Go Indrek...stick it to the violent Muslims

Go Professor Wichman! It's about time someone has the cajones to take the heat and at the same time put perspective back into view. What a giant of a leader. I'm very impressed!

Dear Muslim Association,As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavian girls and women (called 'whores' in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris France.This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many of my colleagues..I counsel you dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Muslims to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile 'protests.'If you do not like the values of the West - see the 1st Amendment - you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option.Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.

Cordially,I. S. Wichman

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Alcohol....lets re-visit the subject

Finally, my isolated view in medical school is now becoming common practice...

One day when on a medical rotation some years ago, a fellow colleague and I were discussing a topic on the health benefits of alcohol. Albeit, there are some founded truths to it's benefits, I begged to disagree. The side effects of this drug outweigh the benefits. Especially when grape juice has the same antioxidant beneficial properties when compared to (a daily glass of) wine.

An older doctor walked into the lounge where we were having our discussion. He gave his two cents by defending the drug by citing studies he had read. I highly doubt he was an Emergency physician or a Trauma surgeon.

I found these two articles on Yahoo, of which sum up my thoughts on the "legalized drug", alcohol.

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons trauma committee head Daryl Wall said booze-fuelled violence was all too common and health workers were left to pick up the pieces.

Professor Wall said the PA Hospital at Woolloongabba had to deal with a steady stream of young victims early on Saturday and Sunday mornings, when people had been drinking for some time and the alcohol was starting to affect their judgment.

"It starts about one in the morning but they come in sometimes as late as Sunday evening because they finally sober up and realise they've been smashed up," he told brisbanetimes.com.au.

"In some instances a drunk male gets provoked by someone who's a superior boxer and the superior boxer gets to belt someone up, but they're cowards.

"Young men come in with very badly smashed faces, lacerated scalps and sometimes glassing injuries.

"We get 10 to 20 young people (on those busy mornings) with face wounds and scalp wounds, injured eyelids and lips waiting to be cared for.

"Surgeons rebuild eye sockets, noses, jaws and reattach portions of ears."

Sometimes, the injuries are so severe the victim dies.

But for other patients, the assaults leave long-lasting injuries that are untreatable.

"It's terrible to permanently lose your smell," said Professor Wall, the PA's director of surgical specialties.

Professor Wall said he despaired at the toll of alcohol-fuelled violence as seen in hospital emergency wings around the nation.

Evidence Against the Health Claim

by Jacquelyn Rudis

When analyzing the suggested benefits of moderate alcohol consumption on longevity, it is important to take into account the health effects of numerous other factors: diet, education and income level, health habits such as smoking and exercise, social engagement, and age. Many of the studies previously described found that although wine drinkers often have lower mortality rates than non-wine drinkers and abstainers, their lifestyles are also healthier overall, so it is hard to tell which factors are having the most healthful effect.

In Denmark (where the Copenhagen Heart Study took place), wine drinkers tend to consume a healthful, Mediterranean-style diet (high in fresh fruits and vegetables, fish, and olive oil, and low in meat and dairy products), and have high socioeconomic status. Klatsky’s California studies recognize that people who preferred to drink wine rather than beer or hard liquor were more highly educated, smoked less, and had more controlled drinking habits. Other studies have found that the benefits of alcohol consumption often depend on drinking patterns: Drinking slowly and with food has been shown to produce the greatest health benefits, and moderate wine drinkers reported consuming their glass or two of alcohol each day with meals.

Many proponents of wine as beneficial to health have pointed to the relatively low incidence of CHD in France, despite the typical French diet which is comparable to (or even worse than) other developed countries with high CHD rates. The French drink the most wine and have the highest level of total alcohol intake compared to 20 other industrialized countries, yet they also experience the second lowest CHD mortality rate. This phenomenon has been termed the “French Paradox”. It is important to note, however, that studies performed at the individual level have not consistently shown a positive connection between moderate wine consumption and longevity among the French. It is not clear, therefore, that a penchant for wine—red or otherwise—adequately explains the paradox.

Conclusion

While the evidence for the favorable health effects of moderate alcohol consumption is intriguing and deserves further study, it is unlikely that doctors will begin recommending a daily glass or two of wine to their patients anytime soon. There are at least three reasons for this.

