Bush's Successes

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Bush's Successes
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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm
The Successes of President George Bush

Dear Reader,

I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans

saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a

failure. With the string of successes he's had,

nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a

few:

1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling

budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion

deficit.

2. He has successfully helped America's trading

partners have the highest trade surplus with us in

America's history.

3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the

richest Americans and corporations at the expense of

99% of the American population.

4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in

Iraq after lying to the whole world.

5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to

the highest level ever here in America.

6. He has successfully allowed American corporations

to dramatically increase their pollution.

7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the

population out of work.

8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export

our best middle-class jobs.

9. He has successfully divided our country as never

before.

10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.

11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never

before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a

divider).

12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the

constitution of the United States of America.

13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as

they haven't been for years (I told you he was a

uniter).

14. He has successfully driven me out of the

Republican party for the rest of my life.

You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a

wonder America is still standing.

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Registered: 04-18-2004
Sat, 09-18-2004 - 3:33am
HA!

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Sat, 09-18-2004 - 3:54am
I love Daria too. :) I'm glad it's still on Noggin since MTV doesn't show it anymore. MTV2 does show "Beavis and Butt-head" though. Ah. Good old shows. :) I also remember watching "You Can't Do That on Television." Hehe. I was watching it when Alanis Morissette was on there till it went off. I wish they'd show that on there. Now that is a classic. It's sorta good nobody else has your name though. My senior yr in high school in my homeroom class there were three people with my name (including myself) and then two twins too! That poor teacher...me and the other two girls who shared the same name also had lockers around each other, so whenever someone called out our name you always looked to see who it was. We also sat around the same area too in the homeroom class. Heh heh. Oh and on the twins they were two guys who were twins not two sets (just wanted to say so there's no confusion). :) XOXO.


Edited 9/18/2004 3:56 am ET ET by crownotangelgrl
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 3:55am
That was it! I couldn't remember the name. I thought that might've been it but wasn't sure. They do make some really wild movies. Heh heh. XOXO.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 8:25am
As a health care professional you should know that "mistakes" are made all the time. Last summer I went to the emergency room, in the middle of the night, on my doctor's request, with severe chest pain and difficulty breathing. I was diagnosed with bacterial pneumonia. Now I have an incurable, autoimmune disease and take immunosuppressant drugs, steriods, etc., etc., etc. I should have been admitted but was sent home. I had an appointment that day with my specialist. My nurse practioner practically blew a casket. She showed me the criteria used to determine whether a person should be admitted and the "number" they assign. I was near the top. The top doctor at the office went to the hospital that day to review my records. He also read the ER doctor the riot act. So I don't find it at all unusual that she was treated the way she was.

Her situation was even worse than mine in terms of emotional distress and I too have heard of doctors and pharmacists turning people away because of their "personal" beliefs. Or it simply could have been mistakes.

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Registered: 09-09-2004
Sat, 09-18-2004 - 8:31am
It is surprising, isn't it. You would think men would want something more too. We have a friend who's now ex-girlfriend got pregnant. She claimed to be using birth control. I pointed out that he could have used a condom but as you pointed out they aren't always reliable. So you would think that men would want something better so they wouldn't have to worry about a woman ending up pregnant.

However, I think society still places the responsibility on women and then if she does end up pregnant she is the "evil slut". While men can continue to sleep around as much as they want and there is no stigma on them.

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Registered: 08-31-2003
Sat, 09-18-2004 - 9:16am
That's why I said that if this woman actually was bleeding and contracting and told by all these healthcare professionals to stay home, she should sue.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 1:00pm
She said D&E, not D&C. I don't know what the difference is myself, but there may be a big difference.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 4:53pm
I know. That really gets me mad. Unless the guy is being known as a pimp then he's as innocent as anything with sleeping around. I hope someday they do have something for guys. Even if it's a pill or something better instead of all this viagra. Heh. XOXO.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 5:02pm
I stand corrected, she said D&E, dilation and evacuation where they would dilate the cervix and remove the baby- it's something that is necessary to do in an abortion with a larger fetus, about 10-20 years ago it wasn't done outside of the hospital- I couldn't say now, due to the potential complication and difficulty of this procedure. A D&C which is a dilation and curtage, where the lining of the uterus is scraped, and any uterine contents is removed via suction. An Intact D&E is where the baby is left in one piece.

As to the relevance of this discussion to the original post. The OP suggested that the article suggests a need to keep abortion available using the example of a woman with a fetal death at 19 weeks, bleeding, having no Dr to treat her. That is simply not true. A D&E is not the only way to treat a woman with a stillborn fetus. Some woman prefer to let nature takes it's course and wait to see if they will go into labor. Others can have their cervix dilated and be given medication to cause labor and expell the baby. Another way is to dilate the cervix and extract the baby, in parts or in whole. At 19 weeks I have found that the risks have gone up (after 17 weeks) for DIC, a clotting problem, with D&E's or Intact D&E's (which is actually the procedure for partial birth abortion). DIC, contrary to the way some of these sites make it sound, while it is reversible, it is not a cake walk, and it every patient that I ever took care of (kids) and every mom that I ever knew to go into DIC (Disemminated Intravascular Coagulation) were very, very ill. Critically ill. It's not something that is treated on a general hospital floor, the patient is in ICU. So, as I said, I would really like to know more that this brief, biased, explaination guised to promote the need for partial birth abortion being available. AND, if this woman was actively bleeding with a known fetal demise and was turned away by several, I think the article sited 2 or 3 physcians, she should at the VERY least be reporting every one of the butts to the proper medical authorities, but should also be dragging those butts into court. Delivering a fetal demise has nothing to do with aborting a live fetus, and any Dr that denied treatment using that type of ideology has stepped over the line, and I question their judgement. Maybe this woman couldn't find a Dr appropriately trained in D&E, but she didn't have to keep bleeding and not know what was going to happen to her. There were other options and procedures available.
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Sat, 09-18-2004 - 8:28pm
Hey thanks angelgrl, for posting that link to Miffy-----it was my daughter that saw "our" Miffy's name on here and asked me about her. Sorry I didn't think to look for a link! See,CL-Miffy, told you Bunny Miffy was cute!

(Also apologizing for being off-topic!)

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