Women Born Transsexual

Just when you think all the gender indoctrination and insane behavior in the name of adherence to perfect gender adherence couldn’t get much more insane.  I mean someone better have a couple of strong assistance before trying to pour hot wax on my pubes and rip them out.

Now dieting via nasal tubes.  How much more fucking ick can you get in pursuit of pseudo beauty?

From Yahoo News:  http://gma.yahoo.com/k-e-diet-brides-using-feeding-tubes-rapidly-080053646–abc-news-health.html

By YUNJI DE NIES, AMANDA KEEGAN and KEVIN DOLAK
April 16, 2012

Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting that involves inserting a feeding tube into their noses for up to 10 days for a quick fix to rapid weight loss.

The K-E diet, which boasts promises of shedding 20 pounds in 10 days, is an increasingly popular alternative to ordinary calorie-counting programs. The program has dieters inserting a feeding tube into their nose that runs to the stomach. They’re fed a constant slow drip of protein and fat, mixed with water, which contains zero carbohydrates and totals 800 calories a day. Body fat is burned off through a process called ketosis, which leaves muscle intact, Dr. Oliver Di Pietro of Bay Harbor Islands, Fla., said.

“It is a hunger-free, effective way of dieting,” Di Pietro said. “Within a few hours and your hunger and appetite go away completely, so patients are actually not hungry at all for the whole 10 days. That’s what is so amazing about this diet.”

Di Pietro says patients are under a doctor’s supervision, although they’re not hospitalized during the dieting process. Instead, they carry the food solution with them, in a bag, like a purse, keeping the tube in their nose for 10 days straight. Di Pietro says there are few side effects.

The main side effects are bad breath; there is some constipation because there is no fiber in the food,” he said.

Slipping into a wedding gown for a dream wedding is a moment of truth for most brides, but as many say that there is a real fear that it will not quite fit. That’s how Jessica Schnaider says she felt with a June wedding approaching and 10 pounds she says she couldn’t lose. She was desperate for a quick fix.

Continue reading at:  http://gma.yahoo.com/k-e-diet-brides-using-feeding-tubes-rapidly-080053646–abc-news-health.html

Leave it to the Randholes to make selfishness, greed and the destruction of the environment into a virtue.  They live in total denial regarding the planet’s resources.

From TreeHugger:  http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/selfish-new-green.html

Lloyd Alter
April 16, 2012

It’s odd, reading Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail as she dismisses David Suzuki and the entire environmental movement. Where she writes:

The problem isn’t that the environmental movement has failed to explain this message. It’s that people have rejected it. Mr. Suzuki fears the consequences for the planet and the human race will be catastrophic. I’m more optimistic. Doomsday cults have been wrong throughout history, and this one will be no exception.

Remember that this is not Fox News, it is Canada’s sober and responsible National Newspaper. Peggy goes on to extol the wonders of our current age:

Far from running out of fossil fuel, we seem to have a new bonanza of it. Human ingenuity keeps finding new and better ways to tap the Earth’s resources. A technological revolution is unlocking vast new reserves of energy around the world, including, some day, from the Arctic Ocean. None of this will be zero-risk or problem-free. There’ll be setbacks, mishaps and, probably, occasional disasters. But there’ll also be a gusher of innovation, wealth and jobs.

Not a word about climate change. It no longer exists. Carbon isn’t an environmental issue. But in her own back yard, the megaquarry is.

Then it is even odder, going to the Green Living Show in Toronto, finding a third of it devoted to food, a third to cars, and about a third, a sort of home show of green gizmos. Some interesting things, but the world will not be saved by probiotic yoghurt and plug-in hybrids. It all seems a bit surreal and half-hearted.

The green movement is dead, and it appears to have been replaced with the Selfish movement. Put solar panels on your roof and make money from the government.”It’s better than the bank.” Eat the right food. “you will live longer, better.” Drive the plug-in car. “you will save thousands in fuel costs.” It is not about the environment, it’s not about the climate, it’s all about you.

