To Zardozap, (or something like that), please take that chip off your shoulder for a moment. You seem to be a doctor (my best guess). From what I have observed, it is nurses who are portrayed in some media as pornographic 'naughty nurses' thus they have to be particularly diligent in protecting their true professional images as knowledge workers. I can't say as I have ever seen a portrayal of the 'naughty doctor' on film. It just doesn't happen.

I did not get the impression that the doctors in this essay were being 'dumped' on in MS Tisdale's essay at all. I only felt it described the plight of the care workers left to man the fort during a 24 hour cycle. If you somehow identified here, well...

Doctors are also severly stressed by current Health Care Policy and conditions yet I don't see that they are acting in any organized way to do anything about it.

A truly wierd thing. I first noticed Charlie Crist during Hurricane Reports in 2003. Then I went to Florida during the 2004 Presidential Elections to help turn out the vote for the Democrats and saw him on television down there quite a bit. He was Atty General at that time. Somehow, I knew he would find himself on the national political stage even then as he seemed very likeable and competent (at least in the media) I am glad to see he is not a complete party line politician now at this point in his career as I think I could, even as a Democrat, consider voting for him. I have plans to move to Florida soon anyway.

Bye Bye Don, I am somewhat shocked that both MSNBC and CBC cut him lose primarily because either station chose to do anything at all about this abhorent behavior. Judging by all the Media coverage,(mostly by white males who seem to be the most shocked) I would have thought the Pope had been assasinated. It says something about these particular white male broadcasters that they are so surprised that the Imus comment could possibly be found so offensive as to be grounds for firing. This is why the story has 'legs' I watched Joe Scarbourough when Joan was a guest recently and noticed he wouldn't even let her talk about it. He saw this as much more of a race issue than as a mysogny issue. Very telling in my opinion.

Joe Scarborough is always calling for the censoring of Rosie O'Donnell by firing because she expresses her political opininion's on ABC's The View. Rosie does not make racist comments as far as I know. He says she is just a comedian. I son't know how he squares that with his apperarance on Bill Maher's show. And how hypocritical of him to be upset at the firing of Don Imus. Oh the irony.

First of all, there is not such medical term as "partial birth abortion" But, as long as it seems that people can just make-up names for procedures, I'll submit this one. It's a substitute for the now otlawed procedure and I'm going to call it the 'non-partial birth abortion' It can be performed in the 2nd or third trimester and it goes like this. A woman carrying a severly deformed or ancephlic fetus decides to end her pregnancy. Labor is then induced and she goes through either the delivery (or cesarian). The child is born, severely deformed at 22 weeks gestation. It spends 2 weeks (maybe) in Neonatal Intentsive Care then expires. The woman and her family send the entire $100,000 bill to the Supreme Court. Works for me.

These are still done in the 2nd trimester and are very much more comnon than a D & E However, even when abortions are done in the standard way by a D & C at 12 - 14 weeks and using the suction curretage/Vacuum method, the uterus is stimm manually curretted by the surgeon and body parts will be extracted. Been there: seen that.

So I guess some women will now be forced to become 'Incubators on Demand' in order to accommodate the needs of a parasitic growth. How is this better?

ASTJer A woman who gets pregnant from a rape, becomes an incubator on demand. It certainly wasn't something she 'chose' now did she. The 'life' she carries is a parasite because it saps the nutrients from her body and gives nothing in return. That, is the classic definition of a parasite. I myself became a baby when my mother decided to give birth to me.

This law can affect any woman who gets pregnant regarless of how it happened.

She did the crime...She already did the average length of time served on a 45 day sentence for ALL prisoners in the LA County Jail system...which is 10 % off the length of sentence. The is because LA jails are under a Federal order to eliminate overcrowding so they routinely release non violet offenders early. In the case of Paris, that would be 4 days...and Judge Sauer would not be able to do anything about it. You watch...she will get an early release also, just like everybody else with similar violations of probation in the LA County system. And it won't be special treatment.

Cloture is not the same as filibuster. It is the Chicken way out. Dem's need to FORCE a vote and if necessary a filibuster on every important Iraq (or other) bill. Dems say they don't want to do this because filibusters have the effect of shutting down the Congress from getting anything else done. Oh Really....just what else IS getting done????? Stand Up Dems and DO what you were elected to do. If you don't have the votes to pass the bill...Then, at least show the American Public, why you can't get it passed...Republican Hypocrisy and Power grabbing.