Animal Research: Animal Welfare vs. Animal Rights | Highlight HEALTH
since my husband worked in a variety of Pharmaceutical plants in NJ working on clean rooms and air balancing and saw the caretakers/scientists and the animals, I have heard many of his stories, as well as the night he came home physically ill from witnessing the treatment of a horse. So I am going to have to say that those believe the "facts" are at the least mislead by the big business of drug companies.
any stories out there to share?....real ones please, not hearsay...
oh, and if anyone is really interested in how I think drugs and treatments should be tested, I think they should be tested on humans, since they are to be used on humans....our prisons are full of people who deserve nothing better....and certainly do not deserve gyms and educational degrees in some cases. There are non-rehabilitate able prisoners out there..and since we don't let the families of their victims have at them, then they should have to give their lives to making others better.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Saturday, September 25, 2010
AddThis :: Add-ons for Firefox
AddThis :: Add-ons for Firefox
this is a nifty little web tool...especially for those of us who like to share information
this is a nifty little web tool...especially for those of us who like to share information
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Farmer, consumer outcry helping to stop passage of draconian 'food safety' bill
Farmer, consumer outcry helping to stop passage of draconian 'food safety' bill
an update on this horrific bill before congress....
an update on this horrific bill before congress....
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
President Obama
I didn't vote for him, even though it made me sad to vote for McCain. (sorry people, still like Palin)
SO while I usually support a sitting president regardless of my vote, I find Obama has exceeded my expectations of disaster...
I do however feel sorry for those who truly believed this man was not the puppet he is and would change things for the better...
chickens are coming home to roost..
SO while I usually support a sitting president regardless of my vote, I find Obama has exceeded my expectations of disaster...
I do however feel sorry for those who truly believed this man was not the puppet he is and would change things for the better...
chickens are coming home to roost..
Monday, September 20, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
WTF??
This is a fine example of what is SERIOUSLY wrong with our goverment.
It's SO ridiculous it is hard to believe this sort of thing really occurs in our country
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/24981915/
It's SO ridiculous it is hard to believe this sort of thing really occurs in our country
http://www.wsbtv.com/video/24981915/
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
What country was this video shot in?
GERMANY?
RUSSIA?
AFRICA?
IRAN?
no....THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.....
yep, it's another long one, but shame on you if you don't educate yourself to what's going on right under our noses....
RUSSIA?
AFRICA?
IRAN?
no....THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.....
yep, it's another long one, but shame on you if you don't educate yourself to what's going on right under our noses....
Monday, September 13, 2010
The Obama Deception
This is a long video, but worth the time to watch....it includes some scary information, but there are a lot of things that should ring true with each of us.
Everyone should watch this video....
I think that is says it all very well indeed...
IF you are not motivated to get up and go out and vote in November, you don't deserve the rights the government is taking away from you.
The Constitution of the United States of America....read it...the writers of it now would be disgusted and dismayed.
IF you are not motivated to get up and go out and vote in November, you don't deserve the rights the government is taking away from you.
The Constitution of the United States of America....read it...the writers of it now would be disgusted and dismayed.
favorite skincare products
today due to lack of any particular outrage at any particular thing, I am going to talk about my favorite skin care products...
I do not receive any type pf compensation from these companies, though heaven knows I need the money so they are welcome to pay me for their endorsements...
there is nothing in beauty care that you can do that is more important then drink plenty of water. Hydration is essential to good skin.
A regular simply skin care regime is next. Most of my favorite products are made by neutrogena. I love their "healthy skin" line. I use the cleanser, the face lotion, the hand cream and their eye cream
I find it works great, I don't have a lot of wrinkles which is a miracle considering my age and stress level, amd it never irritates me and I can be sensitive to things.
Ialso love ivory soap for general shower use, as well as glysolid for those times when my hands need some serious softening. (warning though glysolid does break down those much worked for callouses.)
these along with hydrogen peroxide and witch hazel are my go to products all the time....
what are your favorites?
I do not receive any type pf compensation from these companies, though heaven knows I need the money so they are welcome to pay me for their endorsements...
there is nothing in beauty care that you can do that is more important then drink plenty of water. Hydration is essential to good skin.
A regular simply skin care regime is next. Most of my favorite products are made by neutrogena. I love their "healthy skin" line. I use the cleanser, the face lotion, the hand cream and their eye cream
I find it works great, I don't have a lot of wrinkles which is a miracle considering my age and stress level, amd it never irritates me and I can be sensitive to things.
