Year: 2012

Kaboom! Prototype Lithium Ion Battery Explodes at GM Lab

~ Pharmer

Gases from prototype battery blamed for blast at GM Tech Center | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com.

Gases from a  prototype lithium ion battery at a GM test lab are blamed for an explosion that blew out windows and injured a worker at the Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.

A battery produced by A123 in Massachusetts was being put through its paces in a laboratory setting  when it blew.   The same company will be supplying batteries for the 2013 EV version of the Chevy Spark.

While considerable structural damage occurred, only one worker was injured badly enough to be hospitalized, according to info from GM.

As Obama Loses Secret Service Agents in Columbia

~ Pharmer

It has been discovered that  Obama Twitter Account Follows ‘Celebrity Sideboob’.  

Yes, it appears that either Obama or the other operators of his twitter account have followed the creator of a website that features side views of celebrities’ breasts…. which show a bit more than is properly viewed in public.

We will never know the real reason that there has been an exchange of secret service agents in Cartagena, Columbia.  Perhaps some are losing enthusiasm for protecting the president.   The reason for dismissing a cadre of agents has been presented as a matter of misconduct with ladies of the evening.  

Very Late Term Abortions Have Been Suggested for Bioethicists Minerva and Giubilini

~ Pharmer

A bit of a media uproar was generated by Alberto Giubilini Francesca Minerva who were published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. These two were former associates of the Journal’s Editor, Julian Savulescu, who seems a bit disturbed by the backlash. It seems that some people have written to these two large masses of unproductive tissue that they might be eligible for very late term abortions.

While your friendly  Pharmer  desires to avoid killing any humans, she is not surprised that the same slippery slope of habitual and gratuitous killing that is now justifying infanticide, would be extended a little further to include bioethicists. After all, that group certainly has less  claim than infants do in the area of productivity and value to society.  While newborns don’t do too much, they  seem to bring a sense of hope and joy  to many casual observers.  The same is not true for these bioethicists.

Lefties Petition to Thank Obama for Birth Control| Democrats.com

~ Pharmer

Fight for Women's Health | Democrats.com.

This petition, linked above, has been online since at least March 26th and has yet to garner 5000 signatures. It appears that not too many women are canceling their distress over Obama’s War on Women’s Employment to fall down at his feet in gratitude for the free birth control.

Could it be that the Dems were wanting to offer women “protection” from pregnancy so they could ply another trade while they’re out of work?

Middle School Student Suspended For Hugging Teacher « CBS Charlotte

~ Pharmer

Middle School Student Suspended For Hugging Teacher « CBS Charlotte.

That eighth grader could be a pervert…. He tried to hug his teacher. After all the governmental, educational and media efforts to sexualize the kids early, people now assume the worst.
It’s against school rules for a student to hug a teacher, and some of those eighth graders are bigger than their instructors.

Ryan Blackmon, now suspended from the Bladenboro Middle School in North Carolina, says that he thanked his teacher for breaking up an impending fight between himself and a fellow student. He claims: “I went to hug her, then she just snatched me up by the arm and drug me to the other teacher and said that I needed to be written up, and that something serious had happened.”

There is no access to the whole story in this matter, so this can just be chalked up as another sad sign of the times.