http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-30/inside-the-mind-of-a-bully/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR2...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Bonanza for drug company! Statin drug FDA-approved for the healthy
The FDA has just approved the drug Crestor for just about everyone! Hey, are you afraid you might have high cholesterol in the future? Have we got a drug for you! And, what's more--you'll have to take it for life! Side effects? Well, just a few -- could cause your liver to fail and it might cause you to become diabetic...but...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
NEJM Study shows Niacin better than Merck's Zetia
OOPS! Niacin Better than Expensive Drug! CANCEL THE STUDY! (NaturalNews) The utter worthlessness of Big Pharma's cholesterol drugs was demonstrated recently by a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine which showed that niacin (a low-cost B vitamin) out-performs Merck's drug Zetia for preventing the build-up of arterial plaque,...
Monday, March 29, 2010
Expanding the American Empire--why we keep starting wars
A very important article -- about a very informative book. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david_swanson/27679/the_bases_of_empire "The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts," a collection edited by Catherine Lutz, has the potential to open American eyes to both the empire they pay for and permit, and to the world's...
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Religion distracts from important issues -- an interesting talk
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/25/ted.sam.harris/index.html?hpt=P1 My own opinion: Religion should be a private affair -- that of a person and his own beliefs about God. Not organized cults as most religions have become, with an authoritarian hierarchy ruling over sheeple with all kinds of rules, regulations, and dogma (and threats...
Deaf boys tried to tell about priest's abuse, but no one would listen
The latest information about pedophilia in its ranks is yet another black mark against the Catholic Church and its hierarchy. I had my own experience with a priest I trusted, who propositioned me (but I was an adult and knew how to say NO). I know the church is rampant with sexual activity of all kinds among its clergy. Priests and...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Scott Brown using Rachel Maddow to scare $$ out of conservatives
This new Republican senator (a former model who still thinks he's "hot") who took over Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts is starting out in the mud. He's trying to scare money from the conservatives into his campaign chest for 2012 by claiming that Rachel Maddow is being geared up to run against him. None of it is true. He made it up...
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