Archive for the 'Health' Category

The government decides that Swine Flu is not frightening enough. Now they call it H1N1 as if it were an off-shoot of the late Robert Crichton’s Andromeda Strain. How about calling it the more familiar N1H1?

Monday, May 11th, 2009

There is a possibility of more confusion.

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Images: (N1H1) via breitbart.tv; (Abrams)  via militarypictures.info;(Pope) via nihilobstat.info;(Nihil Obstat) nihilobstat.info; (NEHI) CF orange. (Swine Flue)-flue-buckeyehi.com; pigs via scrapetv.com; (Swine Flew)-airport-via johnnyjet.com; pigs(top to bottom) #6 & #4 via img2.travelblog.org; #2 via softpedia.com; #3 via adultsremcellawareness.wordpress.com; #1 via vegansoapbox.com; #5 via weathertoplife.com;

NASA Halts Test Of Space Station Urine Recylcer–Reuters headline, 3/22/2009 4:59pm EDT

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

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OFFICERS

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Images: (Officers)  interior-farm2.static.flickr.com; urinals-farm4.static.flickr.com; sign-buffaloah.com;(Men) interior-NASA.gov; sign above urinals-tkdtutor.com; gents-bbsignwerks.com; urinals-

Pope Benedict XVI Tells Cameroonians: “Condoms Not The Answer To Aids”–Huffington Post headline

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

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According to Benedict, these won’t cut the mustard.

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But…these Condo-Sized Body Rubbers Will Do The Trick.

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Images: (Main photo of Pope) Associated Press via Huffingtonpost.com; (Trojans) via peoplejam.com; (Body Rubber) via realityme.net; (Pinkie ring) via newsimg.bbc.co.uk; (umpire) nynpa.com; (Mitre) newliturgicalmovement.org via img254.imageshack.com;

No one listens to me…

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Instead of voicing anger over another outburst of Middle East violence, I have channeled that frustration by introducing a new health care product.
From DBp Laboratories, comes…

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Images: (gaza aerial) btselem.org; (Band-Aid) business-supply.com
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 12:30 pm and is filed under Business, Advertising, Health, Middle East. […]

A terrible irony pushes all other feelings out of its way.

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

HRT Users Who Get Breast Cancer Less Likely to Die
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter
Friday, December 12, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Taking hormone therapy after menopause is known to increase the risk of getting breast cancer, but women who take hormone therapy and then develop breast cancer have a lower risk of […]

Gambling casinos require their guests to provide their own decks of cards and dice.

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Here is George Will on ABC’s THIS WEEK…

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“All will be forgiven if things turn out well. And it’s just possible, Donna, that the economy is not going down the drain. 94, 95 percent of all mortgages in this country are being paid off on time. Ninety-four percent of those who want to work are working. […]

Vincenzo Kolchak ponders the infinite.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]

Archbishop Chaput may call these and war deaths ‘very late term abortions.’

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Constance Coldspring
has sent this piece which shows the results of 8 more years of

Compassionate Conservatism.
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20-year life gap separates city’s poorest, wealthy
By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com
October 16, 2008
In West Baltimore’s impoverished Hollins Market neighborhood, where the average life expectancy is about 63 years, residents shared beers and cigarettes on their front steps at midday yesterday […]

I wonder what the Emory board is going to do?

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Could there also be a relationship between big oil, coal and gas
and a few of the nay-saying scientists of Global Warming?

N’ahhh!!

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Emory acknowledges past issues with professor, launches investigation
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER, ALISON YOUNG
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Emory University officials said Saturday that a prominent psychiatric researcher has been accused several times in […]

These guys may know about colories, carbs, fats and sodium, but I know what’s bad by looking at the packaging.

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding
Provided by: Men’s Health
America’s Worst Breakfast Foods
Posted Wed, Sep 17, 2008, 11:50 am PDT
Worst Side Dish
Burger King Hash Browns (large)
620 calories
40 g fat (11 g saturated; 13 g trans)
1,200 mg sodium
60 g carbs
Worst Breakfast Sandwich
Hardee’s Monster Biscuit
710 calories
51 g fat (17 g saturated)
2,250 mg sodium
37 g carbohydrates
Worst Kids Meal
Denny’s Big […]