When O’Reilly was on the View he avoided any questions from the girls by attacking the women first—joking & making comments before they could open their mouths. His entire strategy was offensive—attack before they do. I was so frustrated with the girls for letting him get away with that. He bullies everyone on his show & he deserves some of that back. I think the producers make the women hold back just like they do with air head Elisabeth H..

Maddow is nothing like that pill popping shill Limbaugh. She really prepares before going on & does research before giving her opinion. Limbaugh waits for Rove to tell him what to say Maddow is the first liberal I’ve seen on mainstream media to have a show. Imagine! A liberal with a show on mainstream media! I guess this means the corporate owners of her station see which way the wind is blowing now that Bush is gone & decided to give a liberal a chance. Bill O’Reilly is just a bully using his show to do what he loves best—bully people.

I totally agree with DeBurca.

I know what I’m talking about merrell, This ain’t my first rodeo ride on a blog. I researched this subject about 2 yrs ago, going all the way back to Israel’s own documents re exactly what their own troops did in 1948 to the Palestinians—from the git go. It proves they did attack the Palestinian cities & lands, even before the ink was dry on the UN documents that told them to SHARE Israel. It’s there for anyone to find who cares to look. Our news media—I’m telling you but you don’t believe me—is LIES. It’s all slanted to make muslims look bad & Jews look good. But it is not true! AOL is owned by the Bush family, merged with Time Warner. NBC is owned by GE, the # 1 beneficiary of Bush military contracts, there are only 5 or 6 huge conglomerates that own ALL the media & filter our news in this country. They tell us their version of the news & don’t tell us anything not good for their bottom line. Do you even know what AIPAC is? They’ve run our foreign policy for years. GE—also know as NBC— has a BIG interest in war & in selling weapons (& weapons are now America’s number one export) & we sell Israel millions in weapons every yr—we give them a huge amount of foreign aide every yr & all this while OUR people go without, without health care, jobs etc. The other stations have similar interests who own them. (Did you know that corporations actually WRITE a lot of our legislation, then GIVE it to our representatives & tell them to get it through Congress? Yes, they do & have been for a long time) First, did you notice the title—the Islamic RESISTANCE movement. You can only resist something that is already happening to you. Hamas was created to stop Israeli aggression. The Zionists who run the govt in Israel ( just like Bush & the neo-cons run our govt against the will of the people here in America), actually BELIEVE that GOD gave them Israel & it’s the PROMISED LAND that He told them of in the Bible! Yes, they do believe that. That is what this ENTIRE war is about—they tell us different—but that is the entire thing in a nutshell. They want Israel for Jews & NO ONE else, no matter what the UN said in 1948 about sharing it. The reason Hamas & others want to “wipe Israel off the map” is because they understand very, very well what Israel is committed to doing, & IS doing to them, & they KNOW they will not stop, in that stereotypical way they have always had, til they succeed in getting rid of the muslims in Israel & more. Israel has succeeded in getting control of our US govt by raining money down on candidates for office—so that the candidate owes AIPAC. I have not seen one candidate for office ever stand up to the AIPAC lobby. It’s political suicide to do so. Israel has nukes from the US which is breaking a treaty that they signed in the Middle East saying they will not have nukes The other middle eastern countries don’t like that—who would?.Israel, thanks to the US, is armed to the teeth with state of the art weapons that are unmatched over there. THis fact, which is unfair, makes other countries nervous & when you combine all that with Israel’s intentions—it is very understandable why they hate Israelis. Hamas has old crappy bombs they lob over becasue they can’t aim them—while Israel has state of the art weponry. Yet in all this current bombing, only 2—count them 2- Israelis have died & over 300 Palestinians have died—way more injured! Children & women. It’s the bloodiest assault on Palestinians since 1948. For the past year, Israel has been enforcing an oppression on the Palestinian people—cutting off their water, food & meds—it’s been terrrible for them—it has caused a terrible humanitarian crisis per the UN, Jimmy Carter & others.. But when the UN tries to stop Israel, the US has been the only deciding vote of NO for 50 yrs—on over 37 votes I believe it is. WE, the US, protect Israel from the world’s wrath on the terrible things they have done to the Palestinians. Is it any wonder people like bin Laden & other muslims are angry with us? First Israel starves the Palestinians for a year—& the US protects them in that heinous crime—now they’re bombing the hell out of them. It’s a DISGRACE. Have you never heard of the wall the Israelis built—with millions of US tax dollars in aide—to keep Palestinians away from all the good lands & water that is rightfully theirs? Yeah, the wall actually curves & jigs around all the best resources—so the Israelis get it all. It’s despicable what they have done. One Palestinian man said, ” Doesn’t the world care about what is happening to the Palestinians?” But because the US corporate news reports this news with a big ole slant—no body knows over here. The rest of the world knows.

