Thomas Says Dangerous Alliance is More Evidence that ACLU Attorney Nelson is Soft on Crime; Demands Full Accounting of Criminal Defense Contributions, Influence

So who are the lawyers of murderers, polluters, rapists, molesters and white collar criminals supporting for Maricopa County Attorney?


Tim Nelson.

A review of the ACLU lawyer's campaign contribution reports show a record amount of support -- and a shocking alliance with - lawyers representing Valley criminals (See below).

"The Democrat primary is over. And it's time to shed some light on who Tim Nelson really is. He's soft on crime. I am not. He's supportive of policies and people that will endanger our citizens and make neighborhoods unsafe. These contributors want to see me replaced with a County Attorney who will be friendlier to their cause. Mr. Nelson's dangerous alliance with lawyers representing Valley criminals should be a concern to every neighborhood and person in Maricopa County," Thomas said.

During the Democrat primary Nelson himself committed to rolling back Thomas' policies to reduce plea bargains. He acknowledged that lawyers for Valley criminals were giving large sums to his campaign because they disagree with Thomas' hard- line policies against plea bargaining, saying they are not "just." Thomas severely curtailed plea bargains and what he called sweetheart deals for crimes after taking office in 2005. For example, Thomas required that violent offenders plead guilty to the highest charge and accept the tough prison sentences that come with that or go to trial and risk getting sentenced longer. In the real world, this means a rapist who breaks into a house no longer can plead guilty just to burglary, but must plead guilty to sexual assault and get a severe prison sentence.

There may be other criminal defense attorney contributors not identified by Thomas. Furthermore, numerous criminal defense attorneys have hosted fundraisers or otherwise raised money for Nelson.

It is illegal for Arizona state legislators to accept campaign contributions from lobbyists during the legislative session. To accept so much money from lobbyists for criminals with active interests before the County Attorney's Office is even more alarming, Thomas said.

"We have not been able to find any candidate for County Attorney who has ever raised so much money from so many criminal defense lawyers. If someone can prove otherwise I will be happy to change our description of Nelson's support from record-setting to merely obscene. In the meantime, Nelson must release a full accounting of all that criminal defense attorneys have raised for his campaign so the public can have the most complete picture of their unprecedented support," Thomas said.

Nelson is now working at the law firm of Osborn Maledon, well-known for its criminal defense work, including those with cases now before the County Attorney's Office.

"Our policies, combined with those of Sheriff Arpaio and outstanding efforts by local law enforcement have reduced Valley crime over the past four years. Mr. Nelson wants to eviscerate these efforts and return to the days of soft sentences for criminal defense attorneys and their clients," Thomas said.

Thomas said the Arizona media and public do not yet have any idea how soft and how offensive Tim Nelson's entire criminal justice record has been.

Thomas said his campaign would be releasing additional information throughout the campaign, as well as defending his own successes during his first term and articulating why his re-election will mean a continued reduction in crime.

List of criminal defense attorneys and their spouses who contributed to Nelson (NOTE: $390 is the maximum contribution allowed by law)

Dale Baich -$390
Alan Baskin-$100
Melanie Beauchamp-$390
James Belanger-$390
Michael Black-$390
Antonio Bustamante-$250
Michael Buxton-$390
Zachary Cain-$100
Colin Campbell-$390
David Cantor-$390
Harla Davison-$100
Hector Diaz-$250
Stephen Dichter-$390
Timothy Eckstein-$300
Bruce Feder-$100
Carmen Fischer-$390
Tracy Friddle-$35
Stacey Gottlieb-$390
Benjamin Green-$100
Larry Hammond-$390
Leslie Hatfield-$390
Melissa Ho-$100
Bret Huggins-$200
David Kephart-$150
Michael Kimerer-$390
Jason Lamm-$390
Jess Lorona-$390
Norma Martens-$390
Daniel Maynard-$200
Craig Mehrens-$390
Jeffrey Mehrens-$390
Alicia Morrison-$100
Alex Navidad-$100
Phil Noland-$390
Ed Novak-$390
Frederick Petti-$390
John Phebus-$390
Rebecca Potter-$40
Christopher Rapp-$390
Jon Sands -$390
John Sandweg-$390
Gary Scales-$390
Douglas Schwab-$200
Margarita Silva-$50
Lee Stein-$390
E.Sharon Storrs-$200
James Tinker-$200
Peter Wand-$200
Robert Weeks-$200
Alan Zimmerman-$100
Their spouses
Joo Cantor -$390
Frances Hammond-$390
Jennifer Lorona-$390
Timothy Martens-$200
Heather Novak-$285
Total: $15,560.00

Attorneys in the above list have represented such people as Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, convicted child murderer Don Beaty, murderer-rapist Robert Comer and convicted child murderer Kevin Roscoe, among many others.

This list is based on information found in the public domain including the Arizona State Bar website. This list doesn't include attorneys who handle criminal cases as only part of their practice.


For more information or to arrange interviews with Mr. Thomas please call Jason Rose or Jim Sharpe at 480.423.1414.

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Imagine being a pediatrician who treats only very, very sick children. Many will live; and many will die. And as a physician you realize that, while you can help, you do not decide. No matter how brilliant you are, your tools are limited. Despite the arsenal of medical technology at your disposal, in many cases you are forced to recognize that medicine is still an infant science. Often, you must rely on intuition-- barely articulate knowledge that comes with long experience. And, even then, sometimes you won’t be able to save your patient –a child who hasn’t yet had a chance to live.
I can’t imagine a harder row to hoe—except to be the parent of a child in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
In Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face, Dr. Christopher Johnson, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic’s PICU in Rochester, Minnesota manages to address both audiences: parents and physicians.
Ostensibly, the book is aimed at parents. But I would urge any doctor who treats seriously ill or injured children to read it. Johnson, who has practiced pediatric intensive care for twenty-five years, offers a window on the parents’ world, and essential advice on how to collaborate with them.
The first tale focuses on Robert, a healthy five-year-old who suddenly and mysteriously lapses into a disoriented and ultimately hallucinatory state. “By the time he arrived at the PICU he was agitated and combative. He could not recognize his mother. By that afternoon, he was developing all the signs of fast developing acute liver failure.

