Not too much in
the news to inspire or revolt this morning. I'm sure the debate later tonight
will fill that void. First, however, a nod of the head to Arnold Palmer, who
gave many of us the "golfing bug."
RIP big guy.
I had a huge
laugh, however at a local TV spot promoting their consumer affairs advocate,
Todd Ulrich. The spot begins with Todd intoning, "An Orlando woman claims that a well know local law firm billed
her for work they never did." After
a brief description of the specifics they cut to a shot of the sweetest little old
lady you ever saw, who looks directly at the camera and says "I'm pissed,
actually" then a slight smile blossoms. Kudos to Channel Nine for letting it fly just as
she said it! If the law firm in question is smart, they'll settle quietly and
promptly , before the next time she says "And I'm going to sue the living shit
out of them."
On a national
note, GMA ran a spot featuring a mother who had been an anti-vaxxer and whose
kids paid the price for it with a family wide bout of norovirus. She has had a
change of heart and was sharing her message with the country through this interview. She concluded
by stating that she and her husband
realized that if their children had not been in good health when they fell ill,
that the effects could have been dire, indeed. She continued to say that all
the kids were now up to date on their shots, but that the family's decision to
vaccinate had "cost them some friends!" I would propose that if a personal decision such as to vaccinate your
children (in consonance with the advice of every pediatrician in America) costs
you a friendship, it wasn't a friendship in the first place.
There is not
one sane, creditable pediatrician who
would advise against vaccination for all healthy children, yet the Jenny McCarthy
yentas continue harping on a terminally flawed study, since debunked multiple
times by real research, which claimed (not showed) a link between autism and
vaccines. Moreover, thimerosol, a preservative formerly used in vaccines and erroneously blamed by the British study, has
been removed from vaccines since 1999.
Andrew
Wakefield, the author of the original "study" originally published in
The Lancet, probably the leading medical journal in the world, was stripped of
his medical credentials by the UK and cited as one of the "greatest risks
to public health in history." 10 of the 13 coauthors on the report got
queasy about the findings and disowned the paper, fearing it could damage
public health efforts. In delivering the
verdict on the sanctions, the panel's
chairman, said Wakefield had
"brought the medical profession into disrepute" and committed "multiple separate instances of serious
professional misconduct". In total,
he was found guilty of more than 30 charges. The panel also explained the reasoning for striking (un-licensing)
Dr Wakefield off: "This is the only sanction that is appropriate to
protect patients and is in the wider public interest, including the maintenance
of public trust and confidence in the profession, and is proportionate to the
serious and wide-ranging findings made against him."
Out of regard
for my sanity, I refuse to watch the televised blood sport playing Monday
night. No, I don't mean the football game, I mean the Clinton-Trump "debate."
I have
too much gag reflex to watch Trump for more than about 5 seconds at a
time.
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