European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 15 2007 stars and stripes Page 21 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United states the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside syndicates so you want to be president Chicago Tribune the three top democratic presidential candidates Sens Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and former sen John Edwards have declined to participate in an autumn presidential debate for the frail est of reasons because one cosponsor is tvs conservative leaning Fox news the other sponsor is the congressional Black caucus Institute if s True that politicians and journalists often dont get along but left be Clear Here Clinton Obama and Edwards we rent going to be debating Fox news journalists they would have been debating each other candidates often feed scoops to favored re porters they crave the Friendly questions and the soft focus that help them appear to be commander in chief material but heres what candidates look like when they attempt to choose which reporters Are worthy to question them fragile egocentric and fright ened of Tough questions Are there unfair questions sure do journalists on Fox and elsewhere get Sto Ries wrong of course but Clinton Obama and Edwards Arent running for Board seats at the Mosquito abatement District there running to be the most powerful Leader in the world they Dodge questioners who Arent handpicked and pre adoring this is the stage of the Campaign where candidates shape their images and decide How to get their message out they some Tough hits voters use these moments to judge them by How they respond in january Well reach the stage where Vot ers do the deciding and we be sur prised if some Are disappointed or worse by candidates who ducked debates because of the Media outlet on which they were to appear keep antibiotics pecking order Star Tribune of Minneapolis Wisconsin Dairy Farmer John Vrieze wants Fra permission to give his cows a powerful Antibiotic Cef quinone that is now the drug of Choice and last resort for several difficult treat human conditions he get that permission by All accounts Vrieze is a very Good Dairy Farmer who embraces advanced techniques for keeping his cows Happy healthy and producing so when one of his cows comes Down with Bovine respiratory Dis ease hed like to treat the animal with Cerqui Nome the manufacturer of Cef quinone has petitioned the food and drug administration for permission to begin Selling the drug for use in animal husbandry the problem is that the disease causing microbes that antibiotics attack constantly mutate the wider the use of an Antibiotic the sooner one of those mutations will defeat the drug widespread use of antibiotics in animals accelerates this process tremendously Leav ing humans More vulnerable to diseases once controllable that s what is behind a movement to reduce the use of antibiotics in animals enter Cef quinone a close Cousin Cefe pime is the Only effective treatment available for some serious infections Wor ried that using Cef quinone in animals puts the Efficacy of Cefe pime at risk the advisory Board at the fads Center for veterinary Medicine recommended against approving animal use Fra guidelines have been rewritten so that approval in a Case like this is pretty much guaranteed unless opponents can prove a risk to a drug used in humans to fight a food borne illness since that is not the Case for Cef quinone Vrieze May get his wish his Bossy May be better off but prickly City by Scot Stantis someones very sick aunt Millie eventually is going to pay the Price somethings wrong with that outcome Pelosi right to engage Assad the Tuscaloosa Ala news the White House cant have it both ways it cannot condemn a visit to Syria by demo cratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi without also denouncing a trip there by a group of republicans that included us rep Bob Aderholt of Haleyville president Bush accused Pelosi of failing to heed the administrations policy against american travel to Syria which it ranks As a supporter of terrorism it is hypocritical of the president to ignore the visit by the group of republicans a week before the Pelosi trip in truth neither visit should be censured the bipartisan commission urged our elected leaders to engage states such As Syria that can help achieve a peaceful Resolution to the conflict in the Middle East a spokesman for the National Security Council called Kelosis meeting with syrian president Bashar a Assad counterproductive but Pelosi said Assad gave her reassurances that he was ready to resume the peace process by engaging in negotiations with Israel those talks collapsed in 2000 assays involvement is important because of his influence on Hamas whose charter Calls for the destruction of Israel Syria also is influential in the affairs of other Arab nations Bush is wrong to ignore Assad by default leaders in Congress Are shouldering the responsibility to rekindle Middle East peace efforts Iran program must get a look the Watertown by Daify times iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boast about Iran expanded nuclear program has elicited a sceptical response from several Western nations Ahmadinejad clans that his country is now producing enriched uranium on an Industrial scale a significant step that would violate in resolutions and move Iran far ther Down the Road to a nuclear weapon Iran says its nuclear program is directed toward peaceful Energy production the United states arid other countries fear Tehran intends to develop a nuclear warhead Russia France and the United states though expressed doubts that Iran could have made