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Canada’s Heart and Stroke Foundation is looking to change the four decade old procedure from doing 15 chest compressions for every two breaths, to 30 chest compressions for every two breaths. Studies show that the lower number of chest compressions leads to less blood circulation because it takes several compressions to build enough pressure to begin blood circulation after a rescue breath.

(Source http://www.ltvnews.com/viewarticle.php?id=4052)

Last time I checked 50 billion in spending cuts and 60 billion in tax cuts adds 10 billion to the deficit. How exactly is this a winning budget plan as so proclaimed by the Republicans?

After weeks of lobbying and intra-party squabbling, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a five-year, $50bn package of cuts to federal benefits programs, while the Senate backed a $60bn package of tax cuts.

It is a shame the 50 billion in cuts are to programs like Medicaid, food stamps, student loan subsidies, state child-support enforcement programs, and farm support. It is estimated that the House bill would cut $220,000 people off food stamps. I wonder how many of those people live in New Orleans? How quickly we forget the President’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans and put an end to the poverty in that region. Has the OMB even taken into account the President’s Katrina speech? Maybe they are still working on last year’s numbers? Where is the “unprecedented response of an extra 60 billion dollars” asked for by the President going to come from? — (let me guess the poor in New Orleans will have to give up more programs.) Was that all empty rhetoric of a President trying to save face?
My favorite part of this whole House budget proposal is a “concession” to the moderates.

A provision denying Medicaid nursing home benefits to people with home equity of $500,000 or more was modified by raising the equity standard to $750,000 or more.

Are you kidding me. If you have $500,000 in home equity you don’t need Medicaid because you probably are already a doctor with a great health care plan. Seriously… Raised from $500,000 to $750,000 … WTF… How can we give 60 billion in tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and nonchalantly cut food stamps for 220,000 of the poorest Americans? You do know what I mean by “tax cuts to the wealthiest,” right? If not… that means lowering the dividend and long term capital gains tax rate from an already amazingly low 20% to 15%. When was the last time YOU paid 15% in income taxes? Could you imagine if they only took 15% out of your paycheck instead of more than 30%. Isn’t it backwards that the people that actually need the money to live are the people that don’t get it? Like I recently read… “Don’t Balance the Budget on the Backs of the Poor.” This “Reverse Robinhood” has to stop.

(Source MSNBC.com)
(Source WashingtonPost.com subscription required)

Seriously… this is no kidding… From what I can gather this is the second large city, next to Oakland, to legalize marijuana. They always say that you must first admit you have a problem before you can fix it … Well, we have a problem and it is called “The War on Drugs“….

(Source www.denvergov.org)

(Source saferchoice.org)

A panel of judges in the Florida county of Sarasota has granted a request by a group of over 150 citizens accused of drink-driving to view the source code of the breathalyser that was used to determine their breath alcohol levels.

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If CMI keeps refusing to subject the application to an independent audit, it is unlikely that a judge can force it to do so. This would render the results of the test inadmissible in court.

(The Judge’s Ruling)
(Source http://www.vnunet.com)