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Re: Is New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez the Next Sarah Palin?

checksixb17 — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:31:32 -0000

I like this guy! I loved the information he had to give. I don't care about what he was wearing.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:48:19 -0000

First and foremost learn the English language. Second learn how to debate. Third if you are a Republicon just admit that you are a liar in a party that is a liars paradise. Fourth, never ever ever make comments that might show the rest of us how low your intelligence actually is on this great website. Fith, disappear into the swamp where you were hatched.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:42:16 -0000

Fox news is the only news station on uranus. Bill O'rielly has a new book out called killing Fox News and his next book will be Killing Shawn Hannity.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:45:42 -0000

Sorry to disappoint you but I am straight, not my fault, I was born that way! To suggest that Fox is a news chanel is really telling me a lot about you views. Now that I know where you get all of your information I feel forwarned. Fox News usually issues apologies at least once a week for false and misleading news articles and accusations. They actually lead the nation in false and inacurate news. Don't take my word for it, check it out yourself, or remain ignorant and republican.
I may be left wing but I considers my wings as a compliment. Thank you!

Check your six!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 11:38:15 -0000

What is MSNBC? I read the New York Times and the Washington Post and occasionally the Wall Street Journal. But out of respect for you because you are sucking Obama (whatever that is?) I will seek out the MSNBC and see what it is, thank you.
Check Your Six!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:24:45 -0000

Fox news is a liars paradise!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 21:23:05 -0000

Republicans have just accomplished what Al-Qaeda has been trying to do for 13 years.......shutting down the American Government!

Re: Ouch%21+Motivational+Speaking+Event+Ends+in+21+People+with+Burned+Feet

checksixb17 — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:30:05 -0000

Here we. Are in 21st century ignorance is alive and well in the USA. Fire burns people to death every day and yet we ignorance . P T Barnum was right...Never underestimate the ignorane of the American people.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:50:55 -0000

The Right has been so wrong for so long it's hard to tell what they want. Let's see they are against birth control, they are for unlimited war and war spending. They are against healthcare for every American while the pay for it through the backdoor of emergency rooms that are closing hospitals by the dozens. Well, you get the picture. I count anyone inteligent until they tell me they are Republican.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:40:58 -0000

Twenty Five (25) percent % of all Texans have no health insurance. Over 19 million people live in Texas. That means that if the healthcare act does not become law Texas and every other State like her will be overwhelmed by emergency room care paid for as usual by you and me the tax payers. As we all know the emergency room is not equiped to deal with Cancer or major long term illnesses. So when the Conservatives deal the biggest blow to the economy by not providing healthcare to our citizens we will all suffer.
I have said this before, never underestimate the ignorance of the American people. American Conservatives don't want to provide healthcare to their own citizens. This was originally a conservative idea....now it is a liberal idea.
I would like to know who can live without healthcare? If the healthcare law does fail I hope that conservatives reap the whirlwind of this failure but I am affraid that we are all going to suffer for this one.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:54:51 -0000

I fully accept the truth of the polls from CNN and other data out there for anyone with an open mind to examine.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 17:45:50 -0000

Health Care 2010

With policy reform, drug recalls, medical breakthroughs and plenty of layoffs, 2010 proved to be an exciting -- if not entirely positive -- year for health care. The passage of the controversial health insurance reform act far overshadowed all other health care stories, but plenty of other issues also stole their share of the limelight. Here's a list of the top 10 health care stories of the year:

1. Health Insurance Reform

Without a doubt, the most important event of 2010 was the passage of the Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23. Thanks to the portions of the new law already in effect, young adults can remain on their parents' plans; uninsured people with preexisting conditions can get insurance; and seniors were able to receive rebate checks.

By 2014, the landmark law aims to extend coverage to 32 million Americans by requiring individuals to have insurance and by expanding Medicaid and employer-based health coverage. Insurance reforms include ending lifetime limits -- and most annual limits -- on care, and giving patients access to recommended preventive services without cost-sharing. Overall, the law is expected to save more than $100 billion over the next 10 years and more than $1 trillion in the next 20 years.

But the controversial measure still faces challenges. On Dec. 13, a Virginia judge said the law's insurance mandate in the bill violated the Constitution. Twenty more states filed a lawsuit together, also arguing that the act is unconstitutional. A judge in Florida has begun hearing the case.

2. Medicine Recalls

In late April, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), the world's biggest maker of health care products, recalled more than 135 million bottles of over 40 different over-the-counter medicines, and it has been plagued with many other quality-control problems and recalls since then. Those recalls prompted two Senate investigations and congressional action. They also highlight that the industry faces a wider drug-safety problem, as a perusal of the Food and Drug Administration's drug safety page further underscores. Just this month, Pfizer issued its fourth Lipitor recall of 2010, while Abbott recalled 359 million diabetes test strips.

