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RE: What some women have always known . . .
Julia Thompson Subject: Re: What some women have always known . . . Deborah Harrell wrote: Wasn't an article posted some time back about human females selecting for humor in their mates, as a possible driving force for larger brain capacity? Or was that in one of Himself's writings? Selection for humor seems overrated when one is sleep-deprived. :) Julia Personal Experience Maru Would it be fair to say that the same is true of selection for sexual prowess? Supposition Maru ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: What some women have always known . . .
Andrew Paul wrote: Julia Thompson Subject: Re: What some women have always known . . . Deborah Harrell wrote: Wasn't an article posted some time back about human females selecting for humor in their mates, as a possible driving force for larger brain capacity? Or was that in one of Himself's writings? Selection for humor seems overrated when one is sleep-deprived. :) Julia Personal Experience Maru Would it be fair to say that the same is true of selection for sexual prowess? Supposition Maru That wasn't what I was selecting for, so I can't really comment on that. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
No subject necessary
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/01/24/rocket.bike/index.html Snopes JATO Alert! Maru --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Brin: Something of interest
--- Julia, tha article at http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/01/int06002.html is obviously partisan, so we have to separate the polemical paragraphs from the gems of unalloyedly irrefutable fact. For example, the fact that these monsters have no shame, appointing extreme partisan hatchet men onto the Federal Election Commission, is one that has no parallel in my memory, short of the takeover of the Weimar Republic by Adolf Hitler. How can anyone pretzel-twist enough to excuse this? Their sole excuse is that we are at war... a war that they themselves announced, propelled and that has zero justification in fact. It is a complete fiction. No, the issue is iAre we being led by people who deserve our further trust?/i The answer to that question is a resounding (and non-bitching) no! Having done nothing but lie for six years (and vastly longer than that, in the case of Cheney-Rumsfeld), and having demolished our military readiness, having betrayed the reserves and ihaving put us into a quagmire almost identical to Vietnam,/i these people are the very ilast/i ones we should be trusting to be smart enough to get us out of it. I mean, what iis/i this monstrous concept of iloyalty to politicians?/i It is positively loony!It is Karl Roves insane notion that we all are on blue or red sides and that your side has a natural set of leaders you MUST be loyal to. Dig it, Mark. Politicians, by their very nature, even good ones, are intrinsically untrustworthy schemers. In a European-Parliamentary system, a guy with a track record like Rumsfelds would have been forced simply to iresign/i by now. Even if he were replaced by an honest Republican, wed all be far better off! Better yet. How about replacing him with the people who ran our VASTLY more successful operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan? Why is that so hard to conceive? In fact, there are dozens of alternative approaches to what we are doing in Iraq. But I -- at least -- have the strength of character to admit that I am not an expert. I can Monday-quarterback and armchair-general with the best of them, but iI am not asking to be put in charge./i What I am asking is for my fellow citizens to irecognize when incompetent liar-scoundrels are in charge!/i Or, are you honestly trying to tell me that, among 300 million Americans, we cannot do better than these morons? Bozos who have demolished our nations readiness, betrayed the reserves, pitted us against each other in culture war, sent us into a quagmire, spied on us, tortured in our name (without accomplishing a single thing), and brought our international esteem to the lowest level since we kepti slaves?/i Your own reflex to defend these guys is the issue here. So stop trying to force me to design military strategy and start defending your own absurd position. The position of devoting political LOYALTY to bozos. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Brin: Something of interest
