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What the Health Care Bill Does for Average Americans

2010-03-23T05:03:00.000+02:00

Posted by: Bluedog89

President Barack Obama addresses doctors at the White House.

HP~After months of fierce debate around the country and after an intense day of voting on Capitol Hill, a health care reform bill is on its way to President Obama’s desk.

Once Obama signs the bill into law, as he is expected to do on Tuesday, it will mean an end to the current health care system as we know it.

Pundits on the right and left have been reacting to passage of the legislation, but what does the bill actually mean for the average American?

The immediate effects of the health care bill as well as some that will take effect in the first year of implementation are as follows:

1. Health Insurers cannot deny children health insurance because of pre-existing conditions. A ban on the discrimination in adults will take effect in 2014.

2. Businesses with fewer than 50 employees will get tax credits covering up to 50% of employee premiums.

3. Seniors will get a rebate to fill the so-called “donut hole” in Medicare drug coverage, which severely limits prescription medication coverage expenditures over $2,700. As of next year, 50% of the donut hole will be filled.

4. The cut-off age for young adults to continue to be covered by their parents’ health insurance rises to the age 27.

5. Lifetime caps on the amount of insurance an individual can have will be banned. Annual caps will be limited, and banned in 2014.

6. A temporary high-risk pool will be set up to cover adults with pre-existing conditions. Health care exchanges will eliminate the program in 2014.

7. New plans must cover checkups and other preventative care without co-pays. All plans will be affected by 2018.

8. Insurance companies can no longer cut someone when he or she gets sick.

9. Insurers must now reveal how much money is spent on overhead.

10. Any new plan must now implement an appeals process for coverage determinations and claims.

11. This tax will impose a 10% tax on indoor tanning services. This tax, which replaced the proposed tax on cosmetic surgery, would be effective for services on or after July 1, 2010.

12. New screening procedures will be implemented to help eliminate health insurance fraud and waste.

13. Medicare payment protections will be extended to small rural hospitals and other health care facilities that have a small number of Medicare patients.

14. Non-profit Blue Cross organizations will be required to maintain a medical loss ratio — money spent on procedures over money incoming — of 85% or higher to take advantage of IRS tax benefits.

15. Chain restaurants will be required to provide a “nutrient content disclosure statement” alongside their items. Expect to see calories listed both on in-store and drive-through menus of fast-food restaurants sometime soon.

16. The bill establishes a temporary program for companies that provide early retiree health benefits for those ages 55‐64 in order to help reduce the often-expensive cost of that coverage.

17. The Secretary of Health and Human Services will set up a new Web site to make it easy for Americans in any state to seek out affordable health insurance options The site will also include helpful information for small businesses.

18. A two‐year temporary credit (up to a maximum of $1 billion) is in the bill to encourage investment in new therapies for the prevention and treatment of diseases.

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Obama Pelosi Reid removal from office, Phase 4, Let the lawsuits begin, Let the state challenges begin, Remove the asses in November 2010, Let not your heart be troubled

2010-03-21T21:23:00.000+02:00

Obama Pelosi Reid removal from office, Phase 4, Let the lawsuits begin

“Let not your heart be troubled”…John 14:1

Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have referred to this tax and control bill as historic. Indeed it is. It marks the most corrupt congress and white house administration in US history. It also will define the Obama administration and this Democrat controlled congress.

In phase 1, informed Americans tried to prevent an illegal takeover of the US government by the Obama camp.

In phase 2, more and more Americans learned the truth about Obama. This includes Democrats, Independents and even a few in the MSM, perhaps now even including Jack Cafferty.

We are in the midst of phase 3, the corrupt attempts to pass this tax and control Health Care Bill against the will of the governed. At best, this will allegedly begin covering some Americans in approx. 4 years after taxing us to death and ruining the economy even more.

Phase 4 begins tomorrow after the probable chicanery passes tonight. Do not worry. This will become a rallying cry. Like the shot heard round the world in the American Revolution. This will consist of numerous court and state challenges as well as futher preparation to vote the asses out in November. Remember, these fools have helped us in a way. They have placed a large red target on their backs.

Phase 5 will of course be the removal of these arrogant, corrupt politicians. That will include the removal of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi being removed as Speaker of the House and either impeachment proceedings against Obama or minimally his political demise by 2012.

Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act

Source: American Legislative Exchange Council

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Sunday paracetamol

2010-03-21T13:03:00.000+02:00

I always struggle with the titles for the posts which include a batch load of good music. Well…you probably know where the inspiration come from for this one. Here’s a few bits for you to enjoy this weekend. (if you follow the blog on Twitter or Facebook, you may have come across a few of these already)

Olan Mill – Forecast#3

The brilliant Serein label, home to Nest’s Retold, release their 3rd podcast, mixed by label artist Alex Smalley, it’s an ambitious mix, flowing from the up to the downtempo.

“Forecast #3 comes courtesy of Alex Smalley, one half of Olan Mill who you’ll be hearing a lot more about soon. You only need glance at the tracklist to see that there is some serious ground covered in this mix – opening with Nirvana and Autechre respectively and closing with Arvo Pärt makes for quite a journey. The raucous introduction quickly settles into a fairly relaxed pace (Greg Davis, Mountains, Tomoyoshi Date), but doesn’t stay put for long.” Download

Tracklist:

00:00 Nirvana / Tourette’s

01:13 Autechre / Netlon Sentinel

03:50 Fly Pan Am / Micro Sillons

09:44 Greg Davis / Nicholas

14:10 Mountains / Window

16:41 Tomoyoshi Date / Sunnyside Suns and Sands

18:14 Boards of Canada / Live interlude (98)

20:04 Godspeed You Black Emperor! / Antennas to Heaven

22:09 Mogwai / Fear Satan (Kevin Shields Remix)

25:38 Pit Er Pat / The Good Morning Song

29:45 Opitope / A White Cloth Falls

30:20 Biosphere / Too Fragile To Walk On

33:18 Vikki Jackman / The Softest Blue

33:18 / 2Jodi Cave / For Myria (Two)

35:34 Fieldhead / Almost Everything There is to Know (Pausal Remix)

40:30 Swod / Paintage

44:04 Aphex Twin / Avril 14th

45:59 Max Richter / The Haunted Ocean 1

47:52 Pip Proud / My Darling Son (Adam Wiltzie Remix)

50:48 Arvo Part / Da Pacem Domine

Dave Roberts Ambient Journey

I come across this mix from February lasy year after recently listening to GAS’ Pop album. the track listing looked immense and it didn’t disappoint. “The snow is falling outside my window, I’m nice and warm in my room and what better to listen to at these kind of times than a lovely ambient mix.” Download

Tracklist:

Aural Float – Introspection

Belong – Who Told You This Room Exists?

Stars Of The Lid – A Meaningful Moment

Biosphere – Antennaria

Placebot – (0+0) 497 A+B+X

GAS – Pop 3

Lemongrass – Moonwalk

GAS – Gas 6

Mindspan – Helium Prime

Biosphere – Silene

Aphex Twin – Tree

Mindspan – Resource

Jon Hopkins – Fairytale

Sonanaut – David

Rob Belleview – The Hidden Looks Of Marita

Cliff Martinez – Helicopter

Mileu & Quosp – Ravine

Shuttle358 – Isopgn

Dyvz0r – Dollar Sign [$] (Outro)

Monolake free mp3 downloads

IDM maestro Robert Henke gives away a free mp3 every month, here you can get your hands on all of them. Thanks to @Spectaciera for the link.

Chloe Harris keeps ‘em coming

Blog favourite Chloe Harris injects us with more quality, with her latest B-Sides mix injecting featuring classic psychedelic tinged chill.

B-Sides – Chloe Harris – Dream Injecting by chloeharris

Tracklist:

01 In The Nursery – Cesare (Exclusive Mix)

02 The Future Sound Of London – Omnipresence

03 Age – Eine Fremde Lebensform

04 Fuse – A New Day

05 Nuw Idol – Union Of Illk

06 Sun Electric – Sarotti

07 Klange – No Future

08 Speedy J – Pepper

09 Zen Paradox – The Light At The End

10 Interloper – Surrender

Loveless musics Remarkably Spry mix

A beautiful lesson in shoegaze and electronica – there are some awesome tracks included here. “A Mix by Remarkably Spry a.k.a Christo Buffam. Christo also plays guitar with The Vandelles and Dead Leaf Echo. Download. See the original post.

Tracklist:

Bark Psychosis – From What Is Said To When It’s Read

Ringo Deathstarr – Your Town

Swans – Blood Promise

Sparklehorse & Fennesz – If My Heart

Lusine – Drip (Apparat Remix)

M83 – Run into Flowers (Jackson remix)

Washed Out – Track 7

Kiln – Isthmus Krest

Health – Die Slow (Pink Stallone Remix)

93 Million Miles from the Sun – Step in the High

Dykehouse – When You Come

the December Sound – Truth Hurts

Medicine – Something Goes Wrong

LSD and the Search for God – Starshine

Mountains – Sheets Two

The Morning After Girls – Theres a Taking

Ten and Tracer Album

Ten and Tracers latest album ‘Cold finishes the Monk’ is available to download on the Acre collective site. Delicate and calming ambient.

And last but not least, i just wanted to say I finally hunted down one of my favourite Aphex Twin records on vinyl – nice one Sister Ray... Enjoy your Sunday.

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Just a small point of view in a ocean of mud

2010-03-20T13:50:00.000+02:00

What a strange trip this has been. I never wanted it. I always dreamed of doing something better. Well for better or worse this is what I do. I work as a low-level employee in a major hospital. My mom was a nurse for over forty years. I was practically raised in the hospital. I have worked in hospitals for the better part of thirty years. I enjoy my job. I love taking care of and helping the patients. I know what it is like from both sides of the stretcher. I have been a patient, a family member of a patient, and finally as the employee. So i feel I have a unique perspective on healthcare reform.

First of all I live in the state of Massachusetts. We already require everyone to have health insurance. The state provides plans that for all intent and purposes are affordable, and secondly that you must purchase one of the plans.If you don’t purchase one then the state fines you six hundred dollars. The plans cost anywhere from forty to one hundred and fifty dollars per month. What each plan provides depends on what you pay.Lower cost equals lower quality.

In this state we all heard the same hype.It will cost millions. It will penalize those that already have insurance. It is socialized medicine. Guess what? None of it ever happened. We all survived and the system rolled on. Will that be the case with the federal plan. Do not have a clue. All I do know is that I don’t believe the hype.

My next point is that I don’t believe that the government should get involved. Why? because have you ever seen a veteran’s hospital. It so overloaded and bureaucratic it is hard to help the patients. I know because I have seen it. My mom’s favorite line about healthcare used to be. If it is logical and is common sense. Don’t do it ! But if it totally illogical and makes no sense at all. Full speed ahead. That is the healthcare system.

When you’re sick and a patient waiting for help. The delay is excruciating. You look around and other people who don’t look as sick as you are getting help.You aren’t and that stinks. I tell people who come to the hospital, and are waiting for help just .multiply everything that we say by three. If someone says to you’ be with you in a few minutes’. That’s an hour wait at least. We already work in a flawed system. The government thinks they can fix this. No not going to happen. Their solution is going to make it worse. because they are about to dump thirty million more people into this system. I am telling you then just multiply every thing we tell you by six.

Do I have a solution to this immense problem? Don’t know, but if they want to help. Why not start an incentive plan for the individual states to have plans like we do in Massachusetts. Maybe give them some subsidizing. Could work out to be cheaper than nine hundred forty billion.

Just a small fish’s perspective in a giant ocean of muddy waters

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News From Around The Blogosphere 10.19.10

2010-03-20T05:40:00.000+02:00

1. Regenerating limbs may be simply a matter of switching off a single gene – I wouldn’t take this story too seriously just yet but the research certainly sounds like it’s worth following. I just hope it doesn’t turn us into The Lizard:

But new research suggests the ability to regenerate isn’t based on something newts and flatworms have that we don’t; rather, it’s something we do have that’s keeping us from regenerating tissues. Researchers think a gene called p21 may control regenerative healing, and that by switching it off, humans could perform our own regeneration.

2. Skeptics to storm Parliament on Tuesday – It’s exciting to see the skeptical movement building a potentially powerful lobby to effect changes in public policy towards a more science and reason-based position. On Tuesday, skeptics in the UK will test the power of this lobby by organizing at the House of Commons to demand libel reform. Of course this is an issue that is not only serious for residents of the UK but everyone who criticizes advocates of bad ideas on the internet because from what some have told me, they too are potential targets of libel suits.

3. Student challenges unconstitutional policy in Alexandria High School in Alabama – The school performs daily Christian prayers over the schools P.A. system. He left a voicemail with the superintendent and contacted the ACLU. . .and it worked. The school is no longer performing the prayers. A job well done.

4. Ellen gives Constance McMillen $30,000 scholarship – I love this story. It shows that those who stand up against adversity can benefit from having the courage of their convictions and standing up for their principles.

5. California Bar now investigating queen Birther Orly Taitz – Another happy story. Taitz, who refuses to budge on her irrational belief that Obama is not a natural born citizen despite undeniable evidence to the contrary, continues to fight the $20,000 fine issued on her for making frivolous filings. And now she runs the risk of actually being disbarred. We can hope right. Of course it’s pretty silly that she even gets to call herself a lawyer given her pathetic credentials. Of course her lawyer is pushing the conspiracy angle and calling this a “witch hunt” but really, if she was an actual threat to the evil president’s position and they’d gone this far to cover up his origins, don’t you think they’d find a far more efficient way of getting Taitz out of the way. And you just know that whatever the outcome, she’ll just insist that the Bar Association is in on the evil conspiracy. So since she’ll attack them no matter what they might as well throw the book at her and make sure she’s never allowed to practice law again.

Not really the BSA

6. Catholics not the only ones covering up abuse - The Mormon dominated Boy Scouts of America (BSA) are facing a lawsuit claiming they too covered up child abuse.

The Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.The “perversion files,” a nickname the Boy Scouts are said to have used for the documents, have rarely been seen by the public, but that could all change in the coming weeks in an Oregon courtroom.

The lawyer for a man who was molested in the 1980s by a Scout leader has obtained about 1,000 Boy Scouts sex files and is expected to release some of them at a trial that began Wednesday. The lawyer says the files show how the Boy Scouts have covered up abuse for decades.

Well what do you expect from a cult who once had a leader named “Brigham Young”? Still the BSA are lightweights compared to the Catholic Church, which is known for having raped at least over a half million kids. And keep in mind that that’s only that we know of and the Church has proven capable of keeping this stuff secret for decades.

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Obama a liar, CNN, Jack Cafferty, Obamacare, Health Care Bill, Secret negotiations, Obama pledged openness, Campaign promise lies, Nancy Pelosi lied in 2006, Voters remember this crap for mid term elections

2010-03-18T13:03:00.000+02:00

Obama a liar, CNN, Jack Cafferty, Obamacare, Health Care Bill

Jack Cafferty on CNN calls Obama a liar.

“CNN – Liar in the White House”

Here are some notable quotes from Cafferty.

“White House and Democratic leader will hold informal, that’s another word for secret negotiations, meant to shut Republicans out of the process. That’s a far cry from the election, when then candidate Obama pledged to “broadcast the negotiations on Cspan so that the American people can see what the choices are.”"

“President Obama hasn’t even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told to get elected.”

“When White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked whether the administration would support televising the negotiations, he refused to answer. Instead mumbling something about I haven’t seen the letter. That wasn’t the question Mr. Gibbs . You either support openness or you don’t. The democrats insist this is all on the up and up with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying “There’s never been a more open process for any legislation.” Really? This is the same Nancy Pelosi, who you may recall, after becoming speaker in 2006, promised the democrats “would have the most honest, most open and most ethical congress in history.”"

“Here’s hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the mid term elections roll around later this year.”

Thanks to commenter cyber

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Chapter 7 & 8 of "Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” by Dr. Rodger Murphree

2010-03-18T05:20:00.000+02:00

Part 3: Your Path to Healing – Chapter 7: Treating with Orthomolecular Medicine

(portions of this blog came from Dr. Rodger Murphree’s book)

Our body’s homeostatic mechanism, the HPA-axis, and in fact every cellular process, depends on the proper amount of essential nutrients. The raw biochemical material that makes up our physical and mental being first originates from foods. The entire process is amazing: macromolecules of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are ingeniously used to provide the vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, enzymes, and amino acids to the body as it manufactures bone, muscle, organs, cells, hormones, enzymes, antibodies, white blood cells, neurotransmitters, and other life-sustaining elements. We truly are what we eat.

The levels and interactions of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and the essential fatty acids determine our state of health. You would be dead in days without these essential nutrients. They help determine every bodily function: sleep, levels of pain, energy, moods, immune function, digestion, elimination thyroid production, metabolism, and more. Every cell in the body is dependent on having the right amounts and right interaction of these essential nutrients to work correctly.

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

When we establish nutritional deficiencies, our health suffers. Man-made chemicals (synthetic prescription drugs) can’t correct these deficiencies, but a nutritional-replacement therapeutic program can. This is the very premise of orthomolecular medicine, which means, “right molecules in the right concentration.”

Synthetic drugs may be helpful at times, but they always have an inherent ability to cause harm. Not only are nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and essential fatty acids un-harmful, the body depends on them for survival.

Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Problems such as hormonal, vitamin, and mineral deficiencies can contribute to muscle pain and soreness.

Below is a sample list of essential nutrients and their contributions to the treatment of FMS and CFS:

Vitamin E helps to relieve pain in CFS patients. It can also improve nighttime leg cramps, which interfere with sleep.
Vitamin C boosts the immune system by increasing natural-killer cells, B cells, and T cells.
Magnesium and malic acid have been effective in relieving the symptoms of FMS. Magnesium is essential to healthy muscle function, and working with malic acid, it increases cellular energy, reduces pain, and enhances immune function by increasing natural killer cells.
Inositol enhances the immune system by increasing natural-killer cells.
Selenium supports the immune system by enhancing antibody production.
Vitamin D regulates many immune functions.
Amino Acids, such as glycine, serine, taurine, and tyrosine, are essential for the production of energy in the body and for brain function.
Zinc supports the immune system by enhancing white-blood-cell activity and supporting healthy antigen-antibody binding.

Sadly, many of these nutrients are deficient in our society. The facts are that most of our foods are processed, and therefore, the nutrients have been leeched out of them. As a result 70% of the population is deficient in magnesium, 65% is deficient in zinc, 48% is deficient in calcium, and 56% is deficient in vitamin C.

It’s clear that everyone can benefit from taking a good multivitamin and mineral formula. This daily habit reduces the incidence of heart disease, hear attack, stroke, glaucoma, macular degeneration, type-2 diabetes, senile dementia and various cancers.

But I already take a vitamin

You might be thinking, I’ve taken a vitamin for years, and I haven’t noticed a difference. You probably haven’t been taking enough to even make a dent in your deficiencies.

Just a note:

Problems can occur with megavitamin or herbal therapy. But if symptoms arise, reducing or stopping the therapy will almost always put an end to any side effects. Working with a physician who specializes in vitamin, mineral or herbal therapies will usually help you avoid any negative effects in the first place.

Chapter 8: Your Stress-Coping Savings Account

We’re all born with a stress-coping “savings account” filled with chemicals – such as hormones, amino acids, and nutrients – that can be deposited and then withdrawn when needed. Depending on our genes, some of us have large accounts and some of us have smaller ones. The more stress we’re under, the more withdrawals we make. If we make more withdrawals than deposits, we get overdrawn, and poor health quickly follows. Individuals with fibromyalgia and/or CFS have bankrupted their stress-coping savings account.

Although some patients bankrupt their accounts with one overwhelming event, most experience a series of stressful events over the years. These events typically involve stressful jobs, marriages, family dynamics, surgeries, illnesses, loss of a loved one, divorce, financial failure, etc.

FMS and CFS are the result of internal biochemical imbalances that manifest themselves as physical symptoms. So in order to right the homeostatic system, you must correct the underlying biochemical problems. Just like an onion, you peel away one layer at a time until you get to the core.

Layers if the onion (the book goes into detail for each item):

Dysautonomia and the HPA Axis
Hypothalamus Gland Dysfunction
Dehydration
Low levels of Human Growth Hormone
Low levels of DHEA
Low levels of Cortisol
Low Ovarian and Testicular Function
Hypothyroidism

The other layers of the onion (the book goes into detail for each item):

Intestinal Permeability (Leaky Gut Syndrome)
Malabsorption Syndrome
The Liver and Detoxification
Nutritional Deficiencies
Parasites
Food Allergies and Hypersensitivities
Candida Yeast Syndrome/Intestinal Dysbiosis
Trauma, Especially Neck Injuries
Depression
Infections
Poor Sleep

The next chapter is: Chapter 9: Stress as a Catalyst for Illness

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Kelly O'Donnell Advances NBC News Company Line On Obamacare Poll ...

Faster Healing for Severe Fractures

2010-03-14T13:49:00.000+02:00

10.03.2010

“A simple method uses stem cells from bone tissue to repair serious injuries quickly and cheaply.

A new surgical procedure can repair severe bone injuries and defects more quickly and simply than current methods, which include bone-grafting operations and lengthening procedures that involve inserting pins through the skin to pull bones together.

The new technique makes use of a thin tissue called the periosteum, which lines the outer surface of all bones and contains stem cells that develop into bone to repair damage. [...]“

Source/article: Technology Review

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Dem Pollsters: Media Deceiving Themselves ObamaCare's Popular

2010-03-14T05:01:00.000+02:00

By Noel Sheppard

Two prominent current and former Democrat pollsters are accusing media of deceiving themselves about healthcare reform being popular.

“Nothing has been more disconcerting than to watch Democratic politicians and their media supporters deceive themselves into believing that the public favors the Democrats’ current health-care plan.”

So wrote Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen in an op-ed published at the Washington Post Friday:

Yes, most Americans believe, as we do, that real health-care reform is needed. And yes, certain proposals in the plan are supported by the public.

However, a solid majority of Americans opposes the massive health-reform plan. Four-fifths of those who oppose the plan strongly oppose it, according to Rasmussen polling this week, while only half of those who support the plan do so strongly. Many more Americans believe the legislation will worsen their health care, cost them more personally and add significantly to the national deficit.

Yet, in their view, this is not what the media have been presenting to the public: “Never in our experience as pollsters can we recall such self-deluding misconstruction of survey data.”

Indeed, as despite these poll numbers, news outlets across the fruited plain have regularly given readers, viewers, and listeners the impression that pending healthcare legislation is popular.

As Caddell and Schoen accurately noted, the public want healthcare reform, and support some of what is in the bills currently before Congress.

But taken as a whole, the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose what is presently on the table, and media have not only been deceiving themselves about this inconvenient truth, they’ve also been deceiving the citizenry.

Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters

Funny Bones

2010-03-13T13:52:00.000+02:00

Lauries Happy Feet by Len Buchanan

My favorite thing on the planet is trees. Next is laughter. I love to laugh! It’s a great antidote to stress. As a Holistic Health Practitioner, I can share this fact with certainty: of the 206 bones in the human body, the most important one is the funny bone.

We’ve all heard the saying that “Laughter is the best medicine.” It really is. Just like a spoonful of sugar, laughter is easy to take. Possessing the same positive impact as inspiration, love, generosity, tolerance and respect, laughter is one of the many characteristics of Divine Love—Spirit. Simply put, laughter is good for the soul.

By the way, if you take the time to listen, you can hear the trees laugh too …

Listen with your heart,

Laurie Buchanan

“Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.”

~ Laurie Buchanan

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Copyright © 2010 Laurie Buchanan — All rights reserved.

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White House Delays Asia Trip: Another Sign Obamacare On Code Blue

2010-03-13T05:01:00.000+02:00

By Conn Carroll

TonyfromOz prefaces …..

This shortening, or even the cancellation of the President’s trip will probably lead to some drooping lips here in Australia, because the limitless photo ops it could have provided for Prime Minister Rudd who would have lapped up every opportunity (especially in this, an election year in Australia) to be seen with President Obama. (and his family) I suppose it really indicates how important Australia really is in the thinking of the President.

In the face of declining polling numbers, and daily Democratic defections, and unfavorable rulings from the Senate Parliamentarian, the White House has devolved into all out panic mode. Politico reports:

President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days in hopes of finalizing a health care deal — and will scrap plans to bring along First Lady Michelle Obama and his two daughters, according to senior administration officials.

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By postponing his trip, Obama effectively gives the House some breathing room, preserving the hope that members will be able to depart the Capitol for their Easter break two weeks from today with a deal in their pockets.

Two things to remember about this latest development:

1) This just proves, again, how desperate the White House is for the House of Representatives to pass the Senate health care bill before the Easter recess. The Obama administration knows the American people hate Obamacare and that after a week listening to their constituents back home, there is no way the House will take up the Senate bill again.

2) President Obama has made many other attempts at influencing outcomes with his presence. He went to Copenhagen in November to lobby for the 2016 Olympics to come to Chicago, returning there again a month later to obtain a global climate treaty. The President also campaigned for Creigh Deeds to be governor of Virginia, Jon Corzine in New Jersey and for Martha Coakley’s campaign to become junior senator from Massachusetts. We fail to see why he believes his presence at the health care negotiations might have a different impact.

Conn Carroll is the Assistant Director of Strategic Communications at The Heritage Foundation and is also an Editor at The Foundry.

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Legislative notebook: General Assembly nears full-blown abortion debate (Macon Telegraph)

2010-03-11T13:27:00.000+02:00

ATLANTA — A bill that would criminalize race-based abortions narrowly cleared committee Wednesday at the Georgia Capitol, drawing the Georgia General Assembly closer to a full-blown abortion debate.

Legislative notebook: General Assembly nears full-blown abortion debate (Macon Telegraph)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:03:51 GMT

For those who are reading this Journal entry, I would like to advise you that it will benefit you greatly if you review another article of mine entitled, The Tortoise and the Hare, which explains totally and completely why I am doing this together Journal entry and why I am doing this Journal. I believe it will be in your best interests to review my article Entitled, the Tortoise and the Hare.

That being said, I think it’s highly inappropriate for the Christian conservatives of Atlanta, Georgia to be daring to infer that the pro-choice people are in fact racists. When in reality. It was the Christian conservatives and Republicans of Atlanta, Georgia, who murdered the grandmother of the black maid who raised me. It was a white fundamentalist Christian and Republican slave owner, who murdered the grandmother of the black maid who raised made by the name of Georgia Myers. Georgia was in fact, the granddaughter of course of black slaves.

Georgia Myers was the granddaughter of black slaves who were owned by white Christian conservatives in Atlanta Georgia , who were Republicans and who RAPED and MURDERED Georgia’s grandmother!

And so for the Christian conservatives under any circumstances to the claiming that the pro-choice people are actually racist. When in reality, I have hundreds of articles clearly showing by their own words that they have spoken to the news media that the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party admit to hating black Americans so badly that they would like to kill and exterminate every black American in this country. So therefore for the Christian conservatives in Atlanta, Georgia to dare infer that the pro-choice people are racist. When in reality is the pro-life lived and racist ever since they came to this country is not only in insult to black Americans. It’s an insult to all American citizens, because it is a demonstration by the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party how absolutely anti-American. And what a bunch of filthy lying bastards they really are.

Because as I said. It was a white fundamentalist Christian conservative and Republican slave owner, who owned my black maid’s family and who raped and killed the grandmother of my black maid. And of course the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party can’t lie about this because it’s fact that they actually rate that woman, who they own as a piece of property and then they killed her. Because of their racism in their hatred of black Americans. So how dare the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party of Atlanta, Georgia dare to say that it’s the pro-choice people who are racist. When in reality it is the Christian conservatives, who have always been racist. Ever since they came to North America. What a terrible bastard lie and insult.

The Christian conservatives and the Catholics don’t ever want to be responsible for the fact that since 78% of the United States is pro-life Christian that basically means that 78% of all the women and children murdered in the United States are killed by pro-life Christians and Catholics. It also means that Christians in United States are demanding that the world understand that to them being pro-life means killing, because while the Christian conservatives and Catholics are demanding that everyone understand they are pro-life. They are with their own actions, supporting a number of forms of killing, which means that they are NOT pro-life..

78% of all the women murdered in the United States are killed by pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of all the children abused in the United States are abused by pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of all the children murdered in the United States are murdered by pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of all the murders that take place in the United States are committed by pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of all the soldiers in the United States, who go out and kill are pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of the membership of the National Rifle Association, which support GUNS THAT KILL are pro-life Christians and Catholics .
Every single white supremacist group in the history of United States has always been white fundamentalist pro-life Christian. And these white supremacist groups are dedicated to killing anyone who is not white and Christian.
The Army of God is a white fundamentalist Christian group who is dedicated to murdering and killing every single nonwhite Christian in the United States.
78% of all the people who favor and support the death penalty meaning killing people for committing crimes are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the ministers in the United States who carry firearms to church and are threatening to kill anyone who comes near the church was not white and Christian are pro-life Christians and Catholics .
78% of all the crimes against gay people in the United States are done by pro-life Christians and Catholics .
Every month between one and two transgendered females are murdered and every single one of these killings is done by pro-life Christian.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who demand the right to own black Americans and to kill them whenever they wanted to during the signing of the Declaration of Independence .
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party during the battle of Washington and try to overthrow the United States government under president Hoover at the battle of Washington in 1932.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party on the evening before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War . And who then used the Republican Party to hire John Wilkes Booth to murder Pres. Abraham Lincoln .