3. Food Recalls and Food Bill

Food recalls also seemed to be on the rise this year, with a large and urgent nationwide eggs recall, as well of a recall of cheese and frozen desserts. One in six Americans gets sick from food-borne illness each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These recalls paved the way for the biggest U.S. food-safety overhaul in more than 70 years, the Food Safety Modernization Act, which Congress passed in December. Under the law, the FDA will gain more power to police domestic and international food companies, including the power to mandate a recall if a company refuses to issue a voluntary one.

4. AIDS Breakthroughs

2010 saw several big breakthroughs in the fight against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. After an experimental vaccine demonstrated some effectiveness in preventing HIV in a trial in Thailand last year, some studies this year found evidence that antiretrovirals, or HIV treatments, also can prevent infection.

A new study in South Africa showed that a vaginal gel made using Gilead Sciences's (GILD) AIDS drug, Viread, cut HIV infections by 39% in women. Another study showed that men taking Gilead's pill Truvada daily reduced their risk of catching HIV by 44%. Sponsored by the U.S. government, the two studies' conclusion that AIDS treatments also can prevent HIV ranked as the top medical breakthrough by Time magazine and also was voted one of the year's top 10 breakthroughs by Science magazine.

U.S. government scientists also discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90% of known global HIV strains from infecting human cells, which could potentially help create a vaccine.

5. Obesity: Awareness and Drugs

Throughout the year, health officials stressed that obesity is a major public-health issue, related to a large number of medical conditions and costing the U.S. as much as $147 billion annually in health care. Despite all this attention, Americans keep getting fatter, which is why three drugmakers were racing to become the first in years to bring new diet drugs to the market. By year-end, only Orexigen Therapeutics's (OREX) Contrave had received a thumbs up from an FDA advisory committee. The FDA rejected Arena's (ARNA) lorcaserin and Vivus's (VVUS) Qnexa.

6. Pharmaceutical Layoffs Outpace Other Industries

Unemployment has remained a top economic concern this year, and the pharmaceutical industry bore more than its share of the pain. By the end of November, the industry topped all other categories -- except for the government -- in U.S. layoffs. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the pharmaceutical industry lost 50,168 jobs, slightly more than 10% of the country's nearly 500,000 layoffs. In addition, the health care-products sector lost 26,612 jobs in the first 11 months of the year. AstraZeneca (AZN) topped the list with 8,550 layoffs, according to FiercePharma, followed by Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, Roche, Bayer, Abbott Labs, Sanofi-Aventis and more.

7. No Megamergers

Unlike 2009, which saw giant takeovers, such as Pfizer (PFE) buying Wyeth, Merck (MRK) buying Schering-Plough and Roche (RHHBY) buying Genentech, the 2010 deals were much smaller. Among the biggest: Novartis (NVS) finally sealed its majority-stake buyout of Alcon (ACL) for $12.9 billion in the largest deal of the year; Astellas bought OSI Universal for $4 billion; Pfizer bought King for $3.6 billion; and J&J acquired Crucell for $2.4 billion. The biggest deal that never happened? Sanofi-Aventis's (SNY) hostile takeover of Genzyme (GENZ). Sanofi made an unsuccessful bid of $18.5 billion in October, and its courtship will likely continue well into 2011.

8. For Big Pharma, Breaking the Law Remains the Price of Doing Business

Big (and Not-So-Big) Pharma settled one case after another this year, fighting governments and patients in the courts. A study by Health Research Group at Public Citizen, which looked at payments made for violations of the False Claims Act, found that pharmaceutical companies have become the biggest defrauders of the federal government, surpassing the defense industry and growing at an "alarming rate."

The off-label promotion of drugs -- when a company markets the medicine for an unapproved use -- was the single largest category for financial penalties. Purposely overcharging for drugs under various federal programs was another. According to findings from Taxpayers Against Fraud published in October, Allergan (AGN) topped the list with $600 million in payouts, followed by AstraZeneca with $520 million and Novartis with $422.5 million.

9. The Tougher FDA

Since President Obama appointed Margaret Hamburg as the head of the FDA, the regulatory authority has become stricter in both its approval process and enforcement. The FDA started revamping its medical-device regulations, and a Government Accountability Office report also found that the "agency has become more conservative" in allowing some evidence from certain drug trials. The agency also flexed its muscles when it came to drug marketing and drug safety.

