Airmen Receive Expired Vaccines
All Air Force medical facilities stopped vaccinating against anthrax on Oct. 26 after officials determined that many treatment centers administered expired vaccines earlier in the same month.
In a memo issued Oct. 26, Air Force Brig. Gen. Mark Ediger, commander of the Air Force Medical Operations Agency in San Antonio, said the stand-down would remain in place until treatment centers can confirm the vaccine stock they have is current. But Ediger also said that confirmation that corrective actions had been taken were to be sent to the AFMOA by close of business Oct. 27, according to a copy of the memo obtained by Military.com.
The only exceptions to the stand-down will be for personnel slated to deploy prior to Oct. 29 if the center can confirm that its vaccine supply is current, the memo states. If the available vaccine has passed its expiration date, the medical centers must follow waiver procedures set up by the Air Force Central Command Surgeon General’s office.
Also before anthrax vaccines may be routinely administered again, the medical centers will have to verify that everyone who handles them completes a review of the proper instructions on vaccine expiration, administration and documentation, the memo states. ”This must include all personnel involved from point of entry of vaccine supply into the [medical treatment facility] through point of service care to the patient and documentation,” Ediger said. Ediger’s office is coordinating with the Assistant Surgeon General, Health Care Operations, as well as the vaccine manufacturers, about following up on patients who may have been inoculated with the expired vaccines.
Though it is still unclear how many Airmen may have been treated with an expired dose, the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, or AVIP, requires troops assigned to high-threat areas to be inoculated against a potential infection.
The vaccination program was originally begun in 1998, but then ran into a number of legal battles as some servicemembers balked at taking the vaccine. Court rulings and injunctions essentially halted the military’s mandatory program between 2003 and 2006, when the current anthrax vaccine program was established. The treatments resumed in February 2007.
Under AVIP, servicemembers not deploying to high-threat areas do not have to take the vaccine.
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What To Do When Assailant Has Firearm And You Do Not
In Part 1 of this series we discussed the importance of having a personal Emergency Action Plan, Evacuation, and Self Defense. In Part 2 we are going to discuss the actual tools you may need to defend yourself or family if you get trapped in a scenario like this.
It is almost irrelevant if the situation occurs in a home invasion at your residence or in your school or office. The tactics and weapons you use will vary little.
Sheltering in Place-When evacuation is not safe, you may be forced to hide. Choose a room that has a lock on the door if possible. If not, turn over furniture and jam the door closed. If it has windows in the door, cover them with paper or clothing. Turn the lights out and stay away from the door.
Signaling police- If you are barricaded in a room with exterior windows let the police know your location by placing a large note in the window. Keep it simple. Use the letter V for victims and the number. Something like VX5 for victims x 5. The police will be there soon. If the room is close to the ground, don’t wait. Break out the dang window and escape.
Environmental weapons- If you are not armed with a firearm, you still have options to protect yourself even if your attacker has a gun. One of the most sickening things I see in these situations is young, strong, healthy people cowering under the desk and crying for Mommy on the cell phone instead of FIGHTING BACK. At Virginia Tech, a whole room full of young athletes simply lay on the floor and waited for execution. If ALL of them had attacked the shooters instead of hiding, there would be far less loss of lives. They did what they had all been taught to do. That is DUCK AND COVER. That is certain suicide.
All around us there are every day items we can use in an emergency. Here are a few to think about;
• Tables & Chairs- If your attacker has a contact weapon such as a knife or club, you can pick up a chair and use it like a lion tamer to shield yourself. A large table can be used to trap them against a wall. A large or long table can be turned up on end and used as a barrier or shield.
• Things that ensnare- Belts, rope, coat hangers, duct tape, electrical cords are very valuable. They can be use quickly to tie door knobs closed, trip, choke or restrain an attacker
• Things with an edge-Screwdrivers, scissors, knives, keys can all be used to good effect
• Impact weapons- The edge of a hard coffee cup, a key board, laptop, coat rack, or fire extinguisher can be used in self defense. Go for soft spots such as the eyes, temple, side of the neck. Strike hard and don’t hold back.
