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Third Sunday in Lent
February 28, 2016
Text: Luke 13:1-9
Why do bad things happen? It is the unanswerable question every one of us asks at some point in life. For some of us, the question plagues us like a bad penny. For some of us, the question is very pertinent, and very personal. For the question, "Why do bad things happen," all too often takes the form of "Why has this happened to me?" The temptation here is to provide an answer where God has remained silent. That was the issue in Job. Job was afflicted by the devil. Everything was taken from him: His livestock, his servants, his children, and finally his health. His wife encouraged him to curse God and die (Job 2:9). Now, all of this was the work of the evil one. But God was complicit in the affliction, also. He allowed, and even encouraged it. Job wants to know why. His less-than-helpful friends all offer their own answers. "Obviously you've sinned, Job. That is why this has happened. God is punishing you. You just need more faith, Job. You just need to totally surrender yourself to God's will." Well, to be sure, God has His reasons, but these suggestions miss the mark. By a longshot. So much so that God is angry with Job's friends. They have spoken where God has not. Nor does God finally answer the question for Job. Sarcastically, God asks Job, "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know!" (38:4-5; ESV). In other words, God tells Job, "It's none of your business why I allowed this. I'm God, and you're not. So like it or not, you're just going to have to trust me, that I know what I'm doing, and that I'm working all things together for your good, because that's the kind of God I am." God does not answer the "why" of Job's suffering. But He is with Job in the suffering, and He does something about the suffering. He restores Job. He repays Job double what he has lost in his afflictions, twice as much as he had at the beginning. Except for the sons and daughters. Seven sons and three daughters died. Job is given seven more sons and three more daughters. Because, in spite of all appearances, Job did not lose the previous 10. They are with the LORD. Job has them still, in the Communion of Saints. And now he has all twenty children with him for all eternity in heaven.
Our God works all things together for our good (Rom. 8:28). Even the afflictions. That is the promise. Though it is hidden under suffering and the cross. He does not answer your question, "Why do bad things happen? Why has this happened to me?" Instead, He points you to the cross. The cross, and His crucified Son, this is His answer to your suffering. God does not tell you why you suffer, but He does tell you what He has done about it. He sent His Son. He sent His Son to die. For you. And in that death all the suffering of all the world, and the root cause of all the suffering of all the world, namely, sin, is drowned in the holy Blood of Christ and done to death.
Some who are with Jesus in our Holy Gospel tell Him tell Him about a great tragedy. Some Galileans were in the Temple, sacrificing to God. Pontius Pilate, for reasons unknown to us, sends his soldiers right into the Temple precincts, to the sacred place of sacrifice, and the soldiers mow them down. Blood everywhere. The blood of the sacrifices. The blood of the Galileans. All together slaughtered as animals. It would be like our own government ordering the army into the Church to slaughter us at the altar during Holy Communion. Our blood would mingle on the ground with the Blood of the Sacrifice, our Lord's Blood in the Chalice, shed for us, for the forgiveness of sins. This was blasphemy against God, this assault on the Galilean worshipers. It was tyranny. A terrible abuse of power. A blatant disregard for all things sacred. And the question implied but left unasked, the question on everyone's mind, what they really want to know from Jesus, is why? Why these people? Why this terrible thing that happened? It hits a little too close to home, they think, because it could have been any one of us. Unless… Unless these people somehow deserved it. And there is the temptation to which Job's friends fall prey. To speak where God has not spoken. To assign a specific tragedy to a specific sin. To rationalize why a bad thing has happened, as if we could know. The disciples fall to the same temptation when they ask Jesus regarding the blind man, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:2). And we fall to this temptation, too, when we assign the blame for a tragedy to some sin of which the sufferer is guilty. It comforts us to do it, because that means it won't necessarily happen to us. And it makes us feel superior, because it didn't happen to us, so we must not be as bad as those people. Well, you know that is foolishness. Pat Robertson lets his mouth run about 9/11 being a punishment for the decadence of citizens in New York City, or Katrina being punishment for the sinful licentiousness of the City of New Orleans. And you see that it's ridiculous on the face of it. But then you go and do the same thing when you see a guy pulled over by a cop and you think, "That guy had it coming!" (David Scaer). But the reality is, the moment you saw the red and blue lights, you hit the brakes. Because you had it coming, too. Repent.
Perhaps the greater tragedy is when you fall to this temptation in the other direction. When you think that you are suffering some affliction because of some sin you have committed. When you think God is out to get you. I have cancer because God doesn't love me. My son died because I was promiscuous back in college. God took my husband too soon because I don't pray enough. This, too, is foolishness. But the devil is pretty good at getting you to believe it. Now, it is true that in general, all the suffering in the world is a result of sin. If we weren't sinners, if our first parents, Adam and Eve, never sinned, and if this weren't, as a result, a fallen world and we fallen people, then there would be no suffering. And it is also true that some bad things happen as a direct result of a bad thing we do. Drunk drivers often crash and kill people and go to jail as a direct result of their drunk driving. Robbers go to prison for robbing. Drug addicts overdose. Promiscuous people get STDs and children die in abortion because of the sin of their parents. You get the point. These things are consequences of bad behavior. But you have to understand, God is not punishing you for your sins. All the punishment for all your sin, God's righteous wrath against all your iniquities, is poured out on Jesus on the cross. It is completely swallowed up there, on Calvary. There is none left. God isn't out to get you. He already got you, in His Son. His wrath is spent. All that is left, as far as you are concerned, is love.
What, then, of suffering and tragedy? Jesus tells us these crosses and trials, the terrible injustice suffered by the Galileans, those on whom the tower of Siloam and the Twin Towers in New York fell, the sufferings of our own Barbara Edwards, cancer, marriage troubles, death itself… these crosses and trials have a very specific purpose. They are a call to repentance. They are a call to faith in Christ alone. "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish" (Luke 13:2-5). The point is, it could have been any one of you. The recent shootings in Kalamazoo are evidence of this. Dear people minding their own business, enjoying a meal at Cracker Barrel of all places, gunned down for no good reason. It could have been you. You are never safe. And the idea here is not that if you just repent sincerely enough, you're guaranteed it won't be you. The perishing Jesus is warning against is of a much more serious and permanent nature than tragic physical death. He is echoing His warning to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Repent, or the death you will suffer will not only be physical, but also spiritual (a breaking of fellowship with God), and eternal (the eternal suffering of separation from God in hell).
