WTF Humanity?

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by SoNotHer

Yes, the retirement money is one new piece of this, and in another, he may have well had some sense of what was coming down the pick. He transferred home ownwership of his house to his wife for $1 in July:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/sp...ife-for-1.html

UGH! Well, this investigation has actually been going on for quite a few years. All of these people have been collecting pay checks from a state run educational institution on the tax payer's dime! Also, there is an Asst. DA still "missing" from the earlier cases that never got to court.

By the time this goes through the courts (both criminal and civil), we are going to see a lot uncovered that will be sickening, yet, nothing new. And that bugs the hell out of me.

[Corkey]

Originally Posted by AtLast

UGH! Well, this investigation has actually been going on for quite a few years. All of these people have been collecting pay checks from a state run educational institution on the tax payer's dime! Also, there is an Asst. DA still "missing" from the earlier cases that never got to court.

By the time this goes through the courts (both criminal and civil), we are going to see a lot uncovered that will be sickening, yet, nothing new. And that bugs the hell out of me.

The DA who first was involved is now our Governor. He's a piece of tea party crap.

[SoNotHer]

Oh, Jeez, Corkey. Lucky you...

This story has become a freefall. I'm actually grateful it won't go away, especially if it brings so much to light.

Originally Posted by Corkey

The DA who first was involved is now our Governor. He's a piece of tea party crap.

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by SoNotHer

Oh, Jeez, Corkey. Lucky you...

This story has become a freefall. I'm actually grateful it won't go away, especially if it brings so much to light.

Yup! And I think this is going to blow the lid off of much more than child sex abuse as it unfolds. And it should because it is not only child sexual abuse predators that do the actual abuse- this issue is very much tied to power dynamics and politics- mainly patriarchal power politics. The Catholic Church is the prime example of this. And one would have to be stuck on stupid to not connect the dots with other patriarchal based institutions all around us that self-protect.

[LeftWriteFemme]

Is tap water causing gayness?


The mayor of a small town in Peru is concerned that mineral levels in the water could lead to an increase in homosexuality, LGBT Asylum News reports.

José Benítez, the mayor of Huarmey, a coastal town in the Ancash Region of Peru, made the comment at the launch of a local project designed to increase access to water.

The town of Huarmey is famed for its abundant shrimp and long beaches, but the mayor has become concerned it may gain a different sort of reputation due to high levels of strontium in the tap water.

The metal, he claimed, reduces male hormones and could cause an increase in homosexuality among the population.

The water comes from Tabalosos, a town which a Lima-based television station famously said in 2000 was inhabited by 14,000 exclusively-gay men.

The Tabalosina mayor, Jorge Luis Vasquez, said: “Young people have low self-esteem by this stigma”.

Dr. Robert Castro Rodriguez, the dean of the College of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Lima, told a radio station that strontium can cause bone cancer, anaemia and cardiovascular problems. A link with homosexuality has yet to be identified.

[Dutch Leonard]

This was a movie:

It's In The Water

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116661/

[AtLast]

Tue Nov 22, 2011 at 07:32 AM PST.

Penn State victim bullied out of school

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...-out-of-school

I posted this in the breaking news thread also- WTF, is right!

[Nat]

[Sachita]

with everything going on I am sadden by the commercialism with Christmas. I actually turned the TV off watching Black Friday incidents. I have been following a garage sale on Facebook to buy Mia toys, clothes and items for myself. I think it's great to do this because you help someone else and save money. Anyhow, I meet a girl to pick up a 5.00 block set for Mia. We chatted for a few moments, a young girl, maybe 26, and she was almost shaking. I asked her if she was ok and she literally broke down and started crying. I held her for a while until she stopped.

She was crying because she didn't have enough money to buy her kids toys for xmas. She started naming off toys that were easily 100.00 or more. She was upset because she thought she as a bad mother because of this and that she didn't want her kids feeling left out while other kids got expensive gifts.

WTF? Now this is just bullshit. It's gone too far and I wonder why we have slid so far away from core values. Who is to blame for this? parents? media? marketing?

