More savings to the taxpayer:
Karma's a bitch. Especially if you're a thieving lowlife.
An armed mugger -- who had stolen cash from a victim on Long Island last night -- was killed moments later when a car struck him as he walked along a busy thoroughfare, cops said. The robber was struck by a 2004 Nissan Altima at 6 p.m. on Veterans Memorial Highway in Ronkonkoma. About 15 minutes before, the thug, whose name and age were not immediately released, held up someone at a nearby hotel. In his next life, he'll be a Nissan brake disk.
Cops said they found the stolen cash and "parts of the gun" near the dead man's body. No criminality was suspected in the accident. Hope the car wasn't too badly damaged.
Abdul Boustani, manager of the nearby Airport Diner, said cops told him they found $2,000 in cash and that the robber was part of a duo of stickup artists who had been suspected in other cases. Bagged half the gang in one screech.
In a bizarre twist, allegedly drunken motorist Dominick Dimola was nabbed for passing by the accident scene traveling the wrong way on Veterans Highway as cops investigated the earlier incident. Two for one, a real bargain.
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God works in strange and wondrous ways. He gave each an opportunity to do the right thing, he knocked their heads together when they both failed. Perfect!
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Got some real beauties here in Guam as well, e.g. my late maternal Aunt's family in Barrigada traditionally have a large interior residential room dedicated to their version of HILLSIDE XMAS VILLAGE/TOWN. IT STARTED OUT SMALL OR PETITE ENUFF, BUT EXPANDED BY LEAPS-N-BOUNDS OER THE YEARS. My understanding is that many years ago it was only supposed to be a one-time thingy, just for fun or something different during the Holidays, but the amily + clan + community liked it so much my Aunt's family decided to keep doing it every year, all the way up to the present.
You name it, it had it.
TRULY MAGNIFICIENT TO BEHOLD.
As a Modeler, etc. in my younger days, I would love L-O-V-E to set up something like theirs. Its gonna be hard for me to resist NOT setting up a Missle, Naval, andor Air Base, etc diorama on the other side of the Xmas Mountain.
[Bangla Daily Star] Zimbabwe faces renewed political and economic turmoil as President Bob Muggsy Mugabe's push for polls next year and threats to kick out Western firms are sending the nation backwards, analysts said yesterday.
The veteran leader, who has been in power since independence from Britain in 1980, was on Saturday endorsed by his ZANU-PF party to contest a likely fierce election battle against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
Mugabe is expected to face MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai, the current prime minister and his long-time foe, in a presidential vote, after he said an almost two-year power-sharing arrangement between their parties would end in February.
However, The infamous However... Mugabe's quest for polls and bombastic, hard-faced rhetoric that he could nationalise British and American companies risks unravelling progress made since 2009 that saw hyperinflation ended and a sense of normality return.
"We are our own worst enemies because we let politicians craft the agenda of the nation," Calisto Jokonya, a business executive and past president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries, told AFP.
Hyperinflation -- which started to soar towards world record levels in the wake of Mugabe's confiscation of white-owned farms a decade ago -- marked Zimbabwe's slide towards the economic abyss.
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[Iran Press TV] The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) condemns human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations in Ivory Coast, saying the post-vote crisis in the country has claimed 50 lives.
Navi Pillay criticized the security situation in the country, saying it had led to the deaths of 50 people, increasing the previous estimated tally which stood at 30.
"The deteriorating security conditions in the country and the interference with freedom of movement of UN personnel have made it difficult to investigate the large number of human rights violations reported,"' Pillay said in a statement from Geneva released by the UN spokesperson's office.
The statement comes one day after the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society peacekeeping mission to Ivory Coast said it would remain in the crisis-hit country, despite incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's decision to expel UN and French troops.
While the UN and major powers have recognized Gbagbo's rival, Alassane Ouattara, as the winner of the November 28 poll, Gbagbo has defied international calls to step down from power.
Ivorian minister of youth Charles Ble Goude recently urged the incumbent president's rivals to be prepared for a fight, raising alarms over the instability of the country.
This is while the European Union is organizing a campaign to impose financial sanctions on Gbagbo, to limit his grip on the military by rendering him incapable of paying their wages.
