Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Who's Kind of Town?



Well I just don’t know where my head is at sometimes. Thankfully I have those voices in the night who kindly point the way.

Purpleaura’s Vector 5 dream involved a man in a blue uniform and either Chicago or San Francisco. As she learned today, Baxter Pharmaceutical’s head office is in Deerfield. Close enough. And they have a subsidiary in Mexico.

Baxter Plant in Mexico Named Among IndustryWeek's Top 10 Best Plants

DEERFIELD, Ill., December 19, 2008 — Baxter’s manufacturing plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico has been named one of the 10 Best Plants in North America for 2008 by IndustryWeek magazine. Winners of the competition were selected based on key performance metrics, as well as dedication to continually improving people and processes.

The voices of the night reminded me that Chicago is known as the Windy City. It was a really weird night though and I don’t know if I heard it in a dream or just remembered it or what. All I know is I woke up at some obscure time with that thought in my head. I gotta say I felt like a moron for not connecting that detail. I was well aware of that fact and have been for quite some time.
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Anyhoo, this might be a good time to talk about one of the recent Mary dreams since it featured a very well-known Chicago resident.

April 27, 2009

I'm in a summer-type room at my mom's that doesn't exist in this realm. It was in the back of the house and was made mostly of screens so I’m assuming the weather was nice. I was laying on a daybed, Mary was sitting on a couch and we were watching TV when Obama walks in the door dressed in a black pin-striped suit. There was something about his smile that was different. It was still gleaming white but nowhere near as charismatic. Quite ordinary.

He approached me and stepped up onto the daybed and I’m thinking WTF is he doing? He stumbled around a bit as he was having trouble keeping his footing on the mattress. It seemed like he was trying to position himself a certain way and kept asking me to do something but I didn’t understand what he was saying. A few times his crotch got a little too close to my face and I thought if he thinks he’s getting some of that he can just forget it.

Finally he put one of his feet near my face and I could see his pant cuff was all knotted up, it looked like a thread had gotten tangled in the cuff and it wasn’t hanging properly. I untangled his cuff and he promptly got off the daybed and went to sit beside Mary. His presence at our mom’s house did not seem at all unusual.

I decided to have a smoke and remembered that Obama was a smoker, wonder if he quit yet. Just then he asks if he can bum a smoke so I said sure as long as he didn’t mind Canadian menthol cigarettes. I opened the pack and held it towards him so he could grab one and noticed it had no markings. The lower two thirds of the pack was dark green and the upper third a lighter green stripe, but it was missing any brand name or any of the warnings or any text at all. I told him if he didn’t like menthol my mom also smoked and probably had some Peter Jacksons (she hasn’t smoked those for at least 20 years). He said he was ok with the menthol. I can’t recall if he hung around long enough to smoke it, next thing I know he got up and walked out the door. I said to Mary “That's the first time a president has ever bummed a smoke from me”. We went back to watching TV.
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The dream then took a turn in another direction that I don’t think relates to this but who knows.

As far as San Francisco goes, it occurred to me that San Francisco is often referred to as SF. Funny how it shares the same abbreviation as the Swine Flu and the Spanish Flu.

Another funny thing is, while I was brushing my teeth this morning I wondered if Colgate had anything to do with all this (wonder what Obama uses to maintain that big shiny smile?) However, I totally forgot about that until I received an email from Purpleaura this evening (at 6:11 to be exact), and she stated it was probably nothing but she was looking through some old blogs and got to wondering if Colgate has anything to do with this. She found a couple of very interesting things:

A contaminant in a Chinese-produced blood thinner is believed to have caused the deaths of 81 Americans. Food and Drug Administration officials now suspect that a lethal substance was added to heparin deliberately. Poisoned pet food led to the death of many revered animals. Poison in toothpaste led to the need to destroy great quantities of the product.
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The FDA has identified the source of the tainted drug as Changzhou SPL, a subsidiary of Scientific Protein Laboratories and the eventual supplier of contaminated heparin to Baxter International, the manufacturer and distributor of the product. David G. Strunce, CEO of Scientific Protein Laboratories, termed the discovery "an insidious act," adding that it "seems to us an intentional act upstream in the supply chain." Baxter's chief executive, Robert Parkinson, expressed alarm "that one of our products was used in what appears to have been a deliberate scheme to adulterate a life-saving medication."

So I guess I take back what I said earlier about the Russians being blamed, looks like China’s the fall guy this time.

This was even more interesting:

Report title: Colgate-Palmolive Co acquires Baxter Travenol Lab-Amer McCaw from Baxter International Inc

Just this very moment I wondered what got us on the subject of Colgate in the first place and it was dream Purpleaura had of a scientist being murdered.
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Don’t know where all this is leading (in circles at the moment). If the plan is to wipe out millions again, what are we (humanity as a whole) to do about it? Is there a miracle cure? Is it deep dish pizza?