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Grandma: Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer Raquel Maria Dillon, Associated Press Writer – Sat Jan 31, 10:30 am ET AP – Araceli Castro, right, who identified herself as a nanny, talks to reporters in the morning on Friday, … Slideshow: Octuplets born in Calif. hospital Play Video Video: Mom of octuplets has six children at home AP Play Video Video: Ethics of Octuplets ABC News LOS ANGELES – The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. Angela Suleman told The Associated Press she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year. "It can't go on any longer," she said in a phone interview Friday. "She's got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get married." Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth Monday in nearby Bellflower. She was expected to remain in the hospital for at least a few more days, and her newborns for at least a month. A spokeswoman at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said the babies were doing well and seven were breathing unassisted. While her daughter recovers, Angela Suleman is taking care of the other six children, ages 2 through 7, at the family home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone." Angela Suleman said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are "plugged up." There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children. Her mother and doctors have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos and, later, the fetuses. She refused. Her mother said she does not believe her daughter will have any more children. "She doesn't have any more (frozen embryos), so it's over now," she said. "It has to be." Nadya Suleman wanted to have children since she was a teenager, "but luckily she couldn't," her mother said. "Instead of becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not the normal way," he mother said. Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house. "Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out." Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago. "From what I could tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram. "She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it." Garcia said she did not ask for details. Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck told the Press-Telegram. Her fertility doctor has not been identified. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times all the children came from the same sperm donor but she declined to identify him. Birth certificates reviewed by The Associated Press identify a David Solomon as the father for the four oldest children. Certificates for the other children were not immediately available. The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos. Others worried that she would be overwhelmed trying to raise so many children and would end up relying on public support. The eight babies — six boys and two girls — were delivered by Cesarean section weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted in the deliveries. Lady nailed it when she said this bitch was selfish. I live in a state where illegal imigration is huge and we are already over populated. I can only imagine the affect on the rest of the world. Not to mention that illegal mexicans hop over here and start popping about babies to leach off of our system for health care. That same doctor that let her have all 8 babies should also steralize this bitch and sew her shut so she can't populate anymore.

Man accused of drunken horse riding in snowstorm Thu Jan 29, 10:28 pm ET CODY, Wyo. – A man has been cited for public intoxication while riding a white horse during a snowstorm in the northern Wyoming town of Cody. Police say they cited 28-year-old Benjamin Daniels after they received a call Sunday afternoon from a motorist concerned that a man was creating a road hazard by riding his horse on a street in conditions with poor visibility. Cody Assistant Police Chief George Menig says officers noticed Daniels was intoxicated after they stopped him to explain that drivers were having difficulty spotting his slow-moving white horse. Menig said Thursday that Daniels was detained Sunday and released the following day. He will go before a municipal judge later. A friend of Daniels picked up the horse. There was no telephone listing for Daniels. ___ Information from: The Billings Gazette, http://www.billingsgazette ROFLMAO! Sounds Like a good ol' night of redneck drinking. Yeehaw!

This lady didn't have 8 kids naturally without some sort of fertile treatments. That would be some sort of miracle..if you look at it that way. If she was taking fertility drugs THAT makes this even MORE fucked up. A 46 team of doctor's? How much is that gonna cost her and who is paying for it? What about the babie's health? Some of them were born at very low birth weights and could need future medical attention out side of the norm. Also, the article says she is a SINGLE mother so where the hell are the father(s) of these kids and how is she going to take care of ALL them IF the father(s) are not around? I am not insulting or implying that you can't take care of your kids if you are a single mom, because I know plenty who have, but 14? Come on, you are going to have to get help somewhere, unless she was fucking a billionaire. Otherwise, she will probably need a little help from goverment assistance.

That's why they make birth control.

