So, one has to choose between their source of income and their health…where is the right to refuse to have your body subjected to poison on the unproven premise of vaccination?
Only if she can sue her employer for causing health injury…but we can’t have that now can we?
One of the members of the support group posted this link to a timely article on the link between lead and criminal behavior–not just here, but around the world. Pretty impressive. Unfortunately, the article’s focus is solely on lead, and not other heavy metals like mercury, which also affect brain and body function, and is everywhere in the atmosphere.
Anybody wanna bet that this will not be looked at in the case of Adam Lanza or any of the mass killers?
I re-read my post on Hillary Clinton, and I just wanted to clarify that it was an argument this person witnessed.
Okay, I went and looked up the story that I referenced earlier on the zoo animals, except it was an Orangutan named Fu Manchu at the Omaha, Nebraska zoo that made the great escape. (with apologies to Orangutans everywhere. Haha.) It’s just sooo compelling that I had to come back and share it.
I tried to find it on the National Geographic Kids website, but alas, it was not there.
Story here:
Fu lived at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. And he used his skills, for one purpose–to escape! “It was a game to him,” says zoo director Lee Simmons. “He never went anywhere. But he’d let everybody else out and we’d have orangs all over the zoo.
“The first time he did it, head keeper Jerry Stones blamed his staff for leaving a door unlocked. By the third time, Stones threatened to fire someone.
Luckily, before he did, Stones caught Fu in the act. Like a burglar breaking into a house, Fu was slipping a piece of wire under the latch and unhooking it!
Stones confiscated the wire. And he ordered his staff never to let the orangutans go outside without first checking their yard for trash such as sires. The keeper thought he had the problem solved.
But two weeks later, Stones noticed something metallic between Fu’s lips. He told the ape to open his mouth, stuck in his finger, and guess what he found? It was a piece of wire—bent at both ends to fit around Fu’s gums. “All the work we were doing, searching and tearing things apart, wasn’t doing any good,” says Stones. “Fu had made his own key. And he was hiding it in his mouth!”
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I have nothing to add–except that it’s pretty sad that some will think this is a cute story instead of a sad one that illustrates we have a ways to go in treating animals compassionately.
I feel the same way about the marine worlds. And yes, I used to go to them, as well. I now look at the pictures I have of the dolphins’ magnificent jumps with guilt and sadness. A pretty blunt article here. I have read of dolphins purposely drowning themselves in captivity.
Let’s not forget the tragedy associated with Tillikum, one of the whales that killed his Indiana native trainer.
Seriously?
Gallup has the “Most Admired” poll out here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/145394/Barack-Obama-Hillary-Clinton-2010-Admired.aspx
I kept looking for the numbers, but didn’t find them until the very bottom of the story–they only asked 1,000 adults. I think I heard there were 60 million people in the U.S. now–they could only find a thousand people to ask?
And if you look at the margin of error at 4 + or – percentage points…it’s laughable. Anything more than 2% plus or minus is a flawed poll–it’s considered biased and invalid.
Judging from the other women chosen, with two exceptions, the poll is definitely skewed with those of the conservative views.
Things not to admire:
The link to Chinese censorship.
More stuff on Bill with his support of the war in Iraq. Oh, wait…he didn’t support the war in Iraq? /snark
And Hillary’s support of the war in Iraq…
And the stuff I brought up in my post here.
And then there’s the self-righteous, fundamentalist connection–here and here.
And personally, I know someone who knows Hillary Clinton. I can’t go into details, but it’s sufficient to say that her behavior in at least one incident was more of that of a teenage girl and her boyfriend than an adult woman in relation to her husband. I expect maturity and self-respect and dignity out of my leaders…I guess I’m funny that way.
I have to say that I used to take my kids to the zoo when they were young, thinking that it would introduce them to animals that they wouldn’t normally see in order to appreciate them.
As I have “morphed”, I’ve taken a different view of zoos–I began to question that thinking. Applying the “Do Unto Others…” thinking, I realized that I had to think of how terrible I would feel being taken out of my natural habitat and caged…for people to gawk at you (and even torment you, as some have)…
With that in mind, I stopped going to zoos, although I love animals and would love to see them, I can’t justify being a part of their imprisonment.
