Dr. Temple Grandin

The rural dwellng Pharmer has been a fan of Temple Grandin for many years, due to her contributions to the understanding and humane treatment of cattle. She underwent considerable personal struggle, growing up with autism, and there’s been an attempt at HBO to convey this in a movie.   No comments are provided here on the quality of that film, having not viewed it yet.    There’s no cable TV Down on the Pharm.

Linked below is some news of  Eustacia Cutler,  Temple Grandin’s mom, who has revealed much about the difficulties bringing up an autistic kid before that problem was as well documented or understood.

Temple Grandin’s Mother Offers Words of Hope | Washington Times Communities.

Dr. Temple Grandin herself has produced a large body of writing on her own experiences with autism and the applicability of her unusual perceptive abilities to her accomplishments in bovine  science.    Very cool stuff is to be found at her website.

Wandering Grandin-land….

Harry Reid Looks Forward to Some Abuse

Harry could use a teleprompter  sometimes.   Here is another one of his gems,  citing an increase in use of domestic crisis  shelters as evidence that joblessness is causing men to be more abusive at home.

Reid: ‘Men, when they’re out of work, tend to become abusive’ – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.

Need the jobs bill to keep guys from beating their wives, and perhaps make Nevada a more welcoming place for him????

Red Light Cameras Ruled Unconstitutional

Judge Puts Red Light on Red Light Cameras | NBC Miami.

The Miami Herald reports that a circuit judge has ruled the Aventura  red light cameras are unconstitutional.   The cops will have to do the work of catching drivers running past those “pink lights”.    Immediately after this announcement, a lawsuit was filed agains Hallendale Beach for the same.   Aventura city officials have not decided whether to challenge the ruling.

Toyota Closes Plant, Endures Further Attack from Obamathugs

Amid Toyota recalls, protest of auto plant closure – Sacramento Business, Housing Market News | Sacramento Bee.

Note that this plant was established as a joint venture between GM and Toyota, and Government motors will continue to implode.  A twenty hour per month helper for the CEO is not going to fix the problem of being run by the government.

Yes, Toyota could keep closing auto plants in the U.S.   Maybe they’ll shut down in all the blue states first.

You see,  Toyota  has noticed that the Democrats are Not Industry Friendly.

Whaddaya think was the first clue!!!

Pharmer’s hubby was getting the weather (only reason for checking the news these days) and mentioned a headline scrolling across the bottom of the screen:   Toyota boasting about saving millions by delaying recalls.   This was immediately recognized as B.S., as we are very familiar with what Japanese accept as proper public behavior.    So it was ignored, until seeing Tom Blumer  (an astute businessman) recognizing the same facts in his Newsbusters column, and kindly storing some nice references. Mr. Blumer concurs generally with the crew Down on the Pharm, that the owner of Government Motors is chopping up the competition in Chicago gangland fashion, and the worthless press is going along with it.

Waiting for that April Report on Stem Cell Banks

US scientists warn of fraud of stem cell ‘banks’.    Certain stem cell researchers are crying foul at the companies offering  expensive services  of collecting and storing umbilical cord stem cells.

Pharmer suggests reading the above linked article, and waiting for the April Report from the International Stem Cell Society.  There are two possible reasons for this effort to reduce  public expectations of the usefulness of storing embryonic stem cells.

One is that the storage companies might be raising unrealistic expectations of people storing a small  stem cell sample from the umbilical cord of their baby.

The other might be the need to push for more support and funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Wait and watch…….

*when reading the linked  article replace “fiberglass” with “fibroblast” til they get around to fixing it.

Prolife Picketers at Churches

There’s a discussion  at Jill Stanek’s Blog about prolife protesters who picket at churches, in order to  awaken a response to the abortion holocaust.

There has been a  vast body of writing  at online prolife  forums from  another most colorful   church picketer.    He is now deceased, but should not be forgotten.   The Pharm  search  division connects the dots and brings you  this 2002 article about Robert Ferguson.

Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission | June 2002 | It’s a Lighthouse When We’re Standing Out There, by Christopher Zehnder.

Hey Libs, Obama Really Didn’t Mean That STuff About CEO Pay

Here’s Obama when he wanted your vote…. remember this? He was going to erase the evil of astronomical CEO salaries.

When Obama had a chance to regulate the pay of his very OWN Government Motors CEO…… $9 million, has just been approved, plus hiring him a helper, at almost $3 thousand per hour because, as you remember, Ed Whitaker ‘doesn’t know a thing about cars’!

GM CEO Whitacre receives $9M pay package – Yahoo! Finance.

Check out this video of Obama carrying on about the wall street CEO bonuses, telling them to cut their own pay.

Then watch February news  as he changes his mind……. well, those bonuses are suddenly OK again.    There’s also the pretense from the Obama-press that using stock to pay the bonuses is something new.  Those of us who have ever read business news know better.

Lefties, it appears that Obama is not going to solve your  bonus-envy issues  after all.

Why don’t you go buy some stock in the offending companies and show up at the shareholder’s meetings?

Not Needing to be Liked

It seems that Andrew Breitbart is going to speak his mind no matter what anyone thinks.

So it won’t matter to him if Pharmer likes him for that.

Breitbart to NY Times Reporter for Alleging Racial Tones at CPAC: ‘You’re a Despicable Human Being’ | NewsBusters.org.

He’s been using his spotlight time for some well deserved ripping on the Mainstream media.

A little more whipping to go with that ripping…….. to CNN and all the other losers for misbranding Joe Stack, the suicide IRS bomber,  as a tea partier, or conservative.   Anyone who reads his suicide note would know better.    He was a lib, mad at the world….   somewhat like bang bang Amy Bishop, the Obamaphilic academic shootist.