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Posted:Jul 14, 2019 8:35 pm
Last Updated:Jul 16, 2019 6:38 am
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Trump’s attack on lawmakers appeared to be meant for members of the so-called squad, of liberal Democratic freshmen: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna S. Pressley of Massachusetts.
But of the women, Ms. Omar, is from Somalia, the only one born outside the United States. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx of parents of Puerto Rican descent. Ms. Pressley is black, born in Cincinnati and raised in Chicago. Ms. Tlaib was born in Detroit of Palestinian immigrants. They are all U.S. citizens.
Trump is being racist, sexist and again. The country they belong in is the U.S. They are not citizens of other countries.
Everyone in North America came from other places, including the Indians; from Asia.
We need the workers and their talents to keep the economy growing. The old white guys will get for Social Security and Medicare from worker's taxes.
Trump continues be a moron and fool.
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Bad attitude
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Posted:Jul 13, 2019 5:39 am
Last Updated:Jul 14, 2019 5:35 am
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Car dealers and car salesmen have gotten distracted so they cannot perform their function of selling vehicles. I have a specific set of options I want and when I find the car that fits I run into a wall of problems. The dealer thinks I have to buy. I don't.
They want a high price when they are stuck more than me. I can wait. If the deal is not a fair one, I just do not buy. So they can wait for someone forced to over pay. Not me.
Same goes for sex. If my proposed partner in crime is too difficult or expensive I do not agree. It is hard to grape me, and criminal, so sex does not happen. Some day it might, but we will see.... The power to say no. And then to walk.
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weight lifting to live longer and better
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Posted:Jul 11, 2019 7:07 am
Last Updated:Jul 12, 2019 1:31 pm
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Two new studies show that weight lifting of moderate amounts twice a week helps most live longer and healthier lives. I do that twice a week and feel better that way.
The first study analysis of the link between strength, muscle mass, and mortality, from a team at Indiana University using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The design was pretty straightforward: They assessed 4,440 adults ages 50 or up who had their strength and muscle mass assessed between 1999 and 2002. The researchers checked back in 20 to see who had died.
To measure muscle mass, they used a DEXA scanner to determine that 23 percent of the subjects met one definition of “low muscle mass,” with total muscle in the arms and legs adding up to less than 43.5 pounds in men or 33 pounds in women. For muscle strength, they used a device that measures maximum force of the knee extensors (the muscles that allow you to straighten your leg) and found that 19 percent of the subjects had low muscle strength.
The results, published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, found that those with low muscle strength and low muscle mass were 2.66 times as likely to have died during the follow-up period than those with normal muscle strength and mass.
The other study took aim at the perception that strength training is an afterthought in public health guidelines. Most of us remember that we’re supposed to get at least 0 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise per week. Reams of data support the beneficial health effects of hitting this goal. But the guidelines also suggest doing “strength-promoting exercise” at least twice a week—a clause that’s often forgotten and the benefits of which are usually framed in terms of avoiding frailty and improving quality of life, rather than extending life.
Researchers in Australia analyzed data from 80,000 adults in England and Scotland who completed surveys about their physical activity patterns starting in the 1990s. The headline result was those who reported doing any strength training were 23 percent less likely to die during the study period and 31 percent less likely to die of cancer.
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Another bad salesman
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Posted:Jul 9, 2019 3:18 pm
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2019 7:22 am
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I dislike being lied to by salesmen. Trying to buy a new car has been annoying.
I have been lied to so often I think they are trying to compete with the liar in chief who past 10,000 lies since Jan 21, 20.
I have been told they had the vehicle I wanted when it was already sold. I have been told they will lose if they sell $3,000 off sticker when some dealers are still making a profit at $6,000 off sticker. I have been told my car is not available months after I had a special order and a $1,000 deposit. I have been lied to about my trade in. First I was offered $10,500 then only $7,500.
I could go on, but you get the point. The car business has deteriorated along with the rest of the infrastructure. Liars are taking over the world.
No wonder people keep driving the cars they own to avoid the pain of the car deal.
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Other hassles
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Posted:Jul 9, 2019 3:10 pm
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2019 7:17 am
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Cable companies are irritating. That is not new info. I will not name names to protect the guilty.
Spock we will them. The salesman sold me on an ultra plan with 400 mbps to support streaming a TV and a computer. Then the service installer tells me 100 mbps is plenty.
So I try to downgrade. No deal without the security number, so have to wait a month. They will raise the cost and service without the precious number, but now they need it.
