SoCalDem
SoCalDem's JournalBones, Sleepy Hollow start up in a few days.. and Bill Maher too
I'll give Sleepy Hollow a few shows to "win me over"..
Bones is kind of boring now, but new episodes are better than nothing
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/08/01/list-of-2013-fall-tv-show-premieres-dates/195183/
Things that need to be considered by young-healthy (uninsured) people
Are you of childbearing age? (for the women)
Are you capable of impregnating a young woman? (for the guys)
Are you sexually active?
Are you saddled with college debts?
Do you text/use your phone in public places/on the streets/in the car?
Do you cross busy streets?
Do you drive?
Do you ski? surf? play basketball/soccer/golf/tennis?
Do you ride bikes? or motorcycles?
Do you occasionally drink alcohol?
Do you mingle in crowds? (parties/concerts/sporting events?
Do you have family members with little kids?
EVERYTHING mentioned CAN have medical consequences, with very little effort on your part.
Just because you are young and healthy (for NOW), does not mean that you are INVINCIBLE or incapable of being injured or catching something from another person (young or old or in-between)
You are probably not likely to need LIFE insurance (unless you have a spouse & kids), BUT it's shameful to NOT have health care insurance , because you WILL need it , even if you think you will never get hurt or sick.
What the HELL is it with George Z.? Are police afraid to detain him?
Can anyone even begin to imagine the SAME scenarios with another random guy, that does NOT end up cuffed in the back of a cop car, and then in a holding cell?
TV by the Numbers (latest dates & times)
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/08/01/list-of-2013-fall-tv-show-premieres-dates/195183/There is a "saving-face"
If the senate vote goes against the WH, the president can say that although it may be morally just, to try to do anything to stop repugnant acts such as gassing innocents, there is also a legal framework that was perhaps irreparably broken by the blatant falsehoods of past administrations.
Intervention once was a given by previous presidents:
Truman & Korea
Eisenhower/Kennedy/Johnson & VietNam
Reagan & the Contras/Lebanon/Grenada
GHWB & Panama/Kuwait
Clinton & Kosovo
BushII & Iraq/Afghanistan
In the era of modern Social Media, there is a great deal of extra attention paid to every detail of war-making, even if we do not call each adventure a "war", the public can easily research how "small interventions" spin out of control and escalate.
It could also be said, that this is not a surprise in this particular congress that would vote against a presidential proffer that it's hot in the summertime, cold in the winter, or that July follows June.
He could wrap it up by saying that he personally would like to "do something", but as the head of only 1/3 of the constitutionally mandated government, he recognizes that congress has the right to declare war, and that a new definition of "war" is now (by this precedent), is ANY use of military as an antagonist.
Congress wants BACK the constitutional authority previously given to presidents, and has accepted full responsibility to vote on each and every military incursion in the future.
From wikipedia:
Face refers to two separate but related concepts in Chinese social relations. One is mianzi (Chinese: ), and the other is lian (Traditional Chinese: 臉, Simplified Chinese: ), which are both used commonly in everyday speech rather than in formal writings.
Lian is the confidence of society in a person's moral character, while mianzi represents social perceptions of a person's prestige. For a person to maintain face is important with Chinese social relations because face translates into power and influence and affects goodwill. A loss of lian would result in a loss of trust within a social network, while a loss of mianzi would likely result in a loss of authority. To illustrate the difference, gossiping about someone stealing from a cash register would cause a loss of lian but not mianzi. Repeatedly interrupting one's boss as he is trying to speak may cause the boss a loss of mianzi but not lian.
When trying to avoid conflict, Chinese in general will avoid causing another person to lose mianzi by not bringing up embarrassing facts in public. Conversely, when challenging authority and another person's standing within a community, Chinese will often attempt to cause a loss of lian or mianzi. A very public example of this occurred during the Tiananmen protests of 1989 when Wu'er Kaixi scolded Premier Li Peng for being late to a meeting with the demonstrators, resulting in Li's loss of mianzi because he was seen as either tardy or insincere about the meeting.
Notice that directly lying doesn't cause a loss of face. For example, if a reservation is cancelled by an airline, then they can lie that it is merely delayed. Inability to arrange the trip would cause a loss of face, while lying that it is delayed does not. So-called "polite lies" are perfectly acceptable, and even expected.
