A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told FOX News that the much-cited figure represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on the terror suspect. According to a 2007 Red Cross report, he was subjected a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment."
"The water was poured 183 times -- there were 183 pours," the official explained, adding that "each pour was a matter of seconds."
And rationing means the government gets a say in how, when and where you get health care. But hey, at least it’s…uh…free.
This is all according to comments made by Larry Summers during one of his rare non-nap times.
Last Sunday on “Meet the Press,” Larry Summers, Obama’s chief economic adviser, let the cat out of the bag on health care. In explaining why universal health care wasn’t going to increase the deficit, Summers said that people are just getting too much unnecessary care. Summers claimed: “whether it’s tonsillectomies or hysterectomies . . . procedures are done three times as frequently [in some parts of the country than others] and there’s no benefit in terms of the health of the population. And by doing the right kind of cost-effectiveness, by making the right kinds of investments and protection, some experts that we — estimate that we could take as much as $700 billion a year out of our health care system.”
What’s unbelievable to me is how many whoppers Obama gets away with. He says he’s going to cut the deficits he “inherited” from Bush in half, but the truth is that the deficits his budget leaves us with are bigger than what Bush left office with. He calls for budget discipline, but his own budgets create trillions in new deficits. One day he says he isn’t going to prosecute Bush administration officials for “torture,” then the next day he is.
Obama is the king of saying one thing and doing another, and by and large the media lets him get away with it.
The Inspector General's report documents the stunning and at least partly illegal expansion of TARP from the $700 billion originally allocated by Congress to what is now a $3 trillion complex of programs. This chart shows the various programs that are now included within SIGTARP's oversight, and how they have expanded from the initial $700 billion. Note that some of the programs are still incipient; $3 trillion is by no means a final number. Click to enlarge:
Too special to turn off the lights:
The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.
I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.
NYT: WASHINGTON — The capital flew into a bit of a tizzy when, on his first full day in the White House, President Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
“He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?” said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. “He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there.”
Too special to fly commercial:
Liberal Democrat Transport Spokesman Norman Baker said: 'Prince Charles seems not to realise that he enormously weakens his case for tackling climate change by his own profligate and careless habits.
'It is deeply unattractive to have somebody lecturing you on climate change when they are one of the greatest emitters of carbon themselves.
'When you couple Prince Charles's private jets with Prince Andrew's helicopters, you cannot help but think that the Royal Family is part of the carbon problem rather than part of the carbon solution.'