I use Jackson and Hewitt

Officials: Family planning money may be dropped By DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writers David Espo And Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writers – 34 mins ago Featured Topics: <LI class=first>Barack Obama Presidential Transition AP – President Barack Obama, greets Assistant Treasury Secretary Neel Kashkari, left, after the swearing-in … Slideshow: President Barack Obama Play Video Barack Obama Video: 'Clean Energy Initiative'? FOX News Play Video Barack Obama Video: Obama Sides With California On Emissions Plan CBS 5 San Francisco WASHINGTON – House Democrats appear likely to jettison family planning funds for the low-income from an $825 billion economic stimulus bill, officials said late Monday, following an appeal from President Barack Obama at a time the administration is courting Republican critics of the legislation. Several officials said a final decision was likely on Tuesday, coinciding with Obama's scheduled visit to the Capitol for separate meetings with House and Senate Republicans. The provision has emerged as a point of contention among Republicans, who criticize it as an example of wasteful spending that would neither create jobs nor otherwise improve the economy. Under the provision, states no longer would be required to obtain federal permission to offer family planning services — including contraceptives — under Medicaid, the health program for the low-income. Democrats considered the politically-potent change as congressional budget experts estimated it would take slightly longer for the overall legislation to achieve an impact on the economy than the administration projects. The Congressional Budget Office said the economy would feel the effects of almost two-thirds of the money over the next year and a half. The administration claims 75 percent of the funding would be absorbed in that period of time, and Obama has pledged that the bill he signs will meet that target and either save or create up to 4 million jobs. While the debate surrounding the overall impact of the measure pits economists and their statistics against one another, Republicans quickly seized on the family planning money as evidence that the Democrats were advancing an agenda that went beyond the economy. "How you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars on contraceptives how does that stimulate the economy?" House Republican Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio said on Friday after congressional leaders met with Obama at the White House. "You can go through a whole host of issues that have nothing to do with growing jobs in America and helping people keep their jobs." The Democrats who described the likely reversal did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to disclose developments not yet made public. Obama's request to House Democrats underscores the administration's desire to signal a spirit of bipartisanship, a recurring theme for the president in his first week in office. Whether it also succeeds in gaining votes is unclear, particularly in the House, where the GOP leadership has advanced an alternative that consists almost exclusively of tax cuts. The only new spending in the measure comes for maintaining the current system of up to 33 weeks in unemployment benefits. By contrast, the White House-backed bill includes about $550 billion in spending and $250 billion in tax cuts. Much of the funding in the Democratic bill is ticketed for health care and education, as well as money to weatherize buildings and build highways and other transportation projects. A companion measure is making its way to the Senate floor for a vote next week, and congressional leaders have pledged to have legislation ready for Obama to sign by mid-February. But White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said he's confident that the more ambitious target can be met, especially as changes are made before the measure reaches the White House. "With appropriate attention and proper management, you can both get the money out the door ... and still have well-selected projects," Orszag said. "I don't see how that's possible," said Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee. "They'll be just pouring money down on the ground if they achieve that goal."

Google is coming up empty handed lately or way off the mark. I hate MSN and Yahoo so I won't use those. Google used to be so good...

What an emotional rollercoaster that was. *Tears up remembering* I'm glad he got the girl in the end.

Obama signs order reversing abortion-funds policy By LIZ SIDOTI and MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writers Liz Sidoti And Matthew Lee, Associated Press Writers – 20 mins ago Featured Topics: Play Video AP – Raw video: Obama's trip to WH Press Room Play Video Video: Obama Signs Order to Shut Gitmo ABC News Play Video Video: Obama to pursue Middle East peace Reuters AP – President Barack Obama speaks to reporters during his meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders, … WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has signed an executive order ending the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. Liberal groups welcomed the decision while abortion rights foes criticized the president. Known as the "Mexico City policy," the ban has been reinstated and then reversed by Republican and Democratic presidents since GOP President Ronald Reagan established it in 1984. Democrat Bill Clinton ended the ban in 1993, but Republican George W. Bush re-instituted it in 2001 as one of his first acts in office. Obama signed it quietly, without coverage by the media, late on Friday afternoon, a contrast to the midday signings with fanfare of executive orders on other subjects earlier in the week. Ok, Could some one maybe explain what exactly this means? I heard a rumor that Obama wanted to reverse the ban on partial birth abortions allowing women to go and get them. So, does this order have anything to do with that?

