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whenever i need to know what the ilk like rush limbaugh is screaming and whining about, i can usually just turn to the des moines register and catch a letter to the editor that sounds like it's out of a twilight zone script. and there was one today:

I read with shock and awe of the U.S. plan to have minority Sunnis occupy high-level ministerial positions after the Iraqi "election" - their candidates not having fared well. This is an abomination of the American form of democracy where "winner takes all" is the rule.

Allowing losers to help determine policy is tantamount to treason. The winning party worked hard to obtain the victory and should be able to enjoy the spoils. Why should the U.S. government prop up these losers?

As we have proven here in the United States, a little dynamic tension is good for the country. It builds character. The idea that "Shutting the Sunni Arabs out of power could alienate Sunnis and lead to more internal strife" is more leftist claptrap obviously espoused by a vast liberal press bent on foisting its agenda on this emerging democracy.

Being a uniter, not a divider, is for France, the Dutch and the United Nations. Let the winners rule. Making Iraq more like America is the goal here, is it not?
-R. G. Riley Jr.,
Des Moines.

i could save enough money in education, to fund education.

for the next decade.

how, you say.

stick around, i'll tell you after dinner.
or email me for a quicker answer.

once you hear it, you'll slap yourself on the head wondering why you didn't think of it.

really.

email me and find out for yourself.

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i could save enough money in education, to fund education.

for the next decade.

how, you say.

stick around, i'll tell you after dinner.
or email me for a quicker answer.

once you hear it, you'll slap yourself on the head wondering why you didn't think of it.

really.

email me and find out for yourself.

oops... here

i just got home from a full day, funeral in the morning, haircut & shopping in the afternoon. caught cbs news about how the fda will now pay more attention to the safety of drugs, AFTER they hit the market.

this right after capping lawsuits in the so-called tort reform..... NOW we see their game. i'm jus pissed that nobody else is catching on to their kon game. they're liars, cheats & thieves. every last one of 'em.

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the head of the AMA is a bigot, and no doubt a bush sympathizer. in fact, i would go so far as attributing his actions as those i'd expect from nazi soldiers.

White Plains, New York) The president of the American Medical Association has come to the defense of New York Medical College under attack for banning a gay students group from campus.

In an interview with the Westchester Journal News AMA President John Nelson said as a private institution the college has the right to set and enforce its own policies.

Nelson then said that the school was acting no differently than Brigham Young University in banning Coca-Cola from campus or its suspending of four athletes accused of raping a 17-year-old girl.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021505nyMed.htm

from today's des moines register, a couple of iowans noticed that article i heard about on DU:

No, Gen. Mattis, killing is not fun

Every once in a while, you get a glimpse into the thinking of someone, and it really makes you sick (" 'Fun to Shoot Some People,' " General Says," Feb. 4). Lt. Gen. James Mattis made one of those comments.

He actually said, "It's fun to shoot some people." Anyone who thinks that has no place in our military. When it is necessary to go to war, killing another person should be something that is done out of necessity. It should not produce joy. That is sick.

Mattis is a psychopath who should be given a dishonorable discharge and a lot of time in the care of someone capable of helping him deal with his mental illness.
-Dana Barrer,
Mitchellville.

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"It's a hell of a hoot . . . It's fun to shoot some people," said Lt. Gen. James Mattis. Not for me, general.

During World War II, I commanded a combat-infantry platoon in the Northern Solomons, New Guinea and the Philippines. My machine-gun platoon killed Japanese soldiers; I killed two with my rifle. We took no pleasure in that; It certainly was not what the general was pleased to call "a hoot."

At one point in the Philippines I led my platoon past what had been a Japanese artillery unit. Uniforms were stripped, bodies were shattered, guts were hanging out.

Mattis may have considered it a hoot. I was sickened by the sight. I led my platoon to our next engagement. I was 22 years old.
-John C. McLaughlin,
Iowa City.

the nytimes has something that took my eyes off what i was doing:

City health officials announced on Friday that they had detected the rare strain of H.I.V. in one man whose case they described as particularly worrisome because it merged two unusual features: resistance to nearly all anti-retroviral drugs used to treat the infection, and stunningly swift progression from infection to full-fledged AIDS. Scientists say that only with more testing will they hope to determine how virulent the strain is and how specific to this one man its effects are.

