Thanks! I didn’t know it was for Governor.

BTW, I saw her in a parade Saturday morning.

Several people were talking about some BS letter or paid ad — I didn’t have my Beltone on — from Nancy.

It seems Nancy was officially calling off her campaigning for the Holiday Weekend.

Yet, she was riding in the parade. Nice red BMW.

Can anyone confirm this letter or announcement?

And, does the Saturday parade conflict with it?

BTW, it was a great parade. People in North Georgia have good reasons to love their hometowns.

It was actually a physical letter. I think Decaturguy documented it on his blog last year. Try this link:

http://atlantapublicaffairs.blogspot.com/2005/09/georgia-state-senator-blames-katrina.html

Can I get on her email list?

I wanna keep current on how the weather punishes sin.

And, Caroline, you don’t have to go back to 1996 for evidence of her whackjobbiness. Last year when Katrina hit, she sent out a letter to her constituency stating that Katrina hit New Orleans because of all of the sin going on there.

I think she ran for mayor? Or, was it Governor? Maybe it was Surgeon General?

I heard she ran on the Republican ticket and got a HUGE vote percentage.

The HIGH single digits.

Brave New World, indeed.

We’re lazy, but living longer.

We’re fat, but dieting all the time.

I agree that television and magazine ads for various ‘quick fix’ pills do pump up sales (and doctor visits). For people who have more money than they have sense.

My parents have those little plastic tray with compartments marked for days of the week. The ones used to make sure you don’t over or under dose. Those trays are not full of Lunesta or Ambien.

Medical markets are not any different from clothing markets, auto markets, and music markets. Those drug ads target a section of the medical market with disposable income (or insurance coverage) likely to switch or request a specific brand.

That is way over simplified, but more or less correct. (I can’t give a marketing lesson in 500 words are less that would even begin to discuss the whole subject of markets)

My oldest son is a cardiologist in Boston. Schooled in DC. Works one month a year for the Veterans Hospital. Worked at Walter Reed. Worked at that little hospital in Gainesville while an undergrad. I’m sure people ask for name brand drugs. I’m sure some doctors give them what they want. I’m also sure that is not ALWAYS the wrong thing to do.

I’m not amazed that a political discussion thread starts out with religion and becomes anti-science.

I’m amazed that it starts out anti-science and becomes anti-market.

Our Whacko from the 50th wants to see an x-ray that proves depression or any other mental illness.

Let her show me an X-ray that proves a broken heart!

(yeah, broken heart is a street term. I used it because we have several thousand people still displaced from Katrina and a couple thousand families who’ve lost someone in the Iraq war. Spend some time with a grieving human being, then tell me that a broken heart isn’t real.)

I’m surprised that more Republicans haven’t called BS on Nancy Schaefer and her switch to the Hollywood church of the week.

There are many people who are happy and alive thanks to the medication prescribed by Psychiatrists.

Mrs. Shaefer doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/richard-armitage/richard-armitage-opens-diplomatic-ties-with-xenu-galactic-confederacy-196076.php

I don’t particularly care for a legislator to align herself with a special interest organization, whose reputation is certainly suspect at best, to malign physicians who are working effectively with their patients to create a better quality of life..

I’m not sure who her argument is with, the educational or the medical community, or both.