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Long Term Care Health Insurance Terms
Accelerated Death Benefit. This is when a consumer can use a feature in their life insurance police allowing them to use some of their policy's benefits before dying.
Activities of Daily/Selected Living (ADLs). A scale that measures disability or the ability to perform functions of daily living. Often three out of six or two out of five activities. ADLs usually include bathing, moving from one location to another, eating, dressing, going to the toilet, and sometimes cognitive ability.
Adult Day Care. Adult day care provides care during the day for adults, usually at senior or community centers to relieve caregivers. It may be purely recreational or may include occupational and physical therapy. Programs may include meals, transportation, health, and related support services.
Area Agencies on Aging (AAA's). A local (city or county) agency, funded under the federal Older Americans Act, that plans and coordinates various social and health service programs for persons 60 years of age or more. The network of AAA offices consists of more than 600 approved agencies. Call your city or county government for the name, address, and telephone number of the AAA in your community.
Assisted Living Facility. This is a place where consumers can live in a residential living environment when they require and receive assistance with their activities of daily living such as individual personal care and health services.
Board and care homes. Are typically privately operated facilities that provide a room, meals, personal care services, and 24-hour protective oversight.
Care management services. A service provided by a professional, typically a nurse or social worker, who arranges, monitors, and coordinates long-term care services, including health and social services, from multiple providers for an extended period of time.
Cash value (Cash surrender value). The amount available in cash to be borrowed against or obtained in cash if a life insurance policy is canceled.
Chronic illness. An illness marked by long duration or frequent reoccurrence such as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, asthma, and hypertension. These conditions are also considered permanent, sometimes with disabilities, may require rehabilitation instruction, or long period of supervision and care.
Community-based services. Those services that are designed to help older people remain independent and in their own homes; can include senior centers, transportation, delivered meals or congregate meal sites, visiting nurses or home health aides, adult day care, and homemaker services.
Congregate housing. Operated by many different groups, congregate homes offer independent living with some central facilities and services that can include transportation, recreation, social, and health services.
Conditionally renewable. Policies with this provision are no longer sold, but older policies may still be in force. When a policy is conditionally renewable, an insurance company agrees to continue insurance for an individual policyholder as long as it continues to insure everyone in the same state holding the same kind of policy. This is not a guarantee of continued coverage, and policyholders have better protection with a policy that is guaranteed renewable.
Continuing care communities. Offer housing and a range of health care, social, and other services for substantial initial costs plus monthly fees.
Custodial care. Assistance with bathing, dressing, eating, taking medicine, and similar personal needs. Custodial care can be provided by people without medical skills or training.
Daily benefit. This is a certain amount of insurance benefit dollars that consumers can purchase for long-term care insurance expenses.
Elimination period. The period of time before insurance benefits begin. Friendly visitor. Volunteers who visit the homebound to sit and talk or sometimes to run errands and shop for them.
Guaranteed renewable. A policy that is always renewable as long as premiums are paid. A company may raise premiums for all policyholders within a particular group.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA). This is a federal law that became effective on July 1, 1997 that provides consumers certain protection insurance wise when they have pre-existing medical conditions. It also helps long-term care insurance policies to be qualified for some federal tax advantages or benefits.
Home health care. Includes a wide variety of services that bring care to the home: skilled nursing care, physical and occupational therapy, speech therapy, personal care, and the assistance of home health aides (sometimes referred to as homemakers) with chore services.
Homemaker services. This is a trained professional offering interior home services to a consumer who can no longer complete household tasks themselves such as cleaning, preparing meals, or doing laundry.
Inflation protection. This is when a policy has a built in feature where you are provided more benefit money to help pay for the increased costs of long-term care services.
Long-term care insurance. Insurance that pays for medical and personal services for a chronically ill or disabled person; covered services may include nursing home care, home health care, adult care, and respite care.
Lapsed policy. A policy terminated for non-payment of premiums.
Medicaid. A medical insurance program for low-income individuals that is paid by federal and state funds.
Medicare. A federal government health program available to people over 65 and some other citizens meeting specified requirements.
Medigap insurance or Medicare supplement. Medicare supplement insurance, or Medigap (sometimes called MedSup), is private insurance that supplements or fills in many of the gaps in Medicare coverage. While MedSup policies typically cover Medicare's deductibles and co-insurance amounts, they do not pay benefits for long-term care.
National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). NAIC is a national organization of the 50 state insurance commissioners for exchanging ideas, information, and coordinating regulatory activities. NAIC has no legal power but exerts a strong influence through its recommendations.
Noncancelable policy. A policy that guarantees the premium will remain the same and the policy stay in force as long as the premium is paid.
Non-forfeiture Benefits. It is a policy feature that gives you partial reimbursement of your premiums when you cancel your policy or you are lapsed in paying the premium.
Nursing home - levels of care.
1. Skilled Nursing is for persons who need intensive care, 24-hours-a-day supervision and treatment by a registered nurse, under the direction of a doctor.
2. Intermediate Care is suitable for persons who do not require around-the-clock nursing, but are not able to live alone.
3. Custodial Care is suitable for many persons who do not need skilled nursing care, but require supervision (for example, help with eating or personal hygiene). Insurance companies' definitions may differ somewhat from the above so check the policy.
Older Americans Act. Federal legislation enacted in 1965, and since amended, to set up a network of state and area agencies on aging which plan, coordinate, and fund local programs of services for persons aged 60 or older.
Period of confinement. The time during which you receive care for a covered illness. The period ends when you have been discharged from care for a specified period of time, usually six months.
Personal care. Assistance given people who need help with ADLs such as dressing, bathing, personal hygiene, grooming, or eating.
Rescind. The insurance company cancels a policy.
Respite care. Offers a few hours to several days of help to family members caring for a homebound person. The care may be provided by volunteers, an institution, or an adult care center.
Rider. An amendment to a policy that modifies the policy by expanding or restricting its benefits or excluding certain conditions from coverage.
Skilled nursing care. Daily nursing and rehabilitative care that can be performed only by, or under the supervision of, skilled medical personnel.
Social Services Block Grant. A federal program established under Title XX of the Social Security Act to fund non-medical services for low-income persons.
Spend Down. When individuals deplete their income and assets and thereby meet Medicaid financial eligibility requirements.
Spousal Impoverishment Act. Rules, which allow the at-home spouse of a Medicaid-eligible nursing home resident to keep a minimum of joint income and assets as, determined by the state.
State Health Insurance Program. Usually you see the acronym of SHIP for this word. It is a federally funded program that trains volunteers to help provide health insurance counseling to senior citizens.
Tax-Qualified Long-Term Care Insurance Policy. This is a long-term care insurance policy that conforms to the federal laws and provides some positive federal tax advantages.
Term life insurance. Insurance protection that pays death benefits to survivors but no cash value buildup.
Third Party Notice. This is when a third person such as a relative, friend, lawyer, or accountant is notified when a relative's, friend's, or client's insurance policy is about to stop due to the lack of premium non-payment.
Underwriting. Classifying applicants for insurance according to their degrees of insurability so that the appropriate premium rates may be charged.
Universal life insurance. A flexible premium life insurance policy under which the policyholder may change the death benefit from time to time (with satisfactory evidence of insurability for increases) and vary the amount or timing of premium payments. Premiums (less expense charges) are credited to a policy account from which mortality charges are deducted and to which interest is credited at rates that may change from time to time.
Waiver of premium clause. A policy provision that continues the policy without premium payment while the subscriber is ill or disabled. Whole life insurance. A cash value life insurance policy that provides level protection for a level premium as long as premiums are paid and includes a savings feature.
Viatical settlement. A transaction in which a life insurance policyholder who is terminally ill sells his or her rights to the policy in exchange for immediate payment of a portion of the death benefits.
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The antidepressants are commonly the practice as a psychiatric medication. It is normally consumed to reduce clinical depression or dysthymia known as a milder depression.
There are many noteworthy antidepressants like MAOIs, tricycles and also the SSRIs which are the recent developments from the pharmaceutical industries. These medications are now become very common that are usually recommended by the psychiatrists and normal users.
The effects of these medications positive as well as negative are the issues of several experiments and participating claims. Antidepressants are generally consumed as a course following continuing weeks, months or years. They have a setback at the commencement of the therapeutic practice.
The antidepressants are not the drugs which are produced from the pharmaceutical companies and it is also the part and parcel from stimulants. The antidepressants are presently known as lifestyle drugs and very often called as mood brighteners.
New antidepressants

