The Vaccine War

If you are a parent, you'll want to have all of the available information out there to educate yourself about the possibility of childhood immunizations being linked to autism and neurological disorders and health concerns like asthma. The Vaccine War will be on tonight (4/27/10) and I recommend watching PBS Frontline for this reason. In Denver it will air at 9pm, but check your local listing to be sure, or it seems you can also view it online as of today.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist

From the preview available at that link, it looks like the parents might not get a fair shake in the report, but we shall see. There may not be any discussion about the cells of aborted babies that have been used in the creations of vaccines, either. http://www.immunizationinfo.org/issues/vaccine-components/human-fetal-links-some-vaccines In the meantime, here are just the initial arguments for and against the vaccinations that have been given in the debate.

Fathers and mothers experience having a child without any characteristics of autism, yet following the administration of childhood immunizations, the child presents as though a different person, withdrawn, flapping hands, lack of social interaction, non-verbal communication, and other autistic descriptions.

Many scientists and doctors claim that there are no conclusive studies to prove that autism is linked to vaccines.

Parents have sued and won big money in court over autism that they claim resulted from vaccinations.

Pharmaceutical companies have a lucrative stake in the vaccines.

There are also concerns by society, including living amongst those without childhood immunizations.

Some important questions are:

Why isn't the government studying the possibility, rather than dismissing any possible connection with mercury and other potentially harmful substances? What is causing this explosion in numbers accounting for 1 in 150 births being on the autism spectrum? What are the results and the conclusions of studies that have been done, who did them, what is the significance, and who funded them? Is this another case similar to the global warming hoax that liberals imposed upon us world-wide while silencing honest scientists with valid views that differed from theirs? What are the risks and benefits of childhood vaccinations concerning my own children? Are there alternatives to those shots in question?

That's just a starting point for me. I know I'll be watching The Vaccine War tonight for some answers. From what I've been reading, even the flu shots are suspect. Let's get to the truth, I have no agenda, I have kids.

Vaccinations, abortion & fetal tissue--cause of autism?

Blogger The Badger Catholic posted something extremely important and upsetting that I want all parents to read about, since most of us take our children to the doctor to have them vaccinated. If I didn't know about this, I doubt a lot of other parents have heard this information. I appreciate this horrifying info and I'm passing it on:  http://badgercatholic.blogspot.com/2010/04/which-vaccines-contain-aborted-babies.html

Having worked for several years as an assistant teacher of students with severe and profound special needs, autism is one area of the field that has been of special interest to me. Tens of thousands of parents have suspected that childhood shots are responsible for the cause of autism. This has to do with mercury and the video included in my post explains more. There are about 1 in 150 kids who have been diagnosed with autism. There have been some investigations, but my experience is that generally doctors assure us that they doubt the vaccines are causing autism. At this point, that is a matter of pure opinion.

The parents just might be right. Human body parts, mercury, or a combination of both very well could have an adverse effect on children. Something is causing the numbers to skyrocket. We may soon discover that abortion doesn't end at killing preborn children, but is also the ingredient for disabilities in the little ones who have escaped legal murder in the wombs of their mothers.

Michigan Right to Life brings us the details on the research and some available pro-life vaccine alternatives...

Vaccines, Abortion & Fetal Tissue

For several years now, information has circulated among prolife groups and individuals regarding the development of very common vaccines through the use of tissue taken from aborted babies. While initially the reports and information were not conclusively documented, further detailed research by several prolife groups has provided direct proof of a connection between aborted fetal tissue and most vaccines. That connection, and its implications for whether prolife citizens should consider using the vaccines, raises some complicated issues. In sorting through those issues, this LifeNotes will address the basic science involved, the documentation of the abortion-vaccine connection, the moral/ethical questions about using abortion-tainted vaccines, and information about available alternative vaccines.

U.S. Produced Vaccines from Aborted Cell Lines

Disease	Vaccine Name	Manufacturer	Cell line (fetal)
Polio	Poliovax	Aventis-Pasteur	MRC-5
Rabies	Imovax	Aventis-Pasteur	MRC-5
Hepatitis A	Havrix	Merck & Co.	MRC-5
Hepatitis A	Vaqta	Glaxo/SmithKline	MRC-5
Hepatitis A-B Combo	Twinrix	Glaxo/SmithKline	MRC-5
Smallpox	Acambis 1000	Acambis	MRC-5
Chickenpox	Varivax	Merck & Co.	MRC-5/WI-38
Measles, Mumps, Rubella	MMR II	Merck & Co	WI-38
Mumps-Rubella	Biavax II	Merck & Co	WI-38
Measles-Rubella	MR-VAX	Merck & Co	WI-38
Rubella only	Meruvax II	Merck & Co	WI-38

 U.S. Produced Alternative Vaccines
(There are no U.S. alternatives for Chickenpox, Rubella, Hepatitis-A)

Disease	Vaccine Name	Manufacturer	Cell line
Polio	IPOL	Aventis-Pasteur	Monkey kidney
Mumps	Mumpsvax	Merck & Co.	Chick embryo
Measles	Attenuvax	Merck & Co.	Chick embryo
Rabies	RabAvert	Chiron Therapeutics	Chick embryo
Smallpox Hepatitis B	Acambis 2000 Engerix, Comvax	Acambis-Baxter Glaxo/Smith/Kline, Merck	Monkey kidney Yeast

http://www.rtl.org/prolife_issues/LifeNotes/VaccinesAbortion_FetalTissue.html

Here's a little plug for Mother Angelica's birthday

Mother Angelica has done a great service for Catholics world-wide by creating EWTN. April 20th is her birthday, so I just couldn't let this day end and get any sleep before giving her this special birthday gift. Enjoy...and be transformed...

