Mr. Obama could be a more than a 2 term President if the Democrats win re-election in November. Sadly, this can be true, just like Mr.Chavez is the President in Venezuela - Mr.Chavez changed the law so he will be the President of his Country during his lifetime. I heard Mr. Michael Savage proclaim this fact on his radio show! With the terrible conduct of Mr.Obama in the 3 plus yrs. of his administration, he is on his way to destroying all of our values.

Mr. Obama is destroying our religious freedom with the H.H.S. Mandate. Mr.Obama has duped the Supreme Court in passing the Obamacare law that most Americans do not want. Mr.Obama will certainly try to overthrow the 2nd Amendment of our Constitution - Our Right To Bear Arms. Mr.Obama's Attorney General - Mr.Holder has trashed many legal gun laws and should have been tried for selling machine guns to illegal Mexicans that murdered a U.S. border guard. Ms.Napolitano, Mr.Obama's Homeland Security secretary has not tried to uphold-keeping illegal immigrants from entering our country. Just ask Arizona and New Mexico's Governors! Are you ready for this - you Democrats? Our Nation's dept is increasing $5000 every second! The Democrats keep spending money that we do not have! The most terrible crime of all is - Mr. Obama believes that it is O.K. to kill unborn babies with his policies.

Unfortunately, the bad list of this Democratic Administration's agenda goes on and Oon. Wake up voters- get the Democrats out of office - next November!!! Shame on you if you vote for Mr.Obama!

Sincerely,

Bruce Moorhead

Susquehanna, Pa.

I am told that there was a recent occasion when Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, DC received a question from a woman which I paraphrase as, “Do you realize how many Catholic women use birth control”? Cardinal Wuerl leaned forward and asked, again paraphrasing, “Would you like to hear a very nasty secret about Catholics”? After a positive reply he continued, “There are many Catholics in jail. Does this mean we should make robbery legal, or killing legal? We do not change the laws because people break them.”

And I would like to personally respond to one of the latest slogans touted at the rally in Scranton, “Put women’s rights over Bishops wrongs”. I guarantee you that contraception pills will be available whether the Catholic women of America listen to their church or not. To make us pay for them and violate our consciences will only put more money in the coffers of Planned Parenthood who has furnished the abortifacients pill to those who wanted it for years. (Both the contraception pill and the morning after pill aborts the baby by not allowing him/her to attach in the uterine wall). Religious rights, guaranteed in our Constitution, must apply to those we agree with and those we do not. The Catholic Church does not force anyone to follow her laws, but neither will the Church back down to those who would insist we change them, or accept their right to claim to be Catholic and ignore them.

Rachels Vineyard is always available for those women who regret their abortion with love and help at rachelsvineyare.org.

Sincerely,

Annette Corrigan

Susquehanna County, PA

There is a killer among us. A toxin more addictive than cocaine. A poison that catapults your chances of developing obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, arthritis, osteoporosis, and cancer. A scourge so virulent that it is far and away the leading cause of death in the U.S.

And yet we consume it every day, many times a day. What is it?

Sugar, plain, ordinary table sugar and high fructose corn syrup, sugar's more insidious other-self. (view YouTube: Is Sugar Toxic?)

Over the top? Too extreme? Not when one realizes how much sugar the average American ingests and what happens once it enters the digestive system.

So how much sugar do we consume? Three hundred years ago sugar was the caviar of the rich. The average consumption was 0.2 oz per day. In 1800 it increased 0.8 oz per day. Still quite small.

But beginning in1900, consumption of sugar jumped to 4.0 oz a day. Today the average consumption of sugar is no longer measured in ounces but in pounds, a hefty half a pound daily, most of it in processed foods. This is forty times as much sugar as our ancestors ate.

What happens when this much sugar is ingested as a regular part of our diet?

The amount of sugar in blood is kept within narrow limits. The sugar in a sweet orange or a juicy apple is combined with fiber and digests slowly. Plenty of time to turn the sugar into energy or store it in the muscles or liver for future use.

But if the sugar in those two fruits is separated from its fiber and consumed as a juice, then alarm bells go off. Too much blood sugar can damage every cell and organ in the body. It's a killer, one that takes life not immediately but by degrees. To prevent this, the sugary deluge must be cleared from the blood post haste.

The pancreas pours insulin into the blood stream to cleanse the blood of surplus sugar and find a place to put it. But if the cells, muscles, and liver, are filled to capacity, the excess is shuttled into fat cells. Do this routinely and the fat cells will blow up like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade balloon.

It's no surprise that 35 percent of us lug around excess poundage. Add to that a third who are obese. That's 70 percent of the population.

But overweight is not just a cosmetic problem; fat is a biologically active tissue; it produces estrogen. Too much of this feminizing hormone in either men or women creates hormonal havoc.

The symptoms of an estrogen overload are myriad: dry skin, low libido, insomnia, fatigue, depression, and cancer. And there's are a baker's dozen more.

If the pancreas is called upon to produce too much insulin too often it becomes fatigued and doesn't respond adequately to demands. The cells also begin to rebel against the daily onslaught of insulin and become insulin resistant. All this has earned a label: type II diabetes.

In 1900, diabetes was a rare disease. There were less than three diabetics for every 100,000. Today it's more than 8,000 per 100,000 or 25 million diabetics plus 80 million more who are pre-diabetic.

Like a parade of circus elephants each one holding his predecessor’s tail, one disease dutifully follows another. Here, diabetes sets the stage for high blood pressure followed by cardio-cerebral diseases, the No. 2 cause of mortality.

And the No. 1 killer?

If you like sugar, then cancer is a sugar fanatic; it positively thrives on the stuff. Cancer deaths followed in lockstep with the increase in dietary refined sugar.

In 1900, 64 per 100,000 died from cancer. Now it's 185 per 100,000.

All these diseases come as a package known as metabolic syndrome. But there's nothing wrong with our metabolism; it's coping the best it can. What's wrong, horribly wrong, is our diet. A better rubric is sugar sickness.

And don't look to the big drug pushers---*Pfizer or Roche or Eli Lilly---for help. A lack of drugs didn't cause these ailments and Big Pharma readily admits they cannot cure them---but you can.

Starve them to death. Cut way back on sugar, but by all means feed yourself a top-quality diet headed by organically certified vegetables, fruits, and fatty fish like sardines and wild-caught salmon. And bid sayonara to sugar sickness.

*Changing the dosage of a prescription drug can be life threatening. It should only be done under the supervision of a health care professional.

Sincerely,

Bob Scroggins

New Milford, PA