Cops Love Lewinski

Over the course of the last couple of days, I have clicked on Huffington Post only to find that the articles on the far right side are in French. Since my French vocabulary consists of 5 - 10 words, I wish that this gremlim would go visit someone who wants to improve their French.

While opposed to abortion and an active (but, ultimately unsuccessful) opponent of same sex marriage during  consideration by the state of Washington, he is supposedly concerned more with the poor and is pastoral in nature-- in the mold of the Pope.

Observers have been keen to note the replacement for this large and important diocese.  The Pope reached deep into the ecclesiastical ranks with the appointment of a bishop rather than an archbishop to this post, but  that was apparently necessary to find a moderate.  

Cupich was, according to his brother, named after Saint Blase, a physician and bishop in historical Armenia (modern Turkey). St. Blase was martyred by beating and beheading by rebels. This saint is called upon by the devoted to intercede in cases of throat disease, especially for fish bones stuck in the throat (Fishcamp, please take note).  

As a former Catholic schoolboy, I recall that February ritual of having two crossed candles (unlit)  placed on my throat by the priest.  That, as combination therapy with antibiotics, seemed to do the trick for those childhood sore throats.  

Xtians demanded religious recognition in the building, which to be fair included all religions, and Satan moved in alongside Jesus and Moses and a few thousand Hindu gods.

The degree to which freedom of religion has bent the RWNJ opinion industry out of shape is a joy to behold.

FOR THE EYES OF PRESIDENT OBAMA ONLY

Mr. President, Iraq and Syria are in turmoil. Dictator Bashar al-Assad is brutally bombing his own people. Opposing him is ISIS, the most vicious terrorist organization on the planet. The U.S. cannot ignore these human rights violations and threats to our security. We must act. We must arm Nate, the one Syrian rebel we can trust.

As you asked us, the CIA has been exhaustively vetting rebel factions that the U.S. could arm against Assad and ISIS, provided they meet some key criteria. They need to be fighting Assad but not aligned with ISIS. They have to be principled enough not to commit war crimes or atrocities against civilians, but also not wusses. They can't be religious extremists, but they can't be so secular that they'll alienate the populace.

Luckily, despite the terrible strife in that region, we have found that there is still absolutely a faction that meets our criteria. His name is Nate and we should send him 90,000 guns.

In case you're confused: Nate is not a rebel leader. We're not talking about arming him and his followers. Just him. Just one dude. That's what we've got.

The encoded practice is to take the officer's word that he or she felt that they would die if they didn't blaze away.

"In what was called the largest anti-terror operation in Australian history, police have arrested 15 people allegedly linked to the Islamic State, some who plotted a public beheading."

"Police said the planned attack was to be "random." The killers were to behead a victim and then drape the body in the black Islamic State flag, according to the Sydney Morning Herald."

Washington Post article.

Minimart attack

And then we have this description of the shooting:

Video

Brown's actions are remarkably the same. He attacks and then returns.

But unlike you I am willing to wait and abide by what the legal system says after Wilson has been afforded the due process we all supposedly enjoy.

LONDON (The Borowitz Report)--In an eleventh-hour development that could have an unpredictable effect on the vote to determine Scottish independence, Queen Elizabeth II took to the British airwaves on Thursday to excoriate the Scots in a one-hour, profanity-laden tirade.

Yet the race in Alaska is nearly as unclear as Kansas'. Alaska is the only state this year where there has not been a traditional, nonpartisan telephone survey contacting voters with a cellphone. The data we have is generally of dubious quality or comes from partisan outfits.

You are all upset because of the implication that this guy Lewinski would be called upon to participate in this Wilson Grand Jury presentment.

So then if it turns out that he has participated in it or does so in the near future, then that to you would speak poorly of the Darren Wilson defense.

Did I get that right???

A Lewinski is something to you that an innocent policeman  would not want or need.

He was blindsided, though, by a bill of about $117,000 from an "assistant surgeon," a Queens-based neurosurgeon whom Mr. Drier did not recall meeting.

"I thought I understood the risks," Mr. Drier, who lives in New York City, said later. "But this was just so wrong -- I had no choice and no negotiating power."

In operating rooms and on hospital wards across the country, physicians and other health providers typically help one another in patient care. But in an increasingly common practice that some medical experts call drive-by doctoring, assistants, consultants and other hospital employees are charging patients or their insurers hefty fees....

...The average base salary for neurosurgeons decreased to $590,000 in 2014 from $630,000 in 2010, according to Merritt Hawkins, a physician staffing firm.

To counter that trend, some spinal surgeons have turned to consultants -- including a Long Island company called Business Dynamics RCM and a subsidiary, the Business of Spine -- that offer advice on how to increase revenue through "innovative" coding, claim generation and collection services.

Some strategies used by surgeons, including billing large amounts for a second surgeon in the room or declaring an operation an emergency, raise serious questions.

Kentucky is a good case in point; it ranks among the lowest three States in virtually every category of health deficiency. However, since adopting the expanded Medicaid coverage in January of this year the turnaround in health statistics has been dramatic. While the health of Kentuckians has improved greatly it has not led to any improvement in the political outlook for those who brought those benefits to the voters of Kentucky.

A Typical Example:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Affordable Care Act allowed (call her "Jean Johnson,") an eBay warehouse packer earning $9 an hour, to sign up for Medicaid this year. She is being treated for high blood pressure and Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, after years of going uninsured and rarely seeing doctors.

(NEWSER) - Ezekiel Emanuel is a healthy 57-year-old in all respects, as his recent hike up Mount Kilimanjaro would suggest. Which is why it might be disconcerting to read his essay in the Atlantic laying out the reasons why he hopes to be dead in 18 years. To Emanuel, 75 is the right age at which to die. "I will have lived a complete life," he writes. He will have seen his grandkids begin their own lives and will have "made whatever contributions, important or not, I am going to make." And, with luck, the inevitable mental and physical declines of old age will not have set in yet. Emanuel rejects what he calls the "American immortal"--the concept that drives people to obsessively exercise, pop vitamins, do mental puzzles, etc., in the hope of cheating death.

His video taken shortly after the shooting and shows Wilson with another officer speaking through the window of another SUV.

The first two SUVs to arrive on the scene drove through the crime scene -- thus indicating how fresh the scene was at that time.

The first SUV parks on the south side of street about 50 feet from where the final action was and most thought that this was Wilson's SUV.

The officer who the landscapers saw arrive at the time of the shooting with gun drawn was probably from this SUV.

This officer would have been the first to arrive, and pull up right behind Wilson as he was delivering his final 10 rounds into Brown.  

In the Brady video that officer and Wilson are talking through the window with the officer of the 2nd SUV to arrive. This 2nd SUV then pulls up and parks about 20 feet to the other side of the body at his feet. Is this what FPD refers to as the 2nd unit to arrive -- at 12:02:22???