I really didn't mind the slow start. You gotta remember that this guy's been telling jokes and running around hyperactive for what a quarter of a fucking century? Part of the joke WAS that he didn't know the modern terms of racial parody, for me, and a man of his intelligence must know that.

My respect for him shot up a mile when i saw a video on here a while ago where the electricity went in some studio during a political interview and robin williams ears perked up, and like an entertainment superhero he came charging into the studio to entertain people whilst the problem was sorted out.

This one:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Robin-Williams-Hijacks-BBC-World-Debate

http://www.videosift.com/video/Hyperactive-Lasse-Gjertsen

I was hoping Scooter would use the Force to chase away them lolcat posts. What's up with all these cat videos, seriously?
I'm sick of cats. The place I rent now has this big yard and ever since some Albanians opened up a kebab stand on the corner it became like a shelter for every homeless cat in our town. I'm sure it's a lot of fun for them (we call this particular hyperactive example "Ferrari" cause of his impressive accelerations), but after a year or so everything smells like cat pee to me. As much as I admire their ability to procrastinate I'd rather not be living in an epicenter of this feline twilight zone with cats eating, pissing, chasing small birds or each other and fucking in some very imaginative places (like my roof) night and day.

My main problem with this talk is that Clifford seems to be performing an act and not giving a talk, which I found quite distracting. I would be fine with the presentation if Clifford was geniunly as hyperactive and scattered as he comes across in this video. But from watching his other talks, his persona in this video seems so far removed from his actual self that the whole talk comes across as disingenuous. Sure, every talk needs a certain amount of showmanship, a certain amount of flair to enhance its reception. But Clifford emphasizes style way more than the content of his talk; its the kind of performance one would expect from Robin Williams if he was asked to portray John Nash in a remake of A Beautiful Mind.

I could have done without the song or the super-hyperactive editing style, which makes it kind of hard to admire the awesome stuff Chan is doing... but upvote anyway, just because this film is Jackie Chan at his absolute best.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'toddler, preschool, graduation, kid' to 'toddler, preschool, graduation, hyperactive, kid, sings' - edited by oxdottir

I contend that the main arguement of the article is that because of the collusion between government and the vaccine industry we do not know the true (fully disclosed) effects of thimerisol on our population.

I thank you for finally explaining your comment. But I find it hard to see how you could say 'I believe' or 'I think' his paper was based on wakefields when the article explicitly states that the sevretive meetings were a result of a study done by a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten.

"The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism.

Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants -- in one case, within hours of birth -- the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children"

"The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten's findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.?

Does the information above bother you ? In addition, while this hasn't been explicitly asked of you yet. What are your thoughts on the cumulative level of thimerisol in the previous vaccine schedule as highlighted below?

Before 1989, American preschoolers received eleven vaccinations -- for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time they reached first grade.

At two months, when the infant brain is still at a critical stage of development, infants routinely received three inoculations that contained a total of 62.5 micrograms of ethylmercury -- a level 99 times greater than the EPA's limit for daily exposure to methylmercury, a related neurotoxin. Although the vaccine industry insists that ethylmercury poses little danger because it breaks down rapidly and is removed by the body, several studies -- including one published in April by the National Institutes of Health -- suggest that ethylmercury is actually more toxic to developing brains and stays in the brain longer than methylmercury.

The House Government Reform Committee discovered that four of the eight CDC advisers who approved guidelines for a rotavirus vaccine "had financial ties to the pharmaceutical companies that were developing different versions of the vaccine."

And of course you are correct, "most" vaccines can now be found without thimerisol. Here is the current rundown of which vaccines actually still contaiin thimerisol (DTwP & Tetanus do not have a non-thimerisol choice)
http://www.vaccinesafety.edu/thi-table.htm (as of December 14, 2007)
I'm glad that we all seem to generally agree here that people have every right to deny being vaccinated (although the devil is in the details). As I posted above there are lots of scientific studies that when looked at as a whole, show that vaccines are neither 100% safe nor 100% efffective as "pro-vaccination" advocates would like people to believe.(which i think jsutifies a persons right to choose).

