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		<title>By: denizerdogan</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5552509</link>
		<dc:creator>denizerdogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Facts and truth are irrelevant to repugs. &lt;a href=&quot;http://aracplakasorgulama.com&quot; title=&quot;araç&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;araç sorgulama&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Facts and truth are irrelevant to repugs. <a href="http://aracplakasorgulama.com" title="araç" rel="nofollow">araç sorgulama</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5552509', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jsj20002</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5382070</link>
		<dc:creator>jsj20002</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am getting quite frustrated by the active misinformation about the pay of unionized automobile workers.  The UAW members make slightly more than the non-union workers and actual costs of labor make up only about 10% of the cost of an automobile.  The big advantages the foreign firms have is the absence of legacy costs of paying for their retirees promised benefits. The GOP adds retiree costs to the costs of current wages.  That is inherently unfair.  The retiree costs should be attributed to the executives that agreed to those contracts, just like the executives are responsible for building factories, buying equipment, etc.  Unless our society finds a way to correctly account for retirement benefits, I fear we will be in a vicious cylce of younger workers being hired to replace older workers just before their retirement benefits vest.  When Toyota, Honda and Nissan&#039;s factories reach the ten to fifteen year mark, what is to stop them from closing their factories or selling them to another company that can then hire new ones at lower wages?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am getting quite frustrated by the active misinformation about the pay of unionized automobile workers.  The UAW members make slightly more than the non-union workers and actual costs of labor make up only about 10% of the cost of an automobile.  The big advantages the foreign firms have is the absence of legacy costs of paying for their retirees promised benefits. The GOP adds retiree costs to the costs of current wages.  That is inherently unfair.  The retiree costs should be attributed to the executives that agreed to those contracts, just like the executives are responsible for building factories, buying equipment, etc.  Unless our society finds a way to correctly account for retirement benefits, I fear we will be in a vicious cylce of younger workers being hired to replace older workers just before their retirement benefits vest.  When Toyota, Honda and Nissan&#8217;s factories reach the ten to fifteen year mark, what is to stop them from closing their factories or selling them to another company that can then hire new ones at lower wages?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5382070', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: DNFP</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381708</link>
		<dc:creator>DNFP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Paula Deen&lt;/em&gt;

Speaking of hogs...

They way that &#039;woman&#039; eats, she&#039;s not too long for this World. And her makeup is worse than Tammy Faye&#039;s.

&quot;And here ye go, top that double-bacon-blue-cheeseburger with gravy and a fried egg ya&#039;ll, mmmmm!&quot;

&lt;strong&gt;VOMIT IN MY MOUTH YOU DISGUSTING PIG.&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Paula Deen</em></p>
<p>Speaking of hogs&#8230;</p>
<p>They way that &#8216;woman&#8217; eats, she&#8217;s not too long for this World. And her makeup is worse than Tammy Faye&#8217;s.</p>
<p>&#8220;And here ye go, top that double-bacon-blue-cheeseburger with gravy and a fried egg ya&#8217;ll, mmmmm!&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>VOMIT IN MY MOUTH YOU DISGUSTING PIG.</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381708', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Marie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381640</link>
		<dc:creator>Marie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>On MTP yesterday, Romney repeated the debunked claim that UAW workers make more than $70/hour.
Facts and truth are irrelevant to repugs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On MTP yesterday, Romney repeated the debunked claim that UAW workers make more than $70/hour.<br />
Facts and truth are irrelevant to repugs.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381640', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Southern Beale</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381636</link>
		<dc:creator>Southern Beale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;You can get fired at whim for ANY reason. Any.&lt;/i&gt;