the technological leaps needed to operate 3000 centrifuges nearly 10 times the previously known number required to warrant Ahmadinejad claim Mohammed Elba Radei head of the International atomic Energy Agency said thursday Iran Doest have the material that can be used to make a nuclear there was also International concern about Ahmadinejad comments suggesting Iran could withdraw from the nuclear non proliferation treaty and limit further cooperation with the Iaea the in monitoring group uncertainty persists Over the nature and extent of Iran nuclear ambition Ahmadinejad remarks Only heightened the doubts and add to the urgency in opening Iran nuclear program to full International inspection no Post for Swift boat ally the times reporter of Dove new Philadelphia Ohio the Swift boat veterans for truth who brought a new level of meanness to politics during the 2004 presidential Campaign Are Back in the news with the appointment of one of the major donors to the group As ambassador to Belgium Sam Fox a St Louis businessman who has donated millions to the Republican party Over the years made a contribution to the Swift boat group three years ago the group gained notoriety for a series of to attack ads claiming that sen John Kerry the democratic nominee for presi Dent exaggerated his Vietnam War record the ads Are widely considered to be a major reason Why Kerry lost the election to presi Dent Bush when Fox appeared before the Senate for his confirmation hearing last month democrats made an Issue of the contribution Fox praised Kerry War record calling him a hero but refused to apologize for the contribution when it became Clear that Fox had no Chance of winning approval from the Senate Bush withdrew the nomination then while the Senate was out of town Bush made a re Cess appointment naming Fox to the Post democrats were outraged we think Bush would have been Wise to accept defeat on this Issue and move on put ail emails on the record the Seattle Post intelligencer a couple of recent scandals have highlighted the possibility that unofficial email addresses have been used by some White House staff in an Effort to circumvent the archival process of official records there were the emails sent to convicted lobbyist and Haberdashery fanatic Jack Abramoff by Karl roves assistant Susan Ralston who used a nonwhite House email address to share internal White House info with Abramoff White House emails after All Are copied and saved As part of the presidential records act which requires that presidential records be re leased to the Public 12 years after each presi Dent leaves office the second is the ongoing investigation into the firings of eight us attorneys which it seems were discussed using unofficial email servers the Pra requires that All official business be carried out on an offi Cial White House emailing system Public records chicanery has been Stan Dard political practice presidents Nixon Clinton and George he Bush have All been accused of it and from the get go this administration in particular has sought Broad authority Over How much info the Media and general Public can Access on nov 1 2001 Bush is sued executive order 13233 in doing so Bush gave himself and former presidents the right to withhold records or delay their release indefinitely a License to rewrite his tory via incomplete records you bet but theres Hope yet the senates currently looking at the presidential records act amendments of 2007 or which seeks to rescind executive order 13233 the Bill passed in the House and is now referred to the commit tee on Homeland Security and governmental affairs we can Only Hope that Bush wont veto this Bill As he has threatened to do although at least that would be a matter of Public record dont sugarcoat latest results the Washington Post in pre columbian Mesoamerica a bitter concoction of Cacao Beans water and spices was a delicacy reserved for Only the most fortunate in Aztec society after the Conquista Dors arrival Cocoa powder and sugar came together to produce the chocolate taste we know and the Cacao tree fast became a Cash crop nowadays chocolate is an everyday indulgence though at Best not really every Day after All it is sugary fattening bad for you or is it an analysis published last week in the archives of internal Medicine suggests that regular chocolate consumption can lower your blood pressure German scientists reviewed a number of studies on Dif Ferent substances containing poly phenols compounds that seem to have salubrious effects on the human cardiovascular system they found that contrary to some assertions Black and Green Tea appear to have no marked effect on blood pressure Coco Arich diets on the other hand had lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in study subjects after Only two weeks measured decreases were about equal to what you can expect from Standard hypertension medications that Means a decrease in the likelihood of stroke by about 20 percent and coronary heart disease by about 10 percent the report estimates science has come through once again it was Only late last year that we heard that red wine contains a fantastically healthful Chemi Cal Reeve patrol that appears to counter the effects of fatty diets sound too Good to be True youre right theres a bit of Fine print the fat and sugar that come with Cocos poly phenols still clog your arteries and invite diabetes and not All subjects showed equally dramatic results if your blood pressure is dangerously High regularly eating 100 Grams or so of dark Choco late might help but even then the report can not reliably predict what the Lon term effects of such a habit might be so yes Back to the Broccoli
