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Pretty! Like a still from an upbeat sci-fi movie.
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Speaking of sci-fi…weird thing (that I’ve noticed before). I bought a box of strawberries today. And discovered, when I took some out to eat, that most of them were almost identical in size AND shape. Are strawberries which are grown commercially grown in a mold of some type? Or are they cloned fruit..?
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Stella! Your opening picture is great, was this 2 pictures combined? Thank you Stella…
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I don’t know for sure, but I don’t believe it is two pictures combined.
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More good photos of the Chinese Lantern Festival:
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2012/02/chinese-lantern-festival-2012/100240/#article
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I’m wondering if it’s where they got the idea for these…
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One can only hope that the glow-in-the-dark-ness doesn’t rub off.
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LOL! Let me check….
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TMI, nyet.
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Well that would make it easier for Kasich to find his…..ahhh, never mind
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Good morning all. It has been raining on and off all day. Just another good excuse not to spend the day spraying weeds. Not like I need one, but it makes me feel better about not getting off my butt and doing something.
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I know the feeling.
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I’m hoping the rain has left us for a few days. We discovered worms on our pear tree and there has to be no rain for 48 hours when you spray. So hopefully it will dry up this afternoon so we can spray the tree and save the pears.
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There calling for rain here so I have been sitting here thinking do I work in the yard or the house today. I still haven’t moved…….Oh well maybe after another cup of coffee. 🙂
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They lied here, it’s been sprinkling most of the day.
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Helluva way tonstart off a perfectly good Saturday but havevy’all noticed the increased Moslem terr related crap coming out of states duch as Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan? Here’s yet another:
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/islamic-state-hacks-michigan-churchs-website
Oh wait, let’s ask the present POtuS and the POtuS-in-training if it’s just a prank by evildoing kids playing a rank.
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Related story, from Wisconsin:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Muslims Beating Women is “Equitable”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262669/milwaukee-journal-sentinel-muslims-beating-women-daniel-greenfield#.VyQ42NmIcco.twitter
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Remonds me of those folks you see on Youtube who jump the zoo fence yo petbthe woldlife. All the way up until the tiger sinks its claws into them they’re saying: “So far so good…”.
Maybe she’ll go through life just as happy as a clam, telling herself that what she sees is the ultimate truth and all of the bad stuff’s what those who’ve hijacked Isalm (you’ve heard this part)…
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Well, this inspires confidence, doesn’t it?
All Belgian residents issued with iodine tablets to protect against radiation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/28/all-belgian-residents-issued-with-iodine-tablets-to-protect-agai/
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Same thing in Switzerland. It’s been the norm in Switzerland for years, and has taken on renewed significance after the nuclear mess associated with the tsunami in Japan a few years ago. Remember: France gets 65% of it energy from nuclear power plants, which also help service surrounding countries.
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Back a month ago, two days after the Brussels attack, a guard at a Belgian nuclear power plant was murdered and his access badge stolen. The ever vigilant Belgian authorities cancelled his badge quickly and heartily announced that they were 110% sure the murder and badge theft were in no way connected to terrorism.
I’m sure the iodine pills are just in case there’s a sudden outbreak,of goiters – a caring government can never be too proactive.
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Mornin’ all!
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Mornin’ Wee!
That was the worst endorsement I’ve ever heard, two minutes of praise for his opponent and then btw I’m voting for the drowning guy.
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Mornin’ Michelle!
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CYA time. Or blackmail.
I still like Mike Pence, but this? “He chose poorly.” [h/t IJATLC]
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed! Great cartoon, excepting rain later. Tractor maintenance today.
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Mornin’ Colonel!
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Cruz did say that the tide was turning in his direction.
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Happy Caturday. Coffee, better late than never.
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Thank you menagerie, one too go……
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Thank You ! Maybe this will get me going. 🙂
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
(Jack Daniels)
( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
(Mortlach)
(Roy Rogers)
(Classic Daiquiri)
(Jack Daniels)
(B52)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂
Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀
Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂
Mornin’ Howie! 🙂
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂
Mornin’ Les! 🙂
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Pastries for coffee!
⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol
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Nye! Fantastic, I’m grabbing a plate, then bacon sammitchs too go! Thank you Nye……
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Gonna have to wrap mine to go, weatherguessers are telling us that we’re gonna get hit this PM. Heavy rain, maybe high winds and lightening. Out to clean ditches and preposition equipment just in case. Still beats waiting for the government, regardless of what level, to do it.
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Czar, that’s proactive instead of reactive. Tractor maintenance almost completed. Then I’ll check the emergency generator. Took the blocks out on the overflow for the pond. Weather girl on local TV station looks good, never right on her forecast.
Moved some hay bales close too the barn yard, so the boys and girls will be close for a quick head count if needed.
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Can’t afford to be reactive, that’s why I have liabilityninsurance. Everyone with a pond/lake’s out clearing debris and overflows, we’re already full from the last few weeks. Just started spitting here a few minutes sho, the main event’s about an hour out.
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It was bad, here – 4″, and tornadoes and hail in Lindale, flooding in Palestine (5 deaths.)
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The main line’s looking like it’s moving rather quick so I hope the deluge the weatherguessers were predicting was mostly ‘Let’s take the mouthbreathers on a rollercoaster ride’ talk. Ground’s still saturated so what we get’s gonna run off but there’s still a lot of capacity on the streams and rivers. Just another day in the not-big city but at least we have some control and say-so over our lives and conditions.
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We didn’t get any flooding or tornadoes here, a few areas of Oklahoma did, but we did get over 3″ in about an hour and then a steady rain most of the night with a lot of thunder and lightning and small hail mixed in.
We did have a river running through one of the barns this morning and all of the pig pens looked like ponds.
I’m good for a break, we already had two floods in less than a year and we’ve gotten plenty of rain so far this year. It could be dry for 2 or 3 weeks and I wouldn’t complain.
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Oh Yea ! Nothing like a great breakfast to get you going. Thank You. 🙂
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A little something for the rainy day blues. 😉
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Yum, biscuits and gravy.
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You need to teach somebody else how to make biscuits and gravy.
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Color me unimpressed by two straggly bacon strips overwhelmed by waffles, which have absolutely no nutrition value unless slathered in butter and swimming in pure maple syrup.
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More pork belly definately, but I was looking towards a generous layer of a good aged cheese on the waffle then a spot in the salamander.
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Bacon Waffle Grilled Cheese Sammich.
A compromise for you two. 😉
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Theeerrrreeeee we go, I believe the operant phrase is: “MINE! MINE! ALL MINE!”
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I think I’m going to have you update my adult beverage of choice to some blackberry wine, if you don’t mind, nyet. I discovered it in a little winery on the Oregon coast a number of years back, Nehalem Bay Winery, I think it was. They used blackberries from there, and it was so good. It was sweet, but just perfect. I had them ship me 6 bottles home.
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ok.
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Can update mine to Tuaca, a good all-day long condiment. With coffee in morning, in milkshake for lunch, sipping after supper, and shots with Stella beer in evening with millenial offspring.
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http://www.tuaca.com/?age-verified=6dc2735305
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Awwwww…just think, Cruz looked like that once….
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No,no,no, never! Took his F/M 10 years too scrape the scales off his skin………
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Too bad they didn’t have time to work on that slime thing.
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Stella ! czarowniczy is being mean to the baby……….. 🙂
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I’m old and slow, best I Insult tbe kid before he’s old enough to kick my xxx.
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Lol. 😄
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Good, laughter’s the best medicine…except out here where oxycodone replaced it.
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ZurichMike was a much cuter baby. What happened since is not an indication — just sayin’.
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Are you trying to say your not a cutie pie now 😉 Nah I’m not buying it….. 🙂
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Another country believes walls work. They seem to be pretty serious about their border. They are going to have a “concrete wall framed with barbed-wire electric fence, trenches, and fully-monitored observation posts.” I’ll bet they give their guards bullets for their guns, too. (what, no alligators?)
