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Choices in presidential candidates? One is counting on other women sticking up for her when she sided with her husband against many other women that were wronged by her husband, saying you just have to search inside yourself for the right answer. I guess the right answer is between, 'I care about other women, as long as I'm related to them' and 'I really didn't care about them compared to my own skin.'
Then there's a candidate whose middle name is the same as the leader of a foreign country who slaughtered his own countrymen and was defeated by America, but we're not allowed to repeat his middle name for fear of reprisals from people who hate others branded as haters. Then we have a candidate who believes what he knows about his religion is far different from what everyone else knows to be true about his religion. Actually, we may have two or three of those candidates. Then there's one who actually is who he says he is, but claims one party while acting for the one he's really in. Then the other one who is actually in both parties, but would have us believe he's not.
DAVID HASKINS
Sparks
Life is breath
Thank you for the informative opinion "Overturning Roe...", Jan. 23, 2008. There are extremely radical views that refuse to consider anything less. While most of us are not into big fights, no one actually wins fighting; our view and thoughts should be such that they can apply to all.
The Bible has some answers for many and they should be considered: Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." Man was formed from dirt, a perfect model but he was not alive until the breath of life. That is air. Then the dirt model became a living creature (soul), now flesh and blood and breathing oxygen. Compare this with man's ability to procreate by an egg and sperm instead of raw material.
An embryo is only a model of what will become a child if all goes well. There is no life until the embryo breaths oxygen, the breath of life in its own lungs. There should not be all the fighting and hatred concerning embryos. Life is breath and without it the model never lived. It goes back to dust as does all flesh.
Folks who do not accept creation and espouse evolution need not be concerned because evolution also depends upon the breath of life in all creatures.
Isn't it wonderful that the air we breathe is free to all?
NADINE WILCOX
Wellington
Legal drugs aren't necessarily safe drugs
"Heath Ledger had six prescriptions, but no illegal drugs" proclaimed the Appeal (1/14/2008) reporting on the death of the young actor. When are people going to wake up to the "other" drug problem washing over America, that of prescription drugs? Because they are legal, they are believed to be safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although replete with Food and Drug Administration Black-Box warnings of dangerous side-effects, the consumption of psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs, both psychiatric and pain killers, continues to escalate.
The American Psychiatric Association is an agent of harm as it pushes the biological model of mental disorders and pathologizes normal behaviors from exuberance in children to melancholy in adults. Without a shred of scientific evidence the APA has enshrined "biochemical imbalances in the brain" as the cause of all mental illnesses.
For every one of the 374 made-up mental disorders in the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the pharmaceutical companies have a drug to "balance" the "imbalance." The psychopharmaceutical industry exists in an immoral symbiosis magnifying profits at the expense of patients' wellbeing.
MedWatch is an FDA voluntary Adverse Reaction reporting service to which only 1 to 10 percent of ARs are reported. During the 1990s, 186 deaths from Ritalin or "Kiddie Cocaine" were reported.
In 2008, at least a dozen jury trials are scheduled across the country for Paxil suicide-related cases because of GlaxoSmithKline's failure to warn consumers about the known risk of suicide ideation.
Eli Lilly is facing a $1 billion federal fine for illegal marketing of the drug Zyprexa. Lilly has already paid $1.2 billion to settle 30,000 lawsuits for harmful side-effects.
In 2005, the Center for Disease Control reported that the number of accidental drug overdose deaths from all drugs increased from 11,155 to 19,838 between 1999 and 2004. Included in this statistic is an 83.5 percent increase in deaths from psychiatric drugs.
Heath Ledger is just the latest celebrity casualty of prescription drugs. How many casualties are there among the nameless?
Remember the sweet child Rebecca Riley. How many more deaths before this epidemic is stopped?
SHARON STEELE KIENTZ
Carson City
Choices in presidential candidates? One is counting on other women sticking up for her when she sided with her husband against many other women that were wronged by her husband, saying you just have to search inside yourself for the right answer. I guess the right answer is between, 'I care about other women, as long as I'm related to them' and 'I really didn't care about them compared to my own skin.'
Then there's a candidate whose middle name is the same as the leader of a foreign country who slaughtered his own countrymen and was defeated by America, but we're not allowed to repeat his middle name for fear of reprisals from people who hate others branded as haters. Then we have a candidate who believes what he knows about his religion is far different from what everyone else knows to be true about his religion. Actually, we may have two or three of those candidates. Then there's one who actually is who he says he is, but claims one party while acting for the one he's really in. Then the other one who is actually in both parties, but would have us believe he's not.
DAVID HASKINS
Sparks
Life is breath
Thank you for the informative opinion "Overturning Roe...", Jan. 23, 2008. There are extremely radical views that refuse to consider anything less. While most of us are not into big fights, no one actually wins fighting; our view and thoughts should be such that they can apply to all.
The Bible has some answers for many and they should be considered: Genesis 2:7 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul." Man was formed from dirt, a perfect model but he was not alive until the breath of life. That is air. Then the dirt model became a living creature (soul), now flesh and blood and breathing oxygen. Compare this with man's ability to procreate by an egg and sperm instead of raw material.
An embryo is only a model of what will become a child if all goes well. There is no life until the embryo breaths oxygen, the breath of life in its own lungs. There should not be all the fighting and hatred concerning embryos. Life is breath and without it the model never lived. It goes back to dust as does all flesh.
Folks who do not accept creation and espouse evolution need not be concerned because evolution also depends upon the breath of life in all creatures.
Isn't it wonderful that the air we breathe is free to all?
NADINE WILCOX
Wellington
Legal drugs aren't necessarily safe drugs
"Heath Ledger had six prescriptions, but no illegal drugs" proclaimed the Appeal (1/14/2008) reporting on the death of the young actor. When are people going to wake up to the "other" drug problem washing over America, that of prescription drugs? Because they are legal, they are believed to be safe. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although replete with Food and Drug Administration Black-Box warnings of dangerous side-effects, the consumption of psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs, both psychiatric and pain killers, continues to escalate.
The American Psychiatric Association is an agent of harm as it pushes the biological model of mental disorders and pathologizes normal behaviors from exuberance in children to melancholy in adults. Without a shred of scientific evidence the APA has enshrined "biochemical imbalances in the brain" as the cause of all mental illnesses.
For every one of the 374 made-up mental disorders in the APA's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the pharmaceutical companies have a drug to "balance" the "imbalance." The psychopharmaceutical industry exists in an immoral symbiosis magnifying profits at the expense of patients' wellbeing.
MedWatch is an FDA voluntary Adverse Reaction reporting service to which only 1 to 10 percent of ARs are reported. During the 1990s, 186 deaths from Ritalin or "Kiddie Cocaine" were reported.
In 2008, at least a dozen jury trials are scheduled across the country for Paxil suicide-related cases because of GlaxoSmithKline's failure to warn consumers about the known risk of suicide ideation.
Eli Lilly is facing a $1 billion federal fine for illegal marketing of the drug Zyprexa. Lilly has already paid $1.2 billion to settle 30,000 lawsuits for harmful side-effects.
In 2005, the Center for Disease Control reported that the number of accidental drug overdose deaths from all drugs increased from 11,155 to 19,838 between 1999 and 2004. Included in this statistic is an 83.5 percent increase in deaths from psychiatric drugs.
Heath Ledger is just the latest celebrity casualty of prescription drugs. How many casualties are there among the nameless?
Remember the sweet child Rebecca Riley. How many more deaths before this epidemic is stopped?
SHARON STEELE KIENTZ
Carson City
