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Monday, March 05, 2012

Coltons Point Times Index by Subject

The Broken American Health Care System

Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Health Care in America - Illegal "Off-Label" Conspirators
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/health-care-in-america-illegal-off.html

Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Health Care in America - Increasing Criminal and Civil Monetary Penalties Against the Pharmaceutical Industry
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/health-care-in-america-increasing.html

Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Health Care in America - Big Pharma Convictions in Civil and Criminal Courts
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/health-care-in-america-big-pharma.html

Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Health Care in America - Big Pharma Fraud, Cover Ups & Corruption
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/health-care-in-america-big-pharma-fraud.html

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Health Care in America - The Sword of Damocles - Antibiotics

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/health-care-in-america-sword-of.html

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Health News You Can Use - Stay Informed & Stay Alive
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/health-news-you-can-use-stay-informed.html

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Did You Hear About This in the News?

America

's Legal Drug Addiction
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/did-you-hear-about-this-in-news.html

Monday, February 06, 2012
Health Care in America - "Corruption at the Core of the Collapse
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/health-care-in-america-corruption-at.html

Friday, February 03, 2012
Health Care in America - "Possible Side Effects" Warnings
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/health-care-in-america-possible-side.html

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Health Care in America - Where Politicians Fear to Tread
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/health-care-in-america-where.html

Lyme Disease - the Secret Pandemic Sweeping America - Links

Part 1. - May 18, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping.html

Part 2 - May 19, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping_20.html

Part 3 - May 20, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping_61.html

Part 4 - June 02, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping_2895.html

Part 5 - June 11, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping_7907.html

Part 6 - December 21, 2010
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2010/12/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping_21.html

Part 7 - January 18, 2012
http://lymediseasesecretpandemic.blogspot.com/2012/01/lyme-disease-secret-pandemic-sweeping.html

Hopi Indians - People of the Golden Sun

Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Hopi Nation - the People of Peace and Children of God - Part 1.
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/06/hopi-nation-people-of-peace-and.html

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
The Hopi Nation - the People of Peace and Children of God - Part 2.
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/06/hopi-nation-people-of-peace-and_30.html

Friday, July 02, 2010
The Hopi Nation - the People of Peace and Children of God - Part 3
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/07/hopi-nation-people-of-peace-and.html

Wednesday, July 07, 2010
The Hopi Nation - the People of Peace and Children of God - Part 4
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/07/hopi-nation-people-of-peace-and_07.htm

Earth Changes - Natural & Manmade

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth

http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/sun-fires-off-2-huge-solar-flares-could.html

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Solar Storm Update - Prepare Yourself
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/solar-storm-update-prepare-yourself.html

Saturday, March 12, 2011
Earthquakes - Nature's Fury or Mankind's Folly? Our Celestial HAARP
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/earthquakes-natures-fury-or-mankinds.html

Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time to Listen to Mother Earth - We are Running Out of Time
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-to-listen-to-mother-earth-we-are.html

Thursday, November 18, 2010
Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/11/antimatter-atoms-produced-and-trapped.html

Friday, November 12, 2010
Hopelessly Hooked on Science - Search for the God Particle
http://coltonspointtimes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hopelessly-hooked-on-science-search-for.html

St. Clements Island Maryland Colonial History - The Rest of the Story

Maryland and the nation owe a great deal to the brave colonists who ventured across the Atlantic in 1633 and landed on St. Clements Island in early 1634. St. Clements Manor, established within a couple of years, remains the oldest continually settled chartered community in colonial

America

Friday, March 02, 2012

Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain - 50 Years Ago Today He Scored 100 Points in NBA Game

There will never be another Wilt Chamberlain in basketball. He was a force in college, in the pros and on and off the court throughout life. This giant of a man made history 50 years ago today when he scored 100 points in a single NBA game as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks in a 169-147 victory. It is a feat that may never be beaten.

Shortly after that day I had occasion to meet Chamberlain with my brothers. My older brother was a high school All American in basketball and along with my younger brother the three of us played on one of the most successful programs in Iowa basketball history at the time, which was why we got to meet him.

