“On such issues, Mr. Obama has a problem. Both as candidate and as president, he has eschewed identification by race, to avoid finding himself grouped with more outspoken African-American politicians such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Mr. Obama’s approach, rightly, has been to present himself as a post-racial president. But when it comes to speaking about race Mr. Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t.” Financial Times Editorial Comment
Financial Times Editorial Comment: A misstep and a distraction. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 20:38 | Last updated: July 24 2009 20:38. As Barack Obama struggles to build consensus to reform the nation’s healthcare system, the case of Henry Louis Gates Jr, a respected black Harvard professor arrested by local police in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an unwelcome distraction. The arrest – and Mr Obama’s ill-considered reaction to it – has fuelled renewed discussion of race in the US. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/44912bfa-7879-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Time to dig into issue of cops vs. minorities. Copyright by The Chicago Sun-Times. July 25, 2009 http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1684780,CST-EDT-edit26.article
Black males' fear of racial profiling very real, regardless of class - Several African American professionals find professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s recent encounter with police all too easy to relate to. Their lingering question is when to speak up. By Richard Fausset and P.J. Huffstutter. Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times. July 25, 2009. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-racial-profiling25-2009jul25,0,3417259.story
International
Obama restores America’s standing in the world By Harvey Morris in Washington. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 16:25 | Last updated: July 23 2009 16:25. Barack Obama has restored America’s global standing to where it was before the Bush era, but many in the Muslim world remain hostile, according to a survey published on Thursday. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/16b71098-779b-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html
Clinton Issues Warnings on North Korea and Iran By MARK LANDLER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 22, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/asia/23diplo.html?th&emc=th
North Korea hurls insults at Clinton - Diplomats dismiss anti-nuclear package By Tim Johnston in Phuket, Thailand, and Christian Oliver in Seoul. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 10:17 | Last updated: July 23 2009 10:17 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/afdc9064-7768-11de-8c68-00144feabdc0.html
China
Shanghai sidesteps ‘one child’ rule - One in five of city’s residents is 60 or older By Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 20:03 | Last updated: July 24 2009 23:08 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/925e99f2-787f-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Mess-o-potamia
Rival to Karzai Gains Strength in Afghan Presidential Election By CARLOTTA GALL. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 23, 2009. HERAT, Afghanistan — When Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the main election challenger to President Hamid Karzai, arrived here to campaign last weekend, thousands of supporters choked the six-mile drive from the airport. Cars were plastered with his posters. Motorbikes flew blue banners. Young men wearing T-shirts emblazoned with his face leapt aboard his car to embrace him to ecstatic cheers. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/world/asia/24abdullah.html?th&emc=th
Ex-President in Iran Seeks Referendum By ROBERT F. WORTH. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 19, 2009. BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iran’s reformist former president Mohammad Khatami called Sunday for a referendum on the legitimacy of the government in the wake of last month’s disputed presidential election, Iranian Web sites reported. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Iranian Critic Quotes Khomeini Principles By ELAINE SCIOLINO. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 18, 2009. WASHINGTON — During his decades in Iranian politics, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been praised as a pragmatist, criticized as spineless, accused of corruption and dismissed as a has-been. Now, in assailing the government’s handling of last month’s disputed presidential election, Mr. Rafsanjani, a 75-year-old cleric and former president, has cast himself in a new light: as a player with the authority to interpret the ideals of Iran’s 30-year-old Islamic republic. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/world/middleeast/19assess.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Iran's Tragic Joke By ROGER COHEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 20, 2009. NEW YORK — Allow me to quote the British novelist Martin Amis, writing about Persia in The Guardian: “Iran is one of the most venerable civilizations on earth: it makes China look like an adolescent, and America look like a stripling.” Iranians, aware of that history, are a proud people. They do not take kindly to being played around with, nor to seeing their country turned into a laughing stock. They do not like the memory of an election campaign that now seems like pure theater, the expression of the sadistic whim of some puppeteer. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21iht-edcohen.html?_r=1&ref=global
