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Obama Values Dog Over Payroll Tax Cut – McCain
Arizona Senator John McCain came out on Fox News and attacked President Barack Obama on the payroll tax cut issue. McCain is claiming that Obama is not doing enough to pressure Democrats to push through the legislation. www.mediaite.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Download the politics or entertainment hour of this TYT episode: goo.gl The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com
Popular Website Hounds Mitt Romney Over Dog on Car Roof Story
(PRWEB) April 21, 2012
Launched less than four months ago, Seamus2012.com has become a popular clearinghouse of news, videos and information about GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney and his family dog, an Irish Setter named Seamus, which was strapped to the car roof during a 12-hour drive to their vacation home in Canada.
Its no surprise why this story continues to have such staying power in the media, says Seamus2012.coms creator Bill Katovsky. Who does that to their family dog – and then thinks there was nothing wrong? Its a blatant form of animal cruelty.
Although the incident took place back in 1983, it first publicly surfaced in a Boston Globe profile of Romney during the previous presidential campaign. Seamus obviously wasnt enjoying himself on the roof of the station wagon. He had a messy bout of diarrhea that streamed down the car windows, causing one of the Romney kids to scream in horror. So Mitt stopped at a gas station, hosed down the windows, got back in the car, and continued driving. Seamus remained in the dog crate on the car roof.
Pet lovers agree that Romney belongs in the doghouse, not White House. Gail Collins has mentioned the car roof story 41 times in her New York Times column. (Theres a Mitt OMeter counter on Seamus2012.com that keeps count.)
Mitts aloofness, utter strangeness, and lack of an empathy gene are symbolized by the Seamus saga, continues Katovsky. Romney made a fortune in the private sector buying up companies and indifferently laying off workers. He saw nothing wrong with his callous actions then, either. Its an out-of-touch character issue that resonates among the average voter.
Seamus is a story with legs, as made apparent with a Dogs Against Romney Facebook page, New Yorker magazine cover, a Rachel Maddow special segment on MSNBC, two features on CNN, numerous op-ed columns in places like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and the subject just last week of ABCs Diane Sawyers interview with Mitt and Ann Romney.
Theres even a new pro-Obama DogPAC hoping to raise more than $ 1 million to advertise in battleground sites.
What could be further damaging to the Romney presidential campaign is that National Dog Day falls on August 26, which happens to be the day before the start of the Republican National Convention.
Dogs dont vote, says Katovsky, but their owners do. And there are over 70 million U.S households that own a pet. This alone could have a galvanizing effect on the presidential race.
Popular posts on Seamus2012.com include a Hitler parody video that Katovsky created with over 40,000 YouTube views, Seamus crossword puzzle, and a story that looked into the Romneys Canadian vacation home that was located inside a formerly restricted community called Beach O Pines. Mitts father, a former governor who also ran for president, had built the cottage in the early 50s. Before a landmark Canadian Supreme Court ruling was handed down, followed by the enforcement of an anti-discrimination law, this exclusive community on the shores of Lake Huron, where the Romneys vacationed each summer, was off-limits to any person of the Jewish, Hebrew, Semitic, Negro or coloured race or blood.
The issue of race and religion as reflected in Beach O Pines should be an even bigger political story here in the U.S. than what Romney did to Seamus, says Katovsky. Yet the media which travel in packs has neglected reporting on this rather shameful part of Romneys family history.
Katovsky is the author of several books including Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq, which won the Harvards Goldsmith Book Prize and Patriots Act: Voices of Dissent and the Risk of Speaking Out, which was a Book Sense National Selection; His writings have appeared in the Huffington Post, Salon, and San Francisco Chronicle. He owned a golden retriever named Rockee. They were best pals for 14 years. Rockee almost always rode in the front passenger seat.
For more information, contact Bill Katovsky at 415-381-8606, katovsky.bill(at)gmail(dot)com, or go to Seamus2012.com.
Parker Waichman LLP Opposes U.S. Justice Department Effort to Quash Lawsuit over Guatemalan Medical Experiments Conducted by U.S. Government Researchers in the 1940s
New York, New York (PRWEB) January 11, 2012
Parker Waichman LLP, a national law firm, opposes motions recently filed by the U.S. Department of Justice to dismiss a proposed individual and class action lawsuit seeking reparations for victims of non-consensual medical experiments conducted by researchers for the U.S. Public Health Service in Guatemala in the 1940s. Last March, Parker Waichman LLP and a partner firm filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and eight current federal officials, including HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, and Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on behalf of the Guatemalan medical experimentation victims (case number 1:11-cv-00527). As the government admits, the lawsuit arises out of a deeply troubling chapter in our nations history. In addition to compensatory and punitive damages for victims of the Guatemalan experiments and their descendants, the lawsuit seeks a declaration that the Defendants violated human rights and an injunction to prohibit further abuses against Guatemalan residents.
According to the federal complaint, between 1946 and 1948, U.S. government medical researchers working in Guatemala intentionally infected upwards of 1,300 prisoners, soldiers and psychiatric patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted disease without their knowledge or permission in order to investigate the efficacy of penicillin in treating the diseases. The lawsuit cites two causes of action arising under the Alien Tort Statute for violations of the international prohibitions against medical experimentation on non-consenting human subjects and against cruel, inhuman degrading treatment; and two causes arising under the U.S. Constitution, for the violation of the victims’ right to due process and for subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment.
The doctor who led the Guatemalan experiments was John C. Cutler, who also helped coordinate the infamous Tuskegee, Alabama, study where 600 black men with syphilis were left untreated for decades starting in 1932 to follow the course of the treatable disease. The lawsuit alleges the decision to conduct research in Guatemala was part of a deliberate plan to continue the Tuskegee testing offshore, where it would not be subject to the same level of oversight as in the United States.
According to a report from Newsinferno.com, President Barack Obama has formally apologized to the victims and called the Guatemala experiments reprehensible and tragic. The President also directed the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to investigate the experiments. Last September, the Panel released a report which deemed the experiments unconscionable and called on the U.S. government to create a system to compensate people who are harmed by participation in scientific research.
On Monday, January 9, the U.S. Justice Department filed two motions seeking the dismissal of the lawsuit, asserting, among other arguments, that the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) provides immunity to the U.S. government for all claims based on injuries suffered in foreign countries and that the law provides no remedy for the injured Guatemalan plaintiffs. In fact, says the government, Congress has a general interest in protecting doctors like those who experimented on these Guatemalan citizens without their knowledge.
We vigorously oppose the assertions made by the Justice Department in its motions, and we pledge to continue to fight for the rights of Guatemalans harmed by the reprehensible acts committed by U.S. researchers during the 1940s, states Peter Cambs, Senior Litigation Counsel at Parker Waichman LLP. We will also continue to call on the U.S. government to establish a claims process by which the citizens of Guatemala who were harmed may receive restitution.
Parker Waichman LLP continues to offer free legal consultations to Guatemalan victims of this non-consensual medical experimentation. If you or a member of your family was adversely impacted by these gross violations of human rights, please contact our office by visiting http://www.yourlawyer.com. Free case evaluations are also available by calling 1 800 LAW INFO (1-800-529-4636).
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