Because of the press attention my brother got to pose with Chamberlain and at 7 feet 2 inches and 275 pounds he was a giant, with arms bigger than my brother's thighs. My brother was at 6' 5" and 200 pounds.

"As time goes by," Chamberlain reflected more than three decades later, "I feel more and more a part of that 100-point game. It has become my handle, and I've come to realize just what I did."

As Oscar Robertson put it in the Philadelphia Daily News when asked whether Chamberlain was the best ever, "The books don't lie."

He retired as the all-time in career points with 31,419, which was later surpassed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and Michael Jordan. He is tops in rebounds with 23,924. He led the NBA in scoring seven years in a row. He was the league's top rebounder in 11 of his 14 seasons. And as if to prove that he was not a selfish player, he had the NBA's highest assist total in 1967-68.

As if that was not enough in his personal autobiography Wilt revealed he not only scored on the court but off the court as well with over 20,000 women.
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Obamaville March 2 - Obama Mea Culpa Backfires

President apologizes - six US soldiers & over 30 Afghans Murdered

In spite of claims to the contrary in which the President said his apology to the Afghan people over the inadvertent burning of a Quran holy book has helped ease the violence against American troops in Afghanistan, the facts speak volumes that he might have been wrong.

The Afghan people became aware on February 21 that US troops had burned a Quran the day before that was used to pass secret messages between terrorists in prison. Two days later President Obama talked to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and had a letter hand delivered to Karzai the same day apologizing for the action by the American troops.

Before the day was over two American servicemen had been killed by a man in an Afghan army uniform in retaliation for the burning. Today, nine days later, six American soldiers are dead and over 30 Afghans have been killed in violent riots against American troops.

Critics said Obama's apology was capitulation for actions that were justified and served to give already nervous Afghan people a reason to join the Taliban in trying to get the US out of Afghanistan.

With the President already announcing his intention to pull out of Afghanistan by 2014 the Afghan people feel they are being abandoned by the American president and people. They believe the Taliban will overrun the country as soon as the Americans depart.

The war in Afghanistan is Obama's war, his signature is all over it. He tripled the number of American troops fighting in Afghanistan and the US has already spent over $800 billion fighting the ten year war. During that time 1,908 American soldiers have been killed. The US has also given over $18 billion in aid to the Afghan government.

There is no sign the hatred will subside or the rioting and deaths will end. Just yesterday Obama's Joint Chiefs of staff indicated support of Israel military action against the Muslim nation Iran, an act that may further aggravate heightened tension with Afghan.

Israel

is pressing Obama for an explicit threat of military action against Iran if sanctions fail and Tehran's nuclear program advances beyond specified "red lines".

Diplomats say that Israel is angered by the Obama administration's public disparaging of early military action against Iran, saying that it weakens the prospect of Tehran taking the warnings from Israel seriously.

Just days before the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is scheduled to arrive in Washington to meet with Obama the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Norton Schwartz, said the Joint Chiefs of Staff have prepared military options to strike Iranian nuclear sites in the event of a conflict.

The Middle East Arab Israeli conflict has been fought over thousands of years and the Muslims have never lost sight of the fact that America is Israel's friend and protector. As such suspicion between Arab nations and the United States continues unabated which was obvious during the recent Arab spring when countries overthrowing dictators and gaining freedom have moved away from the US and Israel.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Is Obama backing Sexual Promiscuity as a Woman's Wellness Issue?

Obama backs federal regulation to pay for sexual promiscuity

In another bizarre deviation from the norm when it comes to an over-reaching federal government President Obama, and today the Democrat controlled Senate on a narrow 51-48 vote, have extended federal health care jurisdiction to guarantee protection for sexual promiscuity.

Under ObamaCare the federal government has now determined that sexual promiscuity must be covered by health insurance companies by ordering them to pay for multiple kinds of birth control in addition to abortions.