I can say that I didn’t understand why the animal activists of the 70s were releasing animals from zoos and from test labs, but I do now. I don’t condone it because of the disaster that it brought: the animals were set free, but they were quickly killed in traffic, etc.
Another story to drive this point home —
I used to subscribe to National Geographic for Kids for my kids to read. In one of the editions, they wrote of a gorilla who was so smart that he unlocked his own cage…repeatedly.
I couldn’t find a link on their page, but I looked on the web and found this: http://1037litefm.cbslocal.com/2012/08/02/monkey-tells-zoo-visitor-how-to-unlock-his-cage/
If that doesn’t tell us to stop putting them in cages, I don’t know what does….
(I’m sooo far behind, I think I’m ahead…)
Trying to play catch up–here are some highlights of issues sent out by Center for Media and Democracy–
I love that he is holding Whole Foods accountable for the food they are saying is organic….but not quite telling all of the possible ingredients (heavy metals and other contaminants)…
The “Don’t ask, don’t tell” I-see-no-evil, I-hear-no-evil is pretty standard. They aren’t counting on folks like Mario asking questions, either. The more people ask questions, the harder it is to come up with evasive answers.
Like I’ve said before, know where your food is from–buy locally if at all possible, because the gossip is at least one other national organic food store is selling conventionally grown (using chemical fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides) food is being marketed as organic.
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Addressing the gun violence issue. Like in my previous post, you can use other weapons for violence instead of guns–it’s the acceptance of violence in our society (and others) that encourages this. It’s so much easier to throw a rock than to try to reason with someone and to compromise and to recognize one’s own responsibility towards making peace. A gun is a quick way to end whatever problem there is…
And the argument that everyone carrying a gun would stop violence…oy vey…
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ALEC member Scott nominated to fill Demint vacancy.
IRS audit for ALEC? The question becomes “are you a charity if you have a political action committee and go from state to state trying to heavily influence legislation?”
Michigan and ALEC’s right to work law. This is part of the religious right’s assault on fairness, which I’m finding out in the book Holy Terror. (I’m slowly getting through it, a better report later.)
The human body can be used as a weapon, as well. How effing vicious does a rape have to be to put a woman into intensive care? And what about that bus driver?? He had to have known what was going on.
And the way this story is written makes it sound like only in India is rape a stigma…yeah, well, I’ve got news for ya, it’s a stigma *everywhere*…right here in the U.S., we have republicans who say if a woman is raped, she can’t become pregnant...or if she is a Native American woman, a non-native man can rape her without fear of punishment.
Or how about the town I grew up in–where teenage boys tied a mentally challenged woman to a tree and raped her…one of my former friends actually blamed her, saying that she “let them”. How the hell can you defend yourself if you’re tied to a tree? Or not in command of all your mental faculties?
So we come back to the acceptance of violence in our society. “Boys will be boys” and all that crap…
I am just stunned. Eugenics, anyone??
Nothing in this article about him having amalgams or mercury exposure or diet (if he is gluten intolerant, leading to schizophrenia).
No…we can’t have scientists looking at stuff like that, because that’s too simple an answer and the ways to fix it make us uncomfortable. It means we have to give up some things that pollute our environment and we have to make more of an effort to understand the diet and immune system and how they affect our brains.
I mean, really, “science” has taught us that amalgams are safe, right??
…and “science” has brought us pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, and genetically modified organisms.
So, yeah, scientists with biases and prejudices should *absolutely* assign a value to a gene and making sweeping generalizations with those biases. /snark
More here. Be sure to note the Americans funding this garbage.
Having support of one’s family and spouse after diagnosis would seem to be a no-brainer, but no, as this post illustrates. Such ignorance and indifference–encouraging someone to sabotage themselves…and as one poster said, they really don’t want to hear about it. <sigh>
I forgot to mention the other day about the confirmation of my suspicions that I had become even more sensitive to wheat and other foods that set off the immune system allergic response–others on the forum remarked that it is a phenomenon that the system, while trying to heal itself, suddenly kicks into overdrive at the offending substance and the reaction is more severe. Just thought I’d throw that out there for anyone else struggling with this.
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