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Coffee Reduces Suicide Risk

27 Saturday Jul 2013

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Drinking several cups of coffee daily appears to reduce the risk of suicide in men and women by about 50 percent, according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). The study was published online July 2 in The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry.

“Unlike previous investigations, we were able to assess association of consumption of caffeinated and non-caffeinated beverages, and we identify caffeine as the most likely candidate of any putative protective effect of coffee,” said lead researcher Michel Lucas, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.

The authors reviewed data from three large U.S. studies and found that the risk of suicide for adults who drank two to four cups of caffeinated coffee per day was about half that of those who drank decaffeinated coffee or very little or no coffee.

via Coffee Reduces Suicide Risk.

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Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer – NYTimes.com

01 Friday Jun 2012

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I’m slurping as I type!

Your morning cup of coffee may start to taste even better after a major government study found that frequent coffee drinkers have a lower risk of dying from a variety of diseases, compared with people who drink little or no coffee.

The report, published online in The New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday, analyzed the coffee-drinking habits of more than 400,000 men and women ages 50 to 71, making it the largest-ever study of the relationship between coffee consumption and health.

via Coffee Drinkers May Live Longer – NYTimes.com.

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At 2,700 Pages, The ObamaCare Law Is, By Definition, An Affront To Self-Government – Investors.com

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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It would be churlish to direct readers to the video posted on the Internet of Rep. Conyers finding time to peruse a copy of Playboy while on a commuter flight to Detroit. So let’s take him at his word that it would be unreasonable to expect a legislator to know what it is he’s actually legislating into law. Who does read the thing? “What happened to the Eighth Amendment?” sighed Justice Scalia the other day. That’s the bit about cruel and unusual punishment. “You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks?”

He was making a narrow argument about “severability” — about whether the court could junk the “individual mandate” but pick and choose what bits of ObamaCare to keep. Yet he was unintentionally making a far more basic point: a 2,700-page law is not a “law” by any civilized understanding of the term. Law rests on the principle of equality before it. When a bill is 2,700 pages, there’s no equality: Instead, there’s a hierarchy of privilege micro-regulated by an unelected, unaccountable, unconstrained, unknown and unnumbered bureaucracy.

It’s not just that the legislators who legislate it don’t know what’s in it, nor that the citizens on the receiving end can ever hope to understand it, but that even the nation’s most eminent judges acknowledge that it is beyond individual human comprehension. A 2,700-page law is, by definition, an affront to self-government.

If the Supreme Court really wished to perform a service, it would declare that henceforth no law can be longer than, say, 27 pages — or, at any rate, longer than the copy of Playboy congressman Conyers was reading on that commuter flight.

via At 2,700 Pages, The ObamaCare Law Is, By Definition, An Affront To Self-Government – Investors.com.

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Obama joins fray over Limbaugh ‘slut’ comment

03 Saturday Mar 2012

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Stepping into an emerging culture clash over women, President Barack Obama made a supportive phone call Friday to a law student who testified before Congress about the need for birth control coverage, only to be called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh.

Obama joins fray over Limbaugh ‘slut’ comment - Chicago Sun-Times

“I just thought that they were really outside the bounds of civil discourse,” stated the 3 year law student who can't afford to have sex without government mandated contraception coverage.

For Obama, it was an emphatic plunge into the latest flare-up on social issues. Democratic officeholders and liberal advocacy have accused Republicans of waging a “war on women” because of GOP stances on contraception and abortion rights, and Limbaugh’s tirade on his radio talk show was seen as an escalation.

Obama joins fray over Limbaugh ‘slut’ comment - Chicago Sun-Times

“What does it say about the college coed ... who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex?” Limbaugh said. “It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex.”

via Obama joins fray over Limbaugh ‘slut’ comment – Chicago Sun-Times.

A law student testifying in front of Congress for free contraception burns me up.   Enough is enough.  Government just loves getting bigger and bigger even though Congress is virtually good for nothing.  The legislators decided to take time out and listen to some whore beef about birth control coverage.  Screw less if you can’t afford it.  Why should your behavior be subsidized?  Oh, I forgot!  You are a Democrat and entitlement is the name of the game.

A nice distraction from the real problems of the nation like crushing debt and rising unemployment.