OMG! I didn't see this one. They had a metal statue of him in Disneyland so I got my pic with it. *tears* I would have died to see the real Wall-E. So cute!

EVE is my favorite. I kissed Wall-E on the cheek at Disneyland in California. At Disneyland store they have the talking Wall-E and EVE. They talk to each other! It's so cute.

Hell Yeah! This is an awesome first step. The Guardian, January 22, 2009 New team moves to undo last-minute rule changes By Suzanne Goldenberg Barack Obama has moved swiftly to freeze a number of regulations introduced during George Bush's last days in office that strip away protection for workers and the environment. The memo from the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, called on federal agencies and departments to put a stop on newly issued rules that have yet to come into effect, pending a "legal and policy review" by the incoming administration. However, the majority of the so-called "midnight regulations" - such as diluting the powers of the endangered species act and relaxing the rules for mountain-top coal mining - have already come into effect and cannot easily be undone. Noah Greenwald of the Centre for Biological Diversity welcomed the move but warned: "The majority of regulations threatening our environment, health and economy, however, will need to be undone by Congress, the courts or new rule-making." "Midnight regulations" have become something of a tradition for incoming presidents ever since Ronald Reagan started the practice. In 2001 Bush ordered his chief of staff, Andrew Card, to halt a host of last-minute rule changes from Bill Clinton's administration. But Obama faces a far greater challenge. Bush outdid all previous presidents in his efforts to leave a permanent imprint on government regulations long after his term had come to an end. In the final two months of his administration, officials rushed through nearly two dozen controversial rules, according to an advocacy group monitoring the Office of Management and Budget, OMB Watch. The rules extended from healthcare to the environment to workplace safety, but all were grounded in Bush's disdain for the government's role as a regulatory authority. There was no let-up even as his presidency wound down. Two rules that have been widely criticised by environmentalists came into effect on Tuesday - the day Obama was sworn in as president. One regulation widely criticised by environmentalists exempts factory farms from maintaining air quality reports from animal waste, while another makes it easier for companies to burn hazardous waste as fuel. On 17 January, 800,000 hectares (2m acres) in the Rocky Mountain West were opened up to highly polluting oil shale development, and a rule allowing coal mining operators to dump the waste from mountain top removal in streams came into effect on 12 January. Another widely criticised regulation allowing people to carry a loaded and concealed gun in a national park took effect on 9 January. The move by Emanuel seeks to put on hold any of the Bush rules that have yet to be implemented. Generally rules come into effect within 30 or 60 days of their publication in the federal register. The Bush administration timed its measures to make sure most were implemented before 20 January, which restricts Obama's options. Repealing is a time-consuming process, and requires the new administration to restart the process. Obama aides have talked about getting Congress to vote down the rules through the congressional review act. But that is seen as a radical move - the act has only been used once. Democrats also introduced a bill to Congress earlier this month requiring Obama's cabinet officials to approve the regulations before they come into effect. In some instances, Bush administration officials may have overstepped the mark in their zeal to push through their agenda. The Bush White House declared that one rule - removing federal funding from hospitals that refuse to hire doctors who do not perform abortions - had gone into effect after only 27 days, short of the 30-day minimum, according to OMB Watch. That could give the Obama camp a much-needed loophole. Otherwise undoing Bush's final orders could prove cumbersome. Other regulations are already being challenged in the courts. Environmental organisations are suing over a rule that would allow new logging, mining and road building projects in wilderness areas without first studying their impact on endangered species. I hope this is one of many steps to help endangered animals, especially Polar Bears.

