Cancer deaths are down in the USA.

Twice I beat a cancer and it was solely early detection and the best decision making going forward. The doctors had alternatives, but, I always chose the one with the best odds. 

For women, if they are facing a cancer or a neoplasm of their uterus, they need to consider a complete hysterectomy and not a partial. Partial hysterectomies leave the cervix and a woman is left wide open for a hormone sentitive cervical cancer that will absolutely mastisize. It is not good.

Total hysterectomies are not the end of the world. Good skin care, regular exercise and a healthy diet can be just as healthy and wonderful.

January 12, 2022
By Claire Thorton

A new report says 3.5 million cancer deaths (click here) have been prevented in recent decades, thanks to declines in smoking, advances in treatments and improved early detection.

But the cancer statistics paper published Wednesday, a companion to the American Cancer Society's 2022 annual report, cautions pandemic-related impacts to cancer detection and treatment aren't yet known. The scientific paper also calls out racial disparities in cancer rates that have long persisted.

The report says cancer diagnoses and treatments were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as access to health care was limited for many Americans. But data to quantify the problem won't be available for years. 

“We are all ... anxious about what this report is going to look like … in February 2024," said Dr. Deb Schrag, the Department of Medicine Chair at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center....

Perhaps, COVID testing sites can be linked with cancer awareness education and referrals to those that have not had their regular FREE preventive annual exam.

Health professionals should take every opportunity to keep America healthy. A little general wellness education at the testing site is a good reminder.

Racial disparities are simply not allowed. There needs to be an anthropegenic study to find out what it is about the culture and lifestyles of some Americans that do not stress annual check-ups and preventive measures.

President Biden could probably task this to HHS with some funding for independent evaluators and consultants. We need to do something in the regulations that seek out racial issues and bring those Americans in to the understanding about health and preventive measures.

The conservative justices live in cloud city.

The six justices that voted against the adminisration's OSHA regulations took the decision of medical competence out of the hands of doctors and advisers to OSHA and made up their own rules.

I would be surprised if any business would open themselves upto lawsuits if people became ill. Businesses need their brain trust and if they fall ill and have adverse outcomes the businesses will not only pay in sick leave, but, their treasuries, even if the Supreme Court gave them a pat on the back for doing so.

The AMA did not agree with the Supreme Court.

January 3, 2022

...The AMA said that, *click here) backed by science and rigorous clinical testing, the use of COVID-19 vaccines has proven to be the safest, most effective way to prevent viral spread in high transmission areas such as the workplace....

President Biden can ask for voluntary compliance with the vaccine mandate and/or testing and mask alternative. I think the mandates have worked. All the statistics point to it.

January 13, 2021

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko

...“OSHA has never before imposed such a mandate. (click here) Nor has Congress. Indeed, although Congress has enacted significant legislation addressing the COVID–19 pandemic, it has declined to enact any measure similar to what OSHA has promulgated here,” the conservatives wrote in an unsigned opinion.

In dissent, the court's three liberals argued that it was the court that was overreaching by substituting its judgments for health experts. “Acting outside of its competence and without legal basis, the Court displaces the judgments of the Government officials given the responsibility to respond to workplace health emergencies," Justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a joint dissent.

The vaccine mandate that the court will allow to be enforced nationwide covers virtually all health care workers in the country.

More than 208 million Americans, 62.7% of the population, are fully vaccinated, and more than a third of those have received booster shots, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All nine justices have gotten booster shots....

People are incapable of governance if their first allegiance is to Wall Street.

Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (click here) and Joe Manchin III, both Democrats who oppose altering the filibuster, take an elevator to the Senate chamber in September. 

That is the case of the Republicans, Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema. Sinema stated she does not see the path to passing legislation she approves of and wants to see into law. Sometimes people see the world differently.

I think what might be at play with Sinema is the problem we now witness with the Supreme Court. The Democrats could not get judges approved in the US Senate during the Obama era. The rules for a 60 vote demand was changed. Then when Trump/Russia was elected, the Republicans had a field day with Supreme Court judges like Kavanaugh. I think she may be skeptical of changing the filibuster realizing it could come back to cause problems for Democrats yet again.

There isn't anything preventing the Republicans from passing their own voting reform if they take a majority in 2022. So, why do this only to have it destroyed next term of the US House?

What Democrats need to ask is why aren't there Republicans that want to secure the US Constitution and preserve voting rights in every state of the United States. 

Perhaps that is the election issue Democrats need to pursue. What is the problem with incumbant Republicans in preserving "The Vote?"

Democrats need to keep their seats in the US House and Senate. Next term may be the charm. They should add one or two Senate seats and it will be done, hopefully.

In the meantime, the DNC needs to get on top of the voting changes in the states and end the vicious rules that inhibit free access to the voting booth.

