[This Ain't Hell] National security is becoming a sexy topic again. Thanks to the Daesh attacks, foreign policy, military concerns and intelligence issues are as hot as Kylie, Kourtney and Kendell. A re-energized American public now re-litigates issues like the Iraq War, the profiling of Muslims and the length of leash we should give the NSA.
Yet the issues remain muddled. It’s hard to decipher the Pentagon’s jargon, the politicians’ posturing and the intelligence community’s secrecy. Especially if you have no first-hand experience to guide you. After all, less than 1% of the US population has served in the military since 9/11. And even fewer have experience in the alphabet-soup of law enforcement or intelligence agencies.
But damn near everyone knows what it’s like to get buzzed on a Friday night. A lot more people go to nightclubs than to MEPS. But here’s the thing ‐ if you really want to understand the national security issues of today, you just need to understand the security of your Friday night watering hole. What can the velvet rope teach us about border security? What does the size of the bouncer have to do with the defense budget? How is Iran like the partygoer who cops a feel on a passing waitress? Here are the five biggest lessons that nightclubs teach us about national security. You’ll never look at a nightclub the same way again.
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[Townhall] California Gov. Jerry Brown appeared on MSNBC’s "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd to discuss climate change and his infamous gas tax. The conversation started out normal, with Brown pushing the common liberal talking points of needing higher taxes to fight climate change.
You won your gas tax fight, but rural Californians didn’t like it," Todd said.
"No, they don’t. They don’t like a lot of things. They voted against housing bonds, they voted for the Republican Cox who didn't even make 40 percent [against Gavin Newsom]," Brown said. "There is the same divide in California as in America. The red is different than the blue, and it is associated definitely with rural areas."
Naturally, his conclusion was to invest more in technology and infrastructure, like the failed bullet train, to "help the community."
"We need more rapid transit. We need trains and we need more efficient cars and we need all of that, and that's why this climate change is not just adapting, it's inventing new technology," Brown said.
Things took a very strange turn, however, when Brown compared liberals fighting climate change to that of soldiers fighting Nazis during World War II.
"I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis," he said. "We have an enemy and perhaps very much devastating in a similar way and we have to fight climate change and the president has got to lead on that."
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It is a Theory, dumb asshole.
It is an elaborate extortion market created by democrats for democrats.
It is Marxist playbook crap. You should be in a Federal PEN with the rest of your destructive and useless party.
The weather is not an excuse to ta people - and hey idiots, Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant.
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"We need more rapid transit. We need trains and we need more efficient cars and we need all of that, and that's why this climate change is not just adapting, it's inventing new technology," Brown said.
Wrong. What we need is a government that gets the hell out of our lives and STAYS out.
"I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis," he said. "We have an enemy and perhaps very much devastating in a similar way and we have to fight climate change and the president has got to lead on that."
Fifty years from now, the "global warming" movement will have been proven to be the greatest scientific fraud of all time and I can only hope that the fraudsters get the punishment they deserve-- at the end of a rope.
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"I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis,"
1. He failed
2. We weren't willing
3. Germany declared war upon us, several days after Pearl Harbor. Had Hitler not done that, the American people were only going to fight a Pacific War, not a World War.
#5
We do need trains and more efficient cars but we're not going to get them from the likes of crooked Moonbeam and his cronies. All we're going to get are more gridlock, more crowding and higher taxes. They have already proven that they can't be trusted because the gridlock, crowding and taxes are already way too much and getting worse. Why would anybody want to give them more money and more power?
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[Guardian] Mel Greaves has a simple goal in life. He is trying to create a yoghurt-like drink that would stop children from developing leukaemia.
The idea might seem eccentric; cancers are not usually defeated so simply. However, Professor Greaves is confident and, given his experience in the field, his ideas are being taken seriously by other cancer researchers.
Based at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, Greaves has been studying childhood leukaemia for three decades. On Friday, it was announced that he had received a knighthood in the New Year honours list for the research he has carried out in the field.
"For 30 years I have been obsessed about the reasons why children get leukaemia," he says. "Now, for the first time, we have an answer to that question ‐ and that means that we can now start thinking about ways to halt it in its tracks. Hence my idea of the drink."
