Thursday, May 10, 2018

Trouble...


An Israeli soldier stands next to signs pointing out distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing, Israel May 10, 2018.

Israel launched a deadly attack on Iranian positions in Syria, responding to an earlier rocket attack by Iran's forces on the Golan Heights, an Israeli-occupied area along the Syrian border. Iran's attack itself followed several strikes by Israel on its bases in Syria.
The earlier Israeli strikes came both before and after President Donald Trump announced he is withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
Middle East-watchers warn that Trump's decision emboldens Israel and Saudi Arabia to take a more aggressive stance against Iranian forces and proxies in the region. They say it also marginalizes Iran's political moderates like President Hassan Rouhani and emboldens the nation's hardline conservatives and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, an elite military organization loyal to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
War, what is it good for?

Hoosier...

Originally published in August 2015. The cartoonist's

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Surveillance...

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends that men aged 55 to 69 decide for themselves whether to undergo a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, after talking it over with their doctor.
This blood test looks for a protein produced by the prostate, a small walnut-shaped gland that produces seminal fluid. Cancerous prostate produces higher levels of PSA.
Few men diagnosed with prostate cancer die from the often slow-moving illness. On the other hand, treatment frequently results in erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence.
New data shows that more men are opting for "active surveillance" not treatment.
Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive -- sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy.

Code...

The cartoonist's homepage, courier-journal.com/opinion

Giuliani is defending some-one, or doing something.

Law...

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New York AG Eric Schneiderman announced his resignation, hours after The New Yorker magazine published allegations of physical abuse. 
He was accused in the report by Ronan Farrow -- of hitting and choking women without their consent, asking to use a woman's prescription  Xanax, and mocking anti-gun demonstrators, as "losers." 
According to the article, Manning Barish said Schneiderman "would be 'shaking me and grabbing my face' while demanding that she repeat such things as 'I'm a little wh---.'" On another occasion, Manning Barish says that he told her "If you ever left me, I'd kill you."  Schneiderman, a critic of President Trump, has cast himself as a supporter of the #MeToo movement. 
This is serious because it is recent, the accused is the top law enforcement for a long time.

Affairs...