How bout YOU lend your friend some money, and he pay YOU back?

As one who lives in Houston (and mostly likes it except when I come back from travelling to and get to see really beautiful parts of the world and them am pissed off for about 2 weeks that I live here), Houston can be a mean place to live if you’ve been convicted. Harris County that sends more people to death than almost anywhere in the world. And I understand probation is hell here. One slip up and you are back in jail.

So anyway, how can HOUSTONTIANS help him? What part of town is he traveling in, etc.?

Many drug abusers started off trying to self-medicate other (usually untreated) mental health issues.

Just my observation. Nothng to back it up – just my experience with junkies, abusers, and experimenters.

I agree.

The central point of Our Stolen Future is that some man-made chemicals interfere with the body’s own hormones.

Loo Hoo. @ 185

Thank you Kirk Murphy at 129!

Loo Hoo, thanks for your question.

If you know anybody blogging about health in pregnancy, I hope you’ll pass on the news about how Roundup screws up estrogen levels…

in embryo cells…

where one screw up is a life time

Round-up is an endocrine disruptor.

they interfere with the hormonal signals directing development and thus disrupt fetal growth. Sometimes the effects are conspicuous, sometimes they are not.

Some of these chemicals alter sexual development. Some undermine intelligence and behavior. Others make our bodies less resistant to disease. Sometimes the effects don’t appear until a child reaches puberty or afterward, even though the exposure took place in the womb.

These chemicals pose the greatest hazard in the earliest phases of life because hormones orchestrate development and because fetal development is exquisitely sensitive to tiny variations in hormone signals. For a fetus to grow up according to its genetic blueprint, the right hormone message has to arrive at the right place in the right amount at the right time.

The new study shows Round-up fucks with the very early estrogen hormone message.

And Round-up fucks up embryo hormonal function at the low levels a pregnant mom could encounter with the stuff in her yard.

Don’t worry – it’s on her (Round-up Ready) GMO food, too.

That’s what “Round-up Ready” means – the food plant you’ll eat survives enough Round-up to kill the normal plants.

And you get to eat the mutants that were doused in Round-up.

Yay – your Round-up Ready mutant food comes with EXTRA endocrine disruptors.

This study makes me hope all moms who are pregnant or breast-feeding (and women trying to conceive), or breast-feeding stay as far from# Round-up as they can.

For them, the precautionary principle suggests:

Never use Round-up (or allow its use) in or around your home (or work, if possible).

Never eat GMO foods – many GMO foods were mutated to allow more endocrine-disrupting Round-up.

Eat organic. Organic standards forbid GMO’s.

GMOs extensively contaminate non-organic food – and you have no way of knowing – the GMO vat people made sure their mutants weren’t labeled in our food supply.

Or our childrens’ food:

“Currently, up to 45 percent of U.S. corn is genetically engineered as is 85 percent of soybeans. It has been estimated that 70-75 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves–from soda to soup, crackers to condiments–contain genetically engineered ingredients”

Ain’t GM food technology grand?

I hope you’ll pass this on to any pregnant women in homes or workplaces where Round-up (glyphosate) is used.
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*Roundup use increases miscarriage rates – even if use stops before conception.

For late abortions, preconception exposure to glyphosate (OR = 1.7; 95% CI, 1.0-2.9), thiocarbamates (OR = 1.8; 95% CI, 1.1-3.0), and the miscellaneous class of pesticides (OR = 1.5; 95% CI, 1.0-2.4) was associated with elevated risks. Postconception exposures were generally associated with late spontaneous abortions. Older maternal age (> 34 years of age) was the strongest risk factor for spontaneous abortions, and we observed several interactions between pesticides in the older age group..

# Precuationary principle would suggest pregnant females and females who may wish to be pregnant avoid exposure to Roundup and other pesticides whenever possible. (The “late abortion” study above shows preconception exposure to another pesticide class – thiocarbamates – also increases “miscarriage” rates.)

Ya’ll know we moved upstairs?

Alfred Kelgarries @ 335

“The shoe! Believe in the Shoe!”

“The Gourd! Follow the gourd!”

I say “Ni” and bring me a shrub!

“Or my name isn’t Roger The Shrubber!”

“The shoe! Believe in the Shoe!”

“The Gourd! Follow the gourd!”

I say “Ni” and bring me a shrub!

I gotta figure out how old I am, I kinda stopped counting at 50. I will be 53 in October of this year. Humpfh, thought I was older than that.

In her most recent book Jane Fonda used an analogy about life being three acts – IIRC – Act I birth to 30, ActII 30-60, Act III 60 -? so you are still something of a delightful squirt by her reckoning dear Suzanne.

Here Without You – Three Doors Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J8q4cBSkTQ

I gotta figure out how old I am, I kinda stopped counting at 50. I will be 53 in October of this year. Humpfh, thought I was older than that.

me, too!

… and, so, g’nite, ‘pups.