La Belle France also supports mounting pressure on Gbagbo.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society peacekeeping force in Cote d'Ivoire risked provoking a showdown with isolated leader Laurent Gbagbo's hardline supporters today, refusing his demand that it pack its bags and go.
Mr Gbagbo ordered the 10,000-strong UN mission to leave on Saturday, accusing it of arming rebels loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara, but UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon dismissed the ultimatum and called on him to step down.
Both Mr Gbagbo and Mr Ouattara claim to have won last month's presidential vote but, while the latter has been recognised as the victor by the international community, the incumbent is clinging doggedly on to power.
Tension has reached boiling point in the commercial capital Abidjan, where violence erupted Thursday during a protest march by Ouattara's supporters, and where Gbagbo's armed forces are in an uneasy stand-off with the UN.
"We're going to continue our patrols but we're not seeking confrontation. There are sensitive areas where we don't go, near the presidency," said Hamadoun Toure, of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI).
"We're going to continue our patrols but we're not seeking confrontation. There are sensitive areas where we don't go, near the presidency," said Hamadoun Toure, of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI). "We're increasing our vigilance, and we're ready for anything," he said.
State television rebroadcast a recording of Gbagbo's spokeswoman reading the expulsion order every few hours, but there was no sign of an increase in tension near UN bases in Abidjan, although the streets were eerily quiet.
Cote d'Ivoire has been divided between north and south since 2002, when a failed putsch against Gbagbo triggered civil war. UNOCI deployed in 2004 to monitor a ceasefire, and was assigned to oversee last month's elections.
The UN monitors endorsed results from Cote d'Ivoire's electoral commission that gave Mr Ouattara victory in the November 28 run-off, but Gbagbo's allies on the Constitutional Council annulled the result, claiming fraud.
With both men now styling themselves as president, Gbagbo retains control of the southern armed forces, the Abidjan ministries and the cocoa ports that are Ivory Coast's main source of revenue.
Mr Ouattara is backed by former rebel fighters from the north -- the so-called New Forces -- but he and his government are holed up in a luxury golf resort in Abidjan, protected by a cordon of UN peacekeepers.
The United Nations, United States, former colonial power La Belle France, the African Union and Cote d'Ivoire's West African neighbours in the ECOWAS bloc have all demanded that Gbagbo step aside and allow Ouattara to assume office.
Instead, there is every sign that the regime is hardening its stance. On Thursday, troops and police fired on pro-Ouattara demonstrators in Abidjan, killing between 11 and 30 people.
Opposition newspapers and radio stations have been banned, and the Golf Hotel is surrounded. Late on Friday, gunnies in military uniform opened fire on a UN peacekeeping patrol returning to its Abidjan base. Then, on Saturday, Gbagbo's spokeswoman ordered French and UN troops to leave.
"The president of the Republic of the Ivory Coast has just asked for the immediate departure from Ivorian territory of UNOCI and the French forces that support it," Education Minister Jacqueline Lohoues-Oble said.
The UN secretary general rejected the order out of hand, saying the force "will continue to monitor and document any human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations."
Gbagbo's next move is not yet clear, but his most notorious lieutenant -- Minister for Youth Charles Ble Goude -- called on his supporters to be prepared to fight to reassert Cote d'Ivoire's illusory sovereignty. "Playtime is over," Ble Goude declared.
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(KUNA) -- Congress must ratify a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty before leaving for holiday recess as part of an "urgent national priority", US president Barack B.O. Obama warned late Saturday.
In a statement, Obama said "Ratifying a treaty like START isn't about winning a victory for an administration or a political party," the president said. "It's about the safety and security of the United States of America." Obama also noted that Marine Corps General James Cartwright, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed the importance of the treaty earlier this week at the White House.
"To have transparency to put structure to that activity, we need START, and we need it badly," Cartwright said.
"We have taken the time to get this right," Obama said, noting that new START has undergone more than seven months of Senate review and 18 congressional hearings.
"It's time to get this done," he said.
Delaying action comes at a cost, the president emphasized. "Every minute we drag our feet is a minute that we have no inspectors on the ground at those Russian nuclear sites," he said.