You know Tex, it’s been 8 yrs since Bush has been doing his thing & yet—you conservatives STILL blame CLINTON! You always blame Clinton—for everything. Let’s be logical—How can it be that MOST of the lenders in this country felt comfortable breaking the mortgage laws that have been in place & that they have been made to follow all these years by other presidents since the crash of ‘29, & yet suddenly, after Bush is president, they began giving people loans that they knew they could not pay back? I know—Clinton—right? How is it that appraisers lied & said homes were worth more than they really were? How is it that realtors did not tell their clients these loans were not in their best interests because they couldn’t afford them? Then how is it that they bundled these bad loans up & the rating companies gave these bad loans phony “AAA” ratings—so they could be sold to unsuspecting investors—is it Clinton’s fault that the rating companies broke laws too & apparaisers & realtors? No. The entire industry was operating lawlessly because they knew Bush was allowing & encouraging this. We have govt agencies that are supposed to oversee these industries but they didn’t, obviously. All the other presidents made these agencies do their job—except Bush. This entire sub prime mortgage crisis was just a way for the rich to steal wealth from the poor. Just like everything else Bush has done to this country, including the deficit spending out the wazoo for the phony Iraq war ( Alan Greenspan, before his stint as head of the Fed, said that “Deficit spending is just a way to steal wealth from the people & redistribute it to the rich”) Don’t forget Bush’s no-bid contracts he gave to his friends & Cheney’s friends for Iraq services, including Blackwater, Halliburton etc. That was money straight from our Treaury to Bush friends. Plus the oil companies who are getting HUGE taxpayer subsidies, even today, as a gift from our Treasury to them—for what? Oil is making record profits—the idea behind a tax subsidy is to help a fledgling business get off its feet—oil is not doing any new green experimenting to speak of—only in a token way—they are taking their porfits & buying more shares & giving dividends—not investing in green. The tax cuts Bush gave the wealthy were not needed in any way & all they did was cut the amount of money coming into the coffers so the middle class had to increase how much tax they paid to make up for it. Hardly fair. How can we forget the $700 billion—which has stretched to 2 trillion or whatever it is now, that Bush made us give his rich friends. Bush forced this financial crisis by tightening the cash reserve requirements on US banks for the 3 weeks before this “crisis”—thus bringing it to a head on purpose & right before the election. Bush used this phony “crisis” like a gun to our representatives heads—he said give me what I want or I’ll crash this sucker & it will look like it’s all YOUR faults for refusing to give us the money—right before an election so they’re all scared not to do it. Bush has a policy of driving down the value of the dollar to nothing. Bush is guilty of treason & is a despicable criminal who deserves to be tried & executed for what he’s done to America & actually to the rest of the world too.. If you are not in that upper 1% in income, then he stole from you too, so it’s dumb to support him when you’re his victim. Even if you ARE in the upper 1% in income—what he’s done is criminal & if we want to live in a nation of law & order instead of crime & chaos—its important to bring Bush & his cabal to justice. I’m telling you Tex, corporate news is not what is really happening! The only way to find out what’s really going on is independent news & of course, watching foreign news from other countries, such as linkTV or freespeech tv.

