A little afternoon news look-see. If I can get the physical moxie in the PM, this could be a regular feature, maybe.
A news junkie from way back, I hit a lot online news sites at least twice a day — once way early, then just after I get off work in the early afternoon. Shit happens.
And I no longer take an afternoon nap, so working on a post keeps awareness a bit higher and I can maintain into the early evening, then to bed.
(Illustration found here).
News for this PM I spied upon.
Today is Veterans Day, 11/11/13, which in historic-reality is Armistice Day, when the butchering stopped for the “war to end all wars” — Nov. 11, 1918. Dwight Eisenhower signed off on the change from ‘Armistice’ to ‘Veterans’ day in 1954.
I got into a discussion this morning with a customer (I manage a liquor) about today’s holiday, and the difference Memorial Day and Veterans Day. He said, Memorial Day is for dead veterans, and today is for living veterans.
Hmm…
And in celebration, a shitload of wounded troops.
From the International Business Times last Friday:
All that can be said with any certainty is that as of last December more than 900,000 service men and women had been treated at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics since returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the monthly rate of new patients to these facilities as of the end of 2012 was around 10,000.
Beyond that, the picture gets murky.
In March, VA abruptly stopped releasing statistics on non-fatal war casualties to the public.
However, experts say that there is no reason to suspect the monthly rate of new patients has changed.
Nasty story. And this too, the parents of a US soldier who committed suicide: “You want to know what went wrong.”
Meanwhile, Super Typhoon Haiyan is slowly moving off the front news burners, but it still hasn’t dimmed the horror. Even with damage off the initial landfall — Haiyan was three-and-a-half times bigger than Katrina — there’s concern of a another killing wave — disease.
Via CNN: A second round of deaths may be imminent, given limited food and water, along with pools of standing, possibly polluted water amid a breakdown in ordinary sanitation. Relief agencies are worried about outbreaks of disease and infections in the storm’s wake.
This is a story that will get way-worse before it gets any better.
Odd, creepy Uncle Sam and the Koch Brothers anti-Obamacare campaign of cornhole and beer pong.
Garage band gone haywire: A gunman who killed three Iranian indie rock musicians and injured a fourth person inside a Brooklyn apartment on Monday before killing himself was upset because he had been kicked out of another band last year, police said.
Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine is seeking to save the life of the guy that shot him. Flynt doesn’t want the guy to die, but he’d sure like to fuck him up a bit: “In all the years since the shooting, I have never come face-to-face with Franklin. I would love an hour in a room with him and a pair of wire-cutters and pliers, so I could inflict the same damage on him that he inflicted on me,” Flynt wrote “But, I do not want to kill him, nor do I want to see him die.”
Sarah Palin intelligence-grasp overwhelms the senses on the ‘Today‘ show this morning — she describes a health care plan from the Tea Party:
“The plan is to allow those things that had been proposed over many years to reform a health care system in America that certainly does need more help so that there’s more competition, there’s less tort reform threat, there’s less trajectory of the cost increases?
And those plans have been proposed over and over again.
And what thwarts those plans? It’s the far left.
It’s President Obama and his supporters who will not allow the Republicans to usher in free market, patient-centered, doctor-patient relationship links to reform health care!”
Authentic western gibberish.
And, as you wish: “The Princess Bride” was a novel, then a film and now it will become a stage production. Disney Theatrical Productions announced Monday it will create a theater version of the classic tale, based on the acclaimed novel and movie. No word if it will be a play or musical.
So tweasure your wuv.
And so we shall see…