Government Regulation, the TRUTH

Conservatives moan and whine every time government regulation gets mentioned.

Here's an article from the AFP that should discredit any conservative bias against regulation.

The story is very simple. The Swiss government has approved a new treatment for brain cancer. As we all know, cancer touches many lives and almost every family. Each family has to deal with finding medical care and emotional care. The emotional fear includes choosing the wrong medical treatment. Cancer visits our bodies in many forms and that means treatments take many forms.

The Swiss treatment for brain cancer has been approved under one of the most rigorous regulatory environments. This is good and the article makes a note of a drug company representative saying exactly that.

Alton Boynton, president and chief executive of Northwest Biotherapeutics, said "Switzerland is an attractive place to begin commercialization, due to its highly respected regulatory oversight, and its growing experience with cellular therapies."

In my opinion, if the tough regulations in Switzerland lend a credibility to the new treatment, that means we should have tight regulation of corporate behavior.

The public knows we need credibility in medicine.

We could use some credibility in politics, but let's get rid of snake oil for cancer treatment first.

Libby, Libby, Libby on the label, label, label

Yes, I did work in a family owned grocery store. I stocked the can goods. We sold Del Monte, Bush, and Libby's cut green beans. We just weren't big enough to stock more choices.

But, what were the choices for Bush with his can of Libby's?

Stonewall and hope Libby doesn't sing a commercially viable jingle?

Pardon Libby while remaining a lame duck President for 18 more months?

Bush did what he had to do. He stopped the investigation into the White House. Same thing his father did for Reagan. Same thing Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon.

For another viewpoint, read this story.

WASHINGTON - The Democrat probing President Bush's decision to erase the prison sentence of a former White House aide said Sunday there is "the suspicion" the aide might have fingered others in the Bush administration if he served time.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers spoke of "the general impression" that Bush last week commuted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's 2 1/2 year sentence in the CIA leak case to keep Libby quiet.

We can hope Libby sings a new commercial jingle in the form of a tell all book. I'm suggesting this as the title, "I fought the law and the Law almost won."

Hot Topic and the Gainesville Times

Lorraine Watkins is defending herself in the Gainesville Times.

George Kaulbach, in his June 21 letter, directed to me personally a request that I provide documentation of obstacles to study and disclosure of facts about global warming placed by the Bush administration and organizations representing corporate interests. A number of examples with details and specific sourcing is available at www.gamountains.net/climatescience.

I reject Mr. Kaulbach's accusations that my interpretations of primary data are influenced by former Vice President Al Gore or other politicians.

In fact, as a trained and experienced scientist, I regret the promotion of politicians such as Gore or Michael Moore as voices representing factual science. Distortion by manipulation of emotions obscures fact, no matter the political leaning or profit motive. That said, one must agree it seems the most competent scientists don't speak or write very well or, regretfully as I do, we also sometimes get lost in our own political biases.

I believe and reason, "scientific" curiosity about the world outside oneself are as natural to humans as are internally derived spiritual and emotional longings. It is however more difficult for the immature or untrained mind to grasp facts beyond personal experience, especially voiced in unfamiliar terms.

There is universal agreement that the U.S. educational system is doing a poor job of training in sciences and the corollary of processing factual information. The consequences of that failure are in my view grave.

Data for past 30 years has been indicating we humans are in danger of losing much of what has been gained in quality and quantity of life around the planet. It is foolish to distort, belittle or deny them.

W. Lorraine Watkins

The GOP denies science, reason, and truth.

The truth of global warming is very, very simple.

We pumped so much oil, mined so much coal, and burned both. The 'pollution' from that burning has over whelmed nature. Nature will adjust. Those adjustments may mean the end of the human race.

Sort of the way our body uses a fever to kill off an infestation or infection.

Only, Mother Nature now sees the human race as the infestation.

Knowing the human race pollutes, the GOP still wants proof that pollution is harmful.

I'm willing to help any individual Republican get first hand proof. They can suck on my tailpipe while I rev my engine.

Weather and Global Warming

How warm is it?

The ten hottest years on record, and the records go back 150 years, were all since 1990.

2007 is expected to be the 2nd warmest year on record.

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Conservatives no longer fight about "global warming." The warming has become indisputable fact. But, the evil conservatives dispute the cause.

Ignore them. Mankind can create its destiny just as individuals can make positive changes in complex societies.

Don't argue. Just do what is right.

Evil

The GOP

Bush

Cheney

Ann Coulter

Especially Ann Coulter who has done more harm to truth, justice, and the American way than Osama bin Laden.

The filth in her soul overflows from her mouth.

She just wished John Edwards dead. Not just struck down by her hateful God, but killed by 'terrorists.'

Maybe her hateful God works through bin Laden.

News story from the AP