http://www.naturalnews.com/029334_flu_vaccines_seizures.html This year's vaccine push has begun with some curious admissions by the vaccine industry, reflected in a Reuters story (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS...). After the usual explanatory text about how flu vaccine "And U.S. officials said they...
Saturday, July 31, 2010
God Bless Anthony Weiner for blasting out the truth!
Republicans in the House VOTED DOWN a health care bill for 9/11 First Responders, whining that the procedures in which it had been brought to a vote weren't right. (In order to avoid GOP...
New credit card tricks by banks to get more $$ out of you
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895004575395823497473064.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth The banks have people who lie awake nights thinking up new ways to scam their credit card users. Read about these new ones to circumvent the CARD ACT. Let the User Beware!...
U.S. Torture of prisoners was widespread under Cheney/Bush
Important article to read for those who want to know the truth... http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/sherwood-ross/30419/book-by-an-innocent-victim-suggests-torture-by-u-s-was-widespread EXCERPT: during the presidency of George W. Bush, tens of thousands of innocent human beings...were swept up in dragnet arrests...
A Sin and a Shame by Bob Herbert
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/31/opinion/31herbert.html?_r=1&hp When corporations rule the world, as they do now, treacherous treatment of workers is the norm. Millions of workers have been exploited by corporations during this recession/depression, with many more being let go than was necessary....
Music heals -- makes brain function better
Studies show that music lessons help children learn better, faster in all areas.. Good article. http://www.naturalnews.com/029324_music_brain.html ...
Friday, July 30, 2010
The gethuman database--worth its weight in gold
Subject: Check out gethuman database WHEN PROBLEMS ARISE, IF YOU EVER WANT TO REACH A HUMAN DIRECTLY IN MINUTES, INSTEAD OF HOURS, KEEP THIS PHONE LIST HANDY. Click here: gethuman database ...
The Truth Behind the Tea Parties
This is what happens when corporations are allowed to run amok and take over the country...and the world. They support with millions of $$ the nutso right wingers who listen to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and vote against their own interests. These ignorant people are being used by the elite to further...
Avoid Heart Attack: Take Vitamin D with Calcium Supplements
ABC NEWS Medical Page: Calcium supplementation -- without giving vitamin D at the same time -- appears to increase the risk of myocardial infarction, a new review of past research has shown. Among studies of patients with or at risk of osteoporosis, those who received calcium supplements were about 30 percent more...
Paul Krugman: A Man Who Sees Clearly
For common sense and great advice to Obama (which he, of course, won't follow), read Krugman's latest column: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/opinion/30krugman.html?_r=1&hp It starts out with a very good question: Why does the Obama administration keep looking for love in...
The Palin Tribe: Want to See Them in the White House?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/30/levi-johnston-ex-lanesia_n_664897.html Oops. It seems Levi Johnston, Bristol's choice for her husband-to-be (reportedly against Mommy Dearest's wishes), may have impregnated Bristol's former best friend, who is now expecting a baby. And the Bristol/Levi...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
EXCELLENT New Yorker article on life/death issues
It's about time a doctor wrote an article like this. Oregonians have the right idea in having passed the right-to-die law there. I do hope California will soon have one like it. Although this essay doesn't address euthanasia, it importantly talks about the often unnecessary prolongation...
Jon Stewart Nails It Again re. Breitbart and Sherrod
EXCERPT: While Andrew Breitbart is responsible for posting the edited video of Shirley Sherrod on his BigGovernment.com website, the Obama administration did not take the time to obtain the full speech before calling for her resignation. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack essentially forced Sherrod...
IMPORTANT STORY: Income of Very Richest shot up by 281% since 1979
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0728/top-1-making-280-1979/ This article is important to educate those who continue to say tax cuts for the rich are not only desirable, but necessary... Read the article and see if you agree with them. EXCERPT: a recent Wall Street Journal...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Gulf between Wall Street and Main Street widens
The rich get rich and the poor get poorer -- so the old song goes, and we are living that reality now. Waiting for corporations to have empathy with the consumers is like waiting for hell to freeze over. The democratic republic of America is dying, and is being replaced by a plutocracy. ...
