Thursday, December 29, 2005

It was too much to hope for...

... the program started out with purpose. It was speaking to 'the truth' I have stated existed in New Orleans since the day the disaster struck. The reality that no one in this administration cared about those in The Ninth Ward except to bulldoze their lives into oblivion. Reclaiming the 'real estate' while ridding the country of it's own worst 'truth,' the poverty of they bayous of Louisiana.

What Anderson Cooper 360 doesn't state is the courts are 'onto' the fact the work to reclaim the dead citizens of New Orleans isn't done !

Judge puts hold on home razing
Activists' concerns to get a hearing
Thursday, December 29, 2005
By Frank DonzeStaff writer


http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1135840787161300.xml

The planned demolition of hundreds of hurricane-ravaged homes in New Orleans has been put on hold until Jan. 6, when a judge has scheduled a hearing on a legal challenge to the controversial proposal announced last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's administration.
City Hall officials agreed to the delay Wednesday following a brief appearance before Civil Court Judge Herbert Cade, who had been asked by a coalition of activists to ban the bulldozing of up to 2,500 homes over the next several weeks.

New Orleans lawyer Bill Quigley, a longtime advocate for the poor and working-class, is seeking an injunction to stop the demolitions on behalf of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund, an umbrella group consisting of about 60 local organizations dedicated to Hurricane Katrina recovery.

THE TIMES PICAYUNE should be required reading for the nation !

After that segment this program AGAIN sunk into Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, seeking it's notoriety by presenting EVERY odd and unsolved medical condition on the face of Earth. They should devote the same energy into solving problems such as Global Warming. That will not happen here because the 'weird' and any type of subject of sensationalism is their speciality. This isn't a news program. It's a program for people with empty lives to feel and think of themselves as noble for the 'knowledge' they have regarding 'trendy' morality rather than lives of purpose and true values.

Anyone can 'perform' to moral standards in front of a camera interlaced with 'People Magazine' at it's heart, but, it takes a 'real journalist' to bring the news to the American Public in a way that matters. Anderson touts himself as CNN's Nicholas Kristoff. Not hardly.

Good night and good luck. Dear God, this is going to go on for another hour exploiting the president of the Ukraine's skin erosion as a stimulus.

S.O.S.

NewsNight with Aaron Brown ranked SECOND at CNN only behind Larry King and 13th (Unlucky number I guess.) overall in Cable News.

For this he is replaced? Talk about Anti-American. Now, we get the profound pleasure of being yelled at by a news anchor with misplaced loyalty and values. Smile 'purdy' for the camera, Anderson.

2005: The Program Ranker

Bill O'Reilly is the king of cable news again this year. He's #1 on the 2005 weekday program ranker, followed by H&C, Greta, Shep and Hume. The "Competitive Program Analysis" shows CNN's Larry King at #6 (and #5 in the 25-54 demo).

The defunct NewsNight with Aaron Brown comes in as CNN's #2 program of the year, ranking #13 overall. Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room is CNN's #3 and Paula Zahn now is #4. Headline News star Nancy Grace ranks 25th on the chart, averaging 510,000 viewers for the year. Prime News was the second most-popular HLN show, averaging 335,000.On MSNBC, Rita Cosby was #1. Chris Matthews (#2), Keith Olbermann (#3) and Joe Scarborough (#4) were all within 20,000 viewers of eachother. See it all for yourself:

McCarthy still manages to divide us

Comment: I don't have to watch PBS, but I do, regularly, for "Frontline," "Great Performances," "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," "American Experience" and specials. Widely beloved by seniors, Welk isn't the problem. It's stations like Channels 10/36, which rerun dog-eared entertainment shows endlessly.

A column on CNN replacing newscaster Aaron Brown with the younger, buffer Anderson Cooper stirred angry comment.

Their competitor, Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, thanked me for calling her "the pride of Appleton."

"I'm very proud to be from there," she e-mailed. "I brag about Appleton and Wisconsin all the time and for good reason. Also, I miss living in Wisconsin."

The entire world has issues, you know what I mean?

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Andy and Frankenstein, the weather men.

