Vaccinations

Please watch this video. It is an hour and a half so you’ll have to wait until you are normally flipping channels or renting a movie or something but please watch it. I don’t even know where to begin to comment on it but I want to say one thing: in this debate, on one side there stand the parents, some physicians, maybe a few other professionals who happen to love and care for children because it’s their child or because they are ethical, intelligent non-brain washed people and on the other side stand the rest of the world’s physicians who have been brain washed (because they have done no research themselves so they have to rely on what they’re taught), the governments which benefit from the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmaceutical companies who are making a FREAKING KILLING off vaccinations. Does it really take Solomon to figure out who is right in this debate? Do the people in this video have something to gain from saying vaccines are bad? Did they spend all this time to come up with phony research that cost some their jobs because what they said was unpopular? No. This is real. People have lost children to death or to ill health. If all the conventional physicians had time to review the research in THEIR OWN JOURNALS OF MEDICINE many of them would no longer be able to preach the party line. In fact, I’ve heard that doctors are one of the least vaccinated communities because they know what’s in these things and some of the side effects!!

I guess it shouldn’t be so surprising. I mean 100 years ago doctors did some really wacky things and now we think we’re so advanced that it can’t ever happen again??

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8610554679207090010

I do want to point out one thing they talk about on the video. The outbreaks that you hear about are often people who were vaccinated, not the other way around!

Also, a lot of the diseases we vaccinate against are harmless and build kids’ immune system. The vaccines however are not harmless. (By the way, this video is not comprised mainly of testimonies, it’s actually doctors and researchers giving data so it is not sensational in case that was going to deter anyone from watching. And it was done in Australia I believe so they all have cute accents.)

Oh, and places where measles are really a problem like third world countries, they have A LOT of problems not having to do with lack of vaccines, like poor nutrition and drinking water, etc.

Rob Bell

Although this is more like a post my smart and talented husband would share I thought I would venture out into the theological/academic for a moment since I have menitioned Rob Bell on here before. These two posts by Ben Witherington are worth reading.

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/02/velvet-elvis-and-king-has-he-left.html

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2007/02/rob-bell-hits-lexington-and-packed-out.html

(Remember don’t confuse Rob Bell’s church with the one by the same name in a different state–Rob’s is in Michigan the other in Washington and even though Dr. Witherongton does, don’t confuse the Emerging Church and the Emergent Church.)

Scared stiff

I watched 20/20 last night (what else do you do on a Fri night when your husband’s out of town) and it was interesting. It dealt with fear and worry in America. It admitted that the media adds to this. For instance, one summer (I don’t know when it was) there wasn’t much going on (no wars, celebrity trials etc) so it became the summer of the sharks. Seriously, there were no more shark incindents that summer but the media talked about it like they were attacking as never before. Terrible.

The whole report was basically saying that we’re a society led by scare tactics. And I agree. (Conventional and alternative medicine both use this method.) But it’s seemed to down play all the fears and I disagree with some of that. For instance, I agree about the reaction to terrorism; government is trying so hard to “protect” us but it’s an illusion, the terrorists can find another way but even if they don’t, they’ve succeeded in making our lives miserable–flying is a miserable experience nowadays–and making us all panicky.

I disagree somewhat about the vaccines. Even if at the end of the discussion we need vaccines for the greater good, there’s a lot that needs to be changed. First and foremost, parents need to be informed. It is not fair for parents not to know what is in a vaccine and the possible side effects (the medical community needs to be honest about this and not cover up side effects). Second, I think we need fewer of the vaccines and they should not be given to infants, babies or toddlers. I realize that might mean they get those diseases but surely it is worth protecting their developing brains, bodies, immune systems and if the rest of the population and older children were vaccinated they still have some protection. Third, the medical community needs to be more discriminating about who gets the vaccines. For instance, the blogger at Getting Back to Natural had a mother die from an auto-immune disorder and so her daughter should not have gotten certain vaccinations; she did and now her 7 year old has arthritis. Also, and maybe this should have been first and foremost (of course it will NEVER happen), the profit needs to be taken out. CEOs or doctors cannot objectively say your kid needs a vaccine for his/her safety and the safety of the rest of America if they’re making a killing off the vaccinations.

Crash

If you haven’t seen this movie, you should and hopefully I won’t give too much away.

At first I thought I liked this movie because of the irony but I watched it again recently and realized what I really like about it: it is honest in that it shows that we’re all a little racist (or we at least deal in stereotypes) no matter how hard we try, but it wasn’t fatalistic.  Instead it seems to say, none of us is perfect but if we admit it, there’s something very purifying or therapeutic about the honesty.

There are three powerful scenes in that movie that I was astonished at the first time and made me cry the second time: the officer saving the woman from the car crash, the Iranian “shooting” the little girl, and the DA’s wife hugging her maid.  The car crash scene in particular is so . . . healing, redemptive.
Also, the music was perfect for the emotion of the scenes and not knowing how the more intense scenes were going to turn out really made the moments.

This movie is pure poetry.  It has its uncomfortable moments that will make you angry but I think they’re in there because it’s real. . .  I wonder what it must have been like to live in LA when this movie came out.

The vaccine post

I thought it would still be awhile before I wrote this post but these two mercola links made me decide to go ahead. It also has solidified how I feel about vaccines. Mind you, I’m a rule follower–or was–so my daughter got ALL her vaccinations at exactly the time that the medical establishment recommends them; at the time it didn’t occur to me to question the need for all of the vaccines or anything about them for that matter. Now, among other questions, I think: why did she need a chickenpox vaccine? How many kids die from getting chickenpox? I had chicken pox, Matthew did, my brother, my parents, etc, etc. Yes, with all diseases (I suppose with all) there is a risk but the risk with vaccines is HUGE. Read on to see what I mean.

Poetry

This will make you think.  Wish there were someplace around here or even in Little Rock like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhWX2F6G7Y

(Thanks to Perception Point for sharing this video.)

Mandatory vaccinations

I will write more about vaccines someday. For now, I wanted to share an email I got from Children of God for life, a Catholic website. I get them periodically. Cogforlife keeps track of which vaccines are made from aborted fetuses and several other issues. I thought this was worth passing on. (Bold-print, Heather)

“Trouble for Texas Catholics: Governor Violates Parental Authority – Cowtows to Merck

Children of God for Life – For Immediate Release, February 5, 2007

 

If you never read anything again, read this.

The Brainwashing of America

Don’t forget to read page 2.

Breastfeeding

I planned this post ages ago and have been thinking about it a lot recently so decided it was a good time to write about it.

Nowadays, most people know that breast milk is best for babies since formula companies even say that now. I knew it was best and my mom breastfed me and I knew it was also healthier for the mother to breastfeed, etc. so I was committed to breastfeeding no matter what and was successful even though it was very painful the first week.

Wow

I had no idea it had been so long since I had posted.  I knew it had been awhile.  I haven’t been as organized through these dreary winter months.  I also have been out of town twice since my last post.  Once was to my high school reunion; or more like school reunion, not my class reunion but classes 1993 to 2003 (I was ‘95; it was open to anyone but three of us from ‘95 & ‘97 planned it).  If you’re confused, realize that my graduating class was 13, the biggest in the history of the school in Madrid, Spain.  The classes have been as small as one.   And the school was like a family which is why the reunion was so special.

Anyway . . .  I’m working on a post and should get back to normal soon.