The Washington post discovers that patients can find a lot of medical nonsense on line. Well, duh. Every conspiracy theory known to man is on line. And the more outrageous, the more “hits” and readers you get. One “advice” column on how to make money blogging suggested you stick to one type of blogging and [...]

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In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them. Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to [...]

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Clinton once had a line “It’s the economy, stupid”, and one longs for someone to teach economics to the present administration. I was always a union supporter, and many of my family and friends belonged to unions. But you know what happened to a lot of textile jobs in the northern states in 1950′s and [...]

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TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, February 08, 2011 — One would think that the centennial of Ronald Reagan’s birthday could be a perfect public diplomacy theme for all U.S. embassies in Central and Eastern Europe — a great opportunity for embassy-sponsored events to strengthen ties with America among diverse nations that owe their current independence and freedom [...]

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I always say: “Follow the money”. A couple of days ago, a lot of my green bloglinks were rhapsodic about those isolated Amazon tribes who were filmed from a plane. So when I checked on the group that released the photos and story, voila, sure enough: they are run by folks with very European/white American [...]

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When I heard that there had been a Native American prayer at the memorial ceremony in Tucson, I was not surprised. When I lived on Indian Reservations, we commonly had such prayers at most ceremonies or meeting. But for memorial services, we often also had Christian clergy (usually either Anglican or Catholic) give a prayer. [...]

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En ce moment, il n’y a plus de pilote dans l’avion. [At the moment, there is no longer a pilot on the plane.] — A European comment on President Obama as a leader of the Free World. TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, USA, January 03, 2011 — Who is the leader of the Free World when democracy [...]

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Update: America.gov restored Ted Lipien’s comment. TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, December 27, 2010 — On the day the U.S. Senate voted to approve the new arms reduction treaty with Russia, I found an article on the State Depatment’s website, America.gov, which gave a long list of the START treaty’s benefits lauded by the Obama administration but [...]

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How’s that for holiday spirit?? I’ve just about had enough of the minimization of Christmas. Political correctness, coupled with bitter, angry atheists, have all but destroyed any remnants of the reason for celebrating this holiday, and I am at an unprofessional boiling point. Yes, this shall be one of my rants. Does anyone really believe [...]

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China has already used it’s economic clout to intimidate many countries to boycott the Nobel Prize cermony that honors their poet Liu Xiaobo. This boycott has gotten them criticism from some human rights groups, including those in our Philippines. The ability and willingness of China to use it’s economic clout for political purposes is a [...]

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Obama to the Poles: Have some Patriot missiles that don’t work to protect you from Russia   Opinia.US Truckee, CA, December 6, 2010 — The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. has released and commented on a number of leaked U.S. cables dealing with Poland. There needs to be a much greater scrutiny of these cables by mainstream U.S. [...]

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Opinia.US Truckee, CA, December 8, 2010 — A secret cable from the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw released by WikiLeaks shows former American Ambassador Victor H Ashe being deeply disappointed and frustrated with the Obama Administration’s treatment of Poland. The leaked cable lists a number of public diplomacy missteps by the Obama White House, including the President’s decision not to accept the [...]

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by Ted Lipien Opinia.US Truckee, CA, November 29, 2010 — Leaked secret State Department cables may help to resolve the mystery as to why President Obama chose September 17, 2009 to make his announcement on canceling President Bush’s missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The announcement pleased the Kremlin, which had been [...]

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Teacher of the Year: The Mystery & Legacy of Edwin Barlow is unlike any memoir you will ever read, because unlike every other memoir, Edwin Barlow’s life was an impenetrable secret that took years to uncover. When Mr. Barlow died, there were no libraries to reveal his taste in literature, neither wife nor relatives to [...]

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I am bemused when the elites of both parties are horrified at a woman candidate who overturned their chosen candidate in the primaries. No surprise about this, after all the Press promises to promote the propaganda, never mind the truth of the matter. From the Atlantic: Chuck Todd said it first… “There will be an [...]

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In April, 2008, the press was hailing the brilliance of Barack Obama, and dissing the much more experienced Hillary Clinton for not dropping out of the race, even though the race was close and several primaries were still due to be held. So, when in early April, stories started percolating on right wing blogs and [...]

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Background: According to a report in the National Review, the ACOG (American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists) originally opposed the procedure the select ACOG panel “could identify no circumstances under which this procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.” But Kagan wrote them a memo instructing [...]

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General Mc Chrystal has committed a major breech in protocol when he openly criticized the President and the President’s plans for Afghanistan in an interview in the Rolling Stone. For the sake of our democracy, such behavior cannot be tolerated. He needs to be relieved from duty. Why do I say this? No, I am [...]

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In the olden days, we learned in school the folly of King Canute who sat on the seashore and ordered the tide to stop coming in, but all that happened was that he got wet. The real story Canute had learned that his flattering courtiers claimed he was “So great, he could command the tides [...]

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There are missing folks in the culture of Hollywood and the American news media. One “missing person” are ordinary Hispanics.Another is the ordinary Asian. Hispanics differ from one another (my Colombian born sons never ate a taco, and spoke Castilian, not Mexican dialect). But Asians differ even more, even those from the same country. Asians [...]

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One knows American nuns have lost their way when Nancy Pelosi “thanked” American sisters for backing the health care bill, despite the opposition of the American bishops, who were apolitical enough to point out that it funded abortion on demand using taxpayer money. Nancy Pelosi had told the nuns they either had to back the [...]

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I almost swallowed my teeth. The Headline states: Earth Day Facts: When It Is, How It Began, What to Do There it was, a large photo heading an article on the NatGeo webpage: The caption accompanying the photo states: Ira Einhorn—a leader of nonviolence, drug, and free-love movements in the 1960s—speaks at Philadelphia’s first Earth [...]

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The right wing is hyperventillating over “Obama’s private army” in the Health Care Bill. Fox news video HERE. Usually Judge Napolitano can get into the details of the legal problems, but don’t get your knickers in a knot too soon, because this idea is not new. It used to be called the “US PublicHealthService Commissioned [...]

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This week’s bad science headline comes from the BBC: Last supper ‘has been super-sized’, say obesity experts The food portions depicted in paintings of the Last Supper have grown larger – in line with our own super-sizing of meals, say obesity experts. Let’s scroll down the article and find where they got their data: they [...]

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In Psychiatry, there used to be something called a Rorschach test.. where they show you ink blots and ask you what they look like. The idea is that one would “project” one’s ideas and worries into the object, and you could get an idea what was on their mind. Sort of the equivalent in religious [...]

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To anyone who still has their children enrolled in public school and/or is not actively involved in what is being taught to them on a daily basis, I introduce you to the result of blindly trusting the public education system with your children for the last 20 years:Eric Greenberg is the author of this wonderful [...]

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President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget. To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch. “This [...]

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The advertising campaigns on our local cable TV is “Malaysia, truly Asia”, suggesting that you can visit there and see all of Asia in a microcosm: The beaches of SEAsia, the foods of India, and the bargains of China, all in one. Well, last week’s attacks on seven churches just lost them the visits of [...]

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Way back in 2001, letters containing powdered anthrax were sent to a bunch of news reporters and Congressmen, and because the powder was so fine several innocent people, mainly those who worked in the Post Office, died from the infection. Despite initial worries that it was terrorism, later reports assured the American people that it [...]

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Those Medieval painters were a bit less puritanical than we moderns: A common motif in paintings was the Madonna Les Latte: the Virgin Mother breastfeeding the baby Jesus. Back in those days, if a woman didn’t breast feed her baby, it died. Yes, upper class women often would find a “wet nurse” to provide nutrition,  [...]

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