Continue reading at: http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/selfish-new-green.html

From Huffington Post:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-hansen/big-poultrys-dangerous-pu_b_1429508.html

Joe Hansen
04/16/2012

The only thing worse than a chicken with its head cut off is one with its head in the sand. That was my initial reaction after reading Administrator Alfred Almanza’s piece defending Big Poultry’s push to dramatically increase line speed in our nation’s plants.

Much of the discussion surrounding the controversial poultry inspection rule has been about food safety. What’s been missing is a focus on the safety of the workers who process that food. This rule does nothing to protect them.

The proposed rule will throw out the current method of inspecting poultry, reducing the number of Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS) inspectors and increasing the speed that birds are processed from 70-91 a minute to a maximum of 175 a minute.

Big Poultry is in a rush to see this rule take effect, yet no comprehensive effort has been made to determine the impact it will have on the health and safety of workers. No study of injuries and illnesses, including in the 20 “broiler plants” Almanza mentioned, has occurred. No Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) standard has been implemented.

In other words, workers will be at heightened risk of repetitive motion related injuries and Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) without any enforceable safety standard to rely on.

Continue reading at:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-hansen/big-poultrys-dangerous-pu_b_1429508.html

From Common Dreams:  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/16-6

by Donna Smith
Published on Monday, April 16, 2012 by Common Dreams

In case any one of us needs reminding, the profit-driven healthcare system in America is broken. Driven by its primary motivation to make money, there is little that compels those currently in control to care about patients like you and me. We are most assuredly a necessary component of the healthcare market – they cannot make any money without us – but we are treated like children to be seen and not heard.

The vast majority of us cannot access or pay for the care we need without health insurance coverage through either a private, for-profit health insurance company or through a government program for which we qualify. A small minority of people can afford to pay for care outright with cash or credit.

For that small minority, concierge care is the answer. Wealthy patients can pony up money in advance to assure services that used to be a matter of course – like return phone calls from our personal physicians, a doctor’s visit with our own doctor within a reasonable period of time should we get hurt or sick, or even a call with test results as soon as our doctors learned those results. Some of us remember the days when that was what doctors did for their patients routinely. But now humanity and decency is for sale in our medical system. Our doctors need to have the pot sweetened a bit with a little extra cash in order to deliver services that require extra time and attention like personal phone calls to patients.

Many of us support ending some of this insanity by improving and expanding Medicare coverage to all for life. A progressively financed, single standard of high quality care for all would be an amazing improvement and would put an end to many of patient abuses we endure today. But, sadly, some abuses are spreading through providers so deftly that we come to accept being cogs in the wheel of profit without control of our own health destiny, and simply fixing the payment mechanism will not be enough to fix the broken human interactions or lack thereof.

Like the vast majority of Americans, I do not have easy access or attention from my doctor and I certainly do not have concierge care. I have insurance coverage through my job from one of the giants of the insurance industry. Six weeks ago, I began trying to get a diagnosis and treatment plan after symptoms of cancer returned to my body for the first time in more than eight years. I still do not have my answers or my care. First, the insurance company denied the tests my doctor felt would be best after lab work showed the elevated cancer markers. Then I had the tests the insurance company would approve at that point, though the doctor was sure those tests would not be exactly right. I had to be injected with radioactive isotopes and scanned for four days in a row. A week later, after making yet another doctor’s appointment as is now often required to get any test results, I learned that, as expected, the test results were inconclusive. My doctor referred me on to the oncologist.

Continue reading at:  http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/16-6

From Raw Story:  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/16/bernie-sanders-blasts-economic-inequality-this-is-not-what-democracy-looks-like/

By Eric W. Dolan
Monday, April 16, 2012

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) railed against the growing economic inequality in the United States during a Senate speech in support of the Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012.

“It is absurd that at a time when our country has a $15 trillion national debt and enormous unmet needs, the wealthiest people in this country have an effective tax rate that is lower than many middle-class workers,” he said on Monday. “It makes no sense that the richest 400 people in our country, who earned an average of more than $270 million each in 2008 pay an effective tax rate of just 18 percent, which is less than many small businessmen, nurses, teachers, police officers, et cetera. That is wrong from a moral perspective, it is also very bad economic policy.”

