Mr Kennedy, Radicals Are:

Dear Mr. Kennedy:

When Bill Clinton supported the Weathermen 25 years before he ran for president, he supported radicals. When Hillary urgered the pardon of a FLAN terrorist convicted of killing a NYPD police officer, she supported radicals. When you support the left wing ANTI-WAR effort, you support radicals.

Ted yesterday, you defined anyone who supported equal admission standards as a radical; are the 70% of all Americans who believe that most university admissions standards are unfair are radicals? Are you trying to say the 1st amendment only protects the hooded marxist with links to Hugo Chavez and not the soccer mom next door who only wants the best for her child?

30% of all Anti Iraq War Prostest Rallies are Sponsored by Political Parties with links to Marxist Extremists, The PLO and the PAN ARAB NAZI PARTY (BA'th)

Mr. Kennedy these are radicals

Are you trying to say these are radicals?

In God We Trust

In God We Trust

My Problem With Joe Biden

Joe Biden had a problem today with Judge Alito because the Judge has supported spousal notification in the case of abortion. Our perplexed liberal, Joe Biden, brought up a senario where a women would be at an economic disadvantage if she had to notify her husband if she got an abortion.

That line of thinking seems to me chauvanistic and wrong headed. It assumes that most married women who are in need of an abortion have committed adultury and are economicaly subserviant. Well Joe, it is now the year 2006 and while we do not have flying cars yet, I believe most women are on a relatively equal economic footing with their partners. Does he think women will be branded with the scarlet letter if they notify the father of the unborn child of her intentions?

Moreover, It can be said that in the case of sex crimes, unfit mothers and abusive relationships the need for for notification my actually be a catalyst that settles family conflict. It is often the case the fear of comming forward after a sex crime, the fear of domestic violence and the general lack of consious (in the rare case of unfit mothers) prevent the resolution of issues that are better addressed sooner rather than later. The final outcome under that senario would be benificial for both the mother, the father and society as a whole.

But everybody says testing is good.

Here is another case where group think may have ruined thousands of lives by fostering unsound medical advice.

Prostate Tests Draw New Questions

Associated PressJanuary 10, 2006; Page D4

Two widely used tests for prostate cancer failed to save lives in a new study, adding to the debate over whether men should be screened for the disease.
The study was small -- only 1,002 men -- and won't be the final word on the issue. But it may hint at what lies ahead when the results of two large studies of prostate-cancer screening appear in a few years.

The researchers looked at two screening tests that are performed millions of times a year in the U.S.: a blood test that measures prostate specific antigen, or PSA, and a digital rectal exam, the rubber-glove test in which a doctor feels for abnormalities in the prostate through the rectal wall.

Study co-author John Concato, a clinical epidemiologist at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, said that for now, doctors should tell men that screening tests for prostate cancer aren't perfect, and men should decide for themselves whether to get screened.
In the study, published in yesterday's Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers compared two groups of men treated at 10 Veterans Affairs medical centers.
Doctors have long known that some cases of prostate cancer can be so slow-growing that they never cause symptoms, much less death. In addition, surgery and radiation treatment for prostate cancer can cause incontinence and impotence. So for some men, detecting prostate cancer early through screening can do more harm than good.
In addition, the PSA tests can yield ambiguous results. Most men who undergo a biopsy because they have elevated PSA levels don't have prostate cancer. And some men with low PSA levels do have cancer.

Medical organizations differ on their screening recommendations. But generally, most say men should be told the risks and benefits of screening first.
"We should tell patients about the uncertainty," said Howard Parnes of the National Cancer Institute. "All too often we behave as if we know screening is a good thing."

The findings support an earlier review by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. That agency said in 2002 that it found "insufficient evidence" for a recommendation that men be screened.

Critisim of the GOP

Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich were real republicans. They stood up for thier ideas, the paid a political price for thier beliefs and doing what they felt was right for our country. Today's Republicans seem to be more interested in providing perks to likes of Jack Abramoff than in defending the policies of the President and Americans from terror.

