Another Dick Move ,Taking Down A Veterans American Flags

<a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/korean-war-veteran-armond-sonny-noah-has-his-american-flags-removed-outside-his-home#">Oh sure, we're sorry now and would like to "work something out"</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote>The management of a federally subsidized housing facility in Georgia took down the American flags that a Korean War veteran had put up outside of his DeKalb County residence.<br /><br />Armond “Sonny” Noah said his four American flags were taken from outside his home without notice, and that when he asked maintenance where the flags went, they didn’t have an answer, according to Fox News.<br /><br />Noah, who lives in the Ashford Landing Senior Residences said that housing management simply removed his flags from a landscaping area.<br /><br />My Fox Atlanta reports that several days later, Noah received a called from management officials, who told the Korean War vet that he couldn't add the flags in a commons area.<br /><br />"I don't think we should have to fight for the flag," Noah said. "It was an honor for me to serve the country. And I was proud of that. I was a good soldier."<br /><br />A spokesperson for the housing complex admitted that the matter was not handled correctly. They plan on issuing an apology to Noah and they'd also like to meet with the veteran and reach a compromise.</blockquote><br />I have your solution.<br />Find the motherfucker that ordered this and make that cocksucker go out there and put the fuckers back up personally.<br />Then apologize face to face for the insult, then make the ignorant fuck actually read <a href="http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html">THIS</a>.

Another Dick Move ,Taking Down A Veterans American Flags

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The Table Restaurant

<span style="font-size: large;">For the month of August The Table Restaurant in Portobello (a block away from Lock's Restaurant on the Canal) had a special offer of 30% off (excluding wine).  We had picked up a 30% off voucher in Coffee Society on Monday and immediately booked in for Saturday night.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We were celebrating our 12 yr wedding anniversary and as we were seated overlooking the canal I remarked how lovely the setting was for our special meal.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We settled in to our seats and ordered a bottle of Cote du Rhone.  For starter we decided to split a beef carpaccio but found out that the last one had just been sold as we ordered.  We ordered duck pâté with fig chutney to share to start instead of the beef.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwstdpLqlEW5cO7g41397kaXSsIfNbr1p5ZwhO3QPnWQ27RcGu3l8wNItxE3vyF169vYIq-H-pcKy9v1xTx1Ny529n2g8FM55uM4xFewHuYiV5D4ZiP4swrv3ptsCgTNAFFmFobvzrJXZ/s640/blogger-image--1699550972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSwstdpLqlEW5cO7g41397kaXSsIfNbr1p5ZwhO3QPnWQ27RcGu3l8wNItxE3vyF169vYIq-H-pcKy9v1xTx1Ny529n2g8FM55uM4xFewHuYiV5D4ZiP4swrv3ptsCgTNAFFmFobvzrJXZ/s640/blogger-image--1699550972.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;">The above is the bread service which had a selection of breads served with pesto, butter and olive oil & balsamic vinegar.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7S0F5xQh1zQB32l5xb8p1G3xY9AQNTUPx1ervwm2Dh7d-tWLR9V9K7DFwnqTuXEut9zpcDQ8fceO0P2DmGb5RYpyTah9b8TaVZe1Ra_E8da9RWX7CP6vz9X8r85g0sf_ilTwq_ExuTJJ/s640/blogger-image--1621370744.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC7S0F5xQh1zQB32l5xb8p1G3xY9AQNTUPx1ervwm2Dh7d-tWLR9V9K7DFwnqTuXEut9zpcDQ8fceO0P2DmGb5RYpyTah9b8TaVZe1Ra_E8da9RWX7CP6vz9X8r85g0sf_ilTwq_ExuTJJ/s640/blogger-image--1621370744.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">The duck liver pâté in the above pic was melt in the mouth deliciousness!</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">For main I chose the Rib Eye with pepper sauce while Ciaran had the pork.  Both were delicious.  My steak was huge so I gave half to Ciaran and he also had my chips.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimBm-bHGF_GizQEJR_Pk5bLep3tnq_WqlI3YSFygMnTqm3YapxlN8WGUbneNm8ouoGuhalcmxmxxvYnxJK3_uKH_1o9Z8NIFpf4wbkLbgCepOepdRjBqY2k6lv7BHfx9FUAz_76bDzRF85/s640/blogger-image--359221664.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimBm-bHGF_GizQEJR_Pk5bLep3tnq_WqlI3YSFygMnTqm3YapxlN8WGUbneNm8ouoGuhalcmxmxxvYnxJK3_uKH_1o9Z8NIFpf4wbkLbgCepOepdRjBqY2k6lv7BHfx9FUAz_76bDzRF85/s640/blogger-image--359221664.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9LZJxVuypxPT3wq4B-b9LpmHq4JY3HbckgjvSV2R-VAMF-_cEzKV9qTLZ-G6i5mPwQMJdkqBS9DkkKSCpJgXIz_Lt8VtHwhchUzywHyeFbdSZSA8qRN1mTgqrnyVqR0zlp1i_Uu5tnXO/s640/blogger-image--1014049290.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_9LZJxVuypxPT3wq4B-b9LpmHq4JY3HbckgjvSV2R-VAMF-_cEzKV9qTLZ-G6i5mPwQMJdkqBS9DkkKSCpJgXIz_Lt8VtHwhchUzywHyeFbdSZSA8qRN1mTgqrnyVqR0zlp1i_Uu5tnXO/s640/blogger-image--1014049290.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">For dessert we shared a chocolate pudding which was melt in the mouth - delicious!!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKGXlHVqmOjYf4FngYSMMZQibMH3MZriL5_TU5Tow_SP5bh9-wc0-AByPzX8_2HWZbWi2jZvI4y8xd73aD79tOtJtmveMBQ4m1q_NlQRlLeBVZRWQqUDV2sVH6aGqg60QEnlW5ZFWSYOu/s640/blogger-image-1610242338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLKGXlHVqmOjYf4FngYSMMZQibMH3MZriL5_TU5Tow_SP5bh9-wc0-AByPzX8_2HWZbWi2jZvI4y8xd73aD79tOtJtmveMBQ4m1q_NlQRlLeBVZRWQqUDV2sVH6aGqg60QEnlW5ZFWSYOu/s640/blogger-image-1610242338.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">On the way home we saw some Dublin wildlife with two water rats (eeek!) running in to the canal as we walked along and a big fox blatantly strolling up our road as we turned in to the cul de sac.  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I enjoyed seeing the fox.  The rats, not so much!!</span></div>

