Dear Big Pharma:
Your industry is truly amazing: your accomplishments include:
FDA Promotes Unsafe Milk Due to Industry Pressure
I browse news about the FDA and Big Pharma a couple of times a week; I don't recall a single one of those browsing sessions not yielding one or more items about the crimes that these two - the FDA and Big Pharma - continue to commit. Here is one such item that particularly pissed me off, published less that a week ago – February 8, 2009. You can read the whole item here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/fda-promotes-unsafe-milk_b_184886.html.
The title of this post, same as the title of the news item, says it all. I have been writing – on this blog and in my timos web site – about the scariest, most powerful drug cartel in the world, the USA Drug Cartel, not only the biggest and richest one but the best protected one, thanks to the FDA gang. This alliance between the FDA and Big Pharma makes the Italian Mafia look like a bunch of choir boys and girls.
... and keeps expanding business by perpetrating more crimes against Americans.
The Big Pharma disease mongers,
not happy with being able to sell anti-depressants for use on pets, recently
obtained approval from their partner in crime – the FDA, another bunch that
should be behind bars – to promote the use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs
for use by children age 8 and up.
But wait, there's more: the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee has announced
that infants as young as TWO years old need to be screened for high cholesterol!
Read these facts on my web site and try not to toss your cookies: http://www.timos.com/timos/timoCorner/timoArticle.cfm?locale=en_US&itemID=78.
Something else, curious, to say the least: just a few days ago, I took my granddaughter to a place called Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego. Imagine my surprise when, looking to get a cup of coffee, I am directed to the food concession for this hospital for children, which turns out to be part of America's biggest cholesterol palace – a McDonald's. Makes one wonder who gets a referral fee from whom.
This should be enough to shut down several government agencies, including but not limited to the EPA, the FDA, the USDA, and start over.
The Letter Written in the Year 2070 has been circulating since 2002, when it was first published. I just learned about it by chance, a couple of weeks ago, when someone emailed it to me. But I couldn't find an English version anywhere, so I did a translation.
This, you MUST see – and spread it around as much as possible. Just go to this page on my web site.
Some may think it's bullshit or a scare tactic. But it's a possibility. Don't miss it.
Hello there – long time no see.
For the last couple of months, I have been doing a lot of "writing", but not the usual kind. I have been translating articles from English to Spanish. They are now published on my web site at http://www.dircolombia.com/dc/sda/sda.cfm.
The purpose of that site is to connect the US public with the Colombian community both here and in Colombia, mostly for business-related issues (a lot of you know that Colombia is my native country).
Most people, even those who don't speak Spanish, have heard the adage "Salud, dinero y amor" – "Health, wealth and love". I recently started a new section of the site, using the adage as the section's title. That's what the 'sda' in the URL stands for.
The idea is to present material on those three subjects. So far, all but one of the articles come from 'Early to Rise' (ETR), which publishes the best daily email letter I have ever seen – I have been reading it daily for the last 3+ years. The stuff in that letter is excellent. You might want to check out at least some of the articles. If you do, you will find a link at the bottom of each one, where you can subscribe to the newsletter directly with ETR, if you wish.
So, it looks like I'll now be able to get back to creating new posts for this blog, especially about my favorite subject, FOOD/CUISINE.
See you soon,
Carlos (Timo)
Related to the previous posts about Revolting Comedians and Slob Imus:
If you want to have a good laugh, visit this site and see What We Call the News.
Recently, I received several error message e-mails when readers attempted to print entries on this blog; they were unable to print using the "Print" link that appears at the bottom of each entry.
This is not a problem with this blog: it only fails in Internet Explorer 7, not in other browsers. The blog converts the blog entry into an Adobe PDF file, which gives you a nicely formatted page you can print.
THE SOLUTION: install the latest version (8) of Acrobat Reader – it's free and only takes a couple of minutes. To do that, just go to the Adobe site HERE and follow the prompts.
The above is how I fixed the problem; now it works. I apologize for any inconvenience.
Carlos
Imus: fired, gone, history.
This morning, I got en email from which I quote: "At a campaign stop on Wednesday, Sen. John McCain was asked what to do about Iran. His response? He sang "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann." Seriously. He says it was a joke ...."
I just read this article in today's San Francisco Chronicle. It's about the recent gaffe by that poor slob, Don Imus, who, as a comedian, can make John Kerry look like the next Robin Williams. Well, he probably would rather have spent the past six days in the electric chair.
I had never heard of Imus until a few days ago, when all the uproar began, but rumor has it that this is not his first offense. So, fine; n strikes and you are out. But I don't believe for a second that he was fired because of his bad taste; more likely the real reason was that "several of the cable show's major sponsors pulled their advertising in recent days, including Proctor & Gamble, American Express and Staples". You want to see some action? Hit'em in the pocket.
This blog is a brand new endeavor as of this date. I can think of a lot more important things to write about than myself, but since some visitors to a certain little web site I have out there have expressed an interest in knowing who I am, I am referring them to this blog – I just don't think a lot of personal information belongs in a business site. So here goes:
