Amazing Statistics!

Death By Medicine
By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD

A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking. These researchers have authored a paper titled “Death by Medicine” that presents compelling evidence that today’s system frequently causes more harm than good.

This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.

The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. (By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.5)

The Rear-Ender!

As some of you may already know, I rear-ended a car a few weeks ago....... I tell you, it was a REALLY bad day for me and that only made matters worse! When the driver of the car I hit got out of his car, he was a friggin DWARF!!

He looked up at me and said, "I am NOT HAPPY!"

So I said, "Well, which one are you then?"

har har har!!!

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

I am marking this day on my calendar.

Paris Hilton Released From L.A. Jail

A smiling Paris Hilton walked out of a Los Angeles County jail early Tuesday, officially ending a bizarre, three-week stay that ignited furious debate over celebrity treatment in the jail system.

Practicing With my Digital Camera Around the House!

Back when I got my first camera ever, I went around and took photos of flowers. I still have some of those photos and they look pretty darn good. So, here I find myself again walking around our garden taking photos of the nature and shit...

Say Hello to Margin

I did it. Finally after a year and half Margin Gallery is a reality.

I thought about getting this cooperative art gallery together many times. Since the previous attempt was hijacked by morons who choked on the artichoke, I thought a cooperative attempt to show art must be possible. There are many in existance, although not many here in Chicago.

We have a show coming up at the end of September. I have dugg out my old negatives and finnally feel creative again. Got me a digital camera (a real one, not one of those pocket ones), a couple of lenses... Got Aperture fired up on my MacBook... Things are looking sweeeeet.

Even got in touch with Nardulli to get my prints printed. Fiber Based digital printing... Youzers!!!

Freedom of Speech... in Israel?

Doesn't look like it.

Mohammad Bakri Faces Trial in Israel for Documentary “Jenin, Jenin”

Acclaimed Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri is one Israel’s most
well-known citizens. He has acted in over a dozen films made by Israeli and
international directors including “Hanna K” by Costa-Gavras and is well-known as
a stage actor and director. But since producing a documentary on Israel’s 2002
assault on the West Bank town of Jenin, Bakri has found himself virtually
blacklisted in Israeli cinema, and now he even faces possible jail time for
making the film.

In April 2002, the Israeli military killed fifty-two
Palestinians, flattened over 150 buildings and closed off the camp for two
weeks. Several human rights groups accused Israel of commiting war crimes. The
United Nations suspended its fact-finding mission after Israel refused to allow
them entry. Bakri’s documentary “Jenin, Jenin” was one of the first to tell the
stories of the town’s residents during the Israeli assault.

The Zutons - Valerie

And of course the original ROX too...

amy winehouse valerie

Simply amazing...

The DL - Amy Winehouse 'Valerie' Live

She's the shit!!

Torture is Not an American Value

Awww... My Heart Is A Broken!!

Hilton will do more time than most, analysis finds

Paris Hilton will end up serving more time behind bars than the vast majority of inmates sent to L.A. County Jail for similar offenses, according to a Times analysis of jail records.

Feist - I Feel It All (Live)

Awesome!!

It's A Bird!!

Dianosaur Bird

Dinosaur hunters in Inner Mongolia say they have discovered the fossil of an enormous birdlike dinosaur.

I Am All For It...!!!

A Compass That Can Clash With Modern Life

First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women being together could be lifted at work if the woman breast-fed her male colleagues five times, to establish family ties.

Get the Word Out

The Connextion

War Made Easy brings to the screen Norman Solomon's insightful analysis of the strategies used by administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to promote their agendas for war from Vietnam to Iraq. By familiarizing viewers with the techniques of war propaganda, War Made Easy encourages us to think critically about the messages put out by today's spin doctors - messages which are designed to promote and prolong a policy of militarism under the guise of the "war on terror." Based on the book by the same title.

It is Ironic

I don't mind having advocates who may have a view different than mine. I believe having access to the Courts is a fundamental right of all American Citizens. I also believe that the trial lawyers have saved many lives. Think about all the lives that have been saved because the vehicles we drive are not equipped with a three-point seat belt. Think about all the limbs that were saved because of the safety features on, say, lawnmowers.



I do not even mind to see an advocate of tort reform and an advocate of limiting the citizen's access to the Courts use the same court system when he has been the victim of someone's carelessness.



What I do mind, is the hypocrisy. Judge Bork claims that he fell because the Yale Club wantonly and deliberately caused harm to him and so he is asking for punitive damages. Does this man really believes that the Yale Club plotted to have him give a lecture and lure him on their premises in order to harm him?



I do mind those who claim to be against frivolous lawsuits and against abuses of the Court system to do that which they pretend to be against.



That... I do mind.

 

Leading Conservative Activist Seeks Punitive Damages

Judge Robert Bork, one of the fathers of the modern judicial conservative movement whose nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate, is seeking $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages, after he slipped and fell at the Yale Club of New York City. Judge Bork was scheduled to give a speech at the club, but he fell when mounting the dais, and injured his head and left leg. He alleges that the Yale Club is liable for the $1m plus punitive damages because they "wantonly, willfully, and recklessly" failed to provide staging which he could climb safely.

Judge Bork has been a leading advocate of restricting plaintiffs' ability to recover through tort law.

Shit Hole of a Place to Live

48°F
Mostly Cloudy
Wind: N at 0 mph
Humidity: 83%

Save the Internet...

Ed Whitacre: Gone But Not Forgotten

AT&T chief Ed Whitacre handed the keys over to his replacement Randall Stephenson yesterday, but not before giving a rousing pep talk to fellow executives in the company’s San Antonio board room. We just received exclusive video of the AT&T chairman’s parting speech.

“There’s a problem. It’s called Net Neutrality,” Whitacre told the heirs to AT&T’s telecommunications empire. “Well, frankly, we say to hell with that. We’re gonna put up some toll booths and start charging admission.”

This statement echoes those made in the press by Whitacre and Stephenson over the last two years.

Despite claims of poverty whenever pressed to offer better services, these AT&T execs are privately gloating over more than $35 billion in gross profits over the last 12 months. Moreover, Whitacre (and now Stephenson) are pressuring Congress to allow them to provide privileged Web access to their customers to companies that pay them a special fee.

The phone and cable companies claim that this sort of discriminatory “double dipping” — charging both consumers and content providers — is necessary to provide the high-speed services that Americans demand. But it’s a fundamental shift in the neutral way the Internet has always worked. In essence, it takes away user choice — the most basic tenet of the Internet — and hands it to AT&T.

“Will Congress let us do it?” Whitacre asks his colleagues. “You bet they will — cuz we don’t call it cashin’ in. We call it ‘deregulation.’ ”