• The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is 99 percent. That means that of all men diagnosed with prostate cancer, 99 of every 100 lived for five years after diagnosis. Conversely, one out of every 100 died of prostate cancer within five years.
• from mayo clinic.com

• Senator Thompson said he has Indolent Lymphoma and BTW "Indolent" is a Non-Hodgkin's
• Lymphomas (NHLs) or the worst of the the two main lymphomas!
   
• Of the Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas the one described as Indolent are slow growing forms of
•  
• lymphoma.  Indolents encompass what were called low grade and some categories of
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• intermediate grade NHL in the Working Formulation.  Indolent NHLs have traditionally not
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• been strongly responsive to conventional cancer therapies such as chemotherapy and
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• radiation therapy.  So one needs to parse this out.
•  
  You might find that it's easier to understand the numbers in terms of people, not percentages. For example, the five-year survival rate for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is 63 percent. It might be easier to comprehend if you say it this way: For every 100 people diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 63 survived for at least five years after diagnosis. Conversely, 37 people died of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma within five years.
• from mayo clinic.com

• More than 80 percent of people with stage I or stage II Hodgkin's disease survive for 10 years or more with proper treatment. The five-year survival rate for those with widespread Hodgkin's disease is about 60 percent.
• from mayo clinic.com

• Based on a Calculator Information entered:
  Number of positive lymph nodes -- No positive nodes
  Depth of tumor (T stage) -- T3
  Grade of tumor -- Low
  Age -- 49 or younger
• Information generated by the computerized calculator:
  * Five-year recurrence-free survival:
  Baseline prognosis with surgery alone -- 73%
  Prognosis with surgery and adjuvant 5-FU -- 77%(Chemotherapy)
  * Five-year overall survival:
  Baseline prognosis with surgery alone -- 83%
  Prognosis with surgery and adjuvant 5-FU -- 85%v

• Information entered:
  Number of positive lymph nodes -- 5 or more
  Depth of tumor (T stage) -- T3
  Grade of tumor -- Low
  Age of patient -- 49 or younger
• Information generated by the computerized calculator:
  * Five-year recurrence-free survival:
  Baseline prognosis with surgery alone -- 24%
  Prognosis with surgery and adjuvant 5-FU -- 43%
  * Five-year overall survival:
  Baseline prognosis with surgery alone -- 40%
  Prognosis with surgery and adjuvant 5-FU -- 56%
• from mayo clinic.org

• The following survival rates are based on the initial clinical stage Malignant Melanoma.
  
  Stage 0: The 5-year relative survival rate is 97%.
  
  Stage I: The 5-year survival rate is between 90 and 95%. The 10-year survival is around 80%.
  
  Stage IIA: The 5-year survival rate is around 78%. The 10-year survival is around 64%.
  
  Stage IIB: The 5-year survival rate is around 63 to 67%. The 10-year survival rate is between 51 and 54%
  
  Stage IIC: The 5-year survival rate is around 45%. The 10-year survival is 32%
  
  Stage IIIA: The 5-year survival rate is around 63%-70%. The 10-year survival is 57%-63%
  
  Stage IIIB: The 5-year survival rate is around 46%-53%. The 10-year survival is around 38%
  
  Stage IIIC: The 5-year survival rate is around 28%. The 10-year survival is 15%-25%
• from cancer.org
  
• Elizabeth Edwards and Breast Cancer Survival by Stage
  
  The numbers below are based on patients diagnosed many years ago and can be expected to be a little different for women diagnosed recently. One reason for this is that the staging system was revised in 2002. Another reason is that treatments have greatly improved since 1998. Because of these improved treatments, the survival rates for women diagnosed now should be better. These numbers come from the American College of Surgeons National Cancer Data Base.

• Stage	5-year Relative Survival Rate
  0	100%
  I	100%
  IIA	92%
  IIB	81%
  IIIA	67%
  IIIB	54%
  IV	20%

• (Survival rates are not yet available for stage IIIC breast cancer because this stage was defined only a few years ago.)
• From cancer.org

God's speed to all of these folks and their families.  I pray for the healing of all of you high profile Americans.  May God's Archangel Raphael ("God has healed") come to bring his healing balm of LOVE

Magnanimous host: A beaming President Ahmadinejad with one of the captives

• "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor.I believe it is peace for our time."

