Homeopathy is bullshit

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Brent

The comments in the post about Laser Solutions made me think about the fact that I have never mentioned Homeopathy on here.
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Sylvia Browne F’s up again 2

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Brent



This might be one of the best things about YouTube. People can now catch these screw ups by people like Sylvia Browne and put them out there for everyone, with no denying that they said it.

Again Montel tries to help her out, and again she just keeps screwing up and tells the parents that they are wrong. She tells them, “I don’t care.” when they try to tell her about the medical evidence of their daughters death. I would again recommend that the parents slap her in the face. The one good thing is that it doesn’t look like the father believes in her at all. He is just along for the ride.

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Keith Olbermann’s Blog on MSNBC’s Site

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Brent

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

I got sent there because of his stuff about 9.11.06, which is a good read, but there is a lot of interesting commentary on that page that should be read through.

I have never watched the guy, and I don’t even know what time his show is on, but I think he has a lot of similar points of view to some of the things I yell at the screen when the administration is on there.

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HPV Vaccine

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Brent

It shouldn’t be mandated. People should have the right to be as stupid as they want and if they don’t want to get their kid this vaccine, then that is pretty stupid.

People get too hung up on the word “sex”. This is not a vaccine given via the vagina. It is a shot in the arm and no kid (unless they are told) will know what it is, and even if they did, they wouldn’t equate it to a ticket to free sex. Any kid that would be having sex because of this would already be having it any way.

The only possible downside to this is that it is new and there might be some long term issue with it. I think it was rushed out of trials because it had the potential to save so many people. That is a little worrisome, but to rage against this, because it stops a sexually transfered virus from giving people cancer is lunacy.

Perhaps if there was a vaccine that stopped people from having children for the next 10 years and it was given to girls at the age of 11, then YES that might cause a rise in sexual activity (if that vaccine existed though would more sexual activity be a bad thing?). I seriously doubt that there are that many kids NOT having sex because they think they might catch HPV. I mean how many kids even know HPV exists? In all the stuff I was told about sexually transmitted diseases in health class, HPV was never even mentioned.

Why do most people not want kids to have sex? That is an easy answer, the main reason is that they don’t want the kids having kids. Disease, harm and religion are all secondary to that (and I would say that religion is probably based on not wanting “kids to have kids”, but the bible has to say God said it, not list a valid reason.) Well this vaccine doesn’t stop kids from getting pregnant (and there is very little chance someone would think that it did), so why does everyone think that it will make them start having sex more?

People should start thinking with their brains instead of just having jerk reactions to words and phrases.

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Email to WBKO about Laser Solutions

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Brent

I have been concerned about the recent advertising on WBKO for Laser Solutions in Bowling Green. I understand that they are a customer of WBKO for commercial time, but I feel that WBKO as a responsibility to not promote poor services and products. Laser Solutions provides a poor service that is only out to take money away from your viewers in the Bowling Green area.

Laser Solutions promotes a service which uses Lasers to “stimulate” Acupuncture points on the body in an effort to help patients stop smoking. There are several problems with this. The first and most obvious problem is that Acupuncture has never been shown to help anyone with any problem, including stopping smoking. The American Medical Association has been quoted as saying the following about acupuncture and its ilk,

“There is little evidence to confirm the safety or efficacy of most alternative therapies. Much of the information currently known about these therapies makes it clear that many have not been shown to be efficacious. Well-designed, stringently controlled research should be done to evaluate the efficacy of alternative therapies.”

So even if it was just an Acupuncture it would still be of poor value to your viewers. To then add the use of Lasers to stimulate these points on the body is adding poor science fiction on to the top of poor medicine.

The web is full of information about this shoddy and incorrect service. A simple search for information on it reveals that the only people who are out promoting it are the people that are selling it. There is no scientific community that backs it and there is no evidence of its usefulness.

Please remove this scam from your advertising and from your news broadcasts, because there is nothing valid or news worthy about it. Your viewers in the Bowling Green area look to your station as a validation for things like this and I am sure that because of the segment on Midday Live today there will be several customers show up to Laser Solutions. It is unfortunate that when they leave Laser Solutions the only thing they will have gotten from them is a lighter wallet.

Thank You for your time,

Brent Norris
WBKO Viewer and Concerned Citizen

P.S. The content of this email and any replies will also be posted on my journal at http://www.brentnorris.net

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Yet Another psychic failure

Posted on August 29, 2006 by Brent

http://yirmumah.net/psychic-artist-nailed-ramsey-murder-suspect-in-1998/

DJ posted something about this psychic predicting Jon Karr. I was on there arguing that the picture wasn’t even close. You can read my comments there.

Of course now it has come out that he didn’t have anything to do with it, he is just a disturbed person who wanted his 15 minutes of fame. So yet again, even if the picture was of him exactly, it is still wrong. So I wonder if the “psychic” will come out and say that they are a fraud and that is was completely wrong of them to do this.

Maybe all of the “psychics” will stop ambulance chasing and media whoring and let people get on with their lives. Ok well probably not.

Also why is the media still got a hard on for this guy? Now since they can’t show him as the REAL murderer they are going “in depth” about why he would want to do this and how he knew so much about it. Even one of their expert lawyers came on GMA this morning as was like “Why are you still talking about this? There is all kinds of stuff in New Orleans that needs talked about and you are still on this?”

Everyone. He is disturbed. He wanted the attention (which you all gave him). He found out about the stuff from the books and reports that have all been written about it. It isn’t that hard to figure out.

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Sylvia Browne F’s up again

Posted on August 28, 2006 by Brent

Sylvia Browne really screwed up on the coal mine thing a while ago. It was on a radio show. AFTER they came out early and said they were all alive, she said that she knew it all along. That she had seen them all being ok. When later they came out and said that all of them but one were dead, she changed her tune and said that she had seen them all along as not making it. As a matter of fact she actually said that she didn’t see any of them making it. So even when she had the information about how many they got out, she STILL got it wrong, because one of them did make it.

Now on the Montel Show (which is her own little talk show any more), she did this:



So Montel even tries to help her out, by reminding her that the guy died in the towers and there was no chance he drown. Then she tries to say that the guy drown in a puddle. I wish the lady in the audience had walked up there and slapped her in the face.

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Ugh… I wrote this yesterday and I thought I was done with it, but I was looking at this video again and I just can’t believe this lady. Look at her. Look at her nails and her face and how she is just wallowing around like a whale. How can people adore this bloated slob?

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Would you like to save us money and get nothing yourself?

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Brent

Nationalcity just emailed me to remind me that I can stop getting my paper copy of my statement and check everything online. Discover card says it to me all the time. Alltel (opps Windstream) includes it in everyone of their bills they send me and GM reminds me every month that I can get my payment automatically deducted and they won’t have to send me a slip.
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Conclusive Proof that Bill O’Reilly lies

Posted on August 20, 2006 by Brent

Man, O’Reilly is just an ass and the fact that his ego is so vast that he cannot even admit that he got this wrong is scary. I wonder if he is really this big of a cock or if it is just an act like Colbert.

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Macromedia Shockwave MST for machine installs

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Brent

Macromedia has an MSI out for Shockwave installs which is great if you use AD to push applications. The only bad thing is that because of some poor setups on their part it won’t install on a per machine install instead of a per user install. So I rolled up a transform file to fix it. You can get below.

Macromedia Shockwave MST for machine installs

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