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You only think it’s funny until you need one.

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Why would any country that drinks so much have occasion to rack up frequent flier miles on an enema squirchy thing in the first place, much less enough to inspire a monument to it????????

MOSCOW - A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa [...]

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Tags: Assholes · Health · Wonderfully Weird · hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

Just think of it as mineral water

June 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Life outside the big cities has its charms. The pace is slower, parking is rarely an issue, almost everyone can have a dog, the air is cleaner, the water is…..
Just months after a new standard took effect to limit levels of arsenic in drinking water, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) will introduce a measure [...]

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Tags: Environment · Health

Kinda like Philip Morris selling nicotine patches. Only worse.

June 19th, 2006 · No Comments

The mantra for business used to be “create a need and then fill it.” But if you can get customers to ante up for both the problem and the solution, oh baby!
Nestle - the company that’s turning your butt into the 51st state with products like Baby Ruth candy bars, Goobers, Gobstoppers, and Hot [...]

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Tags: Assholes · Health · Inc.

GAO: Bush Admin. blows $15B on subverted AIDS Plan

April 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Choosing dogma over effective health practices Bush Admin. blows $15B on an AIDS Plan that is so blindly adherent to the demands of the Culties and Propagandists on the Religious Right, it undermines prevention efforts in poor countries. They believe in choice - when the choice is “Cross your legs or die”
The Bush administration’s [...]

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Tags: Charlatans of Biblical Proportions · Health

Mass. Lawmakers OK Mandatory Health Bill

April 4th, 2006 · No Comments

I just can’t believe this is as progressive as it appears on the surface. In fact, I predict it will break many more people than anyone’s saying. Health insurance is ridiculously expensive. Being required by law to buy it will mean that month after month, the average person is just that much [...]

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Tags: Health

Agent Orange: the legacy of a weapon of mass destruction

April 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation. Jeremy Laurance reports from Ho Chi Minh City
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Tags: Health · Viet Nam

Study: Prayers by strangers do not help surgery patients to recover

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Can we finally put this nonsense to bed? No? No, of course not. Because religion has become a bludgeon. No longer something to comfort believers and inspire them to be better people, it’s now used as a weapon.
Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were [...]

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Tags: Health