Repentance is a turning from sin, a turning from unbelief, a turning from all that is not the one true God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), to the God who reveals Himself in the flesh of His Son, Jesus Christ. That is the call of God in every tragedy, in every bad thing that happens. It's a reminder of mortality. It's a reminder that Judgment Day is coming. It's a reminder that we need saving, that we need a Savior. It is the ultimate preaching of the Law. And in these times, the Lord Jesus holds out His pierced hands to receive us into His saving embrace. He will shelter us in the time of trial. He will gather us under the outstretched arms of His cross, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings. When a tragedy occurs, in your personal life or in our life together in the world, the thing to do is get yourself to Church. Confess your sins. Be absolved. Hear the Gospel. Pass through the font to the altar, to be fed with the Body and Blood of the Lord. That is repentance in action. That is how Jesus protects you, how He leads you not into temptation, but delivers you from evil, and from the evil one. Why do bad things happen? Why have bad things happened to you? The only answer you'll get from God is Jesus. It is Christ crucified and risen for you. God doesn't tell you why. That's His business. But He does tell you He will be with you in the suffering. And He tells you what He's done about it. Jesus. That is where He is with you. In the pierced flesh of Jesus. That is what He's done about it. He sent His Son, Jesus. To die. For you. And in the death of God's Son, you have life. And that is why God does all that He does. That you live and be saved. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son (+), and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.


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Even as time is rapidly running out to find a workable way to avoid a collapse of the common currency, a deepening rift is emerging between Germany and France over how best to resolve the Eurozone crisis. The Financial Times Deutschland reports a hardening in the position of Angela Merkel against both Eurobonds (as advocated by the European Commission or otherwise) as well as a broadened role for the ECB, favoring instead the automatic sanctions approach ultimately enforced by the European Court of Justice. Nicholas Sarkozy, by contrast, is deeply reluctant to allow this sort of supranational interference with national budgetary policy—and politics. This essentially intergovernmental conflict over the proper scope of supranational power vis-à-vis the more democratically legitimate member states brings to mind the "Preliminary Note on the Euro Crisis" with which I open my book Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State (OUP 2010). With apologies for the shameless self-promotion, I think this note holds up quite well as a description of the forces that would likely influence the legal and political resolution of the Euro crisis, and thus I thought it worthwhile bringing it to the attention of readers of EUtopia Law:
This book was in production when the Greek debt crisis intensified in the spring of 2010, precipitating a broader crisis that threatened the future of the euro as a viable common currency. Given the timing, it was impossible to assess the many implications of the developing euro crisis here. Nevertheless, even at an early stage, one could still note several institutional aspects of the unfolding drama that were entirely comprehensible from the perspective of this study. These included the relatively marginal role of European Union (EU) bodies in addressing the crisis in the first instance; the correspondingly critical role of national and intergovernmental politics; and the functional pressures—political and economic realities—that were pushing nonetheless toward greater supranational coordination to ward off a possible spread of the crisis elsewhere in Europe.
As of this writing (mid May 2010), it could not yet be determined whether the euro crisis would lead to a new institutional settlement for integration. The "special purpose vehicle" established to manage the new mammoth bailout fund [the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), now apparently not mammoth enough], along with proposals for increased supranational surveillance of national budgets, certainly suggested the possibility. But events are moving fast, and the crisis could still lead to an institutional transformation well short of, or even orthogonal to, some form of European "economic government." Indeed, if Greece and other vulnerable Member States prove unable to satisfy market concerns regarding their public finances, the crisis could still lead to a default (in the form of a debt restructuring) or perhaps an unraveling of the EMU or worse, including a broader European banking crisis with untold consequences for the global economy. It could not yet be determined, moreover, whether the crisis would precipitate a new ruling from a national high court on the legal limits of integration relative to national constitutional orders, although that too was a possibility [and indeed it has come to pass via decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court, and more may be coming].
Regardless of the outcome, the euro crisis will again force the EU to reconcile, just as it always had, two key but contradictory features of integration. The first is the cultural persistence of national democratic and constitutional legitimacy in the European system of governance. The second is the functional and political requirements for greater denationalized regulatory power in pursuit of integration. As this study seeks to show, the tension between these elements has characterized the integration project since its inception, profoundly shaping the contours of European public law over time. Short of a complete breakup of the EU (something I do not foresee, although some kind of transformation looks increasingly unavoidable), I fully expect this tension will continue shaping European public law as integration proceeds into an uncertain future.
[For readers interested in learning more about my historical argument, and its implications for European integration going forward, I urge you to check out the more detailed analysis in Power and Legitimacy itself.]


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Fight for $15 Organizers Tell SEIU: We Need $15 and a Union (Read More…)
August 14, 2016
The start to this weekend's Fight for $15 convention didn't go as planned.
As roughly 10,000 conference goers gathered in Richmond, Va., to talk about unions and low-wage work, organizers behind the nationwide campaign demanded a union of their own.
On Friday, Jodi Lynn Fennell, a child care worker organizer from Las Vegas, attempted to deliver a letter from a Fight for $15 organizers asking the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) to acknowledge it was their employer and to give them the right to organize.
A small group of supporters accompanied Fennell as she approached the stage where SEIU President Mary Kay Henry was scheduled to deliver the keynote address. But security guards stopped them from delivering the letter and escorted them away from the stage. Later, according to the Union of Union Representatives (UUR), a supervisor told Fennell and four other organizers they had to fly back to Las Vegas early Saturday morning, at their own expense.
Roughly 75 SEIU organizers and other field staff outside of the union's national headquarters belong to the UUR. But Fennell and UUR Vice President Nicholas Calderon say that SEIU has told the roughly 100 other Fight for $15 field organizers who might be eligible to join the staff union that it doesn't employ them.
"As we have said from the beginning, we are strong believers in the Fight for $15 campaign organizers and workers planned yesterday's action to try to minimize disruption while still having visibility," Conor Hanlon, UUR president, wrote in a statement to In These Times on Saturday. "We have no interest in stopping the crucial work going on there but do think it important that workers and community allies are aware of how SEIU is treating the Fight for $15."
At first, Calderon says, SEIU maintained their employer was the payroll processing firm that handles their paychecks. Now, he says, the international insists they're employed by the individual organizing committees that direct each city's Fight for $15 campaign.
According to Calderon, nearly 99 percent of funding for Fight for $15 organizers, as well as vehicles and supplies, comes from SEIU.
SEIU did not respond by deadline to In These Times' request for comment.
Fight for $15 organizers have a long list of grievances against SEIU. They are worried about the instability of their jobs and a tendency of the union to ramp up staff for one campaign, then shift only some of the staff to the next project. Others argue that because of the long hours, their relatively modest salaries do not amount to $15 an hour by the time their pay is divided by work hours, often much more than 40 hours a week.
But the biggest grievance organizers express is that SEIU pays them to advocate for the right of every worker to join a union but denies that same right to its own organizers. Ultimately, some workers say, SEIU's position may undermine public support and open up lines for employer attacks.
Hypocrisy scars an organization, says Fennell, and could weaken the union in its important fight.
"We don't have the right to join a union that we're fighting for other workers to have," she told In These Times. "When we're fighting for everyone to have $15 an hour, we should have it ourselves."
