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How do you spell Compassionate Mr. Paul?????
Who's going to pay that $400,000 bill Mr. Paul? You and Me. That's who.



Ron Paul knows something about uninsured men dying without health insurance. Kent Snyder, who was Paul's 2008 presidential campaign manager, died on June 26 of that year without any medical coverage. His hospital bills had accumulated to $400,000 at the time of his passing.

The Washington Post noted in an obituary for Snyder, 49:

Mr. Snyder had been associated with Paul, a Texas Republican with Libertarian leanings, for more than 20 years. He worked as a top aide for Paul in 1988, when the congressman sought the presidency on the Libertarian ticket.

In 2007, Mr. Snyder helped persuade Paul to launch a bid for the Republican nomination and served as chairman of his campaign. Paul raised millions of dollars from online contributors, leading all Republican contenders early in the race. He failed to attract many voters, however, and ended his candidacy in June.

So, an aide who was pivotal to the political fortunes and fundraising for Paul wasn't even given health insurance - in his hour of need - by the libertarian Congressman.

By now, almost all BuzzFlash at Truthout readers know or saw how the bloodlust of the Tea Party roared with approval when Paul said that people without health insurance are taking their own risks, and that is the way it should be.

A Pensito Review article from 2008 noted, "Snyder's death and his lack of health insurance has triggered a behind-the-scenes debate among Paul supporters and libertarian activists over whether or not the Paul campaign should have provided health insurance to its staff."

Actually, Paul was a touch more compassionate then his gladiator fight audience. He said that the churches should provide health care to the uninsured, that "our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it."

That's not how it played itself out with your longtime fundraiser and campaign manager, Kent Snyder, Dr. Paul.

He didn't even get the health coverage he needed from you, nor did you pick up his $400,000 medical care bill after he died.

Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout

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Can you feel the love tonight??? Umm, Nope..........


Rep. Sally Kern: Gays More of a Threat Than Terrorism
by Steve W.



An American anti-gay hate group chose the lead up to the anniversary of 9/11 to post an interview with Oklahoma state’s Rep. Sally Kern in which, while promoting her new book The Stoning of Sally Kern, the oft mired legislator repeated her claim that homosexuality is more dangerous to America than foreign-born terrorism.

In 2008 Kern outraged many when she made the claim that homosexuality is “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.”

Kern has always insisted that her comments were taken out of context and that the media twisted her words, but on Thursday designated hate group Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality posted a radio interview with Kern where she repeated her claims on the dangers of homosexuality.

Fortunately Right Wing Watch has the audio so there can be no doubt as to Kern’s sentiments. They include:

You know if you just look at it in practical terms, which has destroyed and ended the life of more people? Terrorism attack here in America or HIV/AIDS? In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty years, we’ve had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which one’s the biggest threat? And you know, every day our young people, adults too, but especially our young people, are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines, they’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural. It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean.

And:

It’s more dangerous, and yes I think that it’s also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation. We were founded as a nation upon the principles of religion and morality, if we take those out from under our society we will lose what has made us a great nation, we will no longer be a virtuous people, which we see happening already. And without virtue this nation will not survive.

Earlier this year Kern went into damage control after comments she made that minorities earn less than white people and women earn less than men because they don’t want to work as hard. Again, she has since said her comments were taken out of context but admitted that she “misspoke”.