Speaking of which, I swear my neighbour who lives behind me has just adopted a duck, a puppy & an orca 'cause I've been hearing quacking, a puppy yapping & a whale moaning for the last couple of days.

Using a paper towel to pull the door open is smart not ocd.
Think about touching that door knob with a bare hand (after washing) and then picking up a food article - sick!

Men looking at women's breasts in fact prolong their lives with years.

On post #83 you claimed that vaccines are a cause of autism

I've seen this kind of rationale before when studies don't support what someone wants to believe.

If your imaginary smallpox disease comes along, giving vaccines and saving lives is a good idea. If your smallpox does NOT come along, giving vaccines and saving lives is still a good idea. If you muddy the waters by imagining various other diseases, giving vaccines and saving lives is still a good idea.

Just because there's no evidence linking scratching your ass and autism doesn't mean there isn't a subtle connection. Its all the same pointless, meaningless speculation. Your argument is not supported by evidence.

You're right that diagnosis is primarily based on behaviour, but there's many physical markers linked with autism.

A good example of this is when an institution gets additional funding for supporting someone with autism - this leads to its practitioners being motivated to diagnose someone as having autism even if they aren't sure if they really have it.

As the H1N1 vaccine prevents millions of people from getting sick and hundreds or perhaps thousands from dying, its absurd to think that isn't enough to make flu immunizations "a good idea."

Another thing they don't tell you is that if a planet-sized comet strikes the earth, that will be devastating too. And another is that if the earth got sucked into a black hole, that would be devastating. Another thing they don't tell you is the color of the underwear they wore that day. There's lots of irrelevant things they don't tell you, because they're irrelevant.

And Japanese encephalitis too? Damn. You got me beat hands down.

I don't see the relevance.

Irrelevant. And not entirely correct either - we are getting better and better at diagnosing autism, even when its subtle, and this increased awareness is shown by the increase in autism diagnoses (changing diagnostic criteria is another factor that increases these numbers as well).

The World Health Organization has concluded that there is no evidence of toxicity from thimerosal in vaccines.

Ethylmercury and methylmercury have very different toxicities. Methylmercury accumulates in the body in repeated exposure over time, and thus is toxic. Ethylmercury does not. Thimerosal contains ethylmercury.

And if mercury was a legitimate concern, people would rally against seafood, not thimerosal, since seafood contains more.

The lifeguards with their 'pact with the devil' have been giving these 'lifejackets' year after year after year after year preventing countless millions of illness' and deaths. Lets look at the results of these demonic atrocities they cause:

Thanks to immunization programs that require children to receive vaccinations, infectious diseases like smallpox and polio have been completely or nearly eradicated in the United States.

From a biological standpoint, it doesn't make sense though. The vaccine didn't invade your child's 30 trillion cells and change the DNA in each of them to make him autistic. The child had autism when he left the womb, you just didn't know it yet.

LOL..you actually have the time to go back to archived posts and quote?

Theres no contradiction. Educated people are more interesting. It doesnt have to be formal, I said educated, not degreed.

Your overall tone, Traveller, is one of cynicism toward academia. Why are you so cynical?

Why cant we accept someone without looking at their education?

You seem to imply that snobs are educated, I know alot of snobs who arent. Snob is as snob does.

Well, I have 2 masters degrees and a PhD and I shucked it all to become a makeup artist.

I think I should have done it sooner. The academic world is wild and wooley and filled with snobs and knob gobblers.
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I have the same depth of conversation with my friend who is a nurse and who kayaks alot.
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Not that I havent met some terrific people in academia. But for the most part, they werent a whole lot of fun to hang with.

Additionally, educated people are far more interesting to talk to. They can handle culture, politics, science, history, art and other topics. Most of the less educated folks I know, who I still dearly love for other reasons, dont have the same range and depth of conversation available to them.

Was there something in your life that caused you to question your reality of what is? Something that takes you back and leaves you to question your direction in life?

Is there something that still causes you to struggle when it comes to ideals.

Traveller-Where have you travelled to?

My reading suggests that it is not a matter of ...if... it's a matter of when.

