Archive for the 'History' Category
“What’s in Your Genes? Ancient Parasites”
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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Is the Human Out of Warranty?
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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“Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush”
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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Off We Go Into The Wide Blue Yonder….
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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Ellis Island, Not Under the Fence
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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What’s in the ‘Genocide’ Name?
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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