Food bank mistakenly gives out dog food ("Senior Holistic Superfood")
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Food bank mistakenly gives out dog foodPublished: July 18, 2010 at 2:39 PM CLEARWATER, Fla., July 18 (UPI) -- A food bank in Clearwater, Fla., distributed a can labeled as a "superfood" that turned out to be a can of dog food, the recipient said. On Social Security, retired Air Force veteran Frank Viscido made his weekly trip from his home in Largo to the Religious Community Services Food Bank in Clearwater for free food, The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported. Viscido was given the can labeled, "Senior Holistic Superfood" by a volunteer who noticed he wanted products for better... |
Senior White House Official: UN SanctionsAlone "Would Not Be Sufficient"to Change Iran's Behavior
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, DC -- Senior White House officials acknowledged Wednesday afternoon that the new regime of UN Security Council sanctions against Iran “would not be sufficient” in and of itself to change the behavior of the Iranian government and convince its leaders to stop its nuclear weapons program. But, they emphasized, these sanctions are just the beginning – the “1” of a “1,2,3 punch,” as one senior White House official put it. The next step: on June 17 the European Council will meet and impose even stricter sanctions on Iran. Then Congress will pass additional tough sanctions, which... |
Hillary Clinton’s 1969 Wellesley Thesis
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| --As I read her thesis I am persuaded that Alinsky "rules" were hijacked and abused by organized crime and union thugs to further their power over those his "rules" were meant to liberate. (Jo Nuvark) -- this document helps us understand Hillary Rodham Clinton. (snip) For the entirety of the Bill Clinton Presidency it was hidden from the general public. Why you ask? read for yourself … |
The Real Cost Of ObamaCare
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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Health Reform: The linchpin of ObamaCare 2.0 is that 31 million uninsured will be covered at little added cost. But in fact, White House estimates for low costs are based on little more than accounting tricks. The president's plan "puts our budget and economy on a more stable path by reducing the deficit by $100 billion over the next 10 years — and about $1 trillion over the second decade — by cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse," the White House says on its Web site. Sound too good to be true? It is. None of...
Working For The Weekend Wednesday (Senior Moments)
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Garage Door The boss walked into the office one morning not knowing his zipper was down and his fly area wide open. His assistant walked up to him and said, 'This morning when you left your house, did you close your garage door?' The boss told her he knew he'd closed the garage door, and walked into his office puzzled by the question.. As he finished his paperwork, he suddenly noticed his fly was open, and zipped it up... He then understood his assistant's question about his 'garage door..' He headed out for a cup of coffee and paused by... |
Many seniors worry health reform could hurt instead of help ("RATS have a senior citizen problem")
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Many seniors worry health reform could hurt instead of help12. August 2009 16:37 "Democrats have a senior citizen problem," Politico reports. "Frustrated older Americans are packing the town halls on health care. They are incredibly passionate about their Medicare benefits. Polls show senior citizens largely disapprove of health care reform ideas so far. And of course, they vote — in larger numbers than any other demographic." For the most part, Democrats have focused on appealing to middle-class Americans and the uninsured, but at his New Hampshire town hall meeting on Tuesday, "President Barack Obama made a point to reach out... |
Major Breakthrough in Macular Degeneration
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of blindness in adults, a growing problem as the population ages. Now a team of researchers at the University of Kentucky has raised hope for early detection and preventive treatment. Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati and colleague have discovered a biological marker for AMD, a receptor known as CCR3. They say it shows strong potential as a means for doctors to lesson the impact of the much-feared condition. The findings were reported in an article published online Sunday by the journal Nature. "This is a major paradigm shift in macular degeneration research,"... |
Senior Veterans Compete to Win at Golden Age Games
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 3, 2009 – Military veterans competing in the National Veterans Golden Age Games each year have their own reasons for participating. Some come out for the camaraderie, while others come to socialize and catch up with old friends. Jonah Hicks, a 64-year-old Marine Corps and Vietnam War veteran, speeds around the track June 2, 2009, in Birmingham, Ala., as part of the cycling event at the 23rd Annual National Veterans Golden Age Games. DoD photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. But others simply come to win. This... |
Iraqi forces kill senior al Qaeda leader
