Re: I want to start a new political Party

There - you have another plank for your party's platform. We must not let poor dolphins and other creatures starve. Pet entitlement. Why should I have to forgo some smokes and beer to buy pet food. Rich people get to buy pet food. They can help buy my pet food.

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This is usually a tendency to deposit cholesterol on the insides of your arteries - particularly the coronary arteries around the heart. Statins work well to reduce this deposition.

My father, my mothers brother and my younger brother all had coronary artery problems - treated by by-pass operations on my father and my brother. I was put on statins some ten years ago, and when I was checked out for this kind of problem before my aortic valve replacement, only had a partial blockage (30%) in one coronary artery, which didn't worry anybody, so they seem to work.

Not only healthy, but also productive ...

Some of the original ones are pretty rotten ..

Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson at his best.

Why? Bad as burning oil is for injecting CO2 into the atmosphere, burning coal is worse. If Obama wanted to be quixotic about anthropogenic global warming, he'd still go for the coal plants first.

In fact the only practical strategy seems to be to concentrate on getting the cost per kilowatt of sustainably generated electricity down below that of electricity generated by burning fossil carbon. You can then rely on the market to shut down the sources of expensive power, and the car manufacturers to make electric cars attractive as well as cheap to run.

It won't take all that much of hike in oil and coal prices to do this, and sustainable power has still got a couple of factors of ten in installed capacity to go - each usually figured to halve the capital cost per kilowatt. It's going to happen sometime in the next decade or so - hopefully before we've kicked the planet into a new, warmer equilibrium with all the disruption that would cause.

This is the usual right-wing twaddle. People don't like having to depend on food stamps and other handouts to stay alive precisely because it restricts their freedom of choice. If they can get the same standard of living by working at some crummy ill-paid job, they will almost always take the job.

There are exceptions, but they tend to be people with psychological problems that aren't florid enough to persuade anybody to pay what it costs to institutionalise them, but none the less disabling.

Right wing journalists are very good at finding them and interviewing them. The "deserving" poor aren't anywhere near as interesting.

I'm still waiting for your input on the planks, I don't recall seeing any.

I've been on statins for about 3 years, I hope they're doing something, positive!

hmm... I've got a couple of herniated discs, when I told the doc I'm trying to hang on just another 2-1/2 years before quitting work, he didn't want to hear that, told me I was to young and energetic. He also sent me up with a back surgeon. In the last two months my back pain has lessened, but my sciatica is worse. It has swung that way a couple times. It's been 31 months since the back problems started. Mikek

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I told you that I thought that your platform was merely an unoriginal and inept satire. why would I want to contribute to something that was basically intended to be funny, but doesn't get to first base.

I was lucky. When one of my intervertebral disks popped, and squirted cartilage all around my spinal column - you should have seen the MRI scan - six weeks of bed rest were enough for it to sort itself out. By the time the British NHS got around to offering me a back operation, some six months later, I didn't need it.

US surgeons don't like conservative treatment - it doesn't make them any money. The Cochrane collaboration was rather more positive. The evidence seemed to say that operations didn't do any better than bed rest.

First get the MRI scan and then let the back surgeon tell you what he'd like to do, and the odds that it will do what he hopes, as well as the odds that it will screw you up royally - incontinence is one of the side effects of things going really wrong.

I was in my late forties when my back played up - like my father and my uncle. If it happens later in life, the vertebrae can be crumbling as well, which is much nastier.

I was on Lovostatin since early 2001 when I had a triple bypass operation for clogged plumbing. After about 9 years of chugging statins and getting good LDL/HDL/etc numbers on the blood tests, I found that my chronic muscle back aches were due to the statins. The cardiologist switched me to Simvastatin, which was a disaster. The muscle pains moved from the back to the upper arms. After taking Simvastain for only 9 days, it took 6 months for the arm pains to go away. Withdrawal from Lovostatin took about 18 months. No more statins for me.

There's some question as to the effectiveness of statins at preventing heart attacks. If you want to jump into the controversy, start here: I'm undecided and my cardiologist thinks I'm insane, but methinks many of the points made by the author are worth considering.

I had the same issues... Statins and my body don't get along.

Though I haven't taken Statins for 14+ years (*), my cholesterol is only mildly high. And my BP is outstanding, 112/69, after two cups of coffee this morning ;-)

(*) Mild heart attack in July, 1998, fixed with a stent. ...Jim Thompson

So, what crummy ill-paying jobs have you taken lately?

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What makes you think that? As an insult it would be hurtful, if anybody was likely to take you seriously, and as satire it lacks any element of plausibility.

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Good luck. I wonder if they can reinforce crumbling vertebrae with titanium inserts these days? The chunk of titanium sitting in my jaw is doing exactly what it was intended to do, and has been there for a few years now.

Individual differences are a bitch. Simvastatin works fine for me and lots of other people.

DNA sequencing is now cheap enough to be worth considering as a precautionary measure. There isn't a huge database of which variations in the genome do what, but data is accumulating.

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None. I'd get turned away as "over-qualified" when I went for stuff that wasn't actually high-tech.

