This will send your blood pressure up!!!
Letter by a Florida teacher................ A teacher speaks
This is a subject close to my heart. Do you know that we have adult
students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get
the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus
other federal grants to go to school?
One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me
to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was
getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL
grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover.
She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to
come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it
out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of
needs while they go to school or training. The one student I just
mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans
to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER
country.'
I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then
not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't
bother her, because that is what the money is there for!
I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a
US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am
working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and
everyone in my family works and pays for our education.
Something is wrong here. I am sorry, but after hearing they want to
sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough. Nowhere did they
sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language
because of immigration. It was written by Francis Scott Key and should
be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even
gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but
this is MY COUNTRY.
IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP -- please pass this along. I am not
against immigration -- just come through like everyone else.
Get a sponsor; have a place to lay your head; have a job; pay your
taxes, live by the rules AND LEARN THE LANGUAGE as all other immigrants
have in the past -- and GOD BLESS AMERICA!
PART OF THE PROBLEM - Think about this: If you don't want to forward
this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is
Time for America to Speak up. If you agree -- pass this along, if you
don't agree --- delete it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
autism and people who have no clue
Wed, 7/2/08, joans_java wrote:
From: joans_java
Subject: [mb12valtrex] Re: Blog DC Rally WebMD here's my comment
To: mb12valtrex@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 10:34 PM
I TOTALLY AGREE! Debi (who is on this group) just blogged on her
myspace last night about Not wanting to be a member in this club. I
think it is so awful that these "professionals" cannot think of just
what the truth is. I think if we started renting out billboards and
posting the ingredients in these vaccines, maybe the general public
would revolt as we are! I know the people in my family and close
friends are. We have had enough!
Shanna
--- In mb12valtrex@ yahoogroups. com, Jean Curtin
wrote:
>
>
> I dare the person who said that they would rather have a child
who's "a little impaired" than one who got the disease to spend a
week taking care of one of these walking casualties. My son is 20
years old. He nearly died after his DTaP-an experimantal vaccine
that was removed from the market. The list of symptoms he has endured
is long, autism, Crohn's disease, immune deficiency, life threatening
infections, auto-immune disease, to name a few. For the wrong child,
the wrong vaccine is either a death sentence, or possibly worse-a
life sentence of suffering. While you muse about abstract
hypothetical risk, hundreds of thousands of families are suffering.
For the person who said you have no idea what it's like to lose a
child who died from a preventable disease, I live with the walking
wounded of a preventable epidemic every day. Our vaccine policy is a
failure, and it will all be brought to light. I never want another
living soul to go through
> this.
> --- On Wed, 7/2/08, joans_java wrote:
>
> From: joans_java
> Subject: [mb12valtrex] Blog about DC Rally on WebMD PLEASE COMMENT
> To: mb12valtrex@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 6:46 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hey there you all! Please go comment on this blog on WebMd. They
have
> ditched the whole Rally and have attacked people I dearly love who
have
> stood up for all of us and our CAUSE!
> Thanks so much!!!!
> Shanna
>
> http://blogs. webmd.com/ healthy-children /2008/06/ green-our-
vaccines
From: joans_java
Subject: [mb12valtrex] Re: Blog DC Rally WebMD here's my comment
To: mb12valtrex@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 10:34 PM
I TOTALLY AGREE! Debi (who is on this group) just blogged on her
myspace last night about Not wanting to be a member in this club. I
think it is so awful that these "professionals" cannot think of just
what the truth is. I think if we started renting out billboards and
posting the ingredients in these vaccines, maybe the general public
would revolt as we are! I know the people in my family and close
friends are. We have had enough!
Shanna
--- In mb12valtrex@ yahoogroups. com, Jean Curtin
wrote:
>
>
> I dare the person who said that they would rather have a child
who's "a little impaired" than one who got the disease to spend a
week taking care of one of these walking casualties. My son is 20
years old. He nearly died after his DTaP-an experimantal vaccine
that was removed from the market. The list of symptoms he has endured
is long, autism, Crohn's disease, immune deficiency, life threatening
infections, auto-immune disease, to name a few. For the wrong child,
the wrong vaccine is either a death sentence, or possibly worse-a
life sentence of suffering. While you muse about abstract
hypothetical risk, hundreds of thousands of families are suffering.
For the person who said you have no idea what it's like to lose a
child who died from a preventable disease, I live with the walking
wounded of a preventable epidemic every day. Our vaccine policy is a
failure, and it will all be brought to light. I never want another
living soul to go through
> this.