When you have all these forms of killing being supported by pro-life Christians and Catholics it’s easy to understand that the pro-life Christians and Catholics are demanding that everyone else be responsible for their own actions. But the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics under no circumstances want to be responsible for anything they do because they are demanding that the entire world understand that to them being pro-life means killing, because that’s what they support killing. That’s why that those who claim to be pro-life are now becoming known as nothing more than, “Killers For Christ”. And of course it the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics don’t like what I’m saying or want to take exception to what I’m saying they need to disprove every single item in this journal entry and my see also section below.

See Also:

Jesus Christ
The Sermon On The Mount
God
The Bible
The Ten Commandments
John The Baptist
The Burning Times
The Crusades
Joan Of Arc
The Children Of Lourdes
The Children of Fatima
The Spanish Inquisition
The American Civil War
Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The Christian Conservatives
World War I
Prohibition
The Great Depression
The Battle of Washington
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
Oliver North
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Gulf War
The Savings-And-Loan Crisis
Bill Clinton
The Balanced Budget Amendment
The Iraq War
The Kondratieff Wave
Profitability Analysis
Financial Analysis
Vance Packard
Laissez-Faire
Capital Punishment
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Racism
Prejudice
Bigotry
Fascism
Eugenics
White Supremacy
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
The Ku Klux Klan
The Army of God
US Domestic Violence Statistics
US Child Abuse Statistics
US Child Mortality Statistics
US Religious Demographic Statistics
Gay-Rights
Transgenderism
Women’s Rights
Pro-Choice
NRA
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The US Constitution
The Bill Of Rights
Recording Telephone Conversations
Treason
Sedition
How The Republicans Use The Constitution To Lie (article 1, section 6, subsection b) of The US Constitution
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy Of Life
24 Hour Suicide And Crisis Help Center
For Those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
My Spinal Fusion And Me Doing 250 Situps
An Installment Notation of The Maschke Family History and Legacy
It’s A Crime
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
The Vanishing Of America
A Place Called Earth
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm
Sounds
Reality …
Second Gear
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
Adventures In Technocracy
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
The Tortoise and the Hare
Quantum Mechanics And Newtonian Metaphysics
My Global Warming Research

For the record, I am pro-life. I do not support violence against, or the killing of any human being under any circumstances! And the only way that I ever deviate from that stand is that I do not believe that God has ever given any human the right to dictate to any woman how she is to arbitrate her life with the Almighty, and/or God. Therefore, I believe that all women deserve the right to choose for themselves the fate of their own bodies, pursuant to their relationship with the Almighty, and/or God. For an expanded explanation please see my article entitled: "Second Gear"

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Bacteria

2010-03-11T05:45:00.000+02:00

Bacteria are tiny one-cell micro-organisms. They can reproduce inside or outside their host. Their host are people, animals and plants. Like other germs, bacteria don’t make their own food. There bad bacteria and good bacteria. Bad bacteria can cause eye infection, cholera, tuberculosis (TB) and others. A bacteria named Salmonella can caused something like a very bad food poisoning. Salmonella

They are sometimes found in eggs and peanut butter. There are very dangerous bacteria named super bugs. Super-bugs are very difficult to be killed. Super-bugs are usually found in hospital. My grandfather was infected by super bugs when he was sick in UKMSC a few years ago. The doctors said that I cannot visit him at that time because super bugs are even more dangerous for kids. Good bacteria in our tummy keep us healthy by helping us to use nutrients from the food we eat. We use good bacteria for making cheese and yoghurt. Cheese and yoghurt are healthy food. We also use good bacteria to make medicines and vaccines (vak-seens). Medicines and vaccines help us to fight germs so that we can be healthy. Anyway Uncle Azahar taught me that some good bacteria can be bad if they are moved from their actual site.

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Matthew Yglesias » The Cable News Problem

2010-03-09T21:52:00.000+02:00

How Do You Want To Die? The Future of Health Care Depends On Your Answer.

Larry Beresford challenges the latest meme that hospice patients have declined in number recently. He notes that, among others, Tim Cousounis atÂ Palliative Care Success and the Urban Institute’s Howard Gleckman, who wrote a recent article forÂ Kaiser Health News, have examined hospice enrollment and concluded the same thing. It is in decline. The reasons they cite are [...]

As I’ve explained before, and as my biographical profile in my see also section below clearly shows, my grandfather’s brother, Dr. Ally Maschke, was a director of medicine about seven medical Center in Cleveland Ohio, until his death. Furthermore, my cousin, Dr. Victor Vertese, was also the director of medicine at Mount Sinai medical Center in Cleveland Ohio, until his death. And as I have already explained, my grandfather, and his business partner, Mark Hanna, of Hanna Mining Co., which became the 3M company, basically built most of Mount Sinai medical Center in Cleveland Ohio. Furthermore, Mark Hanna, was actually married to my aunt, Helen Maschke Hanna, for a period of time. And as my biographical profile clearly explains, I have been dealing with a terminal disability since I was 17. So I talk about the medical profession here in these United States, I know exactly what I’m talking about. And the reality is that the medical community in the United States is basically failing the American people. The medical community in the United States is far more concerned with turning American people into medical consumers, than they are with providing any kind of legitimate healthcare.

For my part, under no circumstances do I want to die in a hospital. I will in fact die at home. But as I have explained many times in my Journal. I don’t really have a problem with getting old and dying. Because that is really the cycle of life. It is unfortunate that we as a human population had become so afraid of leaving this world because we are so greedy and selfish that we don’t want to give back to this world were to give what we have to the people that will survive us that we in fact. Are becoming extremely hysterical as a result of facing our own mortality. I’m not talking about the fact that the Republican Party and Christian conservatives are doing everything they can to denying the American people of meaningful healthcare. But that’s exactly what they’re doing. And as a result, they are making it incredibly difficult for people in this country to feel comfortable with dealing with this extremely important issue of their own mortality. Because the people of this country are being positioned by the medical community and the drug companies and the insurance companies in such a way so that the people in this country are literally being scared out of their wits that they are going to have to be dealing with medical issues without the help of anyone because they can’t afford the medical help or, because of how complicated the government is making getting any kind of medical help.

And let’s be very clear, the fact of the matter is that in my neighborhood I know several families who were eating dog food and cat food because they cannot afford the medications that they need to save their lives. And I also know people in this city and around the country, who are taking to have three different medications, which are designed to keep the one medication that they were actually prescribed by their doctor from killing them because of the terrible side effects of that medication. That’s not healthcare. That’s doctors making money unscrupulously.

So we as a human population cannot do better at trying to provide for the basic medical services for the people of this country that as I’ve said before, the blood for the millions of men women and children were going to die as a result of not getting the medical care they need will be upon the immortal souls of everyone who has in fact deprived medical care from the people of this country, who are desperately in need of that care.

Economic Fact Sheet (Current as of March, 2010)

The United States currently has a national debt in excess of $12.5 trillion.

The interest on the national debt is now in excess of $11 trillion.

The operating budget for the United States government is now in excess of $43 trillion.

The members of the United States Congress stole $200 million from the Medicare fund, which was going to go for cost-of-living increases to Medicare recipients, so that the members of Congress could have their paper medical records converted to computerized medical records. The attitude by the members of Congress was that they didn’t care if they murdered American citizens as long as they get the medical protection they wanted.

The Christian conservatives and the Republican Party are taking the stand that they do not want American citizens to have any kind of healthcare the of healthcare is extended to anyone that the Christian conservatives or the Republican Party does not like. And this is based not on constitutional law or the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party being patriots. It’s based upon the Christian conservatives Republican Party demanding that the American government understand that no Christian conservative or Republican Party member will in any way ever support the US Constitution above their Christian religion and above their Christian Bible. And so as a result, their Christian Bible and Christian religion says that healthcare should not go to Hispanic Americans or black Americans or Jews or Muslims or gay Americans or Native Americans or anyone who is an immigrant that the Christian conservatives Republican Party just doesn’t happen to like.
And so as a result, the Christian conservatives Republican Party members are trying to commit mass murder in United States by denying health care to millions of American citizens who are in desperate need of medical attention. But the Christian conservatives Republican Party doesn’t really care about that because as far as they’re concerned if they have to walk through rivers of blood to make sure that their Christian religion and their Christian faith is supported more than the Constitution of these United States and the Christian conservatives will do just that.

The current level of unemployment in the United States is now over 9.7%.

The current cost for liquidating the national debt is now in excess of $40,000 per person, which means that every man woman and child in the United States would have to pay at least $40,000 to be able to liquidate the national debt.

When you look at the history of United States from the American Civil War until present day you find that the Republican Party and Christian conservatives were in total and complete control of the United States government every single time there was a financial crisis from the American Civil War to present day. And that basically means that all the policy decisions that were being made by the American government during these times when these financial catastrophes were taking place were being made strictly by Christian conservatives and the Republican Party . And of course that’s all public record.

As my financial analysis of the global economic system , in my see also section below, clearly shows, it was the Republican Party and the Christian conservatives under President Bush who gave the American banking industry $400 billion of taxpayer money and simply told the banking industry to use the money anyway they wanted to. And the banking industry did just that they use the money to pay for expensive gifts and presents and take vacations.

To date, the banking industry has only paid back $30 billion out of the over $500 billion that was given to them by the American taxpayers.

The issues of profitability indexing, pursuant to profit margins and per unit costs and customer bases as they relate to compensation packages throughout the entire corporate sector have not been resolved. That basically means that most businesses are being held hostage by upper level management and executive employees in their own companies who are demanding more and more for their compensation packages. As a result of this most companies are having to readjust their per unit costs for their goods and services in such a way so that what they are doing is pricing their services and their products. So that mostly the upper class and the wealthy will be able to afford them. And this is being done so these companies and corporations can get as much money into their company as possible.
But they are in fact forgetting one of the major factors which is that while most of the money that any company gets comes from the wealthy are customers most of their day-to-day cash flow actually comes from the middle and lower income customers. This is true regardless of where that company exists. So as a result of this most of the companies in the corporate sector are operating on what is known as a cash poor basis. And this basically means that since they are pricing their goods and services in order to get the most money possible they are foregoing pricing their goods and services so they will be more affordable to the middle and lower income customers, which actually provide these companies with their day-to-day cash flow. And so as a result, these companies don’t have enough money to pay for employees or many of the other day-to-day costs that come up.

This factor has not been dealt with in any country in the world at this time. Furthermore, these companies are refusing to be honest about their financial reporting. They are constantly using and accounting,/statistical variance, which is .5%. And .5% variance is such a large variance pursuant to statistical and financial analysis that you can basically drive a moving van through the space. That is allocated for plus or minus error correction in the statistical analyses and financial analyses that are in fact done with .5% variance. This is why I have never used that level of variance statistically or financially. I’ve always used .05% variance because it is such a small variance that the statistical analysis of the profitability analysis cannot be falsified. It is true that using .05% variance does require an additional 100,000 to 200,000 calculations in order to be able to complete the analysis. But when you consider that the final product is incredibly more honest and reliable. It’s worth it.

The banking industry has turned cruel. For example here in Cleveland Ohio Keycorp is taking a lot of pride and threatening senior citizens and kicking them out of their homes so that they can foreclose on the property. This is happening all over Cleveland Ohio and KeyCorp actually is one of the most hated banks in the entire state of Ohio. But KeyCorp is not the only one who’s doing this practice. Because was really happening is that banks all over the United States are basically threatening senior citizens with foreclosure to the point where suicides are now escalating and accelerating at an alarming rate. So badly that the medical community is swamped by the number of suicide calls they are getting. And this is all happening because KeyCorp and other banks like KeyCorp are basically taking the attitude that they don’t care how many men and women and children they have to murder. They just want their money.
When you consider these kinds of factors are going on in the banking industry you realized that the other thing that’s happening is that senior citizens and homeowners are becoming incredibly sick. Do becoming physically ill as a result of the horrible attitude that KeyCorp in other banks like KeyCorp are pushing on the citizens. And there is no help for this at all.

Additionally, the medical community is helping with this because we have a hospital here in Cleveland Ohio called MetroHealth that basically is working hard. Just like KeyCorp to threaten senior citizens and have them thrown out of their homes. So that they can foreclose on the property. And basically kill the individuals. I have been personally threatened by KeyBank and MetroHealth and have recorded conversations proving that.
So MetroHealth does all these commercials where they’re talking about how good a hospital they are and yet they have been sued a number of times for Medicare fraud. They have also been sued by their own employees for unfair business practices. And they have lost doctors so badly because they don’t treat their doctors very well either. Nobody likes MetroHealth.

And for the record, it needs to be understood that my grandfather’s brother, Dr. ally Maschke, was the director of medicine at mount Sinai medical center here in Cleveland Ohio until his death. And my cousin, Dr. Victor Vertese, was also the director of medicine at mount Sinai medical center until his death. Additionally, my grandfather, Maurice Maschke, and his business partner, Mark Hanna, who founded the Hana mining company, which became the 3M company, basically built mount Sinai medical center in Cleveland. And in addition to that, my father, Maurice Maschke Junior, was on the Board of Trustees at Case Western Reserve University, University hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland clinic, and mount Sinai medical center until his death. And in addition to that, my father, Maurice Maschke Junior, and I., were partners and co-owners of pioneer linen supply company of Cleveland Ohio for 25 years until 1975 when we sold the company.

So given all of the foregoing as actual facts. The only reason that the accelerated growth has taken place is because certain industries in the United States have in fact been making money. Only because their industries are addressing sections of the population who are otherwise disenfranchised by most of the business sector. For example Tyco International is a business that specializes and fire prevention and warning systems and security systems. And of course they’ve done a really good job because people are scared to death and living in their homes and there are so many foreclosures going on that people are having to protect their homes because in most cities the number of police has dropped so badly because most cities are in a huge budget crisis. In Cleveland, Ohio, for example, the city went from 1,500,000 people down to approximately 400,000 people in only a matter of months. And conditions are so bad in Cleveland that Cleveland is now charging nine dollars a month just pick up our garbage.
So given those facts Tyco International for one example is making a lot of money because people are having to protect their homes because they can’t really, the police that much because the number of police has dropped so the greatly because of the budget crisis going on throughout the world and throughout the United States.

Additionally, when you look at a company like Microsoft, who reported a huge profit. This is because Microsoft isn’t doing really well. Because they’re not the only reason Microsoft made this huge profit was because their previous product, Microsoft Windows Vista was actually one of the worst programs and products Microsoft ever created. And so since it did so terribly in the market naturally Microsoft’s increased now is looking fantastic, which is not because if you analyze the overall productivity and effectiveness of Microsoft you will see that they are basically floundering under Steve Ballmer’s direction.

So again, it’s really easy for people to talk about how well the market is doing that the foregoing represents the actual facts of what’s going on in business.

And as I said before, I have been studying the stock market since I was six years old. At age 6 I started studied the stock market at Prescott ball and turban here in Cleveland Ohio. With one of the partner broker’s, Bernie Towell, who was a personal friend of mine. And so every day for four hours every day and age 6 until age 16 I studied the stock market and learned economics and financial analysis . At age 16, while working and being a partner and co-owner of pioneer linen spy company in Cleveland, I did my first financial analysis and profitability analysis . It was done on the linen supply company’s of Cleveland Ohio. The analysis was so good that the results were used to program some computers at the time. And in 42 years and having been a financial analyst I’ve never once been wrong in any financial projection I’ve ever done. Not once. Just like I’m not wrong now.

In my financial analysis of the global economic system in my see also section below, I clearly show that the American market system was going to lose $800 trillion of market value in the third business quarter of 2009. I further substantiated this claim last January in January of 2009. When I explained that the American market system was going to take a huge hit in the third quarter and that it would come out to about $800 trillion of market loss. And that this was in fact in line with the Kondratieff wave . And in fact that’s exactly what did happen. Which means the analysts were wrong. And I was right.

So again, if you go ahead and look at all these factors without looking at all of the peripheral details than you are going to be responding to the information in a very symptomatic, or symptomatically oriented manner whereby you will behave to the information in an extremely reactionary way. By the like term, if you look at all of the information regarding economics throughout the entire global economic system in a problematically oriented manner you will be looking at the financial information in a more anticipatory manner. And much more pervasive rather than in a stereotypical or linear manner. And as a result, you will begin to understand that all of these different factors that I have brought forth in this article right now. Actually do justify what I’m saying that the American market system is on the verge of collapse. And that the economic system for Greece is about to go under. And that unemployment in Spain and France and England is running at almost 30%.

These do not make things look like they’re going good in the United States is basically doing nothing but lying about the economic they I went to school with most of the people who run a lot of these companies in the United States and who are working on Wall Street either went to school with them at Case Western Reserve why went to school with them at Fort Lewis college board went to school with them at southern Arizona school in Tucson Arizona. Or, I did business with them throughout my life.

So again, this is a reality check. And all I can say is, if you don’t believe what I’m saying that’s not a problem. Because you haven’t believe me, for 40 years, what I’ve been talking about all of these issues facing the economic system in the United States and the global economic system. So why would you believe me now?

But the fact is that just because you may not believe what I’m saying doesn’t mean that what I’m saying is not true. Simply means you are refusing or are not able to see the veracity in what I’m saying and that’s all it means.

　See Also:

Medical Malpractice
Medical Mistakes
US Domestic Violence Statistics
US Child Abuse Statistics
US Child Mortality Statistics
US Obesity Statistics
US Religious Demographic Statistics
US Caesarean statistics
US Uninsured Americans Statistics
Insurers Overcharge Medicare
Medicare Ponzi Scheme
US Food Recall Statistics
US Suicide Statistics
Eugenics
Homophobia
Racism
Prejudice
Bigotry
Women’s Rights
pro-Choice
Gay-Rights
Transgenderism
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy Of Life
24 Hour Suicide And Crisis Help Center
For Those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
My Spinal Fusion And Me Doing 250 Situps
An Installment Notation of The Maschke Family History and Legacy
It’s A Crime
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
The Vanishing Of America
A Place Called Earth
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm
Sounds
Reality …
Second Gear
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
Adventures In Technocracy
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
My Global Warming Research

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Steam News

Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

2010-03-09T05:07:00.000+02:00

The following is a copy of a letter that I sent to a friend recently. And the reason I’m sharing it here on line in my Journal is because it is the best explanation that I possibly have for why I don’t really believe I should continue writing publicly anymore in my Journal. And it is probably the best explanation I have been able to come up with as to why I only now publish articles regarding abortion. And how my mother was rudely murdered in 1950. And how no one has come forward from the Christian or Catholic communities to either explain why she was murdered or say that they are sorry she was killed, or to offer their services of investigating her murder.

And so consequently I’m sharing this e-mail to this friend here, because I just believe that it really is a very good explanation for why I am having difficulty in feeling comfortable to continue to post any Journal entries on line. The level of hatred that there is now online for like myself, with me being a half breed Jew, and mentally ill, and terminally disabled, and extremely intelligent, and a transgendered female, is now so extremely pronounced with so many people taking so much pride in their hatred that they feel and have, that I am truly left feeling quite unsure as to any real purpose for my continuance in any journalistic effort I might make online.

And so, as I said, that is why and sharing e-mail to this friend here online. Because I firmly believe that it is as I have just said, the best explanation for my current intellectual position regarding any continuance online of my journalistic efforts.

Dear XXX,

Thank you very much for the wonderfully kind response. I guess part of the reason I get some negative is because I am a child abuse survivor. And because all my life. People have called me a failed abortion because my birth mother was basically murdered as a result of her health failing while I was being born. And I tend to believe that people read my journal online. Not because they care about what I write but because they don’t like what I’m writing. And so they read my Journal in order to find ways of using what I write against me. As I have been saying over the last several days, no one from the Christian or Catholic community has come forward to either say they were sorry that my mother was murdered in 1950, or asking why she was murdered, let alone to offer to investigate why she was killed. And so on the one hand, I feel that if I continued to write publicly in my Journal that I’m doing a disservice to my mother. By not demanding that someone come forward and explain why she was killed. At the same time. I do understand what you’re saying in that sharing what I write can be of great benefit.

It’s a struggle. I really don’t get any kind of feedback hardly at all from people online to indicate that anyone really likes my writing. So I never really know. I mean, these are the very last years that I’m going to live in this world. And all my life I’ve been pushed around. And have allowed myself to be intimidated. The scientific information I have presented to you is part of a very controversial theory, regarding sub particle activity. And this theory is one that has been looked on with a great deal of disdain by the general scientific community for a long time. And yet the theory that I am postulating and supporting is only partially mine. It actually was first articulated and postulated by Wolfgang Pauli. It was then advanced by Adrian Dobbs. And in my correspondence to Dr. JB Rhine, I discovered that Dr. Rhine, with regard to his work on the Tesseract, also subscribed, to a great extent, to the Wolfgang Pauli theory of multidimensional relationships of sub particle sequencing and accelerations.

A lot of times when I try to write online. I tend to believe I’m not getting any kind of real support. Because I don’t see any. And so it becomes very easy for me to feel downtrodden. And like I’m out there alone. And so consequently, I had that feeling like nobody really cares. I have lived with physical and emotional pain for over 40 years now. And, a lot of the time. When I write online, I am simply just extremely tired of never getting a single break from the pain. Just as I am tired of always being referred to by so many in the world as a failed abortion. I mean, the reality is that my mother, meaning my birth mother, was dying as a result of being a hunchback. Like me. And on the morning of December 30, 1950. She went into labor and walked to Columbus General Hospital. Upon arriving, she was told to get out because she was in out of wedlock pregnant woman. So, still in labor, she walked to white cross hospital where the nuns were basically running a baby mill. And as they simply let her die. They basically cut her open. And then sold me on the black market. They basically threw her away and never gave her a death certificate.

And so for years I’ve been hoping that someone who reads my writing would come forward from either the Christian or Catholic community at the very least. Say they were sorry, but no one has. And so about a week ago, when I found that if I was not posting on my Journal quite a bit, that the numbers dropped dramatically, I began to feel like. The only reason that they were a number of readers reading a Journal was when they felt that I could be entertainment for them. But that no one was really reading my Journal. Because the wanted to because if they did, that someone would at least be responding. And no one usually ever does respond. So again I end up feeling like nobody really cares.

And if nothing else, I am a writer. And writers are the type of people who cannot exist in environment where nobody wants to read their writing. Because writers write. So that others will read what they write. And that no one is reading what they write and the writers feel. Why should they write? And so as a result of everything I have said. Now I only post couple of articles every day all dealing with abortion. And all asking the same question of why no one is coming forward to say either the air sorry that my mother was murdered or asking why she was or offering to investigate her murder. I don’t have the emotional stamina at my advanced age to keep trying to believing in myself in the face of so much hatred that now exists on the Internet for people like myself. And this is especially true when I don’t ever really get any kind of positive feed back, from hardly anyone, regarding anything that I write.

So now I generally write privately on my computer. Because I just don’t believe the Internet cares very much anymore for what I write. Because no one is telling me that they have any interest in what I write. And the only one who is shown any interest in any event, I have written lately, is a schoolteacher here in Cleveland, who happens to be teaching a class on Cleveland history. And is interested in me telling him about my grandfather who was quite famous. But again, that’s just someone else kind of heat off of what I write. And not really trying to support me for what I’m writing. And I’m just so very tired of being used.

And for all these reasons, I just don’t believe anymore that writing online is going to do any good. Because I don’t see any real or genuine interest in what I’m writing, much less any kind of genuine support.

Thank you very much for your very kind and compassionate response. It really does mean a deal to me. Perhaps I’ll share what I have read to you with the online community to see if anyone really does care at all.

In order for me to continue writing online. I would have to see some concrete indication that someone on line, really wanted me to continue writing. And I don’t get that indication at all. And what most people don’t understand when they see someone like mice elf is how I can, while having a very increased intelligence, at the same time suffer with such horribly low self-esteem. But I do. And it is a struggle and I have waged all of my life. And currently, given the environment of hatred that is being promoted by the Republican Party and Christian conservatives for every single type of human being that lives in this world other than people who are strictly white and Christian and Republican, who are men; given the fact that the Republicans and the Christian conservatives like only people who are men and who are white and Christian and Republican, it becomes very clear to me that it’s going to be very difficult for me to find, who will think that I have any value at all. And if they do find that I have value. It will be very difficult for them to say so. Because if they show any allegiance to me in any way, the Christian conservatives and the Republicans will rush to do everything they can to destroy that person and their career and their family. Because of how much hatred the Republicans and Christian conservatives have for anyone who is not a white fundamentalist Christian. And a man and a Republican. Because those of the only people that Republican white fundamentalist Christians like are men who are Republican and white and Christian everyone else the Republicans hate with a bitter passion. Just like the Christian conservatives hate anyone who is not white and a man and Christian and Republican those of the only creatures in the entire universe, the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party, by their own admission, several times over, at any respect or fondness for.

So if suddenly the Christian conservatives, and Republican Party say that’s not true. They need to be advised that I have over 5000 news articles showing that the Christian conservatives, and Republican Party take every single type of human being in the world, who is not a white man. And who is not a Republican and Christian. 5000 articles I have showing clearly how the Republicans and Christian conservatives hate every single type of urchin in the entire world, unless they are a man who is white and the Christian conservative and Republican. So for them to say that what I’m saying is not true, would be a mistake. Because I have 5000 news articles of their own admission showing how much hatred they have for every single type of human in this world, who is not white man, who is not Christian and Republican.

I have those articles. Because no matter what happens even if I have to do so after I die I will show the world that the Christian conservatives Republican Party have nothing but complete and total hatred for every single kind of creature that God made here in the world, unless that creature is a man who is white and Christian and Republican. I will prove to the world that the Christian conservatives Republican Party are predicated on the most efficient and profound hatred for every aspect of anything that God ever created. Because of their own shallow and very bigoted and racist and prejudiced attitude. Like I said, it would be a mistake for the Christian conservatives, and Republican Party to say that it’s not true that they hate everyone. It would be a very serious mistake, because I have many many articles like I said, 5000 news articles, showing very clearly that with their own words, the Christian conservatives are declaring along with the Republicans are declaring with their own words that they hate every single kind of human being in this world, unless that person is a man who is a Christian conservatives and Republican and white. Because that is the only kind of human that the Christian conservatives and Republicans will ever like or have any respect for by their own words and admission.

So given this fact that the Christian conservatives Republican Party have basically declared war on all of humanity and said that they will kill every human in this world because of their hatred for all of us. How my supposed to feel safe to write in my journal? Are my supposed to feel like I’m wanted here in the world with the Christian conservatives, and Republican Party are declaring every single day that they hate every kind of creature that God made unless that creature is a white van, who is the Christian and Republican? How my supposed to feel like I have any value in this world and all?

And like I said, nobody from the Christian or Catholic community has come forward in the 59 years I’ve lived here in this world, not one Catholic and not one Christian has ever come forward either say they were sorry that my mother was murdered in 1950 or to ask why she was murdered. Or even to investigate why she was killed. Not one. And that speaks volumes about how much hatred the Christians and the Catholics have for me, who in their minds is nothing but a failed abortion. Because that is exactly how the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party and Catholics and Jews have referred to me my entire life. Regardless of any pro-life stand, they may take they have always referred to me like I was nothing but a failed abortion. And I don’t see anyone on the Internet rushing forward to countermand that claim. I don’t see anyone rushing forward to say something nice about me. So again, why should I continue?

Annotations Regarding Non-Pro-Life Activities Of The Republican Party And The Christian Conservatives And The Catholics Of The United States:

78% of all the women murdered in the United States are killed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children abused in the United States are abused by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children murdered in the United States are murdered by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the murders that take place in the United States are committed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the soldiers in the United States, who go out and kill are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of the membership of the National Rifle Association (The NRA ), which support GUNS THAT KILL are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every single white supremacist group in the history of United States has always been white fundamentalist pro-life Christian. And these white supremacist groups are dedicated to killing anyone who is not white and Christian.
The Army of God is a white fundamentalist Christian group who is dedicated to murdering and killing every single nonwhite Christian in the United States.
78% of all the people who favor and support the death penalty meaning killing people for committing crimes are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the ministers in the United States who carry firearms to church and are threatening to kill anyone who comes near the church was not white and Christian are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the crimes against gay people in the United States are done by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every month between one and two transgendered females are murdered and every single one of these killings is done by pro-life Christian.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who demand the right to own black Americans and to kill them whenever they wanted to during the signing of the The Declaration of Independence.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party during the battle of Washington and try to overthrow the United States government under president Hoover at the battle of Washington in 1932.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party on the evening before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. And who then used the Republican Party to hire John Wilkes Booth to murder President Abraham Lincoln.

When you have all these forms of killing being supported by pro-life Christians and Catholics it’s easy to understand that the pro-life Christians and Catholics are demanding that everyone else be responsible for their own actions. But the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics under no circumstances want to be responsible for anything they do because they are demanding that the entire world understand that to them being pro-life means killing, because that’s what they support killing. That’s why that those who claim to be pro-life are now becoming known as nothing more than, “Killers For Christ”. And of course it the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics don’t like what I’m saying or want to take exception to what I’m saying they need to disprove everything that follows, and every single item in my see also section below.

