<![CDATA[Independent Voices - All Forums]]> http://politicaldivide.info/ Sun, 20 May 2012 12:09:32 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Shutdown is coming]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-757.html Wed, 09 May 2012 20:16:28 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-757.html
The Administrators are too busy or dealing with issues in our private lives to continue the forum.It is apparent that we are not going much here anymore.

It will soon be shutdown and buried so if you have any posts you wanted to save here is your chance to do it.

Sorry that we did not make it go well for everyone who did visit and post.]]>
The Administrators are too busy or dealing with issues in our private lives to continue the forum.It is apparent that we are not going much here anymore.

It will soon be shutdown and buried so if you have any posts you wanted to save here is your chance to do it.

Sorry that we did not make it go well for everyone who did visit and post.]]> <![CDATA[...Almost Any Sect...]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-756.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:32:51 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-756.html .....[Image: ObamaEndBadly.jpg]]]> .....[Image: ObamaEndBadly.jpg]]]> <![CDATA[myBB 1.8]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-755.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:38:13 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-755.html
April 1,2012

EXCERPT:

MyBB 1.8 – The Bridge to 2.0

Everyone here at MyBB are proud to announce the impending arrival of our next major feature release – MyBB 1.8.

Over the last 2 months we’ve been developing in secret at our Github lair, plotting to once again attempt to take over the forum world with our evil plans and awesome free software and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DevBB – our supreme overlord predecessor.

1.8 isn’t as big of an overhaul as 1.2, 1.4 or 1.6 upgrades which introduced more than 100 features; this is more of a facelift. We took Justin, our lead designer, and locked him in a room with nothing but bacon and water until he came up with a new default theme which is taken from one of (if not the) most popular theme collections used by MyBB communities across the world; his Apart series. That’s not all – we developed attachable base colours to themes so that creating (and using) multi-coloured themes no longer involve adding 14 separate styles. You add just one. A new default theme for your Admin Control Panel (ACP) is available too.

LINK]]>
April 1,2012

EXCERPT:

MyBB 1.8 – The Bridge to 2.0

Everyone here at MyBB are proud to announce the impending arrival of our next major feature release – MyBB 1.8.

Over the last 2 months we’ve been developing in secret at our Github lair, plotting to once again attempt to take over the forum world with our evil plans and awesome free software and to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DevBB – our supreme overlord predecessor.

1.8 isn’t as big of an overhaul as 1.2, 1.4 or 1.6 upgrades which introduced more than 100 features; this is more of a facelift. We took Justin, our lead designer, and locked him in a room with nothing but bacon and water until he came up with a new default theme which is taken from one of (if not the) most popular theme collections used by MyBB communities across the world; his Apart series. That’s not all – we developed attachable base colours to themes so that creating (and using) multi-coloured themes no longer involve adding 14 separate styles. You add just one. A new default theme for your Admin Control Panel (ACP) is available too.

LINK]]> <![CDATA[Conquering the Terrorist Threat by Terrorizing Little Girls]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-754.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:34:54 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-754.html
Posted by Jacob Sullum on Tuesday Apr 24th

EXCERPT:

Michelle Brademeyer of Missoula, Montana, offers yet another example of how much better airport screening has become since the federal government took control of it. Brademeyer and her two chldren flew to Wichita, Kansas, the weekend before last for her brother's wedding. On the way back to Missoula, they shared a flight to Denver with Brademeyer's mother, who lives in California. Brademeyer and her kids, ages 4 and 6, passed through the metal detector without incident, but her mother made the machine beep. Unable to determine what had triggered the alarm, a transportation security officer informed her that she would have to wait for a pat-down. At that point, Brademeyer reports on her Facebook page, her 4-year-old daughter, Isabella, noticed her grandmother and excitedly ran back through the checkpoint to hug her. "They made very brief contact," Brademeyer says, "no longer than a few seconds."

