Colorado Activists Confront CDC Official on Mandatory Vaccinations

Now, in this case of H1N1, I do NOT think mandatory vaccinations are necessarily required. Why? Because as yet this flu as not shown itself to be more deadly than the "seasonal flu". Furthermore, due to the over-hype surrounding this flu, I fear there is much more propaganda than information about this new virus. Now, I think there will be benefit for some to have these new vaccines but there does not seem to be rationale outside the realm of speculation of what this new strain might do. I would argue that the seasonal flu has just as much chance of becoming a monster as this flu given its current performance. Now, are there some shady things going on in the background that may be scrupulous? Maybe, but I doubt what is in the vaccines wil be anymore "evil" than what is already in the normal vaccines (of which there is no "evil"). Still, something new and rushed to boot by a industry that is not looked well upon is bound to get some negative attention, warranted or not. Still, you must decide for yourself what to do in this matter and in order to do so, I suggest making it know that mandatory vaccinations for this flu are a bit extreme and should not be considered in those (US) states which have not decided yet on a course of action. As for those whom have, you can still make your voice known.

As a side note, I do NOT agree with the gentlemen in this video who says kids are "over-vaccinates". That statement just shows a ignorance of how the immune system and vaccines work.

"Back 2 Square 1" New Episode 015

Back 2 Square 1 has a new episode: 015 Islamic Influence

Saturday 22 August 2009 Show Notes:

We're back & with a reduced crew again; just Osyris Diamond (who has flu-like symptoms... though I doubt it's a cool as "Swine Flu" or known as "Mexican Flu" for international listeners. He'll be blowing his nose throughout the show), Johnny-B, & the Kitty Kat! PKP is back in the house for our background music & starts off where we last left off with their track "Northbound". Joining us in the studio this evening is my new Bengal kitten, Lexus Ton-Ton (pronounced Tän-Tän) a.k.a. Crouton. Check out some more videos here: Lexus Ton-Ton a.k.a. Crouton. We discuss some of the (not-so) highlights of having her since Tuesday before Johnny-B goes into a mini-rant on "rabbit pooh" constipation. Osyris is "hating life" for lack of sleep & sanity but has yet to regret getting his $200.00 kitten (inflated to at least $500.00 with cat stuff & the first round of vet appointments). We give a shout-out to our missing comrades (Wild-Reto, Dark-Lilith, Dutchie Dutchmen, Glacier Wulf) before explaining how sick Osyris really was & how it relates to the B.S. at Iron Mountain, whose management can't properly assign replacement employees for open shifts. He explains his revelation of why he's all too often sick during the school season then the work ethics of his male family predecessors. We then talk about the other cat in-residence Taximus Maximus Meridius Kittius & his origins.

Johnny-B then segways into his co-worker from France who is dealing with an identity-crisis between being French & Algerian & Muslim. He goes on about some misconceptions of Islam & the Koran before Osyris relates this conversation to the proposed revamping of Paris: "Greater Paris" (see link above) & how it relates to dealing with the issues facing the city regarding its upper-class center and lower-class suburbs. He notes the 1995 movie "la Haine" (which is French for "Hate", though Osyris cannot recall the movie by name during the recording) as a reference for this tension (see links above). He also relates it back to the issues with Israel & Palestine discussed last week's show & relating it to the origins of "ethnic nationalism" as a consequence of European colonialism & western interference in the 19-20th century. Johnny-B brings it back to the Islam integration issue (globally) & discusses its role as the dominant social, economical, political, cultural, artistic, scientific, mathematic, & spiritual leader several centuries ago. Osyris brings up the 2005 movie "Kingdom of Heaven" (though once again he failed to remember it's name while recording) and its ending sequence in relation to this historical topic (see links above). From Wikipedia, "Privately, Saladin picks up a cross that was thrown off and puts it back on the table as well as refusing to step on the stones carved with crucifixes." We also touch on the US/USSR cold war effects on the Middle Eastern region & the rest of the world for that matter (with hints of capitalism). We then end the long rant with a little poking of the western educational system.

