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• ‘Like Food Nazis’: Did a Calif. Health Dept. Come to Homes to ‘Confiscate’ Contaminated Raw Milk?

  May 22, 2012 at 1:34pm

  In reply to BlackCrow.

  @thekuligs: I remember you…we’ve had conversations of this nature before! Yeah, I would say I’m a “crunchy conservative Christian” if I actually had to label myself. I actually used to be against all this raw and organic stuff because I associated it with this hippie environmental movement (it still turns my stomach for cloth diapers to always be advertised as “green” as if that’s the only reason someone would want to use them). I wish conservatives had a louder voice in these things I care about, because now I have to defend my “crazy” ways to my friends and family!!! The next baby will hopefully be a home birth, or at least a midwife birth with no medical interference or drugs. We drink raw milk and have an organic garden, and we have chickens for eggs. We want to do more eventually, but we’re taking it a step at a time.

• ‘Like Food Nazis’: Did a Calif. Health Dept. Come to Homes to ‘Confiscate’ Contaminated Raw Milk?

  May 21, 2012 at 11:55pm

  In reply to Ginger Taylor.

  Godfather, yes the CA health dept did this, but the US government absolutely has its hand in this. The FDA specifically advises against it, and they have been involved in similar tactics. http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/consumers/ucm079516.htm

• ‘Like Food Nazis’: Did a Calif. Health Dept. Come to Homes to ‘Confiscate’ Contaminated Raw Milk?

  May 21, 2012 at 11:49pm

  In reply to Metallicat.

  Around the time of the Industrial Revolution, populations began moving off the farm and into town. Cows were kept in tight quarters standing knee deep in fecal matter. They were fed the leftovers from the whiskey distilleries…ie: grains. Cows stomachs aren’t meant to digest grains, but grass. The combination of diet and filthy living conditions is what first caused deaths from raw milk. This is when pasteurization was invented. While it’s touted as a remarkable discovery, all it really did, IMHO, was treat the symptom instead of providing a remedy for the root cause of the poisoning.

  When cows are kept clean and healthy and allowed to graze on grass, and handled and milked in sanitary conditions, the risk is so incredibly low for getting a food borne illness. Besides, in studies on raw vs. pasteurized milk, when harmful bacteria are introduced to raw milk, the good bacteria present in the milk attack and kill off the harmful bacteria in a similar manner as how human white blood cells attack bacteria and viruses in your system. Pasteurization kills the good with the bad, and basically strips milk of all it’s nutrient value.

• ‘Like Food Nazis’: Did a Calif. Health Dept. Come to Homes to ‘Confiscate’ Contaminated Raw Milk?

  May 21, 2012 at 11:41pm

  In reply to BlackCrow.

  I am also just about as far right as one can be, and I drink raw milk every day. I eat organically, avoid GMOs, and my basic philosophy is to try to get as close as possible to the food God provided for us in Creation. It ticks me off when people call me a hippie, though, for liking raw milk and cloth diapers and organic foods!

  The propaganda that the government is spewing is really what makes me angry. They are saying that raw milk is deadly. There have been ZERO deaths due to raw milk in the past 50 years, but over 260 due to pasteurized milk…and raw milk is illegal??? They just can’t control it, that’s why they hate it. Quit telling me what I can and can’t eat. Oh, and recently a judge ruled that you don’t have an inherent right to consume milk that you own from a cow you own. So I can own the cow but can’t drink the milk? Seriously??? This is just stupid.

• Couple Catch Foul Ball & Fail to Give it to Heartbroken Child, TV Announcer NOT Pleased

  April 27, 2012 at 10:02am

  In reply to APROUDVETERAN.

  @Ballot_Box: The couple was there together at their first Ranger game, and their wedding is on Saturday. I’m very disappointed in The Blaze for this story. I’m from DFW, so I’m right in the middle of this on talk radio, the newspaper, and the online news. This is absolutely ridiculous. Here is a WFAA sportswriter going on a diatribe against these people: http://www.wfaa.com/home/related/Rang-149093795.html If you watch the video, the ball gets tossed up, people are standing all around to try to catch it, but it lands at the feet of the sitting couple. The man reaches down and picks it up, and gives it to his fiance. The little boy was reaching at the same time, it’s not as if this guy took the ball from the boy. If that were the case, then the unspoken etiquette of baseball would take effect. You don’t snatch a ball from a kid. But that’s not what happened here at all. And people say, “How can they be unaware of a crying kid?” Well, it’s LOUD, the kid’s crying, and they may or may not realize that he’s crying, but they are completely unaware that it’s because of the ball, and they are super excited that they themselves have gotten a ball at their first game to take home as a souvenir. Seriously, we have to vilify these people in the media now? Yeah, WFAA sportswriter and Yankee announcer definitely owe these people an apology. Way to create an entitlement mentality for crying baseball fans everywhere.

