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by Brent Kellogg
See photos  Photos of Gail
Music that got Brent beyond the worst of grief and keeps his head clear today.

NOTE: There's a new photo of old man time available.

FRIDAY, November 20, 2009 -- Bah Humbug! The Postal Service, citing security and privacy concerns of children, will no longer forward "Dear Santa" letters to the Alaska town of North Pole because names, addresses and other private information about small children could get into the wrong hands. Damn terrorists screwing it up for everyone.

The Mayor of North Pole is pissed. [The Postal Service is] "running roughshod" over the city. "What grinch would conceive of something so sinister?" Oh, Mr. Mayor. You gotta ask?

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Then there's the story about a 10-year-old Arkansas girl who refused to shower before bedtime. She threw a fit and was therefore zapped with a police Taser after her mother gave a cop she'd called permission. The girl was then handcuffed and taken to a youth shelter where she was accused of disorderly conduct.

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California regulators have set the nation's first energy efficiency regulations on TVs up to 58 inches sold after January 1, 2011. Only 25% of TVs on the market would meet those requirements today. TVs account for about 10% of home electricity use. With Americans buying bigger TVs and watching them longer, electricity consumption is estimated to increase 8% per year.

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Only in wealthy America with its overweight and obese population, a new federal report shows that nearly 50 million people struggled last year to get enough to eat.

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The Cancer Industry is pissed. The government is threatening to take away its repeat customer business and it can't be allowed. With a task force advising against mammograms for women under 50, and re-screens every two years, there is much money to lose.

You should know that mammograms are tools for patient recruitment. Once anything resembling cancer is found there are chemotherapy drugs, radiation and surgery to be doled out at high expense upwards of $5,000 per treatment. Detection technology behind mammograms is so advanced it can detect tiny tumors that almost all of us have whether they be dangerous or not. Furthermore, mammograms are good for scaring the bejesus out of women. The plan is to cause cancer by exposing women's breasts to radiation which almost always is required. Sometimes patients get zapped first, sometimes it follows chemo and especially if the chemo looks as if it might have done some good. That's how it was with Gail. Chemo first, terrible as it was, Gail said she was feeling better. Can't have that, the doctor said she better have radiation "just to be sure". This is how the cancer industry can make predictions like as to how many women diagnosed will actually develop cancer. They know because they're creating the cancer.

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Did you know that all of us has cancer cells in our body? Most aren't aware they have cancer cells because their immune system kills them as they form. So long as there's a balance between the number of new cancer cells in the body, and the strength of the immune system is strong, we will never get cancer.

Natural cancer treatments, shunned as "alternative cancer treatments", safely get rid of cancer cells and make the immune system stronger. Treatments include such radical things as eating the right foods, exercise and shit.

On the other hand, chemotherapy destroys a person's immune system as it does the stomach and colon, making it difficult for the patient to digest healthy foods. Chemo is so toxic that if you got enough of it you'd die long before the cancer cells. To say that someone is in "remission" is a misnomer. Radiation, surgery, it's all the same; nothing more than a way for the industry to suck you financially dry and then you die. Sorry, they did they best they could. Oh, and don't be expecting no call of condolence from the doctor. All he wants his is money. You can't pay it, your spouse will.

Scientific studies have shown that a person who does nothing will live longer than a person who uses industrial cancer treatments. The best you'll get from a doctor pushing chemo and radiation is that you might live another year. You'll be sick as a dog, but hey, you're alive.

Two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling, PhD, demonstrated that a person who uses 10 grams of vitamin C a day, by I.V., will live ten times longer than a person who avoids all industrial cancer treatments. Okay, brain swelling or tumors pressing on the bile duct, emergencies, notwithstanding.

Better than vitamin C, is eating right and, you know the drill, alternative treatment.

So why don't more people know about this? Why aren't there TV News reports? C'mon, you know.

MONEY!

Corporate media is in on the deal. It reaps billions every year for putting out deceptive information. It gladly airs Big Pharma's toxic drug ads.

Can't get an erection? Forget about changing your diet or exercising, taking a F-ing pill. Tired of having your monthly period? Take another pill. That'll put a stop to annoying Mother Nature.

Now, to further make my point, here's an actually "news" headline:

A CT scan - a kind of super X-ray -— provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study suggests.

Well, why not add potential heart attacks to the list of money makers. If the mammogram business slacks off, there will be the six million people each year who go to hospitals with chest pain. CT scans also expensive and pack a powerful amount of radiation.

After writing all this, I took a break and driving to the store heard an ad on the radio for Providence Hospital pushing its all-improved, best doctors anywhere (which might make you wonder as to the quality of doctors elsewhere) cancer center. Got cancer? Come to Providence so that it might help you "fight the battle" against cancer. Of course, there's no guarantee you'll win, but what the hell else are you going to do with all your money?

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Johns Hopkins researchers say they've found a way to cut men's risk of high-grade prostate cancer by an amazing 60%. Guess what it is. Class? You are correct! Eat right and thus lower artery-clogging high levels of cholesterol which in turn aggravates and blows the prostate up like a balloon and then needs to be removed and then men bitch that they can't get an erection which even a pill can't help at that point.

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Far be it for me to speak ill of the dead, but seeing this item nearly gave me a heart attack.

The late Tim Russert's old NBC office has been reassembled as an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington. The office has been recreated to look as it did on the day Russert died, complete with family photos, favorite books and Buffalo Bills pennants.

Hey, maybe it's not such a bad idea after all. Why, I'm a good mind to recreate how our bedroom looked the day Gail died in my arms; maybe even get it reassembled at the Griefeum in Kansas.