Planned Parrenthood

1. Companies that support (1/31/12)
1. Yahoo!
1. I deleted my account (1/3/12)
2. 3Com Corporation
3. Abbott Laboratories Fund
4. Adaptec, Inc.
5. Adobe Systems, Inc.
6. Alcoa
7. Allstate Giving Campaign
8. ALZA Corporation
9. AMD – Advanced Micro Devices
10. America’s Charities – Employee Giving Program
11. American Express corporation
12. Ameriprise Financial
13. Amgen Corporation
14. Amica Companies
15. Aon Corporation
16. Aspect Global Giving Program
17. AT&T
18. Autodesk, Inc.
19. Avon Products
20. Bakar Foundation, Gerson
21. Bank of America
22. Barclays Global Investors
23. Baxter International
24. BCC Software
25. Becton Dickinson & Company
26. Birkenstock Footprint Sandals, Inc.
27. Black & Decker
28. Boing – The Employee Community Fund
29. Bristol-Myers Squibb
30. Brobeck Charitable Foundation
31. Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
32. California Healthcare
33. California Wellness
34. Capital Group Companies
35. Central New York Community Foundation
36. Charles Schwab
37. Chase Manhattan
38. ChevronTexaco
39. Chubb & Son, Inc.
40. Cisco Systems (They are still listed on PP Website; see post below)
41. Citibank
42. Citigroup
43. Click Commerce
44. Clorox
45. CMP Media, Inc.
46. Coca-Cola
47. Compton Foundation, Inc.
48. Computer Associates Int’l, Inc.
49. Cooper Industries
50. Cowell Foundation, S.H.
51. Del Monte Foods
52. eBay
53. Electronic Arts, Inc.
54. Equity Foundation
55. Exxon Mobil
56. Fannie Mae
57. Federated Department Stores, Inc.
58. Fidelity Investments
59. First Data Corporation
60. Fleet
61. Flora Family Foundation
62. Ford Motor Company
63. Freddie Mac
64. Fremont Group
65. Gallagher Foundation, Arthur J.
66. Gannett
67. Gap
68. Genentech, Inc.
69. General Electric
70. General Physics Corporation
71. General Re Corporation
72. Georgia-Pacific Corporation
73. Gleason
74. Grainger, Inc.
75. Haas Fund, Evelyn and Walter Jr.
76. Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy LLP
77. Harcourt, Inc.
78. Hewlett Foundation, William & Flora
79. Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
80. Hospira
81. Household International
82. Hunter Davidson Giving Campaign
83. IBM
84. Idea Connections
85. IKON Office Solutions
86. Illinois Tool Works
87. Infocom Group
88. International Data Group, Inc.
89. Irvine Foundation, James
90. James River Corporation
91. Joseph Seagram and Sons
92. Johnson and Johnson
93. JP Morgan
94. Kaiser Family Foundation, Henry J.
95. KPMG Involve Community Campaign
96. Kraft Foods Matching Gift Program
97. Lam Research Corporation
98. Leo Burnett Company
99. Levi Strauss
100. Liberty Mutual
101. Macromedia
102. Macworld Communications, Inc.
103. Macy’s West Gift Campaign
104. Mastercard International
105. Maxwell PR, LLC
106. Meyer Memorial Trust
107. McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
108. Merck Company
109. Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
110. Microsoft Corporation
111. Millipore
112. Monsanto Fund
113. Monsoon, Inc.
114. Moore Foundation, Gordon & Betty
115. Morgan Chase
116. Morgan Stanley
117. Morrison & Foerster
118. Motorola
119. National Grid
120. National Semiconductor Corp.
121. Network Associates
122. Network for Good
123. Nike Employee Matching Gift
124. Nokia
125. Northern Trust Company
126. ODS HealthPlans
127. Olin Corporation
128. Oracle Corporation
129. Oregon Health and Sciences – University Employee Campaign
130. Packard Foundation, David and Lucille
131. PCW Communications, Inc.
132. Peninsula Community Foundation
133. PepsiCo
134. Pfizer
135. Phillip Morris
136. Pitney Bowes
137. Providian Financial
138. Prudential Insurance
139. Quaker Oats
140. Qualcomm Inc.
141. RBC Dain Rauscher
142. Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon
143. Rejuvenation, Inc.
144. Rockefeller Foundation
145. Rosendin Electric, Inc.
146. Safeco Corporation
147. San Jose Mercury News
148. SBC
149. Schwab Corporation
150. Shudder Kemper Investments, Inc.
151. Sunoco
152. Standard Insurance – The Matching Gift Center
153. Starbucks
154. Stuart Foundation
155. Sun Microsystems
156. Synopsis
157. T. Rowe Price
158. Tandy Corporation
159. TAP Pharmaceutical Products
160. Tektronix
161. Tenet Healthcare
162. The Tides Corporation
163. United Airlines Employee Campaign
164. Umpqua Bank – Giving Campaign
165. U.S. Bancorp
166. UBS Realty Investments LLC
167. Vanguard Group
168. Verizon
169. Vernier Software, LLC
170. Washington Mutual
171. Washington Post Company
172. Washington State Combined Fund Drive
173. Wellpoint
174. Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign
175. West Group
176. White & Case
177. Working Assets Funding Service
178. Xerox
179. Xinet

