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| Poison “ivy” allergy? | | Ivy, a vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits is allergic to several people. It might be possible to coax the body to build up immunity to poison ivy. This news comes from researchers of Allergy Associates of La Crosse in La Crosse, Wis. The treatment was a small amount of poison ivy extract placed under the tongue. The goal was to train the body's immune system not to overreact to poison ivy. The patients took skin tests to see if the treatment helped. Those tests showed that after treatment, patients had a much higher threshold for allergic skin reactions to poison ivy. Ninety percent of the patients said they had "far fewer" skin reaction episodes. Patients who said they still got skin rashes reported milder rashes that were quicker to heal than before treatment. The treatment may help people whose jobs and hobbies expose them to poison ivy, but further tests are needed, the researchers note. The findings were presented in Philadelphia at the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology's annual scientific meeting.
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| | Is jail time for five minutes a day acceptable? | | There is now a program in La crosse County in Washington that is a low-cost alternative to building more jail cells - known as "day reporting", felons have to appear before county staffers once a day, or whenever else they are asked to appear, to work off their jail time and 'pay their dues'.What do you think about this?There is a lot more detail if you wish to read more here:http://www.davesdaily.com/out.php?id=24439&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Findex.aspx%3Fid%3D563326 | |
| | Russia space junk. | | Here are a few different recent mishaps with russian space junk.
March 28, 2007 - The pilots of a Chilean passenger jet reported seeing flaming debris past their aircraft as it approached the airport at Auckland, New Zealand. It is believed the debris missed the jet by a margin of about 40 seconds.
October 2001 - A farmer in La Crosse, Kansas (U.S.) found space junk on his property. NASA identified it as the fourth stage of a Russian Proton rocket.
March 23, 2001 In 1976 Mir was launched. It's obsolete, a relic of the Cold War, and in 2001 Russia dumped it into the Pcific Ocean. It is believed over 1000 fragments coudl of survided re-entry giving the possibility of 1,500 pound chunks hurling towards Earth in. Furthermore these chunks could of scattered into populated areas.
1979 - Skylab, half the size of Mir, came crashing down on parts of suburban Perth and the remote deserts of Western Australia.
1978 - Space debris crash over northern canada. The rocket was a out-of-control nuclear-powered Russian, named Cosmos 954, which spread radiation over the sparsely inhabited region.
1972 - Four mysterious 14-kilo titanium gas canisters fell in... | |
| | McCain Turns Up The Heat -Obama= Crime/Connections | |
October 10th, 2008 3:22 AM Eastern
McCain introduces Obama crime record as issue
by Mosheh OinounouLA CROSSE, WI — In what could be a foreshadowing of where John McCain plans to go next in raising questions about his Democratic rival, he briefly mentioned today that Barack Obama has a lackluster resume when it comes to combating crime.“I hope during the course of this national debate that Americans will examine Senator Obama’s record on crime. It’s very, very weak when you look at many of the votes he cast in the Illinois State Senate, as well as in the United States Senate,” he told supporters at a town hall meeting in Waukesha Thursday afternoon.While crime has not been a prominent issue thus far on the trail with the economy in the headlines, it could potentially take center stage in the closing days of the campaign.During his tenure in the Illinois State Senate, Obama supported a number of pieces of gun-control legislation including limits on handgun purchases and a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. Obama also cast a vote in 2004 (in the minority) for a bill that would have disallowed people to use a self-defense... | |
| | Obama: gaffe master of the century! | | Way back when, when Dan Quayle mispelled Potato, the press and the Democrats had a field day. When Howard Dean got a little excited, it pretty much killed his campain. Sarah Palin touts geography as her foreign policy record, and the left just can't let that one go. Bush and Gore's gaffes have spawned an entire new segment in the calendar and novelty industry.Gaffes are part of politics, and detecting them has become a national pasttime. They are almost always fun to find, and even more fun to repeat. I have to admit, I love to read them, even the ones repeated at the expense of politicians I support.But can anyone really compete with the Gaffe Master himself?Here, I present for your entertainment, Obama's Top...Bill Ayers: "His kids and my kids go to school together." (apparently Ayers kids are the real life Jethro Bodines).:~DUS Geography: "I visited 57 states"
"The State of La Crosse"Political Correctness: Or would any Republican get away with calling a reporter ‘sweetie’?Disasters: Obama claimed that tornados in Kansas had killed ten-thousand people. when the real death toll was, 12.His own personal history: When he... | |
| | High Speed Rail | | Do you think it'll ever happen in WI? They keep talking about all this Federal money to connect Milwaukee with Madison & the Racine & Kenosha areas as well. Though someone did have a valid point depending on where the stops are along the way there has to be a means of transport locally to get people around. Milwaukee has a decent bus system but do any of the other communities have one? I think they should also have it go to Green Bay & maybe even up to La Crosse or St.Paul MN.What's your opinion on this my fellow wisconsinites? Do you think this will ever happen? | |
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