 There are so many wonderful programs on EWTN that help to build your faith. Faith formation is something that every single one of us needs and with the variety of programming on this channel, you are sure to find several programs that are not just rich in Catholic teaching, but are personally interesting and appealing to you. If you haven't yet forced yourself to be a viewer there, you are really missing some excellent opportunities to grow in your faith.

The Daily Mass is repeated several times from early in the morning until late at night, so you can be a part of it sometime each day, at least turn the volume up while you wash the dishes to hear the Liturgy of the Word and the homily. Regularly there are programs on that teach the Catholic faith by way of interviews with converts who recount their research and experiences, through faithful Catholic priests and theologians who share what they have studied, and with reruns of the ever-humorous Mother Angelica taking questions from callers and explaining practical and heavenly things from God's perspective from the Holy Word of God and our Catholic Catechism as naturally as it is to have a bite to eat.

One thing that was a huge help for me to begin to gather the family together to pray the Rosary together daily is that twice a day Mother Angelica leads the devotion to our Blessed Virgin Mother praying along with her nuns. In fact, this is where I learned how to pray the Rosary, and so can you. Don't worry if you don't have a rosary yet, I didn't have one when I first prayed the Rosary. You may also enjoy praying the devotion in a different context, perhaps from the Holy Land, they've got it, too, EWTN Holy Land Rosary with Father Mitch. The Holy Rosary and The Divine Mercy Chaplet are wonderful devotions and please our Lord and our Lady of the Trinity very much. Most of us know that we should be praying more. Having EWTN on encourages the viewer to have a life of prayer and to better reflect Jesus in our lives.

Bob and Penny Lord feature the lives of the saints while traveling to historical places and presenting their wealth of research just as if they are friends with each of them. And why not? I've found that saints are some of my best friends. Why not find out about them. They will enrich your life tremendously in so many ways.

Saturday mornings are a great treat for children. Tune in and see why. It wasn't an easy change for my kids at first to have EWTN on Saturday morning, but several months later they were asking me to wake them up to see their shows if they didn't wake up on their own. I confess I love a couple of those programs, especially The Knights of St. Michael.

Dramatic presentations and musical talent are included in the lineup, along with programming directed toward our youth, combining the serious with fun. Raymond Arroyo never fails to provide vital interviews while providing news that is of importance to faithful Catholics. Programming for women is smart, intelligent, warm, and informative. Watch a couple of these and you'll be quite surprised that strong women of faith are not dull and brainless. And yes, there is great programming that is geared toward men. Young or old there is something on EWTN for you. So check it out.


If you already enjoy EWTN and learn a lot, please remember them with some funds. Thanks.

Happy birthday, Mother Angelica :) Thank you for your obedience to God and love for souls.

Prayers for Kayleah Wilson's safe return

"Kayleah is described as 5-foot-1, 145 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white and pink shirt over a white tank top, blue jeans, and white and red shoes. Kayleah has been missing since March 28,2010 3:40 PM

"The 12-year-old girl left her home Sunday afternoon to go to a friend's birthday party and never arrived. She didn't show up at the pick-up location, and she hasn't come back home..." It has now been 2 weeks since her disappearance from Greeley, Colorado.

Michelle Thompson of Greeley, created a cause group at http://www.facebook.com/ called "Prayers for Kayleah Wilson's Safe Return". It is here that the world-wide community has come together to help find missing Kayleah Wilson. The photo and the information about Kayleah as quoted above is available at the facebook group page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&ref=search&gid=110710275614207

At this point, there are over 4000 members who belong to this group. People have joined the group from all across the country and from Canada. Posts include information, news, updates, hopeful possible clues or tips, and a whole lot of support and prayer. There are now 54 helpful links included, with one being from The Greeley Tribune, which has been regularly reporting on missing Kayleah.

At the present time (Saturday, April 10, 2010) there is an active community search being led by The Friendswood Texas-based Laura Recovery Center for Missing Children. If you are at least 18 years of age, you can still participate, as this event will continue again tomorrow, Sunday, April 11th. Details can be found on the facebook group site.

Anyone with information about Kayleah's whereabouts is asked to call 1-800 225-5324. 

