SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE COMPLETES CONFERENCE OF
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013

WASHINGTON -- Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee,
announced today that the committee has completed its conference of the National Defense
Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2013. The bill authorizes funding for the
Department of Defense (DOD) and the national security programs of the Department of Energy
(DOE).

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The President’s budget request for national defense discretionary programs within the
jurisdiction of the Committee on Armed Services for fiscal year 2013 was $631.6 billion and was
in three parts:

$525.3 billion for the base budget of the DOD;

$88.5 billion for overseas contingency operations (OCO), which funds the war in Afghanistan; and

$17.8 billion for national security programs in the DOE and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

The conference report authorizes $633.3 billion for national defense programs. The
conference report authorizes $2.1 billion more than was requested for the base budget of DOD
and the amount requested ($88.5 billion) for OCO. The conference report authorizes $395.0
million less than the requested level of funding for national security programs of the DOE.

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http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press/releases/upload/NDAA-FY13-Conference-Press-Release-2.pdf

"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." --Diderot

(http://thinkexist.com/quotation/men_will_never_be_free_until_the_last_king_is/174752.html)

pg. 96, “Les Éleuthéromanes”

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ANTISTROPHE.

J'en atteste les temps; j'en appelle à tout âge;
Jamais au public avantage
L'homme n'a franchement sacrifié ses droits;
S'il osait de son cœur n'écouter que la voix,
Changeant tout à coup de langage,
Il nous dirait, comme l'hôte des bois:
La nature n'a fait ni serviteur ni maître;
Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.

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(http://books.google.com/books?id=20cHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA96#v=onepage&q&f=true)

J'en atteste les temps; j'en appelle à tout âge;
I of them attest the times; I of them appeal to all age;
I display the times; I appeal to the age

Jamais au public avantage
Never to the public advantages
The public never has the advantage

L'homme n'a franchement sacrifié ses droits;
The man not has clearly sacrificed his rights;
Certainly, mankind has not sacrificed his rights;

S'il osait de son cœur n'écouter que la voix,
If he dared of his heart not to hear but that the voice,
If mankind dared but to listen to the voice of his heart,

Changeant tout à coup de langage,
changing all at a blow of language,
changing suddenly the language,

Il nous dirait, comme l'hôte des bois:
He to us would say, as the host of the woods:
He would say to us, as he would to the animals of the woods:

La nature n'a fait ni serviteur ni maître;
The nature not has made neither servant nor master;
Nature created neither servant nor master;

Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois.
I not see neither to give nor receive of law.
I seek neither to rule nor to serve.

Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
And his hands would weave the entrails of the priest,
And his hands would weave the entrails of the priest,

Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois.
To the lack of a cord for to strangle the kings.
For the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.

"Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre."

My New Band Is Called Syskill

Off-Camera Voice: "Willst Du eine Rede halten?"
("Do you want to make a speech?")
...
Diver: "...Handtuch...."
(towel)
...
Off-Camera Voice: "...Eis hier ueberall...."
(roughly: "There is ice everywhere.")
...
Diver: "Motherfucker, fuck the fucking world and my new band is called Syskill....BWAAAAH....(thud)
....OWAH....AHH...(laughter off camera)...mein Arsch...."
("AHH...(laughter off camera)...my ass....")
....

Naturalizm (Featuring Syqnys)

"Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking, a way skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. Where religion gets into trouble, is in those cases that it pretends to know something about science." Carl Sagan

Syqnys:
Whenever I debate opponents of naturalism
They act like I viciously attacked their position
And that's when I can get half to actually listen
It's like their minds are trapped, shackled in prison
When I mention evolution, the panic it hit's 'em
Yeah, they act like I'm advocating cannibalism
It's a man-eat-man world, just animals living
In a pointless universe, try like mad to convince 'em
But I can't, without getting' passionate with it
Watch how far naturalists being passive will get 'em
Forget about my radical stance on religion
Watch a naturalist debate a fanatical Christian
On the one side, you have someone with PhDs
On the other, call 'em "freeze" – they have zero degrees
And then we have to sit there and hear from the sleaze
Like it's a real debate, you hearing me? Please!


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http://bababrinkman.bandcamp.com/track/naturalizm-featuring-syqnys

While Mitt Romney was "playing battleship" "all over the map" with his "horses and bayonets", he received a "call from the 1980's and they requested their foreign policy back." Angered, Romney "prematurely tightened his sanctions" against Iran and "started a trade war" with China. However, strangely enough, Romney then simultaneously "defended Chinese tires" and "planned to create jobs in China." Romney at this point "saw his position among other things" as untenable and decided to start "airbrushing history" by loudly declaring - "I love teachers!"

THE END...
...of the Romney campaign

Acutely Injured Patients with Trauma in Massachusetts: Differences in Care and Mortality, by Insurance Status
Jennifer S. Haas, MD, MSPH, and Lee Goldman, MD, MPH

Introduction

Trauma is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States(1), and it results in substantial morbidity. The annual cost of traumatic injuries is estimated to be more than $100 billion(2). Some data suggest that 30% of trauma-related deaths may be prevented by appropriate prehospital and in-hospital care(3,4).