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More brainless paranoia of white little girls.In a nation where terrorism is 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% caused by Muslims indicate they are terrified of little children and old people who apparently are on the TSA list of potential terrorists.]]>
Posted by Jacob Sullum on Tuesday Apr 24th

EXCERPT:

Michelle Brademeyer of Missoula, Montana, offers yet another example of how much better airport screening has become since the federal government took control of it. Brademeyer and her two chldren flew to Wichita, Kansas, the weekend before last for her brother's wedding. On the way back to Missoula, they shared a flight to Denver with Brademeyer's mother, who lives in California. Brademeyer and her kids, ages 4 and 6, passed through the metal detector without incident, but her mother made the machine beep. Unable to determine what had triggered the alarm, a transportation security officer informed her that she would have to wait for a pat-down. At that point, Brademeyer reports on her Facebook page, her 4-year-old daughter, Isabella, noticed her grandmother and excitedly ran back through the checkpoint to hug her. "They made very brief contact," Brademeyer says, "no longer than a few seconds."

LINK
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More brainless paranoia of white little girls.In a nation where terrorism is 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% caused by Muslims indicate they are terrified of little children and old people who apparently are on the TSA list of potential terrorists.]]> <![CDATA[Man Uses Physics to Fight Traffic Ticket]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-753.html Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:01:10 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-753.html Quote:Man Uses Physics to Fight $400 Traffic Ticket
A UCSD physicist used his knowledge and a little creativity to get himself out of a $400 traffic ticket.

Dmirti Krioukov was issued a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. Instead of paying the ticket or going to traffic school, the physicist fought the citation by writing a four-page paper explaining how the ticket he was given defies physics.
Using his knowledge of angular and linear motion, Krioukov prepared a paper for the judge in his case and was able to argue – and prove – his innocence.
The paper explained how what the officer “thought” he saw, he didn’t really see, according to the laws of physics.
...
Before others try the “physics defense” in before a judge, Krioukov warned that it took a perfect combination of events for his argument to legitimately hold up.
By the way, when asked if he really did stop at the stop sign, the physicist stuck to his argument.
“Of course I did,” he said with a smile. Full Story

NERDS WIN!]]> Quote:Man Uses Physics to Fight $400 Traffic Ticket
A UCSD physicist used his knowledge and a little creativity to get himself out of a $400 traffic ticket.

Dmirti Krioukov was issued a traffic ticket for failing to completely stop at a stop sign. Instead of paying the ticket or going to traffic school, the physicist fought the citation by writing a four-page paper explaining how the ticket he was given defies physics.
Using his knowledge of angular and linear motion, Krioukov prepared a paper for the judge in his case and was able to argue – and prove – his innocence.
The paper explained how what the officer “thought” he saw, he didn’t really see, according to the laws of physics.
...
Before others try the “physics defense” in before a judge, Krioukov warned that it took a perfect combination of events for his argument to legitimately hold up.
By the way, when asked if he really did stop at the stop sign, the physicist stuck to his argument.
“Of course I did,” he said with a smile. Full Story

NERDS WIN!]]> <![CDATA[Perfect Sense]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-751.html Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:24:44 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-751.html
I know this has been a HUGE controversy for quite some time now, but...
...when you THINK about it carefully, it all makes perfect sense...


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I know this has been a HUGE controversy for quite some time now, but...
...when you THINK about it carefully, it all makes perfect sense...


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You know you live in Upside-down Land if...

...A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend more money.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration class on a college campus is perfectly acceptable.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The rights of the State come before the rights of the individual.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You have to have your parents signature to go on a field trip but not to get an abortion.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burqa is only subject to having her neck and head searched.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and singing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The "Department of Justice" thinks it can make you 'safer' by selling large numbers of Automatic Weapons to drug dealers just across the border, and LYING about it afterward, but such a weapon in the hands of an American Citizen would constitute a FELONY.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

November is coming. ...Maybe you'll be able to think of SOMETHING.
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You know you live in Upside-down Land if...