The initial organizing of Fight for $15 focused on fast-food workers in New York but quickly spread to other occupations and across the country. It includes workers in child care and elder care, early childhood education, university research and teaching, manufacturing, fashion and other building services, many of whom may move frequently from low-wage job to low-wage job over their lives.The campaign, almost entirely funded by SEIU, can claim credit for raising standards for many of the roughly 64 million workers earning less than $15 an hour.
Its progress has come mainly from winning stronger state and local laws—not from any dramatic uptick in low-wage workers forming unions. That is true even in the low-wage industries that, unlike fast food, were already often organized to varying degrees by SEIU and others.
Although the strategy for establishing unions is unclear, Fight for $15 appears committed to expanding the range of workers that SEIU is able to mobilize for direct action. Tactics include strikes at fast food outlets and legislative campaigns for higher minimum wages, whether across the board or piecemeal.
For the past couple of years, the campaign's emphasis on politics has increased, as illustrated by the choice of Richmond, Virginia, for this weekend's meeting—billed as the organization's first convention.
The decision to meet in the capital of the Confederacy also reflected an intensification of efforts to link the problems of America's low-wage economy to continued structural racism with its roots in slavery. Fight for $15 must fight for both racial and economic injustice, SEIU president Mary Kay Henry told the opening session of the meeting.
"You can't have one without the other," she said.
Likewise, you can't advocate effectively for unions, some Fight for 15 organizers say, without having the right to join one yourself.
It is true that over the labor movement's long history, many unions have fought with their staff over whether staff could or should organize.
But a movement like the Fight for $15, which is founded on the right of every worker to join a union, is more likely to win broad support if it follows the old adage: Practice what you preach.
At a time when the labor movement is especially vulnerable, unions need to avoid any grounds that could cost them public support—especially in a campaign as promising and crucial as the Fight for $15.
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Theoretical studies on cycloaddition reactions
- Lydia Rhyman1Email author,
- Ponnadurai Ramasami1 and
- Luis R Domingo2
© Rhyman et al; licensee Chemistry Central Ltd. 2014
- Published: 11 March 2014
- Nitrile
- Methacrylate
- Acrylate
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Cycloaddition reactions represent one of the most powerful processes in organic chemistry. The most common types of cycloaddition reactions are the Diels-Alder (DA) and the 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions (1,3-DCs) which lead to five and six membered rings, respectively.
In our ongoing efforts to contribute to the understanding of DA and 1,3-DCs; we studied the following using the B3LYP/6-31G(d) level of theory:
1. The 1,3-DCs of the pyridinium-3-olates and pyrazinium-3-olates with methyl acrylate and methyl methacrylate [1, 2].
2. The competitive hetero-DA and 1,3-DCs of methyl glyoxylate oxime and its tautomeric nitrone with cyclopentadiene in the absence and in the presence of BF3 as a Lewis acid catalyst [3].
3. A systematic study on the 1,3-DCs of C60 with substituted nitrile oxides (RCNO; R = F, Cl, Br, NC, CN and NO2) [4].
Among the outcomes of our investigations is the successful use of theoretical methods to understand the regio- and stereoselectivity of the reactions considered. It is expected that experimentalists find the results useful for synthesis involving these moieties and cycloaddition reactions. This presentation will overview our ongoing research program to have more understanding of these cycloaddition reactions.
Authors' Affiliations
- Rhyman L, Abdallah HH, Jhaumeer-Laulloo S, Domingo LR, Joule JA, Ramasami P: The 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of 1H-pyridinium-3-olate and 1-Methylpyridinium-3-olate with Methyl Acrylate: A Density Functional Theory Study. Tetrahedron. 2010, 66: 9187-9193. 10.1016/j.tet.2010.09.071.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
- Domingo LR, Sáez JA, Joule JA, Rhyman L, Ramasami P: A DFT Study of the [3+2] versus [4+2] Cycloaddition Reactions of 1,5,6-Trimethylpyrazinium-3-olate with Methyl Methacrylate. J Org Chem. 2013, 78: 1621-1629. 10.1021/jo302730q.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
- Rhyman L, Ramasami P, Joule JA, Sáez JA, Domingo LR: A DFT Study of the Regio- and Stereoselectivity of the 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of C-Methyl Substituted Pyrazinium-3-olates with Methyl Acrylate and Methyl Methacrylate. RSC Adv. 2013, 3: 447-457. 10.1039/c2ra22332e.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
- Rhyman L, Jhaumeer-Laulloo S, Domingo LR, Joule JA, Ramasami P: Computational Assessment of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition of nitrile oxides with ethene and [60]fullerene. Heterocycles. 2012, 84: 719-735. 10.3987/COM-11-S(P)46.View ArticleGoogle Scholar
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37/150: The real-life Cyclops
animalia: Arthropoda: Maxillopoda: Cyclopoida: Cyclopidae: Cyclops
Though the name might seem fitting for a monster, Cyclops is a small copepod that happens to share the same body characteristic of a single large eye on its head region with the mythological giant. Cyclops is found widely in freshwater regions and prefers the slow-moving and stagnant bodies of water. These omnivores feed on plants, animals and even carrion. Despite lacking in the size department, the cyclops copepod can still be quite threatening. Diseases such as the guinea-worm diseases and fish tapeworm infections have designated the cyclops to be their intermediary hosts, which have given rise to programs and projects focused on the elimination of these animals near human environments. #Canada150 #Biodiversity150
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Knowledge, attitudes and screening practices regarding prostatic diseases among men older than 40 years: a population-based study in Southwest Nigeria
Knowledge, attitudes and screening practices regarding prostatic diseases among men older than 40 years: a population-based study in Southwest Nigeria
Rufus Wale Ojewola1,&, Ezekiel Sofela Oridota2, Olanrewaju Samuel Balogun1, Ezra Olatunde Ogundare3, Taiwo Opeyemi Alabi1, Oluseyi Omotola Banjo4, Adeyinka Laoye4, Babatunde Adetunmbi4, Bamidele Oludele Adebayo4, Rotimi Oluyombo5
1Department of Surgery, College of Medicine of University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 12003, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria, 2Department of Community Health and Primary Care, College of Medicine of University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 12003, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria, 3Department of Paediatrics, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital/Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, 4Department of Surgery, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, 5Department of Medicine, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria
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Rufus Wale Ojewola, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine of University of Lagos/Lagos University Teaching Hospital, PMB 12003, Idi-Araba, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria
Introduction: despite the global increase in awareness of prostatic diseases resulting from widespread availability of screening tools, there is no evidence that the knowledge, attitudes and screening practices of Nigerian men have improved regarding prostatic diseases.
Methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study amongst 305 community-dwelling men. Respondents were selected using multi-staged sampling techniques. Knowledge, attitudes and screening practices were determined based on responses to a semi-structured KAP questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 18. Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact test (two-tail) with level of significance set at 0.05 were used to determine the level of statistical significance. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to establish correlation between variables.