The Table Restaurant

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Today's archidose #697

Here are some photos of <a href="http://www.denblaaplanet.dk/en/about-the-blue-planet/architecture/">The Blue Planet</a> (2013) in Kastrup, Denmark <a href="http://www.3xn.com/">3XN</a>, photographed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/">Ximo Michavila</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9513308954/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #2 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #2" height="389" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5530/9513308954_65f91633bc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9513309086/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #1 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #1" height="284" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5496/9513309086_0b678eca89_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9519154818/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #6 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #6" height="205" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2843/9519154818_2be757e450_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9526488118/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #10 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #10" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7401/9526488118_b2a76e9593_z.jpg" width="639" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9523702699/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #7 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #7" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7425/9523702699_41050ec6ce_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ximo_michavila/9519155052/" title="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #5 by Ximo Michavila, on Flickr"><img alt="3XN. Blue planet aquarium #5" height="640" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3747/9519155052_aca94e6601_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just:<br /><blockquote>:: Join and add photos to the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/archi-dose/">archidose pool</a>, and/or<br />:: Tag your photos <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/archidose/">archidose</a></span></blockquote>

Today's archidose #697

Here are some photos of The Blue Planet (2013) in Kastrup, Denmark 3XN , photographed by Ximo Michavila . To contribute your Flickr images ...

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Ways To Consume In Addition To Slim Down Concurrently

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Ethan Jadey</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Weight loss can be a challenging matter to speak about for many individuals. Hopefully the guidelines furnished below should help issue in your weight reduction trip. If you want to have success in which will last, excess weight sluggish, constant plus a normal technique. Merely comply with these details and you will be presently there immediately.<br /> <br /> Liquor is just about the most significant adversary from a weight reduction process. If you want to drop a few pounds, utilizing liquor can outstanding injury to your energy. Liquor incorporates a lack of fluids effect on our bodies which makes it easy for low energy and also injuries to occur. Beers as well as other produces incorporate calorie consumption within considerable amounts. Sadly, the injury will get resolved inside the waist which is an actually rough destination to take on. A high level gentleman, before long, you will find a draught beer stomach. Ladies in addition have trouble with this structure area since it is hard to help tone.<br /> <br /> Alcoholic beverages are just about the greatest adversary of the fat loss program. When you are trying to drop some weight, applying alcoholic beverages really does amazing damage to your time and energy. Alcohol consumption carries a contamination effect on our bodies rendering it feasible for tiredness and accidents that occurs. Ales and also other makes incorporate calories inside a lot. Sadly, the injury becomes satisfied within the abdominal area the industry actually rough spot to undertake. If you're a male, before you realize it, you can eat and lose weight and you will find a light beer belly. Females also have trouble with this specific body structure region as it's quite difficult in order to trim.<br /> <br /> Having a great deal of vegetables is absolutely crucial then one way of this should be to always keep vegetables as part of your refrigerator. When you need a quick simple food, try out sauting the tote regarding iced put together fruit and vegetables with a bit of organic olive oil along with garlic herb. You can contribute a number of spices up or perhaps turmeric intended for flavoring as well as other spices and herbs. Attempt introducing a few brownish rice as well as whole wheat grains pasta and also and keep particular person helping type of portions inside fridge. In this way you are going to will have a wholesome meal completely ready when it's needed.<br /> <br /> Eating plenty of produce is actually important then one strategy for doing this is always to continue to keep greens within your refrigerator. When you need a rapid straightforward supper, try sauting a bag involving freezing merged produce with many olive oil as well as garlic oil. It's fine to use several spices up or perhaps turmeric extract for quality and also other spices and herbs. Attempt including a few brownish rice or maybe whole wheat grains dinner and keep personal helping measured portions inside the freezer. In this way you might always have a wholesome dinner ready at any given time.<br /> <br /> Maintain munch baggage of refreshing organic selections from the chiller for any speedy snack. Slice many cupfuls of carrots, spinach, cauliflower, squash, cucumbers, peas in addition to almost any kind of fresh vegetable. Have them within snack size piece luggage and also keep them within your chiller. Whenever you receive eager, just reach for your very little snack food tote in addition to voila, a normal goody is an own tips of the fingers.<br /> <br /> Other than eating right, produce a routine to start a good work out put in order to lose weight fast. It is easy to mention that you workout, yet unless you put aside a particular time period, it is additionally a breeze for your deal with take a backseat. It is critical to create a schedule for physical exercise. Stick to it frequently and you may interestingly enhance your fat loss.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>To know further knowledge about on the article above you may check us at <a href="http://www.youcaneatandloseweight.com ">http://www.youcaneatandloseweight.com </a> for more information.</div><br /> </div><br />

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The Worst Kind of Foods in the World!