> --- On Wed, 7/2/08, joans_java
>
> From: joans_java
> Subject: [mb12valtrex] Blog about DC Rally on WebMD PLEASE COMMENT
> To: mb12valtrex@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 6:46 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Hey there you all! Please go comment on this blog on WebMd. They
have
> ditched the whole Rally and have attacked people I dearly love who
have
> stood up for all of us and our CAUSE!
> Thanks so much!!!!
> Shanna
>
> http://blogs. webmd.com/ healthy-children /2008/06/ green-our-
vaccines
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Cornflake
That's a very funny story about the deer licking your sister's face. How did that happen? Was it someone's pet?
We used to have a pet deer. My Dad rescued a little fawn whose mother had been shot (poached) on our property. It was very sad. The hunter took one small piece of meat, and left the doe there for the vultures, right in the middle of our horse pasture. Our poor horse (and I think she had a young filly at that time) must have been terrified.
Anyway, the fawn (about four weeks old) must have been hidden in the bushes by its mother. Dad could tell the doe had been nursing, so he went to look for the baby, or babies. He found little "Cornflake" in the brush about 100 yards away. A fawn will stay where its mother has hidden it for a very long time. They might even stay there until they're very weak. They are easy prey for predators at that age. IThey surely will die alone, if not weaned. They cannot survive w/o their mothers.
Dad carried her home, and we bottle fed her for about another four months. 'Poor critter thought she was part dog, possibly part cat, and maybe part human, too. She certainly didn't realize she was a deer "grass rat" for several years. (My funny husband calls them "grass rats" because they're technically big rodents, I think.) I think before we weaned her, one of took a bowl of cereal outside, and she tried to eat it (or get the milk). So (if I'm remembering correctly) this is why we called her Cornflake. She used to eat the dog's dry food, and the cat food, too, at times.
Cornflake used to try to come in the house when the screen doors were open. One day the wind blew our screen loose from the living room door, where I was napping on the couch. I woke up feeling the strangest sensation on my face. I looked up and saw what looked like a camel or giraffe's face, with huge brown eyes, very close to mine. When my eyes could focus, I realized it was Cornflake greeting me, and that she had come inside.
This is one of the most memorable moments of my life. I will never forget this! We have funny pictures of the cats, dogs, and the deer napping, all piled up on each other. Such wonderful memories .... If Lyme was around in my area when I was young (1960's and 1970's) I certainly got a lot of exposure! I hugged my deer a lot. She was my best buddy.
She answered the "call of the wild" when she was two or three years old. A wild, handsome young buck came calling near our home for a few mornings (in the Spring?) Cornflake ran off with him, and returned home only occasionally after that. She came home twice after her baby was born, and was strangely wild. She wouldn't let us get near her fawn. Then she disappeared, and we saw her no more.
I think all our neighbors were relieved. She was a real "pesk" and would eat everything in their unfenced gardens. She was very tame, and no one could shoo her away -- unless they practically bodily shoved her off the property!
Isn't that wonderful? I can hardly believe I was so blessed as to have a pet like that, for awhile.
Milou (Nancy)
We used to have a pet deer. My Dad rescued a little fawn whose mother had been shot (poached) on our property. It was very sad. The hunter took one small piece of meat, and left the doe there for the vultures, right in the middle of our horse pasture. Our poor horse (and I think she had a young filly at that time) must have been terrified.
Anyway, the fawn (about four weeks old) must have been hidden in the bushes by its mother. Dad could tell the doe had been nursing, so he went to look for the baby, or babies. He found little "Cornflake" in the brush about 100 yards away. A fawn will stay where its mother has hidden it for a very long time. They might even stay there until they're very weak. They are easy prey for predators at that age. IThey surely will die alone, if not weaned. They cannot survive w/o their mothers.
Dad carried her home, and we bottle fed her for about another four months. 'Poor critter thought she was part dog, possibly part cat, and maybe part human, too. She certainly didn't realize she was a deer "grass rat" for several years. (My funny husband calls them "grass rats" because they're technically big rodents, I think.) I think before we weaned her, one of took a bowl of cereal outside, and she tried to eat it (or get the milk). So (if I'm remembering correctly) this is why we called her Cornflake. She used to eat the dog's dry food, and the cat food, too, at times.
