God bless USA #firstresponders and r troops n urs -Congress is doing right by Ground Zero rescue workers http://nyp.st/1MlVBMn via @nypost
Congress is doing right by Ground Zero rescue workers
By agreeing Friday to reauthorize the James L. Zadroga 9/11 Health Compensation Act, which provides health care for those sick and dying from exposure to the toxins in lower Manhattan, our national political leaders have given first responders long-deserved peace of mind.
Let’s remember how we got here: The city Fire Department was the only agency that had pre-9/11 medical information on its employees. This enabled FDNY doctors to determine that firefighters lost, on average, 12 years’ lung capacity as a direct result of their exposure at Ground Zero.
That medical evidence — published in the New England Journal of Medicine — was the key justification in convincing Congress to pass the initial Zadroga law five years ago.
Three hundred forty-three New York City firefighters died on 9/11, but over 120 have since died of illnesses related to toxic exposures. More are dying every week. Over 1,000 are now seriously ill and cancers are up over 30 percent, appearing sooner than medical experts thought possible.
Firefighters, many of them sick and dying, spent days, weeks and months meeting and convincing congressional leaders from both parties of Zadroga’s importance. Their efforts were invaluable in getting Congress to do the right thing.
They didn’t ask for a handout. Instead, they asked Congress to fulfill its responsibility to those who risked it all to save 25,000 people before the towers collapsed.
The Zadroga extension does more than just recognize the sacrifices of firefighters and first responders here in New York. It signals to all Americans that Congress understands its responsibility to those who will risk their lives, should another catastrophic terrorist attack take place.
Recent attacks in San Bernardino and Paris remind us that the terrorist threat to America is as grave as ever. And, of course, New York City remains the No. 1 terrorist target in the world.
Firefighters are being asked to do more than ever before, including increased training to respond to the ever-evolving terrorist threat. Following 9/11, the firefighters didn’t demand assurances that they and their families would be taken care of in the future before they put on their equipment and bravely toiled on the pile of smoking debris. They did what was needed for a grateful and grieving nation, and now Congress has finally done its job for them.
On behalf of our all New York City firefighters, I offer sincere thanks to New York’s congressional delegation; both Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate; the International
Association of Fire Fighters and firefighters from across our nation; and the very public voice and advocacy of Jon Stewart, who tirelessly beat the drum on behalf of sick and dying first responders.
Steve Cassidy is president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the largest firefighters union local in the world.
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Please: from Trevor Noah’s TDS: Jon Stewart wants you to tell @SenateMajLdr to
pass the 9/11 Zadroga Act. U.S. Senate Majority
Leader and Senator for Kentucky Mitch McConnell. For more, follow @McConnellPress. Paul Ryan Verified account @SpeakerRyan Office of the 54th Speaker Paul Ryan.
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9/11 gutted the world -thousands died- now our 9/11 1st responders need us...#worstresponders - please shre- our Jon
Stewart came back to visit Trevor Noah on The Daily Show... and many of us
longtime supporters of our troops and first responders- still weep
Jon Stewart wants you to tell
@SenateMajLdr to pass the 9/11 Zadroga
Act. Now. #worstresponders #shameworks pic.twitter.com/tqIlzOLUYM
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‘End the
F*ckery!’ Stewart Makes Epic Daily Show Return
to Fight for 9/11 First Responders
by Josh Feldman | 11:58 pm, December
7th, 2015
video
Jon
Stewart made a pretty huge return to The
Daily Show tonight to lobby on behalf of 9/11 first responders for a health
care bill being held up in Congress.
He riffed a bit with Noah about how messed up it is that
there are senators who actually have a problem with legislation taking care of
those first responders before showing off his trip to D.C. with a group of
them.
Stewart traveled around to a few senators’ offices “to see
if shame works.” He eventually managed to confront Senator Rob Portman, who
ended up supporting the legislation.
