Obama campaigns in Clifton

MoonHowler

 

President Obama gave a rousing middle class speech to the middle class at Centreville High School right outsdie of Clifton.  An Annandale High School teacher welcomed the President along with elected officials.  According to the Centreville Patch:

 

“Hello Wildcats!”

On Saturday afternoon, President Barack Obama ended two days of campaigning across Virginia at Centreville High School, where he spoke about the need to renew the American middle class and the economy.

Central to his theme was his call to Congress to extend a Bush-era tax cut to families that make less than $250,000. Republicans want to see that cut applied to all, including families making more than $250,000. Obama has said previously that he would veto anything that includes tax cuts for all.

 

Photo gallery of today’s campaign stop at Centreville High

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Open Thread………………………………………………….Saturday, July 14

MoonHowler

One award recipient at the BOCS meeting this week will be the county mosquito people for “thinking outside the box.”  The blurb says that it is for using an ipad 2 and putting the data in the cloud (assuming icloud) rather than using a pencil and paper in the field.  I am curious why using one of the main applications for ipad is being considered an example of thinking outside the box, but ok.  When I told Mr. Howler of the good news, he asked if “thinking outside the box” meant another years worth of excuses for not spraying on Sudley Manor Drive.  That must be it.

Why does the truck not spray on Sudley Manor Drive?  I have been told because the speed limit is 35 minutes per hour.  Stop!  It isn’t 35 miles per hour.  It hasn’t been for 15-20 years.  Its 25 and 30 mph.  No matter what I say, I cannot convince this office to update their records on the speed limit.  Furthermore, so what.  I have given up trying. I don’t go outside in the summer.  I am allergic to mosquitoes. I get huge bites, often larger than old silver dollars.  I have to “suit up” with Deep Woods OFF just to get from my front door to the car.  Sitting outside is impossible for me.  It has to be a near perfect day for it to even be worth the trouble.

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Superbug in Antibiotic Fed Chickens?

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I have to share, my husband, for years, made fun of me for “wasting” our money on organic chicken, beef, and pork.  I would say “honey, I am NOT feeding my kids meat laden with antibiotics, hormones, and other crap.”

Furthermore, the conditions in which animals are raised in factory farms is not only incredibly inhumane, its DISGUSTING!  They live in their own feces, often develops sores, etc, due to their crowded living conditions.  Which is WHY they are fed antibiotics like its their food, to inhibit diseases which would normally grow in such living conditions.

Apparently, a superbug may be putting several million women at risk for a hard to treat bladder infection.  I always thought it was common sense, if we ingest meat full of antibiotics, wont’ we become immune to its medicinal effects?

Anyway, the article is “food for thought” !

This a great article from ABC news.

A growing number of medical researchers say more than 8 million women are at risk of difficult-to-treat bladder infections because superbugs – resistant to antibiotics and growing in chickens – are being transmitted to humans in the form of E. coli.

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