This is complete and utter crap.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-refuses-to-fund-abortion-in-g8-plan/article1547671/

Canada has decided to skirt the issues surrounding climate change by blind-siding the G8 with a new focus: the health of women and children in "developing nations." Nevermind that a great part of increasing the health status would include things such as clean water and uncontaminated food sources, What about the CHILDREN?! Pull at the heartstrings! Who can discuss the environment when there are babies at stake? DO YOU HATE BABIES?!

Nevermind also that companies who produce and market baby formula have inundated these women with messages that their breast milk is far inferior to their capitalist science. They hand out free samples of powdered formula, scare new mothers into feeding their kids with it, then jack the price so they can't afford more. Because of this, many of these mothers are putting less of the fancy powder into the bottles so that it will last longer, and mixing the powder with the contaminated water. So now, not only are babies starving, but contracting disease and parasites from this "superior" food source. (Please also note that the free sample is designed to last just long enough for the average woman's breast milk to dry up, thus forcing her to spend her meagre-to-absent funds on more formula.)

Nope, we don't need to think of the environment here.

To complicate and muddy the waters further, Harper has also decided that the new "health care" initiative will NOT include access to safe abortions.

"The inclusion of safe abortion services, where they are legal, is also promoted by many experts, because so many deaths are caused by complications from botched abortions."

Most family planning services in effect in various nations do currently provide funding for abortions. So really, in essence, Harper's plan doesn't intend to provide funding for family planning services at all. It is impossible to dictate to this sort of service where the funds from your particular establishment will and will not be placed. You either donate or you don't. There's no halfway.

Another concern: should this bizarre, anti-humanitarian anti-feminist ideology be adopted, when does it spread to Canadian law? It won't be long before abortions become illegal in Canada.

The best part of it is that most Canadians are too jaded and apathetic to do anything about it. We rally in Queen's Park, picket with signs, organize protests in various busy streets to raise awareness... on Saturdays when there's no one in Parliament. Or in the afternoon when government services have closed up for the day. Or only when we can get a permit to have a protest in a busy street to make sure we have police escorts.

Seriously?! Police escorts? Yeah, safety first and whatever, but seriously? The police system is designed to MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO and keep things in ORDER according to GOVERNMENT IDEALS. No one's willing to put themselves out there, risk getting arrested or even threatened with arrest to make positive change in the world.

I am. But I can't do it by myself. It takes one to get it started, but it takes a village to get shit done.

Who's down?

http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/04/26/abortion-maternal-health.html

Gut Instincts

Ever wonder what your insides are up to? I do. All the time, in fact.

As a practitioner of alternative medicine, I've made long and intensive studies into our various body systems, including digestion/elimination. I know what's supposed to happen, what's normal versus common, and what is very very weird and potentially dangerous. I'm aware of a great many pathologies that affect our intestines, what they do, how they do it, and how to make it stop. I'm usually pretty successful at sussing out reasons why things hurt and knowing how to put a stop to it.

For example: Here is a picture of normal intestinal anatomy.

I especially like the butt cheeks under the anus.

Here is a picture of what villi look like under a microscope:

Like happy folds of rainbow. That's right, you have rainbows growin inside of you. These rainbows are what help you absorb nutrients in food. Rainbows are totally rad and deserve to be treated with respect. This is both because of their awesomeness, and because if you don't you PAY.

When something goes wrong with our rainbows, all kinds of crappy things start to happen. In celiac disease, the rainbows are wrecked by gluten particles, which strangle and destroy them like weeds in a flower garden, leaving the yard devoid of all colour and happiness. Undiagnosed celiac disease can lead to INSANITY. Yep, insanity. Because you destroyed your rainbows. Think about that.

Other stuff can ruin rainbows too. Excessive sugar, caffeine, milk, and other common "sensitivity" foods that are difficult to digest cling to your rainbows and make them gunky and murky.

This of course tends to lead to pain, or gas, or the extremes of constipation and diarrhoea, all of which we have all experienced at sometime or another.

The moral of the story:

Take care of your rainbows.

Or else you LOSE.