Lmfao

Holy crap. That thing at 10-11 seconds was fast! Here is another video of Obama talking and you can see what looks like 2 objects flying. Wtf? As if some 2 million+ people standing in the mall wasn't enough, Some alien reject had to fly his UFO over to see wtf it was all about. I bet if they slow it down and blow up the shot you can see an alien ass smooshed up against the window mooning us. lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0WXg67tY00

LOL I was going to say..

These are kinda cool. What a great way to expand the awareness of endangered species. :clapyay:Just about everybody has a cell phone. Download free endangered species ringtones: www.rareearthtones.org The New York Times, January 1, 2009 When the Call of the Wild Is Nothing but the Phone in Your Pocket By Felicity Barringer Remember when cellphone ring tones mostly advertised personal musical tastes (Beyoncé, Metallica, “The 1812 Overture”) or parental pride (babies cooing)? The chance to make political statements with this seemingly omnipresent speaker system went largely unexploited. But that was before endangered-species ring tones were born. Now, from Siberia to the ski slopes of the French Alps, from Manitoba to Brazil, tens of thousands of phones howl, hoot, trill, screech, croak or emit the haunting song of whales. The Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group based in Arizona known more for litigating on behalf of endangered creatures than building a choral repertoire around them, introduced the ring tones in 2006 and has been counting downloads the way Billboard counts album sales. The new tally: 200,000, a milestone of sorts. (They are most popular, after the United States and Britain, in China and Iran.) Bumper stickers produce instant reactions, pro and con, said Peter Galvin, the center’s conservation director. But with wildlife sounds, Mr. Galvin added, “people don’t already have their fi lters on for how they receive that information.” “It’s powerful,” he continued. “Any kind of music or sound infl uences people and how people think.” Renditions of frogs and owls consumed researchers in the early days. But the list of more than 80 sounds has expanded to include animals that, though not yet endangered, can belt it out with the best of them, like the pika, a rodent dwelling in the Southwestern mountains in the United States, whose cool climes are threatened by climate change. The killer whale and the Mexican gray wolf, both endangered, are currently Nos. 1 and 2 on the charts. The more endangered a bird or beast, the harder to record it. Jon Slaght, a Ph.D. candidate in wildlife conservation at the University of Minnesota, spent days slogging recording gear around the Russian Far East, in minus-30-degree weather, to get not just the hoot of the world’s largest owl — the Blakiston’s fish owl — but also the far less melodious cry of its offspring. It is this juvenile call that now summons Mr. Slaght to the phone. “It’s a little embarrassing when I’m in a public place,” he said. “It’s a really grating, unpleasant noise.” But, he added, “it does get you to answer your phone.” t is incumbent upon downloaders to remember what they downloaded. Grace Matthews, a 19-year-old biology student at the University of Birmingham in England, took a skiing holiday last week in the French Alps. At one point, she skied away from her companions and into a snowy, dusky forest area. Alone, moving at a good clip on the steep slopes, she was startled by the howl of a wolf. “I very nearly crashed,” Ms. Matthews said in an interview. In a separate e-mail message, she added, “It took me several long moments to realize I was being phoned, and not hunted.”

What an exciting moment. Yeah!