I sat with her a while and talked about the gifts she could give her children is to teach them NOT to feed into this. To take them to some shelters, volunteer and help them to feel gratitude and pride. To give them the gift of love... all of your attention and joy. To be happy and grateful for the moments that go by so quickly.

Another day, not long ago I'm sitting in Sweet Frogs, a frozen yogurt place. There was a young mother with two small kids. As they sat there the whole time she was glued to her smart phone texting. If one of the kids moved or said anything she screamed at them. I admit that I had to fight hard to mind my own business.

here's one last WTF- our food safety is greatly at risk. There is research, facts and you don't need to know rocket science to see what is going on IF you chose to see it. Why so many americans chose to turn a blind eye is beyond me. Our society is more concerned about instant results rather then the long term. This will cost us all. Wake up!

[SoNotHer]

Buy local, buy fresh, grow your own as much as possible -

Can Soup and BPA

ENN: Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
From: Andy Soos, ENN
Published November 23, 2011 08:12 AM
Can Soup and BPA

Bisphenol A (BPA) is an organic compound with two phenol functional groups. It is used to make polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, along with other applications. As it has been known to be estrogenic since the mid 1930s, concerns about the use of bisphenol A in consumer products were regularly reported in the news media in 2008, after several governments issued reports questioning its safety, prompting some retailers to remove products containing it from their shelves. A new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five days had a more than 1,000% increase in urinary bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations compared with when the same individuals consumed fresh soup daily for five days. The study is one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods.

BPA has been known to be estrogenic since the mid 1930s, concerns about the use of bisphenol A in consumer products were regularly reported in the news media in 2008, after several governments issued reports questioning its safety, prompting some retailers to remove products containing it from their shelves. A 2010 report from the United States Food and Drug Administration raised further concerns regarding exposure of fetuses, infants and young children. In September 2010, Canada became the first country to declare BPA a toxic substance. In the European Union and Canada, BPA use is banned in baby bottles.

World production capacity of this compound was 1 million tons in the 1980s, and more than 2.2 million tons in 2009. In 2003, U.S. consumption was 856,000 tons, 72% of which was used to make polycarbonate plastic and 21% going into epoxy resins. In the US, less than 5% of the BPA produced is used in food contact applications.

The findings were published online November 22, 2011, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and will appear in the November 23/30 print issue.

"Previous studies have linked elevated BPA levels with adverse health effects. The next step was to figure out how people are getting exposed to BPA. We’ve known for a while that drinking beverages that have been stored in certain hard plastics can increase the amount of BPA in your body. This study suggests that canned foods may be an even greater concern, especially given their wide use," said Jenny Carwile, a doctoral student in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH and lead author of the study.

Exposure to the endocrine-disrupting chemical BPA, used in the lining of metal food and beverage cans, has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity in humans. In addition to the lining of food and beverage cans, BPA is also found in polycarbonate bottles and dentistry composites and sealants.

The researchers, led by Carwile and Karin Michels, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology, set out to quantify whether canned-soup consumption would increase urinary BPA concentrations relative to eating fresh soup.

They recruited student and staff volunteers from HSPH. One group consumed a 12-ounce serving of vegetarian canned soup each day for five days; another group consumed 12 ounces of vegetarian fresh soup (prepared without canned ingredients) daily for five days. After a two-day washout period, the groups reversed their assignments.

Urine samples of the 75 volunteers taken during the testing showed that consumption of a serving of canned soup daily was associated with a 1,221% increase in BPA compared to levels in urine collected after consumption of fresh soup.

The researchers note that the elevation in urinary BPA concentrations may be temporary and that further research is needed to quantify its duration.

"The magnitude of the rise in urinary BPA we observed after just one serving of soup was unexpected and may be of concern among individuals who regularly consume foods from cans or drink several canned beverages daily. It may be advisable for manufacturers to consider eliminating BPA from can linings," said Michels, senior author of the study.

http://www.enn.com/enn_original_news/article/43609

For further information: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pre...-soup-bpa.html