Dear Missnexus.com Readers, When people get sick, they have to go to the doctor to get an antibiotic prescription. But that rule doesn’t hold true for animals raised for meat. Alarmingly, up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on industrial farms in healthy food animals. Consumption of these antibiotic filled [...]

Dear Missnexus.com Readers, If you value the free, fair, and open Internet, then you need to act now, before two corporate giants deal it away. Several news outlets have just reported that Google and Verizon are about to cut a deal that would allow giant corporations to control which websites load slowly, quickly, or not [...]

Respect and Protect. Technorati Tags: AIDS, education, health, HIV, life, medical, national, news, world, World AIDS Day

After work today, I headed to the ice machine to load my cup with ice and water.  As I passed the breakroom, I saw Breaking News on CNN: Michael Jackson taking to UCLA after cardiac arrest.  I paused and wondered if he was okay and then I went on about my business.  Of course as [...]

From: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/dec/13/war-on-sickle-cell-has-new-tool/ War on sickle cell has new tool St. Jude success with mice could lead to human cure By Mary Powers Saturday, December 13, 2008 A Memphis research team has used gene therapy to cure sickle cell disease in mice, a key step in fashioning a cure for humans who have the inherited blood [...]

I came across this last night. A 5 day projection for Hurricane Gustav. I am sending thoughts and prayers to everyone that has or may be impacted by the hurricane. I watched the news yesterday and I was really surprised and amazed that despite the outcome of Hurricane Katrina, there are still people that choose [...]

In a recent interview regarding the Wooten scandal and vice president selection, Republican Vice President presumptive nominee/Governor Sarah Palin asks, “What is it exactly that the VP does everyday?” httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pak-rH0dCeA I hope that she has an idea of what the VP does now… Someone hand here a VP job description or something. Technorati Tags: 2008 [...]

This is truly going to be an exciting election. I enjoyed the Democratic Convention this week. I may just have watch the Republicans to see what they are up to. Here is future President Barack Obama’s speech that he spoke to the Democratic National Convention last night. “Barack Obama: To Chairman Dean and my great [...]

A friend of mine forwarded this on to me in an email.  I already know who I am voting for, but here are a few reasons why you should not vote for John McCain.  Interesting stuff.  Watch this video: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c Technorati Tags: 2008 election, John McCain, youtube

Dear Missnexus.com readers, Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. They’re trying to send Americans the message that our country’s first viable Black candidate for President is not “one of us.” I’ve joined on to ColorOfChange.org’s campaign to push back on Fox, publicly demanding they stop [...]