What did I say that’s “insulting”? That’s just your excuse. Most experienced nurses I’ve known are not easily intimidated, Sue. Nor are they easily insulted—but rather thick skinned & assertive from yrs of dealing with people/doctors/situations etc. The nurses I know would eat you alive if you said that stuff in front of them. BTW, I noticed you didn’t say where you trained. Next time, just consider the effect you’re having on the public before you write as “a professional”. Part of the job is to always be thinking of the client’s best interests, not just OTJ.

OMG. You said Abortion was an elective procedure & NOT an emergency. (unless ectopic) I already DID explain to you how abortion CAN be an emergency—therefore, it’s NOT always elective. End of story. I don’t see that I’m saying anything insulting. Although you did say that I can’t read, I’m ignorant & whatever else you threw in there. I had to stop you from scaring people for no good reason, it’s not right.

Tex, believe me the corporate news you get from TV, radio & print is not the truth at all. For instance, the corporate news has been telling us that poor Israel is being attacked & will be wiped out—they’ve been telling us that for years. But it’s not true. Israel is the aggressor over there, they have had nukes for a long time—from us—which are against a treaty they signed! The other countries over there do not have nukes & are pretty nervous that Israel does & that the US protects them—which we have been doing for over 50 yrs. That’s a big reason why middle eastern countries dislike the US—because we protect Israel—even though Israel is oppressing Palestinians unmercifully..We’ve protected them from sanctions from the UN for their aggressions against the Palestinisns..Israel is the one that has been oppressing the poor Palestinians in the most shameful & nasty way since before the UN told them to share Israel back in 1948. It’s not that Jews are bad, because they are not. Most Jews want peace & abhor what the Zionist Jews have done & are doing. But no one seems to be able to stop them. The Zionists have our representatives by the b___ & anyone running for office in this country has to kiss the Zionist Jews behinds to get elected—through AIPAC. It’s incredible how every single politician, including Obama & Hillary, have to defend Israel—when they are the aggressors & they are in the wrong, if they want to h ope to be elected! The Zionists believe that God gave Israel to them & is the Promised Land. They refuse to share it with muslims or anyone else. THAT is the root of the entire problem over there. Although you will hear it differently on TV here. So once again, a religious belief ruins things for all of us. I am sick & tired of Israel causing unrest in this world. & hearing our media lie about it. “Google-ing” is ok ONLY if you know what websites are run by conservatives.Only independent news is worth it. ALL the media is owned by conservatives now (TV, RADIO, & PRINT) & what used to be owned by 50 or more people—has been allowed by our FCC to consolidate down to just 5 or 6 huge conglomerates. 5 or 6 rich white men dictate what the news is & how it’s packaged. They have cut their budgets in order to get a bigger bottom line, so there are hardly any investigative reporters anymore.

Are you afraid to read something the church didn’t tell you is ok to read, Sue? Or is it just that you don’t have an answer? I don’t hate homosexuals. I just hate it that they run the catholic church so poorly & have given other homosexuals a bad name because of it. I see nothing to be embarrassed about. I went to catholic grade school & catholic high school & my mother went through cathoic boarding school in Califormia. I have every right to say whatever I believe is important to communicate about the Catholic church. What did you think? That I’m atheist?

