Fox News makes me laugh

On the first paragraph (agree with the second), they've been on the anti-Bush bandwagon for some time, including when he was on everyone's good side.

Well, I wouldn't go as far as calling them psychic.


(Sarcasm!!)

I don't watch news but I see it in passing every now and then. Why do businesses blare FOX NEWS at you? Why was it wide open in the last Doctor's waiting room I sat in? I asked the receptionist if she thought it was bad for health and she blankly stared, wishing I was not there.

FOX is leading the way but all news is about fear now, even CNN. Fear sells. Fear keeps people watching. Fear makes them wait through commercials. Fear is the biggest reason people purchase and consume. Fear makes people and a society sick. I can smell it on my skin.

The Who sang this song "Dangerous" -1982

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/who/dangerous_20146495.html

Let me plug 2 of my favorite informative television programs. Both are on PBS. Charlie Rose....and Frontline. OUTSTANDING and highly educational in addition to being entertaining. Tonite Charlie Rose is all about stem cell research. I, for one, am not that familiar with the difference between adult stem cell research versus embryo stem cell research. I hope I will find out tonite. AND the best thing is it won't interfere with American Idol !!!!

Let me plug 2 of my favorite informative television programs. Both are on PBS. Charlie Rose....and Frontline. OUTSTANDING and highly educational in addition to being entertaining. Tonite Charlie Rose is all about stem cell research. I, for one, am not that familiar with the difference between adult stem cell research versus embryo stem cell research. I hope I will find out tonite. AND the best thing is it won't interfere with American Idol !!!!

Love both of those shows as well.

BTW and FWIW: my best friend who was turkish was diagnosed with leukemia when she was 31 years old - she underwent a year of excruciating chemotherapy and a host of other procedures in the hopes of outliving it and finding a match for a bone marrow transplant. With her heritage it was practically impossible (and she was in Houston at excellent hospital whose name escapes me now!) - anyways she finally had bone marrow transplant with partial match, spent a month + in a bubble and nonetheless died. When her oncologist broke the news to us he was in tears and I was pregnant with my first child. He told me to harbor her stem cells from umbilical cord in the God forbid scenario that something would happen to our child - he also told us that in his eyes it was one of the most promising medical advances that could have major impact on different sorts of afflictions that can plague any of us.

We did this for our first and second child and I have turned on numerous friends to this. It is an insurance policy I hope I will never ever need but I am comforted by the fact that there are cells that can be harvested for our kids in a worse case scenario. I personally do wish the federal government would fund research but am comforted by the fact that at least a lot of private companies do. BTW - even I do feel strongly about this, I also do understand and respect that some people object on moral grounds, although I am of the belief that moral issues cannot really be legislated!

M.D. Anderson in Houston.

M.D. Anderson in Houston.

...because they are such drama queens when it comes to broadcasting the news.

For example, the word "Alert" flashed on and off the screen in red font while reporting the passing of Jerry Falwell.

"Alert" should be reserved for serious emergencies, like tornadoes.

lmao.....

You are so smart. :scratch: :lie:

What is all this for? She simply stated the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.

kathydwells,
With regard to your signature quote,

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb"

don't you think the folks that profit from the selling of trees, the use of rivers, and the sale of seafood realise that? And don't you think it would be in their interest to protect or replinish what they use, since that would be a continued revenue stream? No offense to you, but I don't know why some people think that if a person is wearing a headdress, they are deeper and more enlightened than the white man. Maybe if American Indians looked to solutions other than the way of the buffalo, they'd get a handle on their people's problem of alcoholism.

Many people who are staunch advocates of preservation are those directly affected by it because they don't want their livelihood to disappear.

The rest of your posting is so ignorant and racist I don't even know where to begin commenting.

Many people who are staunch advocates of preservation are those directly affected by it because they don't want their livelihood to disappear.

No sh**. That's what I said.

The rest of your posting is so ignorant and racist I don't even know where to begin commenting.

What is ignorant and racist? Why don't you go ahead and point it out? Are American Indians known for having an alcoholism problem or not?

What is ignorant and racist? Why don't you go ahead and point it out? Are American Indians known for having an alcoholism problem or not?

Sure, after we took their lands, pride and way of life away and put them in camps. They took no more and no less from the earth than they needed for a happy life. Profit and greed didn't enter the equation for them, but they certainly were the victims of it, as kathydwells' sig implies.

I think their way of life deservED a lot of respect.

kathydwells,
With regard to your signature quote,

"Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money. ~Cree Indian Proverb"

don't you think the folks that profit from the selling of trees, the use of rivers, and the sale of seafood realise that? And don't you think it would be in their interest to protect or replinish what they use, since that would be a continued revenue stream? No offense to you, but I don't know why some people think that if a person is wearing a headdress, they are deeper and more enlightened than the white man. Maybe if American Indians looked to solutions other than the way of the buffalo, they'd get a handle on their people's problem of alcoholism.

I do not feel I have to justify my signature line to you, and I won't.

headdress, the way of the buffalo, their people's problem of alcoholism.

Nothing stereotypical or racist there!

Thinking happy thoughts, thinking happy thoughts, thinking happy thoughts.....

Thinking happy thoughts, thinking happy thoughts, thinking happy thoughts.....

Wow- that really works!!

Wow- that really works!!

So does drinking, but I don't want to be labeled for that reference.
I do have Indian heritage so I must be careful lest anyone pre-judge. For the record 1 jumbo maragarita for me and the party is on, 2 and it's over. Cheap date.

I'll tell you what makes me laugh -- the Rebublican Party Presidential "Debates" last night.

If that's the case , then you should have REALLY liked the DEMS debate....
Neither one of them were debates...

Blair, you are right. These "debates" remind me of late night tv infomercials.

Sure, after we took their lands, pride and way of life away and put them in camps. They took no more and no less from the earth than they needed for a happy life. Profit and greed didn't enter the equation for them, but they certainly were the victims of it, as kathydwells' sig implies.

I think their way of life deservED a lot of respect.

We? I've never taken land, pride or way of life away from any American Indian. They have taken much more from me at the casinos, but I'm not *****ing about it. So leave me out of your white guilt trip.

I do not feel I have to justify my signature line to you, and I won't.

You don't have to justify it, I was just pointing out that it is asinine and banal. You can put as much asinine banality in your signature as you like.

Nothing stereotypical or racist there!

Do American Indians wear headdresses? I think they are pretty cool, by the way.

The buffalo line was a South Park reference.

Do American Indians have a severe problem with alcoholism? Would it be more polite to not talk about it? Thanks in advance.

We? I've never taken land, pride or way of life away from any American Indian. They have taken much more from me at the casinos, but I'm not *****ing about it. So leave me out of your white guilt trip.

:rofl:

Riiiight. You just ***** about everything else. Got it. Clear as mud.

:rofl:

Riiiight. You just ***** about everything else. Got it. Clear as mud.

yea,tell him jed. your smart too. :scratch: