:::Reality bites, Molly:::
Y'all lost... BIG DOG.
Posted on 11/05/2004 2:52:27 PM PST by eleni121
Ivins writes:
Do you know how to cure a chicken-killin' dog? Now, you know you cannot keep a dog that kills chickens, no matter how fine a dog it is otherwise. Some people think you cannot break a dog that has got in the habit of killin' chickens, but my friend John Henry always claimed you could. He said the way to do it is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong.
(Excerpt) Read more at buffalonews.com ...
"The Bush administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans."
That's some Texas-sized hate. This lady thinks ALL Repubs are the problem?
Then this:
"But in Texas, we've been losing elections to the demagogic triad of God, gays and guns long enough to be pretty cynical about how it works out."
I question the use of "we" - Teaxs has always struck me as a generally family values centered state. I know a few folks from Texas, and yes, they like to own firearms ("guns" to Ms. Ivins).
Regarding Vioxx, I missed the article on Vioxx by Ivins in the 1990's - you'd think with her attention to detail, she be on this story a lot sooner. But I get it, Merck telling saleman to not discuss the downside of the drug is the "fault" of Bush. Better yet, GW has put people in charge that will just turn a blind eye to the dangers of Vioxx? Could it be they want good science behind these reports?
Her writing:
"I'm sure millions of Americans voted for George W. under the honest impression that he stands for moral values - family, patriotism, faith in God. I'm sure it's the Democrats' fault that such a silly ruse is allowed to stand."
plants the assertion that GW does not stand for moral values. How does she come to that conclusion - because he believes in family, patriotism and has a faith in God? I have two books by Molly Ivins. What comes through more than anything else is a temper-tantrum that people are not as forethoughtful and as her. One thing's for sure - she has an ego the size of Texas - it goes hand-in-hand with her obsessive dislike of GW.
Didn't that simpleton Hightower used to wear a gigantic hat?
...and how about all that tainted blood bill clinton shipped to canada.... Boy are we ever dumb.
If it comes to that I'll just let her loose somewhere between Baker and Mojave, CA. Let her stick a thumb out.
LMAO.....good plan
That's the man. I have to thank old Jim. He probably did more to kill the Democrats in Texas than even W did.
:::Reality bites, Molly:::
Y'all lost... BIG DOG.
Who is she kidding with the folksy analogies? She's not exactly a small-town Texas gal, unless you consider being from Austin or growing up in Houston small-town.
Hard to figure, that. :)
Democrats are an act.
Geeeez...she looks like every woman in Vermont.
Molly Ivins always surprises me --- that she can carry out her activities of daily living, much less meet deadlines with her column. The woman hates better than Begala and Carville combined. (Does anyone remember her gloating when her father committed suicide?)
Nevertheless,
The bureaucracy that is the FDA and the NIH (and probably most of the other non-judicial agencies - maybe some of those, although I doubt it, having met so many of them) have been corrupt with those who are looking for the goose that will lay the golden egg in the private sector. It began, and most of the cases I've heard of took place in, the 1990's. Under Clinton
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28128-2004Jul4?language=printer
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-nih7dec07,1,6759172,print.story
After citing multiple cases of NIH corruption in the 1990's, there's this explanation:
""About This Report
In late 1998, the Los Angeles Times began examining payments from drug companies to employees of the National Institutes of Health and the agency's research collaborations with industry. This report is based on records from the federal government and from companies, as well as scores of interviews.
In early 1999, the newspaper first sought income-disclosure reports for all eligible employees of the 27 research institutes and centers of the NIH. The newspaper, as of this month, had filed 36 requests with the NIH for documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
According to NIH staff, the agency has provided documents totaling 13,784 pages, including annual financial-disclosure reports, memos and internal e-mails.
A significant number of NIH employees had by this year stopped filing yearly income reports that are open to public inspection. To assess the relative extent of public financial disclosure at the NIH, The Times in July queried dozens of other federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act.
Other documentation, describing products and hundreds of research collaborations between the NIH and industry, was retrieved from company and NIH Web sites, from filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and from lawsuits filed in federal and state courts. Other related documents were obtained from the Food and Drug Administration under the Freedom of Information Act."""
Didn't she attend Wellesley (or some other school that, like that high school in pre-Coburn Oklahoma, is rampant with lesbianism)?
Note to myself--- Cross Vermont off list of 'places to visit'
According to the red/blue map for the state of Texas, poor Molly is on a blue island in a vast sea of red!!
Why6 be so kind? North Philly would be better.
Apparently she does plagiarize quite a bit...and not only from other lying liberals.
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005528.php
Thank you for the URL.
I did not know she was stole so much from her betters.
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