I will be taking the next week off to devote full-time to our greenhouse/pool project, starting this evening and back on Monday the 9th. Historically in situations like this I have been too damn tired to do much of anything, …
Author: Tfoui
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Eacherbeans!
Green coffee beans show potential for losing weight
In a limited trial, 16 overweight young adults taking various doses of green coffee bean extract lost an average of 17.5 pounds and 16% in body fat in 22 weeks. But questions …
I wonder if this would make low heat sources a viable energy source
‘Thermal cloak’ designed, could solve major chip, spacecraft issues
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/28/thermal_cloak_excellence/
Not so wild about the idea of scientist being referred to as ‘boffins’ (which sure sounds negative to me), but that seems to be the norm in Jolly Old England. …
Live long and pamper!
So, this morning I was actually reading a cellulose-based carbon-marked news document (otherwise known as the Washington Post) as I performed my morning constitutional and found this really interesting article in the Health and Science section (this is the on-line …
Why thinking takes longer as you get older (or should, anyway)
This represents the first of what I plan on being a series of posts that I am hoping my boy will read as he gets older (perhaps, if I am really lucky, he will even reread a few). He isn’t …
I don’t get it
I am unable to comprehend the huge objection that the GOP Tea Partiers have to Obama.
How Romney tricked the right
The key: Recognizing that conservative opposition to ObamaCare has nothing to do with the details of ObamaCare
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/27/how_romney_tricked_the_right/singleton/
I …
Fertilized egg to have more rights than the woman it is in
Personhood, the undead movement, marches on
It failed to restrict women’s rights in Mississippi and Colorado, but Personhood USA won’t quit. Next up: Oklahoma
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/27/personhood_the_undead_movement_marches_on/singleton/
First, a caveat: I am ‘pro-abortion’ because I am ‘anti-human’ and attach little value to …
What an idiot I am
Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/richard-hanna-gop-congress_n_1373381.html
I am very sad to say this is surprising news to me:
…The Equal Rights Amendment, which Congress passed in 1972 but has not yet been ratified
Corrupt is as corrupt does
America’s Most Corrupt States
http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2012/03/22/americas-most-corrupt-states/
Interestingly, and most telling, is this:
……No state earned an A, and only five states received better than a B+. More than half the states received a D+ or worse. Scored from 1 to 100,
For those of you needing your conspiratorial fix…
Immigration records missing for week of Obama’s birth
Arpaio’s team probing possibility president born abroad
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/immigration-records-missing-for-week-of-obamas-birth/
Since this period _exactly_ matches (too bad I don’t have audio, I need that ominous music right now) the supposed period where Obama would …