• The Chinese arms trade with Iran has since the early 1980s involved conventional, missile, nuclear, and chemical weapons. With the exception of Pakistan and possibly North Korea, China's arms trade with Iran has been more quantitatively and qualitatively comprehensive and sustained than that with any other country. This trade has included the provision of thousands of tanks, armored personnel vehicles, and artillery pieces, several hundred surface-to-air, air-to-air, cruise, and ballistic missiles as well as thousands of antitank missiles, more than a hundred fighter aircraft, and dozens of small warships. In addition, it is widely believed that China has assisted Iran in the development of its ballistic and cruise missile production capability, and has provided Iran with technologies and assistance in the development of its clandestine chemical and nuclear weapons programs.   See this Meria(Middle Eastern Review of Internation Affairs) article

• This Mahdi will only appear if there is a doomsday, an apocalyptic cauldron sweeping the earth. These conditions must precede the coming of the Mahdi. Following his appearance, the Mahdi will establish an Islamic Shiite world government.  (ht: CBN)

• In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the Persians for three days in one of history's most famous last stands. A small force led by King Leonidas of Sparta blocked the only road through which the massive army of Xerxes I could pass. After three days of battle, a local resident named Ephialtes betrayed the Greeks by revealing a mountain path that led behind the Greek lines. Dismissing the rest of the army, King Leonidas stayed behind with 300 Spartans and 700 Thespian volunteers. The Persians succeeded in taking the pass but sustained heavy losses, extremely disproportionate to those of the Greeks. The fierce resistance of the Spartan-led army offered Athens the invaluable time to prepare for a decisive naval battle that would come to determine the outcome of the war.  (from Wikipedia)

• AMARILLO, Texas - It was going to be the happiest day of Sulejman Talovic's life. On the night of Feb. 11, Talovic talked to his girlfriend, Monika, for hours on the phone. '' 'Something is going to happen tomorrow that you'll never be able to forgive me about,' '' the 17-year-old remembers Talovic saying. ''He said it was supposed to be the happiest day of his life and that it could only happen once in a lifetime.''
      Monika pressed for details. "It involves everyone and everything," he said, except for her - he loved her too much. "I would never in the world want something like that to happen to you." At 10:44 p.m., Talovic hung up in Salt Lake City, telling Monika to sleep well. It would be the last time she heard the 18-year-old's voice. The two, both Bosnian refugees, had never met in person.
• Talovic told Monika a story about an important revelation he had in Bosnia.
      One evening, "as the sun was falling," Talovic heard a horse outside of his family's home in Bare, where they lived after they left Talovici. He walked out and, standing before him was a white horse "with two beautiful eyes," he told Monika.
      ''And he said, 'Look,' and his aunt [who was also outside] couldn't see it there,'' Monika said. It was at that moment she knew he was a "good-souled" person.
      ''He thought of it as only 'good-souled people' could see happiness and goodness,'' she said.

Mohammed's Ascension on His White Horse!....

• In the year 621, at the age of 51 years old, He flew on the magical Winged-Horse of Fire which he called Burak, which literally means White Horse but seen as "Thunder-Lightning". The full version of this most memorable moment has been preserved in "The Bokhari" (Vol.15, p.3615) one of the Holy Islamic Scriptures. The beauty of the Muslim Scriptures resides in the fact that they still remain in the language in which they have originally written.
• The story of the Ascension of Mohammed, known as "Miraj", or "Stairway to Heaven" began when Mohammed fell asleep on a carpet at his cousin's place and became the inspirational source of different "Stories of the 1001 Nights of Arabia" involving "Magic Carpet Rides". The following is a resume of this fabulous dream....
• "Mohammad had gone to rest at dusk. He slept deeply on the carpet of his cousin, Mutem ibn Adi. Suddenly, the silence was broken and a voice as clear as a trumpet called :
• "Awake, thou sleeper, awake!" And Mohammed saw in front of him, dazzling in darkness the shining Archangel Gabriel who was inviting him to follow him outside. Before the door stood a Horse as dazzling as Gabriel. It had wings, glittering wings of an immense eagle. Gabriel presented the Horse to Mohammed, saying that it was "Burak" the Horse of Abraham. Burak whinnied and allowed Mohammed to vault on its back.
• Then, drinking the wind, it galloped to the street and as it came to the walls of the sleeping city, it spread its wings and soared into the starry night.
• So, the Day of Rising is the Day of the Winged-Horse, which no one will ride except the Prophet.

