It seemed impossible to me, the report on the huge number of Americans who STILL SUPPORT this president, who rely on Fox News for their information about the world we live in. This post is dedicated to them, those loyal fans of this president and his private news service, Fox News.

How can your loyalty endure WHEN:

** not just the FDA and EPA, but every agency created to protect Americans from corporate greed has been made toothless under his administration,

** unknown numbers of people, Americans included, are being seriously harmed by FDA-approved genetically modified foods, the same foods that produced life-threatening diseases when it was fed to animals in laboratories?

** your president has allowed the development and now the dissemination of genetically-modified seeds that do not themselves yield other seeds so that in time all seeds must be purchased every growing season, from the owners of the genetically modified seeds, the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, GATES Foundation, Monsanta Corporation, etc., and countries or areas of this country that threaten the New World Order will be denied their requests for seeds, their inhabitants starved to death?

** we are being killed by dangerous prescription drugs and devices rubber-stamped by an FDA, an agency your president has rendered toothless and the courts have granted the manufacturers immunity because the FDA approved them: implanted defibrilators, for instance?

** Americans must do without food to pay power bills?

** Americans must choose between paying their rent/mortgage and eating?

** we have to choose between buying food and paying our auto insurance premiums and our doctor bills?

** prescribed drugs are killing people and yet these drugs are not pulled from the shelves until, as in the case of Merck's Vioxx (FDA approved in 1999), 20,000 have died? (Even after paying off all the pesky lawsuits, they will come out way ahead. The revenue on that one defective drug alone netted Merck billions! What are 20,000 deaths when billions are at stake?)

** the BigPharma has bought enough of our representatives and senators to ensure passage of CODEX, a program outlawing the purchase of vitamins and minerals without a doctor's prescription (and even with a prescription the minimal mandated dosages ensure that the public will not benefit from the nutrient?) They cannot make a profit on well people!

** twelve-year-old school girls continue to die as a result of Merck’s and Glaxo’s generous contributions to politicians, contributions generous enough result in passage of laws in 16 states requiring their inoculation with THEIR HPV vaccine - a vaccine that MAY protect them against two of the 100 viruses that cause cervical cancer, a vaccine that has already killed three young girls in the year it has been on the market and harmed an unknown number of these kids (when statistics reveal that death from cervical cancer has declined 78 percent in the last two decades!)!!!!!

** when parents are no longer able to protect their children against not just the law cited above, but any law that Merck, Glaxo, and any other pharmaceutical company is able to purchase from our "FOR SALE" legislators with their billions of dollars - dollars we give them every time we purchase one of their drugs?

FINALLY, will your faith in this man's administration of our country and Fox News' coverage of that administration (which has not included a single one of the above-cited accomplishments of your president??) still be intact then? Will it?

While the dollars we earn are worth less each day, this president, your president, with the support of both Republican and Democrats in the House and Senate, is spending $338 MILLION A DAY, BORROWED MONEY that we can never hope to repay, to:

** kill Iraqi’s (men, women, and children),

** purposefully target and bomb their hospitals,

** purposefully destroy or pollute their drinking water,

** target and bomb their power stations (thereby sentencing to death babies in incubators, the sick who cannot live without dialysis and artificial life support, etc.),

** kill and maim our own men and women in uniform in his manufactured, unjust war, by protecting contractors whose inferior equipment subjects them to unnecessary risks, risks born of his and their greed, men and women in uniform whom he rewards by proposing a drastic cut in funding for their 2009 medical expenses, a year when the number of veterans is expected to increase 26 percent!

** reward corporations (to the tune of billions of dollars) in which he and/or his vice president have financial interests!

Tell us, you loyal fans of Bush and Fox News, can you, how you justify the unbelievable profits being enjoyed by the oil companies (the largest in history!) since your president began his war, while we pay $3.00 plus a gallon for fuel, or pay power bills that have increased to the point where we have to cross item after item off our grocery lists or dip into our rent or mortgage money or money we reserved to pay our insurance premiums or our doctors? CAN YOU?

Tell us, will you, how you justify your president spending $338 billion each day on KILLING, CRIPPLING, AND DESTROYING when that money would:

** provide health care for all Americans,

** support the school lunch programs he wants to eliminate,

** provide funds for scholarships and grants

** build literally hundreds of thousands of homes for Americans,

** finance the building of manufacturing plants (which by law should not be permitted to outsource anything except products!), to help rebuild the American economy that he has managed to dismantle,

** build new bridges, highways, public buildings,

** create mass transit systems in all our major cities thereby lessening our dependence on oil,

** pay for research that will enable us to meet the coming challenges of global warming,

Can you look us in the eye and justify your undying loyalty to this president who considers the RIGHT TO TORTURE more important than the RIGHT TO LIVE or the RIGHT TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS, rights that many Americans have given their lives to defend!

