Philip McAvery

12:02 pm: Have You Voted?

Have you voted for issues you feel should be addressed by the Obama admin?

Vote for Change

04:52 pm: Are You Smarter Than A Third Grader?

Apparently not if they ask the really tough civics questions.

07:41 pm: Science Coolness
Buckypaper

04:04 pm: 32 Words
From the same administration that for that past 8 years has erroded our Constitution,
moral standing in the world, ignored laws of torture and privacy, etc...

now brings us this little gem from the blank check bill they would like to have so Mr. Paulson
can fix our broken financial system.

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Here Mr. Paulson, you take this $700 Billion of our money that we scraped up for you.

You just head over there to that room in the back with your friends and ya'll see what
you can do to help us out. We trust you to do what's right.

12:32 pm: Dang!
Now I'm in for it.

I ran up my credit cards and the world didn't end.

Black Holes are weak... and they suck too.

04:55 pm: Nerds Unite

 

What did D&D ever do to them?

Dragging the good name of D&D into the mud.

11:20 am: So you don't actually mean 100%

Tropicana 100% Orange Juice.

 Found printed on the label: "100 % orange juice from concentrate (filtered water and concentrated orange juice), natural flavors."

And after the word "flavors" an asterisk 

* "Ingredient not found in regular orange juice."

So…what part of "100%" does Tropicana not understand? 


And they also now have a line of specialty orange juice, You know, that is also 100% orange juice.
but one of them is called Healthy Heart with Omega 3.

The ingredients in this "100% Orange Juice" also lists Fish Oil and Fish Gelatin
(Tilapia, Sardine and Anchovy)

Now I take fish oil supplements because it is good for you in all kinds of ways but
just how do they keep the fish juice they have squeezed into their OJ from oxidizing and going rancid?

Also kind of reminds me of the old SNL skit with Dan Akroyd and the "Bass-O-Matic" (for those old enough to remember)

04:32 pm: ...not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime
 Gee, thanks Attorney General Mukasey. That one would go over real well with the local police
if I tried it.

Not every crime is a crime


If an unmarried Republican woman walks down the street and is extremely pregnant but everyone looks
the other way, she must not be pregnant.

07:36 pm: Pwned By Paris?
Video response by Paris

10:51 am: You can no longer sue the drug companies

It hasn't happened yet but that is the direction the drug companies are moving in.

Here is what the drug companies want. If the FDA has approved a drug, that approval
should protect the company from lawsuits. Even if the company hid or lied about test results
prior to approval.

Here is an excerpt from a health newsletter I receive.

 Big Pharma is attempting to use a legal version of pre-emption to protect itself against lawsuits filed by patients who have been harmed by side effects associated with pharmaceutical products.

Pre-emption would make these sorts of lawsuits illegal on the basis that a pharmaceutical company can't be sued over a drug or other product once it has been approved by the FDA.

Now for the really scary part: Pre-emption protects Big Pharma even if a company has suppressed information about potential dangers associated with its products. Which is precisely what Johnson & Johnson did with its OrthoEvera birth-control patch, which contained higher levels of estrogen than stated on its labeling information. That increased dosage of a space-alien version of estrogen also increased women's risks of the side effects associated with the Pill, like blood clots and strokes. But now Johnson & Johnson is arguing that pre-emption should protect them against being sued by a woman who experienced problems from OrthoEvra because the FDA had approved the drug.

The FDA makes plenty of bad calls and puts plenty of people at risk as a result, but it hardly seems fair to point the finger at them here, or for Johnson & Johnson to use them as a scapegoat, when the agency wasn't even given the full story to begin with. And for the past several decades, courts in the U.S. have agreed, dismissing claims of pre- emption. But, according to The New York Times article I read, that may change very soon.

According to the Times, "The Bush Administration has argued strongly in favor of the doctrine, which holds that the FDA is the only agency with enough expertise to regulate drug makers and that its decisions should not be second-guessed by courts."

Is the Bush administration talking about the right FDA? The same agency that took six years to warn the public of the potential risks of OthroEvra after it finally DID discover that Johnson & Johnson had concealed the truth? And the one that admitted recently it can't keep up with scientific advancement and has a hard time making decisions under the "pressure" of deadlines?

Apparently, these self-incriminating admissions and the plethora of mistakes the FDA has made over the years at the expense of our health and safety don't bother los Federales. According to the Times article, "The Supreme Court is to rule on a case next term that could make pre-emption a legal standard for drug cases." 

End of Excerpt

Now remember that the drug companies are also pushing to have more drugs and "vaccines"
(like Gardasil) to become mandatory. So they get guaranteed sales and protection.

Gee, I want to create a product in which the government will guarantee me sales and also
tell me that I never have to worry about lawsuits.

