WASHINGTON: Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from the hospital Tuesday, 10 days after getting a new heart, his office said. Cheney, 71, received the organ from an unknown donor on March 24 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.
As he leaves the hospital, the former vice president and his family want to again express their deep gratitude to the donor and the donors family for this remarkable gift, aide Kara Ahern said in a statement.
Cheney waited nearly two years for the transplant. His lifelong history of heart disease includes five heart attacks, with the first one striking him at age 37 and the most recent one in 2010. That year, Cheney also had surgery to implant a small pump to help keep his weakened and diseased heart beating. The left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, helps a person live a fairly normal life while awaiting a heart transplant, although some people receive it as permanent therapy. It was one the few steps left, short of a transplant, to keep Cheney alive in the face of what he had acknowledged was increasing congestive heart failure.
The odds of survival are good. More than 70 percent of heart transplant patients live at least five years, although survival is a bit lower for people over 65.
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So skippy - the Texan whom should have been President out-lived his stints. Good on you man, and thank you for being so kind to US while being Dick to everyone else.
Here is to another 30 years at least :)
Thanks for your support man and by GOD shoot more lawyers!
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Must have been the "shoot lawyers" thing. I took the rest as complimentary. And for the record, the 'shooting' was a minor dove hunting accident and the shootee was a friend, IIRC.
As for Darth Cheney himself, say what you will about the man, but you always knew whose side he was on - ours. I wish him well.
Spending time on a bicycle seat, which has been linked to erectile dysfunction in men, may also be a hazard to a womans sexual health, a new study shows.
Many women who cycle or take spin classes are familiar with the numbness that sometimes can occur from sitting on a traditional bike seat. Bike seats are designed in such a way that body weight typically rests on the nose of the seat, which can compress nerves and blood vessels in the genital area. In men, this raises the risk of erectile dysfunction, something that has been documented in studies of male police officers on bicycle patrol.
But female cyclists have not been studied as closely. A study by Yale researchers in 2006 found that female cyclists had less genital sensation compared with a control group of female runners. As a result, some scientists believe that female cyclists probably are at similar risk for sexual problems as male riders.
I want a transfer to this division! It sounds like alot more fun than what I'm doing now. Besides, rumor mill states they get paid double day rate all the time!
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Johnson, we've got Biden's address on file don't we?
I believe we do, sir...
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As per FREEREPUBLIC, Perts are warning the world may face "Global Economic Collapse" come 2030 at current rates of consumption or utility.
Add to our future OWG-NWO outlawing "fracking" as a "Crime agz the Planet" [Humanity] at that time.
1960'S WORLD-THREATENING SIRIUS EVENT [Solar] = NOT-A-GUAM-TAOTAMONA-OR-USDOD-ACRONYM, WORLD-THREATENING SIRIUS STAR SYSTEM CIRCA ANOTHER 100 YEARS [Year 2110 +/-].
HMMMM, HMMM, SO IIUC, COMET APOPHIS + GUAM, EARTH-VISIBLE MOON EXPLOSIONS 2030 IS ACTUALLY THE "GOOD" NEWS???
D *** NG IT, IS LOURDES A BETTER SINGER ANDOR ACTRESS THAN MOM MADONNA!?
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man on Tuesday after he was convicted of smuggling a 'large amount' of heroin into the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said. "Salim Shah Sayed Shah, a Pakistani, was accused of smuggling a large amount of the heroin drug into the kingdom," said an Interior Ministry statement carried by state news agency SPA, adding that he was executed in the holy city of Makkah.
Shah's execution brings the number of beheadings in the kingdom so far this year to 16, according to an AFP tally based on official reports. Human rights group Amnesty International said Saudi Arabia executed 79 people in 2011.
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It's a start.
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Sailing scimitars, think of the money WE could save.
Education standards are being put at risk by repeated attempts to force schools to cure the country's biggest social problems, a minister warned today.
Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister, said the "first answer" to almost any challenge facing society -- such as obesity, teenage pregnancy and knife crime -- was to give schools a new duty to tackle the issue.
He said he was regularly presented with proposals "from one well-meaning group or another" to add "something socially desirable" to the curriculum.
But Mr Gibb warned that the move risked cutting the amount of time available for teaching traditional subjects -- the "best way out of poverty" for young people.
