Where is the "none of the above"? All these cities are rotting in decay liberal strongholds.
Zigs - 11 years ago
I wouldn't live in any of them. Taxes are too high, as well as local regulations.
JimInNT - 11 years ago
NONE! of the above. Maybe some small town in S. Carolina
Catherine - 11 years ago
I actually was born in continue to live in SW suburbs. The other comments about Fluoride are a joke. I am a dentist and the area I live in has fluoridated water as do many other large and small water districts throughout the state. The actual City of Portland and its City Council approved addition of fluoride FINALLY to its water.
The Metro area of Portland is diverse. The City of Portland is a difficult place to not get taxed to death as I learned in 15 years of private dental practice.
I spent 2 years in Kansas City during my residency @ the VA there. Was no thought that I would ever not return home.
KC is a good city for a few years -- met great people and treated wonderful vets - mostly WW 2 and Vietnam. My late husband was a Army dentist and retired Colonel. He chose Portland for his retirement where we met and spent over 20 happy years together.
I choose Portland because it is the only choice that does not have unapproved hydrofluosilicic acid (straight from the pollution scrubbers of the phosphate mining industry in central Florida) in the drinking water. Fluoride is 87% cumulative in growing bones of babies and children and 50% cumulative in adult bone. It is highly embrittling and doubles the hip fracture rate for women (Journal of American Medical Association, August 12, 1992 - graph and 3rd page).
Fluoride does NOT reduce tooth decay. What it DOES do is separate the uranium isotopes and enriches uranium isotope 235 for the Atomic Bomb and throughout the Cold War (Search: Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb) and to this day is used in the US and Iran to enrich uranium. Search: Deepwater New Jersey Lawsuit to read the declassified documents of the Manhattan Project upon which the above article is based. We've all been deceived and Medicare is going broke paying for the laundry list of protein-based harm in the human body.
CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS
Brain damage in rats
from fluoridated water
An animal study links low levels of fluo-
ride in water to brain damage [Brain
Res.. 784, 284 (1998)]. The research was
a collaboration among a chemist and two
psychologists (including lead author Julie
A. Varner) at Binghamton University,
Binghamton, N.Y., and an EPA neurotox-
icologist. Twenty-seven rats were divided
into three groups and for one year were
given either distilled water, distilled wa-
ter with 2.1 ppm NaF—the same concen-
tration of fluoride normally used in fluori-
dated drinking water—or distilled water
with 0.5 ppm AlF3. In both treated groups,
the aluminum levels in the brain were el-
evated relative to controls. The research-
ers speculate that fluoride in water may
complex with the aluminum in food and
enable it to cross the blood-brain barrier.
Both treated groups also suffered neural
Injury and showed increased deposits of
B-amyloid protein in the brain, similar to
those seen in humans with Alzheimer’s
disease. “While the small amount of AlF3
. . . required for neurotoxic effects is sur-
prising, perhaps even more surprising are
the neurotoxic effects of NaF” at 2.1 ppm,
the authors write.
April 27, 1998 C&EN 29
Hydrogen bonding is a weak interaction that holds molecules together. They make and break easily and this is what makes them so versatile - indeed the hydrogen bonds formed between amides (the links between amino acids) are the most important weak hydrogen bonds in biological systems. That these can be disrupted by fluoride in the formation of much stronger bonds may explain how the chemically inert fluoride ion could interfere in the healthy operation of living systems. Thus some of the serious charges that are being laid at its door - genetic damage, birth defects, cancer and allergy response - may arise from fluoride interference after all.
Reference: New Scientist Jan. 22, 1981.
Maureen in San Jose, CA
408 297-8487
maureenj@pacbell.net
Actually I would say none of the above BUT all the Liberals are moving out of the states they screwed up.
They move to the new state because they like it but then screw it up just like the one they left.
Where is the "none of the above"? All these cities are rotting in decay liberal strongholds.
I wouldn't live in any of them. Taxes are too high, as well as local regulations.
NONE! of the above. Maybe some small town in S. Carolina
I actually was born in continue to live in SW suburbs. The other comments about Fluoride are a joke. I am a dentist and the area I live in has fluoridated water as do many other large and small water districts throughout the state. The actual City of Portland and its City Council approved addition of fluoride FINALLY to its water.
The Metro area of Portland is diverse. The City of Portland is a difficult place to not get taxed to death as I learned in 15 years of private dental practice.
I spent 2 years in Kansas City during my residency @ the VA there. Was no thought that I would ever not return home.
KC is a good city for a few years -- met great people and treated wonderful vets - mostly WW 2 and Vietnam. My late husband was a Army dentist and retired Colonel. He chose Portland for his retirement where we met and spent over 20 happy years together.
I choose Portland because it is the only choice that does not have unapproved hydrofluosilicic acid (straight from the pollution scrubbers of the phosphate mining industry in central Florida) in the drinking water. Fluoride is 87% cumulative in growing bones of babies and children and 50% cumulative in adult bone. It is highly embrittling and doubles the hip fracture rate for women (Journal of American Medical Association, August 12, 1992 - graph and 3rd page).
Fluoride does NOT reduce tooth decay. What it DOES do is separate the uranium isotopes and enriches uranium isotope 235 for the Atomic Bomb and throughout the Cold War (Search: Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb) and to this day is used in the US and Iran to enrich uranium. Search: Deepwater New Jersey Lawsuit to read the declassified documents of the Manhattan Project upon which the above article is based. We've all been deceived and Medicare is going broke paying for the laundry list of protein-based harm in the human body.
CHEMICAL & ENGINEERING NEWS
Brain damage in rats
from fluoridated water
An animal study links low levels of fluo-
ride in water to brain damage [Brain
Res.. 784, 284 (1998)]. The research was
a collaboration among a chemist and two
psychologists (including lead author Julie
A. Varner) at Binghamton University,
Binghamton, N.Y., and an EPA neurotox-
icologist. Twenty-seven rats were divided
into three groups and for one year were
given either distilled water, distilled wa-
ter with 2.1 ppm NaF—the same concen-
tration of fluoride normally used in fluori-
dated drinking water—or distilled water
with 0.5 ppm AlF3. In both treated groups,
the aluminum levels in the brain were el-
evated relative to controls. The research-
ers speculate that fluoride in water may
complex with the aluminum in food and
enable it to cross the blood-brain barrier.
Both treated groups also suffered neural
Injury and showed increased deposits of
B-amyloid protein in the brain, similar to
those seen in humans with Alzheimer’s
disease. “While the small amount of AlF3
. . . required for neurotoxic effects is sur-
prising, perhaps even more surprising are
the neurotoxic effects of NaF” at 2.1 ppm,
the authors write.
April 27, 1998 C&EN 29
Hydrogen bonding is a weak interaction that holds molecules together. They make and break easily and this is what makes them so versatile - indeed the hydrogen bonds formed between amides (the links between amino acids) are the most important weak hydrogen bonds in biological systems. That these can be disrupted by fluoride in the formation of much stronger bonds may explain how the chemically inert fluoride ion could interfere in the healthy operation of living systems. Thus some of the serious charges that are being laid at its door - genetic damage, birth defects, cancer and allergy response - may arise from fluoride interference after all.
Reference: New Scientist Jan. 22, 1981.
Maureen in San Jose, CA
408 297-8487
maureenj@pacbell.net