Ialso love ivory soap for general shower use, as well as glysolid for those times when my hands need some serious softening. (warning though glysolid does break down those much worked for callouses.)
these along with hydrogen peroxide and witch hazel are my go to products all the time....
what are your favorites?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
How is Jones any better....
The Rev. Terry Jones is as much an extremest as all the others...just because he's christian or pentacostal..he should get a pass?
He's obviously a whack job...
I just simply fail to understand how the extremest type of person can even begin to think that their behavior can possibly bring about any change for good.
I was in High School when the Iran hostage taking occurred. Our HS principal at the time, allowed students to get together, and create a paper Iranian flag and burn it in protest. I wrote him a scathing letter in protest of his decision, and his repsonse to me was he had to do something to allow the students to blow off steam...We didn't live in a town where there was a hostage people personally knew...this was just a group of riled up students and a principal who saw the least path of resistance in allowing degrading behavior to occur.
This type of behavior, then and now, will never bring about either change or peace. Violence begets violence..so save it for something worth the fight...something so critical and important that if blood is spilled, it wouldn't be in vane.
9/11 was a terrible thing and if President Clinton had acted on the intelligence he had, and had not further cut our intelligence departments, it might not have happened. But it did and people have died for the last 9 years in a futile attempt to make someone pay for it. When does it stop?...we need to practice isolationism for a while and allow the rest of the world to take care of it's self for while. We need to take our MONEY, and military and aid workers and go home. Take care of HOME and our starving suffering people first. Boot the illegals out and close the damn doors. Put up the DO NOT DISTURB sign for a while.
He's obviously a whack job...
I just simply fail to understand how the extremest type of person can even begin to think that their behavior can possibly bring about any change for good.
I was in High School when the Iran hostage taking occurred. Our HS principal at the time, allowed students to get together, and create a paper Iranian flag and burn it in protest. I wrote him a scathing letter in protest of his decision, and his repsonse to me was he had to do something to allow the students to blow off steam...We didn't live in a town where there was a hostage people personally knew...this was just a group of riled up students and a principal who saw the least path of resistance in allowing degrading behavior to occur.
This type of behavior, then and now, will never bring about either change or peace. Violence begets violence..so save it for something worth the fight...something so critical and important that if blood is spilled, it wouldn't be in vane.
9/11 was a terrible thing and if President Clinton had acted on the intelligence he had, and had not further cut our intelligence departments, it might not have happened. But it did and people have died for the last 9 years in a futile attempt to make someone pay for it. When does it stop?...we need to practice isolationism for a while and allow the rest of the world to take care of it's self for while. We need to take our MONEY, and military and aid workers and go home. Take care of HOME and our starving suffering people first. Boot the illegals out and close the damn doors. Put up the DO NOT DISTURB sign for a while.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Be smart...research...
I learned the hard way to research my topics. 25 years ago, I am not sure I even knew what a superfund site was, much less had the ability to go online and find out about them.
But a recent conversation with my son's oncologist has me once again pounding the cyber pavement to research our current living area.
See, our former town, Hillsborough, NJ, home to us for 23 years, included in Money magazine's top 100 hundred best places to live..(maybe 2006-2007??)."Hillsborough the good life" as tolled by the township politicians....is home to .....
NINE...(9) superfund sites ...now of course I am sure some of them are considered "remedied"...but seriously 9??? (So much for the garden state, guess Carlin had it right after all )
where is money magazines criteria?
hum.....let's see...great place to live except for all the cancer, the outrageous taxes and the corrupt politics....RIGHT....
so, who do I sue for all the pain and suffering my family has been through with my son's cancer not once, but twice as well as all of the terrible side effects he has had to endure?
oh, wait, I know....no one is responsible...these things just happen....BULLSHIT....
our government has been activity allowing if not acting on poisoning our environment for decades. When does it stop?...who takes on the government and make them step up for the lives hurt, ruined destroyed and taken because of poor oversite, and the allmight buck?
But a recent conversation with my son's oncologist has me once again pounding the cyber pavement to research our current living area.
See, our former town, Hillsborough, NJ, home to us for 23 years, included in Money magazine's top 100 hundred best places to live..(maybe 2006-2007??)."Hillsborough the good life" as tolled by the township politicians....is home to .....