Cornflake used to try to come in the house when the screen doors were open. One day the wind blew our screen loose from the living room door, where I was napping on the couch. I woke up feeling the strangest sensation on my face. I looked up and saw what looked like a camel or giraffe's face, with huge brown eyes, very close to mine. When my eyes could focus, I realized it was Cornflake greeting me, and that she had come inside.
This is one of the most memorable moments of my life. I will never forget this! We have funny pictures of the cats, dogs, and the deer napping, all piled up on each other. Such wonderful memories .... If Lyme was around in my area when I was young (1960's and 1970's) I certainly got a lot of exposure! I hugged my deer a lot. She was my best buddy.
She answered the "call of the wild" when she was two or three years old. A wild, handsome young buck came calling near our home for a few mornings (in the Spring?) Cornflake ran off with him, and returned home only occasionally after that. She came home twice after her baby was born, and was strangely wild. She wouldn't let us get near her fawn. Then she disappeared, and we saw her no more.
I think all our neighbors were relieved. She was a real "pesk" and would eat everything in their unfenced gardens. She was very tame, and no one could shoo her away -- unless they practically bodily shoved her off the property!
Isn't that wonderful? I can hardly believe I was so blessed as to have a pet like that, for awhile.
Milou (Nancy)
Monday, June 23, 2008
cancer cure worth a try????
Bicarbonate Maple Cancer Treatment
International Medical Veritas Association
The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer treatment focuses on delivering natural chemotherapy in a way that effectively kills cancer cells but significantly reduces the brutal side effects experienced with most standard chemotherapy treatments. In fact so great is the reduction that the dangers are brought down to zero. Costs, which are a factor for the majority of people, of this particular treatment are nil. Though this cancer treatment is very inexpensive, do not assume it is not effective. The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer treatment is a very significant cancer treatment every cancer patient should be familiar with and it can easily be combined with other safe and effective natural treatments.
This cancer treatment is similar in principle to Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). IPT treatment consists of giving doses of insulin to a fasting patient sufficient to lower blood sugar into the 50 mg/dl. In a normal person, when you take in sugar the insulin levels go up to meet the need of getting that sugar into the cells. In IPT they are artificially injecting insulin to deplete the blood of all sugar then injecting the lower doses of toxic chemo drugs when the blood sugar is driven down to the lowest possible value. During the low peak, it is said that the receptors are more sensitive and take on medications more rapidly and in higher amounts.
The bicarbonate maple syrup treatment works in reverse to IPT. Dr. Tullio Simoncini acknowledges that cancer cells gobbles up sugar so when you encourage the intake of sugar it’s like sending in a Trojan horse. The sugar is not going to end up encouraging the further growth of the cancer colonies because the baking soda is going to kill the cells before they have a chance to grow. Instead of artificially manipulating insulin and thus forcefully driving down blood sugar levels to then inject toxic chemo agents we combine the sugar with the bicarbonate and present it to the cancer cells, which at first are going to love the present. But not for long!
This treatment is a combination of pure, 100% maple syrup and baking soda and was first reported on the Cancer Tutor site. When mixed and heated together, the maple syrup and baking soda bind together. The maple syrup targets cancer cells (which consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells) and the baking soda, which is dragged into the cancer cell by the maple syrup, being very alkaline forces a rapid shift in pH killing the cell. The actual formula is to mix one part baking soda with three parts (pure, 100%) maple syrup in a small saucepan. Stir briskly and heat the mixture for 5 minutes. Take 1 teaspoon daily, is what is suggested by Cancer Tutor but one could probably do this several times a day.
“There is not a tumor on God’s green earth that cannot be licked with a little baking soda and maple syrup.” That is the astonishing claim of controversial folk healer Jim Kelmun who says that this simple home remedy can stop and reverse the deadly growth of cancers. His loyal patients swear by the man they fondly call Dr. Jim and say he is a miracle worker. “Dr. Jim cured me of lung cancer,” said farmer Ian Roadhouse. “Those other doctors told me that I was a goner and had less then six months to live. But the doc put me on his mixture and in a couple of months the cancer was gone. It did not even show up on the x-rays.”
Dr. Jim
International Medical Veritas Association
The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer treatment focuses on delivering natural chemotherapy in a way that effectively kills cancer cells but significantly reduces the brutal side effects experienced with most standard chemotherapy treatments. In fact so great is the reduction that the dangers are brought down to zero. Costs, which are a factor for the majority of people, of this particular treatment are nil. Though this cancer treatment is very inexpensive, do not assume it is not effective. The bicarbonate maple syrup cancer treatment is a very significant cancer treatment every cancer patient should be familiar with and it can easily be combined with other safe and effective natural treatments.
