Tasers Can Kill! Shocking!

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Taser, concerned for liability issues for police officers [note not for the company..] is recommending officers avoid the chest area; Taser International advised them to stop aiming at the chest because of a slight risk of cardiac arrest when the electrified darts hit there. The company has advised the police to instead aim for the [...]

Myth Busters – Health Care Edition

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Andre Maddison a master’s student in Community Health and Epidemiology is one of two winners of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation’s 2009 Mythbusters Award. He received the award based on his research into whether or not primary care or non-urgent patients are really causing overcrowding and long wait times in Emergency rooms. Turns out [...]

Pro-lie=Pro-death Now & Then

In this op-ed in the NYT By KATE MANNING we see that the Pro-Lie crowd have always been hypocrites claming a reverence for life to hide their obsession for foetuses. She tells the story of Ann Lohman; Lohman, who called herself Madame Restell, was an immigrant from Gloucestershire, England, who started out selling “female pills” [...]

“Give her a Pill”

This is why I didn’t not blog on IWD. I wanted to. I felt I was letting people down by not blogging. That I was not showing solidarity. And yet there comes a point when one is so satruated with all injustice, ridiculousness and governmental opposition to equality it just seems too big. Unfortunately it [...]

Genocide

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From The Hamilton Spectator But no militant casualties were seen yesterday by an Associated Press reporter at Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip’s largest. Instead, the hospital was overwhelmed with civilians. Bodies were two to a morgue drawer, and the wounded were being treated in hallways because beds were full. Gaza health officials reported more than [...]