See Also:

Jesus Christ
The Sermon On The Mount
God The Bible
The Ten Commandments
John The Baptist
The Burning Times
The Crusades
Joan Of Arc
The Children Of Lourdes
The Children of Fatima
The Spanish Inquisition
The Christian Black Code Of 1724
The American Civil War
Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
World War I
Prohibition
The Great Depression
The Battle of Washington
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
Oliver North
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Gulf War
The Savings-And-Loan Crisis
Bill Clinton
The Balanced Budget Amendment
The Iraq War
The Kondratieff Wave
Profitability Analysis
Financial Analysis
Vance Packard
Laissez-Faire
Better Business Bureau
Department Of Justice
DirecTV
Wal-Mart
KeyCorp
Dell Computers
Lawsuits Against Dell
Capital Punishment
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Racism
Prejudice
Bigotry
Fascism
Eugenics
White Supremacy
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
The Ku Klux Klan
The Army of God
US Domestic Violence Statistics
US Child Abuse Statistics
US Child Mortality Statistics
US Religious Demographic Statistics
US Obesity Statistics
US Caesarean Statistics
US Uninsured Americans Statistics
Insurers Overcharge Medicare
Medicare Ponzi Scheme
US Food Recall Statistics
US Suicide Statistics
Medical Malpractice
Medical Mistakes
Gay Rights
Transgenderism
Women’s Rights
Children’s Rights
Human Rights
Religious Freedom
Pro-Choice
NRA
The Christian Conservatives
Republican Party
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The US Constitution
The Bill Of Rights
Recording Telephone Conversations
Treason
Sedition
How The Republicans Use The Constitution To Lie (article 1, section 6, subsection b) of The US Constitution
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy of Life
Reality…
24 Hour Suicide And Crisis Help Center
For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
It’s A Crime
My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
The Vanishing Of America
Second Gear
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
Sounds
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm?
By The Campfire
Playing The Keys Of My Heart
Adventures In Technocracy
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
My Global Warming Research

For the record, I pro-life. I do not support violence against, or the killing of any human being under any circumstances! And the only way that I ever deviate from that stand is that I do not believe that the Almighty, and/or God has ever given any human the right to dictate to any woman how she is to arbitrate her life with the Almighty, and/or God . Therefore, I am also pro-choice, in that I believe that all women deserve the right to choose for themselves the fate of their souls, and their own bodies, pursuant to their relationship with the Almighty, and/or God . For an expanded explanation please see my article entitled, “Second Gear “

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Bring the Nose

2010-03-06T21:12:00.000+02:00

Still from the animation film "Le Nez" by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker.

There are a a few diagnoses that we take a standardized set of photos for, regardless of the individual patient. These sets provide the best photos of the diagnosis and assures consistency of documentation. One of these diagnoses is Deformatio Nasi or crooked nose. I don’t know if it’s because the photos are predetermined, but we always just call these patients “a nose”.

There’s a lot of guidelines on how to photograph different parts of the body for medical purposes, but in most cases you will have to adapt these to the individual patient and her manifest symptoms. Maybe it becomes a bit more personal in those cases compared to the more run-of-the-mill nose shots.

This is what normally happens: A nurse calls us from the ear, nose and throat (ENT) outpatient section: “Do you have time for a nose?” “Sure, send it up” I’ll reply. And if I’m not manning the studio that day, I’ll pass it on to B, the other photographer: “Hey B, there’s a nose on the way.”

Most of the time we don’t notice that we talk like this, but every now and then B will greet the arriving patient saying “Oh, so you’re the nose they’re all talking about” or “Are you the nose?”. The rest of the week I’ll think about giant Monty Python style noses roaming the corridors whenever a nose shoot is ordered.

On to the recommended set of photos:

Frontal view. A photo of the patients head taken from the level of the nose.
Left/Right profile. A photo taken at 90° to the nose. The photo could include the whole head, but is usually cropped just behind the ear canal opening.
View from below. A photo taken from below with the tip of the nose aligned between the eye brows. This is usually cropped to include only the forehead, eyes, nose and mouth.
Left/right 45° view. In some cases we also take a photo at 45° to the nose. This should include both eyes and align the tip of the nose with the opposing cheek. Usually cropped as the profile photos.

As I can’t publish any of our patient photos on the web, I’ll refer you to this guide for rhinoplasty photography written by a plastic surgeon. The photos are not the best, but they show the standardized set.

I mentioned Monty Python. Here’s a sketch about a man in want of some rhinoplasty:

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Litmus Test for Liberalism

2010-03-06T13:16:00.000+02:00

By: Frosty E Hardison

I have developed a short list of principles that you MUST support if you are a liberal. If there is just one you do not agree with – then you are not as liberal as you might think. In fact you might want to reconsider that donation to the DNC and ACLU- if you don’t agree with them all.

1. You have to be against capital punishment for repeat offenders, but support the murder of an innocent child through abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that it’s alright for your kids to have sex in your home or wherever they choose to – without your permission and if they get pregnant at 12, it’s ok for them to seek an abortion without your knowledge or consent.

3. You have to believe that the state knows more about parenting than you do, can do a better job at it and therefore can take your kids away at the whim of your neighbor and put them into foster care where they are 80% more likely to be beaten, sexually abused and murdered.

4. You have to believe that every pagan thing is about freedom of expression and that everything Christian is just another religious zealot believing in outdated myths and legends.

5. You have to believe that funding the Palestinians, Hezbollah and Hamas, so they can buy weapons “to defend themselves”, is the only way to peace in the middle east.

6. You have to be against the building of the third Temple in Jerusalem because it will give credibility to Jewish claims to the land.

7. You have to believe that you are smarter than the natural law of thermodynamics and entropy; that you are the descendant of an ape and that at some point your species came from some scum sucking primordial ooze.

8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

9. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than nuclear weapons technology in the hands of the Chinese, Iranians and North Korean communists.

10. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

11. You have to believe that global temperatures are more affected by soccer moms driving SUVs than by scientifically documented cyclical changes in the sun and earth’s climate.

12. You have to believe that gender roles are offensive, discriminatory and artificial, but being homosexual is natural.

13. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

14. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

15. You have to believe that sportsmen and hunters don’t care about nature or protecting the pristine environment they enjoy but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

16. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something right.

17. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.

18. You have to believe that the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

19. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

20. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell.

21. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas, government forms for services printed in every language and special treatment for illegal immigrants and minorities are not.

22. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is a normal working class woman and is a very nice person.

23. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.

24. You have to believe that conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

25. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, public nudity and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

26. You have to believe that illegal funding by the Chinese, and other foreign governments, of the Democratic Party is somehow in the best interest of the United States.

27. You have to believe that it’s okay to give federal workers the day off on Christmas Day, but it’s not okay to have a Christmas tree displayed in their office or even their personal cubical or for them to say “Merry Christmas.”

28. You have to believe that a mandatory court ordered anger management class, specializing in the parenting of teenagers, can be taught by a teacher that has gone to school for years but has never had a child of their own.

29. You have to believe that the government is your friend, that the Federal Reserve Bank is a part of the Federal Government and that the dollar will always be the world’s most stable reserve currency even though the U.S. is now the largest debtor nation in the world, we owe over 74 trillion dollars to other countries and our currency is no longer based on tangible assets such as gold, silver or copper.

30. You have to believe that there is a finite amount of oil in this world and that we have discovered every single deposit there is and that that fact alone is the reason a barrel of oil is trading at $90 – $140 a barrel.

31. You have to believe that a diploma or degree can be a substitute for intelligence and common sense.

32. You have to believe that this message is part of a vast right wing CONSPIRACY.

God help us all.

Frosty E. Hardison is a graduate of Colorado Technical University with a degree in Business Administration. An MBA honors student with a 3.83 GPA, Frosty is most recognized for standing up against the Al Gore film “An Inconvenient Truth” being shown as a stand alone “science film” in his daughter’s science class in January 2007. He specializes in data research and analysis as well as work flow/production efficiency. For questions, see his website.

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Wendy's/Arby's results at a glance

2010-03-04T21:12:00.000+02:00

Wendy’s/Arby’s results at a glance

PROFIT: For the quarter that ended Jan. 3, Wendy’s/Arby’s Group lost $13.6 million, or 3 cents per share. That compares with a loss of $393.2 million, or 84 cents per share, during the previous year.

Excluding those one-time costs, the company earned 7 cents per share. Its quarterly adjusted profit was 5 cents per share in 2008.

REVENUE: Revenue climbed 0.5 percent to $900.9 million, up from $896.5 million last year.

RESTAURANTS: Wendy’s has 6,541 restaurants around the globe. Arby’s has 3,718.

Like I said before, why anyone would do business with a company like Wendy’s, which is a Christian conservative company. When the Christian conservatives are coming out foursquare saying they will never give women equal rights. Because the Christian conservatives never talk about rights for women they only talk about rights for the fetus. Because as far as the Christian conservatives are concerned women don’t have any rights. And when it comes between a woman’s rights and the rights of the fetus. The woman has no rights. That’s why the Christian conservatives are demonstrating how much they hate women because as far as they’re concerned. All they want is that fetus and if they have to kill women to get that fetus that’s exactly the attitude of the Christian conservatives. In other words, if I’m wrong. Why is it that the Christian conservatives never talk about women’s rights? Why is it that the Christian conservatives only talk about the rights of the fetus and not the living host, which is the woman? Why is it that the Christian conservatives refused to define women as anything other than livestock? Why is it that the Christian conservatives are guilty for most of the killing of women that take place in this country? Why is it that the American Baptist Congress to this day instructs the white male leadership and members of the Christian conservative movement to beat their women into submission?

For anyone to want to do business with a God damn bastard company like Wendy’s that supports the beating and killing of women. Just look they can get the fetus out of that woman is not thinking clearly. Why would you do business with a company that supports the killing and beating and abuse of women. If that’s what Wendy’s supports that’s what the Christian conservatives support.

And again, if I’m wrong, that means all the statistic being compiled all over the United States about women being raped and murdered every year are also wrong. And we know that’s not true. Are there more. When was the last time you heard anyone to the Christian conservative movement talk about equal rights for black Americans or Hispanic Americans or Jewish Americans or Muslim Americans or gay Americans or Native Americans or immigrant Americans? You never have because they never do. So why would you do business with a mother fucking company that supports that kind of and then American racism and bigotry?

Like I said, I will never do business with another Christian conservative company as long as I live. I don’t care who they are but they are controlled by Christian conservatives they get none of my money as far as I’m concerned they can go ahead and God for money because if they think they’re going to go ahead and be able to lie about how they are patriots of these United States when they don’t support equal rights for anyone other than themselves. And if they think they’re going to go ahead and claim that they are pro-life. When they don’t want to talk about any kind of equal rights for women than they can do so without getting any of my money or any of my support.

I support equal rights for women. I support equal rights for all Americans not the God damn filthy fucking bastard lies of the Christian conservative movement there nothing but a bunch of God damn anti-God and I Jesus Christ mother fucking liars that’s all they are. They don’t support equal rights for women they don’t support equal rights for anyone. They are nothing but a bunch of anti-American traitors, because when it comes down equal rights, the only one equal rights for themselves and the demonstrate that as a fact when they protest outside of medical clinics every day were they, the Christian conservatives are demanding equal rights for themselves but they don’t want to get anyone else inside those clinics the same equal right of free speech. That’s not American as being nothing more than a domestic enemy.

I was just of anyone who does believe in the Constitution and women’s right to join me in boycott Wendy’s and Arby’s now boycott all businesses owned and operated by Christian conservatives and the Republican Party. Boycott DirecTV like at all businesses owned by Murdoch turn your back on Dell computers don’t do business with these companies that support and the of money to and are helping the Christian conservatives. The Christian conservatives routinely use political and economic extortion to destroy this country. If we the people can’t turn around and fight them we will not have a nation. Because they are trying to destroy this country, the Christian conservatives are the ones is up or theocratic fascism. Not other people.

And let’s be very clear I’ve already shown a number of pictures of my black made, who was the granddaughter of slaves, at her grandmother was murdered on a plantation in Atlanta Georgia by a white Christian fundamentalist, who was a Republican. So the Christian conservatives murdered her grandmother after they raped or and either to death. Now that’s a fact. So the matter what filthy lies the Christian conservatives Republicans might tell you about being good Americans or not there God damn mother fucking fascists and nothing more than that. They don’t deserve to live in this country unless they are willing to put up and shut up and demonstrate their patriotism, what they’re not prepared to do because whenever they talk about pro-life they’re only talking about the rights of the fetus. Not the rights of the woman. Why is that? And when did God come down and tell the Christian conservatives that they have the right to disrespect women the way they are? When did God come down and give to the Christian conservatives of these United States the right to be the voice of God here on Earth? When was that meeting? When did it take place?

Economic Fact Sheet (Current as of March 2010)

1. The United States currently has a national debt in excess of $12 trillion.

2. The interest on the national debt is now in excess of $11 trillion.

3. The operating budget for the United States government is now in excess of $43 trillion.

4. The members of the United States Congress stole $200 million from the Medicare fund, which was going to go for cost-of-living increases to Medicare recipients, so that the members of Congress could have their paper medical records converted to computerized medical records. The attitude by the members of Congress was that they didn’t care if they murdered American citizens as long as they get the medical protection they wanted.

5. The Christian conservatives and the Republican Party are taking the stand that they do not want American citizens to have any kind of healthcare the of healthcare is extended to anyone that the Christian conservatives or the Republican Party does not like. And this is based not on constitutional law or the Christian conservatives and the Republican Party being patriots. It’s based upon the Christian conservatives Republican Party demanding that the American government understand that no Christian conservative or Republican Party member will in any way ever support the US Constitution above their Christian religion and above their Christian Bible. And so as a result, their Christian Bible and Christian religion says that healthcare should not go to Hispanic Americans or black Americans or Jews or Muslims or gay Americans or Native Americans or anyone who is an immigrant that the Christian conservatives Republican Party just doesn’t happen to like.

And so as a result, the Christian conservatives Republican Party members are trying to commit mass murder in United States by denying health care to millions of American citizens who are in desperate need of medical attention. But the Christian conservatives Republican Party doesn’t really care about that because as far as they’re concerned if they have to walk through rivers of blood to make sure that their Christian religion and their Christian faith is supported more than the Constitution of these United States and the Christian conservatives will do just that.

6. The current level of unemployment in the United States is now over 9.7%.

7. The current cost for liquidating the national debt is now in excess of $39,000 per person, which means that every man woman and child in the United States would have to pay at least $39,000 to be able to liquidate the national debt.

8. When you look at the history of United States from the American Civil War until present day you find that the Republican Party and Christian conservatives were in total and complete control of the United States government every single time there was a financial crisis from the American Civil War to present day. And that basically means that all the policy decisions that were being made by the American government during these times when these financial catastrophes were taking place were being made strictly by Christian conservatives and the Republican Party . And of course that’s all public record. And if the Christian conservatives or the Republican party say that these financial catastrophes were not their fault, That would mean that all the public statements that the Christian conservatives and the Republican party, were making during the times when all these financial disasters were taking place, to the news media and the general public were lies. On the other hand if they say that they were not lying then, that means that they are lying now. But either way you look at, the Christian conservatives and the Republican party are being found out for the liars that they have always been, and that they still are today.

9. As my financial analysis of the global economic system , in my see also section below, clearly shows, it was the Republican Party and the Christian conservatives under President Bush who gave the American banking industry $400 billion of taxpayer money and simply told the banking industry to use the money anyway they wanted to. And the banking industry did just that they use the money to pay for expensive gifts and presents and take vacations.

10. To date, the banking industry has only paid back $30 billion out of the over $500 billion that was given to them by the American taxpayers.

11. The issues of profitability indexing, pursuant to profit margins and per unit costs and customer bases as they relate to compensation packages throughout the entire corporate sector have not been resolved. That basically means that most businesses are being held hostage by upper level management and executive employees in their own companies who are demanding more and more for their compensation packages. As a result of this most companies are having to readjust their per unit costs for their goods and services in such a way so that what they are doing is pricing their services and their products. So that mostly the upper class and the wealthy will be able to afford them. And this is being done so these companies and corporations can get as much money into their company as possible.

But they are in fact forgetting one of the major factors which is that while most of the money that any company gets comes from the wealthy are customers most of their day-to-day cash flow actually comes from the middle and lower income customers. This is true regardless of where that company exists. So as a result of this most of the companies in the corporate sector are operating on what is known as a cash poor basis. And this basically means that since they are pricing their goods and services in order to get the most money possible they are foregoing pricing their goods and services so they will be more affordable to the middle and lower income customers, which actually provide these companies with their day-to-day cash flow. And so as a result, these companies don’t have enough money to pay for employees or many of the other day-to-day costs that come up.

This factor has not been dealt with in any country in the world at this time. Furthermore, these companies are refusing to be honest about their financial reporting. They are constantly using and accounting,/statistical variance, which is .5%. And .5% variance is such a large variance pursuant to statistical and financial analysis that you can basically drive a moving van through the space. That is allocated for plus or minus error correction in the statistical analyses and financial analyses that are in fact done with .5% variance. This is why I have never used that level of variance statistically or financially. I’ve always used .05% variance because it is such a small variance that the statistical analysis of the profitability analysis cannot be falsified. It is true that using .05% variance does require an additional 100,000 to 200,000 calculations in order to be able to complete the analysis. But when you consider that the final product is incredibly more honest and reliable. It’s worth it.

12. The banking industry has turned cruel. For example here in Cleveland Ohio Keycorp is taking a lot of pride and threatening senior citizens and kicking them out of their homes so that they can foreclose on the property. This is happening all over Cleveland Ohio and KeyCorp actually is one of the most hated banks in the entire state of Ohio. But KeyCorp is not the only one who’s doing this practice. Because was really happening is that banks all over the United States are basically threatening senior citizens with foreclosure to the point where suicides are now escalating and accelerating at an alarming rate. So badly that the medical community is swamped by the number of suicide calls they are getting. And this is all happening because KeyCorp and other banks like KeyCorp are basically taking the attitude that they don’t care how many men and women and children they have to murder. They just want their money.

When you consider these kinds of factors are going on in the banking industry you realized that the other thing that’s happening is that senior citizens and homeowners are becoming incredibly sick. Do becoming physically ill as a result of the horrible attitude that KeyCorp in other banks like KeyCorp are pushing on the citizens. And there is no help for this at all.

13. Additionally, the medical community is helping with this because we have a hospital here in Cleveland Ohio called MetroHealth that basically is working hard. Just like KeyCorp to threaten senior citizens and have them thrown out of their homes. So that they can foreclose on the property. And basically kill the individuals. I have been personally threatened by KeyBank and MetroHealth and have recorded conversations proving that.

So MetroHealth does all these commercials where they’re talking about how good a hospital they are and yet they have been sued a number of times for Medicare fraud. They have also been sued by their own employees for unfair business practices. And they have lost doctors so badly because they don’t treat their doctors very well either. Nobody likes MetroHealth.

And for the record, it needs to be understood that my grandfather’s brother, Dr. ally Maschke, was the director of medicine at mount Sinai medical center here in Cleveland Ohio until his death. And my cousin, Dr. Victor Vertese, was also the director of medicine at mount Sinai medical center until his death. Additionally, my grandfather, Maurice Maschke, and his business partner, Mark Hanna, who founded the Hana mining company, which became the 3M company, basically built mount Sinai medical center in Cleveland. And in addition to that, my father, Maurice Maschke Junior, was on the Board of Trustees at Case Western Reserve University, University hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland clinic, and mount Sinai medical center until his death. And in addition to that, my father, Maurice Maschke Junior, and I., were partners and co-owners of pioneer linen supply company of Cleveland Ohio for 25 years until 1975 when we sold the company.

14. So given all of the foregoing as actual facts. The only reason that the accelerated growth has taken place is because certain industries in the United States have in fact been making money. Only because their industries are addressing sections of the population who are otherwise disenfranchised by most of the business sector. For example Tyco International is a business that specializes and fire prevention and warning systems and security systems. And of course they’ve done a really good job because people are scared to death and living in their homes and there are so many foreclosures going on that people are having to protect their homes because in most cities the number of police has dropped so badly because most cities are in a huge budget crisis. In Cleveland, Ohio, for example, the city went from 1,500,000 people down to approximately 400,000 people in only a matter of months. And conditions are so bad in Cleveland that Cleveland is now charging nine dollars a month just pick up our garbage.

15. Furthermore, as I predicted on May 21, 2009, the American market system had already lost approximately $500 trillion of market value. And, in my journal entry (see my LiveJournal entry of May 21 2009). Then on May 22, 2009, I accurately predicted that the American market system would lose approximately $800 trillion of market value. (see LiveJournal entries of May 22, 2009, entry #1, entry #2, and entry #3, ). And the market did lose that much money. So, I was right. As I have always said. In 42 years of being a financial analyst, I have never been wrong on any financial projection I have ever done. Just like I was not wrong in 2009, with the above projections, I am, by the like term, not wrong now.

So again, it’s really easy for people to talk about how well the market is doing that the foregoing represents the actual facts of what’s going on in business.

Now, it’s important to remember that anyone can say anything about the market that they want. But being able to back up what they say takes an expert. And someone who understands the science of financial analysis. And that’s something I have been doing for 42 years.

Therefore, if you go ahead and look at all these factors without looking at all of the peripheral details than you are going to be responding to the information in a very symptomatic, or symptomatically oriented manner whereby you will behave to the information in an extremely reactionary way. By the like term, if you look at all of the information regarding economics throughout the entire global economic system in a problematically oriented manner you will be looking at the financial information in a more anticipatory manner. And much more pervasive rather than in a stereotypical or linear manner. And as a result, you will begin to understand that all of these different factors that I have brought forth in this article right now. Actually do justify what I’m saying that the American market system is on the verge of collapse. And that the economic system for Greece is about to go under. And that unemployment in Spain and France and England is running at almost 30%.

The Christian Black Codes Of 1724:

Article 1

We want and understand that the law of the late King of glorious memory our lord and father, of the April 23rd 1615, be executed in our islands. We order to all our officers to chase out of our islands all the Jews who have established their home, to who, like to declared enemies of the Christian name, we order to get out within three months, from the day of publication of the law, on pain of confiscation of body and possessions.

Article 2

All the slaves who will be in our islands will be baptized and educated in the catholic, apostolic and roman church. Order the inhabitants who buy Negroes newly arrived to inform the governor and quartermaster of the islands within eight days the latest, on pain of arbitrary fines; that will give order to baptize and educate them in adequate time.

Article 3

We forbid public exercise of other religion than the catholic, apostolic and roman one; want that the contravening persons be punished as rebels and disobeying persons to our commandments. Forbid any assembly for this reason, we declare those one as illicit and seditious subject to the same pain, which will be the same even for the masters who let this done by his slaves.

Article 4

There will no commander to direct the Negroes, who is no of the catholic, apostolic and roman religion, on pain on confiscation of those Negroes against this masters who put a such commander and arbitrary punishment against the commanders who accept this job.

Article 5

We forbid our subjects of the so-called reformed religion to cause trouble either impediment to our other subjects, even to their slaves in the free exercise of the catholic, apostolic and roman religion, on pain of exemplar punishment.

Article 6

We enjoin, all our subjects, whatever function and condition they are, to observe the Sundays and holidays; which are kept to our subjects of catholic, apostolic and roman religion. Forbid them to work either to make their slaves work the appointed days, since midnight to other midnight, to culture the land, making sugars and any other work, on pain of arbitrary fine and punishment against the masters, and of confiscation of the sugars as well as the slaves that our officers will see working. [NB: all pretexts are good, to deprive the slaves of weekly rest and holidays.]

Article 7

We forbid them to hold Negroes market and any kind of goods the appointed days too, on same pain of confiscation of the goods on the market, and arbitrary fine against the merchants.

Article 8

Declare our subjects who are not of the catholic, apostolic and roman religion incapable to contact in the future any valid marriage. Declare bastards the children who will birth from these conjunctions, that we want to be held and reputed, we hold and repute for real cohabitation.

Article 9

Free men who had one or several children in their cohabitation, with their slaves, the master and him will be condemned to a fine of two thousand pounds of sugar. And if they are the slave masters with who they had the so-called children, we want that further the fine, they will be deprive of the slave and the children, and she and them be confiscated to profit of the hospital, without any possibility to be emancipated. This article is not valid when the man is free and he is not married to an other person during his cohabitation with the slave, will marry in the church rules his so-called slave, who will be emancipated by this mean, and the slave become free and legal.5in the black code of 1724 (Louisiana): no possible marriage between white and black, banning of celebrate mix marriages for the priests; no cohabitation between whites and blacks emancipated or free, and slaves.]

Article 10

The so-called solemnity prescribed by the edict of Blois and the declaration of the month of November 1639, for the marriages, will be observes as for free persons as slaves, with nevertheless that the consent of the slave’s father and mother be necessary, but only the master’s. [NB: the slaves who would be constrained to marry by their master have no legal mean to refuse.]

Article 11

Forbid very expressly the priest to proceed to slaves’ marriages, if they don’t have their masters’ consent. Forbid to the masters to use no compel on their slaves for marry them against their will.

Article 12

The children who will birth from marriages between slaves will be slaves and will belong to the masters of the slaves women and not to their husband’s one, if the husband and the wife have different masters.

Article 13

Want if the husband has married a free woman, the children as males as females follow their mother’s condition and be free like her in spite of their father’s servitude; and if the father is free and the mother slave, the children be slave too.

Article 14

The masters are required to bury in holy land in a cemeteries intended to this aim their baptized slaves; and for those who will die without receive baptism, they will be buried by night in some field close to where they’ll deceased. [NB: the black men “holy land” is quite different to the whites “holy land”.]

Article 15

Forbid to slaves to carry offensive weapon, either big sticks, on pain of whip and confiscation of the weapons to the benefit of who will seize them; except only those who have been sent hunting by their masters, and will have their notes or know marks.

Article 16

Forbid also to slaves belonging to different masters to form a crowd by day or night on the pretext of wedding party or otherwise, either at one of their masters or elsewhere, and more less in big paths or place away, on pain of corporal punishment, which will not be less than whip and lily flower; in case of frequent repeat offense and others aggravate circumstances, will be able be punished of death, what we let to the judges arbitration. Enjoin our subjects to hunt for the contravening, and arrest them and lead them in jail, although they are not officers and there is no decree against them.

Article 17

The masters will be convinced to have let or tolerated such assemblies composed by slaved who don’t belong to them, will be condemned in their own and private names to repair any damage which will be done to their neighbors during these assemblies, in ten ecus fine for first time and twice for subsequent offense.

Article 18

Forbid the slaves to sell sugar canes for any reason or occasion, even with their masters’ permission, on pain of whip for the slaves, and of ten pounds for the masters who let this and the same for the buyers.

Article 19

Forbid them too to expose for sell in the market, either bring in the particular houses to sell any kind off foodstuff, even fruits, vegetables, firewood, grasses to feed animals and the products they made, without an express permission of their masters by a note or known marks, on pain of claims of the sold goods, without restriction of price by their masters.

Article 20

Want for this reason that two persons are in charge of each market to verify the foodstuff and goods that have been brought by the slaves, together the notes and known marks of their masters, the carry.

Article 21

Permit to all our subjects inhabitants of our islands to seize all the things they’ll find the slaves in charge when don’t have notes of their masters, either known marks, to be delivered very shortly to their masters, if the plantations are close of where the slaves will be surprised at committing offense; or else the things will be very shortly sent to the hospital to held in trust till the masters are informed.

Article 22

The masters will be obliged to make supply, per each week, their slaves aged of ten more for their food, with two pots and half, measurement of the country, of manioc flour, or three cassavas weighting two pounds and half each at least, or equivalent things, with two pounds of salted beef or three pounds of fish or anything else with same proportion; and the children, since they are weaned till ten years old, the half of provisions above. [NB: the mortality of black people was very important. They were poorly fed. The white people make them work out of their possibilities for more benefits.]

Article 23

Forbid them to give to the slaves sugar cane brandy for the provisions mentioned in previous article.

Article 24

Forbid them also to release themselves of the food and subsistence of their slaves, by letting them work some days of the week “to be self-employed”

Article 25

The masters will be obliged to supply each slaves every years two clothes or four alders of cloth, as so-called masters like. [NB: in fact, the masters don’t care of clothing them.]

Article 26

The slaves who won’t be fed, clothed and maintained by their masters in accordance with what we have order by the presents rules will be able to give the opinions to general attorney and the memories in his hands, on what and automatically, if the opinions come to him from other persons, the masters will be prosecuted by his petition and without pay anything, what we want to be observed as the masters’ crimes and barbarian and inhuman treatments toward their slaves. [NB: the articles 30 and 31 quash purely and simply the good intentions of the article 26.]

Article 27

The infirm slaves by age, illness otherwise, either the illness is incurable or non, will be supported and will maintain by their master; and incase they would have neglected themselves them, the so-called slaves will be assigned to the hospital; the masters will condemned to pay six sols by day by days for the food and the maintain of each slave. [NB: the current practice is pure and simple desertion]

Article 28

Let us declare that the slaves can not have anything which is not belong to their master, and all come them by industry or liberality of other persons or otherwise whatever the way, is acquired in full property to their master, without the slaves’ children, their father or mother, their parents and any free or slave others can lay claim nothing by inheritance, provision of a will between living people or because of death. We declare the such provisions are useless, both all the promises or obligations which would be made, as being made by people legally incompetent to incline and to contract by their own.

Article 29

Let us want nevertheless that the masters are responsible of what their slaves will make by their commandment, and together for what they’ll will have managed and negotiated in the shops, and the particular kind of trade of which their masters will appoint them; and the case the masters didn’t give any order and didn’t appoint them, they will be responsible only for what will profit to them; and if nothing profit to the masters, the earning of this so-called slaves that their masters permitted them to have will be seized, after the masters will have deduced what will be owed to them; except if the earning is, all or a part of goods which the slaves have been permitted to trade for their own, on what their masters will take only by contribution of a sol for a pound with the other creditors.

Article 30

The slaves won’t have office neither commission with public functions, neither be constituted agents by others than their masters for manage neither administrate any shop, neither be arbitrators, experts or witnesses in civil and criminal matter. And in case they are listen as witness, their deposition will serve only for memories to help the judges to find out, but those depositions won’t be able to be used to have presumptions, neither circumstances, neither evidences.

Article 31

The slaves won’t be able to be litigant neither is in judgment in civil matter, in plaintiff or in defendant; neither be private party in criminal matter, except their masters to act and to proceed, and to prosecute for compensations for insults and excess their slaves have been subjected.

