Conservative Brain Syndrome? Help name this crippling disease!

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Monday September 10, 2007 · 1:13 PM PDT

2007/09/10 · 13:13

Ever read a righty blog or watch FOX News and wonder if these folks are brain damaged? Well, apparently...

The differences between liberals and conservatives may run deeper than how they feel about welfare reform or the progress of the Iraq war: Researchers reported Sunday that their brains may actually work differently.

In a study likely to raise the hackles of some conservatives, scientists at New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles, found that a specific region of the brain’s cortex is more sensitive in people who consider themselves liberals than in self-declared conservatives.

The brain region in question helps people shift gears when their usual response would be inappropriate, supporting the notion that liberals are more flexible in their thinking.

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What would be the more accurate and sensitive term to describe "conservatives"...?

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What would be the more accurate and sensitive term to describe "conservatives"...?

Empathically Disabled

11 votes

Cognitively Challenged

13 votes

Differently Brained

8 votes

Didactically Sclerotic

6 votes

Hannitycapped

28 votes

Poliplegic

6 votes

I'll just wish Dick Cheney had been killed...

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Tuesday June 26, 2007 · 7:02 PM PDT

2007/06/26 · 19:02

My righty critics sometime email 710-KIRO, accusing me of being a "hate talker," apparently in the hope that I'll be fired from my weekend hosting gig. (Tip to righty critics: management sometimes actually listens to my show.)

Well, if I'm a hate talker, what do you call this...?

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Wednesday June 13, 2007 · 12:13 PM PDT

2007/06/13 · 12:13

Yesterday, GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani sent out an email to supporters boldly proclaiming his "12 commitments to the American people":

I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists' War on Us.

I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation.

I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending.

I will cut taxes and reform the tax code.

I will impose accountability on Washington.

I will lead America towards energy independence.

I will give Americans more control over, and access to, healthcare with affordable and portable free-market solutions.

I will increase adoptions, decrease abortions, and protect the quality of life for our children.

I will reform the legal system and appoint strict constructionist judges.

I will ensure that every community in America is prepared for terrorist attacks and natural disasters.

I will provide access to a quality education to every child in America by giving real school choice to parents.

I will expand America's involvement in the global economy and strengthen our reputation around the world.

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Sunday June 03, 2007 · 1:12 PM PDT

2007/06/03 · 13:12

If you've watched TV, listened to the radio, read a newspaper or browsed the InterTubes in the past 24-hours, then you've surely heard about the "unthinkable" plot to blow up JFK Airport, that was foiled just in the nick of time:

A retired airport cargo worker and a former member of parliament in Guyana were among four men charged with a plot that officials said was intended to cause mass casualties and cripple one of the world's busiest travel hubs.

Investigators acknowledged, however, that the scheme was so nascent that there was no developed plan for how the plotters would get explosives, let alone gain access to the tanks and pipelines they hoped to target.

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Wednesday May 23, 2007 · 4:11 PM PDT

2007/05/23 · 16:11

Tests conducted at a US Food & Drug Administration laboratory on behalf of the Arkansas Department of Health & Human Services have detected melamine in at least one sample of imported Chinese catfish. And while officials are downplaying the health hazard, this latest finding suggests that the human food supply is much more widely contaminated than previously acknowledged.

Not that this should come as a surprise. Back on April 1, when I first started covering this story at length, I wrote:

"Unless and until the FDA determines otherwise, one cannot help but wonder if our sick and dying cats are merely the canary in the coal mine alerting us to a broader contamination of the human food supply."

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Wednesday May 16, 2007 · 2:36 PM PDT

2007/05/16 · 14:36

Reverend Falwell, fond farewell:
Your soul has fled its mortal shell
And flown across the great divide
To savor at your Savior's side.
Or so you think... um... so you thought,
Well, so, at least, your Bible taught,
While unbelievers who deny
Eternal afterlife, like I,
Think when your dead, well, you just die.

