tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-166512402024-03-07T16:28:01.268-08:00INCISITY - It's News 'Cause I Show It To YouThe Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-1041995919503090452014-09-14T17:48:00.001-07:002014-09-14T17:48:54.237-07:00UK's Cameron Resists Calls For Airstrikes Against ISIS Despite Hostage Killing<br /><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3o-F94S4FI">Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground - YouTube</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-91267701407801528692013-03-17T06:31:00.001-07:002013-03-17T06:31:29.093-07:00Occupy The Cage! – Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay | INCISITY<a href="http://incisity.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/occupy-the-cage-capuchin-monkeys-reject-unequal-pay/">Occupy The Cage! – Capuchin monkeys reject unequal pay | INCISITY</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-20435482407611313712013-03-17T04:52:00.001-07:002013-03-17T04:52:58.919-07:00Male Affection in Vintage PhotosCan you imagine the stones it took back in the day for a man to create a record of himself and his boyfriends? While it is absolutely true that nothing is visible in these photos save affection, I think you have to beat your imagination with a sledge hammer to not recognize these boys as gay.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">he U.S. Justice Department's National Crime Victimization Survey (considered our best measure of crime because its anonymous surveys capture offenses not reported to police) reports that rape has been falling dramatically for decades. The first survey, in 1973, estimated that 105,000 females, ages 12 to 24, were raped that year. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the survey was expanded to include sexual assault and attempted or threatened offenses. Even so, the latest survey (in a young female population 1 million larger than in 1973) reported that 30,000 females, ages 12 to 24, were raped and 60,000 were victims of attempted rape or real or attempted sexual offenses (including verbal threats) in 2005.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;">This is an astounding decline, but I don’t know of any reason to doubt the accuracy of the numbers. The National Crime Victimization survey is conducted twice a year, with a sample size of 134,000. Rapes reported to the police have been shrinking more slowly than survey-reported rapes, and actually rose from 1979-1990, consistent with other data showing an increasing willingness of victims to report having been raped.</span></div>
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The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-76491114706165600922013-02-12T14:00:00.001-08:002013-02-12T14:00:26.677-08:00This article could make you grateful for infanticide! <p><a href="http://www.gargaro.com/pinker.html">Why They Kill Their Newborns - By Steven Pinker</a><br>
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There are a number of high-mortality pathological conditions (currently 69[5]) that have special guarantees for both Isapre and Fonasa affiliates. The Auge (from the Spanish Acceso Universal con Garantías Explícitas, "Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees") or Ges (Garantías Explícitas en Salud, "Explicit Guarantees in Healthcare") plan includes four guarantees in relation to these illnesses:[4]
Access: individuals will be able to get attention from a network of providers near their place of residence,
Opportunity: there is a maximum pre-established time limit to get attention (both initial attention and after the diagnosis),
Quality: services will follow technical requirement standards that will be established based on medical evidence, and
Financial coverage: payment to providers cannot be an obstacle to attention. There will be a maximum copayment of 20% of the cost, with the total not to exceed one month of income for the family in a year.
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- <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&gs_mss=victor%20rodw&tok=8Nw9yx5c6d57-y7A4oJ1xw&cp=13&gs_id=f&xhr=t&q=victor+rodwin&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=victor+rodwin&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41934586,d.b2U&fp=e1f9056ea2a790b0&ion=1&biw=1270&bih=601">Victor Rodwin</a> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">"At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. </span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Qaddafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict punishment. In the past, we have seen him hang civilians in the streets, and kill over a thousand people in a single day. Now we saw regime forces on the outskirts of the city. We knew that if we wanted -- if we waited one more day, Benghazi, a city nearly the size of Charlotte, could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world". - <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya">POTUS</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/28/remarks-president-address-nation-libya">March 28, 2011</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 23px;">"We lead from the front," Obama said. "We introduced the resolution in the United Nations that allowed us to protect civilians in Libya when (Muammar) Gadhafi was threatening to slaughter them. - </span><a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/10/obama-never-said-lead-from-behind/1#.URI29lpU7v0" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 23px;">USA Today - 11/10/27</a><br />
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- <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&sugexp=les%3B&gs_rn=2&gs_ri=hp&gs_mss=victor%20rodw&tok=8Nw9yx5c6d57-y7A4oJ1xw&cp=13&gs_id=f&xhr=t&q=victor+rodwin&es_nrs=true&pf=p&tbo=d&sclient=psy-ab&oq=victor+rodwin&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41934586,d.b2U&fp=e1f9056ea2a790b0&ion=1&biw=1270&bih=601">Victor Rodwin</a> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.545454025268555px;">Professor of Health Policy and Management Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service New York University</span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KuHr0BCCwBI" width="560"></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-28148928910515048902013-01-29T11:38:00.001-08:002013-01-29T11:38:26.330-08:00Skokie: Invaded, But Not Conquered Film Trailer - YouTube<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8X8Q0pzwyw">Skokie: Invaded, But Not Conquered Film Trailer - YouTube</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-16881043641473863732012-12-31T20:13:00.001-08:002012-12-31T20:13:31.865-08:00Aaron Freeman - INCISITY Interview w/Dean Clark - Negroes and Niggers In...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sjdAy-DpCPY" width="459"></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-67984461009685557452012-11-14T12:24:00.003-08:002012-11-15T04:11:29.755-08:00Blame It On Kabul<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Loud thermobaric explosions at dawn, fill a man's heart with romance<br />
Kalashnikovs crackling at dusk make him want, to go find some woman and dance<br />
The scent of an improv explosive device wafts from the nose to the heart<br />
