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Individuals suffering with schizophrenia may experience delusional parasitosis and inappropriate emotional responses.
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Parasitosis is the feeling that one is being bitten or is infected by unseen parasites. Skin irritation may be present, or the patient may feel sudden sharp pains that mimic bites. Illusory parasitosis has numerous causes, but tends not to be caused by unseen bugs. Actual parasite infection of the skin by an unseen parasite is usually limited to contraction of scabies.

Delusional parasitosis, on the other hand, is usually caused either by excessive use of hallucinatory or amphetamine based drugs, or by mental illness. In this condition, those affected may feel they have bugs crawling on them, pins and needles sensations, or feel like they are being bitten. Usually, this type leaves no marks, though patients may scratch their skin and thus cause irritation.

Illusory parasitosis is difficult to treat because skin irritations may result from a number of causes. The patient may show skin irritation, skin bumps, express the feeling that they are being bit, or feel overall itchiness. They may also express that they feel as if bugs are crawling all over them.

Some main causes may be exposure to known skin irritants like household chemicals, or cosmetics. Often the substances causing this condition cause allergies in the patients. Toxic substances in the environment like fiberglass or a polluted air system may also cause the skin to be ruptured. Even the relative dryness of the air or very hot days can result in skin irritation.

Usually, this condition is treated by finding the cause. This may include finding out what type of chemicals those affected use to clean, and will usually include skin testing to determine allergies. When an allergy is determined, treatment or removal of the allergy causing substance can cure the condition. If environmental factors are the cause, those exposed to irritants like fiberglass may need to wear different apparatus to work in order to limit exposure.

Delusional parasitosis tends not to be treated by skin experts or dermatologists, since the cause is mental illness or abuse of drugs or medications. Usually those affected persist in their belief that certain bugs are attacking and feeding on them. When those with illusory parasitosis are told about potential factors or allergies that can cause irritation, they will usually believe this. The person with the delusional type will not believe this and insist upon their theory that microscopic bugs are causing the problem.

Some cases of delusional parasitosis are transitory, occurring after taking a hallucinogen, or excess amphetamine. When the drug clears from the person’s system, the feeling leaves as well. Long term use of amphetamines, can cause this feeling to be present at all times, essentially inducing mental illness.

Manic states of bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia are common causes of delusional parasitosis. For those affected, the feelings are quite real, resulting in many scratching their skin to the point where it can bleed or become infected. Treatment for cases due to mental illness tends to include administration of anti-psychotic medications to help the patient recover from his or her delusion. Where drug use is the cause, helping the patient recover from such use can usually end the feeling of being bitten.

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I have this but it is slightly different. I will be sitting somewhere and feel the feeling like my leg is being bit. I will look down at the same time and there is nothing there? I do get little tiny red marks and then I scratch them and they end up turning into sores. My legs look horrible.

Also, my skin doesn't heal well. I put Neosporin on them and they don't go completely away so I have marks on my legs and my arm. It is very frustrating. I am wondering if I have parasites? I suppose I need to go to the doctor. I also wish I could figure out why my body doesn't heal from sores.

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My father had this condition and I still believe it was an after effect of shingles. Shingles causes nerve damage and makes the person feel like bugs are on them. Well, in my dad's case that nerve damage was, unfortunately, coupled with continuing mental decline, probably a kind of dementia. Also, a psychiatrist thought that possibly he had had a stroke. So there are other reasons this can happen besides drug use. Just wanted to put this out there in case it can help someone.

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I have a number of bothersome concerns, to the point where I feel I may be losing my grip on reality. I know the body I inhabit very well, never putting aside the fact that I'm human, so I could be wrong. I have been diagnosed OCD, so I am always aware of the patterns of my being, inside and out, to the point where I keep notes. I try to map my reactions to emotional stimuli, as a cause of my experiences. There are times when I feel bombarded by creepy crawly encounters.

Maybe I should fear this line of thought where I am persistently mapping everything involved in my encounters of annoying, parasitical-like events.

I got scabies at

a Slayer concert. I have a mental coping mechanism formed through consistent reprogramming of my human strength and understanding that a lack of proof is not proof on its own, and that to face my fear, I must live with what worries me. I also suffer from a compulsive pending doom syndrome. So, over-thinking things is not good.

I need a formula to guide me and provide me with questions as a means to be mindful, like slowing down when my mental rambling begins and I'm searching for impeding answers. I have to stop all thinking and remember I do not have to solve everything! I also try thinking of a good song I like. Carrying a tune in my head helps combat the compulsive thinking, as does seeing things from a new point of view, or just asking for help.

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Holy crap! People, realize this: These people hate you for not believing them, because they are right. Look into it beyond the internet, please. It might be good to find someone to talk to who understands this problem from personal experience. I have. I lived in a horrible apartment for six months. The place reeked of mold, and was apparently infested with springtales, collumbola, pepper mites -- call them what you want! I have been infested with this parasite since I moved out. I have tried to outrun them, thinking I could. I am their home, their host. It stinks!

Others who had come to that apartment (that was infested) also experienced crawling and the feeling of bugs all over them

. My extensive stay there, and my potentially weak immune system at the time, made me a great candidate as their host. I had just had a baby. I will never tell another stupid doctor this problem because they have thought I'm drugs, which is all the stupid medical notes on this type of problem says! Remember folks: The world (and that includes doctors and the medical community), has not reached the pinnacle of knowledge. At one point the earth was flat and the center of the universe. Are we really that arrogant now?
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My 86 year old mother spent quite a few years in and out of psychiatric hospitals because of the "bugs." We had four years respite from it but now they are back. She says they are biting her face, neck, arms and other unmentionable places. She was prescribed olanzapine once and respiridone another time and it cleared up the problem. This time, she has had skin scrapings, etc. and they have come back negative so it's the same delusional parasitosis problem again; it's absolutely awful!

