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Here is the whole text (from the link above): Psychiatry Turns A Hard Left The American Psychiatric Association, in an attempt to expedite its descent into irrelevance, this week at its annual meeting chose to endorse same-sex marriage. Before one applauds the moral fortitude and progressive instinct of this august body, we may want to ask not whether there should or should not be same-sex marriage, but what psychiatry could possibly contribute to this discussion. The answer is nothing. You can't get away with pat answers, such as psychiatrists see the psychiatric ramifications of discrimination or being unable to marry....

And here we have the other side of the arguement: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/index.php?title=the_british_medical_journal_owes_lilly_a&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1second to last paragraph

From the article about this news story: My personal feelings aside, this latest frenzy over evolution is schools is equally dumb. Here’s what the sticker says: Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. The material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully, and critically considered. This is factually correct. Evolution is a theory. The bones are facts, the concept that explains them and relates bones from different times is the theory. Evolution isn’t a fact any more than the law of gravity, which has freqently been revised and rewritten. That’s okay, because...

(FYI, The bad language originally in this post was from the cites quoted in the article, not the article itself).Hi there. I thought we were finished with the election idiocy, but once again I made the mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the American public. Well, the 49% of you who voted for Kerry. You've seen their websites. f***thesouth.com. Sorryeverybody.com. So much for maintaining dignity in defeat. All of you who think f***thesouth.com is oh so clever, all of you who posted your stupid pictures up on Sorryeverybody.com, all you idiots who are surprised about “moral values” showing up in...

...HDTV and digital television is simply a way for the U.S. government to transfer enormous sums of money from the pockets of U.S. consumers to Japanese electronics manufacturers in gratitude for all that lobby money they threw around in the 1980’s. Now that personal computers are recognized as perfectly suitable HDTV alternatives, Congress is trying to close the loop. The intention of the part of the FCC is to make sure that money for TV hardware flows to Asia, not to Redmond, or Cupertino. Of course, they will fail. That the FCC thinks it can regulate the hardware you...

Frome the article: Arafat also has died of a mysterious illness, according to French doctors. For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to assume that French doctors, unlike the French military, are roughly equivalent to their American counterparts. A mysterious illness. This is really my favorite part. Think back for a moment on all the people who have died during your lifetime. Has anyone died of a mysterious illness? No, because we know what all the illnesses are. Did he have cancer? No, they checked. Heart disease? No. Poison? Nope, they checked that too. All they know is that...

Here are the obvious things we know: George W. Bush won the popular vote and the electoral vote. Bush is the first President-elect since 1988 to win the popular vote by a majority rather than a plurality. Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and Bush in 2000 all won with less than 50%. Ralph Nader wasn’t a spoiler. He only won slightly more votes than the Libertarian and Constitution parties combined, which ostensibly drew votes from the Republicans. Democrats have no popular support outside of urban areas, and no support in the South and West. Terry McAuliffe will be summarily fired....

It just occurred to me that when people like Atrios said OBL was captured a long time ago, but we know he obviously wasn't, how do they reconcile this in their minds? Which is, of course, the perfect metaphor for Kerry, who doesn't actually flip flop, so much as hold totally incompatible ideas until forced (i.e. caught on tape) to pick one. Is there anything in physics that could serve as a good metaphor...? http://johnkerrymustlose.com/index.php?title=the_first_to_apologize_will_be&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Remember all the left wing nuts whop thought OBL was already in custody, and Bush was waiting till the last minute to reveal it? Guess they were wrong...

Democrats lie about intelligence- they have none. Dumber than chickens and twice as smelly, Becky and Sean are back to explain the Democratic Praty platform with the psychological confusion and torsion of logic that has become their trademark. Here's an excerpt (the full is long, FYI): Remember the debates? It says here that Bush was wearing an earpiece and receiving messages from Karl Rove!” Becky was getting excited. She might even update her blog. “Isn’t he dead?” “No, that’s Karl Marx. Karl Rove is that guy from TEXAS who runs Bush’s life from BEHIND THE SCENES.” Now Sean understood. Rove...

