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Glenn McCoy on Reverend Jeremiah Wright

Enlightened idea of the day: Wright’s Voice Could Spell Doom for Obama

Should it become necessary in the months from now to identify the moment that doomed Obama’s presidential aspirations, attention is likely to focus on the hour between nine and ten this morning at the National Press Club. It was then that Wright, Obama’s longtime pastor, reignited a controversy about race from which Obama had only recently recovered – and added lighter fuel.

Speaking before an audience that included Marion Barry, Cornel West, Malik Zulu Shabazz of the New Black Panther Party and Nation of Islam official Jamil Muhammad, Wright praised Louis Farrakhan, defended the view that Zionism is racism, accused the United States of terrorism, repeated his view that the government created the AIDS virus to cause the genocide of racial minorities, stood by other past remarks (“God damn America”) and held himself out as a spokesman for the black church in America.

Every minute that Barack Obama does NOT “THROW JEREMIAH WRIGHT UNDER THE BUS” harms his Presidential campaign and the Democrat Party’s chances of regaining the White House.

The stage has been set for a “Sister Soulja Moment” and Obama must cease upon it. Flap says if he continues to do nothing past tomorrow – put a fork in him – HE”S DONE.”

Ad from the Democrat Party

The Democrats and Democrat National Chairman Howard Dean are lying about John McCain again.

The Republican National Committee demanded Monday that television networks stop running a television ad by the Democratic Party that falsely suggests John McCain wants a 100-year war in Iraq.

The ad says President Bush has talked about staying in Iraq for 50 years, then plays a clip of McCain saying, “Maybe 100. That’d be fine with me.”

The announcer then says: “If all he offers is more of the same, is John McCain the right choice for America’s future?”

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the ad deliberately distorts what McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said.

The committee’s chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said he sent letters Monday to NBC, CNN and MSNBC insisting that they stop airing the commercial.

At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.

McCain said: “Maybe 100. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that’d be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day.”

Democratic Party chief Howard Dean said “there’s nothing false” about the ad.

Howard Dean is a lying POS. Read this AssHat.

And, pull the ad.

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Barack Obama Lying About John McCain and 100 Year Iraq War

John McCain Watch: The 100 Year Iraq War?

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, speaks during a news conference at Wilmington Airport in Wilmington, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2008.

This morning the United States Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s photo ID law for voters.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can require voters to produce photo identification without violating their constitutional rights, validating Republican-inspired voter ID laws.

In a splintered 6-3 ruling, the court upheld Indiana’s strict photo ID requirement, which Democrats and civil rights groups said would deter poor, older and minority voters from casting ballots. Its backers said it was needed to deter fraud.

Yet, Senator and Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama said today that the law was WRONG.

Obama said he was disappointed today in the new Supreme Court decision that has upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, calling it “wrong,” and emphasizing that the law could suppress turnout among minorities and poorer voters.

“I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court decision upholding Indiana’s photo identification law — one of the most restrictive in the nation,” Obama said in a written statement.

He referenced his decision to file an amicus brief when Indiana’s voter ID law was first challenged, saying he did it because he believed that “it places an unfair burden on Indiana residents who are poor, elderly, disabled, or members of minority groups.”

Bull…..

What sort of burden does it place on voters to show a valid Indiana or any state’s driver’s license or photo ID? Flap supposes it would be a burden for illegal aliens, felons or others who have NO right to vote and who wish to do so fraudulantly.

Oh yeah and Barack Obama favors drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens.

The Indiana law is common sense and not too onerous for the American voter.

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Indiana Photo ID Voter Law Upheld by United States Supreme Court

After the removal of an outer layer of bones around the jaw, the dissection shows blood vessels and sensory nerves to the lower teeth and chin. The process was slow, in part because the Kodachrome film had to be sent to Kodak in Rochester, N.Y., to be developed. Mr. Gruber had to check that the photos came out satisfactorily before Dr. Basset could proceed with his dissection. Photo courtesy of New York Times

This amazing and wonderful work on human anatomy in three dimensions will soon be online thanks to Stanford University.

Dr. David L. Bassett, was an expert in anatomy and dissection at the University of Washington. For more than 17 years, he was engaged in creating what has been called the most painstaking and detailed set of images of the human body, inside and out, ever produced. In 3-D.

Working closely with William Gruber, the inventor of the View-Master, the three-dimensional viewing system that GAF Corporation popularized as a toy in the 1960s, Dr. Bassett created the 25-volume “Stereoscopic Atlas of Human Anatomy” in 1962. It included some 1,500 pairs of slides, along with line drawings that made the details more discernible. The paired slides could be examined with a View-Master, making the chest cavity look cavernous, and making details of structure and tissue stand out unforgettably.