Article 32

The slaves will be prosecuted without the need the master get responsible but only in the case of complicity; and so-called slaves will be judged in first pending by ordinary judges and on appeal by the supreme council on the same pre-trial investigation of the case, with the same procedures than free persons.

Article 33

The slave, who hit his master, his mistress or his mistress husband or their children with contusion or bloodshed, or at the face, will be punished by death.

Article 34

And as for the immoderate language or assault which will be committed by slaves against free people, we want that it’s be severely punished, even by death if it’s necessary.

Article 35

The daylight robberies, even the horses, the mares, the mules, the oxen and the cows one which will be made by slaves, or by emancipated persons, will be punished by corporal pains, even by death if necessary.

Article 36

The robberies of sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, sugar canes, peas, millet, manioc, or others vegetables made by the slaves will be punished regarding the degree of robbery, by the judges, if they’ll be able if it’s necessary condemn them to be beaten by birch by the enforcer of the great justice, and marked by lily flower.

Article 37

The masters will be obliged, in case of robbery or other damage caused by their slaves, besides the slaves corporal pains, to right the wrong in their name, if they don’t prefer to abandon the slaves to the one who the wrong has been made; what they have to choose in three days, starting from the day of the sentence, otherwise they will be waned.

Article 38

The runaway slave who has been on the run during one month starting from the day his master will denounce him to justice, will have the ears cut off and will be marked by lily flower on a shoulder; if he re offends one more time starting from as well as the day of his of the denunciation, will have the ham cut off and will be marked by lily flower on the other shoulder; and the third time he will be punished by death.

Article 39

Emancipated people who will harbor in their house runaway slaves will be condemned for each one toward their masters in fine of three hundred pounds of sugar by retention day; and the other free people who help them in the same way, in ten pounds of fine for each day.

Article 40

The slave, punished by death on denunciation of his master, non accomplice of the crime for what he will have been condemned, will be appraised before the execution by two major inhabitants of the island who will be appointed automatically by the judge; and the price of appraisal will be paid to the master; and to satisfy for what, it will be fixed by the quartermaster for each head of Negroes who rights of the amount of money given by the estimation. It will be settled up for each so-called Negroes, and will be levied by the farmer of the western royal property to avoid charges.

Article 41

It is forbidden to the judges, to our prosecutors, and to the clerks to collect any tax in the criminal trial against the slaves, in pain of misappropriation of public funds.

Article 42

The masters will have the right, when they’ll estimate it’s necessary, to chain up the slaves and make beat them by sticks and ropes; defend them to torture them, neither make them member mutilations, on pain of confiscation of the slaves and very extraordinarily the masters will be prosecuted. [NB. The reality is that settlers bully, wound, torture, and kill.]

Article 43

We demand to our officers to prosecute the masters and the commanders who will kill a slave under their power and leadership, and punish the murder regarding the atrocity of the circumstances; and in case the forgiveness it’s necessary, permit our officers to sent back the forgiven masters and commanders, without it’s needing letter of mercy from us.

Article 44

We declare the slaves be movable, and as such enter the community, can not be seize by mortgage, can be shared equally between co-heirs without possibility for one of them to take a part before the sharing neither birthright, neither to be reserved to their wife before death by the husband, and be subject of feudal or descendants retract, feudal and seigniorial rights, to the formalities of the decrees.

Article 45

We don’t want to deprive our subjects of the faculty to stipulate them proper to their persons and to their own folks by their side and lineage, as it’s the use for money and other movables things.

Article 46

In slaves seizures will be fulfilled prescribed formalities by our orders and customs for seizure of movable things. We want that the money which coming from to be distributed by order of the seizures, or, in case of ruin, a sol for a pound, after the privileged debts will have been paid, and generally that the slaves condition to be well-ordered in all matter, as the one of the others movables things, except these cases.

Article 47

Do not let them be seized and sold separately the husband and the wife with their under age of puberty children, if they are all under the power of the same master; we declare null seizures and separate sale which will be done of them, what we want to take place in voluntary alienations, on punishment against those who would do alienations to be deprived of the one or those they will have kept, who will be awarded to the acquirers, without they would pass to do any supplement of value. [In the practice the master can sell children separately of his parents and to bargain for separately the spouses.]

Article 48

Do not let them can therefore slaves working now in the sugar-refinery, indigo houses and plantations, age of fourteen years and overhead until sixty years, be seized for debts, otherwise as to will arise of the value of their purchase, or that the sugar-refinery or the indigo house or the plantation where they work would been seized really, we defend, hardly of nullity, to proceed by real seizure and adjudication by decree on the sugar-refineries and indigo houses neither plantations, without comprising in it the slaves of the aforesaid age and there working now.

Article 49

The judicial farmers of sugar houses, indigo houses or plantations really seized with slaves will have to pay the entire price of their lease: without the possibility to count as the fruits they perceive the slave children born during their lease.

Article 50

We want, nevertheless all contrary conventions that we declare null, that the so-called children belong to the seized part, if the creditors are satisfied or to the adjudicator if it intervenes a decree; and for that purpose mention, will be done in the last forepart notice before the interposition of the decree, the so-called children born the slaves since the real seizure; that in same notice mention will be done the deceased slaves since the real seizure in which they were counted.

Article 51

We want to avoid expenses and procedure lengths, that the giving away of entire value of the conjoined fund adjudication and slaves and what will proceed from the value of judicial leases, be done between creditors according to the order of their privileges and mortgages, without distinguishing what is for the fund value of what is for the slaves value.

Article 52

And nevertheless the feudal and seigniorial rights will be paid only in proportion to the funds price.

Article 53

It will be only admit to retire the ordered funds, the persons of noble lineage and feudal lords who retire the slaves who have been sold with these funds, neither the purchasers won’t be able to keep the slaves without the funds.

Article 54

We enjoin to noble guardians and burgesses, persons who rent usufruct and others enjoying of the funds to which are joined who work, to steer the appointed slaves as good paterfamilias without they would pass after their administration to give back the value of those who will be deceased or full-fashioned by illness, age or otherwise without their lack, and without they draw as to hold back as fruits to their profits born of slaves children lasting their administration; who we want be preserved and return to those who will be his masters and proprietors.

Article 55

The masters of twenty years old will be able to free their slaves by all actions between living persons or because of death, without they would to pass to give reasons of their emancipation, neither that they would need of opinion of their parents, though they would be minor of twenty five years. [Measures will come hereafter to penalize hardly the emancipation]

Article 56

Slaves who will have been done residuary legatees by their masters, or named executors of their testaments, or guardians of their children, will pass and will consider as free men. [It didn’t ever has been any black guardian neither of mulatto of the whites, and of course, there hasn’t been a black executor or half-breed of the white deceased masters.

Article 57

We declare their emancipation made in our island serve as them as place of birth in our island, and the emancipated slaves don’t need our letters of naturalization to enjoy our natural subjects advantages in our kingdom, lands and countries of our obedience, even they born in foreign countries.

Article 58

We command the emancipated persons to respect singularly their ancient masters, their widows and their children; or else the insult they will have made to them be punished more severely than if it has been somebody else. We declare them franc and quit toward them of all other charges, services and useful rights that their ancient masters would like too pretend, both on the persons and properties and succession in quality of bosses.

Article 59

We grant to the emancipated persons the same rights, privileges and immunity, which enjoy the persons born as free, we want that merit of an acquired freedom produce in them, also as for their persons than for their goods, the same effects as the happiness of the natural freedom causes to our other subjects. [NB: a lot of restrictions will be added: no access to nobility, no access to the “whites class”, no possibility to have a practice in magistrate and in the militia, no job which can make them meet, even far from, the juridical or judicial functions, etc.]

Article 60

We declare the seizures and fines, which have not particular destination by these present articles, belong to us, to be paid to those who are appointed to the collect of our incomes. We want nevertheless that the third of these so-called confiscation and fine be given to the hospital established in the island where they have been made. We ask the persons who hold our sovereign council established in Martinique, Guadeloupe, saint-Christopher, that they have to make read, publish and register these present articles, and keep and observe point by point in accordance with the form and the term of the content in them, without to agree on neither permit they are contravened in any way, in spite of all edicts, declarations and customs, we have departed and depart from by these present articles. Because it’s our good pleasure; in order to be firm and stable matter forever, we have made append our seal. Given in Versailles in the month of March sixteen eighty-five and our reign the forty-second. Signed Louis. Further, by the King, Colbert. Stamp Le Tellier. And sealed with the great green wax seal, in green and red silk shellac.

Bibliography: le Code Noir, Louis Sala-Molins, Presses Universitaire de France

The Christian Black Code Of 1724

Annotations Regarding Non-Pro-Life Activities Of The Republican Party And The Christian Conservatives And The Catholics Of The United States:

78% of all the women murdered in the United States are killed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children abused in the United States are abused by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children murdered in the United States are murdered by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the murders that take place in the United States are committed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the soldiers in the United States, who go out and kill are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of the membership of the National Rifle Association (The NRA ), which support GUNS THAT KILL are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every single white supremacist group in the history of United States has always been white fundamentalist pro-life Christian. And these white supremacist groups are dedicated to killing anyone who is not white and Christian.
The Army of God is a white fundamentalist Christian group who is dedicated to murdering and killing every single nonwhite Christian in the United States.
78% of all the people who favor and support the death penalty meaning killing people for committing crimes are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the ministers in the United States who carry firearms to church and are threatening to kill anyone who comes near the church was not white and Christian are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the crimes against gay people in the United States are done by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every month between one and two transgendered females are murdered and every single one of these killings is done by pro-life Christian.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who demand the right to own black Americans and to kill them whenever they wanted to during the signing of the The Declaration of Independence.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party during the battle of Washington and try to overthrow the United States government under president Hoover at the battle of Washington in 1932.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party on the evening before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. And who then used the Republican Party to hire John Wilkes Booth to murder President Abraham Lincoln.

When you have all these forms of killing being supported by pro-life Christians and Catholics it’s easy to understand that the pro-life Christians and Catholics are demanding that everyone else be responsible for their own actions. But the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics under no circumstances want to be responsible for anything they do because they are demanding that the entire world understand that to them being pro-life means killing, because that’s what they support killing. That’s why that those who claim to be pro-life are now becoming known as nothing more than, “Killers For Christ”. And of course it the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics don’t like what I’m saying or want to take exception to what I’m saying they need to disprove everything that follows, and every single item in my see also section below.

See Also:

Jesus Christ
The Sermon On The Mount
God The Bible
The Ten Commandments
John The Baptist
The Burning Times
The Crusades
Joan Of Arc
The Children Of Lourdes
The Children of Fatima
The Spanish Inquisition
The Christian Black Code Of 1724
The American Civil War
Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
World War I
Prohibition
The Great Depression
The Battle of Washington
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
Oliver North
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Gulf War
The Savings-And-Loan Crisis
Bill Clinton
The Balanced Budget Amendment
The Iraq War
The Kondratieff Wave
Profitability Analysis
Financial Analysis
Vance Packard
Laissez-Faire
Better Business Bureau
Department Of Justice
DirecTV
Wal-Mart
KeyCorp
Dell Computers
Lawsuits Against Dell
Capital Punishment
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Racism
Prejudice
Bigotry
Fascism
Eugenics
White Supremacy
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
The Ku Klux Klan
The Army of God
US Domestic Violence Statistics
US Child Abuse Statistics
US Child Mortality Statistics
US Religious Demographic Statistics
US Obesity Statistics
US Caesarean Statistics
US Uninsured Americans Statistics
Insurers Overcharge Medicare
Medicare Ponzi Scheme
US Food Recall Statistics
US Suicide Statistics
Medical Malpractice
Medical Mistakes
Gay Rights
Transgenderism
Women’s Rights
Children’s Rights
Human Rights
Religious Freedom
Pro-Choice
NRA
The Christian Conservatives
Republican Party
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The US Constitution
The Bill Of Rights
Recording Telephone Conversations
Treason
Sedition
How The Republicans Use The Constitution To Lie (article 1, section 6, subsection b) of The US Constitution
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy of Life
Reality…
24 Hour Suicide And Crisis Help Center
For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
It’s A Crime
My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
The Vanishing Of America
Second Gear
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
Sounds
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm?
By The Campfire
Playing The Keys Of My Heart
Adventures In Technocracy
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
My Global Warming Research

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Stupak threatens to withhold support from health care bill unless abortion language changed (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

2010-03-04T12:59:00.000+02:00

WASHINGTON – A congressman who has played a key role in the long-running health care bill debate says he and 11 other Democrats will vote against the overhaul bill unless a provision subsidizing abortion is removed.

Stupak threatens to withhold support from health care bill unless abortion language changed (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:30:22 GMT

I’m amazed how these mother fucker to talk about being pro-life always talk about the rights of the fetus. But they never talk about the rights of the woman. Why is that? Why is the right of the fetus much more important than the right of the living host who is carrying the fetus? If these pro-life stupid bastards who are nothing but mother fucking pieces of crap liars are really concerned with human rights than why are they ever talking about the rights of women? Why are they always talking about the rights of the fetus and no one else?

It’s not really a problem, because eventually women are going to get tired of being abused and mistreated the way they have been for centuries and women are going to eventually react to ass holes. Just like this stupid bastard Stupak, who thinks that he has the right to tell women that they have no rights and that the fetus does have rights and women don’t. Women will eventually deal with this stupid mother fucker who is not pro-life but nothing more than a God damned stupid bastard who’s trying to exercise control over women. And that’s not anyone working for God is a God damn piece of crap stupid bastard. Mother fucking ass hole who thinks he’s better than women.

No wonder women hate mother fucking pieces of crap like this stupid bastard Stupak. No fucking wonder. He’s an embarrassment to the Congress. He’s an embarrassment to politics he’s an embarrassment to America. And if not any God damned kind of good Christian but if you stupid fucking bastards who is saying that the right of the fetus supersedes the right of the living host that is carrying the fetus. When did God give Stupak this right to decide that? When did God and Stupak me where God told Stupak he had the right to tell women they have no rights?

Like I said, the only difference between Stupak and I God damned stupid bastard Nazi from World War II is, nothing!

Annotations Regarding Non-Pro-Life Activities Of The Republican Party And The Christian Conservatives And The Catholics Of The United States:

78% of all the women murdered in the United States are killed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children abused in the United States are abused by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the children murdered in the United States are murdered by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the murders that take place in the United States are committed by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the soldiers in the United States, who go out and kill are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of the membership of the National Rifle Association (The NRA ), which support GUNS THAT KILL are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every single white supremacist group in the history of United States has always been white fundamentalist pro-life Christian. And these white supremacist groups are dedicated to killing anyone who is not white and Christian.
The Army of God is a white fundamentalist Christian group who is dedicated to murdering and killing every single nonwhite Christian in the United States.
78% of all the people who favor and support the death penalty meaning killing people for committing crimes are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the ministers in the United States who carry firearms to church and are threatening to kill anyone who comes near the church was not white and Christian are pro-life Christians and Catholics.
78% of all the crimes against gay people in the United States are done by pro-life Christians and Catholics.
Every month between one and two transgendered females are murdered and every single one of these killings is done by pro-life Christian.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who demand the right to own black Americans and to kill them whenever they wanted to during the signing of the The Declaration of Independence.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party during the battle of Washington and try to overthrow the United States government under president Hoover at the battle of Washington in 1932.
White fundamentalist Christians were the ones who took over the Republican Party on the evening before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War. And who then used the Republican Party to hire John Wilkes Booth to murder President Abraham Lincoln.

When you have all these forms of killing being supported by pro-life Christians and Catholics it’s easy to understand that the pro-life Christians and Catholics are demanding that everyone else be responsible for their own actions. But the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics under no circumstances want to be responsible for anything they do because they are demanding that the entire world understand that to them being pro-life means killing, because that’s what they support killing. That’s why that those who claim to be pro-life are now becoming known as nothing more than, “Killers For Christ”. And of course it the white fundamentalist Christians and Catholics don’t like what I’m saying or want to take exception to what I’m saying they need to disprove everything that follows, and every single item in my see also section below.

See Also:

Jesus Christ
The Sermon On The Mount
God The Bible
The Ten Commandments
John The Baptist
The Burning Times
The Crusades
Joan Of Arc
The Children Of Lourdes
The Children of Fatima
The Spanish Inquisition
The Christian Black Code Of 1724
The American Civil War
Slavery
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
World War I
Prohibition
The Great Depression
The Battle of Washington
World War II
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
Richard Nixon
Oliver North
The Iran-Contra Affair
The Gulf War
The Savings-And-Loan Crisis
Bill Clinton
The Balanced Budget Amendment
The Iraq War
The Kondratieff Wave
Profitability Analysis
Financial Analysis
Vance Packard
Laissez-Faire
Better Business Bureau
Department Of Justice
DirecTV
Wal-Mart
KeyCorp
Dell Computers
Lawsuits Against Dell
Capital Punishment
Homophobia
Xenophobia
Racism
Prejudice
Bigotry
Fascism
Eugenics
White Supremacy
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
The Ku Klux Klan
The Army of God
US Domestic Violence Statistics
US Child Abuse Statistics
US Child Mortality Statistics
US Religious Demographic Statistics
US Obesity Statistics
US Caesarean Statistics
US Uninsured Americans Statistics
Insurers Overcharge Medicare
Medicare Ponzi Scheme
US Food Recall Statistics
US Suicide Statistics
Medical Malpractice
Medical Mistakes
Gay Rights
Transgenderism
Women’s Rights
Children’s Rights
Human Rights
Religious Freedom
Pro-Choice
NRA
The Christian Conservatives
Republican Party
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The US Constitution
The Bill Of Rights
Recording Telephone Conversations
Treason
Sedition
How The Republicans Use The Constitution To Lie (article 1, section 6, subsection b) of The US Constitution
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy of Life
Reality…
24 Hour Suicide And Crisis Help Center
For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
It’s A Crime
My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
The Vanishing Of America
Second Gear
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
Sounds
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm?
By The Campfire
Playing The Keys Of My Heart
Adventures In Technocracy
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
My Global Warming Research

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2010-03-02T13:23:00.000+02:00

As a result of thinking about Marie Osmond, and of course thinking more about the many dear friends I’ve lost to terribly tragic circumstances, whether it be as a result of domestic violence or child abuse or suicide, I have created a second page for my WordPress.com Journal. It is entitled, 24 hour suicide and crisis help Center. I encourage anyone who is interested in helping me to present access numbers for those who are in desperate trouble either as a result of domestic violence or child abuse or suicide or any other crisis that very well may be so severe that the person is having a terrible time just continuing; to please feel free and use any of the links I have created in my 24-hour suicide and crisis help Center in your own effort to present similar or the same information. The more of us who present this information to the general public the better chance we will have of saving lives.

It only takes one single word. And just one second. Just one. That’s all it takes to be able to save someone’s life. So again, I think it’s important for any of us if we truly do care about one another here on Earth for us to try to do the best we possibly can. To truly try and be our brother’s, and our sister’s keeper.

And finally for those who are interested in my article entitled, How ya gonna keep ‘em down on the farm, I talk a good bit about Marie Osmond and the tremendous difficulty she is facing along with the nature of suicide. And what we as a human population can do. In this article, I also talked to a great extent about my transgenderism and how I arrived at where I am in life. So for any of you who are interested a link to this article is in my see also section below. And in addition, it is now part of my links list here on WordPress.com. And I say that, because as I do every day, I generally and the posting an awful lot of information into my Journal every day. So in order for you to have an easier time locating this particular article. It will be in my source notes and also in my links list in case you wish to read it.

See Also:

My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy of Life
Reality…
For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
It’s A Crime
My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
The Vanishing Of America
Second Gear
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
Sounds
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy
How Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farm?
By The Campfire
Playing The Keys Of My Heart
Adventures In Technocracy
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
My Global Warming Research

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Where are all the locums?

2010-03-02T05:05:00.000+02:00

As I was finishing my clinic today I caught the eye of Mags from Medical Staffing, she was lurking outside my clinic room, looking like she was about to cry. This can only mean one thing: she was about to ask the ultimate favour.

‘Z would you be able to go home and then come back tonight and do the night shift?’

As it happened I was worrying about money at this point, my house had a few unexpected bills, and then there’s the fact we’ll have to move to do some research, and my wife’s job isn’t secure. So a few hours overtime would help out nicely thank you. I managed to sleep this afternoon and even manged to do some cleaning. This is the second week of nights I’ll have done in the space of a month, neither of them have been rotated. The fact is that out in the sticks we can’t get the registrar’s to fill the rotas. We get registrars on the training programme but when they leave to have a baby, join the army, do a PhD we never get a replacement. So there’s 6 of us trying to staff a 10 man/woman rota.

Until 2007 this sort of job would have been filled by overseas doctors hoping to get their foot in the door of the NHS, and eventually get onto a training rotation and get a Number. But now the chances of overseas doctors getting a training rotation is very slim and there are far fewer of these doctors around. So we struggle to recruit. I rake in locum money, in the mean time my ward is short staffed.

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By the Campfire

2010-02-28T05:31:00.000+02:00

One thing I generally end up doing is because I’ve read so many books in my life. And because I read so much, where most people will read themselves to sleep. I will normally do a dictation, meaning I will write in my journal before go to sleep. It was actually Georgia, my black maid, as I said in my previous post, who really got me to start writing in what was called back then, a thought book. And so all through my life that’s what I did. I wrote in the journal keeping track of what is going on in my daily life. My Journal became really important the year after I got out of the hospital because my parents did nothing but complain about how much the operation had cost them and how I had become nothing but damaged goods to them now. So before the operation I was basically almost of dwarf, because up until I was 16, I was only 4′6" tall. And then from age 16 to age 17, in the space of just eight months, I grew 13 inches in just my legs alone. So this kind of mutation oriented growth is what caused me to end up being a hunchback. Because my legs literally grew up into my spine. Not really into my spine of my legs grew so fast that they basically pushed my spine into a kind of curve.

And so the year after I got out of this huge operation. With all of the terrible trauma I had gone through all my parents could do was complain how much it had cost them. And how in their eyes I was now nothing but damaged goods. So, consequently, my Journal became the way that I would be able to the stress so that I wouldn’t like explode. Anyhow, over the years my Journal became more and more away from me to have something or someone to talk to, because it was very difficult for people to understand the experience I had gone through. It was actually virtually impossible. And so consequently, as I said, the Journal became the one place where I could feel safe enough to talk about what was really going on, the biggest thing that happened after the operation was became incredibly lonely. Not only was I terribly damaged because I had to watch nine children who were my best friends during that whole year. Die one right after another, but in addition to that my brain had accelerated where my reading rate increased almost 500%. Before the operation I read approximately 300 words a minute. But buying four months after I got out of the hospital. And I was back at school. My reading rate shot up to 4800 words per minute and I have a total photographic memory. Dr. Herndon, who did the operation on me, and I and the headmaster at school, Capt. cutter. And in addition, my Latin teacher and English teacher Mr. Everitt all had a meeting on the phone. When this all took place. Dr. Herndon said that this was a kind of reaction, because he really wasn’t sure how it happened. But he believed that as a result of my body being so limited and because of the nerve damage I have suffered that my brain began to accelerate on its own. And so consequently, in the conversation. I made a remark to Dr. Herndon, that I was already a freak because of the operation and I said now. I was going to be even more of a freak.

I mean having a good brain is very much like being in the old West. In the old West, if you are handy with a gun. There was always someone who would come into town looking for you in order to try to prove to you that they were better than you were. So it didn’t take me very long to realize that I wasn’t going to be very interested in playing those kind of games. And so I began to hide a lot of what my abilities were over the years, unless I was in a specific environment, where it was really safe to demonstrate them. Because most people just don’t really know how to deal with the fact that I knew so much more was able to read so much. I mean, it’s hard for people to believe that in my life I’ve read a little over 40,000 books. It’s hard for people to realize that I have 105 newsfeeds that I read every day when I’m reading my news. And that I use to generate my news Journal entries. So basically I’m reading about 3500 news stories a day. And because I’m a photographic memory. Once I see it. It never goes away. And what’s funny is that I have this photographic memory, but I also have hysterical amnesia. From 1968 all the way through 1973. So an entire section of five years has been completely, will almost completely, wiped out. There are very small pieces of information or experiences that I can remember. But most of it has been just literally wiped out. I’ve been to more than 12 different specialists over my lifetime trying to figure out ways to recover the lost time. And I’ve seen a number of experts in the field to try to understand why. I have this section of time that’s been wiped out, but that my photographic memory hasn’t been affected at all.

The basic consensus is that whatever happened in the hospital during those eight months was so traumatic that it just literally dropped a big wall or curtain over those years. In order to, from what they have explained, to protect me from the pain of remembering some of or any of those memories would cause. Aileen and I do experiments periodically where we will watch things on TV in order to try to peek some of those memories. And when one or two of those memories do surface. They generally have a rather difficult time emotionally for the next week or two. Sometimes it become very animated, or at other times it become extremely depressed or anxious. So, we are very careful about trying to probe into that deep blackness of those five years that just are gone.

And because I’m pushing 60 and I have worked with geriatrics at one time in my life among the other things I’ve done. I know that video games and dancing help with mental alertness. But mental alertness is not what fights Alzheimer’s or senility. What fight senility or the onset of degeneration of memory and cognitive ability is exercising what is known as mental acuity. And mental acuity, deals specifically with the brains ability to analyze complex arguments, and then to be able to extrapolate were to talk about those arguments in an intelligent manner. Now when someone is working in business as a doctor or a warrior and there working well into their 60s they are exercising. Not the mental alertness anywhere near as much as they are exercising mental acuity, because they are constantly confronted with complex arguments that they have to analyze and then to extrapolate or talk about and discuss and write down and things of that nature.

But basically being trapped here on this chaise lounge, where I can’t really move during lunch. My choices are very limited. So if I sit here and do nothing but watch TV I can end up being victimized by my own emotions and not really get the exercise I need intellectually to maintain the kind of acuity and prowess that I have had intellectually all my life. And it’s important that I maintain my mental acuity, because with all of the issues I’ve had to deal with emotionally and psychologically and physically all my life. If I don’t maintain a certain degree of sharpness intellectually and maintain my mental acuity, they can be easier for me to become victimized by the emotions that I’m dealing with as a result of getting older and having to deal with my health degenerating where having literally to almost fight for my life every day. And so that’s why I do these news articles. Of course the other reason I didn’t is because as my statement about my being pro-life and pro-choice at the same time tries to explain. I am totally completely nonviolent, I don’t believe in violence against or the killing of any human being under any circumstances. But by the same token, I don’t under any circumstances, believe it is fair in any way for anyone to intercede in the process that a woman must go through in order to arbitrate her own virtual and physical condition pursuant to gestation or pregnancy with whatever creator there is beyond this world or whatever energy there is. I believe women deserve the right and the respect to be able to enter that arbitration process and to arbitrate their conditions, pursuant to their own internal mechanisms with regard to having free will and free choice. So that they can make those decisions on their own.

And I believe that if society were really going to show women kind of respect that they deserve what society would do is to stand directly by the side of these women going through the gestative process. So that we as a population would be much more supportive to them rather than telling them what to do. When I worked at a halfway house for unwed mothers. Almost everyone I talked to always said the same thing that what they wanted most, they never got was someone to literally step right beside them. Not in front of them. And not in back of them, or underneath them, or on top of the. But right next to them. And then to simply shut up and to be their friend. And from almost all the women I ever spoke to they said that was one of the hardest things for them to ever find in other people was for someone to just stand by them as a friend.

And so of course over the years, I kept wondering why. Why is it so hard for us as a human condition to stand by these women who are going through the gestative process. When that’s really what they need the most is support. And that’s how I came to be not only pro-life, but pro-choice. Because of all the women I’ve known termination has never been their first choice by any means. And most of the women I’ve encountered and have facilitated with pursuant to their gestation or their pregnancy. When I did nothing more than to support their own internalized arbitration process, came to the conclusion that they would rather have the child adopted out or they would take care of it themselves. Very few ever came to the conclusion of simply wanting to terminate. And when I worked in this halfway house out in the Western states for a while. The type of women who were coming into the halfway house for women who had a very difficult time articulating their own circumstances, let alone feeling very comfortable or having the language ability to articulate how they really felt about their pregnancy.

And yet, over time, while they were there at the halfway house I saw a number of these women accelerate in their awareness and sensitivity by leaps and bounds as they were given the chance to explore how they really felt without someone leaping in their face and telling them what to do.

And so like my message before where I talked about playing the keys, that’s all I try to do is just help. I’ve never been concerned with answers every time I went after and answer I got more questions than I ever had. And I have done some rather amazing things. When I wrote that hieroglyphic dictionary that I created which is in my links list here my Journal page, which is called my 250 million variable characteristic hieroglyphic language. When I wrote that, it actually led me into a discussion with the University of middle English in the UK regarding the Mycenaean culture. Because I was able to discover that actually it was the Mycenaean culture. That was responsible for facilitating in the hieroglyphic expressions that Egypt was using. And this was because of trade agreements that existed between the two cultures. So that one dictionary that I still have, but that I created not one afternoon, actually led to a tremendous amount of work by linguists in Europe as they were analyzing the formation of the Indo-European language pool. And the Indo-European language pool is really like the center where all of the Indo-European languages formed. And that was the area that was above the peninsula of Greece and Italy. In that section of the world.

Because in that section of the world you had a lot of tribal cultures going on existing flows to each other. And when the Mycenaean Island, or the island of Mycenae blew up. And this of course happened because it was a huge volcanic island but had a very large channel where the water was able to flow into the base of the island and so basically, tremendously powerful volcanic and explosive event took place at the same time as a result of what is known as a condensation explosion. And according to all the records the Mycenaean explosion was actually more powerful than any other volcanic explosion in history at that time. It even is said to have caused a lot of the biblical events that were taking place.