NINE...(9) superfund sites ...now of course I am sure some of them are considered "remedied"...but seriously 9??? (So much for the garden state, guess Carlin had it right after all )
where is money magazines criteria?
hum.....let's see...great place to live except for all the cancer, the outrageous taxes and the corrupt politics....RIGHT....
so, who do I sue for all the pain and suffering my family has been through with my son's cancer not once, but twice as well as all of the terrible side effects he has had to endure?
oh, wait, I know....no one is responsible...these things just happen....BULLSHIT....
our government has been activity allowing if not acting on poisoning our environment for decades. When does it stop?...who takes on the government and make them step up for the lives hurt, ruined destroyed and taken because of poor oversite, and the allmight buck?
Saturday, September 4, 2010
antibiotics not so new after all
Interesting article....
Ancient Nubians drank beer laced with antibiotics
People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38990966/from/toolbar
certainly does lend it's self to the idea that "modern man" has been to the this dance at least once before....
Ancient Nubians drank beer laced with antibiotics
People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38990966/from/toolbar
certainly does lend it's self to the idea that "modern man" has been to the this dance at least once before....
Thursday, September 2, 2010
A good deed...pass it on
I am a big proponent of doing good deeds. I sometimes stop to help people in broken down cars if they look in distress....I have jump started any number of vehicles for people, returned lost pets, taken food to sick and injured, spend a whole lot of years in a rescue squad. I was a woman firefighter when that number was...well let's say...really small.
When I help people though, I particularly like it if it can be anonymously. I prefer it that way. IF I am doing a good pet deed, that's different...
today I was in walmart getting some groceries and hitting up the redbox for my $1.00 movie when I heard a cell phone ring. I found the cell phone and answered it. It was the owner desperately trying to locate her phone. (High School student by the sounds of things). I took it to courtesy and let them know the owner would be in for it. I then returned to redbox to realize that I had completed my transaction and was distracted by the phone and had not fetched my movie out of the machine....crap...
concerned that it had been absconded with and I was on the hook for a $25.00 charge, I called Redbox. Fortunatly because I didn't remove the movie from the machine in a timely fashion, it was sucked back in and all I had to do was rerent it...
SO, while doing good deeds, it is important not to get distracted from the project at hand....
now go out there and do a good deed for someone today. :)
When I help people though, I particularly like it if it can be anonymously. I prefer it that way. IF I am doing a good pet deed, that's different...
today I was in walmart getting some groceries and hitting up the redbox for my $1.00 movie when I heard a cell phone ring. I found the cell phone and answered it. It was the owner desperately trying to locate her phone. (High School student by the sounds of things). I took it to courtesy and let them know the owner would be in for it. I then returned to redbox to realize that I had completed my transaction and was distracted by the phone and had not fetched my movie out of the machine....crap...
concerned that it had been absconded with and I was on the hook for a $25.00 charge, I called Redbox. Fortunatly because I didn't remove the movie from the machine in a timely fashion, it was sucked back in and all I had to do was rerent it...
SO, while doing good deeds, it is important not to get distracted from the project at hand....
now go out there and do a good deed for someone today. :)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
The Extraterrestrial is my brother
Okay, I know it's "old " news, but it still makes me laugh. Here is a shining of example of my personal conflict with modern Christianity and organized religion in general...
You NEED someone to tell you it's OKAY to believe in something??....so much for free thought and free will....
(I told you we would get back to religion)
I have many friends...good people that are Catholic, many that are Jewish, and many more that are some flavor of Christian...they are all good people...but modern religion has so very little to do with real faith.
Some of my issues with organized and modern religion come from a very long time ago. I can remember quite clearly a very stern lecture during my confirmation classes because I dared ask questions that the very uptight Episcopalian minister was NOT willing to answer. In fact I was threatened with expulsion from said classes if I dared to continue questioning the unquestionable...needless to say I only continued classes because of fear of parental retribution.
The older I got the more agnostic I became. I frequently read all sorts of religious books and texts. Seeking knowledge...seeking perhaps a religious concept I felt I belonged to. I with great help from very faith based committed people explored many paths. It wasn't until much later in my life I found the path I belonged on and gave up Christianity for an older religion. One that served as the basis for many current Christian traditions. But because my children were in public school and already didn't really fit in because they were blessed with free thinking genes, I kept my beliefs fairly quiet.
In way, that is sort of sad...but I made that choice for what I felt was the right reason at the time.