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I don't know if it's better to know that there are more people out there with this problem, or worse. For the past nine weeks, my mom started waking up saying that she was being bitten in her sleep. She does have mysterious marks on her skin that nobody can seem to explain. Some of them have even gotten infected and had taken a long time to heal. Anyhow, the bugs that were in her bed she originally thought were just spiders or something. Slowly she changed her story to them being bedbugs. Then they were fleas. Then back to bedbugs. Then she said they were flying gnats. Then she said they were termites. Now it's a mixture of gnats

and termites. Every time she changes her story she is certain that those are the bugs. Nobody in the world can see these bugs. We've called three exterminators and all three have said there was nothing and that all the "bugs" she was showing them were just wood shavings, crumbs and lint. That's basically all I see too, when she shows me and my brother the “bugs.” They never move, they have no arms, no legs; they're just pieces of lint or dirt or any other type of speck you'd find laying around.

Anyhow, this paranoia has progressed to the point where she bathes like three times a day, puts on all sorts of skin oils and creams and uses special insect soap and sprays insect repellent all over herself and even squirts rubbing alcohol up her nose because she believes the bugs are in her nose too. She now thinks the bugs are trying to burrow under her skin, and thinks that they're trying to burrow into her eyes. For all the hundreds if not thousands of dollars we've spent on insect repellents, and bug bombs, and sprays, and shampoos, and equipment, and all the time we've put into using them, the bug problem is getting worse for her. Not better. Her eye now looks severely swollen and discolored, probably from chemicals that she's put in her eye, and she still thinks the bugs are there. She even thinks they're in the car, and not only that, but that they follow her around in stores and such. What's worse is she thinks that the bugs are genetically modified organisms created by the government as a weapon and are designed not to die.

I'm at my wits end, and currently my mother has disowned me because I finally couldn't take it anymore and I said that she should consider mental illness as the cause of this. I wasn't trying to be hurtful; I was literally sick of seeing her suffer and just wanted to help solve the problem. She hates me now and feels like she has no family and possibly now is suffering from depression. I love my mother and I don't want this for her. I want to be there for her and get her better, but nobody knows what's going on. My mom is 60 years old. For anybody else whose family members are having this problem, how old are they? What medications are they taking? Post as much information as you can, please.

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So much of what I'm reading about the bugs under the skin, sounds like Morgellons. Look it up.

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I crapped out an entire colon filled with roundworms (live) after taking some laxatives and doing enemas.

Long story short: I took them to the doctors for testing, but the test came back negative, and I was prescribed an anti-psychotic medicine for "delusional parasitosis."

Doctors are dumb. Now I'm taking something else to kill them myself.

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For a year now my Mom has said that she has bugs living inside her. We have been to every doctor imaginable and they all tell her it's in her head.

She is in pain constantly, is weak and has lost a ton of weight. If there is nothing wrong with her then why is all this happening? The doctors just don't seem to care at all. I'm so frustrated. My Mom has something wrong with her and no one seems to care at all.

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I have a friend whose arms are infected and swollen. She insists she has these bugs under her skin, and she shows us her arms and nothing is there. This is all over her arms and it looks terrible where she's clawed it. We are afraid it may lead to amputation.

Could meth or heroin do this? We need help fast. Now she thinks that the flies were put under her skin by government. What is the cause? I think it is the drugs.

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I saw a worm come out of my face so I know it's not delusional, despite what the doctors tell me.

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I have a mild case of illusory parasitosis. It was brought on by a bed bug infestation, not any drugs or chemical allergies, or pre-existing mental conditions.

Yes, I wind up scratching almost constantly. No, I don't inflict harm on myself past a few tiny scratches which heal in a couple days, and it's rare that I'll even get that far.

Yes, I realize that it's quite possibly all in my head, and there are no more bugs - bed bugs, mites, or otherwise - that are biting me.

What I would like to know is how to treat this. I don't want to hear things like "go to a psychologist." I want to know how to fix this myself without spending lots of money.

The itching sensations are quite real, even if the insects aren't, and I want it to stop. Please.

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For three years I drank a lot of beer, coffee, and diet coke every day. I drank nothing but beer coffee and diet coke. I drank 80 ounces of beer, 140 ounces of coffee, and 80 ounces of diet coke each and every day. Cutting back seemed to help stop the delusional parasitosis.

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In the last six months my mother has had two episodes where she is totally convinced that she has something living under her skin.

She picks her skin with sharp objects causing herself to bleed, and she then feels relief. as a family we are at our wits end, we have taken her to countless doctors and dermatologists, but no one seems to offer practical advice how to cope with this awful problem. There should be more support! --michelle.

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My husband has been suffering from 'springtails' or parasites for over a year now. He is hospitalized at the present time.

Initially we took him in for damage to his eyes. his corneas were deeply scratched; he could not see. once in the emergency room, the doctors were told the parasites did the damage, and they were 'eating' him alive. he determined at that time he could not live like he had been, which was staying submerged in a salt-water bath for 18 hours a day, .applying chemicals to his head (where they live in the hair follicles), shocking his head, applying heat through lamps and blow dryers, spraying on acetone and alcohol constantly.

He also recently had dug the

burrows from his head trying to 'open' these tunnels so he could kill them. The psychiatrist is telling me this is a slow process, although the drugs they are giving him seems to have taken the biting sensation away. He has been admitted for four days now and says it is like a 'vacation' compared to how he had been living. one puzzling fact to me is that two family members 'got the bugs' from him. They were able to get rid of them after a couple of months. This lent credence to the delusion.

he explains that he can't get rid of them because he is the "host." I welcome any encouragement or ideas. This has ruined our 17 year marriage.