That combination drug resistance and rapid AIDS onset, the officials said, could signal a new, more menacing kind of infection, and its discovery set in motion an anxious search by city workers to find the man's sexual partners and have them tested.

The infected man, gay and in his 40's, tested negative for H.I.V. in May 2003, then tested positive last December, health officials said. Investigators believe he may have contracted the virus in October when he engaged in unprotected anal sex with multiple partners while using crystal methamphetamine. By last month, it was clear that three of the four classes of anti-retroviral drugs used against H.I.V. were not working in this case, and the man showed signs of AIDS, including rapid weight loss, a high level of the virus in his bloodstream, and a depleted supply of crucial immune system cells.

Even though the anti-retroviral "cocktail" has extended many lives, some infected people still deteriorate and end up with AIDS, but that process usually takes many years. Doctors say that for a patient to reach that stage in a matter of months is extremely troubling.

has nobody even bothered to ask the most important question about iraq today? or has it been asked, only to get the infamous turn off by changing the subject. i dont know, but it seems to me, someone needs to step up to the plate, and my guess is that's why howard dean was successful at getting the reins of the DNC.

here's a message to mr. dean, as i stomped plenty of pavement in north iowa for you during last winter.... HOLD THIS ADMINISTRATION ACCOUNTABLE. accountable to the American people, not just to the American elite. make this administration make public it's plans regarding iraq. all we hear is what is happening, not why. filled with promise after promise about how great things WILL get. only, nobody seems to care when.

the next time someone bashes seymour hersh over at the new yorker, needs to be bitchslapped with some facts, such as this lil' gem, caught by today's papers over at slate:

Unmanned U.S. planes have been monitoring Iranian airspace in search of nukes, reports the WP. The drones complement satellite recon by sampling the air for traces of nuclear activity. The story elaborates on news broken by Seymour Hersh last month. Iranian civilians first spotted the drones in December but thought they were flying saucers. Though the United States believes that Iran's nuclear energy program is a front for developing nuclear weapons, Condoleezza Rice said that an Iranian invasion is not on the menu "at this time."

at this time?? what the hell are they up to, you might ask. well, just make sure you ask someone with a brain to tell you, like a democrat.

it's par for the course. whenever i pick one letter from the register, there's undoubtedly going to be another that deserves the same attention.

Set my television free, Congress

Way back in the history of broadcasting, Congress guaranteed local TV broadcasters that if they had agreements to carry network programming, no other broadcaster in its reception area could carry that same programming. This World War II-era government-controlled monopoly model persists to this day, and is why fans of "American Idol" are stuck with a basketball game (" 'American Idol' loses to Hawkeye Games," Feb. 9).

Ironically, the technology to overcome this is cheap and seamless: Since TV stations upload their signals via satellites, cable or satellite providers could retransmit those signals to their subscribers, so they could watch "Idol" on, say, Chicago's Fox affiliate, WFLD, instead of the basketball game on Des Moines' Fox affiliate, KDSM.

But providers aren't allowed to do that, thanks to the deceptively named Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA). Passed in 1999, the law, which ossifies the restrictions imposed by ancient technology, holds viewers hostage to the whims of local broadcasters and their advertisers.

There are no similar federal regulations restricting other forms of consumer choice: If you don't like a car dealership in Des Moines, you are free to shop for that car in the Quad Cities, or in Minnesota, for that matter. Don't like your bank? Open an account with another. But if your local TV station chooses to pre-empt network programming - such as when WOI's owner, Capital Communications, refused to air the "Nightline" segment involving the reading of the Iraq war dead - the viewer has no recourse.

You could argue that "it's only television." But when TV is such a huge part of our culture, and when it is the overwhelming provider of our news and information, should this massest of media really remain a state-controlled franchise? It is past time for Congress to tear down the walls of broadcaster protectionism and allow viewers to make their own choices.

-Ira Lacher,
Des Moines.

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050213/OPINION04/502130321/1035/OPINION

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Besides, Social Security wasn't intended to make anyone rich. It was created to keep people from being poor.

--ANDIE DOMINICK, DSM Register editorial writer