Amazing

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WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.

The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues. Top officials delayed for years and tried to “water down” a landmark report on secondhand smoke, he said. Released last year, the report concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm.

Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches. He also said he was asked to make speeches to support Republican political candidates and to attend political briefings.

And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name.

“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.

The Special Olympics is one of the nation’s premier charitable organizations to benefit disabled people, and the Kennedys have long been deeply involved in it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/washingt...amp;oref=slogin

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You've got a case of the crazies.

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You've got a case of the crazies.

So says the walking billboard for Xanax.

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So says the walking billboard for Xanax.

Xanax. That was a dud of a movie. Olivia Newton John was pretty hot, though. And the soundtrack with a lot of ELO on it was good for the time. But I'm hardly endorsing it.

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This administration has suppressed information that would benefit the people since day one. Dictatorship? Let's hope not.

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This administration has suppressed information that would benefit the people since day one. Dictatorship? Let's hope not.

Looks like the crazies is contagious.