Well, This Is Something I Can Really Use

Exercise? I think not.

Researchers at the Salk Institute report they have found two drugs that do wonders for the athletic endurance of couch potato mice. One drug, known as Aicar, increased the mice’s endurance on a treadmill by 44 percent after just four weeks of treatment.

A second drug, GW1516, supercharged the mice to a 75 percent increase in endurance, but had to be combined with exercise to have any effect.

I'm for the first drug, but since the second requires exercise, I'll let the mice keep using it.

More Ice?

A chunk, a big chunk, is coming our way.

A 1.6 square-mile chunk has broken off Ward Hunt Ice Shelf - the largest remaining ice shelf in the Arctic - threatening the future of the giant frozen mass that northern explorers have used for years as the starting point for their treks.

One More ReThug Indicted

The intertubes on the internets will be alive with music, the sweet, sweet music of this asshole being indicted. On a hot & humid Minneapolis day, this cools me off, a bit.

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator and a figure
in Alaska politics since before statehood, has been indicted on seven
counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars in
services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.

Interesting Education Post

Via First Draft.

Cripes

More evidence that growing old sucks. I blame, ah, eh, hmmm, or, shit, I forgot.

OK, Then

After this maybe they should just stop killing civilians. The second tragedy of this incident is that no one, repeat no one, from the Army will be held accountable for these murders.

“We don’t believe there was any cover-up,” Colonel Stover said.

Just Great

Another feather in Bu$Co's hat. & a pretty ragged feather at that.

Reason #1,225,903

To throw the son-of-a-bitch ReThugs out of our government this November. What a bunch of assholes.

Some things just never change.

Good Idea

I hope this works.

FOX Snooze

Is such a shitty false & racist news channel that I implore my loyal four readers to read the following which I have shamelessly cut & pasted from the website that has organized this petition. Click the URL at the end of the message or do your own cutting & pasting into your web browser & sign the petition. Thanks in advance.

Dear Friends, (my loyal four)

Right now, Fox News is trying to paint Barack Obama as foreign, un-American, suspicious, and scary. They're trying to send Americans the message that our country's first viable Black candidate for President is not "one of us."

I've joined on to ColorOfChange.org's campaign to push back on Fox, publicly demanding they stop their race-baiting and fear mongering. If that doesn't work, then we'll go to their advertisers and the FCC. I wanted to invite you to sign on as well. It takes only a moment:

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=1854-622934

Here's what happened recently:

After Senator Obama won the nomination, he and his wife gave each other a "pound" in front of the cameras. Fox anchor E.D. Hill called the act of celebration a "terrorist fist jab." Then last week, a Fox News on-screen graphic referred to Michelle Obama as "Obama's baby mama"--slang used to describe the unmarried mother of a man's child. It was a clear attempt to associate the Obamas with negative cultural stereotypes about Black people, an insult not only to Michelle Obama but to women and Black people everywhere.

After each of the incidents mentioned, Fox issued some form of weak apology. But what does it mean when you slap someone in the face, apologize the next day, then slap them again on the third? It means the apology is meaningless.

These aren't one-time incidents--they're part of a pattern that continues no matter how often Fox is forced to apologize. Fox has a clear record of attacking and undermining Black institutions, Black leaders, and Black people in general.

If we don't push back now, we will see more of the same from now until November. Please join me in helping to bring an end to Fox's behavior.

http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/?id=1854-622934

Thanks.

This Just Goes To Show You

What a narrow minded bunch of dickheads are ruling this country.

Fighting Bob Fest

Go here for more info.

OK, Let Me Tell You

I've been lax in blogging the last few days, but I have a relatively good excuse. I had a stress test in June & it showed some questionable findings in a couple of coronary arteries. On Monday I had an angiogram. The short of it is that I had two stents placed in a couple of arteries. I had no severe chest pain problems before the procedure, but the stress test was done to see if there were blockages, since I would very occasionally find it difficult to breathe in very humid conditions. I spent one night in the hospital & now I'm home. I just can't lift anything over ten pounds for a few more days. I have to say that I received extremely good & friendly care. The Kid & The Babies came up, but I can't pick them up when they walk up & raise their little arms expecting to be picked up. Not to pun too much, but it breaks my heart to say no. The good news in all of this is that there has been no damage to the heart muscle itself & The Babies will probably get over it, especially since they can watch Cars.

Actual pictures to follow, once they are scanned.

Poor J.B. Van Hollen

What a dope. Looks like Van Hollen will need to navigate the mean streets of St. Paul, MN, all by his lonesome. He claims he didn't expect it, but then demotes the competent Justice Dept. official who questioned using state employees to guard this loser.

Wingnut Of The Week From Sadly, No!

After a paragraph like this:

Finding a wingnut living in Sweden is probably the rough equivalent of finding a healthy, low-calorie meal on Jonah Goldberg’s dinner plate. But our NWOTW, Roger F. Gay, apparently does live in Sweden and either keeps his mouth shut among the Swedes or else he probably gets pummeled by snowballs each time he ventures out to see if his neighborhood Pressbyrån has finally started stocking Ranch-flavored Doritos and Three Musketeers candy bars. My guess is that he walks around Stockholm covered in snowball splatter.

who wouldn't read on?