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Compare and Contrast

Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor:
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts: apologized and launched an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 0
6) remedy: should be fired as CBS News Anchor


George W. Bush, President of the United States:
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts: continued to report untruth and stonewalled an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 1100
6) remedy: should be given four more years as President of the United States

How's that, again?

Class Dis ... MISSED!!

Dear Doctor -

When I come to you, and explain that I am having serious problem with my allergies - and it's gone beyond what used to be my personal worst and into symptoms that have long-term asthmatics nodding their heads in understanding ... I'd appreciate not being dismissed, and made to feel as though all that is wrong with me is seasonal allergies gone awry.

As someone that has dealt in allergies in their various iterations since childhood, I can attest that while they are better now than they have been in all my years in St. Louis - this coughing, wheezing, tight chest, getting-seriously-winded-just-going-up-a-minor-incline business ... it's NOT normal. It's not right.

Don't just listen to my chest/lungs with your stethoscope and say "I don't hear any whistling or wheezing - so it doesn't appear to be asthma". Don't just thrust a small bag with a month's worth of Zyrtec samples into my hands, write off my symptoms as "seasonal allergies - or possibly due to mold in the city" and send me on my merry way.

You didn't even get out a Peak Flow Meter to check my lung capacity. Did you not hear me saying that I was getting severely short of breath going up ONE flight of stairs, or on a short incline? When it happened to me about 6 months ago, I could understand - do you NOT realize that this is happening to me 35 pounds lighter, and quite suddenly?!?

Thanks to your dismissive treatment, I have decided to make an appointment with an allergist, for a second opinion - as well as allergy tests. A co-worker has even offered to bring in a spare Peak Flow Meter, so I can track my lung capacity readings on my own.

Not feeling much love,

Carly