.pdf, Dr. John Tapsall from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney, Australia states “in developed countries, the spread of quinolone-resistant N. gonorrhoeae infection has followed a pattern in which different resistant subtypes are imported, sometimes over many years. The subtypes are eventually introduced into a country’s sexual networks and then achieve sustained endemic transmission.”

Appropriate antibiotic use is crucial for controlling drug-resistance in community-acquired pathogens. A sustained global approach is needed to reduce the rates of drug-resistant gonorrhea and to control the disease. All countries are at risk of the spread of even more resistant strains of this highly adaptable pathogen.