Results: mean age of respondents was 63.4±11.8 years. Slightly less than half, 145(47.5%) were aware of prostate cancer (PCa) while only 99(32.5%) and 91(29.8%) were aware of BPH and prostatitis respectively. About a quarter (25.1%) had heard of PSA. The main sources of information were radio and television. Overall, 143(46.9%) respondents had good knowledge while 162(53.1%) had poor knowledge. Sexually transmitted disease was the commonest misconception as the cause of prostatic diseases. Overall, 44.3% had good attitudes. Only 31(10.2%) respondents had ever carried out screening for PCa. Only educational and occupational status had significant associations with level of knowledge and attitudes of participants. The only factor that influenced screening practices was educational status.
Conclusion: there is a poor level of knowledge, attitudes and screening practices regarding prostatic diseases in Nigeria. We recommend a widespread public health education to improve knowledge, attitudes and screening practices for prostatic diseases.
With the "graying" of the "baby boomers", awareness of prostatic diseases has increased dramatically [1]. In particular, prostate cancer (PCa), which is now the most common male malignancy and other prostatic diseases such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and prostatitis, are widely discussed in the media and are the subject of increasing interest from family physicians and the general public alike. Prostate cancer is a significant healthcare problem due to its high incidence and mortality and the cost associated with its detection and treatment [2, 3]. The awareness of prostatic diseases has increased in recent times with the recognition of early detection of PCa as a key factor in reducing mortality and morbidity. It is however sad that majority of patients in our sub-region present with locally advanced and metastatic diseases [4-6]. Several reasons have been suggested for this trend including a low level of awareness and knowledge, erroneous beliefs about prostatic diseases and poor healthcare-seeking behaviour of patients amongst other factors related to available facilities and poverty. Even though prostatic diseases have received much media attention, studies of the public's knowledge, perceptions or screening practices are not many in Nigeria especially in the rural communities where more than half of Nigerians live [7]. Recently, there has been growing interest in the role of knowledge, attitudes and screening practices in PCa prevention and control [8, 9]. A good knowledge or understanding of diseases is generally associated with a better healthcare-seeking attitude and behaviour [10]. Therefore, efforts at improving awareness about diseases should not be directed at malignant diseases only as efforts towards benign conditions which are by far commoner than malignant ones will also reduce morbidity and mortality significantly. Despite the global increase in awareness as a result of widespread availability of screening tools for prostate diseases, there is no evidence that the knowledge, attitudes and screening practices of Nigerian men have changed regarding prostatic diseases. The aim of the study therefore, is to determine the level of awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards treatment for prostatic diseases as well as screening practices amongst community-dwelling men.
Study design, setting and population: this was a questionnaire-based descriptive cross-sectional study carried out amongst 305 male adults in the Ido/Osi Local Government Area (LGA) of Ekiti State, Southwest, Nigeria. This LGA is basically an agrarian community with thirteen major communities. The target population was male adults above 40 years of age.
Ethical issues: approval for the study was obtained from the Health Research and Ethics Committee of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos. Further approval was obtained from the Excecutive Chairman of the LGA as well as the traditional rulers of the communities used for the study. Consent was also sought and obtained from each participant.
Sample size determination: the sample size for the study was calculated using the formula: n= z2pq/d2. Where: n = desired sample size when population > 10,000, z = level of significance at 95% CI (=1.96), p = proportion of the study population who are aware of prostate cancer and screening from similar previous study = 0.22 [11], q = 1–p = 0.78 and d = degree of accuracy desired, usually set at 0.05. Sample size (n) = z2pq/d2 = (1.96)2 x (0.22) x (0.78)/ (0.05)2 = 3.84 x 0.22 x 0.78/0.0025 =0.6589/0.0025= 264. The minimum sample size required for this study was 264.
Sampling techniques: participants were recruited using a multi-stage sampling technique. This involved the following stages: firstly, the selection of 3 of the 11 electoral wards in the study area. This was followed by the selection of 1 community from each selected ward. Thirdly, 15 to 20 streets were chosen in each community. These first 3 stages were carried out using a simple random sampling technique by balloting. Fourthly, about 5 to 15 houses in these streets were selected by systematic random sampling depending on the length of the street. Finally, an individual was chosen for the survey by simple random technique amongst all men above 40 years of age in each selected house. All men selected who consented to participate were recruited for the study.
Data Collection: the date of the data collection was announced a week before data collection in the three selected communities using public address system. Each participant was interviewed in their house by the surgical resident doctors of Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti about their awareness and knowledge of prostatic diseases as well as their attitudes and behaviour towards treatment and screening for prostatic diseases. A semi-structured and pre-tested knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) questionnaire containing sections on demography, knowledge, attitudes and screening practices regarding prostate diseases was used as the instrument for data collection.
Data analysis: data from the 305 men were analyzed with SPSS version 18 using simple proportion and the results were displayed in tables and chart. Knowledge about prostatic diseases was determined based on responses to 26 knowledge-based questions. Respondents with 0-13 correct responses were adjudged to have poor knowledge while those with 14-26 were adjudged to have good knowledge. Attitude of participants to prostatic diseases were judged based on the appropriateness of their responses to the six questions on attitude to early presentation and treatment of prostatic diseases. Each was scored 1-5 with 1 being the least appropriate and 5 being the most appropriate. Scores of 5.0-17.4 were adjudged to be negative attitude while scores of between 17.5 and 30.0 was adjudged to be positive. Screening practices were also determined. Relationships between variables were determined using Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact test (two-tail) with level of significance set at 0.05 (p < 0.05) to determine level of statistical significance. Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient was used to establish correlation between variables.
A total of 319 adult males older than 40 years were recruited but only 305 men completed the questionnaires and had adequate data for analysis. This translates to a response rate of 95.6%.
Demographic profiles: ages of the participants ranged from 41-90 years with a mean age of 63.4 ± 11.8 years. The majority, 269 (88.2%) of the participants were married while the remaining 36 (11.8%) were either single, divorced or widowers. The majority were of Yoruba tribe (95.7%) and of Christian religion (84.3%). Two hundred and forty-one (79%) participants had at least primary education while 64 (21%) had no formal education. Ninety-five (31.1%) were farmers, 74 (24.3%) were civil servants and 61 (20.0%) were artisans. The remaining 75 (24.6%) included pensioners, business men and men of other occupations.
Awareness of prostatic diseases and screening: slightly more than half, 158 (51.8%) respondents had heard of prostatic diseases before the time of this study. Slightly less than half, 145 (47.5%) were aware of PCa while less than one-thirds, 99 (32.5%) and 91 (29.8%) were aware of BPH and prostatitis respectively. Only a quarter (25.1%) had heard of prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a screening tool for PCa. The main sources of information amongst those who were aware of prostatic diseases were radio and television in 59.5 and 49.4% respectively. Other details about awareness and sources of information are depicted in Table 1.
