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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

READY FOR YOUR APPENDECTOMY?

Well…...open wide and say “Ahhhhhh”!

You think I’m kidding? I’m not—if you still have your appendix, someday they may take it out THROUGH YOUR MOUTH!!

Read on…....

Posted by Earl on 05/14 at 08:59 PM
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Friday, June 08, 2007

HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED…..IN 70 YEARS.

I’m older than dirt, so I can remember when the newspapers and magazines (not to speak of the TV ads and highway billboards) were filled with advertisements for tobacco products, mainly (though not exclusively) for cigarettes. Who can forget “SO ROUND, SO FIRM, SO FULLY PACKED”?

But the real measure of the gulf between us and earlier times is in the claims that tobacco companies made for their product. Check it out:

Posted by Earl on 06/08 at 07:47 PM
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Saturday, February 17, 2007

FEELING CONCERNED ABOUT SECOND-HAND SMOKE? GET OVER IT…..

If you’ve ever really thought about it, the idea that breathing in a bit of smoke in a restaurant, or on a bus, or at the auction, or even in a bar, could give you lung cancer is kind of ludicrous…...considering that MOST smokers who breathe in great lungfuls of the smoke directly from the business end of the cigarette don’t die of lung cancer.

That little bit of common sense has just been supported by some actual data.

Posted by Earl on 02/17 at 10:36 PM
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Friday, December 15, 2006

HOW BIG A STRETCH MUST YOU MAKE TO BOOST YOUR SELF-ESTEEM…...?

If you’re really hurting, maybe this will help:

“People who are more intelligent as children, who will obviously keep that intelligence when they are 30, were more likely to say they are vegetarians at that age than those that were less intelligent,“ said Dr Catherine Gale, an epidemiologist at the University of Southampton in England.

Posted by Earl on 12/15 at 10:57 AM
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

ARE YOU PAYING EXTRA FOR FREE-RANGE ORGANIC CHICKEN…...?

Maybe you SHOULDN’T BE

With its premium price tag, shoppers expect organic chicken to be both tastier and healthier than cheaper battery-farmed birds.

But organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent, research has shown.

Posted by Earl on 12/05 at 12:00 PM
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT AIDS WAS WRONG?

Please don’t worry and get upset…..we’re just talking about information here.

The question in the title is actually the TITLE OF A BOOK by a young woman who tested HIV-positive almost 15 years ago, and has lived a normal and healthy life ever since, marrying and raising a family (all of whom are HIV-negative), while declining anti-HIV drugs. She also started a support group, ALIVE and WELL AIDS alternatives, for HIV-positive people who want to research what is known about the virus, about the effects of being diagnosed HIV-positive, about the dangers of the anti-HIV drugs, and about how to live normally while HIV-positive.

Now, there is a movie called The Other Side of AIDS

Posted by Earl on 11/21 at 10:57 PM
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THE EURO-WEENIES MAKE IT PLAIN…...

....that it’s the government who will decide what your “rights” mean…..

Doesn’t the “European Court of Human Rights” sound grand…..? Doesn’t having a “court of human rights” make you feel a little safer - I mean, knowing that if your government was violating your human rights, you would have someplace of appeal where human rights would be upheld?

Silly you! “Human rights” are DEFINED, folks…..thank God that in the United States, our rights are recognized as “given”...pre-existing the State, and superior to it. Because when your rights are defined, the devil is in the definition. Not that there aren’t plenty of folk over here who would like (and are working to move) us to have the same kind of “rights” as they do in Europe - SO much more efficient, don’t you see? Save money and time, besides, just like in Europe.

So then, today we have a cautionary tale….poor LESLIE BURKE, an Englishman with a hereditary, progressive, neurological disease which at some point will prevent him from communicating, or swallowing, and eventually is going to kill him. Except that it won’t kill him, because…

Posted by Earl on 11/21 at 08:11 AM
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