VOTE DEMOCRAT IT IS EASIER THAN THINKING

[Sportin' Ravenwood]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

Learn how to read. I support the LATTER option. Canada is also our biggest ally and #1 trade partner. Mexico is our neighbor and we don't want bad relations with them. Clearly, the U.S. is in the Middle East and Africa for oil interests.

I have two pieces of advice for you.

1. Learn how to read first.
2. Then go read on current world events, ones not written by neo "conservatives."

We are in Africa for oil? Really, do tell old wise one. You act like we are stealing oil from Iraq right now, that's a crock. You really do need to get out of your bubble once in a while and see the rest of the world someday. Good luck.

[Sportin' Ravenwood]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

For about a year, I had decided that I was going to vote democrat no matter what. But now, after seeing how Hillary has sunk so low and how Obama is nothing but a conformist preacher whom belongs in a church rather than the white house. First Hillary Clinton calls for boycotting the open ceremony of the Olympic games just to appease the people, primarily the retarded liberal hippies, even though she full well knows the history of China and Tibet and the current slandering of China by the Western mass media. And now, Obama decides that he better get on the bandwagon for some political points too! Well, fuck you Obama. Your true colors have shown.

McCain 08. No one else seems to be giving a damn about Iraq and Iran, but are devoting all of their attention to Tibet even though they don't know anything about the situation and history.

Fuck you hippies. I'm going to save more of my own money and pay less taxes. Screw your education and screw your health care.

You actually said Fuck You Obama, my how un-P.C. of you. Make up your mind your schmuck, you are quickly becoming the biggest joke on this site.

[Steve Williams]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

1. So Obama wants to crack down on hate crimes. What's wrong with that?

2. If the government does not bail out the homeowners, then a domino effect will occur bringing the U.S. economy further down the drain. Ask any economist's opinion. The reason this happened in the first place is because of these greedy corrupt CEOs and corporations that take high risks with our mortgage money and that the federal government do not have regulations to keep the corporations in line. Choice A: No bailout and let the U.S. economy ROT. Choice B: Bailout, save the middle class, and prevent future corruptions by having federal government regulations. I think choice B is the better plan unless you want to see a violent revolution in America.

3. Oh wow... Obama wants to use diplomatic relations to get all leaders of the world to play by the rules to ensure world peace. Is that suppose to be a bad thing? I suppose you like Bush's idea to use propaganda to invade the Middle East and Sudan for oil interests and then expect the rest of the world and Americans to ourselves as liberators.

5. Small businesses? You mean those insurance companies that prey on people by denying them coverage when they need it even though they have paid for it? The U.S. spends twice as much as Canada on health care, everyone in Canada is covered, yet 1/4 to 1/5 of the people in America are not covered. Most of the ones that ARE covered in America have to pay a lot of fees and in many cases have been rejected coverage all because these "small business" are trying to make as much money as they can. In Europe and Canada, doctors are paid more by the government when they get their patients to be healthier. In America, we get bonuses for however much money we save for the company and by how many coverages that we decline to patients.

6. Who's going to do all the labor work? In today's world of globalization where most Americans are lazy as fuck, America depend on these illegal immigrants where many of them turn out to be very diligent workers.

7. I don't get your logic here. Oil is more expensive than ever. U.S. cars are completely inferior to foreign brands. Obama wants to invest in future technology to bring NEW cars built for today's world into the market. He wants to revitalize U.S. exports. Who the hell buys American cars in foreign countries? America has the tools to become an exporting superpower, we just have to be dedicated to it and have the vision for long term success.

9. When our government is in trillions and trillions of dollars in debt and with the U.S. economy on the downward slope in exports, Bush tax cuts are the last thing we need. Ask any economist. If you think Reaganomics or Bushnomics will work in our current situation, then you're a delusional ignoramus.

10. Uh, eliminate discrimination and give equal rights to gay people? What's wrong with that? How is this any different from the progressive change to give women and Black Americans equal rights a few decades ago?

So who are you for, Obama or McCain? You are talking out of both sides of your pussy, make the call for once in your life.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

For about a year, I had decided that I was going to vote democrat no matter what. But now, after seeing how Hillary has sunk so low and how Obama is nothing but a conformist preacher whom belongs in a church rather than the white house. First Hillary Clinton calls for boycotting the open ceremony of the Olympic games just to appease the people, primarily the retarded liberal hippies, even though she full well knows the history of China and Tibet and the current slandering of China by the Western mass media. And now, Obama decides that he better get on the bandwagon for some political points too! Well, fuck you Obama. Your true colors have shown.

