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Thursday, December 04, 2008
Cal Thomas :: Townhall.com Columnist
What Happened to Optimism?
by Cal Thomas
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Want more? Scientists have just announced a cure for Type-1 diabetes in lab mice. This breakthrough could mean a cure within a few years for more than 1 million American children who suffer from Type-1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes.

Pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies are testing a record 633 new biotech medicines, which could lead to better treatments and, eventually, to cures for cancer and infectious, autoimmune and cardiovascular disease.

While the stock market suffers from what history teaches will be a temporary setback, these other advances will have a permanent and positive effect on our country and the world.

So come on everybody (harmony!):

"The sun'll come out tomorrow, so ya gotta hang on 'til tomorrow, come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, you're always a day away."

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Cal Thomas is co-author (with Bob Beckel) of the book, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America".
 
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Reply # 1
Date: Dec 5, 2008 - 9:27 AM EST
Here's some more great news courtesy of
the great University of Wisconsin at Madison!

"New process derives green gasoline from plant sugars", Fall 2008, UW-Madison Engineering
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/alumni/perspective/35.1/article08g reengasoline.html

The only downside I can see is that good news like this tends to PO the moronic neo-Luddites that call themselves 'environmentalists'. Oh, well. Too bad, so sad.
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Reply # 2
Date: Dec 4, 2008 - 7:08 PM EST
Hope is what happened - LOL!
After 53% of the american people chose hope and change why would you ask where has optism gone? AFter all, we are hopeful that our president-elect will bring the change we can believe in by working with washington insiders to implement ideas that make washingtonton include 'all americans'. I am very hopeful and therefore optimism is not necessary and whether the sun comes out or not, I've got a feeling everything is going to be fine because why worry when Barak is in the office - hollar back!
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