[Al Ahram] The US government shutdown could block hundreds of cancer patients, including children, from entering last-ditch clinical trials for treatment, a front man for the National Institutes of Health told AFP Wednesday.
About three quarters of the staff at the NIH, which operates the largest research hospital in the world, has been placed on unpaid leave indefinitely.
While the NIH Clinical Center is continuing to treat patients, it is operating at "roughly 90 percent of normal patient load," said an agency memo.
"NIH would not admit new patients (unless deemed medically necessary by the NIH Director), or initiate new protocols," during a funding hiatus, the memo said.
That means about 200 patients will be turned away from treatment at the Clinical Center each week the shutdown persists, including about 30 children, a front man told AFP.
About 10 of those children have cancer, he added.
There are some 1,400 clinical trials ongoing at the NIH center, and four new ones ready to start next week will have to be postponed until the government resumes work, he said.
"Just to be clear, we aren't turning patients away permanently -- we would be delaying their admission, since we are not enrolling new patients at this time," front man John Burklow said in an email.
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That is of no concern for the GM on the phone with Union Reps all day. Nor the actual President who screwed them anyway with his 5th grade model of a system - Lego Graft Station I think.
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Not sure how this squares with the continued funding of the "Affordable Care Act" or $300m to assist Detroit, or anything else that is still being funded for that matter.
Perhaps in the sinister government calculus, child mortality numbers would be offset by the closure or partial reduction in 'little people' terminations at Planned Parenthood Centers. Hence the apparent lack of concern by Dems and the Champ.
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I see this as the first volly in the Obamacare saga "Death Panels at Work" - Harry Reid General Practitioner - Help kids with cancer? Reid asks: 'Why would we want to do that?'
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Yes Au Auric. I fear Tom Clancy may have left at a good time. This is becoming quite revealing, even to a black-helo, diehard skeptic like myself.
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Civilisation ends with a shutdown of human concern.
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[Al Ahram] The US government shutdown could block...
From Al Ahram? I thought the title smelled like something you would see Islamic radicals do (hide behind women and children). Now we know why the left loves children so much, gives them something to hide behind.
[POLITICO] Sen. Rand Paul blasted the federal government for trying to block World War II vets from visiting their memorial, saying "some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades."
"If Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... and the president want to keep the parks closed -- I mean did you read the story today? Some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades so they couldn't see the monument. People had to spend hours setting up barricades where there are never barricades to prevent people from seeing the World War II monument because they're trying to play a charade," Rand (R-Ky.) said Tuesday on Fox News's "Hannity."
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At first I thought the House GOP was being especially stupid by not trying to pass the CR in parts. Now I'm wondering if they planned it this way.
Anyone could have predicted that Champ and his cheer squad would go for the most painful shutdown possible. Which, of course, is exactly what they are doing. But now the House can offer to fund each of these most painful shutdowns, and each time the Senate and President say no they look bad.
It's no win for the Dems. They can either look like asses by refusing to fund parks and cancer kids, or they can acquiesce, which means that after a while the only parts of government still shut down are the ones no one cares about. Obviously a complete disaster for big government types when half the thing is shut down and that's just fine.
So did the House plan this? I hate to give them that much credit, but the result seems to be working out so far. If the media weren't 100% behind the Dems then this regime would be over in a matter of weeks.
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Does this mean we can we turn these old warriors in wheel chairs toward the White House now?
These old geezers are the guys who fought the Japanese in the Pacific and kicked Hitler's ass in Europe. Wouldn't want to get into a battle of wills with this crowd. Even without the seriously bad optics of opposing our veterans.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The National Park Service is sending so many officials out to shut down federal parks that it might have to suspend furloughs if the government closure continues.
-- At the World War II Memorial on The Mall in Washington, where veterans have been staging protests to keep it open, Washington Examiner's Charlie Spiering reports that at least seven officials were dispatched Wednesday morning to set up a ring of barricades to block tourists from the memorial. That is two more than the State Department had in Benghazi a year ago on the night of the terrorist attack that killed four, including the U.S. ambassador.
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About anything that is a GS-12 or above or SES at the NPS has identified itself as 'expendable' if the government ever comes back. We've already heard 'I was just obeying orders'. No sale. Wonder what they'll do if the states decide to relieve the NPS of their burden since they can't do their job?
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The Obama regime has calculated correctly that few visitors to patriotic memorials are likely to be from the Democratic voting block, so .... f%#k them.