McCain 08. No one else seems to be giving a damn about Iraq and Iran, but are devoting all of their attention to Tibet even though they don't know anything about the situation and history.

Fuck you hippies. I'm going to save more of my own money and pay less taxes. Screw your education and screw your health care.

Wow, you are getting more and more like Archie Bunker in your old age! Cool!

[Robert]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

For about a year, I had decided that I was going to vote democrat no matter what. But now, after seeing how Hillary has sunk so low and how Obama is nothing but a conformist preacher whom belongs in a church rather than the white house. First Hillary Clinton calls for boycotting the open ceremony of the Olympic games just to appease the people, primarily the retarded liberal hippies, even though she full well knows the history of China and Tibet and the current slandering of China by the Western mass media. And now, Obama decides that he better get on the bandwagon for some political points too! Well, fuck you Obama. Your true colors have shown.

McCain 08. No one else seems to be giving a damn about Iraq and Iran, but are devoting all of their attention to Tibet even though they don't know anything about the situation and history.

Fuck you hippies. I'm going to save more of my own money and pay less taxes. Screw your education and screw your health care.

Dont you dare motherfucker, stay away from McCain! Vote for Obama, you are toxic. I want you in Obama's camp.

[Steve Williams]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

Learn how to read. I support the LATTER option. Canada is also our biggest ally and #1 trade partner. Mexico is our neighbor and we don't want bad relations with them. Clearly, the U.S. is in the Middle East and Africa for oil interests.

I have two pieces of advice for you.

1. Learn how to read first.
2. Then go read on current world events, ones not written by neo "conservatives."

I don't know what rock the rest of the world is under, but the USA has access to the greatest known supply of oil. The "Bakken" field in North Dakota and Montana is estimated to have between 400 & 500 BILLION barrels of oil, and is presently being developed. (Web Search 'North Dakota Oil')Had Clinton not vetoed the Bill in 1994, we would now be getting 1,000,000 barrels per day from ANWR. On his last day in office, along with the White House silverware, Clinton also denied us the chance to develop 5 million acres of public lands.
Refining capacity is a problem in the pricing situation, given that we haven't built a refinery in 30 years.
Valero is attempting to build a 400,000 barrel refinery in the Sioux City, IA area, but before you visit it, be aware of the traffic problems. The ambulance chasing lawyers, egged on by environmentalists are swarming the area.

[Grover]

Bush just visited Saudi Arabia and asked them to increase production to lower the price of oil and they told him NO.

He is aware that Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the US

[Robert]

A grim diagnosis: Kennedy's brain cancer is worst kind By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
Tue May 20, 6:33 PM ET



WASHINGTON - A malignant glioma — the diagnosis doctors gave Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — is the worst kind of brain cancer. Malignant gliomas strike almost 9,000 Americans a year. Survival statistics are grim — few live three years and for the worst subtype, half die within a year.



Who lasts longer — and some do — depends on exactly what form of glioma someone has, whether surgeons can cut most of it out, age and some other medical details.

Kennedy's doctors didn't mention surgery, suggesting that may not be a possibility for him.

"As a general rule, at 76, without the ability to do a surgical resection, as kind of a ballpark figure you're probably looking at a survival of less than a year," said Dr. Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

On the plus side, scientists are studying new approaches — adding a drug called Avastin to standard treatment, or even brewing up customized vaccines to help the body fight back. While they're still experimental, many glioma experts advise newly diagnosed patients to seek out specialized cancer centers and ask if they're a good candidate for a research study up front.

"Considering how poorly they do despite standard treatment, it is always best to seek a clinical trial," said Dr. Deepa Subramaniam, director of the brain tumor center at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. "They are not likely to do worse."

Kennedy was hospitalized Saturday after a seizure. Tuesday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced the reason, a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe, a brain region that governs sensation but also plays some role in movement and language. Doctors were awaiting further tests before choosing treatment, but they cited radiation and chemotherapy as the usual approach.

Kennedy's age and the mention of upfront chemotherapy mean the glioma is almost certainly one of the two worst forms: a glioblastoma — the fastest-killing brain tumor, known for claiming entertainer Ethel Merman and Republican political strategist Lee Atwater — or the only somewhat less aggressive anaplastic astrocytoma, Subramaniam said.