Ahmadi-Nejad ‘ordered’ to remove vice president - Supreme leader asserts authority By Najmeh Bozrogmehr in Tehran. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 15:44 | Last updated: July 24 2009 15:44 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c1cdf38-7857-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Hamas Shifts From Rockets to Culture War By ETHAN BRONNER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 23, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/world/middleeast/24gaza.html?th&emc=th
National
44 Charged by U.S. in New Jersey Corruption Sweep By DAVID M. HALBFINGER. Copyright by The New York Times and The Associated Press. Published: July 23, 2009. A two-year corruption and international money-laundering investigation stretching from the Jersey Shore to Brooklyn to Israel and Switzerland culminated in charges against 44 people on Thursday, including three New Jersey mayors, two state assemblymen and five rabbis, the authorities said. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24jersey.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Corruption Case a Blow to Corzine’s Campaign By DAVID M. HALBFINGER and DAVID W. CHEN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 24, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25jersey.html?th&emc=th
Measure to Expand Gun Rights Falls Short in Senate By BERNIE BECKER and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 22, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/us/politics/23guns.html?hp
Bowing to Veto Threat, Senate Blocks Money for Warplanes By CHRISTOPHER DREW. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 21, 2009. WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 58-40 on Tuesday to strip $1.75 billion for seven more F-22 fighters from a military authorization bill, handing President Obama a crucial victory in his efforts to reshape the military’s priorities. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/business/22defense.html?_r=1&hp
California’s fiscal charade By Christopher Caldwell. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 19:22 | Last updated: July 24 2009 19:22. Monday’s agreement between Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, and state legislators seemed to promise a temporary resolution to an ongoing budget crisis. But before legislators had even had a chance to vote on it, Californians were indulging in that peculiar mix of sanctimony and surrealism which marks almost all political discourse in the state. “What about the children?” ran the headline over the letters section of the San Francisco Chronicle, as if the important divide in the state’s politics were between those who “care” and those who do not. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/27fc634c-7879-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Jon Stewart: The new most trusted man in America? - According to a click poll of Time.com users, yes By Steve Johnson. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. July 24, 2009. The reason one unscientific poll of one Web site's readers is drawing wide attention: It confirms something people suspect -- or fear -- might actually be true. Jon Stewart is the most trusted newscaster in America, says a time.com click poll of about 9,400 site users taken this week after the death of Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS news anchor known as "the most trusted man in America." http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/columnists/chi-talk-john-stewart-trustedjul24,0,6512647.column
Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster? http://www.timepolls.com/hppolls/archive/poll_results_417.html
The Mother of All CLOCKS http://www.usdebtclock.org/
GOP Bashing
July 22, 2009: The Born Identity http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-july-22-2009/the-born-identity
Bush Weighed Using Military in Arrests By MARK MAZZETTI and DAVID JOHNSTON. Copyright by the New York Times. Published: July 24, 2009. WASHINGTON — Top Bush administration officials in 2002 debated testing the Constitution by sending American troops into the suburbs of Buffalo to arrest a group of men suspected of plotting with Al Qaeda, according to former administration officials. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/25detain.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Palin Legal Donations May Have Violated Ethics Law, Report Finds By Kimberly Kindy and Phillip Rucker. Copyright by The Washington Post. Wednesday, July 22, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072102949.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
Chicagoland
Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Illinois isn't ready for parental notification. Copyright by The Sun-Times. July 19, 2009. On its face, an Illinois law that requires doctors to tell the parents of girls under 18 that their child plans to have an abortion makes sense. http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1672799,CST-EDT-edit19.article
