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By Carol Gentry and Jim Saunders 4/23/2010 © Health News Florida Only hours after the Florida House and Senate voted to “opt out” of the new federal health law, the top U.S. health official said Thursday night that will not be permitted. Without mentioning any particular state or going into detail, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that state and local officials can vent all they want about a so-called “federal takeover” of health care. But they cannot deny their citizens access to its benefits or requirements, she told the Association of Health Care Journalists. Our eAlert subscribers...

Former ACORN head Bertha Lewis told a group of the Young Democratic Socialists: Any of these groups that says, "I'm young, I'm Democratic, and I'm a socialist," is okay with me. You know that's no light thing to do -- to actually say, I'm a socialist. You've got to know, actually, we are living in a time that's going to dwarf the McCarthy era. It is going to dwarf the internment of World War II. We are right now in a time that is going to dwarf the era of Jim Crow and segregation. They are coming. And they are...

Miller Time is usually good on Fox News, but Dennis Miller was in rare form during this segment. I was nearly crying with laughter a couple of times. Apparently President Obama’s handlers have come up with an excuse to try and “explain” his very obvious deep bow to the king of Saudi Arabia last week: he was reaching down to shake the king’s hand. You know, I’m getting my leg pulled so much lately I feel the need to turn myself into an arachnid because I’m running out of other legs to pull. I’ve shaken hands with a lot of...

NESS CITY, Kan. - Deputies say a woman in western Kansas became stuck on her boyfriend's toilet after sitting on it for two years. Ness County Sheriff Bryan Whipple said it appeared the 35-year-old Ness City woman's skin had grown around the seat. She initially refused emergency medical services but was finally convinced by responders and her boyfriend that she needed to be checked out at a hospital. "We pried the toilet seat off with a pry bar and the seat went with her to the hospital," Whipple said. "The hospital removed it."

LONDON - An artist is inviting Londoners to come face-to-face with the wretched labour of one of India's lowest castes - by filling an art gallery with 21 big blocks of human excrement. The monoliths are the brainchild of Santiago Sierra, whose previous work includes pumping a former German synagogue full of poisonous car exhaust (visitors wore gas masks) and an attempt to write the word "Submission" in giant, flaming letters near the U.S.-Mexico border. Elena Crippa, curator at the Lisson Gallery where the work is being displayed, said the Spanish-born artist's intention is to confront audiences with the horror...

Cure for killer bug - but there's a catch KATE FOSTER IN THE annals of medical history, this could go down as one of the most effective but stomach-churning treatments ever devised. Scientists seeking a cure for a deadly superbug have successfully treated patients using human faeces. Trials in a Scottish hospital have shown patients suffering from the Clostridium difficile bug can be cured using 'donor stool' administered via a tube through the nose into their stomach. Clostridium difficile was last week at the heart of a damning report into cleaning failures at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust...

I have entered into the den of iniquity to seek redmeption from the evil that has overtaken us. I ache and groan not lightly but deeply into my very bowels at the doom that has overtaken us. One man, one party has stolen the soul of this nation and transformed us into those who kill and plunder. Oh, the grief of one more fraud that has installed this tyrant. Why must we endure such a pernicious monster? Deliver us from this monster. Take this cancer from us.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - U.S. space pioneer John Glenn said on Thursday that President Bush (news - web sites)'s space exploration plan "pulls the rug out from under our scientists" and might waste too much money to ever put astronauts on Mars. Glenn, a retired Democratic senator from Ohio and the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, said NASA (news - web sites) should not abandon research on the International Space Station (news - web sites) and questioned the advisability of using the moon as a stepping stone to Mars. His stinging rebuke of the Bush plan came...

American Red Cross - Red Cresent Movement American or Red By: April ShenandoahPublished 03. 13. 2002 at 15:11 PST The American Red Cross in Orange County and the Orange County High School of the Arts, disagreed on the music program that was to be performed at the March 10, 2002, Red Cross event to honor volunteers. Lynn House, of the *American Red Cross, declared that the "Heroes Trilogy", consisting of America the Beautiful, Prayer of the Children, and God Bless the USA, may be offensive to some people. Conductor, Cherilyn Bacon, and the student singing group have been moving...