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Archive for December 2008

Warming up to Global Cooling

Posted by: Kathy on: December 31, 2008

I’m not totally sure how exactly to take this editorial — it seems a tad… schizophrenic?… at times. It goes into a bit of detail showing how that sunspots are active in the global warming/cooling cycle the earth has experienced in all of recorded history (from another source, I know they look at ancient Chinese [...]

Spellcheck, people!!

Posted by: Kathy on: December 29, 2008

I am greatly distressed by the high level of spelling and grammar problems that I see on a frequent basis. Even in some online article published by people who should know better — like the Associated Press, who should only hire journalists who can write proficiently, and should definitely have editors that can catch typographical [...]

Delaying vaccination may reduce risk of asthma

Posted by: Kathy on: December 19, 2008

A study was recently released (in April) that showed a much reduced risk of asthma when the first dose of the DTP vaccine was delayed by two months. Now, this was with the older DTP vaccine, not the newer DTaP vaccine. It remains to be seen whether the effect is similar with the current vaccine, [...]

Love this poem!

Posted by: Kathy on: December 18, 2008

This is just too good.
Ode to National Infant Immunization Week:   Stick It
I actually don’t mind green eggs and ham.
It’s vaccines I don’t like, Uncle Sam.
Too many children have paid the price
for harmful and deceptive immunization advice.
There is more to health than preventing infections
with dozens of toxic and dangerous injections.
You purposefully ignore all [...]

Freedom of Choice Act

Posted by: Kathy on: December 13, 2008

On another blog I read, someone made a comment that people who are against coerced abortions should be for the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). I asked how that would work, knowing that most cases of coersion are from the woman’s boyfriend or parents. She unwillingly walks into the abortion clinic and submits to the [...]

Hmmm, maybe I was wrong

Posted by: Kathy on: December 12, 2008

In my last post, I essentially said that the Obama-Blagojevich connection smelled, but that Obama probably did not meet personally with the Governor to discuss who would take the Senate seat, and almost certainly didn’t offer him any graft in exchange for his appointment of the person of Obama’s choice. I may be wrong.
See what [...]

Obama and Blagojevich

Posted by: Kathy on: December 11, 2008

Ok, so the evidence is pretty conclusive that Blagojevich was involved in pay-to-play politics — since he is the only person who can appoint a person to the now-vacant Illinois Senate seat, it seems he was offering it to the highest bidder. Of course, since the seat was vacated by President-elect Obama, the question then [...]

Case in Point

Posted by: Kathy on: December 10, 2008

Recently, I blogged about something and mentioned that when Democrats are involved in political scandals, their party affiliation is barely mentioned — sometimes, at most it is Politician’s Name (D-NY). Having lived in the Chicago area for a couple of years, I knew that Rod Blagojevich was of course a Democrat. Yesterday, I saw a [...]

I gotta do something about this

Posted by: Kathy on: December 9, 2008

I know it’s probably normal, but I don’t remember it happening with any of the kids I’ve baby-sat, nor with my nieces and nephews.
My son is just now four years old, and has recently taken to acting out everything he sees while watching videos. I’m pretty particular about what he watches, but I’m going to [...]

Reading some of the comments after this was part refreshing and part annoying. Some commenters seemed to suggest that since the woman was merely “posing” as a 13-year-old, and not actually thirteen years of age, that this PP nurse did nothing wrong in what she did — which was to say [...]


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