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- Cancer center’s Santa gets boot
- Tea party official says movement is alive and well in Iowa
- TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
- Eeww… Gross! Ringworm Outbreak at Occupy Santa Cruz
- Hensarling says GOP is willing to consider new Dem tax proposals
- Oil Soars Past $100, Seaway Reversal to Ease Glut
| Cancer center’s Santa gets boot Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST BY RENEE DUDLEY, PostandCourier.com It’s not even December, but Santa has already been fired from Charleston’s Hollings Cancer Center. For each of the past two years, hospital volunteer Frank Cloyes spent one day as St. Nick, spreading good cheer and snacks to patients sitting through chemotherapy treatments. The 67-year-old James Island resident, a retired insurance executive who calls himself a “gregarious guy,” paid for his own costume rental. On Tuesday morning, a volunteer coordinator told Cloyes his services no longer were needed. “Because of our state affiliation, we decided not to have a Santa presence this year,” Hollings spokeswoman Vicky Agnew said. Hollings is a part of the Medical University of South Carolina. Decorations will be “more secular and respectful to all beliefs,” Agnew said. “We don’t want to offend a volunteer with good intentions, but we need to think of the bigger picture. People who are Muslim or Jewish or have no religious beliefs come here for treatment,” she said. Bah humbug, said Cloyes, a self- described libertarian with no religious affiliation. To read more, visit: http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/nov/16/cancer-centers-santa-gets-boot/ |
| Tea party official says movement is alive and well in Iowa Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:23 PM PST By MIKE WISER, WCFCourier.com DES MOINES — Dan Lucore says the movement isn’t dead – far from it. He is an organizer with the Cedar Rapids branch of the Tea Party Patriots. The Patriots is one of several national organizations that sprung up over the past few years in an effort to turn the loosely organized, local tea party groups into a national political movement. That movement is credited with changing the face of Congress in 2010, changing the nature of debate in Washington, D.C., and moving the Republican Party to the right fiscally. But how important a role the tea party will play in Iowa caucuses in two months, and the 2012 election a year from now, is a key question the political strategists hoping to put a Republican in the White House need to answer. Lucore, who was active in the tea party in Mesa, Ariz., before he moved to Iowa and became active with the Cedar Rapids group, said interest in the tea party is going up as caucuses draw closer. “It goes back and forth, but we usually get between 10 and 30 people at our meetings,” Lucore said. There, discussion typically revolves around issues, as opposed to candidates, although candidate talk has become more frequent. “There’s no one candidate,” Lucore said. “I just know in talking to members that some of them don’t think (former Massachusetts Gov.) Mitt Romney is conservative enough.” To read more, visit: http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/tea-party-official-says-movement-is-alive-and-well-in/article_ba168c14-0ed4-11e1-af5c-001cc4c03286.html |
| TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:18 PM PST By: Michael Grabell, ProPublica.org The head of the Transportation Security Administration has backed off a public commitment to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body scanners used at airport security lanes around the country. Earlier this month, a ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation found that the TSA had glossed over research that the X-ray scanners could lead to a small number of cancer cases. The scanners emit low levels of ionizing radiation, which has been shown to damage DNA. In addition, several safety reviewers who initially advised the government on the scanners said they had concerns about the machines being used, as they are today, on millions of airline passengers. At a Senate hearing after the story ran, TSA Administrator John Pistole agreed to a request by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, to conduct a new independent study of the health effects of the X-ray scanners, also known as backscatters. But at a Senate hearing of a different committee last week, Pistole said he had since received a draft report on the machines by the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general, or IG, that might render the independent study unnecessary. "My strong belief is those types of machines are still completely safe," Pistole said. "If the determination is that this IG study is not sufficient, then I will look at still yet another additional study." According to a summary obtained by ProPublica, the inspector general concluded the machines are within industry standards for radiation exposure limits. But the summary also suggests the report focuses mostly on how the TSA monitors and maintains the machines. The full report won't be released for several weeks. To read more, visit: http://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-puts-off-safety-study-of-x-ray-body-scanners |