This cancer treatment is similar in principle to Insulin Potentiation Therapy (IPT). IPT treatment consists of giving doses of insulin to a fasting patient sufficient to lower blood sugar into the 50 mg/dl. In a normal person, when you take in sugar the insulin levels go up to meet the need of getting that sugar into the cells. In IPT they are artificially injecting insulin to deplete the blood of all sugar then injecting the lower doses of toxic chemo drugs when the blood sugar is driven down to the lowest possible value. During the low peak, it is said that the receptors are more sensitive and take on medications more rapidly and in higher amounts.
The bicarbonate maple syrup treatment works in reverse to IPT. Dr. Tullio Simoncini acknowledges that cancer cells gobbles up sugar so when you encourage the intake of sugar it’s like sending in a Trojan horse. The sugar is not going to end up encouraging the further growth of the cancer colonies because the baking soda is going to kill the cells before they have a chance to grow. Instead of artificially manipulating insulin and thus forcefully driving down blood sugar levels to then inject toxic chemo agents we combine the sugar with the bicarbonate and present it to the cancer cells, which at first are going to love the present. But not for long!
This treatment is a combination of pure, 100% maple syrup and baking soda and was first reported on the Cancer Tutor site. When mixed and heated together, the maple syrup and baking soda bind together. The maple syrup targets cancer cells (which consume 15 times more glucose than normal cells) and the baking soda, which is dragged into the cancer cell by the maple syrup, being very alkaline forces a rapid shift in pH killing the cell. The actual formula is to mix one part baking soda with three parts (pure, 100%) maple syrup in a small saucepan. Stir briskly and heat the mixture for 5 minutes. Take 1 teaspoon daily, is what is suggested by Cancer Tutor but one could probably do this several times a day.
“There is not a tumor on God’s green earth that cannot be licked with a little baking soda and maple syrup.” That is the astonishing claim of controversial folk healer Jim Kelmun who says that this simple home remedy can stop and reverse the deadly growth of cancers. His loyal patients swear by the man they fondly call Dr. Jim and say he is a miracle worker. “Dr. Jim cured me of lung cancer,” said farmer Ian Roadhouse. “Those other doctors told me that I was a goner and had less then six months to live. But the doc put me on his mixture and in a couple of months the cancer was gone. It did not even show up on the x-rays.”
Dr. Jim
Saturday, June 7, 2008
too many vaccines?
A Day of Remembrance:
Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill
By Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center.
www.nvic.org
Barbara Fischkin, left, with Lujene Clark, a parent activist and
founder of No Mercury, See Fischkin's commentary about the rally on
the Huffington Post blog. tinyurl.com/ 4kot2l Photo by Christine Heeren
of Lighthouse Studios.
They came by the thousands from all over the America. On June 4,
2008, mothers and fathers with vaccine injured autistic children
marched down the middle of Independence Avenue and rallied at the foot
of the nation's Capitol. Some parents walked with, held or pushed
their children in strollers while others, whose children were too
severely brain injured to attend, carried signs and photos. They had
come to witness, in one way or another, what had happened to their
children after vaccination.
The day broke hot and humid with a threat of torrential rains
that would have drenched the marchers. But then, the skies cleared and
the sun came out in time for the determined parents and their children
to gather on the grounds of the Washington Monument and line up behind
Hollywood celebrities Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy leading the march
and the "Green Our Vaccines" rally that would follow.
Although the primary message of the march was to call on
government health agencies to "remove toxins" from vaccines and
"adjust the vaccine schedule" by reducing the numbers of vaccines
given to infants simultaneously, NVIC supporters carried signs
declaring "No forced vaccination. Not in America." As NVIC co-founder
Kathi Williams and I walked past the long line of families waiting to
begin the march, we and our now-grown children held up the signs
featuring the American flag and statue of liberty. All the way down
the line, the families of vaccine injured children clapped and cheered
the message of freedom we carried to honor and empower them as we passed.
And while many at the front of the line marching down
Independence Avenue chanted "Too many, too soon," those of us bringing
up the back of the line chanted "Hey, hey, Ho, ho - forced vaccines
have got to go!" with an African American father urging us to shout
louder and louder as we approached the Department of Health and Human
Services. "Let them hear you," he yelled. "Tell them what you want."