Rush probably blew a gasket for the same reason.  Now liberals want to rant on another unimportant issue to distract everyone from the important crises like the national debt, the economy, and cutting Obama’s Chinese credit card.  Rush wasn’t attacking all women, just the whores and the sluts who act like studs while requiring us to pay for pregnancy prevention.  He was speaking to the kind of woman you can have a “good time” with but never marry.

Obama is simply a political whore and that’s why he phoned the slut.  What I find rather counter intuitive is the fact that Sandra is advocating measures that would definitely thin the herd as far as the propagation of Democrats are concerned.  Isn’t  Obama shooting himself in the foot in the long term here?  Well, at least he has the  illegal aliens to fall back on.  They don’t even know what birth control is!

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Experts fear diseases impossible to treat – Health News – Health & Families – The Independent

20 Monday Feb 2012

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Experts fear diseases impossible to treat - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent

Using standard antibiotic regimens, there is a one in 10 chance that treatment of an E.coli infection will fail because the bug is resistant. But, as numbers of resistant infections rise, there will be increasing pressure to use more powerful antibiotics, called carbapenems, which are the last line available. And resistance to those is already emerging. “In the last two or three years we have seen [organisms] develop which destroy carbapenems. That is a great worry,” Professor Hawkey said. The warnings follow increasing reports from Europe of patients with infections that are almost impossible to treat. In November, the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention ECDC said up to 50 per cent of cases of blood poisoning with the bacterium K.pneumoniae, a common cause of urinary and respiratory conditions, are resistant to carbapenems in some countries.

via Experts fear diseases impossible to treat – Health News – Health & Families – The Independent.

Oh joy!  More nightmares to look forward to as I age and become more infirm.  Our species may just have to act like the bacteria and adapt.  The human immune system will just have to get smarter and fight the resistant strains of these little buggers.  In the mean time, we can all look forward to great suffering, acute infection and death.

I did like the stab the article took at the drug companies regarding profits and the lack of economic motives to research and produce antibiotic drugs.  There’s no incentive for R&D and production?  I’d imagine if the threat discussed comes to pass on a pandemic scale, the drug companies will have every economic incentive to produce magic elixirs and charge a pretty penny for the product.  Are these pharmaceutical companies so blinded by market forces?  A real threat that looms just beyond the horizon is certainly an opportunity to innovate, create, and, yes, profit.

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THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE!

02 Thursday Feb 2012

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It would not be a 2,000-page, trillion-dollar federal program micromanaging every aspect of health care in America with enormous, unresponsive federal bureaucracies manned by no-show public-sector union members enforcing a mountain of regulations that will bankrupt the country and destroy medical care, as liberals scratch their heads and wonder why Obamacare is costing 20 times more than they expected and doctors are leaving the profession in droves for more lucrative careers, such as video store clerk.

via Ann Coulter – February 1, 2012 – THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE!.

Just imagine the government getting involved and making something better.  Go ahead.  Just imagine.

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Without Insurance, 24-year-old Dies of Toothache – ABC News

08 Thursday Sep 2011

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Antibiotics? We don't need no stinkin' antibiotics!

A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn’t afford his medication, offering a sobering reminder of the importance of oral health and the number of people without access to dental or health care.

via Without Insurance, 24-year-old Dies of Toothache – ABC News.

The swine thinks otherwise.

     Dr. Rodriguez has all the answers and government knows how to fix the problem.  Why would one watch ABC news.  Trusting ABC with news and facts is like trusting the federal government with border security or Pat Quinn with keeping jobs in Illinois. You are better off going to Drudge or Fox.  ABC gives reliability and clarity to the news like Obama gives hope and prosperity to the economy.  

