Alex

I think I'm finally starting to be happy :)

(at an elite school in Scotland)

This is the first time he's contacted me in about a month since we've both been busy.

[15:49] originalfiction: so anyhow
[15:49] originalfiction: are you having girl any luck?
[15:50] leafarmada: nope, these essays took up my entire week
[15:50] leafarmada: And it's taking me a lot longer to write essays then everyone else, which means I'll have less of a social life
[15:50] leafarmada: which kind of sucks
[15:51] leafarmada: but, I came for the education foremost
(random crap)
[15:57] leafarmada: What really sucks is my crapy essay writing skills, have actually sort of alienated me,
[15:57] leafarmada: How badly I am writing essays, really pisses off roommate
[15:57] leafarmada: *my roomate
[15:57] originalfiction: haha
[15:57] originalfiction: what a douche bag
[15:58] leafarmada: It's Britain, they are intelectual elitists

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Worldwide the incidence of prostate cancer, found by microscopic examination of the prostate at autopsy, occurs in about 30% of men over the age of 50 years. In the USA the rate of microscopic prostate cancer is even higher at all ages: 8% of men in their 20s, 30% of men in their 30s, 50% of men in their 50s, and 80% of men in their 70s. However, for most men these cells that look like cancer will never noticeably spread, and therefore, never threaten a man’s life. Larry King apparently knew this; he twice asked his three guests, “Is it a myth you die with it, not of it?” (The quote is: “many more men die with prostate cancer than from it.”)

Even though prostate cancer eventually occurs in most men, it has an extraordinarily small risk of killing the patient: the death rate is 226 per 100,000 men older than 65 years. The very common innocuous cancers are referred to as latent cancers. The cancers that kill are referred to as advanced cancers. Unfortunately, doctors cannot tell by looking at the prostate tissues under the microscope whether or not the cancer will ever become life threatening. As a result, almost all men found with either type of cancer will be treated aggressively: surgery, radiation, castration, and/or chemotherapy.

3. Which of the following is true regarding children as pedestrians?
( ) Their field of vision is not as good as that of an adult.
( ) They can judge the speed of moving vehicles well because of video games.
( ) They usually know and adhere to traffic laws.
( ) They run into the street only after looking both ways.

Some ousted season 8 American Idol top 36 semi-finalists--including Felicia Barton, Kendall Beard, and Ju'Not Joyner--participated in an online chat with the Idol website AI Now today. And during his frank online conversation with fans, Ju'Not came right out and said that the TV talent show is in fact rigged, and that its contracts are unfair to contestants.

"It's a fixed thing if I ever saw one," he boldly declared--much to the shock of many naive chatters, who responded with capslocked interjections and frowny-faced emoticons.

http://www.thejc.com/articles/calling-jews-nazis-may-be-criminalised

"Parliament will be asked to consider whether the use of Nazi symbols and terms in reference to Jews, Israel and Zionism is breaking the law on incitement to racial hatred.

A new report by the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (EISCA) has highlighted the increasing use of what it terms the “Nazi card” in antisemitic discourse and has called for a number of measures to try to combat its spread. "

I saw this quote randomly on a message board and thought it was really funny.
It's like the best (sarcastic) logical argument I've ever seen.

"The shapeshifters or changelings called the founders on star trek deep space 9 were the power behind a big empire called the dominion, in 1/4 of our galaxy

they set up a state with genetically engineered cloned shock troops that were addicted to a drug for their survival, and another genetically altered species that were the diplomats and overseers types

the founders would simple infiltrate societies and manipulate them to serve the dominion, either by covertly enslaving them, getting technology, starting wars....

thats why organized mostly white jews that go around changing their names and infiltrating far off lands for their jewish banker masters get called shapeshifters"

Anything which utilizes the microwave spectrum (cell phones are the most common example) especially Radar.
According to one of the main UFO people (I'm reading a book on it and there's actually a lot of documentation for this), a lot of the existing UFOs are organisms that aren't visible to normal light, but can be see in the microwave and infrared spectrum-which has amongst other things led to them being photographed with infrared sensitive cameras and them continually showing up on radar while remaining invisible.
Radar specifically is bad because the UFO "creatures" get hurt and agitated by it (apparently microwave energy is extremely bad for living organism's "bio energy"), and the advent of us putting radar waves everywhere has led to the previously invisible and unnoticed creatures becoming present and hostile. The airforce is definitely aware of this because there are a lot of cases on record of continual UFO sitings in one place and they bring in multiple radar units to get rid of them.
Fairly odd theory, but if the guys right we actually opened a bigger pandora's box with microwave radiation than nuclear weapons!

