Joe Redner Starring in: ‘Strip Club King’

Hi Everybody,

Just wanted to shoot out an email to let everybody know that ‘Strip Club King’ is now available for pre-order at the link below or just go to Amazon.com and type in ‘strip club king’…the official North American release date is August 4, so all DVDs purchased will be shipped that day…if you know anybody who may be interested, please forward this along. Thank you to everybody who helped make this DVD possible.  I have been very blessed to have been able to get this story of Joe Redner out to a national audience. Please email me if you have any questions for concerns.

In case you are confused, or I have not been in contact for a while, the documentary was directed by me and produced by Chris Woods.

Also, If you have seen the film already on one of the DVD promotional discs or at the Gasparilla Film Fest, please feel free post a review on Amazon.

New reviews from the legendary Ron Jeremy and Steve Persall:

“If Shelby McIntyre hadn’t made this movie, Hollywood could never dream up a character lke Joe Redner, a saintly sinner railing against political and religious hypocrisy. Armed with nothing but the truth, Strip Club King is like Mr. Smith going to Washington for lap dances“.– Steve Persall, St. Pete Times

“It has been my pleasure sharing the stage with Joe Redner many times at the Night Moves Awards Show. He is a gentleman , entrepreneur, and freedom fighter. He singlehandedly turned an eye-sore into an attractive gentleman’s club, even raising the real estate value of the surrounding neighborhood. Joe is a classy guy and this documentary chronicles him beautifully”.– Ron Jeremy

http://www.amazon.com/Strip-Club-King-Story-Redner/dp/B0029LBNT0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1242436971&sr=1-1

Sincerely,

Shelby McIntyre
http://www.StripClubKingMovie.com

 

Who owns the Rain? Apparently Colorado believes only certain people own it.

Who owns the Rain?
Apparently Colorado believes only certain people own it.

Environmentalists and others like to gather it in containers for use in drier times. But state law says it belongs to those who bought the rights to waterways.

By Nicholas Riccardi

March 18, 2009

Reporting from Denver — Every time it rains here, Kris Holstrom knowingly breaks the law.

Holstrom’s violation is the fancifully painted 55-gallon buckets underneath the gutters of her farmhouse on a mesa 15 miles from the resort town of Telluride. The barrels catch rain and snowmelt, which Holstrom uses to irrigate the small vegetable garden she and her husband maintain.

But according to the state of Colorado, the rain that falls on Holstrom’s property is not hers to keep. It should be allowed to fall to the ground and flow unimpeded into surrounding creeks and streams, the law states, to become the property of farmers, ranchers, developers and water agencies that have bought the rights to those waterways.  read the rest here you will be totally amazed that someone can OWN rainwater.

 

Ebola: Cure? or Just Lucky?

Source: The Toronto Star, Associated Press report [edited]
<http://www.thestar.com/article/609787>

Ebola scientists turn to Canadian vaccine
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It was a nightmare scenario — a scientist accidentally pricking her
finger with a needle used to inject the deadly ebolavirus into lab
mice. Within hours, members of a far-flung but tightly bound
community of virologists, biologists, and others were tensely
gathered in a transatlantic telephone conference trying to map out a
way to save her life.

Less than 24 hours later, an experimental vaccine never before tried
on humans was on its way to Germany from Canada’s National
Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. And within 48 hours of the 12
Mar 2009 accident, the at-risk scientist, a 45-year-old woman whose
identity has not been revealed, was injected with the vaccine. So
far, so good. If the woman is still healthy next Thursday [2 Apr
2009], she can consider herself safe.

Ebola hemorrhagic fever, seen mainly in Africa, is one of the world’s
most feared diseases. It begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by
bloody diarrhea and vomiting. Days later, some victims bleed through
the nose, mouth and eyes. Depending on the strain of virus, it can
kill up to 90 per cent of victims. There is no cure. The virus is
spread through direct contact with the blood or secretions of an
infected person.

Dr Stephan Guenther, head of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for
Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, where the researcher was working, said
tests so far show the scientist is healthy and free of the virus. The
peak period for an outbreak during the 21-day ebolavirus incubation
period passed this week, he said. “We are now on the downside,”
Guenther said, noting that with each passing day the chance of
infection taking root diminishes.

