I am still trying to get my head around the accusations against Peter Slipper. I have known Peter since 1974, though I must say that I have not seen him for about 10 years. The Peter Slipper I know is nothing like the Peter Slipper as portrayed in the media and the man I have known is most certainly not queer. Until he married his first wife he was actually a bit of a pants man, so I find it difficult to believe that he has turned queer.
No idea, Curly. Personally, I dislike fishing. It is boring, the bait stinks and I get seasick inside the first five minutes. Also, when I see a fish pulled out of the water my instinct is to rescue the poor creature and return it to the ocean as quickly as possible. Perhaps that is because I am a diver. I much prefer to see the little creatures swimming in the ocean where they belong. It is not easy being a diver who gets seasick. I puke all the way out to the dive site and then I puke all the way back in. The only time I stop puking is when I go over the side.
Yes, it is a testing time when the offspring venture out on to a public road. My daughter has been driving since the start of the year and I am surprised that she has not killed herself, or someone else . . . yet. The girl has appalling spatial computation ability. US Air Force pilot selection research established that only 10% of females had the spatial ability of the average male. Yes, Virginia, on average men are better drivers than women. I emphasise 'on average'. I suppose this goes back to our origins, when the women looked after the kids while the men had to be able to throw a spear well enough to connect with dinner. Women have simply not evolved to have the same spatial ability as men. The result is that my girl is utterly unable to judge speed and distance and make even the most basic common sense risk assessments as a driver. Daddy wrapped her in the latest European crash survival technology to improve her prospects.
Come on Rob, I know that you are just observing protocol. Tradition required the emperor in waiting to decline twice when the Roman Senate asked him to become Caesar. It was not until the third plea from the Senate that the role was accepted.
For about $100 you can buy small video cameras that record to a loop on a Flash card, or some other solid-state memory device. These are a great tool with which to gather evidence. I have one on the dashboard (like those cameras you see on the reality police shows) and I have another one on the rear parcel shelf. I suggest that you invest in a couple of these cameras. I bought mine at Aldi as a weekly variety special, but you can also get them at The Spy Shop web site. Such a camera would have recorded the police vehicle following at an unsafe distance, which would give you the evidence you need to bring a charge against the cop. I would have copied the video of the unsafe distance and the cop giving a lecture on road rage. I would have also given a copy to A Current Affair or Today Tonight, which would force the police to take action. One police career up in smoke. So sad.
The entire political process in the West is a smoke and mirrors show, a monstrous lie, created by the people behind the curtain who control all the major political parties from behind the scenes. The same people own 96% of the media, which they use to tell the sheeple what to think. It does not matter who is elected, they will implement the agenda given to them by the men (and a few women) behind the curtain. Anyone who threatens their control is vilified by the controlled media and made unelectable in the minds of the sheeple. Sometimes they are charged with concocted offences, such as when Pauline Hansen was gaoled in Queensland. Democracy is not the answer. It is part of the problem. Anyone who thinks that they live in a free society should try departing from the script given to them by the controlled media and see what happens to them.
A paper published three months earlier in Clinical Science reported that an increased omega-3 intake improved lipid metabolism and prevented obesity and type-2 diabetes by inhibiting the production of inflammatory agents in fat cells. 4 The research was conducted by a team from the Department of Adipose Tissue Biology, Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in Prague. They noted that the increased intake of omega-3 threw a ‘metabolic switch’ that decreased the body’s ability to lay down fat cells. The reduced production of inflammatory agents resulted in ‘improved systemic insulin sensitivity’. Organ damage, in particular to the kidneys, is one of the major problems for diabetics. A study by a team from the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Mississippi Medical Centre, which was published in the American Journal of Physiology, reported that a diet high in omega-3 fats lowered blood pressure and protected the kidneys. 5 “These observations indicate a beneficial effect of high dietary intake of n-3 PUFA in reducing diabetic renal disease,” they wrote. Given the amount of published science on the matter the benefit for diabetics, or people who are at high risk of developing diabetes, of having a high dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids appears to be beyond doubt. Some earlier studies were inconclusive, but those studies have been criticised as being poorly designed because the amount of omega-3 fats given to the trial subjects was not nearly enough to achieve a therapeutic level in their blood. The question for diabetics, or people who are at risk, is how best to increase their intake of omega-3 fats. The first and most obvious thing to do is to eat more fish. Next is to add a daily supplement of high-quality marine oil to your diet. The published science suggests that you err on the side of being generous to yourself when you count out the capsules in the morning. References 1. Solinas G., et al JNK1 in hematopoietically derived cells contributes to diet induced inflammation and insulin resistance without affecting obesity. Cell Metabolism, volume 6, edition 5, 386-397 (7 November 2007). 2. Norris J. M., et al. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intake and islet autoimmunity in children at increased risk for type-1 diabetes. Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 298, number 12, September 26, 2007. 3. Fedor D., Kelley D. S. Prevention of insulin resistance by n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, 2009 March; 12(2): 138-146. 4. Flachs P., Rossmeisi M., Bryhn M., Kopecky J. Cellular and molecular effects of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on adipose tissue biology and metabolism. Clinical Science (London), 2009 January; 116(1): 1-16. 5. Garman J. H., Mulroney S., Manigrasso M., Flynn E., Maric C. Omega- 3 fatty acid rich diet prevents diabetic renal disease. American Journal of Physiology, 2009 February; 296(2): F306-316.