The comments come just a week after a major report into last year's riots in England suggested that schools should be required to "develop and publish their policies on building character".
It suggested that primary and secondary schools should undertake regular assessments of pupils' character, in a move likely to cover issues such as self-confidence, honesty and sense of right and wrong.
But addressing the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference in Manchester, Mr Gibb said: "Today it seems that the first answer of many to almost any problem in society is to give a duty to schools to tackle it -- be it obesity, teenage pregnancy, or knife crime.
"It feels like every other week I am presented with proposals from one well-meaning group or another to add something socially desirable to the curriculum.
"I see my role as resisting those pressures so that schools can concentrate on educating young people and teachers can focus on teaching."
The last Government was repeatedly criticised for introducing a series of new duties for English state schools.
This included compulsory lessons in citizenship, a new onus on schools to promote community cohesion, nutritional standards for food and an overhaul of the curriculum covering personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) lessons.
The issue being, of course, how to assimilate the children of immigrants - and how to maintain and restore civic values in general. That was a major reason for establishing public schools in the first place, but has been hijacked to change rather than reinforce society.
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It suggested that primary and secondary schools should undertake regular assessments of pupils' character, in a move likely to cover issues such as self-confidence, honesty and sense of right and wrong.
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That was a major reason for establishing public schools in the first place, but has been hijacked to change hijack rather than reinforce traditional society.
WASHINGTON - The United States said Tuesday that it sought to strengthen democracy and civil society in Russia after Moscow charged that US funding to groups in the country was posing a problem in relations.
So now we have quangos in Russia, and Vlad, always a sharp operator, sees a way to discredit them, keep us off balance, and tar his domestic opponents. Brilliant.
The State Department has proposed to set up a $50 million fund that would support non-governmental groups which promote human rights and accountability in Russia, where Vladimir Putin is preparing for a third term as president.
No doubt it'll be the outreach program of the Democratic party. They can go to Russia and see how socialism really worked, right?
This is designed to support a vibrant civil society in Russia and to allow us to work with those Russian NGOs who want to work with us, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.
The fund would allow the groups to develop their skills and their voice and their ability to represent the aspirations of Russians to increasingly deepen and strengthen their democracy, Nuland said.
Putin has repeatedly accused Washington of bankrolling the mass street protests that first rose against his 12-year domination of Russia three months ago a charge that US officials firmly deny.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday that Moscow has raised the issue repeatedly with US officials and had still not received a clear assurance about the fundings ultimate aims.
This activity is reaching a scale that is turning into a problem in our relations, Ryabkov said in an interview with the Interfax news agency.
The democracy fund needs approval from the US Congress. The money would come from the liquidated US-Russia Investment Fund, which was set up in 1995 to promote a free market economy in the former communist nation.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview Sunday with CNN, said that the Russian people were incredibly talented and that the United States wanted to give them a real stake in the future there.
That has nothing to do with us. It has to do everything with the Russian people themselves, she said of the proposed $50 million fund. We in the United States believe that every country would be better off if there were greater freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly."
So we'll export of bunch of nosy-parker apparatchiks on expense accounts to tell the Russians how to do it. That'll turn out well.
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Lotsa Luck.
Long and winding road there.
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Hey State, how about starting at home? You know like prompting free and fair elections without corrupting the voting system.
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Ehh? Russians know more about American civics than even the "constitution in chief".
Never joke about Vladimir, democrat "smart diplomacy" usually means fertile ground where there are no balls.
Moscow laughed at you years ago. Old Al in Deadwood scoffing at US? Really?
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When Vlad was on the side - to some extent - there were advances towards a free press. Numerous versions of US magazines - including Playboy, Cosmopolitan, etc - are sold openly in Russia. Their internet is largely free. Vlad no longer has the public support to drop the heavy hand. He doesn't appear much in public since he was jeered at an MMA event. As for Syria, I don't give a damn about dead islamists. I don't want them to vote: I want them to die.
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I they should send Hans Blix as he can not find anything and drag a search out a decade if necessary.
"Nope, no anti-democracy forces here. Couldn't find one."
The coal industry will suffer the same fate as Osama bin Laden under new climate regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the head of the United Mine Workers of America said this week.
"The Navy SEALs shot Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan and Lisa Jackson shot us in Washington," Cecil Roberts, president of the powerful union, said during an interview Tuesday on the West Virginia radio show MetroNews Talkline.
