Not sure that this is something that should be offered, but who am I to question?
A Craigslist ad offering to sell frozen mother’s milk is being called “very dangerous” by officials with the Mother’s Milk Bank at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at P/SL.
“I am a very healthy mom (never done drugs, smoked, or even drank alcohol) of three kids,” the ad begins.
The poster said she is producing more milk than needed and has more than 200 ounces of milk in deep freeze.
She said she would like to sell it, but is willing to work something out.
via Craigslist Ad Selling Mother’s Milk Called ‘Very Dangerous’. Maybe this is the way things will eventually work out since this administration views breast milk as a possible cost cutter to reducing health care benefits.
…Benjamin also pointed to a study in the journal Pediatrics estimating that the nation would save $13 billion per year in health care and other costs if 90 percent of U.S. babies were exclusively breastfed for six months.
Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.
By contrast, the Chinese believe that the best way to protect their children is by preparing them for the future, letting them see what they’re capable of, and arming them with skills, work habits and inner confidence that no one can ever take away.
We don’t teach math. We don’t teach science. We teach self-esteem. They don’t have to even earn it, it’s a given. Critical thinking? Bah humbug!
Is the article tough? Yeah, but the truth is usually painful. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Amy Chua is blessed because her daughter’s were raised in the US. They compete with the self esteem children.
Children are capable of so much, but they need guidance and nurturing (not coddling). What do you think?
I find stoning barbaric and horrifying. Two young gay men will be stoned to death on Friday. One of their crimes:
Pictures of President Ahmadinejad were incorporated into the film and loaded onto their mobile telephones. In additions, headshots of Khamenei pasted over a donkey were also found on the mobiles.
via The Islamic Regime of Iran is to execute two young men for homosexuality by stoning.
Clerics my arse! These savages are far from human.
The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city’s garbage dumps.
“They can only have been one or two days old,” says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity’s morgue.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
More than 1,000 infants — most of them girls — were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.
The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan’s main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.
via Killings of newborn babies on the rise in Pakistan.
Details of Lance Armstrong sponsorship by United States Postal Service revealed. The document states that the USPS gave Armstrong almost $32 million in sponsorship money.
The U.S Postal Service spent $31.9 million to underwrite Lance Armstrong’s pro cycling team during its glory years of 2001 to 2004, approximately 60 to 65 percent of the team’s total budget, according to documents newly obtained from the agency under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Why are sponsoring this throw away of money? Really, this is just plain stupid and the big cheese at the USPS should be fired for it.
You remember the two nurses who went to the board and opened Pandora’s Box on a medical doctor. They had been harassed by the Sheriff, the DA, etc. Well, karma has now visited these creeps.
A state grand jury in Winkler County, Tex., has indicted the sheriff, the county attorney and a hospital administrator for their roles in orchestrating the prosecution of two whistle-blowing nurses after they had reported allegations of malpractice.
The sheriff, Robert L. Roberts Jr., and county attorney, Scott M. Tidwell, each face six counts, including misuse of official information and retaliation, which are third-degree felonies. Stan Wiley, the administrator of Winkler County Memorial Hospital, in the dusty West Texas town of Kermit, was indicted on two counts of retaliation.
The case was investigated by the state attorney general after a jury last year acquitted one of the nurses of charges that she had misused official information by providing patient case numbers to the Texas Medical Board. In 2009, the nurse, Anne Mitchell, and a colleague, Vickilyn Galle, included the case numbers in an anonymous letter to the board about the practices of Dr. Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., who had recently joined the small hospital in Kermit.
The case against Ms. Galle was dropped before trial. Dr. Arafiles, who was arrested last month, faces four criminal counts, and has been charged civilly by the medical board with a variety of practice violations.
The charges issued by the grand jury on Thursday stem from Dr. Arafiles’s approach to Sheriff Roberts after the doctor learned the medical board was investigating him. The sheriff, who was a patient and friend of the doctor, opened an investigation and, according to the indictment, used deceptive means to obtain the anonymous letter from the medical board.
The letter included details that implicated the nurses. Mr. Wiley fired the two women, who had a combined 47 years at the hospital, and Mr. Tidwell handled their prosecution.
The nurses sued the county and settled last year for a shared $750,000.
Sheriff and 2 Others Charged in Texas Whistle-Blowing Case. Misuse of the law. It’s good to know that you will be taken to task if you break the law.
