http://www.ryananddebi.com Public journal, baby stuff, travelogue, book reviews, and other stuff... (mostly written by Ryan) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/23/re-joys-of-muslim-women-more-debunking/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/23/re-joys-of-muslim-women-more-debunking/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:25:27 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4883 Another relative (not my uncle this time), sent me the email below, but (I think smartly) asked me if it was accurate.  My response follows the email: This was written by a woman born in Egypt as a Muslim. This is not heresay, and it will scare the life out of you. Make sure you read [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/23/re-joys-of-muslim-women-more-debunking/feed/ 2 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/02/compensating/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/02/compensating/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:00:16 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4775 I saw this driving around town and snapped a picture.  Why would someone put something like that on their vehicle?  What are they trying to say?]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/07/02/compensating/feed/ 6 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/09/ryan-on-the-radio/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/09/ryan-on-the-radio/#comments Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:36:35 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4569 Thanks to my appearances on the local media recently about the pill mills, I was invited to be a guest on a local radio show: Prescription Addiction Radio.  I was on for about 20 minutes last Sunday.  I just checked the website to see if the show is available for people to listen to, but [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/09/ryan-on-the-radio/feed/ 2 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/01/news-interviews/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/01/news-interviews/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:23:55 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4534 Here are the other two interviews I did that landed me on local TV. The first is from the day of the raid – May 20th.  I happened to have students coming over for dinner that night (from a small May class I taught).  A reporter from Fox 13 stopped by before my students did [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/06/01/news-interviews/feed/ 3 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/30/back-in-the-news/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/30/back-in-the-news/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 14:07:39 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4511 Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking with Leonora LaPeter Anton at the St. Petersburg Times about the pill mill/pain management center that was behind my house.  Her story hit the paper today: Pill mill’s demise brings relief to neighbors.  Here’s the picture from that story: Apparently my picture is in the print edition [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/30/back-in-the-news/feed/ 2 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/21/boo-yah/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/21/boo-yah/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 17:10:28 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4474 So, my regular readers may have forgotten, but I posted about the pain management clinic behind my house, along with the pharmacy, a few months ago.  Yesterday they were raided by the DEA and Tampa Police.  This has been all over the news the last day or so and is front page news everywhere here [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/21/boo-yah/feed/ 2 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/19/pain-management-clinics-in-the-news-again/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/19/pain-management-clinics-in-the-news-again/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 12:35:20 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4471 The St. Petersburg Times has a good story on the pain management clinic epidemic in Hillsborough County today.  Obviously Tampa Bay Wellness Center is not alone in doling out prescription drugs (in all likelihood to addicts and dealers, though I don’t know that for certain).  The story says the police are finally starting to do [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/19/pain-management-clinics-in-the-news-again/feed/ 0 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/11/in-the-news/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/11/in-the-news/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 12:23:44 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4449 I wrote up my experience with the pain management clinic behind my house on my blog a few months ago. Since then, a lot has happened. A bunch of people have emailed me about the clinic; I’ve talked to lawyers and reporters and patients and documentary film makers about this. I’m not sure what will [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/05/11/in-the-news/feed/ 3 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/03/19/the-pernicious-evil-that-is-disney/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/03/19/the-pernicious-evil-that-is-disney/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:00:18 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4312 I’ve now been to four Disney parks: Disney Land (California), Disney World Magic Kingdom (Florida), Disney World Epcot Center (Florida), and Disney World Animal Kingdom (Florida). I went to Disney Land when I was younger, though I have some memories of various attractions (the Matterhorn, Swiss Family Robinson House, the Haunted House, and the nightmarish [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/03/19/the-pernicious-evil-that-is-disney/feed/ 0 http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/02/20/ronald-j-heromin-m-d-tampa-bay-wellness-centre/ http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/02/20/ronald-j-heromin-m-d-tampa-bay-wellness-centre/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:03:54 +0000 ryan http://www.ryananddebi.com/?p=4190 I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but in the last few months a new pain management clinic was opened in the strip mall behind our house called Tampa Bay Wellness Centre. For two and a half years, we’ve had no problems with the strip mall that is just over our fence. But in the [...]]]> http://www.ryananddebi.com/2010/02/20/ronald-j-heromin-m-d-tampa-bay-wellness-centre/feed/ 127