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Andy is a fast talker, isn't he?

Blah, blah, blah….

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Red Tape at the Gulf Coast.

You know I am tired of hearing about the 'frustration' of 'dealing with' this dysfunctional society created by Bush. When are you going to bring news about facts that facilitate issues rather than promoting frustration.

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The news secretary.


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E. Coli. Now that is a subject that is burgeoning on the horizon of medical science as the daunting issue of the century. You actually got Sanjay Gupta to discuss BOWEL bacteria. I wonder if the poor child was infected by his own feces, Anderson? Imagine discussing 'bowel bacteria' on an international news program with a segment about children that got ill because that bacteria found it's way into their blood.

You are a sick SOB, Anderson. You ever play in your own feces, Bubba. I looked high and low on CNN e-page and nowhere appears an article on e.coli.


Nope. No e.coli anywhere except AC360.

http://search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query=e.coli

There was this article on the net:

Shareholder dairy’s milk tests positive for E. coli

Cookson BeecherCapital Press Staff WriterSamples of raw milk from Dee Creek Farm in Woodland, Wash., have tested positive for E. coli, according to information from the Washington State Department of Agriculture.The investigation of the dairy was triggered by an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 that has sickened several people, most of them children, in southwest Washington and Clatsop County, Ore.Marni Storey, public health manager for the Clark County Health Department, said this latest finding of E. coli in the farm’s milk adds further support to the likelihood that the outbreak is linked to the consumption of milk from the farm.The county’s Public Health Department is investigating illness in 18 people for E. coli infection. Fifteen of those people are children between the ages of 1 and 13. All of them reported consuming unpasteurized milk products from the farm.Five children were hospitalized. Two are still in the hospital and improving.“We are pleased the hospitalized children have improved,” said Storey. “Our focus continues to be to do all that we can to prevent any more illness or hospitalizations.”Anyone who has consumed unpasteurized milk products from Dee Creek Farm or its shareholders within the past four weeks and who has had bloody or crampy diarrhea is urged to contact a local health-care provider or the local health department as soon as possible.The milk samples, which were provided by the shareholders of the dairy, will be sent to the Washington State Public Health laboratory to verify that the strain of E. coli found in the milk is the same that has sickened the people who drank unpasteurized milk from the farm.On Dec. 20, laboratory testing had confirmed that seven of the sick individuals have E. coli 0157:H7, a virulent form of E. coli, a bacteria that lives in the guts of people and animals. E. coli DNA “fingerprinting” results have been received on four of the seven samples taken from the sick people, and all have the same matching DNA fingerprints.Dee Creek Farm operates a shareholder dairy. Under this type of arrangement, consumers buy a “share” of a dairy animal in return for a portion of its milk. The farm is not licensed by the state to sell raw milk, authorities said.In August, the farm ignored a demand by the state’s Agriculture Department that it stop selling milk until it obtained a state license. Under state law, a shareholder dairy is legal but must be licensed by the state before it can distribute raw milk. State licensing includes monthly testing of milk samples and requires raw-milk producers to meet higher standards than those producing pasteurized milk.Many shareholder dairies say they don’t need a license because the dairy animals are owned by the shareholders and therefore the animals’ milk is also owned by the shareholders.Dee Creek operators Michael and Anita Puckett have five cows and arranged to distribute raw milk to about 45 families.Claudia Coles, food safety manager for the state’s Agriculture Department, said Dee Creek has been shut down. Reporters have not been able to reach anyone at the farm.In response to the E. coli outbreak in Washington state, the federal Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to drink raw milk because it may contain harmful bacteria that can cause life-threatening illnesses.According to the FDA’s website, although the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with E. coli 0157:H7 have involved ground beef, such outbreaks have also involved unpasteurized apple and orange juice, unpasteurized milk, alfalfa sprouts and water. Fresh vegetables have also caused outbreaks.Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who has won hefty settlements for E. coli victims in other cases, said parents of two sick children have asked him to look into their case.“Its a tragedy all around,” said Marler. “Even though the parents purchased the milk their kids consumed, they certainly didn’t anticipate that the product would have a deadly pathogen in it that could make their kids sick.”Marler said a colleague is analyzing the seven- or eight-page contract that the shareholders signed with Dee Creek.Marler also said the state’s liability will also be investigated.