Knowledge of prostatic diseases: overall, one hundred and forty-three (46.9%) respondents demonstrated good knowledge about prostate diseases while 162 (53.1%) had poor knowledge. Knowledge of participants on some key questions about prostatic diseases is shown in Figure 1. About 39.0% and 59.7% did not know that prostatic problems are curable and treatable respectively. Also, very few participants knew that prostatic diseases can cause kidney failure (15.1%) and that prostate is part of male reproductive system (17.0%).
Misconceptions about causes of prostate problems: numerous misconceptions and unfounded beliefs about the aetiology of prostatic diseases amongst the participants are depicted in Table 2. Positive history of sexually transmitted diseases was the most common misconception on the aetiology of prostatic diseases in 198 (64.9%) participants.
Attitudes to screening and treatment of prostatic diseases: Table 3 shows the responses of respondents to attitude questions regarding prostate diseases screening and treatment. Overall, 42.6% of the respondents had good attitude to screening and treatment of prostatic diseases compared with 57.4% with poor attitude. Details of respondents responses are contained in the table.
Prostate cancer screening practices: of the 305 respondents, only 57 (18.7%) had ever been advised by a physician to undertake a PSA screening while only 31 (10.2%) respondents had ever carried out PSA screening for PCa. Of the ones who had carried out PSA screening, only 18 (5.9%) had done it more than once while only 9 (3.0%) men usually do PSA on an annual basis. Similarly, only 105 (34.4%) men could remember DRE being performed on them before either for prostate examination or other anorectal complaints. Two hundred and ninety-four (96.4%) respondents were willing to undertake screening for PCa. Reasons given by 274 respondents who had never been screened for PCa were multiple and depicted in Table 4.
Influence of socio-demographic data on knowledge, attitudes and screening practices: effects of various socio-demographic data on knowledge, attitudes and screening practices were explored. Only educational and occupational status had significant associations with the level of knowledge of as well as attitudes to prostatic diseases. The only factor that influenced screening practices was educational status. Details are depicted in Table 5.
Correlation between knowledge and attitude of participants: using Pearson's correlation, knowledge and attitudes towards prostatic diseases were positively correlated with each other as 73.4% participants with good knowledge had positive attitude and 84.6% with poor knowledge had negative attitude to prostatic diseases (r = 0.585, p < 0.001).
The most common diseases of the prostate namely BPH and PCa are among the most common afflictions of the elderly and constitute a major reason for urologic referral in this age group. They are major causes of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) with its attendant complications and adverse effects on quality of life. Two notable technological advances have greatly contributed to the startling increase in the awareness and diagnosis of prostate diseases. These are availability of serum-based assays, which have been developed for the measurement of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and widespread availability and affordability of ultrasound scanning which usually provide an excellent imaging of a formerly poorly visualized prostate gland [12]. Of these two advances, however, measurement of PSA has had the most significant effects. Over the past decade, these assays have completely revolutionized the approach to PCa-from initial screening and staging through to monitoring during therapy [13]. The results of this study showed an average level of awareness of prostatic diseases but overall level of knowledge was poor as only 47% of the participants had good knowledge about prostatic diseases. Though the level of awareness was still poor, it however represents an improvement on the earlier reports from Nigeria [11, 14]. About a quarter of the participants in our study had heard about PSA screening compared to 5.8% documented in an earlier study [11]. This finding is very similar to the awareness level reported in an Ugandan population-based study some years earlier [15]. In addition, about two-thirds have heard of PCa, which is also an improvement on the earlier findings in Nigeria. This is probably due to increasing use of PSA for screening and increasing public health enlightenment about PCa in recent times. However, information about benign prostatic conditions namely BPH and prostatitis was still very poor.
A lot more has to be done to educate people about these diseases, as 48.2% of participants in this study had never heard about any of the three main prostatic diseases. Surprisingly, 67.5% had not heard about BPH, which is the most common prostatic disease. They claimed to have heard about it for the first time during the publicity for data collection for this project. Despite the growing trend of increased uptake of screening for PCa worldwide, less than one third of the respondents in our study knew about screening for PCa while only a quarter had heard about PSA screening [16, 17]. Amongst the respondents who had previous information about prostate and prostatic diseases, the most common sources of information were radio, television and newspapers. It is surprising that fewer respondents got their information from the hospitals that are supposed to be a major source of information for diseases like this. This might be due to emphasis on curative treatment rather than preventive which makes general practitioners (GPs) in Nigeria concentrate on the presenting complaints rather than holistic assessment of the patients and recommendation of other tests relevant to the patient's age and clinical demands [18]. Enlightening patients on other medical conditions they are at risk of developing during consultation for another illness will help in early detection of other diseases and improve prognosis particularly for malignancies. The religious institutions did not contribute much to dissemination of information to patients about prostatic diseases, as religious worship centres were sources of information in less than 15% of participants. The findings of this study also suggest that the mass media have also not fared well as expected in dissemination of information about prostatic problems to the populace. The best of these mass media was radio, which was the source of information for 59.5% of those who had heard about prostatic diseases before which translates to only 30.8% of the entire participants. Therefore, a widespread public health education using the mass media, hospitals and religious centres is advocated to encourage early presentation of men suffering from prostatic diseases, which ultimately will reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of these diseases.
About three-quarter of the participants were aware of the positive role of age and family in the development of prostate pathologies. However, knowledge about prostate being part of male reproductive system and prostate diseases as causes of renal failure was abysmally low. In this study, there were many erroneous misconceptions about the aetiology of prostatic diseases. Positive history of sexually transmitted diseases, multiple sexual partners and excessive sexual activities stood out as the three most common misconceptions. Though there are no scientific bases for these beliefs, more than half of the study participants hold these erroneous beliefs. These beliefs are not peculiar to Nigerian men as respondents in a study in Burkina Faso gave similar reasons [19]. Furthermore, as many as a quarter of the respondents believed that poverty and spiritual attacks can cause prostatic diseases. It is also shocking that about 61% believed that prostatic diseases are incurable. It is evident from this study that a lot of education is required to disabuse the minds of men in this environment from these erroneous and incorrect beliefs, as this may have a negative impact on their healthcare-seeking attitudes and behaviour. Emphasis should therefore be placed on health educational intervention programs that will be geared towards improving men's awareness and knowledge. In our study, 42.6% of respondents had good attitude to treatment of prostatic diseases and screening while only 10.2% had ever carried out PSA screening for PCa. Only 3.0% of the men who had done PSA before usually do PSA testing on an annual basis. Though these figures represent an improved uptake of PSA testing compared to earlier studies in our environment, however it is still a far cry from the expected after availability of PSA as a screening tool for about four decades [11, 14]. Similarly, only about 34.4% of the men could remember DRE being performed on them before. This shows the underutilization of DRE as a screening tool for PCa by the GPs, which may lead to non-detection or failure to detect PCa cases at an early stage [20]. In this study, educational status was found to be associated with knowledge and attitudes towards prostatic diseases as respondents with higher level of education were more likely to have positive attitude to treatment of prostate diseases and screening. Furthermore, occupation also played a positive role as civil servants, business men and retirees were found to have better level of awareness as well as more positive attitude to prostatic diseases than people of other occupations. Notably, these occupations are also associated with higher levels of education. This is in keeping with the findings amongst African Americans where socio-economic status was found to significantly affect the level of knowledge and attitudes with people of higher socio-economic factors having a higher level of awareness and knowledge about PCa and more positive attitude and behaviour towards screening for CaP [21].
