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Molly Ivins cancer 'back with a vengeance'
Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 26, 2007 | LISA SANDBERG

Posted on 01/27/2007 4:43:33 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope

AUSTIN - Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in her recurring battle with breast cancer.

"I think she's tough as a metal boot," her brother, Andy Ivins, said Friday after a visit with her at Seton Medical Center in Austin.

Andy Ivins said his sister was admitted to Seton on Thursday. She spent Friday morning with longtime colleagues and friends, and was "sleeping peacefully" when he arrived later in the day.

A self-described leftist agitator, Ivins, 62, completed a round of radiation treatment in August, but the cancer "came back with a vengeance," and has spread through her body, Andy Ivins said.

Ivins' columns, which she infuses with passion and wit, appear in more than 300 newspapers around the country. She's written six books, four of which were best sellers.

They included Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, which she wrote with longtime friend Lou Dubose; and Who Let the Dogs In? Incredible Political Animals I Have Known.

Ivins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1999. A year later, she described her treatment with characteristic wit: "First they poison you; then they mutilate you; then they burn you. I've had more fun."

She received her third diagnosis a year ago; despite her illness, she's managed to crank out her columns.

In a piece earlier this month, she wrote that she was starting a newspaper crusade to end the war in Iraq.

"Raise hell," she urged readers. "Think of something ridiculous to make the ridiculous look ridiculous. ... We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!' "


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bitter; deathtomollyivins; liar; mollyivins; worthless
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To: Sooner1938
The world will be a better place without this left-wing bit-h. Good riddance, says I. I can think of thousands of left-wingers I'd like to see suffer exactly the same fate.

Get help. Seriously.

Politics is not a fight between Manichean forces of good and evil. Molly Ivins may be a political advesary who has used dirty tactics, but that doesn't mean we should gloat when she gets cancer!

101 posted on 01/27/2007 8:05:03 AM PST by jude24
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To: edpc
she was cute when she was a puppy

As you know, female puppies grow up to be bitches.

102 posted on 01/27/2007 8:05:08 AM PST by reg45
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To: All

Cancer isn't about a person deserving it. It strikes people regardless of how good or bad they are. To wish it upon a political enemy is puts you on the same level as people like Ivins. I doubt you really want to share that space with her.

Remember the mast things said about Laura Ingram? Don't lower yourselves to that standard of behavior. Rise above it and wish Ivins well despite her nasty demeanor.


103 posted on 01/27/2007 8:08:01 AM PST by ShandaLear (Perfect People Need Support, too.)
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To: G Larry
Pray for her, lest your judgement be visited upon you.

Possibly her judgement of others is being visited upon herself? Karma can be a bitch.

104 posted on 01/27/2007 8:08:15 AM PST by Zman516 ("Allah" is Satan, actually.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Can you cite one published research paper that analyzed the statistical correlation between "malignant hatred" and the incidence of cancer?

We're all waiting.....


105 posted on 01/27/2007 8:08:47 AM PST by HoosierFather
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To: ShandaLear

mast = nasty


106 posted on 01/27/2007 8:09:14 AM PST by ShandaLear (Perfect People Need Support, too.)
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To: HoosierFather

I do personally think that stress, keeping emotions bottled up, anger, etc., can lead to disease and/or exacerbate a genetic predisposition to disease. But certainly some if not most disease can be random and unexplainable.


107 posted on 01/27/2007 8:09:26 AM PST by veronica (http://z8.invisionfree.com/Tears_of_a_Kloughn/index.php?showforum=1)
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To: Blackirish
Because FR's have or should have more compassion and class then the grave dancers at Koz or Democrat Underground.

Last month, when my son was killed, there was a thread on DU offering prayers and support for my family. They rightly said that suffering transcends politics. We are all human. We all feel pain.

Ms. Ivins and her family are in my prayers.

108 posted on 01/27/2007 8:09:50 AM PST by Dianna
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To: HoosierFather

In my experience it's usually the nasty ones who live to be 200.


109 posted on 01/27/2007 8:10:07 AM PST by ShandaLear (Perfect People Need Support, too.)
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To: HoosierFather
I know of many cases of people getting sick after the death of a loved one, or some other trauma. As far as malignant hatred, it may not YOU sick, but it can make everyone who comes in contact with you want to blow lunch. ;)
110 posted on 01/27/2007 8:12:26 AM PST by veronica (http://z8.invisionfree.com/Tears_of_a_Kloughn/index.php?showforum=1)
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To: Dianna

That was decent of them.


111 posted on 01/27/2007 8:13:49 AM PST by null and void (<----- Shocked and odd...)
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To: Beth528

Cancer, once manifest is always there, the best medicine can do is force remissions.

It's a major programming error and copies itself until there is no unaffected organ.


112 posted on 01/27/2007 8:17:57 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: HoosierFather
It's been in the literature for years. Look it up. I don't have a reference sitting here on a Saturday morning. But it's not my idea, and it's not new.
113 posted on 01/27/2007 8:21:29 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: veronica

I agree with you that stress can be correlated with a myriad of diseases (e.g. hypertension). However, the uniformed posting to this topic seem to think that Molly Ivin's aggressive liberal tendencies or her lack of faith and spirituality (typical of liberals) caused her cancer and her progression over 6 years to the metastatic setting. The reasons for her disease are related to biology rather than to spirituality or politics....


114 posted on 01/27/2007 8:24:50 AM PST by HoosierFather
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To: Dianna
That is nice....but look at any DU thread where a prominent conservative dies.

Reagans death was a non-stop celebration as was Fords. The threads on poor Barbara Olsens death who died on one of the 9/11 planes was truly sickening.
115 posted on 01/27/2007 8:26:53 AM PST by Blackirish (David Dinkins:"Rudy as President is kind of frightening.My question will be, will I move to Bermuda")
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To: HoosierFather
The whole issue of how thoughts and emotions affect health is interesting. I am sure someone out there has studies of disease rates vis a vis people with a belief in God and those without.
116 posted on 01/27/2007 8:29:01 AM PST by veronica (http://z8.invisionfree.com/Tears_of_a_Kloughn/index.php?showforum=1)
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To: Ninian Dryhope

She needs to look within herself and write about what she finds there. In other words, prepare to meet her Maker. (It's good advice for all of us.)


117 posted on 01/27/2007 8:31:15 AM PST by hershey
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To: jude24
Molly Ivins may be a political advesary who has used dirty tactics, but that doesn't mean we should gloat when she gets cancer!

Why not?

The key is to gloat in private and not on an internet forum.

...especially one where Hillary can hire goons to track us down and make us pay for all the nasty things we've said about her.

/s

118 posted on 01/27/2007 8:32:14 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: hinckley buzzard

As I thought, you cannot cite a single reference...

If this concept of 'malignant hatred causing cancer' has been in the literature for years, you should have no problem finding a reference of a legitimate study with data supporting your theory.

In my world, cancer is caused by tangible things like smoking, diet, environmental exposure, genetics, etc.


119 posted on 01/27/2007 8:33:46 AM PST by HoosierFather
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To: Darkwolf377

Ditto to Ms. Ivins from me.


120 posted on 01/27/2007 8:37:08 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God is giving you countless observable clues of His existence!)
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