MAYBE there are more? Do you think there are more articles about e.coli, Anderson?

Let's find out.

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Why Anderson the planet is full of e. coli !

Escherichia Coli

O157:H7

Outbreaks Associated With Petting Zoos, N Carolina, Florida And Arizona, 2004-2005Category: Veterinary NewsArticle Date: 29 Dec 2005

During 2004-2005, three outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections occurred among agricultural fair, festival, and petting zoo visitors in North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. One hundred eight cases, including 15 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome* (HUS), were reported in the North Carolina outbreak; 63 cases, including seven HUS cases, were reported in the Florida outbreak; and two cases were reported in Arizona. No fatalities occurred. Illnesses primarily affected children who visited petting zoos at these events. This report summarizes findings from these outbreak investigations, which indicated the need for adequate control measures to reduce zoonotic transmission of E. coli O157:H7.


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Why Anderson, it could be a global emergency bigger than the bird flu. I'll keep looking, Anderson.

E coli warning for imported luxury cheese

RUSSELL JACKSON
FOOD standards officers are warning shoppers not to buy certain luxury brands of imported French cheese and butter which may be contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of E coli food poisoning.
The Food Standards Agency last night issued an urgent Food Alert about Camembert and Coulommiers cheese and Le Gaslonde unpasteurised butter because of possible contamination with the deadly E coli 026 strain.

Why look Anderson, people are sueing e. coli. There should a law !

Two families hurt by E. coli hire lawyers

Wednesday, December 21, 2005By DON HAMILTON, Columbian staff writer
A Seattle law firm specializing in food liability lawsuits will represent two families victimized by the recent E. coli outbreak with an eye toward suing the farm that provided the raw milk that sickened their children.
The law firm Marler Clark won recognition for winning more than $20 million in settlements following the Jack-in-the-Box E. coli outbreak in 1993 and a $12 million settlement in 1998 in the Odwalla apple juice outbreak.
Eighteen people, 15 of them children ages 1 to 13, have been sickened in the outbreak, and all 18 consumed raw milk from Dee Creek Farm near Woodland. Two children remain hospitalized but their conditions are improving.
Clark County and state health officials have been testing and cross-testing milk samples and E. coli victims to determine the scientific link between the milk and the bacteria.


Anderson look at this. Do you think it could be GERM WARFARE? Oh, no. Georgie was right about Iraq.

How E. Coli Bacterium Generates Simplicity From Complexity

The ubiquitous and usually harmless E. coli bacterium, which has one-seventh the number of genes as a human, has more than 1,000 of them involved in metabolism and metabolic regulation. Activation of random combinations of these genes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers at UCSD will report in the Dec. 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that Escherichia coli doesn’t gamble with its metabolism. In a surprise about E. coli that may offer clues about how human cells operate, the PNAS paper reports that only a handful of dominant metabolic states are found in E. coli when it is “grown” in 15,580 different environments in computer simulations.

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Boy, it's a good thing you brought this up tonight. Glad I tuned in. Saved my life. Where would I be without Anderson Cooper. That was a close one !

Six E. coli cases linked to milk produced at unlicensed dairy
Wednesday, December 14, 2005By TOM VOGT, Columbian staff writer
Six confirmed cases of E. coli have been linked to drinking unpasteurized milk from an unlicensed Cowlitz County dairy.
All the victims are children between the ages of 5 and 14. Three are in area hospitals, including two in critical condition, said Dr. Justin Denny, Clark County health officer. The other hospitalized child is improving.
None of the children has been identified. The bacteria can cause life-threatening illnesses, but no information has been released about the children's medical problems.
Clark County health investigators have identified one common link, Denny said: All six drank unpasteurized milk that was produced by Dee Creek Farm, a family-run dairy in Cowlitz County.
Four cases were confirmed Monday and the other two cases had been categorized as probable.