Changing topics, Johnny-B updates us on the home-brew (based on Alaskan Amber Ale) before pimping a new place call "The Beer Essentials" store down in Lakewood, Wa. Check out their website & visit their locale if you're in the area (see link above). He then updates us on the software he's working on for home-brewing (embedded system-based)! Osyris then updates everyone on the spikes in downloads for episodes 014 & 013, thanking Glacier Wulf for pimping the show to new people while on the job!). Welcome all new listeners! (New start e-mailing us, damn it! ...email is below.) We then talk about the changing nature of the podcast (B2S1) & where is might and should go in the future (your help, listener, is always appreciated and encouraged).

Then Osyris does something obscene before we get around to bugging our pseudo-co-host Kitty-Kat about what her point in life (let alone the podcast) is. This leads into (and was in-part a product of) a discussion of some background issues brought up by (currently) nameless co-hosts & the role of insults, touchy topics, & apologies (or the lack thereof). (We then remember to pimp PKP on the show.) We then plot to get Telefon Tel Aviv (see links above) as the background music (& maybe on the podcast itself) before ragging on Kitty Kat again in an attempt to get her talking. (It should be noted at the time of the recording of this podcast, we were unaware of the passing of Cooper. RIP) Osyris & Johnny-B sing Happy Birthday to Kitty Kat! We then rag on Iron Mountain again. We round out the show by visiting Failblog.org & Dvorak Uncensored with a great (old) Daily Show report on spamming. Osyris then sings us out... before failing & then we pimp the email before signing off.

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Lexus Ton-Ton a.k.a. Crouton

Below are some videos of my baby Bengal, whom some of you met in a previous entry. Now she is home with me and adjusting (rather well) to her new environment. All video thus taken (including the aforementioned video) were shot with a Sony DSC-S650 digital camera. She now has a full name: Lexus Ton-Ton (pronounced Tän-Tän). Her nickname will be "Crouton". I figured Lexus was a classy name for a kitten with lots of spunk and vigor. Crouton was taken from an incident where a crouton was dropped on the floor and she attacked it like no tomorrow. Unable to eat the crouton, her playfully gnawed on it in a most cute way. This is where Ton-Ton is derived. She is, of course, a pure-bred Bengal hybrid a couple generations removed from the original crossing. She cost $200.00 and was born 27 June 2009, making her 8 weeks old this Saturday. She weighs 1.4lbs and is in the process of getting her shots and the like in order. She loves to play and gives the vet all shorts of hell, even to which they can't take her temperature. She's a feisty one, alright. That's mah girl kittah! =3

Back 2 Square 1 Episode 014 posted!

Back 2 Square 1 has produced yet another episode: 014 Brewer's Aftermath

Show Notes: 15 August 2009
Take 3! (Again!) Only an hour this time... brewing took too much out of the others & Osyris was recovering from a bad case of McDonald. The studio fridge is finally operational! Johnny-B & Glacier Wulf discuss the latest home-brew, first in the new place (& in two years or so). [Correction: there was 14.5lbs of malty grain used in the brew, not 12lbs.] We talk -again- about whom Osyris is likely a "Bi-In-Denial" & female issues. "Crouton", which is the given name currently for my girl Bengal cat. Lava lamps (yes, we now have two!) in da studio! We don't have the doom dice tonight, or Dutchie or Dark-Lilith, so we're winging it. First, we head to Dvorak Uncensored blog & listen to American President Obama make a great gaff about the U.S. Postal Service. We also browse several other blog posts before switching to Failblog & skim through three pages of fail. Among other topics, we give our two-cents about child discipline & spanking. Then we watch an epic fail unicyclist via Failblog before Osyris goes into a "reverse racism" rant. Due to the day's events, we consider a 20min. break before deciding not to & check out the BBC World Service News & ranting briefly about the red cards give out at the Sounders/Galaxy MLS match (2-0w). After stumbling through a mini-rant about the bullshit surrounding Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma/Myanmar, & briefly talking about Secretary of State Clinton (& her more famous husband) Osyris finally give Israel hell (again) about the Palestine conflict. Wanna come on the show & give us a piece of your mind? E-mail us & we'll make it happen! (See address below...)

