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Post by Galactus on Dec 13, 2006 9:05:50 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Drum on Dec 13, 2006 10:24:20 GMT -5
Re: Phil's #494, Tristan Emmanuel was very active in 2004/2006 getting like-minded candidates nominated to run as Conservatives. There were three or four of his people in the Halifax area alone last January, none of whom fared all that well with the electorate. Still, these guys have a lot of influence with this government.
"You know what? I can pick up the phone and call Mr. Harper and I can get him in two minutes. It's going to take you a month."
– Charles McVety to (then Conservative) MP Garth Turner, Sept. 2006
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Post by phil on Dec 13, 2006 11:08:08 GMT -5
G-d helps us all if those guys ever get a majority government in Ottawa ... !!
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Post by phil on Dec 13, 2006 11:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by strat-0 on Dec 13, 2006 12:36:37 GMT -5
If they're going to be cutesy with archaic grammar, they should at least get it right: "thine."
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Post by strat-0 on Dec 14, 2006 14:36:58 GMT -5
Today's brilliant statement is from the Birmingham News. In the front page article "Authority bringing back free parking downtown" about allowing free short term parking again, BPA Executive Director, Lynn Thomas states, "If you're going to do some short term parking, you can usually do it in an hour or less."
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Post by Mary on Dec 15, 2006 10:35:50 GMT -5
Ummm. I don't even know what to say about this:
World's tallest man saves China dolphins
Thu Dec 14, 7:28 AM ET
BEIJING - The long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.
The dolphins got sick after nibbling on plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province. Attempts to use surgical instruments to remove the plastic failed because the dolphins' stomachs contracted in response to the instruments, the China Daily newspaper reported.
Veterinarians then decided to ask for help from Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia with 41.7-inch arms, state media said.
Bao, 54, was confirmed last year by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's tallest living man.
Chen Lujun, the manager of the Royal Jidi Ocean World aquarium, told The Associated Press that the shape of the dolphins' stomachs made it difficult to push an instrument very far in without hurting the animals. People with shorter arms could not reach the plastic, he said.
"When we failed to get the objects out we sought the help of Bao Xishun from Inner Mongolia and he did it successfully yesterday," Chen said. "The two dolphins are in very good condition now."
Photographs showed the jaws of one of the dolphins being held back by towels so Bao could reach inside the animal without being bitten.
"Some very small plastic pieces are still left in the dolphins' stomachs," Zhu Xiaoling, a local doctor, told Xinhua. "However the dolphins will be able to digest these and are expected to recover soon."
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Ok then.
Cheers,
M
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Post by Mary on Dec 15, 2006 10:37:00 GMT -5
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Post by Mary on Dec 15, 2006 10:39:53 GMT -5
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Post by phil on Dec 15, 2006 11:04:45 GMT -5
Holy Sacred Cow ... !!
He looks like a cartoon character !
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 15, 2006 12:39:39 GMT -5
I'll tell you what, but that is the most remarkable news story I've heard in years. I caught it on my pager yesterday Mary - so glad to see you found pics ! Sometimes it takes a story like this to put the wind back in my "sails of hope" for mankind.  |
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Post by Mary on Dec 16, 2006 0:45:36 GMT -5
Just when you thought the nuts couldn't get any nuttier:
Soy is making kids 'gay'
Posted: December 12, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
There's a slow poison out there that's severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it's a "health food," one of our most popular.
Now, I'm a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it's organic. I state my bias here just so you'll know I'm not anti-health food.
The dangerous food I'm speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they're all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.
I have nothing against an occasional soy snack. Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you're also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.
Estrogens are female hormones. If you're a woman, you're flooding your system with a substance it can't handle in surplus. If you're a man, you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your "female side," physically and mentally.
In fetal development, the default is being female. All humans (even in old age) tend toward femininity. The main thing that keeps men from diverging into the female pattern is testosterone, and testosterone is suppressed by an excess of estrogen.
If you're a grownup, you're already developed, and you're able to fight off some of the damaging effects of soy. Babies aren't so fortunate. Research is now showing that when you feed your baby soy formula, you're giving him or her the equivalent of five birth control pills a day. A baby's endocrine system just can't cope with that kind of massive assault, so some damage is inevitable. At the extreme, the damage can be fatal.
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That's why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today's rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because "I can't remember a time when I wasn't homosexual." No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can't remember a time when excess estrogen wasn't influencing them.
Doctors used to hope soy would reduce hot flashes, prevent cancer and heart disease, and save millions in the Third World from starvation. That was before they knew much about long-term soy use. Now we know it's a classic example of a cure that's worse than the disease. For example, if your baby gets colic from cow's milk, do you switch him to soy milk? Don't even think about it. His phytoestrogen level will jump to 20 times normal. If he is a she, brace yourself for watching her reach menarche as young as seven, robbing her of years of childhood. If he is a boy, it's far worse: He may not reach puberty till much later than normal.
Research in 2000 showed that a soy-based diet at any age can lead to a weak thyroid, which commonly produces heart problems and excess fat. Could this explain the dramatic increase in obesity today?
Recent research on rats shows testicular atrophy, infertility and uterus hypertrophy (enlargement). This helps explain the infertility epidemic and the sudden growth in fertility clinics. But alas, by the time a soy-damaged infant has grown to adulthood and wants to marry, it's too late to get fixed by a fertility clinic.
Worse, there's now scientific evidence that estrogen ingredients in soy products may be boosting the rapidly rising incidence of leukemia in children. In the latest year we have numbers for, new cases in the U.S. jumped 27 percent. In one year!
There's also a serious connection between soy and cancer in adults – especially breast cancer. That's why the governments of Israel, the UK, France and New Zealand are already cracking down hard on soy.
