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This about lemonade stands being fined $500, while Goldman Sachs slowly destroys the Constitution and Washington destroys America. You can't stop illness when you allow fuel corn producers to make E-Coli that is so dangerous and immune to drugs! We all got here without rubber gloves! We climbed jungle gyms and we had strong immune systems. AIDS and other pharma created killers are money makers, as are fines and excessive fees for lemonade stands and in the future it will be Organic farmer's produce. Look at how milk has now become poison. Come on! Let the cows eat grass and not the pharma-grain sludge!

Serious matters deserve better converage than these cutesy, stupid 'shows' rather than well covered news stories that we get from the rest of OPB thru out the day. You wanna laugh, watch Jay Leno! Laws don't stop corruption, people do!

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You're making this SO CUTE-It's a good thing Daniel Schorr doesn't have to hear this insult to the OPB audience! What do think of us?

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Its already a media circus. Offers to promote self serving organizations and radio stations. Politicians who give cookie cutter crap and evasive responses. Her mom is a puppet, well trained to respond like a Miss America first grader! 

Make a statement-this audience is a bunch of well read, well educated OPB supporters, not dopes and drugged out coach potatoes. Get moving!

You're on NPR, not Z100!

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Please don't make this a smiley circus! This is a serious matter. We are looking at adult bullies, with no common sense, who are going after children. Those who say they were just doing their job are just like the Nazis who were just following orders. Let's discuss this with the seriousness is it due, and express our concerns of our country being turned into a tyrannical Gestapo society.

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Being able to read, and what one reads, shapes our worldview. Having recently reread "1984", I was reminded how we are being shaped and molded by a real "Big Brother", who, as the book reveals, isn't one individual. Our quality Newspapers have become copies of the "Nation Inquirer" or closed altogether because they dared to do effective, investigative reporting. The TV and Newspapers have become controlled "repeaters" of misinformation. They entertain and frighten rather than inform, passing on mostly useless fluff. They have begun to regularly use "Newspeak", with phrases like "War on Terror", or "Toxic Assets"! Recently I heard Penguins called "Gay",  or calling He a She when referring to surgically altered humans. Life styles of narcissistic entertainers become accepted by the masses. Voters elect Presidents based on TV infomercials and slanderous advertising. Yet there is no single payer health system or end to "the war on Terror". Where is this "Hope" now? If we spent out time reading, we'd be in a much better place. But we also must make sure our educational system does not become duped into accepting the society of "1984".

PS-I grew up left handed, dyslexic and with ADD. But reading is too important to have excuses not to keep trying and succeed!

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Songs for the Cello-Hamilton Cheifetz. Best regional classical CD.

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Of one accord!
Have you tried Patrick Ball for celtic, meditative music-very soothing
God Bless.

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Well what do you know...This was todays actual headline from Bloomberg:

"Wyeth Boosts Vaccine Dream With $1.35 Billion Crucell Courtship

Wyeth Chief Executive Officer Bernard Poussot has been refocusing the company?s research on vaccines and five other areas. Vaccines are a dependable source of sales for drugmakers because they don?t lose patent protection and are often purchased by governments. Poussot has turned Wyeth?s pneumonia vaccine Prevnar into its second best-selling product with $2.4 billion in 2007 revenue.
?Vaccines are probably one of Wyeth?s most important platforms of technology, so I think this is a smart move for them,? said David Moskowitz, an analyst with Caris & Co., in a telephone interview yesterday."

(http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=as4rY9TI49Yo&refer=home )


Wyeth!~These are the guys who promoted dual hormone therapy and killed many many trusting women!!!! This is the point! You sideline experts should know your history- talk about Percy Julien, or Florence Nightingale, or Howard Walter Florey, who didn't do their hard, dangerous work for our benefit to make a profit! The whole focus on money as motivation in healthcare is disgusting!

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Cheney!!!-sorry my spell checker doesn't seem to recognize people who are not in the executive branch of government.
I have my degree in science, but I'm not stupid enough to get a vaccine I don't need, that may cause my inability to waste my time on blogs.
Please don't be so hard on the phone tech at OPB. It seemed that whenever the topic of drug companies came up, the phone patch went down! Cheney again? No...Halliburton is not a drug company. Oh well, I guess I'm just a conspiracy theorist-which is faith based.
You could stand a class in SocioEconomics. But I suppose you don't believe in that either.
I can tell you, those charts don't lie.
Why would you say that attacks on unethical studies and drug companies are unsubstantiated? Where do you get your news?