The FDA's tougher approach has mostly been welcome, especially its decisions to pull Abbott's (ABT) diet drug Meridia from the market and to restrict access to GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) diabetes drug Avandia. But critics have argued that some of its recent actions could hurt consumers. The FDA's decision to remove the breast cancer indication from Roche's drug Avastin, for example, was controversial.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:05:36 -0000

Failure takes a front row seat as liars and frauds gain weight behind their arguments.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:47:37 -0000

Back to what?
The tea party thinks they won the election and they are going to take the country back.
Yeah right. But I think the reason for the difference between the parties is, the traditional Democrat/Republican dichotomy is a myth. The real demarcation should be viewed now as Liberal/Conservative.

Regardless of party designation, Liberal activists rebelled to form this country; conservatives preached loyalty to the king.

Liberals worked to secure equality, fairness, secular and religious freedom, a clean environment, safe food and consumer products; conservatives opposed the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, Social Security, killed child labor, established workers rights, unemployment benefits to prevent revolusttions, civil rights and Medicare, financial reform, consumer safety, improvements to the environment.

Liberals work for Government FOR the people since we view the Government AS the people; conservatives advocate for a Hobbs-ian society since they view the Government as the oppressor.

The Democratic party has become way too heavily contaminated with conservatives to be a useful vehicle for getting the country back on track or to inspire loyalty and enthusiasm. If the party was paying attention, they would have noticed that a large number conservatives, Blue Dog dems lost their seats in the last round and they would realize their future might require a shift back toward their liberal roots, and start to fight for the things they believe.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:14:48 -0000

In the spring of 2009, a Republican strategist settled on a brilliant and powerful attack line for President Barack Obama's ambitious plan to overhaul America's health insurance system. Frank Luntz, a consultant famous for his phraseology, urged GOP leaders to call it a "government takeover."

"Takeovers are like coups," Luntz wrote in a 28-page memo. "They both lead to dictators and a loss of freedom."

The line stuck. By the time the health care bill was headed toward passage in early 2010, Obama and congressional Democrats had sanded down their program, dropping the "public option" concept that was derided as too much government intrusion. The law passed in March, with new regulations, but no government-run plan.

But as Republicans smelled serious opportunity in the midterm elections, they didn't let facts get in the way of a great punchline. And few in the press challenged their frequent assertion that under Obama, the government was going to take over the health care industry.

PolitiFact editors and reporters have chosen "government takeover of health care" as the 2010 Lie of the Year. Uttered by dozens of politicians and pundits, it played an important role in shaping public opinion about the health care plan and was a significant factor in the Democrats' shellacking in the November elections.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:07:05 -0000

The Washington Monthly Posts:
WHEN PROPAGANDA IS A POOR SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWS.... I've long been fascinated by studies documenting public awareness of current events based on preferred news outlets. More to the point, the fun comes by realizing that Fox News viewers know* less than everyone else.
This isn't exactly new. Seven years ago, just six months into the war in Iraq, the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland found that those who relied on the Republican network were "three times more likely than the next nearest network to hold all three misperceptions -- about WMD in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, and foreign support for the U.S. position on the war in Iraq."
Ben Armbruster added, "An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll out last year found that Fox News viewers were overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals. A 2008 Pew study ranked Fox News last in the number of 'high knowledge' viewers and a 2007 Pew poll ranked Fox viewers as the least knowledgeable about national and international affairs."
The problem has arguably gotten worse. This week, PIPA published a report, this time on "Misinformation and the 2010 Election" (pdf). The point was to measure Americans' understanding of a variety of key developments that news consumers would likely be familiar with. As was the case seven years ago, Fox News viewers were "significantly more likely" to be confused about reality.
Researchers found that Americans who paid more attention to the news were more likely to know about current events. But Americans who relied on Fox News were "significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe":
* most economists estimate the stimulus caused job losses (12 points more likely)
* most economists have estimated the health care law will worsen the deficit (31 points)
* the economy is getting worse (26 points)
* most scientists do not agree that climate change is occurring (30 points)
* the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts (14 points)
* their own income taxes have gone up (14 points)
* the auto bailout only occurred under Obama (13 points)
* when TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it (12 points)
* and that it is not clear that Obama was born in the United States (31 points)
This point, in particular, seems especially noteworthy -- in some cases, regular Fox News viewers would have done better, statistically speaking, if they had received no news at all and simply guessed whether the claims about current events were accurate.
What's more, this isn't party affiliations -- Democrats who watch Fox News were worse off than Democrats who relied on legitimate news organizations (though Dems who watch Fox News were still less confused than Republicans who watch Fox News).
It would take an unlikely twist of self-reflection, but at a certain point, Fox News and its audience might take a moment to ponder why these viewers are so wrong, so often, about so much. That almost certainly won't happen, of course, in part because the network and its viewers aren't quite informed enough to realize they're uninformed.
*D'oh!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:50:58 -0000

