Saturday, October 17, 2009

Treating Cancers with kind bud

See Sunday’s – Oct. 17 -Times-Standard for my column on treating cancers with THC

These are real pictures of a giant bear

 

These pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. He was out deer hunting last week when a large grizzly bear charged him from about 50 yards away. The guy unloaded his 7mm Mag Semi-automatic rifle into the bear and it dropped a few feet from him.” Click here to read this account.

The hunter told his own story at HuntingNet.com.

check it out on Snopes.com. Snopes says the pictures are real, even if the story has been heavily embellished:

The basic story here is true although some of the details are wrong, perhaps because two different recent incidents of very large bear killings in Alaska have been conflated into one.

The bear pictured above was killed in November 2001 by a hunter (not a Forest Service employee) who came across it while he was deer-hunting in Alaska.

The pictures of the November 2001 shooting became confused with a later account of a killing, also in Alaska, of another very large bear.

That story is told here.

Above information and links via maisbisson.com

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Republicans for Rape: see Franken Amendment 2588

The 2010 Defense Appropriations bill is about not giving money to government contractors who don’t allow their employees to sue them if they are sexually assaulted on the job.

Sounds reasonable to me, but 30 Republican Senators voted against it!

I thought, there has to be more to it than this. Nobody votes against something like that. Franken must have added something controversial and/or inappropriate in, like the public option or legalized marijuana or something.  Maybe the amendment is 1000 pages and they didn’t have time to read it.

Or maybe their all protecting Halliburton!

See What you think:

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 111th Congress - 1st Session

As compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary:

Question: On the Amendment (Franken Amdt. No. 2588 )

Vote Number:
308
Vote Date:
October 6, 2009, 04:37 PM

Required For Majority:
1/2
Vote Result:
Amendment Agreed to

Amendment Number:
S.Amdt. 2588 to H.R. 3326 (Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010)

Statement of Purpose:
To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims.

Vote Counts:
YEAs 68 – NAYs 30 - Not Voting 2

Just for the record, here are the 30 Republicans who voted against Franken’s bill. I was disappointed to see McCain’s name in there:

Alexander (R-TN), Barrasso (R-WY), Bond (R-MO), Brownback (R-KS),
Bunning (R-KY), Burr (R-NC), Chambliss (R-GA), Coburn (R-OK), Cochran (R-MS),Corker (R-TN),Cornyn (R-TX),Crapo (R-ID),DeMint (R-SC),Ensign (R-NV),Enzi (R-WY),Graham (R-SC),Gregg (R-NH),Inhofe (R-OK),Isakson (R-GA),Johanns (R-NE),Kyl (R-AZ),McCain (R-AZ),
McConnell (R-KY),Risch (R-ID),Roberts (R-KS), Sessions (R-AL),Shelby (R-AL),Thune (R-SD),Vitter (R-LA),Wicker (R-MS)

From Senate.gov.

The text:

“Sec. 8104. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any existing or new Federal contract if the contractor or a subcontractor at any tier requires that an employee or independent contractor, as a condition of employment, sign a contract that mandates that the employee or independent contractor performing work under the contract or subcontract resolve through arbitration any claim under title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention.”

“(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply with respect to employment contracts that may not be enforced in a court of the United States.”
 
 

All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing

An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.

Read the story here at CNN

Friday, October 16, 2009

Which One Are You?

Via despair.com

Medical Afflictions of the Cartoon World

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Best Office Pranks of All Time

 

Click here to view some more classic stunts. Hey it’s Friday…time to have a mood adjustment before going into your weekend!

Was Balloon Boy's Whirlwind Day All for "Show"?

Falcon Heene is hugged by his mother, Mayumi, after his disappearance led to a national scare. (Cyrus McCrimmon, Associated Press / October 15)

Has the nation been duped by a balloon-wielding evil genius? Did little 6-year-old Falcon Heene have us right where he wanted, enthralled with our local news stations and hoping for his safe landing? Click here to read this story and to see video.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Scientists hope work with poison gas can be a lifesaver

I’ve heard of some strange ways people have tried to extend life (like cryonics), but this one has to be the oddest.

These guys are serious… 

The rat sniffs the air a few times, and within a minute, his naturally twitchy movements are almost still. On a monitor that shows his rate of breathing, the lines look like a steep mountain slope, going down.

At first glance, that looks bad. We need oxygen to live. If you don't get it for several minutes -- for example, if you suffer cardiac arrest or a bad gunshot wound -- you die. But something else is going on inside this rat. He isn't dead, isn't dying. The reason why, some people think, is the future of emergency medicine.”

Read the whole story here at CNN Health.

 

Facial expressions run in the family

By Jacqui Hayes

Cosmos Online

SYDNEY: Do you look like your father when you're angry? Probably more than you'd imagined. Facial expressions may be inherited, Israeli researchers say.

According to scientists, every person has a set of facial expressions that is unique to them, a signature of their identity that remains stable over time. Stable patterns of facial expressions arise before a baby is six months old, but until now, scientists were unsure whether these patterns were learned or innate.

Click here to read the rest.

 

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Trump's Lowest Grift Ever Saved for Holy Week

This is a story about how the devil's puppet, aka Donald Trump, mocked Christianity by selling a book combining the Bible, the Constitu...