The following are the several new antidepressants that help in the treatment of persons suffering from depression:
SSRIs: the SSRIs function by slowing down the serotonin reuptake. The SSRIs are regarded as one of the famous, efficient and harmless prescription medications. SSRIs is the recent prescription drug for curing depression consisting of citalopram (celexa), escitalopram oxalate (lexapro), fluxetine (Prozac, Prozac weekly, Sarafem), paroxetine (Paxil, Paxil CR), and sertraline (Zoloft). Citolopram, a chiral compound includes serotonin reuptake reducing activity in the S-enantiomer. Escitalprom, the S-enantiomer of citalopram has verified antidepressant functions in animal models.
Prozac has been proved as one of the efficient medication in providing relief to the people suffering from depression and also avoiding suicides. Compared to TCAs and MAOIs, Prozac is very effective treatment with prospective side effects. Paroxetine shows evidence with anti-cholinergic effect and hence sources to sedation. Zoloft consists of very small amount of drug interactions. However, it exhibits side effects resulting into diarrhea and male sexual dysfunction.
SNRIs: the SNRIs is the recent development belonging to antidepressant medication. The presently obtainable are desipramine, duloxetine, nefazodone and venlafaxine. SNRIs maintain serotonin as well as norepinephrine at the balanced level to lessen depressive symptoms. Nefazodone reduces anxiety, causes sedation and optimistically disturbs the sleeping schedule. Venlafaxine also known as Effexor has strong anticholinergic effects such as dry mouth, blurred vision, urinary hesitancy and constipation which results into sedation and contains possible withdrawal consequences.
Bupropin: it is also known as Wellbutrin, Wellbutrin SR which is the usual member of the novel antidepressant group. The bupropin is very distinctive in its effectivity to restrain the reuptake of dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine. Reuptake decreases the function of feel-good brain chemicals.
Maprotiline and mirtazapine commonly known as Ludiomil and Remeron are considered as two most efficient drugs from the category of tetracyclic antidepressants. It functions by developing large amount of noradrenaline and serotonin. It is helpful in the treatment of depressions consisting of anxiety, agitation and sleep disorders.
Review

The new antidepressants developed by the industries are of great importance to the people suffering from antidepressants depending upon the history of an individuals illness and severity. Normally, doctors give suggestions to their patients to consume particular type of drug which is suitable to an individual and to its sickness.

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by: Andrew Daum
The Google AdSense program is like finding money in the street.

Kids in High School are making thousands of dollars a month with Adsense... Housewives, Retiree's, Mom and Pop's who've never made a dime on the Internet have created full time incomes by simply placing AdSense Ads on their web site or blog.

Then you have the "Super AdSense" earners. We have all heard of them... the Elite few who are on track to make half a million dollars a year or more promoting AdSense sites.

Do not be mistaken though... these people are not building like your Mom and Pop's do. They have systems in place that create sites for them... people who build sites for them... they have outsourced and automated many of the tedious tasks such as posting to blogs and searching for keywords.

While most people cannot emulate everything these Super AdSense earners do... many of them you can.

Here are 7 Required Steps you can implement today to copy their success:

1) Starting today... treat your AdSense business like it is a REAL business and track what you do.

Begin tracking what you are doing that works... as well as what you are doing that does not work. This will keep you from making the same mistakes over and over, and you can repeat the steps that have worked in the past. As simple as this step seems... most people do not know the reason(s) to their success or failure.

2) Utilize the latest tools and software available.

The Super AdSense earners are not any smarter than your average person. I know many people think they are... but for the most part, they are regular non techie people.

They are smarter in one respect though... they use the latest tools available to them to automate most of the tasks involved with researching and creating sites. They use the latest keyword, site creation and search engine optimization tools available. The tools they use are their secret weapons.

3) Quit chasing the Mega Dollar keywords.

