POLITICAL: An organ marketplace

Thursday, October 8, 2009

http://lifesharers.blogspot.com/2009/10/transplanting-kidneys-from-people-who.html

Friday, October 02, 2009
Transplanting kidneys from people who had kidney failure

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Nobody should think they’re too sick (or too old) to be an organ donor. People who need transplants would rather live with imperfect organs than die waiting for perfect ones.

As transplant medicine continues to advance, surgeons will continue to transplant lots of organs once thought unusable. Transplanting kidneys from people who suffered acute kidney failure will expand the supply of kidneys by about 1,000 per year. It’s a shame Americans continue to bury or cremate 10,000 transplantable kidneys every year.

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Seems obvious. Better a poor substitute than the alternative.

10k kidneys every year? That’s criminal. We need a free market.

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POLITICAL: Opposition is NOT racism

Thursday, October 8, 2009

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/09/30/is_disagreement_with_obama_racism

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Walter E. Williams :: Townhall.com Columnist
Is Disagreement with Obama Racism?
by Walter E. Williams

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Obama’s presidency is truly a remarkable commentary on the goodness of Americans and how far we’ve come in resolving matters of race. Obama convincingly won votes in states with insignificant black populations, such as the New England states, Iowa and Minnesota. For the nation as a whole, he managed 53 percent of the popular vote and 365 of the Electoral College votes when he only needed 270 to win. So now Jimmy Carter, Dowd, Rangel and other race-carders want us to believe that the massive discontent with Obama is racism. I say nonsense!

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I agree with Prof W that opposition is NOT racism.

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