The atlas was an immediate success and the images became an important resource for medical students, even more so as schools have de-emphasized gross anatomy and cadaver work. But the atlas eventually went out of publication in the 1960s.

Thanks to Stanford University’s school of medicine, however, the work will soon be available to the world. The school is bringing the images online, (See a sampling.). The school has also worked with eHuman, a company in Silicon Valley that hopes to charge students and the curious for access to the trove. Rolling a computer mouse over an image at the eHuman site will highlight anatomical details, and bring up the line drawings from the atlas. So far access to the head and neck collection is $8 a month. Nothing else is online yet.

The Bassett Collection on Flickr is here.

Access to The Bassett Online anatomical collection can be purchased here. This isa must purchase for dental students, researchers and clinicians alike.

The masseter muscle of mastication reflected back to expose the jawbone (mandible) and the related vessels, nerves and muscles.

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign event at the Graham Fire Dept. in Graham, N.C., Monday, April 28, 2008.

The latest Indiana Survey USA poll has Hillary Clinton maintaining a nine percentage point lead.

In a Democratic Primary in Indiana today, 04/28/08, 8 days until votes are counted, Hillary Clinton finishes ahead of Barack Obama, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WHAS-TV in Louisville and WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. The results are identical to a SurveyUSA TV poll released 4 weeks ago, on 04/01/08. Clinton led then 52% to 43%, leads now 52% to 43%. Other polls show the contest closer; some polls show Obama ahead. SurveyUSA tracking graphs show movement toward Clinton in the middle of April but offsetting movement to Obama at the end of April. This back-and-forth can be seen clearly on the interactive tracking graphs for males, for Democrats, for pro-choice voters, and for residents of greater Indianapolis. Clinton’s advantage is steady among women, steady among voters age 50+, and steady in Southern Indiana, which borders Kentucky. Obama is gaining ground among voters under 50, where he leads for the first time; among liberals, where he leads for the first time; in Northern Indiana, where he is tied for the first time; and in Central Indiana, where he has cut Clinton’s lead in half. Clinton, by contrast, is making steady inroads among Independent voters.

In a new national Ap-Ipsos poll, Hillary is now beating John McCain by a larger margin than Obama bolstering her argument to Democrat superdelegates that she would be the best nominee to face off against John McCain.

Who at this point does NOT believe that Hillary would have a better chance to beat McCain?

Good grief with the Jeremiah Wright eruption this morning, Obama, if the nominee, is looking at a McGovern style multi-state electoral college loss.

Stay tuned as Hillary presses her case against Obama.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean speaks during a taping of ‘Meet the Press’ in Washington, April 27, 2008. Dean appeared on the show to speak about the 2008 presidential race and the ongoing battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Howard Dean will enforce this decree – GET OUT.

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November.

But Dean didn’t say which candidate should drop out, only that it should happen after primary voters have been to the polls.

“We want the voters to have their say. That’s over on June 3,” Dean said in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Dean also said that while the party rules say Democratic superdelegates can wait until the party’s August 25 convention to make up their minds, that would be too late to unify the party and defeat the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain.

“We really can’t have a divided convention. If we do it’s going to be very hard to heal the party afterwards,” Dean said. “So we’ll know who the nominee is and that’ll give us an extra 2 1/2 months to get our party together, heal the wounds of having a very closely divided race and take on Senator McCain.”

Dean said he won’t have to tell either Clinton or Obama when it’s time to leave the race.

“Either of these candidates, if it’s time for them to go, they’ll know it and they will go,” Dean said. “They don’t need any pushing from me. You know when to get in and you know when to get out. That’s just part of the deal.”

When Hillary wins Indiana, it will only harden her resolve to take the Michigan/Florida debacles to the Democrat Convention. And, Obama WILL NEVER agree to a withdrawal having won the most pledged delegates.

In a minute Flap will look at the latest Indiana polls – favorable to Hillary.

Stay tuned……

Aurora Johnson, left, a dental therapist, filled cavities for Paul Towarak, 10, in the village of Unalakleet, Alaska. For more involved procedures, Ms. Johnson refers patients to a dentist. Photo courtesy of New York Times

If the dental therapists must have two years of training, how is that different than a three year program at an American Dental School?

Answer: One year of training

And, that solves access to care or the cost of dental care how?