You cannot compete with the search engine experts who create sites for the $80 payout keywords. You may get lucky every now and then... but in the long run, you are better off building sites for the low to mid range payout keywords. The competition is less, and your chance of success is much higher over the long term.

4) Choose broad niches and break it down.

Choose a broad subject as your main theme (lets use computers for an example). From there... break it down into as many sub niches as possible.

Using Computers as the example... you could build sub niches/sites like laptop computers, computer hard drives, computer keyboards, etc, etc. You could literally build hundreds of sites around one major theme and stay totally focused. Once you have exhausted every possible sub niche of that major theme... choose another main theme and repeat the process.

5) KISS

Keep your sites easy to navigate and forget the fancy graphics that distract your visitors attention. Unless you are just building AdSense sites for the fun of it and to impress your friends... the purpose of having the site is to have people click on one of the ads, right? Then keep the site layout simple... dump the scrolling banners, dancing chickens and colored scroll bars... they are distractions.

6) What is the purpose of your web site?

Your web site cannot be everything to everybody. If you have a full fledged ecommerce site, with products for sale... links to other products, it is not a good site for AdSense. If the primary focus of the site is to sell products... let it do that.

Do not distract or confuse your visitor with to many options or choices. The best AdSense sites are AdSense only content sites that sell nothing. They are sites that "Tell"... not "Sell."

7) Be consistent.

This is not one of those deals where you build one site and you are done. Refer back to Step #4. You must continuously build in order to be successful.

Think of it as planting a crop that you will harvest in a month or two, and the sites you build are seeds. Once the seeds have grown and matured... you will reap the harvest. The more seeds you plant... the larger the harvest.

To sum it up... utilize the tools available to automate as much of the process of building sites - doing research and building keyword lists as you can. This alone will help keep you organized and on track. Be consistent in building... treat it like the business it is and you will reap the rewards of your harvest.

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Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts on one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

C.P. Snow, New York Times, 1971

To know and not to do is not to do; Knowledge does become power until it is used.

Harvey McKay, Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive

Big Brother is watching you.

George Orwell, 1984

To hear Health 2.0 and Health 3.0 seers tell it, Internet medicine is already upon us and will revolutionize medicine.

But for physicians, Internet medicine has yet to prove itself. The Internet may bring great gifts, but it brings trouble too and often does not translate into human terms or address practical practice problems. In its current state, most information technology (IT) does not bring useful clinical knowledge, and it is used more for clinical surveillance than advancing care. Physicians do not use much of this new knowledge, and it remains fallow information.

This, in essence, is what I told a reporter who interviewed me for The Record Magazine, an online publication for IT health care professionals.

Here are a few of my thoughts on why Internet Medicine adoption is so slow.

1) Elephant in the Room

Before resigning as President Bushs health information czar, David Brailer, M.D., said small physician practices were the elephant in the room the main obstacle blocking progress toward a national interoperable functioning system. He was right. Small practices do not have money, time, and human resources to install and adopt EMRs that disrupt practice flow, show return on investment, or tangible incentives for using. These are some of the reasons why only 4% of doctors have fully functioning EMRs and only 14% have basic EMRs. Until IT gurus walk in the doctors moccasins, they will be like blind men feeling the elephants.

2) Hammers and Nails

Two thirds of U.S. doctors are specialists. Medical specialists have a hammer a set of skills to hit a nail to perform procedures for patients who need those skills. IT specialists also have a hummer computer software and they also have a nail to hit building software to minimize: unneeded procedures. IT specialists sometime forget. The suffer from funnel vision and forget that every specialty has different EMR needs. Conflicts are inevitable, and medical specialists will be skeptical and even hostile towards IT specialists.

3) Giant Invoices Vs. Communicating Software

I once interviewed a gung-ho pro-EMR doctor who was building a Regional Heath Information Organization (RHIO) allowing medical groups, hospitals, businesses, and patients to communicate. He said current EMRs are nothing but Giant Invoices used by payers to document what doctors do. t it be wonderful, he said, if we could use EMRs to talk to one another? Until then, EMRs are of marginal utility to doctors and patients.

4) Virtual Vs. Face-to-Face Realities

In the IT world, virtual means something generated by a computer to simulate reality for reasons of economics, convenience or performance. Examples in the physician world would be computer interviewing of patients prior to seeing the doctor, judging the need for erectile dysfunction drugs through an online history questionnaire, or virtual colonoscopies without rectal colonoscopy. Doctors resist the notion that computers can substitute for them in taking a history, and drug companies fight the concept that anything could replace a person-to-person prescribing doctor. Regulatory agencies will have to decide.

5) Online Practice

In my experience, young entrepreneurial doctors embrace the idea that they practice medicine online - getting referrals online, documenting payers online, setting up appointments online, referring patients to others online, communicating with patients online, getting diagnostic support information online, communicating with patients online, and collecting fees online. A staff and an office may not even be needed. These types of practices remain rare, and most physicians remain leery of anything done without seeing the patient.

6) Big Brother is Watching You.

The mainstream use of sophisticated algorithms to slice, dice, analyzes, aggregate, predict, customize, and personalize clinical data to judge the performance and value of physicians, to intervene clinically, and to steer patients to specialists offering the best care, using the best practices, and practicing evidence-based medicine is now a major industry, particularly among major health systems and health payers. The major problem among physicians of this electronic onslaught is that the data may be used against them without knowledge of its limits and complexities of human interactions and desires for the best individual choices on the ground. Algorithms can never track all the subtleties of the more than 2 billion health care transactions that occur at the site of care. IT intervention and analysis has limits, freedom of choice is still important, and it is arrogant to think otherwise

References

1. Mark Munger and others, "Safety of Prescribing PDE5 Inhibitors, via e-medicine, vs Traditional Medicine," Mayo Clinic Proceedings, August, 2008m pages 890-896

2. Richard Reece, New Parksinonss Law: No office, No Staff, No Bureaucracy, No Problem, www.mediinnovationblog.blogspot.com, April 10, 2008.

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In general, nutritional supplements are taken to help with diets that are missing vital nutrients and minerals. They come in many different forms and provide one or more of vital sources such as vitamins, minerals, herbs, and amino acids.