Thank you checkursix7, you tell the truth and you know your history. I am sure that assface will keep coming to our democratic site to pester us but he wouldn't make a fea on that big republic elephant ass in his head.!!!!!!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:46:28 -0000

All this means is that the Spanish speaking voters will all vote Democratic in the next election. I like it!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:44:03 -0000

Early life and career
Main article: Early life and career of Barack Obama
Obama was born August 4, 1961, at Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was born in Wichita, Kansas, of mostly English, some German, and Irish descent. His great-great-great grandfather hailed from County Offaly. His father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya. Obama is the first President to have been born in Hawaii. Obama's parents met in 1960 in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, where his father was a foreign student on scholarship. The couple married on February 2, 1961, but separated when Obama Sr. went to Harvard University on scholarship, and divorced in 1964. Obama Sr. remarried and returned to Kenya, visiting Barack in Hawaii only once, in 1971. He died in an automobile accident in 1982.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:28:10 -0000

Government health care scare by Republic Party is totally inacurate... government takeover, according to the site’s scribes, is wholly inaccurate. It carries the implication that the U.S. health care system will begin to mirror those in the U.K. and Canada, where the government literally runs hospitals and employs doctors. That, ironically, is what the most liberal Democrats had wanted. But the law they got fell far short, thus making the “government takeover” meme a pretty big stretch.

Instead, it was used as an obvious scare tactic. "Takeovers are like coups," conservative message man Frank Luntz wrote in a 28-page memo to Republican leaders during the heat of the health-care debate last year. "They both lead to dictators and a loss of freedom."

As for runners-up, Politifact’s staff indicts Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who famously claimed last month that Obama’s November trip to India would cost $200 million per day, which it didn’t. There was also Florida governor-elect Rick Scott’s indignant accusation that the stimulus package didn’t create one single private-sector job (it has). And of course Rep. Charles Rangel’s textbook example of wishful thinking, telling reporters that “the ethics report [about his alleged violations] exonerates me,” which it did not.

Politifact has the whole list of half-truths and untruths on its site.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:46:36 -0000

Joe Lieberman is a joke. Harry Reid made this comment during the election campaign of President elect Barrack Obama. President Obama was handed the worst economy and two wars which is worse than what President Roosevelt was handed by the Hoover administration during the great depression #1.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:37:39 -0000

I sure hope Sarah Palin gets to run for something in the Republic Party. This gal has made the Democratic Party look Brilliant. I love Sarah Palin. She dosen't have a clue about how the world works but she thinks she is qualified to run it. Typical Republic Party kind of stuff. Kind of like insane alcoholic Glen Beck seeing Nazi and Communist art in Rockefeller square.

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:02:58 -0000

I would like to add out sourcing! We should start with the Secret service. I would suggest the lowest bidder. The Secret Service can bid, but would need to be the lowest to win! Protection would only be given to the current president. Remember we only have one president at a time! The president's family could be included, but would need to pay for the service. Past presidents and their family's would need to pay for their own protection. When most Americans get laid off their benefits end. The vice president would be given part time protection only when he leaves his home at the Naval Observatory. He does have the safe room that Dick Chaney had installed!

Health care is where we can really reap some savings. Health care will no longer be provided for free fro elected officials and their family's. Elected officials can opt to pay for health care insurance. They could opt to get it during an open enrollment period in November after the election. (How fortunate are we? Election day is in November, corporate America has open enrollment for health benefits every November). They could also go out and buy their own. Just think, if they pooled all of their resources, they could go to the open market and purchase health care really cheap. The cost can be deducted from their pay, kind of like corporate America does to me!

Lets also include all of the people who work for the local, state and U.S. Governments. There must be millions of them. Government is the only growth industry in the country! They could add to the pool of people. Just think how much money they could save on health care with millions in the pool! Health care would be so cheap they could afford to purchase it for their pets!

Lastly, we need to end all of those Government funded retirement programs! Lets have the U.S. Government declare bankruptcy. Lets make any state or municipality that is operating in the red declare bankruptcy! We can get rid of all of those legacy costs. Anyone receiving retirement could just become part of the PBGC. That's what corporate America did to me. Why can't the government do that? Look how much money we would save! The three senators from those states that have Toyota, Kia. BMW, Mercedes and VW plants in their states could be the ones to introduce the legislation. After all, they are the experts on legacy costs and how to reduce them! Just think our government would be as efficient as those newer middle eastern, Asian and African Governments without all of the legacy costs of a 200 year old democracy!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:07:39 -0000

You are a pussy!

Re: FOX using the same attacks on Obama they used against Kerry

checksixb17 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:07:03 -0000

You are a pussy if you are affraid of the good people. If you want to be affraid, Bush still has 50 days left!