• Do You Know the Real Story Behind the ‘Jefferson Bible’? David Barton Shared it With Beck

  April 19, 2012 at 8:52pm

  Hey, Blaze, could you at least do us the courtesy of capitalizing “God” in the second paragraph? Thanks. We’d appreciate it.

• High School Student Needed Rabbi’s Note to Wear Yarmulke in School

  February 10, 2012 at 10:53am

  In reply to rlmeals.

  Maybe, maybe not. That yarmulke in the link you gave isn‘t knitted and doesn’t cover his whole head the way the principal says the knitted hat covered the kid’s dreadlocks. That was one of my points, that the story doesn’t link a picture and we have no way of knowing what the principal saw the boy wearing and what he was basing his decision on. If the boy looked like you suggest, I think the principal was wrong, but if the boy looked like what I suggested based on the principal’s description, then I totally side with him. This is an incomplete article, and the readers are commenting very rudely against the principal without all the facts, and I merely wanted to offer that there may be another explanation and to think about that before jumping to conclusions about the principal’s “religious intolerance.”

• Report: Texas Rangers’ Recovering Addict Josh Hamilton Has Relapse

  February 5, 2012 at 12:59pm

  I think it‘s important to remember that being a Christian doesn’t mean we are perfect. We all stumble and “fall short of the glory of God.” But when we humbly repent, God forgives us. It’s how you deal with these things that shows your true character. Josh has admitted his problems, and has gone years between relapses. They happen. Sometimes the flesh is weak. I think you will see his true character as he picks himself up and dusts himself off, asks for forgiveness, and refocuses on his relationship with the Lord.

  We all do this…we take a wrong path, whether it’s a big detour or just a little one, and then we have to get back on the straight and narrow with the grace of God. The big difference is that Josh is in the public spotlight. I‘m proud of him for the witness that he’s been to people, and for admitting his faults so that he can show others that they can change their lives through the Lord. I think he‘s a great example that Christians aren’t perfect, they’re forgiven. My prayers go out to him!

• High School Student Needed Rabbi’s Note to Wear Yarmulke in School

  February 5, 2012 at 12:46pm

  Okay, people, THIS IS A RASTA STYLE HAT: http://adventure-five.amazonwebstore.com/Rhasta-Dreds-Reggae-Soft-Jamaican-Bob/M/B005O0M2UM.htm?traffic_src=froogle&utm_medium=CSE&utm_source=froogle

  If the principal saw the boys wearing something like this, he was absolutely right to question it. I think we all know what a traditional yarmulke looks like, and this is nowhere close. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t show a picture of the hat, so we can’t be certain what the principal saw. I think the principal was probably questioning whether the boy was hiding behind “religious grounds” just to get away with expressing his personality. I also think the principal was pretty clear in the article that he wouldn’t have had a problem with a yarmulke, but that this hat didn’t look like a traditional one, rather looked like a rasta hat and covered his dreadlocks. I don’t even know why the kid had dreads, they certainly weren’t allowed in our school.

  I’m with the principal on this one.

• Home Birth Advocate Dies After Her Own Home Delivery

  February 2, 2012 at 3:38pm

  In reply to Gup20.

  Well said! The mortality rates for mothers and newborns are actually higher in hospital births. There are countries where it is customary to have home births and hospital births are largely uncommon, yet they have a much lower mortality rate than the US. I think we must re-think what we call “normal” or “common sense” especially in the field of medicine. We use to many drugs, too many unnecessary interventions, and we’re messing with a system God took care of for us. Birthing a baby is a totally natural process, not an illness that requires medical intervention. Now, there is a small percentage of people who will be at risk or become in need of medical intervention, and that is what the medicine is good for. Yes, people do need emergency c-sections, sometimes a prescription, and preemie babies that could not have survived outside the womb even 20 years ago can live normal lives because of modern medicine. But does anybody truly believe that upwards of 40% of pregnancies require an “emergency” c-section? Absolutely not! It’s a quick procedure that a doctor can schedule and get paid more money for doing. Why do the c-section rates spike on weekdays at 4 pm (right before getting off work) and 10 pm (doc doesn’t want to pull an all nighter)? Is anyone seriously going to tell me there’s no connection here? C-sections are convenient, bottom line. I don’t understand why anyone would want to have elective surgery. True emergency? Go for it! If not, Leave it