Here I am, back atcha with another one. I have been on a sabbatical for about 3 years. Nothing on the liberal side has changed, only the faces they put in front of us. That reminds me; the less I see of Broom Hillary's face the more I like it. But that is not meant to be, we are going to see more and more of her and her liberal leftist ideas as the campaigns heat up.
What the Media doesn't know about
Asia
(or anywhere else for that matter)
"Eye you are such a pompous bastard,
you think you know everything." I do, those are my qualifications, I know everything.
Asia's Western habits may lead to
cancer
surge; AP/Msnbcnews.com; May 30, 2007
As some of you know, I have lived in Asia for the last 25 years or so. My first trip was in 1969. I think I know a tiny bit about the place, but that's more than I can say about the author of this article.
Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in
cancer rates over the next decade as people
in the developing world live longer and adopt
bad Western habits that greatly increase the
risk of the disease.
Look who is to blame - The West, but in particular, the United States as we shall soon see.
Smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy
foods - all linked to various cancers - will
combine with larger populations and fewer
deaths from infectious diseases to drive Asian
cancer rates up 60 percent by 2020, some
experts predict.
Someone enlighten me here, but since when have the roots of smoking and drinking been traced to the West? Believe it or not, beer was invented in Egypt long before Moses headed to the Promised Land.
"The habit of alcohol
consumption, smoking
and dietary changes will increase the risk of
Western world cancers to the Eastern world,"
Shah said.
I guess Eastern world cancers get a pass here.
While Americans and Europeans have been
abandoning smoking, an estimated 300 million
men are puffing away in China - equal to the
entire U.S. population. If nothing changes, a
third of Chinese men under age 30 are
predicted to die from tobacco, with lung
cancer already the biggest cancer killer
there.
Damn those Americans. The Chinese have substitued opium usage with tobacco.
Smokeless tobacco is also a big problem in
Asia's other giant, India, where many men and
women chew some form of tobacco. Mouth
cancer makes up half of all new cases in parts
of the country.
Double damn those Yanks. The Asains have replaced betelnut with snuff.
A lack of vaccines that prevent cancer-
causing viruses is another obstacle for Asia,
which is home to about three-quarters of the
world's liver cancers, caused largely by
Hepatitis B infections.
Sorta getting tired of damning the Yankees here, but this problem is ours too? The libs would have you believe that it is all the West's (i.e. America) fault. They never once considered that the capitalistic Yanks have replaced shorter life spans, undernouished and starvation with tobacco, booze, transfat and a dozen years or more of life. The liberal solution is to spread the wealth of captialism to the poor. Damn those liberals. They want equal misery.
Articles to evoke Emotion
Quite often we get stories from our main stream buddies that are meaningless. Today is no exception.
Calif. prisons trying to reduce suicides; By
DON THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer;
May 28, 2007
You might think I am some sort of a callous and crude person. If you do then you are partially correct. However, this story is truly a non-story. It should be relegated to the trash heap along with Alberto Gonzalez's story of firing 8 U.S. attorneys.
Every 30 minutes, day and night, guards
walk
the tiers of the isolation unit at California
State Prison, Sacramento, checking inmates to
make sure they don't kill themselves.
Don't get me wrong, I am not for suicide nor
do I enjoy reading or hearing about it no
matter who or where it happens.
Guards have reported preventing more
than
60 suicides in segregation cells so far this
year - out of more than 170 suicides
attempted during the past five months in the
state's 33 adult prisons.
Let's hear it for the guards. Someone has to want to do the job.
Last year, a record 43 inmates killed
themselves in California prisons - nearly half
in isolation units. California's rate of 25.5
deaths per 100,000 inmates is nearly double
the nationwide prison suicide rate of 14 per
100,000, according to the federal Bureau of
Justice Statistics.
Let's face it, being in prison is not a place where most people want to find themselves or want to be in. For some a deadend street (no pun intended). "So what's the problem
Eye? You know-it-all, don't you?" The problem is, the suicide rate in America is 28.2 per 100,000. Based on liberal thought processes, it would be better if America's entire population were incarcerated. Less lives would be lost to suicides that way.
Since we are on the subject of
Suicide...
So let's follow the subject a little bit further. Our liberal friends want to beat a dead horse anyway.
Apparent Gitmo suicide was Saudi veteran;
By
BEN FOX, Associated Press Writer; May 31st,
2008
So we are here at the torture chambers at Gitmo Cuba where those who have vowed to kill America and the Western way of life, much like Americans are trying to kill everyone with cigarettes and beer and fatty food. Only difference is, these guys prefer to do it a little quicker, like beheading and bombing.
The detainee who died at Guantanamo Bay
in
an apparent suicide was identified Thursday as
a Saudi military veteran and self-described
Islamic holy warrior who denied he ever
intended to kill Americans.
Wanna bet our liberal media friends believed this guy's denials.
The military and Saudi Arabia identified the
detainee as Abdul Rahman Maadha al-Amry.
Though it gave no details about him, U.S.
records say he was 34 and had been held
without charges at the prison at the
Guantanamo Bay naval base in southeastern
Cuba since February 2002.
Gasp! The poor guy is held without charges against his will. How awfully cruel.
The U.S. military said al-Amry was not
breathing when he was found Wednesday by
guards in Camp 5, a modern, high-security
section of Guantanamo generally reserved for
detainees who are considered to have
intelligence value or who do not follow prison
rules.
According to the headline, it was an apparent suicide. Now since it is only alleged, the fact that he was not breathing when he was found does not necessarily mean he is dead. Maybe we can hold out in hopes that he is in actuality, not dead.
The military has also not disclosed any
potential motive for suicide, although
Guantanamo critics say indefinite confinement
in the solid wall, one-person cells for all but
about two hours a day at Camps 5 and 6 has
caused depression among detainees.
"Camp 5 is just utterly grim psychologically,"
said Sabin Willett, a lawyer for Guantanamo
detainees. "There's no question that isolation
destroys human beings."
Isn't that just like the American way of doing things. Instead of cigarettes or fatty foods, isolate the guy and destroy him. Why can't we be humane like the terrorists and just cut their heads off. We then wouldn't have to guess why he stopped breathing.
Grant's Blog is an original
commentary by Grant Freerks. Copyright (c)2007
Grant Freerks.
