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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (392303)	8/10/2009 7:18:00 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Man, so sorry to hear that. Hope she's doing ok for now, her cancer's under control at least. For the blacklist thing, Canada's better for sure ... that would never happen here. I've got my own death panel story, btw, where I thought I was the death panel ... Back when he was 76, my father was in the ICU from a botched colonoscopy/polyp procedure that gave him peritonitis ... after a week or more, him still on a respirator and comatose, I asked a nurse if maybe ... she explained no, patients his age ... a few days later, him awake and breathing on his own, but flipping out of his mind, she then explained 'icu psychosis' ... <g> Upshot was, a month later he was back to being himself, and then lived to 85, all but the last year reasonably good. As for the torture nation thing, saw that ... I'm still going to give him a year, but after that O's going to own it for sure. There just might be hope, though, for health care reform and maybe even the rule of law one day ... slight flickers of sanity emerging in your national media: cnn.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (392303)	8/12/2009 5:22:59 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

From a guest blogger filling in for Greenwald, on Obama's flip flop on releasing the torture pics: When faced with the atrocities of the Nazi concentration camps at the close of World War II, Eisenhower found that words failed him: "I have never felt able to describe my emotional reactions when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency. Up to that time I had known about it only generally or through secondary sources. I am certain, however that I have never at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock . . . as soon as I returned to Patton's headquarters that evening I sent communications to both Washington and London, urging the two governments to send instantly to Germany a random group of newspaper editors and representative groups from the national legislatures. I felt that the evidence should be immediately placed before the American and British publics in a fashion that would leave no room for cynical doubt." -- "Crusade in Europe," Dwight Eisenhower, pp. 408-9 One can only conclude that the Obama administration is taking refuge in that doubt, or is not prepared to face the consequences in this country once the current veil of doubt is lifted. salon.com