Two different guys e-mailed me this story today. From an interview with St. Cloud Times reporter Lawrence Schumacher Michele Bachmann stated:
Iran is the trouble maker, trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And do you know why? It’s because they’ve already decided that they’re going to partition Iraq.
And half of Iraq, the western, northern portion of Iraq, is going to be called…. the Iraq State of Islam, something like that. And I’m sorry, I don’t have the official name, but it’s meant to be the training ground for the terrorists. There’s already an agreement made.
They are going to get half of Iraq and that is going to be a terrorist safe haven zone where they can go ahead and bring about more terrorist attacks in the Middle East region and then to come against the United States because we are their avowed enemy.
She’s sorry, she does not have the official name.
She should be sorry that she does not know what the effing hell she is talking about. Western Iraq? The portion populated by Sunnis? Northern Iraq? The portion populated by Kurds? Run by Shi’a Iran? What the hell are you talking about lady? As Josh Marshall writes:
Aren’t the Shi’a Arabs in southern Iraq going to be a little bummed?
Last Wednesday evening Bachmann was on the Jason Lewis radio show talking about the war. (Lewis does not have a web cam of his show so I don’t know if she gave him the “Tiger Beat teen idol treatment”.) At one point she stated clearly that the war in Iraq should not be politicized. Then, in the very next sentence, she quoted an Ann Coulter book and stated that the Democrats in Congress were guilty of treason for not giving President Bush their full support for his troop surge fantasy.
Bachmann is clearly deranged. But, as far as I am concerned, let the woman speak. Give the state, the rest of the country, and the whole world a good look at what this woman, and these types of people, are all about. Everyone take a good hard look so you know it when you see it. And don’t vote this type of “self anointed” know-it-all-incompetent fool into office again. After all, Bachmann said it best herself:
I don’t think I give as much credence to my own mind, because I see myself as being very limited and very flawed, and lacking in knowledge and wisdom and understanding.
So apparently I was suffering from subluxation of the shoulder rather than dislocation.
Hey, I ain’t no damn doctor.
Subluxation is 50% of the way to dislocation and it don’t feel too good so I’m not interested in any lipping off about being a cry baby.
As opposed to full dislocation, where the ball of the joint has slipped and is sitting fully outside of the joint, subluxation results in the ball being pulled out of the joint and then teetering on the edge of full dislocation. It is at this point that the muscles in my shoulder have been pulling the ball back into joint.
Subluxation does not cause nearly the same amount of damage to the shoulder that a dislocation can.
The white circular ring inside the shoulder joint shown above is call the labrum. While the MRI showed extensive tearing of the labrum at the front and the top of the ring, surgery is not required at this point. I can get away with 6 to 8 weeks of physical therapy and then determine how stable the joint is at that point.
There is a 20% higher incident for joint arthritis for those who suffer dislocation but there is no data for those who only suffer subluxation.
Final diagnosis: Super Rookie does not win a single race on the boards this season.
Six professional teams say they will defy the International Cycling Union (UCI) and compete in next month’s Paris-Nice race even though it has been dropped from the Pro-Tour calendar.
Rabobank, the team of former world champions Oscar Freire, Gerolsteiner, T-Mobile and France’s Cofidis, Bouygues Telecom and Francaise des Jeux have said they will be at the start of the week-long race at Issy-les-Moulineaux in the Paris suburbs on March 11.
The UCI had written to all 20 teams on its Pro-Tour after a dispute with the organisers of the Paris-Nice, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), telling them that it no longer recognised the race and ordering them not to enter.
The UCI continues to serve as the greatest destructive force for cycling in the world.
All about me, right from the outset of Pat’s closing argument, I saw people begin to look at each other. Furtive, sidelong looks popped out all over. There I sat just behind the defense table, and I watched the lawyers sag and share occasional “oh shit” looks. Wells had his forehead resting on his hand, anchored on the table, remaining virtually immoble throughout. Junior defense attorneys, unconsciously mirroring his tone, slumped a bit in their seats the way my fifth grade basketball team used to do during a serious ass whupping early in the game with three quarters left to play. Just like my old basketball team, defense attorneys snuck looks at the clock (when will it be over!?). Libby’s brother, who could pass almost for his doppleganger, put his arm around Scooter’s wife. Fitz laid out a long, proper drubbing, and the jury, most of all, hung on every word and breath.
Sounds like Patrick Fitzgerald really burned the house down with his closing argument yesterday. If Libby goes down the Vice President could be on trial next.
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