But when the Mycenaean people fled from the island of Mycenae, they immediately migrated for the most part right cross the narrow body of water to the peninsula that would later become Greece. Because of course a lot of people from Mycenae were so apprehensive about being anywhere near were the explosion that happened. A lot of the migrated north of the peninsula that was to become Greece. And they settled in that area of of the world, right above the peninsula but was to become Greece and Italy. And when they merged with these tribal groups in that area. The Mycenae people brought with them this hieroglyphic form of expression, which of course mixed with the Sanskrit and the cuneiform that existed at that time. And so when they hieroglyphic language of the Mycenae culture mixed with the Sanskrit and the cuneiform. What ended up happening was that the tribal groups of that region began to separate into what is called subcultural groups. And so some of those groups migrated back down to the peninsula that would later become Greece. Some migrated down to the peninsula that would later become her own. And some stayed right in that area and some then of course migrated west to Europe. Because it was out of that region that almost all of the languages in the entire world for the Western world actually came from.

And so, this dictionary that I had created actually gave a tremendous amount of insight to the specialists working in the field of linguistics pursuant to the Indo-European language pool as to how some of these associations linguistically actually began to take place, pursuant to what we as humans have been able to understand regarding the history of how hieroglyphic language was actually used by different cultures at the time.

So, the gist of what I’m trying to say is that I have always tried to use my intelligence and my abilities to try and do the best I could at helping my fellow humans and the people here in the world to be able to have a better chance of surviving and to learn more. I just always tried to help. Of course when I created the dictionary it was because another financial analysts and I were talking about two different ways of doing financial analysis. And it was out of an intellectual discussion we were happening that I became determined to look more intently at this one discussion we were having regarding how fast the brain could process information. And that’s really what led me to creating the dictionary. But as a result, I am a don’t learning a tremendous amount and was actually able to send copies of the dictionary to not only the UK but other places where they were studying linguistics. Not so that they could analyze my dictionary is much but they were using what I created to analyze relationships of cuneiform. And Sanskrit pursuant to hieroglyphic languages, and to have a better understanding of how the various forms of prelinguistic symbolic languages existed at the time. Because the linguistic symbolic languages that mutated off of the cuneiform and Sanskrit, which were in fact affected dramatically by hieroglyphic languages, really only became more and more expressed by humans as a result of humans becoming more talkative, pursuant to more complex concepts and dialogs, such that the limitations of these non-linguistic symbolic forms of expression began to have more and more limitations.

And yet to this day, we have languages here on Earth that are tremendously cuneiform oriented or Sanskrit oriented. To the point where these languages have mutated slightly in order to take on more variations pursuant to the characteristics of their language in order to semi-duplicate the linguistic symbolic languages that a lot of the Western cultures gravitated to. But part of that whole linguistic symbolic form of expression really was as a result primarily of the Roman culture. Because Latin was one of the first major linguistic symbolically oriented forms of language that had the kind of prominence, pursuant to anthropological expression through various subcultures and cultural groups. Beyond what any other culture had at the time. Which is why Latin ended up being the basis for most of the languages of the Western world.

And so consequently, what I’m trying to illustrate here is that this is what I’ve always tried to do with my life. I never used what I knew to try to get anything from anyone. I always used what I knew to try to facilitate others and what they were working on. For example, I remembered that I had said that I had worked with Dr. BF Skinner, by correspondence in what was called is population control experiments. That was really a misnomer. Because the experiments the Dr. Skinner was working on at the time. I called, population control. In reality. That’s not really what they were. The term population control came to me as a way of being a kind of plug-in term for the rather complex study the Dr. Skinner was working on and that some of what I was doing in my own research. He found somewhat useful. The actual experiments, Dr. Skinner was working on had to do with a population. And how that population perceived what was called the containment of the size of the containment.

For example, Dr. Skinner was using lab rats in one of the experiments he was conducting. And you noticed that when the rats began to perceive limitations to the containment in which they existed. Once they had that perception than the perception began to mutate to the point where they began to see or sense that the containment was shrinking. And this of course was not true. Because the containment wasn’t shrinking it was that the number of rats in the population was in fact increasing. And so as the number of rats increased sensation, cumulatively through the population of rats was that the containment was actually shrinking when it wasn’t because it was nothing more than the number of rats increasing that was generating this false perception.

And so that one particular experiment out of many. Then let Dr. Skinner to the supposition that the same perceptual mutation could in fact take place in humans. And he then not only found that it could take place, but that in some ways it actually was taking place. And that this was due, partially because of the number of humans that was increasing on the planet Earth. And of course the earth having a limited size to how many people can exist on the planet comfortably, this of course meant that the containment of the earth was limited to within certain tolerances or certain semi-finite parameters. And it was then further understood that as the number of people would increase on the planet Earth that the cumulative perception of the containment would in fact begin to be perceived as if the containment were in fact shrinking when in reality it was not.

And of course the end result of this semi-mutating perception. That was taking place in these populations was a number of different psychological or psychologically semi-aberrant or semi-abnormal expressions, pursuant to emotional and psychological, and cultural behavior. Such as obesity. Or separation. Various forms of mental illness and depression. Violence was another thing that was noticed. These were actually the various aspects of what Dr. Skinner was working on. In actuality during this time he actually wrote one book that literally explained how easy it was to program humans just like lab rats. Using behavioral psychology. But what happened was that when the book came out the federal government got very nervous about this and made Dr. Skinner write another book to retract. The first book that he wrote. And consequently I have both books. But that’s only because I was in correspondence with him because I became curious about the manner in which the brain was processing information as perception was in fact changing pursuant to containment perception or interpersonal relationships and how they were changing as a resort of how information was being processed in short-term and long-term memory and how the subconscious was in fact, manipulating cognitive signals pursuant to long and short-term memory. And so I began to correspond with Dr. Skinner regarding how the subconscious actually handled long and short-term memory signals pursuant to manipulating or ascertaining the validity of which signals were in fact more valid than others. As the Brentwood processing information, while someone was sleeping. And how that process was relatable to the semi-mutating process of perceptual changes that were taking place as a result of population growth. And as the population was in fact being subjected to perceptual changes pursuant to their sensation or their perceptive awareness of the containment and how they believed the containment was changing.

And that’s really how he and I got into that kind of a discussion. And from that discussion. I then wrote Dr. JB Rhine, because I was interested in his work on the Tesseract pursuant to it literally being a shadow of a fourth dimensional square. And so Dr. Rhine was working on the Tesseract pursuant to multidimensional expressions of, at the time, paranormal potentiality within the human condition. But that entire study then expanded dramatically to electromagnetic field interaction and sub particle sequencing and acceleration pursuant to various forms of multidimensional interaction and expression, which all took place off of the original Tesseract study. But when I wrote Dr. Rhine. I was interested in the initial mathematic philosophical arguments that brought him to the position where the Tesseract could actually be a shadow of a fourth dimensional square, which then gave me more information as to how the subconscious could actually manipulate certain sub signals and active signals in the subconscious representing one of short-term memory that the subconscious was actually trying to ascertain as to the validity pursuant to which signals would be maintained in the brain as long-term memory versus being discarded. And then of course I became interested in the potentiality of paranormal he expressed cognitive information that humans were not only being exposed to but expressing at the time.

And so now you see that I had used all those words to explain, population control. And so that’s why over the years. When I talk about my work. For those six or seven months with Dr. Skinner and Dr. Rhine that I talk in terms of population control and the Tesseract. Because to try to explain what I was really involved with, pursuant to these two extremely powerful scientists and their work takes a great length of time to explain things and most people don’t understand what I’m talking about.

And the use of all that I learned did nothing but to move me to more questions. I mean, I’ve learned a tremendous amount about all of this over the years. But most of the body of science throughout the world still is looking at things extremely symptomatically and from a very linear standpoint. So they don’t really want to be very open to problematic logic or problematically oriented ways of perceiving the world, which is more anticipatory and at the same time more multidimensional. Which would of course be as compared to symptomatically looking at the world using symptomatic logic, which is of course more two-dimensional and linear. So as a result of most of the world being very symptomatic in their perception of the world and being very linear of course and two-dimensional it becomes very difficult for me when I’m using mostly problematic logic and looking at things in a very anticipatory or multidimensional oriented manner, for me to extrapolate hardly anything to most scientific people who still are looking at things in a very symptomatic form of logical understanding or perceptions. And so consequently I have had to be very independent and solitary and the things that I studied and have had to do things quite alone.

I mean, one of the major things I have learned is that for example with this chilly earthquake, which is a huge huge tectonic plate event. As I tried to explain earlier today, what we’re looking at in Chile is a legitimate evidential event of substantiation that electromagnetic fields, meaning the group of electromagnetic fields of a run along the surface of the earth, of which there are about 250 to 300 fields that grew into a number of bands, are in fact beginning to deteriorate rather dramatically, pursuant to the deterioration, and/or degeneration, of the electromagnetic fields underneath the surface of the earth, pursuant to how those fields in fact are becoming more distorted pursuant to their density and that’s the expressions. And as these density expressions are in fact becoming almost as powerful as the actual tectonic plates interacting themselves. And that this is happening in such a manner so that a lot of the tectonic plate movements are actually being driven now more by the fields of force than they are with the actual pressure of the plates.

And of course, the reason why this is even possible is because every single thing in the entire universe is made up of sub particles and electromagnetic fields in one way or another. I mean, the only difference between any two things is density and the speed of the particles and the length of the way of of the substance were looking at. In science, the higher the density the shorter the wavelength and the slower the speed of the particles. The lower the density, the longer the wavelength and the faster the speed of the particles. So as long as you understand those two basic quantum physics rules. It becomes very easy to understand how everything in the entire universe and of course everything on earth is basically driven by electromagnetic field interaction and sub particle sequencing or what is also known as sub particle accelerations.

And so that’s what makes the chilly earthquake and what makes you hate the earthquake so extremely significant. Because were looking at electromagnetic fields that are part of what are known as the living fields, which run along the surface of the earth, beginning to degenerate and deteriorated a much faster rate than had been previously thought possible. But of course, the people who understand the dynamics of what I’m talking about are very few in this world. And a lot of them don’t even want to admit that what I’m talking about could possibly be happening. This is partially because people by nature, always reached for the first reaction being denial. And so I continue using my global warming arguments and my global warming research that I have been doing and that I continue to do in my news articles online where I talk about various aspects of the perceived are possible. Global warming process and how a lot of what is taking place is really due to electromagnetic field interaction or how the electromagnetic fields of the super fields which are the electromagnetic fields that surround the Earth, as compared to the living fields which run along the surface of the earth that we walk around in. And then of course as those two types of fields interact with the electromagnetic fields inside the Earth of which there are over 3000 different types of electromagnetic fields inside the earth that are in bands of a fluctuating number. Because fields tend to change based on the sub particle activity in the density of the sub particles themselves.

Then it gets really complicated. Because the sub particles themselves are beginning to change in a very noncontiguous and incongruent way. Meaning that certain types of particles are beginning to act out or interact in ways that are not as congruent or contiguous with the ways that they used to react. And as a result, this is causing slight runaway chain reactions within certain types of particles as they behave subatomically. And these runaway chains are then causing mutations in the behavior of neutrinos or what is known as neutrionic. And psitronic or psitron’s activity that actually interact with the planet and catalytically energized and extrapolate all of the meteorologically displayable events that happen on Earth. Because is the neutrinos, and particles at that particular level of subatomic expression that drive all of the weather conditions throughout the entire planet. And this of course is explained in the book, the chaos theory.

So as you can see its very complicated and very boring. Which is why I’ve been alone most of my life. I mean, I have all these abilities and I never wanted to make any money from because I didn’t see any real value to doing. I wanted to help. I wanted to do anything I could to help people never to have to suffer the way I have had to suffer in my own life, either as a child abuse survivor or because of the mental illnesses that plague me all the time that come out in forms of me being self-effacing or self recrimination or guilt anxiety panic anxiety disorder depression agoraphobia. A host of all sorts of issues. So I have to always do battle with all these demons inside of me while I’m still trying to contribute in any way that I possibly can. And that’s part of what I try to do with my Journal, because what I’ve given here in this Journal entry is a tremendous amount of information that people who are actually out in various fields of science can actually use. Some of the information I’ve given here, some will think is nothing but garbage. And yet others will find quite useful.

I am not the end-all of understanding every single thing, because that’s not possible. Knowledge doesn’t work that way, the more you know, the less you know. That’s the axiom. That’s the reality. Because no matter how much you learn, the one thing you learn from everything you learn is how little you know. Because answers give you nothing answers do nothing for you except position you in a very finite way to think in terms of the world from a very symptomatic and linear and reactionary point of view. Questions on the other hand, position you in such a way so that you are much more anticipatory and multidimensional in the way that you look at the world and this of course makes you very problematic or very problematic the oriented pursuant to how you logically defined. Your world and how you process information. So again with the world being so symptomatic it becomes very difficult for me being very problematic the oriented to talk about most of what I understand when most of the world is so linear is the I use the term lovingly calling most of the world flat minded.

So this is some of what goes on inside of my head. And yes, I had to dictate all of this and believe it or not. It takes a tremendous amount of training for my speech program to get all of this correct all the time. Because I just used words such as cuneiform, Mycenae, Mycenaean, which I have had to train my speech program to be able to dictate for me. Just like I had to train my speech program to understand Ramapithicus and Kenapithicus, which are two of the very first humanoids that were ever discovered in the world, which were discovered by Dr. and Mary leaky in 1952 in the Olduvai Gorge of the Belgian Congo. And the significance of the Ramapithicus Kenapithicus humanoids is that these were the very first humanoids that lived communally on the ground. So they are looked upon as being the first time that we humans began to lived communally. Not in the trees. And that’s basically about 14 million years ago. So I’m talking about global warming experiments are I’m talking about anthropological evolutionary growth pursuant to culture and different ways of culture as expressed the Ramapithicus Kenapithicus examples are very useful because I can relate back on a kind of timeline to how long we have been here versus what we have accomplished.

And that’s why Mycenae and Mycenaean are very important concepts as well, because they were actually the very heart of where hieroglyphic language really sprung from. And what most people don’t understand is that the Egyptian culture wasn’t using hieroglyphic language because they weren’t intelligent. They were using hieroglyphic language because the Egyptian culture was Cochran so many people all over the entire area, where they existed that the only language they hand they could be easily understood by all of the people who they were conquering was hieroglyphics, because it is a kind of cuneiform or picture language. And so as a result of that, what happened was that the Egyptians were already doing trade with the Mycenaean culture. And as a result, that is when the hieroglyphic language of the Egyptians which they were already using a primitive form of cuneiform became more and more expressible as the hieroglyphics that everyone knows today. But the hieroglyphics was actually used as a way to express to the various cultures that Egypt was culturing. What was expected of them was away for the Egyptians to communicate with all of the cultures that they were conquering.

And so that’s why concepts like Mycenae and Mycenaean are very important because it gives me the ability once again to mark sections of time. But you can see that with all of this dictation I’ve done that. It takes a tremendous amount for my speech program to be able to keep up with these different concepts and words that I used because of how exacting the language has to be. And you’re also getting an idea of how huge the amount of words is when I have to try to talk about almost anything pursuant to anthropological manifestations of subcultural groups or language or electromagnetic fields and sub particles and global warming. When you’re talking about these things, the temptation is to talk about these things briefly and very empirically. But if you do that. You make a mistake, because there is nothing in the entire universe that is empirical. We make thinks empirical because of political or scientific or cultural expediency. But the reality is there is virtually nothing that is empirical, because empirical truths just don’t exist. And so as a result I’m very exacting with how I explain things so that I do not state anything empirically because I know that those kinds of concepts just don’t really exist. And that’s why about to all of this explanation in order to give people who are reading my Journal more of an understanding of how complex some of the issues that I think about as I work on really are.

And believe it or not, what’s really quite amazing and very much amazing to me as well, is that a lot of the dynamics pursuant to financial analysis of economic analysis pursuant to profitability and the nature of the American market system versus the nature of the global economic system are just as complicated. I mean, most of the high paid professionals in the American economic system later went to school with Gore I actually ended up doing business with at one point or another in my life. And what most people don’t like to admit is that in my Journal back in January of 2009 I accurately predicted that the American market system would lose $800 trillion of market volume by the end of the third business quarter of 2009 and it did. I then subsequently predicted that the joblessness would increase again before the beginning of March 2010. And it did. And every single thing I’ve done financial aid as far as financial projections and profitability analysis. Not once in 42 years survivor been wrong on a projection I’ve ever done. Not once. But that’s because I don’t use .5% variance. When I do any kind of statistical or financial analysis I always use .05% variance. And the reason for that is because even though it will take me an extra 150 to 200,000 calculations to complete the financial or profitability are statistical analysis. Once I do complete the analysis because the variation meaning the plus or minus error of margin is so small, the day that is simply not able to be corrupted or manipulated because it is so accurate. And as a result that makes my analyses extremely dead on as they say.

And so that’s why why look at the market. I’m looking at the market from much more complicated and complex statistical analytic point of view, pursuant to financial analysis and profitability analysis, because I’m not looking at the market terms of any kind of symptomatically oriented perspective, but a totally completely problematically oriented perspective, and I’m not looking at the market terms of only .5% variance of margin of error I’m looking at the market in terms of approximately 100 times tighter using the .05% variance margin of error rather than the larger .5% variance of margin of error. And so as a result, the extrapolations I come away with one I’m looking at financial analysis, are a lot more real.

And again, this is why some of the brainiacs in the financial world don’t really like what I come up with because they find that a lot of what I’m doing to be counterproductive to a lot of their agendas. But then I don’t have any agendas. My agenda is to help humanity to do a better job of managing themselves and to try to the best of my ability to help people to realize as much freedom in free expression and to be able to ask better questions. So that they can have a better chance of elevating themselves of their own highest good. That is what I tried to do. It’s all these other groups and subcultural groups and political parties religions and economic groups. And so for that I will these agendas. I don’t.

So, that being said, it is now 12:23 AM. And I am sufficiently beat. So I’m going to have some bread and butter and optimize my speech program in order to have it fine-tuned for these words I’ve been using like Mycenae and Mycenaean which are important to future discussions. And then I’ll put my speech program to sleep. And I will go to sleep and perhaps tomorrow I will do some more news analysis.

Seeing closing another reason I came to WordPress because I won’t be limited by doing really long Journal dictations or Journal entries such as what I’m doing because a lot of the work that I am engaged with and that I do are extremely complex issues to take a tremendous amount of extrapolation or explanation in order to be able to present the topic is coherently as I possibly can. And I’m sure that those of you who are reading this Journal entry will see exactly how complicated some of these things are because of the dictation. I’ve just done.

To all those who are reading. This. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate it. And for those who don’t like my writing am very sorry I really don’t mean to offend. This is just my way as I’ve said trying to help. And as I always do, I will include a section in this Journal entry known as my see also section which lists a tremendous amount of resources for everything that I’ve been talking about to help with anyone who might want to do further research pursuant to what I’ve discussed.

I will write later….

See Also:

Deforestation
Desalinization
Electro-magnetic fields
sub-particle interaction
Neutrinos
Newtonian Metaphysics
Quantum Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Newtonian Metaphysics
Stellar Mechanics
Astrophysics
The Chaos Theory
Wolfgang Pauli
Volcanoes
Earthquakes
The Gulf Stream
Skin Cancer Statistics
My Biographical Profile
My Philosophy of Life
Reality…
For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
My Encounter With Joan Baez
My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians
My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language
My Tribute To Jim Varney
The Pebble And The Penguin
A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass
Regarding Me And My Journal
It’s A Crime
My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups
Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok?
In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way…
I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago…
The Vanishing Of America
Second Gear
Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores
Sounds
An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy
An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy
Adventures In Technocracy
My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System
My Global Warming Research

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Schizophrenia

2010-02-27T21:21:00.000+02:00

My BnB2/HD2 PBL write-up is the one on Schizophrenia. You may remember I wrote a few words a while ago saying how I found the condition quite disturbing. Quite why I should be more afraid of schizophrenia than, say, heart disease I’m not too sure.

Anyway, in having to do the write-up I’ve been forced to look at it in more detail. And I came across this passage from one of the course textbooks – it’s based on notes a schizophrenic patient made about the voices he heard. Scares the crap out of me. Thought I’d share it with you.

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Traditional medicine treatment of urticaria

2010-02-27T05:17:00.000+02:00

Description

Urticaria is a kind of red and white bumps on the skin broke out. Although measles is usually itching, therefore a nuisance, they are usually not dangerous, except in the bee or insect bites, when the measles indication of the true medical emergency. A measles cases last year, less than 30 minutes, as long as a week.

When the body of substances, they think it is a dangerous fight with the flood substances histamine skin problems.Lead to excessive accumulation of histamine in urticaria when a specific region of the skin. Material difference between the person who caused the release of histamine, even if the ordinary stimuli, animal dander, pollen, aspirin, penicillin, insect bites and foods containing the person's allergies.

Symptoms and signs

Increased a lot, in the local area of the skin red or white collision

Bumps appear and disappear suddenly

The area affected may be slight or seriousItching

Conventional medical

Urticaria often do not usually require treatment, but if the long-standing poles, consult a doctor. After the completion of recording, your medical history, your doctor may ask you in the past two weeks, the risk of a potential stimulus. Unfortunately, measles can cause a variety, from your doctor may determine the position of not, the exact cause of the stimulus. If the reason is thatOK, you will be invited to the material, in order to avoid the epidemic. In more severe cases, doctors may prescribe a drug, usually an anti-histamine agent to treat the condition.

Such as the honeycomb is shortness of breath accompanied by fever, nausea, abdominal cramps, or immediately go for treatment. You may suffer anaphylactic shock.

Aromatherapy

German chamomile oil can help relief the itching. As long as a drop-down directly on skin itchFriction

Ayurveda

Urticaria are protected, too much heat in the body, that the Indian herb doctor. Cooling heat and cool crazy itching, they like to eat watermelon, drink milk, parsley or coriander.

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Medical Breakthroughs, for Pennies

2010-02-25T21:17:00.000+02:00

Finding pennies on the ground is mostly useless today. Find a dollar and you’ve got yourself a can of soda or candy bar. However, George Whitesides, a Harvard professor of chemistry has made something that it cheap and could change the future of medicine, all for a penny. He has created a paper ‘chip’ that could test people for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

Unfortunately, the government will find a way to raise the cost, tax the sick and make money. If this ‘chip’ is effective in detecting disease, medicine can simplify testing in other areas.

The tester has a tree shaped detector that changes color. The tester could also tell how severe the patients’ disease is. Imagine testing for STDs or other diseases. It would be as simple as taking a blood sugar test for diabetes. Stab the finger, take a drop of blood and wait for the results. It’s simple, theoretically effective and can cost a penny to make.

This could lead to an entire new division in healthcare. The millions of dollars spent for medical testing could be used to cure the sick and heal the wounded. Without too much inflation, the government could use its savings to fix our national debt. The testing requires no power, which could pull hundreds of electricity sucking machines from hospitals.

In poverty stricken areas, doctors could walk around with hundreds of these ‘chips’ to test entire towns and villages. It could save thousands of people around the world. In Africa, America and across the globe, there is a need for cheap healthcare. Cheap testing would be the start.

If Whitesides played it right, he could hold the patent and sell it for a reasonable price. He could force medicine to sell it and distribute it for pocket change.

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Juggalo News, from the Insane Clown Posse dimension Boing Boing

A profile in extreme courage

2010-02-25T13:38:00.000+02:00

A profile in extreme courage

I don’t have too much to add to this beautiful piece on Olympic gold medalis snowboarded Torah Wright. I just encourage everyone to read it. Sister Wright is an active, passionate and articulate member of the church and she conveys the importance of her beliefs quite well. In the incredibly hedonistic snowboarding culture she maintains her values. This is a must read!!

What I found even more incredible in this article was the fact that Wright passed up hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships in order to fully live up to her values.

“”We’ve definitely knocked back approaches in the past from energy drink companies, given that Torah has a position on excessive caffeine consumption, and that’s been a big area where Torah could certainly have made significant amounts of money, but she’s stayed solid in her beliefs.”

I was a bit amused by the articles conflation of the traditions or beliefs of Wright’s specific family with the church on the whole. Wright’s family, for instance, practiced homeopathy and avoided modern medicine and so of course the article says

“In line with the beliefs of the Mormon Church, Marion Bright, a nurse, ensured that her children lived virtuous lives. This meant rules such as no lollies or junk food, and no pharmaceutical drugs – not even so much as a Panadol for a headache.

I guess it is inevitable when a member is profiled. Even though our church is the fourth largest in the country, there is an assumption that all members are identical in their practices. Many faithful members do drink caffeine (Including President David O. McKay) and certainly we have several general authorities that served as doctors. We are not a tradition that discourages sweets or fun though things should be in moderation. I guess I should take such a positive article and just be satisfied, but these inconsistencies stood out to me.

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Health-Atrial Fibrillation medications-Daigatran VS Coumadin - New England Journal of Medicine says that Dabigatan is BETTER

2010-02-23T21:18:00.000+02:00

Background Warfarin reduces the risk of stroke in patients withatrial fibrillation but increases the risk of hemorrhage andis difficult to use. Dabigatran is a new oral direct thrombininhibitor.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/NEJMoa0905561v1

Methods In this noninferiority trial, we randomly assigned 18,113patients who had atrial fibrillation and a risk of stroke toreceive, in a blinded fashion, fixed doses of dabigatran —110 mg or 150 mg twice daily — or, in an unblinded fashion,adjusted-dose warfarin. The median duration of the follow-upperiod was 2.0 years. The primary outcome was stroke or systemicembolism.

Results Rates of the primary outcome were 1.69% per year inthe warfarin group, as compared with 1.53% per year in the groupthat received 110 mg of dabigatran (relative risk with dabigatran,0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.74 to 1.11; P<0.001for noninferiority) and 1.11% per year in the group that received150 mg of dabigatran (relative risk, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.53 to 0.82;P<0.001 for superiority). The rate of major bleeding was3.36% per year in the warfarin group, as compared with 2.71%per year in the group receiving 110 mg of dabigatran (P=0.003)and 3.11% per year in the group receiving 150 mg of dabigatran(P=0.31). The rate of hemorrhagic stroke was 0.38% per yearin the warfarin group, as compared with 0.12% per year with110 mg of dabigatran (P<0.001) and 0.10% per year with 150mg of dabigatran (P<0.001). The mortality rate was 4.13%per year in the warfarin group, as compared with 3.75% per yearwith 110 mg of dabigatran (P=0.13) and 3.64% per year with 150mg of dabigatran (P=0.051).

Conclusions In patients with atrial fibrillation, dabigatran given at a dose of 110 mg was associated with rates of stroke and systemic embolism that were similar to those associated with warfarin, as well as lower rates of major hemorrhage. Dabigatran administered at a dose of 150 mg, as compared with warfarin, was associated with lower rates of stroke and systemic embolism but similar rates of major hemorrhage. (ClinicalTrials.gov number,NCT00262600[ClinicalTrials.gov] .)

other sources:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/seniors/blood+thinner+safer+better+cutting+stroke+risk/1946543/story.html?id=1946543

http://www.warfarinfo.com/dabigatran.htm

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Better: A Fascinating Read

2010-02-23T05:24:00.000+02:00

I just finished the most fascinating book I have read in years, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande, author of the recently released The Checklist Manifesto. While this book is specific to medical practice, its lessons could benefit anyone.

Dr. Gawande is frank and informative about how hard it is to provide high quality care from routine surgery in a United States hospital to emergency care a war zone in the Middle East. He also shares the significant challenges and ethical considerations in certain areas of medicine. While he does not downplay the need for research, he discusses at length the ways in which doctors achieve results above average, sometimes far above average.

Diligence.

Resourcefulness.

Ingenuity.

Determination.

Commitment.

This book is ultimately about being a “positive deviant”, about getting better results than everyone else. But it is not about competition, it is about achieving the best result in a single situation.

Since I read the last page, examples of the very efforts he described seemed to jump out at me. The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiled a local physician’s volunteer effort in “Saving Haiti: One Life at a Time”. This doctor is one of many who choose to do what they can to provide care under difficult circumstances of dirty facilities, inadequate supplies and a seemingly endless need for care.

Also in the Star Tribune was a profile of a local activist who is so committed to reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in her community that she invited civic leaders and teenagers and everyone in between to her living room for a frank discussion about sex, birth control and STD prevention. “Talking STDs over dinner”. I definitely call that thinking outside the box.

It is easy to look at doctors, social workers and others in the helping professions and expect them to want to do their best to change the world. But I have a less obvious example. My hair stylist.

Bridget has been at the same salon for over 10 years, renting a chair and accepting cash or check for payment. She is always ready for me and always a pleasant person to be around. Every time I sit in her chair, she spends more time carefully cutting, arranging, checking, measuring and double-checking than any stylist ever has. I always leave her chair thinking what a great job she does, every time.

But hair is not all Bridget does well. She has two young sons and spends countless hours volunteering at their school. I know this because I have a child at the same school. She displays that same commitment to quality, same concern for all the kids in the building and support for the school’s staff as she gives me in her chair every six weeks. Bridget makes a difference. She sees where she can contribute and does just that.

We can all make a difference by doing well at whatever it is we spend our time doing. And if you care at all about the quality of your work or the quality of your medical care, this a must-read.

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Shrunken heads, trepanned skulls, tattoos and tortue in Euston

2010-02-21T21:46:00.000+02:00

Childhood memories are sacred things. An abiding fixation of my formative years relates to weekend visits to the upper echelons of the Science Museum and to the Wellcome collection that still today resides in some semblance there.