From there it heads south to a bodily region where trouble has been known to start<br />
Afghanistan's Capitol is such a place as feminine mystery abounds<br />
With woman flesh covered in burkas it is fantasy's favorite town<br />
With all the repressed sexuality there who might not behave like a fool?<br />
Passion, deception, intrigue and betrayal let's just blame it all on Kabul<br />
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Look at poor general David Petraeus he never stood one chance in hell<br />
When into Afghanistan's heated milieu came super-hot Paula Broadwell<br />
With a body as hard as an M-16 barrel and responsive to touch like its trigger<br />
Broadwell's attention made Petraeus' ego and some of his other parts bigger<br />
The CIA chief's secret love gives real meaning to the old term "gag rule"<br />
But secrets, skulduggery danger and lies are just par for the course in Kabul<br />
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General John Allen is just one more guy caught up in the lust of the war<br />
Testosterone mixed with adrenaline and made his heart burst with amor<br />
The boom of the bombs and the boobs of the babe turned marital honor to jelly<br />
And 30,000 documents later we know he fell for Jill Kelley<br />
He general's rational mind lost the fight between it and has manly crown jewels<br />
But once he arrived in the place he was done for everyone's crazed in Kabul
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It all seems so tawdry, puerile and low class that's why it's so darn much fun!<br />
With each peeling back of the onion skin you think the good part's just begun<br />
Sure they are four-star generals but fundamentally they are just guys<br />
And we are entitled to any opinion about men except for surprise<br />
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But cut them some slack, let's save them some face let's make a new Golden Rule<br />
Thou shall not judge men who just follow hormones, especially when there in KabulThe Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-52502148352300677242012-11-01T09:41:00.000-07:002012-11-01T09:41:19.920-07:00What a Wonderful World!<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Xy0-Rk5--QY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-54649445567726810892012-11-01T08:20:00.002-07:002012-11-01T08:20:31.398-07:00Julian Assange -The World Tomorrow<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x3AN4CzPdNU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-31458671599227286752012-11-01T08:19:00.001-07:002012-11-01T08:19:08.784-07:00Jacob Zuma's Spear<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dPvzsIdVLwY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-40859258999977277562012-11-01T08:15:00.001-07:002012-11-01T08:40:09.592-07:00The Taliban on Facebook<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0SyyxoUNB4M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-51106325891752455432011-10-10T11:04:00.000-07:002011-10-10T11:04:35.165-07:00How Banks Got Too Big to Fail | Mother JonesAs if you needed more reasons to support the Occupy Wall Street movement, this chart illustrates that before the passage of Gramm-Leach-Bliley there were a lot more banks, none of which were too big to fail.<br /><br /><a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/bank-merger-history">How Banks Got Too Big to Fail | Mother Jones</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-84547377763996263912011-06-15T05:36:00.000-07:002011-06-15T05:38:27.117-07:00Cubs-Sox Crosstown Classic - My Voiceover<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/4V-k8A-C1jI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-10002431167031741762010-11-11T11:46:00.000-08:002010-11-12T12:43:01.798-08:00How the Medicaid Rebate on Prescription Drugs Affects Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry<a href="http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=4750&type=0">How the Medicaid Rebate on Prescription Drugs Affects Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-72168670126969775102010-10-27T15:41:00.000-07:002010-10-27T15:41:22.453-07:00Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection<a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2010/04/freeman-israel-is-useless-to-us-power-projection.html">Freeman: Israel is useless to US power projection</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-561774786642932602010-10-25T14:57:00.000-07:002010-10-25T14:57:33.350-07:00Iraq: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq-war-logs">Iraq: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-68323159937393713792010-10-04T04:11:00.000-07:002010-10-04T04:11:32.964-07:00Why Reporters Must Reveal Illegal Leakers<a href="http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/reporters.html">Why Reporters Must Reveal Illegal Leakers</a>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16651240.post-19134338700703833022010-09-28T06:27:00.000-07:002010-09-28T06:31:03.781-07:00We Need A What Mayor?<div>Looking for a What Mayor? </div><div><br /></div><div>Back in 1989, then-mayoral candidate Richard Daley got into political hot water for telling a group of Polish supporters that Chicago needed “a white mayor who can sit down with everybody.” </div><div><br /></div><div>You could immediately hear the city’s collective knickers twisting. Racial politics are of course unseemly, divisive and unacceptable. In a political pickle, Daley chose to claim he had actually said Chicago needs a “wet” mayor. “Come on”, you say, “Nobody would fall for that,” especially since the actual “white mayor” comment had been recorded and replayed on radio and tv ad nauseum, or ad delighteum if you were a Daley opponent. </div><div><br /></div><div>In 2010, after almost two decades in office, Mayor Daley would beg to differ.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now comes State Senator Rickey Hendon. He describes himself as “the black Sarah Palin,” whom I consider the white Al Sharpton. Senator Hendon desires, as do various other melanin-rich pols, to become the “consensus black candidate” for mayor.</div><div><br /></div><div>To Senator Hendon, a fellow westsider, I say, “wrong move Rickey!” We already have enough Palin clones to keep the makers of black lip liner in business for decades. Chicago needs a post-racial, big tent mayor to unify the city. And Rickey might be just the guy to do it. He needs merely to reset his pitch and rise above a color campaign to one directly focused on crucial issues like how to avoid federal prison - no wait, that’s the campaign for governor, my mistake.</div><div><br /></div><div>But seriously, Rickey Hendon needs to renounce his current, color-conscious position-- he needs to pull a Daley. He could claim that he didn’t say we need a consensus black candidate but a consensus blank candidate, a clean slate upon whom Chicagoans could write their dreams of a fairer, more prosperous city.</div><div><br /></div><div>“Sure,” Hendon could say, “‘consensus blank candidate’ is a ridiculous, meaningless phrase that makes no sense in English. Which proves my qualification to be mayor of Chicago.”</div>The Comic Torahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255858587360506346noreply@blogger.com0