• Things with a point- If you don’t have a knife or screwdriver, make use of a pencil or pen or other pointed object. Ram that thing as deep as you can into his eyeball, neck or wind pipe. It will be gross and awful. This is a fight for your life. There will be no time to hesitate until is over.
All of these tactics and weapons will be most effective if everyone in the room ferociously attacks the attacker instantly. Even if he has a firearm, he can only shoot at a couple of people. He is not expecting all of you to come after him like wild animals. He is expecting you to cower and hide. Everyone should go after him all at once and overwhelm and subdue him. Employ selected weapons if he continues to fight. You are either going to win this or you are going to die!
Once the attacker is subdued or dead, everyone else should escape and get the police in there. Once the police take control, console each other. Give first aid to others until EMS arrives.
The things I am talking about here have been taught to Israeli school kids since the 70s. It is high time Americans learned to fight back too.
Evacuation- Regardless of whether you are in your home during a home invasion or at school or work when a crazy comes calling, you must GET OUT. Someone needs to get out of that building and get the cops rolling. The killer Cho knew this when he planned the Virginia Tech massacre. The very first thing he did was chain and lock the doors shut. Not one student tried to break out windows to escape. GET OUT! Get out by any means possible. Break down a door, break out a window, do whatever it takes. During the slaughter at Luby’s Cafeteria, one brave citizen hurled his own body thru a plate glass window to escape, freeing many others. This is life and death. Break anything you have to — escape.
Please Keep Charles Dyer & His Family In Your Prayers — Don’t Give Up The Fight!
These People are on the front lines. Please keep the pressure on the officials involved in this case by clicking here and continue to ask them why this family has been treated unfairly, even though Charles and his girlfriend have done everything they can do to comply with court orders.
Charles’ Nightmare can be ended. Here’s his story Don’t let the innocents be attacked. Don’t let the family be attacked. It’s all we have left to fight for! Your family could be at the brunt of the next attack if this isn’t stopped!
Jesus’ Government
A classic by Joseph Sobran
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Not again! Another politician “denies any wrongdoing,” but resigns his post. As the great American philosopher Jimmy Hatlo used to say, they’ll do it every time.
Why does corruption in government always surprise us? Why do we expect anything else from it? Government is organized force. It takes our wealth and makes war. And we think honest men would do that work?
Well, honest men have sincerely tried, but look at the results and ask yourself whether honesty has any inherent tendency to prevail in politics. War, taxation, waste, debt, inflation, hatred, hypocrisy, cynicism, social disorder. And also — amazingly enough! — corruption.
As I often say, expecting government to produce good results is like expecting a tiger to pull a plow. After the twentieth century, in which the world’s governments killed hundreds of millions of their own subjects, everyone ought to talk about the state the way Jews talk about Hitler. Yet we still have high hopes for this beast, because, after all, the mighty tiger is certainly strong enough to pull that plow if he wanted to! If only.
Even most Christians believe in the state, though Jesus never urged his followers to take political action. A very devout and intelligent Catholic socialist friend of mine argues that Jesus legitimized the state when he said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.”
But that’s reading an awful lot into a few words. Jesus wasn’t preaching to his followers at that moment; he certainly wasn’t preaching statism, let alone the authority of pagan emperors who claimed divinity and demanded idolatry. No, he was retorting to a trick question from his enemies, and he answered with a witty tautology. It might have been taken to mean, “Give Caesar everything he claims, and also give God his due.” But it could also mean, “Give Caesar nothing, and God everything.” Or it might mean something else; Jesus didn’t specify.
It was a brilliant ad lib. Jesus’ enemies were trying to bait him into endorsing either idolatry or sedition, and he deftly sidestepped them with a sentence the world still remembers. Not exactly a hearty vote of confidence in those who wield power, it seems to me.
