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Pregnant woman, gestation about 20 weeks collapses from blood clot to lung that causes cardiac arrest, producing brain damage determined to be brain death.
Texas law and law of 31 other states prohibits terminating mother’s life because fetus has right to live.
Imagine that? Parents of the mother argue that she would want to die. No word in the news reports on the opinion of the husband.
Continue reading What is This Thing Called a Fetus?
Day: January 8, 2014
A New Big Boy in Town
Thomas Lifson describes some interesting dynamics in world economies–particularly as it relates to what we in Texas Call Awl
And Fracking is the deal.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/01/an_incomparable_strategic_weapon_for_the_united_states.html
My Wife Wants Her Lightbulbs Back
Would it shock you to think that American business saw an opportunity in the new light things?
Fred Upton is a whore for industry? Could that be?
http://washingtonexaminer.com/industry-not-environmentalists-killed-traditional-bulbs/article/2541430
You Want Your Neck Manipulated–Really?
We revisit chiropractic and the problem of chiros manipulating necks.
In the neck there are critical blood vessels, the carotids and the vertebrals, that provide blood to the brain.
Continue reading You Want Your Neck Manipulated–Really?
The Antibiotic Panicmongers
Let’s get back to the real world, if a cow or a pig is treated with an antibiotic, and then the pig or cow is slaughtered for meat,
GUESS WHAT, the antibiotic is not in the meat, since it is digested as just another chemical.
Continue reading The Antibiotic Panicmongers
Chinese Medicine is What?
I can’t even begin to express the disgust I have for those who would jump on some Chinese Medicine bandwagon.
Here’s the way it goes, like man, Chinese medicine respects yin and yang, and such things as magical energy forces.
How could any sentient being object to magical medicine? After all, life is a magical trip, isn’t it, grasshopper?
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2014/01/07/chinese-medicine-critic-argues-against-bc-school
A Sharp Disagreement on the Brain Death of Jahi McMath
George Neumayr articulates his disagreement on the brain dead argument.
Some religions such as Judaism and some members of other religions are uncomfortable with the brain death concept.
Mr. Neumayr exemplifies that position.
http://spectator.org/print/57364
Sunspot Developments
Sun makes a difference. Updates on the situation.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/dude_where_are_my_sunspots.html
Follow the Money on Fracking and Pipeline Debates
All this anti fracking advocacy–and anti Keystone XL pipeline agitation certainly is funded by someone.
Here’s some stuff to consider on the fracking debate. Saudis have a dog in the fight.
Continue reading Follow the Money on Fracking and Pipeline Debates
Study: ‘No Statistical Correlation’ Between Fine Airborne Particles, Premature Death
There’s no evidence to support the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longstanding claim that fine airborne particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrograms or less (PM2.5) is killing thousands of Americans every year, according to the first comprehensive study of its kind. Continue reading Study: ‘No Statistical Correlation’ Between Fine Airborne Particles, Premature Death