Archive for March, 2007

Do We Get Smarter As We Age? Conclusion

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Ever asked, “Why is Common Sense Such a Rarity?”

How certain are you that we get smarter as we age? Wiser? More intelligent? Well, this common adage is now being tested with scientific tests that gauge one’s cognitive performance with causal relations. One such test was in the previous article called Do We Get Smarter As We Age?” The results are quite shocking. The test was pulled from an article in Scientific American Mind, Feb/March 2007 called Jumping to Conclusions. Here is what they found…

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Write Your Congressman “The Daily Show” Way

jonstewart.jpgSince I am always writing Congressmen or other governmental officials, I am on the outlook for ways in which to be more efficient and effective in my writing to these very important people. So, when I came across a template that Jon Stewart recommends in writing your Congressman, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to pass this valuable information on to our readers. I have to admit it’s concise and can be used for all occasions. Check it out…


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Updated: Why Republicans Will Ruin Our Democracy

bushes.jpgUpdated: So, after I finally gave up on the neo-con, we will call him Twit, over at Newsvine after he basically did not admit to anything and wanted me to go away and not bother him with reality. I started to surf around and found another article that Twit seeded/linked to containing, guess who, Ann Coutler. Now she is hating on Global Warming environmentalists. This chick was basically just making stuff up again to support her conservative ideology.

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Overpopulation: It’s Not Only About Fossil Fuels

cows.jpgI was not too sure what to do with this article. Whether I should post it or just forget about it, but if I am going to help change the world, I cannot be selective in what I expose. As we all know I am against the exorbitant numbers of legal and illegal immigrants coming into this country (1,000,000 legal and 1,000,000 illegal a year). Not because I don’t like ethnic people, but because for every one person we let into this country, that is more natural resources that need to be imported or extracted to support them. Here is one I did not think of, and one that is really important.

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Evolution and Aging: What You Need To Know

aging.jpgHave you ever thought about why your muscles atrophy or waste away when you get a cast on your arm? Well, I hadn’t really thought about why until I read an article in the newspaper quoting Dr. Henry S. Lodge author of Younger Next Year. Dr. Lodge points out that when you don’t move something on your body whether it’s your arm or leg or whatever, the muscles let out a steady trickle of chemicals that tell the cells to decay, day after day after day. Then I got to thinking,

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Top Five Strange Judicial Oddities

flaggavel.jpgStaying true to our mission of informing the public and now that the scandals are erupting almost daily regarding our fine judicial branch and its perpetrators, I would like to point out some strange, and basically not commonly known, oddities of this most illustrious branch of government. For the sake of brevity for which the judicial system is not known for because lawyers are involved, I have condensed these oddities into the top five. They are…


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