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Re: Improving life's chances for children of color

Therean Thomas — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:01:05 -0000

I love it! and I am there. We are in the beginning stages of our nonprofit " Heart And Soul Foundation" for children and young adults. Our goal s to eliminate the dropout to prison rate and create our program to target the areas needed in this article , this is our mission and purpose.

Re: Brown’s fund-raising prowess targets charities

Liberal is a Compliment — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:17:14 -0000

I think you missed the point. The article is neither criticizing Gov. Brown, nor OMI. It is bringing to light a method corporations and special interest groups have for making unlimited contributions in an attempt to influence public policy and asking the question: "Is this a problem?" No doubt Gov. Brown is the best example due to his fund raising prowess. Might one think differently if the Gov. In question were say Sarah Palin and the 501c(3) was some kind of "Defund all Government and Let Anarchy Reign" organization? The ends do not always justify the means

Re: Experientia docet, baby: Jerry Brown in historic role

Liberal is a Compliment — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:46:22 -0000

You've really captured the essence of both Governor Jerry Brown and Jerry Brown the man.

Re: Breathing easier: Brown extends anti-pollution rules via AB 8

CharliePeters — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 00:54:38 -0000

BP GMO corn fuel ethanol stinks

Re: Brown’s fund-raising prowess targets charities

Cara — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 02:46:58 -0000

I challenge anyone to object to the fact that Jerry Brown's charter school OMI has not assisted almost every cadet who attended and graduated from OMI. He created OMI to provide a focused, disciplined structure for Oakland kids to be able to meet the requirements to attend college. OMI can truly boast that since the first graduation year of 2007, almost every year, 80 percent of graduating cadets attend college! Compare that to Oakland's average of what.. perhaps 5-10%? This has NEVER been about kowtowing to Brown. It's all about Brown truly caring and networking his ASS off for Oakland's kids. STOP always trying to denigrate and malign.. perhaps you should for ONCE? Praise a vision and devotion and hard damn work by those cadets as well!

Re: Breathing easier: Brown extends anti-pollution rules via AB 8

CharliePeters — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 19:14:02 -0000

Can fuel butanol gain patents that will result in 30 to 50% of renewable liquid fuel market?

DMV collects $billions using “Wallet Flushing” car tax for BIG oil, BIG banks and Government motors welfare

Re: Small business owners ponder ACA

diegochris — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:15:27 -0000

Very good piece by Dan. Covered many key issues well.

Wish it would have addressed whether cost of policies for small businesses with less than 50 employees are going up. That gets to incentive to stop providing coverage.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

Stewart Mitchell — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:08:53 -0000

I love mercury shots......

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

LauraCondon — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:09:58 -0000

Hi StarlaB,

The best place for info of all sorts on disease, vaccines and your legal rights is the National Vaccine Information Center.
www.nvic.org. You can look up information on every vaccine here.

And they have a Facebook page too. Please go there and give them a "like".

Then let me know if you have additional, specific questions about specific vaccines.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

StarlaB — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 11:09:33 -0000

I would love more info on the scientific research you have found if you have a chance! I am delaying & being selective on vaccines with my son. & even that makes people think I'm a "menace to society" or something... & most of the articles I have saved don't have the original research linked with it. So I am unheard from my side, because I don't have the scientific research to back it up.. ugh. I would love to see the research you have! Can you email me- onebrightstar247@yahoo.com
Thanks!

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

LauraCondon — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:45:41 -0000

Absolutely JFo. Please use my name too. I use my full real name because I have done research on this for years. I have the science evidence to back up everything I say. I am pleased to step forward and share this information. It's important we share it far and wide.

I am a volunteer advocate for vaccine choice and have a face book page too that I hope you will check out and give a "like". VaxChoiceNH.

Good health to you!

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

JFo — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:51:57 -0000

Can I copy and paste your description of natural immunity and antibody production as well as the herd stuff on my f/b -page? It is the simplest, most effective explanation I've seen to educate people....

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

JFo — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:48:58 -0000

Wow - this is a biased, un-researched opinion by the author. Just one more example of a person towing the party line without truly looking at the science, history and everything else surrounding this issue. Tired of this as well as the media continuing to publish these opinions without allowing others who have done the research which show the exact opposite, to have equal space and time.....

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

LauraCondon — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 09:13:34 -0000

Let’s look at Mr. Pomer’s claim for a moment: “Vaccinations only work as a disease-prevention tool if critical masses of people are vaccinated – a concept often called “herd immunity”.”

Mr. Pomer actually suggests that vaccines do not prevent disease in individuals
but can only work to prevent disease in herds. Please think carefully on that suggestion. Mr. Pomer seems to think that we can eliminate microbes, the simplest forms of life on the planet, forms of life that mutate quickly and easily. Hasn’t
the overuse of antibiotics and the creation of life-threatening superbugs taught us anything? To think we could eliminate these simple microbes from the planet is pure folly. And if you understand how natural, permanent immunity works you also recognize how dangerous such an effort really is.

Now let’s consider some facts:

Herd immunity is a new, made up term for mass vaccination. But Mr. Pomer claims disease cannot be prevented in individuals by vaccination. But that is not true at all. Mr.Pomer has it completely backwards. Herds can’t develop immunity, only individuals can.

