Sen. Deutch: Let's avoid political tragedy

Sen. Ted Deutch wrote to DNC chairman Howard Dean today saying the "surreal dispute between the DNC and Democrats in Florida and Michigan risks becoming a political tragedy." He's asking for the party to count the votes, seat the delegation, but cut its weight in half.

"This is not a new proposal; it is an obvious resolution that has been overlooked or ignored," he wrote. Check out the letter here.

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Too late Teddy...

After last night's disaster, the dems are knee deep in tragedy.

BREAKING NEWS!
Sen. Ted Deutch announced that today is Thursday, April 17th, 2008. A news conference is scheduled for 5PM, when he will announce a groundbreaking discovery with regard to yesterday date.

[Toxic Liberals.]

Washington Post catches Carter in a lie
Thomas Lifson

Jimmy Carter's campaign to ensure he goes down in history as the worst ex-president ever continues, with even the Washington Post noticing he is lying about Hamas and its supposed willingness to negotiate. A commendable editorial today makes this point:

... actors such as Mr. Carter... portray Hamas as rational and reasonable. Hamas is "perfectly willing" for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas "to represent them in all direct negotiations with the Israelis, and they also maintain that they will accept any agreement that he brokers with the Israelis" provided a referendum is held on it, the former president told the newspaper Haaretz. Compare that claim with Mr. Zahar's own words on the opposite page. In fact, Mr. Zahar has called Mr. Abbas "a traitor" for negotiating with Israel -- a label that is, in the Palestinian context, an incitement to murder.

Count Florida’s votes as votes, split Florida’s Delegates 50/50, disregard Michigan’s inequitable Primary completely, split Michigan’s Delegates 50/50, fire Howeird Dunce and the Republican Consultant (Thurmadrunk), and vote every incumbent out of office come Election Day.

Problem Solved!

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA

[UF Student]

The only think this guy has ever said that makes sense I think. Cutting 50% of the delegates is such the obvious solution I think Democrats aren't able to understand some solutions are simple.

Thanks, for your advice UF Student.

Here's something that's actually more to the point:

"McBush = 4 more years!"

Can you even imagine 4 MORE YEARS!

How could McCain be so stupid???

No 50/50 split unless you take Obamas biggest state and split it 50/50 too. Hillary beat Obama in FL by close to 30%! He is the only candidate that ran an ad prior to the election and campaigned here in August 07. His name was on the ballot and he lost. So, 2:36 why should he get an equal amount of delegate votes?

She will take most of the Super Delegates for FL as well.

Count Florida’s votes as votes, split Florida’s Delegates 50/50, disregard Michigan’s inequitable Primary completely, split Michigan’s Delegates 50/50, fire Howeird Dunce and the Republican Consultant (Thurmadrunk), and vote every incumbent out of office come Election Day.

Problem Solved!

Laughing at these stupid GOPers; their candidate has a 30 year history of being an obnoxious twit, but suddenly he's a nice guy? He's been a pain in the butt to conservatives for years, now suddenly he's one of them? Does the skunk change his stripes???

Either you've got a loser traitor or a loser flip-flopper on your hands. One or the other - take your pick.

[Toxic Liberals Democrats. Kill the children by banning ddt.]

Without DDT, malaria bites back

Malaria is on the increase in all tropical regions of the planet - especially in Africa. In 2000, the disease killed more than one million people and made 300million seriously ill.

According to Professor Wen Kilama of the African Malaria Vaccine Testing Network in Tanzania, 'Malaria is equivalent to crashing seven jumbo jets filled with children every day'.

Malaria halts economic development, places huge burdens on a country's health resources, and causes massive productivity losses. It also scares away investors from developing countries, who are not keen on having their workforce suddenly become ill and unable to work. Professor Jeffrey Sachs of the Harvard Centre for International Development reckons that the disease destroys around one percent of Africa's wealth every year.

Given the devastating humanitarian and economic costs of malaria, you might expect the international community to be fighting the disease with all its might. But instead, the world's politicians are trying to force developing countries to abandon their best weapon in the fight against malaria - the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). The United Nations (UN) is even promoting a treaty that might completely ban the use of DDT across the globe.

Today malaria is a tropical disease, but until the 1920s it was endemic all over Europe and America. Oliver Cromwell died of malaria, and the disease was mentioned (as 'the ague') in eight of Shakespeare's plays. It was a British army major, Dr Ronald Ross, serving in Madras, India, who in 1898 found that the female anopheles mosquito was the disease vector. Ross's discovery led to new, more effective methods to control malaria.

After the Second World War, Europe and North America used DDT to eradicate malaria. The pesticide saved millions of lives by killing the malarial mosquito - but it never had complete success in the world's poorer countries. Then, following complaints from environmentalists in the 1970s, DDT was removed from the malaria control programme in many developing countries - but it continued to be used in more than 20 countries, most of them in Africa.