Class 3 senators were last elected in 2016, and will be up for election again in 2022.

All 34 Class 3 Senate seats are up for election in 2022

Class 3 currently consists of 14 Democrats and 20 Republicans.

The time to defeat Republicans and maintain Democrats is now. In the US House some voting districts are changing and some now favor Democrats. This is a race the Democrats have to win and there are plenty of reasons as to why, including the Child Tax Credit.

When Republicans are in majority, women do not do well. They are far from treated in esteem.

October 9, 2021

By Jane Porter

North Carolina’s family values (click here) Republicans have really been crushing it in Congress recently.

First, Mark Meadows ignored multiple complaints of his chief of staff sexually harassing women subordinates. And now married-to-someone-else Congresswoman Renee Ellmers is—allegedly—sexing Kevin McCarthy (also married to someone else.)

We don’t want to get sued, or receive cease and desist letters from Ellmers’ lawyers, so we’ll emphasize that there is a RUMOR going around that Congresswoman Ellmers and Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy— the presumed successor to House Speaker John Boehner, until he announced Thursday that he wouldn’t run—have been having an affair since 2011.

McCarthy's wife's name is Judy and she is lovely. See below right. 

Here’s everything we know:

Kevin McCarthy was widely expected to be elected the next Speaker of the House, but he called a conference of House Republicans yesterday to announce that he wasn’t, in fact, running to be the next Speaker of the House. There was something about the GOP needing a fresh face in order to unite or whatever, which is kinda odd, since McCarthy hasn’t even been in Congress for ten years.

Anyone remember this by the way?

Huffington Post reports that Chicago-based GOP donor and ultraconservative insider Steve Baer sent emails to dozens of people in Congress, including McCarthy and Ellmers, with the subject line “Kevin, Why not resign like Bob Livingston?”...

Kevin McCarthy changed his story to lie to protect Donald John Trump. The January 6th committee needs to get McCarthy's testimony even if he is subpoenaed. McCarthy cannot be allowed to manufacture his own truth. It needs to be on record.

He seems comfortable with lies.

April 26, 2021

By Eric Lutz

A week after armed supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, (click here) Kevin McCarthy laid blame for the deadly insurrection at the feet of his party’s leader. “The president bears responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on Congress by mob rioters,” he said in a floor speech. “He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.” The scolding was ultimately meaningless, considering the House Minority Leader—who’d promoted the president’s election fraud claims—still voted against certifying the election and later against Trump’s impeachment. But it seemed to reflect a fear, on the part of McCarthy and other GOP leaders, that the party could bear a political cost for the attack if it didn’t at least pay a little lip service to contrition.

But the bill never came due, and now, four months later, McCarthy and other Trump allies are seeking to rewrite the history of January 6 instead of taking responsibility for it. In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, McCarthy was repeatedly pressed by Chris Wallace about Trump’s reaction to the violence. Had he, as Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler claimed, begged Trump by phone that day to call his supporters off, only for Trump to shrug that “these people are more upset about the election than you are?” McCarthy wouldn’t say. But as he tied himself in knots trying to dodge Wallace’s questions, he offered this account of how Trump responded to the Capitol attack:

“I was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on. He didn’t see it,” McCarthy said. “What he ended the call with saying, telling me he’ll put something out to make sure to stop this, and that’s what he did. He put a video out later.”

The ladies of Pop. We miss them and their sound.

"Not one word of thanks"

The Prime Minister has gotten into a bit of hot water because he held a BOB Party as the country was locking down with COVID-19.

Thank you means a great deal because the people carry out measures to end the spread of this virus and it is a sacrifice to many if not all.

 

"Don't wreck this now." I simply believe the Brits speak with clarity and this is excellent.

There is a problem at the University of North Dakota, a public funded university.

The North Dakota Catholic Conference represented by Christopher Dodson is seeking to be a policy maker that will refuse gender equality to students. There is no place for clergy on the Board of Trustees and therefore should not be pressuring the public to discriminate on a public campus.

January 12, 2021
By Adam Kurtz

UND will hold a press conference on Friday, Jan. 15, (click here) to respond to a letter penned by Christopher Dodson, executive director and general counsel of the North Dakota Catholic Conference, about the university’s proposed gender inclusion policy.

The letter, dated Jan. 10 and posted on the Catholic Conference’s social media page , was written by Dodson on behalf of Bishops David D. Kagan and John T. Folda. It urges parents with children set to attend a university to consider “the campus environment and whether it is conducive or hostile to not only the Catholic faith, but also the truth about the human person,” when choosing which school to attend.

The letter singles out UND due to a proposed policy that would require students, administrators and others on campus to use names, gendered references and pronouns that match a person’s stated gender identity.

Previously the Herald reported on the proposed policy , which would make intentionally misgendering a person to be an act of discrimination.