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Vanessa Summer</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>There are lots of foods on the market that, even though they taste good, are very very bad for you. Some of these food items are immediately recognizable: fast food, to use one example, is quite tasty but loaded with calories and other things that will damage our bodies in major ways. But why don't you consider the foods that seem like a perfectly suitable thing to eat? What about some of those meals that you supply to your kids? In this article we can look at some of the very worst things you could ever feed yourself or your family members.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> One of the most detrimental things on earth, surprisingly is a dish of macaroni and cheese. While the generate at home on your own version from Kraft or Annie's is fairly benign, the mac and cheese you get at a diner usually is not. The Kids' Mac and Cheese dinner from California Pizza Kitchen, for example is frighteningly unhealthy. Just one particular arrangement of this food contains virtually forty grams of saturated fat, over sixteen hundred milligrams of sodium and more than one thousand calories. That isn't even a tiny bit healthful.<br /> <br /> How often do you purchase those frozen pot pies out of your grocery store's freezer section? These look like mostly healthful last minute meals but they are actually full of calories that you don't need. Stouffer's pot pies, to utilize one example, hold over eleven hundred calories, sixty grams of fat and just about eighteen hundred milligrams of sodium. You could wind up eating all your recommended caloric intake if you are on a mission to lose weight--just by eating one of these things!<br /> <br /> You probably imagine that a vegetarian sandwich has to be among the healthiest things you can order from a fast food place, right? The serious truth of the matter is that, since you will probably putting dressings and other condiments in this sandwich as well, they are usually just as unhealthy as a sandwich packed with meat. The vegetarian sub from Blimpies, for example, contains almost twelve hundred calories, sixty grams of fat and more than thirty five hundred milligrams of sodium. Why do people believe that is healthy?<br /> <br /> A salad should be healthy, right? That's exactly what many of us think. When we are wanting something healthy and easy, we usually look for a salad to help fill us up with food that is good for us. Would you be stunned to find, then, that there are some salads out there that are almost bad for you? There are eighteen hundred calories in the Santa Fe chopped salad supplied by TGI Fridays. This is most probably simply because that it is the width of a big dinner plate but, seriously: do you want all of your daily calorie intake to come from a single dinner salad?<br /> <br /> The fact is that most of the food that we purchase on the go or in restaurants is simply not going to be as good for us as the food we make ourselves. We know that you may not be in love with the idea of cooking for yourself but the truth is that, especially when you're trying to lose weight and improve your health, this is the best thing that you can do for yourself.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Related article: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Foods-Rich-in-Omega-3&id=7111844">Foods Rich in Omega 3</a>. Visit also website: <a href="http://www.naturalfishoil.info">http://www.naturalfishoil.info</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

The Worst Kind of Foods in the World!

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Deciding Upon Programs Of Acai Berries

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Ross Seltzer</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>The acai palm is a native plant of South and Central America and is mainly cultivated for its palm heart and fruit. The fruit of the acai palm is called acai berry and these are edible. These berries appear green in their unripe kind however slowly turns blackish purple when they ripe. The acai palms produces the acai berries two times a year, these berries have to do with an inch in length; they are round, smaller and include less pulp than grapes.<br /> <br /> Acai berry is an effective antioxidant and a detoxifier. Accumulation of toxins in the body decreases the effectiveness of metabolic processes and for that reason results in poor health and weight gain. The most afflicted organ in the body by toxins is the liver and this is the organ accountable for metabolizing fat.<br /> <br /> Antioxidants aren't the only component in acai berry that is beneficial. It likewise includes a host of other vitamins, amino acids, and minerals. Omega 3 fatty acids are also discovered in this remarkable berry. These all help to further boost any fat burning perk that some individuals have while taking acai berry. The fiber in the berry will likewise help you to feel fuller if your problem with weight gain is associated with steady hunger. Finally, a rise in energy, immune system function, skin problem, and more can all be had with acai berry.<br /> <br /> Acai Berry is called one of the Superfoods, due to the fact that it allegedly has weightloss and anti aging homes. Although scientific researches have yet to back up Acai berries expected fat burning advantages, it is nonetheless, referred to as a an anti oxidant, and researches have actually indicated it's antioxidant properties.<br /> <br /> A number of researches show that the acai berry is among the healthiest types of berry provided by nature. These berries are rich in antioxidants and are understood for their healing power, they also boost the resistance and energy of an individual. The flavonoids and anthocyanin's present in acai berries secure cells as well as helps to decrease tension.<br /> <br /> Nothing can be better than consisting of acai berry in one's everyday diet and the majority of individuals do not have any issue consuming them. Nevertheless, there are a few individuals who could dislike pollen or they could be hypersensitive to various kinds of berries. In such cases these individuals could avoid the excessive consumption of acai berry but they might eat these berries in moderate quantities to be on the safe side.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Why not browse over this web-site for great ideas... <a href="http://www.acaiberrydietreview.info/reviews/acai-berry-select-review/">Hop Over To This Web-site</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

Deciding Upon Programs Of Acai Berries

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Lose Your Excess Fat Through Adiphene

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By James Zimmerman</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Many people especially those overweight ones are trying to have weight reduction but sadly, only few people were in a position to attain their goal. This is simply because there are countless factors exactly why individuals gain weight exceedingly. In this connection, there are some things that can be carried out to efficiently get rid of the excess weight like eating the proper food along with workout. On the other hand, you must put a lot effort and wait for some months just before the outcomes turn out to be visible. If you would like to improve and hasten weight loss, then take into consideration utilizing diet pills such as Adiphene.<br /> <br /> It's been known thanks to <a href="http://www.adipheneinfo.org">http://adipheneinfo.org</a> that Adiphene has twelve potent ingredients. These ingredients are extremely effective in giving a leaner body to the consumer. It contains a few efficient metabolizers such as vitamin B6, HCL, L-carnitine and Ginger root extract. These organic compounds will help in burning up the body fat quickly for it increases the body's metabolic rate. Moreover, the present fats can be used as a source of energy. With that said, you will have much more excitement in involving oneself to physical activities and exercises.<br /> <br /> Cinnamon extract and Cayenne capsicum are two thermogenic boosters which are able enough in boosting the capability of your body in burning down calories. Thankfully, the product has them both. With these ingredients, you are certain that your effort will absolutely pay off because your body is a lot more efficient in metabolizing nutrients.<br /> <br /> The problems of countless people to handle their appetite for food is the main explanation why fitness programs doesn't work. Due to the appetite suppressant power and this might be fixed. This is because it also contains Chitosan extract, which binds to fat molecules and also stops its absorption. Furthermore, Glucomannan is in the diet pill so that the process of digestion will be slowed up. This presents you a sense of fullness, as a result controlling your appetite effectively. Consequently, food consumption will be restricted and you will have healthier selections for foods as well.<br /> <br /> Chromium picolinate, bitter orange, ginseng panax root extract, cacao extract, and guaranna extract are some other ingredients that it has. Such ingredients are also hunger suppressants and may minimize absorption of compounds that normally are in charge of weight gain such as glucose, carbohydrates, and dietary cholesterol. This implies that you don't need to have strict diet plan just to shed a few pounds. Undoubtedly, the mechanisms the pill have play essential roles in stopping cardiovascular problems and diabetes at the same time.<br /> <br /> It's truly safe to take it due to its natural ingredients composition that won't likely bring in any severe unwanted effects. For pregnant women nonetheless, this particular weight loss pill is completely not safe. For individuals who have health problems, they must seek advice from their physician first if it's safe for them to take Adiphene. Its efficiency in promoting weight loss and increasing your energy are the explanations exactly why it received positive reviews from users. Put your purchase right now and find a slender you in no time.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'><a href="http://www.adipheneinfo.org/adiphene-weight-loss-results/">Click this link</a>, if you like proven weight reduction methods like Adiphene. </div><br /> </div><br />