This study also found a positive correlation between the levels of knowledge and attitudes to prostatic diseases. Most of the participants with good knowledge correspondingly had positive attitude and vice versa. This also concurs with previous reports [9, 21, 22]. In this study, the most common reason why most of the men have never done any screening for PCa was lack of recommendation from primary care physicians. More than three-quarter of respondents had never been asked to do PCa screening by their primary care physicians and more than half gave this as a reason not to have carried out a PSA testing. This underscores the role of GPs in improving the uptake of PCa screening. Interestingly, almost all (94.6%) of the men in this study were willing to undertake screening for PCa if recommended. Therefore, it is important for GPs to show interest and recommend screening for men at risk when encountered in their practices. Most of the other reasons given by respondents for not embracing screening for prostate cancers were centred on poor knowledge about prostatic diseases which again emphasizes the importance of efforts directed at improving awareness and knowledge. Finally, this study also shows that poverty contributes to poor attitude and screening practices amongst participants. This is in keeping with other studies, which demonstrated a strong link between poverty and mortality from non-communicable diseases [23, 24]. Mortality from these diseases might not be unconnected with possible late presentations stemming from financial constraints and inability to afford optimal care. It is therefore almost certain that measures to improve poverty will indirectly enhance positive attitude and healthcare-seeking behaviour.
In conclusion, the results of this present study suggest that the level of awareness about prostatic diseases remains low among the men population in Nigeria with main sources of information being radio and television programmes. Not many respondents got their information from the health personnel contrary to expectation. This study also established a high level of erroneous beliefs about the aetiology of prostatic diseases with positive history of sexually transmitted diseases being the most common misconception regarding the aetiology of prostatic diseases. The level of knowledge and attitudes regarding screening and treatment of prostatic diseases were both low and were influenced by level of education and occupational status. Screening practices were found to be abysmally poor and were influenced by level of education of respondents only. This study recommends widespread public health campaigns using the mass media, hospitals and religious centres to improve knowledge, attitude and screening practices regarding prostatic diseases.
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The authors declare no competing interest.
Rufus Wale Ojewola was responsible for the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, writing and critical revision of the manuscript. Ezekiel Sofela Oridota participated in study design, analysis and interpretation of data as well critical review of the manuscript. Olanrewaju Samuel Balogun, Ezra Olatunde Ogundare, Taiwo Opeyemi Alabi, Oluseyi Omotola Banjo, Adeyinka Laoye, Babatunde Adetunmbi, Bamidele Oludele Adebayo and Rotimi Oluyombo participated in the data collection and interpretation as well as critical review of the manuscript. All authors have read and agreed to the final version of this manuscript and have immensely contributed to its content.
We are grateful to the resident doctors in the Department of Surgery, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti that assisted with data collection.
Table 1: awareness and sources of information about prostatic diseases
Table 2: common misconceptions about the aetiology of prostatic diseases
Table 3: attitudes of the participants to prostatic diseases
Table 4: screening practices and reasons for not undergoing screening amongst participants
Table 5: influence of socio-demographic characteristics on KAP regarding prostatic diseases and screening
Figure 1: participants' responses to some knowledge-based questions
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The Recent Escalation of Human Rights Violations in Indonesia Protests against the declining economic and political situation in Indonesia has been gaining momentum in the past three months. Increased reports of arrest and detention, abduction and torture of political dissidents have been received. Recently, seven people were killed during demonstrations. A case in point is that of Pius Lustrilanang, a supporter of opposition figure, Megawati, who was kidnapped and severely tortured, allegedly by the Indonesian military. He surfaced in April in a press conference where he related his account - a tale of electric shocks, sleep deprivation and water torture, after which he flew to Amsterdam for rehabilitation. Pius was an active participant in the Alternative Asean Network on Burma and had close contact with the secretariat and Burmese dissidents during 1997. Recommendation action: 1. For the Indonesia government to stop the killings and stop the practice of involuntary disappearances. 2. To release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. 3. To heed the demands of the people for needed political and economic reforms. Threats on migrant workers in Malaysia and Thailand More than 500 men from the province of Acheh-Sumatra, Indonesia were deported by the Malaysian government. These men are believed to be genuine asylum seekers from Acheh seeking refuge in Malaysia from prosecution in their home province. The Achehnese in Malaysia received asylum several years ago after the United Nations certified them as refugees. However, they have been detained by the Malaysian government and denied access to the Kuala Lumpur office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Riots which ensued the deportation exercise had resulted in at least the death of 8 Achehnese. An Indonesian independence activist puts the number at 24 deaths. Several other immigrants were injured due to gunshot wounds. In Thailand, the repatriation of illegal migrant workers, mostly from Burma, have been stepped up. The Chuan Leekpai administration has a policy to repatriate about 300,000 foreign workers this year, mostly from neighboring Burma. A total of 191,050 foreign workers including 33,495 from the service sector, 8,399 from the transport sector, 20,506 from the commercial sector, 19,995 from the garment industry, 46,773 from the food industry, 8,983 from heavy industry, 4,914 from the chemical industry, 10,539 from the wood-related industry, and 2,326 from the paper and printing industry have already been deported. There have been reports of grave human rights abuses in the round-up, arrest, and deportation process that has seen women raped and sexually abused, and young men beaten and kicked. Under an April 28 cabinet resolution, Burmese, Cambodian and Laotian workers have been allowed to continue working in 13 border provinces but cannot stay overnight in Thailand. These people can also seek Thai authorities' permission to work for the fisheries industry and other related industries in 22 provinces for another year. The Thai governments repatriation policy, however defined at the top level, does not work because of an absence of transparent and accountable deportation processes. A new, comprehensive policy must be sought, as well as the full co-operation of the immigration and labor departments. Recommended action: 1. The Malaysian government should establish a proper mechanism to document incoming Indonesians as economic refugees. 2. The Malaysian government should hold bilateral talks with the Indonesian government and the embassy in Kuala Lumpur to temporarily settle these economic refugees. Shelters and decent accommodation facilities need to be set up. 3. The Malaysian government should immediately start negotiations and enrol the assistnace of international relief agencies such as the UNHCR, International Committee of the Red Cross, etc. 4. Request the Thai government to seek the co-operation of the international community in formulating a comprehensive, just and fair process of repatriation. 5. Demand that the Royal Thai police Department and the Immigration Department train officers in human arrest, detention and deportation processes, and that the government establish a mechanism to handle complaints of human rights abuses for migrant workers returning to their country of origin. Altsean-Burma Secretariat ----------------------------------- A L T S E A N - B U R M A Alternative Asean Network on Burma Tel/Fax: 66 2 693 4515 * <altsean@xxxxxxxxxx>


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Darth Emmy
I came up the stairs the other day and found Emmy walking around like this all by herself. I ran back downstairs, grabbed the camera and hurried back up quietly, hoping not to disturb her. I guess this video shows Emmy's dark side. Are 16 month-old baby girls usually balls of wild, unpredictable hormones???