...A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend more money.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration class on a college campus is perfectly acceptable.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The rights of the State come before the rights of the individual.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You have to have your parents signature to go on a field trip but not to get an abortion.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burqa is only subject to having her neck and head searched.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and singing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...The "Department of Justice" thinks it can make you 'safer' by selling large numbers of Automatic Weapons to drug dealers just across the border, and LYING about it afterward, but such a weapon in the hands of an American Citizen would constitute a FELONY.

You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
...You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

November is coming. ...Maybe you'll be able to think of SOMETHING.
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http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/DumpTheZero.jpg http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/DumpObamaDay.jpg http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/ObamaPitchIn.jpg]]>


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http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/DumpTheZero.jpg http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/DumpObamaDay.jpg http://www.seadogbytes.com/misc/ObamaPitchIn.jpg]]> <![CDATA[Proof "Medieval Warm Period" was global]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-748.html Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:00:19 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-748.html Quote:Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study
Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe
Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming'

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a 'mini ice age'.

A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.
Cold facts: Antarctica actually warmed up during medieval times, contrary to what climate scientists believe
...
Both climate events have been documented in Northern Europe, but studies have been inconclusive as to whether the conditions in Northern Europe extended to Antarctica.
Lu’s team found that in fact, they did.
They were able to deduce this by studying the amount of heavy oxygen isotopes found in the crystals. Full story.]]> Quote:Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study
Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe
Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming'

Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.
It then cooled down naturally and there was even a 'mini ice age'.

A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.
In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.
Cold facts: Antarctica actually warmed up during medieval times, contrary to what climate scientists believe
...
Both climate events have been documented in Northern Europe, but studies have been inconclusive as to whether the conditions in Northern Europe extended to Antarctica.
Lu’s team found that in fact, they did.
They were able to deduce this by studying the amount of heavy oxygen isotopes found in the crystals. Full story.]]> <![CDATA[Immunity...??? (...and people in Hell want ice water, too.)]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-746.html Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:06:22 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-746.html FoxNews.com - United Nations - WORLD
Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN

By George Russell

EXCLUSIVE: The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates. There’s just one problem: it is not part of the United Nations....

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/22/...z1qBTo9JD7]]> FoxNews.com - United Nations - WORLD
Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN

By George Russell

EXCLUSIVE: The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates. There’s just one problem: it is not part of the United Nations....

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/03/22/...z1qBTo9JD7]]> <![CDATA[Any 'NCIS' fans here today...?]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-745.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:03:19 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-745.html Here's one for all you NCIS fans...

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If you will forgive my generalizations, I’d like to have a conversation about men. I find men to be wonderful creatures. Ingenious and creative, they never cease to fascinate me.

Since the advent of the nature v nurture argument, there has been this push to make men more like women. They are urged to “get in touch” with their feelings, to think before they speak and to be kind and gentle towards all. This is especially true in the school system. Sadly this denies them everything that makes them men and you boys don’t even have the serotonin levels necessary for such behavior. And who says men aren’t in touch with their feelings anyway?

Men are expected to treat everyone as equals when it is the nature of a man to develop a pecking order. Equality must be proven and earned.

A mother is nurturing if she kisses away the tears and tells her son it will be all right but a man is not nurturing when he tells his son to shake it off, take it like a man. Why? The father is teaching his son the rules for being a man, teaching him how to establish his place in the pecking order. How is teaching the boy how to be a man not nurturing? Because it is not the way a female would do it?

Men tend to be visual. Their ability to visualize makes them great engineers. They can see ways of making things easier. They don’t just create the screw driver but they make it magnetic to hold the screw. Poor example but you know what I mean.

This visual nature is denied them when it comes to their sexuality. To enjoy viewing women is to turn them into objects and not allowed. To see the beauty in art is to appreciate it but to see the beauty in women is debasement. Go figure.

Men don’t do the touchy feely stuff women view as romantic. In her view he must prove his love by buying expensive jewelry and it must be something she likes or it is assumed no thought was involved. Men are problem solvers. He is more likely to show his love and appreciation by putting a lever door handle on the door you routinely use with your hands full. Then he is dismayed when his thoughtfulness goes unappreciated. Too bad because it sure makes it easier to open that door with a full laundry basket.