If few visitors are Dem, them most are republicans, and against Obama, and Obamacare, then Obama wants to anger them?
A few thousand WW2 vets angry seems to be suicide.
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As I expected, some of my liberal friends on Facebook are claiming this was all a show put on by the Republicans and didn't happen. Willfully blind and stupid is no way to go through life.
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"A series of leaked emails authored by House Speaker John Boehner's chief of staff Mike Sommers shows Boehner may have coordinated with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to exempt Congress from Obamacare." If true, this a$$hat (Boehner) has got...to... go....
How much would you bet that the leaked emails were a) illegally acquired, b) shaped, trimmed, fluffed, and teased to create a certain impression, and c) part of a horse trading deal that were supposed to have gotten the Republicans something equally valuable before the Senate Majority Leader, the honourable Harry Reid reneged?
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If Boehner doesn't go nuclear after this & getting dragged to the WH yesterday, only to be told by Obama 'I'm not negotiating'. then he has to go and be replaced by the Republican version of Tip O'Neill or Sam Rayburn, fused with Darth Fucking Vader.
To quote my local radio talk show host - "I don't want a Speaker that cries. I want a Speaker that makes other people cry."
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Considering the source (remember the unsubstantiated rant on the Senate floor about Romney), it's just another piece of propaganda to stir the pot. Remain focused. They're squealing cause their voting buying money tree has dried up. It's source of their power, now suspended. Desperation starts to set in.
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I wonder if Harry will release all of the emails sent to him over the years. Including the ones from Lois Lerner with details of Mitt Romneys tax returns.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The IRS is still collecting taxes during the government shutdown, but it isn't sending out refunds -- and it's also stopped complying with a subpoena to turn over documents to members of Congress who are investigating the agency's targeting of tea party groups. Both the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Ways and Means Committee have stopped getting documents from the IRS.
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I had to tell a client a $15K Fed. refund is being held up over this. He wasn't pleased. Of course, the obvious solution would have been for him to give me his tax information eight months ago...
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The ridiculous argument of using one's payroll withholding and overpayment as a 'tax day' savings account just become even more ridiculous. Something on a par with a $5000. annual deductible health insurance plan.
[BREITBART] More than nine out of every ten employees at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are considered "non-essential" and have been furloughed in the federal government's shutdown.
Rooters obtained an EPA guidance in which the agency said it would "classify 1,069 employees, out of 16,205, as essential," which is about 6.6% of the agency's workforce, in the event of a government shutdown, which occurred on Tuesday.
The guidance also reportedly said that "most workers at the Office of Air and Radiation, which is in charge of writing and implementing most of the EPA's major air pollution rules," would be furloughed, which will tighten the various deadlines facing the agency.
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As we saw in hearings on the 1st you would be hard pressed to call their leadership essential. I think the 7% is a mix of custodial and the IG investigators.
[FREEBEACON] The National Park Service has ordered the closure of a Virginia park that sits on federal land, even though the government provides no resources for its maintenance or operation.
The Claude Moore Colonial Farm announced on Wednesday that NPS has ordered it to suspend operations until Congress agrees to a deal to fund the federal government.
According to Anna Eberly, managing director of the farm, NPS sent law enforcement agents to the park on Tuesday evening to remove staff and volunteers from the property.
"You do have to wonder about the wisdom of an organization that would use staff they don't have the money to pay to evict visitors from a park site that operates without costing them any money," she said.
The park withstood prior government shutdowns, noting in a news release that the farm will be closed to the public for the first time in 40 years.
"In previous budget dramas, the Farm has always been exempted since the NPS provides no staff or resources to operate the Farm," Eberly explained in an emailed statement.
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Gee, I guess one of their neghbors complained that they had to minimize their "shop", so why didn't "The Farm" have to close ?
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Claude Moore Colonial Farm represents a racist, apartheid filled early American colonial era, filled with prideful independence from the yoke of oppressive European Governments. It denotes a cultural heritage filled with individual responsibility, hardship, the fruits of labor, Christian family and community. The Claude Moore facility is a sort of Voortrekker monument squarely in our midst. Closure under the current regime was inevitable.
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Refuse the order. These are a dictator's actions. Send state troopers to keep it open under the authority of the 9th and 10th amendments. Arrest the Feds if the refuse to leave peaceably.
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[POLITICO] Sen. Rand Paul blasted the federal government for trying to block World War II vets from visiting their memorial, saying "some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades."
