Friday - April 20, 2012

climate change a feminist issue?  and keystone kops let thieves go worried bout their safety

It was only minutes after 6pm when I sat down to write this. I had no plans to boot today and although 6pm is quite a bit early to most people, to me it may as well have been the middle of the night.

As regulars at this site know, my wife is suffering from particularly bad case of Shingles.  Had they been able to catch it in the first 48 to 72 hours, it would not have been as severe as it became.
There were none of the usual signs to alert her doctor, who misdiagnosed what she saw in my wife’s eye as a scratched cornea. She was immediately sent to an eye clinic late in the day in another city with specialists who agreed the cornea was scratched.  And so, for several days that’s what she was treated for, all the while the pain building and a quick call made to the duty doctor who after hearing what was going on re. pain, said he was certain she had Shingles but suggested I bring her in and he’d fit her in as soon as she got to the practise. There are 12 doctors at that office.  He took her as soon as we checked in and sure enough …. she had it. 

Her doctor has been checking her every week and increasing the dosage of the one drug they claim fights this damned painful infection.  So, her meds were increased today and she’s now on 600mg three times a day with something called Gabapentin, plus three other drugs.  200mg of Tranadol 2wice a day and then another pain killer as needed.  Plus something called Omeprazole once a day in the mornings to avoid the stomach troubles that can happen with these drugs.  In between all that, I keep frozen wash cloths she uses as needed which is often.  At least her eye must be healing because she says the itching is driving her nuts, and she wishes she could take out the damn eye and really scratch behind it.  So as you might correctly guess, I’ve kinda had my hands full.  I can’t describe the pain she has because lets face it, I don’t have it and so can only guess by what I have to see everyday. And it ain’t nice.
Which brings me to, just why the heck did I boot anyway.  It really wasn’t to tell you all of that.
Nope.  It was an article in a newspaper as usual.  I read this thing and I thought, if I go upstairs and go to bed with my book, I’ll feel guilty that I didn’t boot this machine and share what I saw.  Because I doubt you will have seen it back home in the states. Or who knows, maybe you have and I’m late.
Whatever, take a look at this.  And this is my only post for this day.  It can’t get too much crazier.
Can it?  Actually, it not only can but it did this week with another story but I’ll get to that another time.

Women are at greater risk from global warming than men, claims MEP in ‘bonkers’ EU row
By TAMARA COHEN
A bizarre row has broken out among EU politicians over whether climate change is a feminist issue.

Members of the European Parliament will vote today on a report by a French Green party MEP who claims global warming ‘is not gender neutral’.
Women, claims Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, ‘consume more sustainably than men and show greater willingness to act to preserve the environment’ as they tend to organise household consumption and childcare.

She said that discrimination against women could be made worse in the developing world if climate policies do not take gender discrimination into account.
She was yesterday subjected to a withering attack from Marina Yannakoudakis, a Tory MEP for London, who called her motion ‘bonkers, baseless and bad for women’.

The report – Women and Climate Change – calls for a 40 per cent female quota on all EU delegations in climate negotiations and on the committees that allocate climate aid from member states. Funding is set to reach £62billion a year by 2020.

The report also calls for new EU-funded initiatives to help women’s groups get involved in climate policies, and for the EU to start gathering data on the ‘gender sensitive’ effects of climate change on women.

Mrs Yannakoudakis said: ‘This is the kind of thing that gets the EU in general – and its Women’s Rights Committee in particular – a bad name.
‘Where on earth they got the idea that climate change affects women in any way differently from men I have no idea. It would be comical if the people behind the report were not so earnest and its proposals not so patronising to women.

‘Global warming is not some male plot to do women down. The climate is the same for males and females so far as I know. When it rains we all get wet.’
Mrs Yannakoudakis and Miss Kiil-Nielsen are both on the EU’s Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Committee that voted to adopt the report into law by a majority of 47 to 7 in January.

source

Now then for more lunacy, here’s something else that just could not be passed by. 
Look at what has become of our world. 

Police give up chasing thieves who stole kayak on quad bikes because culprits weren’t wearing crash helmets and could be injured
By RICHARD HARTLEY-PARKINSON

Cops let a gang of thieves escape after they abandoned a chase over fears for the health and safety of the crooks.

The gang, riding quad bikes, were allowed to flee with a £700 kayak because they had no crash helmet and could have crashed and injured themselves.

After she saw them snatch the boat, owner Rebecca Jones and her boyfriend Mark Skirrow called police and ran off tracking the thieves across fields.

Within minutes police arrived on the scene at Harlington, near Doncaster, so Miss Jones and Mr Skirrow let them take over.

But minutes later the pair watched in dismay as the cops gave up and let the them disappear with the boat before admitting they had abandoned the pursuit because the thieves were not wearing crash helmets and were driving erratically.

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