Fried Food

1. "In Spain, a Mediterranean country where olive or sunflower oil is used for frying, the consumption of fried foods was not associated with coronary heart disease or with all cause mortality." (BJM 1/31/12)

Mind Body

1. "...how a person views his illness may play a bigger role in determining his health outcomes than the actual severity of his disease." (1/28/12)

Roe V Wade

Last week marked the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that permitted abortions. Prior to that case, abortion was regulated by each state, and most of them prohibited it unless two physicians could certify that the baby growing in the mother's womb would likely result in the death of the mother. Even the states that permitted abortions when the pregnancy was caused by rape or incest, an extremely rare occurrence, did not permit it after the sixth month of pregnancy.

Roe vs. Wade changed all that. It permits abortions in all 50 states during the first three months of pregnancy for any reason or for no reason. It permits abortions during the second three months of pregnancy for the health of the mother. "Health of the mother" can mean mental health; thus, most states have taken the liberal position that if a continued pregnancy would make the mom sad or challenge her psychologically, or if she has second thoughts about the pregnancy, the baby may be aborted.

Roe vs. Wade also permits the states to prohibit or to allow abortions during the last three months of pregnancy. Most states prohibit all abortions during the final three months, as this is the period of viability; when the baby can live – assisted, of course – outside the mother's womb. New Jersey, my home state, is the exception, as it permits abortions up to the moment of birth.

In the past 39 years, American physicians have performed more than 50 million abortions. Abortion is the most frequent medical procedure performed in the U.S. The linchpin to Roe vs. Wade is the Court's rationale that because the decision to undergo an abortion ordinarily occurs between patient and physician, and because that interaction ordinarily takes place in private, the right to privacy insulates abortion from the reach of the State. Roe vs. Wade itself does not define the right to an abortion, but it does unambiguously declare that the baby in the womb is not a person, and that the right to privacy protects the mother's decision to kill the baby.

Did you catch that? The Supreme Court declared that the baby in the womb is not a person. When it made that declaration, it rejected dozens of decisions of other courts, in America and in Great Britain, holding that the baby in the womb is a person. This is reminiscent of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision in 1857 in which it ruled that blacks were not persons. In both cases, it cited no precedent, it gave no rational basis, and in Roe vs. Wade, it merely said that because philosophers, physicians and lawyers could not agree on whether babies in wombs are persons, it would declare them not to be persons.

