<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748498651288415466</id><updated>2012-02-16T00:49:23.534-08:00</updated><category term='video'/><category term='No Joke'/><category term='funny'/><category term='Fun'/><category term='Health'/><category term='Mercury'/><category term='comics'/><title type='text'>Life is No Joke</title><subtitle type='html'>They say the only sure things in life are death and taxes.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>scottm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00499296514586474301</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SZXXX2hjhRI/AAAAAAAADi0/SA3DCWS45H4/S220/sm_20090208.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>4</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748498651288415466.post-6878250152186292946</id><published>2010-01-12T14:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T17:43:41.745-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='funny'/><title type='text'>Single White Zombie</title><content type='html'>A Zombie comes home from another busy day at the office.  Funny short video!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1329055191825&amp;ref=mf"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1329055191825&amp;ref=mf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not currently on YouTube, but there should be a new release shortly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z8NGdrKG3RY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Z8NGdrKG3RY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8748498651288415466-6878250152186292946?l=lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/feeds/6878250152186292946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8748498651288415466&amp;postID=6878250152186292946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/6878250152186292946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/6878250152186292946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/2010/01/single-white-zombie.html' title='Single White Zombie'/><author><name>scottm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00499296514586474301</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SZXXX2hjhRI/AAAAAAAADi0/SA3DCWS45H4/S220/sm_20090208.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748498651288415466.post-4733078699959955199</id><published>2009-10-17T10:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-01-12T14:23:28.200-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mercury'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Health'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='No Joke'/><title type='text'>Mercury Toxicity and Unexplained Illness</title><content type='html'>If you are having unexplained illness, don't forget about your teeth.  Mercury is highly toxic.  Even though the ADA (&lt;a href="http://www.ada.org/"&gt;American Dental Association&lt;/a&gt;) still claims it is relatively "safe" for most patients, there is always the risk of mercury leaching out of the fillings every time you chew, or drink hot liquids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Did you know?&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercury is 500 times more toxic than lead.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercury is the 2&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;nd&lt;/span&gt; most toxic element known to man (after plutonium).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mercury amalgam fillings have about 50% mercury.&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Before the mercury goes into a filling there is a skull and crossbones on the container.  After it is removed, it must be treated as hazardous waste.  So how can it be safe inside our mouths? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;O.K., so I am just a suspicious patient with an "allergic reaction" to amalgams, and not a Dentist, but I did study enough chemistry to know the difference between a strong chemical bond, and an amalgam.  Chemical bonds such as those formed in table salt &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;NaCl&lt;/span&gt; will render both the Sodium and Chlorine harmless, and water (H2O) is not as flammable as the separate elements Hydrogen and Oxygen.  An amalgam is formed by mixing mercury with other metals, most of the mercury binds with other metals, but it certainly cannot be considered as safe as table salt.  Elemental mercury, and many mercury compounds, such as methyl mercury are highly toxic, so even the slightest amount not completely bound to the other metals is extremely dangerous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If it is as safe as they claim, why does the &lt;a href="http://www.epa.gov/"&gt;EPA&lt;/a&gt; require fillings removed from dental patients mouths be treated as hazardous waste?  See: &lt;a href="http://www.epa.gov/guide/dental/"&gt;http://www.epa.gov/guide/dental&lt;/a&gt; -- "Mercury is a concern to human health because it is a persistent &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;bioaccumulative&lt;/span&gt; toxic chemical.", and &lt;a href="http://www.calgold.ca.gov/P2/621210.htm"&gt;CA pollution prevention&lt;/a&gt; -- "Health/ Environmental Concerns: Release of mercury vapors, contamination of water and/or sludge             from &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;wastewater&lt;/span&gt; treatment plants."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I plan to investigate this further, and post something here on &lt;a href="http://lifeisnojoke.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://lifeisnojoke.com&lt;/a&gt;, and on a website I am creating for a holistic dentist (also known as "bio-compatible," "biological" or "natural" dentist). -- &lt;a href="http://odontologiabiologicatijuana.com/"&gt;http://odontologiabiologicatijuana.com.&lt;/a&gt;  I suspect the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;controversy&lt;/span&gt; will continue, as long as there is ignorance, apathy, money to be made, and fear of lawsuits.  