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| Physicians for a National Health Program requests invite to the ... - Democratic Underground.com Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:57 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.  PNHP requests invitation to Feb. 25 White House health summit
February 9, 2010 President Barack Obama Dear Mr. President, Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer national health insurance, respectfully requests that you invite one or more of our representatives to participate in your White House health care session on Feb. 25. We note that in your call for the meeting you urged Republicans, Democrats and health policy experts to gather, go over all the options and "walk through them in a methodical way so that the American people can see and compare what makes the most sense." We would like to offer several of our members as health policy experts for this important task. As you may know, two key research studies that helped drive the health reform process forward this past year – one in the American Journal of Public Health that found 45,000 deaths annually are linked to lack of health insurance, another in the American Journal of Medicine that found 62 percent of personal bankruptcies are linked to medical bills and illness – were the work product of Harvard Medical School research teams guided by PNHP co-founders Drs. David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler. Drs. Himmelstein and Woolhandler, who are also primary-care physicians in Cambridge, Mass., have had several other groundbreaking studies published in our nation's leading medical journals, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine that shows administrative costs consume 31 percent of U.S. health spending, most of it unnecessary. They have also frequently testified before Congress on their research. We urge that you invite them to participate in the Feb. 25 meeting. The presence of Dr. Margaret Flowers, our congressional fellow, would also enhance the meeting. Dr. Flowers, a Maryland pediatrician, has met with numerous members of Congress and testified before two congressional committees last year about the urgent need for single-payer health reform. Finally, we ask that you invite our president, Dr. Oliver Fein, to participate. Dr. Fein, an internist and professor of clinical medicine and clinical public health in New York City, attended the March 5 White House Summit on health care. He is a past vice president of the American Public Health Association. Detailed biographies and contact information for each of these doctors are available upon request. Please feel free to call me (312-782-6006) or e-mail me (info@pnhp.org ) should you need any additional information. Sincerely, Ida Hellander, M.D. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Ty Cobb: Baseball's Greatest Player - Bleacherreport.com Posted: 24 Feb 2010 01:04 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. It was announced on Feb. 2, 1936, that the Baseball Writers Association of America had elected Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson to the Hall of Fame in the first-ever balloting. Cobb received 222 out of a possible 226 votes. Ruth and Wagner each received 215 votes, Mathewson had 205 votes, and Johnson finished with 189. The Greatest When Ty Cobb passed away on July 17, 1961, the New York Times' headline echoed the conclusions of the majority of fans and baseball writers. "Cobb, Hailed as Greatest Player in History, Mourned by Baseball World." The praise came from all quarters. Current players, former players and managers, executives, and, of greatest significance, baseball scouts heaped praise on Cobb. "The best of all time." "A great player." "A legend in American sports." "An inspiration to all." New York Mets' general manager Lonesome George Weiss, who built the New York Yankees' dynasty of the late-1940s and 1950s, said, "There was no denying that Cobb stood alone as a baseball player, undoubtedly the greatest of all time." No less an authority than Dizzy Dean: "We've lost a lot of great ball players. Now we've lost the greatest." Casey Stengel, who managed the Yankees' teams that won a record five consecutive World Championships from 1949-53, called Cobb, not Mantle or Mays, "the most sensational of all the players I have seen in all my life.' "By sensational, I mean he surprised all his opponents. He would shock them with startling base running plays, and he could always outhit any opponent, even if they were great players." In 2002, the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), initiated its Baseball Biography Project. In the first paragraph of Ty Cobb's biography, it states "Ty Cobb was the dominant player in the American League during the Dead Ball Era, and arguably the greatest player in the history of the game." Home Runs Dominate Ty Cobb died the year that Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris both challenged Babe Ruth's single season home run record. The media couldn't get enough of the battle between the Yankees' teammates in their attempt to top the record of another Yankees' player. As Ralph Kiner said, "Singles hitters drive Fords, home run hitters drive Cadillacs." With the passage of time, Cobb, a great power hitter (double and triples), inaccurately became identified with the singles hitters to whom Kiner had referred. Babe Ruth started gaining ground with younger fans, and despite the fact that the late 1960s was a pitcher-dominated era, the home run was becoming even more glamorous. In 1969, the pitching mound was lowered from 15 inches to 10 inches. Reggie Jackson hit 47 home runs, and in 1973, the National League became the only major league to play real baseball when the American League instituted the designated hitter rule. By the turn of the century, great batters who were not primarily home run hitters were greatly underrated. Many fans think that Wade Boggs, Tony Gwynn, and Ichiro Suzuki were or are not as valuable as hitters such Jim Thome or Mark Reynolds. Until he refused to cooperate with the government, Barry Bonds was considered greater than Willie. Babe Ruth Becomes the Choice as the Greatest One result has been that Babe Ruth is now considered the greatest player of all time. Ruth was the greatest power hitter of all time, but starting in 1920, the year he hit 54 home runs, Ruth played in a lively ball era. Cobb eschewed the home run in favor of "manufacturing" runs. He played in the deadest of the dead ball eras, and runs were, as Red Barber used to say, "scarcer than hen's teeth." Defense Defensively, Cobb played center field most of his career, but he was in right field from 1907-1909, leading the Detroit Tigers to three consecutive pennants and three World Series defeats. He was a good, but not great, defensive player who played 706 games in right field, 2,194 in center field, and 35 games in left field. Cobb had a .961 fielding average, which is horrible for an outfielder, until one realizes that the league had a .960 fielding average. Cobb's range factor was 2.30, compared to the