Michele Bachmann: LSOS
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 16th, 2012
Good morning!
With all of the talk abut women’s contraception, what should be available, what should not, what rights we have over our bodies, what is trying to be taken away, and who is trying to control women and our decisions over our bodies…I can’t exactly point to any republican, including the women, and especially including Rep. Michele Bachmann, (R-Minn), as a supporter of women, when their whole agenda is to control women and take away our right to choose.
So when I watched Bachmann arguing with a straight face in support of a woman’s right to choose, on Meet the Press, my mouth dropped in amazement.
“What we want is women to be able to make their own choices…. You see, that’s the lie that happens under Obamacare. The president of the United States effectively becomes a health care dictator. Women don’t need anyone to tell them what to do on health care. We want women to have their own choices, their own money. That way they can make their own choices for their future on their own bodies.”
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Readers: Michele Bachmann is saying she and her party want American women to be able to “make their own choices for the future of their own bodies.” She is a far-right republican who opposes women’s reproductive rights, and here she is speaking passionately, and falsely might I add, as if she is in support of women and their right to choose, live on television.
Where has this woman been? Has Bachmann not a clue about her party’s plan, or has she been lying under a rock and just decided yesterday to peek her size-of-a-pea-brained head out? Because if she was lucid she would know that her party pushes to restrict contraception access, and wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood. Does she not know that her party supports transvaginal ultrasounds – basically state-sanctioned rape! Of course she knows. Talk about a false betrayal – Bachmann is displaying false loyalty - Bachmann is a lying sack of shit.
If I have not welcomed Bachman as a member of the LSOS Club, let me do that now.
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Peace out.
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April 16th, 2012 at 9:02 am
A Sweet Way to Treat Wounds
Treating a simple cut or scratch isn’t always so simple anymore, a fact that is becoming clearer with every new report of drug-resistant skin bacteria turning once-minor wounds into threats to life or limb.
That’s why I’m intrigued by a new study showing what medical-grade manuka honey—a type of honey that’s harvested from manuka trees in Australia and New Zealand and then sterilized—can do in our battle against out-of-control skin infections.
It isn’t just that this honey kills microbes—other honeys can do that, too. What’s new is that lead researcher Sarah E. Maddocks, PhD, an associate lecturer in microbiology at Cardiff Metropolitan University in Wales, discovered that manuka honey also has the potential to detach bacteria from wounds, which makes wounds easier to treat with topical medications.
What makes manuka honey so special? For one thing, manuka contains much higher concentrations of methylglyoxal, compared with other honeys, which makes it a superior microbe fighter.
The main type of antimicrobial ingredient in other types of honey is hydrogen peroxide, Dr. Maddocks said. She analyzed medical-grade manuka honey, specifically, because it’s irradiated and therefore sterilized.
Honeys that are sold for eating are not sterilized, she explained, and therefore might contain microorganisms that can be transferred to wounds and cause infection.
(But don’t worry—you can still buy the medical grade variety. More on that later.)
BAD NEWS FOR BACTERIA
In lab petri dishes, Dr. Maddocks and her team treated samples of Streptococcus pyogenes—a skin bacterium often found in slow-to-heal surgical infections—with 20% to 25% concentrations of medical-grade manuka honey.
Within two hours, the honey produced big results—85% of the bacteria were destroyed.
The most interesting part of the study was that the honey also stopped the bacteria from binding to proteins that often are found in wounds.
Normally when bacteria stick to these proteins, they form a barrier to healing when the wound is treated with topical drugs, such as antimicrobial creams.
So with this one-two punch, the honey appears to have the power to minimize the likelihood of infection and make the wound easier to treat.
If it starts being used on a wide scale, medical-grade manuka might do even more than save patients unnecessary suffering—it could save buckets of money as well.
Dr. Maddocks estimated that in the developed world, between 2% and 4% of all health-care expenses go toward treating nonhealing wounds.
Her study was published this past January in Microbiology.