Which is why Senators Corker, Shelby et al are fighting the auto bailout so vigorously. It&#039;s all about shredding the unions, and if thousands of people are thrown out of work, well, that&#039;s just collateral damage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>You can get fired at whim for ANY reason. Any.</i></p>
<p>Which is why Senators Corker, Shelby et al are fighting the auto bailout so vigorously. It&#8217;s all about shredding the unions, and if thousands of people are thrown out of work, well, that&#8217;s just collateral damage.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381636', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Southern Beale</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381634</link>
		<dc:creator>Southern Beale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Since we&#039;re talking Smithfield, please boycott that Paula Deen creature. She&#039;s sponsored by Smithfield and has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-burger/paula-deens-recipe-for-a_b_46303.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;refused to talk to former Smithfireld workers&lt;/a&gt;, having them escorted from her public speaking engagements by security. She&#039;s all &quot;family value&#039;s y&#039;all&quot; as long as the checks keep coming in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since we&#8217;re talking Smithfield, please boycott that Paula Deen creature. She&#8217;s sponsored by Smithfield and has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-burger/paula-deens-recipe-for-a_b_46303.html" rel="nofollow">refused to talk to former Smithfireld workers</a>, having them escorted from her public speaking engagements by security. She&#8217;s all &#8220;family value&#8217;s y&#8217;all&#8221; as long as the checks keep coming in.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381634', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Cats r Flyfishn</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381626</link>
		<dc:creator>Cats r Flyfishn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;We have been in a class war since Reagan took the first shot at the air controllers union. When he fired them all because they wanted equipment that made flying safer. And in that critical and intense job, a few shorter hours so they would not be exhausted. Reagan that jerk, who benefited from a union himself caused damage that still has not been fixed.

That bit of history is the start of the most recent beginning of the class war.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;


When James Madison and the others met to write the Constitution, they knew that there was already a &quot;class&quot; system in the Confederation and they also were well aware of the fact that the rich benefited from the poor and that is one of the reasons that they wanted to secure justice and representation for both rich and poor in the Constitution.  I won&#039;t discuss the issue with slavery at this time or the lack of female representation in the government.  These are topics for another discussion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>We have been in a class war since Reagan took the first shot at the air controllers union. When he fired them all because they wanted equipment that made flying safer. And in that critical and intense job, a few shorter hours so they would not be exhausted. Reagan that jerk, who benefited from a union himself caused damage that still has not been fixed.</p>
<p>That bit of history is the start of the most recent beginning of the class war.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>When James Madison and the others met to write the Constitution, they knew that there was already a &#8220;class&#8221; system in the Confederation and they also were well aware of the fact that the rich benefited from the poor and that is one of the reasons that they wanted to secure justice and representation for both rich and poor in the Constitution.  I won&#8217;t discuss the issue with slavery at this time or the lack of female representation in the government.  These are topics for another discussion.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381626', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EV</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381622</link>
		<dc:creator>EV</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant article. If you can spare the 32 minutes, you can have a look at the republican idea of desireable labor conditions &lt;a href=&quot;http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/santas-workshop-you-get-what-you-pay-for/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant article. If you can spare the 32 minutes, you can have a look at the republican idea of desireable labor conditions <a href="http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/santas-workshop-you-get-what-you-pay-for/" rel="nofollow">here.</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381622', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: vinylspear</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381610</link>
		<dc:creator>vinylspear</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brilliant piece of work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brilliant piece of work.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381610', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Republicans are fascists without the balls and brains.

I needn&#039;t tell you that opposition to labor unions is a staple of fascist and totalitarian governments--as is opposition to abortion, militant xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny, the use of private paramilitaries, the use of surveillance, rigged elections, etc.  In other words, fascism is the whole Republican ball of wax.  

