Not to be outdone by Oregon, California not only has physician assisted suicide they now have nurse-assisted suicide and apparently these physician assistants and nurses without sufficient diagnoses training can decide when you are terminal and pressure depressed people to be drugged into unconsciousness where they will be denied basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water and die.

Just when you think California can not get any more demented they always prove you wrong. This is just another small step in the elitist world socialist fascist program to eliminate the useless eaters. The bottom-line is always the reason for these things. The California government does not want to pay for their medical care. When you get state controlled socialized medicine, bureaucratic aids will be deciding who lives and who dies just like in Great Great Britain today. This is just another move toward that end.

California approves nurse-assisted suicide

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be “terminally ill.”

“AB 2747 pushes suicide through the back door at the hands of non-physicians taking advantage of depressed patients,” he said in a statement. “AB 2747 cheapens the value of human life by endorsing suicide as an option.”

The measure allows physician assistants and nurses to decide whether a person is “terminally ill” and deprive them of basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water.

“Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days,” Thomasson said. “Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror.”

Thomasson said Berg “deceptively changed” the bill to appear that “voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking” and “palliative sedation” no longer were on a list of “symptom management” options.

“The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life option,” Tran said. “It is not clear why nurse practitioners and physician assistants could make such a significant diagnosis. It is further not clear from the bill how making such significant diagnoses on a case-by-case basis can be done by such practitioners and assistants based on so-called ’standardized procedures and protocols’ not further defined by the bill. The potential effect of AB 2747 is extremely broad and could cause irrevocable harm.”

He said the legislation was sponsored by a group called Compassion and Choices, which formerly was known as the Hemlock Society and has advocated for physician-assisted suicide legislation in the past. A founder of the group has praised Dr. Jack Kevorkian for helping more than 100 people die.

Dozens of individuals and groups representing cancer patients, minority rights groups, members of religious communities and hospitals spoke before the Senate Health Committee in opposition to the idea. Also, numerous hospitals and other organizations opposed the measure, includeing California Disability Alliance, California Family Council, California Nurses for Ethical Standards, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco.

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You would think in a educational system they would be warning children about the health dangers of homosexual activity. But this is not a educational system it is more an indoctrination system. There should be a warning label required on every condom they hand out. “Homosexual behavior is known to shorten lifespans”.

Day of Silence’ vs. homosexual health risks (OneNewsNow.com)

LaBarbera also argues that many liberal school districts teach false facts about AIDS. He says they imply that everyone is at equal risk for contracting the disease — even though in 2005 71 percent of U.S. male AIDS cases involved homosexuals. He contends that many American young people are not being informed about other health risks associated with homosexuality either — such as increased infections of the Hepatitis B or C virus and the herpes virus. “We have all this evidence out there that homosexual behavior is dangerous,” the activist point out, “and yet our politically correct elites are promoting gay identity” to teens and children.

Although LaBarbera notes there have been numerous taxpayer-funded studies on the dangers of smoking,

They call this a news worthy study of echinacea and colds? 58 people over 8 weeks! Give me a break!

Lets see, I would think that over 8 weeks about 20 of the 58 people would normally be expected to get a cold. Then of the 29 who took the echinacea (ten of these might get a cold in this period ) had 5 fewer sick days than the other 29 that took a placebo? Seems to me that your study supports that those who took echinacea had five fewer sick days and thus probably had fewer colds.

If you are going to publish studies on echinacea publish a study that actually proves something. A study needs to be done on hundreds or thousands of people over a whole season in the way that people are directed to take echinacea. You are not supposed to take echinacea everyday for colds. You only take it when you are exposed to colds or when you are already coming down with a cold to lessen the duration. We already have studies that prove if you take echinacea every day it becomes less effective and might even be worse then taking nothing at all. However, if you take it as directed studies prove it will help prevent colds and lessen the duration of colds.

So what was the name of the drug manufacturer that sponsored the farce?

FOXNews.com – Study Finds No Evidence Echinacea Prevents Colds – Health News | Current Health News | Medical News

Researchers at the University of California San Francisco followed 58 volunteers for eight weeks and found no definitive evidence that echinacea prevented nasal congestion, sore throats and other cold symptoms.

While the echinacea group reported fewer sick days than the placebo group, nine versus 14, researchers chalked the difference up to chance.

The promotion of Homosexuality is true hate speech because those that promote this lifestyle promote a practice that takes up to 20 years off the lifespan of homosexual adults. Those who are homophobic have very good reasons for their fears as well, as you will find out when you read this article. Your children in public schools are now being indoctrinated to drink their deadly Kool-Aid. Are you going to allow your children to drink it?

To find out what you can do about this “day of silence” that promotes homosexuality in public schools please check out the link to the full article.

Surgeon General’s Warning: Gay sex kills

Can you imagine officials at a middle school, junior high or high school setting aside a day to promote “tolerance” for heavy smoking and drinking among children? How about a day where teachers encourage kids to “embrace who they are,” pick up that crack pipe and give it a stiff toke?

Neither can I. The public would go ballistic, and for good reason.

But that hasn’t stopped officials in thousands of schools across the country from promoting other politically correct and socially “in-vogue” behaviors that – both statistically and manifestly – are every bit as dangerous as the aforementioned frowned-upon behaviors.

That’s exactly what the homosexual activist “Day of Silence” is all about – advancing, through clever, feel-good propaganda and full acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle among children.

“[U]nder even the most liberal assumptions,” concluded the study, “gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871. … [L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men.”

This morose reality makes a strong case for a fitting redefinition of so-called “homophobia,” that being “Homophobia: The rational fear that ‘gay sex’ will kill you!”

The fact that we don’t have mandatory surgeon general warnings on the side of condom wrappers is a testament to the power and influence wielded by the radical homosexual lobby. (Warning: Male-male anal sodomy has been proven to shorten your lifespan by up to 20 years.)

The risks associated with homosexual conduct are so drastic, in fact, that U.S. health regulations prohibit men who have sex with men, or MSM, and women who have had sex with MSM, from even donating blood.

Consider that, according to the Food and Drug Administration, MSM, “have an HIV prevalence 60 times higher than the general population, 800 times higher than first-time blood donors and 8,000 times higher than repeat blood donors.”

Adults and children who engage in homosexual conduct, especially males, are also susceptible, at an astronomical rate, to nearly all other forms of sexually transmitted disease (STD). For example, the Hepatitis B virus is about five to six times more prevalent among “gays,” and Hepatitis C is twice as common.

But perhaps most shocking are today’s syphilis rates among homosexual men and adolescents. A recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that although homosexuals comprise only a fraction of the population (1 to 2 percent), they account for an epidemic 64 percent of all syphilis cases.

In light of the irrefutable medical facts, it should be considered criminally reckless for educators to teach children that homosexual conduct is a normal, safe and perfectly acceptable alternative form of sexual expression (or “sexual orientation”).

But instead, the “gay” lifestyle is vigorously promoted in our public schools.

During DOS, children and teachers are encouraged to disrupt the school day by refusing to speak, in a show of support to self-described “gay,” “lesbian,” “bisexual” and “transgender” students. Kids are additionally taught that biblical truth, which holds that human sexuality is a gift from God shared between husband and wife within the bonds of marriage, is “homophobic,” “hateful” and “discriminatory.”

Our schools are supposed to be places of learning, not places of political indoctrination. It’s the height of impropriety and cynicism for “gay” activists and school officials to use good-hearted but misguided children as pawns in their attempt to further a deceptive, highly controversial and polarizing political agenda.

I know where I stand on this issues. Drinking was in common place in the early church but obviously getting drunk was being a every day drunkard was not acceptable. Martin Luther and John Calvin and the Catholics believed it was a gift of God. It still is considered that by most in Christianity today used in moderation. Having said that it is not acceptable to get intoxicated in the worship service but moderate use should be acceptable in feasts and social gatherings.

Abuses mostly by the world led certain feminists into pushing their own views on everyone through dominionist laws while most of the men were off to war. It ended in prohibition and those laws only brought in bootlegging and major organized crime.

We have these same feminists and legalistic people in some churches today who twist scripture to make it say what they want it to say rather than what it actually says. All wine in the days of the early church had some alcohol content since their was no refrigeration. One of the major problems of the church in our generation is this feminization of the church. There is simply nothing wrong with having a couple beers or some wine in order for men to mellow out  with each other in social situations in this very difficult world. The medical community has documented published papers on the benefits of moderate amounts of alcohol. Beer and wine are simply given by God for man’s use not abuse.

If you believe it is a sin to use alcohol or it causes you to sin then it is a sin for you to use it. However, to dictate your unique twisting of scripture to the the rest of the church is actually doing more harm then good.

Lansing State Journal: Holt ministry celebrates its love of God – and beer

Early Protestant reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin didn’t just tolerate alcohol, said the Rev. Jim West, author of “Drinking with Calvin and Luther!” “They reveled in it as a gift of God,” he said.Luther “would talk about drinking wine and beer as imparting joy to the human heart,” he said. Calvin said it was permissible to drink wine “to make us merry.”

And for centuries, he said, drinking was basically a non-issue in Protestant churches. In the United States, opposition to alcohol in Protestant churches didn’t begin in earnest until the 1800s, growing up around the temperance and, later, prohibition movements.

Still, many Protestants believe that drinking alcohol is a sin.

No matter where the air on passenger Jets come from it is deadly. This pilot says the fifty percent of air that does not come from the cabin is full of neuro-toxins. However, the air that comes from the cabin is full of human germs. If you ever take a trip by air in the winter you are extremely lucky if you do not come down with someone else’s disease. If the public knew what they were breathing on airlines most would not be flying. They could fix the air problem on airlines but they would rather let you get sick than spend the money.

clipped from www.worldnetdaily.com Loranie said in today’s passenger jets, half of the cabin air is recirculated from the cabin itself, with only a filtration system to clean it up.”It’s the other 50 percent of cabin air, however, that is the problem, because it comes from deep within the engines that are flying the plane. Bled off from the engine – and, therefore, known as ‘bleed air’ – before the fuel is injected and burnt, bleed air is piped back to the fuselage where it is cooled down and then pumped into the cabin,” he said. “Crucially and extraordinarily, bleed air is not filtered at all,” he said. That leaves whatever chemicals and toxins it may have picked up in passing through the engine being pumped directly to pilots, flight crew members and passengers. He said airline industry leaders keep the level of toxicity a closely guarded secret.

There is good reason why God condemned homosexuality. The homosexual lifesyle is deadly to those practicing this perversion and it can be deadly to others. If you think not you need to read this article about a new deadly disease that is being spread to the general population through homosexuals.

Reuters has reported that, “A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.

“They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.”

“‘Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable,’ said Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study.”

According to the study, at this point, homosexual men are 13 times more likely to contract the potentially deadly, drug-resistant strain of Staph infection, but the fear is that, because the infection is spread via skin-to-skin contact, homosexual men may soon spread it to the general population.

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Sex Diseases Still Rising; Chlamydia Is Leader – New York Times: “Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common diseases among those doctors must report in the United States. And the 1,030,911 cases of chlamydia in 2006 are the highest ever recorded for any nationally reported disease in any year, the officials said in releasing their annual report on sexually transmitted diseases. They said that because of underreporting, a more accurate estimate is 2.8 million new chlamydia cases annually.”

Bloomberg.com: Exclusive: “Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — Generic, World War II-era antibiotics may become the newest weapon of choice in the fight against deadly, drug-resistant staph germs.”

FOXNews.com – Study: Carrying Around an Extra 25 Pounds Doesn’t Appear to Raise Risk of Dying From Cancer, Heart Disease – Health News Current Health News Medical News: “Study: Carrying Around an Extra 25 Pounds Doesn’t Appear to Raise Risk of Dying From Cancer, Heart Disease”

The other day there was a study that said that any extra fat caused a big risk of cancer and I disputed the study as junk science. Today a major report says that a few extra pounds are fine. The reason for the contradictions is that funders of many studies just want a conclusion that will benefit them.

It really is just common sense that a few extra pounds will not kill you. Go to any place where there are elderly and you will see that the majority of them are slightly overweight. People survive illness better if they have some reserves.