But if, when I give up the fight,
I'm strangely drawn into the light?
And there your reverent form I see?
Don't laugh sir, that the joke's on me,
For since I've never claimed nor known
Your Savior Jesus as my own,
If you should meet this faithless Jew
In Heaven or in Hell's review,
Well, either way... the joke's on you.

[Read more from David Goldstein at HorsesAss.org]

I've been banned in China!

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Thursday May 10, 2007 · 1:14 AM PDT

2007/05/10 · 01:14

Blogging can be a lonely, thankless avocation, but there are those little things that make it all worthwhile. An appreciative comment or email. The occasional donation. Getting banned by the Chinese government.

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Tuesday May 08, 2007 · 3:12 PM PDT

2007/05/08 · 15:12

"FDA and USDA believe the likelihood of illness after eating such pork is extremely low."
USDA/FDA, 4/26/2007

"We have no reason to believe that anything other than the rice protein concentrate or the wheat gluten have been a problem in the United States recently."
USDA/FDA, 4/26/2007

"But overall, we believe the risk to be extremely low to humans."
USDA/FDA, 4/26/2007

"We believe that the likelihood of illness from such exposure is extremely low."
USDA/FDA, 5/1/2007

"We do not believe that there is any significant threat of human illness from consuming poultry."
USDA/FDA, 5/1/2007

"We believe the likelihood of illness to humans, including infants, is extremely small."
USDA/FDA, 5/3/2007

"We have no reason to believe those animals are any risk to the public."
USDA/FDA, 5/3/2007

"There's no tolerance for any of these compounds, either melamine or cyanuric acid. [...] We just don’t know when we get these mixtures together. So there is no, really no acceptable level."
USDA/FDA, 4/26/2007

I'm not a very spiritual person, but I'm having a crisis of faith.

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Monday April 30, 2007 · 11:57 PM PDT

2007/04/30 · 23:57

Once again, the FDA downplays the ever expanding food safety crisis:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2007

Joint Update: FDA/USDA Update on Tainted Soylent Green

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continue their investigation of Soylent Green, which has been found to contain people and people-related compounds. Based on information currently available, FDA and USDA believe the likelihood of illness after eating Soylent Green would be very low. The agencies are taking certain actions out of an abundance of caution. As announced on April 26, Soylent Green known to have been adulterated (ie, contaminated with adults) will not be approved to enter the food supply.

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Thursday April 26, 2007 · 4:21 PM PDT

2007/04/26 · 16:21

The USDA and FDA announced today that meat from hogs fed melamine-tainted "salvaged" pet food would not be approved for human consumption, indirectly raising the specter of a much wider contamination of the nation's pork and chicken supply.

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2007 - The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today notified State authorities that swine fed adulterated product will not be approved to enter the food supply. [...] Because the animal feed in question was adulterated, USDA cannot rule out the possibility that food produced from animals fed this product could also be adulterated. Therefore, USDA cannot place the mark of inspection on food produced from these animals.

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 2:14 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 14:14

It is time for the Food and Drug Administration and the media covering it to stop pretending that our nation's massive pet food recall only concerns our pets, for the more we learn about common food industry practices, the breadth and scope of melamine contamination, and the lack of adequate regulatory safeguards, the more it becomes apparent that our entire food supply isn't nearly as safe as the average consumer assumes it to be.

The industrial chemical melamine has now been discovered in multiple high-protein food additives -- wheat, corn and rice gluten -- from multiple Chinese manufacturers, leading industry experts to conclude that not only was the contamination intentional, but that such "economic adulteration" is disturbingly widespread, at least in China.

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Thursday April 19, 2007 · 11:48 AM PDT

2007/04/19 · 11:48

Melamine-tainted corn gluten, imported from China, has been confirmed in South African pet food:

Johannesburg - Tests have confirmed that Vets Choice and Royal Canin dog and cat dry pet-food products contained corn gluten contaminated with melamine, says the manufacturer.

The contaminated corn gluten was delivered to Royal Canin by a South African third-party supplier and appears to have originated from China.

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