Response to Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Illinois isn't ready for parental notification By Carlos T Mock, MD, F. A. C. O. G. July 18, 2009. I am a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. I practiced the profession in the Western Suburbs until my retirement. I am a 100% pro choice Obstetrician, I’ve even performed Third Trimester terminations (in cases of severe deformed babies), yet I am disturbed that the pro choice movement does not wish to involve an adult in the abortions of minors. http://iretiredfromnewsletters.blogspot.com/2009/07/response-to-chicago-sun-times-editorial.html
Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: Decriminalizing pot in Cook County make sense. Copyright by The Chicago Sun-Times. July 23, 2009 http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1680970,CST-EDT-edit23.article
Chicago Tribune Editorial: Kind of dopey. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. July 25, 2009. Cook County Board President Todd Stroger was surprised this week when an ordinance that would treat marijuana possession much like a traffic offense landed on his desk. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/chi-0725edit1jul25,0,7364464.story
U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk officially in Senate race - 'It's time to restore the two-party system to Illinois,' North Shore Republican says By Rick Pearson. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. July 21, 2009 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-kirk-senate21jul21,0,5155620.story
GOP Candidate For Obama's Seat Whacked Twice Over Bus Idea stumble by Sam Stein. Copyright by the Huffington Post. Updated: 07-23-09 01:01 PM. A simple letter to the editor written by Rep. Mark Kirk last week now has the Illinois Republican Senatorial hopeful in an uncomfortable spat over stimulus politics and environmental policy. On July 16, 2009, Kirk wrote a letter to the Highland Park News making the case that Chicago's suburban bus system -- Pace -- should outfit its bus fleet with hybrids as opposed to the gas-guzzlers it had planned on purchasing. As a means of paying for the environmentally friendly rides, the candidate for Barack Obama's old seat argued that the stimulus funds were a logical vehicle. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/23/gop-candidate-for-obamas_n_243631.html
Your Lack of Money
US consumer confidence drops in July - Unemployment fears keep consumers on edge By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 15:57 | Last updated: July 24 2009 15:57 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5664230-7857-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Wall Street rallies on upbeat earnings By Kiran Stacey in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 14:31 | Last updated: July 23 2009 15:48 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/08f7328e-7701-11de-b23c-00144feabdc0.html
Biggest pension funds record steep losses By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 21 2009 20:39 | Last updated: July 21 2009 20:39 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/994f8c66-762d-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html
The pensions crisis By Cynthia O’Murchu, Helen Warrell, Steve Bernard and Norma Cohen. Published: May 27 2009 14:42 | Last updated: June 16 2009 10:11 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e82a672e-4ab4-11de-87c2-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=e70ca99e-a4b0-11db-b0ef-0000779e2340.html
Ford reports profit after restructuring - Carmaker’s earnings rise to $2.3bn By John Reed in London. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 13:26 | Last updated: July 23 2009 15:46 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1562f56-777e-11de-8c68-00144feabdc0.html
Commodities
Oil and sugar lead commodities higher - Dollar weakness bolsters gold By Chris Flood. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 24 2009 10:41 | Last updated: July 24 2009 10:41 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c99489ea-7834-11de-bb06-00144feabdc0.html
Housing
Washington Post Editorial: Foreclosure Facts - A new study shows why modifying mortgages is harder than it seems. Copyright by The Washington Post. Wednesday, July 22, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/21/AR2009072102747.html
US home resales and prices climb in June - New US jobless claims rise by 30,000 By Alan Rappeport in New York. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 14:42 | Last updated: July 23 2009 16:31 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3356e0fe-778a-11de-8c68-00144feabdc0.html
Chicago-area home sales show growth By Mary Ellen Podmolik. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. 8:59 AM CDT, July 23, 2009
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ch-biz-chicago-home-sales-july23,0,7455384.story
GLBT
Gay couple's family still faces hurdles BY CAROL MARIN. Copyright by The Chicago Sun-Times. July 25, 2009. Sun-Times' columnist Mike Sneed reported the news in a small item Friday morning: "Congratulations to Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman and his partner, Daren DeJong, on the birth Thursday of their first child, Alden DeJong Huberman. The dads are delighted." I noticed there was no quote from Huberman. I wasn't surprised. http://www.suntimes.com/news/marin/1684490,CST-EDT-carol26.article
Horse race to equality—Federal marriage lawsuits by Lisa Keen, ©2009 Keen News Service. Wed., July 15, 2009 http://windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=21823
Race to equality: Federal marriage suits by Lisa Keen ©2009 Keen News Service. 2009-07-22 http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=21832