The more I learn about men, the more I admire them for what they are. Heaven help us if we succeed in turning them into female clones. Our very survival depends on them remaining men.]]> About Men


If you will forgive my generalizations, I’d like to have a conversation about men. I find men to be wonderful creatures. Ingenious and creative, they never cease to fascinate me.

Since the advent of the nature v nurture argument, there has been this push to make men more like women. They are urged to “get in touch” with their feelings, to think before they speak and to be kind and gentle towards all. This is especially true in the school system. Sadly this denies them everything that makes them men and you boys don’t even have the serotonin levels necessary for such behavior. And who says men aren’t in touch with their feelings anyway?

Men are expected to treat everyone as equals when it is the nature of a man to develop a pecking order. Equality must be proven and earned.

A mother is nurturing if she kisses away the tears and tells her son it will be all right but a man is not nurturing when he tells his son to shake it off, take it like a man. Why? The father is teaching his son the rules for being a man, teaching him how to establish his place in the pecking order. How is teaching the boy how to be a man not nurturing? Because it is not the way a female would do it?

Men tend to be visual. Their ability to visualize makes them great engineers. They can see ways of making things easier. They don’t just create the screw driver but they make it magnetic to hold the screw. Poor example but you know what I mean.

This visual nature is denied them when it comes to their sexuality. To enjoy viewing women is to turn them into objects and not allowed. To see the beauty in art is to appreciate it but to see the beauty in women is debasement. Go figure.

Men don’t do the touchy feely stuff women view as romantic. In her view he must prove his love by buying expensive jewelry and it must be something she likes or it is assumed no thought was involved. Men are problem solvers. He is more likely to show his love and appreciation by putting a lever door handle on the door you routinely use with your hands full. Then he is dismayed when his thoughtfulness goes unappreciated. Too bad because it sure makes it easier to open that door with a full laundry basket.

The more I learn about men, the more I admire them for what they are. Heaven help us if we succeed in turning them into female clones. Our very survival depends on them remaining men.]]> <![CDATA[Ron Paul vs. HIS BIGGEST ENEMY: Electronic Voting Machines (- 16,000 RON PAUL VOTES!?]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-743.html Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:05:12 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-743.html

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]]> <![CDATA[HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!!!]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-742.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:03:19 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-742.html May the Rain Fall Softly on your... um... candidates.


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.........[Image: MaxineSnakes.jpg]]]> <![CDATA[Athens-Clarke County, GA Republican Delegate Fraud ]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-741.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:58:24 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-741.html

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]]> <![CDATA[CO2 makes you fat.]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-739.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:43:42 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-739.html Quote:The theory arose several years ago, when Lars-Georg Hersoug studied the development of obesity among people who had been followed over a number of years in the so-called MONICA studies (Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardio-vascular Disease) in Denmark. These studies have mapped the lifestyles of thousands of Danes.
Hersoug was surprised to see that both fat and thin people taking part in the studies over a 22-year period had put on weight – and the increase was proportionately the same.
Orexins – which are neuropeptide hormones – in the brain stimulate wakefulness and energy expenditure. These hormones may be affected by CO2, and this can cause us to go to bed later, affecting our metabolism so it is easier for us to put on weight. But orexins are also involved in the stimulation of food intake.
“The normal theory is that fat people get fatter because they don’t move as much as they should,” says Hersoug, now a post-doc at the Research Centre for Prevention and Health at Glostrup University Hospital. “But the study showed that thin people also get fatter, and this happened over the whole of the 22-year period of the study.”

1. He says the development in obesity in the US was fastest in the period 1986-2010 on the east coast – where CO2 concentrations are highest.
2. A study from 2010, covering 20,000 animals in various laboratories, showed that all the animals put on weight, even though they were given food under controlled conditions and should therefore not have put on weight. The animals studied included dogs, cats, mice and monkeys. And when researchers studied rats in both urban and rural environments in the US, the result was the same.