Fecal Bacteria From Thin Humans Can Slim Mice Down (eew, but....)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/health/gut-bacteria-from-thin-humans-can-slim-mice-down.html?pagewanted=allBy GINA KOLATA
Published: September 5, 2013
The trillions of bacteria that live in the gut — helping digest foods, making some vitamins, making amino acids — may help determine if a person is fat or thin.
The evidence is from a novel experiment involving mice and humans that is part of a growing fascination with gut bacteria and their role in health and diseases like irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease. In this case, the focus was on obesity. Researchers found pairs of human twins in which one was obese and the other lean. They transferred gut bacteria from these twins into mice and watched what happened. The mice with bacteria from fat twins grew fat; those that got bacteria from lean twins stayed lean. The study, published online Thursday by the journal Science, is “pretty striking,” said Dr. Jeffrey S. Flier, an obesity researcher and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, who was not involved with the study. “It’s a very powerful set of experiments.”
Michael Fischbach of the University of California, San Francisco, who also was not involved with the study, called it “the clearest evidence to date that gut bacteria can help cause obesity.” “I’m very excited about this,” he added, saying the next step will be to try using gut bacteria to treat obesity by transplanting feces from thin people.
“I have little doubt that that will be the next thing that happens,” Dr. Fischbach said. But Dr. Flier said it was far too soon for that.
“This is not a study that says humans will have a different body weight” if they get a fecal transplant, he said. “This is a scientific advance,” he added, but many questions remain.
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In fact, the part of the study that most surprised other experts was an experiment indicating that, with the right diet, it might be possible to change the bacteria in a fat person’s gut so that they promote leanness rather than obesity. The investigators discovered that given a chance, and in the presence of a low-fat diet, bacteria from a lean twin will take over the gut of a mouse that already had bacteria from a fat twin. The fat mouse then loses weight. But the opposite does not happen. No matter what the diet, bacteria from a fat mouse do not take over in a mouse that is thin.
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Alec Baldwin's new Friday night show (MSNBC) starts soon
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/05/alec-baldwin-to-host-msnbc-friday-night-talk-show/Looks like 3 weeks to go...
Alec Baldwin to host MSNBC Friday night talk show
MSNBC staff
2:52 PM on 09/05/2013
Photo by Mary Ellen Matthews
Alec Baldwin will join MSNBC as the host of a current events and culture talk show beginning Fridays in October.
The award-winning actor has hosted the podcast “Here’s the Thing” on WNYC since 2011 where he has interviewed an array of politicians, policy-makers, and performers, ranging from David Letterman and Dick Cavett to Republican campaign strategist Ed Rollins.
“After two seasons of my WNYC podcast, I’ve developed a fondness for hosting a show that involved talking with smart, talented, and engaging people in every imaginable field,” Baldwin said. “I’m grateful to MSNBC for helping me bring a similar show to television.”
Up Late w/ Alec Baldwin will air Fridays from 10-11 p.m. ET.
Yahoo Needs a Lifeboat Not a Logo
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-05/yahoo-needs-a-lifeboat-not-a-logo.htmlYahoo Needs a Lifeboat Not a Logo
By Megan McArdle Sep 5, 2013 1:28 PM PT
“Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic” has some new competition for phrase meaning pointless business activity at failing firm: “rearranging the fonts in your logo.” Today, ending a futile "30 Days of Change" Web campaign, Yahoo announced "a new design it could live with," says PC Magazine. The rest of us can breathe a sigh of relief. No need to fear that the company will take its own life rather than suffer through the indignity of a malformed logo.
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New ad suggestion.... Do the MATH, before you run your MOUTH
http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/healthpolicy/calculator/This would be especially enlightening for the tea party types who may be on the $10 hr "Gravy train"..
They only need to tune OUT the millionaire spokespeople of their party, and spend a little time running their own numbers..
an example, I ran:
A single 27 yr old making $10 hr for 30hr workweek
means no more piggybacking on parents' policy
and under the "minimum" hours needed for company coverage..
Here's what THEY would pay:
they are at 131% of poverty level and would pay ZERO...and would be covered by medicaid
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married to a another of same circumstance and add a kid, and you get :
$787.00 a month for SILVER PLAN
MINUS
$683 SUBSIDY..
ending up with $104 per month for TWO parents AND the baby
$34.67 per person...
and that's SILVER...not bronze
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