Government doesn’t get much help from the Gospels. Don’t resist evil. Don’t fret about tomorrow. Trust your Father in heaven. The truth will make you free. He who takes up the sword will die by the sword. This is not advice our own Caesars are apt to take.
Jesus did exalt the publican, or tax collector, who prayed, “Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.” Today’s publicans, of course, are called “public servants,” and they deny any wrongdoing. Or they have their lawyers deny it for them. Maybe they also let their lawyers handle their carefully worded orisons.
Again, Jesus never used force or the threat of force, except, in a way, when he saw his Father’s house profaned. That was a special case, from which it’s hard to draw general conclusions, but he was acting on his own authority, not acting politically. And he was defying those in power, not supporting them.
In the end, the government murdered him. This fact ought to count for something in any discussion of temporal power. Maybe capital punishment is still justified, even if mistakes are made now and then and the Son of God is accidentally victimized. But I’d start with that accident.
Jesus’ mercy extends readily to the publican and the centurion, but for our time the absence of political rhetoric, or political “solutions” to human problems, is one of the most striking things about the Gospels. The state, taxation, and war are themselves assumed to be perennial problems, and there isn’t the faintest suggestion that “democracy” could relieve them, or turn them into blessings.
Right from the start, Jesus has been a disappointment to anyone hoping for salvation through politics. Many expected the Messiah to bring political and military deliverance — peace through strength, as it were. Instead they got a fiery preacher of peace who resisted the political temptation proffered by Satan, the very temptation the whole world is still succumbing to.
“My government is not of this world.” I think that’s a fair paraphrase of his words.
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Video — Elderly Chicago Couple Terrorized by Police Raid At Wrong Address
Cook County sheriff’s police on a drug raid smashed into a Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing the elderly couple who lives there before admitting they had the wrong house.
Sheriff’s police this morning said they targeted the home and obtained a search warrant based on information from an informant who had provided credible information in the past.
“As soon as we entered the home, we knew this couple was not involved in the activity alleged,” sheriff’s police spokesman Steve Patterson said in an e-mail. “Our officers immediately requested the assistance of an interpreter and, as a precautionary measure, a medic, while also asking the couple to contact a relative who could assist in the situation.”
Paterson said the department has reached out to the family.
If You Believe In the 10th Amendment You Are Like A Cult According To AFL-CIO
When the term astro-turf didn’t stick, and tea bagger was thrown into the harbor of bad ideas, union bosses went into overdrive trying to think of new and creative ways to demean Americans who don’t agree with their socio-fascist ideals.
Earlier this week, the CWA’s Larry Cohen decided that the Tea Party Movement advocates slavery. Now, the AFL-CIO is charging that Americans who believe in the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment are like cult worshipers [emphasis added].
Most cults are based in some sort of skewed spiritual vision or the worship of a charismatic leader, but there is a re-emerging cult that bows down at the feet of the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Many of them want to bring their cultish beliefs to the halls of Congress and are running for election this fall.
They’re called the “tenthers” and they say federal laws and rules like the minimum wage, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Department of Education, even child labor laws and a laundry list of other federal laws and programs are unconstitutional.
Their rationale—irrationale would be a better word—is that if a federal power is not specifically spelled out in the Constitution, well the government doesn’t have it, according to their view of the 10th amendment.
It’s a view that has long been discredited, but reappears from time to time, such as during FDR’s New Deal era and after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education.
So there you have it.
It’s one thing for union bosses to attack corporations—that’s something they’ve done since they were spawned—it’s quite another, however, for union bosses to attack Americans who believe in freedom.
Apparently, according to today’s union-boss mentality, there’s no difference between Jim Jones and James Madison, or Thomas Jefferson and David Koresh. Evidently, freedom is only for cult worshipers.
This is how low today’s union bosses have sunk.
Pathetic.
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