2016 Postmortem
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DemsUnited
(1,273 posts)Really looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Warren in the Senate
NBachers
(17,007 posts)I agree- Devastating
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Couldn't happen to a 'nicer' guy.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)DavidL
(384 posts)believe it! He put up the most deceptive ad I have ever seen about Warren.
His character attacks on Warren have been relentless, and so untrue.
He's getting desperate, and that doesn't help him at all with the undecided voters.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)worst ways to die there is. I have seen 200 lb. plus men die at 85 lbs. in agony that morphine will not touch. Smoking does NOT cause this disease, only asbestos, that is why you would see the commercials all of the time for these cases. GE is a big asbestos defendant by the way, along with all of the oil companies, oh, and Koch industries too! These companies knew in the 1930's what asbestos did and covered it up for generations because it was cheap! They are the worst examples of capitalism ever known! So when a Republican sneers at you and calls you a communist/socialist, you tell them what a Capitalist is!
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)That employed dozens of young women (at this time women had difficulty getting jobs) for the task of painting watch dials with radium-based luminous paint. The women were instructed to regularly lick the paintbrush bristles to keep them neat. Needless to say, every single women developed severe radiation poisoning, and the entire room was toxic with high radiation levels. The owners and management knew of the danger, ignored it, and stalled the subsequent lawsuits out in court until the last women died, which ended the suits. Fucking criminals.
polly7
(20,582 posts)and how those miners and their families had suffered.
http://asbestos.cattran.ca/asbestos/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Deadly-Secret-Quebec-asbestos-history.pdf
There they remained until South African scholar Gerrit Schepers visited the laboratory as an intern in 1949. Nowninety-six years of age and living in upstate Virginia, he remembers stumbling upon the perturbing data while rifling through the laboratorys records. Nine miners were listed with lung cancer and two more with mesothelioma, a
rarer and deadlier cancer. Another file contained slides of eleven mice exposed to asbestos dust the slides revealed that nine of the mice had cancer.
The hidden data was political dynamite. Up in Quebec, trouble was brewing as the provinces francophone asbestos miners began to agitate against their long-hated American and English-Canadian masters. The strife culminated in the 1949 asbestos strike, a bitter dispute based in and around the Quebec mining town of Asbestos. Aware that the product they mined was killing them, one of the miners demands was that asbestosis lung scarring caused by exposure to asbestos fibres be recognised as an industrial disease.
The strike was essentially an attempt by miners to take control of their bodies. At the beginning of 1949, Montreals Le Devoir warned workers that companies had been lying to them about their health. Journalist Burton LeDoux compared asbestosis to a spider spinning its deadly web around victims lungs, slowly suffocating them to death. He likened Quebecs mining towns to concentration camps
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/featured/asbestos-strike
For the workers, back to work in the dangerous air of the asbestos mines, the strike was no revolution. Their material gains were small. Many were not rehired and little was done to alleviate the working conditions that would take many lives over the next generation. In 1974, Dr. Irving J. Selikoff, the world's foremost authority on asbestos-related diseases, described the asbestos mining towns of Quebec as the most dangerous in the world. The town of Asbestos has a long memory. Even today, when a "scab" passes away, the only people at the funeral home are the priest and a few members of the Knights of Columbus to pray for his soul.
James H. Marsh is editor in chief of The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Your personal narrative from the legal point of view might be useful to the Warren campaign.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)have contacts and cases in MA. What do you have in mind?
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)your first-hand experience to the Warren campaign for ad purposes or for campaign literature.
But, as a Texan, I'm afraid you would only be perceived as a carpetbagger!
In any case, your legal experience of the flagrant disregard by these people for their fellow human beings is very telling.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)and it is people like her that give me hope in an otherwise hopeless country!
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)If you are going to attack someone who is an advocate for people, especially people who are sick, then you get what's coming to you.
SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)catbyte
(34,174 posts)Go Elizabeth Warren! I could only donate a few dollars to her campaign, but I did it and I live in Michigan.
Mom to Taz, Nigel, and baby sister Sammy, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"Dogs Arent Luggage--HISS!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This must mean Scott Brown does not have anything positive to run on.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Who advised him to go after Warren's heritage and her work as a lawyer? He had a potentially winning theme as Mr. Independent in a Truck Nice Guy. That shit is over. He is now a nasty asshole hoping to win by poo-flinging at his opponent.
TroyD
(4,551 posts)The rumor is Karl Rove.
mnhtnbb
(31,319 posts)Hubby and I were just talking about this yesterday.
Look at the debate. Romney stood up and LIED to the face of the President of the United States.
Hubby and I were talking about POTUS response--and his behavior--which actually showed
signs of responding to shameful behavior --which is to NOT look in the eye--to turn away--
and maybe that was an instinctual response.
Anyway, I'm glad to see this ad which actually mentions that Brown should be ashamed.
Romney should be ashamed for lying to the face of the President of the United States.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)wakemewhenitsover
(1,595 posts)Really hope she wins. What a great woman.
ellisonz
(27,709 posts)Kteachums
(331 posts)Go Elizabeth!!!