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I know the news in the last decade has been horrid so I am adding a bit of humor for you all…thank you Dear Friend Jim for making my year with this one….

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:50:10 +0000

I give it 2 thumbs up…ROFLMAO!!!!

Splinters in her crotch

A woman from Los Angeles who was a tree hugging, liberal Democrat and an anti-hunter purchased a piece of timberland near Colville , WA . There was a large tree on one of the highest points in the tract. She wanted a good view of the natural splendor of her land so she started to climb the big tree.

As she neared the top she encountered a spotted owl that attacked her. In her haste to escape, the woman slid down the tree to the ground and got many splinters in her crotch. In considerable pain, she hurried to a local ER to see a doctor .

She told him she was an environmentalist, a Democrat, and an anti-hunter and how she came to get all the splinters. The doctor listened to her story with great patience and then told her to go wait in the examining room and he would see if he could help her. She sat and waited three hours before the doctor reappeared.

The angry woman demanded, “What took you so long?” He smiled and then told her, “Well, I had to get permits from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management before I could remove old-growth timber from a ‘recreational area’ so close to a waste treatment facility. I’m sorry, but due to Obama-Care they turned you down.”

DSM-V: Defining Away Autism: We’re Not Gonna Take It

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:44:54 +0000

DSM-V: We’re Not Gonna Take It

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Tha APA doesn’t own “Autism”

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is planning to release the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) early next year. The process and content of the DSM V has been the object of ferocious criticism from a wide range of mental health groups and practitioners. One of the most vocal critics of the APA has been Dr. Allen Frances, the psychiatrist who headed up the development of the currently used DSM-IVr.Significant revisions are proposed for autism and Asperger syndrome in the DSM-V. A recent study conducted at the Child Study Center at Yale showed that 55% of the people who have a diagnosis under the current criteria in the DSM-IVr would lose that diagnoses under the DSM-V, and lost along with that diagnoses could be educational placements, health insurance access, Medicaid benefits and many other services that people with autism and their families and communities depend upon. And the change in diagnostic criteria would more than likely to the completely undermine the last 20 years of autism epidemiology.

The Autism Action Network opposes any changes to autism spectrum disorders under the DSM until the full range of the impacts those changes could have on people with autism and their families are carefully evaluated by a range of disinterested parties. There needs to be a full analysis of the impact and costs associated with changing the diagnostic criteria. Undoubtedly, potentially huge impacts could be experienced by schools, insurance providers, healthcare providers, social service providers and a wide range of public entities. And to date we have yet to hear any rational arguments of how the DSM-V will do people with autism any good.

The APA doesnt own autism, and the decision of what autism is should not be left to a small group of self-appointed insiders. Below is another recent excellent article from Allen Frances about the DSM-V misadventure. Please read it and forward it to friends and family and post it to Facebook and other social networks.

DSM 5 Freezes Out Its Stakeholders
by Allen Frances, Professor Emeritus, Duke University

Scary news. The Chair of the DSM 5 Task Force, Dr. David Kupfer, has indicated that 90 percent of the decisions on DSM 5 have already been made.
Why so scary? DSM 5 is the new revision of the psychiatric diagnosis manual, meant to become official in May 2013. It proposes a radical redefinition of the boundary between mental disorder and normality, greatly expanding the former at the expense of the latter. Understandably, this ambitious medicalization of the human condition has generated unprecedented opposition, both from the public and from mental health professionals. To top it off, the DSM 5 proposals are poorly written, unreliable, and likely to cause the misdiagnosis and the excessive treatment of millions of people.

Under normal circumstances the DSM 5 team would have taken the many criticisms to heart, gone back to the drawing board, and improved the quality and acceptability of their product. After all, the customer is very often right. But this DSM process has been strangely secretive, unable to self-correct, and stubbornly closed to suggestions coming from outside. As a result, current DSM 5 proposals show very little improvement over poorly done first drafts posted in February 2010.