The fact is IRAQ did have WMD and the UN was holding IRAQ's WMDs in "safe keeping". Moreover, Saddam's regime had trained terrorists, had paid terrorists, had housed terrorists, had transported terrorists and had given known terrorists that had a history of killing innocent people in over a dozen countries a celebrated status in Iraqi society.

The fact is Saddam and his Bath party was not secular humanist. In a 1998 speech made by Saddam, he support Sunnis Islam, said he was defender of Sunnis Islam, was a participant of the global Jihad against the USA and said "other Arabs had to join the fight against America." Clearly, these are times when the brave have to stand and be counted and clearly many in the GOP have not stood for what is right and what is true.

An Another NY Times Correction, Read Carefully

An article on Sunday about a federal appeals court ruling that reversed its own decision and upheld a $54.6 million jury-trial verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals found responsible for torture during the 1980's civil war misstated the role of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a human rights law group. It represented the plaintiffs - the torture victims - not the defendants.

All The News That's Fit to Print?

It amazes me that a news organization like the New York Times who makes hideous errors reporting daily has the gaul to criticize the goverment for "false intellegence" seems to me that these smarties have had intelligence failures of thier own. They can't even write stories about little league baseball teams that are deviod of bias and falsehoods.

THIS is Just One Days Worth of NEW YORK TIMES Corrections!

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Published: January 6, 2006

The headline with an article yesterday about a letter from Representative Jane Harman, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, to President Bush about a National Security Agency eavesdropping program misstated her complaint in some copies. She complained that the limited briefings for Congress about the program violated the law, not that the program itself violated the law. (Go to Article)

For the Record

An article on Oct. 26 about baseball fields around New York City that are off limits to players who do not belong to one of the private leagues that maintain them quoted John Colon, president of the board of the Co-op City Little League, as saying that children who cannot afford to join the club cannot play on the field it uses. After the article was published, Little League Baseball and Softball, the parent organization, contacted The Times to say its rules prohibit a locally chartered club from turning away players for any reason, including inability to pay. This correction was delayed by an editing lapse. (Go to Article)
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An article in The Arts yesterday about Ted Koppel's decision to join the Discovery Channel misstated the role of John Malone on Discovery's board. He is a member, not the chairman. (John S. Hendricks is the chairman.) (Go to Article)
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An article in The Arts on Wednesday about celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the reopening of the Willard Hotel in Washington misstated the history of the founding of the Gridiron Club, a journalists' group. The club was founded in the 1880's elsewhere in Washington, not at a bar in the Willard. (Go to Article)
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Because of an editing error, an article in The Arts yesterday about the appointment of Terence Riley as director of the Miami Art Museum reversed the old and new names of the site of its new building. It is now Bicentennial Park, and will be renamed Museum Park. (Go to Article)

You Can Not Make This Stuff Up

Wal-Mart apologized yesterday after its retail Web site directed potential buyers of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Planet of the Apes" DVDs to also consider purchasing DVDs with African American themes. (LOL)

Pratical Healthcare Reform

Here is an idea for health care reform that will also address over crowding in the nations hospital emergency rooms. If you have been to the hospital emergency room lately you will find that most people in the emergency room are low income families and illegal aliens awaiting what can be described as primary healthcare.

Last year I was attacked by a dog and was sent to the emergency room by my primary healthcare provider and had to wait over 4 hours to see a surgeon. My hand appeared to be badly damaged and was bleading profusely however I had to wait in line behind a Central American family who's children had the flu and the strung out druggy who had to pick up his girlfreinds pills. While the doctors were attending to these peoples urgent needs my hand continued to bleed and the girl with food poisoning sitting next to me vomitted three times. No wonder our nations hospitals are collapsing under the strain and have to charge more per night than the Waldorf Astoria.

Here is an Idea. Offer a medical liability cap on punitive damages for doctors that donate 4 hours a week to primary care clinics operated by the hospitals. Patients benefit, low income families benefit, hospitals benefit and Doctors benefit.