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Shocking Findings From New Study

Shocking Findings From New Study

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Um…not so much, we all knew it, just some don’t or won’t recognize.

New brain research shows two parents may be better than one. Adult human brain cell production may be triggered in childhood

May 1, 2013

A team of researchers at the University of Calgary’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) have discovered that adult brain cell production might be determined, in part, by the early parental environment. The study suggests that dual parenting may be more beneficial than single parenting.

Scientists studied mouse pups that were raised by either dual or single parents and found that adult cell production in the brain might be triggered by early life experiences. The scientists also found that the increased adult brain cell production varied based on gender. Specifically, female pups raised by two parents had enhanced white matter production as adults, increasing motor coordination and sociability. Male pups raised by dual parents displayed more grey matter production as an adult, which improves learning and memory.

“Our new work adds to a growing body of knowledge, which indicates that early, supportive experiences have long lasting, positive impact on adult brain function,” says Samuel Weiss, PhD, senior author of the study and director of the HBI.

Surprisingly, the advantages of dual parenting were also passed along when these two groups reproduced, even if their offspring were raised by one female. The advantages of dual parenting were thus passed along to the next generation.

To conduct the study, scientists divided mice into three groups i) pups raised to adulthood by one female ii) pups raised to adulthood by one female and one male and iii) pups raised to adulthood by two females. Researchers then waited for the offspring to reach adulthood to find out if there was any impact on brain cell production.

Scientists say that this research provides evidence that, in the mouse model, parenting and the environment directly impact adult brain cell production. While it’s not known at this point, it is possible that similar effects could be seen in other mammals, such as humans. The study is published in the May 1 edition of PLOS ONE. It was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

Well Said

Well Said

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“Democrats on health care: 15-year-olds who want birth control are adults. 26-year-olds who want health insurance are children.”

$3.73 Per Gallon Or Green at $59.00

$3.73 Per Gallon Or Green at $59.00

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This is fucking insane. The government is out of control, I did not pay my taxes for stupidity, yet that’s all these idiots know. Revolution soon me thinks.

Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel

Photo - A picture taken on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012 shows, plane captains pass by F-18 fighter jets on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in the Strait of Hurmuz. The USS Abraham Lincoln sailed from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.

“In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013,” Gevo announced this week in its first quarter financial report. “This initial order may be increased by 12,500 gallons. All shipments will be at a fixed price of $59 per gallon during the initial testing phase. These shipments are in addition to the renewable jet fuel supplied to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. Navy (USN).”

Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.

To Big For Its Own Good

To Big For Its Own Good

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Following my last post about Holders letter to Kansas, I was thinking about all the snide remarks I made, and if maybe I should tone it down a bit. I know that my site is frequented by the same department whose leader I just called a poodle.

Um, no, I won’t stop.

It’s not that I hate government, it is the fact that the government in its current form is to big and out of control. To make an analogy look to the education districts of our public schools, since 1979 the administrative branch is 700 times bigger than it was, while the teacher and pupil growth rate stands at 200 percent in that same period. So what to glean from that, the same thing we glean from the federal government. To many bureaucrats and not enough teaching. To big for its own good or ours.

I understand that since our government began, people chasing power wanted to get involved in or in bed with the politicians. A natural occurrence of an aggressive Type A personality like most business owners or politicians, (back in the day), had in common. Powerful friends could guarantee contracts and favors much the same as we have now. The problem is, back then becoming a public servant was considered a privilege and a national duty.
Now it’s like winning the lottery, because in a lot of ways, it is. If you make it to a position of power such as a Mayor or Governor you are going to be paid well, if you make it to Congress you have set yourself up for life, and the longer you stay, the wealthier you will become, make to the White House, even better. And that, has created the monster we have now.

The United States is a huge complex country, with a multitude of problems to be dealt with, but as with the education bureaucrats in cities all over the country, you have X amount of politicians calling the shots, they have thousands of appointees helping them legislate/dictate the laws of the land, then you have millions bureaucrats wielding the sword of the aforementioned group. And all of these people get pad better than the private sector with pensions and benefits unimaginable to Joe Public.

Now add progressive liberals to the mix and disaster is just around the corner. They would tax their own mother into the poor house if they hadn’t already given her a six figure salary and appointed her to Czar of Poor Houses.

So yes, we need government, it just needs to be downsized about 40% and until something positive happens along those lines I’m gonna keep bitchin’ to whoever will listen.

Eric Holder Tries To Spank Kansas

Eric Holder Tries To Spank Kansas

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I love it when Bambam’s pit bull poodle get’s off his leash. He sent a snotty letter to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback claiming the law they just passed to bar feds from enforcing gun laws is unconstitutional and they would sue to prove it. But like many of Obama’s hench men, he forgets that the federal law itself is unconstitutional thus making any action by Federal Agents quite lame and a crime. After Fast & Furious, what makes him think he deserves any respect.

A new law in Kansas that criminalizes the enforcement of federal gun controls in the state is unconstitutional, Attorney General Eric H. Holder said.