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July 31, 2008—At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading "quotes," a sickening replay of other recent elections.
The latest example of this wearisome gamesmanship was a column by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, who distorted a reported quote from Sen. Barack Obama at a closed Democratic caucus and used it to prove Obama was a "presumptuous nominee."
Milbank's colleague from the Washington Post's neoconservative editorial page, Jonathan Capehart, then took the point a step further on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" show, citing the misleading quote to establish that Obama is an "uppity" black man.
Yet, the true meaning of the Obama quote at the core of Milbank's snarky column appears to have been almost the opposite of how Milbank used it.
Milbank wrote: "Inside [the caucus], according to a witness, [Obama] told the House members, 'This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for,' adding: 'I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.'"
However, other people who attended the caucus complained that Milbank had yanked the words out of context to support his "presumptuous" thesis, not to reflect what Obama actually was saying.
Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, said Obama's comment was "in response to what one of the [House] members prefaced the question by," a reference to the crowd of 200,000 that turned out to hear Obama speak last week in Berlin.
According to Clyburn, Obama "said, 'I wish I could take credit for that, but I can't. Because it's not about me. It's about America. It's about the people of Germany and the people of Europe looking for a new hope, new relationships, as we go forward in the world.' So, he expressly said that it's not about me."
A House Democratic aide sent an e-mail to Fox News saying, "Lots of people are reading the quote about Obama being a symbol and getting it wrong. His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him.
"The Post left out the important first half of the sentence, which was something along the lines of: 'It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It's about America. I have just become a symbol ...'"
So, it appears that Obama's attempt to show humility was transformed into its opposite – what is fast becoming a powerful attack theme against him, that he is too big for his britches, that he is coming across, as Capehart put it, as an "uppity" black man. [Capehart himself is black.]
But the out-of-context quote was only part of Milbank's case. Virtually everything in the column was viewed through the lens of trying to prove Obama's arrogance.
When Washington police and the Secret Service block off roads for Obama's motorcade, that was not simply prudence in the face of extraordinary security concerns for Obama's life; it was proof that Obama already sees himself as a head of state.
When Obama had a phone conversation with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, these weren't just routine matters for a U.S. Senator or the presumptive nominee of a major party; they were further evidence of Obama's "uppity" behavior.
Milbank wrote that Obama "ordered up a teleconference with the (current President's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the Pakistani prime minister. ... Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.
"Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the actual President's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities."
Milbank groused, too, about the tight security that the police put around Obama's movements on Capitol Hill.
"Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual President. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door -- just as they do for the actual President," Milbank wrote.
While Milbank portrayed these security steps as further evidence of Obama's hubris, there is no reason to believe that Obama had any say in the decisions of his security detail to protect the candidate.
One has to wonder: Doesn't Dana Milbank have any idea of the physical danger that surrounds the first African-American to have a serious chance to be elected President of the United States? Does Milbank really want to heighten the political pressure on Obama to take more chances with his personal safety than he already does?
Do Milbank and the Washington Post want to feed the irrational hatred that already swirls around Obama by portraying him as an "uppity" black man with the obvious subliminal message that might send to some angry white guy, like the fellow who went on a shooting rampage because he hated "liberals"?
Presumably, Milbank and the Post don't want to add to the danger that Obama faces. It's more likely that they simply couldn't resist their reflexive disdain for people whom they consider challengers to the Washington Establishment.
Many people who know Obama personally say he is anything but the egomaniac that Milbank and others are trying to depict. One longtime political observer told me he was surprised at how unassuming Obama was, that he had yet to be spoiled by the self-importance that is a disease among Washington politicians – and journalists.
Milbank and many of his Post colleagues delight in cutting down to size outsiders who threaten their insider world. Just last Saturday, Milbank mocked a House Judiciary Committee hearing on George W. Bush's abuses of presidential power.
To read the column, you would never know that there actually is a strong case for believing that President Bush violated a significant number of international and domestic laws, the U.S. Constitution, and honorable American traditions, like George Washington's prohibition against torture.
Instead, it was time to laugh at the peaceniks. Milbank opened by agreeing with a put-down from Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, calling the session "an anger management class." Milbank wrote: "House Democrats had called the session ... to allow the left wing to vent its collective spleen."
Milbank then insulted Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced impeachment resolutions against Bush, by calling the Ohio Democrat "diminutive" and noting that Kucinich's wife is "much taller" than he is.
What Kucinich's height had to do with an issue as serious as abuses of presidential power was never made clear. What Milbank did make clear, through his ridicule and insults, was that the Washington Establishment takes none of Bush's crimes and abuses seriously.
Indeed, for Milbank and his neocon Post editors, mocking critics of the Iraq War is nothing new.
In 2005, when the Democrats were in the minority and the Republicans gave Rep. John Conyers only a Capitol Hill basement room for a hearing on the Downing Street Memo's disclosures about "fixed" intelligence, Milbank's column dripped with sarcasm.
"In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe," Milbank wrote. "They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official."
And the insults – especially aimed at Conyers – kept on coming. The Michigan Democrat "banged a large wooden gavel and got the other lawmakers to call him 'Mr. Chairman,'" Milbank wrote snidely. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com's "Mocking the Downing Street Memo."]
The new themes mocking Obama also have a precedent in the treatment of Al Gore when he ran for President in 2000. Much of the Washington press corps openly disdained Gore as a "know-it-all" and longed for the restoration of the "adults" who were supposed to return with George W. Bush.
In that climate, major news organizations, including the Washington Post and the New York Times, saw no particular need to quote Gore accurately or to challenge the apocryphal stories about him, like the invented Gore quote: "I invented the Internet."
The Post and Times added to the frivolity when reporters for these two premier newspapers mangled a quote by Gore about his role in the Love Canal toxic-waste clean-up, making Gore seem as self-absorbed as Milbank now makes Obama.