“If we can block or disarm this macrophage inflammatory pathway in humans we could interrupt the cascade that leads to insulin resistance and diabetes,” Professor Olefsky was quoted to have said in a report published by Science Daily. “A small molecule compound to block JNK1 could prove a potent insulin sensitising anti-diabetic agent.” The research also showed that obesity without inflammation did not result in insulin resistance and that a condition known as fatty liver could also be disassociated from insulin resistance. This research shows that controlling inflammation is at least as important as controlling weight, lifestyle and diet. It also explains why some people who are not overweight develop type-2 diabetes. A paper published in the 26 September, 2007, edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that an association had been found between omega-3 consumption and the frequency at which children who were at high risk of developing type-1 diabetes developed the disease.2 High risk was defined as children who had either a parent or a sibling who had type-1 diabetes. The study team was led by Dr Jill M. Norris, Professor of Preventative Medicine at the University of Colorado. The study involved 1,770 children from birth to age three years, whose progress was followed for an average of six years. Omega-3 intake was determined through annual questionnaires about diet. One of the things that parents were asked was how often the children ate canned tuna and oily fish such as salmon or mackerel. Red blood cells from 244 children in the study were tested for fatty acid composition to validate the findings of the questionnaires. The study found that high-risk children who had greater intakes of omega-3 fats had less evidence of the antibodies associated with the progression to type-1 diabetes. These antibodies tell the immune system to attack the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, which results in the destruction of the cells and the appearance of type-1 diabetes. A study published in the Journal Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care in 2009 found that increased consumption of omega-3 fatty acids reduced insulin resistance. 3 The authors stated that: “n-3 PUFA supplementation has clinical significance in the prevention and reversal of insulin resistance.” The authors also cautioned that an increased intake of omega-3 fats should be part of an overall healthy lifestyle that involved weight control, exercise and a reduction in consumption of refined sugars, omega-6 fats, saturated fats and trans fatty acids. (continued . . . )
As you can see, diabetes is a serious health problem for the nation. What is not generally known, however, is that diabetes is now thought to be a result of chronic inflammation, rather than a simple failure of the pancreas to do its job (type-1) or resistance to insulin (type-2).1 Recent medical thinking and research has been headed in the direction of inflammation and several studies have provided evidence that inflammation is indeed part of the process that leads to diabetes. What these studies have also shown is that the Western (and in particular the American) diet is the largest contributor to this process. For a long time doctors had thought that obesity was responsible for type-2 diabetes, but recent work has shown that although excess body fat was common among people who developed the condition, it was not the primary cause. Research by a team of eminent medical scientists, led by Giovanni Solinas of the Laboratory of Metabolic Stress Biology of the Department of Medicine at the University of Fribourg, in Switzerland, identified chronic inflammation caused by diet to be the primary cause of type-2 diabetes.1 The research was conducted through the School of Medicine at the University of California, in San Diego. The purpose of the research was to determine whether or not disabling the macrophage (a large scavenger cell found in connective tissue and major organs) inflammatory pathway would prevent the development of insulin resistance and the consequent type-2 diabetes. When macrophages get into the tissues, such as fat or the liver, they release inflammatory molecules called cytokines, which are chemical messengers used by the immune and nerve cells to communicate. These cytokines cause the neighbouring liver, muscle, or fat cells to become insulin resistant, which leads to type-2 diabetes.1 One of the research team, Professor Jerrold Olefsky, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs at the University of California, said their work showed that insulin resistance could be ‘disassociated from the increase in body fat associated with obesity’. The team showed that the macrophage was the cause of this sequence of events. They proved this by disabling a key part of the inflammatory pathway in a macrophage known as JNK1. The mice that were used for this experiment were then fed a high-fat diet, which would ordinarily result in obesity, inflammation, insulin resistance and type- 2 diabetes. The mice in which JNK1 had been disabled became fat, but did not show any sign of insulin resistance. Olefsky said this evidence opened a door to a new therapy for diabetes in humans. (continued . . . )
Here is chapter from a book I wrote for the US market. The science was dumbed down for the public.
