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Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion.
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"News that's not known, or not known enough." Helen & Harry Highwater's cranky weblog of news and opinion. |
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In collusion by Cindy B. Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Pelosi’s latest justification for barring impeachment... 'Bush would never cooperate with his own impeachment' If there was any way to get one measly minute of unvarnished truth onto the network newscasts, to let Americans know that Pelosi is fabulously corrupt and in collusion with all the Bush administration's crimes, she'd lose the election this fall in a landslide, and San Francisco would send Cindy Sheehan to Congress instead. But of course, that leading "if" is an impossibility: the networks won't tell the truth, because the truth is that the networks themselves are in collusion with Bush's treason, as much as Pelosi. Cindy B.  Cloning Boogers by SirJ Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Stocking up by Sherri B. Re: There was no increase of sanctions against Iraq prior to the invasion. The U.N. sanctions were first put in place after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. They were increased after the first gulf war and remained the same until 2003. From Wikipedia:
It won't be long now and we'll have a peck of Pecker Cheneys running around. Something about this story made me think of him. Oh, I know what it was -- the word "Booger". SirJ I've got boogers she can have for a little less than $10k each... Helen & Harry
Hollow and deceptive by JR Mooneyham Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re 33,000 free passes through airport security by JR Mooneyham Yes, I agree it's unlikely this in itself matters much one way or the other. BUT...if you take Bush and the Republicans seriously on ANYTHING they claim about the war on terror, and why it justifies stripping non-rich Americans of all their rights and property, then stuff like this shows how hollow and deceptive their claims are that they are competent to protect anyone at all. And the Republicans keep claiming we should take this stuff seriously, don't they? More evidence that increasing Republican control over past decades has decimated America's capacity for coping with disasters of any sort. Actually, you can get a much more comfortable (but still surprisingly hot) dining experience just eating a submarine sandwich from Subway, whereon you've requested them to pile on the hot peppers. We here were eating such sandwiches for a while with lower doses of peppers on them, and liked them, so we finally decided to go all out. The hottest subs we could get drew tears from me as I ate them -- and I barely managed it. After that everything was fine, until hours later came time to expel the remnants from my digestive system. Apparently my own nervous system only registered the heat from the peppers at the starting and ending points of my digestive system: for the sandwich felt just as hot leaving my body as it had entering it. I have not requested any peppers on a sub since. The strange death of Republican America It seems an awful lot of people still have no freaking idea what's going on. So I felt it necessary to rebut that item: The spectacular success of the Republican party and their wealthy sponsors in hijacking political debate in America JR Mooneyham (www.jrmooneyham.com/) I can relate to your hot pepper story, oh yes. :) As I've crept past certain markers of middle age, foods I used to eat without hesitation now have different effects on me. I used to eat popcorn by the tub, but not it bloats and constipates me. Fruit juice now means several trips to the toilet in a few hours. And there are other, uh, ongoing problems. Helen & Harry
Imbalance of power by Herb Ruhs, MD Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Is economic opportunity and economic security for working class youth being destroyed in order to facilitate military recruitment? Herb Ruhs, MD That's what Jesus would do by Chris D. Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Too often you see people use faith or custom as a flimsy pretext to break the law and do as they please, but instead here is a refreshingly genuine and, dare I pun, blessed act of civil disobedience for a just cause. Chris D. Predatory medical/drug industry by Craig S. Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Why Cipro, when that's not the recommended antibiotic? by Herb Ruhs, MD I ran across an article connected to the Cipro/Anthrax issue. http://cipro-talk.com/ A very major side effect of the quinolone family of antibiotics is tendon rupture, especially the Achilles tendon. I know this not only because of this article but because I suffered an Achilles tendon rupture requiring surgery after being prescribed one of Cipro's cousins, Tequin. The doctor prescribed the Tequin for a skin rash that he thought was a skin infection but was in fact an allergic reaction to the neosporin that I had applied to a nasty scrape at the site of the skin rash. Not only was the Tequin expensive but it was prescribed for a mis diagnosis. I only found out about the connection between Achilles tendon rupture and quinolones because of a television ad for a law firm looking for people who had taken yet another brand of quinolone antibiotic. I would have never made any connection between taking Tequin and the rupture of my Achilles tendon. I hope that more people hear about quinolone. Hopefully the exposure will lead to a flood of "frivolous" lawsuits. Hopefully such "frivolous" lawsuits will help bring the predatory medical/drug industry crashing down. Another serious side effect of quinolones is it apparently can cause diabetes. Thanks for being one of the watchmen on the wall. Sincerely Craig S. November? by Sherri B. Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Stocking up by Sherri B. Mike has a wide Iraq war database let me plow through that. Sherri B. I'm guessing the chain of those old Iraq lies will look eerily similar to the current Iran lies. Helen & Harry From the timeline I found here are a couple of snippets...
So my guess would be ummmmm... November? (If we make it that far). Sherri B. If the election looks close enough to steal by ordinary Republican chicanery, Cheney might well wait until after the election, just to be obstinate. But there isn't much doubt that a lot of Iranians are going to die and a lot of catastrophic repercussions will follow, all for no reason at all except that's what Bush and Cheney and their gangsters want. Helen & Harry
Veracity by Wig Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK 'THRAX DOC'S KIDS FACED FBI'S HEAT Even taking the NEW YORK POST's reputation into mind, this Administration's track record leaves one to question the veracity of any info it puts out. Wig Indeederoony. Helen & Harry
Same old by Siskiyousis Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re An almost depression by Pavel C. I think Congress will not [address the problem]. They had a clear agenda last November and instead sat back in their owners' pockets and drizzled out the year, and then this one. After the election... Still the same folks as before. Hard to find a politician type that is courageous enough to buck the tide. Or the owners. Siskiyousis Recommended by packer64 Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK Re Why Cipro, when that's not the recommended antibiotic? by Herb Ruhs, MD I'm taking it right now, and yes Cipro is actually recommended for Anthrax, it says so in the documentation included with the prescription. packer64 Might I cordially ask, did you read anything beyond the headline? Did you catch this, from the first paragraph? Helen & Harry
Necessity is a mother by Paula A. Thursday, August 7, 2008 PERMANENT LINK It occurs to me, as we rehash the anthrax attacks that proved so helpful in pushing through the treasonous PATRIOT Act, that if we hadn't had anthrax mailings to keep America panicked, why, something very similar would've needed to be, ah, invented. Paula A. |
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