Where in the US Constitution does it guarantee the government will pay for freedom of sexual promiscuity?

Is this what a Harvard trained lawyer like Obama learns about our Constitution in law school? He is the one claiming to be a Constitutional lawyer.

In the first place birth control was available and paid for through private sources for anyone in America for the last few decades. Was it even necessary? Or was it another ruse to expand the social engineering to further undermine morality and religion in our country?

Leading liberals, particularly feminist spokespeople, have made a passionate case that birth control is just another woman's health issue as if sexual promiscuity has no relationship to the matter and a woman is not normal unless they have a healthy sexual appetite.

They deny morality is involved and that religion has any role in working to stop the sexual epidemic currently facing our nation.

The Henry J. Kaiser family foundation says:

Every year there are more than 15 million new cases of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) in the United States, including approximately 10 million new cases among people aged 15-24. Put another way: By age 24, at least one in three sexually active people will have contracted an STD.

Americans are getting hit at three times the rate of other wealthy nations by bad health consequences of sexual activity, a report says.

Based on an analysis of national health data, researchers said 20 million adverse health events occur each year as a result of sexual behavior.

An additional 30,000 deaths each year are attributable to sexual behavior translating to 2 million years of lost life, according to the study.

You may think it can’t happen to you, but every year there are almost 3 million unintended pregnancies in this country. Among young people the problem is especially serious. Each year nearly 1 million young women aged 15 to 19 get pregnant; that’s a little more than one in every nine teenagers. Eighty percent of these pregnancies are unplanned.

These unplanned pregnancies result in about 1.2 million abortions every year in America.

The Centers for Disease Control says `these are numbers that have been reported; actual cases may be much higher. But it remains a hidden epidemic, not just because many STDs have no symptoms, but because of the stigma and politics that complicate efforts to fight them.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told Megyn Kelly of Fox News that all women deserve free contraceptives. Here is what else Obama spokesperson and Democrat National Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz has said on this issue.

"Contraception in which 99 percent of women in America have used at some point in their life. And the Republicans want to debate not just religious liberty. They want to debate allowing all employers who might have an objection to deny that coverage that President Obama has said should be available under the Affordable Care Act, without a copay, and without a deductible."

"There is a new poll that shows the American people trust the president to make the right decision about this."

"that's a huge extreme divide between President Obama and his excellent accomplishment in passing the affordable care act and then giving access to health care, free preventive wellness like contraception"

"Contraception is an important part of women's preventive health care. It not only prevents unwanted pregnancies, but also allows couples to limit family size, increase the interval between pregnancies, and reduces infant, child and maternal deaths in women whom, either because of age or health, should not become pregnant. Oral contraceptives can also be crucial for women who suffer from painful maladies like endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, or debilitating menstrual cramps or irregular periods."

Just a couple of notes about the facts and omissions from Chairwoman Wasserman. She has said repeatedly that 99% of all women in America have used contraception.

Facts and Omissions

According to the US Census Bureau there were 127,026,000 women in America 15 years and older in 2010. That means Wasserman says over 125 million women use contraceptives.

According to The Alan Guttmacher Institute:

• There are 62 million U.S. women in their childbearing years (15–44).

• Seven in 10 women of reproductive age (43 million women) are sexually active and do not want to become pregnant, but could become pregnant if they and their partners fail to use a contraceptive method.

• The proportion of women aged 15–44 currently using a contraceptive method increased from 56% in 1982 to 64% in 1995, and then declined slightly to 62% in 2002 and 2006–2008.

In other words, 38 million women use contraception in America of the 43 million who could use it. Wasserman's facts are off by over 84 million. Even if we assumed she misspoke and meant 99% of the "childbearing age " women use contraceptives she is still dead wrong, just 61% of that group use contraceptives.

She also goes into great detail about how couples and families have a right to a government mandate to provide contraceptives for child planning purposes but fails to mention teens who are responsible for one third of all unwanted pregnancies, are far more sexually active than adults, and suffer far more from an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases.