First, since there are no randomized controlled trials on the subject (and probably never will be), it is not possible to prove a cause-and-effect relationship between alcoholic beverages and longevity. Many researchers and clinicians remain skeptical that that the alcohol itself is conferring the benefit. Patterns of drinking may simply be a marker for an unidentified attribute of the healthy drinker.

Second, the health benefits associated with moderate alcohol intake can also be obtained through safer habits such as exercise and a well-balanced diet. The antioxidant content of red wine is similar to that of fresh fruits and vegetables, and there are medications that can raise HDL levels and thin the blood more effectively than alcohol can.

Third (and most important), it is not currently possible to accurately predict who has a tendency to become an alcoholic and who does not. Recommending that all abstainers start drinking would be placing a significant number of them at unacceptable risk. For some, alcohol is an addictive drug, and alcoholism is a devastating condition that destroys lives and puts the public at risk.

So, my thoughts on legalizing marijuana? Should be evident by now. :) If not, take a moral and ethical pill and call me in the morning.

Reference: http://www.thirdage.com/nutrition/true-or-false-drinking-a-glass-of-red-wine-a-day-can-increase-longevity

Obama Mush

Typical government "hard" at work... you decide

Okay, got this in an email. Can someone either prove or disprove this for me? Maybe their computer screens were photoshopped. Even if they are Democrat, please tell me they are not as stupid as a 14 year old with his/her lip pierced. Ridiculous!

House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP) The guy sitting in the row in front of these two... he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores. These are the folks that can't get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!!

So, we've got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news reporters as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yo's will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!

Victory!

How sweet it is. To finally have a moral victory in all of the 31 states whom put it on the books to keep marriage defined between a man and a woman. Though how interesting it is how close the vote really was. Only 53%! It should have been much much higher than that! I mean, how far has our nation slid down the moral road of decay to not recognize the sacredness of marital union? Keep your civil union! Don't start calling a zebra a horse! As if the children of this day aren't confused enough already!

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine -- known for its liberal-minded electorate -- and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign. With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, proponents of traditional marriage had 53 percent of the votes. "The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation," declared Frank Schubert, chief organizer for the winning side.

Addendum:

Well, the gay Judge overturned the vote of the people. Just like that. One man in a very powerful position, right before leaving office. For his last hoorah, said, yup, if you're gay, California should be another place to publish and practice your moral decay. And a great place to teach sexual ambiguity to children. NICE!

Has Nancy Pelosi grown horns on her head?

Maybe just a forked tongue and a large knife ready to stab the nation in the back. I actually turned off the radio, refused to watch the national news, and checking the web for a couple of weeks in order to get my spirits up. Then to have them dashed by my neighbors asking me about what I thought of what's going on. So, like the ostrich pulling his head out of the sand as a lion charges, I decided to look up some news sent to me recently.

Has our world gone mad? Okay, I realize that insurance companies are selfish pigs looking out for themselves...but at the same time, with only 2-6% profit margins? Is that really selfish? Yes something needs to be done to help the system out, but COME ON! Making lawyers more powerful in suits by mandating states who take fed money not able to pass TORT reforms? Seriously, insanity has struck! Making this nation greater does not occur by crippling it first.

No offense to my lawyer friends out there, but how much more moisture can be sucked out of beef jerky? Who wants to go through 8 years of post high school learning and 3-5 more years of residency training to get their underwear pulled over their head? Get it? No docs, no care. Simple aint it? Look to the stories coming down from our neighbors from the north who did a trial run for us already. It's a BROKEN SYSTEM! I could go on and on here...but I have a presentation to prepare for tomorrow... maybe more rantings to come.

The Wall Street Journal is calling Nancy Pelosi's 1,990-page government takeover of healthcare the "worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced." The Journal says it will create an "unrepealable middle class entitlement" that will cause taxes to "rise precipitously" and will result in "all medicine" being "rationed via politics." The CBO cost estimate is coming in at $1.055 trillion and that's just scratching the surface. The Journal says "ObamaCare will be lucky to cost under $2 trillion over 10 years; it will grow more after that." Go here to access Wall Street Journal's excellent analysis of what it calls the "worst bill ever": Read/download the bill here