Ah, yes, some things cut both ways. Find a puppy and refuse to turn it over and you may get fined $750 in New Zealand! Did you notice how their media put that "poor little rescuer being punished" spin on the article? Uh, excuse me. Ya go around saying the puppy isn't yours and asking for help t…
I said a while back that I believe we humans are carnivores rather than wanna be vegetarians. Science is at least beginning to theorize that we may indeed live longer for having been big old red meat eaters.
"Over time, eating red meat, particularly raw flesh infected with parasites in the era bef…
Let me start by saying this case simply doesn't pass the sniff test in many areas and I don't think we have anywhere near the whole story yet. The first report I saw referred to taking "custody of.. creatures from... U.S. Global Exotics, a multi-million dollar business... The collection includes s…
The news of the day is 800,000 doses of h1N1 vaccine for children being recalled. No harm done they say; just shoot the kids up again and maybe one more time after that... and apparently they have no idea why these doses dropped in quality but, you know, it's all still safe despite what they can't …
I was comfortable going right on eating pork through this H1N1 mess but the USDA has expedited a vaccine and now conditionally approved it for a year of use. Of course, here in the US, we aren't even entitled to a label that tells whether or not the swine was vaccinated. The vaccine need only be a…
As of about mid-November this 2009, about 1 in 6 Americans has had H1N1 flu. "About 80 percent of those deaths were in people ages 20 through 59, and 45 percent were obese"; "American Indians and Alaska Natives have died from swine flu at a rate four times greater than other Americans... higher ra…
We can all expect to see more stories like this one.
If you never saw the 60 Minutes segment on the 1976 swine flu vaccines connected to Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), you really should take a few minutes and watch it. I miss decent investigative reporting!
As to the new and improved 2009 swine flu vaccine: "As of November 24, VAERS had received 10…
I was getting ready to call it a night but found reference to this in my email box and it just totally pissed me off.
This woman, Ann Wylene Lam, age 64, sees a dog she decides is neglected and starving so takes it upon herself to feed the dog from JULY to OCTOBER and then STEALS the dog; mind you s…
I am an only child. My mother was divorced before I was a year old. It means my mother got her druthers and I grew up in a house that was nearly sterile. In those days, I was called a Clorox Kid. My mother had been a pretty sickly kid and had grown up on a farm with all the “nastiness” that invo…
2 days ago, the EPA declared itself the GHG police for 6 greenhouse gasses: “carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride”. New regulations can be expected within a year and they WILL change your life.
Let me refresh some facts.
Well, the FDA has created a widget for pet owners. I've installed it on my front page, over to the right and down a scroll. So far, I'm not at all impressed with the content but I'll let it sit there a bit and we'll see if it improves.
H1N1 flu has claimed the life of another beloved pet cat in Oregon. She was 8 years old. In addition, 3 confirmed cats are recovering or expected to do so; 2 in Colorado and 1 abroad in France. http://www.avma.org/public_health/influenza/new_virus/default.asp
I just keep wondering what else we…
When I was young, most people of moderate or better means knew a lawyer or two. They were members of the community and interacted with the community. But that was a world without widespread heating and A/C, a world where people still sat on porches and walked in their neighborhoods, where a lawyer…
Somewhere between “market forces will fix all” and dictatorship lies reality. We tend to want to think we’re so civilized that there are some basic truths, some fundamentals that the overwhelming majority agree upon but the reality is that we’re packs of dogs. Probably since the beginning when peo…
We do an incredible disservice to our children by teaching them their rights but not their responsibilities, not even the age at which they may be held criminally responsible or what to do if they are accused of doing something illegal. In the US, a child as young as 6 may be held criminally respo…
Amazingly, there's already an XMRV test. Expensive ($650 plus a doctor's visit and blood draw costs) and probably not covered by insurance but at least it exists. And a few links for those interested in XMRV/CFIDS
My new home is NE of Houston and, like most homes in this area, not really designed for freezing weather, let alone SNOW. That's without considering its damage from the last hurricane, Ike, but then that's why I got a great deal on it. I'll be spending today and tomorrow doing a few things to get …
It’s time to start thinking of health in broader terms than has traditionally been done. The simple truth is that diseases can be and ARE transmitted from animals to humans AND from humans to animals. When a disease is not easily and quickly transmitted like a flu bug, it may be difficult to hunt …