EASY TO USE, A LITTLE HARD TO FIND
Though more research needs to be done to confirm its effectiveness on people’s actual wounds in clinical trials, not just on bacteria in petri dishes,
Dr. Maddocks said that some hospitals all over the world already use medical-grade manuka honey, mainly to treat serious, chronic wounds.
But if you want to use it on a minor wound yourself at home, it’s a good natural option, according to Daily Health News contributing editor Richard O’Brien, MD, an attending emergency physician at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Manuka honey tends to be costly since it needs to be imported great distances. It’s available in some pharmacies, but regular manuka honey found in health or food stores usually isn’t medical-grade.
And you can’t sterilize regular manuka honey yourself.
The best place to find it is online—just be sure that the label states that it’s “medical-grade” or “sterilized.”
To use medical-grade manuka honey on a minor wound, first clean the wound with mild soap and water to lower the bacterial count and remove any debris, said Dr. O’Brien.
Then apply a thin film over only the wound (not the surrounding area) and cover it carefully with a nonstick bandage, such as Telfa, so the pad itself won’t stick to the honey, he added.
Twice a day clean the wound and reapply the honey and bandage, Dr. O’Brien said, and if the bandage needs more frequent changing due to drainage or pain, see a doctor to make sure the wound is not infected.
Sources: Sarah E. Maddocks, PhD, associate lecturer, microbiology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, Wales. Richard O’Brien, MD, an attending emergency physician at Moses Taylor Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
April 16th, 2012 at 9:51 am
My only comment to anything Bachmann says is who elected this nut? It is just another good argument why we should not be giving states with less population than some of the cities of other States equal representation with States that have huge population.
It forces the majority of the population to be at the mercy of US senators and House reps that are elected by a few idiots.
Janet
April 16th, 2012 at 11:57 am
Zen Lill:
I must say that in your honest way of appealing to the masses on this blog your letter to Kent was well meant.
But in my honest opinion. Howie doesn’t deserve the respect you give him. He is just a big pussy who cries when things don’t go his way.
I mean why should Howie, a grown man, allow Kent, another grown man, make him feel pressured to hurry up to write something? Just because Kent wrote a comment suggesting that he speed up doesn’t mean he has to. Ludicrous on it’s face.
If it was anyone but that pussy Howie, you would have told him to grow the fuck up and stop whining like a baby.
As for his fans, it is harder to be a fan of a self-absorbed cry baby than one would think. I am a fan but Howie is too high maintenance. He wants you to kiss his ass or he considers you wanting.
Tell Howie that his interpretation of “loyal” may not be the same as a normal adult person. Just because we don’t line up to beg “mr. special” to return doesn’t mean we don’t miss his commentary.
It just means we are not willing to kiss his ass to get it. In other words if he wants to throw an immature temper tantrum and take his ball and run home to mommy, we say ta ta pussy.
As for you comment about his supply of rich alien stories, I and I am certain that anyone having read one on this blog would agree, they are the best as far as accuracy, thrill, and feeling of being part of something special goes.
But, I repeat fuck him, if he can’t take criticism as the rest of us do who comment on this blog does.
The only one I can think of that has thin skinned as he is is another of your male friends. Doug, after the blog took him to task for disrespecting Michelle, he tucked his tail and when home to mommy.
Maybe that’s why Michelle left. She wanted a man not a pussy as a mate.
No disrespect meant, MIchelle. That’s just how I felt when he suddenly disappeared from the blog.
Like Howie, He couldn’t take the heat. At least I can say that Al, another of your male pals, Zen Lill has the balls to return when he isn’t ill.
He can dish as well as take. And like a man he doesn’t attempt to set limits on how he is critiqued. He told Robert, RT(although I agree with Robert’s position that he wasn’t calling all white men boys only the racists bigots) that he didn’t like being referred to as a “white boy.”
You have to respect a person who speaks up and demands explanation for a perceived slight.
On the other hand you kinda despise the wimps who whine about being disrespected and flee for the nearest sanctuary while decrying that their fans didn’t support them.
This is especially true of Howie considering that even today fans write in in support of his childish attitude. Just goes to show you how one sided that fan issue is. He seldom supports his fans. If he did he would not have embarrassed those Israelite fans that counted on his support to keep the lines of communication open between them and terrorist who would use human laden weapons to blow up innocents.