In sad contrast, 60 percent of the refined foods in U.S. supermarkets now contain soy. Worse, soy use may double in the next few years because (last I heard) the out-of-touch medicrats in the FDA hierarchy are considering allowing manufacturers of cereal, energy bars, fake milk, fake yogurt, etc., to claim that "soy prevents cancer." It doesn't.
P.S.: Soy sauce is fine. Unlike soy milk, it's perfectly safe because it's fermented, which changes its molecular structure. Miso, natto and tempeh are also OK, but avoid tofu.
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I always knew tofu was gay.
Cheers,
M
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Post by phil on Dec 17, 2006 14:42:09 GMT -5
So how does Santa deliver his gifts?
24 December 2005 10:28
It's a question that has taxed the brains of children across the globe - how does Father Christmas manage to deliver millions of presents to good girls and boys in just one night?
Despite having nothing more than a reindeer-drawn sleigh and a few sacks for present storage, somehow Santa manages to get round every home each year.
Some might say it's purely magic, but the Evening News asked the boffins at the University of East Anglia if they could find a more scientific explanation for Santa's success.
They have come up with two explanations - one involving quantum mechanics and the other . . . magic acorns.
Prof Tom Ward, head of department at the UEA's School of Mathematics, said: “There are about two billion children in the world, most of them very well-behaved.
“Fortunately for Santa, many of these live in Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, or other homes where Christmas Eve is not the time for presents.
“Despite this, he and his team have about 100 million houses to visit. By taking advantage of different time zones, Santa has about 30 hours in which to work - about 900 houses a second. That is roughly one thousandth of a second to climb down the chimney, eat any snacks left out for him, deliver the presents and climb the chimney again.
“The travel between the houses (and back to the North Pole to refill the sleigh with presents) means the reindeer team must cover about 200 million kilometres. This needs a speed of about seven million kilometres an hour.”
So how is this journey possible? Prof Ward said: “The first possibility comes from the famous documentary Santa Claus is Coming to Town. This reveals that his reindeer acquired magical powers by eating magic acorns.
“So it is hardly surprising that they can fly at magical speed. The scandalous suggestion that Rudolf's nose is red because of too much mulled wine can also be laid to rest. At a speed of seven million kilometres an hour, air friction will make his nose glow very brightly indeed.
“Some people think it is unlikely that the traditional plump Santa can get down and up a chimney in less than one thousandth of a second. Modern scientific thinking suggests that as the number of good children has grown, Santa has become more and more athletic - he is now a very slim, very fit Santa who moves with great speed.
“There is a difficulty however with the magical reindeer/fit Santa theory. A sleigh and team of reindeer moving at seven million kilometres an hour (3,500 times faster than Concorde) would generate massive sonic booms, certainly shattering every window in the world. In addition, the rapid turns needed to stop at each house would expose the sleigh to enormous forces, certainly enough to crush all the presents.
“The second possibility comes from the modern theory of quantum mechanics. A quantum particle can exist simultaneously in many places, so perhaps Santa is an enormous quantum particle, who visits all the houses simultaneously.
“This theory explains everything, but there is a very important lesson in it. If you observe a quantum particle that exists in many places at the same time, it will collapse into one place - so all good children should definitely make sure they are tucked up in bed when Santa comes to call!”
But maybe Santa Claus should think of leaving Rudolf and the other reindeer at home, because the Liberal Democrats today said he should deliver presents by bus instead.
Transport spokesman Tom Brake said that Santa's reindeer-drawn sleigh was not an environmentally-friendly mode of transport because the animals produce the greenhouse gas methane in their wind.
According to Lib Dem calculations, a team of nine reindeer would emit methane with a global-warming impact equivalent to 40,667 tonnes of carbon dioxide as they covered the 122 million miles needed for Santa to deliver presents to every house in the world.
This makes his sleigh ride almost as environmentally unfriendly as an aircraft, which would produce 41,480 tonnes of CO2 on the Christmas Eve trip.
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 19, 2006 3:21:43 GMT -5
Odd...
Expert witness says HIV does not exist
Tuesday Dec 19 19:07 AEDT
A Perth medical researcher has told an Adelaide court that Africa does not have an AIDS crisis because HIV does not exist.
Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos has told the South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal that no one had proven that HIV exists.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos is a witness in the appeal case of Andre Chad Parenzee, 35, who was convicted on January 31 this year of endangering the lives of three women.
Parenzee had unprotected sex with the women, knowing he was HIV-positive.
One of the women, a mother of two, became infected with HIV while the other two tested negative to the virus.
Parenzee's lawyer, Kevin Borick, QC, argues Parenzee could not have committed the crimes because HIV does not exist.
Under cross examination from Prosecutor Sandi McDonald, Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos, a medical engineer from Royal Perth Hospital, dismissed recent World Health Organisation and United Nations reports that outline the world AIDS epidemic.
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos said there was no published reports that conclude HIV exists or could be linked to AIDS.
The 5,000 people who signed the Durban Declaration in 2000, which says AIDS was an epidemic in Africa, linked to HIV and spread by sexual contact, were backed by politicians, not scientists, she said.
"I am a scientist, I look for science - I do not look for consensus," she told the court.
"There is no massive epidemic of HIV infections because no one has proven it."
Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos denied she was appearing at the case to gain publicity for her theories and her research organisation, the Perth Group.
The Perth Group, which Ms Papadopulos-Eleopulos heads, believes there is no link between HIV and AIDS.
Parenzee's appeal application continues on Wednesday before Justice John Sulan.
©AAP
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Dec 19, 2006 3:27:06 GMT -5
My husband works in immunology & microbiology research & he showed me a slide of a white blood cell with HIV particles on it once. It was actually quite interesting, in a morbid way.
I think that woman is an idiot.
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