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Sunday, December 22, 2013

This could be really BIG----Scientists successfully reverse aging in mice

Seems they didn't try it on MJ.

Scientists successfully reverse aging in mice | DVICE

"What if we discovered a way to not just stop it, but to reverse it?

Scientists at Harvard think it’s possible. They developed a natural chemical that successfully turned old mice into young mice.

It seems crazy, but the Harvard team’s experiments revolve around what happens to cells as we get older.

.....The team injected two-year-old mice with this younger version of NAD. After a week, they took tissue samples of those mice. Those samples appeared younger, more like that of six-month-old mice. To put that into perspective in human years, that’s like taking a 60-year-old grandfather and turning him into a 20-year-old college student.

That’s impressive. What’s even more impressive is that there aren’t many adverse side effects to using NAD to reverse the aging process because it already naturally occurs in the body: all we’re doing here is giving it a boost."

Hayek on why Obamacare won’t work

Imagine if government took over housing for those in need......
Oh.
Been there.
Wrecked it.
Hayek on why Obamacare won’t work | AEIdeas:
"~Nobel economist Friedrich Hayek, from his book “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” explaining why a decentralized market system is superior to central planning….. and why Obamacare won’t work.

"If we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly one of rapid adaptation to changes in the particular circumstances of time and place, it would seem to follow that the ultimate decisions must be left to the people who are familiar with these circumstances, who know directly of the relevant changes and of the resources immediately available to meet them.
We cannot expect that this problem will be solved by first communicating all this knowledge to a central board which, after integrating all knowledge, issues its orders.
We must solve it by some form of decentralization."

Re-Education Camp

Re-Education Camp | National Review Online:
"Having leaned on A&E to suspend their biggest star, GLAAD has now moved on to Stage Two:

“We believe the next step is to use this as an opportunity for Phil to sit down with gay families in Louisiana and learn about their lives and the values they share,” the spokesman said.

Actually, “the next step” is for you thugs to push off and stop targeting, threatening and making demands of those who happen to disagree with you.
Personally, I think this would be a wonderful opportunity for the GLAAD executive board to sit down with half-a-dozen firebreathing imams and learn about their values, but, unlike the Commissars of the Bureau of Conformity Enforcement, I accord even condescending little ticks like the one above the freedom to arrange his own social calendar. "
.....In the early days of my free-speech battles in Canada, my friend Ezra Levant used a particular word to me: “de-normalize”.
Our enemies didn’t particularly care whether they won in court.
Whatever the verdict, they’d succeed in “de-normalizing” us — that’s to say, putting us beyond the pale of polite society and mainstream culture.
“De-normalizing” is the business GLAAD and the other enforcers are in.
You’ll recall Paula Deen’s accuser eventually lost in court — but the verdict came too late for Ms Deen’s book deal, and TV show, and endorsement contracts.

Wait until self described homosexuals get federal "protection"------Second lawsuit in a month filed against Mary Free Bed by a nurse alleging race discrimination

Soooo.
Two years later.
After she didn't get her promotion.
She remembers this shocking, painful fact.
And you know she's gonna win big.
Who needs facts these days.
Second lawsuit in a month filed against Mary Free Bed by a nurse alleging race discrimination | MLive.com:
"In October 2011, she says she was told by her supervisor not to care for a patient because “no black employees were allowed to care for” that patient.
Foster says she complained to the director of nursing, but was told only, “What do you want me to do about it?”
She says she received the same response from the vice president of clinical services.
The lawsuit also alleges that Foster was denied a promotion to nursing supervisor and she believes the decision was based on her race and complaints of racial discrimination."

It was never about health. It was about power---New York City Extends Smoking Ban To E-Cigarettes

Quite simply, rich, thin, rich, morons.
Did I mention "rich"?
They don't understand E-cigarettes and they don't like the look.
The "look" is important.
Doncha tink?
Plus, banning stuff we don't like is fun!
Doncha tink?
New York City Extends Smoking Ban To E-Cigarettes : The Two-Way : NPR:
"New York's City Council has approved extending the city's strict smoking ban to include electronic cigarettes, which emit a vapor.
The measure was pushed by outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg and backed by public health advocates in the city.
It comes just weeks after New York became the first major city to raise the age for buying tobacco to 21.
Earlier this month, New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Farley said that "more research is needed on electronic cigarettes," but that "waiting to act could jeopardize the progress we have made over the last few years."
Reuters describes e-cigarettes as "slim, reusable metal tubes that contain nicotine-laced liquid in a variety of exotic flavors such as bubble gum and bacon.""