Family Planning Centers and many schools have free contraceptives available for teens yet the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases continues to spiral upward. Her ideas will do nothing to help this demographic, the sufferers of the worst consequences of rampant sex.

What are STDs?

These are some of the diseases transmitted sexually.

Bacterial Vaginosis (BV)

Chlamydia

Gonorrhea

Hepatitis, Viral

Herpes, Genital

HIV/AIDS & STDs

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)

Syphilis

Trichomoniasis

Lymphogranuloma Venereum (LGV)

Pubic Lice Infestation

Scabies

In 2010, a total of 1,307,893 cases of sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infection were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is the largest number of cases ever reported to CDC for any condition. This case count corresponds to a rate of 426.0 cases per 100,000 population, an increase of 5.1% compared with the rate in 2009.

Rates of reported chlamydial infections among women have been increasing annually since the late 1980s, when public programs for screening and treatment of women were first established to avert pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and related complications.

Following a 74% decline in the rate of reported gonorrhea during 1975–1996, overall gonorrhea rates plateaued for 10 years; it decreased during 2006–2009 to the lowest rate since national reporting began and then increased 2.8% between 2009 and 2010. In 2010, a total of 309,341 cases of gonorrhea were reported in the United States, which corresponds to a rate of 100.8 cases per 100,000 population.

The rate of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis reported in the United States decreased during the 1990s, and in 2000, it was the lowest since reporting began in 1941. The low rate of syphilis and the concentration of most syphilis cases in a small number of geographic areas led to the development of the National Plan to Eliminate Syphilis from the United States, which was announced by the Surgeon General in 1999 and updated in 2006.

The overall rate of P&S syphilis in the United States declined 89.7% during 1990–2000, then increased each year from 2001 through 2009. In 2010, the overall rate decreased for the first time in 10 years. The rate decreased 21% in women but increased slightly, 1.3%, in men. In 2010, a total of 13,774 cases of P&S syphilis were reported to CDC. After 14 years of decline, the number of reported cases of congenital syphilis reached an historic low of 339 cases in 2005. The number of cases increased from 2006–2008 but has since decreased with 377 cases reported in 2010, a 15% decrease since 2008.

Do we really believe this has nothing to do with sexual promiscuity or morality but is simply a matter of wellness for women according to Obama?

Obamaville March 1 - Pundits Punt on Veracity

Apples are Oranges to Media Experts

Time goes by ever so slowly in the race for the Republican nomination but a few things are already quite obvious. First, there is no effort for some media to hide, disguise or claim balanced coverage because media objectivity has been thrown to the winds with a little over 8 months left in the campaign.

Not that it makes a lot of difference because the public long ago assumed media bias was a new facet of journalism in America. Of course Fox News is the conservative standard but they are not necessarily Republican leaning as no one has done more to undermine efforts by Romney to pick up conservatives than the Fox personalities.

Sometimes it seems they are in cahoots with MSNBC and their parent NBC the way they keep implying Romney is struggling to get the backing of leading conservatives. Back in the days of honest philosophical differences all the Republican candidates used to pledge to support whomever won the nomination at the convention.

That was how Reagan was so successful in capturing cross over voters from the Democrat and Independent ranks. Now it seems the candidates put themselves above the party by threatening to withhold support for the eventual nominee, threatening a third party candidate, and even threatening to back someone new who might be seduced into entering the race at the last minute.

Loyalty to party seems to have become a lost principle. Accommodation of all views from conservative to moderate to liberal also seems to be lost on our present flock of politicians. Perhaps they have hopes of demanding a litmus test on proper conservative attitudes before pledging support, a narrow minded view that has failed miserably in the past.

It would seem rather obvious from the Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush years in the presidency that America has become far more moderate than conservative conservatives might like but reality is a powerful motivator to put philosophical loyalty in the middle where it belongs if one intends to serve all Americans.

