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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: Glenn

As a person that believes in Karma. I wish her the best.


81 posted on 01/27/2007 7:50:41 AM PST by griswold3
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To: Ninian Dryhope
From one of her columns, where she quotes one of her favorite writers as well:
"Fundamentalist Christian missionaries are now salivating over the prospect of going to Iraq to convert the hapless heathen. This is guaranteed to make America as popular as the clap in the region. The Southern Baptists are poised to deploy en masse, reminding us of Texas newspaperman William Brann's famous comment, 'The trouble with our Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough.' "
Mild writing for Molly. She often quoted Brann, whom she openly admired and spoke well of. If you don't have a strong stomach, don't ever read what he thought should be done with blacks, Christians, conservatives etc.

He, as well as his opponent, died in a duel in Waco. Molly said: "It's a shame we have no William Brann or H.L. Mencken around to mock some of the more patent idiocies advanced in the name of organized religion."

She didn't think Ronald Reagan should "be above criticism" prior to his death. http://www.alternet.org/story/17136/

Should she not be above criticism?

She criticized Reagan up to his death, even saying: "This is the man (Ronald Reagan) who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency” http://thinkexist.com/quotes/molly_ivins/
82 posted on 01/27/2007 7:51:09 AM PST by Verbosus
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To: msnimje
Shouldn't everybody get what they deserve?

Everybody should, but through God's grace, some of us don't.

83 posted on 01/27/2007 7:51:55 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: tioga

You did say in this one case, and I apologize and recognize that she deserves this fate because of her politics (rolling eyes).


84 posted on 01/27/2007 7:52:08 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: HoosierFather

Amen. At this moment, politics is a child's game which she should stop playing. The Lord will not ask us which political cause we supported.


85 posted on 01/27/2007 7:52:34 AM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Blackirish
Decause FR's have or should have more compassion and class then the grave dancers at Koz or Democrat Underground.

It makes you wonder just who some of these people are, doesn't it?

86 posted on 01/27/2007 7:54:03 AM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: Ninian Dryhope
Ivins' columns, which she infuses with passion and wit

Should be "infused with hatred and hostility." Everyone has to die of something, and "vengeful" cancer is a fitting end for a malignant hater.

87 posted on 01/27/2007 7:54:12 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Ninian Dryhope

Posters. It is the left which perfected sliming and the politics of personal destruction.
We on the right should not be doing the same. Wishing her evil is not fitting. We descend to the level of the left and are no better.


88 posted on 01/27/2007 7:56:46 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism is demented)
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To: Blackirish
Decause FR's have or should have more compassion and class then the grave dancers at Koz or Democrat Underground.

You do not believe that people should get what they deserve?

I sure do.

Now, had the poster said, "She deserves to die a horrible death," THAT Would have been DU like.
89 posted on 01/27/2007 7:56:50 AM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: Howlin
.It makes you wonder just who some of these people are, doesn't it?

Nail on the head....

90 posted on 01/27/2007 7:57:32 AM PST by Mr.Unique ("Are you gonna propose? Because if you're not, quit staring at me!")
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To: linda_22003
I also said May God have mercy on her. I will let God decide what mercy is to be bestowed upon her, at least I asked for some. RME
91 posted on 01/27/2007 7:58:32 AM PST by tioga
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To: Ninian Dryhope

Cancer treatment is initially more devistating than the cancer.
Pray for her, lest your judgement be visited upon you.


92 posted on 01/27/2007 7:58:40 AM PST by G Larry (Only strict constructionists on the Supreme Court!)
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To: flynmudd
Maybe it's the hatred that has inhabited her soul that is causing the cancer to kill her body.

The connection between malignant hatred and cancer has been noted by mind-body medicine for many years. Abundant exceptions of course, but the statistics are there.

93 posted on 01/27/2007 7:58:53 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: msnimje

Oh, you mean like post #87.


94 posted on 01/27/2007 7:59:37 AM PST by linda_22003
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To: Mr.Unique

Not much question about it, if you ask me.


95 posted on 01/27/2007 7:59:46 AM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: Howlin
I think it's perfectly legitimate for some people here to just not give a damn about her situation. She sure as heck has never been brimming over with compassion. I don't think they are being venal. They don't really wish her harm, but they aren't going to be phony and pretend to care either.
96 posted on 01/27/2007 8:00:18 AM PST by veronica (http://z8.invisionfree.com/Tears_of_a_Kloughn/index.php?showforum=1)
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To: flynmudd

I recently had a cousin die of brain cancer within 4 months after diagnosis. She was only 49 and had been an oncology nurse for over 25 years. She was a wonderful person who helped many people with a strong faith and a tremendously positive and selfless spirit.

Do you really believe that Molly Ivins experienced breast cancer and her disease progressed over 6-7 years to the metastatic stage because she has an unhealthy soul resulting from an ultra-liberal political point of view? What's more likely is that she was a smoker during her lifetime or she has a genetic predisposition to breast cancer and her cancer is of a type that did not respond well to standard therapies.

As someone working in the field of oncology, let me tell you that cancer kills Republicans as well as Democrats, people of faith as well as those of little faith.


97 posted on 01/27/2007 8:01:02 AM PST by HoosierFather
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To: Ninian Dryhope

I do hope she is not suffering and that this time of difficulty gives her the opportunity to reflect on life and its meaning and perhaps have some insights she may not have had in the past.


98 posted on 01/27/2007 8:01:33 AM PST by Old_Mil (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: linda_22003

Yes, like that.


99 posted on 01/27/2007 8:02:18 AM PST by msnimje (You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
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To: Ninian Dryhope

She should move to Cuba. She will get free health care and a bed next to her buddy Fidel.


100 posted on 01/27/2007 8:02:48 AM PST by reg45
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