David Brin wrote: Having done nothing but lie for six years (and vastly longer than that, in the case of Cheney-Rumsfeld), and having demolished our military readiness, having betrayed the reserves and having put us into a quagmire almost identical to Vietnam, these people are the very last ones we should be trusting to be smart enough to get us out of it. I mean, what is this monstrous concept of loyalty to politicians? It is positively loony! It is Karl Rove?s insane notion that we all are on blue or red ?sides? and that your side has a natural set of leaders you MUST be loyal to. These two paragraphs had an interesting juxtaposition right here in New Jersey last year. Please bear with me, as this is from memory, and it's possible I don't know all the facts but this is how it was reported locally: A local Congressman, Representative Chris Smith, is by all defintions a loyal Republican. Mr. Smith is a Christian conservative who virulently opposes abortion (in as blue a state as NJ, no less), favors tax cuts, opposes most social programs and generally votes along party lines in all things (some 92-95% of the time, if memory serves). Again, a loyal Republican. He was also, until last year, chairman of the Veterans Committee of the House, and a dedicated fighter for the rights of Armed Services veterans. (One of his few stances with which I agree) However, Rep. Smith made the mistake of disagreeing with Republican leadership in regards to increasing veterans' benefits. In light of Iraq War II, he felt more benefits were appropriate, while the leadership disagreed. Mr. Smith fought back against the administration, standing his ground that kids risking getting their limbs blown off to prosecute President Bush's war ought to get some more benefits. Imagine thinking such a thing was appropriate!! Well, Mr. Smith's reward for this one oppositional stance to the administration's policies? Removal from his post as chair on the committee to which he'd dedicated most of his 20+ years in Congress. He may have even been removed from the committee entirely, but I'm fuzzy on that detail. The leadership's excuse for doing this, since Heaven forbid they admit it was punishment for going up against them administration? He didn't vote along party lines often enough. Somehow, ~92% of the time just wasn't sufficient. I think it's a perfect illustration of what the Republicans are about right now. I generally detest Smith's politics, but I still feel he got a raw deal. Here's an administration that uses the war on terror as carte blanche for everything, but that also punishes a guy who wanted to give more to the people actually doing the fighting than the leadership wanted to. Again, perhaps there's more to the story; maybe he wanted too much, but it seems hypocritical to me for the administration to talk about war and then balk when it comes time to give a hand to the ones actually fighthing it. Apparently simple loyalty isn't enough. *Mindless* loyalty is what's required. Jim ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Brin: Something of interest
On 1/26/06, Jim Sharkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Mr. Smith fought back against the administration, standing his ground that kids risking getting their limbs blown off to prosecute President Bush's war ought to get some more benefits. Imagine thinking such a thing was appropriate!! Well, Mr. Smith's reward for this one oppositional stance to the administration's policies? Removal from his post as chair on the committee to which he'd dedicated most of his 20+ years in Congress. He may have even been removed from the committee entirely, but I'm fuzzy on that detail. Jim From his website, apparently removed entirely. However, As a champion of global human rights since being elected to Congress, Smith is proud to have been selected as Chairman of the International Relations Committee's new super subcommittee entitled Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations. I gues that's something... ~Maru What? no mention on Wikipedia? Unpossible! ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Source of the caduceus
In the 'you learn something everyday' category (oh, and a bit of an eeuwww! factor): [I'm not providing the URL b/c you have to have a subscription, but this is from eMedicine; they have on-line quizzes/cases to solve.] ...Of interest, the universal symbol of medicine, ie, the Asklepion (or caduceus, after Asklepios, the Greek god of healing and medicine) is likely a representation of dracunculiasis and its treatment. To this day, accepted treatment remains the same. The adult guinea worm is wrapped around a stick a few centimeters a day to coax it from a person's skin. Removal of the entire worm may take days to weeks. Metronidazole or thiabendazole may be used as an adjunct to stick therapy. The worm may also be removed surgically if facilities are available... ...In humans, dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, results from infection with D medinensis. In 1986, more than 2.25 million cases of dracunculiasis occurred worldwide. Ten years later, the estimated worldwide incidence was close to 152,000 cases, which were mostly from Sudan. This decline has been a result of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign. Dracunculiasis now occurs in only 13 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and in South Asia, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sudan, India, and Pakistan. Infected areas in Africa lie in a band between the Sahara and the equator. People contract guinea worm disease by drinking fresh water contaminated with D medinensis larvae. Small water fleas in the water swallow the larvae. After the worms mature in the flea, any person who swallows contaminated water becomes infected. Once inside the