Archive for October, 2010

Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

Monday, October 4th, 2010

Now it’s ‘Rent-A-Fireman.’

Next : ‘Rent-A-Cop.’ ‘Rent-A-Judge.’ ‘Rent-A-Congressman.’ ‘Rent-A-Senator’

Who am i kidding. That’s here already. Welcome to the Company Town.

“firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.”

Hamburgers and Superbugs

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Superinfections. Get ready for them.

“evolution of life-threatening bacteria that render our current antibiotics useless”

“The problem is that the animal agriculture industry makes massive use of low-dose antibiotics for growth promotion and in place of effective infection prevention methods”

ya. When you coop up animals all day and make ‘em stand in their own shit and feed them corn instead of grass…you got a problem.

How do they fix it ? Lotsa antibiotics. Much easier than letting the animals live a better life till slaughter, right ?

Eat less meat. Eat free range. Hurt these animal torturers in their pocketbooks. And as a side benefit, maybe your cuts and scrapes might heal faster, as opposed to not healing at all.

Superbugs

You Can’t Make This Up

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Navy Bombs Guam with Dead, Frozen, Drug-Stuffed Mice.

Apparently, in the 1980s, they brought in snakes.

“the creatures arrived on the island accidentally in military cargo. ”

“The mildly venomous snakes can grow up to 10 feet long”

“The discovery that snakes will die when they eat acetaminophen was a huge step forward,”

“scientists drop mice packed with acetaminophen from helicopters into the jungle canopy.”

“outfitting the mice with cardboard wings and green party streams”

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