Weekly 1/7/10 - Table Notes from Last Night's Salon

At the table Wednesday, 1/6/10 

  Dwight Wilson,   Viddle, Ellen Bierhorst,  Byron Moody, Mr. G., Judy Cirillo, Julia Yarden, Sophia Yarden, Vlasta Molak, Lauren Hanisian , Attia Huff  (Welcome Dwight!)

Preamble read by: Ellen

Song : "Come follow, follow..."

Topics:

Jennifer Brunner vs Lee Fisher for Senate

Vlasta:  the county commission want to raise sales tax again, want a new jail.  They are like a broken record.  

80% of our tax dollar is for the legal system.  

Viddle:  crack is much more addictive than cocaine.  

Julia  what is crack now has (almost) no cocaine in it. Meth...  

Ellen:  we don't need more jail space, we need to repeal the marijuana law under which mj offenders are locked up; also a lot of mentally ill people in jail; also we need a night court so that people don't have to wait overnight to be arraigned.  

Dwight:  the amt of jail space per capita in U.S. is the highest in the world.  

Viddle:  it is business.  Privatized incarceration.

Lauren:  what is the difference between homeopathy and herbal medicine?

Vlasta: the homeopaths believe that extreme dilutions of the active ingredient ...  but no effect except placebo.  

Ellen and Julia:  that's not so! Double blind studies have demonstrated effectiveness.  (see http://www.boironusa.com/homeopathy/what-is-homeopathy.html   

or http://www.hylands.com/faq/faq.php

for introduction to homeopathy.)

Ann Onimous:  my daughter living in India, keeps having bladder infections.  

She is getting wonderful care in the Indian health care system.

Julia:  India is a very dirty place ... hand washing ... flushing the ureters with massive water flushing ...

Viddle I was taking care of a woman with Alzheimer's.  Had a lot of bladder infections.  Had been an award winning film maker, a brilliant woman.  Tragic deterioration.  

Vlasta:  the city needs to install public toilets down town for the homeless people.

Byron:  I've been taking sleeping pills and am starting to have memory loss.  Ambien.  

Viddle:  Stop taking sleeping pills.

Ellen:  melatonin is good, helps you to fall asleep.  

Atia :  On Jennifer:

Sen. Voinovich is retiring.  Jen. Brunner, secy'y state is running.  Needs signatures.