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MY mother went through the same thing! Although she still will not admit that the problem was "in her head", the bugs went away when the doctor finally stopped prescribing Dexadrine to her.

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My Mother digs large holes into her flesh to get rid of the bugs that are living under her skin, she has to make them bleed well or she says she has not got them out completely and they will come back, she has seen a skin specialist at the hospital who has told her to keep digging them out, the tablets she takes says kills them but make her too tired and therefore cannot keep on them she knows these tablets are for shzsophrenics but the ingredients in them also kills her bugs?

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KALAMAZOO--A Western Michigan University professor has been named the Outstanding Faculty Sponsor of the Year for 2009 by Eta Sigma Gamma, the national health education honor society.

Dr. Amos O. Aduroja, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation, was nominated for the honor by members of the society's student chapter at WMU, Gamma Mu.

Each year, chapters have the opportunity to nominate their faculty sponsor as the Outstanding Faculty Sponsor of the Year. Selection criteria is based on length of service and evidence of exceptional leadership and mentoring of students. The honor is presented yearly at the annual business meeting by the current national president.

WMU students nominated Aduroja for not only teaching and sharing his love of health education throughout the years, but also for ensuring that all Gamma Mu members develop the skills and professionalism necessary to succeed in this field.

Aduroja, who came to WMU in 2001, conducts research in the areas of effective practices in health education. He is an elected member of the Board of Commissioners of the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing and serves as associate editor and reviewer for the Health Educator: Journal of Eta Sigma Gamma.

A certified health education specialist, Aduroja has chaired the Department of Health Education at Wayne State University, and taught in the Department of Social Work at the University of Michigan as well as in the School of Health Technology at Ogun State University in Nigeria.

Previously, Aduroja worked in Detroit as an evaluation consultant, director of the Bureau of Substance Abuse for the city's health department, and director of the Department of Health and Substance Abuse Prevention for the Detroit Urban League. His background also includes stints as a health education consultant for the World Health Organization and World Bank and as a federal health educator and researcher for Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health.

Aduroja earned two degrees from Western Illinois University, a bachelor's degree in public health science in 1976 and a master's degree in public health education in 1977, and a doctoral degree in health behavior and evaluation from the University of Michigan in 1984.

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Twelfth Session of the CAgM

Accra, Ghana, 18-26 October 1999

The twelfth session of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM-XII) was held in Accra, Ghana, from 18-26 October 1999.  A total of 91 participants attended from 55 countries and nine international organizations.

As was the tradition, the Commission established 6 Working Groups (including the Advisory Working Group) and 11 Joint Rapporteurs. Two teams were also designated to collect case-studies of economically beneficial agrometeorological applications and services and to revise the Guide to Agricultural Meteorological Practices (WMO-No. 134). The Commission agreed on a guiding "statement of need", which it focused its activities during the next intersessional period, i.e. "to promote agrometeorology and agrometeorological applications for efficient, sustainable agriculture, silviculture and aquaculture for an increasing world population in rapidly changing environments".

The Commission Dr R. Motha (USA) and Mr L. Akeh (Nigeria) were elected president and vice-president of the Commission, respectively. The 12th Session of CAgM was preceded by an International Workshop on Agricultural Meteorology: Needs and Perspectives in the 21st Century from 15-17 February 1999.

Click here to access the Final Abridged report of CAgM-XII (WMO Pub. No. 900).

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On April Fools’ Day, the American Civil Liberties Union will show us what a joke its commitment to American civil liberties really is.

April 1, in case you haven’t heard, is the launch of the Minuteman Project, an all-volunteer effort by law-abiding American citizens to call attention to the nation’s wide open southern border. Hundreds of Americans from New York to Michigan to California will travel down to the U.S.-Mexico border for a month to monitor illegal aliens and alert immigration enforcement officials if they witness law-breaking.

Call it the mother of all neighborhood watch programs.

In doing so, the Minutemen will be exercising their constitutionally protected freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Those would be fundamental civil liberties found in something called the, uh, First Amendment, of which the ACLU is supposed to be the foremost expert and champion. Or so the group and its celebrity supporters say. In sanctimonious new fund-raising ad campaigns, the organization features the likes of liberal actress Holly Hunter, who asks:

Do you want to be heard without fear? I am not an American who believes that questioning or criticizing my government is unpatriotic.

Uh-huh. “Dissent is patriotic,” the Left likes to preach. Except, apparently, if the questioning and criticizing deals with the government’s abject failure to enforce immigration laws. Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist has been harassed by open-borders activists at his home. The group is reportedly being targeted by savage illegal alien gangsters from Mara Salvatrucha (aka MS-13). Mexican government officials are lobbying American law enforcement officials to suppress the Minutemen’s rights to speak and assemble.

But instead of coming to the defense of the Minutemen who are challenging our government, the ACLU has warned the 1,000 volunteers that it will send monitors to document the Americans’ activities. Moreover, the ACLU has already threatened lawsuits against the American dissenters for exercising their rights.

This bullying of pro-immigration enforcement activists comes as no surprise to those of us who have followed the ACLU’s aggressive open-borders agenda – from its support for driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, to its opposition to detaining illegal alien terror suspects after 9-11 and profiling foreign visitors from terror-friendly countries, to its efforts to stop local and state law enforcement officers from helping federal homeland security efforts.

ACLU of Arizona spokesman Ray Ybarra argues that the mere presence of the Minutemen at the border constitutes “unlawful imprisonment” of illegal (excuse me, “undocumented”) aliens (excuse me, “migrants”). Ybarra told the Washington Times that the ACLU will have lawyers on standby ready to file civil cases against the volunteers. He warned that the Minutemen could “come to our state as ‘vigilantes’ and end up leaving as ‘defendants.’”