Shrunken Head, Shuar people

One object out of all the treasures in that collection became a vivid obsession for me – a shrunken head. This object of such complete wonder, such allure is now housed in the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road in London in their ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. It is now presented in all its wonder alongside other artifacts from all corners of the globe that were amassed by the great medical curiosity collector Henry Wellcome.

Henry Wellcome was a man of many parts: entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of science and pioneer of aerial photography. He also created one of the world’s great museums: a vast stockpile of evidence about our universal interest in health and the body.

More than 150 years after his birth in 1853, this exhibition reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects from his collection, ranging from diagnostic dolls to Japanese sex aids, and from Napoleon’s toothbrush to George III’s hair. It also provides a very different perspective on some of our own obsessions with medicine and health.

In ‘Medicine Man’ some objects are gathered by type and others by broad cross-cultural themes. Objects that can to some represent the grotesque and repellant are shown to be fascinating reflections of the culture they were products of. What is clear to me even all those years ago with my nose pressed to the glass display case of the shrunken head is that beauty can be found in places far from where you would expect, and while I still want a shrunken head of my own I will content myself with visits to this fine gallery for now!

For those wanting to know more about the Wellcome collection Frances Larson’s An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World is a fine insight into the mind of the man behind it all.

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Dentistry in Social Media

2010-02-21T13:09:00.000+02:00

Have you ever tried to find a quality dentistry blog, mobile application or an active community site? Believe me, it takes plenty of time and effort as the number of dentistry-related websites is exponentially growing. But on Webicina.com, you will find only selected content focusing on dentistry. Check out Dentistry in Social Media for more.

News and Information on Dentistry
Dentistry in the Blogosphere
Dentistry Podcasts and Intrerviews
Dentistry Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
Dentistry Wikis
Dentistry videos, animations and videocasts
Mobile Applications
Social Bookmarking
Medical Search Engines
Trend Trackers
Clinical Cases and Images in Dentistry
Slideshows about Dentistry

We also help you follow dentistry news, journals, blogs and Twitter users on PeRSSonalized Dentistry which is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

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Bitkisel sakinleştiriciler

2010-02-20T05:51:00.000+02:00

SPORCU SAĞLIĞI -2

BİTKİSEL SAKİNLEŞTİRİCİLER

Biz seyirciler sporcuları müsabaka sırasında görürüz. Aylar boyunca süren yorucu çalışmaları, stres durumunu, uykusuz kalıp kalmadıklarını bilmeyiz. Bizi ilgilendiren taraftarı olduğumuz takımın veya sporcunun galip gelmesidir. Galibiyeti gördüğümüzde avuçlarımız patlayana kadar alkışlarız, seviniriz.

Konunun birde arka planını görmek gerekir. Zorlu çalışmalarda yorulan sporcunun gevşemesi, sakinleşmesi, stresini yenmesi ve iyi uyuması daha sonraki çalışmaların zeminini oluşturur. Bu durum uzun süren turnuvalarda, dünya ve olimpiyat müsabakalarında daha çok önem kazanır.

Genç bir sporcunun geniş taraftar topluluğu önündeki heyecanını ve müsabaka gerilimini de düşünmek gerekir.

Bu konuda Almanya’da 34, Avrupa Birliği ülkeleri genelinde 20 yıldır “Modern tıbbi tedavi” de başarıyla kullanılan, kanunla düzenlenmiş olan bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin desteği sağlanabilir. Bitkisel sakinleştiriciler; Uyku düzeninin sağlanması, uykuya dalmanın kolaylaştırılması, stresin yenilmesi ve sakinleşip gevşemenin sağlanmasında yararlı olmaktadır.

Bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin yan ( İstenmeyen, zararlı) etkileri yoktur ve uzun süre kullanıma uygundur. Kediotu kökü, şerbetçiotu çiçeği, lavanta çiçeği ve bunların karışımları bu maksatla kullanılmaktadır.

Başta tıp akademisyenleri ve spor hekimleri olmak üzere yöneticilerin bu konuyu inceleyip değerlendirmesi beklenir.

Bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin ayrıntılı kullanım bilgileri için bu blogdaki ilgili makaleler okunabilir.

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Question for advocates of alternative health: is living to an average age of 35 really the Good Old Days?

2010-02-18T13:49:00.000+02:00

From ScienceBased Medicine by Dr Amy Tuteur:

There once was a time when all food was organic and no pesticides were used. Health problems were treated with folk wisdom and natural remedies. There was no obesity, and people got lots of exercise. And in that time gone by, the average lifespan was … 35!

That’s right. For most of human existence, according to fossil and anthropological data, the average human lifespan was 35 years. As recently as 1900, American average lifespan was only 48. Today, advocates of alternative health bemoan the current state of American health, the increasing numbers of obese people, the lack of exercise, the use of medications, the medicalization of childbirth. Yet lifespan has never been longer, currently 77.7 years in the US.

Advocates of alternative health have a romanticized and completely unrealistic notion of purported benefits of a “natural” lifestyle. Far from being a paradise, it was hell. The difference between an average lifespan of 48 and one of 77.7 can be accounted for by modern medicine and increased agricultural production brought about by industrial farming methods (including pesticides). Nothing fundamental has changed about human beings. They are still prey to the same illnesses and accidents, but now they can be effectively treated. Indeed, some diseases can be completely prevented by vaccination.

Alternative health as a form of fundamentalism also makes sense in that it has an almost religious fervor. It is not about scientific evidence. Indeed, it usually ignores scientific evidence entirely. All the existing scientific evidence shows that all of the myriad claims of alternative health are flat out false. None of it works, absolutely none of it. That’s not surprising when you consider that it never worked in times past; advocates of alternative health merely pretend that it did, without any regard for historical reality.

Alternative health is a belief system, a form of fundamentalism, and like most fundamentalisms, it longs for a past that never existed. It is not science; it has nothing to do with science; and it merely reflects wishful thinking about the past while ignoring reality.

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Home cancer detection ...

2010-02-18T05:54:00.000+02:00

… may not be all that far off. The release doesn’t get into any sort of time-to-market predictions, but if this becomes reality it will be one amazing medical breakthrough.

The release:

Small Liquid Sensor May Detect Cancer Instantly, Could Lead to Home Detection Kit MU researcher developing a sensor to detect diseases, such as breast cancer, in bodily fluids

Feb. 17, 2010

COLUMBIA, Mo. – What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test? A University of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers.

“Many disease-related substances in liquids are not easily tracked,” said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “In a liquid environment, most sensors experience a significant loss of signal quality, but by using highly sensitive, low-signal-loss acoustic resonant sensors in a liquid, these substances can be effectively and quickly detected — a brand-new concept that will result in a noninvasive approach for breast cancer detection.”

Kwon’s real-time, special acoustic resonant sensor uses micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS), which are tiny devices smaller than the diameter of a human hair, to directly detect diseases in body fluids. The sensor doesn’t require bulky data reading or analyzing equipment and can be integrated with equally small circuits, creating the potential for small stand-alone disease-screening systems. Kwon’s sensor also produces rapid, almost immediate results that could reduce patient anxiety often felt after waiting for other detection methods, such as biopsies, which can take several days or weeks before results are known.

“Our ultimate goal is to produce a device that will simply and quickly diagnose multiple specific diseases, and eventually be used to create ‘point of care’ systems, which are services provided to patients at their bedsides,” Kwon said. “The sensor has strong commercial potential to be manifested as simple home kits for easy, rapid and accurate diagnosis of various diseases, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.”

Last January, Kwon was awarded a $400,000, five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award to continue his effort on this sensor research. The CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent teaching, and the integration of education and research. Kwon’s sensor research has been published in the IEEE International Conference on Solid-state, Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and the IEEE Conference on Sensors.

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saturday night fever

2010-02-16T13:44:00.000+02:00

arwen is having a mild fever since yesterday… went to the clinic to get her checkup & meds… she’s having a mild cough & running nose too…

she’s recovering very well… fever gone… running nose gone… still caughing a bit… rarely though… still on meds… get well soon arwen… daddy & mummy sayangkan arwen sgt2…

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Downers from Big Pharma

2010-02-16T05:12:00.000+02:00

What if the Senate Finance Committee – Max Baucus’ baby – weren’t obstructing “Obamacare”?

What if Obama had instead designated Baucus’ committee as ground zero for crafting the deal – the incubator for the winning legislation?

What if Obama’s campaign promise to reform health care was just a prelude to cozy deals with the pharmaceutical industry?

Cenk Uygur has the whole story, and it’s depressing as all hell. I’m betting there’s a drug to make us feel better. Too bad lots of recent studies have found anti-depressants to be no better than placebo.

(Via the wonderful Holly of Self-Portrait As.)

This is a much longer video than I’d normally post. It’s wonkish, ranty, and somewhat rambling. If you don’t need blood pressure meds by the end of it, you probably have undergone a conscience-ectomy.

Also: I feel a Rahm Emanuel rant coming on. Better go take my meds!

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER SALES JOBS AT BANGLORE

2010-02-14T13:40:00.000+02:00

Experience:0 – 2 Years Location:

Bengaluru/Bangalore, Chennai

Education:UG – B.Pharma – Pharmacy,B.Sc – Any Specialization,B.Tech/B.E. – Any Specialization,Diploma – Any Specialization PG – Any PG Course – Any Specialization,Post Graduation Not Required,M.Pharma – Pharmacy,M.Sc – Any Specialization,M.Tech – Any Specialization,PG Diploma – Any Specialization Industry Type:Medical/ Healthcare/Hospital Role:Sales Exec./Officer Functional Area:Sales, BD Desired Candidate Profile

Science graduate/BE/dip (biomedical/electronics) with 0-2 yrs exp. preferably in medical sales, excellent communication in English, Kannad/Tamil & Hindi, presentable, ready to relocate to Chennai, ready to travel extensively, should have two wheeler

Job Description

Promoting & selling our medical devices and cosmetic products to doctors, distributors, hospitals & beauty clinics, giving presentations & demos, to work in Karnataka & Tamilnau, achieving sales targets, maintaining good relations with clients.

Company Profile

Coherent Medical System is a 100% privately held company launched in the year 1999. We are the fastest growing LASER company with wide sales coverage across the country and foreign trained service engineers. We provide skin treatment solution.

Contact Details Company Name:COHERENT MEDICAL SYSTEMS Website:Not Mentioned Executive Name:Sudha Acharya Email Address:sudhaa@coherentindia.in,ashishs@coherentindia.in

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Çörekotu nasıl yenmeli

2010-02-14T05:00:00.000+02:00

ÇÖREKOTU NASIL YENMELİ

Bilim adamları 5000 kronik ( Müzmin) hastalığa karşı bitkilerle tedavi imkanlarını araştırmaktadır, bu bitkilerin başında da çörekotu gelmektedir. Kimyasal-sentetik ilaçların kronik hastalıkların tedavisinde kullanılması düşünülmemektedir, bunda tedavi edici özelliklerinin bulunmaması ve yan ( İstenmeyen, zararlı) etkilerinin çok fazla oluşu rol oynamaktadır.

Çörekotu sarımsakla birlikte yendiğinde bağışıklık sistemini güçlendirmekte ve vücudun kendi kendisini kolayca savunmasına zemin hazırlamaktadır. Bu uygulama sağlıklı ve hasta kişilerde koruyucu ve destek tedavi olarak büyük öneme sahiptir.

Çörekotu hiçbir tedavi ile uyumsuzluk göstermez. Hastalar tedavi sırasında da çörekotu yiyebilirler. Kanser tedavisinde ışın kullanılacaksa doktora danışılmalıdır.

Yetişkin bir kişinin günde toplam olarak elenmiş, standart tane büyüklüğünde (2-3 mm) 10 gr çörekotu yemesi yeterlidir. Çörekotunun elenip olgunlaşmamış tohumlardan ayrılma işlemi henüz yapılmadığı için günlük kullanım miktarı 15 gr olarak önerilmektedir.

Çörekotu günlük kullanım miktarı:

- 2-5 yaş arası 5 gr

- 5-12 yaş arası 10 gr

- 12 yaşından büyük olanlarda 15 gr dır.

Çörekotunun günlük kullanım miktarı 2 veya 3 e bölünerek aç karnına yenmelidir. Bu öğünler sabah öğle arası, ikindi vakti ve yatmadan önce olabilir.

Çörekotunun faydalı olabilmesi için tam sindirilmesi gerekir. Kişilerde hazımsızlık sorunları varsa giderilmelidir ( İlgili makale okunabilir).

Çörekotu öğütülmeden yenirse sindirilemez, öğütülerek yenmesi gerekir. Öğütülmüş çörekotu bekletilmemelidir, yağı kolaylıkla acır ( Oksidasyon) ve zararlı hale gelir. Çörekotunun öğütülmesinde elektrikli kahve değirmeni kullanılabilir, aletin zorlanmaması için uzun süre öğütme yapılmamalıdır.

Çörekotu hafif acımsı ve baharlı lezzette olduğu için kişilerin damak tadına göre yeme şeklinin geliştirilmesi gerekmektedir.

Çörekotunun bileşiminde bulunan proteinlerin sindiriminin kolay olması için aç karnına mide asidiyle doğrudan temas etmesi istendiğinden süt veya yoğurtla yenmesi önerilmemektedir.

Çörekotu çiğneyerek yenirse diğer faydalarına ilave olarak ağız içi ve dişeti bakımı da yapılmış olur. Bu yeme şeklinde dut kurusu veya kuru siyah üzüm birlikte yenerek tat düzenlemesi yapılabilir.

Yeni öğütülmüş çörekotu bekletilmeden rendelenmiş elma veya armuda karıştırılarak veya 2 yemek kaşığı çorba ile yenebilir. Bu maksatla taze sıkılmış meyve suyu da kullanılabilir. Çocuklara az miktarda muhallebi ile karıştırılarak yedirilebilir veya çocukların sevdiği bilinen gıdalara karıştırılarak verilebilir.

Şeker hastası olmayanlar pratik olması açısından 1 haftalık çörekotu kullanım miktarını bir defada öğütüp bekletmeden bal veya tahin-pekmeze karıştırarak yiyebilirler. Bunun için 100 gr çörekotu öğütülür, bekletmeden 300 gr bal veya 150 gr pekmez ve 200 gr tahine karıştırarak yenebilir. Bu karışım cam kavanozda serin bir yerde güneş ışığı görmeyecek şekilde muhafaza edilmelidir. Çocukların kolay yemesi için bu karışıma kakao ilave edilebilir.

Belirtilen özellikler dikkate alınarak, kişiler kendilerine uygun çörekotu yeme şekilleri geliştirebilirler.

Not:

1-Öğütülmüş olarak hazır satılan çörekotu kesinlikle yenmemelidir, çok zararlıdır.

2- Çörekotu hamilelik döneminde yenmemelidir. Doğuma bir hafta kala başlanıp emzirme süresince yenirse anne ve çocuk sağlığı açısından çok faydalıdır.

3-Çörekotu yeterli miktarda omega-3 ihtiva eder, ilave olarak omega-3 takviyeli gıdalar yenmemelidir.

Kaynak:

Dr. Ahmet Toptaş, ÇÖREKOTU Tepeden tırnağa şifa deryası, Gonca Yayınevi, İstanbul 2008, ISBN: 978-9944-62-613-2,

(0212) 5285076-5286005.

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FAQ #2 Other Health Issues

2010-02-13T13:47:00.000+02:00

Ever since I was a small child, I strugged with health issues. Many of my issues are auto-immune. Often times, people struggling with IBD can have other issues with their health. I’m no exception. An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorders. There is no answer to why my body seems to attack itself or why I continue to have so many issues. But after so many years I have learned to accept it. My body reacts differently than others. If you have any other auto immune issues or other problems connected to Crohn’s or Colitis, and you’d like to share, feel free to comment or email me at Nadia@UCVlog.com

REMINDER: Don’t forget to send your new/unused ostomy supplies to help Haiti!! Click the Donation Link to learn more!

“A wise man is one who can live in peace with the things he can not change.” ~Unknown

~Nadia

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Another Snowy Friday Night

2010-02-13T05:03:00.000+02:00

* Via Kottke, here’s how we may soon use nanotechnology to fight cancer.

* Quickie Olympicsblogging: Vancouver is airlifting in snow for the Winter Olympics, and by all accounts the luge course is hugely unsafe, even by luge course standards.

* Why democracy doesn’t work: 70% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, but only 59% of Americans think homosexuals should be allowed to.

* Someone accidentally asked a Republican a real question on the teevee. Don’t worry—MSNBC regrets the error and will make certain it doesn’t happen again.

* Wanting to negotiate in good faith, having never learned a lesson ever, the Democrats like Baucus and Conrad would slow down the debate to give the Republicans time to participate. Juan Cole explains how Washington works.

* Throw the bums out: 8% of people think sitting members of Congress deserve re-election.

* And still more on how Democrats may fight the filibuster. We still must ask: Is America ungovernable?

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Not Just the Ticket -- #20, Chapterhouse, Sept. 11, 1991

2010-02-11T13:45:00.000+02:00

Then-current album: Whirlpool

Opening act: Medicine

Back-of-ticket ad: KLSX, you just won’t go away. And you’re about to play the rock block of ELP hits to prove it.

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So many of these shows I went to were sponsored by Coca-Cola/Avalon. I don’t remember drinking any Coke at these shows but hey.

The memories of this show — which Brad Laner still razzes me about.

Should explain that I’ve known Brad casually for many years now — first met him back in 1995 or so when he was the date of Nydia, a BMG college rep, at a promo dinner featuring Jason Pierce from Spiritualized. (A very long story.) I think we had already exchanged a few words on alt.music.alternative as well, and since then we’ve bumped into each other in various spots, including ILX — he and Nydia (long since wed) and I are all in touch on Facebook and I last chatted with him directly at the first ArthurFest, where I took a slew of photos of his excellent set. He’s a friendly and very talented guy, has released more music than god over thirty plus years now, and he’s very much worth checking out.

I mention all this because when I saw his then-new band open for Chapterhouse at this show…I hated them. A lot.

So Chapterhouse were yet another one of those shoegaze bands I’d heard them talking about lately (‘them’ being the UK press) and the third-ever issue of Melody Maker I bought featured them on the cover with Moose and Ocean Colour Scene, when the latter was allegedly sorta half-way kinda maybe shoegaze. (That lasted about five seconds.) I can’t remember whether I had already picked up the earliest EPs by the time Whirlpool came out but when it was released it immediately became a firm locked-into-the-CD-player favorite — of all the first wave gaze bunch they were the ones most openly worshipping at the temple of bands like Spacemen 3 and Loop as well as the inevitable MBV and Cocteau Twins and etc., and if it was more suggested by implication on the album in comparison to the punchier blast of the EPs, there was some undercurrent in there which wasn’t simply a blissout. So little surprise I was at this show much as I had been at Lush/Ride and had already seen Swervedriver and, well, you get the drill.

Steve M. was part of this crew and maybe some others, not sure, and returning to the Whiskey meant that the only surprise would be from the bands, whatever they might get up to. I should say at this point by way of digression that at some point earlier in the year I’d seen a really stellar show by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils here as well — no ticket from that one, it was a free pass situation — which remains just about the only ‘rock’ band show I’ve seen where an LA club crowd was dancing the whole time. Of course, the thing with the New FADs was that they were an often-stellar early eighties-styled minimal funk act that were way too early for the DFA revival they would have ridden brilliantly, so little surprise they could completely slay the crowd down to their frenetic version of “Purple Haze” that’s probably the best cover of said song I’ve heard. I mention all this because there was some really awful opening band — called Ionescu after the playwright, I believe — and about all I remember about them is that when we heard them announced their last song, my group of two or three peoples applauded this announcement loudly. We were not one for patience on this point.

So I’d seen anonymous and annoying opening bands before (and oh, would I ever see them again), and as no band was announced for this show to my knowledge we just showed up to see what was up. Had I known a little more then what I knew now, I’d likely have been much more anticipatory about it all — I had only just heard of Savage Republic a couple of years beforehand, and while Brad wasn’t an original member he’d made his mark on their final albums in that first incarnation, as well on a huge number of releases and bands throughout the eighties. So Medicine wasn’t coming out of nowhere and two to one says a good chunk of the crowd was there because of his work as well as others in his new band — I don’t think this was their debut show, but it was definitely one of the first unless I have my dates completely mixed up.

Now let it be said that comments aside already I don’t hate openers out of hand by any means. I, hopefully, was open to hearing whatever was going to happen as much as could be expected, though no question who I was there to see and who I was charged up to see. But something about Medicine’s show just didn’t work. I wasn’t chanting ‘you suck’ or anything like that — honestly don’t think I’ve ever done that over all these years, hope I never do — but Steve and I and maybe whoever else was there weren’t all that impressed. It all seemed pretty draggy, sometimes pretty enough in a ‘okay they’re making some sculpted noise and the two female lead singers are all intoning things well enough and um, well…’ sense but other than that I think we were doing a lot of checking of our watches. I remember some applause but I can’t say there was a sudden revelation of greatness and by the end of it all Steve and I were exchanging comments wondering if the band would just break up on stage. So when they did end we were all ‘thank GOD.’

So there ya go, we trashed the band that ended up, after a lineup change or three and a rethink, releasing a few albums are still a lot of shoegaze fans’ favorite albums in the style outside of MBV themselves, thanks in large part to the sheer volume and violence Brad kicked up as a result. (I seriously think the only rival either band had would be Scott Cortez from Lovesliescrushing/Astrobrite — when I first heard HIS guitar I swore my stereo was being destroyed.) But I admit I could never quite get past that first show — yeah, I admit that’s pretty unfair but I admit to impatience sometimes. When the first Electric Company album came out is when I realized Brad was really, really good, and I remember surprising him when I preached its virtues over all the Medicine releases way back when. So I have to thank him again for his patience — and he can still zing me about it as much as he wants.

And Chapterhouse? No worries there, THAT was stellar. All the sampled beats and tight psych/funk grooves and soothing vocals and noise noise noise, it all combined and recombined in ways that to my mind seemed like everything I could want from music in one place. At the time that was probably the case, all I know is that I really wanted to hear songs like “Breather” and “Pearl” and “Falling Down” and “Autosleeper” and more really, really badly and to go completely out of my head on the impact. To their credit, they delivered.

This is one of those shows that it’s not the specific details that stick as much as the overall feeling, the lights going crazy, their floppy hairdos all over the place, feedback crunching in and those of us up front going crazy — a polite kind of pit but even so, a pit of sorts. Some points do stick out, like how the beginning of “Breather” was a signal for me to just lose it, while at some point in between songs someone in the audience called out for “Thriller” for some reason and one of them responded by playing the riff to Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive,” because why not.

The end I remember much more clearly though — this would have been during the encore. Unknown to me at the time, when the album had been released on vinyl in the UK, there was a bonus disc containing a nearly quarter-hour-long rampage that was pretty much unlike anything else on Whirlpool. The vocals were shouted, almost gutteral, the well-sculpted focus given over to a sprawling, blasting riff that made the debt to Spacemen 3 and Loop (and the Stooges and Sonic Youth and a lot else) perfectly clear. I should also mention the song’s title — “Die Die Die.”

So I wasn’t quite expecting them to play that live, but they did — and while I’ve heard the studio version since, and while I’ve heard louder and/or more overwhelming performances at shows, it was a pretty daunting listen even so, the more so because it wasn’t like the volume hadn’t changed at all, just the way they played their instruments and delivered the arrangement. I don’t even remember how it ended but I probably felt pretty damn exhausted by the time it all wrapped up. Just another great show for a twenty-year-old music freak to go absolutely crazy about — even if the opening act was kind of a drag.

It is, as a brief footnote, weird to think that I know what I was doing both on this date and on the same date exactly ten years later. Yet both seem equally clear and hazy now in equal measure — I think I would prefer to keep it that way.

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What I Hope To Accomplish Here!

2010-02-11T05:12:00.000+02:00

Chronic Pain , and life is designed to share my story as well as find out yours. I live with what can only be understood by those of you who have it.

We are prescribed medicine that works for some but not others. We undergo surgeries that are designed to help but only create more problems. We endure families who may try to understand but somehow think if we just tried a little harder we could accomplish more.

By sharing our stories and what we have learned about pain and the therapy that goes with it as well as what works for us, I hope to move mountains (well, not physically, but I can watch the mountains move!)

So, Let’s get started, shall we?

Caryn

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Increase in myopia

2010-02-09T21:36:00.000+02:00

A recent study in the Archives of Ophthalmology confirms what we’ve all probably suspected, which is that the prevalence of near sightedness or myopia is on the rise. The study headed by Susan Vitale of the National Eye Institute examined National Health and Nutrition Examination (NHANES) population data from 1971-1972 and compared it to the NHANES data from 1999-2004. This is the same data set that we examined to compare the increase of obesity and food supply to conclude that the obesity epidemic is due to a push effect of too much food (see here). The prevalence of myopia increased from 25% to 41.6%. The greatest increase in myopia was for African Americans, who doubled their prevalence. Whites increased by about 30%.

The conventional wisdom is that the increase in near activities such as reading, surfing the web, texting and watching TV are the cause for this dramatic rise in myopia. However, a group in Australia have been arguing that it is the lack of outdoor activities during childhood that may be the most to blame. Papers in Opthalmology in 2008 for Australian children (age 6 and 12) and in 2010 in the British Journal of Opthalmology for Singaporean children (ages 11-20) show that the number of hours spent outdoors was significantly correlated with less myopia. To control for genetic factors, they also just looked at children of Chinese descent in Australia and Singapore. Both studies found a protective role for outdoor activities and a further protective role for outdoor sports such as soccer, softball and baseball for the older children but only for 6 year old boys. They also found that it wasn’t a threshold effect – the more you play outside the less likely to have myopia. Interestingly, playing sports indoors did not have a protective effect so some combination of being outside and playing sports (and perhaps visually oriented sports) seems to help. The effect is also independent of the amount of time spent reading. It would be interesting to repeat this study in the northern hemisphere where it is cold and dark for half the year to see if that plays a role.

I think there may also be a business opportunity to develop displays that put the point of focus at infinity (as well as mimicking being outside). Although, it is still not known why being outdoors helps (it could be exposure to higher light intensities including UV light for example), I still believe that focusing at infinity rather than at 18 inches must help even if it is only to alleviate eye strain. The display would essentially be a simplified 3D viewer where the experience of editing a document would change from staring at letters directly in front of you to looking at a supersized billboard sitting on a mountain top in the distance.

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Let's read books part 3 - Sex is not a Natural Act, con't

2010-02-07T21:36:00.000+02:00

The third section of Sex is Not a Natural Act, Feminism and Sexuality, takes us to about the halfway point of the book. My overall impression of the chapters contained within is, “Not completely miserable.”

Unfortunately, Feminism and Sexuality is also a return to heavy academic language and theory:

“Diverse erotic lives and new methods of reproduction are possible because of psychological processes such as symbolization and conditioning that are connected to ever-changing cultural formations.” (Location 1526.)

Oh goddammit.

Thinking caps on, everyone! Oh, you’re all already wearing your thinking caps, and so am I… Better make mine a double then!

By now I’m more used to Tiefer’s academia, but I still needed to re-read several passages from Feminism and Sexuality in order to absorb their messages.

Some of these essays, particularly the first, are semi-autobiographical. The reader gets a better idea of Tiefer’s experience and history, especially as it relates to feminism. This first essay consists of a paper presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in 1993 upon receiving their Kinsey Award.

This chapter contains Tiefer’s thoughts on feminist humor – and she fancies herself quite funny indeed!

What determines whether a joke is inherently feminist or not?

Intent.

But wait a minute - looking at intent alone is not enough. Evil, real consequences spring forth from well-meaning actions. You have to look at the consequences of your actions. Even if that action is telling – what you think is – a feminist joke. Because what happens when you don’t look at intent?

Because when you ignore intent, you get this shit. You get a bunch of partner-blaming, bullying, condescending bullshit, flagrant misogyny, and denial of real medical conditions. You get a bunch of people who deny that FSD is real, because after all they don’t have it themselves and it’s all a bunch of made up hysterical hooey right? You don’t have FSD, it’s all in your head. Maybe if your husband would do the dishes once in awhile you’d have enough energy for a sex drive. No.

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The Beauty of Disease

2010-02-07T05:46:00.000+02:00

H1N1 (Swine flu) virus

One would generally not view disease as a beautiful thing. But disease and the organisms that cause it are part of nature, and Judaism recognizes the beauty of nature. Jewish tradition provides us, for instance, with blessings to recite when we encounter natural wonders such the vastness of ocean or the colors of a rainbow. There are ones we can say upon hearing thunder or discovering a new species for the first time.

For Jews, this appreciation for nature is attributable to an awe for God’s Creation. Jews, however, do not view Creation as perfect, but rather consider humans as partners with God in making the world that God gave us an even better place. Hence, the Jewish concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) and the answer as to why so there are so many Jewish doctors.

Statue of Maimonides in Cordoba, Spain

The boast of “My son, the doctor” has been heard coming in an uninterrupted stream from the mouths of Jewish mothers for millenia. Sherwin B. Nuland wrote an excellent article called, “My Son, The Doctor: The Saga of Jews and Medicine,” for The New Republic in 2005, providing a thorough explanation for this phenomenon. He explains that the fact that approximately one third of the 613 mitzvot in the Torah refer to the cleanliness of the human body and the maintenance of health led the Rabbis of the Talmud and later scholars, such as Maimonides, to conclude that the goal of the prevention and treatment of illness and the consequent prolonging of human life was to serve God.

“It was a Maimonidean precept that the purpose of keeping the body healthy is to enable the unhindered pursuit of knowledge of God, and of the perfect morality for which God is the model. The study of medicine, in sum, is a religious activity.”