“Kenya Next: Embattled Country Erects Wall at Somali-Border
One by one, countries wise up.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/kenya-next-embattled-country-erects-wall-somali-border
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Yeah, but their wall will be an inclusive nonracist wall while the Israeli and US walls…ahhhh never mind. Hey, don’t the Chinese got one dem walls?
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{sigh} And, then, there is the Obozo administration. 😥
“Obama Admin Working to Expand Syrian Refugees in U.S. from 10,000 to 200,000
And free college scholarships to boot!”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-admin-working-expand-syrian-refugees-us-10000-200000
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I’m waiting to see what California will turn into under Hillary. The state’s been a majority minority since 1999 and the shiftbin the laws there has been noticeable. Hillary will no doubt carry the state in November and will owe her supporters.
I’m looking to California to be the linchpin in the Mexican Reconquista of the west/southwest, a sanctuary state. As they further ease the flow of illegals, sheepdipping them by giving them drivers licences, ID cards, the accompanying ability to vote and access to the Full Federal social program buffet. The surrounding states may hold off the onslaught for a while but,as the numbers of Spanish-speakers increases, they’ll lose as they are fscally drained dry by the weight of their sharebof state and Federal freebie programs. After all, how many of these newbies have salable skills, never mind a working knowledge of English, the standard language of svience, engineering and commerce? We ain’tvseeing waves of MBAs or PhD or even skilled manual laborers in this flood.
We’re being distracted and smoke/mirrored by the RATS who see these waves of unskilled and non-English speaking immigrants as cannon fodder for their War Against America. They forget how well that worked when rabbits were brought to Australia as a benign food source – and the Aussies didn’t give them the right to vote.
I’m sure that my already here great grand children will see the day that they have to press three for English and they will be openly persecuted for the exclusionist crimes of their evil, racist European ancestors. We’re already seeing decades of work by progressives and anti-nationalists to reject traditional American values through corrosive reducation of our children, who now look at the value system that supported them as obsolete, if not pure evil.
What’s worse, 100,000 unvetted Mideasterners or millions of unvetted South of the Borderers flooding in? To me the scale of potential disaster is about all the difference.
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What a fabulous metaphor.
On a related note, I am re-reading “Jane Eyre” (perhaps the most amazing book in the English language — on so many levels — and I just got to the part where poor little Helen was describing her view of God and the spark of the Creator being entrusted to his creatures hoping that they would refine it an send it back soaring, that it might adorn a seraphim. Such a tender, joyous and hopeful message — and really takes you out of the realm of mortality (and snakes) and into the realm of immortality (and angels).
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Jane Eyre is probably my favorite story. I have read the book any times and seen all the movies made of it. That was a very touching scene.
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Profound
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I like that…..
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HHMMM… I didn’t think you could be an immigrant and become President. Sounds like Heidi stuck her foot in her mouth pandering for the Hispanic vote.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2590032/?platform=hootsuite
We have been unifying this party. Five of those 17 candidates have endorsed our campaign. And different parts of the party. We’ve been unifying fiscal conservatives. Evangelicals. Young people. Do you know that Ted has been winning the millennial vote in state after state? He’s been winning the women’s vote in state after state. Ted is an immigrant. He is Hispanic. He can unify this party. We have libertarians joining our cause. I have people everyday from the Democrat party telling that they have re-registered to vote for Ted as a Republican because they understand what he stands for and he represents American values.
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She didn’t! 😯
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Why would she say he’s an immigrant?
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Well, I can only think of ONE reason. 😯
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Ted Cruz Ad : Trust or Mistrust
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LOL!!! Alex Jones’ comment about having a high IQ. Something like “All the best psychopaths have really high IQ’s”. Good to know we’re safe with you Alex.
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I’m not an Alex Jones’ fan, but I’ve read a lot of different studies that say that a majority of psychopaths do have a very high IQ. They say that’s what makes so many of them so dangerous, no conscience combined with intelligence is not a good thing.
I don’t know what Cruz’ IQ is or if he’s a psychopath, but I can agree with Alex Jones on one thing he’s a liar.
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Maybe he’s a sociopath.