But… and here is the “disclaimer”…

It’s not entirely clear the researcher was actually infected with the
virus. At the time of the accident, she was wearing 3 layers of
protective gloves, and though the needle stuck her, the plunger of
the syringe was not pushed so it’s not certain the virus entered her
bloodstream. That means scientists may never know if the vaccine
worked or she was just lucky. There are 2 other known accidents
involving researchers who came into direct contact with a similar
strain of Ebola. A Russian researcher died, and a British scientist
became ill but survived.

After the needle stick, Guenther knew he had to act swiftly. He
rushed an email to fellow scientists, including Dr Heinz Feldmann,
chief of the virology laboratory at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories,
a research facility in Hamilton, Montana. “We considered this as
serious as (the Russian) case, in terms of the exposure,” Feldmann
said. Feldmann was part of an international group of experts from the
Canadian Public Health Agency, US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
Diseases, the Boston University, and the University of Texas Medical
Branch. Feldmann, Guenther, and several other experts took part in
the teleconference debating the options. The option that emerged as
the strongest was the vaccine that had been developed by Feldmann and
collaborating researchers at several institutions. Much of the key
work was done about 9 years ago at the microbiology research lab in
Winnipeg where Feldmann worked at the time. Although the vaccine is
based on a different kind of virus, researchers used genetic
engineering to make the virus look like Ebola, triggering an immune
system response.

[Byline: Melissa Eddy, Mike Stobbe]

 

MYSTERIOUS FUNGUS Kills About 90 Percent Of Connecticut’s Bats

By RINKER BUCK |The Hartford Courant March 18, 2009

White-nose syndrome, the mysterious plague that is decimating the Northeast’s bats, killed off about 90 percent of Connecticut’s bats over the winter and is now galloping across the country so quickly that it threatens the nation’s — and probably the world’s — largest bat populations in the American South.

Jenny Dickson, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection wildlife biologist supervising the detection and control of white-nose syndrome in the state, said Tuesday that visits to two sample caves in Litchfield County in the past two weeks revealed veritable bat catacombs.

Dickson’s team of wildlife experts found thousands of dead bats floating like dead fish in standing water, or stacked on top of each other along the flat ledges of the cave walls.

“It was grim, and you don’t have to be a scientist to realize the implications for the environment inside those caves,” said Dickson. “This is a massive, unprecedented die-off, with significant potential impacts on nature, especially insect control.”

Findings by Dickson’s counterparts in nearby states paint an even more dire picture for Connecticut.

Crops At Risk

Ecologist Merlin Tuttle of Texas is a bat expert and wildlife photographer who leads the battle to save the endangered gray bat.

“The number of bats that have died so far, which is probably over a million now, will be dwarfed by what is going to happen in the next few years,” Tuttle said.

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This highlights some far reaching consequences of the loss of bats, which in many ways mirrors the loss of the bees with colony collapse disorder.  Bats are exceptionally important in insect control,  as well as bees in pollination.   I have been following this syndrome since it was discovered and the potential is exceptionally dangerous to the bat population and to humans in the loss of the bats.  Read the other stories here on bats and white nose syndrome.

 

Sections of Tennessee’s Emory River Contaminated by Billion-Gallon Toxic Sludge Spill!

A coal ash waste dumping pond in Tennessee ruptured this past December, unleashing toxic substances known to cause cancer, birth defects and other health problems in animals and humans.

Despite this horrendous accident and the ecological threat posed by coal ash waste, the EPA is not doing anything to regulate it! Take action >>

As a result of the spill, 1 billion gallons of sludge containing the heavy metals arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium were leaked into the Emory River. What’s more, there are more than 1,300 dump sites similar to the one that failed in Tennessee, putting innumerable areas in danger!

It is the EPA’s job to regulate chemicals and protect human health by safeguarding the natural environment. Urge the EPA to regulate coal ash waste that threatens water supplies and human health >>

Coal ash waste isn’t just detrimental to people. It is also responsible for diminishing populations of birds and frogs near dumping areas. The remaining animals are at risk of developmental problems, like tadpoles without teeth and fish with deformed spines.