The fact is that chemical mineral vitamin supplements are not as easily absorbed as normal food particles are.

The key to gaining the correct amount of vitamins from natural vitamin sources is to eat a healthy and balanced diet.

Vitamins and supplements are very popular, especially for those who have active lifestyles and find it difficult to consume the necessary vitamins and minerals they need from the proper meals. Therefore, those with busy lifestyles turn to vitamins and supplements to give their bodies what it needs to carry out day to day activities. Even though you should never replace food with vitamins, vitamins can help you to get the nutrients and minerals you need on a daily basis.

The nutrients and minerals contained in liquid vitamins will reach vital areas faster through the bloodstream, and they are easier to use by the most important organs in your body that need them the most.

The majority of people do not eat a sufficiently balanced diet to provide them with all of the vitamins that they require and this has led to a boom in the multi vitamin supplement industry. Multi vitamin supplements are available in a number of different forms, including tablets, gel capsules and even liquids. Of course the most obvious benefit to taking multi vitamin supplements is convenience. Of course, a liquid multi vitamin supplement is the most suitable form for children but it is also beneficiate anyone who has difficulty taking supplements in traditional tablet form.

It is important to consider the contents of any multi vitamin supplement before consuming too many.

Stress is also a factor on your body. Stress can put your body at risk for many different things, such as a lower resistance for diseases. Therefore, if you take supplements, you can get your immune system built back up and help your body function a lot better. There are many different nutritional supplements you can take, such as glyconutrients, that will help you combat stress.

To make things even better, you can also get supplements that will help you lose weight as well, along with giving your body everything it needs to function and carry out your normal everyday routine.

It is vital for you to take supplemental nutrition. It doesn't matter if you are Jack LaLane, Alex Rodriguez or Jessica Simpson, you are not getting all of the proper nutrition that the government says that we need in our diet. There is just no possible way, no matter how ideal your diet may be! Amazing, eh? Well the problem with supplements is that they can get expensive. There are so many things that alternative health practitioners have discovered which will benefit the body that to go out and get them every month would easily run into hundreds of dollars.

Happily, though, there is a solution. It's a new product from a ten year old company called GBG and it is called 10 in 1 and it has all the basic nutrition that anyone needs. In fact, it does a lot more than just provide the vitamins and minerals that your diet fails to provide you. In one daily dose you will get nutritional items proven to help you with your digestive system, bones and joints, antioxidants for your immunity, your energy level, cardiovascular system and your mood and memory and ability to combat stress!

This is truly a miraculous product and the testimonials support that. Also, if you don't like taking pills this is also good news for you, it is in liquid form which is also better for the body to assimilate. You can get all of this vital nutrition, in the one product, for not hundreds of dollars per month but only about $30 including shipping!

It really can't be beat and it is one of the best solutions you will ever find for total nutrition.

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In his testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee, George Soros warned about the danger of a new speculative bubble in oil and gasoline, one that is driving up prices and threatening to push the U.S. economy into severe recession. He contended that this latest bubble is an outgrowth of a prolonged that has been propelling the U.S. economy forward for the past 25 years.
As the chairman of Soros Fund Management and someone who accumulated a fortune on the markets by placing winning bets that the British pound would collapse in 1992 and that the Thai currency would do the same in 1997, Soros is worth listening to when he warns of allowing U.S. financial markets tofunction without effective regulation. Soros new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Marekts: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means is of value to everyone who is struggling to make sense of the present economic debacle, and a must read for progressive policy-makers.

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The Canadian Press report found many that work in the homes embarrassed by the level of care they are able to provide knowing that it is not up to par.
Provincial inspection reports dated from April 2007 to March 2008 were studied by the Canadian Press. The study revealed that some long-term care facilities have had repeated citations for failing to bathe their residents twice a week. There are some residents that do not even own a toothbrush.
One home in Brampton, Tullamore, was cited as to having 16 residents with restraints applied incorrectly. In Elliot Lake, St. Josephs Manor allowed residents to remain in soiled clothes and foul-smelling diapers. In Techumseh, Banwell Gardens was cited as to making residents who were unable to feed themselves wait up to an hour at a dining room table before they were served breakfast. In Fergus at Caressant Care an inspector observed a resident dump hot oatmeal in his lab and then try to eat it with his hands without any staff intervention.
Those homes have said they have addressed the majority of violations. They have been dealing with a staff shortage that hinders their ability to maintain basic standards of care.
In Ontario long-term care homes have a list of 400 rules that they are expected to following dealing with food temperature to a clean environment for their residents. There are also many rules for documentation and paperwork. One-third of the violations that Ontario nursing homes have been cited for deal with administrative infractions.
Some of the homes say that the long list of rules and the constant documentation is what is behind the undesirable care of residents.
That said it still doesnt make sense that residents are having to sit for hours in soiled diapers or wait until food is good to be feed. Staffing has to be increased at these homes in order to provide basic care. Ontario has the second worst long-term staffing levels in Canada. At this time there are about 28,900 personal support workers and 10,650 licenced nurses to care for the 75,000 residents that are housed in Ontario. The average age of a resident in long-term care is 83-years-old. 85 percent of those in these residential care centers need constant help with basic tasks such as dressing and going to the washroom
Many personal support residents have to care for as many as a dozen residents. In an ideal world that work load would be cut in half. It is impossible for all of the daily tasks to be performed for each and every resident with homes so understaffed.

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There are so many things to do when baby is born; nurse, change, hug, burp, sing, rock. Ive learned that not everyones way is the best way, and for all the suggestions, there are no goals that must be reached in taking care of your child. So, as with all information you receive from loved ones, please take this with a grain of salt.

Nursing.
I nurse on demand. I found that makes life easier, calmer and it makes baby happier. Its not giving into babys will. Its a natural mechanism that God put in the child to help mama remember to care for baby without having to look at a clock. Babies will naturally put themselves on a schedule. Mine would regulate after 2 weeks and nurse every 2 hours almost around the clock. I knew what time it was because baby was calling for me didnt need to look at the time. If its less time, for instance, after just an hour or an hour and a half, the baby is just growing. Life is beautiful when it is free of stress and after just having baby you need all the rest you can get!
Remember that babys mouth, or upper lip will have a green-grey-blue coloring when baby needs to burp...if you want the meal to stay down, burp your baby. You may need to after just nursing on one side not even finishing.
Dont forget: Nursing is free (just drink your water!), its always ready, its the right temperature and it has the best ingredients...organic home-made!