Although previous work has demonstrated that the uninsured (5-8) are less likely to receive certain health care services, these studies have usually examined elective procedures or ambulatory services for which differences in rates of use may reflect patients' preferences. In addition, it has been difficult to control for differences in disease severity for chronic medical problems(9). Finally, differences in procedure rates may not be associated with differences in health outcomes. Because of these limitations, no conclusions can be drawn as to the appropriateness of the observed variation.

To address whether lower rates of resource use by uninsured patients are associated with worse health outcomes, we studied patients with acute trauma. Since these patients are acutely injured, the relationship between in-hospital care and mortality may be more direct than for chronic health problems. Also, patients' preferences are less likely to explain differences in the use of procedures. Furthermore, the severity of injury can be measured reliably for patients with traumatic injuries in administrative data sets. The goal of this study was to examine whether resource use and mortality differed by insurance status for patients hospitalized with acute trauma.

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AJPH Paper: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.84.10.1605

Am J Public Health. 1994 Oct;84(10):1605-8.
Acutely injured patients with trauma in Massachusetts: differences in care and mortality, by insurance status.
Haas JS, Goldman L.
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115.

Abstract
OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to determine whether resource use and mortality differed by insurance status for patients with acute trauma.

METHODS: All adults emergently hospitalized in Massachusetts during 1990 with acute trauma (n = 15,008) were examined.

RESULTS: After adjustment for confounders, uninsured patients were as likely to receive care in an intensive care unit as were patients with private insurance (odds ratio = 0.97, 95% confidence interval = 0.85, 1.11) but were less likely to undergo an operative procedure (OR = 0.68, 95% CI = 0.63, 0.74) or physical therapy (OR = 0.61, 95% CI = 0.57,0.67) and were more likely to die in a hospital (OR = 2.15, 95% CI = 1.44, 3.19). Compared with patients with private insurance, those with Medicaid were less likely to receive an operative procedure (0.85, 0.75-0.97), were equally likely to receive care in an intensive care unit (OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 0.86, 1.30) or physical therapy (OR = 0.90, 95% CI = 0.79, 1.02), and were no more likely to die (OR = 1.28, 95% CI = 0.69,2.39).

CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the uninsured receive less trauma-related care and have a higher mortality rate. The excess mortality in uninsured patients may be avoided if their resource use is increased to that of insured patients.

PubMed Entry: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7943478

Committee Members, 112th Congress

* indicates the members who are clearly scientifically illiterate.

Republican Members
Ralph M. Hall, Texas
F. James Sensenbrenner, Wisconsin
Lamar S. Smith, Texas
Dana Rohrabacher, California
Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland
Frank D. Lucas, Oklahoma
Judy Biggert, Illinois
W. Todd Akin, Missouri*
Randy Neugebauer, Texas
Michael T. McCaul, Texas
Paul Broun, Georgia*
Sandy Adams, Florida
Benjamin Quayle, Arizona
Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann, Tennessee
Scott Rigell, Virginia
Steven Palazzo, Mississippi
Mo Brooks, Alabama
Andy Harris, M.D., Maryland
Randy Hultgren, Illinois
Chip Cravaack, Minnesota
Larry Bucshon, Indiana
Dan Benishek, Michigan

Democratic Members
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Texas
Jerry F. Costello, Illinois
Lynn Woolsey, California
Zoe Lofgren, California
Brad Miller, North Carolina
Daniel Lipinski, Illinois
Donna Edwards, Maryland
Ben Ray Lujan, New Mexico
Paul Tonko, New York
Jerry McNerney, California
Terri Sewell, Alabama
Frederica Wilson, Florida
Hansen Clarke, Michigan
Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon

http://science.house.gov/about/membership

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How ALEC Turned Prisoners into Corporate America's Cheap Labor Force
Kevin Donohoe

What do breaded chicken patties, office chairs and cruise missiles used in Libya have in common? They are all made by America's 100,000-strong secret workforce: prisoners.

Since the 1990s, the American Legislative Exchange Council has helped states turn prisoners into a source of cheap labor for corporate America. On Democracy Now!, Mike Elk explains the hidden history of ALEC and prison labor, and the group's latest effort to privatize America's parole system. You can read Elk's piece on ALEC's prison policies here.


http://www.thenation.com/video/162587/how-alec-turned-prisoners-corporate-americas-cheap-labor-force#

Is News Corp. Failing Science?
Representations of Climate Science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages

AARON HUERTAS, DENA ADLER



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

News Corporation is one of the world’s largest media companies. Under its Global Energy Initiative, the company has publicly committed to engaging its audiences on sustainability issues and the company publicly touts climate change initiatives among its successes.

Despite News Corp.’s public commitment to environmental sustainability, a snapshot analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS) finds that recent portrayals of climate science on Fox News Channel and in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section are overwhelmingly
misleading.

UCS’s analysis finds that:

• Over a recent six-month period, 93 percent of Fox News Channel’s representations of climate science were misleading (37 out of 40 instances).

• Similarly, over the past year, 81 percent of the representations of climate science in the Wall Street Journal’s opinion section were
misleading (39 out of 48 instances).

The entire report is here: http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Is-News-Corp-Failing-Science.pdf