This topic caught my eye in a 2004 edition of a Hustler I found. I hope this isn't a repost. It's sad the kind of shit that happens in the US. New York's HIV experiment By Jamie Doran Reporter/producer, Guinea Pig Kids HIV positive children and their loved ones have few rights if they choose to battle with social work authorities in New York City. COMPLAINT UPHELD Following a complaint, an investigation by the BBC's Editorial Complaints Unit has identified serious failings with this programme and ruled that some of the online material based on it was misleading. Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home. But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic. "We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection." Jacklyn Hoerger worked at the Incarnation Children's Center In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge. As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care. The BBC asked the Alliance for Human Research Protection about their view on the drug trials. GUINEA PIG KIDS Tuesday, 30 November, 2004 1930 GMT on BBC Two (UK) Spokesperson Vera Sherav said: "They tested these highly experimental drugs. Why didn't they provide the children with the current best treatment? That's the question we have. "Why did they expose them to risk and pain, when they were helpless? "Would they have done those experiments with their own children? I doubt it." Power and authority When I first heard the story of the "guinea pig kids", I instinctively refused to believe that it could be happening in any civilised country, particularly the United States, where the propensity for legal action normally ensures a high level of protection. But that, as I was to discover, was central to the choice of location and subjects, because to be free in New York City, you need money. I've had many ACS case workers tell me: 'We're ACS, we can do whatever we want' David Lansner, family lawyer Over 23,000 of the city's children are either in foster care or independent homes run mostly by religious organisations on behalf of the local authorities and almost 99% are black or hispanic. Some of these kids come from "crack" mothers and have been infected with the HIV virus. For over a decade, this became the target group for experimentation involving cocktails of toxic drugs. Central to this story is the city's child welfare department, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS). The ACS, as it is known, was granted far-reaching powers in the 1990s by then-Republican Mayor Rudi Giuliani, after a particularly horrific child killing. Within the shortest of periods, literally thousands of children were being rounded up and placed in foster care. "They're essentially out of control," said family lawyer David Lansner. "I've had many ACS case workers tell me: 'We're ACS, we can do whatever we want' and they usually get away with it." Having taken children into care, the ACS was now, effectively, their parent and could do just about anything it wished with them. 'Serious side-effects' One of the homes to which HIV positive children were taken was the Incarnation Children's Center, a large, expensively refurbished red-bricked building set back from the sidewalk in a busy Harlem street. It is owned by the Catholic church and when we attempted to talk to officials at Incarnation we were referred to an equally expensive Manhattan public relations company, which then refused to comment on activities within the home. Dr Rasnick is internationally renowned for his work on numerous diseases, including cancer Hardly surprising, when we already knew that highly controversial and secretive drug experiments had been conducted on orphans and foster children as young as three months old. We asked Dr David Rasnick, visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, for his opinion on some of the experiments. He said: "We're talking about serious, serious side-effects. These children are going to be absolutely miserable. They're going to have cramps, diarrhoea and their joints are going to swell up. They're going to roll around the ground and you can't touch them." He went on to describe some of the drugs - supplied by major drug manufacturers including Glaxo SmithKline - as "lethal". When approached by the BBC, Glaxo SmithKline said such trials must have stringent standards and be conducted strictly in accordance with local regulations. Battle of wills At Incarnation, if a child refused to take the medicines offered, he or she was force-fed through a peg-tube inserted into the stomach. Critics of the trials say children should have been volunteered to test drugs by their parents. Regina Mousa's grandson (left) is HIV positive and in a foster home When Jacklyn Hoerger later fostered two children from the home where she used to work with a view to adopting them, she discovered just how powerful the ACS was. "It was a Saturday morning and they had come a few times unannounced," she said. "So when I opened the door I invited them in and they said that this wasn't a happy visit. At that point they told me that they were taking the children away. I was in shock." Jacklyn, a trained paediatric nurse, had taken the fatal step of taking the children off the drugs, which had resulted in an immediate boost to their health and happiness. As a result she was branded a child abuser in court. She has not been allowed to see the children since. In the film Guinea Pig Kids, we follow Jacklyn's story and that of other parents or guardians who fear for the lives of their loved ones. We talk to a child who spent years on drugs programmes which made them and their friends ill, and we discover that Incarnation is not an isolated case. The experiments continue to be carried out on the poor children of New York City. Guinea Pig Kids was broadcast on Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two (UK). Here is the site that has the BBC Broadcast of this. http://www.guineapigkids.com/