I looked at my 30-year old son, who became multiply learning
disabled after a neurological reaction to his fourth DPT shot in 1980
when he was two and a half, as he walked beside me resolutely holding
up our sign and shouting in a deep voice "Forced vaccines have got to
go." When he was eight years old, I remembered marching in Atlanta in
front of the Centers for Disease Control in 1986 with Kathi and the
young mothers of babies who had been brain injured or died after DPT
vaccination in the 1980's. We were the first generation to march in
protest against toxic vaccines and one-size-fits- all government
vaccine policies justified by the utilitarian premise that it is
ethical to throw a minority of children under the bus in service to
others.
The second generation, whose children were born in the 1990's
and developed autism after vaccination, held a series of rallies on
Capitol Hill sponsored by Unlocking Autism beginning in 2000 when
Congressman Dan Burton initiated congressional hearings on the link
between autism and vaccines. In the summer of 2005, parents protesting
mercury in vaccines marched and rallied on Capitol Hill. Today, the
third generation knows that vaccine damage is about more than mercury.
It is also about too much vaccination: 48 doses of 14 vaccines given
by age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines federal health officials now
say children must get by the time they graduate from high school.
At the rally podium, Jim Carey delivered a remarkable address
that was also a sweet love letter to his partner, Jenny McCarthy. He
said "Autism is everywhere. It is on every street and in every town"
and he asked the CDC "How stupid do you think we are?"
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and physicians such as Jay Gordon, M.D.
and professor of chemistry Boyd Haley, Ph.D. called for removal of
toxins from vaccines. Jenny McCarthy, who is the celebrity
spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism Now (TACA), held up the
government's childhood vaccine schedule and said "Parents need to know
it is called a recommended schedule, not a mandatory schedule."
Unfortunately, that may not be true in many states in the
future. Lobbyists for drug companies making vaccines, medical
organizations representing doctors who give vaccines and government
health officials are pressing state legislators in every state to pass
legislation that would automatically turn CDC new vaccine
"recommendations" into state mandatory vaccination laws.
This kind of proposed legislation was beaten back in the
California legislature by the education efforts of autism activist
Rick Rollens last year. But right now, the New York State legislature
is about to capitulate to the Forced Vaccination Lobby and force
children in New York to use every vaccine the CDC "recommends" or face
punishment, including loss of the right to get an education.
A rally of families protesting the proposed legislation will be
held in Albany, NY at the Capitol Building at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday,
June 10. For more information, go to www.mykids mychoice.com
I will never forget marching with parents and their vaccine
injured children in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2008. Just as I will
never forget all the marches that have gone before during the past
quarter century that parents have been asking those who operate and
profit from the mass vaccination system to make vaccines and vaccine
policies safer.
Three decades of begging is long enough. Now it is time for all
Americans - both those with vaccine injured children and those with
healthy children - to Stand Up and Be Counted for the human right to
make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. Our freedom and
the biological integrity of this and future generations is on the
line. Without the legal right to say "no" to vaccination, the people
have no economic or political leverage to protect themselves and their
children from toxic vaccines and dangerous vaccine policies.
The next march on Capitol Hill talking about vaccines should be
all about freedom.
(To view wonderful photos of the rally, go to the blog
Adventures in Autism). adventuresinautism. blogspot. com/
DO SOMETHING ABOUT AUTISM NOW
SUBSCRIBE
Vaccine Injured March on Capitol Hill
By Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center.
www.nvic.org
Barbara Fischkin, left, with Lujene Clark, a parent activist and
founder of No Mercury, See Fischkin's commentary about the rally on
the Huffington Post blog. tinyurl.com/ 4kot2l Photo by Christine Heeren
of Lighthouse Studios.
They came by the thousands from all over the America. On June 4,
2008, mothers and fathers with vaccine injured autistic children
marched down the middle of Independence Avenue and rallied at the foot
of the nation's Capitol. Some parents walked with, held or pushed
their children in strollers while others, whose children were too
severely brain injured to attend, carried signs and photos. They had
come to witness, in one way or another, what had happened to their
children after vaccination.
The day broke hot and humid with a threat of torrential rains
that would have drenched the marchers. But then, the skies cleared and
the sun came out in time for the determined parents and their children
to gather on the grounds of the Washington Monument and line up behind
Hollywood celebrities Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy leading the march
and the "Green Our Vaccines" rally that would follow.
