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  • Reply to: A Letter Writer's Imagination   17 years 8 months ago

    I know very little about this subject personally --- and I have no first-hand personal experience with it.

    But I understand a book has been out on this subject for years, called something like Prozac: Panacea or Pandora. (I don't know how to get the underliner to work.) I forget the author's name. Annette somebody? Or maybe it was Prozac: Pandora or Panacea --- something like that.

    Also this author has had a website called www.drugawareness.org (I think it is .org, but maybe it is .net --- sorry I am afraid to surf to find out for sure because of viruses and internet spying and all. I want to keep this computer free of infections. But please be careful if you surf to find it because sometimes phoney sites will pose under a similar sounding website but a different domain name. Also, it was years ago that I actually even looked at this website, and so hopefully it is not under different ownership or management now.)

    SO PATHETIC AND SO TRAGIC IF HER BOOK IS VALID, or even a fraction of it. Because it came out YEARS ago --- probably at least ten or more years ago.

    But the drug companies didn't want to stop the racket because, as I recall it being said, they were making 7 million dollars a day on the drugs.

    Kum by ya, my Lord, is all I can think to say. Marketeering has gone even more extreme.

  • Reply to: Will the new Congress try to impeach President Bush? Could a state?   17 years 8 months ago
    Elliott: It is surprising to see the House Parliamentarian described as "[s]tressing that the manual itself has no constitutional authority." First, the final standing rule of the House (rule XXVIII) provides (in part) that "the rules of parliamentary practice comprised by Jefferson’s Manual shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the Rules and orders of the House." Second, the standing rules of the House are explicitly enabled by the Constitution. Although I would be pleased to review any source material, I can't believe any exists to validate the "stressing" comment. Thanks for your consideration.
  • Reply to: Taco Bell Seeks PR Antidote to E. Coli Cases   17 years 8 months ago

    The New York Times (sub req'd) reports on December 14, 2006 that [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/nyregion/14coli.html lettuce]] is now the prime suspect for the E.coli outbreak. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have based the assessment on statistical reviews of illness patterns and ingredients rather than actual testing.

  • Reply to: Medical Journal's Spin Doctors Promote Controversial Studies   17 years 8 months ago

    I am afraid that the recent prozac paxil suicides that have just been highlighted in the national news are not going to be the last of them:

    When I first heard about this phenomena ten or so years ago --- about "the brotherhood of anti-depressant drugs" as it was called --- it was clearly pointed out that the most dangerous times with these drugs were when one was getting either on or off them.

    When people hear about the dangers of these drugs, if they are taking them, they might be tempted to think it wise to stop them suddenly. The way I heard it, that is where the worst of the murder-suicide problems lie --- in getting on or off the drugs. (If you can call it murder or suicide, when the person is literally out of their mind and they are both awake and yet in a subconscious state of dreaming when they are committing these acts --- like that Hartman guy's wife, or whatever his name was, the guy who was on the Saturday Night Live show. His wife killed him, then called a friend to say she didn't know what had happened but that she thought she'd just killed him. Then shortly thereafter she killed herself (while on the drugs). Apparently sometimes these acts are premeditated too though. But I am no expert on this subject and have no first hand knowledge of anti-depressent drugs. But there is a book called "Prozac --- Panacea or Pandora" (or something like that) that is supposed to explain it better --- certainly much better than I can, anyway.

    But maybe the people addressing Congress who were giving the drugs raving reviews know what they are talking about --- unless they are like "singing for their supper" as so many of the p.r. agents do.

    Anyway apparently this has all been covered up because the victims have been getting paid and settling for undisclosed verdicts in court, under the condition that they will go away and shut up about the whole phenomena. That's what I heard, anyway. This is just what I have heard and what I remember having heard about ten or twelve or so years ago.

    Okay I am sorry I do not even have time to re-read the above to make sure it comes off like I mean it. I have got to go tend to life responsibilities and right now, as in schnell!

  • Reply to: The First Casualty   17 years 8 months ago
    At no stage in the article do I say that Paul Moran was employed by the Rendon Group at the time of the Haideri interview, merely that he was granted the exclusive televised interview. His employers (ie the people who paid him) are clearly identified as the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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