The Ethanol Blunder has happened. President Bush in his 2007 State of the Union Address set our course for an all ethanol fuel nation. The “decider” proclaimed our nation to go, team, go ethanol all the way.

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Snipped from SciAm.com.

Finally, an interesting article that addresses our larger brain, and its ties with our diet. In many other articles, I have attempted to link our diet with our evolution. Whether it was our ancestor’s desire for high calorie, carbohydrate dense foods, or how our they perfected cooking starches which allowed for more dietary versatility and therefor a better chance at survival, I have linked our diet to our evolutionary success. Here Richard Wrangham, a chimp researcher, has come up with a theory that helps indirectly argue the points I have been making about our ancestral diets.

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Snipped from New Scientist.

Some of the more recent articles on Blog4Brains have been about ancient remedies or alternative medicine, so I thought this fascinating article about how the Egyptians may have beaten the Greeks to discovering the first “medicine”, would help further the discussion.

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“I AM A MAN.” A sign worn by those
that wanted equal treatment.

The lynching tree and the Christian cross. This may sound like an antagonistic pairing of symbols, but after listening to a very enlightening man named James Cone, it made me not only see the light in its relationship, but how to bridge the gap of a century’s old American sin.

This man with his oddly raspy, slightly “Cosby-ish” voice speaks nothing short of volumes, you can’t help but be drawn into his story. Now that I have been educated to this “terribly beautiful” relationship of the two most powerfully evil and godly symbols, it is now upon me to share this newly learned perspective with the rest of my “brothers”, white, and black.

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Snipped from News.Yahoo.com.

Here is some really interesting and thought provoking news about genetic evolution. This research is explaining how ancient viruses could have helped our early ancestors evolve into what we see now. Then, goes on to explain how viruses could be a culprit to our problem with cancer, and its uncontrolled growth rate.

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Can we repair our bio-machine?

What if the human body had a warranty? Well, it may actually have one, but you are probably voiding it right at this moment. Mental stress and overly abundant food may two of the major culprits to our societies’ collective decline in health.

Ever wonder why stress is a killer, and why it plagues our civilization? What about why the foods that we crave are the worst for us? Our original blueprint for human survival may be a key to some of life’s ultimate questions. This blueprint for our bodies was designed by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution (unless you believe God created us just as we are right now, then your answer would be God didn’t think us through very well or is simply a cruel being). So we need to think back to the environment and lifestyle that triggered the evolutionary changes that made us what we are.

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Snipped from VanityFair.com.

I know we all know what King George has done to America (especially the economy), but just in case you needed it put in to intelligible words to fire back at some idiot that thinks he is anything more than a jackass, her is a very good article written in Vanity Fair that pretty much covers it all. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, puts into words what most of us just grunt out in a nauseating, “I am sick of even having to argue this” fashion. Unfortunately, we can’t give up, and we need to be stay abreast on what is going on, no matter how painful it is.

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B-52 dropping some lovelies.

The U.S. Air Force has reworked the B-52H Stratofortress cover story. Check out yesterday’s news story re the Air Force. They’ve gone beyond their first draft of the news release re the B-52H episode on the 29th-30th of August. It took them six weeks to “investigate” and issue a report. That is, a second press release.

1) You’re fired! Earlier reports said the officers would be fired. You don’t fire anyone in the Armed Services. Now in the latest story, the officers involved were demoted.

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Immigrants at Ellis Island, 1902.

Sometimes the argument goes like this…Hey! Let the illegal immigrants slide, give them amnesty. Hey! we were all illegal immigrants at one time. Whoa! My parents didn’t come into the country under the fence.

My Mom and Dad came in through Ellis Island, just about everyone came through Ellis Island. Under the fence? What was the difference? When you came through Ellis Island where you might be required to be quarantined for health reasons there, your name and other info was entered into a book. If the official couldn’t pronounce your last name, he truncated it or give you a new name made up on the spot. But you were in the book, registered so to speak, maybe the proper term would be “listed” in the book, then you were let into the country.

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Our cheerful Condi Rice.
Photo by AP.

Gertrude Stein might say, “A Genocide is a Genocide is a Genocide.” Congress wants to label the Armenian massacre as a “genocide.” Why not? Democrats call a spade a spade. For Republicans like President Bush, it’s NO WAY!

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