And now...Ann Coulter with her Jaw Wired Shut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhy7S2WFPA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Republicans are fascists without the balls and brains.</p>
<p>I needn&#8217;t tell you that opposition to labor unions is a staple of fascist and totalitarian governments&#8211;as is opposition to abortion, militant xenophobia, homophobia, and misogyny, the use of private paramilitaries, the use of surveillance, rigged elections, etc.  In other words, fascism is the whole Republican ball of wax.  </p>
<p>And now&#8230;Ann Coulter with her Jaw Wired Shut:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhy7S2WFPA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhy7S2WFPA</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381606', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bostonian Queer in Dallas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bostonian Queer in Dallas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Down here we have these &quot;right to work&quot; states. Basically a small group of good ole boys, who hold the power and money, determine what any worker can and cannot do. Won&#039;t change soon. It is entrenched down here. You can get fired at whim for ANY reason. Any.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Down here we have these &#8220;right to work&#8221; states. Basically a small group of good ole boys, who hold the power and money, determine what any worker can and cannot do. Won&#8217;t change soon. It is entrenched down here. You can get fired at whim for ANY reason. Any.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381602', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Xisithrus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381574</link>
		<dc:creator>Xisithrus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Citibank is going to layoff 35,000, arent they non-union?

What about Mandoff, was he a union worker?

I suppose Enron was union labor?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Citibank is going to layoff 35,000, arent they non-union?</p>
<p>What about Mandoff, was he a union worker?</p>
<p>I suppose Enron was union labor?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381574', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: oncedarkness</title>
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		<dc:creator>oncedarkness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Did they really say that?&lt;/strong&gt;
yeah thisis a flashback but still can this be true. It seems a few decades back that most Americans still thought that homosexuality was a mental disease. Even after the &lt;em&gt;scientist&lt;/em&gt; had &lt;strong&gt;voted&lt;/strong&gt; that it was not .
Vote to determine science? hmmmm. Still it was time to do whatever it took to get the culture to where it needed to go. So these two guys wrote a book and here is a quote (money line is in bold)
“The public should be persuaded that gays are victims of circumstance, that they no more chose their sexual orientation than they did, say, their height, skin color, talents,  
or limitations. (We argue that, for all practical purposes, gays should be considered 
to have been born gay &lt;strong&gt;even though sexual orientation, for most humans, seems to be the product of a complex interaction between innate predispositions and environmental factors during childhood and early adolescence.)”&lt;/strong&gt;

Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the 
90s,p.184
Excerpts from The &quot;Born Gay&quot; Hoax Ryan Sorba 


Does &lt;strong&gt;Jon Stewart&lt;/strong&gt; know this?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Did they really say that?</strong><br />
yeah thisis a flashback but still can this be true. It seems a few decades back that most Americans still thought that homosexuality was a mental disease. Even after the <em>scientist</em> had <strong>voted</strong> that it was not .<br />
Vote to determine science? hmmmm. Still it was time to do whatever it took to get the culture to where it needed to go. So these two guys wrote a book and here is a quote (money line is in bold)<br />
“The public should be persuaded that gays are victims of circumstance, that they no more chose their sexual orientation than they did, say, their height, skin color, talents,<br />
or limitations. (We argue that, for all practical purposes, gays should be considered<br />
to have been born gay <strong>even though sexual orientation, for most humans, seems to be the product of a complex interaction between innate predispositions and environmental factors during childhood and early adolescence.)”</strong></p>
<p>Kirk and Madsen, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of the Gay’s in the<br />
90s,p.184<br />
Excerpts from The &#8220;Born Gay&#8221; Hoax Ryan Sorba </p>
<p>Does <strong>Jon Stewart</strong> know this?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381544', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Game of Life</title>
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		<dc:creator>Game of Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;The base salary of a U.S. senator is $169,300 a year or $3,255 a week.&lt;/em&gt;

Whoa there. Senator don&#039;t work fulltime. They hold additional jobs. They aren&#039;t suppose to get rich on taxpayers&#039; backs. Highway robbery.

Their salaries need to be cut pronto.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>The base salary of a U.S. senator is $169,300 a year or $3,255 a week.</em></p>
<p>Whoa there. Senator don&#8217;t work fulltime. They hold additional jobs. They aren&#8217;t suppose to get rich on taxpayers&#8217; backs. Highway robbery.</p>
<p>Their salaries need to be cut pronto.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381538', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Game of Life</title>
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		<dc:creator>Game of Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I bet the profit smithfield will be giving up is less than 2 cents a pound.