Lose Your Excess Fat Through Adiphene

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Eating Healthy Is Not Hard - Tips To Make It A Part Of Your Life

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patrick Evans</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Deciding to eat healthily provides marvelous benefits and is becoming a more popular way of life. There are numerous diseases associated with a poor diet and there is a cost to the overall economy as individuals suffer from health problems such as heart disease and high blood pressure. There are more and more campaigns to try to get us to adopt a more healthy way of living and yet it is also easier than ever to rely on fast, convenient food that is often bad for our health. In all probability, most people believe that it takes a lot of work to eat healthily and that they will need to drastically change their lifestyle. Contrary to that information, individuals can alter their eating habits for the better by implementing a couple of modest changes.<br /> <br /> One way to deal with this to begin seeing some results is to realize that you do not need to alter everything straightaway or that you should entirely get rid of certain foods from your diet. It's not a bad idea if you desire to make big changes, but the most crucial thing is to gradually switch to making healthier eating choices. As you get accustomed to the taste of healthy foods, you will realize that you're eating more healthily than before. As you continue your habit of eating healthier foods, you will see that you will not wish to eat the old diet.<br /> <br /> Initially, you must be very careful when you are shopping for food that you don't automatically put things in your basket that you don't want to eat. For example, in all likelihood you have never checked the box of your favorite cereal to find out how much sugar it contains. Consuming a bowl of oatmeal will provide you with the energy to face the day while protecting your heart at the same time. Mix in fruits or spices to improve how the oatmeal tastes and now you have a breakfast that can be a regular part of your new healthy eating plan.<br /> <br /> These sorts of changes are possible with all kinds of foods and can apply to the oils you cook in and the spread you put on bread. Olive oil, for example, has monounsaturated fats which are essentially good fats that battle the effects of bad cholesterol. Olive oil also is a good source of vitamin E which is healthy for your skin, among other things. Although you may already consume a lot of fruits and vegetables, you might want to consider how fresh they are. Organic foods are a superb option and will reduce any possible exposure to harmful chemicals. If you can locate a good local supplier of fresh fruit and leafy greens, you can also consume foods that have not lost their nutrients as a result of storage or not being harvested at the right time.<br /> <br /> Evidently, it's not difficult to begin incorporating healthy eating into your daily lifestyle.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Have a look at <a href="http://www.garestlazareplayersireland.com/2013/07/reduce-appetite-and-lose-weight-using-garcinia-cambogia-extract/">his website</a>, if you'd like to shed off pounds naturally and quicker than on dieting alone. </div><br /> </div><br />

Eating Healthy Is Not Hard - Tips To Make It A Part Of Your Life

By Patrick Evans Deciding to eat healthily provides marvelous benefits and is becoming a more popular way of life. There are numerous di...

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Speakeasy!

<span style="font-size: large;">We visited a newly opened "Speakeasy" yesterday evening for an illicit cocktail before dinner. </span><br /><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Speakeasy's originated during prohibition in the USA.  They were illegal liquor purveyors that only became known by word of mouth and of course were under constant threat of being raided by the police.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Today a speakeasy is a small bar that is not signposted or advertised.  Again knowledge of these secret bars are gained by word of mouth.  These bars are not mainstream and pride themselves on serving select well made cocktails with premium ingredients.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The speakeasy we visited is in Ranelagh above a particular restaurant (contact me directly for the name!).  To get to it we went up the back of the restaurant, through the staff area, out the fire door and up a small stairs.  We then entered a teeny dimly lit bar.  There are seats for about 20 max I'd say.  We sat at the bar which is US style in dark wood with a lip to the edge to prevent drinks falling off.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">For drinks we chose a bourbon based "Old Fashioned" for Ciaran and a fresh tasting "Falling Water" for myself (we loved the Frank Lloyd Wright reference but perhaps this wasn't deliberate as it wasn't mentioned on the menu).</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Our drinks were expertly made by the bar tender a lovely friendly lady who explained that many of the cocktails have been created by Paul (the proprietor, I presume) who has trained her to make them using the exact method every time. She said consistency was very important - I can't agree more!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">We loved the atmosphere and the great tasting drinks.  We will be back!</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Here's some pics of the bar and our drinks.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEeTwOXxA-YD8h78G_WLnKCDYN5ygIQzqok_RPtnjUwXizzBPl25LmIlysUzrvTMWuCEwmKyDNlerD_g8Q9D_vqIys6M28BBHAvdtoo_H8KG0dV1EoOGtaSa8y7QAU4ejvs6T40YuseLM7/s640/blogger-image-1742045929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEeTwOXxA-YD8h78G_WLnKCDYN5ygIQzqok_RPtnjUwXizzBPl25LmIlysUzrvTMWuCEwmKyDNlerD_g8Q9D_vqIys6M28BBHAvdtoo_H8KG0dV1EoOGtaSa8y7QAU4ejvs6T40YuseLM7/s640/blogger-image-1742045929.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtNVJCFZ8AIf-X2RSMK3PNDToROWFd-E5B7Gaw65FNUdsQwIBZgU1mUXunRDXC-QNV1Lqql-DQBfyFLH4pEksqcsI9rUchUqhY6X0215NL5TfurmneaSCkETnrpGmxfVS8yZpcvv15MRo/s640/blogger-image--2131169158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAtNVJCFZ8AIf-X2RSMK3PNDToROWFd-E5B7Gaw65FNUdsQwIBZgU1mUXunRDXC-QNV1Lqql-DQBfyFLH4pEksqcsI9rUchUqhY6X0215NL5TfurmneaSCkETnrpGmxfVS8yZpcvv15MRo/s640/blogger-image--2131169158.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJI0nXYRvj6RD5cfLNQdNbakYk5LtrlnxNi7TSKxeVNFyuRio6xy2iydqQOonRGbrHHdx8qI9hFDoTYc5YuDCpOQ9Pos6Kua3203jom6zFPejsXl7R7H4IzRNs8E7EGEzCLMtbCLIPJkNh/s640/blogger-image-1894385244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJI0nXYRvj6RD5cfLNQdNbakYk5LtrlnxNi7TSKxeVNFyuRio6xy2iydqQOonRGbrHHdx8qI9hFDoTYc5YuDCpOQ9Pos6Kua3203jom6zFPejsXl7R7H4IzRNs8E7EGEzCLMtbCLIPJkNh/s640/blogger-image-1894385244.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>

