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Re: The Path of the Disabled Man

Sarah Levis — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:25:51 -0000

This was a very interesting read, and I thank you for sharing it...there's a lot to say about how gender and disability interact, and you've given me a lot to think about.

I think that a lot of men in general struggle with the idea that, with women so much more in the workforce and having careers of their own, they're not so much needed in the provider/protector role as it's been defined in the past anymore...it may be hardwired to an extent, yes, but the way it's played out in the 20th century (as the man being the sole breadwinner and one who's in charge of the family's safety) isn't the way it often plays out in (at least Western) families today. I don't presume to know you and what you're struggling with, but perhaps you're feeling the effects of this collective confusion, compounded by the fact that you do have have disabilities, and the effect that it has on figuring out just what your gender roles are in your situation...I certainly see how defining yourself could feel very difficult and distressing at times.

I think there's hope, though. I've had many discussions (too many, it often seems like) with people about how hard-wired the dimensions of attraction are, and I've always come out of them with the sense that hard-wiring isn't everything. You talked about how men, until they mature, tend to look at women in mostly in terms of their bodies...women, too (at least the smart ones) tend to grow out of viewing men in terms exclusively in terms of what kind of provider they will be.

I do think that perhaps the women who have gotten to that point don't understand how powerful the pressure for men to be "provider" can be. I understand a bit better now that I've read your post, so thank you.

Re: Should Opioid-Acetaminophen Combination Painkillers Be Banned? YES.

Bird1234 — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:42:05 -0000

outrageous to add poison to a medicine, to control use.

Apap Should be banned

Re: Are Pharmacies Operated By 19 Year-Old Girls Safe?

namelessblasphemy23 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:29:58 -0000

I find this quiet intresting, due to I'm in school to be a pharmacy tech,
I know more than my teacher, she's only 3years older yet she recieved her "training" on the job she could barely do the math, or read the perscription properly.
Emily's law yes its a nag to sit thru these classes yet Its sad that uneducated people are handleing our perscriptions and what not. I could have easily paid 133.00$ to take my pharmacy tech license yet Id perfer to obtain proper training before I deal with someone life.
I thank god for emilys law although people still fuck up i go to a pharmacy yes the way I dress doesnt comply with my knowledge so the technicians take me as stupid. thier codes of conduct and ethics are fucked off you dont say "i dont know what that means" as your decoding the sig codes.
As for a 19 year old HELL NO! maturity has nothing to do with this, knowledge and proper handling experiance.
San Diego Job Corps now has pharmacy Technician training! Would I hiring anyone coming out or taking thier program absolutly not.

Re: In-Depth Nick Analysis: Who Are The Basij? The Group That Stopped A New Iranian Revolution

Cameron — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:26:50 -0000

I suggest you read the book prisoner of Tehran where the author who was a political prisoner described Evin prison during the time of the shah with no more than 50 or so prisoners in the whole female corridor upstairs and down and when she was in it during the time of Khomeini there was not even an inch of elbow room. So when you say the Isamic republics no better than the SAVAK you are an idiot. The Islamic Republic is 100 X worst. The SAVAK would only attack serious poltical foes while the basji will attack the same and for more reasons such as dress code, music, and other ridiculous stuff that were freedoms before 1979.

Re: Senator Schumer, Hands Off Our Meds Please

Linda Cheek — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:17:27 -0000

I agree completely. As an attacked physician that helped the patients no one else would, I know from personal experience how depriving pain medicines hurt. Seven of my former patients have died. One committed suicide because she couldn't stand the pain. The current government policy is actually causing more drug addiction than it is preventing. Drug addiction is caused by anxiety, toxicity and despair from living conditions that the person sees no way out of. What better cause of all three is there than not getting your pain treated? Alternatives are available to get to the cause of the pain, but most doctors don't know them. Check them out on my web site, www.lindacheekmd.com.

Re: Nick And The Not So Happy Hospitalist

NickDupree — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:19:01 -0000

family medicine is most definitely the lowest-paid specialty; it's awful how underpaid they often are...

Re: Nick And The Not So Happy Hospitalist

DiverDavePhotog — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:25:26 -0000

Nick:

This was an interesting read & I certainly consider your points valid, except for one thing: My fiancee is a family medicine physician in Gulf Shores. She drives an Toyota X-Terra and, most assuredly, does not file her nails in front of anyone but I.