While the experts fight it out, I prefer to avoid the risk of health problems, and ask my dentist to use safer materials in my own teeth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some interesting links I have found on the subject of mercury toxicity and dental mercury amalgams:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Smoking Teeth Video&lt;/span&gt; from &lt;a href="http://www.iaomt.org/"&gt;http://www.iaomt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="313" width="384"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ylnQ-T7oiA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9ylnQ-T7oiA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="313" width="384"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylnQ-T7oiA"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylnQ-T7oiA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Symptoms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://dentalwellness4u.com/layperson/symptoms.html"&gt;http://dentalwellness4u.com/layperson/symptoms.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Patient&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_dnSxGDY8"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK_dnSxGDY8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a Dentist's website in London, England&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.el-essawy.com/"&gt;http://www.el-essawy.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Typically, the patients referred to us for the safe removal of amalgam and mercury decontamination have suffered from a group of troubling signs and symptoms including:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Excessive tiredness and lack of energy&lt;br /&gt;- Mood swings&lt;br /&gt;- Depression&lt;br /&gt;- Sleep disturbances and waking up tired&lt;br /&gt;- Foggy brain&lt;br /&gt;- Digestive and bowel problems&lt;br /&gt;- Food intolerance&lt;br /&gt;- Frequent colds, sore throats, and generally depressed immunity&lt;br /&gt;- Excessive Headaches or migraine&lt;br /&gt;- Mouth ulcers&lt;br /&gt;- Chronic sinusitis&lt;br /&gt;- Skin, nail and hair problems&lt;br /&gt;- Generally feeling unwell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Typically, they would have visited their general medical practitioners, who would have referred them to various hospitals, that would have run an array of tests and investigations, then pronounced their invariable verdict; that there is nothing wrong with these patients. The patients then come to us, we decontaminate them from mercury and amalgam, and the patients invariably, and immediately, improve. It takes 6-12 months for a complete cure.&lt;br /&gt;----------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Book by Dr. Hal A. Huggins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0895295504?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=systemnotesor-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0895295504"&gt;It's All in Your Head: The Link Between Mercury Amalgams and Illness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=systemnotesor-20&amp;amp;l=as2&amp;amp;o=1&amp;amp;a=0895295504" alt="" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;" border="0" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8748498651288415466-4733078699959955199?l=lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/feeds/4733078699959955199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8748498651288415466&amp;postID=4733078699959955199' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/4733078699959955199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/4733078699959955199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/2009/10/mercury-toxicity-and-unexplained.html' title='Mercury Toxicity and Unexplained Illness'/><author><name>scottm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00499296514586474301</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SZXXX2hjhRI/AAAAAAAADi0/SA3DCWS45H4/S220/sm_20090208.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748498651288415466.post-6243280048584563647</id><published>2009-08-19T16:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-19T16:15:39.814-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='comics'/><title type='text'>Parking Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/parking.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 80px;" src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/parking.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8748498651288415466-6243280048584563647?l=lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/feeds/6243280048584563647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8748498651288415466&amp;postID=6243280048584563647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/6243280048584563647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/6243280048584563647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/2009/08/parking-fun.html' title='Parking Fun'/><author><name>scottm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00499296514586474301</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SZXXX2hjhRI/AAAAAAAADi0/SA3DCWS45H4/S220/sm_20090208.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8748498651288415466.post-15337448700000290</id><published>2008-06-24T18:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-21T16:51:42.245-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fun'/><title type='text'>Fun Stuff</title><content type='html'>&lt;a com="" fun="" html="" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SGGi7Ifhb9I/AAAAAAAAAZg/uqgdbFqN8n0/s1600-h/Simone_virtual_girl-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SGGi7Ifhb9I/AAAAAAAAAZg/uqgdbFqN8n0/s200/Simone_virtual_girl-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215628980247424978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out this virtual girl.  It uses artificial intelligence to respond, and can be amusing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.lifeisnojoke.com/fun/simone.html"&gt;http://www.lifeisnojoke.com/fun/simone.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8748498651288415466-15337448700000290?l=lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/feeds/15337448700000290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8748498651288415466&amp;postID=15337448700000290' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/15337448700000290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8748498651288415466/posts/default/15337448700000290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lifeisnojoke.blogspot.com/2008/06/fun-stuff.html' title='Fun Stuff'/><author><name>scottm</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00499296514586474301</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SZXXX2hjhRI/AAAAAAAADi0/SA3DCWS45H4/S220/sm_20090208.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_R7E8CEdseRg/SGGi7Ifhb9I/AAAAAAAAAZg/uqgdbFqN8n0/s72-c/Simone_virtual_girl-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
