tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2231378562834931212..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Space Technology Does Not Get Better Than The Rosetta MissionDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51704104970943120192014-11-14T23:32:03.563-05:002014-11-14T23:32:03.563-05:00May not have been JW, may have been some other wha...May not have been JW, may have been some other whacko fundie group of prayer power people.<br /><br />I like prayer, but use both, medicine and prayer.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83479721303858120602014-11-14T23:30:17.359-05:002014-11-14T23:30:17.359-05:00Meanwhile, in a saner US of A a court is about to ...Meanwhile, in a saner US of A a court is about to sentence some Jehovah Witness parents to jail for refusing to allow their kid to receive life supporting medication. The child is dead.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41404041770575240572014-11-14T18:41:46.657-05:002014-11-14T18:41:46.657-05:00Sorry Rufus, I lost interest in "polls" ...Sorry Rufus, I lost interest in "polls" when America was polled who was the "best" singer and they voted for Madonna.<br /><br />Polls, like statistics are quite, shall we say, bendable.<br /><br />Word choice and the choices of either or can be leading...<br /><br />If you point was correct? The country would be anointing Obama as a health care genius...<br /><br />But the rumblings across the nation are wide and constant...<br /><br />But thanks for sharing a "poll"<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70093522772565801232014-11-14T18:32:48.195-05:002014-11-14T18:32:48.195-05:00In this case, when BCFS rebuffed the hospital’s re...In this case, when BCFS rebuffed the hospital’s request, the Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation took the child-welfare authorities to court.<br /><br />In his decision, Justice Edward, who grew up in Brantford and is a member of the Six Nations band, discussed whether J.J. would qualify as a child in need of protection under The Child and Family Services Act in Ontario. Both sides agreed that D.H. is a loving and supportive mother and that only one part of the act might apply, a section that says a child can be deemed in need of protection if “the child requires medical treatment to cure, prevent or alleviate physical harm or suffering and the child’s parent or the person having charge of the child does not provide, or refuses or is unavailable or unable to consent to the treatment.”<br /><br />Rather than dealing with that issue on its face, Justice Edward turned to an analysis of the aboriginal rights protected by Section 35 of the Constitution. To count as an aboriginal right, he said, a practice must be “integral” to First Nations identity and date back to the time before Europeans arrived in Canada.<br /><br />He concluded that D.H.’s beliefs fit that bill, leading him to dismiss the hospital’s application.<br /><br />Outside the courtroom, the chiefs of the Six Nations of the Grand River and the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation, a neighbouring band, declared the decision a victory for aboriginal rights.<br /><br /><br />“This is a precedent-setting decision … for our people across the country,” said Ava Hill, chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River. “We were the first people here. We looked after ourselves. We had our traditional medicines. And we looked after your ancestors when they arrived here. What medicines do you think we used?”<br /><br />Chief Hill said J.J. is in good health. She said she saw J.J. and her mother two weeks ago at a community event, where J.J. was outside playing.<br /><br />Chief Bryan LaForme of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation said a girl from his reserve with a similar story was also doing well. Makayla Sault, also 11, was diagnosed with the same type of cancer as J.J. last spring and also chose to forgo modern medicine for treatment at the Florida healing centre, a place called the Hippocrates Health Institute that advertises itself online as a centre for alternative – not aboriginal – medicine.<br /><br />Doctors at McMaster Children’s Hospital had also asked the BFCS to intervene in Makayla’s case. When the agency refused, the hospital let the matter drop.<br /><br />A letter apparently from Makayla’s father was posted earlier this week to the Facebook page of a Christian music star asking people to pray for Makayla because she had been sent back to hospital, critically ill.<br /><br />But Chief LaForme said it was an infection – not cancer – that landed Makayla in hospital.<br /><br />“I visited the parents [Thursday.] The young lady is home,” he said. “She has no cancer. She went for blood tests Wednesday. The doctors found she is free of cancer. She has an infection that is being treated at home and she is doing well.”<br /><br />It was not possible to independently verify that immediately. Dr. Fitzgerald, the hospital president, said he could not comment on either girl’s condition, citing patient confidentiality.<br /><br />“We remain hopeful. There is still a child out there who has an opportunity to live a long and healthy life,” he said. “I would just hope that the family comes to that realization and seeks conventional therapy.”..<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/cancer-patient-has-right-to-use-aboriginal-healing-instead-of-chemo-judge-rules/article21587859/#dashboard/follows/<br />Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75109843285225165432014-11-14T18:32:35.206-05:002014-11-14T18:32:35.206-05:00Here is a ... reverse abortion kind of issue:
