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Je viens d’écouter le reportage de l’émission Enquête de Radio-Canada au sujet de la pratique d’une “médecine” alternative qui s’appelle “La Biologie Totale”. En gros, selon ses principes, une maladie ça n’existe pas, c’est simplement une réaction du corps à un stress émotionnel. Belle connerie. Le plus grave c’est que les gens y croient, s’approprie ces sottises là et enseignent ça à d’autre, probablement en rajoutant à chaque fois une marde de plus de leur cru. Ce qui est tragique, c’est que ces soit disant “docteurs” prescrivent d’arrêter tout traitement pour un cancer. En France, où le phénomène a débuté, il y a au moins une dizaine de morts reliées directement à cette pratique.

Exemples de croyances farfelues, tirées de ce site Web:

Voici des exemples de ressentis perçus comme impossibles à gérer (les invariants biologiques) ayant été à l’origine de quelques maladies, ainsi que des événements qui pourraient avoir déclenché ces ressentis.

Maladie	Exemples de ressentis « ingérables »	Exemples d’événements déclencheurs
Cancer de l’utérus	Dévalorisation de ne pas pouvoir porter un enfant	Mort prématurée de son propre enfant
Cancer de la prostate	Problème en ce qui a trait aux petits-enfants	Les enfants ne veulent pas ou ne peuvent pas avoir eux-mêmes d’enfants
Cancer des os	Dévalorisation de soi	Être constamment diminué par un patron méprisant
Diabète	Résistance combinée à de la répugnance	Une femme ménopausée qui ne veut plus faire l’amour avec son mari et qui résiste à ses demandes
Sclérose en plaques	Dévalorisation consécutive à une chute verticale	Perte d’emploi à la suite d’une chute au travail
Allergies	Séparation	Pour un enfant : séparation brutale à la naissance, déménagement précoce, départ du père, etc.
Infarctus du myocarde	Perte du territoire	Congédiement

Pour m’éviter un diabète, faudra donc que je me mettes à baiser comme un lapin… Ça me convient comme traitement
Et tous les employés au monde devraient faire un cancer des os, quel patron n’est pas méprisant?

Dans le reportage, les journalistes ont filmé ces charlatans donner des diagnostics complètement aléatoires. C’était hallucinant. Lorsque confrontés par les journalistes, ils réfutent qu’ils enseignent la Biologie Totale, se réfugiant souvent dans une de leur dix-milles autres pratiques alternatives. Donc, grosso-modo, ils savent que ce qu’ils disent c’est une marde, mais ils ont même pas le “guts” de le dire devant la caméra. Belle gang de crosseurs. Il doit y avoir pas mal d’argent à faire là-dedans. Si j’avais pas une conscience, je me recyclerais dans ce domaine là. Je deviendrais riche, je pourrais me payer plein de petites gâteries et je pourrais venir ici me pavoiser et vous faire chier avec ça…

Ce qui est encore plus sidérant, c’est que des gens qui commentent sur le blogue d’Alain Gravel continuent d’y croire et défendent cette croyance.

Ça m’anène à réfléchir, et je me dis que finalement, c’est peut-être tout à fait correct que ces gens-là pratiquent cette “médecine alternative”. Si même après avoir vu ce reportage vous continuez à y croire, c’est que vous êtes un être à l’intellect inférieur. En effet, si des morons sont assez cons pour suivrent ces conseils complètement farfelus et jouer avec leur vie, quitte à en mourrir, je me dis qu’ils font un cadeau à la société en épurant les spécimens imbéciles de la surface de la planète. C’est un peu les Darwin Awards de la médecine douce. Dans le fond, les gens qui répandent ces croyances de la Biologie Totale font la job de bras de nous débarasser des caves de notre société. On devrait les subventionner.

Vous pouvez regarder le reportage sur le Web.

brem, l’ironique.

The Firefox (Mozilla) team wanted to break the Guiness World Record for the most downloads in a 24 hours period for its new Firefox 3.0 browser. Although it seems that 9 minutes after placing the precious package on their Website, it went down. Oops.

I just received an email from Firefox to tell me to go get the software. The link they provided me directs me to a page where it says “Download Firefox 3.0″, but just below, the version no. is still 2.0.0.14.