The Age of Intolerance

The Age of Intolerance | National Review Online

.......every other show seems to involve snippy little Pajama Boys sitting around snarking at each other in the antiseptic eunuch pose that now passes for “ironic.”
It’s “irony” as the last circle of Dante’s cultural drain; it’s why every show advertised as “edgy” and “transgressive” offers the same pitiful combination of attitude and impotence as a spayed cat humping.

Such a pansified culture is going nowhere.
I hasten to add I don’t mean “pansified” in the sense of penetrative sex with other men, but in the Sarah Silverman sense of “I mean ‘gay’ like ‘retarded.’”
Miss Silverman can get away with that kind of talk because she’s a Pajama Boy–friendly ironist posing as a homophobic disablist.
Unless, of course, she’s a homophobic disablist posing as a Pajama Boy–friendly ironist. Maybe we should ban her just to be on the safe side.

Is the "inner city" finally getting it? --------Al Sharpton's Chicago Town Hall Erupts into Revolt Against Machine Politics

Al Sharpton's Chicago Town Hall Erupts into Revolt Against Machine Politics:
"On Thursday, a town hall meeting hosted by Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to address gun violence exploded into a revolt against “Chicago Machine” politics, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the aldermen in City Hall, with panel and audience members calling to vote out their elected officials.

One 82-year-old preacher even called for “Tea Party” style meetings in some of Chicago’s south side communities such as Altgeld Gardens and Trumbull Park."

A Whooper From the IRS.
A political firestorm erupted this year over IRS employees’ extra scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’ exempt organizations division, wrongly told reporters on May 10 that she first learned of employees targeting these groups in 2012 from media reports on conservative organizations that complained about delays. But a Treasury inspector general’s report released four days later showed she knew about the flagging of conservative groups nearly a year earlier, and that she tried to correct it.

Lerner, the IG report said, was briefed in late June 2011 about employees singling out groups applying for 501(c)(4) status with “tea party” or “patriot” descriptors. The status is for “social welfare” organizations that can be involved in politics as long as it is not their “primary activity.” Lerner raised concerns and “instructed that the criteria be immediately revised,” the report said. She also learned in early 2012 that the IRS had sent the groups letters asking “unnecessary” questions — as determined by her office — such as the identity of donors. But when questioned by reporters just days before that report was released, Lerner said that “we started seeing information in the press that raised questions for us and we went back and took a look.” Lerner retired from the IRS in September.

Sooo, those who said "gay marriage" would open the door for polygamy weren't nuts after all------Move over Sister Wives! Utah polygamist with FIVE wives and 24 children to get his own TLC reality series

Move over Sister Wives! Utah polygamist with FIVE wives and 24 children to get his own TLC reality series | Mail Online: "
A pilot episode featuring Brady Williams and his family drew good ratings on the network in September
The Williams family are among an estimated 15,000 independent polygamists in the West who don't belong to an organized, fundamentalist Mormon church

TLC has announced it will air a full series about a progressive polygamous family from Utah that starred in a one-hour pilot earlier this year.

The cable TV network said Thursday it will produce nine, one-hour episodes about Brady Williams and his five wives and 24 children.
The first episode is set to debut March 9."

What a story! ---------Korean War pilot who landed blind dies at 83

Korean War pilot who landed blind dies at 83 | The Detroit News
Los Angeles — Kenneth Schechter, a Korean War pilot who landed his plane while blinded from a wound, has died. He was 83.
Schechter died on Dec. 11 in Fairfield, Calif., his son, Rob Schechter, told the Los Angeles Times. He had prostate cancer.
Schechter was a 22-year-old Navy pilot when an enemy shell sent fragments into his eyes and blood running down his face during a March 22, 1952, bombing mission.
Schechter suddenly was semi-conscious, flying a smashed-up Skyraider at 200 mph over the Korean coast.
“Instinctively, I pulled back on the stick to gain altitude,” he wrote in an account for the 2001 book, “Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul.” ‘’When I came to, sometime later, I couldn’t see a thing. . I felt for my upper lip. It was almost severed from the rest of my face.”
“I’m blind! For God’s sake, help me!” he cried into his radio. “I’m blind!”

