Scumbags of the Month...
A) Cholesterol Drug Not Effective in Study
The New York Times 2008-01-15
(Jan. 15) - A clinical trial of a widely used cholesterol drug has raised questions both about the medicine’s effectiveness and about the behavior of the pharmaceutical companies that conducted the study, cardiologists said Monday.
Merck and Schering-Plough, which make the drug, Zetia, and a pill that contains it, Vytorin, said Monday morning that Zetia had failed to benefit patients in a two-year trial that ended in April 2006...d22
B) HONEY vs. DEXTROMETHORPHAN
Recent research has suggested that over-the-counter cough and cold medicines may potentially cause more harm than benefit, especially in younger children. Based upon recent compelling research, long-time manufacturers of these children’s drugs are, increasingly, withdrawing them from the market, fearing increased exposure to liability in the aftermath of research calling into question the safety and efficacy of these products. Based upon the assessments of their parents, children receiving honey alone experienced the greatest relief of their night-time coughing when compared to dextromethorphan. In fact, no difference was observed between those kids receiving dextromethorphan and those who received no treatment at all. (mensnewsdaily.com)
Q: What cough medicines contain dextromethorphan, or DXM?
There are well over 100 OTC medicines that contain dextromethorphan. Some examples include Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine, Coricidin HBP Cough and Cold, Dayquil LiquiCaps, Dimetapp DM, Robitussin cough products, Sudafed cough products, Triaminic cough syrups, Tylenol Cold products, Vicks 44 Cough Relief products and Vicks NyQuil LiquiCaps.
**but the advertisements seemed so persuasive...SELL, SELL, SELL...SCUMBAGS...How about refunding the multi-million dollars in sales? SCUMBAGS!!! (Go to page 1, writing #1.20 and page 4, writing # 4.1 for more on this...d22)
Thomas Jefferson and his less advertised quotes(1743-1826):
--"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. "
--"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
--"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. "
--"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. "
--"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. "...
(** Powerful American who was integral in creating a theme of "freedom", yet was a major slave owner...you decide...)d22
Genius = One who sees things in the seed...
Native New-Yorker, writer Henry Miller was better known for Books such as Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus, Nexus and Plexus, and for having his stuff banned from the U.S.A. on grounds of obscenity(Freedom of Speech??)...A lesser known Book, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare was light-years ahead in predicting today's America... Here's the back of the book: In 1939, after ten years as an expatriate, Henry Miller returned to the United States with a keen desire to see what his native land was really like-to get to the root of the American nature and experience. He set out on a journey that was to last 3 years, visiting many sections of the country and making friends of all descriptions. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is the result of that odyssey....It is clear that Miller's bad dream of the forties is still with us. He saw a nation of big business and little men, mass media at once soporific and violent, giant industries deadening workers and polluting the environment, of credit buying, cheap cars and gadgets ad infinitum, of misinformation and prejudice-a spiritual and aesthetic vacuum. One of his conclusions was that "nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete."...d22
Howard Zinn (1925- ?), (historian, social activist):
--"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
--“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”...
Pyramid Scheme...
Because the American media claims to be the freest in the world, few have reason to suspect that their mass media information is being very carefully controlled and colored. The shocking truth is that the American public is being purposely kept in the dark about many vital realities. For example are you aware that:
THE RICHEST 1 (ONE) PERCENT OF AMERICANS possess more wealth than THE COMBINED WEALTH OF THE BOTTOM 90 (NINETY) PERCENT. THE RICHEST 1 (ONE) PERCENT of Americans own more wealth than:
1) ALL of the wealth of ALL of the MIDDLE class COMBINED WITH 2) ALL of the wealth of ALL of the LOWER class AND ADDED TO 3) ALL of the wealth of the bottom HALF of the UPPER class. If you are surprised or shocked, don't feel bad. The elite have gone out of their way to ensure that you didn't know it.(afgen.com/feudal2.html)...d22
Cosmic Pollution...and so it begins...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Two astronauts ventured outside the international space station Monday to rid it of some large pieces of junk. Astronaut Clay Anderson, right, and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin work outside the space station on Monday. NASA spacewalker Clayton Anderson, a sportsman who enjoys officiating basketball back on Earth, had the chore of heaving a 1,400-pound, refrigerator-size ammonia tank overboard.
He also was to toss out some other outdated pieces of equipment during the morning excursion, with help from Russian crewmate Fyodor Yurchikhin....(cnn.com)...d22
Beatin the Mafia, Loansharking is Now Apparently Legal.... More Banks than Starbucks...
"The Motley Fool's
Credit Center features several more
mind-blowing statistics:
Total consumer credit: $1.7
trillion.
Credit card debt carried by the average American: $8,562.
Total finance charges Americans paid in 2001: $50
billion.
Percent of U.S. households deemed credit worthy by the lending industry: 78%.
Number of credit card holders who declared bankruptcy last year: 1.3 million.(fool.com)..."d22
It's all in the packaging...
"How Much is a Billion Dollars?
It is difficult to visualize just how many dollars there are in $1 billion. The politicians who are spending fortunes in government money make it sound as though they are dealing in smaller numbers by removing quite a few digits. For example, Bush's budget deficit, which at the time of this writing is $422,000,000,000 is more simply stated as $422 billion.
To put it in a different perspective, a billion is a thousand million.
To place it in a better perspective, a billion seconds ago, it was the year1959.
Humans first learned to write 252 billion seconds ago.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate Washington spends it.
How Much is a Trillion Dollars?
A trillion dollars is even more incomprehensible. A trillion is a thousand billion.
One trillion seconds equals 1,688 years.
The oldest known human was alive 110 trillion seconds ago.
The US National Debt at the time of this writing is $8,538,579,172,593 or more simply stated: $8.5 trillion. The number is so large that the $1.75 billion this debt is increasing per day seems miniscule by comparison.
So, the next time you hear a politician casually use the words "billion" or "trillion" think about whether you really want that politician spending your tax money.(viewfromthemeadow.com)..."d22