Explain to us, if you can, your loyalty to a president who lives for the day when critics of his leadership and agendas will be instantly silenced by the legislation and executive orders and laws he and his supporters in the House and Senate HAVE LONG HAD IN PLACE for that day. Can your loyalty endure when he fully exercises the power he achieved by:

---laws that give him the power and control of a totalitarian dictator, the power and control of God? Can it?

---laws that permit torture and other abuses so terrible that they will keep most men silent when they see their neighbor taken away in the dead of night - for fear that they will be next? Can it?

---an Act, the Presidential Commission Act, under which he contracted with Haliburton to build detention centers in every state, railroad cars with shackles built into them? Can it?

---an act promoted by a Democrat in his support which calls for the arrest of anyone who demonstrates and criticizes the government or the president, especially those who demonstrate in the name of animal rights????? Can it?

Will you. fans of this president and his propaganda mill, FOX News, celebrate with him when he realizes his dream, when he replaces our Constitution with his “NEW AMERICAN CONSTITUTION,” a necessity, he will tell us, in that the former Constitution with its troublesome Bill of Rights and Amendments were used by terrorists and thus hindered our WAR ON TERROR. Will you?

I pose this question to loyal fans of this president and his news service, FOX:

How can your loyalty endure WHEN:

** not just the FDA and EPA, but every agency created to protect Americans from corporate greed has been made toothless under his administration,

** unknown numbers of people, Americans included, are being seriously harmed by FDA-approved genetically modified foods, the same foods that produced life-threatening diseases when it was fed to animals in laboratories?

** your president has allowed the development and now the dissemination of genetically-modified seeds that do not themselves yield other seeds so that in time all seeds must be purchased, every growing season, from the owners of the genetically modified seeds, the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanta Corporation, etc.

** we are being killed by dangerous prescription drugs and devices rubber-stamped by an FDA, an agency your president has rendered toothless and the courts have granted the manufacturers immunity because the FDA approved them: implanted defibrilators, for instance?

** Americans must do without food to pay power bills?

** Americans must choose between paying their rent/mortgage and eating?

** we have to choose between buying food and paying our auto insurance premiums and our doctor bills?

** prescribed drugs are killing people and yet these drugs are not pulled from the shelves until, as in the case of Merck's Vioxx (FDA approved in 1999), 20,000 have died? (Even after paying off all the pesky lawsuits, they will come out way ahead. The revenue on that one defective drug alone netted Merck billions! What are 20,000 deaths when billions are at stake?)

** BigPharma has bought enough of our representatives and senators to ensure passage of CODEX, a program outlawing the purchase of vitamins and minerals without a doctor's prescription (and even with a prescription the minimal mandated dosages ensure that the public will not benefit from the nutrient?) They cannot make a profit on well people!

** twelve-year-old school girls continue to die as a result of Merck’s and Glaxo’s generous contributions to politicians, contributions generous enough to ensure passage of a law in 16 states requiring their innoculation with their HPV vaccine - that may protect them against two of the 100 viruses that cause cervical cancer, a vaccine that has already killed three young girls in the year it has been on the market and harmed an unknown number!!!!!

** when parents are no longer able to protect their children against not just the single law cited above, but any law that Merck, Glaxo, and any other pharmaceutical company is able to purchase from our legislators with their billions of dollars - dollars we give them every time we purchase one of their drugs?

FINALLY, will your faith in this man's administration of our country and Fox News' coverage of that administration (which has not included a single one of the above-cited accomplishments of your president) still be intact? Will it?

While the dollars we earn are worth less each day, this president, your president, with the support of both Republican and Democrats in the House and Senate, is spending $338 MILLION A DAY, BORROWED MONEY that we can never hope to repay, to:

** kill Iraqi’s (men, women, and children),

** purposefully target and bomb their hospitals,

** purposefully destroy or pollute their drinking water,

** target and bomb their power stations (thereby sentencing to death babies in incubators, the sick who cannot live without dialysis and artificial life support, etc.),

** kill and maim our own men and women in uniform in his manufactured, unjust war, by protecting contractors whose inferior equipment subjects them to unnecessary risks, risks born of his and their greed, men and women in uniform whom he rewards by proposing a drastic cut in funding for their 2009 medical expenses, a year when the number of veterans is expected to increase 26 percent!

** reward corporations (to the tune of billions of dollars) in which he and/or his vice president have financial interests!

Tell us, you loyal fans of Bush and Fox News, can you, how you justify the unbelievable profits being enjoyed by the oil companies (the largest in history!) since your president began his war, while we pay $3.00 plus a gallon for fuel, or pay power bills that have increased to the point where we have to cross item after item off our grocery lists or dip into our rent or mortgage money or money we reserved to pay our insurance premiums or our doctors? CAN YOU?