Nuland went on to highlight that Jewish medicine derives from Greek medicine (and that in general, there really is no “Jewish medicine,” because Jews have always adapted their practices to the cultures in which they lived), which looked to natural science for cures. God’s having given free will to humans and enjoining us to “Choose life,” signaled to Jews that care of our bodies was up to us. No wonder, then, that there are so many Jews in the fields of medicine and scientific research.

“And so the rabbis of the Talmud taught in the presence of a heritage of ethics and with the conviction that the preservation of life is a basic teaching of their religious system of values, to be carried out by human action, existing as an instrument of divine will, yet applied independently of the divinity’s direct intervention. Though God is the ultimate healer–and indeed, in several dramatic biblical passages God chooses to intercede in order either to cause or to cure illness–God is not to be used by mankind as a medicine. When sickness occurs, a doctor is to be sought out, an imperative clearly articulated by Maimonides: ‘One who is ill has not only the right but also the duty to seek medical aid.’”

Medical professionals, whether they work in the lab or in the clinic, encounter daily the marvels of natural processes and the devastation they can wrought on the life of a human being. How exciting it is to make scientific discoveries and advances, and how painful it is to see patients suffer and die if treatment is unsuccessful. Nature is beautiful, but disease is ugly.

Conceptual artist Luke Jerram

This dichotomy is also not lost on those of us who happen not to by physicians. British conceptual artist Luke Jerram’s exploration of the tension between microbes’ devastating beauty and their devastating impact on humanity has resulted in an exhibition called “Glass Microbiology.” He, with the help of expert glassblowers, has created sculptures of viruses and bacteria of exceptionally intricate – and jarring – beauty, as is expressed in the following letter the artist received from a stranger last September:

Dear Luke,

I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV.

I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculpture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any photo or illustration I’ve ever seen. It’s a very odd feeling seeing my enemy, and the eventual likely cause of my death, and finding it so beautiful.

Thank you.

Jerram’s sculptures allow us to contemplate the realities of disease, reminding us that it is a very physical presence in our world. Jerome Groopman, a doctor I very much admire, and who happens to be a practicing Conservative Jewish, has written and spoken about the relationship between medical science and religion. The two are not mutually exclusive of one another, science does not make belief in God obsolete. But, he like the hundreds of generations of Jewish doctors who have come before him, knows that in the Aleinu prayer we proclaim that our role is l’takken olam m’malchut shaddai, to repair the world in the sovereignty of God. God may be ultimately in charge, but it is our job to study nature and heal the sick:

“As much as I wish there were miracles — boom, my hand’s fixed — those are fantasies. What Judaism teaches us is the knowledge that we’re created with reservoirs of resilience. We are created with the capacity of wisdom, which means judgment — not just knowledge, but the ability to assess and weigh that knowledge to make choices. Very integral in Judaism is the sense of hope. There is capacity to improve. What it takes is drawing on gifts of science with mobilization of the spirit.” (JewishJournal.com, 2007)

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Herbal remedies for treating cold

2010-02-06T13:15:00.000+02:00

The winter is coming soon, and so are the many common diseases that come along with it. One if them is also the usual cold, that we’ve all most probably already had problems with. However, cold can be avoided pretty simply and effectively by using medicinal plants. Even in the case that a person already got a cold, herbs can even help to get rid of this annoying condition pretty soon.

One of the most common herbs that are used in treating or preventing cold are black elder, marshmallow, and sometimes common ivy.

The first of them, black elder has proven properties that strenghten the immune system, and is thereby effective in preventing colds, and even flu. Black elder also promotes perspiration, so it is also a good medicine against fever. Because of its mentioned properties, it can often be found in tea mixtures against cold ant its symptoms.

The second one, marshmallow is good for preventing and stopping various kinds of inflammations, including the ones of oral cavity and throat. It is also known to be a good remedy for stopping cough problems. It is also commonly used in tea mixtures that are used for treating cold.

The last one, common ivy, is a very effective herb for healing cough, and problems related to it. It is mostly used in form of syrups, but tea from the leaves of this herb can also be prepared.

These are just some of the many herbal remedies that can help in preventing and treating cold, and they can be used either seperately, or even better, one can prepare a herbal mixture, by mixing equal parts of every of the above mentioned medicinal herbs. This mixture can than be taken few times a day, throughout the period when there is a relatively high risk of diseases like cold, or flu.

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It's Official: Flu Pandemic a Hoax

2010-02-06T05:15:00.000+02:00

Here are some excerpts … for all those that used the term “conspiracy nut” for those that put out the warning: Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health. …. “This was the mildest flu ever and the people were much more clever than the government so we have to find out what was going on with WHO – why did they do this pandemic alarm,” asked Wodarg, noting that pharmaceutical interests within the World Health Organization were instrumental in creating the panic and reaping the financial dividends. …. Wodarg said there was “no other explanation” for what happened than the fact that the WHO worked in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture the panic in order to generate vast profits, agreeing with host Alex Jones that the entire farce was a hoax. …. However, Wodarg pointed out, “There is no law for WHO, there is no one who punishes those people in WHO, we only have national law, so this is very important that we collect the information and on the national level we try to find those people responsible and we try to punish them.” It would be my hope that those who rushed in panic for a vaccine will no longer be so gullible and begin to question the so called “authorities”… and do some research prior to making a decision that may have a high cost attached to it. With this pandemic also came a danger from the vaccine … and who knows what microscopic implants are now loose in the body of those that were vaccinated. hmm…. now you’re asking yourself: “implants??” Do the research!! Read the rest of the above cited article and see the videos.

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yeah... another stupid exam...

2010-02-04T05:33:00.000+02:00

I just had my GIT (Gastrointestinal) theory paper this morning

and it was terribly freakingly horrible!!!

i’m 80% sure that i’ll flunk it… the question is… whether i make the 40% mark or not?

so very very the sked lor…

if NOT, then need to do so many mafan things just to QUALIFY to sit for the finals….

like one assignment for every ? marks to redeem this qualification TO SIT FOR FINALS!

ARGH!!

which makes me feel like just saying… oh SHYTT!!

but then har i’m a good girl loh so i’ll just say that i FEEL like saying that without actually saying it!

hah! so there!

that’s how bad it is…

GAH…

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Herbal Remedies against Pain

2010-02-02T13:28:00.000+02:00

Many herbs have been used for centuries for their pain-relieving properties. Some of the best include:

Angelica, black haw, cramp bark, kava kava, rosemary and valerian root are good for pain relief related to cramps and muscle spasms.

A tea made of blue violet, catnip, chamomile, gotu kola, licorice, rosemary, white willow, or wood betony is effective in relieving tension and nerve pain. DLPA complex by Nature’s Plus, containing white willow bark plus DL-phenylalanine and bromelain, is a good natural pain reliever. Caution: Do not use chamomile on an ongoing basis, and avoid it completely if you are allergic to ragweed. Do not use licorice on a daily basis for more than seven days in a row, and avoid it completely if you have high blood pressure. Do not take a product containing phenylalanine if you are pregnant or nursing a baby; if you take a MAO inhibitor drug or you suffer from panic attacks, diabetes, or phenylketonuria (PKU). If you have high blood pressure, start with the lowest dosage and monitor your blood pressure before increasing the dose.

Take DPLA with white willow bark capsules and bromelain capsules or fresh pineapple (contains bromelain).

HerbalRemedies: Bromelain 2000 GDU Supplement, NOW Foods, 500 mg, 90 Tabs

HerbalRemedies: White Willow Bark, Standardized Extract, Nature’s Way, 450 mg, 60 Caps

HerbalRemedies: White Willow Bark, 100% Natural, Nature’s Way, 400 mg, 100 Caps

HerbalRemedies: Natural Aspirin Alternative, White Willow Bark Extract, 390 mg, 60 Tabs

Capsaicin, an ingredient in cayenne (capsicum), can provide pain relief when regularly applied to the affected area. Capsaicin can be found and is available in Zostrix, an over-the-counter topical cream. Capsaicin is thought to relieve pain by limiting the production of a neural pain transmitter called substance P. Although the application of capsaicin may cause a burning sensation at first, repeated use keeps the nerves from replenishing their supply of substance P, so that pain is not transmitted to the brain. In studies, capsaicin has been used to control the pain of postherpetic neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy, rhematoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and cluster headaches. Other painful conditions that capsaicin relieves include post-mastectomy pain and is very good for shingles. Cayenne may also help alleviate pain if taken orally.

Eucalyptus is widely used in liniments and salves to treat sore joints and muscles. It can be used in conjunction with a natural oil base and other herbs to offer the body a quick method of reducing painful conditions. It can be used in aromatherapy to help clear nasal passages.

Hops, kava kava, passion flower, valerian root, wild lettuce and wood betony have muscle-relaxing properties, and may help relieve lower back pain.

Ginger is an herb that stimulates blood circulation and enhances the healing process for skin irritations such as cuts, insect stings/bites, and bruising. It is a strong antioxidant and is an effective anti-microbial agent for sores and wounds.

Essential oils of jasmine, juniper, lavendar, peppermint, rose, rosemary, and thyme have been effective in the treatment of a variety of types of pain.

Lavender is effective for rheumatism and joint pain associated with arthritis. Lavender contains medicinal components such as perillyl alcohol, geraniol, and linalool. Other attributes are that Lavender is antibacterial and anti-fungal. It is very good for psoriasis and other skin disorders.

Lobelia is an old herb that has been used to relieve sprains, strains, and muscle aches.

Migraine Pain Reliever from Natural Care is an herbal blend that has been effective in relieving migraines. Read label before using.

Fresh papaya juice and/or fresh pineapple is highly recommended for the treatment of inflammation, heartburn, ulcers, back pain, and digestive disorders.

Neem (known as the Pharmacy Tree) is used for a variety of conditions from aches to gum disease. It can be taken internally or used topically for skin problems, such as eczema and psoriasis.

Yellow dock acts as a blood purifier and is excellent for skin rashes, hives, eczema, psoriasis, and warts.

Aloe vera gel fresh from the plant (peel off outer skin) is recommended for burns, cuts and other wounds. It soothes the injury and promotes healing. Fresh pieces of aloe vera removed from the skin and placed on maternity sanitary pads can be placed against the sore perineum after the baby is born. This is very soothing for tears that occasionally occur during childbirth and for any suturing of tissue.

Saffron has been found to be effective in treating abdominal pain after childbirth. Do not use saffron during pregnancy. Motherwort tea or tincture will help the relief of the afterpains of childbirth. However, the tea made from the herb is quite bitter. Catnip leaves is a well known menstrual cramp brew and relieves the afterpains of childbirth. It keeps the lochia flow moving freely and clot free and relaxes nervous tension as well as working as a pain reliever. Ground Ivy infusion eases afterpains and promotes good uterine tone.

Skullcap tincture is a favorite for pain of all kinds. It can be used for headaches or for the discomfort of contractions during labor when the cervix is dilating. St. Joan’s Wort (St. John’s Wort) can control spasms in the uterus, the back and sides. Both of these herbs can be used together to ease pain.

Arnica is a natural pain relieving herb for bruises, sprains and wounds.

Burdock is used to purify the blood and to stimulate the immune system. It is used for skin disorders such as boils, acne, and eczema. It has been used by Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 3,000 years in the treatment of inflammation, tumors, and infections, both bacterial and fungal.

Calendula is excellent for most skin disorders including diaper rash, sun burns, bruises, and insect stings/bits. It has a soothing effect on irritated skin and reduces inflammation and fights infections from bacterial, fungal, and viral sources. It assists the skin to heal itself after a wound.

Cats claw (una de gato) is an herb from South America that inhances the immune system and aids in the healing process of cuts, bruises, and other skin irritations. It is a vigorous antioxidant that contains glycosides that exhibit anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. It is good for lupus, bursitis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

Yucca is an herb that acts like a blood purifier and is used for the relief of pain associated with arthritis, osteoporosis, and most inflammatory disorders.

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Musculoskeletal MRI By Clyde A. Helms, Nancy M. Major, Mark W. Anderson, Phoebe Kaplan, Robert Dussault

2010-02-02T05:39:00.000+02:00

Title: Musculoskeletal MRI (Helms, 2nd Ed. 2008)

Author: Clyde A. Helms, Nancy M. Major, Mark W. Anderson, Phoebe Kaplan

2nd Edition

Year: 2008

Pages: 456

ISBN: 1416055347

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Whether you are a resident, practicing radiologist, or new fellow, this authoritative resource offers expert guidance on all the essential information you need to approach musculoskeletal MRI and recognize abnormalities. The updated second edition features new illustrations to include the latest protocols as well as images obtained with 3 Tesla (T) MRI. See normal anatomy, common abnormalities, and diseases presented in a logical organization loaded with practical advice, tips, and pearls for easy comprehension.

* Follows a template that includes discussion of basic technical information, as well as the normal and abnormal appearance of each small unit that composes each joint so you can easily find and understand the information you need.

* Depicts both normal and abnormal anatomy, as well as disease progression, through more than 600 detailed images.

* Includes only the essential information so you get all you need to perform quality musculoskeletal MRI without having to wade through too many details.

* Presents the nuances that can be detected with 3 Tesla MRI so you can master this new technology

* Includes “how to” technical information on updated protocols for TMJ, shoulder, elbow, wrist/hand, spine, hips and pelvis, knee, and foot and ankle.

* Features information boxes throughout the text that highlight key information for quick review of pertinent material.

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Body Computing Conference 3.0: Keynote Address by Daniel Kraft, M.D.

2010-01-31T13:41:00.000+02:00

The third installment of the University of Southern California’s Body Computing Conference was held at USC on October 9, 2009, hosted by Leslie Saxon, chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

In his keynote address, physician-scientist Daniel Kraft discussed his revolutionary stem cell research at Stanford University, his exposure to next-gen biotech and his vision of the future of healthcare as the Internet, wearable computing and health informatics converge. To give a taste of where body computing might be in 10 years, he shared an innovative medical animation created by David Bolinsky that utilizes body computing devices in the DARPA soldier project.

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De Bono

2010-01-31T05:53:00.000+02:00

“I used to examine for the medical finals at Cambridge University. About 10 per cent of the candidates were so poor you wondered how they had ever got so far and whether they could ever become doctors. Eighty-five per cent were competent and grey. They had the right answers but nothing more. Only about 5 per cent showed some spark of originality or even thinking. Perhaps that is the nature of medicine as a subject – competence is all.” – Edward de Bono

My Twitter account: http://twitter.com/gambottoburke

And one of my favorite sights:

The sky from our garden

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Why Health Care Reform is Messy

2010-01-28T21:46:00.000+02:00

I saw a patient recently, we’ll call her Anne. She is a 8 yr old little girl who suddenly developed headaches about two weeks ago. The headaches aren’t severe enough to have caused her Mom to take her to the ER or for Anne to have missed school, but they have been fairly constant and obviously concerning to her and her Mom. She came in and saw us after about a week of the headaches and we recommended Ibuprofen, a typical first-line treatment for migraine-like headaches (which we see fairly often in kids). She tried that but the headaches persisted and the medicine didn’t really help at all, so they came back to see me. I recommended a CT scan . The insurance company is now denying the pre-certification for the scan (meaning they won’t pay if she has it) so I spent a great deal of time yesterday on the phone in a “peer-to-peer” review with one of the insurance company doctors trying to convince them that the CT scan is necessary.

I could try to explain all my reasons for wanting to do the scan and try to explain why the insurance company is saying no, but that would be a long and fairly boring post to anyone who isn’t in medicine. The bottom line is that I don’t have any of the reasons on the insurance company’s checklist for “reasons why you should do a CT scan for headaches” . Seriously, the doctor was reading me the checklist, they really have one.

I knew when I called that I didn’t, and so I knew that it is unlikely that I would be able to convince them to pay for it. However, what I know is my patient. That this little girl is one who doesn’t complain much. The mother isn’t one who brings her kids in very often. My gut feeling is telling me that it’s weird that she suddenly has constant headaches even if there aren’t any “red flags” from the checklist present. In the insurance company’s defence they don’t know if I’m just the kind of doctor who orders a lot of tests and is practicing “cover my but” medicine. Statistically, the insurance company has the odds in its favor. Most likely, the headaches are migraines or stress related. The chance that they are due to a tumor or aneurysm or some other more serious structural problem is pretty unlikely.They are willing to make that bet. I’m not.

The problem I have though as a doctor is that I’m being told what I should do (and doctors really don’t like being told what to do) by someone who hasn’t seen my patient. Who is playing a game of the odds using a checklist. Who last saw real patients, who knows how long ago. I don’t like having my judgment questioned by someone who is sitting at a desk with the luxury of not having to look the patient in the eye when they say “No”. It makes me mad.

I don’t disagree that health care reform is necessary and I realize that this anecdote is more about the current failures of the system than about reform. But my concern is that much of the talk centered around reform is about finding “best-care practices” and “reducing unnecessary tests”. I don’t have an answer to the problem. But I worry that it will only get worse.

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Hazımsızlık ve iştahsızlıkta kantaron

2010-01-28T05:31:00.000+02:00

BİTKİLERLE MODERN TEDAVİ

Dr. Ahmet Toptaş

KANTARON

(Centaurium minus MOENCH)

Alman resmi gazetesinde 06.07.1988 tarihinde yayınlanarak (Heftnummer:122, ATC-Code:A15) modern tıbbi tedavide kullanılmaya başlanmıştır.

Diğer isimleri: Küçük kantaron, Kantarion, Kırmızı kantaron.

Bitki: Anadolu ve Avrupa’da yaygın olarak yetişir. 10-100 cm yüksekliğinde bir veya iki yıllık otsu bir bitkidir. Açık renk kökü dikine büyür. Dip yaprakları saplıdır, rozet şeklinde dizilmiştir, tüysüzdür, kenarları düzgündür. Üst yaprakları sapsız, çapraz karşılıklı dizilmiş, mat yeşil renkli, yumurta veya uzun-oval biçimli, çok hafif tüylü ve 6 cm uzunluğundadır. Temmuz-ekim ayları arasında açan çiçekleri yan dalların ucunda şemsiye şeklinde dizilmiştir, pembe veya kırmızı renklidir, 4-5 yapraklıdır. Meyvesi 3 mm uzunluğunda yumurta biçimli, kahve renklidir , üzerinde açık renk, ince çizgiler bulunur.

İlaç etkili kısmı:: Çiçeklenme döneminde toplanıp kurutulmuş toprak üstü kısımları kullanılır. Bileşiminde: Seceiridoidglikosid (Swertiamarin, swerosid, gentiopikrosid, gentioflavosid vb.) yapısında acı madde flavonoid, fenolkarboksilik asitler bulunur.

Etkisi: Mide salgısını artırır.

Kullanıldığı yerler: İştahsızlık ve hazımsızlık (Gaz, şişkinlik vb.) sorunlarında kullanılır.

Kullanılmaması gereken haller: Yok.

İstenmeyen Etkileri: Yok.

İlaçlarla uyumsuzluğu: Yok.

Kullanım miktarı: Günlük ortalama kullanım miktarı 6 gr ot.

Kullanım şekli: İnce kıyılmış 1-2 çay kaşığı ot bir fincana konur, üzerine 150 ml kaynar su ilave edilir, 10 dakika demlenir, süzülerek içilir. Günde 2-3 defa çayı hazırlanarak iştahsızlıkta yemeklerden 30 dakika önce, hazımsızlıkta yemeklerden sonra içilir.

Kaynak:

Alman Kanunlarına Göre

Düzenlenip İzin Verilen

BİTKİLERLE MODERN TEDAVİ

Pratik Uygulamalar

Dr. Ahmet Toptaş

Gonca Yayınevi, İstanbul 2009

ISBN: 978-9944-790-31-4

0212 5285076-5286005

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Robotics as a Career?

2010-01-26T13:21:00.000+02:00

Forget about becoming an actuary or an engineer, a career in Robotics is the new age trend……….

Not so long ago everyone would have told you that the best career to choose was in accountancy, medicine or even becoming a pilot! There emerged different disciplines of engineering a while ago and we spotted a turning point. However, very little did the world predict there would be a career known as robotics. Even up to this day some people are not aware of the existence of robotics engineering. So, what exactly does this engineering discipline entails? Let us break it down:

What is Robotics? Robotics is the engineering science and technology… Read more

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Anemia

2010-01-26T05:53:00.000+02:00

Anemia

Anemia is a medical condition in which the red blood cell count or hemoglobin is less than normal. The normal level of hemoglobin is generally different in males and females. For men, anemia is typically defined as hemoglobin level of less than 13.5 gram/100ml and in women as hemoglobin of less than 12.0 gram/100ml. These definitions may vary slightly depending on the source and the laboratory reference used. Ayurveda (Herbal) Medicine

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Panchakarma Treatment Abhyangam Diet Adopt a well-balanced diet rich in iron, sesame seeds, almonds, dairy products, animal protein, vegetables as beet, lettuce, spinach, soybean, radish, carrots, tomatoes and fresh fruits as banana, black berries, strawberries, apple, amla and plum. Lifestyle Avail sunlight as it stimulates the production of red blood cells. Yoga

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Meaning of colored caps on blood vials

2010-01-24T21:29:00.000+02:00

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If you’ve ever wondered why blood tubes (vacutainers) have different colors, or the reason for the sequence in which they’re taken, take a look at this:

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The meaning of the different colors are standardized across manufacturers.

The order of draw refers to the sequence in which these tubes should be filled. The needle which pierces the tubes can carry additives from one tube into the next, and so the sequence is standardized so that any cross-contamination of additives will not affect laboratory results.

Containers containing coagulants

Gold or ‘Tiger’ Red/Black top: Clot activator and gel for serum separation
Red top PLASTIC tubes: Contains a clot activator and is used when serum is needed
Orange or Grey/Yellow ‘Tiger’ Top: Contain Thrombin, a rapid clot activator, for STAT serum testing

Containers containing anticoagulants

Green - Contains Sodium Heparin or Lithium Heparin used for plasma determinations
Light Green or Green/Gray ‘Tiger’: For plasma determinations in chemistry
Purple or lavender – contains EDTA (the potassium salt, or K2EDTA). This is a strong anticoagulant and these tubes are usually used for full blood counts (CBC) and blood films. Lavender top tubes are generally used when whole blood is needed for analysis. Can also be used for some blood bank procedures such as blood type and screen, but other blood bank procedures, such as crossmatches must be in a pink tube in most facilities.
Grey – These tubes contain fluoride and oxalate. Fluoride prevents enzymes in the blood from working, so a substrate such as glucose will not be gradually used up during storage. Oxalate is an anticoagulant.
Light blue – Contain a measured amount of citrate. Citrate is a reversible anticoagulant, and these tubes are used for coagulation assays. Because the liquid citrate dilutes the blood, it is important the tube is full so the dilution is properly accounted for.
Dark Blue – Contains sodium heparin, an anticoagulant. Also can contain EDTA as an additive or have no additive. These tubes are used for trace metal analysis.
Pink – Similar to purple tubes (both contain EDTA) these are used for blood banking.

Other

Red (glass)- Contains no additives. Tests for antibodies and drugs often require these.
Light yellow – Contains sodium polyanethol sulfonate (SPS). Used for blood culture specimens or acid-citrate-dextrose (ACD), used for blood bank studies, HLA phenotyping, and parental testing.
Tan (glass or plastic) – Contains either sodium heparin (glass) or K2EDTA (plastic). Used for lead determinations. These tubes are certified to contain no lead.

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Plug-and-play Hospitals in Haiti

2010-01-23T13:45:00.000+02:00

The Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 and received the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize. They have a special role when humanitarian catastrophes occur. Just like now in Haiti, they have to provide doctors with the facilities required for providing sufficient healthcare services. David Walkley from this prestigious organization describes how they use plug-and-play hospitals.

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Free the Radicals!

2010-01-23T04:56:00.000+02:00

Is some sun exposure good for me? Will moderate and daily alcohol consumption actually extend my life? Is the risk of breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer in women reduced by minimizing the frequency of menses? With the barrage of health claims that come at us on a daily basis, it can sometimes be impossible to distinguish fiction from fact. Doctors, being simply human, fall into this trap as well – eager to sound cutting-edge and knowledgeable to patients, many are willing to base medical advice on interpretations of research that are either immature or only partially informed. Scientists, eager for a headline and desperately needed funding, may drop a quote to a journalist that is overly extrapolative, leading to confusion between evidence and best guess. We are certainly all capable of hyperbole when describing something fascinating or full of potential. It is forgivable. What seems far more insidious is financial exploitation under the guise of good science, that is, taking this otherwise innocuous human flaw to the marketplace wholesale. One of the most widespread examples of this abuse is proudly labeled on products contained in most refrigerators in the US: the beneficial effects of antioxidants.

This one is pretty entrenched. ”Antioxidant Rich!” has become the advertising slogan of so many foods that are considered healthy, that the confirmation bias is near insurmountable. So what is an antioxidant anyway? When something gets burned, it oxidizes, and part of that process produces oxidants, some of which are highly reactive atoms and ions called free radicals. This happens around a campfire in a very similar way to how it occurs in our bodies. The food we eat is slowly heated during the digestive process and exposed to oxygen delivered by red blood cells. During the oxidation process, the free radicals let loose in our cells are like tiny bullets, damaging tissue and knocking proteins out from within DNA molecules. Free radicals may be associated with neurological and nervous system diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and schizophrenia, and there is a clear link between them and the formation of some cancers. Despite this, free radicals are critical to living a healthy life. They are one of the body’s most capable weapons, employed by white blood cells to safeguard the bloodstream from unwanted bacteria and viruses. By oxidizing the invaders, the immune system effectively destroys them through the use of free radicals. To curb the widespread damage that occurs from these cellular-sized Uzis, the body synthesizes antioxidants like vitamins A, C, and E as well as selenium and melatonin. While these all serve other important roles within the body, one of their chief duties is to neutralize excess free radicals.

It’s at this point that our original problem took hold. Leaping to conclusions, many adopted the free radical theory of aging, and determined that taking abnormally high doses of supplements rich in antioxidants would greatly slow the aging process and drastically reduce incidences of cancer and many other diseases. The berry and bean growers out there, as well as their secondary and tertiary markets, could now trumpet anti-aging and anti-cancer benefits on their product labels – which they promptly did. A couple of nightly newscasts and a season of Oprah later, and everyone was on board with antioxidants as a source of life extension and general wellness. The problem is that there wasn’t much good science regarding whether the average person benefited from supplementing their antioxidant intake.

Over the years, the findings of more and more research surface. One large study geared towards determining whether beta-carotene supplements decreased the risk of lung cancer in patients was stopped after the returning data indicated that subjects were developing lung cancer at a significantly increased rate. Then in 2007, the Journal of the American Medical Association published this exhaustive and utterly damning meta analysis of all available studies on the effectiveness of antioxidant supplements. They examined 68 reliably conducted scientific trials (some with low-bias risk others with high) that covered 232, 606 participants. What they discovered is best summed in quote:

“We did not find convincing evidence that antioxidant supplementshave beneficial effects on mortality. Even more, beta carotene,vitamin A, and vitamin E seem to increase the risk of death.Further randomized trials are needed to establish the effectsof vitamin C and selenium.”

The particulars of the survey methodology are interesting and make for a good read, and they inspire confidence in the reliability of the results. I also tend to trust the American Medical Association over Welch’s when it comes to my health.

Not that I’m saying that antioxidants are bad or that free radicals are good, but rather that they work best in their natural balance. A normal diet, or even a crappy fast food and prepackaged meals diet, gives the body all of the antioxidants it needs. That’s also not to say that fruits and vegetables aren’t really important for other reasons as well. The great botanist and writer, Michael Pollan has said, “Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.” I think that sums it up best.

Oh – didn’t want anybody left wondering:

Is some sun exposure good for me (absolutely, don’t get too much if you’re really pastey)?

Will moderate and daily alcohol consumption actually extend my life? (yep by 10-15% on average - unless you drink more than two beers a day or the equivalent)?

Is the risk of breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer in women reduced by minimizing the frequency of menses (yes, considerably)?

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Update of Performers and Participants in the Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief Telethon

2010-01-21T21:35:00.000+02:00

Posted by: Audiegrl

Friday’s multi-network “Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief” telethon will feature Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Stewart, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Robert Pattinson, Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Muhammad Ali, former President Bill Clinton and more than 100 of the biggest names in film, television and music.

The telethon, will air commercial-free across MTV, VH1, ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, Comedy Central, Bravo, E! Entertainment Network, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, Centric, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, Epix, Palladia, SoapNet, Style, Discovery Health and Planet Green. Canada’s CTV, CBC Television, Global Television and MuchMusic also will air “Hope for Haiti,” as will BET International, CNN International, National Geographic and MTV Networks International, making the event available in 640 million homes worldwide.

Facebook and Twitter are the official social-media partners for the telethon. All donations will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, Red Cross, UNICEF and Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation. The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and United Nations World Food Programme will also benefit from the telethon’s efforts, as aid will be split evenly among each organization’s relief programs for the ravaged island.

A statement released Thursday detailed which musical artists would be featured from each location:

New York City, NY

Wyclef Jean, hosting
Madonna
Sting
Bruce Springsteen
Mary J. Blige
Jennifer Hudson
Shakira

Los Angeles, CA

George Clooney, hosting
Justin Timberlake
Christina Aguilera
Alicia Keys
Dave Matthews
John Legend
Stevie Wonder
Taylor Swift
Emeline Michel
Group performance by Keith Urban, Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow

London, England

Beyoncé
Coldplay
Group performance by Bono, The Edge, Jay-Z and Rihanna

Port au Prince, Haiti

Anderson Cooper, hosting

People can start donating even before the start of the 8 p.m. EST concert via phone and text.

The two-hour telethon will be shown on all the major networks and a host of other channels. It will be broadcast from New York, London, Los Angeles and Haiti.