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ION RIAN > [Strong] STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCES PROTECTED RUSSIA FROM [large-scale, hostile?]"POSSIBLE EXPANSION" - COMMANDER.
versies
* RUSSIA TODAY > NATIVE AMERICAN POVERTY CONTINUES UNDER OBAMA.
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He only says this because Russia got pissed when they found out we were using a sliding scale. However (the infamous "however", Putin signed that treaty in "Etch-A-Sketch" anyways. And Russians know more about American Senatorial power than Americans do. It is almost as they want the whole prank to go through. Sign a START treaty while military hardware is moving around? Priceless. The bullying America to eat that 1/4 correct law - Prieceless to Vir Russkie.
Enough with the knee slapping. Time to understand law before"We pass it".
Like the bathroom in the morning. Spend no more on it per day.
[Iran Press TV] Regulators in the United States have closed six more banks in four different states, raising the bank failure toll this year to 157.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shut down the six banks with a total of $1.23 billion in assets, Bloomberg reported on Saturday.
The United Americas Bank, Appalachian Community Bank and Chestatee State Bank in Georgia, the First Southern Bank in Arkansas, Community National Bank in Minnesota, and Florida's Bank of Miami have been seized in the latest closures.
Florida has been hit the hardest by bank failures among other states, losing 29 lenders this year.
The FDIC says that the total assets of this year's failures would likely be lower even though the number of closures has exceeded that of last year.
The closures have taken place against the backdrop of a deepening financial crisis in the United States and the lenders' overflow of real estate loans.
Washington Mutual, which had $307 billion in assets when it was seized in September 2008, remains the largest bank to fail during the financial crisis.
Experts believe that more than 500 banks may fail before the economic crisis comes to a close.
The FDIC released its latest quarterly report on the state of the banking industry in November. The corporation says it expects bank closures to peak this year after 140 closures in 2009.
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What is that expression; death by a thousand cuts.
If this had happened at one time alarms would be ringing. I believe it is spread out because FDIC funds being drawn down. I'm no financial wizard but looks like that to me.
[Iran Press TV] Election-day exit-polls give incumbent Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a huge lead in the country's presidential elections.
Lukashenko leads in the election with 76.42% according to the results of Sunday's exit-poll while four of his nine rivals gain slightly over 3%.
The poll was carried out at 100 polling stations and involved 7,343 people according to head of the ECOOM analytical center Sergei Musiyenko.
The Central Election Commission said a total of 75.8% of those eligible to vote have cast their ballot at the election by midday on Sunday.
Nearly a quarter of Belarus' seven million registered voters had cast their ballots during the five days of early voting last week.
The campaign for the Sunday election has been viewed as the most free since Lukashenko came to power in 1994. However, The infamous However... Western media reports claim that it has been tainted by vicious propaganda and reprisals against opposition candidates and their supporters.
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"We did it! DADT is a thing of the past," Reid wrote to Gaga. (A Reid spokesman tells The Ticket that while the Senate Majority Leader didn't hit send on the message, he asked a staffer to send the note for him.) Does Reid do anything for himself other than issue commands to suck up to Lady Gaga?
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... until the first firefight Zombie Hillary Lover in which you will most likely not survive. The good thing is, this coming out will make it easier for the troops to know who those immediate "KIA's" will be...
A MUSLIM cleric has been arrested in Bangladesh following the death of a woman who was publicly caned for adultery, police have said.
Sufia Begum, thought to have been in her forties, was accused of having an affair with her 36-year-old stepson and was sentenced to 40 lashes last month by an Islamist court that included the imam of the local mosque, Afsar Ali.
“She became seriously ill and was hospitalised after the caning, and she died last week,” Azizul Haque Sarker, a police chief, said.
The Bangladesh High Court outlawed punishments handed down by religious edict, or fatwa, in July, but BegumÂ’s death, in the Rajshahi district of northwestern Bangladesh, suggests that such brutal punishments are still handed down in religiously conservative rural areas of the country.
The victimÂ’s brother, Taimur Rahman, said that her kidneys had been damaged during the beating, reportedly undertaken by a local woman.
She died while her family was struggling to raise money to have her treated in the capital Dhaka.
Rights activists have warned of a creeping tide of Sharia in Bangladesh.
In one of the most notorious cases, a 16-year-old girl who was raped was given 101 lashes in January for conceiving during the assault.