Mr. Pomer fails to understand the science of how natural immunity works. Disease exposure allows an individual to develop immunity. Immunity is a complicated system of responses to natural infection; it is not simply the formation of an antibody response. Many who are exposed to viruses and bacteria will become infected and develop natural (and permanent) immunity without experiencing any symptoms of illness. That’s right. You don’t actually have to get sick to develop natural immunity. And those who do get sick are important circulators of microbes that provide the opportunity for others to develop immunity and to strengthen existing immunity. Women with natural immunity are shown to have much stronger immunity that protects their newborns from illness until exposure allows for the
development of the newborns own natural immunity. Critical blood and blood products from those who are naturally immune show much greater antibody levels.

On the other hand, vaccines provide a type of artificial, limited and temporary
immunity by establishing only an antibody response. This incomplete immunity has shown itself incapable of protecting many who are injected. Vaccine immunity is temporary, wearing off at various, unknown timeframes leaving new age brackets of the population at risk of diseases that were once limited to childhood. Mass
vaccination also interferes with wild-type circulating viruses that act as natural inoculators to keep immunity strong and life-long.

Mass vaccination threatens the health of us all. Indeed, mass vaccination threatens the “health of the herd”.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

LauraCondon — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 08:28:05 -0000

Sadly, there remain many who continue to push vaccines based
on misinformation and lingering misperceptions about vaccines, while refusing
to acknowledge the growing body of evidence of harm to innocent children.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

MadMamaBear — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 02:19:39 -0000

Governor Brown understands State laws which violate the First Amendment will be overturned. He also understands the burden to the State. CDPH would be wise to follow his instruction. They have stonewalled the public and dragged their feet to produce a new exemption form. Meanwhile, CDE is currently instructing public schools to require an MD approval for Religious beliefs exemptions when AB2109 is not effective until Jan of 2014. The current law does not ask for any signature other than the parent/guardian. This is misuse of Government power and blatant coercion.

In addition, AB2109 violates civil rights by signaling out a sector of the population and requiring additional "education" which is not balanced or factual. That is called indoctrination.

Pan's bill has not only raised awareness to the existence of exemptions, but the ire of parent/voters who are the only ones with the ultimate authority and responsibility for the long term well being of their children.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

Refuser — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:31:59 -0000

The cdc admitted that the pertussis outbreak was not caused by unvaccinated children, but by the inefficacy of the vaccine. Spouting off misinformation is not a good way to counter what you are calling misinformed parents.

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

TheRefusers — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 00:28:36 -0000

Get your mandates out of my body!
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Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

vaccines do not save lives — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:56:47 -0000

Learn about natural immunity you ftards

Re: State action could reduce use of vaccines

Lotus Dream — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:35:50 -0000

Unvaccinated children are no threat to the already vaccinated children. When my mother-in-law was being treated for cancer no one who was vaccinated with in a certain time frame was allowed to visit her in the hospital. This is because, when a person receives a vaccination that person becomes contagious for a few days. So when it comes to the immune compromised it would be the vaccinated that will become and always have been a danger to them. *sigh*

Re: Governor eyes refinery safety measure

Gabriel Garcia Palomino — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:15:09 -0000

Steel workers bring in out of state workers & sub contractors. Building trades work force are Californian. Money earned in California should be spent in California. Also they have no health benefits. So they use emergency hospital services and california tax payers get stuck with the bill. After they work the refinery circuit for 8 months they'll go back to Texas, Louisiana and collect California unemployment. These jobs could be be putting California young in apprentiships and teaching them a career and a trade. Also do you think an temporary out state refinery worker is going to care about our local environment? Also the building trades spends millions in dollars a year in training their workers. USW spends no money on training their work force.

Re: Brown ponders training for outside chemical refinery workers

Gabriel Garcia Palomino — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 14:48:38 -0000

The steel workers union provide no training to their members. For 35$ a month u get a steel workers sticker and sent to work. Building trades union requires a high school diploma or GED plus 5yrs of apprenticeship and safety training. As far as making gas or refining oil? This is for outside contractors only not in house workers. Oil refinery operators run the refining operation so this bill does not affect them. Building trades work force is a highly trained work force, that's why their used for all new projects in the state.

Re: Brown ponders training for outside chemical refinery workers

Rich — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:23:55 -0000

This legislation mandates a training regime MUCH less intensive than what currently exists for refinery workers (Contra Costa Industrial Safety Ordinance) while guaranteeing a MONOPOLY for building trade "journeymen" looking to take refinery jobs.
It is the result of a massive political contribution campaign that can easily be traced on opensecrets.org and has been "bought and paid for" by a group hurting from the HOUSING DOWNTURN.
Would you want waiters and waitresses with 40 hrs "training" to have a monopoly on nursing jobs in CA? Same deal here- you DONT want carpenters and bricklayers making GASOLINE in REFINERIES because they paid off state legislators during a housing downturn!

Re: Governor eyes refinery safety measure

Gabriel Garcia Palomino — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 22:31:39 -0000

Pts staff you just contradicted yourself. The refinery workers that are there now belong to the usw union.

Re: CalPERS eyes 27 percent employer hike over six years

bogey4 — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 14:12:25 -0000

"Another step raising rates came last April when CalPERS adopted a new actuarial method aimed at getting to full funding. The estimate then was that rates could go up roughly 50 percent over the next seven years."
So is the 27% increase stated in the headline on top of the 50% increase in the above paragraph? or is the estimated increase lower than previously thought?
Really unclear what's happening.