Monday, June 12, 2006

FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR SELLOUT COLLABORATOR SLAVES!!!

This morning on CNN, I watched a sickening report titled "Saving Omar" reported by Soledad and Miles Obrien; AKA Mr. and Mrs. Goebbels of the propaganda ministy. If I see another report about some kid from Iraq getting flown here, halfway around the planet, for medical care I'm going to puke. Tax paying Americans right here in this country are getting turned away from lifesaving surgeries because they either cannot afford health insurance (and food water and shelter at the same time) or more commonly, because some insurance company vulture who's salary we've been paying for years said "Ummmm... No. o.k.? Go die now. Bubye." Meanwhile, your tax money is flying a kid across the world to get the medical care we, ourselves can't get, for propaganda. I can't tell you how ashamed that makes me to be an American. Why is it socialism to save an American child with heart problems, but not the child of some Iraqi collaborator. I have nothing against this young man and I hope he recovers fully, but his family hasn't been paying taxes all their lives to deserve this assistance.

Omar's mom, now paid off, rubbed it in by parroting the same propaganda we usually hear on CNN. Apparently, she's afraid of her son being killed because his name is Omar, a Sunni name.
She also said people were getting killed for being named Abu Bakr too. As I've stated before, this is impossible as Sunnis and Shiites have been praying together for 1500 years. Why with all of our military reconnaisance assets and crazy danger loving cameramen can't they produce one clip of video of this "sectarian civil war"? I have not seen any proof of Iraqis killing Iraqis, only Americans and vice versa. Why can't they produce one interview with one spokesman for these sectarian factions? Why do they never have names or claims of responsibility for these sectarian bombings?

Look, this woman may be willing to endure the equivalent of spending her life picking cotton and getting raped by massah to save her son's life and that's her right; but to be willing to enslave twenty million of her people to the oil industry and to subject them to a continuing holocaust at the hands of the American and British militaries is inexcusable.

One more thing. Those ads from oil companies in which they pretend to care are really beginning to bother me. My biggest problem is that they are always full of questions with usually no answers. They always pretend that the only way to avoid destroying life on earth is for us to give up our cars, their favorite lie. Ethanol is there, biodiesel is there, electric is there, hydrogen is there. The technology has been there to launch them all for decades. Hybrid technology was being used in submarines in World War One. Oil companies, I don't give a crap that you're "looking into it"!! I don't give a crap that you are driving one five million dollar hydrogen car around to make commercials with!!! You and the auto industry had a century to develop (and mass produce) something other than the gas burning car. A century!!! Time's up!!! Time is up!!! Put your pens down!!! You fail!!! We have expectations of us. We have deadlines. Why not you? What can an oil company do to gain my trust? Go out of business immediately and sell all their assets to re-equip everybody's car to run on ethanol and moonshine which we can all make distilling our lawn and garden waste.
Why is the American auto industry dying and taking millions of families with it? Because we, the people, need fuel efficient cars. GM, Ford, and Chrysler suck at making the fuel efficient cars we need. We can't afford your tanks anymore, and if we could, we couldn't afford the gas.
Not to mention, some of us want our grandkids to be able to breathe the air outside. What? It's not profitable to make small cars? Toyota, Kia, Subaru, Volkswagen, Honda, and Hyndai don't seem to be having any trouble! What's your problem. If we can't compete, we and our families end up in the street. What makes GM and Ford executives any different?


PEOPLE, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SPOTTED OWLS HERE!!! LOOK AT WHAT BREATHING AUTO EXHAUST IS DOING TO YOU!!!!!!!!
People are dying of lung cancer who never smoked in their lives and never lived with smokers.
From the American Cancer Society
Air pollution – mainly from vehicles, industry, and power plants – raises the chances of lung cancer and heart disease in people exposed to it long term, according to a report in the March 6 Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 287, No. 9: 1132-1141).
"There's an excess risk of both lung cancer and cardiopulmonary disease associated with increased exposure to fine particles [in air pollution]," said study co-author C. Arden Pope III, PhD, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.
The risk comes when gases from auto exhaust and smokestacks combine with oxygen in the air to form very small particles that are breathed in, said Pope.
Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer, said Pope.
But breathing very polluted air long-term can raise the risk of lung cancer as much as breathing second-hand smoke, he added.
The largest effect of bad air on deaths from heart disease and lung cancer was on non-smokers. And, bad air increased all study participants' chance of death by the same amount as if they were all “moderately" overweight, the report noted.
Study Longest, Largest Yet
Earlier studies suggested air pollution might be linked to disease and death, but some studies were too small or didn't follow people exposed to air pollution long enough for scientists to be sure of the connection.
The new study looked at the health of about 500,000 people in over 100 US cities from 1982 to 1998, long enough for lung cancer or heart disease – which can take decades to develop – to show up.
The data for the study came from the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study II study, an ongoing program that has tracked the health of over 1.2 million people since 1982.
Risk Increases As Pollution Increases
The study found there was no level of air pollution that was safe, and that the more air pollution increased, the higher the risk became of dying from lung cancer, heart disease, or from any cause.
Pollution drove up the risk of dying from lung cancer the most, followed by risk of death from heart disease, and then by risk of dying from all causes.
The risk of lung cancer death went up by 8% for every 10 micrograms of fine particles in a cubic meter (about 3 feet by 3 feet) of air, the study found. Heart disease deaths went up 6%, and deaths from all causes 4%, for every such increase.
A 1994 study by Pope estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Americans died yearly from the effects of outdoor particulate air pollution.