The Minutemen have made it clear on their website and in repeated statements that they “will not violate anyone’s civil rights, and will not abuse anyone from any country … We will alert border patrol to the location of illegals, and wait for [the Border Patrol] to come and pick them up. We will follow illegal aliens from a distance and continue spotting them until authorities answer our cell phone and/or back-pack radio calls. All spotting, calls for assistance, and the response from the appropriate authorities will be chronicled and provided to any media representative.”

Contrary to the ACLU and mainstream media representations of the group as racists and immigrant-bashers, the Minutemen are a diverse volunteer group that includes Americans of Mexican, Armenian, Russian, Lebanese, Indian and Cuban descent; and black and Native American minorities. Also among the volunteers are 19 legal immigrants from Mexico, Peru, Russia, New Zealand, England, Australia and the Philippines.

By recklessly linking the Minutemen to white separatists and casting them as outlaws, the civil-liberties crowd engages in the very guilt-by-association smear tactics it has so loudly condemned. And in putting the protection of illegal aliens’ rights over law-abiding Americans’ civil liberties, the ACLU demonstrates on which side of the border its true allegiances lie.

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On a day that reverberates with the shock of Pastor Fred Winters of First Baptist Church in Maryland, Ill., being shot and killed while standing at his pulpit – in the United States of America, not in an oppressive foreign country! – we are solemnly reminded of a number of things. First is that every day is a gift from God and not to be squandered. Without doubt Pastor Winters was doing what he loved and was called to do at the moment he met His Lord and Savior. While we grieve with his family, church and community, we should all be in that mode every day!

The other key point is that moral anarchy that has bubbled and boiled in the melting pot has now flowed over the top, and the stench is rising through the land like a plague.

I had the privilege of standing on the grounds of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, this past weekend as a re-enactment took place remembering the historic stand there 173 years ago last Friday, March 6. As I read these words from Col. Travis’ letter dated Feb. 24, 1836, on a plaque located directly in front of the doors to the original chapel, my heart was both stirred and convicted:

Fellow citizens & compatriots,

I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna – I have sustained a continual Bombardment & cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man – The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken – I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from the walls – I shall never surrender or retreat. Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism, & every thing dear to the American character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch – The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily & will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days. If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country –

William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt.

As we now know, they did indeed die like many before and since. The question I am pressed with and now present as a call and challenge to pastors all over America is this – for what did they die? What was so precious and dear that they, with clear understanding and boldness, were willing to lay down their lives for it?

Your 401(k)? A larger church building with the latest technology and marketing dynamics integrated from floor to rafter? A comfortable position in the community with a respectable home and two cars? The right to demand of our neighbor that they take care of us? The right to overlook evil and corruption all around us?

The right to kill our unborn children in their mothers’ wombs? The sacrilege of giving godlessness and false religions equal standing with the God of our forefathers Who gave us both rights and privileges?

We well know what the greatest commandments are, but do we really know what the greatest love is? Jesus Christ said clearly, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). Most of us will not be called upon in the foreseeable future to take up arms against a tyrannical ruler who has promised to put all to the sword who oppose him, at least we pray not.

After answering what we are willing to die for, we must then answer what we are willing to live for. The wonder in Jesus’ description of ultimate love is that it is sacrificial in nature and that must flow to the premise of being a “living sacrifice” as admonished in Romans 12:1. I may assert that I am willing to die for my wife and family, but am I dying for them daily to my selfish nature? I may die for my country, but will I live sacrificially for her every day?

We don’t yet know what the motive for Pastor Winters’ murder was; however, it is a somber thought for every pastor that we live in a society where the fear of God has so dissolved that a church is no longer a sanctuary from those with a mind to commit violent crime.

Travis, Bowie, Crockett and at least 186 others chose to die for a cause, centuries of heroes and martyrs of the Christian faith have done the same. Pastor Winters and thousands more pastors like him have not enlisted in military service but are called to lead in a different battle that has become more and more endangered – proclaiming the Gospel and name of Jesus Christ.

Whether it is a federal judge nixing a prayer, a legislator using “hate crimes” laws to silence pastors, radical Islam gaining a foothold toward attempted extermination of the infidels – the time for pastors sitting on the sidelines is long gone.

If we have the kind of love for our God, our families and our country that our Lord mandated and each deserve, there is no price too high, no convenience we can lose, no comfort we can give up to step forward and follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before us. Here is a four-step plan for every church:

  1. Pray and Repent – the first step of personal and corporate transformation
  2. Serve those in need – exercise pure and undefiled religion
  3. Raise the standard of righteousness – restore the moral foundations of the city
  4. Reap the harvest – See God restore our nation

That is a simplified list of a comprehensive plan that every pastor and church must enact without hesitation and reservation – in total, not just the “easy” parts. As I walked away from the hallowed ground of the Alamo, I felt the eyes of those men on me with a firm admonition and challenge. Will I be found faithful? Will you?

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The Senate judiciary hearing room in the Hart building is a monument to power in our democracy.

In a series of seats fashioned like a horseshoe, senators sit with their aides behind them. Each seat has a microphone, and the Democratic chair sits in the middle with the Republican ranking senator sitting beside the chair. Next come the still photographers, then the witness table. Behind the witness sits their family members and sometimes their advisers. In back of them are a few more rows of seats and then long tables for the press to write longhand or type directly into their computers. In back of them sit the general public.

Unlike the older Senate hearing rooms, the Hart building has special balcony-type places for the radio and television journalists so they can do their reporting while looking down on the hearing room. With all of these delicately designed ways of holding hearings you would expect more from our democracy. In fact, we got a whole lot less this week.