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This kind of thing is happening far to often
Tasered 19 Times
They might not be guns, but they are weapons.

10:05 am: Losing Your Choices
A very large majority of women use contraception at some point in their life.

The very act of using contraception may soon be regarded as abortion.

Contraception is Abortion

Here is a related article with a slightly different take.

Women Losing Access to Healthcare

04:36 pm: Fathers Day
I thank my family for being the sails
to guide me to a better life.

Barack Obama has given a great speech, this one encompassing Fathers.

It is a long read but worth it.

08:24 am: Shopping Spree

What would you buy, if you had the money?

Shopping Spree

02:26 pm: National DNA Day

Yes, today has been declared National DNA Day.

55 years since the landmark paper on DNA's double helix was published
and five years since scientists unraveled the complete genetic code for humans.

So remember to celebrate by spreading your DNA around. 

Tags: dna

02:31 pm: Because I am such a light hearted guy
I have died at your hands

I have died at your hands,
embittered and angry.

I believed in the Constitutional words,
you gleefully twisted to your ends.
You claimed the values of Jesus.
You swore on the bible.
 
I trusted the words to be upheld
By whomever occupied the office.

You represented me.
I do not condone such actions.
Yet there I was, raising a man,
black hooded, by his arms.
I struck him, I shouted at him,
I denied him, I showed him
deaths' door.

Brutalizer, Torturer, Freedom Stealer.
This is what people think of me.
This is how they see me
.
How can I tell them, convince them.
This is not me, this not what I believe.

09:56 pm: Dolphin Slaughter
The link below is an article about the filming of a often repeated
dolphin slaughter.

Dolphin Slaughter article

It is a 2 page article explaining some of the dolphin ordeal and
the military styled, covert operation that was required to
accomplish the filming.

There are a few still pictures (no film) some people may consider
graphic.

Tags: dolphin slaughter

02:53 am: Dedicated to George W. Bush


Fighting the Rainbow

I started with the yellow.
The flimsy pale part of the heart
where we could easily penetrate
rearward lines, shredding the weaker fellow.

Then we turned behind, crushing orange and red.
Securing our rear flank with mortar and tank,
strafing the road of escape where he
ran as we easily shattered the avenue he fled.

While our people began to waver and call out,
I never doubted, though our enemy routed.
Strangely illuminated, the light grows dim,
obscuring my goal of destroying a lout.

Looking inward to secure green and blue,
we tightened our grip only to see them slip
away in the blurry violent darkness
of a blood saturated blackening hue.

In the escaping twilight, stood indigo,
calling us sinners though we are the winners.
My goal of black domination at hand,
shredded colors a spiraling victory vertigo.

We grope for what remains of violet.
I dance and soft-shoe for the reporting crew.
I kept telling you victory was near,
history vindicating my self-awarded amulet.

Our victory is complete. I looked you in the eye,
a God given glow to fight the Rainbow.
Though blackness reigns, our sacrifice was worth
the darkness we live in, without the spectrum of why.

10:48 pm: Throwing Rocks
Throwing Rocks

Suffering at the bottom
of the Maslow pile.
Smooth stone hurling
through air, striking.
Tonight, there is food.

Braced against driving
wind, cold rain icing skin.
Straining back, heaving
boulders upon the wall.
Sheltering from the sky.

Unable to articulate
confused yearnings.
Too young, immature.
Small pebbles thrown
for attentions desired.

Secure behind thick
barricade of rock.
sudden flurry of stones.
Approaching enemy
flees, battered, bloodied.

Smooth, polished marble
hoisted carefully, positioned.
Recognition of deeds done.
Monuments of remembrance,
vanity, honor, celebration.

Flesh has ended its journey.
Still there are stones to move,
stack, toss to the top of the
pile. A burial mound, covering
a life made from throwing rocks.

10:15 pm: Just One More Reason
Here is my soapbox. See me standing on it.
This is just one more (Verified) reason to avoid as much crap food as possible.

Hyperactivity linked to preservatives and food coloring

Many people think they are eating well or eating correctly but we are being deceived.

There are too many chemicals in our food that are causing the average person
severe disease-like problems.

Heard about the myriad problems associated with artificial sweeteners? The agony list is a mile long.

Think you have ADHD? Clean up your diet (I mean really clean it up) and see what happens.

Autism is skyrocketing. Mercury poisoning and Autism have mirror-like symptoms.
We are being poisoned with mercury every time we turn around.
(vaccines, teeth fillings, American industrial pollution, drifting China pollution, etc.)

Better living through artificial chemistry? As long as it isn't in our food.

How did I slash my asthma problems by at least 75%? Fish Oil supplements.

Minor rant has ended

This is me stepping off my soapbox.