Dear Family & Friends,

Click on the link below to see my op ed on the “Likely” Vaccine-Autism Connection.  This appeared in today’s Pensacola News Journal. 

http://www.pnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/OPINION/804130314

I am sure I will be criticized by some of our area pediatricians.  However, I will start listening to them when 1) they actually read the studies—most have not, and 2) they can answer the legitimate criticisms raised in contrarian research and in peer reviews of the CDC-sponsored research they claim demonstrates no causality.

For those who may be unaware, I am the father of a 15-year old, autistic son.  He was developing normally, talking and playing appropriately.  However, after a battery of childhood vaccinations, he regressed into autism.   

Our follow-up research showed he had received enough mercury in his vaccinations to exceed the EPA mercury exposure limits by several hundred times.  We also had his hair tested for mercury. (Hair elements testing is a standard procedure for determining heavy metal exposure.)  This testing revealed our son, like many autistics, is not excreting mercury like a normal child.  In fact, his level of excretion is about one-fifth of normal—again a common trait with many autistics.

Many researchers believe that a certain portion of the population has a genetic predisposition making them unable to ward off heavy metals like most people.  Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in vaccines, is 50% ethyl mercury.  And, mercury is one of the worst neurotoxins known to man.

I am not a doctor, although I have two advanced degrees.  On the other hand, I have read every study and peer review on the autism-vaccine controversy that I have been able to find over the past decade.  Contrary to the mainstream medical and media myth, the jury is still out on this subject.  It is my opinion that there is likely a Vaccine-Autism connection.  However, only with time and additional research will we truly know one way or the other.

Julian Irby

Pensacola , FL

June 19th, 2008 by forniss | 2008 Election, Politics | No comments

A close friend called me last night… lost a job.

Another person called me a week ago… lost a job.

A competitors company just folded… lack of business and more lost jobs.

A subhuman that pretends at humanitay called me yesterday… lost a job.

It’s not the ECONOMY stupid, it’s real souls, with lives to live, being raped in public through their wallets, while the elite meet to eat, beat off , and plan their next big rip off of the little people.

Those are tough words for a retired businessman, and retired MSGT to say, but it’s true. Bush and his croney/master Cheney have in connivance with the financial/military industrial trans-nationals taken us all to the cleaners, and left us there for someone else to pick up the tab.

I don’t know about you, but I simply cannot afford the $85,000 that’s my growing portion of our tax deficit ,mostly due to a war that our President lied to us and the world to get started, and does not have the balls to say he screwed up!

Can you afford the impact of this growing tax deficit?…. you will pay it!… thorugh lost buying power!, lost voice in government!, lost jobs!, you will pay!

Like the little girl in the Addams Family movies said…..”Be afraid, be very afraid!” Your elected government lies to you because YOU let them.

All the while, companies are going under due to cash flow issues, no one is buying their products. Yet CEOs are raking in hundreds of millions in bonuses and severance pays from these very companies for doing such great jobs. Stack on this that most of these ultra-millionaires and billionaires pay less taxes than any of us… well I am sorta getting pissed about it.

Our family net worth is a bit over 7 figures, but our net debt is higher so that we can try to keep 50 people employed and able to buy gravy and gasoline.

We are not considered wealthy, so we pay ALL our taxes even with accountants trying to find ways to let us use the loopholes the mega-rich enjoy.

You, and I are getting assfucked by the old purple shaft wrapped in rusty barbwire!

For Gods sake people, vote for something different this time around. I am Independent, I plan on voting all over the spectrum just to fuck with the system and maybe make a few differences.

We probably will be buttfucked by the next administration and the standing congress, but at least let’s choose a different set of sodomists to nail us, variety is the spice of life!

Can ya tell I am having a political moment?

LMAO, serious as hell!

Purple Raven

March 24th, 2008 by forniss | 2008 Election, Capitalism, Humor, Journalism, Politics | No comments

Curhurock-opboink

This starts with just bhxob and forniss, doing counterpoint and point respectively.  Anyone of you can join in, and are encouraged to.  No one is right,  no one is wrong.

Point:

After nearly 52 years of wandering through tons of literature and miles upon miles of life, I have come to a solemn conclusion. The most important question in my life has changed. It was “Is god real?” (I will use the word god as both singular and plural to satisfy all of your concepts!) Now the question has evolved. “Does it matter, do I even care about the belief in god, real or not?”

I do in an oblique way believe in supreme evil as well, i see it in the hearts of men and women all around me, in fact, its the ONLY place I see evil, nature is not evil, only the heart of mankind

Counterpoint:

I should start his off by saying that I am agnostic. I believe that I don’t honestly know.

Atheism is a belief, of a specific non-belief.

Point:

Stepping back, I have to look outward and think of this in a “We” formation for a bit. Looking out at the 6 billion or so folk who trod this worn out planet, arou

All major nd 97.3% of those folk believe in some form of deity. The other 2.7% believe in atheism, which some classify as a religion with man as god. Either way you count it, most folks believe in something supernatural, that forgoes any rational explanation. So, whether it matters to me or not, it does matter to nearly everyone else. It matters to humanity that there is deity.

