Justice is coming slowly to Darfur
Slower than molasses in a New England winter, charges are being filed in the Hague against some of those who may have committed the crimes in Darfur.
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Column in Asian Week entitled, “Why I Hate Black People”
What? What the hell? Where did this come from?
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From SFGate.com:
A San Francisco weekly newspaper that bills itself as “The Voice of Asian America” is facing harsh criticism from that very community for publishing a column Friday titled “Why I Hate Blacks.”
In the column, AsianWeek regular contributor Kenneth Eng listed “reasons” to discriminate against African Americans. The piece has been pulled from the newspaper’s Web site, but the print edition of the free paper, owned by the politically influential Fang family, was still available in news racks Monday.
Eng called himself an “Asian supremacist” in January in another installment of the column, which runs under the label “God of the Universe.”
Prominent Asian Americans immediately condemned Eng’s current column. [Read more →]
Al Qaeda on the run, really?
If you are on the run and hiding in caves do you have time to make recruitment videos?
Tornadoes hit Arkansas school
Very sad.
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From CNN.com:
Tornadoes tore through southern Alabama Thursday killing at least 18 people, 15 at Enterprise High School, emergency officials said.”Kids are walking around dazed, cut,” said Laren Allgood, a reporter for the Enterprise Ledger.
“We ask that you continue to pray for our students,” Bob Ferris, Assistant Superintendent, said at an evening news conference. (more…)
“Christian” pediatrician refuses to provide care….
…to child of mother with tattoos. The story is here. And there is much discussion about it on the internets.
Dr. Gary Merrill, of Christian Medical Services, in Bakersfield, CA, is in private practice and has limits on who he will treat. Amongst the exclusionary criteria are presence of tattoos or body piercings.
I think that it is hardly a Christian principle to deny medical care to children because of the lifestyle choices of their parents. As a Catholic, I’m offended by the use of Christianity to justify this decision. As a pediatrician, I’m disgusted by any rationalizations for the denial of services to the most medically underserved portion of our population. As an earring-wearer, I’m offended by the thought process that leads to an assumption that I am a tool of the devil.
Yet his practice is not an emergency room and is not subject to EMTALA as a matter of routine obligations. His practice is a private practice, and unless he had a prior existing relationship with this patient, I think he is probably within his legal rights to make this decision.
And as much as I disagree with him, as much as I would never take my kids there for care, I defend his right to run his practice in whatever misguided fashion he desires.
I guess he gets my most recent nomination for Moron of the Week.
Gore’s energy use
Finally, a bit of reality on Gore and Global Warming.
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From the Center for American Progress:
On Sunday, Vice President Al Gore’s global warming film An Inconvenient Truth won two Academy Awards, including Best Documentary Feature (watch a video montage of Gore at the Oscars). Just as conservative critics blasted the Grammy-winning Dixie Chicks, many are claiming that An Inconvenient Truth was honored simply because Hollywood agrees with Gore’s views. The truth is, two years ago, global warming was still considered a fringe issue to many. Today, the debate is over — Americans overwhelmingly agree that the climate crisis exists and that we must act now to reverse it. An Inconvenient Truth had a profound impact on how Americans view the issue of global warming. Al Gore deserved this award. Now, he’s set to launch “a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.” The 24-hour event on 7/07/07 is part of a campaign called Save Our Selves (SOS) — The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis. “In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people,” Gore said today. “The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement.” (For more, check out our blog dedicated to global warming, Climate Progress.) [Read more →]
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Errington C. Thompson, MD, is a surgeon, scholar, fulltime sports fan and part-time political activist. He is active in a number of community projects and initiatives. Through medicine, he strives to improve the physical health of all he treats...
