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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 12, 2010
Science Rules The Day For Gulf War Veterans In Their Battle With The VA
March 10, 2010 by Denise Nichols
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Healthy brain (top) shows response to pain from heat on the forearm. Different regions (bottom) respond to that heat in vets with Gulf War syndrome two. Photo: UT Southwestern Med. Ctr.
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The veterans of the Gulf War 1990-91 [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 11, 2010
WORTH A CAREFUL LOOK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vW9gUmooFg&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Ev5HgGACg
http://www.youtube.com/user/etrade#p/f/22/mDm6iKH38C0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZetD7cdj7w&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfl4mFH1No&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvHjMVc_stA&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/etrade
ENJOY!
Brad
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 7, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: This quotation was made in the year 1790 by Dr. Alexander Tytler, Professor of General History, University of Edinburgh.
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“A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
From that moment on, the [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 7, 2010
SOURCE http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:Government-industry_revolving_door
Ann Mulkern, “When advocates become regulators,“ Denver Post, May 23, 2004: “President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.”
Daniel E. Troy, lead counsel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, extended the government’s help in torpedoing certain lawsuits. Among Troy’s targets: [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 7, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: “Iatrogenesis”, a word they teach all 3rd medical students as we swarm out of the classrooms and into the real world of the hospitals, is rarely mentioned, except behind the closed doors of a Grand Rounds or at “M&M” meetings. (M&Ms are the weekly events where doctors get together and scratch [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 5, 2010
March 5, 2010
Your Victory on the McCain Bill
We did it!
It’s all thanks to the action that you took.
Hundreds of thousands of messages poured into the Senate opposing Senator McCain’s bill, the bill that would have wiped out current legislative protections for dietary supplements. More and more messages were [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 5, 2010
Because “Liberal” is not a four letter word.
“There is no native criminal class except Congress,” – Mark Twain
2006 October 19 by Mr. Conservatard
Are you still thinking of voting Republican this fall? Do you still think that the Republicans represent American democracy as our nation’s forefathers intended? If you answered yes to either of [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 5, 2010
Dr. Weeks’ Comment: Last presidential election, I wrote in “Ron Paul” because I saw no significant option between the democrat and republican candidates. Both candidates seemed indebted to business and intended to serve a Corporatocracy rather than a Republic.
What is interesting is that today, even Obama’s greatest fans, those most excited at the prospect of [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on March 4, 2010
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5a57185bd/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion
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FUNNY. WORTH WATCHING.
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SNL “presidents” gather for Web video summit
The ghosts of the comedy show’s chief executives reunite on FunnyOrDie.com Video
By Associated Press
The comedians who played presidents on “Saturday Night Live” have gathered for a comedic summit in a new Web video on FunnyOrDie.com.
The video, posted Wednesday, stars Fred Armisen as President Barack [...]
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Posted by Brad Weeks, MD on February 24, 2010
An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets
Economics 101
Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Detroit . She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar. To
solve this problem, she comes up with new marketing [...]
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