Don't eat peanut butter, FDA official warns Nationwide salmonella outbreak has killed 6, sickened hundreds msnbc.com news services updated 10 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Federal health authorities on Saturday urged consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until authorities can learn more about a deadly outbreak of salmonella contamination. "We urge consumers to postpone eating any products that may contain peanut butter until additional information becomes available," said Stephen Sundlof, head of the Food and Drug Administration's food safety center. But most peanut butter sold in jars at supermarkets appears to be safe, Sundlof said. Story continues below ↓ "As of now, there is no indication that the major national name-brand jars of peanut butter sold in retails stores are linked to the recall," Sundlof told reporters in a conference call. Officials are focusing on peanut paste, as well as peanut butter, produced at a Blakely, Ga., facility owned by Peanut Corp. of America. Its peanut butter is not sold directly to consumers but distributed to institutions and food companies. But the peanut paste, made from roasted peanuts, is an ingredient in cookies, cakes and other products that people buy in the supermarket. “This is an excellent illustration of an ingredient-driven outbreak,” said Dr. Robert Tauxe, who oversees foodborne illness investigations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. So far, more than 470 people have gotten sick in 43 states, and at least 90 had to be hospitalized. At least six deaths are being blamed on the outbreak. Salmonella is a bacteria and the most common source of food poisoning in the U.S., causing diarrhea, cramping and fever. Officials said new illnesses are still being reported in the outbreak investigation. The Kellogg Co., which listed Peanut Corp. as one of its suppliers, has recalled 16 products. They include Austin and Keebler branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, and some snack-size packs of Famous Amos Peanut Butter Cookies and Keebler Soft Batch Homestyle Peanut Butter Cookies. Health officials said consumers who have bought any of those products should throw them away. Elliott Minor / AP The Peanut Corp. of America plant is seen on Thursday in Blakely, Ga. The company voluntarily recalled peanut butter produced at the plant, pending the outcome of an investigation of a salmonella outbreak. Peanut Corp. has recalled all peanut butter produced at the Georgia plant since Aug. 8 and all peanut paste produced since Sept. 26. The plant passed its last state inspection this summer, but recent tests have found salmonella. Health officials are focusing on 30 companies out of a total of 85 that received peanut products from the Georgia plant. Sundlof said Peanut Corp. is a relatively small supplier on the national scene. The Midwest supermaket chain Hy-Vee Inc. of West Des Moines, Iowa, said Saturday it was voluntarily recalling products made in its bakery departments with peanut butter because they had the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The recall covered seven states: Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota. The outbreak has triggered a congressional inquiry and renewed calls for reform of food safety laws. For example, the FDA lacks authority to order a recall, and instead must ask companies to voluntarily withdraw products. “Given the numerous food-borne illness outbreaks over the past several years, it is becoming painfully clear that the current regulatory structure is antiquated and ill-equipped to handle these extensive investigations,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., who chairs a panel that oversees the FDA budget. Seattle-area lawyer William Marler, who specializes in food safety cases, said the government shouldn’t wait for the results of more tests to request recalls. “At least 30 companies purchased peanut butter or paste from a facility with a documented link to a nationwide salmonella outbreak,” said Marler. “The FDA has the authority actually, the mandate to request recalls if the public health is threatened. Instead, the FDA has asked the companies to test their products and consider voluntary recalls. It is just not enough.” Click for related content Test: Some peanut butter at Ga. plant tainted Kellogg pulls crackers over salmonella worries Salmonella outbreak: 1 in 5 victims in hospital WHO: More research on foodborne ills needed Health officials in Minnesota and Virginia have linked two deaths each to the outbreak and Idaho has reported one. Four of those five were elderly people, and all had salmonella when they died, although their exact causes of death have not been determined. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the salmonella may have contributed. An elderly North Carolina man died in November from the same strain of salmonella that’s causing the outbreak, officials in that state said Friday. The CDC said the bacteria behind the outbreak — typhimurium — is common and not an unusually dangerous strain but that the elderly or those with weakened immune systems are more at risk. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. :huh:Guess I'll skip those Nutter Butters cookies...