Hugs, Singing Rocking
There is nothing more important than promoting a bond between mother and child. In newborns, it regulates body temperature, heart rate and breathing. My third-born had a bit of trouble breathing after birth, and just stroking his back and talking to him helped him to begin to breath regularly and calmly. Singing is also known to lift the spirits. Postpartum depression can be alleviated by just singing. I will address this in another article. Listening to baby and hearing him speak will also make it easier to care for him. The more I take the time to listen to what baby says when hes hungry or poopy, the more I understand exactly what hes saying I can see in his eyes that he knows Ive understood.

Changing
This may seem obvious, but not everyone understands the importance of changing baby. It not only gives another time to communicate with him, but keeps mama in the know of anything that might cause a rash. Using plain water on a small washcloth is not only the cheapest, but the healthiest way of keeping him clean. There are no chemicals that must be considered.

Using cloth diapers also keeps baby from rashes caused by bleaches and other chemicals in disposable diapers. I wanted easy when it came to cloth diapers...I dont need any more work. You dont even have to dump newborn diapers...they go right through the wash, no problems! That is if you are nursing. Ive heard that formula-feed babies have stinky, yucky stuffs.

Sleeping
There are many debates out there. We co-sleep with, usually, our 2 youngest. Im a light sleeper hubby is ok with having babies in our bed. We do transfer the older to his own bed (it might be a crib mattress on the floor next to the wall) to get him used to sleeping without us. If you study the subject, co-sleeping is safer than cribs. As the came out that co-sleeping was bad, the rise in crib related deaths and accidents, as well as SIDS rose. If you are in another room, how can you care for a newborn?! Some are able to do this well and others do differently because it is a personal choice.
My 3 month old is sleeping through the night at just a couple of weeks with no effort or scheduling on my part!
I also will have baby sleep on his side or on my chest, NEVER on his back when newborn. Babies are still learning to swallow and breath, back sleeping is not even safe.


These are my basics of newborn care. This little gift from God is yours and you have the capacity to care for your child better than anyone else. Ask for suggestions or tips from others; chuck what you dont like or need and keep the information that will make this thing called Motherhood joyous and memorable.

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What are Fats?
Fats are usually seen in the bad light, as the main cause of increased cholestrol and body weight, heart problems and even cancer. Hoewever, fats are not as bad as they are thought to be. A vital building block of the human body, they play an important role in promoting healthy cell function, maintaining body temperature, and insulating body organs against shock. The body uses fats as an energy store. When the body requires energy, it breaks these fats into glyrcerol and free fatty acids. The glycerol is converted to glucose by the liver and the fatty acids are a good source of energy for many tissues, especially heart and skeletal muscle.
Well, one needs to clearly understand that it is not as a whole but the type of fats and the quantity consumed that needs to be checked for a heathy living.What is becoming clearer and clearer is that bad fats (saturated and trans fats) increase the risk for certain diseases while good fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats) lower the risk. The key is to substitute good fats for bad fats. 
Types of fat
There are two types of fat – the good fat and the bad fat
The Good Fat – The good fats consisting of unsaturated fats improve the cholestrol level in the body.
Polysaturated Fat - Polyunsaturated fats are not with hydrogen atoms. Usually liquid at room temperature, there are a number of spaces around each fat molecule where hydrogen atoms could be attached. Polyunsaturated fat is beneficial to health as they lower the cholestrol level and helps in preventing heart diseases, arthiritis and certain joint and skin problems.
Monosaturated Fat - As the name suggests, each fat molecule has space for one more hydrogen atom only. Some experts believe that it has a nuetral effect on the health whereas others vouch for their helath benefits.
The Bad Fat – The bad fats consisting of saturated and trans fats worsen the cholestrol level in the body.
Saturated Fats - Saturated fats are mainly animal fats. They are found in meat, seafood, whole-milk dairy products and egg yolks. Some plant foods are also high in saturated fats, including coconut and coconut oil, palm oil, and palm kernel oil. Saturated fats raise total blood cholesterol levels more than dietary cholesterol because they tend to boost both good HDL and bad LDL cholesterol. It is important to limit saturated fats as its net result is negetive.
Trans Fats - Trans fatty acids are fats produced by heating liquid vegetable oils in the presence of hydrogen. This process is known as hydrogenation. Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. It is important to not just limit but eliminate trans fat from the diet..New York has already called for a ban in trans fat food, making it the first trans fat free city in the world.
How much of fat is reccomended for the body?
According to the American Heart Association, the total intake of fat should be limited to 30% or less of daily calories. However, it is important to consume good fats and avoid bad fats as much as possible withing this limitation.
Fat and Cholestrol
One of the most important determinants of blood cholesterol level is fat in the diet - not total fat, as mentioned already, but specific types of fat. Some types of fat are good for cholesterol levels and others are bad for them.
Role of cholestrol in the body
The liver produces a wax like substance called Cholestrol which plays a vital role in the formation of cell membranes, hormones and vitamin D. This cholestrol is transported to all parts of the body through lipoprotiens (protien carriers) in the blood streams.
If there is too much cholestrol in the blood, it deposits on the inside of the arteries in the form of . This narrows the artery and slows down or blocks the blood flow. This narrowing of arteries, known as atherosclerosis, is a comman cause of heart attacks.
Cholestrol is carried in the body through protein carriers known as lipoprotiens. There are two types of lipoprtoiens which work in opposite directions.
Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) carry cholesterol from the liver to the rest of the body. When there is too much LDL cholesterol in the blood, it can be deposited on the walls of the coronary arteries. Because of this, LDL cholesterol is often referred to as the cholesterol.
High-density lipoproteins (HDL) carry cholesterol from the blood back to the liver, which processes the cholesterol for elimination from the body. HDL makes it less likely that excess cholesterol in the blood will be deposited in the coronary arteries, which is why HDL cholesterol is often referred to as the cholesterol.
 
