It's about a two hour treatment once a week intravenously.  I shouldn't need a permanent stint.

It's only one drug and I might get away with fatigue being my only real side affect but my doctor cautioned while not one of the nastier drugs everyone is different.

I am of course a little nervous but am actually relieved that this is an option.  My sarcoma type tumor can be no. Responsive to chemo but they did genetic testing and this drug came back positive that it could work against my tumor.   I am glad that ill be doing something for a little while longer rather then sitting around and hoping the radiation worked.

I will update when I know more.

The CIA Inspector General's Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA's secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned.

The criminal referral may be related to what several knowledgeable people said was CIA monitoring of computers used by Senate aides to prepare the study. The monitoring may have violated an agreement between the committee and the agency.

The development marks an unprecedented breakdown in relations between the CIA and its congressional overseers amid an extraordinary closed-door battle over the 6,300-page report on the agency's use of waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists held in secret overseas prisons. The report is said to be a searing indictment of the program. The CIA has disputed some of the reports findings.

I'm wary of posting too much of the article, but this is really a key thing, since we already know that Brennan lied to the Senate committee last year about spying on the American people. How much more did he lie to the committee about?

The committee determined earlier this year that the CIA monitored computers - in possible violation of an agreement against doing so - that the agency had provided to intelligence committee staff in a secure room at CIA headquarters that the agency insisted they use to review millions of pages of top-secret reports, cables and other documents, according to people with knowledge.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, a panel member, apparently was referring to the monitoring when he asked CIA Director John Brennan at a Jan. 9 hearing if provisions of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act "apply to the CIA? Seems to me that's a yes or no answer."

Brennan replied that he'd have to get back to Wyden after looking into "what the act actually calls for and it's applicability to CIA's authorities."

The law makes it a criminal act for someone to intentionally access a computer without authorization or to go beyond what they're allowed to access.

Bringing out pizza pies was her high point.

It was amusing to see how readily the rich and famous would reach for a slice.

But I digress.

I think it's very relevant - to show how one comment, always taken out of context by liberal pundits, makes them scream their bloody head off, but an editorial which highlights the now all-too common bungling (or at the very least, gross misreading of events) of foreing policy is being ignored.  

I get so sick of the drooling and slavering over war - I could just scream.

Ukraine crisis sends stock markets sliding; Russia's MICEX tumbles ...

The Russian stock market slumped when trading began, with the main MICEX index tumbling as much as 9% on the prospect of tough economic sanctions being imposed on Moscow.

European markets are expected to fall around 1% when trading begins at 8am, and the price of both oil and gold is rising.

Russia's central bank has announced an emergency interest rate hike this morning, raising its key borrowing rate from 5.5% to 7% after seeing the ruble crash to new record lows against the euro and dollar.

In a brief statement, The Bank of Russia explained:

The decision is aimed at preventing the emergence of risks to inflation and financial stability associated with the recently observed increased levels of volatility in the financial markets.

Conservatives have been getting their freak on over the Russian/Ukraine conflict and attacking President Obama vociferously since he told Putin that there would be consequences if he invaded.
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But when George Bush was in office and waxed poetically about Putin, they said nothing. What a shock, right?

Q: As president you met and dealt with many foreign leader...you write, "I've always been able to read people." Vladimir Putin, when you first met him you said you got a sense of his soul...

Bush: I looked in his eyes and saw his soul.

Ukraine: What a Difference Partisanship Makes

As Russian troops entered neighboring territory the president of the United States, in an address to the nation, expressed his deep concern at reports that Russian troops have "invaded a sovereign neighboring state." "Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century," the President said.

Referring to how Russia's actions have raised serious questions about its intentions in the region, the President said, "These actions have substantially damaged Russia's standing in the world. And these actions jeopardize Russians' relations -- Russia's relations with the United States and Europe. It is time for Russia to be true to its word and to act to end this crisis."

NBC News reported that, while waiting for the results of a European Union initiative, the administration and its allies are debating ways to punish Russia for its invasion, including expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and canceling an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise and that the President "and his top aides are engaged in urgent consultations with European and other nations over how best to demonstrate their fierce condemnation of the Russian operation."

NBC also reported that "In the medium term, the United States and its partners in the Group of Seven, or G-7, the club of the world's leading industrialized nations that also includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, are debating whether to effectively disband what is known as the G-8, which incorporates Russia, by throwing Moscow out, the officials said." Officials also said, "Russia's pending membership in the World Trade Organization might also be affected." However, "[t]he officials spoke on condition of anonymity because no decisions have yet been made and consultations with other countries involved were still under way."
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On Special Report, Charles Krauthammer explains that when the president says that the United States will stand with the international community he really means that "we are going to negotiate with a dozen other countries who will water down the statement" and that when the president affirms that there will be costs: "meaning in making a statement not even imposing a cost, but in making a statement about imposing a cost -- for any military intervention" -- whatever that means.

"What [the president is] saying is we're not really going to do anything and we're telling the world," Krauthammer says.

At this point I have to disclose that the president making the remarks, above, about the Russian invasion is not President Obama but rather President Bush in August 2008, during the Russian invasion of Georgia. source

I have little experience in labor law buy the NW position is that football players are not employees and as a back up they are temp employees at best and as such not allowed to unionize.

There is also the argument that if the players want to go to work they could play in several 'semi-pro' leagues.  Problem is that from a financial standpoint semi-pro football has been a failure, even if the players were basically at the college skill level.  So how much of the money universities get from football fans is from the skill of the players and how much from watching the school they are cheering for no matter what skill level.

Several legit studies have valued specific university football programs.  The current NC, FSU is valued at about 1/3 of the most valuable programs.  One of the most valuable programs is PSU which is not really that good, under NCAA sanctions, not eligible for the NC or bowl games, and is stained with the Sandusky mess.  Same for several other highly valued programs, they make bigger bucks than the teams that win on the field.

Another problem with paying players is how much do you play them.  Title IX requires all athletes be treated the same which many would take to mean a bench warmer on the women's volleyball team gets the same pay as a star QB on the men's football team.  Sure football makes big bucks, but only a few university athletic departments are in the black.  So where would the money come from to pay players at universities that are in the red.  And all of this ignores how to prevent a few rich teams from dominating.

or the porno sense

or if it was just a typo.

Minimum wage doesn't give a low skilled worker more money, it takes away their job and gives it to a higher skilled worker or a worker willing to work harder.

Taxing the rich does not work. By placing a uniform burden on the entirety of the groups best able to demand a high market wage all a high tax does is increase the costs to everybody else that needs the goods or services they provide. The wage earning working class ends up bearing the cost.

Today the Obama Administration requested $2.8 billion for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program - a dramatic reduction from last year's Appropriation of $3.4 billion. In the midst of a brutal winter and surging energy prices, the idea of cutting LIHEAP by nearly 20% is unthinkable. Just last week, the Mayors of 19 major cities called on the White House to meet the community's need by increasing investment to $4.7 billion. It is our deepest hope that Congressional leaders will reject these proposed cuts and restore assistance to hundreds of thousands of households. link