Thank you for speaking up on behalf of ecosystems that lay in the shadow of unregulated coal plants!

 

“Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.” – Palin

The pastor who clashed with Palin Baptist minister Howard Bess, who wrote a book Palin wanted banned and who fought her on abortion and gay rights, says the country should fear her election.

Bess is unnerved by the prospect of Palin — a woman whose mind is given to dogmatic certitude — standing one step away from the Oval Office. “It’s truly frightening that someone like Sarah has risen to the national level,” Bess said. “Like all religious fundamentalists — Christian, Jewish, Muslim — she is a dualist. They view life as an ongoing struggle to the finish between good and evil. Their mind-set is that you do not do business with evil — you destroy it. Talking with the enemy is not part of their plan. That puts someone like Obama on the side of evil.

Another valley activist, Philip Munger, says that Palin also helped push the evangelical drive to take over the Mat-Su Borough school board. “She wanted to get people who believed in creationism on the board,” said Munger, a music composer and teacher. “I bumped into her once after my band played at a graduation ceremony at the Assembly of God. I said, ‘Sarah, how can you believe in creationism — your father’s a science teacher.’ And she said, ‘We don’t have to agree on everything.’

“I pushed her on the earth’s creation, whether it was really less than 7,000 years old and whether dinosaurs and humans walked the earth at the same time. And she said yes, she’d seen images somewhere of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them.”

Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. “She looked in my eyes and said, ‘Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'”

The concept that a heart-beat away from the presidency could be this person who believes that man walked with the dinosaurs is appalling.  Will she hurry the Rapture of the Christians with an Apocalypse?  Can you see the hand poised…..to strike nuclear Armageddon?

 

Governor Sarah Palin: A Champion for Savage and Brutal Aerial Hunting

As Governor, Sarah Palin has championed aerial hunting of wolves and bears. Please watch our new video,

learn more about Palin’s record and help us spread the word about her awful record…

* Learn more about Governor Palin’s record on protecting wildlife
and the environment…

* Read the statement by Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
president Rodger Schlickeisen…

Sarah Palin says aerial hunting of wolves and bears is need to feed poor Alaskans.

If that’s true then: Why are the major special interest groups in Alaska pushing this program sport hunter groups and not advocates for the poor? Why, in most of the areas where aerial hunting is done, are most of the moose and caribou taken by urban hunters and not true subsistence hunters?

Why does she oppose what is called “rural preference” which would give true rural subsistence hunters priority access over sport hunters to the areas where aerial hunting is conducted?

Under Alaska law, every citizen is a subsistence user, even if they don’t hunt and even if they do, but live next to the local grocery store and don’t rely on what they kill to survive.

 

Detection of infectious prions in urine

Ever wonder why the deer in New York, Michigan etc keep have larger and larger populations of animals with “mad cow disease”.  Scientist think they have the answer, and it doesn’t look all that good for the population at large.  Below is an excerpt, but click on more and read the whole story.

Contamination of soil with urinary prions may contribute to spreading prion disease among animals, which are known to ingest large amounts of soil, including cattle, sheep and cervids. Worrisomely, the continuous excretion of urine and the extremely high resistance of prions may lead to a progressive accumulation of infectious material in the environment, with potentially catastrophic consequences in the future.

So you say “So What?”   Well this has a direct impact on humans and the food they consume.

“One of the top priorities in the prion field is to minimize further spreading of TSEs to humans or animals by limiting the exposure to contaminated material. This is a difficult problem, because prion diseases have a long clinically-silent incubation period in which infected individuals may unknowingly transmit the disease.

Finding prions in urine just made that job  (a job that was already extremely difficult) a million times harder.  Blog in, and tell us what you think those “catastrophic” consequences in the future might be!

 

Public outcry brings proposed change to the rules for the slaughter of food.

Public outcry brings proposed change to the rules for the slaughter of food.  Lets hope this new rule is approved.

See our previous articles on this issue here:

Clinton and 2007 Food Safety Plan

Warning, You WILL think about this next time you eat Beef!

How safe is our food supply? Things you need to know!

Will our table food be any safer now?