     I’m referring to the video that accompanied the “tooth ache” story.  ABC and the doctor’s talk points are based on a study that they refuse to discuss critically.  “It’s a really good study because it was big” and it ends right there.  “It was normed for age, weight, ect.,” but ABC didn’t tell you they are an agenda-driven “news” organization and they are only going to interview some jagoff who agrees with their agenda.
     Where was the conservative addressing the counter points and explaining why their ideas are inferior, lame, and bad for America and the rich?  You don’t have counterpoints when you are pushing an agenda.  Why would ABC have another guest to make their beloved Dr. Rodriguez look like a fool?  You can send Dr. Rodriguez back to Cuba where his government-loving attitude can bask in the miserable sunlight of a Communist dictatorship. Sure, he might have a dental plan in Havana, but no food to chew!  And don’t you dare complain to Fidel about that root canal or you’ll find yourself in the Cuban People’s Prison for the next 15 years and no fluoride toothpaste to boot!
     Why didn’t they tell us the guy with the tooth ache was probably an idiot, lacked insurance because he didn’t have the will to keep a job, and chose to spend money on a plasma television and cable service rather than pay for antibiotics.  He probably didn’t even marry his baby’s mama.  He got the tooth infection from eating out his skanky neighbor who he passes the time with while his girlfriend is at work. America is probably a better place now that his dumb ass is pushing daisies.  Say a prayer for the poor kid he sired; it will have to spend the rest of his/her existence with half of that idiot’s genes.
     The article went on to unknowingly make the point against universal healthcare:

There are a number of free dental clinics in operation around the country, where dentists volunteer to provide care to those without health insurance. But even if Willis had access to a free dental clinic, Stream said he still may not have been able to get the care he needed for his infection. “The wait is often months at these clinics, and this young man died within two weeks of his problem,” Stream said.

     You see, when stuff is free, you have to wait.  It’s great if you like to stand in line. So guess what’s going to happen when the government makes everything “free.”  The doctor running the free clinic is complaining about being overwhelmed.  Well, duh!  How do you think the whores would feel if they didn’t charge for services rendered?  This doctor needs to stop reading Marx and go back to business school.
      I understand why my perspective may seem a tad insensitive toward the plight of the stupid  and the uninsured.  Nevertheless, I’m curious to know what number they assign to the cross section of that particular population who happen to be both stupid and uninsured.  ABC wouldn’t discuss that permutation of data just like they won’t discuss the race of the rambunctious youths who run around assaulting Caucasians.  Perhaps the flash mobs are really a desperate cry for a one payer system in healthcare.  The youths’ lack the critical literacy skills required to write to their congressman promotes their seemingly disenfranchised existence, so they turn to savagery to bring awareness to their dissatisfaction with their insurance options.
     No matter how you try to address the “problem” of the uninsured, you’ll always have stupid people.  Since the government allows stupid people to vote, you’ll always have politicians pandering to that low-life constituency.  The results are what you see today.
Warning:  The content of this diatribe was written for readers who have a sense of humor, are employed, and sport a decent health insurance plan.  If you find the content of this email offensively vile and disturbing, you are probably one of those stupid people about whom I wrote (notice how I didn’t end the sentence with a preposition).  Due to your cognitive deficiencies, I trust you didn’t read past the first sentence of my on-going rant, but if you happen to be a statistical anomaly and read up to this point, you should stop voting (unless you vote Republican), procreating, and driving since you probably have no license or it is suspended for financial responsibility.  Don’t forget to brush regularly and floss!

Brush or be damned!

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Soy’s Negative Effects | Men’s Health

01 Wednesday Jun 2011

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A lean and wiry man, the breast development stood in stark contrast to the rest of his body. But it was not Price’s only symptom. His beard growth had slowed, he’d lost hair from his arms, chest, and legs, and he’d stopped waking up with morning erections. “My sexual desire disappeared,” he says. “My penis—I won’t say it atrophied, but it was so flaccid that it looked very small in comparison with the way it used to be. Even my emotions changed.”

via Soy’s Negative Effects | Men’s Health.

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Obama’s Monster Bleeds, But Is It Dead?

01 Tuesday Feb 2011

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Though The Beast Bleeds, An Appeal Awaits

“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void,” he wrote, “This has been a difficult decision to reach and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications.”  (Click here for the rest of the article.)

Can you sense the guilt in the judges words after making the right decision?  What was so difficult?  Kudos for sticking the first of many blades to come into this beast.  May it die a slow, but certain death.

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Is Chromium in Chicago tap water?

21 Tuesday Dec 2010

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Thirsty?

There are many things that I hate about Chicago.  The weather here tops the list.  Winters are miserable, taxes are high, and corruption is the norm.  Nevertheless, I always used to say that we had the best tap water in the world.  Now tests are showing that there are high levels of Chromium in the drinking water!  Do we really have to wait for Julia Roberts to come over here and save us?

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