The 'Boy Who Cried Wolf" made up a fantasy in order to get attention :( Do you really think this is the same situation?

You know if you have the chance to get the shot and dont, I think you are really taking a chance. Listen to what the people who have it are saying. It sounds nasty.

Also, don't you think when you get the vaccine you do it for other people too? Because none of us want to be carriers of a flu that can be potentially deadly, do we?

... or... if it were your spouse/child/parent dying because some perfectly healthy idiot on a motorcycle crashed and was brain dead but didn't have a signed donor card with the potential to affect up to 9 other lives...

Once again, the Canadian donor pool is sadly limited because we have seatbelt laws and gun control.

The drivers' licence option is no longer valid and the only way to register is by actively sending in a card - postage paid even, for chrissakes, and still people are too lazy.

Why not have the kids declare their intent in school? Before they get their drivers' licence? Grade 10-11, whatever, give them a card and have them fill in a YES/NO privately.

TravellerSEB --- well you are long winded and are coming from a bit of the BS baffles brains technique lol ....you go

Sorry , I respect your opinion as such ......but I do not agree with the argument you have presented

Try it this way - if there were a system that allowed for automatic organ donation, how long would it be before the bulk of the needed transplants were completed and the demand lower?

... or if they offered some tax deduction for a live donation (kidney, liver lobe) that people would be more willing to do that and not have to worry about taking time off work, etc?

So far as the Chinese executions, my information was (at the time we did our transplant) that the Asian community had the lowest donor level in BC, yet one of the highest demand levels. A cultural thing? Thoughts?

I 100 % disagree with the above statment and then as I read further in the thread I was dismayed to find many people who agreed and were against the opt-out system.

I am all for human rights but if someone is going to die or suffer
while waiting to "protect " my rights after I sopped breathing is a bit extreme.... I am surprised because I find the argument against cold ,insensitive and without any real merit.

>> and frankly , I see nothing wrong with harvesting organs from executed prisoners. I think Clifford Olsen should have been chopped up and passed around long ago ....

Thanks Traveller, that clears up one more question for me. I am high risk though, so wonder if in that case you would change your philosophy were you also?

I think it is disturbing with this virus that a perfectly healthy young person can die. Usually with the seasonal varieties we have experienced, it has been those with underlying conditions.

I am curious if anyone has an opinion as to WHY this may have happened. Is this not just the "ebb and flow" of the pond or is it much more sinister.....

As a mother, would you call my plea for safer streets an angry philosophy?

You call it bashing - as most men do who see their rights taken from them - I call it empowering as a woman.

Rape Relief's approach is integrated and blended with its political belief that women suffer oppression from birth and should resist male violence by working together with others who are peers in their experience of that oppression. This approach is apparent in Rape Relief's approach to its work and the consistency between the way it works and its political beliefs, such as its offering of "Support, Education and Action" groups.

To know that this act of rape has it’s basis founded as a gender trait leaves much to be desired in the way of safety for a number of women.

the troubles with such "brilliance " are that they are demagogic and while one can only guess intent, the results often lead to inciting hatred because of peoples emotions and in particular those who "jump onto the cause" lacking abilities (or willingness)to reason.

MOST men do not rape. MOST men are not gratuitiously violent, and even those who might be predisposed toward violence tend to target other men and not women. I think it would be more helpful to avoid alienating an entire gender with those kinds of statements and stick to the reality that violence, including sexual assault, is wrong - no matter who does it, and no matter who its done to.

What is a better tact, is to state that the social status of women in various societies makes them victims of male domination. And that is correct for many parts of the world still. Behold Pakistani honor killings, arranged and forced marriages and forced female circumcision, to name a few atrocities committed in these cultures. What is important is that we all guard against our tendency as a species, to subjugate women and base power on sheer physical force.

It'd be even better if something was done about all the scumbags who ride the bus for free and often get verbally and even physically abusive to the bus drivers!

I wouldn't tarnish a whole company because of one bad egg.

Aren't you the same fool who thinks the HST is a good thing? Duh!!

And texting! Tons of people (mostly kids... ie, under 25 years old... and women) out there texting while driving.