Greedy ass pokers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I bet the profit smithfield will be giving up is less than 2 cents a pound.</p>
<p>Greedy ass pokers.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381536', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: katy</title>
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		<dc:creator>katy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>( katy Says: Your comment is awaiting moderation.
THERE&#039;S THAT WORD AGAIN... AN ALYSIS... HORRORS!!!!! )

thank you, House of Roberts and Zooey, for those answers…
i figured it had to be some kind of opposite reality from bizzarro world…
…

i just found some headlines on the googlenews page… another fine example of republican governance…
stuff like this makes me very angry:

New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer
The Associated Press - Dec 13, 2008
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Taking &lt;strong&gt;menopause hormones&lt;/strong&gt; for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new an alysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills.

[…]

Wyeth’s Use of Medical Ghostwriters Questioned
New York Times - Dec 12, 2008
By DUFF WILSON Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company’s involvement in …

in-fooking-credible. grrrrrrrrrrr…

that’s all for me now… g’nite…</description>
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THERE&#8217;S THAT WORD AGAIN&#8230; AN ALYSIS&#8230; HORRORS!!!!! )</p>
<p>thank you, House of Roberts and Zooey, for those answers…<br />
i figured it had to be some kind of opposite reality from bizzarro world…<br />
…</p>
<p>i just found some headlines on the googlenews page… another fine example of republican governance…<br />
stuff like this makes me very angry:</p>
<p>New study firmly ties hormone use to breast cancer<br />
The Associated Press &#8211; Dec 13, 2008<br />
SAN ANTONIO (AP) &#8211; Taking <strong>menopause hormones</strong> for five years doubles the risk for breast cancer, according to a new an alysis of a big federal study that reveals the most dramatic evidence yet of the dangers of these still-popular pills.</p>
<p>[…]</p>
<p>Wyeth’s Use of Medical Ghostwriters Questioned<br />
New York Times &#8211; Dec 12, 2008<br />
By DUFF WILSON Wyeth, the pharmaceutical company, paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to its hormone replacement therapy Prempro, according to Congressional letters seeking more information about the company’s involvement in …</p>
<p>in-fooking-credible. grrrrrrrrrrr…</p>
<p>that’s all for me now… g’nite…<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381504', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Alecto</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381466</link>
		<dc:creator>Alecto</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lest we forget the WEEKEND is from unions.

I simply love how the 8 bully senators from dumbfukistan KY, TN, SC, GA, show the world the true pussies that they are, by going after pensions and retirement benefits. What a bunch of whimps. So typical of pussy bullies to go after little old ladies and little old retired men. You disgust us normal humans.
 
There is not enough ROPE to hang you fuking pricks, but it is gonna be fun trying.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=12815</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lest we forget the WEEKEND is from unions.</p>
<p>I simply love how the 8 bully senators from dumbfukistan KY, TN, SC, GA, show the world the true pussies that they are, by going after pensions and retirement benefits. What a bunch of whimps. So typical of pussy bullies to go after little old ladies and little old retired men. You disgust us normal humans.</p>
<p>There is not enough ROPE to hang you fuking pricks, but it is gonna be fun trying.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=12815" rel="nofollow">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=12815</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381466', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zooey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381426</link>
		<dc:creator>Zooey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>katy,

&quot;Right to work&quot; is code for union busting.  It&#039;s a law that worker don&#039;t &quot;have to&quot; join a union in order to work on an auto line or construction site. &quot;Right to work&quot; makes it seem like it&#039;s good for the worker, which it is not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>katy,</p>
<p>&#8220;Right to work&#8221; is code for union busting.  It&#8217;s a law that worker don&#8217;t &#8220;have to&#8221; join a union in order to work on an auto line or construction site. &#8220;Right to work&#8221; makes it seem like it&#8217;s good for the worker, which it is not.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381426', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: curious</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381424</link>
		<dc:creator>curious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We have been in a class war since Reagan took the first shot at the air controllers union. When he fired them all because they wanted equipment that made flying safer. And in that critical and intense job, a few shorter hours so they would not be exhausted. Reagan that jerk, who benefited from a union himself caused damage that still has not been fixed.