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle
It is important to cut down the bad fats and substitute them with the good fats to ensure a healthy existance. Fat, like any other building block, is harmful in excess. However, one needs to realise that eliminating fats totally from the system will cause it to collapse.
 While planning out your diet, ensure that you stick to the healthy limit of fat consumption (30% or less of the daily calories consumed) and select ones that are good for the body.

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the comments of my last post. However, this weekend brought another topic to mind: vocations. Sundays Gospel reminds us the harvest is abundant and the laborers are few. On Saturday our diocese added three new priests to its cadre of laborers. Yet Holy Orders is only one of two sacraments of service. The sacrament of Holy Matrimony is the other sacrament of service.

This past Saturday we were honored and blessed to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of my parents. Our parish pastor celebrated their marriage at the morning Mass. The readings were those that are often used in the wedding Mass. Fathers homily spoke of the tremendous grace of the sacrament of marriage. Having all of their children as well as many of their grandchildren present was a testament to my parents legacy of love. More importantly, the public celebration of this wedding anniversary at a parish Mass served as a powerful witness for this sacrament.

Like Holy Orders, Holy Matrimony is a sacrament that requires discernment. It is a calling. It is a ministry. It is a vocation. Too often this vision of marriage is lost. Instead of seeing marriage as a calling to serve God through marriage, couples focus on the romance, the pageantry of a wedding, and the promise of earthly pleasures. Faithfully living the vocation of marriage is not a guarantee of earthly happiness, but it is a pathway to eternal joy. Just as God made each of individually to love Him, to serve Him, to adore Him here on earth so we can be joyful with him forever in Heaven, God calls the married couple to jointly love Him, serve Him, and adore Him here on earth so they can find true joy with Him in Heaven.

I think of my husbands and my own pre-Cana classes. There was a great deal of checking out our compatibility with each other, but there was very little if any discussion of what we were supposed to do with that compatibility. I dont remember any reference to marriage as a vocation. It is readily apparent that a man is not necessarily called to the priesthood because he thinks the job looks like fun and he enjoys hanging out with priests. A man and woman are not necessarily called to marriage because they enjoy each others company. Rather, they are called to the sacrament of Holy Matrimony if they feel compelled to join their lives in the service of Gods will. Are they ready to emulate the Blessed Mother and respond, when God presents them with the twists and turns of life? Are they ready to humbly obey and faithfully live this vocation as it is revealed by Holy Mother Church? Are they ready to accept the demands, responsibilities, and sacrifices of married life? Do they see their marriage as the founding of their domestic church?

Our secular culture has perverted the institution of marriage from a sacrament of service to a pathway to earthly pleasure. The fragility of marriages, the high divorce rate, the number of couples cohabiting and the push for homosexual marriages are the consequences of this hedonistic view of marriage. If the only purpose of marriage is to be a pleasant past time, why should a couple work to strengthen and preserve their relationship through hard times? It is so much easier to move on and look for happiness elsewhere.

That is why we need to celebrate anniversaries like my parents. Their marriage began standing before God and proclaiming their willingness to serve Him together. This landmark anniversary is celebrated in the same way. After fifty years they still stand before the Altar of God and offer their assent to His will. Their response to the vocation of marriage serves as a model for those of us who follow in their footsteps.

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The first three are obviously variations on the same theme... I just tried to make each one a little more biting than the previous one. The bottom cartoon is based on yet another story where some doctor is leaving a town in this area... I, too, have no family doctor as mine retired (I think)... All I know is one day he was there and the next day not. Now I share the same "doctor" that all too many people have : "Waiting List". I think all Canadians should be really ashamed and embarrassed by how far our once treasured health care system has slipped. And all politicians, and business people who worked so hard to create this current mess for personal gain... well, let's just say they're on a waiting list too, just like all of us and as the saying goes "You Can't Take It With You." Anyway, they must be extremely proud of the destruction they've caused... It took a lot of trickery and a good amount of hard work... not as much hard work, mind you as it will take to build it back up. It's always, unfortunately, easier to tear down than to build up. There... I've had my rant for now on this damned topic.

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ARE YOU A BOILED FROG???
I’ve been told that if you want to boil a frog (you would have to be pretty hungry to try this) that you must first put him in cool water, and slowly turn the heat up.  You see, if you put the frog in hot water, it will jump out when if feels the heat.  If you start with cool water and slowly turn up the heat, the change in temperature is gradual, and therefore, the frog doesn’t realize what is happening until it is too late!!  I have found that many of us are suffering this same fate.
It happens like this.  One day you wake up, and you can’t believe how bad your health has become.  You feel and possibly look much older than you are.  You are unable to enjoy life the way God intended.  Medications don’t seem to work as well as they did when you first started taking them.  Hobbies, sports, work, and family activities are not as enjoyable as they once were because you don’t have the energy, or it is too painful to do them anymore. You feel as if you are aging at warp speed.  You don’t understand how you got into this mess.  This is the “Boiled Frog Syndrome.”—the heat was turned up, and you didn’t even notice.
Health, whether good or bad is a process, not an event.  When we stop doing the things that are good for us, or we are overwhelmed by physical, chemical, or emotional stresses, we begin to lose optimal function.  Over time this leads to poor health and eventually symptoms.  You can’t develop symptoms or abnormal physiology until after you have lost your health!  This process takes time, unless the body is subjected to a large trauma (car accidents, falls, sports injuries, etc.).
Most of the people I work with fall into the “Boiled Frog Syndrome.”  They tell me that they have either felt bad for a long time or performed some minor/repetitive activity such as:  bending over to pick up a pencil, folding laundry, making the bed, vacuuming the carpet, or using the computer.   Good health or bad health is a process, not an event.
Many of us in the United States have become pill poppers.  This is due to the fact that pills/drugs/medications will typically cover up symptoms quickly.  This “quick fix” mentality comes at a high cost, both physically and financially.