Tell us, will you, how you justify your president spending $338 billion each day on KILLING, CRIPPLING, AND DESTROYING when that money would:

** provide health care for all Americans,

** support the school lunch programs he wants to eliminate,

** provide funds for scholarships and grants

** build literally hundreds of thousands of homes for Americans,

** finance the building of manufacturing plants (which by law should not be permitted to outsource anything except products!), to help rebuild the American economy that he has managed to dismantle,

** build new bridges, highways, public buildings,

** create mass transit systems in all our major cities thereby lessening our dependence on oil,

** pay for research that will enable us to meet the coming challenges of global warming,

Can you look us in the eye and justify your undying loyalty to this president who considers the RIGHT TO TORTURE more important than the RIGHT TO LIVE or the RIGHT TO CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS, rights that many Americans have given their lives to defend!

Explain to us your loyalty to a president who lives for the day when critics of his leadership and agendas can be instantly silenced by legislation and executive orders laws he has long had in place for that day.

---laws that give him the power and control of a totalitarian dictator, the power and control of the God you worship?

---laws that permit torture and other abuses so terrible that they will keep most men silent when they see their neighbor taken away in the dead of night - for fear that they will be next? Can you?

Will you. fans of this president and his propaganda mill, FOX News, celebrate with him when he realizes his dream, when he replaces our Constitution with his “NEW AMERICAN CONSTITUTION,” a necessity, he will tell us, in that the former Constitution with its troublesome Bill of Rights and Amendments guaranteeing the terrorists freedom of speech, freedom from arrest without probable cause, the right to know the crime they are charged with, the right to be represented by counsel, all those rights and the many others that hindered our WAR ON TERROR. Will you?

Men and women all over the world have a stake in what is happening in America. This is the moment in time when the leader of the evil forces has in place on his chessboard his pawns (our political leaders whom we recognize by their votes to eliminate our liberty), pawns who have worked hard to take away our rights, one bill and act at a time, and now the evil man stands ready to strike, to kill the one thing without which humans cannot survive: Liberty! For his coup to succeed, however, we must all remain in place, immobile, for if we, his opposing pawns, move, his coup will fail! To achieve our immobility, he is employing the fear that characterizes Fascism!

It seems unbelievable that one power-driven evil man and his pawns are plotting to bring down an entire nation, first, and then the world! History shows us that there have always been evil men - but, the evil man plotting our downfall is the most ambitious and ruthless evil man the world has ever known!

Why, when he is rich beyond a normal man's comprehension and we all know that money IS power? Well, he craves more power than his virtually limitless money can buy him. He craves absolute power in the same way the crack addict craves his drug! He craves the power to control not just our country but the entire planet and eventually the stars and then the entire universe! His lust for absolute power has long driven him; it is what keeps him going, what haunts his dreams, and though he cannot see it, it is also what enslaves him!

He has used his pawns, our president and certain of our senators and congresspersons (the ones who, like him, are governed by their greed for the riches and power with which he rewards them) to institute a Fascist government because he knows that his desire cannot be realized, cannot possibly succeed, as long as men and women are free to speak out, to demonstrate, to vote!

Fascism, to be successful, must engender fear in the populace. That is why the evil man chose to change our country from a democracy to a fascist country. It is the tool he has chosen to utilize in his quest to take over the world, one country at a time. He knows that fear prevents men from speaking aloud, from acting according to their conscience, from saying "No!" as other men, women, and children are arrested, detained, tortured, and finally, killed. Fear keeps the populace paralyzed, immobile.

He is cunning, the evil man, and watchful. During the Sixties, when Americans were willing to fight for their rights, he sat back and plotted. When he saw that Americans had changed, that his programs to make them feel they were powerless to stop the evil they were starting to identify had succeeded, he put his plan into action.

His pawns, our president and those of our political leaders whose souls he owns, sit in place on his chessboard, ready to strike - at us! Success will be his, however, only as long as we, the opposing pawns, sit trembling, absolutely still and hardly breathing! When we pawns start fighting back, speaking out, removing his pawns from office, challenging his pawns when they take away our rights by passing laws that give the evil man total control over us, his coup will fail!

We have been programmed to feel powerless but, In fact, we are not powerless. When we realize that, the cunning and observant evil man and his pawns will head for the hills, their tails between their legs!

Representative Shuler:

I write to express my gratitude to those members of the House who prepared a version of the so-called "Protect America Act," a version which is far less threatening to our Constitutional protections than that prepared by the Senate.

Senators Dole and Burr (R - NC), never fail to disappoint millions of North Carolinians and Americans who, like me, place a very high value on our Constitutional rights and protections. By their votes they demonstrate a willingness to cooperate with a renegade and dangerous president who supports a Fascist agenda. I cannot imagine why any Senator or Congressman (Republican or Democrat!) would, unless criminally coerced, sell Americans' rights and protections down the river! The only explanation is that they are in league with this shameful president's Fascist agenda.

