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            Too many people have told us lately that breathing through masks is bad for us, carbon dioxide supposedly being bodily waste.   Our bodies have several organs that expel waste: the urinary system; the lower intestine; and sweat glands.   Lungs do not expel toxic waste, mostly just unused air, carbon dioxide and water.   Carbon dioxide should not be maligned as waste; it plays a vital role in the body’s ability to get oxygen to its tissues.   Hemoglobin grabs and holds oxygen tightly to carry it through the body.   It can’t let go of oxygen until the blood is sufficiently acid with carbon dioxide.   This is how oxygen gets to where it is most needed. Sinuses regulate how much air goes in and out with erectile tissues that inflate and narrow the airways when they detect too much smoke and dust.   They filter out pollutants and germs with mucus that is swept down to the throat to be swallowed.   Th...

  An open letter to Oregon’s Democrat Caucus                Oregon’s 23 Republican state Representatives have signed a statement castigating state Republican Party officials for passing a resolution condemning Congressional Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump and calling the attack on our federal Capitol Buildings a “false flag” operation.   They cannot take Oregon’s Republican Party leadership seriously any longer and should not support this or any political party with their membership.   Democrats should not feel thrilled about this.   There are many Democrats who have their own problems with the choices of their party, and more people than in either party who are so disgusted with the two major parties that they refuse to join either one.   A legislative supermajority invites extreme legislation that gets many people to vote against the party in power. Donald Trump has caused a lot of problems for our...

  An open letter to Oregon’s Republican Caucus             Oregon’s 23 Republican state Representatives have signed a statement castigating state Republican Party officials for passing a resolution condemning Congressional Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump and calling the attack on our federal Capitol Buildings a “false flag” operation.  You cannot take Oregon’s Republican Party leadership seriously any longer and should not support this or any political party with your membership.               It is time for all-non-partisan elections in Oregon.   Write a constitutional amendment to no longer allow party nominations and to take all party labels off all ballots for any office, from President on down.   Allow only the top two candidates from primary elections to move on to the general election.          ...