Here's an off-topic post, but I thought it was kind of funny that home foreclosures are now a "3 a.m. crisis" when so many were warning about them as much as three years ago.
Hillary (the nocturnal candidate) has come out with a sequel to her "3 a.m." ad, entitled, "Ringing."
Announcer: It’s 3 am, and your children are safe and asleep.What I want to know is . . . who was calling?
But there’s a phone ringing in the White House and this time the crisis is economic.
Home foreclosures mounting, markets teetering.
John McCain just said the government shouldn’t take any real action on the housing crisis, he’d let the phone keep ringing.
Hillary Clinton has a plan to protect our homes, create jobs.
It’s 3 am, time for a president who’s ready.
Hillary Clinton: I’m Hillary Clinton and I approve this message.
11 comments:
Holy cow, that's funny on so many levels. Who is her advertising team?
We have such a wonderful constitution - the best in the world, and yet all our presidential candidates want to be monarchs and govern outside the realm of the powers granted to them by our constitution.
The Hillary message "make me president and I'll solve all your problems" just is wrong. It appeals to people for the wrong reasons and most importantly - her promises will not become true, because she isnt God and she cant do these things.
@ stealth4
you've hit a major point. At one point this country had a slogan
"Don't Tread on Me".
That slogan embodied a lot of what it was to be american. A freedom loving, independent thinking, indepedent living country.
We have become a nation of wimps, who want people to protect us from ourselves, who want to be "safe" as opposed to being free.
A nation who wants life to always be good no matter the consequences. Unfortunately, we don't realize it's the bad times, the hard times that make the good times soooo rewarding.
The new slogan
"Make me be safe, and prosperous"
To wit: My first child will be born in a month . . . some of the vaccines the CDC recommends . . . . the flu shot and the chickenpox shot!!!
Chickenpox . . . for the love of pete. Goodness.
gte,
Shingles are debilitating when you're older. That might be a good reason for the chickenpox vaccine. I wouldn't wish either on anyone, but shingles are far worse.
There has also been a measles outbreak among kids in San Diego. Children don't get the MMR until about 18 months, so under that and they're quite vulnerable.
Your newborn doesn't need that chickenpox vaccine, but everyone else's does. The reason we've been able to nearly eradicate chickenpox (and other such diseases) is that mass vaccination has left few places for these potential killers to hide. So yeah, individually your child could do without it. But down the road as more and more children did without the vaccine we'd be back to where we were 50 years ago when these childhood diseases were responsible for lots and lots of children's deaths. You don't realize how effective mass vaccination has been because you haven't had to live without it.
I'd suppose an analogy could be made with the government's benevolent involvement in homeownership.
gte,
Perhaps this belongs in the bits bucket--sorry folks--
I no longer give my children the chicken pox vaccine. Do a little research about it on your own. My first two children had the vaccine, and when my husband, who had chicken pox as a child, had a shingles outbreak, all of my children, vaccinated or not, came down with chicken pox, and the two (vaccinated) oldest had it the worst. When the vaccine was first required, no boosters were supposed to be necessary. Now Merck is saying that boosters every 5-10 years might be necessary the rest of your life.
Other first-world countries are not using the vaccine because they see a correlation between widespread vaccination and shingles. Shingles is when the dormant virus has a resurgence; when people who had chicken pox as children and developed immunity were constantly re-exposed to the virus, their immunity was naturally boosted the rest of their lives. Since those exposures are becoming fewer and fewer, natural immunity is suffering.
Again, do your own research. "Chicken pox parties" are not too hard to find these days...and it generally is a very mild illness.
(Merck's own literature about the vaccine development is funny. They originally intended it for immune-compromised children, but it was so expensive to develop, they asked for it to be required for all children, even though it was a mild illness. Reasoning: parents need to stay home with their sick kids, leading to damage to the economy, so it is worth it to require the immunization.)
Tabitha,
Great info - got more on other similar subjects?
Got links regarding the Chickenpox vaccine to support your claims (I believe you).
Similar to GTE, my first will (hopefully) be born in 4 months, so Im rapidy trying to learn these things.
stealth/gte,
Congrats about the little ones! So exciting...I still have almost six months to go myself...
stealth, wish I was the fountain of all wisdom regarding vaccines, but if this is your first child, please do take it upon yourself to independently look at the hard evidence out there before you decide what to do. Another recent change is that the Hepatitis B vaccine is no longer standard before the baby leaves the hospital. Heb B is a sexually transmitted disease, but the vaccine was given to newborns for a number of years because the idea was that children who were most likely to engage in activities that lead to Hep B infection were the least likely to be brought in for a full sequence of vaccines later in life, so better to get them before they leave the hospital. Now the idea is that tiny little bitty newborns face more risks from the administration of the vaccine than that old plan warranted.
The best wisdom I can share about vaccines is from a dear friend whose second child had a violent negative reaction to the MMR vaccine due to a previously undetected autoimmune disorder, resulting in brain damage and years of reparative therapy: you, and not the doctor, are the parent of the child, and therefore you, not the doctor, need to live every day of the rest of your life with the consequences of your decisions for your child. So take full responsibility for those decisions, and make them with the best possible information you can. Then live with them.
But if you guys really are about to witness the miracle of birth, please please please watch "The Business of Being Born," a documentary of American obstectrical practice that you can get through Netflix. Absolutely essential watching, really. It is biased, in a way, towards my crunchy Earth mother side, but golly, the OBs and their highly medicalized approach have the upper hand in the information wars these days, right? It is such an empowering film, really, it will help you guys have the best possible birth experience, no matter what path the birth itself takes.
(Harriet, forgive me for turning your real estate blog into an American health system discussion, please!!)
Tabitha,
I was very interested to hear that your kids came down with chicken pox after immunization. That says a lot.
I know the MMR can be given in three separate doses. I wonder if that would have helped your friend's child, or if one in particular caused the harm.
Harriet,
I am not the only unfortunate example of that happening...my cousin has cystic fibrosis, so her siblings are vaccinated to the hilt, to protect her from their germs. But a girl at their school (who had received the chicken pox vaccination) came down with shingles, and chicken pox swept through the school like wildfire, even though all the kids there had to have the vaccine to attend, including all of my cousins. Shingles is on the rise in children, too, when a generation ago, that was unheard of--again, the immunity boosts are missing. And unfortunately, you are contagious before presenting symptoms, so you cannot help spreading the illness if you come down with it.
I have heard of separating the MMR shot into three shots, as well, but I do not know if it would have helped my friend's son. Her younger children no longer receive any vaccinations; remember the handouts you get at each vaccination appointment? They always have a list of "children who should not get this vaccine." Since the autoimmune condition is present in her other children, they fall in the category of kids not eligible for vaccinations. I know it troubles her greatly, worrying that they might get polio or measles or any of those diseases, but therein lies her "responsibility" mantra. She needs to live with that possibility now.
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