Well,in due course both of these Senators will come up for reelection and people like me, people who KNOW that Fascism is but another word for tyranny and evil, will remember that their voting records supported these twin evils.

Yes, the names Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, by virtue of voting records that consistently violate the Constitution, our only defense against tyrants in government taking our rights, protections, and our very liberty from us, their names, to millions of Americans, are now synonymous with the twin evils of Fascism and Tyranny.

Liberty-loving Americans, if we are not locked up in our president's detention camps by the time these supporters of Fascism and Tyranny next campaign for office, will wave in front of the voters their reprehensible voting records and, if there is a God, and I believe there is, the names Dole and Burr, allied in our minds and hearts with Fascism and Tyranny, will not be able to win a race for Dog Catcher!

Liberty-loving Americans are keeping track of the number of votes cast, not just by Fascists' Senators Dole and Burr, but by all of our political leaders whose votes, like theirs, are leading us down the path to a Fascist takeover in this country. Americans, long-suffering Americans, are now now awake to the fact that these Fascist politicians are led by such evil entities as the Rockefeller Foundation, the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, the Illuminati, and the renegade American corporations who support a New World Order wherein the elite rule and the rest of the world is enslaved. In anticipation of the wealth and power they, the elite, anticipate reaping from this New World Order, they have literally sold their souls!

Regardless of the millions these politicians collect from core members of the foregoing organizations and American renegade corporations like BigPharma, millions with which to pay Marketing and PR firms to create and disseminate a false reality to the American people (yes, they really do this!), Senator Dole, Burr, and the other Fascists in our government will not be able to deny voting records that scream of their total lack of respect for the American people's rights, protections, and liberty! If there is any justice in this world, these voting records will be their undoing - hopefully BEFORE their votes are our undoing! Thanks to them, we sit precariously perched on the head of a pin on one side of which lies our past, liberty and freedom, and on the other side of which lies our future, the abyss known as Fascism.

Hopefully the House version of 2248, while certainly weaker than it should be but nevertheless an improvement over the Senate version, will carry the day and some of our rights will be protected until next our Fascist political leaders vote again!

Do our political leaders in Washington still suffer from the illusion that we are unaware of the very real danger their Fascist votes pose to our liberty? They are wrong - we know!

Ms. Tommye Rodrigues
15 Merlin Path
Hendersonville, NC 28792-9756

If you have a dog... PLEASE read this and send it on. If you don't have a dog, please pass along to friends who do.
Written by:
Laurinda Morris, DVM
Danville Veterinary Clinic
Danville , Ohio

This week I had the first case in history of raisin toxicity ever seen at MedVet. My patient was a 56-pound, 5 yr old male neutered lab mix that ate half a canister of raisins sometime between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM on Tuesday. He started with vomiting, diarrhea and shaking about 1AM on Wednesday but the owner didn't call my emergency service until 7AM .

I had heard somewhere about raisins AND grapes causing acute Renal failure but hadn't seen any formal paper on the subject. We had her bring the dog in immediately. In the meantime , I ca lled the ER service at MedVet, and the doctor there was like me - had heard something about it, but.... Anyway, we contacted the ASPCA National Animal Poison Control Center and they said to give I V fluids at
1 1/2 times maintenance and watch the kidney values for the next 48-72 hours.

The dog's BUN (blood urea nitro gen level) was already at 32 (normal less than 27) and creatinine! Over 5 ( 1.9 is the high end of normal). Both are monitors of kidney function in the bloodstream. We placed an IV catheter an d started the fluids. Rechecked the renal values at 5 PM and the BUN was over 40 and creatinine over 7 with no urine production after a liter of fluids. At the point I felt the dog was in acute renal failure and sent him on to MedVet for a urinary catheter to monitor urine output overnight as well as overnight care.

He started vomiting again overnight at MedVet and his renal values have continued to increase daily. He produced urine when given lasix as a diuretic. He was on 3 different anti-vomiting medications and they still couldn't control his vomiting. Today his urine output decreased again, his BUN was over 120, his creatinine was at 10, his phosphorus was very elevated and his blood pressure, which had been staying around 150, skyrocketed to 220.. He continued to vomit and the owners elected to

Euthanize.

This is a very sad case - great dog, great owners who had no idea raisins could be toxic to their dog. Please alert everyone you know who has a dog of this very serious risk. Poison control said as few as 7 raisins or grapes could be toxic. Many people I know give their dogs grapes or raisins as treats including our ex-handler's. Any exposure should give rise to immediate concern.

Onions, chocolate, cocoa and macadamia nuts can be fatal, too.

Even if you don't have a dog, you might have friends who do. This is worth passing on to them.
Confirmation
from Snopes about the above...
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp