| Our community needs an endocrinologist
There use to be a endocrinologist who had hours in Bloomington one day a week. The wait to get an appointment was months. Our GP recommanded the specialist. He could not determine the cause/condition. We choose Peoria due to shorter travel time. The endocrinologist was able to determine and treat the condition and work with an ophthalmologist. However, the monthly drives to Peoria, taking at least 1/2 day off work. Sometimes the whole day if we can get both Dr. appointment the same day. " .
This Week
Mark your calendar for Sunday, March 9, at 3 p.m. to hear Dr. John N. Somerville share his expert knowledge, passion, and commitment for a reunified Korean peninsula. Uniquely qualified to give perspective to this critical topic, he continues to work internationally for Korea reunification. This presentation is sponsored by the Montreat Presbyterian Church, USA and will be in Upper Anderson in Montreat. All are welcome. Trail Explorer On Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. at the Swannanoa Library, Van Burnette will present a program about hiking in the mountains of W.N.C. Burnette, an outdoors man who is the seventh generation of the Burnette family to live in the North Fork Valley, produces a local cable TV series called, The Trail Explorer. He also writes outdoor articles for the Black Mountain News, in the tradition of his great uncle, Fred M.
The Empire strikes out, and sports will be the downfall
Welcome to the decline and fall of the Roman empire, U.S. edition. Remember the great Roman empire? Its decline was not caused not just by greed, lust and indifference to civic virtues. Its decline — and you could look this up, except you won't find it anywhere — was caused by an unhealthy preoccupation with sports. The Romans became so lazy and soft and wealthy, their way of life crumbled as they filled local arenas for chariot races, gladiator fights and the occasional Christian fed to the lions. Sound familiar? Their empire and our empire have scary similarities. In ancient Rome, public executions were held at midday; in modern America, we have "The Jerry Springer Show." You think the emperor Romulus Augustulus was worried about crumbling roads and growing crime? No.
January 2008
I am seriously cranked I am missing SNOWDEATHSTORM2008! in Spokane. I LOVE big snow, the bigger the better. I was 10/11 when Spokane's biggest SNOWDEATHSTORM hit in 1968/69 and have the fondest memories of missing weeks of school that winter and sledding every day with my buddies. It was glorious. A true winter wonderland. That was the winter the dress code for girls in the Central Valley School District requiring skirts and dresses was suspended to permit the gals to don pants due to the frigid cold and deep snow. The next year the school district tried to reinstate the code but the kids and parents told them to go to hell. After the Winter of Love, man, it wasn't groovy to be uptight about pants and jeans, man/The Unbearable Bobness of Being. More here. Question: Anyone out there actually enjoying SNOWDEATHSTORM 2008 as much as TUBOB is missing it?
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I'm hungry
My four-year-old daughter, Danni, is home with the flu. I'm home with her, thanks for nice, understanding people above me. She doesn't do well with the stove, so my wife and I have decided it's best if there is always an adult with her. Today is an anomaly, she is still sleeping and it is 10 a.m. Most mornings she's up before 7 a.m. whispering in my ear, "Dad ... dad ... DAD ... do you want to play?" Last night my wife, Laura, slept in the same bed as Danni to comfort her. My wife gets automatic entry into heaven for that. This isn't normal for us, we insist she sleep in her own bed, by herself. Anyone that has slept with a small child knows that as soon as they fall asleep they grow. It's amazing, my 41-inch-tall daughter can grow to over 6-feet and 500 pounds when in bed with her. She could take up two-thirds of a California King.
Autistic teen reported missing in Vancouver calls, returns home
Anthony K. Abruzzini, a 13-year-old described as mildly autistic, was reported missing by his parents this evening but was found hours later. Anthony phoned his parents about 10 p.m. from a local AM/PM store, where he was located by Clark County Sheriff's Office deputies, said Sgt. C. Rothenberger, a sheriff's spokesman. He was returned home safely. Anthony had last been seen about 9:30 a.m. at the Vancouver School of the Arts and Academics, the sheriff's office said. He did not attend any of his classes there today. His parents discovered a two-page note in which Anthony wrote that he met someone named "Frank" online and planned to live with and work for him. Nothing further was known about "Frank," Rothenberger said. Anthony's friends said that in the past month he had talked about going to Seaside, Ore., to start a new life.
Activist pulls wool over eyes of nation
Global Climate Change", like we are experiencing now, happens every 15,000 years or so. Man certainly has nothing to do with it. It will happen no matter how rich Al Gore gets from selling bogus "carbon credits". We don't cause climate change and we can't "fix" it. Wake up! You are being sold a bill of goods by one of the biggest hucksters in modern history, Al Gore. One of the most obvious examples of this is Iceland and Greenland. When they were originally named, Iceland was covered in ice and Greenland was farmland! Now Iceland is green and Greenland is covered in ice. Did "man" do that? No! And "man" is not melting the glaciers either. It's a NATURALLY OCCURING PHENOMENON. Get used to it and stop making the Environazis rich off your hysteria!! " .
Feds, Manufacturers Do Little To Protect Consumers
Debuty recalls, "Never. They never went off." She adds, "It was the wrong kind of smoke detector." Studies show ionization detectors have trouble detecting smoke and may not sound in time, if at all. Harriette Wilson says, "If they know that these thinks don't work, how can they put them on the shelf and sell them everyday?" But we found smoke detector manufacturers have received literally hundreds of customer complaints about ionization detectors dating back nearly 20 years. Joan Claybrook, the head of the consumer watchdog group Public Citizen, says, "Nobody is protecting consumers today when it comes to smoke detectors. People are dying all the time because these smoke detectors are inadequate." Claybrook is outraged that manufacturers refuse to publicly acknowledge the problem with ionization detectors and, more importantly, do anything about it.
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