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Montana Resident Calls It Like She Sees It

Montana Resident Calls It Like She Sees It

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I have seen this before but it is worth an encore.

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming  calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared “Social Security  ” to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here’s a response in a letter from  PATTY MYERS in Montana … I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells  it like it is!  

“Hey Alan, let’s get a few things  straight!!!

1. As a career politician, you have  been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.  

2. I have been paying Social  Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now  63).

3. My Social Security payments, and  those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest  bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the  account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus  bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that  would make Bernie Madoff proud.     4. Recently, just like Lucy &  Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk” pulled the proverbial football away from  millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for  full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your “shill commission”  are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other  Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now “you morons”  propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because “you idiots” mismanaged  other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money  from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other  Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose  to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you “incompetent bastards” spent  our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran  out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to  pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for  calling “bullshit” to your incompetence.   Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few  questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned  from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political  career?

2. At what age did you retire from  your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual  retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR  government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and  healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction  proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political  cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators  called Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech. That’s right,  sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing  your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that  we know it.
And you can take that to the bank,  you miserable son of a bitch.   P.S. And stop calling Social Security  benefits “entitlements”. WHAT AN INSULT!!!! I have been paying in to the  SS system for 45 years “It’s my money”-give it back to me the way the system  was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous  by doling out these monthly checks.

 

Patty Meyers

Jay Carney Spinning Wildly But Missing The Point

Jay Carney Spinning Wildly But Missing The Point

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Something that the Whitehouse is missing in its effort to smooth over Benghazi is that this is not completely about blaming it on a YouTube video, this is about who gave the order to “stand down” and why. Yes there is culpability in the talking points being changed, but I see the real issue in the order to stand down and where, what, and why, was the President doing. And what did he and Hillary instruct their people to do during the attack.

If he was asleep on his way to Vegas to campaign and Hillary left everything up to subordinates as she slept, then they have some explaining to do.

Any White House edits made to talking points about the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya were merely “stylistic,” Obama spokesman Jay Carney insisted on Wednesday amid congressional hearings about the Sept. 11 strike that killed four Americans.

“The fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this,” Carney said. “Edits made by anyone at the White House were stylistic and not substantive. They corrected the description of the building… from consulate to diplomatic facility. Ultimately, this all has been discussed and reviewed and provided in enormous levels of detail by the administration to congressional investigators. The attempt to politicize the talking points again is part of an effort to chase after what isn’t the substance here.”

Television Coverage of Benghazi Hearings

Television Coverage of Benghazi Hearings

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Real time programming during hearings. I don’t blame national networks but cable news should be ashamed.

ABC: The View (cast of Duck Dynasty)

CBS: The Price Is Right

NBC: Access Hollywood (explaining makeup and bombshell eye)

FOX: Dr. OZ (Stress with Deepak Chopra)

CW: Jerry Springer (Lesbian Bridal Battles)

MY: BREAKING NEWS Amanda Berry Homecoming

PBS: Bob the Builder

FOX NEWS: BENGHAZI HEARINGS

MSNBC: Amanda Berry Homecoming

CNN: Amanda Berry Homecoming

CNBC: Squak on the Street

BLAZE: Benghazi hearings.

Excellent Essay On Gun Control

Excellent Essay On Gun Control

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This guy nailed it, worth a few minutes to read.

Here is his lead into the essay:

Every time a gun issue comes up in conversation around Daily people or during a Daily editorial board meeting, opinion editor Michael Belding almost always tells me, “you should write a column about that!” I hesitate in doing so and have so far resisted the urge mostly; I wrote three gun-related columns back in 2011 and early 2012, and that was enough to brand me the “gun guy” by some folks who use such terms as epithets.

The desire of others for me to write gun columns is reasonable, though, and I understand it. I’m as much of a “gun expert” as you’re likely to find around here, so having me write about guns in the paper is perfectly rational. I won’t bore you with my “gun resume,” but suffice it to say that prior to coming to Iowa State in 2011, I made a living with firearms in one way or another for several years of my life, and have a few pieces of paper laying around that say I know a bit about them, too.

Today, however, I’m going to break my silence on the gun issue and speak out once more — and for the last time. This is my final column for the Iowa State Daily.

Read it all here, you won’t be dissapointed.

 

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).

Common Sense And Medicine Collide

Common Sense And Medicine Collide

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Seems so easy and simple to me, why wouldn’t this be a standard test for everyone over 30? Could save so many lives.
Medical Test Uses Fingers To Predict Heart Disease – Blood flow in fingers shows years ahead

There’s now a new test that can predict a heart attack years — as many as seven years — before the patient has one.

Doctors don’t even look at your heart to conduct this test. They look at your fingers.

KCAL9′s Juan Fernandez spoke to Dr. Chris Renna of LifeSpan Medicine in Santa Monica to find out how the test works. “Endothelial function is the bomb. That’s the money,” he says. Dr. Renna says blood vessel health can be easily checked with the EndoPat test.

He showed Fernandez various charts showing patients with varying results. “You can see endothelial dysfunction in 30 year olds, you can prevent a potential lifetime of distress and misery by correcting that.”

Ed Murphy is being treated by another doctor. While he doesn’t have any heart disease symptoms, he did want to know if he was headed down the wrong path. “I think it’s time to keep an eye on things because after 50 everything goes down hill,” says Murphy.

During Murphy’s EndoPat test, doctors place blood flow sensors on one finger on each hand. Then a blood pressure cuff was inflated to stop blood flow to one hand. After five minutes, the cuff is deflated and the sensors then measure recovering blood flow.

In a normal patient, you see blood flow stop with the inflated cuff and then a rebound surge in blood flow. In an abnormal test, blood flow only recovers to what it was before the stoppage. This signals potential trouble in the heart.

“If the results are not normal you have to do lifestyle modifications lifestyle changes are in orders, to make them normal,” says Dr. Renna.

Simple changes in weight, diet, exercise and perhaps medication can hopefully restore normal blood vessel function and prevent possible heart attacks or strokes.