I am referring to the Sotomayor hearings for Supreme Court justice. This is something that the American public has been part of for years, with much of the hearing the time being boring beyond comprehension. Sure there was the Clarence Thomas hearings and Anita Hill, but, in general, the hearings are a snore. This week was no exception to the snore rule.

Our Constitution provides for “advice and consent” by the Senate (Article II, Section 2, Paragraph 2) of Supreme Court judges. This provision was a compromise between the founders who wanted a strong federal government and those who wanted a stronger legislative branch. It has become a place to address the folks at home and enrich the political platform upon which many senators operate. In fact, if you were going to teach high school civics, it would be shameful to show a video tape of the “questions” that were asked by many senators. The Republicans used the hearings this week as place to make the Democrats agenda look radical, and the Democrats used their questions as a kiss up opportunity. Our Supreme Court reporter, Jay Tamboli, a lawyer by training, just shook his head at the missed opportunity for having a real discussion about law and justice.

I was in the hearing room during the last day of the Sotomayor testimony and was pretty horrified that intelligent people were asking such dumb questions. Much of the concern from the Republican senators focused on personal experience of a judge and if it should influence decisions from the bench. They acted as if it never happens in true justice. It was hard to sit there and not laugh. A grade school child could tell you that the Supreme Court is filled with ideologies that impact on final decisions. If they had only had some basic interviewing skills, the Republican senators would have asked more probing questions that were designed to really get information. They could have asked questions like, “Tell me a time that you made a decision based on law but that you personally disagreed with the outcome.” Instead they harped time and time again to her speeches which they felt showed she would be biased in her judgments.

Then JAG military lawyer Sen. Lindsey Graham used his time to deliver a long speech about Guantanamo justice and why people who don’t play by the rules should get more trial rights than those who do. He was referring to captured fighters who do not wear a uniform of country and thereby do not fully come under the Geneva Conventions. After several minutes of Sen. Graham’s monologue, I began to wonder where is the question and what does he expect Judge Sotomayer to answer.

The point is that no one knows what a judge will do when they get on the court. Ever since Ruth Bader Ginsburg played it safe by not commenting on “hypothetical” cases, no one has been able to make headway with a potential judge. They can hide behind the fact that something might come up before the court in the future.

So, what can be done? There is no law that says there needs to be four days of hearings. If they know they have the votes to confirm, then they should hold shorter hearings and the chairman should limit it to real questions and stop the speeches.

They should put all the pro and con letters up on the Internet and let the American public call their senators with their comments. Senators should stop playing to their base with hostile or kiss-up questions. Everyone knows they accomplish nothing. Finally, we should treat this process as something that allows us to discuss important questions of the day, which could include the influence of foreign law on ours, the impact of current science on legal decisions etc. We missed an opportunity to make these hearings relevant and interesting. They turned out to be boring and dull, a missed opportunity to engage Americans in a meaningful and important process.

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The release yesterday of Mr. Obama’s long-form birth certificate is a welcome development for America. I think, however, that a few cautions are in order before we put the “birther” issue to bed.

First, I believe this shows that Donald Trump was correct in his strategic assessment that Obama had planned to use the birth certificate issue as a distraction during the 2012 election campaign. Trump’s efforts have denied him that ability.

Second, Trump has shown that even an issue that socialist big-media have delivered last rites over can be dug up and resurrected from the old ink-drum burial ground and brought to the forefront of public opinion by a prominent individual. This is a real slap in the face to the GOP establishment in our nation’s capital. It shows that the tea party must continue to bring challengers forward during the primaries to remove the fossilized deadwood in the GOP.

Third, I think that, given the level of deceit shown by Mr. Obama to date, the physical birth certificate needs to be inspected by a panel of forensic document experts who visit it in its Hawaiian archive home. I would suggest that this be done on a live television broadcast, without edits. I say this only because Mr. Obama has had two years to use some of the best document forgers in the world (if our intelligence agencies still hold that distinction) to produce a long-form birth certificate. Yet he will still have found it difficult to alter the physical record that exists in Hawaii’s archives.

Thoroughly researched for three years, the book that will teach BHO things he didn’t know about himself: Jerome Corsi’s “Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President”

I’m sorry to be so skeptical of the man, but remember, he reneged on even the small budget cuts he’d agreed to with House negotiators, as soon as the legislation was passed. His administration really has been one lie after another and one constitutional usurpation after another, followed by taxpayer-supported vacations to recover from all the stress.

Finally, the long-form birth certificate does nothing to quell the natural-born-citizen issue, which our Founding Fathers found important enough to write into the Constitution. If the reports of the senior Obama’s British citizenship are true, Obama would not be natural-born – and would be unable to legally hold the office of president. That will be a more esoteric, but none the less important, argument. Most of the population, however, does not likely care.

The fact of the matter is – both political parties in Washington, D.C., would be delighted to run the original copy of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence through a shredder, and then stand together in a “bipartisan moment” and deny that the documents ever existed. That way they could get on with the business at hand, which is stealing from the middle class and sending the money off to their various political benefactors (the newest tea-party electees being the sole exception).

Now onto the college records, Mr. Trump. And the lawyer records from the state of Illinois. By the time of the next election, America should have a much better picture of its affirmative-action president.

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Having failed to make their case talking about jobs and the economy, Republicans now say they want to make this campaign a debate about Medicare (when they’re not talking about abortion). That’s why Mitt Romney named Paul Ryan, the longtime champion of radical change to Medicare, as his running mate.

This is good for America. And this is good for Democrats and Republicans. On one condition only: as long as we have an honest debate on the facts – and not on the lies about Medicare told in campaign ads.

In their TV commercials, and on the stump, Ryan and Romney repeatedly make three assertions about Medicare: that President Obama stole $716 billion from the program to help pay for Obamacare; that their own plan will have no impact on seniors, like Ryan’s mom, already on Medicare; and that the next wave of seniors who qualify for Medicare will enjoy greater choice and benefits.

