Sebelius looking for Hookah Smoking Machine

August 10, 2013 — bunkerville

Something for a Saturday. Creative folks over at NIH. I wonder who came up with this idea? Glad to know our government has their eye out for whatever equipment can get the job done. Well, maybe I stretched the headline a bit. But it is NIH which is under her.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is interested  in buying a “Shisa smoke machine.”

“The purpose of this contract is Purchase of Shisha smoke machine and  LX1 cigarette smoke machine,” the NIH, a division of the Department of  Health and Human Services, said in a notice on Aug. 2.

The machine “replicates water-pipe smoking” and can trap nicotine,  tar and carbon monoxide to be analyzed to “to better understand exposure  to individuals,” the NIH said. The agency said the machine will allow them to monitor  individuals with a “larger puff range” than traditional smoke machines,  with exhales up to 8 seconds. – See more

More at CNS

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Juan Williams faux thought bubble

March 11, 2013 — bunkerville

Juan Williams: “I’m not a plagiarist, but the guy who writes my columns might be”  is the header for Michelle Malkin. I don’t know why I get some pleasure in this story. He bothers me as he opines on Fox. Perhaps I do. Especially since he wants to ram Immigration down our throats. He took the stuff, or rather his “researcher” took them from the Center for American Progress. Here we go:

New York Magazine

A column by Fox News talking head Juan Williams published last month by the Hill was quietly updated last week to fix some pesky instances of plagiarism. The article, it turned out, featured entire paragraphs from a Center for American Progress report on immigration, with a few words changed here and there, as detailed by Salon. “I was writing a column about the immigration debate and had my researcher look around to see what data existed to pump up this argument and he sent back what I thought were his words and summaries of the data,” Williams told Alex Seitz-Wald without apologizing.

Salon.com:

Williams told Salon that the researcher has submitted a letter of resignation, but that he has not decided whether to accept it. “I just feel betrayed,” Williams said.

Michelle Malkin:

Quite the dilemma. On the one hand, Juan doesn’t want to further risk using work that had been plagiarized, but on the other hand, who else is going to write his column on such short notice?

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