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Photo: Bill and Jean Ann Bolling on Staunton's Sears Hill bridge

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKb9Dvs5qo3a-apfUYn4h5lBO7jXDvEbSG0q8pU7fboiDARVy9ZK8LPA_3tjzOqAGZ4PS2dMs6DO4W6Bye-W6pZquG9lWh5idtKuxmxklHUgR36YWxCHi07wElq1go9MIVQFd9VLN_4eK/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMKb9Dvs5qo3a-apfUYn4h5lBO7jXDvEbSG0q8pU7fboiDARVy9ZK8LPA_3tjzOqAGZ4PS2dMs6DO4W6Bye-W6pZquG9lWh5idtKuxmxklHUgR36YWxCHi07wElq1go9MIVQFd9VLN_4eK/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="userContent">Lunch Saturday with Lieutenant Governor <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=12220636661&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/bollingva?directed_target_id=0">Bill Bolling</a>, <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100003218640991&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeanann.bolling?directed_target_id=0">Jean Ann Bolling</a>, and Dr. <a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1118178617&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/Kurt.Y.Michael?directed_target_id=0">Kurt Michael</a> at Depot Grille on a beautiful day in historic Staunton, Virginia. My life is richer for longtime friendships with people who have servant's hearts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span class="userContent">"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="userContent">–Martin Luther King Jr.</span> </div><br />Photo by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />August 18, 2013

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  Lunch Saturday with Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling , Jean Ann Bolling , and Dr. Kurt Michael at Depot Grille on a beautiful day in hist...

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Today's Teamster News 08.18.13

<a href="http://blog.pe.com/2013/08/16/labor-teamsters-strike-at-fontana-truck-facility/" rel="nofollow">Teamsters strike at Fontana truck facility</a>  Press-Enterprise   ...Unionized truck drivers and dock workers walked off their jobs in Fontana today in a dispute that was said to be a union recognition issue. Some 250 people disrupted activities at Oregon-based U.S. Reddaway’s depot, Local 63 business manager Randy Korgan said. The labor action is regional, he added; a U.S. Reddaway depot in Compton also drew picket lines...<br /><a href="http://www.lakeconews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=32630:teamsters-wait-to-return-to-work-at-lake-transit-both-sides-in-labor-dispute-ask-to-resume-negotiations&catid=1:latest&Itemid=197" rel="nofollow">Teamsters wait to return to work at Lake Transit; both sides in labor dispute ask to resume negotiations</a>  Lake County News   ...On Friday, the day that striking Lake Transit workers had intended to return to the job, curtailed bus services remained in place as the transit operator said it was taking its legally afforded time to process the return of workers. At the same time, both Teamsters Local 665 and Paratransit Services have indicated their willingness to return to negotiations in order to arrive at a new contract...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/republic-waste-workers-local-377-ohio-ratify-contracts" rel="nofollow">Republic Waste Workers From Local 377 in Ohio Ratify Contracts</a>  IBT   ...On August 9 and 10, workers with Republic Services/Allied Waste in the Youngstown, Ohio area overwhelmingly ratified new contracts that keep them in a Teamster pension fund, provide pay increases and other improvements...<br /><a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-general-executive-board-joins-tnbc-conference-t-shirt-day" rel="nofollow">Teamsters General Executive Board Joins the TNBC Conference on T-Shirt Day</a>  IBT   ...At the TNBC Conference on Friday, the day started with greetings from members of the Teamsters General Executive Board, including General Secretary-Treasurer Ken Hall...<br /><a href="http://www.epi.org/blog/american-manufacturing-suffers-lots-excess/" rel="nofollow">Once Again, American Manufacturing Suffers from Lots of Things, but Excess Blue-Collar Pay Isn’t One of Them</a>  Economic Policy Institute   ...Inflation-adjusted hourly wages for production workers in U.S. manufacturing peaked in 1978 and were about 8 percent lower in 2007, while manufacturing productivity rose by well over 100 percent in that period...<br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jpm-goldman-face-suits-over-warehouses-2013-8" rel="nofollow">JPMorgan And Goldman Sachs Are Playing Whack-A-Mole With Everyone Suing Them Over Their Metal Warehousing Businesses</a>  Business Insider   ...around the country individuals and companies have started filing lawsuits against JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs for allegedly delaying deliveries of aluminum stored in their metals warehouses, thus manipulating the price of the commodity...<br /><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/08/15/why-are-walmart-stores-underperforming-blame-their-terrible-wages.html" rel="nofollow">Why Are Walmart Stores Underperforming? Blame Their Terrible Wages</a>  The Daily Beast   ...By screwing its workers with low wages, the nation’s largest private-sector employer is preventing a huge chunk of the American workforce from shopping at its stores...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-16/the-nsa-s-alarming-misbehavior.html" rel="nofollow">The NSA’s Alarming Misbehavior</a> (opinion)  Bloomberg   ...the current system of oversight is failing...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/scandal-thats-opening-ugly-truth-about-school-privatization-agenda-enrichment-dressed" rel="nofollow">A Scandal That's Exposing Ugly Truths About the School Privatization Agenda </a> Alternet   ...the best way to see that profit is the motive of the education “reform” movement is to note that no matter how many kids they harm or how many scandals they create, Bennett, Bush, Rhee and other privatizers continue getting jobs, continue being touted as education “experts” and continue raising huge money for their cause...<br /><a href="http://www.nwlc.org/resource/women-and-minimum-wage-state-state" rel="nofollow">Women and the Minimum Wage, State by State</a>  National Women's Law Center   ...The minimum wage is falling short for millions of Americans — especially for women, who represent nearly two-thirds of minimum wage workers across the country, and at least half of minimum wage workers in every state...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-marthas-vineyard-a-stark-look-at-income-inequality/2013/08/16/95df652c-069f-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html" rel="nofollow">On Martha’s Vineyard, a stark look at income inequality</a>  Washington Post   ...the island is actually a place where the wealth gap is starker than almost anywhere else in the United States, year-round residents say, and middle-class hopes and dreams are drifting out of reach...