“The probability that all animals of eight different species put on weight from random causes is one in 10,000,000,” says Hersoug. “This indicates that the animals were affected by environmental factors – and you can speculate on what these environmental factors are.”

3. A quite decisive element was added to the researchers’ theory in 2007, when a study revealed that the pH value of blood – its acidity – affects nerve cells in the brain that regulate our appetite and metabolism: orexins. Full story.

GLOBAL WARMING MAKES YOU FAT!
The big flaw in this is the belief that weight should be static.
More likely, all animals gain weight as they age because of metabolism changes.]]> Quote:The theory arose several years ago, when Lars-Georg Hersoug studied the development of obesity among people who had been followed over a number of years in the so-called MONICA studies (Monitoring of Trends and Determinants in Cardio-vascular Disease) in Denmark. These studies have mapped the lifestyles of thousands of Danes.
Hersoug was surprised to see that both fat and thin people taking part in the studies over a 22-year period had put on weight – and the increase was proportionately the same.
Orexins – which are neuropeptide hormones – in the brain stimulate wakefulness and energy expenditure. These hormones may be affected by CO2, and this can cause us to go to bed later, affecting our metabolism so it is easier for us to put on weight. But orexins are also involved in the stimulation of food intake.
“The normal theory is that fat people get fatter because they don’t move as much as they should,” says Hersoug, now a post-doc at the Research Centre for Prevention and Health at Glostrup University Hospital. “But the study showed that thin people also get fatter, and this happened over the whole of the 22-year period of the study.”

1. He says the development in obesity in the US was fastest in the period 1986-2010 on the east coast – where CO2 concentrations are highest.
2. A study from 2010, covering 20,000 animals in various laboratories, showed that all the animals put on weight, even though they were given food under controlled conditions and should therefore not have put on weight. The animals studied included dogs, cats, mice and monkeys. And when researchers studied rats in both urban and rural environments in the US, the result was the same.

“The probability that all animals of eight different species put on weight from random causes is one in 10,000,000,” says Hersoug. “This indicates that the animals were affected by environmental factors – and you can speculate on what these environmental factors are.”

3. A quite decisive element was added to the researchers’ theory in 2007, when a study revealed that the pH value of blood – its acidity – affects nerve cells in the brain that regulate our appetite and metabolism: orexins. Full story.

GLOBAL WARMING MAKES YOU FAT!
The big flaw in this is the belief that weight should be static.
More likely, all animals gain weight as they age because of metabolism changes.]]> <![CDATA[RE: Big Gub'ment]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-738.html Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:08:39 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-738.html reality check...

Subject: Reminder

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The next time someone tells you that we can't afford to reduce the size of the federal government, because so many services would be lost, you might want to remind them of the fact that, in the Department of Agriculture alone, there are more government employees, than there are actual farmers in the entire country.

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Subject: Reminder

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The next time someone tells you that we can't afford to reduce the size of the federal government, because so many services would be lost, you might want to remind them of the fact that, in the Department of Agriculture alone, there are more government employees, than there are actual farmers in the entire country.

Think about it. ]]> <![CDATA[This Hoax Affects Everyone ]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-737.html Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:58:12 -0500 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-737.html

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]]> <![CDATA[Server upgrades]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-736.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:19:57 -0600 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-736.html
My serverhost will make some major changes as announced:

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As we previously announced, we have begun the process of migrating all (Deleted) accounts to new server hardware. Your account is scheduled to be migrated on 12-Mar-2011-2012 (Deleted). If this date/time does not work for your account please let us know as soon as possible.

Hopefully there will be no interruption in the meantime.]]>
My serverhost will make some major changes as announced:

Quote:Hello (Deleted),

As we previously announced, we have begun the process of migrating all (Deleted) accounts to new server hardware. Your account is scheduled to be migrated on 12-Mar-2011-2012 (Deleted). If this date/time does not work for your account please let us know as soon as possible.

Hopefully there will be no interruption in the meantime.]]> <![CDATA[Are you kidding me?]]> http://politicaldivide.info/thread-735.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:13:53 -0600 http://politicaldivide.info/thread-735.html

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