More info on the Kayleah Wilson case here: http://www.amw.com/missing_children/case.cfm?id=72088

A prayer vigil was held last night. Those who attended did so not out of a sense of loss, but in prayerful hope and expectation for Kayleah Wilson's safe return home. In reading the posts on the group wall, the message is clearly positive and collectively encouraging and affirming. Please pray for Kayleah and her family. Along with the many other courageous and prayerful voices, this examiner says: Kayleah, your family loves and misses you, and we want you home safely soon. 

For Kayleah and her family, here is a song with a message of hope... "there's a light at the end of this tunnel, hold on."

This post is an exception to my blog posts and my column posts not being identical. The reason I have done this is because the article is important, we need to pray for and find this missing child. The original is here: http://www.examiner.com/x-4317-Denver-Roman-Catholic-Examiner~y2010m4d10-Prayers-for-Kayleah-Wilsons-safe-return 

Working on my first book

More work on my first book was done today. I just forced myself to be finished for the night. So here I am making a note to say good-night in a way to honor my Lord and my Lady. In a heart that is thankful for my gifts and talents, I am able to work with this hateful computer and learn more about the ins and outs of the things that DO work on this 'ole dinosaur machine, because I want to share my love and understanding of spiritual matters.

It was a long and tiring time, actually, because it was all work and very little sharing of my heart today. It was a day of practicalities and little prayer. Tomorrow I will probably have a bit more prayer, get a little more of the practical and technical details worked on and figured out, more of a balance.

Yet I am looking forward to the actual writing, which I began nearly a week ago. That is a joy postponed, but coming soon. It could have been done today, I guess, but I'd rather get the work done first. Then I can enjoy the writing task as the passion of mine that it is without having to stop repeatedly for format type issues.

So for now, time to get a few hours sleep, having made sure to enter a blog post to say thank you My Holy Mother, for your "yes" to be the mother of my Lord, Jesus. It's the feast of the Epiphany and we can both remember those days and nights with a baby needing us so. Missing those times. Blessed times. Focusing on the Joyful Mysteries which I'm writing on sure brings back wondrous and glorious memories. Love.

During the first week of the new year

During the first week of the new year I feel almost happy. There are so many hopeful aspirations that I am either already working on or will soon do so. As always, I have far too many goals to ever complete a drop in a huge overflowing bucket but this is how I function best.

I probably get so much done compared to those I've known who were adults while I was still a child. I do not in any way discount a full-time job, but outside of working to earn money, I didn't grow up seeing many adults doing much in the way of charity involvement, assistance with family members who had struggles, or even individual accomplishments in life.

It isn't quite the same as a New Year's resolution to look forward to a brand new year to identify and plan to tackle new things or to be better at things that I've noticed I need some improvement in. For me, the new year beginning is about more possibilities and opportunities, it is about recognizing whatever it is that I will see, and trying to actively take some action to help someone or something in our world.

How best to describe that feeling is like I'm watching a flower very slowly blooming all night long and then there it is in full bloom in the morning. Before it happens, I know it is going to be wonderful, but I am going to take a seat close to it, peering from a hiding place to discover the secret unfolding before my eyes as I spy on it. It is excitement, awe-filled, expectation, hope, freshness, birth, desire, drive, determination, treasure, hopefulness, youthful, playful, charismatic, aromatic, mysterious, glorious, richness, golden, blooming, perfectly beautiful, and full of life :)! Oh, such a thrilling and marvelous feeling!

January 4th is Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton's feast day. I was so intrigued to learn about her, very pleased with what I read, and glad to be able to share a little bit about her in an essay that I wrote for Examiner.com in my column. She had a real devotion to Our Blessed Mother, she was a single parent with 5 children to care for yet her family wasn't happy with her because she converted to Catholicism, and she was found to be in a state of ecstasy before the Holy Eucharist at times in her adoration. Wow! She was also the Mother Superior and listened to our Lord quite well in her life of servanthood for the sake of others. She founded the American Sisters of Charity. My essay is here: http://www.examiner.com/x-4317-Denver-Roman-Catholic-Examiner~y2010m1d4-With-Gods-help-you-will-accomplish-things-that-youve-never-even-dreamed-of .

To tell you the truth, I just can't wait to see what my Lord and my Lady do with me and with my life. This very well could be an omen, a hint of sorts about my own future.

If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father

Jesus said that, "If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father."
                                                                                                

Google look up now, being Catholic, Scriptural references are not memorized for destination, though the meat of the matter resides within my heart. Got it--St. John 14:9. So true. Just a nugget of truth to chew on while we enjoy something funny and profound stated very sincerely from the mouth of a babe.

The following little quip is found on the website for Holy Protection Mother of God Byzantine Catholic Church in Denver: http://www.holyprotection.org/

A kindergarten teacher was walking around observing her classroom of children while they were drawing pictures. As she got to one girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, "I'm drawing God."

The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like."

Without looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute."

Still having difficulties with posting videos but here is a link for an appropriate and awesome one. Meet Akiane. Akiane was born to atheists who are now Christians. Without any teaching about God, she introduced her own parents to Him around the time she could form sentences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQlZv29E4_0