league's 2.05. Babe Ruth was an adequate outfielder the first few seasons he switched from pitching. His .968 fielding average was better than the league's .966, but Ruth's range factor was only 2.07, compared to the league's 2.22. From the time he was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936 until the late 1960s, Cobb was ranked ahead of Ruth. Neither has played a game since 1935, but because values have changed, not necessarily more accurately, Ruth is considered the greatest player of all time. Were the New York Times , George Weiss, Dizzy Dean, Casey Stengel, and the Society for American Baseball Research all wrong? References: By The Associated Press.. (1936, February 3). Georgian Gets 222 Votes, 4 Short of Perfect Score and 7 More Than Ruth and Wagner -- Mathewson and Johnson Only Others With Enough Ballots to Be Named in Nation-Wide Poll. New York Times (1923-Current file),p. 23. Retrieved February 24, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2006). (Document ID: 88629798). Cobb, Hailed as Greatest Player in History, Mourned by Baseball World :PASSING OF AN ERA IS NOTED BY FRICK Cobb Called Link Between Old and New -- Mantle, Stengel Pay Tribute. (1961, July 18). New York Times (1923-Current file),p. 21. Retrieved February 24, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2006). (Document ID: 101471048). Babe Ruth at Baseball-Reference Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Presidential Debate - Foreign Policy Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:29 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Mike Sacramento, The "jews=nazis" line has been used by so many anti-semites in the past 4 decades that it has become a cliche. Though it is nice of you to put the final nail in your own coffin. "Swastika of David"? "Gaza ghetto"? Tell me, why do you and your Stormfront buddies think they will not to be found out? All of the "crimes" you laughably try to pin on the country of Israel were committed, first and foremost and ongoing, by the Arab regimes. It wasn't the Israelis who put the "palestinians" into refugee camps, but the Arabs. It wasn't the Israelis who started walling off the "palestinians", it was the Arabs - first Egypt, then Transjordan. "Denied the right of return to their homeland"? Pray tell, why is that, and what "homeland"? The Arab governments evacuated the "palestinians" quite deliberately, lost the war, then refused to sign a simple nonaggression pact, instead stuffing the "palestinians" into refugee camps on land the Arabs had stolen (Here's a hint: examine the 1948 partition plan and compare it to the 1948 post-war boundaries. The land that was supposed to be "Palestinian" was not held by Israel, but by Arab states). Don't believe me? How about you go back. Read the words of Abu Mazen (the current PM of the PLO, aka Mahmoud Abbas), from the PLO journal Falastineth-Thawra, in 1976: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people." Or go to Khaled al-Azm, who was the Syrian prime minister during the 1948 war. From his memoirs: ""the call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them...Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business." Harry C. Stebbens, London Evening Standard, 1969: 1. The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N. partition resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls and they feared Jewish retaliation. 2. Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate ended in which the street of all the cities would run with blood. 3. The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews. " September 1948, Beirut Telegraph, Emile Ghoury (Palestinian Higher Committee, the forerunner to the PLO): "The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem." Beirut Muslim newspaper Kul-Shay, August 19, 1951: ""Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it." Cairo newspaper Akhbar el Yom, Oct. 12 1963: "The 15th May, 1948, arrived ... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead." "Mike Sacramento", you are dishonest at best, an outright liar at worst, and most definitely a neo-nazi Stormfront-variety anti-semite. Your codewords have given you away clearly. MGilmour8, "Radio silence"? Some of us occasionally sleep, though I notice it's not the case for rank anti-semites like yourself. " crazy right wing Zionists " - but you're just another of the looney leftist/islamist convergence trying to hide your bullshit behind "reasonable" codewords, like when Hamas says "legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian People" instead of "Drive the Jews into the Sea in a River of Blood" for the consumption of English-speaking audiences. Jordanc, "I too suffer from such allergies. I suppose we just differ in severity. Let's try a different approach - has any action of Israel in their treatment, policy and/or wars with the Palestinians been unjustified or open to criticism? Anything at all in Israel's history that you can find issue with? This way you (being an open minded individual and obviously intelligent) can state justified criticism of Israel thereby providing a contrast to those offered by these antisemitic bullshitters." If you look above at my previous comments, I've said quite clearly: there is room for reasonable criticism of Israel, or any other regime. There is certainly room to decry actions taken in certain instances, or question whether certain policies are correct. For example, I have no quibble with someone who has trouble with the forcing of captured terrorists to march back into their camps in front of Israeli soldiers during the battle of Jenin. I'm sure it seemed like a correct decision to the soldiers on the ground at the time (after all, the terrorists were the ones setting booby traps, therefore they'd know how to avoid them, or else set them off deliberately anyways), but the use of captured enemies, whether they should be covered under the Geneva Conventions or not (and captured terrorists, who fail to abide by the GC themselves, clearly should not) , is morally repugnant. A side note: since I've mentioned Jenin, I'm sure the anti-semitic crowd will be screaming "massacre", even though every responsible and reliable investigating body has found the claims of a "massacre" to be more of the bullshit to which I am allergic. Where I draw the line is quite simple: if you are criticizing a policy, then criticize the policy. The moment these anti-semitic assholes start talking, however, it is clear they don't give two shits about the policy: what they really want is just a pretext for anything by which they can get to their real point, which is that Israel is "evil", or should not exist. Mike Sacramento is a blatant example. So too is Mgilmour who rants about "zionists", "apartheid oppression", and all the other bullshit that the anti-semitic nutjob crowd are so fond of spouting. Carter spouts the same codewords of the rest of the anti-semitic crowd, therefore I call him what he is: a senile old nasty rank anti-semite. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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