MG, I'm curious about the bolded statement.  Could you provide some more info?  Thanks. http://www.wellnessresources.com/freedom/articles/researchers_document_the_dangers_of_statins/ Thanks.  ... Mountaineer Edit:  This link does not make statins sound quite as bad as the above.  MG, What do you th...

Found at http://www.unz.com/isteve/eric-posner-college-students-are-children-who-should-be-seen-but-not-heard/ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2015/02/university_speech_codes_stu... … And this brings me to the most important overlooked fact about speech and sex cod...

I too hope it is a wise choice since I'm frequently wondering whether drugs that lower or raise "numbers" really make significant difference to mortality or quality of life.  I decided to trust my doctor as he really seems like a walking medical encyclopedia and I've been with him for a d...

Nevertheless, she gave me a 30 day free sample and I'm going to give it a try at least until the first blood test in 90 days and then I'll probably go off of it. Hope I'm not making a big mistake. It sounds like you might have familiar hypercholesterolemia.  Crestor is the most toxic of the statins...

For what it's worth, I also used to take Crestor (it really does lower the "bad" numbers and raise the "good" ones).  I had a conversation with my doctor about cost vs. benefit.  He agreed that for people of my age, and circumstances, atorvastatin, the generic lipitor, was proba...

On the same day I read that the government would probably be dropping the advice to avoid foods high in cholesterol, my doctor gave me that very same advice, although she didn't sound wholly convinced. I didn't bother to question her about it because I know doctors don't like that and I've been fir...

Does Science Argue for or against God? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjGPHF5A6Po&sns=em 6 minute video My perspective would be that the "physist" types are shifting toward believing "someone" had to have created it all.  The "biologist" types seem to be still mor...

This article describes yet another example of a major error in nutrition science consensus.  Why are they so frequently wrong?  And why are they so confident?  Just look at what happens when one puts their faith in science as the end-all, be-all for every conceivable subject - sometimes the scienti...

Page loading and refreshing has been VERY slow, on and off, for the past couple of days.  Anyone else having this issue?

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What will the people who can't sit on their asses all day watching TV and eating unhealthy snacks do? If I have more than 3 or 4 days in a row off, I get sooo bored once I am done with the fix-it projects, caught up on my reading, and there are no new posts on this forum. Even if you like playing g...

I would say its hyperbole to attract media attention so that the rank and file can touch and self-affirm themselves.  It's certainly not unique to Republicans. Agree.  The remarks from Parker/Heyward/Gilmore struck me as reaction to yet another "talking down to the peons" lecture by Obama...

Desert wrote:
People should really stop watching TV news, both network and cable.  It's just so bad.

Completely agree - unless you are a hopeless imsomniac looking for shameless entertainment instead of truth.   

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I am also a curious if the more right-leaning folks feel the comments made by Parker/Heyward/Gilmore are reasonable, overreacting, or unhinged.  I tend to lean right (except for a personal liberty topics plus being semi-isolationist) but do find their comments to be pretty silly. I would say its hy...

And some ramblings about the Jim Crowe remark: President Obama’s words at the National Prayer Breakfast have become yet another controversy in the long list of his remarks that have provoked attacks and defenses. The first thing to notice before his provocative “high horse”? warning is the character...

Interesting article that appears to be factual, but a note of warning:  If a conservative source raises your hackles, you may wish to pass on reading this one and stick with Obama's Prayer Breakfast text. ... Mountaineer https://www.opendoorsusa.org/newsroom/tag-news-post/muslim-persecution-of-chris...

experience view where almost anything goes.  Thus, my questions on where morals come from - do you think they have an objective source or a subjective source?  For "modern day" theologians I'm much more in tune with Martin Luther, Martin Chemnitz, Johann Gehard, Robert Kolb, or Matthew Ha...

It will take longer than 3 hours. Moves never go as smoothly as anticipated. Ask me how I know.  :P I suggest agreeing to a figure ahead of time, based either on the entire job regardless of how long it takes, or an hourly rate [perhaps less/hour for the driving part?]. I like it!  I think that is ...

Thank you for clarifying.  Your response raises another question.  Is this what you mean by Christian Mysticism?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism  And, from this definition given in the wiki, what is about that you deem "malevolent"?  Thanks again.  Maybe after w...

Could you please clarify a couple of points:  I thought Black Death was the bubonic plague spread via fleas - what is the connection to being moral?  Second, what is an RIF?  Sorry, but I'm more of a "King's English" type that the urban slang or labeling types when trying  to clearly comm...

Here we go again.  Who defines what is moral and on what basis?  Where is that source of morality located?  How do you know that? I know you won't agree, but morality is revealed through the use of reason from examining cause and effect and it collectively crystallizes in society via spontaneous or...

I hired the maintenance guy in my building to help load/unload. What would be a fair wage? The skinny: * Studio apartment * 3 hrs total (1 hr load - drive time - 1 hr unload) * Minimal stuff; heaviest item is futon sofa Thanks! Same hourly rate as you pay your car mechanic?  Make him very happy and...

I don't think many groups see themselves as wanting to "control others," so much as control what they see as their morally legitimate sphere of influence.  Here we go again.  Who defines what is moral and on what basis?  Where is that source of morality located?  How do you know that? ......

I was kidding. I really prefer to take the ounce of prevention rather than worrying about a pound of punishment. Agreed.  I feel like this is one of those topics that becomes unnecessarily polarized by the tendency of passionate people to eschew common ground in competition for the perceived higher...

I guess we can all stop arguing about this in 100 years when Key West is underwater and Miami is an island. Nah, we will just pick something else about which to get our knickers twisted. My compassionate side says: I really feel sorry for people who suffer from natural calamities. My pragmatic side...

They were then amplified by two of the main official surface records, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss) and the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), which use the warming trends to estimate temperatures across the vast regions of the Earth where no measurements are taken. Yet these are...