Re: U.S. Expat Professor From Benghazi Talks To Jon Stewart (a pro-intervention viewpoint)

Fprevic — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:06:08 -0000

Nick,

I wonder how you feel about the intervention now. Libya went from being one of the richer and most modern nations in the world -- 59th in the Human Development Index, the highest in Africa, higher than much of Europe and higher than Brazil, Russia and many other nations--with free electricity, medical care, higher education and subsidized rents, cars, and many other features. The intervention brought the deaths of at least 30,000 people and probably more than 50,000, with over 150,000 wounded. It brought the total or partial destruction of most of the major cities along with ethnic cleansing and lynching of black Libyans and chaos and incessant violence, much of it against women and minorities. It brought polygamy and Sharia law. And, it brought back indebtedness to a nation that had one of the largest reserves in the world.

Dr. El-Kikhia's family was part of the monarchy that ruled Libya when the vast majority of its citizens were poverty-stricken and illiterate ... and was replaced by the peoples' congresses and tribal councils that ruled Libya for four decades and lifted her from her depths. Five million Libyans (70% of the population) are estimated to have rallied for the Jamahirya Green government in the summer to try to keep NATO from destroying their nation--to no avail.

Re: Advanced Respiratory Inservice: The LP10 Ventilator

superaleja — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:04:19 -0000

Nick is still using an LP20 from the same family of vents.

Re: Advanced Respiratory Inservice: The LP10 Ventilator

Partieof5 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:47:45 -0000

are you still on this vent.

Re: Four Recent Discoveries Show the “Theoretically Impossible” May Be Possible!

Guest — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:25:32 -0000

Interesting. I'm nowhere near close to understanding the advanced sciences, but I do appreciate weird astronomy on a "Popular Science" magazine level.

By the way, some people have been looking for you on Wikipedia recently, you haven't been around for a month, and your messages are piling up.

Re: Why did they create the new nation of Iraq? UPDATED

Myassiri — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:20:07 -0000

Modern Iraq was created as a result of British Empire revenge against the Shia Arabs of Iraq! One cannot readily comprehend this fact unless they go back to the events of the First World War in Iraq. Before invading Iraq, and soon after the entry in the war of Ottoman Turkey, on the side of Germany, the British and their French allies agreed secretly to divide what they called "Turkish Arabia" between their respective empires and reneging on all the promises they gave to the Arabs to entice them to revolt against Muslim Turkey. The Sykes-Picot agreement was the result of this secret plan. In that plan Iraq was to be under the British hegemony and consisted basically of the two Ottoman Vilayates of Baghdad and Basrah starting just from the Kirkuk oil fields in the north and extending all the way to Hassa and Qatif (the present oil rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia), and to include later the Arab Emirate of Ahwaz (the present oil rich region of Khozistan in Iran). That plan would have resulted in an Iraq coprising of more than 90% Shia population. It must be mentioned here that the Vilayet of Mosul was to be part of the French share and the Kurdish area to go to Tzarist Russia which was an ally of the Western Alliance before the eruption of the Bolshevic Revolution in 1917. The British were certain that the Shia population in these areas would welcome them as liberators as the Ottomans did not recognize Shiism as an Islamic faith and thus deprived the Shia of any rights or privileges. What happened, however, was a complete surprise to the British when their forces invaded from the south of Iraq. The shia tribes and religious leaders stood with the Ottoman army "to defend Islam against infidels"!! The hostility between the British forces and the Shia continued up to the conquest of Baghdad in 1917 and to erupt in violent report in 1920. The revolt was so serious that Winston Churchill advoctated using poison gases against the towns and villages of the revolting Shias!! As a consequence, the British took a more serious step against the the Shia and revised their original plan to deprive the Shia from any political influence in the future state by minimizing their numbers as much as possible. To achieve this objective, the British decided (getting French acceptance) to make Mosul (a Sunni area) as part of Iraq. Also they gave the south of Basrah to their ally Ibn Saud, but kept Kuwait as a separate emirate and gave the latter all the remaining western sea shore of the Vilayet of Basrah. Moreover, they abrogated their defence agreement with the Shiite ruler of Ahwaz and allowed the Shah of Iran to incorporate his emirate as an integral part of Iran. Since all these measures were not enough to reduce the number of the Shia to the required levels, the British reneged on their promise to create a Kurdish state and incorporated the Kurdish area to Iraq to increase the number of Sunnis although the Kurds are not etnically Arab. Thus, the result was a truncated Iraq which is not ethnically and religiously homogeneous and with no meaningful sea shore, and the governmnet was entrusted to the Sunni Arabs who never constituted more than 20%, whereas the Shia despite all the above British modifications, constitute more tha 60% of the British "tailored" modern Iraq.