“Hope for Haiti Now” will begin accepting donations at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT on Friday, January 22 via the following methods:

Online: www.hopeforhaitinow.org

Phone: 877-99-HAITI

Text: Text “GIVE” to 50555

Mail: Hope For Haiti Now Fund, Entertainment Industry Foundation, 1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700, Los Angeles, CA 90017

Haiti Relief Coverage Main Page

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Pelosi Effectively Tells Americans To Go Take A Hike

2010-01-21T05:01:00.000+02:00

Yesterday, Scott Brown virtually achieved the impossible, taking the vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts, the first Republican to hold a Senate seat in that State since 1972.

In what was basically a referendum on the direction the Country is being taken, Brown won 52% of the vote to the Democrats 47%. That percentage was fairly close to pre polling done in the day or two prior to the vote. It was said that early in the campaign, the Democrats had a 30 percentage point lead, so to blow something as huge as that, especially in a State that Democrats have had total dominance for the last ten years with all ten Congressmen and both Senators, must be a concern to Democrats, not only in Massachusetts, but across the whole Country.

Much has been already said that this Special Senate Election was a referendum especially on the ramifications of the Health Care Reform Bill. That may or may not be true, but what is interesting is those percentages that Brown did achieve.

That Health Care Bill is vastly unpopular across the length and breadth of the Country. Polling across the Country shows that the percentages of those for and against show that a larger percentage are against it. If the solidity of Democrats in Massachusetts is taken into account, with more in that State favouring a Democrat inspired Bill than would oppose it, then those percentage figures extrapolate out roughly close to the average for the whole of the U.S.

Even so, it would be hard to ignore the close relationship between what happened in Massachusetts and the feeling of the people when it comes to that Health Care Reform Bill, mainly because everybody is associating the two.

So when Nancy Pelosi comes out and says what she does in this short video, it is really disconcerting.

This video was posted to You Tube by Associated Press

She says, in respect of the Massachusetts vote, “we heard, we will heed, we will move forward with their considerations in mind.”

Then without even pausing for breath, she says, “but we will move forward for Health Care.”

This smacks of a classic case of listening to what the people have to say in a nice concerned way, wearing your ’serious face’, and then totally ignoring what was just said, almost as if to say that you are all wrong, and we know better than you what you really want.

This is plain, flat out arrogance, and there’s no other word for it.

Who cares what you think! We’ll do exactly what WE want to do.

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Seven days past the aftershock

2010-01-19T21:21:00.000+02:00

So far the situation in Haiti centres around bringing aid to the good people of the capital, Port-au-Prince. I am no expert in matters of earth plates, and physics, and as you may know, have no way of knowing what happened there except through brainy scientists having studied the Earth’s movements and crusts. One question that runs through my mind day after day since this horrendous event occurred concerns the area where the earthquake hit. According to many laboratory instruments that will tell us the magnitude of the quake, we are told that the epicentre was located southwest of the capital. If the Earth trembled there at more than 7.0 on the Richter scale that counts as maximum a 7.5 level, would it not be rational to assume that other communities outside of Port-au-Prince had been affected as well? I am surprised at this date to hear skimpy reports of entire villages having been decimated outside of the capital such as places located south of the Island. No reports have come from the western part of the Dominican Republic either. I am AGHAST at the inefficiency of the United States’ ability to bring adequate medicine, food and water to Haiti. Could these have been dropped from the sky days ago? I understand that disease and malnutrition are major concerns now.

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Sick day #1

2010-01-19T04:55:00.000+02:00

Hello again…. yes the inactivity due to posting was due to schoolwork AND me getting sick. So today is my first day as a sick person in such a long time… me today

Me trying to keep the hiccups down later in the day and yes due to just sleeping 3.5 hours last night I got a big pimple on my forehead how fun! This shows how much you need your ‘beauty’ sleep.

During class times the slow depiction:

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And then the cycle repeats itself… yeah, basically my day…

I ended up not doing much today… just hte Japanese reading assignment that we had to do for Weds. class.

The plan is to sleep early today but that probably isn’t going to happen as planned. >.< Anyways, today I get to try ColdFX. Yay! For those who don’t know what ColdFX is it is this:

Source: http://www.canadiansportcentre.com/Communications/SportPerformanceWeekly/2004%20SPW%20Images/Cold_FX_Don_Cherry.jpg

It basically is medicine but it boosts up your immune system then anything else. If Don Cherry thinks that its good for atheletes then I think it would work for me too!! I will post a review of it tomorrow to let everyone know what it’s like… and the background behind it… seeing that it was developed in Canada…. hooray for Canadians!!

Well, bedtime now, I’m hoping to put up a haul photo thing soon. Those things are soo much fun to read and watch but I’ve never actually posted anything like that… it will be interesting…

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A Future Without Borders

2010-01-17T21:14:00.000+02:00

I am currently working towards a nursing degree. I’m still in the early stages, taking only a few classes per semester due to the lack of funds — I am putting my daughter through college after all. I will eventually get my degree and become a full fledged nurse, ready to work in a hospital or clinic. I would be able to make a good wage and bring much wealth into my home. I could give my daughter and grand daughters much more than I have been able to as a factory worker and especially as an unemployed part-time student. There is one thing, however, I believe I should give them that will not require me to work for a higher wage.

I don’t want to simply give them a bright future replete of wealth, happiness and all bounties of that sort. I want to be a part of something beyond that: I want to help give them a better world. Granted, I can not simply change the world at will and turn it into a beautiful scenery of green grass, clear rivers and a sunflower sun, just like in the movies, but I can try to make the world they live in at least a little bit better. I’ve watched plenty of those horrible commercials of impoverished people in downtrodden countries who have little food and drinking water. Everyone has seen their share of that. Most people don’t donate to those organizations though and, I hate to say it, I have never been in a safe position to do so either. I hope people don’t donate for the same reason. One thing that people do even less is help people like that directly. Those who go to these impoverished nations and help them build their communities, lives and future are few and far in between. I don’t want to be a part of the many who don’t. I want to be there, helping in any way I can. I want to be a doctor or nurse who goes to an impoverished country and help people in great need. I want to build a school in the Middle East. I want to be in Haiti, right now, mending broken bones and saving people’s lives even as I lose many who can not be saved. The broken heart I would suffer knowing I have failed in many instances would be worth suffering knowing I had helped someone, anyone, from dying and suffering the unknown beyond this life of misery they’ve been left to.

This world is filled with suffering, danger and hatred because we don’t have enough people going to these impoverished countries to help them build their lives. Capitalist desire strips the earth of the sustenance it provides these people and it leaves them behind to fend for what’s left. The people of Afghanistan have been embattled throughout millennia by invaders and dictators, despots and oppressors. Their country is a country with little education and rights for women and the people in general. At the same time, the country has a spark for education, even for women, that is hidden from the naked eyes of the rest of the country. They need medical help and education. If they had those things and felt safer — and safe from outside oppressors — their society would be a much better one. People from a better Afghanistan would be more resistant to extremism, making the world for my daughter and grand children safer, brighter, better — maybe even as bright as one with a sunflower sun, just like in the movies.

That’s what I want to do. My family, my progeny, deserves better than the smallest gesture I can do for them. Their world is not just a corner of it — this entire world is theirs. I wouldn’t want to leave the greatest gift I can give them in the worst shape it can possibly be. I want it to be beautiful, just like them.

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Sleep, Sleep, and More Sleep

2010-01-16T21:18:00.000+02:00

I kept Aidan home from school yesterday and from the sitter’s so that he could start getting better. We all have this monster cold thing.

Thursday night before bed, the boys got some cold medicine, I made sure their heat was up and tucked them in all snugly and warm. I took a muscle relaxer before I went to bed because I’ve had muscle aches for weeks now and being sick has made them worse. We all slept good that night.

I think we got out of bed about 9 am, had breakfast, watched some TV and took a nap at 11. About 1pm, I showered and we headed into the office where they just sat around watching a movie for a bit while I worked.

When we came home, they took another nap for about an hour. Then we had dinner while watching TV. About 7:30 they went to bed. Shortly after I fell asleep on the couch and got up and went into bed about 10. I think we got up about 8 this morning and the kids at least are starting to look a bit better. The plan is to go to bed early again tonight too.

My muscles are still achy and I have a sore throat still. But I feel more with it mentally. I was in quite the fog this past week. Today I have accomplished more at home than I did all week! The dishes are finally washed, the laundry done, and now the floors just have to be cleaned.

I hope you all had a better week than me!

Don’t forget, you have until Sunday night at midnight to enter my giveaway!!!

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Top 100 Clipart Sites

2010-01-16T13:08:00.000+02:00

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Unique webart, icons and cartoons for personal and non-profit sites. Andrew’s GraphXKingdom

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Using nanotech to attack cancer

2010-01-14T21:44:00.000+02:00

Via KurzweilAI.net — Nanotechnology continues to be a major player in treating cancer.

Nanoparticle Cocktail Targets and Kills Tumors PhysOrg.com, Jan. 13, 2010

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute’s Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence have developed a “cocktail” of two different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors.

One nanomaterial was designed to find and adhere to tumors in mice and then sensitize tumor cells for the second nanoparticle, which kills the tumors.

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Dr. Horng

2010-01-14T05:47:00.000+02:00

I do not know Dr. Horng personally and I have never had him as a doctor. I only know from what I hear, mostly from the paper. Personally, I would not use a doctor who practices general medicine to work on my teeth. And, If I was not getting the medical treatment I think I should have, I would go to someone else. Do you think the $1.9 million lawsuit is a way for someone trying to “cash in” on someone’s misfortune or is it justifiable? Why would someone continue to see a doctor if they were unhappy with the results? Page County already lost a few doctors, we almost lost the hospital a few times, and now, we are losing the dialysis center in Stanley in March 2010.

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Insect Cells Provide the Key to Alternative Swine Flu Vaccination

2010-01-12T20:57:00.000+02:00

Researchers have discovered how influenza vaccines can be produced faster than through the traditional method of egg-based production, revealing a new strategy for the fight against influenza pandemics. (Credit: iStockphoto)

Scientists in Vienna have developed a new technique for producing vaccines for H1N1 — so-called swine flu — based on insect cells. The research, published in the Biotechnology Journal, reveals how influenza vaccines can be produced faster than through the traditional method of egg-based production, revealing a new strategy for the fight against influenza pandemics.

“Recent outbreaks of influenza highlight the importance of a rapid and sufficient vaccine supply for pandemic and inter pandemic strains,” said co-author Florian Krammer from the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science in Vienna. “However, classical manufacturing methods for vaccines fail to satisfy this demand.”

Traditional influenza vaccines, which are produced in embryonated chicken eggs, can be manufactured in the quantities needed for seasonal strains of influenza. Yet because of limited egg supply this method may be insufficient in a pandemic scenario, such as the current H1N1 ’swine flu’ pandemic.

The team’s new method turns to insect cell based technology to create recombinant influenza virus-like particles (VLPs), which resemble virus particles but lack the viral nucleic acid, so they are not infectious.

The Austrian team took just ten weeks to produce swine-origin pandemic H1N1 influenza VLPs for immunological study in mice. This shows that production of a mock-up vaccine is feasible in this time range, outcompeting conventional production methods which take months.

Using insect cells also bypasses the disadvantages of egg-based production, such as limited production capacity, allergic reactions to egg proteins and biosafety issues.

“Our work demonstrates that recombinant influenza virus-like particles are a very fast, safe and efficient alternative to conventional influenza vaccines and represents a significant new approach for newly emerging influenza strains like swine-origin H1N1 or H5N1,” concluded Krammer.

“Virus-like particles will be one solution to tackle the biological variability of influenza pandemics,” said journal editor Professor Alois Jungbauer. “Mutated strains can be quickly engineered. So in this respect the teams’ work is an extremely valuable contribution to modern vaccine production.”

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Is Sorry the Hardest Word in Health Care

2010-01-10T13:26:00.000+02:00

AH, the thorny and seemingly never-ending topic of employee error and corporate misconduct: How does your company handle it? Deny and defend? Disclose and apologize?

With the recent bombing attempt on a flight to Detroit and the deadly bombing attack on American intelligence agents in Afghanistan, the question of how to publicly account for system failure is, of course, playing out in government.

But major industries also have their share of breakdowns to account for. Consider health care. Does working for a hospital or a drug maker mean never having to say you’re sorry?

Even a decade ago, according to physicians, it was standard practice for many doctors andhospitals not to inform patients about medical errors. Now an increasing number of leading medical centers are taking a different tack and encouraging doctors to apologize to patients for mistakes and to explain what went wrong.

Doctors say that such accountability can help patients feel more cared for and empowered, as well as enhance the reputation of the doctor and medical center as honest brokers. Although one might assume that apologizing exposes hospitals to increased litigation, a few medical centers, including the University of Michigan Health System, have reported that the approach has reduced malpractice suits.

Apologizing isn’t popular among drug makers, however. And in our litigious country, C.E.O.’s are understandably gun-shy about teeing up a costly lawsuit by issuing an apology that a court might later construe as an admission of guilt.

So even though two leading drug makers last year paid massive fines to settle charges that they had illegally marketed certain drugs for unapproved uses, they did not use the word “apologize” in their public statements.

Last January, the drug maker Eli Lilly pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and paid $1.41 billion to settle criminal and civil charges that it improperly marketed an antipsychotic drug for elderly patients with dementia, potentially putting them at risk. In September,Pfizer paid $2.3 billion to settle criminal and civil charges that it had illegally marketed an anti-inflammatory drug and other products. One of its subsidiaires, the Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, pleaded guilty to a felony related to the anti-inflammatory drug.

After its settlement, Lilly issued a press release saying, “We deeply regret the past actions covered by the misdemeanor plea.” (In response to a reporter’s query, Marni Lemons, a spokeswoman for Lilly, said, “We think that is an apology.”)

Similarly, Pfizer’s statement said, “We regret certain actions taken in the past.” (Christopher Loder, a Pfizer spokesman, said last week, “We have publicly acknowledged our conduct and taken full responsibility.”)

Each drug maker also said it maintained comprehensive corporate compliance policies and had instituted additional measures as part of corporate integrity agreements with the government.

If we lived in a litigation-free world, it might be easier for drug makers to go further than this. (On the other hand, without the threat of legal penalties, they might also consider themselves less accountable.) But putting litigation aside for the moment, what about a company that finds the strength to directly apologize to physicians and patients whose ethics or well-being may have been undermined by questionable marketing or potentially risky drugs?

The difference between apologizing and simply offering a “regret” may seem semantic. Yet some ethicists and analysts say that different words do, in fact, reflect divergent approaches to accountability.

A company that openly apologizes does more than merely take public responsibility for its actions — it also signals to its own employees that certain practices are unacceptable, analysts say. And, they add, a company expressing regret may not be accepting blame. After all, you can regret an event, like an earthquake or a hurricane, in which you played no role.

“Companies use ‘regret’ as a way of avoiding accountability,” said Dr. Carl Elliott, a professor at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota. “You regret something that happened, not something that you did.”

In one of the few pharmaceutical mea culpas of last year, the chief executive of Genzymein Cambridge, Mass., wrote a letter to patients with two rare genetic conditions, apologizing for a medication shortage that occurred after the company shut down a manufacturing facility because of viral contamination. The letter acknowledged that the company hadn’t maintained a sufficient inventory of the drugs.

“We certainly failed to meet the needs of these communities,” says Jamie Manganello, Genzyme’s associate director of global patient advocacy. “I don’t think there was a choice not to apologize.”

Indeed, in light of a Harris poll last month that reported that Americans trust drug makers only slightly more than they trust tobacco or oil companies, contrition still could have a public relations upside for drug makers.

The poll was published at the end of a year in which a series of government investigations and lawsuits showed how some drug makers paid leading physicians and patient advocacy groups, engaged in misleading marketing, supported ghostwritten articles in medical journals and tried to squelch doctors’ concerns about drug safety.

Although the industry has recently changed its approach to some of these practices, industry watchers say drug makers could advance their cause by also apologizing.

“The companies should be saying, ‘We did lousy; we did not put our best foot forward,’” says Doug Wojcieszak, the founder of the Sorry Works! Coalition, a consultant group in Glen Carbon, Ill., that trains medical professionals in the art of apologizing.

OPENLY apologizing also has the potential to turn a problem into a teachable moment for employees, thereby preventing a repeat occurrence, says Paul Levy, the chief executive of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

In 2008, a surgeon at his hospital mistakenly operated on the wrong side of a patient. The doctor and other hospital personnel apologized. And Mr. Levy publicly dissected the event on his blog, called “Running a Hospital.”

The medical profession, he says, was initially hesitant to embrace contrition. But, he says, “as in any field, once you have a few leaders do it and the world doesn’t end and, in fact, is made better, then people tend to follow.”

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Understanding Stress, What Causes It and How You Can Manage It Effectively

2010-01-09T13:11:00.000+02:00

It’s important to figure out what causes stress for you as an individual, because everyone feels and responds to stress differently.

Keeping a stress journal may help you identify what causes you to be stress, what level of stress you feel and help you remember how you dealt with stress, and how you could have handled it better.

As it is virtually impossible to eliminate stress completely from our live, the next best thing is to learn how to reduce it.

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Obama And The Vampire Congress

2010-01-07T13:01:00.000+02:00

By Michelle Malkin

Meet the Beltway bloodsuckers. They convene in the dead of night, when most ordinary mortals have left work and let their guard down or are lying asleep in bed. Pale-faced and insatiable, the nocturnal thieves do their nefarious business in backrooms and secret chambers. Their primary victims? Taxpayers, the free market and deliberative democracy.

Democratic leaders have been promising the most ethical, transparent, open and engaged administration for years. Instead, they have delivered a bleak and creepy legislative environment that could double as a “Twilight” movie set.

Skulking Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rammed the government health care takeover package through under the cover of darkness before Thanksgiving and Christmas. House Democratic leaders forbade debate on all but one amendment not authored by themselves. The Senate Finance Committee killed a GOP amendment that would have required Demcare to be available online for 72 hours before the committee voted. Reid and his Volterra-style henchmen cut last-minute cash-for-cloture deals behind closed doors.

And now House and Senate Democratic leaders are reportedly preparing to cut dissenters out of the reconciliation process by bypassing the formal conference committee.

In Hill parlance, this legislative shortcut is called “ping-ponging.” A better game analogy: dodgeball. With mounting opposition from both conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats, President Obama’s water-carriers must use every trick in the book to speed the final merging and passage of the bill before the end of the month.

The hypocrisy reeks stronger than rotting garlic. In 2006, House Democrats asserted that “House-Senate conferences are a critical part of the deliberative process because they produce the final legislative product that will become the law of the land.” That same year, Reid railed on the Senate floor against informal deal-making that circumvented the conference committee process — and he attacked the use of manager’s amendments to avoid public scrutiny:

“Of course, nobody can see the manager’s amendment. It is composed of over 40 amendments. How could anyone vote for a piece of legislation such as that — a manager’s amendment with 42 separate amendments? Now, these amendments were not put in a conference committee. People complain about that. But at least in a conference committee, you have people working together, sticking things in. … Here, you have one person making a decision as to what is going to be in the manager’s amendment. There is no way to know what is in it.”

But four years later, it was Reid who snuck his 383-page manager’s amendment — stuffed with payoffs, special breaks and concessions on health care — into the Senate hopper on the Saturday before Christmas break. Four years later, it is Reid stifling the open, collaborative conference committee process he so fiercely championed.

Where’s Barack Obama? As a candidate, he promised repeatedly to broadcast legislative negotiations on C-SPAN “so that the American people can see what the choices are” and “so that the public will be part of the conversation and will see the choices that are being made.” But the most transparent presidential administration ever is shrugging its shoulders. On Tuesday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs pooh-poohed C-SPAN’s request to allow electronic media coverage of the Demcare negotiations.

Instead, Gibbs thinks Americans should be grateful for what they got last month: “The Senate did a lot of their voting at 1:00 and 2:00 in the morning on C-SPAN. … And I think if you watched that debate — I don’t know — I wasn’t up at 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning for a lot of those votes, but I think if the American public had watched … you’d have seen quite a bit of public hearing and public airing.” And if you missed the middle-of-the-night broadcasts, tough noogies.

Team Obama’s contempt for meaningful transparency has been on display from Day One. A year ago this month, Obama broke his vaunted open government pledge with the very first bill he signed into law. On Jan. 29, 2009, the White House boasted that the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act had been posted online for review. Except: Obama had already signed it — in violation of his “sunlight before signing” pledge to post legislation for public comment on the White House website five days before he sealed any deal.

From the stimulus to the health care takeover to holiday bailouts for bankrupt financial behemoths Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it’s been all backrooms and blackouts ever since. The Prince of Darkness at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is perfectly happy with his Vampire Congress. Wraiths of a sunshine-evading feather flock together.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2009).

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Frankenstein, Necrophilia, and The Final Solution: How Transphobic Was Mary Daly, Really?

2010-01-07T05:31:00.000+02:00

Historiann is wondering if there’s solid evidence that Mary Daly actually was transphobic. After a food-fight erupted in comments on Shakesville’s post, “RIP Mary Daly,” Historiann asks:

Did any of the very opinionated commenters [at Shakesville] who were so very concerned about Daly’s transphobia offer quotations, or, you know, any actual evidence of her grave sins against humanity? (I mean, aside from citing Wikipedia?) Did anyone do what Mary Daly herself did her whole life–commit scholarship by citing evidence, chapter and verse?

(More here.)

Now, I wasn’t involved in that pile-on because I’m generally uncomfortable with how the laudable idea of safe space sometimes becomes a silencing mechanism at Shakesville, and so I never comment there. I fully agree with Historiann: the snap judgments in that comment thread epitomize a real problem in feminist blogdonia – a tendency to assume bad faith and judge quickly and harshly.

But yeah, Daly did write some nasty things in Gyn/Ecology. I spent some time today digging through it (the relevant passages can all be found online, though you have to cobble them together from Amazon and Google Books). I didn’t find the term “Frankensteinian” applied verbatim to transsexuals, so technically Wikipedia may be incorrect in imputing it to her (or maybe I just didn’t find it). But only technically. I’ll get to the Frankenstein thing in a moment.

First, some context. Saying that radical feminists/hags must find their own selves, Daly cautions against being “swallowed up in male-centered (Dionysian) confusion. Hags find our own boundaries, our own definitions.” So far, so good. What’s not to like about defining one’s own boundaries? It’s smart and healthy, both personally and politically. But then Daly starts crossing my boundaries:

The Dionysian solution for women, which is violation of our own Hag-ocratic boundaries, is The Final Solution. To succumb to this seductive invitation is to become incorporated into the Mystical Body of Maledom, that is, to become ‘living’ dead women, forever pumping our own blood into the Heavenly Head, giving head to the Holy Host, losing our heads.

This is an example of Daly’s language-play leading her into incoherence. Meaning disintegrates: what does it mean to give head to the Holy Host? Last I knew, you chew on the host, which is sort of the opposite of what men appear to enjoy in fellatio – or have I been missing out on something important? There’s no substance in that metaphor, only a drive-by condemnation of blow jobs.

But that’s a frivolous point. What made me flinch here – and we haven’t gotten to the transphobia yet – was her appropriation of the Holocaust. It’s legitimate to look at genocide in comparative history. It’s not okay to use it as a metaphor for women identifying with men.

This notion of a Dionysian Final Solution forms the launching pad for Daly’s attack on trans people:

Dionysus sometimes assumed a girl-like form. The phenomenon of the drag queen dramatically demonstrates such boundary violation. Like whites playing “black face,” he incorporates the oppressed role without being incorporated in it. In the phenomenon of transsexualism, the incorporation/confusion is deeper. As ethicist Janice Raymond has pointed out, the majority of transsexuals are “male to female,” while transsexed females basically function as tokens, and are used by the rulers of the transsexual empire to hide the real nature of the game. In transsexualism, males put on “female” bodies (which are in fact pseudofemale).

(This and previous quotations are from Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, 67-8)

Here, Daly uncritically appropriates Raymond’s notion of a transsexual empire – a sort of conspiracy by men to invade and colonize women’s bodies and the feminist movement. She expresses no skepticism, only approval. I don’t see any way to redeem this. It’s transphobic through and through.

Two pages later, the next section is titled “Boundary Violation and the Frankenstein Phenomenon.” Daly positions Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as “prophetic,” claiming it foretold “the technological fathers’ fusion of male mother-miming and necrophilia in a boundary violation that ultimately points toward the total elimination of women.” (70)

So Daly’s appropriation of the “Final Solution” is no accident. She literally warns against a genocide that would wipe out all women.

How would this occur?

Today the Frankenstein phenomenon is omnipresent not only in religious myth, but in its offspring, phallocratic technology. The insane desire for power, the madness of boundary violation, is the mark of necrophiliacs who sense the lack of soul/spirit/life-loving principle with themselves and therefore try to invade and kill off all spirit, substituting conglomerates of corpses. This necrophilic invasion/elimination takes a variety of forms. Transsexualism is an example of male surgical siring which invades the female world with substitutes.”

(Gyn/Ecology, 70-71)

Other “manifestations of phallotechnic boundary violations” include “male-created genetic engineering” and cyborgs along with behavioral psychology and “other Master Mothers, such as physicians and surgeons (especially in gynecology/obstetrics and in neurosurgery), psychiatrists, therapists, and counselors of all kinds.” (71)

Not to make any excuses for the history of gynecology, which is absolutely rife with human rights abuses, but “transphobic” almost seems like to weak a word. The most charitable reading of this passage positions MTF transsexuals as the unwitting dupes of evil surgeons. Alternatively, MTF transsexuals are themselves agents intent on destroying the female world.

So no, I didn’t catch the word “Frankensteinian” in the midst of all this, but that doesn’t make it any prettier. Transsexuals are at least associated – and possibly identified – with necrophiliacs and power-mad men. They are described as modern-day, real-world Frankensteins. This is defamatory. This is hate speech.

Daly returns to transsexuals in her flights of fantasy at the end of Gyn/Ecology. While describing an “Amazonian Dissembly,” she imagines a group she calls “the Obsessors” who are purveyors of women’s sexualization, bearing items such as cosmetics, Penthouse, and the Pill:

It is also noted that among this faction there are some who appear to be eunuchs. One is carrying a placard which reads: “I am a lesbian-feminist male-to-female transsexual. Take me in.” As they begin to file off the platform two Harpies swoop down into their midst, causing them to stumble and stagger in all directions.” (420)

It’s clear that Daly denies trans people the basic respect of acknowledging their own identity. Even more, she calls them “eunuchs,” implying they are sexless. And in the end, she gleefully imagines them being driven off from the gathering of women.

Except, of course, this scene didn’t only occur in Daly’s imagination. Self-identified radical feminists have often excluded trans women in real life. They just haven’t had the aid of flying Harpies.

But that’s only the end of Gyn/Ecology; it’s not the end of Daly’s career. (In my head, I’m channelling Paul Harvey: “And now you know … the rest of the story.) In comments to my previous post, Xochitl – a young woman who worked personally with Daly – states that Daly renounced such transphobic views later in life:

I got to know Mary in the last few years of her life – and of course I had to speak up for my trans friends – I’ll gladly report that Mary no longer held the same trans-phobic views that Jan Raymond expressed in her dissertation decades ago. I cannot report changes about Raymond’s thoughts only because I have not followed up on how her ideas developed. But I can attest that Mary’s own thoughts and perspective on this definitely changed – which only makes sense considering that for her to live is to change and move and grow with the movement of Ultimate Intimate Reality – Goddess is Verb for Mary Daly – there is no way she would have maintained static ideas.

One day I will write more on this – I do not want future generations of feminists, trans friends included, thinking of Mary Daly as their enemy.

She really is an ally. Of course this is not to diminish the harm and effect that any trans-phobic expressions will continue to have. That’s the risk any of us take when we put something in writing – it seems so permanently true. But in reality, all texts simply capture one moment – it is only a reflection of that one moment in ones developing thoughts and theories…

I have no reason to doubt Xochitl and pretty good cause to believe her. Judging from her blog, she strikes me as smart and principled. She describes herself as queer and Christian in an unorthodox way (if I’ve read it right). Yes, she’s got some personal loyalties, but her political and religious commitments are her own, not Daly’s.

It would have been wonderful if Mary Daly had publicly renounced those transphobic passages from Gyn/Ecology. I’m not aware of her having done so – but if anyone knows better, please correct me. (I’m not so interested in static ideas, myself, especially if they’re wrong!) Daly could have sent a signal to the younger generations of women who’ve embraced radical-cultural feminism and its attendant idea that the mere existence of trans people poses a danger to “real” (cis) women. Whatever one’s feelings about the content of her work, Daly lived a remarkable life. Disowning her transphobia would have been a generous gesture that might have influenced younger generations. It might even have opened up her legacy to the trans people and their allies who know her only as the philosopher who called them power-mad, necrophiliac monsters in the shadow of Frankenstein.

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Dr. Oz on Coffee...

2010-01-05T21:30:00.000+02:00

I was flipping through the channels last night and happened upon the Joy Behar Show. I decided to watch it for a minute, as Dr. Oz was on, and I have found that he tends to give some good medical advice – the segment was focusing on dieting.

He said, and I quote, “Coffee is the number one source of antioxidants in America.”

Not only is that quite an amazing fact by itself, it proves to me that the formulators of JavaFit know exactly what they are talking about!

I wanted to see if there was any further information on coffee from Dr. Oz, and I found this quote at his website:

“Coffee is a stimulant that contains caffeine. It can help you stay awake but also boost energy expenditure and speed up metabolism. So don’t be afraid to drink a cup of Joe. “

To see more about what coffee can do for you…CLICK HERE!

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