  " You will see every nation hobbling on their knees, every nation being summoned to its (own) book - today you shall be recompensed for what you were doing!" (Qur'an 45,28)

  Actually, Mohammed could have resumed his few lines in only one, something like this..

  " He who does not believe in the true dream of the Winged-Horse, does not believe in the Holy Spirit of God, does not believe in God, nor in any of his Horsemen, whether Buddha, Mohammed, Moses, Jesus and all others, nor in the Day of Resurrection and Recognition, nor in the existence of the everlasting spiritual Kingdom of God, and will be left alone."

  Anyway, if you get an opportunity to see the beautiful and most famous painting of the Ascension of Mohammed on the Horse of Fire from the manuscript "Khamset al-Nizami", British Museum Orient Ms.# 2265, you will note that Mohammed is shown faceless and along with the following words....

  " Glory be to Him who carried his Servant by Night from the sacred temple of Mecca to the Temple that is more remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him of our signs, for He is the Hearer and the Seer" (Qur'an 17,1)

  ....which shows that it fits to all the Riders of the Divine Winged-Horse go along with the Surah 70, 1 - 4

Martyrdom, Paradise and the White Horse: source Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

• The white horse is inextricably tied to conceptions of the prophet, martyrdom, and paradise (heaven).   It is most often associated with the Prophet Muhammad’s miraj or night journey to heaven, when the Prophet ascended to heaven on the back of a white horse.  In this regard, the white horse most specifically evokes notions of the afterlife and the heavenly paradise awaiting pious Muslims (or jihadi martyrs) upon their death.  White horses are also important in the Shiite tradition, in regards to their association with the aforementioned traditions and in regards to the Imam Husayn and his martyrdom at Karbala in the 7th century (where he is said to have ridden a white horse).  Thus, in both Sunni and Shiite traditions, the white horse is strongly associated with martyrdom and the expectation of heavenly paradise. 
• In the images selected, the white horses are associated with images of individual jihadi martyrs.  Used in this manner, the white horse evokes the righteousness of these individuals’ martyrdom, and reminds the audience that these men have been granted the martyr’s promised reward of ascension to heavenly paradise

 

from Robert Spencer's site

• Syrian-born Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed: "We don't make a distinction between civilians and non-civilians, innocents and non-innocents. Only between Muslims and unbelievers. And the life of an unbeliever has no value. It has no sanctity." "We will use your democracy to destroy your democracy."
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• Siraj Wahhaj was the Imam of Masjid Al-Taqwa in Brooklyn, New York. “Take my word; if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us."
  "Imam Zaid Shakir was the former Muslim chaplain at Yale University, and political science professor. He believes that the Quran ‘pushes us in the exact opposite direction to the forces at work in the American political spectrum.’…As a result he maintains that Muslims cannot accept the legitimacy of the existing system.”
  
  Or this: "Ahmad Nawfal, a well-known Jordanian speaker, “if fundamentalist Muslims stand up, "it will be very easy for us to preside over this world once again."
  
  At a Muslim convention held in San Jose, just one month after the atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001: "By the year 2020, we should have an American Muslim president of the United States."
  
  Muslim Cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza (Aug. 2002) “told young British supporters that murder, bank robbery and looting are legitimate weapons against the enemies of Islam.”
• "But a struggle means sometimes arguing to convey the message. Even if it means you convey the message by carrying a sword. "Allah wants to know who will sacrifice for him." “Robbing them and kafirs, or unbelievers, could be acceptable because they were not protected by Allah” He said: "I say go and do it (steal), take shoot and loot.”
  
  Where is the Muslim Martin Luther King?  by Thomas Friedman.

 

Where are the 1 million man Muslim Marches to stop this Insanity by Radical Muslims?  Where is the Martin Luther of the Muslim World calling for a Reformation in Islam? 