A very sad new world order
The only ones escaping the pain are the rich. This is what the Republican agenda ever since Reagan has cost us. The burden is all on the poor and the middle class, which is fast disappearing. And yet the Republicans want even more tax cuts, ignoring the fact that the Reagan and Bush...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Uplifting Essay: Finding God after Leaving Religion
This is an essay I can really relate to. I am glad to see more people finding true spirituality/God outside of organized religions that spawn hierarchies, authoritarian figures (ministers, priests, etc.) greed, abuse, and dogmas/creeds/rules that are meant to keep the sheep docile and controllable--and...
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Beautiful Essay on Einstein's spirituality by Krista Tippett
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krista-tippett/albert-einsteins-faith-wa_b_651592.html EXCERPT: Einstein described our perception of time as an arrow -- traversing linear and compartmentalized past, present, and future -- as a "stubbornly persistent illusion." Such language is evocative from a religious...
Friday, July 23, 2010
Catholic Church embarrassed by gay priest revelations
Interesting article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/24/catholic-church-gay-priests-exposed ...
Can the Republican Party get any dumber? Stay tuned...
BRING IT ON by William Rivers Pitt http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/william-rivers-pitt/30265/bring-it-on EXCERPT: It is tempting to begin a sentence about today's Republican Party with the words, "Just when you thought they couldn't get any dumber," but then you realize you're talking about...
Inhofe and much of GOP don't believe in global warming
More Republican Bamboozle Talk (It's truly amazing how far down in the sand some Republicans can stick their heads) Amid Heat Wave, Senator Inhofe Talks of Global Cooling http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/amid-heat-wave-senator-talks-global-coolilng/story?id=11237381&page=2 Thomas Peterson, chief scientist at...
The Whitewashing of the Bush/Cheney Record
Haven't had enough of the Bush family yet? The GOP hasn't. They're still enthralled with them. Look for Jeb Bush to appear among the GOP hopefuls in 2012, backed by the Big Money. He'll have to plow through Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich (god, what a field to choose from...) to reach the gold ring, but...
Thursday, July 22, 2010
#44, the Do-nothing President
This is one of the best analyses I've read about the Obama fiasco/waste of a presidency -- David Michael Green has it nailed, right on the head. http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-michael-green/29417/the-do-nothing-44th-president EXCERPT: It seems to me that there are four options for understanding Obama's...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
For truth-telling...go to this site
www.crooksandliars.com and read the first and third story. The first one is about Glenn Beck, entitled Character Assassination without Due Process . The second one is about Rachel Maddow, entitled The Sherrod Fiasco--Who's Next? Both have videos. Very enlightening for those who are really...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
I saw a video today of a British comedian
His name is Pat Condell, and he is up in arms about the mosque being built in New York City, as he says "just yards away from Ground Zero." As I watched the video, some thoughts came to me about it and about our situation on this planet at this time. I definitely agree with Condell when he says,...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sarah wants to be on the GOP ticket in 2012
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-14/sarah-palin-will-run-but-shes-not-ready-mark-mckinnon-on-2012/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR8 Oh, I hope, I hope, I hope..... And if we're really lucky, she'll pick Ann Coulter to be her vice presidential running mate. A dream ticket come true (for...
Amazing near-death experience
This story is a fascinating one...and very uplifting. http://www.mellen-thomas.com/stories.htm ...
Out of control -- government secrecy
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/ I'm tempted to say, "So what else is new?" Government secrecy has always been in place -- agencies designed to keep Americans and world citizens in the dark about everything are not something new....but,...
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Dick Cheney's heart: how has he lasted so long?
The health care he denies others is the very thing that keeps him living. Well over a million dollars has been spent on keeping Cheney's heart ticking. He's got great government health insurance. Cheney is a heartless man who, unless he gets a heart transplant, may literally soon BE...
EXCELLENT: The Good News About Mel Gibson
by Frank Rich, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/opinion/18rich.html?_r=1 And good news for all of us -- how the mighty have fallen (a well-deserved fall). ...
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Banks are going to gouge even more $$ out of us
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/16/financial-reform-banks-al_n_648756.html We need to pay attention to new charges banks will be demanding of us... It's not enough that they are charging usurious interest rates on credit cards and all kinds of surcharges on our bank accounts. They are...