Although the primary message of the march was to call on
government health agencies to "remove toxins" from vaccines and
"adjust the vaccine schedule" by reducing the numbers of vaccines
given to infants simultaneously, NVIC supporters carried signs
declaring "No forced vaccination. Not in America." As NVIC co-founder
Kathi Williams and I walked past the long line of families waiting to
begin the march, we and our now-grown children held up the signs
featuring the American flag and statue of liberty. All the way down
the line, the families of vaccine injured children clapped and cheered
the message of freedom we carried to honor and empower them as we passed.
And while many at the front of the line marching down
Independence Avenue chanted "Too many, too soon," those of us bringing
up the back of the line chanted "Hey, hey, Ho, ho - forced vaccines
have got to go!" with an African American father urging us to shout
louder and louder as we approached the Department of Health and Human
Services. "Let them hear you," he yelled. "Tell them what you want."
I looked at my 30-year old son, who became multiply learning
disabled after a neurological reaction to his fourth DPT shot in 1980
when he was two and a half, as he walked beside me resolutely holding
up our sign and shouting in a deep voice "Forced vaccines have got to
go." When he was eight years old, I remembered marching in Atlanta in
front of the Centers for Disease Control in 1986 with Kathi and the
young mothers of babies who had been brain injured or died after DPT
vaccination in the 1980's. We were the first generation to march in
protest against toxic vaccines and one-size-fits- all government
vaccine policies justified by the utilitarian premise that it is
ethical to throw a minority of children under the bus in service to
others.
The second generation, whose children were born in the 1990's
and developed autism after vaccination, held a series of rallies on
Capitol Hill sponsored by Unlocking Autism beginning in 2000 when
Congressman Dan Burton initiated congressional hearings on the link
between autism and vaccines. In the summer of 2005, parents protesting
mercury in vaccines marched and rallied on Capitol Hill. Today, the
third generation knows that vaccine damage is about more than mercury.
It is also about too much vaccination: 48 doses of 14 vaccines given
by age six and 69 doses of 16 vaccines federal health officials now
say children must get by the time they graduate from high school.
At the rally podium, Jim Carey delivered a remarkable address
that was also a sweet love letter to his partner, Jenny McCarthy. He
said "Autism is everywhere. It is on every street and in every town"
and he asked the CDC "How stupid do you think we are?"
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and physicians such as Jay Gordon, M.D.
and professor of chemistry Boyd Haley, Ph.D. called for removal of
toxins from vaccines. Jenny McCarthy, who is the celebrity
spokesperson for Talk About Curing Autism Now (TACA), held up the
government's childhood vaccine schedule and said "Parents need to know
it is called a recommended schedule, not a mandatory schedule."
Unfortunately, that may not be true in many states in the
future. Lobbyists for drug companies making vaccines, medical
organizations representing doctors who give vaccines and government
health officials are pressing state legislators in every state to pass
legislation that would automatically turn CDC new vaccine
"recommendations" into state mandatory vaccination laws.
This kind of proposed legislation was beaten back in the
California legislature by the education efforts of autism activist
Rick Rollens last year. But right now, the New York State legislature
is about to capitulate to the Forced Vaccination Lobby and force
children in New York to use every vaccine the CDC "recommends" or face
punishment, including loss of the right to get an education.
A rally of families protesting the proposed legislation will be
held in Albany, NY at the Capitol Building at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday,
June 10. For more information, go to www.mykids mychoice.com
I will never forget marching with parents and their vaccine
injured children in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 2008. Just as I will
never forget all the marches that have gone before during the past
quarter century that parents have been asking those who operate and
profit from the mass vaccination system to make vaccines and vaccine
policies safer.
Three decades of begging is long enough. Now it is time for all
Americans - both those with vaccine injured children and those with
healthy children - to Stand Up and Be Counted for the human right to
make informed, voluntary decisions about vaccination. Our freedom and
the biological integrity of this and future generations is on the
line. Without the legal right to say "no" to vaccination, the people
have no economic or political leverage to protect themselves and their
children from toxic vaccines and dangerous vaccine policies.
The next march on Capitol Hill talking about vaccines should be
all about freedom.
(To view wonderful photos of the rally, go to the blog
Adventures in Autism). adventuresinautism. blogspot. com/
DO SOMETHING ABOUT AUTISM NOW
SUBSCRIBE
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Avril & sister; Cornflake the Deer
We used to have a pet deer. My Dad rescued a little fawn whose mother had been shot (poached) on our property. It was very sad. The hunter took one small piece of meat, and left the doe there for the vultures, right in the middle of our horse pasture. Our poor horse (and I think she had a young filly at that time) must have been terrified.