 

Yet SLC Radical Liberal Mayor and his Chief of Police, Burbank, claim there is no evidence of a Religiously inspired murder of Utahans at Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake.  You feckless leaders of SLC and the Media are CLUELESS and your PC ideology will get Americans killed inside America by the Enemy Within!.....

 

Indeed our Democracy and the Radical Liberalism of the Democratic Party which condemns Christianity but tolerates and makes allowances for Islam and Sharia Law will lead to our unraveling and defeat!  Wake up Liberal Americans, Conservative Americans are not the Enemy!

Muhammed

 

 

Indeed victory is never assured in anything but the Black Clouds constantly forecast by the weather reports of the Michael Wares from the  MSM's and the Democrats donning their Rain Apparel  serve to make the Jihadists' skies more clear.  These ominous weather reports take the wind out of our sails and direct the rigging used by our enemies the Terrorists!  United we stand and divided we fall!  It is as simple as that.  Of course these Quislings want us to lose as then it will be Vietnam the Model War, an unwinnable one, for Liberals all over again.  Liberal Thinking and Wisdom is that the US Military should be a Gilding! Vietnam was a war started by the Democrats and tagged by historians as a Republican one and the defeat placed in the GOP column.  In a similar fashion the GWOT is a Democrat War that began in earnest under Clinton but he treated as a Criminal action and one a Republican(Bush) treated as a war but like during the Vietnam War was hamstrung by the Democrats!  The parallels are striking.

It's Official, We're Winning from powerline Blog:

That's what Blog of the Week--rapidly turning into Blog of the Spring--Jules Crittenden

says, anyway:

… we can win in Iraq, we are winning in Iraq, and George Bush’s surge strategy is responsible

for it. Not even the AP can ignore it* anymore:

The US military has captured the leaders of a car-bombing ring blamed for killing hundreds of

Iraqis.

The news came as the departing US ambassador said Americans are in ongoing talks with

insurgent representatives to try to persuade them to turn against al-Qaeda.

It is noteworthy, though the AP can’t quite bring itself to note it, that the anti-al-Qaeda

Sunni insurgents have advanced beyond the Democratic congressional leadership in their

thinking:

Khalilzad said the talks have shifted from “unreasonable demands” by the groups for a US

withdrawal to forming an alliance against al-Qaeda. He said the effort has gained support

among tribal leaders and even some insurgents.

“Iraqis are uniting against al-Qaeda,” he said.

It's been reported on and off for a long time that Sunni insurgents are turning against al

Qaeda. Armed clashes between the two groups have been reported from time to time.

I do think the surge is showing results, but our concern, as always, is that the kind of

violence that the terrorists in Iraq rely on--car bombs, etc.--is easy enough to carry out

that if the standard of success in Iraq is an absence of violence, it may never be satisfied

despite our best efforts.

 

John Murtha, a United States Congressman is crying in our Capital Building about a New direction, Nancy Pelosi his boss and Speaker of the House resorts to bribery to pass a bill which will suffocate the Victory that could belong to our Brave Soldiers in Iraq! Millionaire Al Gore with his fake Monopoly like Carbon Credits claims(that he pays to himself) the World will end because of Global Warming....."This is a Planetary Emergency" he bellows! It is all the emerging 3rd world Countries producing all the CO2 gases al Gore! The fake Scandals being investigated by Senator Schumer yet he lets the United Arab Emirates buy a company that builds Jet Engines for our Military. The UAE will not even let a person of Jewish Ancestry into their Oil rich Sandbox of a Country! The Jihadists laugh at US because by the time we Americans wake up we'll be so weak, decadent and drunk that it'll be too late. What then al Gore, will the "Planetary Emergency" you scream about even matter? No, because the True Planetary Emergency is Jihad and the Atomic Bomb they will either develop or buy from the collapsed former USSR will have destroyed us!
In history Rome burned to the Ground. Now the Senators and Congressman of Washington D.C. are the kindling that will result in the Conflagration of The United States of America! Naive and uninformed Liberalism is the detenator and Jihad on America and the West, being preached in the Mosques around the world, is the fissable material which will engulf our Democratic Culture and extinguish Liberty as we know it.

Wake up America and vote these Myopic Leaders out of office. The current DC Politicians are truly Boobs and Idiots who are Savants of Liberalism gone stupid!

The Jihadists Laugh at US!.