Getting closer to Doomsday for America - millions losing homes
One Million More Americans to Lose Homes in 2010 -- Where Will They Go? How Will They Live? by Susie Madrak A new report predicts more than 1 million American households this year will lose their homes due to foreclosure: Nearly 528,000 homes were foreclosed in the first six months of 2010....
Why I find it hard to trust western medicine these days
Brain Center at Columbia Gave Patients Impure Injections -- Study Now Halted http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/health/17columbia.html?_r=1&hp...
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Cheney may need heart transplant--has no discernible pulse
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/dick-cheney-heart-operation-vice-president-ready-heart/story?id=11170179 But it could take years to find a donor, if ever -- there aren't that many reptilian aliens on the planet who would be willing to donate their organs to save one of their own. Their hearts are known...
Vatican says ordaining women is a "grave crime"
This "grave crime" of women as priests will be subject to the same punishments of the church meted out for sex abuse. Hmmm....no punishment has been given to priest sex abusers. Girls, I think it's safe to assume this is an OK from the church to become priests, without papal punishment. ...
Jeb Bush to run for president in 2012?
Another Bush! God, NO! That would make the 2012 prophecies of End-of-the-world DISASTER come true! Can the Republicans really be stupid enough to vote for another Bush? Take a good look at Rush Limbaugh and all his "dittoheads," who mouth his every word. Does that answer the...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Here's Part I of Goodman's essay
For those who are interested in what this expert (with the wisdom acquired in 42 years with the CIA) has to say, stay tuned for Part 3 to be posted later. consortiumnews.com What Eisenhower Could Teach Obama By Melvin A. Goodman July 5, 2010 Editor’s Note: This...
The Military-Industrial Complex's Win
This author knows what he is talking about! The Military-Industrial Complex's Win By Melvin A. Goodman consortiumnews.com Melvin A. Goodman, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University, spent 42...
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Sarah Trainwreck Strikes Again
From crooksandliars.com When Palin was rolled out by McCain in 2008 it didn't take too long to notice she was woefully unprepared for even the simplest interviews. Questions such as "What do you read?" by Katie Couric were greeted with consternation; or "What is the Bush doctrine?" by Charlie Gibson just threw her...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Climategate Investigation: Scientists found to be reliable
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/07/climategate-investigation_0_n_637622.html I have a feeling that folks in the eastern U.S. right now, who doubted the Al Gore predictions of higher temperatures, are beginning to drop some of those doubts. All except for the most right-wing fanatics among them, who...
Monday, July 05, 2010
Calculation for heart rate in exercising women has been wrong
Important to know: the new formula eases exercise for women... http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/recalibrated-formula-eases-womens-workouts/?ref=health EXCERPT: The new study shows that for women, the number typically derived from the standard formula is far off the mark. Using the old formula of...
Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman -- Music of the Night
This video is like seeing Phantom of the Opera on Broadway: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5dhyiqhR7Y&feature=related No one can sing it like Michael Crawford. ...
Let 'em eat cake
From a Leonard Cohen song: "Looking through the paper just makes you cry. Nobody cares if the people live or die." That seems to be true of many Republicans in Congress who have voted down--TWICE--extension of unemployment benefits for those unable to find jobs in this terrible economy. ...
Are Eastern Religions More Science-Friendly? Good Question.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/are-eastern-religions-mor_b_628533.html My answer would be "Yes." This article seems to agree. EXCERPT: The interaction of Eastern spirituality and Western science has expanded methods of stress reduction, treatment of chronic disease, psychotherapy...
Saturday, July 03, 2010
Little No. Korean girl guitar virtuoso
She can't be more than 7 or 8 (if that) -- she's a very gifted child. Here's the video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/03/north-korean-girl-guitar_n_634770.html...
Friday, July 02, 2010
I hope the Republicans keep Steele as chief of RNC
They're kind of stuck with him. If they get rid of him, it will look like racial prejudice; they have so few African-Americans in their party, as it is -- and even fewer still in leadership roles. Steele is an ideal representative for them. He so perfectly reflects the wayward, confused consciousness (and overall intelligence) of a great majority of ...
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