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Yet Another Study Confirms The Vaccine/Autism Connection Is — Wait For It — Nonexistent
http://www.scarymommy.com/new-study-confirms-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism/
A study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found no link between the measles/mumps/rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.
The study looked at insurance claims for 96,000 children born between 2001 and 2007 and found no higher rate of the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in those who had received the MMR vaccine. From the study’s conclusions:
In this large sample of privately insured children with older siblings, receipt of the MMR vaccine was not associated with increased risk of ASD, regardless of whether older siblings had ASD. These findings indicate no harmful association between MMR vaccine receipt and ASD even among children already at higher risk for ASD….
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Thank you Stella!
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Somebody was going after my daughter about vaccinating my grandson and threw out the card that if she loved her son she at least wouldn’t allow them to give him the MMR vaccine.
She told them there was no factual evidence that the MMR vaccine caused kids to be autistic, but there is documentation what can happen to a child who gets measles. Because she loves her son she researched and read everything she could find about autism, every vaccine and what every disease could do and then she talked with his doctor and made a rational decision on what vaccines her son would have and when he would have them.
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Sensible – like her mother.
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He got his first MMR at 12 months.
He’s done better with his vaccines than my children did, he’s only ran a fever a few times after getting them and his last two he had a really sore leg, but I think that had to do more with the nurse giving it than the vaccine.
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The increase in autism in connection to vaccinations is just not possible to prove. There are a zillion other factors of change going on in our children’s lives to even begin to point to or conclude what is responsible for increase.
That being observed and said, that it most likely does not cause autism, does not prove anything as to their being safe and without serious medical and negative life-changing consequences for a percentage of recipients.
I can easily stand on both sides of the issue and choose pro or con in debating vaccinations and one thing I have concluded is militants on both sides equally miss a lot of valid points the other makes.
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The way this study was conducted was pretty conclusive. Did you read the article? It compared a large number of children over a period of time, and found no difference in the rate of autism between the two groups – those who had received the vaccine, and those who did not.
There are many potential causes that have to do with modern life. One that I think should be investigated further is the proliferation of cell phones and wireless networks and devices in homes and schools. There was one study done by Harvard Medical School that found it was a potential cause.
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Yes, read article; just worded wrong to say what wanted to say, I think. 😳
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It’s just a discussion fbf! I’m not trying to beat you down, but I am passionate about this subject.
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Personally I wouldn’t be surprised to learn its the cheap imported building materials and “healthy” foods rather than high frequency electromagnetic waves produced by gizmos around the house.
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I would add that the more we concentrate on only one variable (vaccination) and don’t look at other possible causes, the lower the possibility that the cause will be found.
One thing is for sure – vaccination eradicated smallpox, and practically eradicated polio, measles, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, and whooping cough. Most of this happened in the second half of the 20th century.
http://www.unicef.org/pon96/hevaccin.htm
I have provided the statistics before in previous posts.
Two people have posted an article at CTH about how the brain malformation in newborns, which has been attributed to the Zika virus, is really caused by a vaccine (Tdap – tetanus, diphtheria, tetanus). The site is one that pushes all sorts of conspiracy theories, and is based in Iceland, yet at least one pregnant woman replied that she wouldn’t get the pre-birth vaccine (which provides protection for the infant) because of this scare-mongering article by a conspiracy theorist, apparently because Big Pharma is out to get us /sarc.
We can PROVE that vaccines save lives, yet those who are convinced that vaccines causes autism (without any proof at all, regardless of the many years of trying to prove it) are doing our population serious damage by scaring a significant number of supposedly intelligent people into not vaccinating their children. Because of this, whooping cough is making a comeback, and measles cases have been seen in significant numbers in this country for the first time in decades.
Yes, there are probably a few children who have been injured by vaccination. But they represent a small percentage of the number of children that we KNOW have been saved from death or injury by the diseases they prevent.
Let’s face it – there is nothing that is risk-free in this life. The sad truth is that vaccines have been so successful that people born in the past twenty-five years have probably never seen a case of polio, measles, or whooping cough, so they don’t know first-hand what terrible diseases they can be.
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