If the baby in the womb is a person, then all abortion is unlawful. That's because of the constitutional protection for all persons. The Constitution unambiguously prohibits the government from impairing or permitting others to impair the life, liberty and property of persons without due process. Here's my political beef with so-called pro-life politicians in both parties. In the years in which the pro-life Ronald Reagan and both Presidents Bush were in the White House, from time to time, both chambers of Congress had pro-life majorities. Did you see any legislation passed that declared a baby in the womb to be a person? No. This could have been done by a simple majority vote and presidential signature, and Roe vs. Wade, and all the killing it spawned, would have ended.

How scary is this? The Supreme Court declares a class of humanity not to be persons, and then permits people to destroy the members of the class. That's what happened to blacks during slavery; that was the philosophical argument underlying the Holocaust; that's what is happening to babies in the womb today; and that might become the basis for the government killing persons it hates or fears in the future. It will declare them to be non-persons.

Is the baby in the womb a person? Of course babies in wombs are persons. From the moment of the union of egg and sperm, there is present a fully actualizable human genome; meaning all the genetic material necessary for post-birth existence is there. And the parents of that union are human beings. With human parents and a human genome, what else could a baby in a womb be but a person? If you have any doubt, why not give the benefit of that doubt to life, rather than to death? Unless you prefer death to life and killing to nurturing and misery to joy, I expect you agree.

Since you have been reading this essay, 10 babies have lost their lives, as abortions occur in the U.S. about two and a half times a minute. How long can a society last when we cannot protect the weakest among us, and when we destroy them out of convenience, and when we make that destruction legal? Who will be destroyed next?

Reprinted with the author's permission.

Muscle

1. The substance that causes muscles to get bigger when they are used to do more work has been found. (1/21/12)

Borderline Personality Disorder

1. Black-and-white thinking (Wikipedia 1/21/12)

Personality Disorders

1. Definition
1. A class of personality types and enduring behaviors associated with significant distress or disability (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
2. Types
1. Paranoid personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
2. Schizoid personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
3. Schizotypal personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
4. Antisocial personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
5. Borderline personality disorder   (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
6. Histrionic personality disorder (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
7. Narcissistic personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
8. Avoidant personality disorder   (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
9. Dependent personality disorder  (Wikipedia 1/27/12)
10. Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder   (Wikipedia 1/27/12)

Global Warming

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God's Will

1. "Religious people are in a certain danger of taking their own will as if it must be God's will and, in that misapprehension, forcing it upon others."  (Theology and Sanity, page 48, 2/1/12)
2. You now you are in God's will by knowing God's peace. (1/21/12)

Black Tea

1. Drinking 3 cups of black tea per day lowered blood pressure by about 2 mmHg. (1/26/12)
2. "In this epidemiological study, greater tea consumption in the previous year was associated with a lower risk of AMI [acute myocardial infarction]." (Clinical Nutrition, 3/26/12)

Cognitive Dissonance

1. Definition
1. "a discomfort caused by holding conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment.^{[1]" (Wikipedia 1/26/12)}

Peripheral Vascular Disease

1. Supervised exercise resulted in superior treadmill walking performance than placing a stent in those with peripheral vascular disease. (1/6/12)

Liberalism

1. Proof that liberalism is a psychological disorder (1/26/12)
1. The essence of liberalism  is entitlement (1/26/12)
1. Liberals believe all are entitled to health care   (1/26/12)
2. Liberals believe the poor are  entitled  to aide from the government.   (1/26/12)
3. Liberals believe are all adults are  entitled  to have sex with other consenting adults.  (1/26/12)
4. Liberals believe women are  entitled  to abortions.  (1/26/12)
2. Entailment is a symptom of narcissism (1/26/12)
3. Narcissism is a personality disorder  (1/26/12)
4. Personalty disorders are psychological disorders. (1/26/12)
5. Therefor liberalism is a psychological disorder. (1/26/12)