So the new bill has the magic number and I . They make me wait an hour to downgrade, upgrade service is immediate. Ultra costs another $20 a month.
I asked to have the $50 ultra charge to install ultra removed. Impossible despite their fraud in selling me something I did not need. In their defense they replaced the modem with a better one. Now they do not lease the modem with a monthly fee, the price of the internet service includes a $ a month modem fee which you even if you buy a modem yourself.
They prorated the upgrade charge to 400 mbps, but will not prorate the downgrade lesser charge. So the new internet rate as of July 9 is 200 mbps, but the $20 monthly fee 400 mbps ultra fee stays until the end of July!
So they lie about what I need to charge more, then their own service guy spills the beans. They demand their secret number to downgrade but not to upgrade and charge more. When caught cheating they will not undue the extra expense. They keep charging more 400 mbps services they do not provide 22 days after told to stop. Spock wonders why people hate cable companies.
Then they want a recommendation excellent service!
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scams
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Posted:Jul 9, 2019 2:51 pm
Last Updated:Jul 11, 2019 7:12 am
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Sadly two AgoraCosmopolitan Dating women tried to scam me recently. So I pass on the lessons to learn from.
First claimed to be in Los Angeles, then said she was in Georgia, USA three months. I am not interested in paying her way to LA.
Second needed a $0 gift card to her agent to gain permission to see her. Sounds like , except I do not think she would show up after I , so not sex when there is no sex happening.
Lots of work to not get a happy ending or even a happy start. Dating is tough.
So I just said "no".
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Whack a mole sex drive
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Posted:Jul 8, 2019 11:24 am
Last Updated:Jul 9, 2019 9:04 am
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whack-a-mole
1. Literally, an arcade game in which the player uses a small rubber mallet to hit robotic toy moles pop randomly in holes laid out across the surface of the machine.
If a spouse or lover refuses to provide sex to a partner what do you think will happen?
A normal person desires sexual release. So if you do not provide sex then someone else will.
So I compare the sex desire to whack a mole. Even if you suppress it, the sex drive will pop up somewhere else. And with someone else.
If you are not a sex provider to your partner, then someone else will. You may lose the spouse or lover.... to another.
You can blame the partner for straying, or you can blame yourself for not putting out.
Blame never got anyone laid....
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Avoid sugar and carbs to avoid dementia
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Posted:Jul 6, 2019 5:08 am
Last Updated:Jul 8, 2019 11:18 am
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In recent years, Alzheimer’s disease has occasionally been referred to as “type 3” diabetes, though that moniker doesn’t make much sense. After all, though they share a problem with insulin, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by diet. Instead of another type of diabetes, it’s increasingly looking like Alzheimer’s is another potential side effect of a sugary, Western-style diet.
In some cases, the path from sugar to Alzheimer’s leads through type 2 diabetes, but as a new study and others show, that’s not always the case.
A longitudinal study, published in the journal Diabetologia, followed 5,189 people over 10 years and found that people with high blood sugar had a faster rate of cognitive decline than those with normal blood sugar—whether or not their blood-sugar level technically made them diabetic. In other words, the higher the blood sugar, the faster the cognitive decline.
“Dementia is one of the most prevalent psychiatric conditions strongly associated with poor quality of later life,” said the lead author, Wuxiang Xie at Imperial College London, via email. “Currently, dementia is not curable, which makes it very important to study risk factors.”
Melissa Schilling, a professor at New York University, performed her own review of studies connecting diabetes to Alzheimer’s in 2016. She sought to reconcile two confusing trends. People who have type 2 diabetes are about twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s, and people who have diabetes and are treated with insulin are also more likely to get Alzheimer’s, suggesting elevated insulin plays a role in Alzheimer’s. In fact, many studies have found that elevated insulin, or “hyperinsulinemia,” significantly increases your risk of Alzheimer’s. On the other hand, people with type 1 diabetes, who don’t make insulin at all, are also thought to have a higher risk of Alzheimer’s. How could these both be true?
Schilling posits this happens because of the insulin-degrading enzyme, a product of insulin that breaks down both insulin and amyloid proteins in the brain—the same proteins that clump up and lead to Alzheimer’s disease. People who don’t have enough insulin, like those whose bodies’ ability to produce insulin has been tapped out by diabetes, aren’t going to make enough of this enzyme to break up those brain clumps. Meanwhile, in people who use insulin to treat their diabetes and end up with a surplus of insulin, most of this enzyme gets used up breaking that insulin down, leaving not enough enzyme to address those amyloid brain clumps.
