to monitor tanning salons and warn customers of the dangers of skin cancer from overexposure to UV radiation, The Post has learned. In what could be the Bloomberg's Administration's final health crusade, the anti-tanorexic plan will be submitted to the Board of Health on Tuesday,. The board -- all appointees of Mayor Bloomberg -- is expected to adopt the new rules, which would take effect in the spring following public hearings.
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Maybe these folks moved in beside 'HIS HONOR' da mayor
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Yuke, for gawds sake don't use olive oil on grilled chicken until it's done.
The front page of the WaPo said, "Senate Leaders Take Reins on Impasse Talks". Senate Leaders. Leaders! I wanted to retch.
Opening a rare Sunday session of the Senate, Majority Leader Reid said he and Minority Leader McConnell are continuing talks to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government. Were in conversation today, Reid said on the Senate floor. Im confident the Republicans will allow the government to open and extend the ability of the country to pay its bills since the media has finished roasting them. And Im going to do everything I can throughout the day to accomplish just this.
With the two sides stuck over whether to stop the madness and leave in place deep automatic spending cuts known as sequestration, Reid stressed that Democrats have agreed to leave the reductions in place into November and suggested they would be open to allowing them to remain in place longer. He noted that was part of a continuing resolution to fund government that has been adopted on a bipartisan basis in the Senate but blocked in the House. The House, where more than half of the body has been elected to restrain spending, but the Senate didn't turn over fast enough.
But another round of cuts is set to take effect in January. Democrats have balked at a deal proposed by Senate Republicans that would have opened broader budget talks in coming months but might have allowed that hit to occur in January. Talks? We know how those will end up. "The Republicans continue to block the poor folks so the fat cats (Dem contributors) can line Obama's friends their pockets.
During the fiscal crises that have gripped Capitol Hill over the past five years, each resolution and compromise came after Senate leaders picked up the pieces of failed efforts between the White House and the House. In the morning session, Reid rejected a proposal crafted by rank-and-file Republicans with some Democratic input to raise the federal debt limit until Jan. 31 and fund federal agencies through the end of March. It also called for minor adjustments to Obamas health-care law. The Kiss of Death!
Reid said he wanted a shorter period for stopgap funding and a longer extension of the Treasurys borrowing authority. Reid particularly wants to scale back deep automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, which were passed during the 2011 debt-ceiling showdown and will take effect every January for the next decade, unless Congress amends them. Sen. Durbin (Dick - Ill.), the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, called that issue really the single biggest sticking point.
It was a dramatic turnabout from Thursday morning, when Boehners leadership team signaled that it would support increasing the debt ceiling until almost Thanksgiving with the only demand being that Obama negotiate over a broader budget framework in the interim. With pressure on the debt issue appearing to ease, financial markets staged their biggest rally in a month.
The president, however, rejected Boehners offer because it did not address "reopening" the government. Instead, the White House grew interested in the Senate talks over Collinss plan because of its longer debt-ceiling window.
Collins, along with GOP Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), worked with Democrats to draw up a 23-page draft that would have ended the shutdown and funded federal agencies for six months at current spending levels. It would have left intact the sequestration cuts scheduled to hit Jan. 15 but would have given agency officials flexibility to decide where the reductions should occur. Lessee ... we'll keep the National Parks closed and work up from there.
In addition, the proposal would raise the debt limit through Jan. 31, setting up a path for the two sides to have broad budget talks to try to tackle the issues of taxes and entitlement reform. Spit.
Democrats want a shorter extension of government funding so that they can try to press the Republicans, whose partys image has been battered in recent weeks, for more savings from the sequestration cuts in negotiations that would take place in the near term rather than waiting until March, when the spending cuts will have taken effect. In DC, we have almost crushed the evil Pubs and TEA-drinkers. Whaddabout the rest of the planet?
In addition, Reid told reporters that he will make no concessions on the health care law. I rest my case.
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Want to shower just after seeing the name "Reid."
With apologies to all Reids who are not slimey Senators.
[USATODAY] Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., says it's time for Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to resign for "gross incompetence" over the rocky start to a centerpiece of President B.O.'s health care law.
It's not unusual for a GOP senator to call on a member of a Democratic Cabinet to resign, or vice versa. But when the senator and the Cabinet secretary hail from the same state, their families have long been friends, and the senator supported the secretary's confirmation, that's noteworthy.
Sebelius and the B.O. regime are taking a lot of blows over the new online health insurance exchanges that launched Oct. 1. Roberts has long been a critic of the health care law, and the computer glitches that have marred the rollout of the online exchanges are his last straw.
"Everything we warned about has come to pass," Roberts said in a statement that was especially critical of Sebelius' much-mocked appearance on The Daily Showwith Jon Stewart. "They can see Obamacare has failed them. We need a secretary who can admit when enough is enough."
Sebelius, a former governor of Kansas, defended the administration's launch of the health insurance exchanges. People have complained about long delays to sign up or not being able to do so at all because the Healthcare.gov website crashes. "Nobody wants Americans to have to wait to sign up," she wrote in an op-ed column for USA TODAY. "Engineers are working day and night to make upgrades. We're adding more servers to enable the system to handle larger loads. And we're upgrading our software as well to make the system more efficient and enable it to handle higher volumes."
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Why waste the time, just send her directly to
do not collect $200.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NYPOST] The city is launching a new offensive 
Reid said he wanted a shorter period for stopgap funding and a longer extension of the Treasurys borrowing authority. Reid particularly wants to scale back deep automatic spending cuts known as the sequester, which were passed during the 2011 debt-ceiling showdown and will take effect every January for the next decade, unless Congress amends them. Sen. Durbin (Dick - Ill.), the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, called that issue really the single biggest sticking point.