And I am quoting: "Iraq tried to manipulate foreign governments by awarding contracts — and bribes — to foreign companies and political figures in countries that showed support for ending sanctions, in particular Russia, France and China, the final report by the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group said earlier this month. But Annan said it was "inconceivable" Saddam's activities could have influenced policy in the countries concerned. "I don't think the Russian or the French or the Chinese government would allow itself to be bought..." Annan said. " Hard to believe he's not Emperor. The rest of his comments are equally...

Check out this terrorism timeline from the 1980s and 90s. Kerry is so fixated on bin laden that he's forgotten about all the non-al qaeda islamic terrorism directed against America while he was on the Senate Foreign Realtions Committee. I'm actually worried that if he's elected, we will actually be more in the line of fire than we are now. How do democrats not get it?

this is a great article about how dems putting envrironmental politics before our interests is costing us at the pump.What is amazing to me is that you never hear anyone talk about ANWR in the discussion of these oil prices, it's all bush and halliburton.

READ THIS AND LAUGHBush won, and John Kerry demonstrated he can be more of a dork than Al Gore when it comes to quoting numbers that are based on nothing but campaign artifice and imaginary numbers in an Excel spreadsheet. recent It was very gratifying to see John Kerry put on the defensive and forced to rely on the retail scare tactics about healthcare, Medicare, and social security that have relegated the Democratic Party to the status of the disloyal opposition. Kerry bloviated endlessly about rolling back tax cuts to pay for healthcare and inspecting airplanes, in bridges, in tunnels,...

Here is a quick question: How old is the data which the FDA used to pull Vioxx?

From this article: 9-11 Report concluded there WERE ties between Iraq and al Qaeda: “Rice’s chief staffer on Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, concurred in its conclusion that only some anecdotal evidence linked Iraq to al Qaeda”. That means there was some evidence linking the two. Anecdotal evidence is still evidence. Don’t expect Al Qaeda and Iraq to keep the exhaustive records and memos of a U.S. tobacco company. There’s more: “It passed along a few foreign intelligence reports, including the Czech report alleging an April 2001 Prague meeting between Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer (discussed in chapter 7) and a...

Notice that everything Cheney said was attached to a figure, while everything Edwards said involved persuasion. Example: For example, a gay couple now has a very difficult time, one, visiting the other when they're in the hospital, or, for example, if, heaven forbid, one of them were to pass away, they have trouble even arranging the funeral. Heaven forbid? You understand that this gay couple is hypothetical, right? They don't actually exist? He has almost no ability for genuione compassion, so he fakes it; but he fakes it so often that he doesn't actually know when faking it is unnecessary....

“Hi, I’m John Edwards. Are you poor or out of work, but own a Playstation? Are you afraid of white men in business suits? Scared of corporations? Do you believe Halliburton causes terrorism, AIDS, and vapor lock? Do you think France is more important than Great Britain, Poland, and Japan put together? If so, call 1-800-LIB-ERAL. If you have a phone, you have a lawyer, I mean liberal. No, wait! I mean Vice-President. Can we try this again?”The Vice-Presidential debates proved conclusively that the Democratic Party is little more than shallow platitudes that appeal superficially to the contradictory interest...

Democrats should be ready to have their comfortable delusions about the Bush administration shattered the moment Dick Cheney opens his mouth tonight. Let me tell you a little something about your Vice President. You could put an ice cube in his mouth at the start of the debate and pull it out completely intact at the end. He keeps his cool under pressure. He’s not going to be rattled by a walking parody of a third rate character in a second rate legal potboiler. Expect this debate to be about all the nonsense you’ve heard during the campaign, and...

Kerry missed the big picture in the debate tonight. He looked good and spoke well, etc., but he lost the debate of ideas. To kerry, the war on terror is about bin laden and only bin laden. This article hits it on the head: He sees the events of 9-11 as an isolated attack by a madman, rather than the culmination of attacks on the west that begin at least with the 1972 attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli athletes and proceeds with the overthrow of the Shah in Iran and the taking of US hostages, the assassination of Anwar...