According to Schilling, this can happen even in people who don’t have diabetes yet—who are in a state known as “prediabetes.” It simply means your blood sugar is higher than normal, and it’s something that affects roughly 86 million Americans.
Schilling is not primarily a medical researcher; she’s just interested in the topic. But Rosebud Roberts, a professor of epidemiology and neurology at the Mayo Clinic, agreed with her interpretation.
In a 2012 study, Roberts broke nearly 1,000 people down into four groups based on how much of their diet came from carbohydrates. The group that ate the most carbs had an 80 percent higher chance of developing mild cognitive impairment—a pit stop on the way to dementia—than those who ate the smallest amount of carbs. People with mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, can dress and feed themselves, but they have trouble with more complex tasks. Intervening in MCI can help prevent dementia.
Rebecca Gottesman, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins, cautions that the findings on carbs aren’t as well-established as those on diabetes. “It’s hard to be sure at this stage, what an ‘ideal’ diet would look like,” she said. “There’s a suggestion that a Mediterranean diet, for example, may be good for brain health.”
But she says there are several theories out there to explain the connection between high blood sugar and dementia. Diabetes can also weaken the blood vessels, which increases the likelihood that you’ll have ministrokes in the brain, causing various forms of dementia. A high intake of simple sugars can make cells, including those in the brain, insulin resistant, which could cause the brain cells to die. Meanwhile, eating too much in general can cause obesity. The extra fat in obese people releases cytokines, or inflammatory proteins that can also contribute to cognitive deterioration, Roberts said. In one study by Gottesman, obesity doubled a person’s risk of having elevated amyloid proteins in their brains later in life.
Roberts said that people with type 1 diabetes are mainly only at risk if their insulin is so poorly controlled that they have hypoglycemic episodes. But even people who don’t have any kind of diabetes should watch their sugar intake, she said.
“Just because you don’t have type 2 diabetes doesn’t mean you can eat whatever carbs you want,” she said. “Especially if you’re not active.” What we eat, she added, is “a big factor in maintaining control of our destiny.” Roberts said this new study by Xie is interesting because it also shows an association between prediabetes and cognitive decline.
That’s an important point that often gets forgotten in discussions of Alzheimer’s. It’s such a horrible disease that it can be tempting to dismiss it as inevitable. And, of course, there are genetic and other, non-nutritional factors that contribute to its progression. But, as these and other researchers point out, decisions we make about food are one risk factor we can control. And it’s starting to look like decisions we make while we’re still relatively young can affect our future cognitive health.
“Alzheimer’s is like a slow-burning fire that you don’t see when it starts,” Schilling said. It takes time for clumps to form and for cognition to begin to deteriorate. “By the time you see the signs, it’s way too late to put out the fire.”
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Citizenship test
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Posted:Jul 5, 2019 8:35 am
Last Updated:Jul 6, 2019 5:06 am
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All candidates for citizenship have to get six out of ten questions right to pass the U.S. citizenship test. About sixty percent of U.S. citizens cannot pass this test according to a recent survey.
The USCIS has the info on its web site and has a list of 100 questions with the answers. Most questions are easy like the number of U.S. Senators. [100 as 2 from each of 50 states]. Nice to know our history is a mystery to so many.
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A camel through the eye of a needle
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Posted:Jul 2, 2019 4:15 pm
Last Updated:Jul 5, 2019 5:01 am
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Those who think being rich is ok for a follower of Jesus Christ should try reading the Bible. Jesus is quoted as telling his disciples that it is easier for a camel go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man enter Heaven.
I have noticed that people seem pick parts of the Bible ignore and other parts make a fetish of following.
The Old Testament labeled eating pork, shellfish and working on the Sabbath which was Saturday as sinful. Most Christians these days do not follow these rules, but Orthodox observant Jews do follow them.
Jesus did not condemn homosexual acts, but his disciple Paul did. Oddly no where does the Bible condemn female homosexual activity. Women did not count apparently.
Another odd aspect is no where does the Bible condemn slavery, except for the Egyptians forcing the Jews be slaves. Other slaves seem be accepted as normal behavior. This lack of concern for fairness and the dignity of human beings shows a lack of moral sensitivity that makes the Bible suspect if that is your only source of direction in this material world.
The Old Testament also prohibits clothes made of mixed fibers like the dress shirt of Dacron and cotton blend. Seems that the sheep herders had pull with God's interpreters. Perhaps the Bible needs an updated version to keep up with modern ideas from say 1865 or so.
Oh and Jesus did not like he was from Norway, he was born in Bethlehem and Jewish so he should have looked like Yasar Arafat. Many people seem be unaware that Jesus was Jewish....