Roberts blasted Jackson, the EPA administrator, over the proposed regulations, which would limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. Opponents of the regulations, including Roberts, say the new rules would be the death knell of the coal industry.
New coal-fired power plants would have to install technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions in order to comply with the rules. The technology, known as carbon capture and storage (CCS), "is not commercially available," Roberts said.
"This rule is an all-out, in my opinion, decision by the EPA that we're never going to have another coal-fired facility in the United States that's constructed," Roberts said. First rule, you can't please everyone. By pleasing the envirowienes, Obama just pissed off the Union guys. IMHO, the faster the rank and file union people realize that Obama will screw them over happily to please their bosses and the Hollywood money, the faster they will abandon him.
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The industrial unions are turning against the Democrats. Same happened with a Wisconsin mining union when the Democrats blocked a mining project for no reason but to deprive Gov. Walker of a success, at the expense of the miners union. The miners are very angry with the Democrats.
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And who did they endorse in the last election? Let us Google...
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for President of the United States after a unanimous vote of the union's National Council of the Coal Miners' Political Action Committee (COMPAC) in favor of the endorsement.
"We are extremely proud to make this endorsement today," UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said today. "Sen. Obama shares the values of UMWA members and our families. He understands and will fight for the needs our members have today and the hopes our members have for a secure future for themselves and their families.
"Most of all, Sen. Obama will implement the clear change in direction UMWA members-- indeed, all American working people--must have if they are to once again move forward and have a true opportunity to realize the American dream," Roberts said. "After eight years of being pushed aside by an administration which neither respects nor values the contributions American working families make to our society, we are looking forward with great anticipation to a new era in our nation starting with the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 20, 2009.
"We looked at the positions of both Sen. Obama and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) when considering this endorsement,â Roberts said. âOn issue after issue, it is clear that Sen. Obama will be on our side while Sen. McCain will not."
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It gets better; a project up here in the NW wants to enlarge the Cherry Point terminal to berth bulk cargo ships and fill them with coal mined in the Montana/Wyoming area. that would involve up to 9 trains daily, each about 1.5 miles long rumbling through a bunch of libtard sanctuary cities ( Bellingham being the most 'tarded) the ecoweenies and NIMBYs are banding together to stop this project, even though employment is still down.....
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When will the rest of the residents tell them to knock it off?
Get active. Post comments on your local newspaper website. Don't let the place become some libtard echo chamber. Bet if you looked those would be the only comments seen.
Iraq's fugitive Vice-President Tarek Al Hashemi has left Qatar.
The Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported, "He left on Wednesday morning at the end of an official visit of several days and he was seen off at the airport by Shaikh Hamad Bin Nasser Al Thani, the state minister."
Shaikh Hamad had welcomed Al Hashemi to the Qatari capital on Sunday. On Tuesday, Qatar declined Iraq's demand to hand over the fugitive Iraqi official.
Khalid Al Attiyah, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, said, "Diplomatic norms and the post of Al Hashemi prevent Qatar from doing such a thing."
Al Hashemi, wanted by the Iraq for his alleged role in acts of terrorism, had initially left the Iraqi capital for Kurdistan. However, the Kurdish zone wouldn't hand him over. His trip to Qatar sparked bitter domestic and international disputes.
Al Hashemi's office said that he left Kurdistan for Doha in response to an invitation he had previously received.
The office said that Al Hashemi would spend some days in Qatar before visiting unnamed other countries and returning to Kurdistan. Qatari Emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani received Al Hashemi at his court. The QNA reported that the two reviewed bilateral relations and the developments in the region during their meeting.
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WASHINGTON: Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from the hospital Tuesday, 10 days after getting a new heart, his office said. Cheney, 71, received the organ from an unknown donor on March 24 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man on Tuesday after he was convicted of smuggling a 'large amount' of heroin into the kingdom, the Interior Ministry said. "Salim Shah Sayed Shah, a Pakistani, was accused of smuggling a large amount of the heroin drug into the kingdom," said an Interior Ministry statement carried by state news agency SPA, adding that he was executed in the holy city of Makkah. 
The coal industry will suffer the same fate as Osama bin Laden under new climate regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency, the head of the United Mine Workers of America said this week.
Iraq's fugitive Vice-President Tarek Al Hashemi has left Qatar.