Anyway, the fawn (about four weeks old) must have been hidden in the bushes by its mother. Dad could tell the doe had been nursing, so he went to look for the baby, or babies. He found little "Cornflake" in the brush about 100 yards away. A fawn will stay where its mother has hidden it for a very long time. They might even stay there until they're very weak. They are easy prey for predators at that age. IThey surely will die alone, if not weaned. They cannot survive w/o their mothers.
Dad carried her home, and we bottle fed her for about another four months. 'Poor critter thought she was part dog, possibly part cat, and maybe part human, too. She certainly didn't realize she was a deer "grass rat" for several years. (My funny husband calls them "grass rats" because they're technically big rodents, I think.) I think before we weaned her, one of took a bowl of cereal outside, and she tried to eat it (or get the milk). So (if I'm remembering correctly) this is why we called her Cornflake. She used to eat the dog's dry food, and the cat food, too, at times.
Cornflake used to try to come in the house when the screen doors were open. One day the wind blew our screen loose from the living room door, where I was napping on the couch. I woke up feeling the strangest sensation on my face. I looked up and saw what looked like a camel or giraffe's face, with huge brown eyes, very close to mine. When my eyes could focus, I realized it was Cornflake greeting me, and that she had come inside.
This is one of the most memorable moments of my life. I will never forget this! We have funny pictures of the cats, dogs, and the deer napping, all piled up on each other. Such wonderful memories .... If Lyme was around in my area when I was young (1960's and 1970's) I certainly got a lot of exposure! I hugged my deer a lot. She was my best buddy.
She answered the "call of the wild" when she was two or three years old. A wild, handsome young buck came calling near our home for a few mornings (in the Spring?) Cornflake ran off with him, and returned home only occasionally after that. She came home twice after her baby was born, and was strangely wild. She wouldn't let us get near her fawn. Then she disappeared, and we saw her no more.
I think all our neighbors were relieved. She was a real "pesk" and would eat everything in their unfenced gardens. She was very tame, and no one could shoo her away -- unless they practically bodily shoved her off the property!
Isn't that wonderful? I can hardly believe I was so blessed as to have a pet like that, for awhile.
Anyway, the fawn (about four weeks old) must have been hidden in the bushes by its mother. Dad could tell the doe had been nursing, so he went to look for the baby, or babies. He found little "Cornflake" in the brush about 100 yards away. A fawn will stay where its mother has hidden it for a very long time. They might even stay there until they're very weak. They are easy prey for predators at that age. IThey surely will die alone, if not weaned. They cannot survive w/o their mothers.
Dad carried her home, and we bottle fed her for about another four months. 'Poor critter thought she was part dog, possibly part cat, and maybe part human, too. She certainly didn't realize she was a deer "grass rat" for several years. (My funny husband calls them "grass rats" because they're technically big rodents, I think.) I think before we weaned her, one of took a bowl of cereal outside, and she tried to eat it (or get the milk). So (if I'm remembering correctly) this is why we called her Cornflake. She used to eat the dog's dry food, and the cat food, too, at times.
Cornflake used to try to come in the house when the screen doors were open. One day the wind blew our screen loose from the living room door, where I was napping on the couch. I woke up feeling the strangest sensation on my face. I looked up and saw what looked like a camel or giraffe's face, with huge brown eyes, very close to mine. When my eyes could focus, I realized it was Cornflake greeting me, and that she had come inside.
This is one of the most memorable moments of my life. I will never forget this! We have funny pictures of the cats, dogs, and the deer napping, all piled up on each other. Such wonderful memories .... If Lyme was around in my area when I was young (1960's and 1970's) I certainly got a lot of exposure! I hugged my deer a lot. She was my best buddy.
She answered the "call of the wild" when she was two or three years old. A wild, handsome young buck came calling near our home for a few mornings (in the Spring?) Cornflake ran off with him, and returned home only occasionally after that. She came home twice after her baby was born, and was strangely wild. She wouldn't let us get near her fawn. Then she disappeared, and we saw her no more.
I think all our neighbors were relieved. She was a real "pesk" and would eat everything in their unfenced gardens. She was very tame, and no one could shoo her away -- unless they practically bodily shoved her off the property!