Washington Post Editorial: Marching Orders - Ending 'don't ask, don't tell' will take an act of Congress—and voters actively pushing for it. Copyright by The Washington Post. Monday, July 20, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901688.html
Equality Illinois’ new CEO: “We’ll be even more aggressive” By Amy Wooten. Copyright by The Chicago Free Press. July 23, 2009. Illinois’ largest gay rights organization, Equality Illinois, recently hired a new CEO and appointed two new officers with the hopes of renewing its efforts to gain civil unions and full equality. http://www.chicagofreepress.com/node/3727
Despite minister's anti-gay views, he beats nepotism in 26th Ward. By Jim Madigan. Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times. July 23, 2009. http://www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/letters/1680701,CST-EDT-Vox23.article Editorial note. Jim Madigan is an openly gay candidate for the 7th district of Illinois’ State Senate—no relation to Mike Madigan
Immigration
Immigration Pitfall - Why 'Legalization Only' Won't Fly By Jorge G. Castaneda and Tamar Jacoby. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, July 21, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002483.html
Technology
Microsoft’s sales tumble on PC weakness - Worst year in company's 23-year history By Richard Waters in San Francisco. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 23 2009 21:45 | Last updated: July 24 2009 14:59. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/677c3904-77c8-11de-9713-00144feabdc0.html
Apple profits soar on strong iPhone sales By Joseph Menn in San Francisco. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009. Published: July 21 2009 22:07 | Last updated: July 22 2009 00:15. Apple blew past all but the most bullish predictions in the fiscal third quarter, driven by sales of 5.2m iPhones, more than seven times the volume of a year earlier. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4c9cb586-7639-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html
Medical
Why We Must Ration Health Care By PETER SINGER. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 15, 2009. You have advanced kidney cancer. It will kill you, probably in the next year or two. A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the cancer and may give you an extra six months, but at a cost of $54,000. Is a few more months worth that much? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/magazine/19healthcare-t.html?_r=1
Washington Post Editorial: An American Tragedy - New data show the terrible toll that HIV/AIDS is taking among African Americans. Copyright by The Washington Post. Tuesday, July 21, 2009 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/20/AR2009072002766.html
When you can't afford to get sick By Jill Hudgins. Copyright © 2009, Chicago Tribune. July 24, 2009. I can't afford to get sick. Like 47 million other Americans, I don't have health insurance. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0724uninsuredjul24,0,2004362.story
Hospital Savings: Salaries for Doctors, Not Fees By GARDINER HARRIS. Copyright by The New York Times. Published: July 24, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/health/policy/25doctors.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Saying `sorry' pays off for U. of Michigan doctors By DAVID N. GOODMAN. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. July 20, 2009 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5igSjdoVWOXhbBhFVTh8so2TFY6rQD99IBA101?index=0
Other
Amateur Finds New Earth-Sized Blot on Jupiter By ROBERT MACKEY. Copyright by the New York Times. July 21, 2009, 8:59 AM http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/amateur-astronomer-finds-new-earth-size-impact-mark-on-jupiter/?ref=global-home
Millions watch longest eclipse of century - Corridor stretches from India to China © Reuters Limited. July 22, 2009 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ac2a9458-7668-11de-9e59-00144feabdc0.html
Seats for frequent flier awards scarce despite recession By Jaclyn Giovis. Copyright © 2009, South Florida Sun-Sentinel. 9:43 AM CDT, July 24, 2009. If you're cash-strapped and banking on frequent flier miles to make a last-minute summer vacation possible, you may be disappointed. http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-sfl-frequent-flier-july24,0,2459626.story
Humor
Funny Shaoling mountain dew add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wS3QibDXjM
Best. Wedding Entrance. Ever http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/07/24/-wedding-entrance-video-forever-ever/
Ps. The new book is going slowly. I’m not sure that I’m ready to write about my sister’s death, even though it will be a year in November since she died.
New! Carlos now has an online store. Order your books directly from Carlos and have them signed and dedicated.http://www.carlostmock.com/catalog/
In Pride (orgullo),
Carlos T. Mock, MD
www.carlostmock.com
Author: Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey - Floricanto Press 2003.
Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT
Round Table.
Author: The Mosaic Virus – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
Author: Author: Papi Chulo – Floricanto Press 2007. Nominated for a Stonewall Award by the American Library Association GLBT Round Table, and a Lammie from The Lambda Literary Foundation
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