Barbra Streisand: The new Janet Reno

I have a friend who was widowed when her husband, who had hemophilia, got HIV from unsafe blood products used to treat his genetic disease. His infection happened before screening procedures were in place, so I consider it a bad outcome rather than medical negligence, but that's neither here nor there. It seems to take a lawsuit to get people to fix these things anyway. (Why IS that?)

His death was long and painful--and expensive, even before the life-prolonging drug regimens became available. Little was known then, so all HIV carriers were guinea pigs, by necessity.

Also long and painful was the resulting class-action lawsuit, which left her with a paid-off-house...and angry former in-laws who felt the money should have been theirs, so they've been dragging her back to court periodically to try to get the money away from her. She is HIV negative which is truly a blessing and a miracle, but she may never find a man who is as good to her as the one she lost.

That anyone could deliberately or negligently spread this to innocent others absolutely infuriates me. As you say--it is NOT curable--but we know enough now to be almost 100% sure of preventing it.

Please note in Africa, HIV positive men are raping infants to try to "cure" their infections. There's hardly a way in the world to keep anyone safe when people set out to make innocent people sick.

A sad but oft repeated story.

Innocent victims.

The Red Cross here and abroad have been criminal.

Then there is the Clinton/Arkansas/Canada AIDS infected convict's blood scandal we saw so much on US TV and the NYT.......

The left uses the courts.

Mark Levin of Landmark Legal Foundation (WABC 770am NYC M-F 6-7pm) and others know how to use it better.

Unaccountable federal judges are another matter.

I see darkness on the horizon.

For them.

FReegards......

Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning actor who has appeared in the landmark television series Law and Order, the mini-series Holocaust, and the recent mini-series Taken. In 2002 he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his work in James Dean.

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MIDI - MEMORIES (Memory, from Cats)

Memories of an airhead named Streisand
She had lived in our country but then she went away

She had left because George Bush fumigated Our House
Thank you George…you’ve made our day

Memories of the Hollywood leftists
No, let’s just call them Marxists because that’s what they are

They’re so full of it and they all think that what they say counts
It is really quite bizarre

Streisand’s whining…Streisand’s screeching…the GOP hates the needy
But she’s now worth over 80 million…so tell us, Babs, who’s greedy?

Memories of the pals who went with her
There was Cher, Alec Baldwin, and the Big Rosie O

We don’t miss them…no, we don’t miss them one single bit
What’s the reason?…they all blow

Memories of an airhead named Streisand
She had lived in our country but then she went away

We grew weary as every day she’d open her mouth
Now she's gone…it’s okay

Streisand’s whining…Streisand’s screeching…the GOP hates the needy
But she’s now worth well over 80 million…so tell us, Babs, who’s greedy?

Memories of an airhead named Streisand
She had lived in our country but then she went away

She had left because George Bush fumigated Our House
Thank you George…you’ve made our day

good post
I'll second that ! ...
Unsuccessful vice presidential candidate Barbra Streisand (Democrat). Picked by a desperate President Al Gore in his 2004 re-election race, hungry to shore up the female vote after photos of then-Vice President Bob Kerrey in a ménage with Debra Winger and Jack Nicholson were discovered, Streisand's foray into electoral politics was an unmitigated disaster. She even lost the middle-aged-Northeast-liberal-Jewish-woman's vote. "Papa? Can you hear me?" she sang to the incredulous Democratic Party conventioneers in Malibu that summer. Her campaign commercials were criticized by many in the media for, as NBC's Brian Williams put it, "being short on substance, and long on legs. And what's with the soft lighting? What, does she think we're idiots?" So insistent upon casting herself as her own campaign manager, pollster, handler, and media consultant, Streisand collapsed in a fit of exhaustion while pressing flesh in New Mexico. Hubbie James Brolin rushed her off to the hospital; she was never heard from or seen again.

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Tue Sep 24, 9:29 PM ET

Barbra Streisand is emerging from self-imposed retirement as an entertainer to help out her old pals in the Democratic Party. Two years after bidding farewell to her career as a public performer Streisand will sing nine songs at a benefit for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, organizers said September 24, 2002. Streisand is seen backstage at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, March 24. Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters

Barbara Streisand was born April 24, 1942

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