Benefit of Cleaner Air Seen
The researchers couldn't find a level of air pollution that didn't increase death rates.
That means it's more difficult for regulators to decide pollution limits than if harm didn't occur below a certain level, Pope said.
But it also means every reduction in air pollution will likely lower death rates, he said.

Now auto exhaust related asthma.......
Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America1233 20th Street, NWSuite 402Washington, D.C. 20036Phone 202.466.7643 Fax 202.466.8940 info@aafa.org
Asthma Facts and Figures

Asthma is characterized by inflammation of the air passages resulting in the temporary narrowing of the airways that transport air from the nose and mouth to the lungs. Asthma symptoms can be caused by allergens or irritants that are inhaled into the lungs, resulting in inflamed, clogged and constricted airways. Symptoms include difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing tightness in the chest. In severe cases, asthma can be deadly.
There is no cure for asthma, but asthma can be managed with proper prevention and treatment.
More Americans than ever before say they are suffering from asthma. It is one of this country's most common and costly diseases.
Fast Facts
Every day in America:
40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma.
30,000 people have an asthma attack.
5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma.
1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma.
14 people die from asthma.

* Annual U.S. Prevalence Statistics for Chronic Diseases

An estimated 20 million Americans suffer from asthma (1 in 15 Americans), and 50% of asthma cases are “allergic-asthma.” The prevalence of asthma has been increasing since the early 1980s across all age, sex and racial groups. [1]
Asthma is the most common chronic condition among children. [2]
Asthma is more common among adult women than adult men. [3]
Asthma is more common among male children than female children. [4]
Asthma is more common among children (7 to 10%) than adults (3 to 5%).
Nearly 5 million asthma sufferers are under age 18. It is the most common chronic childhood disease, affecting more than one child in 20. [5]
Asthma is slightly more prevalent among African Americans than Caucasians. [6]
Ethnic differences in asthma prevalence, morbidity and mortality are highly correlated with poverty, urban air quality, and lack of patient education and inadequate medical care.

Morbidity
Asthma accounts for one-quarter of all emergency room visits in the U.S. each year, with 2 million emergency room visits. [7]
Each year, asthma accounts for more than 10 million outpatient visits and 500,000 hospitalizations. [8]
The average length of stay (LOS) for asthma hospitalizations is 3 days. [9]
Nearly half (44%) of all asthma hospitalizations are for children. [10]
Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization children. [11]
Asthma is the #1 cause of school absenteeism among children accounting for more than 14 million total missed days of school. [12]
African Americans are three times more likely to be hospitalized from asthma. [13]

Mortality
Each day 14 Americans die from asthma. There are more than 5000 deaths due to asthma each year, many of which are avoidable with proper treatment and care. In addition, asthma is indicated as “contributing factor” for nearly 7000 other deaths each year. [14]
Since 1980 asthma death rates overall have increased more than 50% among all genders, age groups and ethnic groups. The death rate for children under 19 years old has increased by nearly 80% percent since 1980. [15]
More females die of asthma than males, and women account for nearly 65% of asthma deaths overall. [16]
African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma. African American Women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups, more than 2.5 times higher than Caucasian women. [17]

Social and Economic Costs
The annual cost of asthma is estimated to be nearly $18 billion.
Direct costs accounted for nearly $10 billion (hospitalizations the single largest portion of direct cost) and indirect costs of $8 billion (lost earnings due to illness or death). [18]
For adults, asthma is the fourth leading cause of work absenteeism and “presenteeism,” resulting in nearly 15 million missed or lost ("less productive") workdays each year (this accounts for nearly $3 billion of the "indirect costs" shown above). [19]
Among children ages 5 to 17, asthma is the leading cause of school absences from a chronic illness. It accounts for an annual loss of more than 14 million school days per year (approximately 8 days for each student with asthma) and more hospitalizations than any other childhood disease. It is estimated that children with asthma spend an nearly 8 million days per year restricted to bed. [20]

Disparities
ETHNIC
See AAFA's landmark research report on Disparities in Asthma Care published in partnership with the National Pharmaceutical Council.
Ethnic differences in asthma prevalence, morbidity and mortality are highly correlated with poverty, urban air quality, indoor allergens, and lack of patient education and inadequate medical care.
African Americans are three times more likely to be hospitalized from asthma. [13]
African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma. African American Women have the highest asthma mortality rate of all groups, more than 2.5 times higher than Caucasian women. [17]
Hispanics may have an elevated risk for exposure to air pollution since a disproportionate number live in areas failing to meet one or more national standards for air pollutants. (It is estimated that 80 percent of Hispanics live in areas that failed to meet one U.S. EPA air quality standard, compared to 65 percent African Americans and 57 percent of Whites.)[21]


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I'll plug in my electric car every night. I'll use ethanol. I'll risk driving a car that isn't a "chick magnet" to save just one of those kids from a life of suffering or death because I'm a human being. Are you a human being?
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