Wake up Dems: GET RID OF JOE LIEBERMAN!

It is way past due for Joe Lieberman to be place right where he needs to be... by himself, outside of any caucus. This is especially a message to The Senate Democratic Caucus, who has been way too forgiving in the past. Old Joe has come up and bitten you once again and it is time to get rid of this wishy-washy, problematic, flip flopper once and for all.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I do not trust any politician that changes sides. The fundamentals of any party do not change. Issues may change, attitudes may change, but the core values and belief systems don't.

Joe Lieberman .. you want to be an independent ... fine.. go off in a corner somewhere and be independent. You have no business heading any committee. Your true colours are showing yet again and you cannot be trusted .... PERIOD.

Healthy Foods Can Make You Sick

Reform is needed to protect our food supply. Too many agencies that do not communicate with each other is one of the problems.

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Obama's Speech to Joint Session of Congress

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Hillary to have surgery.

Washington (AP) June 18, 2009 — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expects to have surgery soon to repair a broken elbow suffered at the State Department headquarters, her spokesman said Thursday. (June 18)

The "Skinny" on High Fructose Corn Syrup

I use sugar at home and don't drink much soda. However, I found this interesting.

Critics have worried that the sweetener known as high fructose corn syrup -- which is found in many foods not considered sweet, along with soft drinks -- tricked the body into thinking it wasn't full, adding to the nation's obesity problems.

A new study said, however, that HFCS is no different from any other sweeteners and that it does not cause obesity more than other sweeteners.

Researchers and members of industry came together to study the issue. The president of the Corn Refiners Association said that studies that have found problems with HFCS have actually looked at pure fructose, rather than the combination of fructose and sucrose -- also know as table sugar.

At a symposium, the experts concluded that HFCS and sucrose have similar sweetness and are treated the same by the body. They said they found that calorie intake in the U.S. increased 24 percent per person from 1970 to 2005, but that the extra calories were not from sweeteners, but came across all food groups.

They also said that per capita consumption of HFCS has dropped in recent years, even as obesity rates continued to climb.

The researchers offer more information at HFCSfacts.com.

— Online Story

Acting Your Age

For some odd reason, this doesn't look right to me. No matter how we look like, things do wear out. How would we know? And what are the mental stability of this.

When I first saw the picture, I thought it was photo-shopped, I mean really .. doesn't it look like an old man's head stuck on a 30-something's body?

LAS VEGAS – It's one of those photos that make you do a double-take. Dr. Jeffry Life stands in jeans, his shirt off. His face is that of a distinguished-looking grandpa; his head is balding, and what hair there is is white. But his 69-year-old body looks like it belongs to a muscle-bound 30-year-old.

The photo regularly runs in ads for the Cenegenics Medical Institute, a Las Vegas-based clinic that specializes in "age management," a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. Life, who swears that's his real last name, also keeps a framed copy of the photo on his office wall at Cenegenics.

"He's the man!" patient Ed Detwiler says teasingly, pointing to the photo of the doctor who, in many ways, has become his role model.

Detwiler, 47, has been Life's patient for more than three years. In that time, he has adopted the regimen that his doctor also follows — drastically changing his exercise and eating habits and injecting himself each day with human growth hormone. He also receives weekly testosterone injections.

He does it because it makes him feel better, more energetic, clear-minded.

— Full Story

Stinky farts are healthy

A study has found that gas relaxes the blood vessels to prevent hypertension in mice.

A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.

The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.

The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt” produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.

Hydrogen sulfide is the most recently discovered member of a family of gasotransmitters, small molecules inside our bodies with important physiological functions.

This study is the first to reveal that the CSE enzyme that triggers hydrogen sulfide is activated itself in the same way as other enzymes when they trigger their respective gasotransmitter, such as a nitric oxide-forming enzyme that also regulates blood pressure, Dr. Snyder said.

Because gasotransmitters are common in mammals all over the evolutionary tree, these findings on the importance of hydrogen sulfide are thought to have broad applications to human diseases, such as diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases.

— Full Report

New Va. pharmacy won’t sell any contraceptives

A new drug store at a Virginia strip mall is putting its faith in an unconventional business plan: No candy. No sodas. And no birth control.

Store follows Roman Catholic teachings; some fear impact on rural women

Pam Semler, of Fairfax, Va., (right) works the register at DMC Pharmacy in Chantilly, Va. on Monday, Oct. 20. The pharmacy bills itself as "pro-life" and carries no contraceptive products.

— Full Story

The Issues

Let's get down to the brass tacks of this 2008 Presidential Election.

The following videos explore Obama's views of the main issues that are (and should be) the driving force of our President selection and our future:

Economy


Education


Environment


Foreign Policy


Immigration


Healthcare