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https://wgme.com/news/local/maine-cdc-outraged-over-spread-of-anti-vaccination-flyersAUGUSTA (WGME) – Members of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention are outraged over the spread of anti-vaccination flyers in southern Maine. The CDC says the flyers are turning up at big box stores in southern Maine.   "It was misleading and inaccurate," State Epidemiologist Dr. Siiri Bennett said. "It was designed to feed on people's fears." The flyers list 33 so-called "vaccine side effects and diseases," and appear to be official, but cdc.org is not a real website; it's  cdc.gov .  "This movement has really gained traction in social media," Kalie Hess of the Maine Immunization Coalition said.The Maine Immunization Coalition says right now five percent of Maine children are not vaccinated, because of their parents' philosophical objections; the seventh highest rate in the country.   "It's more than double the U.S. average

If the greatest mammal on this earth is dying because it is ingesting plastics made by modern science, then modern science is failing us. If a whale has died because it has ingested plastics, then we are failing, as a mammalian species to other species. So, in my home, I have instituted a no-plastics or low-plastics rule. " Whale dies from eating more than 80 plastic bags" Pilot whale was found barely alive in Thai canal and vomited up five bags during fruitless rescue attempts https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/whale-dies-from-eating-more-than-80-plastic-bags Sperm whale found dead with 13 pounds of plastic in its stomach The animal had swallowed plastic bags, bottles, flip-flops, and 115 drinking cups. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/dead-sperm-whale-filled-with-plastic-trash-indonesia/

January 12, 2019 Dead, but still reporting.... " 8 hr 12 min ago Shotgun found at Gordon home is similar to one used in Closs murders From CNN's Dave Alsup Authorities found a shotgun during their investigation that is “consistent with the gun used" in the murders of James and Denise Closs, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said. A shotgun was used to shoot a door at the Closs home in October so the suspect could gain entry, Fitzgerald said. Authorities  found James and Denise Closs dead  in the home on Oct. 15. At that time, they also discovered that their daughter Jayme was missing. Fitzgerald said authorities recovered the shotgun and other guns at the arrest site in Gordon, Wisconsin." As we continue with English 101, how is it someone can be dead and also report their daughter missing?

Most smart parents/schools require their children to study Latin and Greek: Why? Because that teaches them about past past perfect, past perfect, past, present, etc. And ultimately that teaches them about law: It teaches them about intention and fact. I have this. I am I had this. I was I would have had this. I would have been. I might have had this. I might have been. I might have this. I might be I will have this. I will be. That's six declensions. In Russian, there are also six.  So, Russian, Latin, Greek--- same diff. Six declensions.

Article in Fox News; 1/3/2019, by  y  Louis Casiano  | Fox News Mr, Casiano wrote: "Authorities said Georgopoulos moved a bicycle rack that had posted warnings t hat the area was restricted just after midnight." I never knew a bicycle rack could post a warning, nevermind be so specific about posting that it was "restricted" after midnight, but given this is Washington, anything could happen. Given President Trump has been able to describe a wall that doesn't exist (ten feet, folks!) which Fox News so fabulously reiterated, at Fox News who cares if things are impossible, so long as people are buying what they write.

Below is a post from News 13: 1. No date is provided, so Tuesday could have been January 1, 2019, or the prior Tuesday: December  25, 2018. The first paragraph has a very very strange comma--totally misplaced. The writer finalizes the posting writing that the 2 children, ages 8 years old and 2 mos, were "unharmed". How is it possible to be an 8 year old or a 2 month year old and experience the death/lack of your mother and be "unharmed"? What idiot wrote this article? E.M. Burke 1/3/2019 Weather Warn Another round of snow may cause slippery travel conditions on Thursday. FORECAST RADAR CLOSINGS & DELAYS State medical examiner conducting autopsies on couple found dead in South Paris by WGME Wednesday, January 2nd 2019 State police are investigating the deaths of a couple, found inside an apartment in South Paris on New Year's Day. (WGME)

When I was 18 yo, pretty darn poor, a new employee at a lawyers' office as a typist/etc, in Richmond, CA, but had moved to CA  all the way from Maine, as a desperately "needing to get away from family" young lady, I did some shoplifting...and got caught. And then I went to a therapist, and devised a plan to deal with my loneliness and sense of isolation. The plan was that every time I felt like shoplifting, I went to the counter and said, "I feel like shoplifting. I'm feeling very lonely." I also agreed to call 911 (back then it was also a hot-line of sorts), to say the same thing. That actually helped, and the folks I talked to were pretty darn accepting and comforting. It's possible!

What I do not understand is why "caravans" of people from south American countries would choose to move north, a good over a thousand, rather than take up arms and fight against the shits who are controlling their country? Do they really think they'll have something better in the US of A? What I least and most severely don't understand is why one of the richest and most powerful countries in the world wouldn't again consider colonization, as awful as that is, to go in, give these folks a better life? Stop the drug trade, which is destroying our country? These are awful but important questions. If the folks in these South American countries feel they have no other options, but to leave their countries, because they are taken over by the "drug lords", and the countrys' governments are corrupt and incapable of developing economies other than based on drugs, then it seems that the folks are incapable of imaginging a life of just ordinary poverty.

Not sure: new poem:  My Mother When a tree falls in your memory, were you there? The shape of my mother is waiting Just calmly emptying out of my waiting, and speaking to herself as the trees are quietly falling. I do not remember my mother, but I have many broken objects from her. Mostly I remember a beautiful glass decanter, of red and clear. As clear as the the red of blood. e.m. burke 12/19/2018