Here is a well written story on a child with leaky gut and a mother’s recognition that the professionals don’t know what the hell they’re doing….
Thank God she found the cause of her son’s pain.
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Speaking of Scam Artists
PR Watch.org has this up on the gerrymandering in Wisconsin.
From the article:
In early February of 2012, GOP legislators released multiple documents, but continued to keep around 84 emails confidential. The three judges — two of them appointed by Republican presidents — again criticized the Republican legislators for “an all but shameful attempt” to keep documents secret, writing: “Without a doubt, the Legislature made a conscious choice to involve private lawyers in what gives every appearance of an attempt — albeit poorly disguised — to cloak the private machinations of Wisconsin’s Republican legislators in the shroud of attorney-client privilege.”
And…incredibly:
According to the documents that were released, Republican legislators signed a pledge of secrecy during the redistricting process and were told to ignore what GOP leaders said publicly about the new election maps.
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What is this, high school or college where you make secret pledges? Seriously?? Does this mean they get double secret probation?
Note that some emails obtained by Center for Media and Democracy were not released to the lawyers challenging the maps. Just incredible!
I think this is why Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the tea partiers are so baffled that they lost the election….how could they lose when they’ve worked so hard against the democratic process??
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More on ALEC sponsors here.
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And, lastly, ALEC and the electoral college here. They just can’t figure out enough ways to demolish the democratic process….
The political dynasties
I’ve posted this years ago, and it popped into my head this morning, so I thought I’d re-post.
Doing a quick run-through, I saw this of the Bayard and Clayton family, which morphed into the Duponts.
Also, take note of the Baldwin, Evarts, Hoar, etc., families….There should be some law that families cannot monopolize politics—some sort of limit, eh?
And, this I never knew: P.T. Barnum, of circus fame, was a politician….note the label of a “scam artist”. Heh. politicians haven’t changed much, eh?
Enjoy the read.
Whales
So, I finally got around to turning my calendar over to the month of February this morning. It’s a nature based one, and this month has a whale majestically propelling itself out of the deep blue, much like this one.
A cool event here with a whale. Playing hide-and-seek…gotta love it.
This once again proves that we know very little about wildlife and how they can display compassion.
Greenpeace is still fighting the good fight.
This bears repeating: the sad story of seagulls attacking the whales. Argentina has this plan to thwart them, but I think it’s not really addressing the reason behind the gulls’ attacks. Something has caused them to begin attacking eight years ago…I hope that they’re going to test the dead gulls for mercury and other toxins, since it’s been documented that the birds are pretty messed up with mercury. This would explain why they suddenly began this eight years ago–the rubbish aspect doesn’t really make sense to me because we’ve had garbage around for decades…why now?
Finally, a wonderful story here. The will to survive never ceases to amaze me…no matter how we screw up, nature still tries to come back. Awesome.
The winter scene
I was watching TV in our community room, when I see a motion out of the corner of my eye. I look to see a border collie mix running and jumping in the snow, grabbing at an object and throwing it up in the air with his teeth. The owner is shoveling snow and throwing the play toy to the dog’s delight. As the owner walks along, pushing the shovel, the dog puts the toy next to her, but she’s busy and keeps moving. The dog looks for a second at her, and then picks up the toy and places it even closer to her than before.
I love seeing the simple delight in dogs when they’re at play. They’re just playing…freely enjoying the moment without thinking about the next moment….
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So, yeah, we have the normal winter weather that’s to be expected in Indiana….
…and I notice that a flock of birds are perched in the tree outside my apartment. I do a double take when it looks like….no, it can’t be…yes, it is…a robin! NO!!! They are not supposed to be here for another month!
Nope, there’s no climate change…
As a side note~ back in the day when Indiana was deciding what it’s state bird was going to be, the robin was up for it, but they decided against it because the robin flew away for the winter. They wanted a bird that stayed here all winter and the beautiful cardinal won out.
If the climate change isn’t arrested, the robin will once again be back in the running for the state bird because it will be so warm that it will just stay here all winter…
…well, that’s if there are any robins or birds once we get done poisoning them in their (and our) environment…
<sigh>
Freedom town
Jon Stewart takes a look at the Freedom Towns being promoted by the fundamentalist/conservatives. Wow.
In the beginning of this segment, when they are just outlining what it is about, I’m thinking….they’re talking Communes?
Well, okay, not exactly communes, where everybody is supposed to share food and chores and stuff, but yeah, this comes pretty close to it, by demanding residents adopt the same narrow view.
The thing is…it’s not that far from Communism, which requires everyone be the same—by discouraging independent thought and creativity and action. (And I wonder what they do with someone who loses their job and becomes homeless in this Utopia? Or *gasp* someone who develops an independent thought and starts expressing liberal ideals…?)
And to link into the previous post on the Fourth Amendment–it along with the First Amendment are parts of the Constitution that kept us from becoming Communist China, Communist Russia, and Nazi Germany. Without them, we’re toast.
So…..you would think that the conservatives would be fighting like the despised liberals to preserve them.
Why aren’t they??