I follow Druid practices. What some might call is Wiccan, but certainly not what I think of as modern Wiccan. I celebrate old traditions. One's that were adopted by the catholic church in order try and convert the pagans to Christianity. So, I am a modern day Pagan. ( I also talk to animals and dragonflies, but that's for another day).
I live in the middle of bible thumper central, yet so far, those who know I'm a "witch"..LOL now come for my herbs and plant advice...so guess I am safe from being burned at the stake for now.
I see in my daughter however, my mistake in not allowing our beliefs be public for a long time. She embraces being pagan, and is much more open about it, but her education is lacking. My fault and one I am remedying.
My son is flat out agnostic, but always open to deep discussions and possibilities. He can't rationalize the dragonfly episode however which he saw for himself, which I still find terribly amusing.
At our old house, I was blessed with three fairy rings. I enjoyed sitting in the middle of the large one to converse with nature. I think here perhaps I don't need one, because I live in nature. But mushrooms or not, they are very special to behold.
I am most grateful that we live in the time when my children can be who they are and be generally accepted for what they believe.
Believing in the old ways is no different then believing what is modern religion. Except that it is different. A different path taken.
When I was young I wanted an Ouija board, my mother said I couldn't have one because it opened a door for the devil. I would hope, even she'll laugh at that now. OF course, I don't need an Ouija board to talk to my dead relatives, they visit me in my dreams, often just to give me strength to face another day. Now even wanting an Ouija board sort of sounds silly. But open a door to the devil...no, I think not. Evil exists for real...but it isn't found in a board game.
Please feel free to discuss your religious views...but don't try to convert...too many have already tried.
Okay, I know it's "old " news, but it still makes me laugh. Here is a shining of example of my personal conflict with modern Christianity and organized religion in general...
You NEED someone to tell you it's OKAY to believe in something??....so much for free thought and free will....
(I told you we would get back to religion)
I have many friends...good people that are Catholic, many that are Jewish, and many more that are some flavor of Christian...they are all good people...but modern religion has so very little to do with real faith.
Some of my issues with organized and modern religion come from a very long time ago. I can remember quite clearly a very stern lecture during my confirmation classes because I dared ask questions that the very uptight Episcopalian minister was NOT willing to answer. In fact I was threatened with expulsion from said classes if I dared to continue questioning the unquestionable...needless to say I only continued classes because of fear of parental retribution.
The older I got the more agnostic I became. I frequently read all sorts of religious books and texts. Seeking knowledge...seeking perhaps a religious concept I felt I belonged to. I with great help from very faith based committed people explored many paths. It wasn't until much later in my life I found the path I belonged on and gave up Christianity for an older religion. One that served as the basis for many current Christian traditions. But because my children were in public school and already didn't really fit in because they were blessed with free thinking genes, I kept my beliefs fairly quiet.
In way, that is sort of sad...but I made that choice for what I felt was the right reason at the time.
I follow Druid practices. What some might call is Wiccan, but certainly not what I think of as modern Wiccan. I celebrate old traditions. One's that were adopted by the catholic church in order try and convert the pagans to Christianity. So, I am a modern day Pagan. ( I also talk to animals and dragonflies, but that's for another day).
I live in the middle of bible thumper central, yet so far, those who know I'm a "witch"..LOL now come for my herbs and plant advice...so guess I am safe from being burned at the stake for now.
I see in my daughter however, my mistake in not allowing our beliefs be public for a long time. She embraces being pagan, and is much more open about it, but her education is lacking. My fault and one I am remedying.
My son is flat out agnostic, but always open to deep discussions and possibilities. He can't rationalize the dragonfly episode however which he saw for himself, which I still find terribly amusing.
At our old house, I was blessed with three fairy rings. I enjoyed sitting in the middle of the large one to converse with nature. I think here perhaps I don't need one, because I live in nature. But mushrooms or not, they are very special to behold.
I am most grateful that we live in the time when my children can be who they are and be generally accepted for what they believe.
Believing in the old ways is no different then believing what is modern religion. Except that it is different. A different path taken.
When I was young I wanted an Ouija board, my mother said I couldn't have one because it opened a door for the devil. I would hope, even she'll laugh at that now. OF course, I don't need an Ouija board to talk to my dead relatives, they visit me in my dreams, often just to give me strength to face another day. Now even wanting an Ouija board sort of sounds silly. But open a door to the devil...no, I think not. Evil exists for real...but it isn't found in a board game.
Please feel free to discuss your religious views...but don't try to convert...too many have already tried.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)