Today's Teamster News 08.18.13

Teamsters strike at Fontana truck facility  Press-Enterprise   ...Unionized truck drivers and dock workers walked off their jobs in Fontana...

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IWS Person of the Week...Luis Guerrero

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheers and Hola Mi Amigos, it's time for the IWS Person of the Week...<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process."</i></span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span> <span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--Ted Nugent (R-Draft Dodger Universe)</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span> <br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytAZ-hAz3xXFMoYilIywUPVRTi2wsKgu4Xk5ozLWlMlOvycF8jRdYETWOn4KUp6baLveIiPvYbfZpmkYUGgWtvJxI52dBgqhPlSDp1SgiRRzBmm_R-NPiSr3PO0EaxFIz9LsoOiD13MzM/s1600/Luis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhytAZ-hAz3xXFMoYilIywUPVRTi2wsKgu4Xk5ozLWlMlOvycF8jRdYETWOn4KUp6baLveIiPvYbfZpmkYUGgWtvJxI52dBgqhPlSDp1SgiRRzBmm_R-NPiSr3PO0EaxFIz9LsoOiD13MzM/s400/Luis.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“We could also electrify this wire (on the border) with the kind of current that would not kill somebody, but it would simply be a discouragement for them to be fooling around with it. We do that with livestock all the time.”</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #666666; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rep. Steve King (R-IA)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3v6UTTfwCzx0BojmXASRyU3BnPL7A5KioIy_TfMrI-R6kFLdsdIbN3CB7-C-vkHzya0hzUhXVMnS7w235A6VvO0vTUfG9SowR9Odmw44y3rQdB-PJcvTg_VD1H6aVUBhswrdiE5CIfZ4/s1600/Luis+Citizen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3v6UTTfwCzx0BojmXASRyU3BnPL7A5KioIy_TfMrI-R6kFLdsdIbN3CB7-C-vkHzya0hzUhXVMnS7w235A6VvO0vTUfG9SowR9Odmw44y3rQdB-PJcvTg_VD1H6aVUBhswrdiE5CIfZ4/s400/Luis+Citizen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?"</i></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Than what the hell is your reason, Mr. Cruz and Mr. King, for stalling immigration of "livestock" type folks who want to help defend this country and contribute??</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Our friend Luis has this week, proven that immigration, whether </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">initially</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> an illegal thing or not, is a good thing.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">And Luis is now officially an American citizen.  Which means two things to us here at <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">IWS Radio.</span></a></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">We are incredibly proud of him, and now we know that he will be around forever in order that we can secretly put signs on the back of his ice truck as he </span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;">unknowingly</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> pulls away!!  </span></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNQ-eb9KlREBj6aLmVsZ3cJA1mHrbkykMOog5xkrtjfv2mxRzdrpFjzNlOZDFdzY9-735YxSuoDe3QmTQqh3kZjtzHt3brZYm-uNzCHQiZcCt016xGrXGd-Xr_MhnN_hCp13BK9B2HjsX/s1600/Hugo+Chavez.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbNQ-eb9KlREBj6aLmVsZ3cJA1mHrbkykMOog5xkrtjfv2mxRzdrpFjzNlOZDFdzY9-735YxSuoDe3QmTQqh3kZjtzHt3brZYm-uNzCHQiZcCt016xGrXGd-Xr_MhnN_hCp13BK9B2HjsX/s400/Hugo+Chavez.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And if that right there isn't funny enough for ya, tune into IWS Radio today from Noon-2 PM ET as Jay and Matt celebrate<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">National Bad Poetry Day!!</span></a> </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Many of our correspondents have their poems ready for you and we will talk to, Party Marty Live from Chicago, Nurse Sherri with a polemics offering, and of course, the Man of the Hour, or in this case, the Week...Luis!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">You can catch us LIVE today from Noon-PM by clicking <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/08/18/bad-poetry-in-motion" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE!!</span></a></div></div></div>