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Jumping to conclusions
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Posted:Jul 2, 2019 8:55 am
Last Updated:Jul 5, 2019 4:58 am
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People make judgments with no facts to base them on. That method seems to be common. Why does that happen?
I know that from personal experience when people tell me about my personality without ever meeting me or talking with me. How did they make such a judgment? Beats me.
Prejudice, assumptions, myths and imagination. Life is strange.
Drawing conclusions from no facts or very little info is not rational. Yet that occurs almost all the time.
I am reminded of James Baldwin observing he had to go to France to be disliked for his own personality rather than his race.
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Medical myths
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Posted:Jul 2, 2019 8:44 am
Last Updated:Jul 2, 2019 3:56 pm
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Findings that contradict once widely held theories:
Peanut allergies occur whether or not a is exposed to peanuts before age 3.
Pediatricians have counseled parents to keep babies away from peanuts for the first three years of life. As it turns out, exposed to peanuts before they were even 1 year old have no greater risk of peanut allergies.
Fish oil does not reduce the risk of heart disease.
At one point, the notion that fish fats prevented heart trouble did seem logical. People whose diets contain a lot of fatty fish seem to have a lower incidence of heart disease. Fatty fish contains omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 supplements lower levels of triglycerides, and high levels of triglycerides are linked to an increased risk of heart disease. Not to mention that omega-3 fatty acids seem to reduce inflammation, a key feature of heart attacks. But in a trial involving ,500 people at risk for heart trouble, daily omega-3 supplements did not protect against heart disease.
Ginkgo biloba does not protect against memory loss and dementia.
The supplement, made from the leaves of ginkgo trees, was widely used in ancient Chinese medicine and still is promoted to preserve memory. A large federal study, published in 2008, showed the supplement is useless for this purpose. Yet ginkgo still pulls in $249 million in sales.
To treat emergency room patients in acute pain, a single dose of oral opioids is no better than like aspirin and ibuprofen.
Opioids are powerful ; A clinical trial showed that aspirin and ibuprofen relieve pain just as well among emergency room patients.
Testosterone treatment does not help older men retain their memory.
Some men have low levels of testosterone and memory problems, and early studies had hinted that middle-aged men with higher testosterone levels seemed to have better preserved tissue in some parts of their brains. Older men with higher testosterone levels also seemed to do better on tests of mental functioning. A rigorous clinical trial showed that testosterone was no better than a pill in helping older men avoid memory loss.
To protect against asthma attacks, it won’t help to keep your house free of dust mites, mice and cockroaches.
The advice from leading medical groups was rid your home of these pests if you or your has asthma. The theory was that allergic reactions to them can trigger asthma attacks. But intensive pest management in homes with sensitized to mouse allergens did nothing to reduce the frequency of their asthma attacks, researchers reported in 20.
Step counters and calorie trackers do not help you lose weight.
In fact, the reverse is true. Among 470 dieters followed for two years, those who wore devices tracking the steps they took and calories they burned lost less weight than those who followed standard advice.
Torn knee meniscus? Try physical therapy first, surgery later.
An estimated 460,000 patients in the United States get surgery each year to fix knee cartilage that tears, often because of osteoarthritis. The tear is painful, and many patients fear that if it is not surgically treated, the pain will linger. But when patients with a torn meniscus and moderate arthritis were randomized to six months of physical therapy or surgery, both groups improved, and to the same extent.
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Aid for migrant detained
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Posted:Jul 1, 2019 11:20 am
Last Updated:Apr 16, 2024 1:51 am
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On Thursday, June 27, 2019 Congress passed a $4.6 billion bill to fund humanitarian aid for migrant at the nation’s southern border — spurred by public horror over a disturbing photo of a father and dead facedown in the Rio Grande and reports that detained migrant were being mistreated. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.
It wasn’t everything some Democrats wanted. Earlier this week, the House Democratic Caucus’s progressive wing pushed a bill, which the House passed, that restricted how the administration could use the funds and improved health and safety standards for detained migrants.
But the Senate — backed by dozens of Senate Democrats and facing a veto threat from Trump — sent back a bipartisan agreement that slimmed down the House bill’s restrictions and gave some money for immigration enforcement to the Pentagon, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and immigration judges.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faced both an approaching week-long Fourth of July break and stiff resistance from moderate House Democrats. She acceded to the bipartisan Senate measure over her progressive wing’s vociferous objections. On the final House vote, only 60 percent of House Democrats joined nearly every Republican to send the bill to the president.
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