Narcissism

1. John Murray (1964) "narcissistic triad".    (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
1. Narcissistic entitlement,    (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
2. Disappointment and disillusionment at the frustration of narcissistic needs,
3. Narcissistic rage'.^[4]   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
2. Hotchkiss identified what she called the seven deadly sins of narcissism:^{[18]  (Wikipedia 1/26/12)}
1. Shamelessness: Shame is the feeling that lurks beneath all unhealthy narcissism, and the inability to process shame in healthy ways.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
2. Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to dump shame onto others.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
3. Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may reinflate by diminishing, debasing, or degrading somebody else.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
4. Envy: A narcissist may secure a sense of superiority in the face of another person's ability by using contempt to minimize the other person.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
5. Entitlement: Narcissists hold unreasonable expectations of particularly favorable treatment and automatic compliance because they consider themselves special. Failure to comply is considered an attack on their superiority, and the perpetrator is considered an "awkward" or "difficult" person. Defiance of their will is a narcissistic injury that can trigger narcissistic rage.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
6. Exploitation: Can take many forms but always involves the exploitation of others without regard for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. Sometimes the subservience is not so much real as assumed.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)
7. Bad boundaries: Narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate and are not extensions of themselves. Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who providenarcissistic supply to the narcissist are treated as if they are part of the narcissist and are expected to live up to those expectations. In the mind of a narcissist there is no boundary between self and other.   (Wikipedia 1/26/12)

Statin

1. ‎'Statin medication [a type of medication used to lower cholesterol] use in postmenopausal women is associated with an increased risk for DM [diabetes] [hazard ratio, 1.71]." (1/222/12)
2. Statin drugs now carry a US Food and Drug Administration warning that they may increase the risk of diabetes mellitus and may worsen glycemic control in patients who already have diabetes. (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2012vol. 79 12 883-89312/31/12}

Bad Questions

1. To those who say there is no such thing as a bad question, I would ask "Do you still beat your spouse?" (1/21/12)

Mental Illness

1. 1 In 5 Americans With Mental Illness (1/20/12)
2. "After decades of ignoring or minimising the prevalence and effects of negative events in childhood, researchers have recently established that a broad range of adverse childhood events are significant risk factors for most mental health problems, including psychosis." (The British Journal of Psychiatry (2012) 200: 89-91doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.111.096727, 2/21/12)

Osteoporosis

1. If you are a postmenopausal women and had a bone density scan that was normal or showed mild osteopenia your chance of developing osteoporosis over the next 15 years is less than 10%.(1/20/12)

Marijuana

1. "Occasional and low cumulative marijuana use was not associated with adverse effects on pulmonary [lung] function," however higher usage was. (1/12/12)

Myocardial Infarction

1. Patients with an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) and a potassium levels between 3.5 and 4.5 mEq/L had the lowest mortality rate in the hospital. The mortality rate was twice as great for patients with a potassium of 4.5 to 5.0 mEq/L even though current guidelines recommend maintaining serum potassium levels between 4.0 and 5.0 mEq/L. (1/12/11)
2. ‎"The incidence rate of acute MI [ myocardial infarction (heart attack)] onset was elevated 21.1-fold (95% confidence interval, 13.1–34.1) within 24 hours of the death of a significant person and declined steadily on each subsequent day." (1/24/12)

Cognitive Ability

1. All cognitive abilities, except vocabulary, start to declineat age 45-49 and decline faster in older people. (1/10/12)

Girl Scouts

1. Catholic parish bans Girl Scout troops over ties to Planned Parenthood (1/25/12)

2. Pro-abortion

1. Pro-life college student quits job with Girl Scouts over ‘end abortion’ t-shirt

   
   

Peripheral Vascular Disease

1. Supervised exercise resulted in superior treadmill walking performance than placing a stent in those with peripheral vascular disease. (1/6/12)

Salvation Army

1. Salvation Army USA clashes with international group over abortion (1/3/12)

Logic

1. “You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” ― G.K. Chesterton (1/2/12)

Feminism

1. “It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.” ― G.K. Chesterton (1/2/12)

Novels

1. “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” 
   ― G.K. Chesterton (1/2/12)

Contentment

1. “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” ― G.K. Chesterton (1/2/12)