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Mitch Daniels, Eli Lilly, and the Center for Public Integrity: an exchange. Plus: Church organ production.
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CHURCH ORGANS
Re: Christopher Orlet’s Something
Is Sacred:
This is an excellent article. I have watched the integrity of Church music go to hell-in-a-hand-basket for years. I spent 32 years of my life as a classical musician. I studied the history and performance of great music from the greatest masters with the most noted masters still living at the time. I won world competitions for performing classical music (three in all) and performed with most of the major symphonies of the world as a soloist. Too few people have experienced the spiritual lifting of music written for God by these great masters of the past and those living today. No rock ‘n roll, country, blues, bluegrass, or anything that stinks of pop culture can glorify God and the Trinity. God gave us the great masters and the arrogant ignorant ignore them. I listen to the oldest known music written for Christian worship often. It lifts my spirit and faith every time without fail. Pieces thought to be written in the 10th century such as “The Play of Daniel,” or Gregorian Chant will always deliver us at the foot of the Father and shower us with His Spirit.
What a shame most reading this letter will have no idea of what I wrote.
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the
old words best of all.” —Winston Churchill
— Jim Cunningham
Fort Eustis,
Virginia
While I am greatly saddened by the fate of my colleagues
at the Wicks Organ Company, the organ has hardly been “finished
off.” As you may be aware, navigating the economic storm of the
last several years has been a challenge for many firms in many
industries. Trends in church music be what they may, and the
economy notwithstanding, there are firms that have substantial
backlogs of work. Our firm currently has more than two years of
work on the books and we will continue to do the same work we have
done since 1893. Building fine pipe organs.
— Curtis E. Hawkes
Sent from my
iPhone
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Daniel Haszard | 5.20.11 @ 10:29AM
I was prescribed Zyprexa from 1996 until 2000.
In early 2000 I was shocked to have an A1C test result of 13.9 (normal is 4-6) I have no history of Diabetes in my family. In Dec 2005 I made first discovery of the Zyprexa Diabetes link
Notice:$38 billion Zyprexa gross profit is enough to build 4 nuclear power plants,the catch here is Lilly has bragged paying out over total $4 billion in compensation.
Mitch Daniels did reap $21 million in Eli Lilly stock liquidation 2001 the Zyprexa scam was peak 1996-2003 I was a zyprexa client given it 'off label' for PTSD for 4 years yet I have been stonewalled for my compensation.
Zyprexa saga still is a BIG deal there are still victims out there.What is really sleazy is that most victims were *mentally challenged* and less able to advocate for themselves
-- Daniel Haszard Zyprexa Whistle-blower
William| 5.20.11 @ 5:24PM
As a long-time independent voter, I recently looked for information sources that offered something other than the shrill hyperbolic commentary from both left and right that dominates today's political discussion. On the basis of its representations, I put myself on the website for Mr. Buzenberg's publication. It didn't take me long to realize that CPI was not as advertised and I unsubscribed to the website. CPI is not shrill and publishes information that would be of interest, if you could trust it. But you can't be trusted if you report information that purports to be objective, but in fact is influenced by a political point of view. It may be that Mr. Buzenberg doesn't even realize this: There are many on the moderate left who believe they define the center of American politics.
Spectator| 5.21.11 @ 12:51AM
Stop defending Daniels...
He's a RINO goon.
Replica Handbags&wallet; | 5.21.11 @ 1:19AM
I don't believe the Center is a pen for hire. I do believe it has an ideological agenda and a sense of righteous entitlement that colors its reporting.
Replica Handbags&wallet; | 5.21.11 @ 1:20AM
Zyprexa gross profit is enough to build 4 nuclear power plants,the catch here is Lilly has bragged paying out over total $4 billion in compensation.
Oldefarte| 5.21.11 @ 3:06PM
Anyone expressing such bullexcrement regarding the radically extremist Huffington ["....Lastly, Mr. Goldberg's insinuation that the Center was somehow used by our esteemed board member Arianna Huffington or a mental health activist to attack Eli Lilly and Mitch Daniels is simultaneously insulting and absurd...."] is obviously mentally ill or asininely partisaned. Additionally, to comdemn Daniels for being associated with a corporation that has been typically sued by the radically liberal legal community of ambulance chasing lawyers [and to prefer the political corruption of the present office holder alternatively, whose claim to fame is running the streets of Chicago with the likes of Ayers, Wright etc and joining with Acorn types to bring down the establishment] is in need of a psychiatrist!!!!!!!!!
Ellen Liversidge| 5.22.11 @ 1:57PM
Regarding your statement: I have no ties to Scientology or Peter Breggin. I was previously on the Board of The Alliance for Human Research Protection, and testified multiple times before FDA advisory committees, trying to save lives from being harmed or ended by psychotropic drugs. Now I am just speaking as a mother who lost her only son to the lethal Lilly drug Zyprexa. Why is it assumed that a person has "ties to Scientology" if that person speaks out against a drug for which the clinical trials were poor, side effects were hidden as long as possible, and whose son was killed by its worst side effect, profound hyperglycemia?
I don't know who you are, but I would not make empty and unsubstantiated claims about you. Perhaps you are an apologist for the pharmaceutical industry, or for psychiatry?
All the money in the world paid back in fines to the federal government will not bring justice for the over 4,000 people killed to date by this drug. Only individual prosecution of those responsible will.