I got an email about this and I thought I would share it. Sorry I meant to put this in 1408.. Donate Now to Halt Sarah Palin's Attack on BelugasGovernor Sarah Palin just announced she's making the state of Alaska sue to strike down Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Cook Inlet beluga whale. The rare white whale's population has already plummeted from thousands to just 375. They will certainly go extinct if Palin has her way. This isn't the first time Governor Palin has tried to sacrifice endangered species to the oil and gas industry. Last August, after a Center for Biological Diversity-led campaign won federal protection for the polar bear, she filed suit to strike the protections down in order to make things easier for Big Oil in the Arctic. The Center's lawyers and scientists are in court already to block Palin's anti-polar bear actions, and we'll soon jump in to save the beluga from her clutches as well. Please, click here to contribute to our legal defense fund. Apparently, it's not enough for Palin to promote the shooting of wolves from helicopters. Her bloodthirsty attitude towards wildlife extends to wiping out whole species that are barely surviving. She is going after endangered animals with missionary zeal, ignoring government scientists and running roughshod over the law. In the words of Brendan Cummings, the Center's master legal strategist on saving marine mammals: "Governor Palin must be suffering from an Ahab complex. She has an irrational obsession with driving the white whale extinct." I'll keep you posted on developments. In the meantime, we won't rest. We have to win this one for the belugas. To help us save the beluga from extinction, please click here to donate. With my thanks, Kierán Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological DiversityP.S. It's been a busy day for apocalyptic politicians...the Bush administration just announced it is again stripping Endangered Species Act protection from wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes in order to legalize their slaughter. We stopped Bush before by taking him to the courts, and we'll soon be filing suit over this decision too. I'll tell you more about it in tomorrow's email newsletter. P.P.S. Here's a news clip just out on Palin's beluga assault: Alaska seeks to block U.S. protections for belugas By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Five months after suing to keep polar bears off the U.S. threatened species list, Alaska's government said Wednesday it plans to issue a similar challenge to block federal protections for a struggling population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, a mature oil-producing basin. Former vice presidential hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin said the energy-rich state believes the Endangered Species Act protections for belugas announced in October by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are unwarranted... Beluga whales swimming in Cook Inlet, a glacier-fed saltwater channel running from Anchorage to the Gulf of Alaska, numbered as high as 1,300 three decades ago, but has dropped to about 375 since then, according to NOAA. Alaska's announcement it would challenge the endangered listing drew ire from environmental groups. "Once again Governor Palin has demonstrated either a complete lack of understanding or lack of concern over the plight of endangered species," Brendan Cummings, oceans program director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement Wednesday... The state and several municipal governments and business groups argue that an endangered listing will hamper business in Alaska's most densely populated region... Beluga whale photo © Martin Tiller. This message was sent to hentaikittyoffluffy@hotmail.com. The Center for Biological Diversity sends out newsletters and action alerts through DemocracyinAction.org. Click here if you'd like to check your profile and preferences. Let us know if you'd like to stop receiving action alerts and newsletters from us. Center for Biological Diversity P.O. Box 710 Tucson, AZ 85702 1-866-357-3349 www.BiologicalDiversity.org

:happybirthday2:Happy Birthday! Sorry I'm late.

The coolest thing I have seen/part/ whatever of the WHOLE trip was seeing Honda's robot Asimo. I have videos of him I will post but he is the first human like robot that can walk forward, backward, up stairs, run and even dance. It was really neat.

This might be a little lame...but HAPPY BIRTHDAY to me Nobody seemed to remember.. :sake:I'm in California. I was going to stay home this week for vacation and clean but my inlaws were having none of that. They surprised my husband and I with a timeshare room at Disneyland and park tickets for a few days. I havn't really been to Disneyland so I'm excited. Plus, they are watching the baby for us..so it's just us for a few days.

:zzz:I agree. I would probably blow the ball up with my cool brain powers.

:sparkle:Love it!