Here is what you wrote Sue— 12/22 at 9:17PM (QUOTING YOU FOR THE SECOND TIME, BTW) “Abortion is an elective procedure & unless the pregnancy is an etopic (sic) pregnancy it is not an emergent condition.” You said nothing about “elective abortion” in that post. I just corrected you, that’s all. Yes, there are shortages of nurses everywhere BUT NOT DUE TO NURSES BEING ” forced to do something they believe to be immoral.” as you said on 12/28 at 12:31 pm. That is just silly plus it’s irresponsible to spread that around to people to scare them. No nurse or doctor has had to help with or perform ANYTHING they don’t believe is right. That just does not happen. It’s a very smooth operation. You just get someone else to do what you don’t believe in or send people where they can get the help they need.. It’s no big deal when it occurs. Grandstanding this way is ridiculous & irresponsible. No one stands there & demands you comply with a procedure that’s against your beliefs—-ever. It does not happen, Sue. So why are you all up in arms over the fact that YOU will NOT perform an abortion? NO professional has EVER had to “walk rather than be associated with abortion”—as you said! WTF are you talking about? You’re trying to create a fear of something that does not now & has never existed jfor at least the last 25 years.. Barnes Hospital emergency department (ED) in St. Louis is not “La La Land”. Hospitals still put “ER” for emergency room, on the outside of their building to make it easy for patients to recognize where they need to go—but professionals have not called it “ER” for a very long time. It’s not a “room”, it’s a department. I’m an RN who trained at Barnes, but I’ve worked in Indianapolis & other hospitals in St. Louis also. I worked mostly ICU & CCU but I began in kidney transplant, head & neck surgery, open heart, & ED. How about you, Sue?

My boyfriend & I met Senator Richard Luger at the press club in Indianapolis in 1976 or so. As we all shook hands, he looked at us intently, leaned in & said, “You make an attractive couple.” I remember his passing comment felt like sort of an insult—like he figured that commenting on our looks was the best way to impress people like us. It could have been just the women’s lib attitude I had at the time.

I don’t comment on spelling errors. You continually use poor English when you post & since you’re here pretending to be above most everyone—I thought I’d give you a clue to what it is that gives you away—I already told you that your crass & nasty personality does not jive with your claims to be some great Christian. I have a husband & family, Elaine. I’ve had not one, but 2 successful careers, I have 2 degrees & now I’m enjoying my kids & my husband—my first & only husband, BTW dear. I no longer have to work. I do not believe that you, in your self centered denial, have any clue what your muslim husband is really feeling. You don’t even know who YOU are, nor do you see yourself clearly—despite what others beside myself are telling you on here, much less do you have the capacity to “see” another. Hey, you’d pay a lot for a therapist to explain all your conflicts to you. Or maybe you did once have a therapist but you didn’t believe him or her. Especially the over-emphasis & importance you give to your looks, as if looks are substance. Do you ever get away from a mirror? You are getting it here for free!

“Never have I been taught..or told in passing that the Catholic church is the only valid religion” Global Catholic Network, The Basic Catholic Catechism, Number 138 a) “The Church instituted by Christ is the ONLY WAY TO ETERNAL SALVATION.” Plus your own words belie your claim: When you said Luther broke away “using the basics of Catholism as IT WAS THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH”. You’ve been pompous right on here. As far as pretentiously dignified or self important goes—how about your little spiel on how you WILL NOT perform any procedure that is against your beliefs & how this is your RIGHT—patients better LOOK OUT because “this may very well lead to a shortage in the profession” “I do know nurses who will leave…” blah blah blah… All the while you’re grandstanding up on your soapbox, scaring future patients, the real truth is that professionals have had the right to refuse these procedures & they have been doing so for at least the last 25 YEARS! No patient goes without. This is just pompous Sue J, spouting off—as “a professional” Puh-lease….

No, that’s not what you said. You’re here to scare people that they won’t get the care they need—as I proved when I quoted what you said above.. This is not true & professionlas do not stoop to use politics to push their personal agendas & scare people. Shame on you, Sue J. You do not represent “professionals”.

Ro, I hear you. I feel very close to “God” myself. But I am against the deatlh penalty. It makes no sense for society to execute these criminals, when we can get something useful out of them & make them actually PAY us for their crimes. Why give them the easy way out & kill them? Make them work all their life for no pay & make them exercise every day to stay healthy since we pay for their medical care. No desserts , no meat, no cigarettes, no hair either (if recruits in our military get their head shaved why do we need to spend money on shampoo for criminals to wear braids, etc?) Vegetarianism is healthy & cheap. So is jogging in the yard daily. These criminals can grow most of their own food with hot houses etc Why should they have TV? Radio & books encourage self examination & thoughtfulness. These guys are mostly there through thoughlessness & lack of insight. Thoughtfulness is the beginning of responsibility & maturity.