WHY the heck do these people get away with this crap.
Brian Williams spinning about his emotional reaction to the inauguration while STILL defending W as the defender of the people ......making us safe all these years.
None of them calling the GOP on their talking points.....how many times do these rethugs get away with their spin and lies and the pundits sit there and say nothing and yet challenge the dems on any and everything.  Matthews got all uppity about how dare the democrats put anything in the stimulus about contraception....

If we cannot have a press that is honest, what's the point?

The high-flying execs at Citigroup caved under pressure from President Obama and decided today to abandon plans for a luxurious new $50 million corporate jet from France...

ABC News has learned that Monday officials of the Obama administration called Citigroup about the company's new $50 million corporate jet and told execs to "fix it."

I understand from articles written by current and ex-US FDA civil servants and posted on Thoreau-FDA.com:

There is evidence presented to the US Congress that shows some instances of Undocumented Top Down "Approve" Directives or Requests, by FDA upper managers that interfere with the independent decisions of lower level drug reviewers.  Writers on Thoreau-FDA.com assert that reviewer independence is necessary to ensure objective science based outcomes, accountability, transparency and legitimate risk versus benefit decisions throughout any line of drug product review at US FDA.  I ask that you ensure the independent decisions of drug reviewers at each level in the US FDA.  This will ensure that drug pre-approval reviews are free from biased manipulation by US FDA upper managers, who sometimes direct lower level drug approval decisions via undocumented top down directives or requests.

And, Thoreau-FDA.com presents news reports where some US FDA upper managers retaliated against subordinate staff who attempted to carry out the US FDA's mission to protect the public health safety.  These subordinate staff's ordeals occurred when they brought to public awareness, dangerous and deadly products that had made it to market.  In summary, it seems that some US FDA upper managers have resisted staff alerts intended to mitigate, by label revisions or marketplace removal, the effects of harmful and deadly products.

The pre- and post-approval drug review processes are under your control.

Please do all you can to stop :

· Instances of undocumented top down approve directives and requests by US FDA upper managers, in the drug approval program at US FDA
· Any change in any lower level regulatory action decision, that fails to document the name of the higher level US FDA manager, who actually directs the change in the lower level decision.
· US FDA upper managers from hiding behind their subordinates, when those managers direct them to alter their decisions, so that professional disagreements are not recorded in the public record.
· Retaliation by US FDA upper managers against FDA staff who alert the public to dangerous and deadly products already on the market.

Please answer the below question about your Values and Vision program and how it will stop what amounts to FDA management oppression of professionals and the suppression of truth.  Future questions will be submitted to you periodically by Thoreau-FDA.com for your answers.  Please answer those questions starting with the following -

How does your Values and Vision effort, as initially announced to US FDA staff in the September 19, 2007 Webcast and subsequent March 2008 updates, prevent future Undocumented Top Down Approve Directives or Requests and more retaliation against US FDA staff who publicly expose deadly human and veterinary products?

Sincerely,

One country is a democratic, capitalistic reliable ally. They support women's rights and gay rights. This country has the military might to completely destroy their enemy but do not. They have made peace with countries that recognize their right to exist and have returned land in order to gain peace. They are not perfect, but no country is.

The other country is ruled by a government not recognized by the U.S. or European Union, don't support women's rights and gays are routinely jailed. They have zero problem with killing civilians to obtain their goals. This country has it written that they wish to eliminate the other country entirely.

Life in the Palestinian territory isn't any worse than life on most of the Arab streets.  Jews all over the world have sent tons of money to Israel to build hospitals, schools and industry.  What have other Arabs done to help the Palestinians besides give them guns and bombs so they can blow up school buses, restaurants and supermarkets?  Where is the responsibility of an Arab nations or any Arab sheiks benefiting from the wealth of their oil?

A friend of mine is an Israeli.  He says one of the main arguments is who gets the water from Mt. Hebron.  The Palestinians get plenty of water but their pipes are so broken and rusted and not taken care of, they lose too much of what they get.  What have they done to make their lives better?  What could they have done if they used the money they got for guns and bombs and instead used it to fix their own infrastructure, like those dirt roads that Bob Simon mentioned in his piece.

You cannot blame Israelis for being paranoid as they have been beaten up by the Arabs for millenia.  The land they gained was taken after they were attacked in two wars and they didn't want to give any of it back because they knew they could not trust the Arab fundamentalists or Assad or Qaddafi, Khomeini or Arafat. They finally gave back Gaza ad where did it get them?

Children get killed when you are such lowlife scum that you have your Hamas headquarters and munition storages in schools and in the middle of housing projects.  Arabs kill Israelis for the fun of it.  Look at what happened on 9/11.  What was the problem with those Arab SOBs who should rot in hell that they had to attack the United States and kill almost 3,000 people.  When the hell are they going to take responsibility for their own lives in their own respective countries instead of living on hate.  If the Israelis lived only on the hate brought to them by the Pharos they should be bombing and shooting Egyptians ever day.  Until the Arabs get themselves out of the middle ages and stop the hating, there will never be peace and if that means Palestinians have to wait on endless lines at checkpoints, that is a lot better than Jews would get from them.  It is time they clean their own house first.

The Palestinian territory is a sh__hole and Israel can't be expected to fix it up for them and open all the checkpoints so that Hamas could do more damage than they already do.  Imagine 5 school bus bombings a day if there were no checkpoints and searches.  

Aren't there more important things to do these days than worry about hurt feelings?  Time this country toughened up--it's a form of PC'ness out of control.

SAN DIEGO - Seeking to halt the deportation of two sisters who have lived in San Diego most of their lives, clergy leaders and the faith community will hold a rally and press conference tomorrow in front of the federal building downtown. Over the past year, the sisters have been supported by local members of a faith-based sanctuary movement.

Rally in Support of Releasing Zace Sisters!
11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28
880 Front Street, San Diego 92101

At 6 a.m. Friday, January 23 Aluisa and Ledia Zace were woken by flashlights shining in their bedroom window and banging on their front door.  The two sisters are now detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, pending deportation.  

The sisters came to the United States at ages 8 and 9, when their family sought political asylum from their native country of Albania.  In 2007, after ICE deported their father to Albania, they turned to the New Sanctuary Movement (NSM) for support.  

The NSM is a national movement of faith communities committed to supporting immigrant families and advocating for comprehensive reform of unjust immigration laws.  In San Diego, three families, including the Zace sisters, have been given sanctuary.

John Joyce met the sisters when they began attending his church 12 years ago, and said he considers himself a part of their family.

"We are simply heartbroken that Aluisa and Ledia have been taken away," said Joyce, an employee with San Diego City Schools.  "My wife and I have watched these two sweet girls grow up to be amazing young ladies with beautiful hearts.  Losing them would be a real travesty; the pain of such a loss cannot be described in word. "

Both sisters have excelled in academics and graduated from Serra High School with 4.3 and 4.6 GPAs, respectfully.  They currently are enrolled at San Diego State University, and both volunteer at their church and at a local hospital.