The girlÂ’s father was also fined and was told that the family would be branded outcasts from their village if he did not pay. The 20-year-old rapist was pardoned.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has vowed to eradicate Islamic militancy, has warned of “zero tolerance” for Sharia punishments.
[Pak Daily Times] Advancing diplomacy with the main opposition party of the country, President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who showed remarkably little curiosity about who actually done her in ... on Sunday invited Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Müslim League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to shun their differences and open a new leaf in Pak politics by asking him to cooperate on the passage of the Reformed General Sales Tax bill in the National Assembly, formulating a new accountability mechanism and pursuing economic reforms agenda of the government, thus ensuring continuation of the political process in the country.
In his latest letter, written in response to a letter sent to him by Nawaz on November 10, Zardari extended a hand of friendship to the opposition leader by asking him to nominate his senior party representatives to "jointly take difficult decisions required to take our country forward". The president's front man Farhatullah Babar said the invitation had been extended in a letter addressed to the former prime minister in response to Nawaz's letter of November 10, in which he had raised several issues and his concerns.
The president had promptly acknowledged the letter and promised to send a detailed reply soon, he said. The formal reply was delivered to Nawaz at his residence in Jati Umrah, Raiwind, he said, adding that a copy of the letter was also sent to the prime minister.
The president, in his letter, also sought the cooperation of the PML-N on the RGST, reminding Nawaz that his party's nominee, Ishaq Dar, who also happens to be a former finance minister, along with all senators of all major political parties had unanimously recommended the RGST bill with some 15 amendments. "The Senate adopted those recommendations along with the bill, and referred it to the National Assembly. We also hoped for your support in the National Assembly for the passage of this important reform measure," the letter said.
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"Zardari extends hand of friendship to Nawaz"
It's probably got a knife in it....
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ION CHINA DAILY FORUM > POWER OF US [Electro-Magnetic]RAIL GUN CREATED NERVOUSNESS IN CHINA'S MILITARY [Success of US EM Rail Gun can make ANY-N-ALL of China's Missles OBSOLETE]???
* SAME > THE GENZAI BAKUDAN: JAPAN'S ATOMIC BOMB.
ARTIC makes alleged source reference from ATLANTIC CONSTITUTION dated 10/3/1946 - JAPAN ALLEGEDLY SUCCESSFULLY EXPLODED ITS OWN ATOMIC BOMB [Uranium] IN KONAN. KOREA JUST DAYS AFTER THE USAAF'S NUCSTRIKE ON HIROSHIMA [08/6th/1945]. ARTIC also claims that JAPAN possessed a BIOWEAPS ARSENAL FAR MORE ADVANCED OR POTENT THAN NAZI GERMANY???
** OTOH WMF > THE INTENT OF US ENCIRCLEMENT OF CHINA VIA "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" IS TO INDUCE THE BREAK UP THE STRATEGIC HINTERLANDS OF SOVEREIGN CHINA, RUSSIA, + EAST ASIA.
* WMF > THE KEY TO ANY NEW DPRK-ROK WAR ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA WILL BE EITHER CHINA-N-JAPAN IN REGIONAL COOPERATION, OR CHINA-VS-JAPAN IN WAR. THE OUTCOME OF A SECOND KOREAN WAR WILL BE DECIDED IN THE MILITARY, NUCLEAR COMBAT AROUND OKINAWA AND MAINLAND JAPAN, NOT ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA. CHINA POSSESSES MORE THAN ENOUGH TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO ASSURE US-ALLIED DEFEAT IN GROUND WAR,DESTRUCTION OF US MILBASES IN SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN, GUAM + HAWAII.
* SAME > JAPANESE MEDIAS: CHINA TO BASE ARMED FISHERY PATROL SHIP IN JAPANESE SENKAKUS [China = Daoyus] NEXT YEAR, on "permanent" duty station.
* SAME > SINO-RUSSIAN NAVAL DRILLS TO BE HELD IN SEA OF JAPAN NEXT YEAR.
IOW, iff true ITS NOT ABOUT NORTH KOREA ANYMORE???
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Joe - I have heard several stories of a WW-II Japanese Nuke. One is that the pacific test explosion that did in their big naval vessels was with a ship based Uranium suicide nuke we captured.
