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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Daily Kos: President Obama: Debt Ceiling Negotiation "Is Not A ...
The last few months of President Obama's first term and the first few months of his second term will determine whether the voters elected Barack Obama or whether the House Republicans (next year a slim majority of 17 votes) can effectively depose President Obama (leaving him as a figurehead) and the US Senate. ?That is, will we have a republic or will we be governed by an extortionist mob in the House? ?
The Republicans have repeatedly said they will use every vote on the debt ceiling as a choke point by which they will dismantle programs that help the middle class or those seeking to be in it. ?They will cut, cut, cut social security benefits, medicaid benefits, and medicare benefits. They will achieve this by extortion, by threatening to bring the US economy down by defaulting on debts.
No one elected them to do so. ?And a Republican majority in the House is only one half of the Congress. ?
This is the battle for Barack Obama's presidency. ?Unless we fight, we lose America. This battle is that stark. ?Government by extortion will become the norm. ?
This morning, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post suggested that the President understands this and would refuse to negotiate on the debt ceiling:
If this happens, Obama will refuse to negotiate over the debt limit, just as he?s refusing to negotiate over tax rates on the rich. The message will be clear: We?re not talking, if the debt ceiling ? and the nation?s economy ? have a gun pointed at their head.WaPo, The Plum Line: "The Morning Plum: Why Obama won?t negotiate with GOP over debt ceiling."snip
Republicans are recklessly putting the recovery at risk. The GOP?s brand is in tatters, and the party will ultimately cave on this point rather than risk more public blame for threatening to tank the economy again. Powerful GOP-aligned interests in the business community, including the Chamber of Commerce, won?t tolerate another debt ceiling fight. Having perennial fights over whether the country will pay its bills is no way to govern, and it simply must stop. The only way to put an end to this madness is to refuse to negotiate if the GOP insists on trying it again. Therefore, no discussions over the debt ceiling. Period.
This may sound like an optimistic prediction, but this is exactly what?s happening over whether to raise tax rates on the rich: Dems are refusing to negotiate. If Republicans seriously attempt a rerun of the 2011 debt ceiling playbook, my bet is this is how things will unfold.
I can't predict how this will turn out and what the President will do, but early indications are good. ?Today President Obama told business leaders that he would not play the debt ceiling game with Republicans:
President Obama said Wednesday that he would not let Republicans use the nation?s debt ceiling as a negotiating point in efforts to keep automatic spending cuts and tax increases from taking effect next month.WaPosnip
?The thinking is the Republicans will have more leverage because there will be another vote on the debt ceiling, and we will try to extract more concessions with a stronger hand on the debt ceiling,? Obama told members of the Business Roundtable. ?That is a bad strategy for America, it?s a bad strategy for your businesses, and it is not a game that I will play.?
This is the battle for democracy in this nation. ?If the Republicans can extort the government to impose their policies by putting a gun to the head of our nation, over and over again, then our nation is lost. ?It may be time for a constitutional crisis by which the President ignores or finds ways around the "debt ceiling." ?
But it also may take letting the nation default to end the extortion. ?Let the Republicans shoot the hostage and reap the whirlwind. ?We can't give the Republican House control of the executive and legislative branch through extortion. ? ?
Business, workers, and the entire nation will pay the price in a debt-ceiling caused ?recession, but the price is higher if we cut spending on social programs (also placing us into a recession) and the price to democracy is too high if we let the House Republicans run the nation's government by extortion.
If this is what it takes to keep our republic, so be it.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Diabetes May Be Linked to Hearing Loss: Study - Health Me Up
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(Reuters) - Diabetes has already been tied to an increased risk of kidney and cardiovascular troubles, nerve damage and vision loss, and now a Japanese study finds diabetics to be more than twice as likely as those without the disease to have hearing impairment.
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In a review of past research on the issue, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, scientists found that younger diabetics were at even higher risk than older adults, though they could not explain why.
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"Current meta-analysis suggests that the higher prevalence of hearing impairment in diabetic patients compared with nondiabetic patients was consistent regardless of age," wrote lead researcher Chika Horikawa, at Niigata University Faculty of Medicine, and colleagues.
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It's not the first time researchers have found a link between diabetes and hearing loss. In 2008, researchers from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) saw similar patterns in a sample of more than 11,000 people, with people with diabetes twice as likely to have hearing loss as those without.
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It's thought that high blood sugar levels brought on by diabetes may lead to hearing loss by damaging blood vessels in the ears, said Horikawa.
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Horikawa and colleagues collected information from 13 previous studies examining the link between diabetes and hearing loss and published between 1977 and 2011. Together, the data covered 7,377 diabetes and 12,817 people without the condition.
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Overall, Horikawa's team found that diabetics were 2.15 times as likely as people without the disease to have hearing loss. But when the results were broken down by age, people under 60 had 2.61 times the risk while people over 60 hand 1.58 times higher risk.
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Some experts caution that this kind of study does not prove that diabetes is directly responsible for the greater hearing loss rates.
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"It doesn't definitively answer the question, but it continues to raise an important point that patients might ask about," said Steven Smith, a diabetes specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The researchers note that future studies that take more factors into account, such as age and noisy environment, are needed to clarify the link between diabetes and hearing loss.
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Still, Horikawa told Reuters Health in an email, people should recognize that diabetics may be at risk for hearing loss based on their results.
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"Furthermore, these results propose that diabetic patients are screened for hearing impairment from (an) earlier age compared with non-diabetics," said Horikawa, adding that hearing loss has also been linked to an increased risk of depression and dementia. ?(Reporting from New York by Andrew Seaman at Reuters Health; editing by Elaine Lies)
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Icahn abandons effort to take control of Oshkosh
(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn on Tuesday abandoned his effort to acquire control of U.S. truck and military vehicle maker Oshkosh Corp
Only 22 percent of shares were tendered in his $32.50 per share offer, less than the 25 percent threshold Icahn had sought. Icahn, who remains Oshkosh's largest shareholder with a 9.5 percent stake, had said that many shares would have improved his chances of overhauling the board of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based company.
Oshkosh shares were down 4.3 percent at $28.80 early Tuesday morning on the New York Stock Exchange.
"We are returning all tendered shares and we will not extend the offer," said Icahn, whose offer valued Oshkosh at $2.98 billion and represented a 21 percent premium on the share price prior to his October bid.
Oshkosh had previously dismissed Icahn's offer as inadequate and in November the company's board authorized management to buy back up to 11 million shares, which would represent 12 percent of the company's outstanding stock, up from a prior authorization to buy back 7.2 million shares.
Company representatives on Tuesday declined to comment on Icahn's latest move.
Icahn had argued that Oshkosh should spin off its JLG aerial lift unit, which the company acquired in 2006 for $3 billion, as a standalone company.
This was Icahn's second run at Oshkosh; a year earlier he waged an unsuccessful proxy battle, with shareholders rejecting his slate of directors.
(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Matthew Lewis)
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How would you change Sony's Xperia P?
Sony's problem (or at least, one of 'em), is its slavish devotion to Gingerbread that goes above and beyond that of its smartphone rivals. As a consequence, its Xperia P came out humbled with an aged OS and a promise of a future upgrade. It's a shame, because we found it to have real charm, good build quality (one of Sony's strengths) and a display that can hold its own against the light. If you bought one, you've had a good five or six months to get to know and love it, so how do you feel? Is it the phone for you, or do you wish you'd gone elsewhere? This week, How Would You Change lets you play amateur smartphone designer, so head into the comments and let your imagination run riot.
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