Hitchens, one of the world's best known atheists, is receiving a revolutionary new treatment for his cancer pioneered by an evangelical Christian scientist. He is a guinea pig for a cancer treatment that involves mapping his genetic make-up. Hitchens was diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus last year. The prognosis looked very grave until a few weeks after his diagnosis he was asked if he would like to be a guinea pig in the new science of genome sequencing as a possible cure for cancer.
Samples were taken from healthy tissue and from his tumour and on each of them six billion DNA matches were run, in order to catalogue any mutations found in the cancerous cells.
In The New Year came the good news that there is a genetic mutation found in the tumour for which there already exists a drug.
"At least it spares me some of the boredom of being a cancer patient because what I’m going through is very absorbing and positively inspiring," he said.
To: fight_truth_decay
Mr. Hitchens has fully described the current occupant of our White House.
2 posted on
04/14/2011 7:23:38 AM PDT by
Howie66
(I can see November (2012) from my house.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
OK, so leave. Head back to your native land.
4 posted on
04/14/2011 7:25:16 AM PDT by
ronnyquest
(I spent 20 years in the Army fighting the enemies of freedom only to see fascism elected at home.)
To: fight_truth_decay
I don’t like to dump on a guy with a terminal illness, but my gut reaction is the same one I had when John Cleese started shooting his mouth off about George W and Iraq.
If everything here sucks so damned bad, GO BACK HOME TO LONDON!
To: fight_truth_decay
Give the benighted old toff a break—he will be dead soon and in HIS afterlife aka oblivion.
Can't blame him for trying to grab a headline or two before he goes.
7 posted on
04/14/2011 7:36:51 AM PDT by
Happy Rain
("WARNING" -Sarah Palin is a very dangerous woman--she defends herself when attacked.)
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Hitch, you’re sour, nasty and boring about Christianity…so what’s the problem?
8 posted on
04/14/2011 7:37:27 AM PDT by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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Christopher Hitchens:'America Has Become Sour,Nasty and Boring'Yes, Obama has failed. But fear not, Mr. Hitchens. I predict he'll be fired from his National Community Organizer position in November of 2012.
To: fight_truth_decay
“Broadness of mind, curiosity, willingness to accept strangers, allowing them to become citizens really quite easily, assimilate to their arrival.”
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The first two are manifestations of free market capitalism in which one is most closely rewarded for one’s own efforts and GOD-given talents, more fairly than in any other economic system. It is atheistic Communism that is destroying those beneficent characteristics.
The second two are still very much a part of America, but RULE OF LAW is necessary for their proper utilization. Gringo-hating, parasitic, illegal invaders are not the proper way to assimilate into American culture.
12 posted on
04/14/2011 7:57:11 AM PDT by
EyeGuy
(Gimme Shelter)
To: fight_truth_decay
If the US is becoming less attractive to English Commies, there may be hope for us yet!
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The American people have been raped and abused by a minority foisting its socialist views and laws on the majority. I was born in the country. I love my country. I have every damned right to be pissed at the destruction of my country. I enjoy Hitchens from time to time and I wish him no ill will, but the man can be extremely nasty and curmudgeonly. I wouldn’t describe him as happiness and light even before his illness. I guess he is righteous in his nastiness, but the rest of us are supposed to smile and say, “Thank you sir! May I have another?” If we bore you, Mr. Hitchens, with our justifiable concerns, go find some titillating country to live in.
To: fight_truth_decay
In other words, it's become like your basic, loudmouthed atheist in academia? Imagine that.
projection alert.
To: fight_truth_decay
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -- Winston Churchill
To: fight_truth_decay
Because your Socialist Happyland has no money for cancer research, Hitchens, you come to the USA for your survival and then trash us. What an ingrate.
We should be much smarter about whom we let come to this country.
To: fight_truth_decay
OMG he look like dude from Dinvici code one the that was flogging himself that dude
21 posted on
04/14/2011 9:50:20 AM PDT by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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Chris Hitchens is describing himself.
“It hardly even deserves the name of cynicism or pessimism, it’s just sour and nasty and boring.”
This idiot would have been a nobody in England.
He is only popular in America because so many moronic Americans bend over for anybody who speaks with an English accent.
22 posted on
04/14/2011 9:51:26 AM PDT by
radpolis
(Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
To: fight_truth_decay
Socialism is bad enough to make anyone cross. Give us a break!
24 posted on
04/14/2011 12:27:31 PM PDT by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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