Written by Dr Sheila Mann.Ex GMC Screener and now GMC Panellist. Resident Witch at the General Medical CouncilDr Mann - Taking "Intemperate correspondence" to TaskWritten about Professor Paice's junior doctor R Pal.Transcripts on suppression of freedom of expression.The tale of Professor Paice has been featured by us here.Professor Paice will of course like the additional swearing placed in this
Russain legislators described “emo kids” as teens who wear black, have facial piercings, and have moppy hair that “covers half the face,” reportedly. Despite the airtight nature of these legal terms, I think there may be a loophole or two that might allow the beset emos to skirt around the law
One of manifestations in Vienna. The man with the dog has inscription at his shirt: “Nothing moves forward without Haider”
According to my private statistics Jörg Haider is the most frequent Google search term after words sex and nudity that direct visitors to my website.
When you live in the western country and bring reminiscences about [...]
Dr. Bill Scheuerman, the former President of the United University Professions, will present a symposium talk entitled: “Stealth Totalitarianism: Questioning the Academic Bill of Rights” this Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at JMU's ISAT 159 from 5:00-6:15pm.
I have class and cannot attend, but would encourage others to go and give this liberal some grief. Dr. Scheuerman sees the Academic Bill of
Michael Young, opinion editor of the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon, writes in reason about the infatuation some on the left have with Hezbollah. He asks whether the supporters of Hezbollah are truly aware of what they are supporting, and whether the likes of Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein can really be described as left-wing:But there was more here than just manipulation. The Mughniyeh affair highlights a deeper problem long obvious to those who follow Hezbollah: The party, though it is religious, autocratic, and armed to the teeth, often elicits approval from secular, liberal Westerners who otherwise share nothing of its values. This reaction, in its more extreme forms, is reflected in the way many on the far left have embraced Hezbollah's militancy, but also that of other Islamist
Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should pay attention to what happened at a John Kerry speech September 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville.Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts At the conclusion of Kerry’s speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year old journalism student was selected by Senator Kerry to ask a question. Meyer held up a copy of BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast’s book, Armed Madhouse , and asked if Kerry was aware that Palast’s investigations determined that Kerry had actually won the election. Why, Meyer asked, had Kerry conceded the election so quickly when there were so many obvious examples of vote fraud? Why, Meyer, went on to ask, was Kerry refusing to consider Bush’s impeachment when Bush was about to initiate another act of military aggression, this time against Iran?At this point the public’s protectors -- the police -- decided that Meyer had said too much. They grabbed Meyer and began dragging him off. Meyer s
GMC Comrades Silencing Free Speech. Today, I was walking down the road contemplating the status of the General Medical Council. Of course, the GMC believes in their own delusions mostly of grandeur.I have of course understood the reason for their need to ensure that I am struck off. That is their wish, it always has been their wish since the dawn of time. Jennifer Colman knows it was their main aim. We all know it. Infact, it is common knowledge. The issue about attempting to strike someone off is this. Without the trappings of Good Medical Practise they can essentially write whatever they wish so it does not quite achieve the job they desire. The same mentality occurs in arch enemy Penny Mellor. Her view is obviously that the GMC will somehow wave their magic wand and suddenly my keyboard will disappear in a puff of smoke. Oh dear, the keyboard is still here and I seem to be tapping on it. Of course, as Mellor has discovered, the publicity and the listings on google under her name has
Our ConstitutionA Goddamned Piece Of PaperTo The UsurperGeorge Double W BushHas Wiped His Ass With It OnMany OccaisionsBush Signing StatementsDirectly Contradict PartsOf ConstitutionCannot Explain InHaiku, Too Complex, Plus I'mEating Some NoodlesAnd Typing At TheSame Time, It's Getting VerySloppy, So This EndsBush: Constitution “just a goddamned piece of paper”George W. Bush: “The Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper.”Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'Bush and the Constitution: "Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper"BUSHTARD QUOTE: “I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”JOHN DEAN: An Update on President Bush's NSA Program: The Historical Context, Specter's Recent Bill, and Feingold's Censure MotionCheney contradicts himself, abuses power, subverts the constitutionThe Military Commissions Act of 2006 subverts who we are as Americans
Nowadays, after more than forty-seven years of a Marxist-Leninist tyranny in Cuba, there is no explanation or justification for the fact that there be governments supporting this dictatorship of Fidel Castro although not openly declaring their identification with it. Moreover, the same could be said about political leaders and mass information media, supposedly democratic, that not only regard this tyranny with indifference, but also applaud it and treat it with deference as if it were a government with democratic roots.
It is irritating that those who act this way on behalf of the mentioned tyranny be implacable when any other type of government makes a mistake, even authoritarian governments that are not communist, attacking them constantly and bitterly. They do the same with the great numbers of Cubans in exile who are not well regarded by these sympathizers of the totalitarian regime of Fidel Castro. With any excuse whatsoever they issue unfavorable comments as well as lies – dep
NBA officials assessed Kobe Bryant a flagrant foul after reviewing tape of a game last week against Philadephia. A foul so flagrant it didn’t draw any notice of the officials during the game.
Retroactive fines? When did that start? Laker’s Coach Phil Jackson said: “It shouldn’t even have been a flagrant one,” he said Tuesday. “That’s crazy. That’s a vendetta. They have a witch hunt going on. It’s nuts. Guys riding somebody. Everybody does that in this league. It’s just becoming a witch hunt now.” Bryant received two one game suspensions earlier in the season for fouls. At least those weren’t retroactive.
Jackson was fined $50,000. What is it with professional sports leagues: MLB, NFL, & especially the N.B.A.(the dress code, suspensions for responding to insults from fans-why don’t they reign in the audience?) and prohibitions against criticism or dissent of any kind? In 1996, the N.B.A. suspende
The war on drugs continues unabated. As the New York Times recently reported:
Frustrated by government policy and inaction, a group of advocates for medical marijuana sued two federal health agencies on Wednesday over the assertion that smoking it has no medical benefit.
The group, Americans for Safe Access, a nonprofit organization based in Oakland, filed the lawsuit in Federal District Court, challenging the government’s position that marijuana, “has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.”
Although the lawsuit is well-intentioned, it’s clearly misdirected. Whether or not marijuana has a medical benefit is not the issue; whether or not the war on drugs should exist at all is the issue.
The Drug War knows no bounds. The Tenth Amendment clearly limits the federal government to powers that are specifically listed in the Constitution:
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the St