Click the following link to read the rest of Frances article on at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/dsm-5-freezes-out-its-sta_b_1269838.html

A Century on Film

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:52:32 +0000

The demise of Kodak isn’t just the end of a company…it is the end of photographic history. In fifty years, when your grandchildren want to see pictures of you or their parents, you will not have them. Digital corrodes and thumbdrives corrupt. Hard drives wear out and can’t be read or advance so your aged disks can not be read. So where does that leave your memories and photos…gone. People who abandoned film for the instant convenience of digital will pay the price in the years to come when all their memories are just that, in their minds because there are no photos….

How Kodak Succumbed to the Digital Age

The most important moments of the 20th century were captured on Kodak film. But the once-dominant American company could not compete in the digital age. Eastman Kodak’s bankruptcy has left the company’s remaining employees with uncertain futures.
Photo Gallery: The Eternal Moment

Obama Is a Progressive. He Can’t Be a Christian Too!

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:03:11 +0000

You can be a Democrat and a Christian.

You can be a Liberal and a Christian.

You can be a Liberal Democrat and be a Christian.

But you simply cannot be a Progressive and a Christian. The two are mutually exclusive.

Progressives will use Christianity. They will use Islam. They will use any religion or faith that serves their purpose.

Unions Behaving Badly: Registering Inmates to Vote, Spending Dues at Strip Clubs

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:01:31 +0000

The Albany Times Union has broken a story involving correction officers in Rensselaer county trying to unseat the incumbent Republican sheriff, Jack Mahar, through unsavory means. The crux of the story involves getting inmates to register or change their enrollment to the Conservative Party, giving the Democrat challenger, Gary Gordon, an edge in the general election. Gordon ended up capturing the Conservative line by a narrow margin, but losing the general election to Mahar.

Reports show a labor union leader for the corrections officers, Kevin Rogers, allegedly dropping off 140 voter registration forms that enrolled people in the Conservative Party, of which four have been confirmed to be inmates.

Via the Times Union:

Correction officers at Rensselaer County Jail pushed to register inmates to vote in last fall’s primary and general election as part of an effort to unseat Sheriff Jack Mahar.

State and federal law enforcement agencies have launched broad investigations into the activities of the correction officers, including whether their initiative to garner inmates’ votes violated state or federal laws. The probes are part of a broader investigation that began when a group of correction officers accused their labor leaders of fraud and looting union dues for personal use.

Read more: http://mentalrecession.blogspot.com/2012/02/unions-behaving-badly-registering.html

GILLIBRAND RATED “MOST LIBERAL SENATOR IN AMERICA”

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:50:09 +0000

THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT RUNNING ANYONE AGAINST HER AGAIN! YOU SCREWED US BY GIVING SCHUMER SIX MORE YEARS AND ARE DOING IT AGAIN WITH GILLIBRAND. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE NYS LEADERSHIP? IT IS TIME TO PURGE THE SHIT FROM OUR GOP!

GILLIBRAND RATED “MOST LIBERAL SENATOR IN AMERICA” *

Transformation of Calamity Jane to Jane Fonda Complete

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Becky Miller

RMiller@NYGOP.org

518.462.2601

Albany, NY-Feb. 23…New York’s junior senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-WFP) has been officially rated “The most liberal senator in America” (tied for first) by the respected Washington publication National Journal, besting notable left-wingers such as Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders (I), Minnesota liberal Al Franken (D), and California uber-liberal Barbara Boxer (D), the New York State Republican Committee today noted.

Ms. Gillibrand, who claimed to be a gun-toting centrist when representing a conservative-leaning upstate congressional district, has, since being controversially appointed to the senate by Governor David Paterson, become the most reliable vote for extreme left-wing causes and organizations, such as the now defunct radical group ACORN for which Ms. Gillibrand fought for federal funding – after ACORN was caught engaging in election fraud and other criminal activity.

