| 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)
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”
I thought this was a fantastic video:
over, and over, and over . . .
Ron Paul on Bernanke:
| December 10, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
Thursday, Dec. 10, 6:30 pm
Northwestern Rm., 3rd floor, IMU
Hosted by the University of Iowa Anti-War committee.
| December 10, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 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.
| December 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 7:00 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”.
| December 9, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Campaign for Liberty meeting
Wednesday, December 9th, 8:00pm at Iowa Room (335) Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA
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)