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You missed the point. The Saturn rocket is a superior method of space exploration. Yet, because of budgets, rather than what is best, NASA still tempts fate with the cheaper firecrackers the shuttle is now attached to. Two crashes aren't enough to stop the chance of further disasters. The same is true for the health care industry and their promotions of defective and unnecessary vaccines. If you want to make money, play poker. If you want to help people, volunteer or do it because it is right. BTW to say Chaney and Rumsfeld were faith based is pure junk. Most of these pro-industry comments are showing a compromise that is the intent of the deceptive practices of those behind the scenes. There is no leftist or rightist view-there is a correct view or a view based on deception.
Anyone who has ever had a job knows, you can't always be truthful nor ethical-business is business.( Dare I send someone to Gimbles when Macys is out of the item?) Like I said, if profit is your goal, go play poker! This serious topic is about the ability to live a normal life, not about forcing every one to accept the conclusions of charts and graphs done with slanted studies and flawed logic. I am sorry you are offended by the common persons 'unscientific' discussions about the permanent damage to their children's lives, due to expert 'help' to save society from itself. (I survived the 50s metal jungle gym at school and drank the milk handed to me from a teacher without rubber gloves on-using common sense is a good thing). TOL tries, in a short amount of time to assemble a program that attempts to get people involved. But from these responses, it sounds like a lot of you have missed a good twenty years of PBS's informative reporting on social and economic issues you don't find on AM62 or Rush L!! You might try listening to Democracy Now or KBOO if you think OPB is biased to the left! You may even find Radio Liberty is interesting on AM1330 and that is the far Right-but they are discussioning the same issues-deception of the media, and the elite public by Washington and Corporate America.
But, I appear to be wasting my time commenting to a bunch of
'logical' sophisticrats who complain about speaking of immoral profits and financially based science. Life is not an 'industry'!!!

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You are all so trusting of science and industry-so were the 7 astronauts aboard Challenger!
If you spend time with OPB, you should also spend time watching Bill Moyers and NOW on PBS, where the truth is often exposed. I am so surprised at the sheep like responses to life threatening issues. The people on this program have have serious issues with misinformation from medical experts. The responsibility of each of us is to make choices based on careful research. It is most foolish to assume we are not being exploited by 'well meaning' experts. We have just spent eight years being exploited by 'well meaning' and 'ethical' people. People like Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Chaney, who still defend their unconstitutional and illegal manipulation of our trust, all for the gain of profiteers. Get on with your lives and start paying attention to the present-this aint the fifties anymore! Scamming is legal because laws have been bought-if you don't get that, then go on and ride the shuttle!

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Basic science-you need to define what that means. In the case where it may mean perminent damage, it is basic logic to wait until proven to be worth the risk.

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Scientists? You mean paid 'professors;' of corporate truth? If you get sick from what you ingest, you don't have to be a scientist to find out you consumed something harmful! The real issue is that we are deceived so easily, because science has become a shield. Use your brain, not someone elses. We all can do research without being a 'scientist'! If you listen to 'experts' you may be ill or dead before the truth is revealed rather than controlled 'proof' that is presented to sell a product. Read what Dr. Saulk had to say about vacines!

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Jeffery are you nuts? You don't take poison because it hasn't yet been proven to kill you!!!

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Listen to these wise women. Jen has done her homework. This is not about Polio etc., this has become a money machine-a deception. We have lost trust in a system that has become manipulated to produce profits. We don't know what is real and what is false information. This whole issue is falling on the tales of Pfizer and Wyeths deadly FDA approved drug scam. All Fed programs have become corporate profit centers. Don't forget about the mercury protection attatched to the 911 bill!
Listen to these women, not the drug/money poisoned lobbiests!
robert

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What a great show! Wyden and Kitzhaber-two very healthy people (gym users, who don't eat junk) Two pioneers who have and are guiding Oregon's health issues. I grew up with a father who got up at all hours to go to someone's home and provide medical care. Today, one goes to an emergency room, where one waits because the beds are full of regular patients who can't get a room. You can't determine the cost, because of insurance companies policies. People talk about bureaucracies, the Government is a collection of the people of a nation, an insurance company is a massive, unresponsive bureaucracy! We need to get rid of the middlemen and the money obsessed lobbyist. What ever happened to dedicated and concerned people and volunteers? Secondly, medical tests have become too expensive, because massive corporations thrive on million dollar scanners and sales commissions. Third, the poisonous drug companies who want us hooked on endless, expensive prescriptions that create as many problems than they solve. We need to provide health care to our citizens, not profit to our Military Industrial Complex. Lastly, we need to stop the processing and chemical treating of packaged food, and promote and subsidize a diet that is fresh and healthy, and promote exercise!
Robert

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