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces supported by U.S. firepower killed a senior al Qaeda leader who made car bombs and ran Islamist militant cells throughout northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday. A statement said the Iraqi army and members of a U.S.- backed Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol shot Abu Ghazwan as he hid in the grass near a house they were searching on Thursday in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad. The patrol had been attacked with guns and a bomb in the house. "While further searching the area, a (neighborhood patrol) member discovered a trail booby-trapped with grenades... |
Obama Plans To Downgrade Medicare
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| This is Halloween and Obama is trying to scare and fool us Senior Citizens. He is planning to kill Medicare, as we know it, and give us a SEVERELY MODIFIED old age health insurance plan. Obama would, for example, eliminate a certain number of surgical procedures costing ten of thousands of dollars each. The Democrats' idea is to reign in Medicare's costs at the expense of the Senior Citizens. First, Obama wants to take away our retirement plans like in Argentina. Now, he wants to compromise our health insurance coverage. This is a helluva way to treat people! My Fellow... |
Obama Campaign Site: Too Many Old and Stupid People in Florida
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| To the Alzheimer’s Disease jokes at My.BarackObama.com, over which the Obama campaign staff exercises editorial control, we add the following. The moderators whose job is to remove “objectionable” and “disrespectful” content from My.BarackObama.com had no problem with this statement, and (given the jokes about Alzheimer’s Disease and “senior moments”), it probably does reflect the campaign’s views of senior citizens. Note also that this is from the Headquarters Blog, and the blog owner has the power to remove commentary of this nature. He or she apparently considered it neither “offensive” nor “disrespectful.” In my honest opinion, Barack should focus on the... |
Students Suspended For Wearing Senior T-Shirt
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| The controversy is over a T-shirt that read "puschin' it to the limit" and on the back it reads "Class of .08 Seniors." |
Police: We had no choice but to taser senior (in his hospital bed)
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Police say a knife-wielding 82-year-old Royal Inland Hospital patient was tasered over the weekend after he refused to put down his weapon. “He did have a knife in his hand,” Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Scott Wilson said. “He wouldn’t put the knife down.” Wilson said Mounties received a call from hospital security early Saturday morning. “The call came in at 5:45 in the morning,” he said. “The call was that there was an irrational elderly male with a knife.” According to Wilson, officers were briefed by the security guard on duty before confronting the patient, whose name has been withheld. “They... |
Talk about your senior moments [From My.BarackObama.com]
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| McCain has had several senior moments but he is after all very OLD. Now Hillary who is only 60 is having "senior moments" as she "recalls" her harrowing trip to Bosnia as sniper bullets were whizzing overhead, but such a gracefull lady that she is she stopped in the midst of this with daughter Chelsea by her side to give time to a 8 year old Bosnian girl. Wow what courage! The films show otherwise yet this is how you recall it. If you are already having a problem with dimentia at 60...will you know where the phone is at... |
Senior Democrats Mull Al Gore's Nomination
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Senior Democrats mull Al Gore's nomination By Tim Shipman in Washington Last Updated: 2:23am BST 30/03/2008 Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president. The bloody civil war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has left many Democrats convinced that neither can deliver a knockout blow to the other and that both have been so damaged that they risk losing November's election to the Republican nominee, John McCain. Former aides to Al Gore now believe he could... |
Police Working to I.D. Suspect in UNC Senior's Slaying
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Chapel Hill, N.C. — Police asked for help identifying a man in surveillance pictures whom they want to question in connection with the killing of Eve Carson, 22, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lt. Kevin Gunter, a spokesman for the Chapel Hill Police Department, called the man a suspect after the press conference Saturday morning. Police Chief Bill Curran described the photos as “the biggest break” and “strongest lead” in the case yet. Two photographs show a black man in his late teens or early 20s. He is riding in a sport-utility vehicle with... |
Handout is just that no matter its name
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| chicagotribune.com Commentary Handout is just that no matter its name Dennis Byrne February 3, 2008 Like the Boy Scout who insists on helping an old lady cross the street when she wants to stay put, everyone seems determined to help out seniors, whether we need to do so or whether everyone can afford it. The list of all the entitlements, benefits and freebies larded onto the elderly is way too long to publish here, other than to mention they include, according to AARP, deals on travel, financial services, entertainment, computers, gifts and insurance. As if that weren't enough, Gov. Rod... |