Isn't that wonderful? I can hardly believe I was so blessed as to have a pet like that, for awhile.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Michael and Autism
Michael Curtin was born in July of 1986. He was just 3 months old when he had his first head-to-toe hives reaction to the "safest" of foods-pears. It became obvious over time that Michael's body was hypersensitive not only to most foods, but many things in the environment like grass, trees, pollen, cat hair and blacktop. Changes in temperature, motion, sounds and even light can cause him distress and excruciatingly pain.
Michael was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. Through many therapies and sheer determination, Michael overcame many of the challenges of autism. He learned to speak to, and interact appropriately with people. He overcame the many sensory issues that made him a prisoner in his own mind. Michael fell in love with life and demonstrated a remarkable sensitivity and compassion for people. His unshakeable faith in God has touched the hearts of many people.
One challenge that was not so easily overcome was Michael's faulty immune system. As Michael entered adolescence, his body could not hold everything together. He became too exhausted to attend school and developed serious infections usually seen only in people who are severely immune compromised. These unusual infections, low platelet count and IgG subclasses led to a diagnosis of immune deficiency. At 16 Michael was hospitalized with weight loss and diarrhea following a viral illness. He has suffered since that time from Crohn's disease.
In May of 2007 Michael was confirmed to have lyme disease. Michael's body will no longer tolerate the medications that are the standard first line treatment for Crohn's disease. He has developed a chronic circulatory problem in his left leg, and a migrating arthritis that is attacking the knee in his right leg. He suffers from chronic anemia and has to have blood and iron transfusions frequently. The threat of receiving a virus in one of these blood transfusions is very high, and with his compromised immune system, Michael would be unable to fight the infection.
One method of treatment that has shown promise for Michael is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). HBOT is used to treat a wide range of conditions, with new applications being researched on a continual basis. There are currently fifteen conditions treatable with hyperbaric that are approved by the FDA in the US. As you might expect, these treatments are very expensive and are needed by Michael on a frequent basis. Due to the cost, Michael is currently unable to receive this treatment and as a result is not doing very well physically. I have had the opportunity, along with some members of Banded Brothers, to meet Michael and his mother , Jean Curtin.
Banded Brothers is currently doing some research and investigation on how we might provide some assistance to the Curtin family. One option is to organize a campaign to raise funds ( $20,000.00 ) to purchase a HBOT chamber that could be kept in the home and provide daily treatment for Michael. There is reason to believe with daily treatments that Michael may be able to lead a somewhat normal life after six months of daily treatments.
Michael was diagnosed with autism when he was a toddler. Through many therapies and sheer determination, Michael overcame many of the challenges of autism. He learned to speak to, and interact appropriately with people. He overcame the many sensory issues that made him a prisoner in his own mind. Michael fell in love with life and demonstrated a remarkable sensitivity and compassion for people. His unshakeable faith in God has touched the hearts of many people.
One challenge that was not so easily overcome was Michael's faulty immune system. As Michael entered adolescence, his body could not hold everything together. He became too exhausted to attend school and developed serious infections usually seen only in people who are severely immune compromised. These unusual infections, low platelet count and IgG subclasses led to a diagnosis of immune deficiency. At 16 Michael was hospitalized with weight loss and diarrhea following a viral illness. He has suffered since that time from Crohn's disease.
In May of 2007 Michael was confirmed to have lyme disease. Michael's body will no longer tolerate the medications that are the standard first line treatment for Crohn's disease. He has developed a chronic circulatory problem in his left leg, and a migrating arthritis that is attacking the knee in his right leg. He suffers from chronic anemia and has to have blood and iron transfusions frequently. The threat of receiving a virus in one of these blood transfusions is very high, and with his compromised immune system, Michael would be unable to fight the infection.
One method of treatment that has shown promise for Michael is Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT). HBOT is used to treat a wide range of conditions, with new applications being researched on a continual basis. There are currently fifteen conditions treatable with hyperbaric that are approved by the FDA in the US. As you might expect, these treatments are very expensive and are needed by Michael on a frequent basis. Due to the cost, Michael is currently unable to receive this treatment and as a result is not doing very well physically. I have had the opportunity, along with some members of Banded Brothers, to meet Michael and his mother , Jean Curtin.
Banded Brothers is currently doing some research and investigation on how we might provide some assistance to the Curtin family. One option is to organize a campaign to raise funds ( $20,000.00 ) to purchase a HBOT chamber that could be kept in the home and provide daily treatment for Michael. There is reason to believe with daily treatments that Michael may be able to lead a somewhat normal life after six months of daily treatments.
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