For those who believe they or their chidren have been injured by vaccines they can use this government resource

National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP)
http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/

The VICP is located in the HHS, Health Resources and Services Administration, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation.

Vaccine Injury Table
http://www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/table.htm

what a great question for Sift Talk. It's been interesting seeing such a diverse collection for users. A few brought memories while many sound interesting. Thanks for the quality question Rougy.

currently I'm re-reading

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart Erhman

From Booklist
The popular perception of the Bible as a divinely perfect book receives scant support from Ehrman, who sees in Holy Writ ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics. Though himself schooled in evangelical literalism, Ehrman has come to regard his earlier faith in the inerrant inspiration of the Bible as misguided, given that the original texts have disappeared and that the extant texts available do not agree with one another. Most of the textual discrepancies, Ehrman acknowledges, matter little, but some do profoundly affect religious doctrine. To assess how ignorant or theologically manipulative scribes may have changed the biblical text, modern scholars have developed procedures for comparing diverging texts. And in language accessible to nonspecialists, Ehrman explains these procedures and their results. He further explains why textual criticism has frequently sparked intense controversy, especially among scripture-alone Protestants. In discounting not only the authenticity of existing manuscripts but also the inspiration of the original writers, Ehrman will deeply divide his readers. Although he addresses a popular audience, he undercuts the very religious attitudes that have made the Bible a popular book. Still, this is a useful overview for biblical history collections.

and I just finished, THE FLUORIDE DECPTION, by Christopher Bryson

From Publishers Weekly
Concerns over fluoridated drinking water have long been derided as the obsession of McCarthyite cranks. But this muckraking j’accuse asserts that fluoride is indeed a dire threat to public health, one foisted upon the nation by a vast conspiracy—not of Communist agents, but of our very own military-industrial complex. Investigative reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy, drawing on mountains of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret archives of government and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of fluoride and the motives of its leading advocates. The efficacy of fluoridated drinking water in preventing tooth decay, he contends, is dubious. Fluoride in its many forms may be one of the most toxic of industrial pollutants, and Bryson cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated drinking water to bone deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other complaints. The post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water, he claims, was less a public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride—including the government’s nuclear weapons program. Legendary spin doctors like Edward Bernays exploited the tenuous link between dental hygiene and fluoridation to create markets to stimulate fluoride production and to prove the innocuousness of fluoride compounds, thereby heading off lawsuits by factory workers and others poisoned by industrial fluoride pollution. Bryson marshals an impressive amount of research to demonstrate fluoride’s harmfulness, the ties between leading fluoride researchers and the corporations who funded and benefited from their research, and what he says is the duplicity with which fluoridation was sold to the people. The result is a compelling challenge to the reigning dental orthodoxy, which should provoke renewed scientific scrutiny and public debate.

Talk out your arse much cobalt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_issues_and_the_effects_of_cannabis

[edit] Toxicity
According to the Merck Index,[2] the LD50 (dosage lethal to 50% of rats tested) of Δ9-THC by inhalation is 42 mg/kg of body weight. That is the equivalent of a man weighing 75 kg (165 lb) inhaling the THC found in 21 grams of extremely high-potency (15% THC) marijuana all in one sitting, assuming no THC is lost through smoke loss or absorption by the lungs. For oral consumption, the LD50 for male rats is 1270 mg/kg, and 730 mg/kg for females—equivalent to the THC in about a pound of 15% THC marijuana.[3] The ratio of cannabis material required to saturate cannabinoid receptors to the amount required for a fatal overdose is 1:40,000.[4] There have been no reported deaths or permanent injuries sustained as a result of a marijuana overdose. It is practically impossible to overdose on marijuana, as the user would certainly either fall asleep or otherwise become incapacitated from the effects of the drug before being able to consume enough THC to be mortally toxic. According to a United Kingdom government report, using cannabis is less dangerous than tobacco, prescription drugs, and alcohol in social harms, physical harm and addiction.[5]





