Seriously. Who is this guy who was voted into the Presidency by a small margin ?
Is it the center of right he campaigned as?
Is he the far left proponent his history shows him to be?
Is he the anti-Christ , as some have claimed?
Is he the idol of children as shown in this video? :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnrBMqmE59c&feature=related
Or this ? :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPSqL9_mfM
Or does he represent something more like this? :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fdqwg9Ju4A
Whatever / whoever he is, or pretends to be, I for one, am truly frightened by the aspect of this administration and the direction this once great country is headed.
Obama has done absolutely nothing that is worth the adoration and fawning he receives, and yet there are still some who refuse to see through this charade.
Debt, debt like we have never seen has been brought to us, against our will, and will cripple us, our children and this country.
Apologies to other countries, countries that hate us and have vowed to eliminate us.
To me, this whole smoke & mirrors act is nothing less than a bid for total control.
Control by the government (dictatorship) of everything and everybody in this country.
Freedoms being subjugated at every turn.
I pray for the strength to fight this onslaught of wrong.
You may also, if you don't maybe you should.
Read, learn, know the facts. Get involved.
Our country, our freedoms, our children are worth it.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Something to look forward to ?
Sentenced to death on the NHS
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009
Comments 71 Comment on this article
Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor Photo: GETTY
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
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But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn.
As a result the scheme is causing a "national crisis" in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.
"Forecasting death is an inexact science,"they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
"As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."
The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.
The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours.
Developed by Marie Curie, the cancer charity, in a Liverpool hospice it was initially developed for cancer patients but now includes other life threatening conditions.
It was recommended as a model by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the Government’s health scrutiny body, in 2004.
It has been gradually adopted nationwide and more than 300 hospitals, 130 hospices and 560 care homes in England currently use the system.
Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor.
They look for signs that a patient is approaching their final hours, which can include if patients have lost consciousness or whether they are having difficulty swallowing medication.
However, doctors warn that these signs can point to other medical problems.
Patients can become semi-conscious and confused as a side effect of pain-killing drugs such as morphine if they are also dehydrated, for instance.
When a decision has been made to place a patient on the pathway doctors are then recommended to consider removing medication or invasive procedures, such as intravenous drips, which are no longer of benefit.
If a patient is judged to still be able to eat or drink food and water will still be offered to them, as this is considered nursing care rather than medical intervention.
Dr Hargreaves said that this depended, however, on constant assessment of a patient’s condition.
He added that some patients were being "wrongly" put on the pathway, which created a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that they would die.
He said: "I have been practising palliative medicine for more than 20 years and I am getting more concerned about this "death pathway" that is coming in.
"It is supposed to let people die with dignity but it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"Patients who are allowed to become dehydrated and then become confused can be wrongly put on this pathway."
He added: "What they are trying to do is stop people being overtreated as they are dying.
"It is a very laudable idea. But the concern is that it is tick box medicine that stops people thinking."
He said that he had personally taken patients off the pathway who went on to live for "significant" amounts of time and warned that many doctors were not checking the progress of patients enough to notice improvement in their condition.
Prof Millard said that it was "worrying" that patients were being "terminally" sedated, using syringe drivers, which continually empty their contents into a patient over the course of 24 hours.
In 2007-08 16.5 per cent of deaths in Britain came about after continuous deep sedation, according to researchers at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, twice as many as in Belgium and the Netherlands.
"If they are sedated it is much harder to see that a patient is getting better," Prof Millard said.
Katherine Murphy, director of the Patients Association, said: "Even the tiniest things that happen towards the end of a patient’s life can have a huge and lasting affect on patients and their families feelings about their care.
"Guidelines like the LCP can be very helpful but healthcare professionals always need to keep in mind the individual needs of patients.
"There is no one size fits all approach."
A spokesman for Marie Curie said: "The letter highlights some complex issues related to care of the dying.
"The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient was developed in response to a societal need to transfer best practice of care of the dying from the hospice to other care settings.
"The LCP is not the answer to all the complex elements of this area of health care but we believe it is a step in the right direction."
The pathway also includes advice on the spiritual care of the patient and their family both before and after the death.
It has also been used in 800 instances outside care homes, hospices and hospitals, including for people who have died in their own homes.
The letter has also been signed by Dr Anthony Cole, the chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance, Dr David Hill, an anaesthetist, Dowager Lady Salisbury, chairman of the Choose Life campaign and Dr Elizabeth Negus a lecturer in English at Barking University.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "People coming to the end of their lives should have a right to high quality, compassionate and dignified care.
"The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an established and recommended tool that provides clinicians with an evidence-based framework to help delivery of high quality care for people at the end of their lives.
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009
Comments 71 Comment on this article
Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor Photo: GETTY
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
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1 in 10 NHS jobs need to be cut
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But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn.