Malignant glioma "usually is a synonym for a glioblastoma," agreed Dr. Robert Laureno, neurology chairman at Washington Hospital Center in the nation's capital.

The American Cancer Society puts the five-year survival rate for patients over age 45 at 16 percent for those with anaplastic astrocytomas, and 2 percent or less for those with glioblastomas.

Patients fare best when surgeons can cut out all the visible tumor, Black said. That isn't a cure — doctors know they're leaving cancerous cells they just can't see.

But about 40 percent of the time, surgery isn't an option. The cancer, which digs tentacle-like roots into normal brain tissue, may be too deep or located so closely to critical brain regions.

Moreover, "it doesn't help to take 50 percent or 60 percent of the tumor out," Black said.

Standard treatment is about six weeks of fairly high-dose radiation along with a chemotherapy pill named Temodar, and then additional Temodar for at least six months or until the tumor stops responding.

The older the patient, the worse the prognosis. But some people fare much better — especially those with a subtype where another glioma form, called oligodendroglioma, is mixed with the primary tumor, Black said. They generally survive three times as long as people with pure glioblastomas.

The tumor's size — which also wasn't revealed — is key, too, added Dr. Lynne Taylor of Seattle's Virginia Mason Cancer Center and the American Academy of Neurology. An 8-centimeter tumor is pretty big for chemo and radiation to blunt, while a 1cm tumor is easier.

Also, the fairly recent addition of Temodar has brought a slight increase in the number of patients who beat average survival odds, she added.

"You're fighting an uphill battle," is what Taylor tells her patients — and then immediately urges them to live as if they'll be one of the lucky ones.

Whatever the statistics, the news is grim. And what symptoms will appear first depends on exactly where in the parietal lobe the tumor sits and "how that individual's brain is wired," Laureno said.

Among the possibilities: Loss of sensation on the right side of the body, problems with movement in the right arm and leg, eventual problems speaking or even vision problems in the right eye.

There are some experimental therapies that researchers are watching closely, including:

_Adding the colon cancer drug Avastin to standard treatment. Avastin chokes off tumors' blood supply, and initial studies suggest it can help shrink gliomas. Whether that helps survival isn't yet known, but Black says even though this use is experimental, more and more specialists are prescribing it right after diagnosis.

_Trying experimental cancer vaccines. Brain tumors often can't be seen by the immune system. So scientists take cells from the surgically removed glioma, put them on the immune cells and give them back to the patient. Small studies at Cedars-Sinai suggest the approach improved two-year survival from 8 percent of glioblastoma patients to 42 percent, Black said. But it's only an option for surgery candidates.

[32AATopIPEandDub]

Originally Posted by Grover

Bush just visited Saudi Arabia and asked them to increase production to lower the price of oil and they told him NO.

He is aware that Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the US

I hope Obama has the balls to start drilling in Alaska and North Dakota/Montana. The U.S. has the 2nd highest amount of oil, perhaps even the highest if they actually looked for it on their lands.

Obviously the plan is for the developed countries to suck the Middle East and Africa dry. Once their oil is used up, the U.S. will then resort to drilling on their own land. By then the Middle East and Africa will be screwed, especially Iraq and Iran where they don't even have their own refineries.

Europe will go on the decline, but the U.S. will be just fine. They might get surpassed by China in about 15 to 20 years, but 2nd place in the world isn't so bad.

[Robert]

Originally Posted by 32AATopIPEandDub

For about a year, I had decided that I was going to vote democrat no matter what. But now, after seeing how Hillary has sunk so low and how Obama is nothing but a conformist preacher whom belongs in a church rather than the white house. First Hillary Clinton calls for boycotting the open ceremony of the Olympic games just to appease the people, primarily the retarded liberal hippies, even though she full well knows the history of China and Tibet and the current slandering of China by the Western mass media. And now, Obama decides that he better get on the bandwagon for some political points too! Well, fuck you Obama. Your true colors have shown.

McCain 08. No one else seems to be giving a damn about Iraq and Iran, but are devoting all of their attention to Tibet even though they don't know anything about the situation and history.

Fuck you hippies. I'm going to save more of my own money and pay less taxes. Screw your education and screw your health care.

Screw you, you flip-flopper.