His friend and fellow pilot, Lt. j.g. Howard Thayer, had already spotted the plane climbing and knew something was wrong.
Over the next 45 minutes, he helped talk down the plane. At one point, Thayer dumped his canteen over his head to wash away the blood. For a moment he saw the controls but then everything went dark.
“Get me down, Howie,” he radioed. “Get me down.”
Thayer guided the plane toward the coast, intending for Schechter to bail out and be picked up in the water but Schechter refused. He had seen another pilot drown in the same waters after a bailout.

“Jump out in that icy water blind? You’d have to be insane,” Schechter said in a 1995 Times interview.

With the nearest air base 30 miles away, and the bleeding Schechter slumping in the pilot’s seat, Thayer looked around for someplace to land — even a rice paddy. He finally remembered a rutted dirt Army landing strip dubbed the Jersey Bounce that had been used by reconnaissance planes.
As they approached, Thayer told Schechter to lower his wheels.
“The hell with that!” Schechter replied. He thought a belly landing would be safer on the uneven ground.
Thayer, flying a few feet from his friend, kept up a running commentary as the plane came down.
“We’re heading straight,” he said. “Hundred yards to runway. You’re 50 feet off the ground. You’re level. You’re OK. You’re over the runway. Twenty feet. Kill it a little. You’re setting down. OK, OK, OK. Cut!”
Schechter was safe. It was his last flight before he left the Navy months later. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1995.

It's that time of year again - time to debunk Kwanzaa

It's that time of year again - time to debunk Kwanzaa | NJ.com:
"It's that time of year again - the time when lazy journalists go out and write puff pieces about a fake African holiday created by a psychopath who tortured black women."

...Imagine if a white man had tortured those women in that way and then tried to market himself as some sort of a paragon of racial pride.
If some Ku Klux Klan leader set up a holiday to compete with Christmas, every editor in America would direct his reporters to research that leader's background before writing an article about how wonderful that holiday is.

...... If the journalists of America would only do their jobs and inform readers of the real nature of Kwanzaa, it would soon be a forgotten relic of a bad time in American history.

Cracker Barrel pulls select 'Duck Dynasty' items

Cracker Barrel pulls select 'Duck Dynasty' items | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has removed select products from its stores tied to the stars of the cable hit "Duck Dynasty."

While the Lebanon, Tenn.-based restaurant company will continue to offer some products from Duck Commander, the business run by the Robertson family of the A&E show, they decided to remove certain products "which we were concerned might offend some of our guests.""

Wasteful Spending: Government Waste of Your Tax Dollars This Year

Wasteful Spendi ng: Government Waste of Your Tax Dollars This Year
So it’s timely that the office of Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) released its 2013 “Wastebook” yesterday, listing 100 examples it deems wasteful spending this year. In our infographic below, we’ve picked just a few of the highlights of your tax dollars at work.

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Pretty simple stuff... but pills are free!!! --------------------2,000 steps to a healthier heart: Walking that far every day for a year can reduce heart attack and stroke risk by 8%

2,000 steps to a healthier heart: Walking that far every day for a year can reduce heart attack and stroke risk by 8% | Mail Online:
"2,000 steps to a healthier heart: Walking that far every day for a year can reduce heart attack and stroke risk by 8%
Exercise is equivalent to walking 20 minutes a day at a moderate pace
Walking 40 minutes a day can reduce cardiovascular risk by up to 20%
Researchers at University of Leicester looked at 9,306 adults for study
Those with greater levels of activity had lower levels of risk"

And NONE of 'em are good----8 Ways The Taper Is Going To Affect You And Your Family

Guest Post: 8 Ways The Taper Is Going To Affect You And Your Family | Zero Hedge

5. Quantitative Easing Has Been Causing The Cost Of Living To Rise

The Federal Reserve insists that we are in a time of "low inflation", but anyone that goes to the grocery store or that pays bills on a regular basis knows what a lie that is.
The truth is that if the inflation rate was still calculated the same way that it was back when Jimmy Carter was president, the official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent today.

Most of the new money created by quantitative easing has ended up in the hands of the very wealthy, and it is in the things that the very wealthy buy that we are seeing the most inflation. As one CNBC article recently stated, we are seeing absolutely rampant inflation in "stocks and bonds and art and Ferraris and farmland".