[edit] Confounding combination
The most obvious confounding factor in cannabis research is the prevalent usage of other recreational drugs, including alcohol and tobacco.[6] One paper claims marijuana use can increase risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. [7] Such complications demonstrate the need for studies on cannabis that have stronger controls, and investigations into the symptoms of cannabis use that may also be caused by tobacco. Some people question whether the agencies that do the research try to make an honest effort to present an accurate, unbiased summary of the evidence, or whether they "cherry-pick" their data, and others caution that the raw data, and not the final conclusions, are what should be examined.[8]

However, contrasting studies have linked the smoking of cannabis to lung cancer and the growth of cancerous tumors.[9][10][11][12] A 2002 report by the British Lung Foundation estimated that three to four cannabis cigarettes a day were associated with the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day.[13] Some of these finding may be attributed to the well-known custom that many British citizens often mix tobacco with marijuana. It should also be noted that a recent study conducted at a lab in UCLA has found no link between marijuana usage and lung cancer.[citation needed]

Cannabis also has a synergistic toxic effect with the food additive Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and possibly the related compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). The study concluded, "Exposure to marijuana smoke in conjunction with BHA, a common food additive, may promote deleterious health effects in the lung." BHA & BHT are man-made fat preservatives, and are found in many packaged foods including: plastics in boxed Cereal, Jello, Slim Jims, and more. [14]


[edit] Memory
Cannabis is known to act on the hippocampus (an area of the brain associated with memory and learning), and impair short term memory and attention for the duration of its effects and in some cases for the next day[15]. In the long term, some studies point to enhancement of particular types of memory.[16] Cannabis was found to be neuroprotective against excitotoxicity and is therefore beneficial for the prevention of progressive degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease.[17] A 1998 report commissioned in France by Health Secretary of State Bernard Condevaux and directed by Dr. Pierre-Bernard Roques determined that, "former results suggesting anatomic changes in the brain of chronic cannabis users, measured by tomography, were not confirmed by the accurate modern neuro-imaging techniques," (like MRI). "Moreover, morphological impairment of the hippocampus [which plays a part in memory and navigation] of rat after administration of very high doses of THC (Langfield et al., 1988) was not shown (Slikker et al., 1992)" (translated). He concluded that cannabis does not have any neurotoxicity as defined in the report, unlike alcohol and cocaine.[18][19][20]


[edit] Adulterated cannabis
Contaminants may be found in hashish when consumed from soap bar-type sources[21]. The dried flowers of the plant may be contaminated by the plant taking up heavy metals and other toxins from its growing environment[22]. Recently, there have been reports of herbal cannabis being adulterated with minute (silica [usually glass or sand], or sugar} crystals in the UK and Ireland. These crystals resemble THC in appearance, yet are much heavier, and so serve again to increase the weight, and hence street value of the cannabis[23].


[edit] Pregnancy
Studies have found that children of marijuana-smoking mothers more frequently suffer from permanent cognitive deficits, concentration disorders, hyperactivity, and impaired social interactions than non-exposed children of the same age and social background.[24][25] A recent study with participation of scientists from Europe and the United States, have now identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains and functionally similar to THC from cannabis, play unexpectedly significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other. The formation of connections among nerve cells occurs during a relatively short period in the fetal brain. The study tries to give a closer understanding of if and when cannabis damages the fetal brain[26][27].[28]

Other studies on Jamaica have suggested that cannabis use by expectant mothers does not appear to cause birth defects or developmental delays in their newborn children.[29][30] In a study in 1994 of Twenty-four Jamaican neonates exposed to marijuana prenatally and 20 non exposed neonates comparisons were made at 3 days and 1 month old, using the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale, including supplementary items to capture possible subtle effects. Results showed there were no significant differences between exposed and nonexposed neonates on day 3. At 1 month, the exposed neonates showed better physiological stability and required less examiner facilitation to reach organized states. The neonates of heavy-marijuana-using mothers had better scores on autonomic stability, quality of alertness, irritability, and self-regulation and were judged to be more rewarding for caregivers. This work was supported by the March of Dimes Foundation.[31]


