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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Duke of URL
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I've followed this issue for going on 16+ years (our Asperger Syndrome son's age) and do have some ability to parse the findings and evaluate the associations.
My sincere, fierce, protective, mother-grizzly parental feeling is that NOT to vaccinate is by FAR the worse risk. I'm actually much more upset at parents who put their kids AND THEIR COMMUNITIES at risk of these PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE CHILDHOOD DISEASES.
Autistic kids, in my humble, first-hand view, are the canaries in the coal mine, vis-a-vis in utero/neo-natal pesticide exposure and exposure to those kinds of environmental "wounds" as it were. Thimerosal is the least of our worries in my opinion - and, from what I understand, thimerosal has been removed from most childhood vaccines as of the 1997 FDA Modernization Act. (see http://www.fda.gov/cber/vaccine/thimerosal.htm#t1).
Get your kids vaccinated, and work to ban pesticides and these faux estrogens from plastic, instead of beating your heads against the very sturdy, very data-supported wall that says thimerosal is not the boogeyman, no matter how much we need a boogeyman when it comes to our autistic kids.
Seriously.
And how, exactly, does a right-wing evangelical Christian balance Focus on the Family on the one hand, and this weird Blackwater cowboy ethos on the other hand?
This is some really disturbing stuff.
I don't know what it is about "these times", or even if is IS "these times," but I've just about had it with parents who elbow their kids aside to do their work for them.
We bend over backwards NOT to do our kids' school projects for them - at the most we try to do an abridged Socratic method to help lead them to plan, strategize and execute the horrid things themselves. We're sick and tired of seeing what other kids bring in as finished products, though - and we're sick and tired of teachers actually buying the obvious fiction that kids could have produced the work they turn in.
We have college app essays coming up and we tear out our hair over what it might mean NOT to intervene, but we're just. not. going. to. And the worry kills us, despite our confidence in our kids' writing/thinking skills.
I say expose these parents for what they are, let the chips fall where they may and may these parents be shamed and put in their rightful places.
Just IMHO, of course. YMMV. :|
That old, time-honored unconscious wish to blow it, bigtime.
Like Bill Clinton and the blowjob. These overachieving people seem to love to sabotage themselves just when they've got it all in their grubby, grasping little hands. The good Doctor just is following the sabotage script that's all, and Cary's giving him that little shove - to follow Cary, really - into the abyss.
Terrible, narcissistic advice from Cary. But, what else is new?
It's the page hits, stupid.
Just sent it online now.
Thank you, Mr. Dodd. May this action start a trend.
George Bush is to the "safety and security for the country" as Valery Putin is to the safety and security of Anna Politkovskaya.
Giving Dana's boss "what he needs" has ruined the safety and security of the country. Dana needs to get her head out of that very dark place.
And why do we let them?
I am absolutely of the opinion that ANYONE who is or seeks to be in a position that could sanction any of these torture techniques should be required to experience them personally.
Absolutely. No exceptions.
and I'm totally serious.
Other than that, all I can say is: Good luck. You're going to need it.
It's because some of us have been around the block a time or two, have learned that personality traits such as groping your sister are very deeply ingrained and exceedingly difficult if not impossible to change, and have learned exactly how these situations tend to play out (which is to say: badly, for all involved). Our experience tells us not to fish but to cut bait PRONTO. By doing so, so much pain and heartache will be avoided.
Our experience also informs us that, yes: a single mother raising two small children by herself is a very long, very hard row to hoe, but it can be done, and - this is most important - it's preferable to being married to a man who will repeatedly grope our sister.
As I said before, I'm in favor of divorcing the sister, too, being of the opinion (likewise based upon hard-earned experience) that one needs to expunge such toxic people from one's life, but I'm sure that will be even more contentious a position than merely advocating divorcing the creep.
We have to come up with another term for this.. this.... blasphemy.
I'm just gobsmacked. I am. What utter, complete, and impossible irony. omg.
That so much needed to be said.
I only hope Clinton and her campaign listen and take it to heart.
Let's do a count and see how many of Cary's responses get an overwhelming number of "Cary, you really missed the boat on this one!!" letters. My guess is that it's a rather large proportion.
It's the page hits, stupid.
ps: Andrea Dworkin is spinning in her grave on this one.
Jeeze. I'd swear I was reading something Ronald Reagan's speechwriters cooked up, not Garrison Keillor. Looks like those rosy lenses of his have sclerosed, just like Ronnie's cranial vascular system.
He's selling, but I'm not buying, not this time around.
Every newspaper sees the Saturday editions as needing more readers. In this day and age, that means page hits.
Or impotent arrogance.
Take your pick.
I've had it with these wimpy Dems.
Oh, wait: I've said that already.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
