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from:msnbc.comAn experimental breast cancer drug made from sea sponges added months to the lives of breast cancer patients whose cancer had come back despite several rounds of chemotherapy, doctors reported on Sunday.
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I wonder what kind of sponge or where they come from. The Gulf has always had a great abundance of sponges and there is a town in Florida, Tarpon Springs, made famous by the sponges and those that dive for them.
Too bad it will be long gone by the time BP is done with it.
So Spongebob should be the new icon for bc instead of the pink ribbon.
Where do they come up with this nonsense? Maybe next they will say that chewing weeds will cure migraines...
It's not nonsense when all of our drugs come from plants, trees, animal and insect poisons and in some cases sea life like sponges. The problem is we have been exploring space instead of exploring in the deep ocean's for cures. We are stripping the rain forests, poisoning our oceans and crops with chemicals. We have been having a shortage of bees for years and it is getting worse due to the chemicals sprayed on the soil which in turn kills the bees. Without bees we don't grow food to eat. The run off water from the fields gets into our water supply and the chemicals we put into the fields to feed the pigs and cattle get into the meat. It all comes together in the end. There are plenty of cures out there but at the rate man is going he will kill it all off. Now the oil spill in the gulf. What if the cure for every cancer came from a tiny insect or frog in the gulf how would we ever know if it is killed off. Marijuana is a cure for pain and the plant hemp can be made into fabric and many other things. So when you say we will be chewing weeds for a migraine, your close with the joke. A tree cures the headache. Instead of taking Oxycontin and other drugs for pain that poison the body we can take marijuana but they will never make it legal because that would cut into profits and make people healthier and that is not their goal. We have to fight to protect our forests, water air and animal life against those who rape our planet for profit without concern for mankind.
And one more thing, our coral reefs around the world are dying off from pollution so if this is true the cost of the cure might be out of reach of an average person and may only be attainable for the filthy rich! So were does that leave us brother?
Do we really need to drive a species off the planet for 2 months of extension? They're not a plant, they're an animal, and only caught in their habitat, not farmed.
Thanks to Dick Cheney and his secret, closed-door meetings with Big Oil during the reign of the puppet, our environmental and safety laws were dismantled and protections put in to protect Big Oil if there were a catastrophe. Now, due to Cheney's immeasurable GREED, we may be losing the cure to breast cancer by polluting our waters. Even when not in power, the puppet and puppetmaster are still killing our environment, still making sure their industry is never found at fault, still killing off species of animals and plants. Eight years was not enough it seems, they made sure they changed laws to reach farther through the years to continue avaricious endeavors without pesky old oversight laws getting in their way. Cheney, of the famous quip, "F---them" referring to the massive American public outcry over that administration's policies. He famously shot all of us the middle finger bird whenever we disapproved of their extreme power grab and robbing of our national Treasury. Cheney has been behind the scenes of EVERY presidential administration for 40 years. Always, he protects the oil industry like he would his own child. This country is broke because Cheney and Halliburton stole everything, smirked in our face and trotted off with his, I mean OUR, treasury. I pray and hope his daughter and wife get terminal breast cancer. As for Cheney, old Satan in human form, he always gets away with crimes because who is going to tell Satan, "no?"
It sounds like good news, You read about it almost every week.. a new drug, a new treatment, a potential vaccine. Scientists have mapped out the genome for this that and the other.. but then for whatever reason, this stuff kinda mysteriously disappears and you don't hear about it ever again. Is it because someone is paying big bucks to put potential cures in cold storage or is it because ultimately the claims are hogwash and these treatments aren't worth a brass farthing. It just makes me wonder. And no Florida Gator you couldn't really wish cancer on anyone. It's that horrible.
Don't be an idiot, ledgerboo. I have had several family members die of cancer. YES I CAN, happily, wish cancer on Satan, his wife, daughters, lesbian lovers and the grandkid born to two "women." They have earned the disdain of America by standing with Satan and his evil doings. Every time GWB spoke about "evil-doers," he should have looked in the mirror. There is the biggest evil-doer of all time, Cheney, pulling the puppet's strings. America is suffering and the Gulf of Mexico inhabitants will continue to suffer for decades. For some species, the fight is over, they are extinct, yet Cheney and Bush get to wallow in their billions of stolen dollars and never be charged with a crime or forced to return our Treasury.
If ever there was a criminal that should be at the top of every CIA, FBI, Interpol, and postal services "Wanted Criminal list," the top 3 people who should be listed are 1. Dick Cheney 2. GW Bush and 3. Osama bin Laden. The 3 of them are most likely in cahoots together, which is why we cannot find Osama. The US probably has him in a luxurious safe house, protecting him and paying his way as our Pentagon pretends they are diligently looking for Osama. Try Cheney's spare bedroom; I bet they could lift Osama's fingerprints from the Lincoln bedroom in the White House.
Our military ship "The Halliburton" and the terminal in Texas named the "George Bush Airport" should be renamed. They are both American disgraces named after the USA's biggest criminals of all time.