Counterpoint:

All religions are just sets of beliefs, each acting as a model or guide to some aspect of the universe the user is expected to intersect with. If it is not a model, or functional in some way, it is just exposition. Fiction, in this way, also has it’s place in many religious beliefs.

Models, religious or not, can be useful tools in our individual journeys through the ridiculously small bit of the universe that we interact with. Weather models, for instance, are functional guides for predicting inclement weather and hazards. They can also be wrong, but they act as a general guide to a system which is much to complicated to be reduced into a more empirical system, at the current time. This is an example of a scientific model, however. One which was developed through research and study over long periods of time. It produces useful information, regarding happenings in the weather on this planet.

Point:

The profitable reality of belief and religion reaches back to the first shaman who accepted a hindquarter of deer for a spiritual service rendered, or curse cast. The processing and manipulating of the need to believe is singularly the most profitable enterprise mankind has ever invented. Does the hypocrisy of organized religions/beliefs have a tinker’s damn of a relationship to whether god exists?

Counterpoint:

We have many other models that determine our human action. Destructive and inane are the realms of most of them. Either useless, for providing real information to the user, or completely ineffective. The situation that most humans are living in right now, for instance. We have societies of people who have no rational explanation for its belief in a god which does not present itself in measurable ways, yet they are willing to warrant their own exceptional behaviors in that god’s name.

March 17th, 2008 by forniss | Anthropology, Capitalism, Politics, Religion, Spiritualism | 2 comments

March 9th, 2008 by forniss | 2008 Election, Gun Control, Journalism, Politics, Second Amendment | No comments

Don’t Monkey Around. Read the Declaration of Independence …. life, liberty etc., and the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

It’s your right and your responsibility to defend your home and your property. Even though that right is alluded to in the Declaration and the Constitution, that right is from a higher power, almighty god, or your genes, or whatever you want to call it.

Self-defense is sanity, anything else shows a lack of love for the unique creation you are. Own a legal weapon, practice with it legally, and exercise your legal and more importantly “god-given” right to defend yourself from harm or loss. Hitting what you aim at is good gun control!

March 8th, 2008 by forniss | 2008 Election, Gun Control, Politics, Second Amendment | 2 comments

I, one of two people writing articles here, have been living in Virginia since 2005. As light hearted as I would like to be about some of the topics that we will cover, I will have to be a bit more serious right now.

Our legislature recently passed two bills. One was a locked box law that allows citizens without a CHP or CCW to carry a loaded handgun for personal protection in a locked container in their car. That bill has little effect for me since I am a CHP holding citizen, though I did support the bill.

The other bill would allow our state’s CHP holding citizens to carry concealed into restaurants which serve alcohol. Fully understanding that there are already laws in this state that prohibit concealed carry while intoxicated.

Such an offense, even before this bill, is considered a Class 1 Misdemeanor and would result in the revocation of a person’s CHP.

In spite of the overwhelming support from the House and Senate of Virginia, our Governor vetoed both bills. His reasoning was less than sound, and his tactics show a clear party alliance, rather than any careful thought about what would actually aid his constituents. Both bills were sent back to our senate for an override vote, and both failed. The Locked Box bill should have passed, but six democratic senators reneged on their previous votes. I am not particularly liberal or conservative, and my political opinions are varied and deep, not at all like these tools. (more…)

March 5th, 2008 by bhxob | Gun Control, Journalism, Politics, Second Amendment | 1 comment

Here are some videos which describe gun control in the most succinct way possible. Anyone who attempts to have an opinion on the gun control issue should do as much research as possible. If you are not willing to do that, watch these videos at the very least.

These are from an episode of “Penn & Teller: Bullshit”, Season 3 Episode 9

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March 5th, 2008 by bhxob | Gun Control, Politics, Second Amendment | 1 comment

Do we have an image problem here or is it more? Bikers are just people, bad, average, and great. Journalists on the other hand………..

This is simply a funny story floating around on the internet and MySpace, one of those urban legends that may or may not be true.

One thing is for certain. The next presidential election will be the most important election in the history of the USA, save perhaps the election of Lincoln. Read this funny story, and think about it everytime you read a political headline. The next time a journalist tells you the truth about a candidate, wonder if he has been to a zoo lately!

Me? I think I will have another beer.

unknown author… following story

A biker is riding by the zoo, when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion’s cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A reporter has seen the whole scene, and addressing the biker, says - Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life.

- Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right.

- Well, I’ll make sure this won’t go unnoticed. I’m a journalist, you know, and tomorrow’s papers will have this on the first page. What motorcycle do you ride?

- A Harley Davidson.

The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on first page:

Headline
BIKER GANG MEMBER ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH.

March 5th, 2008 by forniss | 2008 Election, Bikers, Journalism, Politics, Uncategorized, Urban Myth | No comments