&qu...Here is a ... reverse abortion kind of issue:<br /><br />"Ontario hospital cannot force chemo on 11-year-old native girl, court rules.00In a decision that could affect First Nations people across Canada, a judge in Ontario has ruled that a hospital cannot force a cancer-stricken 11-year-old girl to resume chemotherapy because the Constitution protects her mother’s right to treat the child with traditional aboriginal medicine instead.<br /><br />Applause broke out in a Brantford, Ont., courtroom filled mainly with supporters of the girl, known as J.J, and her mother, known as D.H., when Justice Gethin Edward concluded that the family’s aboriginal rights trumped the hospital’s attempts to compel child-welfare authorities to intervene and send J.J. back to the hospital for chemotherapy.<br /><br />“This is not an 11th-hour epiphany employed to take her daughter out of the rigours of chemotherapy. Rather, it is a decision made by a mother, on behalf of a daughter she truly loves, steeped in a practice that has been rooted in their culture from its beginnings …” he said.<br /><br />“It is this court’s conclusion therefore, that D.H.’s decision to pursue traditional medicine for her daughter, J.J., is her aboriginal right. Further, such a right cannot be qualified as a right only if it is proven to work by employing the Western medical paradigm. To do so would be to leave open the opportunity to perpetually erode aboriginal rights.”<br /><br />A woman who identified herself as J.J.’s aunt called the girl’s mother from the courtroom. “It’s dismissed,” she said into the phone, sobbing. After handing off the phone to another woman, the aunt wiped her tears with a tissue, visibly shaking, said: “I’m speechless, that’s all I can say.”<br /><br />The other woman continued to describe the scene to D.H. on the phone. “It feels like I’ve transcended something bigger than all of us,” she said.<br /><br />Peter Fitzgerald, the president of McMaster Children’s Hospital in Hamilton, said there were no immediate plans to appeal the decision, but he did not rule that option out.<br /><br />“We’ve made it very clear from the beginning that without conventional therapy there is no chance of survival,” he said in an interview Friday. “We have been open to the combination of traditional therapy with conventional medical therapy. But we have no reason to believe that the patient will survive the disease without conventional therapy.”<br /><br />J.J.’s case began in August, when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer that arises in the bone marrow. Doctors at McMaster Children’s Hospital told her mother that there was a better than 90 per cent chance of a cure if the girl was treated with chemotherapy.<br /><br />At first, D.H. agreed to the treatment plan, but 10 days into a 32-day course of chemotherapy, she decided to halt her daughter’s treatment. She later wrote in an open letter to a native newspaper that she did not want her daughter treated with “poison” and would take her to a holistic healing centre in Florida and pursue aboriginal healing instead.<br /><br />At that point, doctors at McMaster Children’s Hospital contacted Brant Family and Children’s Services, the child-welfare agency that covers the nearby Six Nations of the Grand River Reserve, where J.J. lives. The hospital wanted BFCS to step in and force the child back into hospital, but the agency investigated J.J’s family and concluded she was not a “child in need of protection.”<br /><br />That is when the case took its first novel turn. In past instances where a parent has refused life-saving treatment for a child – including cases where Jehovah’s Witnesses have tried to prevent their children from receiving blood transfusions – child-welfare authorities have generally sided with the doctors and taken the parents to court to usurp their decision-making power.<br /><br /><br /><br />Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56967828364366203852014-11-14T18:26:06.839-05:002014-11-14T18:26:06.839-05:00rat is easy to understand - he lacks the courage o...rat is easy to understand - he lacks the courage of his convictions but loves to argue and to goad.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68505196439201102382014-11-14T18:22:17.848-05:002014-11-14T18:22:17.848-05:00:):)Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20206809981482652242014-11-14T17:38:49.976-05:002014-11-14T17:38:49.976-05:00I post a Gallup Poll, moron posts an opinion piece...I post a Gallup Poll, moron posts an opinion piece, and "I'm the one" suffering from <i> confirmation bias.</i> :)<br /><br />ya gotta love it.<br /><br />Oh, and watch out for them death panels.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61195830293745447372014-11-14T17:35:57.186-05:002014-11-14T17:35:57.186-05:00I will commend all of you who stand your ground, m...I will commend all of you who stand your ground, make your point and keep an open mind. Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51626638812086827902014-11-14T16:26:51.831-05:002014-11-14T16:26:51.831-05:00.
Perhaps, that is why no one can understand the ....<br /><br />Perhaps, that is why no one can understand the rat. Perhaps it is not his lack of English skills but rather his lack of blogging skills.<br /><br />Maybe because of his ADHD, he is unable to follow a single post through from beginning to end. This could be the reason he just can't seem to keep up when discussion on a particular subject extends for multiple posts. Add to this the fact that as he stated a day or two ago, he seems to be unable to scroll backwards, this despite the vaunted blogging skills he boasts of. <br /><br />The results are exceedingly strange. We see the sharp left turns in the conversations, the non-sequiturs, the diversions. We see him demand responses over and over on the same issue even though he has been given those answers before all because he refuses to go back to see if his original query was responded to. His latest is to challenge someone on their position in an ongoing discussion here even when that person has never taken a position on the subject in question nor for that matter participated in the discussion at all.<br /><br />A rare and strange pathology indeed.<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-23207183642335097172014-11-14T16:04:59.501-05:002014-11-14T16:04:59.501-05:00More:
RCP Morning Edition
Obamacare Sold on a Pac...More:<br /><br />RCP Morning Edition<br />Obamacare Sold on a Pack of Lies - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post<br />The Gruber Controversy & DC's Dirty Little Secret - Neil Irwin, NY Times<br />Dems' Path After Obamacare: Down, Down, Down - Byron York, <br /><br /><br />I'll quit now, due to Quirk's polite request.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90772714031400278382014-11-14T16:02:27.884-05:002014-11-14T16:02:27.884-05:00.
Come on, now. Leave the guy alone. All of us ....<br /><br />Come on, now. Leave the guy alone. All of us need a little confirmation bias now and then..<br /><br />:o)<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76398158330670467432014-11-14T15:56:26.757-05:002014-11-14T15:56:26.757-05:00The editorials on your front web page (government ... The editorials on your front web page (government bad, government bad, Ted freaking Cruz) exemplify why I will *never* purchase another Tribune newspaper. You represent nothing but big business and the wealthy. #notribuneforme<br /> Curt Alliaume<br /> at 2:30 PM November 14, 2014<br /><br />Add a comment See all comments<br />55<br /><br />No doubt because they're true. Gruber hasn't renounced a thing he said.<br /><br />These deceptions are a world apart from the scuzzy but not atypical payoffs (the Cornhusker Kickback, the Louisiana Purchase) that bought the final Senate votes to pass the ACA. Nor are we citing other sponsor claims that critics of the law also see as lies: that coverage really would be affordable, that the act would lower medical costs, that it would ease federal deficits. All debatable.<br />Smug Obama administration duped the public<br />Smug Obama administration duped the public<br />Charles Lipson<br /><br />What's not debatable is that Obamacare's arc of deception is exposed — not unique, perhaps, but blatant and, thanks to our own eyes and Gruber's words, provable: Obamacare, in order to function, had to break its backers' promises. Also convincing: Gruber, recorded cautioning in 2012 that if states don't set up their own insurance exchanges, "(your) citizens don't get their tax credits." That's the very issue the U.S. Supreme Court now will litigate, perhaps to the functional downfall of Obamacare.<br /><br />Defenders of Obamacare dismiss these revelations with three breezy retorts: We all knew how the law really would work. (No.) You gotta do what you gotta do. (No.) And this Gruber, he's a nobody. This third excuse basked in absurdity Thursday: Pelosi dismissively said she didn't know who Gruber is and that he didn't help write the ACA, so, "Let's put him aside." Turns out she issued a 2009 news release touting "noted MIT health care economist Jonathan Gruber" whose modeling predicted "lower premiums than under current law for the millions of Americans using the newly-established Health Insurance Exchange." Oh, and Pelosi also had discussed Gruber at a news conference.<br /><br />Apologists surely will dream up more sophisticated excuses. But after the blithe yammer we're left with the admission of National Journal's Ron Fournier, an ardent backer of the ACA: "And so even I have to admit, as a supporter, that Obamacare was built and sold on a foundation of lies." He says that in today's political discourse there are two types of lies: "Those that hurt 'my party' and 'my policies'; and those that don't. We condemn the former and forgive the latter ...."<br /><br />Even in Gruber's come-cleanery, there's one more lie. The people who deceived you about Obamacare didn't do so because you're stupid. They did so because they thought voters are smart, and would reject them and their schemes if they didn't spin their many deceptions.<br /><br />We had a decisive national election last week. Maybe Americans proved how stupid, or how smart, they truly are. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-87266442955273353662014-11-14T15:55:43.569-05:002014-11-14T15:55:43.569-05:00The arc of selling the ACA began with assurances t...The arc of selling the ACA began with assurances that "the health care bill," as it was advertised, wouldn't cost insured citizens their coverage. President Barack Obama made the point incessantly and in varying phrases, never more emphatically than in his June 15, 2009, address to the American Medical Association: "(N)o matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away, no matter what."<br />One honest man<br />Scott Stantis<br /><br />The Wall Street Journal later reported that Obama's advisers knew he was making a promise he couldn't keep, and they debated whether he should "explain the nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches." Instead, three months after Obama signed the ACA in March 2010, the administration acknowledged on page 34,552 of the Federal Register its midrange estimate that "66 percent of small employer plans and 45 percent of large employer plans" couldn't survive Obamacare. Last autumn's wave of canceled individual policies further debunked the If-you-like promise that, to their eternal chagrin, hundreds of campaigning Democrats repeated to voters.<br /><br />A video that surfaced this week shows Gruber telling a Rhode Island audience in 2012 how the feds will collect a tax on high-end policies without families realizing they're actually paying the tax via insurers: "(I)t's a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter."<br /><br />A 2013 video has Gruber in St. Louis describing how that "Cadillac tax" got into the ACA: "They proposed it and that passed, because the American people are too stupid to understand the difference."<br /><br />Gruber told MSNBC on Wednesday that his Pennsylvania comments were "at an academic conference" and "off-the-cuff": "I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments."<br />cComments<br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75763216318949576852014-11-14T15:54:23.293-05:002014-11-14T15:54:23.293-05:00Arrogance plus deception equals Obamacare. Ask Gru...Arrogance plus deception equals Obamacare. Ask Gruber.<br /><br />Economist Jonathan Gruber speaks at a conference of the Workers Compensation Research Institute. (Dominick Reuter, Reuters)<br />By Editorial Board<br />Healthcare Policies and LawsHealth InsuranceAffordable Care Act (Obamacare)ElectionsBarack ObamaNancy Pelosi<br />Jonathan Gruber, a candid insider, tells Americans the ugly truths. Finally.<br />Why Americans don't trust leaders<br /><br />"We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it ...."<br /><br />— Then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare, March 9, 2010<br /><br />.<br /><br />Words to live by:<br /><br />Thou shalt not lie. Especially when thou mess with one-sixth of the U.S. economy. And when thou art assuring Americans that thy bill won't kill their health insurance policies. Because when thou gets snared in thy intentional deceptions, there's hell to pay.<br />Like the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board on Facebook<br />Like the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board on FacebookOpen link<br /><br />These are not, though, words by which the Obama administration, Democrats in Congress and their allies sold the Affordable Care Act. We know because MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the act, repeatedly gloated — in video-recorded appearances — that the sponsors lied. One passage from an October 2013 conference at the University of Pennsylvania: "(L)ack of transparency is a huge political advantage and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical to getting this thing (Obamacare) to pass."<br /><br />We won't condemn Gruber's earlier deceptions or praise him as the honest man for whom Diogenes the Cynic searched. He has helped Americans absorb the Obamacare chapter in a terrible saga: why Americans don't trust leaders.<br />lRelated The Stupid Virus and the Smart Economist<br /><br />John Kass<br /> The Stupid Virus and the Smart Economist<br /><br />See all related<br />8<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42797597221296958142014-11-14T15:44:08.131-05:002014-11-14T15:44:08.131-05:00What's this guy's name, Gruber? Grubber?
...What's this guy's name, Gruber? Grubber?<br /><br />He was right in the middle of ObamaCare and says it was sold to the sheeple with a pack of lies, lies and more lies.<br /><br />It's all over Real Clear Politics if you want to read about it.<br /><br />It's a total disaster and is coming apart at the seams........<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877200182060537865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79105423020831122632014-11-14T14:27:25.453-05:002014-11-14T14:27:25.453-05:00This thread about Rosetta was quite amazing and go...This thread about Rosetta was quite amazing and good. Thanks Deuce.<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4173964186933335012014-11-14T14:26:54.948-05:002014-11-14T14:26:54.948-05:00Rufus, you never fail in having some poll that tel...Rufus, you never fail in having some poll that tells us how happy we should be.<br /><br />Well I aint. Currently our Silver Blue Cross and Blue Shield is $1465 a month for me and my wife and kids.<br /><br />It's so good our regular specialists REFUSE it. We pay a cash price at their offices.<br /><br />Of course, when my daughter had a concussion the ONLY network specialist was 90 minutes away. We went to closer and better doctor and paid cash…<br /><br />Of course my story doesn't impress you….<br /><br />But I am hearing a lot of folks not to happy with their "new and improved" plans…<br /><br />Looking forward to see what the new year's price increase will be… I have heard it's only 9% or $131 a month increase.. <br /><br />For nothing...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53909419601801405732014-11-14T14:07:51.698-05:002014-11-14T14:07:51.698-05:00Bottom Line
Americans who obtained new health ins...Bottom Line<br /><br />Americans who obtained new health insurance policies in 2014 using the government exchanges are roughly as positive about their healthcare coverage and the quality of healthcare they receive as the average insured American, and are more satisfied with the cost of their coverage. More than two-thirds of the newly insured who purchased coverage through federal or state exchanges intend to renew their exchange policies, while another 7% plan to look for a different policy through the exchanges.<br /><br />As the healthcare exchanges reopen on Nov. 15, these data suggest that the currently uninsured will mostly be pleased with the outcome if they opt to use the exchanges to obtain insurance on this second go-around.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/179396/newly-insured-exchanges-give-coverage-good-marks.aspx" rel="nofollow">Gallup</a><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54898230082395269092014-11-14T12:40:01.400-05:002014-11-14T12:40:01.400-05:00Jack HawkinsFri Nov 14, 12:06:00 PM EST
Do not car...Jack HawkinsFri Nov 14, 12:06:00 PM EST<br />Do not care what you write ...<br />since I don't read more than three lines, first two, last one<br />... just keep responding …<br /><br />I call BULLSHIT…<br /><br />jack reads every word of every post…<br /><br />he's obsessed <br /><br />mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy…<br /><br />Now just in Jack a video of Jack as a child…<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8<br /><br />Or adult...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90359251622190235122014-11-14T12:10:10.352-05:002014-11-14T12:10:10.352-05:00WiO, ah, I see, you insist it be called the Wester...WiO, ah, I see, you insist it be called the Western Wall because it is the western wall of the mosque - ok, Western Wall it is ;)Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27356772104143451192014-11-14T12:09:04.376-05:002014-11-14T12:09:04.376-05:00mommy mommy mommy mommy mommmmmmmy I don't car...mommy mommy mommy mommy mommmmmmmy I don't care what you say......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42223219010072610622014-11-14T12:06:14.027-05:002014-11-14T12:06:14.027-05:00Do not care what you write ...
since I don't r...Do not care what you write ...<br />since I don't read more than three lines, first two, last one<br />... just keep responding ...<br /><br />That's the ticket<br /><br /><b>Stay the Course !</b>Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8378117594049666302014-11-14T11:45:17.823-05:002014-11-14T11:45:17.823-05:00A group of Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side...A group of Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Thursday called upon Egypt to open the crossing after three weeks of closure in order to allow them to return to the Gaza Strip.<br /><br />"We have been stuck in Egypt for 20 days, but no one has helped us or even talks about us," Talal Salim, one of those stuck at the crossing, told Ma'an.<br /><br />The Palestinians stuck at the border are victims of the Egyptian government's policies regarding the crossing's opening hours, which can be sealed shut for weeks at a time with little notice.<br /><br />The most recent closure came after a bomb hit Egyptian soldiers in el-Arish, 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the Gaza border. The crossing was closed in response, despite the lack of a clear relationship between the incident and Gaza.<br /><br />The Deputy Minister of the Interior in Gaza, Kamel Abu Madi, called upon Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing permanently, arguing that "there is no excuse for its closure."<br /><br /><br /><br />Egypt, the world's largest Arab nation…<br /><br />Shares a border with the territory is used to control….<br /><br />A group of Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing into Gaza on Thursday called upon Egypt to open the crossing after three weeks of closure in order to allow them to return to the Gaza Strip.<br /><br />"We have been stuck in Egypt for 20 days, but no one has helped us or even talks about us," Talal Salim, one of those stuck at the crossing, told Ma'an.<br /><br />The Palestinians stuck at the border are victims of the Egyptian government's policies regarding the crossing's opening hours, which can be sealed shut for weeks at a time with little notice.<br /><br />The most recent closure came after a bomb hit Egyptian soldiers in el-Arish, 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the Gaza border. The crossing was closed in response, despite the lack of a clear relationship between the incident and Gaza.<br /><br />The Deputy Minister of the Interior in Gaza, Kamel Abu Madi, called upon Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah crossing permanently, arguing that "there is no excuse for its closure."<br /><br />So I say, look at a map….<br /><br />Notice that big huge nation to the LEFT go Gaza? Notice that city divided in two call Rafah? <br /><br />Notice who controls that border?????<br /><br /><br />hardie har har….What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77393453545933841422014-11-14T11:31:03.996-05:002014-11-14T11:31:03.996-05:00Your "writing" stimulates the same as st...Your "writing" stimulates the same as stepping in cow shit...What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.com