As a result the scheme is causing a "national crisis" in patient care, the letter states. It has been signed palliative care experts including Professor Peter Millard, Emeritus Professor of Geriatrics, University of London, Dr Peter Hargreaves, a consultant in Palliative Medicine at St Luke’s cancer centre in Guildford, and four others.
"Forecasting death is an inexact science,"they say. Patients are being diagnosed as being close to death "without regard to the fact that the diagnosis could be wrong.
"As a result a national wave of discontent is building up, as family and friends witness the denial of fluids and food to patients."
The warning comes just a week after a report by the Patients Association estimated that up to one million patients had received poor or cruel care on the NHS.
The scheme, called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), was designed to reduce patient suffering in their final hours.
Developed by Marie Curie, the cancer charity, in a Liverpool hospice it was initially developed for cancer patients but now includes other life threatening conditions.
It was recommended as a model by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice), the Government’s health scrutiny body, in 2004.
It has been gradually adopted nationwide and more than 300 hospitals, 130 hospices and 560 care homes in England currently use the system.
Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor.
They look for signs that a patient is approaching their final hours, which can include if patients have lost consciousness or whether they are having difficulty swallowing medication.
However, doctors warn that these signs can point to other medical problems.
Patients can become semi-conscious and confused as a side effect of pain-killing drugs such as morphine if they are also dehydrated, for instance.
When a decision has been made to place a patient on the pathway doctors are then recommended to consider removing medication or invasive procedures, such as intravenous drips, which are no longer of benefit.
If a patient is judged to still be able to eat or drink food and water will still be offered to them, as this is considered nursing care rather than medical intervention.
Dr Hargreaves said that this depended, however, on constant assessment of a patient’s condition.
He added that some patients were being "wrongly" put on the pathway, which created a "self-fulfilling prophecy" that they would die.
He said: "I have been practising palliative medicine for more than 20 years and I am getting more concerned about this "death pathway" that is coming in.
"It is supposed to let people die with dignity but it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"Patients who are allowed to become dehydrated and then become confused can be wrongly put on this pathway."
He added: "What they are trying to do is stop people being overtreated as they are dying.
"It is a very laudable idea. But the concern is that it is tick box medicine that stops people thinking."
He said that he had personally taken patients off the pathway who went on to live for "significant" amounts of time and warned that many doctors were not checking the progress of patients enough to notice improvement in their condition.
Prof Millard said that it was "worrying" that patients were being "terminally" sedated, using syringe drivers, which continually empty their contents into a patient over the course of 24 hours.
In 2007-08 16.5 per cent of deaths in Britain came about after continuous deep sedation, according to researchers at the Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, twice as many as in Belgium and the Netherlands.
"If they are sedated it is much harder to see that a patient is getting better," Prof Millard said.
Katherine Murphy, director of the Patients Association, said: "Even the tiniest things that happen towards the end of a patient’s life can have a huge and lasting affect on patients and their families feelings about their care.
"Guidelines like the LCP can be very helpful but healthcare professionals always need to keep in mind the individual needs of patients.
"There is no one size fits all approach."
A spokesman for Marie Curie said: "The letter highlights some complex issues related to care of the dying.
"The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient was developed in response to a societal need to transfer best practice of care of the dying from the hospice to other care settings.
"The LCP is not the answer to all the complex elements of this area of health care but we believe it is a step in the right direction."
The pathway also includes advice on the spiritual care of the patient and their family both before and after the death.
It has also been used in 800 instances outside care homes, hospices and hospitals, including for people who have died in their own homes.
The letter has also been signed by Dr Anthony Cole, the chairman of the Medical Ethics Alliance, Dr David Hill, an anaesthetist, Dowager Lady Salisbury, chairman of the Choose Life campaign and Dr Elizabeth Negus a lecturer in English at Barking University.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "People coming to the end of their lives should have a right to high quality, compassionate and dignified care.
"The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) is an established and recommended tool that provides clinicians with an evidence-based framework to help delivery of high quality care for people at the end of their lives.
Common Sense, Right & Wrong..
Where have these values gone to ?
The majority of Americans were probably raised with these values, yet in politics, and more specfically, in congress & the White House, it seems they don't exist.
We are blasted day after day with the right vs the left, right vs wrong, and a bare minimum of common sense.
Where & when did we, as a country, go wrong? Despite the continuing bad, and sometimes criminal, records of our representitives, we keep electing them. Why ?
Have we become so complaicent and numb that out future doesn't matter?
Are we so out of touch & lazy that we don't care?
Beck, Hannity, Ingraham, Levin, Colter are all true Conservatives, but they cannot bring about the true change we need. Good speakers, good ideas, and good leaders are needed.
For the lack of a better word, a revolution is needed. Not a bloody uprising, but an intelligent & passionate one brought out by true Americans. Americans who value our freedoms, and want to see the out of control government stopped.
This is our country. Don't let it become a third world socialist regime.
Get involved. Get educated. Fight for our rights and our freedoms
It's not too late..