Each of those statements is an outright lie. And Ryan and Romney know it. But they run around the country like two classic snake-oil salesmen, confident they can sell their elixir and race on to the next town before anybody discovers it’s a fake.

Not so fast. At the risk of being too wonky, let’s tackle those claims one at a time and get to the truth about Medicare.

Claim 1: Obama cuts $716 billion from Medicare. Partly true. Yes, Obama’s budget would cut $500 billion in bloated subsidies to insurance companies as part of the Medicare Advantage program, and $216 billion in waste, fraud and overpayments to providers. What Ryan/Romney don’t mention is that the exact same $716 billion in cuts are in Paul Ryan’s budget, approved by House Republicans and endorsed by Mitt Romney.

Here’s the only difference. Obama uses the $716 billion to pay for preventive care coverage provided without co-pay in the Affordable Care Act. Ryan uses the funds to help pay for increased defense spending and additional tax cuts to the wealthiest of Americans.

Claim 2: Ryan’s plan, endorsed by Romney, will not affect seniors already on Medicare. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It will, in fact, negatively impact today’s Medicare beneficiaries in three ways. First, it will continue the so-called “doughnut hole” in Plan D, requiring seniors to pay 100 percent of prescription drug costs from $2,800 to $4,500 annually. Second, by adding $1 trillion to the Pentagon budget and trillions more in new tax cuts for wealthy Americans and corporations, it will necessitate cuts in all social programs, including Medicare. Third, because it also repeals Obamacare, Ryan’s plan will force seniors to pay for preventive care, such as cancer screenings, colonoscopies and annual check-ups.

Obama’s plan would completely close the “doughnut hole” by 2020, providing coverage for all prescription drug costs. It makes no changes to existing benefits and, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, actually extends the life of Medicare another eight years.

Claim 3: Starting in 2022, Ryan’s proposal will guarantee future retirees a better plan with more choice and greater benefits. Don’t you believe it. This assertion, by the way, does raise the question: If their new plan is so marvelous, why wait 10 years? Nevertheless, here are the facts.

Ryan’s plan would actually get rid of Medicare by privatizing it. Instead of signing up for Medicare, seniors would be given a voucher to go out and buy private insurance – with no guarantee the voucher would cover the cost. In fact, the CBO estimates seniors would have to pay an average $6,400 per year, on top of the voucher, to buy insurance – money many seniors simply do not have.

True, seniors would be given an option. Instead of using their voucher to buy private insurance, they could choose to stick with government-run Medicare. But because there will be fewer people in the program, and because, as explained above, benefits will have already been cut to pay for Ryan’s Pentagon bonus and tax cuts for the rich, Medicare will be a mere shadow of what it is today. President Obama is not exaggerating when he says Romney and Ryan will “end Medicare as we know it.”

So here’s the truth. On many issues, voters will have a clear choice in November. On Medicare, the choice is between saving the program and destroying it. Those who believe Mitt Romney would save Medicare also believe Todd Akin knows anything about rape.

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I don’t know why I waste my breath any more.

For four years I’ve been telling Americans they elected a very bad joke to the White House, but, by hook or by crook, they allowed him to be re-elected for another four years.

That’s the sad truth.

If I could stop writing about Barack Obama, I gladly would. For instance, I haven’t mentioned in months that, by his own admission, he is ineligible to hold office. No one cares.

But now he is coming after our guns.

One month after a tragic mass murder in Newtown, Conn., Obama exploited the deaths of children to launch a frontal assault on the Constitution. By the way, had the parents and community of Newtown properly armed themselves against wackos like the one who committed that heinous crime, all those children would be alive today.

But Obama blames the guns, not the sicko who killed the kids.

Obama blames the guns, not the irresponsibility of a community that fails to protect its children.

Obama blames the guns, even though every action he has taken to date to restrict guns would not have made any difference at Sandy Hook.

But, I digress. As mad as I am about Obama’s fundamental attack on the Constitution, on common sense, on reason and on the values that have made America great, I am not talking about guns today.

I’m talking about Obama’s priorities.

What do you suppose Americans care most about in 2013?

My guess, given how fat, lazy, immoral and stupid most Americans are, is that they care most about jobs.

It’s understandable. It’s predictable. They want someone to give them a job. It doesn’t matter who it is. Americans will do just about anything. They will work for the government. They will work for unions. They will take money for doing nothing without shame, or they will work for a private employer as long as he doesn’t demand too much.

Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. That’s all we heard about during the presidential campaign – from both parties.

More than two years ago, Obama set out to create jobs, the way any know-nothing bureaucrat who never really held one outside of government or community activism would. He set up a “jobs council.”

I don’t know if anyone actually expected this “jobs council” to create jobs, but, of course, it has not.

In fact, this “jobs council,” officially dubbed “The President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,” has not even convened for an official meeting in all that time.

The “distinguished panel” of 26 members last met Jan. 17, 2012 – and it hasn’t held another meeting since!

But it gets even better.

The “jobs council” is set to expire at the end of the month!

Is that not a metaphor for the entire Obama administration thus far?

It’s all smoke and mirrors – empty promises.

Now, I never had any illusions that a “jobs council” could actually produce any jobs (though I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this non-attentive bureaucracy has actually hired a few no-show employees).

The group met four times in total before Jan. 17, 2012, but, as presidential spokesmouth Jay Carney explained during the campaign last fall, Obama didn’t have time to meet the council. He was too busy campaigning.

How did this guy get re-elected?

He got re-elected because there was virtually no opposition.

America has become a de facto one-party state.

There is no choice.

There is no opposition even in the House of Representatives controlled by what we euphemistically refer to as the other party.

There is only a token watchdog press.