In the 1950s, common acute lymphoblastic leukaemia ‐ which affects one in 2,000 children in the UK ‐ was lethal. Today 90% of cases are cured, although treatment is toxic, and there can be long-term side effects. In addition, for the past few decades, scientists have noticed that numbers of cases have actually been increasing in the UK and Europe at a steady rate of around 1% a year.
"It is a feature of developed societies but not of developing ones," Greaves adds. "The disease tracks with affluence."
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is caused by a sequence of biological events. The initial trigger is a genetic mutation that occurs in about one in 20 children.
"That mutation is caused by some kind of accident in the womb. It is not inherited, but leaves a child at risk of getting leukaemia in later life," adds Greaves.
For full leukaemia to occur, another biological event must take place and this involves the immune system. "For an immune system to work properly, it needs to be confronted by an infection in the first year of life," says Greaves. Without that confrontation with an infection, the system is left unprimed and will not work properly."
And this issue is becoming an increasingly worrying problem. Parents, for laudable reasons, are raising children in homes where antiseptic wipes, antibacterial soaps and disinfected floorwashes are the norm. Dirt is banished for the good of the household.
In addition, there is less breast feeding of infants and a tendency for them to have fewer social contacts with other children. Both trends reduce babies’ contact with germs. This has benefits ‐ but also comes with side effects. Because young children are not being exposed to bugs and infections as they once were, their immune systems are not being properly primed.
"When such a baby is eventually exposed to common infections, his or her unprimed immune system reacts in a grossly abnormal way," says Greaves. "It over-reacts and triggers chronic inflammation."
As this inflammation progresses, chemicals called cytokines are released into the blood and these can trigger a second mutation that results in leukaemia in children carrying the first mutation.
"The disease needs two hits to get going," Greaves explains. "The second comes from the chronic inflammation set off by an unprimed immune system."
In other words, a susceptible child suffers chronic inflammation that is linked to modern super-clean homes and this inflammation changes his or her susceptibility to leukaemia so that it is transformed into the full-blown condition.
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[PJ] What should have stayed in ancient, backward cultures has come to America under the guise of "tolerance" and "acceptance" when it comes to people suffering with the mental illness that is gender dysphoria. Instead of treating the illness with medication or therapy, American doctors are allowing people to mutilate themselves in order to achieve a false sense of identity. The negative effects of such drastic action are always hidden from the public at large, but can be found with diligent searching.
One of the ways that girls who want to be boys are told to begin "transitioning" is the very dangerous and stupid practice of "chest binding." Similar to the binding of little girls' feet, the girl who thinks she's a boy will wrap her chest tightly in bandages or buy a special binder to compress the chest and alter the growth of natural breast tissue. Transgender "information" sites advertise this as "an effective way for someone to make a gradual female-to-male (FTM) transition." This doesn't sound too bad until you get to the complications.
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girls in sports wear a sport's bra which binds the chest and protects the chest from injury so at first the binding probably feels ok
but girls in sports don't wear them 16 hours a day
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This stuff is mental illness. Something is wrong when you feel you must essentially destroy your body to try and appease it. And the dirty secret is, it doesn't, because it's illness. Suicide rates are the same after if not higher and many decide to try and switch back.
But I refuse to change my culture to please the mentally ill 0.3% of the population.
That was the first generation design, lord garth. And honestly, it’s still fine for small-breasted females. But for the rest of us an encapsulation design with non-stretchy cups and strong underwires to control tissue movement without squishing is both considerably more comfortable and more effective. See more here for more detail.
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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[This Ain't Hell] National security is becoming a sexy topic again. Thanks to the Daesh attacks, foreign policy, military concerns and intelligence issues are as hot as Kylie, Kourtney and Kendell. A re-energized American public now re-litigates issues like the Iraq War, the profiling of Muslims and the length of leash we should give the NSA.
[Townhall] California Gov. Jerry Brown appeared on MSNBC’s "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd to discuss climate change and his infamous gas tax. The conversation started out normal, with Brown pushing the common liberal talking points of needing higher taxes to fight climate change. 
