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7/15/2010
News you can use?
Just for kicks, Verona businessman sells shoes “ranging from ballet flats to 4-inch heels to thigh-high boots for men who are transgender or dress in women’s cloths.” Oh my.
[Bernie Fatia] learned there was an untapped market and that drag queens were forced to buy women's shoes that were often too ill-fitting to wear for more than a couple hours.
"It can be really, really hard to find professional shoes," said Denise Leclair, executive director of the International Foundation for Gender Education, who said she's met Fatla at a conference where she told him "make some shoes I can wear to the office."
Fatla said he can't remember ever being to a drag show before starting Le Dame, but said the openness of the transgender and cross-dressing community has meant he and his wife always feel comfortable at the events.
And then there’s more nanny state news from San Francisco. FoxPol featured an article several months ago warning about more expensive, manufacturer-enraging regs in Nanny State West.
People already grapple with complicated information when they buy mobile devices. But San Francisco consumers soon will face one more consideration — cellphone radiation — as the result of a precedent-setting law that delights public health advocates and enrages the wireless industry.
The city recently passed the nation's first local ordinance that requires retailers to post radiation-emission data.
But, as the article points to with a link… no strong evidence points to the cell phone as a brain tumor risk.
And the industry isn’t going down without a fight.
The CTIA appears determined to stop any law that suggests cellphones may be dangerous. In March the group helped to defeat a proposal in Maine that would have required phones there to come with labels warning parents about potential health risks for children.
Last month a disclosure proposal similar to San Francisco's was defeated in the California Legislature.
The CTIA is so upset with San Francisco that the group has vowed not to hold another convention there following one already planned for October. "It's clear that we weren't welcome there," Walls says.
Will it never end?
Jo Egelhoff, FoxPolitics.net
COMMENTS
Good for Bernie!
He saw a need in the marketplace, stepped up and offered an innovative solution.
Now the market he's catering to may not be one that readers here necessarily agree with - but if we're going to be consistent about supporting the free enterprise system and open markets, then I'm sure the rest of you will be lining up to join me in giving Bernie a pat on the ... uh, shoulder.
Jeff (Thu Jul 15 07:51:15 2010)
It will probably never end because God in her infinite wisdom elected to create man and woman in his image. Infinitely complex, diverse, unique in the universe and fully capable of a multitude of human forms and expressions. Why would one want a world with one bird, one fish, one tree and one flower. BORING!
billie (Thu Jul 15 07:54:19 2010)
There is no question that the sexual revolution created all manner of new markets, and expanded some that were otherwise under the radar.
I am a strong advocate for the free market. And it would be my sincere hope that restoring morality and common sense - along with due respect for human dignity and the dignity of our procreative powers - would simply leave Bernie's market to dry up completely.
Meanwhile, I would be laughing at drag queens and "transgenders," except that it is so terribly saddening to think of an identity crisis of such magnitude that it would drive someone to such extremes. Except for those perhaps who arrive at it by degrees of depravation, which is equally saddening considering the social environment that inundates and entices young men - boys - with all manner of depravity and unnatural habits.
It is a strange world in which to raise a son up well.
Andrew Ellis (Thu Jul 15 08:41:57 2010)
Jeff- clever and funny but serious. I agree. no way on God's green earth I will ever cross that threshhold, but where there is a market...
Jo- I guess I am more offended by Micheal Jackson ad nauseum, the foibles of the Royal family (we got rid of them, remember?) or who Tiger is boinking this week than the stories you included. A bit here and there, but why the obsession that some "news" folks have when many networks are not even reporting the dismissal of the Black Panthers case, which encourages lawlessness, and jeopardizes the integrity of our elections?
Ken Van Doren (Thu Jul 15 08:48:33 2010)
"Given the increased risk of brain cancer found, many scientists, physicians and health advocates believe it was irresponsible for news sources to have reported that Interphone results showed ‘no risk’ of brain cancer or that the results were ‘inconclusive’.
Even the director of the Interphone study, Elisabeth Cardis, PhD, has stated, “We have a number of elements in the study which suggest there might actually be a risk, and particularly we have seen an increased risk of glioma, which is one type of malignant brain tumor, in the heaviest users in the study—in particular on the side of the head where the tumor developed and in particular in the temporal lobe which is the part of the brain closest to the ear, so closest to where the phone is held…”
The finding of doubled risk of glioma after 10 years of ‘heavy’ use is of serious concern for two reasons:
1) Latency periods in tumors can be upwards of 10 years (even up to 40 years in the case of radiation from Hiroshima) so it is of concern that a statistically significant risk of brain cancer showed up at all after 10 years in the Interphone study; and
2) People use cell phones today for much longer than the usage that produced a statistically significant increased risk of brain cancer in the Interphone study. If an increased risk of glioma was found in users speaking on the cell phone for two to two and a half hours a month, what does the risk of glioma become when one uses the cell phone for two and a half hours a week—or even two and a half hours a day?" NOTE: This study considered "heavy" use to be a mere TWO HRS/MONTH! (from http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/confused-by-the-media-coverage-of-the-interphone-brain-tumor-study/)
"The effect of cell phone subscriptions was significant (P = 0.017), and independent of the effect of mean family income (P = 0.894), population (P = 0.003) and age (0.499). The very linear relationship between cell phone usage and brain tumor incidence is disturbing and certainly needs further epidemiological evaluation. In the meantime, it would be prudent to limit exposure to all sources of electro-magnetic radiation." see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20589524
Also see Mercola's articles on cell phones, as well as Dave Stetzer's website. It might be of interest to know that no testing as to cellular safety was done re. cell phones. The only tests that were done, measured temperature alone.
emily matthews (Thu Jul 15 11:30:30 2010)
I wonder if California will ban The Pill since study after study has shown that it is polluting our water supply and wreaking havoc on our environment and fish in particular.
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/EE2-changes-trout-chromosome-number
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090118200636.htm
Andrew Ellis (Thu Jul 15 13:15:29 2010)
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