6. Quantitative Easing Did Not Reduce Unemployment And Tapering Won't Either

The Federal Reserve actually first began engaging in quantitative easing back in late 2008. As you can see from the chart below, the percentage of Americans that are actually working is lower today than it was back then...

The mainstream media continues to insist that quantitative easing was all about "stimulating the economy" and that it is now okay to cut back on quantitative easing because "unemployment has gone down". Hopefully you can see that what the mainstream media has been telling you has been a massive lie. According to the government's own numbers, the percentage of Americans with a job has stayed at a remarkably depressed level since the end of 2010. Anyone that tries to tell you that we have had an "employment recovery" is either very ignorant or is flat out lying to you.

OMG! The NYT seems just tired of their guy and his "signature bla bla"-----Mixed Messages Add Anxiety as Deadline Nears in Health Act

OAS-"Obamacare Anxiety Syndrome".
Get diagnosed and ya get free Medicaid!
Mixed Messages Add Anxiety as Deadline Nears in Health Act - NYTimes.com:
"But as the date approaches, a series of decisions by the Obama administration to delay some of the law’s most important provisions and to extend some deadlines has caused uncertainty among insurers and confusion among consumers.

Already the enrollment of young adults appears to be lagging behind the expectations of federal officials and insurers.
And insurers, struggling with problems caused by the chaotic debut of the federal insurance exchange in October, have criticized the administration’s last-minute changes, saying they could cause instability in the market."

Sadistic bullies on a PC jihaad-Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination

Why Did BuzzFeed & Co. Target Justine Sacco for Online Assassination

Why did BuzzFeed and others gin up a journalistic assassination squad to hit some nobody named Justine Sacco?

If you'll pardon the mixing of metaphors, why was this private citizen plucked from obscurity by The Online Statsi for a trip to Room 101?

What we have seen happen to public figures, like "Duck Dynasty's" Phil Robertson, who dare offend the political/media left-wing elite is frightening enough. Is this group now so addicted to the taste of bloody scalps that no one is safe -- that any obscure citizen with only 174 Twitter followers can have their social media door broken into and lives ruined by the likes of BuzzFeed: Speech Detectives?

Or maybe it is something else.

Any time, day or night, you can use the search feature to look up "N*gger, AIDS, gay, homosexual, f*g," and literally find hundreds of thousands of tweets filled with unquestionable venom and hate.

So why Justine Sacco?

How did this nobody living in a social media world buried in tens of thousands of truly racist and homophobic nobodies, find herself in the crosshairs?

If BuzzFeed and Co. wanted to feel self-righteous about themselves, there are literally millions of tweets out there that are unquestionably indefensible and that are not written by some defenseless, unsuspecting woman about to step off a plane and into social media Hell.

Maybe BuzzFeed and its sorry band of elite media minions chose Sacco to send an intimidating message that says no one is safe from their speech rules, even nobodies with 174 Twitter followers. Randomly pulling people from their online homes as an example to the rest of us, is certainly going to have a chilling effect.

But maybe it was a targeted hit based on a personal grudge or agenda we will never know about.

Either way… Good God.

Barry's "possible sons" don't interfere with Hawaii vacation-----Four arrested for killing lawyer, 30, shot dead protecting his wife in carjacking at New Jersey mall

Al Sharpton silent.
Is Al dead?
The nation ponders.
Four arrested for killing lawyer, 30, shot dead protecting his wife in carjacking at New Jersey mall | Mail Online:

"Four men have been arrested over the death of a lawyer shot in front of his wife during a carjacking outside a New Jersey mall last week, authorities said on Saturday.

The suspects in the fatal carjacking on Sunday last week, in which Dustin Friedland was killed at The Mall, Short Hills, were arrested in a series of raids overnight.

Three of the men were arrested in their homes in New Jersey and the fourth was arrested in a Pennsylvania hotel, between 9pm on Friday and 3am Saturday.

The suspects were identified as Hanif Thompson, 29, Karif Ford, 31, Basim Henry, 32, and Kevin Roberts, 33."

Remember, this is little Barry's "signature legislative success----- Morning Joe Can't Stop Laughing at Obamacare's 'Pajama Boy' - YouTube

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History for December 22 -Four Heroes

History for December 22 - On-This-Day.com:
1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.

1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.

1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.

1990 - Lech Walesa was sworn in as Poland's first popularly elected president.