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Houston Toddler Dies of Swine Flu!

Posted by Wendi T. on April 29, 2009

So screams the alarmist headline.  What they don’t tell you, is that the boy was from Mexico.  His family took him to Brownsville, where they then sought medical treatment for him.  Medical authorities in Brownsville transferred the boy to a Houston hospital, where he sadly lost his life.

I fully expect to see the city of Houston badly over-react to this, shutting down schools and possibly instituting involuntary quarantines (incarcerations) of persons presenting with symptoms of influenza, as they have done in other states.  Maybe they’ll even officially declare a state of emergency here because of this report.

The interesting thing is, out of more than two thousand confirmed cases of swine flu around the globe, there have been only 160 deaths.  All but one of those, occurred in Mexico.  Meanwhile, plain old garden-variety influenza ordinarily infects up to 20% of the population, causing 200,000 to be hospitalized, and killing 36,000.

So, why don’t we hear about pandemics, quarantines, and emergency drug rulings every year?

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Pushing compliance through Hollywood

Posted by crunchymountainmomma on April 29, 2009

I have a confession. I’m a Law and Order:SVU junkie. Sad, I know.

So last night, Hilary Duff played an irresponsible Mom whose toddler has disappeared. They find out she stole a credit card, bought a shovel and tarp with it. She insists it was just to buy a gift for her father. The toddler is supposedly with a babysitter, that n one can find. They do their television “gotta solve the crime in under so many minutes” magic and discover little Sierra’s dead body buried in an old ababdoned lot.

Pretty cut and dried, right?

Wrong.

When they do the autopsy, they find that little angel Sierra died of encephalitis, brought on by………….measles. Seems she was too young for the MMR shot. THEN they suddenly discover a measles outbreak. So they go searching for patient 0.

When they find paient 0, his Mom has done research, made a choice and is firm about her choice. the attorney for teh “bad mom” decides to sue the city, who in turn decides to arrest the “good mom” for not vaccinating her child-the charge? Second degree murder.

I went blooming nuts. I screamed at my television. I threw a pillow at it. I ranted. I raved. I fumed.

They go through the trial and the “good mom” ends up defending her choice-they come at her like a pack of dogs for the “irresponsible choice she made that caused the death of another child”. It made me SO mad to wtch last night’s episode. It actually bantered the idea of making children get their shots, because by not getting shots, they “endanger” other children, putting them at risk for diseases and possibly even death.

They had the SVU’s doctor on the stand and she gave a brief list of very mild symptoms that are possible of side effects of the shot. I mean MILD. Totally downplayed the major potential side effects…swelling, soreness, possible mild fever….

Found a site that was created by a pediatrician…

http://www.whale.to/a/quak.html

Here’s the side effects they DIDN’T mention:

Local erythemas
Fever
Irritability
Tiredness
General rashes (acute urticaria)
Conjunctivitis
Arthropathies
Peripheral tremor
Cough and/or coryza
Post-vaccinal meningitis (aseptic meningitis)
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Brachial neuritis
Anaphylactic shock
Multiple sclerosis
Chronic arthritis

They don’t even go into all the side effects, of course. Autism IS caused by that stupid shot. My Mom cares for a family that’s been affected by autism following an MMR shot. My own children had severe reactions-and my Mother goes into anaphylactic shock. None of that was addressed. And then there’s the idea that the shot confers lifelong immunity.

I’ve had the full round of MMR. All the toddler shots, the “starting school booster” and the booster they give you when you are 12.

I have NO immunity to rubella. I’ve had measles-AFTER the shot. I’ve had mumps-AFTER the shot. NOW I have lifelong immunity.

I hate the political spin they put on that show. It just disgusted me. the “good mom” wins her case-they find her not guilty. The “bad mom and grandma” try to do a civil suit, and then decide to go and attack the woman personally. The “bad grandpa”(who really did love the little girl) races into the “good mom’s” home and holds a gun on her. She cries out “Please don’t shoot me.” and he says “Now you’ve kiled 2 people!” and kills himself right in front of her.

I won’t be watching Law and Order: SVU anymore. I wonder how many parents felt “guilty” this morning after watching that and raced out to get shots for their kids?

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To Whom Do You Belong? Welcome to Class Warfare

Posted by swearnoallegiance on April 29, 2009

America is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. – Claire Wolfe

Have you ever heard of the Agorist Class Theory? No? That’s alright because I am new to the idea myself. Agorism–simply stated–is “a stateless society of peaceful black markets.” What the Agorist Class Theory does is it reforms Marxim’s idea of the class struggle. Proponents argue that Marx was partly wrong and partly correct in his thinking on class warfare, but that he errs in his identification of the oppressor of the proletariat (the common man). Marxism, in a nutshell, maintains that the relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production aka entrepreneurs and the like) is simply a continuation of the ancient practice of slavery.