According to Dr Donald Roberts, professor of medical entomology at the Uniformed Services Hospital of the Health Sciences in Maryland, USA, the huge drop in houses sprayed with DDT has resulted in an average annual increase of 4.8 malaria cases per 1000 of the population in Latin America, from the mid-1980s to the mid-90s.

For the whole of Latin America, a minimum of 1.8million additional cases of malaria were occurring each year up to 1996. Case rates have continued to grow since 1996, and according to Dr Roberts, 'we can reasonably expect that the number of excess cases is now much greater than in 1996'. Only Ecuador, which has continued to use DDT, has seen a reduction in the number of malaria cases in recent years.

Other mosquito-borne diseases are also on the rise. Until the 1970s, DDT was used to eradicate the aedes aegypti mosquito from most tropical regions of the Americas. The reinvasion of aedes aegypti since then has brought devastating outbreaks of dengue fever, dengue hemorrhagic fever, and a renewed threat of urban yellow fever.

Dr Donald Roberts is livid at the 'high pressure tactics of international activist organisations who have forced developing countries to abandon public health uses of DDT', which has caused a colossal public health disaster in Latin America. 'There are annually more than 250,000 cases of dengue fever - a disease which had been eradicated', says Roberts. Worse still is the appearance of a more aggressive strain - dengue hemorrhagic fever - which literally makes its sufferers bleed to death. There were 9129 cases of this disease in 1995 alone.

So given all the human suffering, why is DDT to be banned?

DDT is the totemic baddy of the green movement

DDT is the totemic baddy of the green movement. Suspicions about it caused the first green crusade, inspired by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring nearly 40 years ago. When it was used in vast quantities in agriculture, DDT probably harmed reproduction in birds of prey - but this harm subsequently proved reversible.

After 50 years of study there is not one replicated study that shows any harm to humans at all. And DDT is now only used for vector control, and is only sprayed inside houses. Dr Amir Attaran from Harvard University estimates that the amount of DDT used to spray a few acres of cotton in the USA in the early 1960s would spray all the homes in Guyana of those at risk of malaria - and that such indoor spraying will have 'negligible impacts on the environment'.

Despite the evidence, Greenpeace militants have been protesting to close down DDT's only major production facility in the world, in Cochin, India.

It's not that McCain is this spectacular candidate...he's not.

It's that the alternatives to him make George W Bush look like a freaking genius.

It truly is sad what the democrat party has become. You guys better start running someone else or you're gonna get creamed in November.

It's not that McCain is this spectacular candidate... he can't even say the Pledge of Allegiance without a teleprompter.

If fact, he's near senile and almost makes Dubya look like a freaking genius.

It truly is sad what the Republicon party has become. You guys better start recruiting someone else for the future, cause you're gonna get creamed in November.

Depending upon your political point of view Obama and Clinton may not be spectacular candidates,

but

Regardless of your political point of view, McCain is an awful candidate.

3:28 You're wasting your time - you'll never fit all that on the back of a Kool-Aid packet.

3:38 Why don't you print that out in 72pt type and paste it on the back of your Hummer, you myopic twit.

3:45 - if McCain does NOT get creamed in November, will you please eat a turd and shut up?

4:16 - if McCain does NOT get creamed in November, we'll all be eating a turd - and we'd better be liking it or else.

4:16 - if McCain does NOT get creamed in November, the terrorists have injected our water supply with dope!

If you lifted a manhole cover and jumped in, our waste water would be injected with a dope.

If I lifted a manhole cover and jumped in, I would land on you, McSame, and the rest of the Rebublicons.

[Toxic Liberals Democrats.]

take a gander at europe, which did what todays democrats want to do with the US--more regulations, free health care(confiscate property rights of highly trained doctors), and higher taxes. and they promote the canard that the world has lost respect---but look at europe---germany, france, and italy elected pro-us governments and furthermore an implementing Reagan tax policies. But idiot americans educated by the democratic control education unions are too dumb to realize this.

No way racist Obama will win anyway.
Did you see last night's debate?

He's on a board with an admitted terrorist + Rev. Wright + Michelle Obama + the middle America fiasco.

Obama may now be much easier to beat than Hillary

McSame!

Sociopath who keeps posting McSame!

[Juvenal]

No, Senator Deutch, let's have a political tragedy. Sounds like fun. The Democrats retain the worst possible person to act as party chairman and then reduce their nomination process to two of the worse possible candidates and don't have a clue what a travesty their party has become. Let's have a crash. Let's let this freakin farce play out to its conclusion and let the half wit psychotic left wing kooks who now form the base of the Democrat party cry about how dumb voters are or how another election got stolen or how the water supply was contaminated with dope. You people are a comic opera without the music or the costumes. I look forward to your humiliation.

No way racist McSame will win anyway.
Did you see last night's buffet at Morrison's?

He's on a board with an admitted moron (Dubya) + a load of right-wing-nut preachers who beleive only white people are going to heaven.

McSame may now be much easier to beat than an egg.

Sociopath who keeps supporting McSame!