Barack Obama wrote a review of Bill Ayers’ book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, on Dec. 21, 1997. He said the book was “A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”  Obama is also mentioned in the book.

Remember that Ayers bombed the Pentagon, NYC Police, and the Capitol. Remember that Ayers tried to kill Judges and their families. Remember that Ayers said “I wish we had done more” on 9/11.

And then remember that Obama said that Ayers is “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood”.

Courtesy of zombie, read the whole thing (Zombie’s contributions are must reads / sees if you want to understand how hateful and deranged the Left is these days).

Dale Jackson of WVNN received and posted several documents regarding Parker Griffith’s medical practice.  Here is a summary of the ‘Confidential Peer Review’, the entirety of which is posted at Dale’s blog.

The ‘Confidential Peer Review’ was performed by Confidential Peer Review, of Kenosha, Wisconsin and delivered on December 21, 1988. The Review was led by Dr. Michael Zeihen of Kenosha, who contributed to the book ‘Measuring and Managing the Quality and Appropriateness of Radiological Services’.  Zeihen prepared the Review with assistance from Dr. John Duttenhaver of Savannah, Georgia and Dr. David Weems of Savannah.  CPR reviewed 107 patient records.  Based on these findings, almost all (97%) of Griffith’s patients were provided care “below the generally recognized standard”: most through poor documentation, many through poor treatment, and some through harmful treatment.

Quality of care rating of 1 = 0.9% (“Medical record documents care of good quality.”)

Quality of care rating of 2 = 1.9% (“I would not have treated the patient this way, but I find no major problems.”)

Quality of care rating of 3 = 56.1% (“Medical record documents care below the generally recognized standard for deficiencies in documentation, i.e., late history and physical, absent progress notes, etc.”)

Quality of care rating of 4 = 35.5% (“Medical record documents care below the generally recognized standard for deficiencies in treatment.”)

Quality of care rating of 5 = 5.6% (“Medical record documents care that is below the generally recognized standard and may have (or did) contributed to patient injury.”)

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING DOCTOR GRIFFITH

Based upon the findings previously mentioned in this Report, it is our determination that Doctor Griffith is practicing radiation oncology care far below the generally recognized standard.  The substandard nature of his clinical practice is quite prevalent and is confirmed by all our consultants.

The Review recommends giving Griffith “the opportunity to review the findings” and “Due to the fact that this Report documents substandard care, we recommend that Huntsville Hospital strongly consider instituting those steps that would lead to the termination of appointment to the Medical Staff for Doctor Griffith and the revocation of his clinical privileges”.

The Review includes Clinical Summaries with comments like these on some specific cases:

MR#2605 – Diagnosis CA Breast.  “This is an unacceptable plan.” “This technique almost guarantees complications due to radiation overdosage in the breast and should never have been allowed to be carried out.”

MR#2548 – Diagnosis Prostate Cancer. “The absence of information from the attending physician suggests that the patient was treated without adequate physician supervision.”

MR#2439 - Diagnosis Squamous cell carcinoma. “This patient received completely inappropriate and inadequate radiation resulting in unnecessary complications, as well as probably a preventable local recurrence.”

UPDATE: Patricia McCarter of The Huntsville Times wrote Griffith’s past career faces new questions:

Another scathing review of Democratic congressional candidate Parker Griffith’s medical career has surfaced, this one saying he provided substandard care to 44 out of 107 cancer patients whose charts were scrutinized 20 years ago…

A separate agreement one month later, signed by Griffith and then-Huntsville Hospital CEO Ed Boston, stated that while the hospital board of directors recommended Griffith’s privileges be revoked, it would allow the oncologist to resign as long as he withdrew his request for a hearing before the board, would not reapply for appointment and would not appeal the dismissal of his antitrust suit or file a new suit…

When asked last month about that motive, Dr. Bob Williams – who in 1988 was the hospital’s chief of medicine – said the hospital board had received numerous internal complaints about Griffith’s care, and there were concerns the oncologist was “warehousing” patients and too aggressively treating terminal patients rather than allowing them to die in peace at home…

Dr. John Raymond Duttenhaver, who still practices radiation oncology in Savannah, said Tuesday he doesn’t remember all of the specifics of Griffith’s review, but he does recall that it wasn’t a good one.

“I do remember the overall impression that it wasn’t favorable,” he said.

Kudos to McCarter and The Times for reporting the story.

UPDATE:  The Times quoted Griffith: “I have a clean license… I just want to make sure that the public knows that I could practice medicine tomorrow.”

I sent an email to the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners asking if they are reviewing Griffith’s license now that the Peer Review is public. I’ll be sure to share the response.

The Code of Alabama, Title 34 Professions and Businesses, Chapter 24 Physicians and Other Practitioners of Healing Arts is the law setting up the Board of Medical Examiners and governing the practice of medicine .

Back in the early eighties… Bill Ayers remembered his reaction upon learning that he would not be prosecuted by the government for his bombing spree as a member of the Weather Underground. “Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country”…

Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer. (If you find the metaphor strained, consider that Walter Duranty, the infamous New York Times reporter covering the Soviet Union in the 1930s, did, in fact, depict Stalin as a great land reformer who created happy, productive collective farms.)

That from an article, The Bomber as School Reformer in City Journal (which I recommend).  [EDIT: Note that Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for reporting on Stalin's Five Year Plan to Industrialize the Soviet Union, in which Duranty denied the famines in the Ukraine (the Holodomor), where Stalin killed 2 or 3 million people. The New York Times has a long history of covering for Leftists.]

And for those who believe that the Weatherman never tried to kill anybody, here’s Fire in the Night, The Weathermen tried to kill my family:

Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.

In February 1970, my father, a New York State Supreme Court justice, was presiding over the trial of the so-called “Panther 21,” members of the Black Panther Party indicted in a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores. Early on the morning of February 21, as my family slept, three gasoline-filled firebombs exploded at our home on the northern tip of Manhattan, two at the front door and the third tucked neatly under the gas tank of the family car…

The same night, bombs were thrown at a police car in Manhattan and two military recruiting stations in Brooklyn. Sunlight, the next morning, revealed three sentences of blood-red graffiti on our sidewalk: FREE THE PANTHER 21; THE VIET CONG HAVE WON; KILL THE PIGS.

David Kernell, the “Obamacrat” son of a Democrat Tennessee State Senator, was indicted by a Knoxville Grand Jury and turned himself in for Arrest:

David C. Kernell, 20, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Palin, the governor of Alaska…

If convicted, Kernell faces a maximum of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a three-year term of supervised release. A trial date has not been set.

Guess which party? Funny how the party affiliation of Kernell and his legislator father weren’t mentioned in the article…

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