The Paying a Fair Share Act would enact the so-called “Buffett Rule” and place a minimum tax rate on millionaires. The legislation would require those who earn more than $1 million a year to pay at least a 30 percent effective tax rate on their income.

Sanders said the United States was moving towards an “oligarchic form of government,” where the wealthy have a disproportionate amount of political power. He said a recent study found that in 2010, 93 percent of all new income went to the top 1 percent of income-earners.

Continue reading at:  http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/16/bernie-sanders-blasts-economic-inequality-this-is-not-what-democracy-looks-like/

From Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/screen-uncovers-hidden-ingredients-of-chinese-medicine-1.10430#/b1

Genetic audit reveals that some traditional remedies contain endangered animals and toxic plants.

Ewen Callaway
12 April 2012

Chinese herbal medicines contain ingredients derived from endangered animals, toxic plants and livestock, a genetic audit has discovered. Few of these ingredients were listed on the packaging.

“There’s absolutely no honesty in the labelling of these products. What they declare is completely at odds with what’s in there,” says Mike Bunce, a geneticist at Murdoch University near Perth, Australia, who led the study. The results are published today in PLoS Genetics¹.

Traditional Chinese medicines rack up billions of dollars in worldwide sales each year, and exports to Western countries are on the rise. However, most of the medicines have not been proved to be effective, and industry regulation is scant.

When the medicines have been ground up, it is very difficult to tell what they are made of. In the past, researchers have examined herbal medicines by running assays for toxic compounds and using DNA tests to determine whether a specific plant or animal is present.

But mislabelling is rampant, so researchers do not always know what to look for and conventional approaches will miss many of the species that are present, says Bunce.

His team turned instead to next-generation DNA sequencers, which can rapidly read thousands of DNA strands. The researchers can then check the genetic sequences against databases to learn which plants or animals they come from. This ‘deep sequencing’ technique has been used to characterize mixtures of microbes living in environments such as oceans and animal guts.

Continue reading at:  http://www.nature.com/news/screen-uncovers-hidden-ingredients-of-chinese-medicine-1.10430#/b1

From Alternet:  http://www.alternet.org/story/154810/is_georgia_waiting_for_its_jobless_to_just_kill_themselves_how_state_gopers_made_unemployment_hell_on_earth/

Red-state deficit politics become personal when Georgia’s Republican majority cuts unemployment benefits.

By George Bauer
April 2, 2012

ATLANTA — His name is not important; his story is. Let’s call him Joe. Life has been bad lately for Joe and others like him. And now, thanks to the heartless actions of the Republican-dominated Georgia General Assembly, things are about to get worse for many more Joes.

As legislators raced toward adjournment in the waning hours of their mandated 40-day annual session in late March, they trampled on the well-being of those who will become unemployed in the months ahead. It’s already hard enough to get, and keep, jobless benefits here in the Peach State. The pay is paltry, there’s a long wait to get the first check, and there’s little hope of getting additional benefits if claimants can’t find a job in six months.

Joe is typical. He lost his job in mid-January. The very next day Joe went to a Georgia Department of Labor office to file for unemployment benefits. The computer application process took two hours to complete. A state worker, after checking Joe’s application, told him he would not get his first benefit check until his claim had been certified by a DOL officer at headquarters in Atlanta. The call, he told Joe, should come in several days.

Only when he was certified could Joe start receiving $330 per week from the state. When Joe protested that he was making much more than that and had many bills to pay, the worker gave Joe the facts of life: everyone on unemployment in Georgia gets $330 a week — TV anchors, stockbrokers or coffeehouse baristas. And once taxes were withheld, the DOL worker said the weekly payout would be closer to $280.

Continue reading at:  http://www.alternet.org/story/154810/is_georgia_waiting_for_its_jobless_to_just_kill_themselves_how_state_gopers_made_unemployment_hell_on_earth/