“Senator Gillibrand makes Chuck Schumer look like Bill Buckley,” said New York State Republican chairman Ed Cox. “Our junior senator has veered so far off the mainstream path to curry favor with left-wing Washington leaders that the average New Yorker can hardly recognize her anymore. Ms. Gillibrand’s candidacy has been a bait and switch: She ran as Calamity Jane but governs like Jane Fonda.”

“New York Republicans continue to believe that Ms. Gillibrand’s abject transformation into the most liberal senator in America makes her extremely vulnerable in this year’s election,” Chairman Cox continued. “A number of talented and mainstream New Yorkers are considering challenging Ms. Gillibrand and her radicalism this fall, and we are confident that any of them can defeat her at the polls. This National Journal ranking drives her electoral vulnerability home.”

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*Tied for first.

New York Republican State Committee | 315 State Street | Albany | NY | 12210

Breaking: Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:21:52 +0000

When will US citizens revolt over the poisoning of our kids, How Many more austistic and disabled are we going to accept by this poisoning before we do somethng???

via Dyann Jaxon Why Was This Suffocated By MSM Last Week??

Anthony Gucciardi
NaturalSociety
February 13, 2012
In a major victory for public health and what will hopefully lead to other nations taking action, a French court decided today that GMO crops monster Monsanto is guilty of chemically poisoning a French farmer. The grain grower, Paul Francois, says he developed neurological problems such as memory loss and headaches after being exposed to Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller back in 2004. The monumental case paves the way for legal action against Monsanto’s Roundup and other harmful herbicides and pesticides made by other manufacturers.
In a ruling given by a court in Lyon (southeast France), Francois says that Monsanto failed to provide proper warnings on the product label. The court ordered an expert opinion to determine the sum of the damages, and to verify the link between Lasso and the reported illnesses. The case is extremely important, as previous legal action taken against Monsanto by farmers has failed due to the challenge of properly linking pesticide exposure with the experienced side effects.

When contacted by Reuters, Monsanto’s lawyers declined to comment.

Sharia in Pennsylvania: Muslim admits to attacking atheist over “Zombie Muhammad”; Muslim judge dismisses case, tells atheist he’d be killed in Muslim lands

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:57:31 +0000

This is enforcement of Sharia in a Pennsylvania court. The attacker supposedly got off because he “is an immigrant and claims he did not know his actions were illegal, or that it was legal in this country to represent Muhammad in any form. To add insult to injury, he also testified that his 9 year old son was present, and the man said he felt he needed to show his young son that he was willing to fight for his Prophet.”
Then, Judge Mark Martin, himself a Muslim, told the atheist, Ernest Perce V.:

“Having had the benefit of having spent over 2 and a half years in predominantly Muslim countries I think I know a little bit about the faith of Islam. In fact I have a copy of the Koran here and I challenge you sir to show me where it says in the Koran that Mohammad arose and walked among the dead. I think you misinterpreted things. Before you start mocking someone else’s religion you may want to find out a little bit more about it it makes you look like a dufus and Mr. (Defendant) is correct. In many Arabic speaking countries something like this is definitely against the law there. In their society in fact it can be punishable by death and it frequently is in their society.

Travesty upon travesty. It should be noted that no Catholics were reported to have assaulted the atheists over “Zombie Pope.” “Muslim Admits to Attacking Atheist; Muslim Judge Dismisses Case,” by Al Stefanelli at Opposing Views, February 23:

STOP RADICAL ISLAM – Featured Videos

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:48:06 +0000

http://www.radicalislam.org/ Featured Videos: Islamic Indoctrination in American Education System [WATCH]
Obama’s Wink to the Muslim Brotherhood [WATCH]	U.S. Family Arrested in Honor Beating [WATCH]

Media Neglects Muslim Eradication of Christians

a12iggymom — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:44:50 +0000

The beginning of the New Year saw an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria — where an all-out jihad has been declared — to Europe, where Muslim converts to Christianity are still hounded and attacked as apostates.
An international report found that Muslim nations make up nine out of the top 10 countries where Christians face the “most severe” persecution. A Vatican spokesman said, “Among the most serious concerns, the increase in Islamic extremism merits special attention.
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