It was intended by the imperial navy to be run into either San Diego or San Francisco harbor.
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The Chinese Prime Minister was just in Pakistan and India. China wants more influence over Pakistan not only for that port they are building, but to weaken India.
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It is said the Japanese nuke weapon was designed to fit into the Yamato and Mushashi 18 inch guns. It would have been a Neutron Bomb to minimize collateral damage to the home island where it would have been used.
[Iran Press TV] Iraq plans to set up four power plants with a total of 2,750 megawatts capacity within 18 months to overcome electricity shortage in the war-torn country.
The electricity ministry says the power stations would be constructed in cities of Basra, Samawa, Diwaniya and Amarah.
"The four should be built within 18 months," Bloomberg quoted Sami al-Araji, the head of the country's National Investment Commission, as saying on Saturday.
Iraq, which is one of the world's major oil producers, is trying to increase its power generation to meet its domestic demand of about 14,000 megawatts.
According to government figures, the country's power output stood at 8,000 megawatts in April.
Former Electricity Minister Karim Wahid stepped down in June amid violent street protests triggered by severe seasonal summer power shortages.
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Agreed, not War on Terror related (unless I mention that Allah is a moon-god) but cool never-the-less.
In 1638, Harvard University had just been founded, the Salem witch trials had yet to begin, Galileo had just lost his eyesight -- and the moon was blotted out by the shadow of the Earth. Given Obumble's associates - lets start the Harvard Witch trials this time around...
It was also the solstice, a celestial coincidence that wouldn't happen again for another 372 years. Not until tonight.
So break out the flashlights. Because when a full lunar eclipse takes place on the shortest day of the year, North America may get awfully dark.
But if the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature's most beautiful spectacles.
Unlike a total eclipse of the sun, which is only visible to those in the path of totality, eclipses of the moon can usually be observed from one's own backyard. The passage of the moon through the Earth's shadow is equally visible from all places within the hemisphere where the moon is above the horizon.
The eclipse will actually begin when the moon enters the faint outer portion, or penumbra, of the Earth's shadow a little over an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint smudge on the left part of the moon's disk at or around 6:15 UT (on Dec. 21) which corresponds to 1:15 a.m. Eastern Time or 10:15 p.m. Pacific Time (on Dec. 20).
The most noticeable part of this eclipse will come when the moon begins to enter the Earth's dark inner shadow (called the umbra). A small scallop of darkness will begin to appear on the moon's left edge at 6:33 UT (on Dec. 21) corresponding to 1:33 a.m. EST or 10:33 p.m. PST (on Dec. 20).
The moon is expected to take 3 hours and 28 minutes to pass completely through the umbra.
The total phase of the eclipse will last 72 minutes beginning at 7:41 UT (on Dec. 21), corresponding to 2:41 a.m. EST or 11:41 p.m. PST (on Dec. 20).
At the moment of mid-totality (8:17 UT/3:17 a.m. EST/12:17 a.m. PST), the moon will stand directly overhead from a point in the North Pacific Ocean about 800 miles (1,300 km) west of La Paz, Mexico.
The moon will pass entirely out of the Earth's umbra at 10:01 UT/5:01 a.m. EST/2:01 a.m. PST and the last evidence of the penumbra should vanish about 15 or 20 minutes later.
Interestingly, from most of New Zealand, a slice of northeast Australia, Papua, New Guinea, southwest Japan and Korea, the moon will rise during totality on the evening of Dec. 21. Because of low altitude and bright evening twilight, observers in these locations may not see much of the moon at all until it begins to emerge from out of the Earth's shadow.
Too bad it wasn't over Saudi-Arabia / Iran. Might be interesting to watch the reaction when Allan hides his face.
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ahhh, Night of the Comet. think my best friend and I went to that one about 15 times. that was before the multiplex theaters bothered much with trying to keep you from watching a 2nd (or 3rd) movie on one ticket by going to a different flick when you came out of the bathroom.
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I don't think it's possible to be "forever young." "Forever immature" is pretty common, though.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Aging people wishing an existence similar to "Nancy Drew" and "The Hardy Boys" have hope. A molecular biologist says it is possible.