Senior fights off iron-wielding man
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| BAY SHORE, N.Y. - A tire iron-wielding man who police said was looking to mug a senior citizen probably thought he had found an easy target — that is, until the 74-year-old fought back. Bruce Ferraro had no idea someone was following him as he walked out of a department store at the South Shore Mall on Saturday and got into his car, police said. But then a man pounded on Ferraro's window and demanded cash. "Ferraro says, 'What, are you kidding me?' and he actually gets out of the car," said Det. Sgt. Thomas Groneman, of the Suffolk County... |
Health and Public Policy: Older Auto Drivers Safer Than You Think
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Health and Public Policy: Older Auto Drivers Safer Than You Think By John E. Carey July 19, 2007Let’s talk about older automobile drivers. Maybe it’s your Mom or Dad or Uncle Sam that shows signs of driving too slowly, running into things or having other difficulties handling a car.What do you do and what are your responsibilities?I’ve faced this dilemma three or four times already and here’s what experts say.Researchers at the Rand Institute for Social Justice found during a recent study a few interesting facts.–Young drivers between 15 and 24 years old are three times as likely to cause car... |
Woman arrested in lawn incident meets the national (Photo update)
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| JEREMY HARMON/Daily Herald Betty Perry, 70, stands in her front yard in Orem and talks about her experience earlier in the day with an Orem police officer Friday, July 6, 2007. An officer stopped to talk to her about her dead lawn, the situation escalated when Perry refused to give her name to the officer and tried to go back in her house to call her son. Perry fell, getting various cuts on her body, and was taken to jail. Betty Perry's dry lawn is seen at her home in Orem Friday, July 6, 2007. Betty Perry's dry, desolate... |
Coalition Forces Kill Senior Taliban Leader
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2006 – A coalition air strike Dec. 19 in Afghanistan’s Helmand province killed a senior member of the Taliban’s inner circle, military officials reported today. Credible intelligence led coalition forces to Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani’s location near the border with Pakistan, officials said. His vehicle, traveling in a deserted area, was destroyed by the air strike, instantly killing him and two unidentified associates. "Osmani was in the top ring of the Taliban leadership and he was also a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Gulbuddin Hekmatyr," said Army Col. Tom Collins, a coalition spokesman. "His... |
Harold Ford Sr. stumping for two sons - Campaigning efforts come under scrutiny
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| For Harold Ford Sr., this campaign season has been a family affair. He's worked to drum up votes for his son Jake's bid as an independent to represent the 9th Congressional District. Ford Sr. is also a volunteer in his oldest son Harold Jr.'s Democratic U.S. Senate campaign and has offered advice on voter turnout and campaign tactics. "He (Sr.) knows the last three months of strategy better than anyone, and he (Jr.) trusts his father," said Ford Jr.'s campaign adviser, Robert Sepucha. During several local events for Ford Jr., the elder Ford plugged Jake's candidacy, said Shelby County Democratic... |
$4,597 cash payment keeps John Ford out of jail
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| Faced with a noon deadline, former state senator John Ford kept himself out of jail by making a court-ordered child-support payment of $4,597 at 11:13 this morning at Juvenile Court. Ford, 64, got his monthly payments reduced this week by 40 percent, but Referee Harold Horne also ordered him to make a purge payment or be held in contempt for falling behind in his child support obligations. By Thursday Ford had paid $8,500, but Horne said he would be jailed by noon today if Ford did not make another payment of $4,597. Juvenile Court Clerk Steve Stamson said Ford paid... |
U.S., Afghan, Pakistani Senior NCOs Meet for First Time
Monday 6th of September 2010 09:35:55 PM
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| KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 24, 2006 – Senior enlisted leaders from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States met for the first time this week to share insights between their respective armed forces and future interoperability. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Wood, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan’s senior enlisted leader, talks with senior NCOs from the Afghan National Army and Pakistani armed forces at Kabul International Airport Aug. 22, shortly before the beginning of the first meeting between senior NCOs of the three nations. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Matt Summers, USAF '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “Building a relationship between these... |
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