Agorism and Marxism agree on the following premise: human society can be divided into at least two classes; one class is characterized by its control of the State and its extraction of unearned wealth from the other class.

Thus for the Agorist, the class struggle is not between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, but rather, the producing class (all workers and entrepreneurs) versus the Political class as identified by Charles Comte and Dunoyer some 150 years ago:

The political class is the parasitic class that acquires its livelihood via the “political means”–through “confiscation, taxation, and other forms of coercion.” Their victims are the rest of us–the productive class–those who make their living through peaceful and honest means of any sort, such as a worker and an entrepreneur.

I believe the agorists to be correct in their revision of Marx’s idea on class and a class struggle certainly does exist in society. If you would like to be properly introduced to this idea, then I suggest that you read Agorist Class Theory by Wally Conger. The PDF is only 38 pages in length.

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Swine flu-some natural things you can do

Posted by crunchymountainmomma on April 27, 2009

I don’t panic too often, and I’m not panicking now. I’m mildly furious that the current administration is choosing just NOW to treat this as a pandemic and Janet Napolitano is still choosing to be passive on border crossings. We should have stopped border crossings the minute we knew this was a new breed of influenza-it’s a cross between swine, bird and human and apparently there is no natural immunity to it. So, I’m preparing my family for the possibility of this flu.

If you suspect you have this flu and choose to go to your doctor-do NOT just go to the doctor. Call ahead. They can usher you directly to a room, in order to not infect others around you.

Do wash your hands often. I’m not particularly fond of the soaps with all the anti-bacterials. A good old fashioned soap works well. Make sure you don’t touch your eyes, nose and mouth a lot after being in public.

Nutritionally-eat well. Make sure to get the proper foods, such as vegetables, fruits, good fibers(rices, cruciferous vegetables) and plenty of water.

Herbally, you can start now to boost your imunity. Add a good vitamin C to your daily regime. 1000 mg can’t hurt. Keep zinc on hand, in case you suspect you are infected. Vitamin D is a wonderful immune booster, so get some good sunshine now.

Elder berry extracts are incredible at stopping a flu in it’s tracks. A tea is also effective. The flowers induce fever. Licorice root is also an effective immune builder and good for building your body back up during an illness. Astragalus root will help build resistance to illness and disease. Garlic is a very effective antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal.
When we are ill here, we use 1/3 a cup elder berry and put it in a quart jar and fill it to the brim with vodka and let it soak for 5 days. If you can’t wait to make your own, there are many good extracts available for purchase at many health food stores. We also mince an entire head of garlic and place it in a pint jar and then cover it with unpasturized honey and let it sit overnight, then use a tablespoon 3 or 4 times a day. If you are sick, make sure you drink plenty of water and herbal teas. Forego juices, as they often have sugars added. Sugar will lower your white blood cells by 50% and up to 4 hours, making it much harder for your body to kick the bug. A good echinacea tincture taken every two hours will help. A good tea for coughing is 1 tablespoon of peppermint, 1 tsp thyme and 1/8 a tsp cayenne pepper, steeped for 15 minutes and sweetend with honey. Chamomile is antibacterial also, and the steam makes a good effective steam in cases of sinus congestion.

Eat light foods, things that are easier to digest. Your body wants to concentrate on healing, not food digestion. A light chicken soup, made from scratch if you can, and a lot of garlic added is a wonderful comfort food. Rice cooked with a small amount of butter, chicken broth and garlic is good for sustenance.

The most important thing is to rest, stay hydrated and keep your lungs in good working order. This flu seems to strike the lungs hardest. It causes the airways to swell. Rest is essential to healing. Your body needs time to heal. Stay home from work. Please, dont’ take Niquil and head off to work. Niquil makes you feel greaet, but it really only masks the symptoms and actually prolongs your illness, and also allows you to expose other people to the germs.

Tamiflu is showing effectiveness in treatment, if it’s caught early and if you make that choice.

And please, call your Senators and Congressmen. Tell them to shut our borders. Tell them to stop the influx of illegal immigrants that are sharing these diseases with us.

Stay healthy!

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Vices Are Not Crimes: Part I

Posted by swearnoallegiance on April 27, 2009

Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property.

Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

In vices, the very essence of crime — that is, the design to injure the person or property of another — is wanting.

It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without a criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practises a vice with any such criminal intent. He practises his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others.

Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property; no such things as the right of one man to the control of his own person and property, and the corresponding and coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.

These words were penned by Lysander Spooner. While I do not necessarily condone or encourage vice, many of which are sins against God or are personally unhealthy, the ability to practice vice is crucial to individual liberty. It is imperative that society regains a proper understanding of what constitutes a Crime–that is–acts perpetrated by one individual against another, which cause injury to his person or property. If society neglects this cornerstone, then the foundations of liberty will always be weak, and, at some point, everything we have built will come crashing down upon our own heads in the form of statism.

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