"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This guy is a MAJOR TRIP (Grant Morrison)
Topic: Miscellaneous
6:23 am EDT, Apr 9, 2007
This guy is a trip. Disinformation Conference. "I might be loaded but I got into a 7-11 and its still a 7-11 and I might have had smoked a quarter bag but I smoked a quarter bag every day for years........ "We use time to grow Larve"
Drug Companies Move to Make Compounded Medications Illegal
Topic: Medicine
2:02 pm EDT, Apr 5, 2007
Today, if you are allegic to food dyes, corn starch, or some other filler ingredient used in pills, your pharmacist can obtain the chemicals from the drug company, and provide you the chemicals you need without you having to ingest what you are perhaps violently allergic to.
Patients with painful nerve conditions - like me - have special formulas of lidocaine, capsicum, and a few other chemicals - mixed by the pharmacist into a numbing salve. The percentages can be tweaked by pain management physicians into a salve that keep people from having to take narcotics. My dad recently had to have a compounded medication to treat a spot of skin cancer.
Drug Companies are moving to make compounded medications illegal though. They are sponsoring congressman to pass legislation that would mean that the only medications available to the public, are in the forms they provide, and that form ONLY.
Combine this with their move to patent old drugs recently out of patent, with simple new methods of delivery, or just with an additional bit of tylenol, and you start to see how really greedy they are.
For instance - Ultracet ® is often 60.00 to fill, but all it is in effect is tramadol (3.00 for a full bottle of generic) with tylenol (1.00 in generic.)
Discovery Channel :: News :: Pyramid's Secret Doors to Be Opened
Topic: Science
5:25 pm EDT, Apr 2, 2007
That's quite a small, steep shaft. They ended up just drilling through the first one, to get to the second. It will be neat to see what technology they are going to use to get through this one.
We have obtained secret documents which RIAA lawyers use to determine whether to file a lawsuit against a copyright violator. These documents give insight into the RIAA's decision-making process, and could help people avoid lawsuits in the future. We offer these documents as a public service.
Fence firm hired illegals - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper
Topic: Politics and Law
4:46 am EDT, Mar 31, 2007
The head of a California company hired by the U.S. government to help build a fence along the Southwest border to curb the flow of illegal aliens into the United States has been sentenced on charges of hiring illegals for the job.
"When Daddy is Catholic and Mommy is a Witch, what's a couple to teach their children?"
"By many accounts, Paganism has grown tremendously in the United States over the last several decades, which means a lot more kids are being raised Pagan.....
It's grown from being obscure to becoming one of the top four faith groups in the United States," said Reverend Patrick McCollum, a longtime Wiccan chaplain, activist, and instructor for Cherry Hill Seminary, an online Pagan religious school based in Vermont. Wicca has no central authority, and therefore nobody's membership estimates are definitive. McCollum, who lives in Moraga, cites estimates that range between 300,000 and 1.2 million in the United States — he thinks the latter is most accurate. Some Pagan organizations boast upward of fifty thousand members..."
Former Arizona Governor Comes Forward About 10yr old UFO sighting
Topic: Space
12:11 pm EDT, Mar 26, 2007
"PHOENIX — Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington trotted out an aide dressed as an alien 10 years ago to spoof the frenzy surrounding mysterious lights in the Phoenix sky. Now he says he saw the lights himself, and believed from the start that they were extraterrestrial.
Now a pastry chef and business consultant, Symington said he did not acknowledge his own encounter at first because he did not want people to panic. "