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by Tom Gallagher on Jun. 23, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seven years old and living in the South Bronx when she found she was thirsty all the time. Soon after, she started wetting her bed at night.
Americans earn a failing grade on diabetes awareness, based on survey results released today by the American Diabetes Association. In general, Americans earned a 51% when asked a series of questions about a disease so common that it strikes every 20 seconds. The survey results revealed that many diabetes myths and misconceptions still exist, while the disease’s prevalence continues to rise.
Catholic U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor, offered a very personal story about living most of her life with diabetes, and offered one-of-a-kind encouragement to some 150 kids:
"I was ashamed," the 56-year-old justice said, as she related how she came to learn that she has diabetes. The audience for the unusually personal glimpse at a justice's life was children who are diabetics, like Sotomayor. And the reason she met with them Tuesday in a Washington ballroom was to assure them that their common affliction is no bar to doing anything they want.
"It's a disease you have to deal with, but you can," she said, as she sat in an armchair with 150 children seated in a semicircle on the carpet in front of her."
Diabetes is known as "A disease so common that it strikes EVERY 20 seconds."
From the American Diabetes Association:
To combat this situation, this November during American Diabetes Month®, the American Diabetes Association is launching a new movement: Stop Diabetes(SM). Americans are encouraged to join the movement to Stop Diabetes and put an end to diabetes’ physical, emotional and economic toll on the U.S.
For the last 18 months, the American Diabetes Association has reached out to people in communities across the country to better understand Americans’ perceptions of diabetes.
“Many Americans have a very limited understanding of the basic facts about diabetes, as well as the serious consequences for health that accompany the disease,” commented Sue McLaughlin, RD, CDE, President, Health Care & Education, American Diabetes Association. “Unfortunately, numerous myths about diabetes exist, making it difficult for people to believe the science-based facts, as fear inspiring as they may be. Denial of diabetes and the promotion of inaccurate information, full of stereotypes and stigma, do not serve anyone well. The Association’s Stop Diabetes campaign aims to put a halt to this lack of awareness and misinformation so we can change the direction of diabetes prevalence in this country.”
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Why do you simply refer to
Why do you simply refer to Justice Sotomayor as "Catholic"? She is pro-abortion, you know.
So would you also call Father
So would you also call Father Drinan?
St. Rafael Arnáiz Barón is a
St. Rafael Arnáiz Barón is a heavenly friend of those living with diabetes.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/april-26-st-rafael-arn%C3%A1iz-bar%...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, our
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, our most Roman Catholic Supreme Court Justice, in truth and in justice, and our most human.
Can people with type one
Can people with type one diabetes able to have children?
MORE FROM THE
MORE FROM THE SUPREMES:
Scalia wants greater violence for our kids!
This from the NY Daily News today, the only article about it this public library's filters allow me to read (Scalia dictates kids can get violent and graphic video games, but I cannot read about it?)
YEah, teach those kids to maim and to kill without mercy, making them more efficient mercenary murderers for the empire??!!
what's wrong with that picture? What Catholic?
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In a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a California law banning the sale of such games to minors.
Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote the majority opinion, said the law "violated the First Amendment."
"Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas - and even social messages," he wrote.
"Under our Constitution, 'esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature... are for the individual to make, not for the government to decree,'" he wrote.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/06/27/2011-06-27_supreme_cour...
"No doubt a state possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm," Scalia said. "But that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed."
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The interesting thing is that Thomas does not reflex rubber stamp Scalia, but wrote the dissent. Upon what he finds the absurdity, we may never know:
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Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the dissent, argued that "freedom of speech" should not be used to give children free access to violent video games.
"It would be absurd to suggest that such a society understood 'the freedom of speech' to include a right to speak to minors... without going through the minors' parents," he said.
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