If you knew how much apple juice my three year old son drinks and the majority of the apple juice selection in our local grocery stores are from China, you would understand why I just about had a heart attack reading the article linked in the title of this post. I found this article from my favorite new blog BLDGBLOG.blogspot.com that focused on China and how cancer is multiplying there and being exported here.
This line really got my panties in a bunch: "toxic clouds so big that they can seen from space, drifting across the Pacific to California laden with microscopic particles of chemicals that cause cancer and diseases of the heart and lung." Besides the air, what other cancer-ridden products could China be exporting? Noooo, not apple juice!!
However, I then read this article about how apple juice, and especially pulpy apple juice, can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Phew! Thank goodness! I guess that negates the possibility of getting cancer from China's apple juice, right?!
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Monday, March 26, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Iraq: Dr. USA's Cancer Patient
We leave, we all win! Everyone is a winner! We win because we have helped Iraq to come to grips with freedom. We win because our kids come home. Iraq wins because they are now truly independent (in as much as we let them be independent) and can decide themselves what is best for Iraq--and who knows, maybe having three new nations spring forth from a previously corrupted united Iraq might be the best for the region and for the world--we all win! Iraq wins because now USA is off their back. I'd like to see a win-win situation come out of this, and the only way that can happen, IMHO, is to get out of Iraq-now! We can spin this for a win for everyone, I know we can, regardless of the situation we leave.
I think that our leaders are having a hard time seeing the glass as half full, and can't bring themselves to seeing that when we leave Iraq that the glass will be completely full in time.
Let's look at Iraq like battling a tumor that we think could be cancer. Sometimes you have to stop fighting the tumor, especially if you have extracted the tumor already, and let the patient heal on his own. (Have we even tested to see if the tumor was in fact cancerous, and if it has spread? What? It wasn't originally cancer? And the chemo treatments have actually spurred benign cells to become malignant? Oh, for shame!) Too much chemotherapy, and you'll kill the patient, cell by cell. So, let's stop the chemo treatments, and see how our patient responds. Give them some healing support medicine, but just stop the chemo!!
And, maybe there's a more effective treatment for our patient than total inhiliation.
I think that our leaders are having a hard time seeing the glass as half full, and can't bring themselves to seeing that when we leave Iraq that the glass will be completely full in time.
Let's look at Iraq like battling a tumor that we think could be cancer. Sometimes you have to stop fighting the tumor, especially if you have extracted the tumor already, and let the patient heal on his own. (Have we even tested to see if the tumor was in fact cancerous, and if it has spread? What? It wasn't originally cancer? And the chemo treatments have actually spurred benign cells to become malignant? Oh, for shame!) Too much chemotherapy, and you'll kill the patient, cell by cell. So, let's stop the chemo treatments, and see how our patient responds. Give them some healing support medicine, but just stop the chemo!!
And, maybe there's a more effective treatment for our patient than total inhiliation.
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