That bit of history is the start of the most recent beginning of the class war. We have always had this class war. Without unions wanting better conditions and decent wages you cannot depend on employers to be decent voluntarily. What is the only leverage workers have?  The right to strike. What is the reason any of us have a lunch break, a vacation, sick leave, any fragile kind of health care, the right to an employment lawyer for unwarranted firing, or for harassment?

Unions fought and died so that we could have decent work conditions. There are very few employers that really care about anything other than the bottom line. And these Republicans that want business to step on the backs of workers so that workers have to spend time in unfair sweat shop environments could care less. There is not one of them that would work for 10 or 11 dollars an hour. These same Senators that have the best health care that we pay for. The health care that most of us out here don&#039;t have. 

These employers who maintain a standard of living that most of us only dream of. If people are not paid a decent wage, they cannot afford to purchase goods, homes, food etc. It is as simple as that.

What most employers and big corporations want is simple. To go back to two classes of people. RICH AND POOR. This is what the Republican party has consistently tried to do. To destroy the middle class. To keep workers in survival mode. And that means barely surviving. When you keep people hungry and discouraged you keep them weak and unable to look past their next meal. You keep people as a third world underclass. You keep them working for slave wages. 

What kind of country would want to be known for an uneducated, poor population?  The Republican kind. 

Non of those idiot people we elect, non of those politicians that continue to screw us without our enjoyment, none of them could do our jobs, or live on the average persons wage. With lousy health care to boot. None of them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We have been in a class war since Reagan took the first shot at the air controllers union. When he fired them all because they wanted equipment that made flying safer. And in that critical and intense job, a few shorter hours so they would not be exhausted. Reagan that jerk, who benefited from a union himself caused damage that still has not been fixed.</p>
<p>That bit of history is the start of the most recent beginning of the class war. We have always had this class war. Without unions wanting better conditions and decent wages you cannot depend on employers to be decent voluntarily. What is the only leverage workers have?  The right to strike. What is the reason any of us have a lunch break, a vacation, sick leave, any fragile kind of health care, the right to an employment lawyer for unwarranted firing, or for harassment?</p>
<p>Unions fought and died so that we could have decent work conditions. There are very few employers that really care about anything other than the bottom line. And these Republicans that want business to step on the backs of workers so that workers have to spend time in unfair sweat shop environments could care less. There is not one of them that would work for 10 or 11 dollars an hour. These same Senators that have the best health care that we pay for. The health care that most of us out here don&#8217;t have. </p>
<p>These employers who maintain a standard of living that most of us only dream of. If people are not paid a decent wage, they cannot afford to purchase goods, homes, food etc. It is as simple as that.</p>
<p>What most employers and big corporations want is simple. To go back to two classes of people. RICH AND POOR. This is what the Republican party has consistently tried to do. To destroy the middle class. To keep workers in survival mode. And that means barely surviving. When you keep people hungry and discouraged you keep them weak and unable to look past their next meal. You keep people as a third world underclass. You keep them working for slave wages. </p>
<p>What kind of country would want to be known for an uneducated, poor population?  The Republican kind. </p>
<p>Non of those idiot people we elect, non of those politicians that continue to screw us without our enjoyment, none of them could do our jobs, or live on the average persons wage. With lousy health care to boot. None of them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381424', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: House of Roberts</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/14/nolan-unions/comment-page-1/#comment-5381420</link>
		<dc:creator>House of Roberts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Katy, 
It means a union can&#039;t include in it&#039;s contract with an employer, a clause forcing the employer to hire only union members. The employer can independently hire non-union workers, and they don&#039;t have to join the union to get the job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Katy,<br />
It means a union can&#8217;t include in it&#8217;s contract with an employer, a clause forcing the employer to hire only union members. The employer can independently hire non-union workers, and they don&#8217;t have to join the union to get the job.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5381420', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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