America has, for all intents and purposes, a state-controlled media.

That’s why Obama can attack the Constitution with impunity, while fiddling as the country burns, just like Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

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Civil Liberties After 9/11

Thursday, September 08, 2011

Nadine Strossen, former head of the ACLU, joins us to talk about how civil liberties have changed since 9/11, from domestic surveillance, body scanners, and indefinite detention to an expansive national security establishment that remains largely hidden from view.

Nadine Strossen

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In the hours immediately after 9/11, the Bush Administration characterized the attacks as a horrendous crime, but within days, the attacks were being characterized as an act of war. Constitutionally (and politically), if 911 was a understood as a crime, it would NOT trigger the Executive’s constitutional war power; however, if it was officially seen as an act of war, the Executive’s war powers would be triggered. The assertion that the attacks were an act of war is dubious legally in that Al Qaeda is an organization, closer to an international drug cartel than a nation state, but in the immediate aftermath of the attacks few were thinking about the war versus crime distinction or the implications for civil liberties.
Once the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists was enacted on September 18, 2001, the Bush Administration was able assert legal justification for torture, warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, kidnapping (rendition), Abu Ghraib, GITMO and a roll back of civil liberties based on a claim of the Executive’s constitutional war power as Commander in Chief.
As long as the country is understood to be in a state of perpetual war with terrorists, those of us who are anguished by the assault on civil liberties will not have a solid legal argument to challenge the roll-back of civil liberties, legal protections, international treaty obligations, i.e. the Geneva Convention, and the ongoing rise of a national security state.
It is important going forward to press hard to redefine the ‘war’ on Al Qaeda as a prosecution of an international police effort by the US and all countries committed to eradicate international crime syndicates.

Sep. 09 2011 11:09 AM

@Edward - Do you remember the Total Information Awareness program that was proposed a while back?

It's usual for NSA/DOD programs which don't pass public inspection to be renamed so that they can be buried in the budget under another name.

Technically impossible? Not when you have Google & other setting up so many cloud server centers.

Sep. 08 2011 05:07 PM

Go Hazel!

Sep. 08 2011 02:17 PM
Edward from NJ

From what I could gather, NarusInsight is essentially a system to wiretap internet communications based on search criteria. There's a hug leap between that and archiving everything. I guess I shouldn't have said that it's absurd from a technical standpoint, but it is absurd from a practical standpoint. Does the NSA really want to keep every piece of email that everyone has ever received -- 90% of which would be spam?

Sep. 08 2011 02:16 PM

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Look up NarusInsight

Sep. 08 2011 01:53 PM
Edward from NJ

Leonard seemed to say that the NSA is actively archiving *all* of our email and Strossen seemed to accept the premise. Did I misunderstand? This seems patently absurd from a technical standpoint.

Sep. 08 2011 01:45 PM
Seth from Upper West Side

I'm not sure, but I think the 19 hijackers were "young, Muslim, men from the Middle East". I could be wrong. I think I may have read that somewhere at sometime.

I never hear any SOLUTIONS offered by people like Strossen. Isn't there a way to gather info without anyone's feelings being hurt? Share your ideas with the FBI, CIA, et al. These entities are always at odds, much the like the security agencies were pre-9/11.

Sep. 08 2011 01:43 PM
Stephanie from Colorado

I am a 64 year old white woman with seven grandchildren and I am frequently given what I now call the 'granny pat'.

Sep. 08 2011 01:40 PM
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US Court Considers Islamic Law Ban
A push in the US to prohibit Oklahoma judges from taking Islamic law into account will go before court the day after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Sep. 08 2011 01:31 PM
Molly from NYC

@Hazel Thanks for your thought out response. Don't give Ed a second thought.. he often weaves his anti choice rants on WNYC topics whenever he can.

Sep. 08 2011 01:18 PM

Hi Ed,

I'm going to guess that the reason this "study" (wasn't really a study btw, it was an "analysis of 22 separate studies and 36 measures of effect" on women who have had abortions) is because it's essentially meaningless. Priscilla Coleman, the writer of the article is not a creditable expert. Her wikipedia page states: "The statistical methods Coleman and her co-authors use have been criticized by the American Psychological Association (APA)". Also, "Some other researchers have been unable to reproduce Coleman's results on abortion and mental health despite using the same dataset,[4] and have described her findings as "logically inconsistent" and potentially "substantially inflated" by faulty methodology." Here's what Dr. Brenda Major, who has a Ph.D in Social Psychology from Purdue University and is a professor and researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of California in Santa Barbara has to say:

"The most plausible explanation for the observed association between abortion and mental health problems, according to Major, "is that it is spurious: it reflects unmeasured differences that existed before the target pregnancy between the women in the delivery and the abortion samples." In other words, the life circumstances of women who continue a pregnancy probably differ significantly from those of women who abort a pregnancy, and this can impact mental health. Abortion providers and clinics are everyday witnesses to the fact that women who seek abortions are, on average, more likely to be younger, single, have relationship problems, suffer from health problems, have drug or alcohol abuse problems, or be going through a difficult or dysfunctional time in their lives, compared to women who carry to term. For example, pregnant women in abusive relationships are more likely to have an abortion than pregnant women who are happily married. It's reasonable to infer that the former are also more likely to seek psychiatric help—but the reasons probably relate to their abusive relationship, not the abortion."

If you'd like to take a look here is the link:

But I respect your opinion and suggest you shouldn't put yourself in a situation where you'll ever to have to be in the position of having to consider having an abortion. What's right for you is what's right for you - not necessarily me.

Sep. 08 2011 12:59 PM
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We still have the civil liberty to kill unborn children, this we should not have.