It seems that his feelings being hurt were more important than their lives being lost. Great Jew he is. One of those fair weather boys.
He could care less about his fans. It is all about him. Kiss my ass or good bye. I could care less about those who use my comments to help others learn better or stop mass murder in Israel. If I am offended fuck you all.
Like the hypocrite Doug who feigned such affection and loyalty to Michelle, when it got down to Doug and Howie having to endure unpleasantness for the sake of the cause they wimped out.
Perhaps we can all appreciate Al’s character. He may go off occasionally. But he can take it. You never hear him say I’m taking my ball and going home.
Larry
April 16th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
Cheney called Obama an unmitigated disaster for the country. That is just another case of the Right using words that denigrate a black man.
The other 43 were never referred to as an unmitigated disaster. That is a bit over the top.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
The white male vote is a ceiling that Obama can’t beat. The white male vote goes to Romney by 27%. So Obama needs the big leads he has in the OTW male vote and the women regardless of race vote.
If Obama can’t hold on to those leads and those people don’t go to the polls, he can lose the White House.
It is a certainty that white males are determined to return the head of the government to a white male regardless of the qualifications of that male. All he has to have to qualify is white skin.
Interesting, but this white woman will be telling her husband that she supports Romney but she will be voting Obama.
Erica
April 16th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Simple hatred of the president is all the republicans have.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
The media has a knack for saying that the lead in male vote by Obama is only one percentage point or less. In some polls the male vote goes to Romney.
What the media almost never addresses is that male vote is so close because Romney owns the white male vote by sometimes 30 or more points when the independent white male vote is counted.
No matter how it is disguised, racism is a real problem with white males. It seems that that tiny penis stigma will work to cost the black man the votes of the tiny penis wonders.
Norma
April 16th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Who would vote for this man?
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In a closed-door speech to donors at a private home in Florida on Sunday, Mitt Romney was unusually candid about his policy plans, offering details about what he expects to implement if elected president in November.
According to NBC News, the former Massachusetts governor said he may decide to eliminate several government agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was once led by his father, George Romney.
“I’m going to take a lot of departments in Washington, and agencies, and combine them. Some eliminate, but I’m probably not going to lay out just exactly which ones are going to go,” Romney said. “Things like Housing and Urban Development, which my dad was head of, that might not be around later.”
Although Romney refused to make specific calls about each agency, he did suggest that the Department of Education would see major changes under a Romney presidency.
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Why would anyone vote for a candidate that won’t tell you important information about his plans if he gets in office? What else is he not telling the voters? I would be extremely wary of such a man.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
I can’t believe the Liberals talking about what they don’t know….. Of course though that is all they do……
April 16th, 2012 at 12:45 pm
Important news: Neither Democrats (including OUR president) nor republicans are generally out to destroy this country with malice. Anyone who suggests they are, without actual proof, should not be trusted.
April 16th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
“Fox is watched by the true believers,” Romney said. “We need to get the independents and the women.”
And Hispanics…don’t forget they need to “get” Hispanics. That he can’ say how he is going to do that is consistent with the rest of his rhetoric.
No insight, just hyperbole. Maybe he wants to surprise us.
April 16th, 2012 at 1:17 pm
This nation is facing a $15 trillion national debt, and there is no shortage of opinions about how to move toward deficit reduction in the federal budget. One topic you will not hear discussed very often on Capitol Hill is the idea of ending one of the oldest American welfare programs — the extraordinary amount of corporate welfare going to the nuclear energy industry.
Many in Congress talk of getting ‘big government off the back of private industry.’ Here’s an industry we’d like to get off the backs of the taxpayers.
As a senator who is the longest-serving independent in Congress, and as the president of an independent and non-partisan budget watchdog organization, we do not necessarily agree on everything when it comes to energy and budget policy in the United States.
But one thing we strongly agree on is the need to end wasteful subsidies that prop up the nuclear industry. After 60 years, this industry should not require continued and massive corporate welfare. It is time for the nuclear power industry to stand on its own two feet.