[edit] Cancer
On 23 May 2006, Donald Tashkin, M.D., Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles announced that the use of cannabis does not appear to increase the risk of developing lung cancer, or increase the risk of head and neck cancers, such as cancer of the tongue, mouth, throat, or esophagus.[32]The study involved 2252 participants, with some of the most chronic marijuana smokers having smoked over 22,000 marijuana cigarettes.[32][33][34][35] The finding of Donald Tashkin, M.D., and his team of researchers in 2006 refines their earlier studies published in a Dec. 17th 2000 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarker and Prevention.[12] Many opponents of marijuana incorrectly cite the original finding of UCLA Medical Center from 2000 as "proof" that marijuana leaves the users at higher risk for cancer of the lung, and cancerous tumors,[9] even though the researchers at the UCLA Medical Center have revised their finding with a more in-depth study on the effects of the use of marijuana. This seemed to contradict assumptions made after some studies, like those from Dale Geirringer et al., which found that 118 carcinogens were produced when marijuana underwent combustion, and two carcinogens {2-Methyl-2, 4(2H-1-benzopyran-5-ol) & 5-[Acetyl benz[e]azulene-3,8-dione} formed when marijuana underwent vaporization with the Volcano Vaporizer.[36] To help explain this seemingly chemical proof of carcinogenity inherent in the process of combustion, Tashkin noted that "one possible explanation for the new findings, he said, is that THC, a chemical in marijuana smoke, may encourage aging cells to die earlier and therefore be less likely to undergo cancerous transformation."[32]

ADHD-Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
is generally considered to be a developmental disorder, largely neurological in nature, affecting about 5% of the world's population. According to some shmoo in wiki.

Praise Allahambra, adn Bob, for this wonderful "disorder"-one if the ways to deal with it is by placing your faith, as any good born-again christian would, in expert thesis, and pharmaceutical poisons, such as Adderral, and Ritalin like most dumb asses who trust in these gods.

Some out of touch monkeys would have you engage in a less cost-effective way, psychotherapy, an option for folks who have not the slightest clue of how to know themselves, or their own bodies.

Indulge and celebrate this wonderful neurological condition. And mothers with kids that have it??? Reduce or eliminate two things from yer little ping-pong balls life, and help keep it in check. Refined sugars and television. I have traced the etiology of my own, back as far as I have been caled on being unique, and full of energy, passion, and the ability to micro-focus, and found that the worst part of ADHD, is that the others in the world, less fortunate than myself, are simply unable to keep up with the brilliance, and spectacle, and assume that there must be something causing that , which is BAD, DYSFUNCTIONAL, or whatever other labels they use to separate, control, and stupefy the masses.

Indulge and develop your own checks and balances, and leave the drugs to addictive personalities and pharmacies....

Remember this but not the song, just the little square on the front of the comix. First Marvel comic memory, is of a short-lived ten or so issues called, "What If"...sort of an alternative universe scenario for superheroes...with crappy stories written by what seemed now,like heroin-addled writers, running out of ideas..."
"What if the x-men were all communists", insane craziness, that paved the way for the good stuff like, "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, and "Zap Comix.

Fisrt time the discovery was made, of the shit to order on the back page, found a hyperactive kid bothering the mailman everyday for 1000 Continental soldiers, potato guns, and blood gum!

Comic books were like 11 cents! Shit, what the hell were we thinking, not buying 1000 copies of X-Men #1!!!! Then investing all our parents savings in Apple or Microsoft.

Screw the future, gimme a time machine that only goes backward, in 50 year increments!

this is lasse gjertsen, who did hyperactive and amateur.

the original title is "Hva faen, Speil?":
"Ever had this feeling before? No? Something wrong with me?! Oh yes, it's in norwegian. I'm basically saying "What the hell?!" and "Holy crap, crazy shit.." when I'm leaving.. (How it's made: Video cut into images, images imported to Photoshop and messed with, morphed together with WinMorph and edited in Premiere. The sound is made with granulizer in FLStudio..) "

anyway, your title will get more votes...

HEY DOTDUDE....yeah the experts love to convalude the murky terrains they pontificate upon...I was diagnosed "hyperactive" in the 70's, before the pharmagods decided how they were going to market the dosing of the children,-they had one drug, Ritalin....gave it to me and I passed clean out on the smallest dose....

The original inspiration behind 'Hyperactive'

sorry, I didn't know to search for "hyperactive" (duh), haha. Thanks, dotdude!