Make sure to read the last line



A New York City teenager says she was text messaging while walking down the street — and the next second she was down a manhole.

Alexa Longueira was walking down a Staten Island block and was getting ready to text message when she fell into an open sewer manhole, MyFOX NY reports.

VIDEO: Longueira Describes Falling Down a Manhole

Longueira suffered mild cuts and bruises and is expected to recover.

The teen's mother says workers told her they left the manhole open and unattended for just seconds while they went to fetch some cones from their truck.

The Department of Environmental Protection says it is investigating.

"DEP is conducting a full investigation of what happened during a manhole incident on Victory Boulevard where workers were flushing a high-pressure sewer on Wednesday evening," said Mercedes Padilla, of the DEP. "We regret that this happened and wish the young woman a speedy recovery."

The Longueira family says they plan on filing a lawsuit.

The reports show the 872 counties that supported Obama received about $69 per person, on average. The 2,234 that supported McCain received about $34.

Investigators who track the stimulus are skeptical that political considerations could be at work. The imbalance is so pronounced — and the aid so far from complete — that it would be almost inconceivable for it to be the result of political tinkering, says Adam Hughes, the director of federal fiscal policy for the non-profit OMB Watch.


This one was quite funny.

As a matter of fact, the information in this book helped my marriage. After reading the book, which talks quite a bit about food allergies and their symptoms (not just hives), I started to notice that my wife and I had arguments after she ate white processed flour. It could be a sandwich, a hamburger, some toast, but invariably, within an hour or two, she would start an argument about some minor insignificant thing (some of you might be able to relate to that). Since we have been watching our diet and cutting out "bad" food, our marriage has improved. But "cheat" days that were usually on weekends were days when we would argue. This book helped me figure out the "why" behind my wife's sudden irrationality and irritability.

1) Make a transformers vs. gundams video game
2) Go to Mono Lake Tufa for a Weekend
3) Make a professionally done porno called Charlie the Unicorn
4) Go to the Rocky Point Hot Springs with teh girl
5) Make a water engine using ressonance hydrolisis

When Hitler came to power, the (communist) Institut was closed and its members, by various routes, fled to the United States and migrated to major US universities—Columbia, Princeton, Brandeis, and California at Berkeley.

Basically, the Frankfurt School believed that as long as an individual had the belief - or even the hope of belief - that his divine gift of reason could solve the problems facing society, then that society would never reach the state of hopelessness and alienation that they considered necessary to provoke socialist revolution. Their task, therefore, was as swiftly as possible to undermine the Judaeo-Christian legacy. To do this they called for the most negative destructive criticism possible of every sphere of life which would be designed to de-stabilize society and bring down what they saw as the ‘oppressive’ order. Their policies, they hoped, would spread like a virus—‘continuing the work of the Western Marxists by other means’ as one of their members noted.

To further the advance of their ‘quiet’ cultural revolution - but giving us no ideas about their plans for the future - the School recommended (among other things):

1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. Dependency on the state or state benefits
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. Encouraging the breakdown of the family

One of the main ideas of the Frankfurt School was to exploit Freud’s idea of ‘pansexualism’ - the search for pleasure, the exploitation of the differences between the sexes, the overthrowing of traditional relationships between men and women. To further their aims they would:

• attack the authority of the father, deny the specific roles of father and mother, and wrest away from families their rights as primary educators of their children.
• abolish differences in the education of boys and girls
• abolish all forms of male dominance - hence the presence of women in the armed forces
• declare women to be an ‘oppressed class’ and men as ‘oppressors’
Munzenberg summed up the Frankfurt School’s long-term operation thus: ‘We will make the West so corrupt that it stinks.'

The School believed there were two types of revolution: (a) political and (b) cultural. Cultural revolution demolishes from within. ‘Modern forms of subjection are marked by mildness’. They saw it as a long-term project and kept their sights clearly focused on the family, education, media, sex and popular culture.

Interesting how ones perception of events change depending on the time frame you view them through eh?

(NaturalNews) The growing popularity of medical diagnostic scans has contributed to the sevenfold increase in average yearly radiation dosage experienced by U.S. residents since 1980, according to a report published by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement (NCRP).

While the NCRP report looked at radiation exposure from all sources, it found that the greatest increase in exposure came from medical sources, such as CT scans. These scans accounted for a full 49 percent of medical radiation exposure and 24 percent of total radiation exposure for the U.S. population.

Researchers worry that the rise in medical radiation exposure may translate into significantly more cancer cases. Studies conducted on the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki found that radiation levels equivalent to those from a mere two to three CT scans were enough to significantly increase a survivor's cancer risk.