Inquiry into Swartz case
Two members of Congress have asked what reasons the DOJ had for so zealously going after Aaron Swartz. (Be sure to click on the link to Wired). I hope this isn’t just a we’ll pretend to be interested in fairness and justice...
I checked at Marcy Wheeler’s site, but nothing up about this.
There’s no climate change…
Well, I shouldn’t be surprised, but yet, I still am about the gushing by the nooz broadcasters on the spring weather…
They were just all over the “nice” weather we’ve had the past few days—-50-and 60-degree days. They even went out “on the street” to ask the public their opinion about the great weather we’re having….and they were all positive comments on how great it was to wear a light jacket or no jacket at all in January in Indiana…and they even mentioned that all the comments were positive, except one…guess which one didn’t make it to the broadcast? This was a deliberate choice, folks. Newsroom editors wield huge power in what gets on the air and what doesn’t. And what does get on the air has an enormous impact–they know this.
So…I was a little beside myself with this broadcast. I mean, are people really that dense? Do they not know what is happening? Do they even think about how this summer is going to be if we’re having 60-degree weather in January? Good Grief, how soon they forget when we had 90 degree heat throughout the summer, with a drought, last year, and how dangerously low the rivers were. Thankfully, we’ve had some good rain and that good snow in December, and the rivers are now up to level. A small victory, but it won’t last if we start having 80-degree heat in March like we did last year.
But there’s no Climate Change. These people will just go on their merry way until the last drop of water comes out of the tap…
I mean, seriously, doesn’t anyone think beyond their nose?
What about the too warm water that is a threat to nuclear power plant ability to cool the nuclear core? If the warming trends continue, we will lose the ability to cool the core….can anyone say meltdown? I hate to even think of a worse case scenario of a plant in a scramble that cannot be cooled because the water is too warm to cool it.
Another scenario is this. Discharging hotter water into the already warm water, leading to fish kills and other destruction of the carefully constructed eco system is not a good, well thought out plan.
Speaking of the effects of the warmer weather, the plants are also being affected, as my Sedum Autumn Joy is starting to pop up from the soil. (I brought it here with me–it’s a plant that I’ve had since my son was a baby. I dug it up when I lost my house.)
This weather is not normal and not something to be celebrated.
Earth will survive. We won’t.
Boycott Kellogg’s
Organic Consumers posted this a while back (I’m sooo far behind in emails). Financially supporting the companies that truly have the best interests of their consumers at heart is the best way to go. Well, that and labeling our food.
Read the note on Kashi’s using genetically engineered soy in their “organic” products. It is such a cop-out to claim pollination was the reason the soy was GMO–an easy way to escape accountability. Instead of fighting GMO labeling, they should be fighting against Monsanto and the others involved in genetically modified food. This food is highly likely involved in leaky gut, as the body cannot recognize the grain anymore, and treats it as a foreign substance and that leads to gut inflammation and eventually leaky gut.
A link here to eye problems and leaky gut and GMO’s. Very interesting. My eyes have begun to improve–I was using 1.50 readers and now am able to use the 1.25 magnification. I’m also able to distinguish fine degrees of color, and I had lost some of my ability to determine colors. I know this by my embroidery thread that I used for counted cross-stitch–the thread is numbered and has very minute distinctions, and it was difficult for me to separate them by color. I grew so frustrated at it that I just put them all in one bag, unable to organize them. This began to change when I started to detox.
Here’s a good opinion on the GMO’s.
More here on the global effort to get GMO’s labeled.
A debate between a professor and a neoliberal. (hat tip to organic consumers).
Lastly, I really wonder about the exposure even if you’re not eating GMO foods (or at least trying not to by buying organic). I say this because every year, around late July, I begin to have more severe allergy symptoms, culminating in September, when I usually have headaches several days out of the month (this has been after mercury poisoning–at least, that’s when I first noticed it). I found a link here on the increase in allergies and GMO’s.
Here is a paper that must have been written by a Monsanto toadie, it is so slanted towards GMO’s and gives very little attention or support for research towards health concerns. This is what I was seeing when I was a student in college and I took a class in science writing: they had a forum at this strongly agricultural school on GMO’s when they were first being introduced in 1997-98 (only we found out later that they had been unleashed onto the unsuspecting public earlier.)
A good blog here on GMO.
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Related to this is an stunning affirmation of those in power that amalgams are safe. Just stunning. Absolutely stunning. (hat tip to organic consumers). It just goes to show that Washington is bought by those whose interests don’t include the health and well being of the public, but of who has the $$$ to fund their campaigns.
And my previous blog with this on how not only mercury affects us, but the animals, as well. My other blogs on it here and here.
And I’m finished. So much for catching up on my emails. 😛
More compelling evidence…
Good Grief, how many children/adults have to suffer?
Why isn’t the evidence is for public viewing.? Pretty evident that Big Pharma is culpable, and getting away with it because if you can keep the information from being in the public sphere, more folks will be unaware and less likely to realize their child or their selves have symptoms caused by vaccination. And as this story illustrates, the court cases can have motion after motion filed and be dragged on for years, and only someone of means could afford to pay an attorney to fight their case. In other words, more profits for Big Pharma…
Eagle 
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