Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts

Monday, January 20, 2014

Racial Animosity On MLK Day - Thanks, White People!



Whites have stolen so much, and told so many lies, when it's all exposed they'll have nothing left to admire themselves for - but enforcing slavery:



Jesse Jackson's Head Start - A Poem by The Crack Emcee


If you're waiting for whites to understand blacks 
You'll be waiting for a long, long time: 
Whites do pretty well, when blacks must stand back 
But they suck outside their own kind. 

 And without a huge head start. 

 They gotta have a huge head start,…
 

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Where "I'll Fix Everything" Means Other People Will Die


In Austria, one member of a forensic crew working on Nazi-era psychiatric patients is confused:
Anthropologist George McGlynn said more than half of the sets of remains have broken bones, many of them unexplained in the patients' medical records. 
"Why is a stubbed toe talked about in three different (documents), but six rib fractures that cause terrible pain isn't even mentioned?" he asked.

I've got an answer he probably hasn't thought of:

Sheer incompetence. 

Let's look at the NewAge healthcare of today, through the eyes of our online cancer specialist, Orac, observing a "special" by NBC chief medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman:

Right at the beginning of the segment, we’re introduced to a breast cancer survivor named Diane Miller, who is portrayed as having endured the rigors of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation and shown doing exercises in what is presumably her home. We are told that she has lymphedema, which is unfortunately a not-uncommon complication of breast cancer surgery, particularly when the cancer is advanced enough that it requires the removal of all the lymph nodes under the arm on the side of the cancer. It’s a major problem in breast cancer survivorship, because when it is bad it can seriously interfere with a woman’s quality of life. It is a complication of breast cancer surgery that, when it happens, is permanent, and it can happen at any time after surgery for the rest of a woman’s life. 
Not surprisingly, Ms. Miller is also a big fan of acupuncture in addition to exercise, and the next segment shows something that makes me cringe as a breast cancer surgeon, and that’s an acupuncturist sticking needles into her lymphedematous arm. It’s even worse than that, though. The acupuncturist is clearly not wearing any gloves! I kid you not! Yes, I did indeed cringe when I watched that segment. In fact, I more than cringed. I started ranting at the television set. Why was I so upset by this? It’s because lymphedematous limbs, because of the edema, are very susceptible to infection, and acupuncturists are not exactly known for their rigorous adherence to sterile technique. Indeed, in general we try to avoid as much as possible blood draws, IVs, and even blood pressure readings using lymphedematous limbs because they can cause problems; yet here, at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, we see an acupuncturist blithely sticking sharp objects into a lymphedematous extremity after just doing a quick wipe with an alcohol swab and not even using gloves!

Conclusion: 

NewAge medicine hasn't changed much since The Third Reich.


This also could explain how Ann Romney can sit on the board of the New England chapter of The National Multiple Sclerosis Society while openly engaging in flapdoodle - NewAgers simply don't care. Which, as I've been telling you, shouldn't surprise anyone:


"I don't care" is their entire reason for existing,…
 

Saturday, April 11, 2009

You Idiots: Politics Ain't Belief's American Idol

"Our president came bearing a basketful of mea culpas. With varying degrees of directness or obliqueness, Obama indicted his own people for arrogance, for dismissiveness and derisiveness, for genocide, for torture, for Hiroshima, for Guantanamo and for insufficient respect for the Muslim world.

And what did he get for this obsessive denigration of his own country? He wanted more NATO combat troops in Afghanistan to match the surge of 17,000 Americans. He was rudely rebuffed.

He wanted more stimulus spending from Europe. He got nothing.

From Russia, he got no help on Iran. From China, he got the blocking of any action on North Korea.

And what did he get for Guantanamo? France, pop. 64 million, will take one prisoner. One! (Sadly, he'll have to leave his bridge partner behind.) The Austrians said they would take none. As Interior Minister Maria Fekter explained with impeccable Germanic logic, if they're not dangerous, why not just keep them in America?

When Austria is mocking you, you're having a bad week."


-- Charles Krauthammer, further reminding us why this whole "Obama" thing was a really, really bad idea, in The Washington Post.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Austrian Newscaster Is Racist: No Surprise There

"Klaus Emmerich [on the left - TMR] has long been a figure in Austrian television news. His journalism career spans 61 years and includes a stint as a correspondent in Washington D.C. for ORF, Austria's public television station. He is something like the Wolf Blitzer of Austria.

Or, at least, he was. Now, the respected US expert has stained his own report card with a string of blatantly racist remarks regarding the election of Barack Obama in the US. Speaking on a talk show on the Austrian public channel
ORF on Wednesday, he said: "I wouldn't want the Western world to be directed by a black man. When you say that is a racist remark: right, without a doubt."

Americans are "racists, now as before, and it must be going very badly for them that they so convincingly ... send a black man, and a black, very good-looking woman, into the White House," he said.

The Austrian broadcaster distanced itself from his views, saying it was against any form of discrimination. "We have never had any comments from Mr. Emmerich which would indicate he has such opinions," Pius Strobl, head of communications at the channel told
SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Following his outburst, the moderator prevented the now-retired Emmerich from having another chance to speak, Pius said.

But Emmerich himself voiced no regret. On the contrary, he even took a harder line in subsequent interviews. Obama's victory was an "extremely disconcerting development" he told the Austrian
Standard on Wednesday, because "blacks aren't as politically civilized." Meanwhile, he told Die Presse in an interview published on Friday that Obama has "a devil-like talent to present his rhetoric so effectively."

Dieter Brosz, a speaker of the
Green Party, was one of many riled by the comments. He urged the channel not to give Emmerich a platform again. "Racist remarks have no place on ORF and are to be avoided.""

-- Spiegel Online

Ignore Austrian idiots trying to rile things up - we've proven, long ago, we're better than them - skin color has nothing to do with performance, so says:

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Winemakers Are No-Brainers (What Are You?)

"I bumped right into [a problem] while out for dinner,...at a Toronto eatery that specializes in ethically raised meat, local produce and sustainable alcohol. Reading through the list, I noticed they offered both an organic wine and a biodynamic one.

Unsure what, exactly, the term biodynamic meant, I asked the waiter. He said something about the grapes being grown according to the lunar cycle.

Sounded kind of hokey. Was this moon-based method of viticulture somehow greener than simply growing organic grapes regardless of the time of day?

The waiter responded that he didn't really know but thought it had more to do with spirituality and the holistic approach to wine making -- that is, from the seed through to the glass.

Still sounded hokey.

The principles of biodynamics are largely based on Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner's teachings from the early 20th century and revolve as much around the spiritual aspects of agriculture as the scientific ones. Some biodynamic winemakers are simply taking organic principles to a higher level; others go so far as to include elements of astrology and homeopathy into their technique. As Ray Isle, a senior editor at Wine & Spirit magazine, has said: 'It's kind of a no-brainer as a consumer.'"
-- Vanessa Farquharson, on the NewAge lunacy (and lies) in the world of wine, for Canada's National Post.