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Back 2 Square 1 Episode 013 posted!

"Hey, you guys!"

Back 2 Square 1 has a new episode, 013 Dark-Lilith Visitation.

Show Notes:
While you guys won't necessarily notice the difference, though B2S1 tries to be posted by Monday. we recorded this show on Sunday and this explains a Tuesday posting. Dark-Lilith returns! ...well, for at least most of the episode before she leaves to help a friend. Glacier Wulf also jets at the same time, too. We bitch as usual about a bunch of things. There is a lot of "fuck" in this episode. We figure out what iTunes categories this show should be on and discuss Osyris' sexual orientation- again. Osyris also goes off on the debate about the Universal Healthcare legislation in Congress. Through the wisdom of the digital Doom Dice & List, we speak on XBOX-360, Steve Jobs' new iLiver 2.0, and other game related topics, we touch on the Rorschach Test/Wikipedia controversy, Osyris poorly explains "Cold Reading", the Shit List is visited, we tried to explode Kitty Kat's head, he give a shout out to the crew of "That Damn Red Boat", Osyris and Johnny-B compare bra sizes, we watch some Jimmy Justice and comment on "The Beer Summit", Buddy causes some minor mayhem, we talk about movies (Brüno, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, District 9), Kirkland Signature Beer is brought up, under the topic Government, we discuss the Supreme Court and its role in America, then we role over into the ethics and production of podcasting in general and verses traditional radio (including how B2S1 is made and its content), we give you a preview of things to come on B2S1 and the logic the will effect future episodes, we give a shout out to Reto, long-lost B2S1 co-host likely still battling the Battle Cat, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Reasonable Doubts, and No Agenda are uses as a contrast to B2S1, after Johnny-B takes a piss, we move into the stalled housing developments around Auburn, Kent, and Covington, Wa. and have a trip down memory lane about our old high school Kentlake. There, of course, if a bunch of other material covered not mentioned in these notes so listen to the show to get all the juicy goodness!

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Conspiracy Theories: Moon Landings | Cracked.com

The post makes a lot of good points. However, as one commenter put it, "There are great points in this article. However, the average dolt that visits this site will use it as an excuse to never question authority ever. 'Go back to bed America' -Bill Hicks". -WisdomPersona That does sum up a large concern with this rationale. Basically, while the points above (and in the linked post) I believe are very valid, it appears on the surface to be an "argument from authority" fallacy. However, it's not merely saying, "Because NASA and the other said so". The point here is many people and organizations not only support the idea but have also provided much evidence that also supports the notion of the moon landings happening. It is also noting the qualification disparity between the accuser, the hoax supporters, and the accused, those who did/helped/observed the landings and subsequent related science. This is to say that while I, for example, might be knowledgeable enough to make an informed guess or opinion, when someone who is an "expect" or specialist in a given field or topic, then unless I can show discrepancies that cannot adequately accounted for with sufficient evidence and a plausible explanation to account for it (though this latter point is not as needed), the expert's knowledge, when verifiable, will trump my stance. As you can see from that lengthy explanation, it has more to do with the evidence behind the person rather than the person. To this end, and seen from this angle, then the argument above is very legitimate.

Back 2 Square 1 Episode 012 posted!

Back 2 Square 1, a podcast I host, has just posted its latest episode: 012 Lamentations. Check it out!

Show Notes:
So, this is by far the second or third longest episode to date. Osyris, Johnny-B, Dutchie, Kat, and Glacier Wulf bitch a lot in this one about everything from bad bosses and scripting languages to getting older and Adam Curry. We have entertaining moments with “The Matrix Runs On Windows XP” and we get to hear a preview of my new Bengal kitten! Huzzah! =3 Technetium provides the killer trance tunes in the background while the beer keeps flowing! The Mega Doom Dice is still MIA but the new and improving Doom List is back in action this episode! Many links above to check out and there is a contest for the first listener who correct guesses the color scheme of our lava lamp: base & cap, liquid, and the lava itself.

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