body, stomach acid digests the water flea but not the guinea worm. During the next year, the worm grows to full adult size. After a year, the worm migrates to the surface of the body into the subcutaneous tissue. As it migrates, a blister develops on the skin, where the worm resides. The female adult worm eventually emerges from the blister, rupturing the skin. When hosts step into water, they release a milky, white liquid containing millions of immature larvae, contaminating the water supply. Most worms appear on the legs and feet, but they may occur anywhere in the body, as cases in the arms, breasts, head, back, and scrotum are well documented. Morbidity is from secondary infection of the lesions and from the severe, incapacitating pain associated with the blisters, especially when the worms exit the body... Debbi (who got that it was worm infestation, but not the exact species) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Source of the caduceus
At 07:00 PM Thursday 1/26/2006, Deborah Harrell wrote: In the 'you learn something everyday' category (oh, and a bit of an eeuwww! factor): [I'm not providing the URL b/c you have to have a subscription, but this is from eMedicine; they have on-line quizzes/cases to solve.] ...Of interest, the universal symbol of medicine, ie, the Asklepion (or caduceus, after Asklepios, the Greek god of healing and medicine) is likely a representation of dracunculiasis and its treatment. To this day, accepted treatment remains the same. The adult guinea worm is wrapped around a stick a few centimeters a day to coax it from a person's skin. Removal of the entire worm may take days to weeks. Metronidazole or thiabendazole may be used as an adjunct to stick therapy. The worm may also be removed surgically if facilities are available... ...In humans, dracunculiasis, or guinea worm disease, results from infection with D medinensis. In 1986, more than 2.25 million cases of dracunculiasis occurred worldwide. Ten years later, the estimated worldwide incidence was close to 152,000 cases, which were mostly from Sudan. This decline has been a result of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign. Dracunculiasis now occurs in only 13 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and in South Asia, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Sudan, India, and Pakistan. Infected areas in Africa lie in a band between the Sahara and the equator. People contract guinea worm disease by drinking fresh water contaminated with D medinensis larvae. Small water fleas in the water swallow the larvae. After the worms mature in the flea, any person who swallows contaminated water becomes infected. Once inside the body, stomach acid digests the water flea but not the guinea worm. During the next year, the worm grows to full adult size. After a year, the worm migrates to the surface of the body into the subcutaneous tissue. As it migrates, a blister develops on the skin, where the worm resides. The female adult worm eventually emerges from the blister, rupturing the skin. When hosts step into water, they release a milky, white liquid containing millions of immature larvae, contaminating the water supply. Most worms appear on the legs and feet, but they may occur anywhere in the body, as cases in the arms, breasts, head, back, and scrotum are well documented. Morbidity is from secondary infection of the lesions and from the severe, incapacitating pain associated with the blisters, especially when the worms exit the body... Debbi (who got that it was worm infestation, but not the exact species) The story I heard was about the adult worm boring out under the victim's knee. (IOW, in the front of the lower leg, just distal to the kneecap.) --Ronn! :) Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too? -- Red Skelton (Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
RE: What some women have always known . . .
Andrew Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: Wasn't an article posted some time back about human females selecting for humor in their mates, as a possible driving force for larger brain capacity? Or was that in one of Himself's writings? Selection for humor seems overrated when one is sleep-deprived. :) Julia Personal Experience Maru Would it be fair to say that the same is true of selection for sexual prowess? Supposition Maru Well, in bats selection for sexual capacity shrinks the brain... Or were you refering to the overrated part? silly smirk Debbi What About Stamina Maru `;} __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Source of the caduceus
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the 'you learn something everyday' category (oh, and a bit of an eeuwww! factor): [I'm not providing the URL b/c you have to have a subscription, but this is from eMedicine; they have on-line quizzes/cases to solve.] ...Of interest, the universal symbol of medicine, ie, the Asklepion (or caduceus, after Asklepios, the Greek god of healing and medicine) is likely a representation of dracunculiasis and its treatment. To http://drblayney.com/Asclepius.html ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