April 16th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Larry, points well taken, thank you, I was perhaps cutting slack unnecessarily although I think I understand the mind of a chronically and episodically very ill person, they are of a different ilk, what seems rational and mature to you and I is interpreted differently. Often a chronic/episodic ill person is living very much within their pain, unable to NOT take things personally, and one day they can completely get that and others they are taken aback by their own physicality working against them that it’s literally impossible for them to be reasonable and they can’t even have that pointed out without getting upset and doing some back rationalizing – listen, we all have our coping mechanisms, this is his.
Is he too sensitive or a ‘pussy’? Well, I don’t believe in evaluating how much anyone else feels anything, in other words, if I hurt your feelings, it’s not appropriate for me to point out (no matter how ‘true’ it may be to me) that YOUR being too sensitive. So, all the name stuff aside…sigh…what can I say, I just miss the alien activity, and about him acting like a pussy or not, in case you haven’t noticed – not all men, in fact =most= rarely ‘MAN UP’ and just take the heat. (if they did Mischa could stop writing this blog : )
As far as, ‘taking his ball and going home’ hahaha…sometimes when the going gets tough it’s better to take your ball and go play somewhere else. He did.
I can’t comment on Bachman and/or Palin – it’d be low blows only and I’m in a great mood, why change that to state the obvious about these two…
Luv, Zen Lill
April 16th, 2012 at 6:40 pm
Zen Lill:
After reading your post to me about my criticizing Howie’s view of his reception on this blog, I accept your logic. I do not know what Howie is going through because of his medical problems. And you are certainly correct when you point out that those suffering chronically can perceive and interpret them differently.
Howie:
Please accept my sincere apology. I did not mean to cause you anymore anxiety. I too look forward to your return.
As a fan I would also like to say you don’t owe us or anyone a reason why you left for a period. Just return with your usual excellent comments. You will be accepted with open arms.
I hope you will accept my apology.
Larry
April 16th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
It appears that SCOTUS has given the rich the power over both US houses so that the will or the majority matters if it will cause a substantial loss to the super rich.
It seems that this Unlimited buying power given to the super rich coupled with innate racism within my race is almost a death blow to the majority having a say in how their government is run.
So we will continue to get votes giving big oil interest, large tax deductions to the super rich and corporations and the vote against the Buffet Rule.
White politicians know that they can use the super contributions to advance their subtle aspersions to race values to guarantee that white voters will elect them over their non white competition so they don’t have to care what those whites voters want.
White politicians know that they will get the benefit of the doubt from their white voters.
Yancy
April 16th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
I love the Buffett Rule for the same reason Mitt Romney opposes it.
It levels the playing field in America by closing tax loopholes and ensuring that millionaires aren’t paying a tax rate that’s lower than what many middle-class families are paying.
And it’s going to be one of the issues that will define this election.
We’ve got a new interactive tool that shows how Mitt Romney and some other millionaires play by their own set of rules — the same rules they’re trying to make sure you and I don’t ever get to change.
I can’t think of a better way to illustrate the choice this country is facing in November. This is the way it breaks down:
The Buffett Rule closes loopholes and asks millionaires to pay at least as much as middle-class families, so that we can share the burden of reducing our deficit and investing in programs important to a strong middle class, like education, innovation and infrastructure.
Romney not only opposes the Buffett Rule, but he wants to make things even more unfair. He will explode the deficit by giving more tax breaks to the wealthy — and place the burden of paying for them on the backs of the middle class and seniors.
This November, it’s one or the other. We either stick with a President who fights for the middle class, or we choose a candidate who fights to protect an unfair status quo that benefits him at the expense of our economy and the middle class. You’ll be hearing a lot about the Buffett Rule in the coming days. But remember this: It’s not about class warfare, and it’s certainly not about some arcane policy disagreement. It’s about common-sense fairness.
If you’re still curious about what the Buffett Rule would actually do, take a look around the new website now:
Thanks,
Stephanie
Stephanie Cutter
Deputy Campaign Manager
Obama for America