But it was Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that
faced most of Stewart’s wrath. He went through the “purely political reasons”
McConnell isn’t supporting the legislation and said he clearly “doesn’t give a
shit about anything but politics
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Now the deadline for congressional renewal has passed, and the New York City Firefighter Brotherhood Foundation is shaming politicians who failed to sponsor the Act's renewal but felt plenty comfortable milking the attacks to push an agenda of endless war, or at the very least, score easy political points.
Politicians like Arizona Sen. John Mccain:
You get the idea. The Foundation plans to keep the shaming going for the next few days. "You will be appalled at the hypocrisy of these people to write the things they do then do nothing about the single most important 9/11 issue this country still faces," a page administrator wrote.
Two weeks ago, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart joined activists and made unusual-for-him common cause with Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Pat Lynch and Long Island Rep. Peter King to advocate for renewing the bill in Washington.
More than 33,000 first responders and survivors of the 9/11 attacks have some sort of injury or affliction, and more than 4,100 have been diagnosed with exposure-related cancers, according to the group Citizens for the Extension of the Zadroga Act.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wrote an op-ed in the Daily News this morning urging action to renew the bill, and to make its medical support programs permanent.
"We have a moral obligation to reauthorize these programs and make them permanent, so that the 9/11 community never has to lobby for these programs again," Gillibrand wrote.
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http://www.renew911health.org/
Text "911" to 877877 to be connected to your representative
Or Call 888-701-7499
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NYC Firefighters Shame "Never Forget" Politicians For Letting 9/11 First Responder Healthcare Lapse
The Zadroga Act, named for Det. James Zadroga, a 9/11 first responder who died of breathing complications in 2006, expired at midnight. When the $4.3 billion bill's champions overcame Republican recalcitrance and passed it in 2010, it created an apparatus for monitoring and treating injuries and illness from toxins and debris at Ground Zero, and reopened the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, paying victims for related financial losses.Now the deadline for congressional renewal has passed, and the New York City Firefighter Brotherhood Foundation is shaming politicians who failed to sponsor the Act's renewal but felt plenty comfortable milking the attacks to push an agenda of endless war, or at the very least, score easy political points.
Politicians like Arizona Sen. John Mccain:
You get the idea. The Foundation plans to keep the shaming going for the next few days. "You will be appalled at the hypocrisy of these people to write the things they do then do nothing about the single most important 9/11 issue this country still faces," a page administrator wrote.
Two weeks ago, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart joined activists and made unusual-for-him common cause with Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Pat Lynch and Long Island Rep. Peter King to advocate for renewing the bill in Washington.
More than 33,000 first responders and survivors of the 9/11 attacks have some sort of injury or affliction, and more than 4,100 have been diagnosed with exposure-related cancers, according to the group Citizens for the Extension of the Zadroga Act.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wrote an op-ed in the Daily News this morning urging action to renew the bill, and to make its medical support programs permanent.
"We have a moral obligation to reauthorize these programs and make them permanent, so that the 9/11 community never has to lobby for these programs again," Gillibrand wrote.
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The Act
Thanks to a coalition of 9/11 Responders, Survivors, labor unions and
dedicated public officials, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act
of 2010 became law.. After being denied help for years, over 70,000 9/11
Responders and Survivors from around the country who went to the World Trade
Center, the Pentagon and the Shanksville crash site are now getting medical
monitoring and treatment and compensation for their injuries.
The Problem
Federally-funded health care and compensation for thousands of injured and
ill 9/11 responders and survivors expires in 2016. The medical treatment that
9/11 responders and survivors from around the country are now finally getting
for their injuries will end. Those that come down with cancer after October
2016 will not only go without treatment but will not be compensated for their
injuries.
We must make sure that doesn’t
happen.http://www.renew911health.org/
Take Action Today
Tell your Congressional Representatives to Co-sponsor the Renewal of the James Zadroga 911 Health and Compensation Reauthorization ActText "911" to 877877 to be connected to your representative
Or Call 888-701-7499
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Jon Stewart sat at “The Daily Show” desk with four months left in his
tenure, proud and honored to leave his show in the hands of South African
comedian Trevor Noah.