I think the PR team never really consulted the technical team as to how many people they could handle downloading at the same time. Also, I think they never tested their Website modifications before they went online, because their links are bogus.

They might make an excellent browser, but they certainly also succeed at making fools of themselves!

Update: the links are now all fixed… it’s downloading!

brem

Impressive snapshops of urban Japanese landscapes using high dynamic range.

They really look as if they were computer generated… They also have that Japanese anime look, don’t you find?

Click on the picture to admire them.

brem


via Pink Tentacle

According to this cyberpresse article, the Canadian Army will have to settle and pay 44 000$ to “Micheline” Montreuil. The Canadian Commission of Human Rights has decided that the Army had been sexually-based discriminatory as a result of a complaint filed in August of 2004.

The Quebec City lawyer had then tried unsuccessfully to obtain a job for the Canadian Forces.

Pierre “Micheline” Montreuil is a man, a transgendre, or if you prefer, a person who prefers to live wearing clothes of the opposite sex, whilst keeping genitals intact.

So it is basically a politically correct word for a (very devoted) transvestite.

I don’t care that he thinks he should have been a woman, but the fact remains, he’s a man!

Also how did the Commission of Human Rights come to the conclusion that there had been sexual discrimination towards this individual? The other candidates were also male!

It’s not sex-based discrimination for f*ck’s sake, it’s a man disguised as a woman! If he wants to really be a sex-based discrimination victim, why doesn’t he get a vagina?!

It’s as if I had gone to an interview with a clown nose and a jock strap on top of my trousers. Would I have been taken seriously? I wouldn’t even have been able to apply as a clown at McDicks.

It’s a totally ludicrous and undefendable decision.

The worst of it all is that it’s us, taxpayers who pay because our justice system has no judgement.

brem

It has been a while since I wrote something substancial on this blog, so to please my newest and favourite groupie, I’ll share with you my impressions on The Toasters’ show and my evening at the Velvet.

We knew there was gonna be 3 bands along with The Toasters, so we came early enough to be able to catch a glimpse at The Peacocks. The Caporal (our bass player) had already seen this band before and was eager to hear them again. It’s a Swiss punk-rockabilly (psychobilly?) trio. The energy on stage of their contrabass player, with his huge hand painted black double-bass was amazing. I must admit, the sound of a slapping contrabass is pretty cool. However, during the half-hour I heard them play prior to a technical issue where the vocal amp blew up, I wasn’t overely impressed, except with the contrabassist’s presence…

To give you an idea, watch this video of The Peacocks on stage.

Since the beer was expensive and that Molson Dry is undrinkable (really, I was reminded of how bad it was last night), we went to another bar, the Ste-Angele, nearby, to drink a few cocktails and other alcoholic beverages while they were fixing the technical difficulty and the seconde group was preparing to play. Since we didn’t attend the second band’s show, I won’t comment on them.

When our rock-paper-scisors tournament was over at the Ste-Angele, we came back to the Velvet, just in time to hear a death metal -ish song. I swear, had I not known this was a ska night, I couldn’t have guessesd. Oh… two measures of upbeat… that’s vaguely ska. All that to say that The Flatliners is not a band for me, and it didn’t fit the musical style of the venue. But they had their followers. Good for them.

After 3-4 tunes of this band where everyone was body-surfing and diving in the (4 people) mosh pit, it was time for The Toasters!

To fully appreciate The Toasters’ performance, one has to temper his/her expectations. For a good old solid 2-tone ska performance, it was the right place to be last night. However, the energy of the band seemed to be lacking a bit. I guess having played night after night for 6 consecutive days might not have helped. The sax player however was very energetic and fun to watch. Oh… the lead singer spoke very well in French. Nice touch there. A small disapointment for me is the fact there were no trumpet player.

I’m still happy with the evening, we had fun. Also, I got a deal on a nice XXL t-shirt of The Toaster I got for 10$ from the lead singer of the band himself! We had not recognised him but he was selling the band’s merchandise at the beginning of the evening :). Alex, our trombone player even asked him if he worked for the band’s record label :). I hope he didn’t feel too much like a has-been. Poor him!

brem