Also see:
LONDON, UK, September 1, 2011 ( - A new study published
today in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that women who
underwent an
abortion experienced an 81% increased risk of mental health problems.
study also found that almost 10% of all women’s mental health problems
directly linked to abortion.

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President Obama wants to end a decade of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Very Rich. There's some debate about whether $250,000 or $1,000,000 counts as "very" rich, but most people agree that the wealthiest Americans don't need a tax break.

The constituency that largely disagrees: the Super Rich. In their ranks, you can count Mitt Romney's major bundlers, the pro-Romney Super PAC funders and Mitt Romney himself. The Romney campaign has all the makings of an obvious business deal. Invest a little now to save and make a lot more later.

To be fair, not all millionaires decide their politics on their own short-term gains. Groups like Patriotic Millionaires parade successful Americans in front of the camera who want the system to tax them more fairly… which means taxing them more. And Warren Buffett has been so vocal on this matter that an income tax proposal has been named in his honor.

While the Patriotic Millionaires are willing to spend social capital and some of their fortunes on campaign to be taxed more, the less patriotic millionaires are willing to open their wallets wider to ensure their wallets keep getting bigger. And so we have a weekend of Romney wining and dining (and mounting recreational water vehicles in a lovely throwback to Kerry's windsurfing days) in the Hamptons; being feted by the Koch brothers (with protesters outside declaring, "Romney has a Koch Problem); and coming out well ahead of the incumbent Fundraiser-In-Chief in today's campaign filings.

It's hard to outspend people whose excessive fortunes rely on them outspending you.

While the recent buzz in polls and cover stories has been how universally disliked Mitt is, the Super Rich is one constituency he genuinely connects to -- because he's one of them. Multiple Cadillacs, car elevators, friends who own NASCAR and NFL franchises, $10,000 bets… Romney can't help fall into the footsteps of Gordon Gekko and Richie Rich.

His wealth is becoming a campaign sore spot whether he's refusing to clarify his tax returns or dissembling about his offshore bank accounts (not to be confused with the jobs he "offshored"). Even the source of his wealth -- the vulture capitalism of job non-creation -- is working against him. As Paul Krugman noted in the Times, the last Romney to run for president made cars and employed people; his son's business moved money, broke contracts, outsourced jobs and made him a fortune.

Where Romney's money has come from may say something about what experience he'd bring to running the country (or may say more about the experience he doesn't bring), but the source of his fortune shouldn't determine how he gets taxed. Yet, he's taxed considerably lower than a man who makes cars because dividends and other investment profits get taxed at lower levels. That makes no sense to anyone except those benefiting from the loopholes.

Romney's investment payments should be taxed as what it is: income. Even that increase would ensure he was investing back into America a small portion of what he's extracting from it. Then all his income should be taxed at appropriate levels -- ending the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich (before they become the Obama Tax Give-Away to the Rich) will allow us to pay for programs that strengthen our country.

Unfortunately, it's in Romney's personal and fundraising interests to oppose those sensible policies, and likely it's in his nature. Which is sad. As George Romney, the Kennedys and the Roosevelts proved, you could be wealthy and still believe in policies that helped your fellow Americans. If Romney could shake his billionaire backers and his own sense of entitlement, he could come out for policies that would put him in line with that proud history of leaders and show himself a true Patriotic Millionaire. Then we can get to work on the offshore accounts.

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Kerry's inherited wealth in 2004, Obama out fundraising his opponents in 2008 or the Martha's Vineyard vaycays of both were not vexing issues for progressives for some reason in elections past.

Apparently Patriotic Millionaires despite their grandstanding still don't know how to write a patriotic personal check to the Treasury Department on their own.
Do the Kerrys, Kennedys, Roosevelts, Pelosi and Patriotic Millionaires prove it is better to be generous with other peoples money while hoarding the moral superiority for themselves which conveniently buys them goodwill from the easily distracted and credulous?

Mitt's money is his business but Obama's five trillion in four years is our business?

Jul. 11 2012 05:06 PM
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How long do we have to put up with our government being run by these 'Have cake and eat it, too' types? As income slides from the middle tier earners - who between income taxes and FICA withholding pay far higher rates than upper tier earners - the government becomes starved for revenue. Is this not clear?

To parry all of the 'half the people pay no income taxes' replies that this opinion is bound to get, please deal with the $6200 the 'average' earner pays into Social Security and MediCare. Half out of their own pocket, half from the employer.

A $250K earner who is at the threshold of the new marginal rate of 39.6%, has already avoided FICA withholding on $140K of earnings. That amounts to $21.4K that the government would have collected.

My suggestions:
1) Cut FICA withholding rates to pre-Greenspan Commission levels.
2) Increase the income cut-offs for FICA withholding. The cut-off is currently at about 2X median income. Let's increase this to 5X or 10X the median.
3) For the self-employed, stop the matching contribution at 3X.
4) Start closing loopholes so that all citizens pay something closer to the published rates.

Jul. 11 2012 09:56 AM

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Bakary Sako is among several senior Wolves players who will enjoy a runout to boost their match fitness in a behind-closed-doors friendly today.

Sako has recovered from the illness which saw him ruled out of Wolves’ last two games amid interest from Nottingham Forest which Head Coach Kenny Jackett admitted had also affected the winger.

Having not played for over a fortnight he will now return to action for a largely young side against Notts County at Compton today ahead of the first team visit of Coventry on Saturday (3pm).

“Sako is o-k and he looked sharp in training yesterday,” said Jackett.

“Yes he will be involved at the weekend.

“He’s certainly fully focused and looking forward to this run of games.

“As he says, he wants to put the Nottingham Forest episode behind him.

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“Those are his words, not mine.

“It (Forest saga) has been a feature of the first few months of the season, including pre-season of who’s coming in for our players.

“That’s been part of it and as a League One, that does happen anyway.”

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