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WNBA and Olympian Diana Taurasi and Team USA Women’s Coach Cheryl Reeve used the Olympics to push Kamala Harris for president in an interview with USA Today. Taurasi is interviewed on video wearing her Team USA uniform shirt and saying that “a lot of us” see themselves in Harris. “More than anything, you know, for me, it’s policy,” Taurasi said of the most radically far-left candidate the Democrats have ever put up for the nomination, “What are you going to do for the people of America that need you?” “And I think there’s, you know, a big portion of us...

Ted Kennedy Meets Christopher Reeve

This video was on the old National Lampoon site, it is no longer there. Obviously the new Lampoon people are too Liberal to show this. I do not know the politics of the creator of this, but he definitely knows what’s funny. Definitely dark humor, but in the TRUE tradition of the Lampoon. (Michael O'Donoghue would have LOVED this) Found this on YouTube! I am SOOOO Happy to finally share this with fellow sick-minded FReepers. If you don't like dark humor....don't click this link!Ted Kennedy Meets Christopher Reeve

A STATEMENT FROM SCOTT THOMAS BEAUCHAMP: As we've noted in this space, some have questioned details that appeared in the Diarist "Shock Troops," published under the pseudonym Scott Thomas. According to Major Kirk Luedeke, a public affairs officer at Forward Operating Base Falcon, a formal military investigation has also been launched into the incidents described in the piece. Although the article was rigorously edited and fact-checked before it was published, we have decided to go back and, to the extent possible, re-report every detail. This process takes considerable time, as the primary subjects are on another continent, with intermittent access...

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter Hollywood, CA (AHN) – Hollywood funnyman and Oscar-winner, Robin Williams vows to care for Christopher and Dana Reeve's 13-year-old orphaned son, Will. The former Superman star passed away in October 2004, and wife died of lung cancer last week. Reeves and Williams became close friends while studying acting together at the Juilliard School of drama in New York City. Williams committed himself to the family after Reeve was paralyzed in a 1995 riding accident. The World Entertainment News Network quotes a relative of Dana's who says of Williams, "He has already been...

She died of lung cancer. Haven't found any links yet. Heard it on WLSAM Chicago.

Did years of singing in smoky nightclubs kill Dana Reeve, the widow of paralysed Superman actor Christopher Reeve? She died yesterday of lung cancer even though she was not a smoker. "Ten to 15 per cent of people who develop lung cancer are thought to be non-smokers. It was said that she had, in the course of being an entertainer, spent a lot of time in pubs, in nightclubs, in which there is a lot of cigarette smoke," said Dr James Mulshine from Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago. Reeve, 44, won worldwide admiration for her devotion to her husband...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dana Reeve, the widow of "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, announced on Tuesday that she had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Article Tools Printer friendly E-mail to a friend Nation RSS feed Available RSS feeds Most e-mailed More: Globe Nation stories | Latest national news | Globe front page | Boston.com Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Reeve, 44, who put her own acting career on hold to nurse her husband after he was paralyzed in a riding accident, said in a brief statement she was undergoing treatment and was optimistic about the...

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diagnosed with lung cancer, and am currently undergoing treatment," Reeve said in a statement. "I have an excellent team of physicians, and we are optimistic about my prognosis." "Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge," Reeve said. "As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage and hope in the face of life's adversities." Christopher Reeve, the onetime Hollywood "Superman" turned activist for spinal cord research after a horse-riding accident, died Oct. 10, 2004. Dana Reeve, an actress, was a constant companion and supporter of...

March 26, 2005 Whose Life Is Worth Living? By Orson Scott Card It wasn’t that many years ago when I happened to be in Raleigh at a gathering of literary folk who were quite full of their own superiority. They started talking about people who (gasp!) let years go by without reading a single book. “Why do they even bother being alive?” asked one of them. Almost everyone laughed. They went on and on about the worthlessness of the lives of non-intellectuals. Shopping in malls. Eating at McDonald’s. Driving their gas-guzzling cars. I did ask where they shopped, and which...

The latest issue of the AARP Bulletin http://www.aarp.org/bulletin is typical,filled with leftist, socialist, Democrat idiocy. For example, an article attacks the drug industry and suggests that companies producing drugs in countries with price controls do not have a problem, because they can negotiate prices with their government. Another article says that Medicare has been slow to recognize obesity as a "disease". Another suggests that Bush will cut VA benefits, when in fact VA spending has increased significantly under Bush. Another article points out how Superman (Christopher Reeve) had a hard time understanding Bush's position on stem cell research. As if...

Reeve's Star-Packed Tribute Saturday October 30, 08:25 AM For the last nine years of his life, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed, yet he still managed to move the hearts of innumerable individuals. More than 900 people turned out Friday to pay tribute to the late actor at an invitation-only memorial at the Juilliard School in New York, where Reeve honed his craft more than 30 years ago before bursting onto the big screen as Superman. Individuals who figured in different aspects of Reeve's life were due to speak at the service, including family members, fellow actors, like-minded activists and politicians. Reeve's...

William Saletan wrote in the online magazine Slate last August that stem-cell research had become something like a religion to the Democrats, and that was before John Edwards' incredible words the other day. The vice presidential nominee told us that if elected president, John Kerry would enable the lame to walk. It was as if he were talking about Kerry having supernatural powers. "Christopher Reeve just passed away, and America just lost a great champion for this cause, somebody who was a powerful voice for the need to do stem-cell research and change the lives of people like him, who...

It turned out days later that the Kerry campaign has a plan -- nay, a promise -- to cure paralysis. What is the plan? John Edwards on Monday at a rally in Newton, Iowa: "If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again." I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable. First, the inability of the human spinal...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) on Thursday accused President Bush (news - web sites) of slowing scientific advancement after earning a special endorsement from the widow of actor Christopher Reeve, a proponent of the embryonic stem cell research on which the president has placed limits. "The American people deserve a president who understands that when America invests in science and technology, we can build a stronger economy and create jobs for the 21st century," Kerry said during a campaign rally. "But George Bush (news - web sites) has literally ... turned his back on the...

I have a hard time understanding how any voting Catholic or Protestant can vote for Kerry after the Pope himself has made this statement: ....The decision is up to U.S. President George W. Bush, who met Monday with the pontiff in Italy. There, the pope compared embryo research to euthanasia and infanticide. "A free and virtuous society, which America aspires to be, must reject practices that devalue and violate human life at any stage from conception until natural dead," the Pope said.

Christopher Reeve and I had several things in common — we were both born in 1952, we both shattered our spinal cords and our lives through unforeseen accidents, and we've both wanted desperately to be free from our wheelchairs and the many medical problems associated with spinal cord injury. I was saddened to hear of Reeve's death, as I've appreciated the awareness he's brought to curing spinal cord injuries. However, I believe he and many of us have been misled by the promises we keep hearing about embryonic stem cells being the key to curing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and a...

Christopher Reeve's shocking death at age 52 is cause for deep mourning over the loss of a remarkable human being and for rededication to the cause he fought for: medical research across the board. Reeve, as the whole world knows, was the victim of a horrific spinal cord injury. But he did not limit his activism to finding a cure for his own affliction. He was an advocate for every disease victim - and everyone who could be cured of a disease in the future. In the midst of this presidential campaign, his death is legitimately focusing attention on his...

It's panic time out there in the Kerry campaign. There's no other way to explain-- well, there may be other ways to explain it, but panic time is clearly the overriding thing. The fact that they are willing to say and do anything to be unconscionable to win this election, those are also factors. By the way, the phone number, 800-282-2882 and the Dittocam is on. Let's just cut to the chase here. Yesterday we had the news that Christopher Reeve had passed away. Yesterday on this program I cautioned you to keep a sharp eye for the Kerry campaign...