“In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize the official acts of federal officers, [the law] directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional,” Mr. Holder wrote to Gov. Sam Brownback in a letter dated April 26. “Federal officers who are responsible for enforcing federal laws and regulations in order to maintain public safety cannot be forced to choose between the risk of a criminal prosecution by a state and the continued performance of their federal duties.”

Mr. Holder cites the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says federal law trumps conflicting state authority or exercise of power. Kansas’s law became effective April 25.

Mr. Holder wrote that federal authorities “will continue to execute their duties to enforce all federal firearms laws and regulations. Moreover, the United States will take all appropriate action, including litigation if necessary, to prevent the State of Kansas from interfering with the activities of federal officials enforcing federal law.” Read more here at The Gateway Pundit

Does Holder have a leg to stand on? Not according to The Tenth Amendment Center.

1. Kansas is NOT purporting to criminalize the exercise of constitutional federal responsibilities.  On the contrary, the bill criminalizes what the state has determined is unconstitutional.   It is the position that such federal acts are indeed a violation of the Constitution.  No matter how much Eric might believe it to be otherwise, his view is obviously not universal – especially in Kansas.

2. The Supremacy Clause.  Holder takes the position that all tyrants do – that everything they do is authorized, anything to the contrary – worthless.  But Holder is wrong.  The Supremacy Clause doesn’t say that “any law in conflict with federal law” is void.  It says that only those laws “in pursuance” of the constitution are supreme.  The new Kansas legislation, again, takes the position that such federal acts are not constitutional, and therefore not supreme. Read the rest here

Copy of Holders letter.

Click to biggie size.

 

Liberal Utopia, As Described By A Liberal

Liberal Utopia, As Described By A Liberal

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Liberals are idiots, and this particular writer is as useful an idiot as they come. I got it from Ace and you can get to the link here. I choose not to link to liberal sites, gives them way to much encouragement. A Mr. Lee Siegel’s perfect America, without those pesky red states of course.

…Just think what America would look like without its mostly Southern states. (We could retain “America”: they could call themselves “Smith & Wesson” or “Coca-Cola” or something like that.) Universal health care. No guns. Strong unions. A humane minimum wage. A humane immigration policy. High revenues from a fair tax structure. A massive public-works program. Legal gay marriage. A ban on carbon emissions. Electric cars. Stronger workplace protections. Extended family leave from work in case of pregnancy or illness. Longer unemployment benefits. In short, a society on a par with most of the rest of the industrialized world-a place whose politics have finally caught up with its social and economic realities.

 

I am trying to figure out who works after the extended family leave, the longer unemployment benefits…oh wait, humane immigration, the immigrants will do the work at the massive public works program. And the unions will have no problem with the universal health care, and businesses will stick around to pay those “fair taxes” and humane minimum wages.  Unbelievable.

Professional Sport Now Has Gay Athlete..Whoopie

Professional Sport Now Has Gay Athlete..Whoopie

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I have left this alone because I really did not care. I don’t beleive in homosexuality as a lifestyle nor do I think it is good for a community, any community. That being said, I don’t agree with alot of things that other people do, but this is a free country and whatever happens in their life is up to them, as long as they don’t shove their lifestyle in your face.

I am a sports fan and have been listening to sports radio fawning all over Jason Collins decision to come out. The buzz words they keep saying is “society has evolved” to a point where we, as a country, now accept gays. Ok I’ll play along, now tell me how society evolved? Is it because Hollywood has embraced being gay, or liberals love gay people? Or is it because our children have been taught in school to be tolerant of sexual preference? So how did we get here? I would assume all of the above.

I personaly find homosexuality to be perverse. The flamboyant queer nation bears this out, just google image San Francisco gay parade, be warned it is not a pretty site. Now can you see your son or grandson involved in that activity? I am not gonna bible thump here I just think this is not normal behavior, and as we continue to accept it we skew what normal is. Do you want gay couple Bob and Ted coaching your sons little league team? Do you really want Bob and Ted taking your sons camping as Boy Scout leaders? Do you want Bob and Ted in your sons jr. high or high school locker room? I am not trying to be blind to the fact there is a large percentage of gay people in the country, probably more than I would like to admit, what worries me is that once this lifetsyle is completely accepted and gay marriage is the law of the land the moral fiber of this country is being chipped away from another angle.

America is having a hard enough time trying to keep people married. Fifty percent of marriage now ends in divorce, our “old normal” of Mom and Dad married for 50 years is becoming a lost concept.
Now, Dad pays child support to keep Mom and her new boyfriend in your old home. Mom and Dad both work full time and we are forced to have our children raised by our educators. That is a scary notion in and of itself. In a perfect world Mom and Dad taught morals, led by example, and ruled with a firm hand. Tough love was a teaching lesson, not abuse. The old days are slipping away and I will most assuredly miss them.

The new normal for kids….survival.
Kids in America understand joint custody, drugs, booze, internet porn, college loans, green is good, polar bears are in trouble, and of course being gay is OK.
And that is sad.