The Washington Independent - U.S. news and politics - washingtonindependent.com: Comments by Warren Metzler

Warren Metzler — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:40:52 GMT

When am I going to read a commentator who writes that Hillary’s various positions on the war indicated she is genetically incapable of maintaining a principled stand on any issue. And will handle every issue presented as President in the identical manner, making her administration a castrophy????

Warren Metzler — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:27:33 GMT

I grant you the war isn’t about “nothing”. Because George Bush had an intention when he chose to begin this war. But I have yet to read a single reasonable explanation as to why he promoted this war. We, at least those of us who are informed, are clear as to why the war in Vietnam was begun and progressively expanded. But not why the Iraq war. Why not? I’m not sure, but I suspect that it is because the vast majority of reporters find it too discomforting to investigate the facts, and then draw a rational conclusion as to Georgie boy’s real motivations.

In all areas of life, massively increasing since the 1990’s, westerners have refused to look at the reality of most areas of their lives. To give an example in another area. What is the intellectual justification for believing that a central bank raising or lowering interests rates can significantly influence decisions made by the businesspersons of a country. Try and find a single rational reason. Yet everyone acts as if such acts are brilliant economic management.

Warren

Warren Metzler — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:33:33 GMT

I don’t get the write down example. If you say that a bond becomes risky, doesn’t that mean the originally promised $50.00 per year is now suspect? So how can you tell what is the value of this bond? I do get that claiming its value is now $720 means it has lost 28% of its value, but what is the basis for that claim? And what caused the assumption the bond is risky in the first place, other than an expected $50.00 annual payment didn’t arrive? And if an expected annual payment didn’t arrive, whose to say the bond has any worth at all?

Sounds like most write downs are more smoke and mirrors.

Warren Metzler — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:29:06 GMT

If you believe the American Cancer Society is capable of telling the truth about cancer treatment, I have a bridge in the New York City east river to sell you.

Here’s a little known fact about the ACS. They have support groups, people who have received cancer treatment, who provide encouragement and answers to newly diagnosed cancer people. To join a group, you have to promise to not describe any of your personal experiences of treatment. Wonder why?

Medical insurance was begun by physicians in the 1930’s to cover up their passion for diagnostic tests, which demonstrated not a smidgen of contribution to authentically curative results, but which worked wonders in facilitating the physician’s need to ignore their abysmal results.

The more medical insurance you provide, the more unhealthy people become.

The problem is conventional medicine’s insistence that illness is caused by pathology (physical body tissues malfunctioning). And that if no pathology can be found, there is no real illness; all “non-real” illnesses being called psychosomatic.

Here are some facts to chew on. In 70 out of every 100 persons who feel ill and visit a physician, no pathology can be found. Which means no curative treatment can be found, and palliation (making the patient temporarily feel better) is all that’s available. If cure is defined as get sick, then are treated, become fully healthy (achieve well-being), treatment is stopped, and the illness doesn’t return, the cure rate for this group is 0%.

In 6 out of that hundred, pathology is found, and the illness is acute; acute being defined as came on suddenly, gets progressively worse and then goes away (or the person dies, which is a small minority), all over a few week period. In essence the cure rate in this group is 100%.

In 24 out of that 100 pathology is found and the illness is chronic; meaning lasts for a long time. Curative treatment is available; such treatment being called curative because the pathology is removed or controlled. In every single case, discomforting symptoms continue and progressive increase. In time the physician of everyone with a chronic illness tells that person that physician’s version of the following, “learn to live with this problem, because you will have it until you die”. In this group the cure rate is 0%. So conventional medicine, who gave us health insurance in the first place has a 0% cure rate in 94% of its cases. Which is a failure rate of 94%.

Continuing to chase after new diagnosis and treatment techniques in a paradigm which has repeatedly demonstrated a 94% failure rate for over 150 years (modern medicine began in the 1850’s) is the major basis for the steadily increasing cost of health insurance.

Warren

Warren Metzler — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:50:26 GMT

Why is it, after millenniums of history, never once being able to accurately predict the future, humans continue to believe that if you establish a government agency which focuses on being able to predict the future, you can protect yourself? It’s like the scam of life insurance, which repeated reviews have shown all the benefits are gone within five years after the death of the deceased; so much for protecting your loved ones if you die. Why not eliminate any spying, stop acting as if spying has ever been beneficial, stop employing people at work which cannot offer genuine fulfillment, and save the country billions of dollars every year? And while we at it, why not eliminate the euphemism “defense department”, go back to calling it the “war department” as it was called prior to WWII, and get rid of assuming we can protect ourselves with a huge military!