DIABETES is a serious health problem that has been growing rapidly throughout the developed world, but most especially in the United States. Figures published by the United States Government’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that as of 2007 a total of 23.6 million Americans had diabetes. That was 7.8 per cent of the population. CDC figures also show that 95 per cent of those cases were type-2 or lateonset diabetes. Of the total number of cases, 17.9 million had been diagnosed and an estimated 5.7 million had not been diagnosed. Inflammation behind diabetes epidemic The age breakdown of diabetes was also revealing. Among people aged 20 years or older 23.5 million had diabetes, which was 10.7 per cent of all people in that age group. Among people aged 60 years or older 12.2 million had diabetes, which was 23.1 per cent of all people in that age group. Figures for men and women were roughly the same, though men were slightly worse off. Men accounted for 12 million cases, or 11.2 per cent of all men aged 20 years or older. Women accounted for 11.5 million diabetics, or 10.2 per cent of all women aged 20 years or older. The CDC estimated that about 186,300 people younger than 20 had diabetes, though mostly type-1. The explosive growth in this disease is shown by the increase during the period 1980 to 2006, during which the number of cases tripled from 5.6 million to 16.8 million. Another 57 million Americans are believed to have a condition known as prediabetes. In diabetes there is too much sugar in the blood, as a result of either the pancreas not producing enough insulin (type-1 diabetes) or a resistance to the body’s own insulin (type-2). Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates the amount of sugar in the blood. Diabetes can lead to blindness (diabetic retinopathy), peripheral nerve damage, kidney failure, heart disease and even the loss of limbs. (continued . . . )
You could not be more wrong. Margarine is a trans fat. Among other things, trans fat replaces cholesterol in the walls of cells. Insulin cannot penetrate a trans fat, hence insulin resistance is created. Also, trans fat causes inflammation throughout the body. This includes the interior of the blood vessels. It is not the level of cholesterol in the blood that will kill you, it is the inflamation of the linings of the blood vessels that causes the cholesterol to stick. This is what causes heart disease. One of the consultant cardiologists with whom I have worked described margarine as 'a heart attack in a box'. If you really want to argue the point I can give you a list of published peer-reviewed papers in medical journals upon which what I say is based.
Germany and the United States, though my favourite rifle is the Belgian FN FAL L1A1, followed by the Springfield M14. My favourite machinegun is the current German MG3, which is the current incarnation of the old MG42. My favourite pistol is the dear old Colt 1911, though after it has had a bushing job to make it accurate.
Nothing . . . absolutely nothing. Shakespeare put it well:
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th'unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
None of the above. Time travel (like faster-than-light space travel) would probably require a cold fusion energy source. Unless there is a breakthrough somewhere, that is not likely within the next decade. A manned landing on Mars would take more than 10 years to plan and execute. Given the present state of the US and general world economy, do not hold your breath waiting for a Mars mission. An alternative to gasoline will not happen until the last barrel of oil has been pumped. The oil companies will not allow it. Guess who holds a controlling interest in the battery technology that would make an electric car viable, but will not allow the public access to the technology? Look up a documentary called Who killed the electric car on YouTube. Robotic servants are already here, if you are referring to the likes of the robots on the assumbly line at Honda. If you are referring to artificial intelligence that would give us independent cybernetic life forms, then not in our lifetimes.
Television advertising influences me in two ways. 1. If it tells me about something that I might want to buy I will pay attention. 2. If the advertisement pisses me off I will make a note to NEVER buy anything produced by that company. I find that advertising usually gives me fodder for my personal boycott list.
It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise intelligent and educated people can still subscribe to the insanity of any form of Marxism. Marxism has been tried in various forms in many places during the past century and in every case it has failed. The net result has been poverty and misery for all. Marxism exists on the back of an exploited and oppressed working class, who are kept in line by state terror. Marxism is the only form of government in the whole of recorded human history that was so despotic and so hated by its subjects that it had to build fences to prevent people escaping the various versions of the 'workers' paradise'. Marxism cannot work because it is contrary to nature. Effort, thrift and hard work are not rewarded. It removes hope and joy from the people's lives. All that is left is a sea of grey lifeless faces united in their misery. This was why the USSR had the highest rate of alocholism in the world, as the workers of the Soviet Union crawled inside vodka bottles to escape their misery and hopelessness.
Tattoos on women are a huge turn off. To me, tattoos scream trailer trash. I can forgive a couple of small tattoos that a women had done when she was young and stupid, but I could not walk down the street with a woman who looked as though she belonged in a freak show at the circus.
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RE: Is it a turnoff if a woman has tattoo's?
He is usually known as the defendant.