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today [27 Aug 2008]  announced a proposed rule to amend the Federal meat inspection regulations to initiate a complete ban on the slaughter of cattle that become non-ambulatory after initial inspection by Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) inspection program personnel.

This proposed rule follows the 20 May 2008 announcement by secretary of agriculture Ed Schafer to remove the provision that states that the FSIS inspection program will determine the disposition of cattle that become non-ambulatory and disabled after they have passed ante-mortem before slaughter inspection on a case-by-case basis. Under the proposed rule, all cattle that are non-ambulatory and disabled at any time prior to slaughter, including those that become non-ambulatory disabled after passing ante-mortem inspection, will be condemned and properly disposed of.

“To maintain consumer confidence in the food supply, eliminate further misunderstanding of the rule and, ultimately, to make a positive impact on the humane handling of cattle, I believe it is sound policy to simplify this matter by initiating a complete ban on the slaughter of downer cattle,” said agriculture secretary Ed Schafer.

On 13 Jul 2007, FSIS published the final rule, “Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk Materials for Human Food and Requirements for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle; Prohibition of the Use of Certain Stunning Devices Used To Immobilize Cattle During Slaughter,” (SRM final rule). The SRM final rule allowed a case-by-case re-inspection of cattle to address the rare situations where an animal that is deemed by FSIS as fit for human food at ante-mortem inspection subsequently suffers an acute injury.

Under the proposed rule, cattle that become non-ambulatory disabled from an acute injury after ante-mortem inspection will no longer be eligible to proceed to slaughter as “US Suspects.” Instead, FSIS inspectors will tag these cattle as “US condemned” and prohibit these animals from proceeding to slaughter. Establishments will be required to notify FSIS personnel when cattle become disabled after passing ante-mortem inspection.

Of the nearly 34 million cattle that were slaughtered in 2007, less than 1000 cattle that were re-inspected were actually approved by the veterinarian for slaughter. This represents less than 0.003 per cent of cattle slaughtered annually.

Comments on this proposed rule must be received on or before 29 Sep 2008. Comments can be sent to Docket Clerk, US Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Room 2534 South Agriculture Building, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250; emailed to <fsis.regulationscomments@fsis.usda.gov>, or submitted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at <http://www.regulations.gov>. All submissions received by mail or electronic mail must reference the Food Safety and Inspection Service and include the docket number FSIS-2008-0022.

For further technical information on the proposed rule, contact Dr Daniel Engeljohn, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy and Program Development, at (202) 205 0495 or by fax at (202) 720 2025.

Source: US Department of Agriculture [edited]
<http://www.regulations.gov>

 

Anthrax Attack: Revelations of 2001

Source: The New York Times [edited]

8-12-08 On Wednesday [6 Aug 2008], the United States Justice Department revealed its evidence that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, on his own, committed the worst act of bio-terrorism in the country’s history. This 18-year veteran scientist of the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., is accused of killing 5 people and sickening 17 others in the fall of 2001. Dr. Ivins died on 29 Jul 2008 of an apparent suicide without a chance to give his side of the story.

After reading the affidavits and listening to the Justice Department briefing, I was both disheartened and perplexed by the lack of physical evidence supporting a conviction Dr. Ivins was a friend and colleague of mine for nearly 16 years. We worked together at Fort Detrick. He was a senior scientist, and I was, first, a bench scientist and, from 1999 to 2003, the chief of the bacteriology division.

The Justice Department has presented different types of evidence to support its argument that Dr. Ivins was the person who mailed anthrax to Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle and others in September and October of 2001. Much of this evidence is outside the realm of science: Dr. Ivins’s alleged fixation with a sorority; strange comments in excerpts from his e-mail messages; a connection to a Greendale school that might or might not explain the fictitious return address on anthrax mailings. I will not address these points beyond noting that they are highly circumstantial. As a scientist, however, I feel compelled to comment on what should have been the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s strongest link between Dr. Ivins and the terrible crime: deadly anthrax spores. In the summary of its findings, the FBI states that investigators used 4 different genetic techniques to match the anthrax-laced attack letters to a unique DNA footprint of a single anthrax spore preparation in one flask that had been in Dr. Ivins’s custody….read more of this revealing story and why questions remain