IWS Person of the Week...Luis Guerrero

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We nurses all have stories — if we're lucky, it's just one — about the time we failed a patient. It's usually a problem of being too busy: too many cases, too many procedures to keep track of until one critical step, just one, slips through our frenetic fingers and someone gets hurt.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I saw it happen the first time while in nursing school. A patient needed an escalating dose of pain medicine. Her pain eased, but her breathing slowed and her oxygen level dropped. I told her nurse that the patient might need narcan, a reversing agent for opioids.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"Narcan?" The nurse didn't have time for that. Caring for eight patients on a busy medical-surgery floor meant that getting through the day's tasks took up all her time. Half an hour later, though, the patient needed an emergency team to revive her. I held her hand while an anesthesiologist stuck a tube down her throat. She ended up in intensive care.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would be easy to blame the nurse. How could she be too busy? But she was a good nurse, smart and committed. She simply had too much to do, too many acute needs to address. And then one, just one, got out of control.<span id="more-148198"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bedside nurses are the hospital's front line, but we can't do the first-alert part of our jobs if there aren't enough of us on the floor. More demands for paperwork, along with increasing complexity of care, means the amount of time any one nurse has for all her patients is diminishing. And as hospitals face increasing financial pressure, nurse staffing often takes a hit, because nurses make up the biggest portion of any hospital's labor costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For patients, though, the moral calculus of the nurses-for-money exchange doesn't add up. Pioneering work done by <a href="http://www.pop.upenn.edu/bio/linda-h-aiken" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline;">Linda H. Aiken</a> at the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 showed that each extra patient a nurse had above an established nurse-patient ratio made it 7 percent more likely that one of the patients would die. She found that 20,000 people died a year because they were in hospitals with overworked nurses.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Research also shows that when floors are adequately staffed with bedside nurses, the number of patients injured by falls declines. Staff increases lead to decreases in hospital-acquired infections, which kill 100,000 patients every year.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The importance of sufficient nurse staffing is becoming irrefutable, so much so that the Registered Nurse Safe-Staffing Act of 2013 was recently introduced by Representatives Lois Capps, a Democrat from California and a nurse, and David Joyce, a Republican from Ohio.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among other things, the act would require that hospitals include their nurse staffing levels on Medicare's Hospital Compare Web site and post their staffing levels in a visible place in every hospital.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Concerns over money will determine whether this bill has even a chance at passing. It is collecting co-sponsors, but similar legislation has never gotten very far because hospital administrators view such mandates as too costly.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's hard to do a definitive cost-benefit analysis of a variable as complicated as nurse staffing because health care accounting systems are often byzantine. But data suggest that sufficient staffing can significantly reduce hospital costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Medicare won't reimburse a hospital if a patient is readmitted before 30 days, and a full nursing staff is one way to reduce readmissions. Having enough nurses increases patient-satisfaction scores, which also helps maintain Medicare reimbursement levels. Understaffing leads to burnout and nurses' quitting their jobs, both of which cost money in terms of absenteeism and training new staff. Finally, falls and infections have associated costs.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What this discussion of finances misses, though, is that having enough nurses is not just about dollars and cents. It's about limiting the suffering of human beings. When hospitals have insufficient nursing staffs, patients who would have gotten better can get hurt, or worse.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several months ago I started a new job, and a few weeks in I heard my name being called. A patient getting a drug that can cause dangerous reactions was struggling to breathe. I hurried to her room, only to discover that I wasn't needed. The other nurses from the floor were already there, stopping the infusion, checking the patient's oxygen and drawing up the rescue medication.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The patient was rattled, but there were enough nurses to respond, and in the end she was completely fine.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now picture the same events in a different hospital, one that doesn't adequately staff, and this time the patient is you. As the drug drips in, you feel a malaise. You breathe deeply but can't quite get enough air. Your thinking becomes confused, your heart races. Terrified, you press the call light, you yell for help, but the too few nurses on the floor are spread thin and no one comes to help in time. A routine infusion ends with a call to a rapid-response team, a stay in intensive care, intubation, ventilation, death.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This kind of breakdown is not the nurses' fault, but the system's. We are not an elastic resource. We can be where we are needed, but only if there are enough of us.</p><hr style="clear: both; height: 1px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin-top: 3em; margin-bottom: 3em; display: block; text-align: center; width: 275px; margin-left: 242px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 166px; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.5em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><em>Theresa Brown is an oncology nurse and the author of "Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between."</em></div><br><a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/when-no-one-is-on-call/?src=rechp">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/when-no-one-is-on-call/?src=rechp</a>

When No One Is on Call - NYTimes.com

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Misery Loves Company

Another one bites the dust.<br /><br />My niece is getting married today and ten to one says she already has this waiting for the new groom and he just doesn't know it yet.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA4Dez_RK7f2vLJnt5Wl8_7BPg9nh3vsedaKG_he3bdsYRL8DAj7yvHdteX_FRvu3Iy_XmqtLaj_VJ2TOy_ql2gXxKfaOjxUCLR5EW5X6HpMQqJ3HMHWGfLNQq3n4GQM623Et5rXv_xdD/s1600/133.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNA4Dez_RK7f2vLJnt5Wl8_7BPg9nh3vsedaKG_he3bdsYRL8DAj7yvHdteX_FRvu3Iy_XmqtLaj_VJ2TOy_ql2gXxKfaOjxUCLR5EW5X6HpMQqJ3HMHWGfLNQq3n4GQM623Et5rXv_xdD/s400/133.jpg" /></a><br /><br />I dug mine out in sympathy.<br /><br />So you know where I'll be here shortly. I just went and got my head buzzed and my beard trimmed.