Incidentally, "Nancy Drew" started as a sweet 16 in 1930. She remained an 18-year-old for decades.
Similarly, the 17 and 18-year old "Hardy Boys," beginning in 1927, retained youthful looks, and muscle tone well into this century.
The US-based CBS radio and television network reported experimental findings indicating scientists can stop some aspects of aging. That's not all. A reversal is possible.
Aging aspects scientists can tinker with include hair loss, infertility, and decreased brain functions like forgetting the days of the week.
That's beyond big boobs, flat stomachs, and taunt muscles, et cetera, that eternal youth seekers die pursuing.
Dr Ronald A. DePinho led the Boston, US team that published the tantalising news in the November 29 issue of the journal Nature.
Dr DePinho isn't in the league of quacks a la Gambian President Yahya Jammeh and his Aids cure. He's a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr DePinho's credentials are quite a chain. His tentacles also whirl in advisory boards of public and private institutions. His team's non-human laboratory collaborators were the usual suspects, mice.
As CBS put it, "Think of them as gray, balding mice that can't have kids and have memory problems."
By the time Dr DePinho's team was done the mice brain functions improved. They also regained fertility and youthful-looking fur.
"Basically, what this study teaches us is that there's a point of return in aging," CBS quoted Dr DePinho saying.
Human beings' thirst for eternal youth--not immortality, which is religious--isn't new. Records show it goes back to Greek and Roman mythologies.
Humans being of the same stock despite different hues and guttural noises, people who left no written records must have had versions of eternal youthfulness, better, agelessness.
Today the pursuit of agelessness has created a lucrative world industry. Methods of achieving it range from cosmetics to surgery.
In between are concoctions that cause stomachs to mutiny, exercises that punish the anatomy, and meditations that appeal to gods.
Dr DePinho's team turned to serious science. It engineered the mice to reduce levels of enzyme telomerase. The mice got problems that affect 80-year-old humans.
Technical details aside, the enzyme telomerase cuddles with telomeres, found at the end of chromosomes. When cells divide or say goodbye to each other for whatever reason, telomeres shorten and cells age.
Jump-kick the gene that controls the production of telomerase and, as Dr DePinho put it, a "dramatic reversal in the signs of aging" occurs.
According to CBS, Dr DePinho hopes the findings lead to an anti-aging pill. That's as long as additional research confirms them and doesn't find side effects.
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Given the financial state of the pension plans throughout the industrialized world, Dr Ronald is asking for an accident.
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Anti-aging will never perform particularly well, because the aging system is set up for degeneration, for biological reasons. However, there is another way that evades the problem.
Best typified by of all things, a jellyfish, it is for a mature organism, that has reproduced, to revert to a juvenile state. This works because it takes the entire system, including the aging processes, "back in time", in a manner of speaking.
Typically, people assume that a jellyfish could do this only because it is a simple organism, but this is not the case. Various types of jellyfish have a range of chromosomes from fewer than humans, to many times that of humans. (N.B.: humans have actually shed unneeded chromosomes in past.)
That being said, except for the hard part of figuring out *how* to revert humans to a juvenile state safely, there is no particular reason why we *can't* do this.
But, then again, would you want to be five years old again? How about two?
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This is all we need. Government is drooling over potential long term tax revenue. I can see it now.
Pay your taxes or you don't get your genetic enhancement. Recharge booths at you favorite locations. Them that has versus them that gets.
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Reverting humans to a Juvenile state is easy. Just add copious amounts of booze. Before you know it they're be giggling at farts, burps, and other bodily functions.
May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
May you grow up to be righteous
May you grow up to be true
May you always know the truth
And see the lights surrounding you
May you always be courageous
Stand upright and be strong
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
May your hands always be busy
May your feet always be swift
May you have a strong foundation
When the winds of changes shift
May your heart always be joyful
And may your song always be sung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.
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Just ask the Cumaean Sibyl about how that all works out.
"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: aποθανεiν θέλω."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Election-day exit-polls give incumbent Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a huge lead in the country's presidential elections.
"We did it! DADT is a thing of the past," Reid wrote to Gaga. (A Reid spokesman tells The Ticket that while the Senate Majority Leader didn't hit send on the message, he asked a staffer to send the note for him.)
Obama/Reid's United States Military 
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