Despite overblown, unwarranted backlash about some of Noah’s tweets
from years ago, the late-night legend backed his protégé in the only way
Stewart knew how: Unbridled sarcasm.
“But I can say this, I think, without hesitation, Trevor Noah will earn
your trust and respect … or not,” said Stewart as his studio audience erupted
in laughter. “Just as I earned your trust and respect … or did not. Or
sometimes earned it, and then lost it, and then kind of got it back but then
was like [bleep] that guy … like, it kind of just goes that way.”
We are now nearing the middle of October as Noah has cruised through
nearly two weeks of shows as new host of “The Daily Show.”
The verdict? To be honest?
Trevor Noah's first 2 weeks with 'The Daily Show' prove
he'll get there eventually
“The Daily Show” is still
very much “The Daily Show.” The award-winning writing, quick-witted
contributors, crisp graphics, high-level guests and, most importantly, a host
who laughs at the stupidity of world news and the people who report it,
including himself.
I feel like I'm a part of the show's transition. That I'm going through
it with Noah, as he perfects his take on the art form.- Sean Ely
In Noah’s first show, he immediately began poking fun at himself,
completely understanding that it will take show fanatics a while to accept the
fact that the 16-year host is really gone.
In response to senior congressional correspondent Jordan Klepper’s words
about whoever will replace U.S. Representative John Boehner, “It doesn’t have
to be a disaster,” Noah quickly fired back, “I don’t know about that Jordan, I
can already hear everyone saying the thing, ‘John, please come back, please
come back.’”
The guy gets it. He knows you have doubts. So in the most satirical of
ways, he’ll address your apprehension. And squash it in due time.
Without question, Noah has an enormous amount of pressure on him. He’s
taking over for an obvious comedy hall of famer—that is, of course, if that
were actually a thing—and is expected to keep the flow of the program while
injecting his own wit into it.
In my opinion, this type of a situation—for anyone—is impossible. It’s
doomed to fail.
But Trevor Noah won’t falter. He’s too quick, too worldly and far too
much to watch. If you’re a fanatic of what Stewart built—with quick editing
cuts of world news videos spliced into an already fast-paced show—then you’re
simply enjoying watching every cut back to Noah.
I feel like I’m a part of the show’s transition. That I’m going through
it with Noah, as he perfects his take on the art form.
But what is Noah doing right and what is he tripping over in his first
two weeks? Here’s my take, broken down into three points for each side.
The good:
1. The
endurance is there — Noah has obviously run
through a million practice shows in the weeks leading up to his first real one.
He paces the 22 minutes well and genuinely reacts to the clips we, as viewers,
are seeing. It doesn’t feel forced.
2. His cultured
persona runs the show — He grew up in
apartheid-era South Africa. That’s a big freaking deal here. Sure, we talk
about his past. But to get to where he’s at right now with the world he grew up
in is remarkable. Jon Stewart was fantastic but he couldn’t relate to much of
the overseas news he was riffing on. Noah? He lived the prejudice, crime and
punishment.
3. He’s
extremely likable — Noah’s smile and belly
laughter, combined with a lot of the material his writers have constructed, is
contagious. I find myself giggling from watching the new host enjoy his job.
When he’s loving it, I can’t help but do the same.
The bad:
1. You’ll
miss a word or two — Noah’s accent can be
thick when he’s speeding through a joke. There are moments when I’ve had to rewind
the episode on my Apple TV to catch what he said. By typing this, I know
realize I sound 89 years old. Uh oh.
2. The
interviews are a bit of a mess — On his first
show, Noah interviewed Kevin Hart. The chemistry, to be polite, wasn’t there.
He reacted oddly when Hart brought him a box of neckties for his new gig and he
fidgeted a lot while trying to find something to hold onto in the conversation.
However? His sit-down with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (on his third
show) really showed promise.
3. Musical
performances seem misplaced — Don’t get me
wrong: I love me some Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift songs. But on that
stage? A little weird. Interview musicians in a unique way. Scrap any more live
performances going forward.
See Noah continue “the war on bullshit” every weeknight on Comedy
Central at 10 p.m. CST.
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