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class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Via DEBKAfile </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facing condemnation at every hand from the WEST, EGYPT’S military rulers received a powerful shot in the arm from Riyadh Friday, Aug. 16, with an unprecedented public assurance from SAUDI King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz that the kingdom supports EGYPT in the fight “against terrorism” – the military rulers’ term for Muslim Brotherhood resistance. In a statement broadcast by official <i>Al-Ekhbariya</i>TV, Abdullah said EGYPT’S stability is being targeted by “haters” and warned that anyone that interferes in EGYPT’S internal affairs seeks to “waken sedition.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WEAK RESPONSE TO BROTHERHOOD’S CALL FOR MILLIONS TO RALLY FRIDAY TO JOIN IN THE PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF DEPOSED PRESIDENT MOHAMED MORSI</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile have been reporting since last week that SAUDI ARABIA and the UAR stand firmly behind EGYPT’S military strongman Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile reports a weak response to Brotherhood’s call for millions to rally Friday to join in the protest in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and against the government crackdown two days ago which left more than 600 dead. No more than tens of thousands of supporters took to the streets across the country Friday. By nightfall, 50 people were reported killed in clashes across the country – in Cairo, Fayoum, Damietta and Ismailia - including 24 security personnel. An officer was killed at one of the checkpoints thrown up to block the demonstrators’ access to Tahrir Square.<br />The relatively low turnout points to the Muslim Brotherhood’s hard core having decided that avoiding further deadly clashes with the EGYPTIAN military is the better part of valor.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US PRESIDENT WANTED TO GIVE THE GENERAL A DRESSING-DOWN MUCH ON THE LINES OF THE CALL HE MADE TO FORMER PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK IN FEBRUARY 2011</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When the clashes between EGYPTIAN security forces and pro-Morsi protesters were at their peak in Cairo Wednesday, Aug. 14 – 525 dead and 3,700 wounded to date - President Barack Obama put in a call to EGYPT’S strongman, Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi, debkafile’s intelligence sources report.  The US president wanted to give the general a dressing-down much on the lines of the call he made to former president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 at the high point of the ARAB Spring Tahrir Sq demonstrations against his rule, namely:  Stop repressing the protesters and firing live ammunition. Step down!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Mubarak asked for a three or four days’ grace to break up the massed rally, Obama shot back that he has to quit NOW!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And indeed, on Feb. 11, the army announced the president’s resignation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Realizing what was coming; Gen. El-Sissi decided not to accept President Obama’s call, our sources report. The EGYPTIAN officials who received it informed the US president politely that the right person for him to address was EGYPT’S interim president Adly Mansour and they would be glad to transfer the call to him. The White House callers declined.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HARSH INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION OF GEN. EL-SISSI’S CRACKDOWN WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This anecdote shows that the military strongman is not only determined to avoid the pitfalls which brought Mubarak down but is equally determined to keep the US administration from interfering in his plans for driving the Muslim Brotherhood out of EGYPTIAN politics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Diplomatic condemnation of those plans is building up in Western capitals. Wednesday night, the Obama White House issued a statement strongly condemning “the use of violence against protesters in EGYPT” and the state of emergency. EGYPTIAN ambassadors in Paris, London and Berlin received denunciations and expressions of concern from their host governments, and TURKEY demanded a UN Security Council emergency session on the situation in EGYPT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Comment by Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">US and EUROPEAN stance and condemnation of the crackdown in EGYPT are pure political rhetoric’s to paint a political correct picture but in reality the scenario looks somewhat different. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">As Geopolitical </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Analysis and Monitoring has pointed out in a previous article</b>:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DUE TO GEO – STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS EGYPT WILL NEVER BE LEFT IN THE HANDS OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was a foregone conclusion that a nation as important to the world as EGYPT is, would not be left in the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood. The brutality of the Mubarak regime was well known, most considered the region stable and their important business continued uninterrupted. ISRAEL’S intelligence apparatus monitors the tectonic shifts in EGYPT in relation to the Gaza Strip. If EGYPT sneezes, the Gaza Strip gets a cold. ISRAEL would find itself under a serious threat if the EGYPTIAN leadership had friendly relations with militant Islamic groups like Hamas. It is a dangerous yet delicate balance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE ONE WHO COMMANDS THE SUEZ STRAIT CONTROLS A MAJOR PORTION OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, substantially dependent upon trade and commerce. Washington’s relationship with EGYPT angled as humanitarian aid ends up being billions of dollars annually in foreign military financing grants supplying EGYPTIAN military apparatus with heavy weapons used to control and retain the allegiance of the uprising population and purge any subversion. The interdependent relationship between the U.S. and EGYPTIAN military is coherent, billions of dollars to maintain EGYPT’S military elite-led government, the uninterrupted military coordination and movement of the regions oil resources to the UNITED STATES and EUROPE and the establishment of a U.S. military bridgehead in a geo-strategic location for future military operations or conflicts in regions rich in hydrocarbon deposits, the MIDDLE EAST and the CASPIAN Basin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For US military planners, the sudden loss of access to EGYPT would present a double problem. Without EGYPT, they would find their options for shipping air and sea cargo, refueling and repairing aircraft and consolidating troop movements narrowed to those along the Persian Gulf. The loss of landing rights in EGYPT, for example, might mean that in a crisis, wide-body jets, each carrying hundreds of troops, would have to fly directly into congested Persian Gulf airfields, rather than into Cairo West, from which smaller transports would ferry troops into action, furthermore Persian Gulf facilities are increasingly vulnerable to IRANIAN ballistic missiles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">debkafile’s sources report that harsh international condemnation of Gen. El-Sissi’s crackdown will do more harm than good. The backlash will come in three forms:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. The Muslim Brotherhood will be encouraged to pursue increasingly extreme measures to fight the EGYPTIAN army in the expectation of international applause.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />2. The generals will be encouraged to escalate their steps for repressing the Brotherhood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />3. The SAUDIS and the GULF EMIRATES will redouble their support for the EGYPTIAN general and his campaign against the Brotherhood. This will widen the rift between those Arab rulers and the Obama administration.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxR03bF6PHKKg4jHqmdwWd1og6f-aNw4SFkBJqRltvb4NzMoFLj3GxsrY0Y9J_2gWn9s80uATmFnLvHc7h24ZB6qo11eJb2ZxcidPhLIHGKCzIkTyjPohvjaxQ2mauEUHWKk3gM3B0WOHV/s1600/saudi-egypt-handshake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxR03bF6PHKKg4jHqmdwWd1og6f-aNw4SFkBJqRltvb4NzMoFLj3GxsrY0Y9J_2gWn9s80uATmFnLvHc7h24ZB6qo11eJb2ZxcidPhLIHGKCzIkTyjPohvjaxQ2mauEUHWKk3gM3B0WOHV/s320/saudi-egypt-handshake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our intelligence sources also disclose that, while President Obama was trying to get through to Gen. El-Sissi, the general was on the phone with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prince Bandar, Director of SAUDI Intelligence</b>.<br />On July 31, Bandar arrived in Moscow and was immediately received by President Vladimir Putin for a conversation that lasted four hours. The SAUDI prince next received an invitation to visit Washington at his earliest convenience and meet with President Obama.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Related topics: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A SPY WHO TRIED TO SCALE KREMLIN WALL</span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/russia-and-saudi-arabia.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/russia-and-saudi-arabia.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information: </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">THE QATARI PROJECT: “DESTROYING SAUDI ARABIA”?</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/saudi-arabia-and-qatar.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">IMPACT FROM QATAR’S AGGRESSIVE INTERVENTIONIST POLITICS IN SYRIA</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/crisis-qatars-transition.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/crisis-qatars-transition.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QATAR WAS THE MOTHER WHOSE MILK FED THE ISLAMIST GROUPS</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">.</span>  <a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/07/qatar-and-muslim-brotherhood.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #cc0000;">SAUDI ARABIA’S PROXY WAR</span> </span></b><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/saudi-arabias-proxy-war.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/saudi-arabias-proxy-war.html</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE SYRIAN CRISIS -A FIRST-RATE WRESTLING MATCH BY EXTERNAL POWERS OVER REGIONAL HEGEMONY</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/a-saudi-overture-to-iran_19.html"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2012/08/a-saudi-overture-to-iran_19.html</span></a></div></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><b>Bandar has still not responded to that invitation.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clearly, the US president’s problem with the EGYPTIAN situation is a lot more complicated than pulling the army off the Muslim Brotherhood’s backs.  He needs to somehow snap the strategic alliance unfolding between EGYPT and SAUDI ARABIA, and the rapport between the EGYPTIAN general and the SAUDI prince.</span></div>

EGYPT AND SAUDI ARABIA

SAUDI KING ABDULLAH BACKS EGYPT’S MILITARY RULER, WARNS AGAINST OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE Via DEBKAfile  Facing condemnation at every hand from ...

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