| Eeww… Gross! Ringworm Outbreak at Occupy Santa Cruz Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:15 PM PST Posted by Jim Hoft, TheGatewayPundit.com The 99%'ers have ringworm. City officials are reporting a ringworm outbreak at Occupy Santa Cruz. They also are reporting a possible scabies outbreak. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reported: Police issued four tickets from Friday to Monday morning to people smoking in the park and having an open flame, police spokesman Zach Friend said. One woman also was arrested for an outstanding warrant. Sheriff's deputy April Skalland said deputies have issued 16 tickets for illegal lodging and arrested seven people around the protest since Oct. 7. The arrests have been for being drunk in public, being under the influence of drugs, and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, Skalland said. Police said there have been reports of ringworm and scabies at the camp in recent days. County officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment about health conditions at the camp. Lane said he planned to continue talks with Occupy campers this week. Yup. They're just like the tea party. To read more, visit: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/11/gross-ring-worm-outbreak-at-occupy-santa-cruz-video/ |
| Hensarling says GOP is willing to consider new Dem tax proposals Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:11 PM PST By Russell Berman, TheHill.com The Republican co-chairman of the deficit-reduction supercommittee on Tuesday indicated he and his party were willing to listen to proposals from Democrats to consider higher taxes to reduce the deficit. Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) walked back a statement he made Tuesday on television, when he said Republicans "have gone as far as we feel we can go" by offering to raise $250 billion in new tax revenues. Briefing reporters Wednesday, Hensarling said Republicans would be "more than happy to negotiate" around a new offer from Democrats and pointedly declined to say whether $250 billion was the maximum in new revenue the GOP could accept. "I'm waiting for the Democrats to put fundamental reform on the table," Hensarling said. He called on Democrats to make an offer that included significant changes to Medicare, Medicaid and overall healthcare spending. "I'm not going to negotiate against myself. That is one offer we have put on the table that they can accept." "We wait for their solution, so I'm not rejecting any offer out of hand," Hensarling said Wednesday. "Quite the opposite. I'm still waiting for a new offer to be put on the table. … Should that offer come, I am more than happy to negotiate around that offer." To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/194055-hensarling-says-gop-is-willing-to-consider-new-dem-tax-proposals |
| Oil Soars Past $100, Seaway Reversal to Ease Glut Posted: 16 Nov 2011 03:07 PM PST By: Reuters, CNBC.com U.S. oil prices surged Wednesday to close above $100 a barrel for the first time since June, propelled by news of a critical pipeline reversal that will ease a year-long oil glut in the Midwest. In the most active trading session since Libya’s civil war erupted in February, U.S. WTI surged more than $3 a barrel while Europe’s Brent slipped 30 cents as traders rushed to buy back the roller-coaster Brent/WTI spread, betting that the two markers would once again trade largely in line. Traders cautioned that Enbridge’s [EEP 30.02 0.17 (+0.57%) ]move to reverse the 350,000-barrels-per-day Seaway pipeline to ship crude from Cushing to the coast would not completely eliminate the distortion in the U.S. domestic market. Bank analysts still rushed to narrow their forecasts for the spread, which has fallen by about a third from a record $28 a month ago. “The reversal of the Seaway will likely accelerate the anticipated clearing of the Midwest surplus, reducing the reliance next year on expensive barge transportation,” Goldman Sachs analyst David Greely wrote in a note to clients. The bank brought forward its $6.50 spread forecast by six months. Prices shot higher after Canada’s Enbridge and Enterprise Products Partners [EPD 45.02 -0.11 (-0.24%)] announced the reversal plan Wednesday, shortly after ConocoPhillip [COP 69.76 -2.23 (-3.1%) ] said it had sold its 50 percent share to Enbridge for $1.15 billion. To read more, visit: http://www.cnbc.com/id/45312307 |
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