In which Chrome misbehaved in a distracting way, and I forgot to post Thursday's links on Friday, so here's a whole weekend's worth.
Child Abuse
"Child Protective Services...investigated the family"? Surely not. The child is obviously being abused at and by the school. What do you think, Gentle Readers? In an open-and-shut case of illegal drug distribution by the school should the entire school be shut down, or is it enough to cover the "school health clinic" door with "CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS" tape and position the school nurse at a chair in a corner of the principal's office, with a phone but no desk, behind a sign saying "UNLIKE THE PREVIOUS SCHOOL NURSE, I AM SEARCHED DAILY TO CONFIRM I HAVE NO ACCESS TO ANY PHARMACEUTICAL SUBSTANCE WHATSOEVER. IF YOU ARE NOT WELL, I MAY CALL YOUR PARENTS"?
Glyphosate Awareness
Someone actually sent a reminder of this one. It was such fun at the time. As The Nephews may remember, their little old Auntie Pris reduced a gang of hostile young men to incoherent hatespews with a few simple facts. Nobody even dared to address my primary point--that we need to be testing human patients for correlations between glyphosate and internal bleeding. Nobody even dared to discuss the Perrin paper! With the jawbone of a jackass Samson slew a thousand men; with the contents of a floppy disk I have slain a half-dozen jackasses. Sigh. There are times when I think I may be living up to my ancestors' records, after all. But...but...the doctors still aren't testing patients with internal bleeding conditions for glyphosate exposure. That's what would have made this debate really worthwhile.
Come on, Gentle Readers. Let the bullyboys' elitism charge your energy. You don't have to be a scientist to observe scientifically what goes on in your bodies, and demand that your doctors study the aspect of that that may be most useful to humankind. We do not, collectively, have any money. We are a grassroots movement not an organization. Some of us may individually be wealthy but as a movement we own nothing. All we have are our truth and our numbers. If you're reading this web site in translation and can't speak English, you are still a critical part of this movement. Demand that your health care providers get the facts on this vital question.
Notice how hateful those yuppie brats were about the Moms Across America, the fact that some of them have advanced degrees and some may not have finished high school? As if that mattered. The Moms didn't write the studies; they index and curate them. But you do have to be very, very selective about reading only what's written by working "scientists" employed by corporations as scientists...if you want to find any support for Bayer Science (TM)...
Here are some other conditions that your doctors need to be considering as likely to be either caused entirely by glyphosate, or aggravated by it. Short list:
1. Food allergies, especially to wheat, soy, corn, other grains (except rice), potatoes, tomatoes, spinach, other green leafy vegetables, celery, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, strawberries, green beans, garbanzos (especially if your perception has been that you react badly when garbanzos don't seem fully cooked--glyphosate makes them take longer to cook), carrots, lettuce, beets, radishes, turnips--plant-based foods that don't have a thick hard shell, so they absorb more "pesticides."
2. Any chronic condition that involves bleeding, internal or external.
3. Any learning disorder in which you or your student can observe distinct "good days" and "bad days."
4. "Borderline" metabolic syndrome (cardiovascular and/or diabetic conditions) in which you or your patient are measurably inside the border on some days and outside it on other days.
5. "Long" or very unpleasant symptoms from COVID. It's still true today that the only able-bodied person I know who really went down with COVID had been exposed to glyphosate at the time. Most people either recognize COVID as being a mild chest cold rather than a head cold, or don't recognize it without a clinical test.
6. Life-threatening reactions to COVID or other vaccines. Test the vaccine for glyphosate contamination! We know glyphosate contamination is present in some vaccines and is associated with some reactions that were bad enough to send the vaccinated patients back to the doctor.
7. Unusually severe or persistent skin rash that does not respond to antibiotics while it eats through skin, muscle, and even bone.
It is probably possible for any of these conditions to flare up with no correlation to glyphosate exposure whatsoever, for some person, somewhere. And it would be money in the bank for Bayer and the other evil chemical corporations if they could prove that that was the case. Every "Spoonie" who is at least equally sensitive to something else is one less lawsuit they stand to lose. Doesn't that make you wonder why they're not funding the studies?
Music
The man has a good point. And a good sound. Now he needs to line up behind all the Cherokee and other indigenous people, and probably a few White people, whose ancestral claims to whatever land he's singing about go back further than his. Still, a good song for recognizing that Black flight to Northern cities was not altogether about the hope of easier money, any more than the more recent flight of mountain people...
Poems
People are talking about this book of Christian poems. It's just so wry. It's free verse about the silly things that are actually sold to Sunday Schools. Publisher Eric Muhr shared a sample poem that prompted me to add the book to my Bookshop page...
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Do you want the book?
This poem's quite different. It's not in a book, although it could easily be, some day. It hits home with me because, when I think about going back to the Friday Market, I consider the two dear people who shared storage spaces with me in the past. Both of them were the sort of person who, on reaidng this poem, would probably shoot the person a message, "I know how you feel! I'll give your mother's furniture a worthy home!" They do have stores. They move furniture--slowly--in beautiful arrangements with small pieces that sell fast, while the furniture sits there holding it. (Is that something I'll do when I have a physical store? How not?) Meanwhile their storage spaces become crowded in quite astonishing ways. More than once I've gone into a dark storage room, late or early, and bumped into something in the dim room, and felt not even annoyed so much as amazed--"How did she move that into there?" Both of them were eager to fill up the space I'd emptied. I do not imagine that, in the slowed-down economy since the coronavirus panic, their storage spaces have opened up any more space...I do understand the feeling, though. It may be "only furniture," and cheap banged-up furniture that never matched, at that, but it's some special person's furniture. It holds Memories. Selling it aches.
https://classicalpoets.org/2023/09/30/wood-a-poem-by-mary-kipps/
Zazzle
Mine...won't be on sale by the time this log goes live, but Zazzle runs sales on shirts pretty regularly.
Not mine...you know the deal. Zazzle pays more when members sell each other's designs than when we sell our own.
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