January 19, 2010

The election is Tuesday, January 19th. Find your polling place here.

Does anybody have any insight into this race? One of three bullet points on a mailing from Lori Cardella is “exercising fiscal prudence is all aspects of government,” which certainly *sounds* good.

Anybody?

(bumped up by Admin)

Roman | Event | posted Jan 19th | No Comments »

From the Press Citizen:

“Kudos to the Iowa City Council on Tuesday night for agreeing to review our water fluoridation policy in a future work session.

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The anti-water fluoridation movement did a good job informing the council of the dangers of adding fluoride to the public water supply.

According to The Fluoride Action Network (www.fluoridealert.org):

• The fluoride added to our water supplies comes from toxic waste and does not come from a sterile lab.

• Silicofluorides added are 85 times more toxic that naturally occurring calcium fluoride.

• Fluoride is a topical agent and should not be consumed since it is highly poisonous.

• Even at 1 parts per million. fluoride has been shown to cause brain defects and bone cancer in lab rats.

• Ninety-eight percent of Western Europe will not use fluoride. Japan won’t. China won’t. About 60 percent of the U.S. still fluoridates their water.

Iowa City spends more than $14,000 a year to medicate a population of almost 64,000 people with fluoride without consent. This practice has been in place since the 1950s.

Since the council has such a huge responsibility of medicating our city by defacto policy. I hope they will consult an ethicist and a toxicologist and not just a dentist in their work sessions.

Times are changing. We can’t rely on junk science of the 1950s in order to just keep things status quo. I am very optimistic the council will do it’s homework and finally stop this out dated and unsafe practice.

Mark Amberg
Iowa City”

Roman | General | posted Jan 19th | No Comments »

I thought this was a fantastic video:

Roman | General | posted Jan 17th | No Comments »

over, and over, and over . . .

Ron Paul on Bernanke:

Roman | General | posted Dec 16th | No Comments »
December 10, 2009
6:30 pmto7:30 pm

Thursday, Dec. 10, 6:30 pm
Northwestern Rm., 3rd floor, IMU

Hosted by the University of Iowa Anti-War committee.

Roman | Event | posted Dec 10th | No Comments »
December 10, 2009
6:00 pmto7:00 pm

Please join us for the last Austrian Economics meeting of the semester, tonight at 6 pm in the Kirkwood room (257) of the IMU.

Our main objective will be to make room reservations for the following semester and discuss the Spring course.

Roman | Event | posted Dec 10th | 2 Comments »
December 9, 2009
6:00 pmto7:00 pm

Iowa Solutions Debate: Education Reform
Wednesday, December 9th, 6:00pm at Cedar Rapids Crowne Plaza Hotel

Former Speaker of the House Chris Rants, a gubernatorial candidate, and former Des Moines School Board member Jonathan R. Narcisse, from “An Iowa Worth Fighting For.” have announced a six city “Iowa Solution Oriented Debate Series”.

Roman | Event | posted Dec 7th | No Comments »
December 9, 2009
8:00 pmto10:00 pm

Campaign for Liberty meeting
Wednesday, December 9th, 8:00pm at Iowa Room (335) Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA

Roman | Event | posted Dec 7th | No Comments »

iowanhalstead | General | posted Dec 3rd | 1 Comment »

Here is the original story.

My response:

“Regarding ‘wow factor.’ I can understand the architect’s enthusiasm for what sounds like an immense, complicated project. We should all take pride in our work. Perhaps I can shed some light on the public’s indifference.

I know I’m not alone in considering the new $160-million federal courthouse building in Cedar Rapids just another expression of our excessive, obscene, financially bankrupt government, which I’m required to pay for, just like I pay for bank bailouts, stimuli, domestic spying programs and foreign, undeclared wars.” (more at onlinegazette.com)

Roman | General | posted Dec 2nd | No Comments »