Get the HATE outta your blood!!

Airborne is shit!!!! The company has just settled a class action lawsuit for $23 million!!!!

"There's no credible evidence that what's in Airborne can prevent colds or protect you from a germy environment," David Schardt, a nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a written statement this week. "Airborne is basically an overpriced, run-of-the-mill vitamin pill that's been cleverly, but deceptively, marketed."

We feel lied to!!!!!

The herbal supplement of vitamins and minz was created back in 1999 with the intent of helping to fight off colds.

It was invented by Victoria Knight-McDowell, a second-grade teacher who according to the product's site, "studied the benefits herbal therapies used in Eastern Medicine." The company also claimed it "boosts the immune system with seven herbal extracts and a proprietary blend of vitamins, electrolytes, amino acids and antioxidants."

Back in March 2006, after an ABC News report revealed that the company's clinical trials were not conducted by doctors or even scientists, Airborne changed their advertising campaign when a plaintiff filed suit against them.

Turns out the "clinical trials" were just conducted by two random individuals!

Shortly after, advertisements for Airborne stopped mentioning the clinical studies and the cold-curing claims. Instead, Airborne began advertising itself as helping to boost the body's immune systems.

Airborne will now be fighting off cash collectors for a total of $23.3 million to settle the class-action lawsuit brought against them.

Those suing claim the company provided false advertising since it could not be proven that Airborne actually helps prevent colds.

Then in late 2006 the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a non-profit advocacy group, joined the suit as co-counsel against Airborne. Later in 2007 the FTC and some attorney generals began investigating the cold-preventing claims as well.

The CSPI said the Airborne company will have to refund money to consumers who bought its product, and it will pay for advertisements in large publications with instructions on how to get refunded.

To learn more information about how to receive a refund if you've purchased Airborne, CLICK HERE: http://www.airbornehealthsettlement.com/

New cases of HIV/AIDS in China increased by a whopping 45% last year compared with 2006.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-admits-that-cases-of-hivaids-have-risen-45-per-cent-786175.html

That is just mind-numbing.

The most real and SCARIEST thing you've never dreamed could happen??
It's slowly becoming our reality....I'm going to throw the fuck up right now.

I had a HUGE, eye opening discussion with some friends yesterday about this....watch & listen closely....

and trust me when I say THIS WILL BECOME REAL.....as it's already begun...

those chips and everything....they want to also put those devices in ALL clothing/shoes under the guise that the corporations want to keep track of just how far their apparel is traveling around the world, as well as accounting for theft etc.. UH-HUH......life keeps getting more and more frightnening.

WORLD AIDS DAY is TODAY!!!


Do a good deed and light this candle...

Bristol- Myers is donating a dollar to AIDS every time someone goes to their website and moves the match to the candle and lights it.

It takes one second to raise a dollar.


https://www.lighttounite.org/

A Small Yet Substantial Victory




New Jersey's supreme court ruled on Wednesday in favor of recognizing same-sex unions and granting gays and lesbians the same rights, privileges and protections as heterosexual couples.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/25/jersey.samesex.ap/index.html

What makes this move quite thrilling is that unlike Massachusetts, New Jersey has no laws barring out of state couples to wed. So....gays and lesbians can marry in NJ and then go back to their home state and challenge those laws to recognize the Jersey marriage.

A change is a-coming!!!!

P.S. This wonderful step towards full equality and recognition under the law would not have been possible without the wonderful work of Lambda Legal, gay and lesbian advocates and defenders. To find out how U can help, click here: http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html

I get SOOOOOO PISSED off every time I see this. It's infuriating.

If you will be in the New York area on Sept. 11th 2006, I highly encourage you to join up with everyone else at Ground Zero. More info about that is at the end of the video....

I wish I could go.

ANIMALS NEED HOMES!!!!
Transport Provided to Anywhere - Rooms Desperately Needed! (For the Animal Victims of Katrina) There is transportation provided, with people ready and waiting, for upwards of 200 dogs and 150 cats so far rescued from the devastation of hurricane Katrina. What these animals need is a place to go. Kennels, boarding, vets offices, shelters with any extra space, foster homes and rescues. Even one or two open kennels would greatly help.


From what we know, all animals have been vaccinated and are in good health considering the conditions. There are dogs and cats of every breed and
size. Some are in groups of two, three or four, hailing from the same family, while some are solitary. ANY KENNEL SPACE AVAILABLE CAN CERTAINLY BE USED. These drivers are willing to move these animals ANYWHERE they need to go. Absolutely anywhere.

The current safe houses for these animals are being inundated and some of these pets will have to be euthanized if they are not moved to make room for the incoming animals.

Please feel free to pass on this information everywhere. Every forum, every list, every community.
REMEMBER THESE ANIMALS WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO YOU.

If you know anyone, anywhere, that is willing to take in even one cat or dog, please have them contact Lynda at the information provided below. They are also asking for ANY kind of donations for the animals - money, food, bedding, water, etc.

Please Contact Lynda V. at: 203 515 3024 (cell)
Home: 203 227 5308
Email: Lynda@portone.com
Please contact at any time, day or night. These volunteers, rescuers and shelter workers are working around the clock.
Thank you!

Madonna is NOT having a good Birthday! :(

She was hospitalized with three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand.

HERE'S THE STORY:

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=198991

( Birthday Girl )

You can visit each site EVERY day...just by the click of a few buttons you can really help!!! Please take a few minutes out of your day to do so. Thanks everyone. They are for good causes....if anyone knows of other sites please let me know and I will add them here.

THE ANIMAL RESCUE SITE
Just visit this site and click the Purple "Feed and Animal in Need" Button
With every visit, food is provided to an animal in a shelter or sanctuary. Over 10 million animals are abused, abandoned or neglected each year.
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

BREAST CANCER SITE.
With every visit, a contribution is made to help underpriveleged women get mammograms. 43,000 women will die this year from breast cancer.
http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites

THE RAIN FOREST SITE
A land donation is made with every visit. Every second, more than an acre of rainforest disappears.
http://www.therainforestsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites

THE CHILD HEALTH SITE
With every visit, a contribution is made to help to prevent life-threatening diseases, restore vision to blind children, and enable child amputees to walk. 200,000 children die every week from preventable causes.
http://www.thechildhealthsite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

THE LITERACY SITE
With every visit, a contribution is made to provide books to children around the world. Over 20 million books have been distributed over the last three years.
http://www.theliteracysite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa

THE HUNGER SITE
A donation of staple food to the hungry is made with every visit. 24,000 people die of hunger every day, three-fourths of whom are children under the age of 5.
http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites

ECOLOGYFUND.COM SITE
You can click several links to save land across four continents - FREE
http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html