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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT AIDS WAS WRONG?

Please don’t worry and get upset…..we’re just talking about information here.

The question in the title is actually the TITLE OF A BOOK by a young woman who tested HIV-positive almost 15 years ago, and has lived a normal and healthy life ever since, marrying and raising a family (all of whom are HIV-negative), while declining anti-HIV drugs. She also started a support group, ALIVE and WELL AIDS alternatives, for HIV-positive people who want to research what is known about the virus, about the effects of being diagnosed HIV-positive, about the dangers of the anti-HIV drugs, and about how to live normally while HIV-positive.

Now, there is a movie called The Other Side of AIDS

Posted by Earl on 11/21 at 10:57 PM
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Sunday, November 12, 2006

THERE ARE LOTS OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HIV AND AIDS

And a brief squib in a recent New Scientist magazine highlights an important one, even though it neglects to ask it explicitly.

But CD4 counts can vary a lot naturally so if you follow the WHO guidelines to the letter, then some people started on anti-retrovirals would not even be infected with HIV, he concludes.

Posted by Earl on 11/12 at 12:14 PM
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REGARDLESS OF YOUR POSITION ON ABORTION, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ROE v. WADE?

This was the Supreme Court decision that took jurisdiction over abortion away from the 50 States, and substituted the judgment of seven justices - based on Harry Blackmun’s reading of history and the law. Anyone who thinks Blackmun did a good job in this landmark decision had better read Joseph Dellapenna’s NEW BOOOK, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History before expressing that opinion in the future.

Posted by Earl on 11/12 at 11:43 AM
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

NOW WE KNOW WHERE ABORTION LEADS…...

THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES has been kind enough to inform us.

Doctors: let us kill disabled babies

That is the headline, and in the story we’re faced with the reality that the pro-abortion activists assured us for decades was unrelated to their cause.

The college is arguing that “active euthanasia” should be considered for the overall good of families, to spare parents the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies.

“A very disabled child can mean a disabled family,” it says. “If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome.”

Posted by Earl on 11/11 at 09:28 PM
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

BEING A PARENT ISN’T FOR THE FAINT OF HEART…....Updated

Ask Dick Hoyt. But, Dick personifies the love and commitment of a father for his son….his son, Rick.

I first heard about the Hoyts in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED magazine, and the story brought the tears to my eyes and my cheeks. Rick Reilly wrote the story….

[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay For their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he’s pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in Marathons. Eight times he’s not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a Wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and Pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars—all in the same day.

Dick’s also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back Mountain climbing and once hauled him across the U.S. On a bike. Makes Taking your son bowling look a little lame, right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much—except save his life.
This love story began in Winchester , Mass. , 43 years ago, when Rick Was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him Brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

“He’ll be a vegetable the rest of his life;’’ Dick says doctors told him And his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an Institution.’‘

Updated: with a longer video featuring Dick and Rick’s voices

Posted by Earl on 11/05 at 04:24 PM
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Friday, October 20, 2006

GOVERNMENT-FUNDED HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE IS PRETTY POPULAR THESE DAYS…..

Before making up your own mind, perhaps you need to expose yourself to some of what is entailed in such systems.

The (cancer) treatment, which can extend the lives of sufferers by up to seven years, was approved for patients in Scotland in October 2004 and is routinely available in the rest of Europe.

The leaked ruling, seen by the Daily Mail, which was not due to be made public until next week, reveals that the drug is more clinically effective than chemotherapy but is not regarded as ‘cost effective’.

How do you like them apples? And that isn’t all, either….

Posted by Earl on 10/20 at 05:28 PM
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

WHAT MUST TERRI SCHIAVO’S PARENTS FEEL, AS THEY READ THIS…...

We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer’s last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these ‘strange and wonderful’ rebirths

Louis Viljoen, a young man who had once been cruelly described by a doctor as “a cabbage”, greets me with a mischievous smile and a streetwise four-move handshake. Until he took the pill, he too was supposed to be in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state.

Was it Newton who said that he was like a child fiddling with shiny pebbles on the shores of a limitless sea of knowledge….? When I hear mere human beings “bragging” about the state of our knowledge, I always think of a couple of kids on the front lawn, bragging to each other “I can jump closer to the moon that you can!”

The story you’re about to read reminds me of that—of the limits of our knowledge, of the foolishness of rejecting what God has said because “we know better”, of the deep wisdom of modesty as we deal with the mystery known as “human life”.

Posted by Earl on 09/14 at 09:07 AM
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