The majority of Americans were probably raised with these values, yet in politics, and more specfically, in congress & the White House, it seems they don't exist.
We are blasted day after day with the right vs the left, right vs wrong, and a bare minimum of common sense.
Where & when did we, as a country, go wrong? Despite the continuing bad, and sometimes criminal, records of our representitives, we keep electing them. Why ?
Have we become so complaicent and numb that out future doesn't matter?
Are we so out of touch & lazy that we don't care?
Beck, Hannity, Ingraham, Levin, Colter are all true Conservatives, but they cannot bring about the true change we need. Good speakers, good ideas, and good leaders are needed.
For the lack of a better word, a revolution is needed. Not a bloody uprising, but an intelligent & passionate one brought out by true Americans. Americans who value our freedoms, and want to see the out of control government stopped.
This is our country. Don't let it become a third world socialist regime.
Get involved. Get educated. Fight for our rights and our freedoms
It's not too late..
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
AFL-CIO threatens dems..
Now the AFL-CIO is publically threatening the dems.. They are saying if the public option is removed from the healthcare debacle, they will NOT support them! Obviously obama owes them for the votes to get him elected, so what happens next? Will obama continue with the deciet ? Will the administration fold like the cheap suitcase it seems to be and give in to this extortion? As obama angers the dems & their policies, if he changes again, he will anger the Conservatives even more.
I can't wait to see what happens next..
I can't wait to see what happens next..
Cap & Trade = US business decline
This is NOT what the United States, or the economy needs.
Climate Bill Could Cause Heavy Reliance On Foreign Oil
A climate proposal being discussed by members of Congress could reduce US oil production by 25 percent, resulting in increased reliance on foreign oil.
The H.R. 2454 bill, also known as the cap-and-trade bill, is proposed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
The bill could increase the US’ dependence on foreign oil by up to 19.4 percent by 2030, according to a study conducted by EnSys Energy and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).
The API, which is opposed to the climate bill, claims that US oil output could be slashed by up to 4.4 million barrels per day by 2030 to 12 million barrels per day.
Additionally, investments in US oil refineries could drop by 88 percent – or about $90 billion – by 2030.
“Production at U.S. refineries would drop while production at refineries in countries that do not limit their own greenhouse gas emissions would rise,” API said in a statement. “The impact on global refinery greenhouse gas emissions would be minor as reductions in U.S. emissions mostly would be offset by increases in emissions in other countries.”
Additionally, the API has cited a study by global consulting firm CRA International, which found that the American Clean Energy and Security Act could result in the loss of more than 2 million jobs nationwide and a 1.3 percent decline in the national gross domestic product (GDP).
The average U.S. household would see its purchasing power fall by $910 in 2015 and by $1,170 by 2030, according to the CRA International report, which was also commissioned by API.
“This study clearly shows the devastating impact this legislation could have on U.S. jobs and U.S. energy security,” said API President and CEO Jack Gerard. “Climate legislation should not come at the expense of U.S. economic and energy security… A deep decline in U.S. refining activity would have a ripple effect throughout the economy, affecting jobs in sectors beyond the oil and gas industry. Steelworkers, construction workers, even the shop keepers, school teachers and waitresses working in communities where refineries operate would feel the pinch.”
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Climate Bill Could Cause Heavy Reliance On Foreign Oil
A climate proposal being discussed by members of Congress could reduce US oil production by 25 percent, resulting in increased reliance on foreign oil.
The H.R. 2454 bill, also known as the cap-and-trade bill, is proposed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
The bill could increase the US’ dependence on foreign oil by up to 19.4 percent by 2030, according to a study conducted by EnSys Energy and commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute (API).
The API, which is opposed to the climate bill, claims that US oil output could be slashed by up to 4.4 million barrels per day by 2030 to 12 million barrels per day.
Additionally, investments in US oil refineries could drop by 88 percent – or about $90 billion – by 2030.
“Production at U.S. refineries would drop while production at refineries in countries that do not limit their own greenhouse gas emissions would rise,” API said in a statement. “The impact on global refinery greenhouse gas emissions would be minor as reductions in U.S. emissions mostly would be offset by increases in emissions in other countries.”
Additionally, the API has cited a study by global consulting firm CRA International, which found that the American Clean Energy and Security Act could result in the loss of more than 2 million jobs nationwide and a 1.3 percent decline in the national gross domestic product (GDP).
The average U.S. household would see its purchasing power fall by $910 in 2015 and by $1,170 by 2030, according to the CRA International report, which was also commissioned by API.
“This study clearly shows the devastating impact this legislation could have on U.S. jobs and U.S. energy security,” said API President and CEO Jack Gerard. “Climate legislation should not come at the expense of U.S. economic and energy security… A deep decline in U.S. refining activity would have a ripple effect throughout the economy, affecting jobs in sectors beyond the oil and gas industry. Steelworkers, construction workers, even the shop keepers, school teachers and waitresses working in communities where refineries operate would feel the pinch.”
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