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garden fresh pizza for 540 calories and 12 grams of fiber. I would start my lunch/dinner with 2 cups of a green salad with any veggies I had on hand and 1 tablespoon of salad dressing. The salad adds more fiber, vitamins and minerals. It also gets your body digesting so when you finish all your dinner you feel full and two pieces is all you can do. Think Im kidding? Try it
In general, here are my tips for nutrifying your pizza:
1. Eat it at lunch. Youll have more time to burn off the excess calories. You wont get hungry during your evening workout and you will probably have a lighter dinner that day.
2. Portion control. Theres really no need to have more than two slices in one sitting. Pack a doggie bag of the rest. Save a slice for dinner if it was just too good to be true or even breakfast the next day. Yes, I am talking to you breakfast skippers! Add broth-based soup or salad to get low calorie veggies and create more of a meal.
3. Easy on the cheesy. The main reason pizza racks up calories and saturated fat is the cheese. Pizzas are loaded with it. Yes, thats part of the reason it tastes so good, but I challenge you to the half, please! test. When you order, just ask them to please go easy on the cheese then be specific use about half of what you normally would. Now there is no way of knowing for sure how much less they used. But chances are when you get your pizza you will see a thin layer with some spots where the sauce shines through. Now, eat it and be honest did you really miss all that cheese? I doubt it. Just think about the calories and fat youd save probably enough to go ahead and have that third piece after all.
Heres another cheesy test to try if they have feta cheese on the menu, ask if they will replace the mozzarella with feta. I have never been turned down. Feta is not only lower in fat and calories than mozza, but they automatically use less because it is sprinkled on like a topping. You will love the tang it adds too. Its a win-win situation.
4. Skip the meat. The second culprit to fat and calories is the greasy meats. But if you love, love, love it. You can always order meat on half and eat one slice with the meat and one without. Also, if you tried the cheese trick you are already ahead.
5. Veg in. Veggies are your trusty friend for flavor and . Pizza places offer so many choices these days. Go nuts well maybe at least until you get to three toppings.
6. Its not delivery, its diYOURnos. Make the pizza yourself. I recommend this as a family or friend bonding experience more than anything because it can be a lot of work. But think of all the fun combos you can try. You can grill up some canned pineapple and canadian bacon for a healthy Hawaiian pizza or how about grilled portobella mushrooms with chopped roasted red pepper, artichokes and feta for a mediterranian-style pizza? mmmMMMMMMMmmmm
Thats all my tips for now. Please share your ideas and tips for healthy pizza. (boy am I sorry I am making fish tacos tonight theres always tomorrow.

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But the new study is based on a large sampling — more than 2,600 doctors across the country — and a detailed survey, making it more definitive than past research, experts say. The results, they say, also show a strong endorsement of electronic health records by doctors who have them, especially for what the report termed “fully functional” records, which include reminders of care guidelines, based on a patient’s age, gender or medical history.
For example, 82 percent of those using such electronic records said they improved the quality of clinical decisions, 86 percent said they helped in avoiding medication errors and 85 percent said they improved the delivery of preventative care.
“Those numbers are huge and very encouraging,” said Dr. David J. Brailer, the former health information technology coordinator in the Bush administration.
Dr. Brailer also pointed to the 54 percent of doctors without electronic health records who said that not finding an electronic health record that met their needs was a “major barrier” to adoption. In short, they are not satisfied with the existing products, which tend to be designed for hospitals — big customers — instead of small practices.
“What we see is a deficit in innovation, and that is something innovators and the capital markets can address,” said Dr. Brailer, who leads a firm that invests in medical ventures, Health Evolution Partners.

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Held Hostage By Health Care
Fear of losing coverage keeps people at jobs where theyre not their most productive
With the democrats ascendant, the political climate is ripe for another push for universal medical coverage. Kelly Services Inc. Chief Executive Carl T. Camden, a proponent of fixing health care once and for all, is taking advantage of the opportunity by rolling out new rhetorical ammunition. Workers, he says, are increasingly shackled to their jobs for no reason other than to cling to their employers health insurance coverage. These are people, he says, who dont leave a job even though theyre unhappy and would be more productive somewhere else.
Economists and academics call this phenomenon job lock. Studies say it could reduce job mobility by up to 25%, according to Brigitte Madrian, a public policy and corporate management professor at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government. A fluid labor market is viewed as a prime driver of U.S. economic growth relative to other industrialized countries.
Job lock creates friction by artificially tethering people to their jobs.
And so many workers will keep hanging on to jobs they hate. One single mom in New York, for example, is sticking with her graphic design job solely to retain the health coverage for herself and her son. Half her pay goes toward her share of the monthly premium. Her wish? To start a business doing bath and body products. I feel stuck, she says.
After a decade of working in a job she wanted to leave, Holmes Johnson found the courage to move on. Starting my own thing was too overwhelming, and my husbands plan did not offer the coverage to make us feel secure, she says. A few months ago, she landed a public-relations position with a comparable salary at Washington law firm Sterne Kessler Goldstein Fox. After checking the firms formula for prescription-drug coverage, she made the jump.

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it is no longer a "looming" crisis - it's here. And what have we to show for it? Record prices, increasing global demand for the only fuel presently available in quantity to meet that demand and an "energy policy" which can only be described as absolutely unresponsive to the public need. Or, if your prefer, pure garbage.

For 30+ years, our politicians have ignored this problem even when hints in the '70s and '80s gave them a glimpse of what was to come. They stubbornly refused to address the growing problem. Instead they ignored it. You see, actually addressing the energy problem would have required they admit that while the ultimate solution must come from all areas of energy production, in the short-term it must be primarily oil (and coal). But to admit that, they would have had to actually risk their political careers. They'd have had to make the case to the public that in order for there to be true energy independence, more nuclear power along with vastly increased exploitation of existing known oil reserves and more refinery capacity would have to be an integral part of any such a policy for the foreseeable future.

Instead, for the most part, they took the easy road, drank the popular environmental kool-aid, touted alternative fuel "vaporware" as being just around the corner, banned drilling, crippled our ability to build nuclear power plants and oil refineries and blindly ignored the intensifying global demand for energy.

Now, faced with the reality of $4 a gallon gas and the prospect of that never coming down again, they're like deer caught in the headlights.

And when confronted with the reality that oil must be an integral and growing part of at least the short-term solution to our energy problem the usual suspects retreat into the cave, begin banging their tribal one-note drum and resort to petulant insult rather than signaling a willingness to discuss changing their mind for the good of their fellow citizens.

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