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Last night there was a http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/search?q=taco+bellabout a cover-up on the part of the FDA and CDC over a salmonella outbreak from the store that tells you to think outside the bun. I typed it that way, because everytime I typed the name of the chain here on FB, my posting just disappeared! A search on Google for the story came up with many different news articles, but clicking on each one resulted in “Page not Found…”.

Could you imagine doing something heinous, being caught, and the news releases didn’t contain your name, and by morning, the story was gone from the web? In the original news reports they were identified as Fast Food Company A! No mention of it on their website! Someone else try it, type the name of that Mexican Fast Food restaurant into a posting and see what happens!

Big Business, and Big Brother in cahoots, and watching you? No wonder the FDA doesn’t have to rule on mercury fillings. They can just cause the whole issue to disappear!

From a Friend’s Blog:

TV’s Dr. Oz certainly has an entertaining show, but I would caution you to not take everything he says as science. Two recent pieces of advice he has given have many dentists, me included, scratching our heads and saying “huh?”.
First he suggested to stay away from more expensive and proven, teeth whitening techniques and “do it yourself.” His suggestion was to use a mixture of lemon juice and baking soda. Honestly, kind of a bone-headed idea. The lemon juice has a pH of about 2,which is highly acidic and will leach the calcium and minerals from your healthy enamel, causing irreversible damage. Baking soda is way too abrasive to be used regularly, again irreversibly damaging your teeth. His suggestion to chew raisins is also a head scratcher. Raisins are very sticky and very high in sugar, definitely not a tooth healthy suggestion. Yes they will stimulate saliva, but may I suggest a piece of Xylitol sweetened gum, or a Xylitol mint.
Another recent show discussed the dangers of dental xrays and thyroid cancer. First be assured that all of us in the dental community want to minimize any risk our patients receive from radiation. That’s why many dentists, including our practice, have gone to digital radiography for our xrays. This technology drastically cuts the amount of radiation used. We take only those radiographs that are necessary. To compare the amount of radiation you receive from a dental radiographic exam is 0.008 Millisieverts., just daily exposure from natural background radiation is 5.6 millisieverts. I’m not a mathematician but that ratio is miniscule. The benefit of these xrays in diagnosing dental disease in its early stages, and thus preventing local and systemic infections, extraction of teeth, pain and suffering, and the creation of dental cripples, far outweigh their minimal risk.
To summarize, when you have questions about a dental procedure, or technique, ask a dentist. We really did go to school for this stuff, and practice everyday. Don’t venture into the land of Oz, leave that for Dorothy, Toto, and the Scarecrow (who had no brain).

This letter is a thing of beauty (even if
the language is a bit rough)..
You definitely feel the guy’s pain! An
actual letter to the passport
office…

Dear Sirs,

I’m in the process of renewing my passport,
and still cannot believe this.
How is it that Radio Shack has my address
and telephone number and knows
that I bought a cable t.v. from them back
in 1987, and yet, the Federal
Government is still asking me where I was
born and on what date.

For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by
hand? My birth date you have on
my social security card, and it is on all
the income tax forms I’ve filed
for the past 30 years. It is on my health
insurance card, my driver’s
license, on the last eight damn passports
I’ve had, on all those stupid customs
declaration forms I’ve had to fill out
before being allowed off the plane
over the last 30 years, and all those
insufferable census forms that are done
at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and
for all, that my mother’s name
is Maryanne, my father’s name is Robert and
I’d be absolutely astounded if
that ever changed between now and when I
die!!!!!!

I apologize, I’m really pissed off this
morning. Between you an’ me, I’ve
had enough of this bullshit! You send the
application to my house, then you
ask me for my address?

What is going on? Do you have a gang of
Neanderthal asses working there!

Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin
Laden? I don’t want to dig up
Yasser Arafat, I just want to go and park my
ass on a sandy beach.

And would someone please tell me, why would
you care whether I plan on
visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I
ever got the urge to do something
weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you
me, I’d sure as hell not want to
tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, ’cause I have to go
to the other end of the city
and get another copy of my birth
certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it
be so complicated to have all the services
in the same spot to assist in
the issuance of a new passport the same
day?? Nooooo, that’d be too damn easy
and maybe make sense. You’d rather have us
running all over the place
like chickens with our heads cut off, then
find some idiot to confirm that
it’s really me on the damn picture – you
know, the one where we’re not
allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic morons)
Hey, you know why we can’t smile?
We’re totally pissed off!

Signed – An Irate Citizen.

P.S.. Remember what I said above about the
picture and getting someone to
confirm that it’s me? Well, my family has
been in this country since 1776
…….I have served in the military for
something over 30 years and have
had security clearances up the
yingyang……….However, I have to get
someone ‘important’ to verify who I am –
you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA !

Sincerely,

You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who I Am.

…………………And you want to run our
health care system?!?

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