Reagan proved you could be conservative and compassionate while the Bush family and Clinton proved being moderate was the only way to survive. No doubt the nation needs a strong dose of fiscal conservatism to get out of the mess the liberals and conservatives have left us but eliminating budget deficits, reducing the national debt and fixing the entitlement mess also requires a lot of compassion to minimize the damage on people.

On the Democrat side of the media ledger very few media outlets show any desire to be anything but an extension of the Obama press office. In the fifteen presidential elections I can remember I've never experienced anything like the media intimidation from the White House. Not even Johnson or Nixon had the mainstream and cable media eating out of their hands like Barack Obama.

I suspect it is partly a response to the often heavy handed treatment of the media by Bush II insiders who never trusted the media and probably for good reason. Backing Obama gave the media a chance to get even.

There is clearly a left leaning tendency on the part of most of the media which has come to the surface as the media lost all sense of balanced coverage and objective reporting. And of course there is the fact Obama is Black, a Democrat and clearly wants big government, all draws to a liberal media.

It has been a long time since the liberals had a chance to influence the government gravy train, to dominate the news through reporters and anchors, and to control most of the cable news talk shows where they can sell books and book speeches.

Over the past few decades there were liberal stalwarts including The New York Times and Washington Post on the print side and PBS on television but the success of cable mouthpieces, first conservatives and then liberals, broke down the objective principles of journalism and opened the floodgates to news media stars interested more in making news than reporting it.

Rush Limbaugh is one of few media stars honest enough to admit that the role of talk shows is to entertain. I suspect most of the public still thinks they report the news, fair and balanced news, choosing to ignore the advocacy and lack of objectivity of most of the media stars.

CNN has come a long ways from the days when Ted Turner ruled falling off the cliff of objectivity into the abyss of liberalism. Some supposedly news shows like Soledad O'Brien and others make no attempt to hide their anti-conservative bias while the prime time news tries to downplay it but always stacks the panels of "experts" with liberals and Democrats, usually liberals as well.

Well there is still one place in CNN where you get balanced news coverage, that is the HLN (Headline News) Morning Express Show with the ever bubbly Robin Meade who has gradually taken over the morning news and entertainment slot and has the only six hour time slot, 6 am until 12 noon, on television. She is also the only news personality who is part Native American.

MSNBC might as well be located in the Obama White House because even their so called Republican voices or pretenders defend Republican principles like France fought off the German invasion in World War II. In other words, from Joe Scarborough's ego to former GOP National Chairman Michael Steele's outsider status they are far more concerned with protecting their own personal image than defending the Republicans.

NBC as a matter of principle still seems to project the GE party line which means you give homage to anyone who gets you $9 billion in tax free profits a year and Obama did just that. Yet sometime NBC contributor Tom Brokaw and Meet the Press anchor David Gregory have both continued to avoid being caught up in the liberal stampede.

CNBC, the financial news network, is the exception to the rule in the NBC family as any blatant liberal bias would cost them their dominate position as the financial news source of America. Of course their preoccupation with Warren Buffett, staunch billionaire Obama backer, who gets more CNBC air time than anyone on the globe, is an ongoing source of aggravation to conservatives but Buffett always has some common sense financial advice, not to mention he is the most successful investor on Wall Street over the past 50 years so he deserves to be heard no matter what his political beliefs. No one can say he is not a successful capitalist.

CBS used to be the most liberal network but NBC might have stolen the crown away. At ABC you at least have a balance between anchor Diane Sawyer from the Republican battlefields and George Stephanopoulos, a Clinton/Obama creation, although George has far more air time to promote the liberal cause with other ABC news programs.

Ironically, if you really want balanced news coverage of politics in America your only hope is to turn to BBC whose world news coverage dwarfs anything on American networks and whose political coverage of America may sometimes be bewildered by the bizarre political and campaign process, but always seem to give it objective coverage.

Now you still have one last choice when it comes to the mainstream and cable news coverage and that is to turn off the television. You might even do it for health reasons. It would certainly lower your blood pressure. It would keep you from believing all those lies. And it might give you a chance to find out what your kid is doing on the Internet social media.

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