Well, since you asked, when I am walking my hounds early in the morning sometimes I see what looks like human vomit on the sidewalk and then one of my dogs will start eating it.

I simply suggested that the poster was trying to minimize the problem. I still think so.

If this poster were to consider my comments with an open mind, perhaps he will find that even mavens could use a little educating from time to time, even when the source of that education is female, loud, unbound and passionate!

^ what I am talking about... if you don't know the guys fairly well, you just don't know.

oh baloney. She is talking about rape. Unless you think that rape is a legitimate way for men to wage the so-called "battle of the sexes"? That is exactly my point. We take rape far too lightly in this society

Singling out men? I don't believe this male rights garbage.

These women are angry for a just reason!

I believe that woman only space is necessary for women to seek peer help and gain strength to enable them to resist sexist oppression, in an otherwise male dominated world. In a world where women only spaces are harder and harder to find, I am gladdened to hear about the new Women only Pharmacy in Vancouver, and thank the Vancouver Women’s Health collective for the good work they do.

How do you feel about Flynn's claim?

Every human being has the potential to commit every act under the right circumstance if there is absolutely no fear of negative consequence.

I do not buy into the 'Infringement of Civil Liberties' bullcrap when it comes to people committing suicide in a public place and law enforcement try to prevent stop them.

Having the attitude of "eh if they want to jump let'em" is not sympathetic. It's cruel.

I've made my opinion loudly heard in regards to the jumpers topic.

did you hear about the streets that will be closed in Vancouver? Not just the bridges

It's 2 weeks, if you can't handle not riding your bike across the bridges, which you admit you don't do every day, in the middle of February (why would anyone be riding their bike then?!), then I don't really know what to tell you.

What I dislike here is the fact that they are forbidding people to protest.

Final note, any recommended job agencies you ahve worked with earlier that you'd recommend?

I, for one, think they're hideous. To me, they look like something that's been left inside a hot car for too long. I don't see how the waves or ripples reflect on Canada as a whole, or even on the lower mainland.

So - the final thing is to find a temp agency or a job agency that can find something for me...

And to add to that, please tell me exactly how many companies you have ever heard of that don't cater to the whims of their customers?

And how is this point ANYTHING other than completely irrelevant.

Apparently you are unaware that it only takes ONE person to nominate someone for consideration.

There is NOTHING Obama has done that justifies this award. He's infact failed to accomplish anything of note. No health care, no peace, no end of terrorist threats, no reduction of poverty, hell not even regulations reactivated on wall street.

This Bear is really shocked at the degree of anti-science terror and paranoia around here.

Vaccination is a very old, very well-understood treatment system that has proven itself incredibly useful and saved uncounted lives.

Many of the myths about autism, allergies and the like are so well debunked that every hoax site carries them, but paranoia rules.

We already know what pandemics do. Are you ready to face bubonic plague or syphillis without medical science? Should we stop trying to cure infectious diseases?

The idea that natural immunities are "better" and that vaccines are "medications" which will make us more sensitive is incomprehensible

The antibody response peaks 2-3 weeks postvaccination in primed subjects [36, 73, 74], and then wanes over time and is generally twofold lower by 6 months' postvaccination [18]

CAVs induce nasal-wash antibodies, particularly IgA, which peak 2\u201311 weeks postvaccination and generally gradually declines by 6 months [23]

Natural infection may lead to long-lasting immunity to the infecting virus, as demonstrated by the reappearance of the influenza A H1N1 subtype in 1977, when only subjects under the age of 20 years became infected [24].

Hmmm. . . the Canadians I know hold onto their Canadian citizenship because they know if they get really sick, they can go back to Canada and get taken care of.

Income tax will go up drastically to cover this.

BECAUSE doctors salaries will be capped, they won't work as hard.

Because we can't sue doctors who work for the government, there may be gross negligence, sloppy surgical procedures, misdiagnoses, etc.

What happened? There were those parents who had insurance but chose not to insure children-let the state pay for it. They were following the guidelines, but they had insurance available to the children.

It'll get doctors geared toward CURING, not TREATING diseases, when they see that there's not as much profit in treatment anymore.

it's FALL now right?...gets a bit nipply up here on the North Shore.