This is in short the story of why Iraq has its present borders. For more information, please refer to the references mentioned below.

Munaf Yassiri, P.Eng.
Alberta-Canada

Toby Dodge, the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London, " Inventing Iraq"

“The British saw the Shia religious establishment in the 1920’s as a
direct rival for power, so they fled back into the arms of the Sunni elite”
(Inventing Iraq).

Christopher Catherwood , Professor of Continuing Education, Universities
of Cambridge, England and Richmond, Virginia,

“At the insistence of Faisal, a Sunni Arab and first king of Iraq, the
British integrated the predominantly Sunni Kurds into Iraq to better balance
the Shia Muslim majority in Southern Iraq with the Sunni Arabs in the centre”
(Churchill’s Folly: How Winston
Churchill Created Modern Iraq).

Also, the library of the American Congress says the following regarding the sectarian plan the British followed in Iraq:

"The British decision at the Cairo Conference to establish an indigenous
Iraqi army was significant. In Iraq, as in most of the developing world, the
military establishment has been the best organized institution in an otherwise
weak political system. Thus, while Iraq
body politic crumbled under immense political and economic pressure throughout
the monarchic period, the military gained increasing power and influence.
Moreover, because the officers in the new army were by necessity Sunnis who had
served under the Ottomans, while the lower ranks were predominantly filled by
Shia tribal elements, Sunni dominance in the military was preserved
(The U.S. Library of Congress).

Re: When Government Won’t Even Let You Choose What’s For Dinner

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Re: The Pharmaceutical Scam That Could Cost Your Family Thousands

NickDupree — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:38:03 -0000

Common sense and an aversion to Big pharma gaming the system is all that is necessary to end Nexium-type fiascos...

Re: Did You Know? Imperialist Aggression and Exploitation: The History of U.S. – Latin American Relations

NickDupree — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:33:43 -0000

I'm definitely interested. Please email me at nick @ nickscrusade (dot) org

Re: The Pharmaceutical Scam That Could Cost Your Family Thousands

Heathermmize1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:49:19 -0000

agreed......the issue is that people don't even try generics.

Re: The Pharmaceutical Scam That Could Cost Your Family Thousands

Heathermmize1 — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:47:49 -0000

they did it because they can only hold a patent for so long. so they do this knowing that when the patent runs out, they'll develop a new product. Prilosec OTC can cost on average $20. Nexium, if covered at all under insurance (many carriers have dropped it because of high cost and over utilization) is a brand drug and wil cost the highest copay. If you're on a CDHP- consumer driven health plan then you're paying the full cost. $280 on average per prescription. That's true dollars! That's after discounts, etc. So, it costs either you, or your health plan $3,360 per year. You could be spending $240 on Prilosec and would not need to go and get a prescription costing more due to doctor visit costs. THis is a HUGE problem that can be solved!!!!

Re: Did You Know? Imperialist Aggression and Exploitation: The History of U.S. – Latin American Relations

Stephen Duplantier — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:49:30 -0000

Nick, Good scholarship and writing. Thanks. I am the editor of an online magazine for Costs Rica and Central America. I am working on an issue now and wonder if I might reprint your essay--with full credit and link, of course. My associates and I live in Costa Rica. We put out the magazine and give it away free, so there is no compensation (for us either).

The magazine is online at www.neotropica.info

My email address is stephen.duplantiergmail .com

Thanks,

Stephen

Re: When Government Won’t Even Let You Choose What’s For Dinner

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Re: Did You Know? Imperialist Aggression and Exploitation: The History of U.S. – Latin American Relations

Dan S — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:06:41 -0000

Nice piece! It is amazing our hypocrisy....that we forget our own love of self-rule and turned the Monroe Doctrine from policeman status to one of paternalism and opportunism. This is one of the many shames we carry to this day and the one we've done the least to shake-off.

Re: World Trade Center, 2010

Antny5 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:17:08 -0000

I like tower two's design, however, tower two's site position was not thought out well enough. It completely blocks the view of Wtc1 from some of the city's most coveted skyline views in Brooklyn. It even blocks the view of WTC 1 from the BK Bridge- which is ridiculus! I would like to see tower 2 built, but in a diiferent position, that does not block tower 1. Its as if this whole site plan was designed to be seen from New Jersey foremost , and turns its back to the rest of the city. Thats why I believe everyone is having second thoughts about tower two, in addition to the business economic issues of course...

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