It's an explanation that you like. As with many explanations that you like, it hasn't much relationship with reality. I spent some forty years - first as a graduate student, then as an engineer, collaborating with a variety of colleagues, and there's no evidence that I've lost the knack. That I can't - or won't - feed you with the diet of undiluted approval which you seem to crave isn't exactly evidence of a psychopathic personality.

And inflated idea of of your own worth is - of course - one of the symptoms of a psychopathic personality, and one that makes them more likely to strive to be the top dog in any organisation they are involved with.

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Obviously. Social security is designed to support people who are temporarily down on their luck, rather than bums, but no system is perfect. It's cheaper than proper psychiatric care, so quite a few societies, seem to be happy to let social security cover them rather than doing anything positive about providing environments where the psychiatric problems would be less crippling, and the people with these problems could do something constructive.

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You need planks for a platform that would tackle real problems, rather than satirising the approach that might - if probably managed and funded - solve some of those problems.

Well, I hope I don't have any compression fractures, she has female and in her 70's before this presented itself. I would hope for some high tech glue for the vertebrae repair. I'm sure my job lifting coolers of ice and shrimp is what damaged my back, I've modified my work areas as much as possible, which is not a lot, but some help. Now the problem is my 4'7" wife is covering for me and I don't want her to end up like me. Odd thing is, I recall in 2008 when she cut back and had me doing a lot more lifting, it didn't take long before I developed problems. I'm sure there was already some damage, and I just made it worse. Anyway, I'm to the point in life where, there seems to be a lot of talk about medical problems, that's not what I want to do. :-) I like the phrase "gettin old ain't for sissies" Mikek

I ran across this (RE: high tech glue) while looking for info about compression fractures. (injection of a cement polymer into the fractured vertebral body)

In the past, treatment options for lumbar fractures were quite limited, with bracing and rest prescribed most often. While many patients improved with this regimen, some did not and were left with chronic, disabling pain. Suh and Lyles found that vertebral compression fractures were associated with significant performance impairments in physical, functional, and psychosocial domains in older women.[1] However, medical and surgical options are now available that can relieve the severe pain and disability from these fractures. Recent studies

In a study of 55 patients with vertebral compression fracture, Rapan et al investigated changes in pain intensity following vertebroplasty (injection of a cement polymer into the fractured vertebral body; see Other Treatment). Treatment was administered to a total of 28 thoracic and 57 lumbar vertebrae; patients in the study had sustained vertebral fractures from spinal metastases or osteoporosis.

Prior to surgery, the patients' average pain score on the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was 8.36, while 24 hours postsurgery it had fallen to an average of 2.23. At 3-month follow-up, the reduction in the VAS score remained nearly the same. Among the study's patients, 1 serious complication, paraparesis resulting from cement leakage into the spinal canal, occurred. The authors concluded that in patients with vertebral compression fracture who undergo vertebroplasty, the degree of pain reduction that occurs by 24 hours postsurgery predicts the intensity of pain patients will be experiencing 3 months later.[2]

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Yup, you won't even try. That makes you under-qualified. Or lazy. Or sacred. Or something.

I had two people come into my office today and tell me what to do. It would have been three, but R is off Wednesdays. I wish people would leave me alone so I can design circuits.

I did get to design a PFG pulse symmetry zoomer box this week, good down to a few PPM, but that only took half a day.

They can't find work because they are over-qualified.

The data would indicate you are incorrect in your statements.

Almost 51% of the American voting collective chose the status quo. High unemployment, larger and larger numbers of people demanding their fellow citizens take care of them. Mr. Obama's campaign was all about class warfare - one group of our fellow citizens was not giving enough of their stuff to the other citizens who want their stuff. There was nothing in the winning party's platform about getting people off welfare. They even have gone so far as to make it easier to be dependent on your fellow citizen and not have to work.

EBT cards are like cash. There is no loss of freedom. You can buy gas with your EBT, you can buy a pizza with your EBT. Hell in some states you can go out to dinner at a restaurant and pay with your EBT. You get a free cell phone, you get assistance with your electric bill. Soon you will get free cable and internet. You get housing vouchers. You still have hard cash to buy $300 sneakers. You have money for a nice new tat or some weed. How? Because gas, food, housing, electric, phone all paid for, or mostly paid for, by your fellow citizen. S*it, I see them in the grocery store. I drive a 15 yr old pickup, they drive a new car. How? because I pay for their food and other stuff.

If your assertion about food stamps was correct, the 47+ million people on food stamps would have voted differently. The voters chose to be dependent on their fellow citizens and people of these and other countries, (holdings in billions as of Aug 2012)

Mainland China 1153.6 Japan 1121.5 Brazil 253.9 Switzerland 202.2 Taiwan 198.0 United Kingdom 153.6 Russia 153.3 Belgium 142.6 Hong Kong 139.6 Luxembourg 131.4

We owe the Netherlands $US 26B (up 5B since the first of the year). We would pay you back in vastly inflated dollars but in the Chicago style let's call it "protection money". We'll be by to collect more soon, Michelle needs a vacation.

As the chorus line of "my EBT" goes "all ya gotta do is f#@k and 9 months later you in the big bucks".

That's Slowman.