"Radiation exposure from these scans is not inconsequential and can lead to later cancers," said Len Lichtenfeld of the American Cancer Society. "This doesn't mean people shouldn't get CT scans, but it does mean we need to be very careful in how we use these technologies in the future."

CT scans comprise approximately 17 percent of all medical procedures, but their popularity has been growing in recent years, with 72 million performed in 2006.

"It's almost routine to the point where my colleague in an emergency room tells me when a patient comes in complaining of something, instead of doing the standard physical to diagnose them they immediately send them for a CT scan," Lichtenfeld said.

Among the reasons cited for this practice are physicians wanting to order every possible test to protect themselves from litigation; patients demanding specific tests from their doctors; the lack of standardized guidelines for use of the scans; and a financial motive for doctors who perform the scans in-house.

Between 1998 and 2005, the number of CT scans ordered by doctors with a financial stake in the tests grew at three times the rate of the number ordered by doctors without a financial interest.


For what it's worth I already knew that mamograms cause more breast cancer than they prevent (they give repeated radiation to the same area which is basically a recipe for cancer+they are not very accurate at diagnosis) and that a vastly superior method exists (thermography) but it was basically banned since it's much cheaper and no one has a financial stake in it.  I had no idea the CT scan was that bad though-I do know that once a hospital makes the investment to buy them, they order doctors to prescribe CT scans for everything to recoup the cost of the investment...but that still doesn't go as far as the situation detailed herein.
The only funny story I know on the subjet is that I met a guy in the company that originally developed it, and he said when they tried to introduce it in  the USA, the FDA said it was unsafe and refused to approve it, which caused the company to go bankrupt-and then be bought up by the FDA for close to 0, at which point the CT scan was rapidly approved.  I always assumed their basis for not approving it was purely on a corruption basis but perhaps that was a valid reason to do it.

Michelle Obama's decision to make her new White House vegetable garden entirely organic has angered America's powerful agribusiness lobby who are urging the First Lady to consider the use of appropriate "crop protection products".

(from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/michelle-obama/5204434/Michelle-Obamas-organic-garden-angers-US-farming-companies.html)

Beyond being quite funny, the article does a beautiful job of illustrating why conventional farming sucks (and the individuals in charge of the industry are fucks).
If my teaching job at sf su overlaps enough with the subject to allow so-I'm going to assign this as a writing prompt.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans after a report issued by her department said troops returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing extremists.

"To the extent veterans read it as an accusation ... an apology is owed," she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans' groups and members of Congress blasted her for the report, which they said libeled members of the armed forces.

"This was an assessment, not an accusation," Napolitano continued.

XD

Although in all fairness not in the traditional (random genocide) sense, but much more in the post modernist flavor

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

It's like the ultimate expression of images creating decadence

make what you will of this
"There are only four times in recorded history that the death rate actually fell. The first was in highly technologically developed Israel in 1973. During a one-month physicians' strike, the national death-rate reached the lowest rate ever. According to statistics by the Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by almost half.

The same thing happepned again in 1976 in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. There, the doctors went on strike for 52 days. The death rate fell by 35% (National Catholic Reporter and confirmed by the National Morticians Association of Colombia).

Similar events happened in California a few years later, and in the United Kingdom in 1978 (see "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", by Robert Mendelsohn, MD)."

on a different note, I'd randomly been thinking about the song Ma Ya Hi (by o-zone) for the last few days.  When I was on the bus to Manchester, Sam fell asleep and gave me her ipod, so I started flickinging through it for songs I wanted to hear.  Eventually I ran out and just went to all artists, saw "o-zone" remembered the previous train of thought and started listening to the song.
About 15 seconds later (we were in the middle lane and hadn't really had anyone come by on the other side my window faced since it was the slow lane) a big bus passed by with a whole bunch of 25 year old happy english jock guys who looked like soccer players who started waving and semi dancing in our direction...in rhythm to the song (and when I looked up the music video to double check my memory) and the same way everyone moved in the music video.  I paused and thought "what the hell...."
We passed the bus and then another one came by a bit later and did the same thing.  The the song ended and it didn't come up again for the rest of the trip.  I was quite an memorable experience :p
Everyone's had times where reality seems to temporarily mirror a song you're listening to, but have you ever had it occur to that degree? o.O

I was looking though a pamphlet on women's abuse issued by the Nova Scotia government that my girlfriend had. It was interesting that on the same page it said a male partner forcing a female partner to have sex was abuse, but so was
a male partner withholding sex from the female partner.

Also on the same page, abuse is described as the male partner not wanting the female partner to spend time with her friends and family, as well as the male partner spending time with his friends and family instead of the female partner.