The Love Canal quote controversy began on Nov. 30, 1999, when Gore was speaking to a group of high school students in Concord, New Hampshire. He was exhorting the students to reject cynicism and to recognize that individual citizens can effect important changes.
As an example, he cited a high school girl from Toone, Tennessee, a town that had experienced problems with toxic waste. She brought the issue to the attention of Gore's congressional office in the late 1970s.
"I called for a congressional investigation and a hearing," Gore told the Concord students. "I looked around the country for other sites like that. I found a little place in upstate New York called Love Canal. Had the first hearing on that issue, and Toone, Tennessee -- that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all."
After the hearings, Gore said, "we passed a major national law to clean up hazardous dump sites. And we had new efforts to stop the practices that ended up poisoning water around the country. We've still got work to do. But we made a huge difference. And it all happened because one high school student got involved."
The context of Gore's comment was clear. What sparked his interest in the toxic-waste issue was the situation in Toone -- "that was the one that you didn't hear of. But that was the one that started it all."
After learning about the Toone situation, Gore looked for other examples and "found" a similar case at Love Canal. He was not claiming to have been the first one to discover Love Canal, which already had been evacuated. He simply needed other case studies for the hearings.
The next day, the Washington Post stripped Gore's comments of their context and gave them a negative twist.
"Gore boasted about his efforts in Congress 20 years ago to publicize the dangers of toxic waste," the Post reported. "Gore said his efforts made a lasting impact. 'I was the one that started it all,' he said."
The New York Times ran a slightly less contentious story with the same false quote: "I was the one that started it all."
The Republican National Committee spotted Gore's alleged boast and was quick to fax around its own take.
"Al Gore is simply unbelievable -- in the most literal sense of that term," declared Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson. "It's a pattern of phoniness -- and it would be funny if it weren't also a little scary."
The GOP release then doctored Gore's quote a bit more. After all, it would be grammatically incorrect to say, "I was the one that started it all." So, the Republican handout fixed the grammar to say, "I was the one who started it all."
In just one day, the key quote had been transformed from "that was the one that started it all" to "I was the one that started it all" to "I was the one who started it all."
Instead of taking the offensive against these misquotes, Gore tried to head off the controversy by clarifying his meaning and apologizing if anyone got the wrong impression. But the fun was just beginning.
The national pundit shows quickly picked up the story of Gore's new exaggeration.
"Let's talk about the 'love' factor here," chortled Chris Matthews of CNBC's Hardball. "Here's the guy who said he was the character Ryan O'Neal was based on in 'Love Story.' ... It seems to me ... he's now the guy who created the Love Canal [case]. I mean, isn't this getting ridiculous? ... Isn't it getting to be delusionary?"
The next morning, Post political writer Ceci Connolly highlighted Gore's boast and placed it in his alleged pattern of falsehoods.
"Add Love Canal to the list of verbal missteps by Vice President Gore," she wrote. "The man who mistakenly claimed to have inspired the movie 'Love Story' and to have invented the Internet says he didn't quite mean to say he discovered a toxic waste site." [Washington Post, Dec. 2, 1999]
That night, CNBC's Hardball returned to Gore's Love Canal quote by playing the actual clip but altering the context by starting Gore's comments with the words, "I found a little town..."
"It reminds me of Snoopy thinking he's the Red Baron," laughed Chris Matthews. "I mean how did he get this idea? Now you've seen Al Gore in action. I know you didn't know that he was the prototype for Ryan O'Neal's character in 'Love Story' or that he invented the Internet. He now is the guy who discovered Love Canal."
Matthews compared the Vice President to "Zelig," the Woody Allen character whose face appeared at an unlikely procession of historic events. "What is it, the Zelig guy who keeps saying, 'I was the main character in 'Love Story.' I invented the Internet. I invented Love Canal."
The following day, Rupert Murdoch's New York Post elaborated on Gore's pathology of deception.
"Again, Al Gore has told a whopper," the Post wrote. "Again, he's been caught red-handed and again, he has been left sputtering and apologizing. This time, he falsely took credit for breaking the Love Canal story. ... Yep, another Al Gore bold-faced lie."
On ABC's "This Week" pundit show, there was head-shaking amazement about Gore's supposed Love Canal lie.
"Gore, again, revealed his Pinocchio problem," declared George Stephanopoulos. "Says he was the model for 'Love Story,' created the Internet. And this time, he sort of discovered Love Canal."
The Love Canal controversy soon moved beyond the Washington-New York power axis.
On Dec. 6, The Buffalo News ran an editorial entitled, "Al Gore in Fantasyland." It stated, "Never mind that he didn't invent the Internet, serve as the model for 'Love Story' or blow the whistle on Love Canal. All of this would be funny if it weren't so disturbing."
The next day, the right-wing Washington Times judged Gore crazy.
"The real question is how to react to Mr. Gore's increasingly bizarre utterings," the Times wrote. "Webster's New World Dictionary defines 'delusional' thusly: 'The apparent perception, in a nervous or mental disorder, of some thing external that is actually not present ... a belief in something that is contrary to fact or reality, resulting from deception, misconception, or a mental disorder.'"
Yet, while the national media was excoriating Gore, the Concord students were learning more than they had expected about how media and politics work in modern America.
For days, the students pressed for a correction from the Washington Post and the New York Times. But the prestige papers balked, insisting that the error was insignificant.
"The part that bugs me is the way they nit pick," said Tara Baker, a Concord High junior. "[But] they should at least get it right." [AP, Dec. 14, 1999]
Finally, on Dec. 7, a week after Gore's comment, the Postpublished a partial correction, tucked away as the last item in a corrections box. But the Post still misled readers about what Gore actually said.
The Post correction read: "In fact, Gore said, 'That was the one that started it all,' referring to the congressional hearings on the subject that he called."
The revision fit with the Post's insistence that the two quotes meant pretty much the same thing, but again, the newspaper was distorting Gore's clear intent by attaching "that" to the wrong antecedent. From the full quote, it's obvious the "that" refers to the Toone toxic waste case, not to Gore's hearings.
Three days later, the New York Times followed suit with a correction of its own, but again without fully explaining Gore's position.
"They fixed how they misquoted him, but they didn't tell the whole story," commented Lindsey Roy, another Concord High junior.
Even after the half-hearted corrections, the false Love Canal quote continued to ripple through the national news media, with many newspapers repeating the erroneous version and drawing harsh conclusions about Gore's "delusions."
The "Lyin' Al" theme was exploited by the Bush campaign, which questioned Gore's fitness for the presidency. Public concerns about Gore's honesty – and even his sanity – helped keep the race close enough for Bush to claim the White House despite losing the popular vote by about half a million ballots.
[For more details, including how the press distorted the "Love Story" issue and the Internet quote, see our book, Neck Deep.]
Now, eight years later, the Washington Post is back in the lead, misusing a quote to establish another powerful theme, this time against Barack Obama, that he is an "uppity" black man.
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