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  • Reply to: Billions in U.S. Reconstruction Funds for Iraq Wasted, Some Diverted to Terrorists   15 years 10 months ago

    this is not true
    l don't belive thet

  • Reply to: PR Consultant Gave Palin a Boost into the National Spotlight   15 years 10 months ago

    It saves me from having to post this video to some item that had nothing to do with her, because it's so outrageous it's obligatory:

    http://www.feministing.com/archives/011526.html

    Fox's foxiest excoriating Newsweek for not airbrushing Palin on its cover. No kidding!

  • Reply to: Pfizer Turns Failure into Success   15 years 10 months ago

    Prescription Access Litigation has posted these Neurontin documents on its website. They are at blog.prescriptionaccess.org/?p=304. See for yourself Pfizer's emails, and the expert reports prepared for the class action lawsuit against Pfizer.

    Prescription Access Litigation

  • Reply to: AIG's Got the Public's Money to Burn   15 years 10 months ago

    The $440,000 that AIG spent at partying at the St. Regis notwithstanding, the same company is planing a 3 day shindig for 150 insurance brokers at the plush Ritz-Carlton Resort in Half Moon Bay, California next week. Rooms cost $399 to $1,000 a night. AIG spokesperson Joe Norton told the L.A.Times there are no plans to cancel the event, despite the government bailout.

    AIG is not alone in continuing to engage in financial excess in these desperate times. Wachovia, yet another broke institution (albeit one not yet bailed out by the taxpayers) is preparing to send 75 of its executives, plus spouses and "significant others," on a Greek Island cruise.

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus9-2008oct09,0,6383400.column
    David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Business Section, October 9, 2008

    Anne Landman

  • Reply to: The Beginning of the End of Cigarettes for Sale in Pharmacies?   15 years 10 months ago
    Thanks for your comments. In my opinion, the comparison between cigarettes and prescription drugs is not valid. Cigarettes are essentially defective products; they are currently the only product on the market that, when used as intended by the manufacturer, are known cause cancer, emphysema, heart disease and other illnesses with astonishing regularity. Using your figures, cigarettes kill about four times as many people as prescription drugs. Cigarettes, which are arguably the most lethal product legally sold in the U.S. and perhaps the world, have also been subject to decades of research and engineering to make them even more addictive and appealing to users. Additionally, cigarette manufacturers have no oversight by the FDA or any other regulatory authority and can and do contain an untold number of contaminants, from bug and bug larvae to pesticide residues, inks, off-gassing from packaging and other chemicals. This can hardly be said of prescription drugs. Anne Landman

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