Seems like some conservatives think he's cool, not cold.

Looks more to me like they're making fun of the fact that other people THINK he's cool. It's a good ad though. I really do think a lot of people out there - particularly in the left-coast media - literally get twitterpated when they think about Obama. You can see it in how they talk to him and act around him. It's pathetic. The same guys who rightfully and eagerly went after Bush2 like Pit Bulls just bend over and sigh, "Am I clenching too hard for you, Mr. Preezy?" like Chris "Tingles" Matthews.

There's no shortage of stuff to hammer Obama about. The problem is that any time Mr. Preezy gets any sort of challenge of any kind to his rigid worldview you can just SEE him tighten up and become angry, bitter, and resentful. Then his standard modus operandi is to say, "The experts all agree with me..." (even though they don't) and stonewall with a bunch of jibber-jabber. Then when it is over good luck on that guy ever getting any sort of interview again. Obama's admin is notorious for dictating to the media what questions they're allowed to ask, how they ask them, and what to talk about. Obama isn't cool. He's a narcacisst and arrogant to a level rarely seen.

It would really amuse me if from now on every single person in the media, government, and everyone else stopped calling him "Mr. President" and just called him "The Preezy". To be honest, that's about what he deserves.

"Value of a 4 year degree"

To be blunt, there is very little an undergrad degree offers anyone nowadays except if they do a Science degree. I know a lot of liberals say, "Well - you get LIFE experience of being 'exposed' to new ideas and concepts and people..!" I'll just go ahead and say it. Bullcrap. Unless you're in engineering, computer science, math, pre-med, or some other technical degree there is nothing in college worth $50,000 in debt. The standard 4-year college 'experience' today is very little more than an adult play-pen where you fritter away a few years bridging between high school and adulthood. Increasingly, more people are ending up with nothing to show for it except a hammered liver and $50,000 in debt.

As I said, the quote is my own, from another video on the subject.

As for the toxicity of ammonia, here is a link to the Health Effects portion of the CDC's Toxicological Profile for Ammonia.

Lots to read, but basically it shows that, except in huge doses of concentrated ammonia, ammonia is readily converted by the liver into urea (hence the ammonia smell of urine). Ingesting ammonia in quantities that are harmful (though still not fatal) causes burns, and ulceration of the mouth. Obviously if there was that much in the food, there would be a problem.

The report points out, "In a study of volunteers, ingestion of a single ammonium chloride tablet (approximately 15 mg NH4+/kg/day) led to a small transient increase (33% above fasting levels) in arterial blood concentrations of ammonium ion in 11 out of 20 subjects (Conn 1972); no change was noted in the remaining nine subjects in this group.[...]These data indicate that ingested ammonia is readily absorbed from the digestive tract and that the liver plays a large role in removing it from the blood (Conn 1972).



Basically, the FDA allows the use of ammonia to sterilize food products because, 1. the quantities needed to harm a human would cause said humans not to eat the products and 2. being naturally occurring, and necessary for life (for the provision of nitrogen for amino acid synthesis), the ingestion of ammonia in these quantities has no long-term health effects.

I'm not trying to argue that eating that pink goo is good for you - but the obsession with the ammonia is the wrong approach to attacking it. Phosphorus, sodium, potassium, magnesium, etc. are also poisonous in the right quantities, and they are also all necessary for human life.

If there is any common thread to my rants here on the sift, it's that people attacking the wrong subject, regardless of their intentions, makes them look stupid and reduces their credibility to those of us who care to know the truth. I completely agree with Maher's point that the republicans just attack anything the liberals support, but when he makes that point using misleading/wrong information, he's just as bad as them.>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Skeeve:
While I don't disagree with Maher's point, I'm getting really sick of people screaming about the ammonia used to treat the pink goo that is turned into chicken nuggets. As I said regarding another video:
"ammonia is a natural chemical that is necessary for human life. The amount of ammonia one would have to ingest to be harmful to a human is huge, and actually ingesting that much would be unthinkable because of the horrendous taste it would impart to the food."

This is like seeing someone sprinkle some sodium-free salt on their food and saying, "OMG that's potassium chloride! That's the lethal chemical in a lethal injection! That's going to kill you!!"
People just don't seem to care that a lot of chemicals that are popularly considered "toxic" are necessary for life or require unfathomably large doses to be harmful.

Where the hell is that quote from and is there any truth to it is what needs to be asked. To me that sounds like something a PR person would say, like in that video about Global Warming where they made the point that "CO2 is natural".
You've got more to answer for Skeeve and if you don't I'm bidding you a hearty GOOD DAY To You Sir!

My daughter takes a pill derived from a Streptomyces Tsukubaensis fungus 3 times a week. It keeps her transplanted liver happy.

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from wiki:
Like ciclosporin, it was found in a soil fungus, although it is produced by a type of bacterium,

>> ^artician:

>> ^deathcow:
i thought he was going to flatten em

Well... That is how you make Foie Gras.


You fatten them, not flatten, to get foie gras. Foie gras literally translates to fatty liver.

>> ^budzos:

A shot to the liver will produce purplish blood.
Are you quite sure of that? I was under the impression that deoxygenated venous blood turns red immediately on exposure to the oxygen in air.

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Enoch! Hope all is well, padre. :

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It's closer to 99.99% to 00.01%.

And the wealth seems to be flowing in one direction.


ROUGY!!!



not so well of late.
i am afraid my cynicism has reached epic proportions and i have not written anything of substance in over a year.
and no teaching gig for two....
aaaaaaand,
my kidneys and liver are starting to shut down so i am in constant pain.
so..
yeah..
one big ball of suck lately.





you?

Last I checked, PBR was a typical American Lager, not Belgian in any way.

And I'd rather drink a Stellas Artois or a Hoegaarden than a PBR, any day. But, I'll admit, if I want some cheap swill, PBR is bearable.

>> ^Morganth:

Only Belgian beer for this liver.

Only Belgian beer for this liver.

my liver problems appeared when i was losing weight, but this is normal for liver problems.

looking back, I would have avoided this by eating normal portions of low-glycemic food

When I had a complete medical work-up (to qualify to transplant half of my liver into my daughter) in 2005, I had catscan which revealed an acceptably low fat liver. Her liver was completely destroyed at the time. I had spent the last 35 yrs eating whatver tf I wanted to... so it was a miracle.

Running lean is a really good idea. Think of how many fat-assed lions and tigers you see in National Geographic films... it's not natural.

I myself was told I had showed up as having fatty liver, a friend of mine was diagnosed the same, and years before I was diagnosed someone I just randomly talking to in a game mentioned their brother had been diagnosed with liver issues.

Now what do they all have in common? Within months to a year the symptoms that the doctors told them were very serious went away with no medication or real diet changes on their part. All males in their 20s, only one of them was a drinker of note, one didn't drink at all and the other occasionally. Two were overweight, one obese. Two of them later went on to be diagnosed with sleep apnea (which affects lots of things) probably 3-4 years later.

That's not to say they weren't a sign of something potentially serious, but your body is constantly adapting to things so you could have just picked up a cold and got tested at the exact wrong time. I think I'd ask for another more planned for blood test, while you fast if it will give more accurate results.

Treating a fatty liver is important! First, if your doctor prescribes a medicine, most of the time it's harmful to your liver. Be a self advocate and discuss with him if the treatment is really important. Maybe taking steroids to stave off an annoying cough isn't as important as you'd like it to be.

Second, if you're a drinker, not only drink lots of water but also make sure you're taking in buttloads of potassium. If you're taking potassium supplements, please note they're probably potassium gluconate, and although the bottle says 550mg, it's really only 90mg of potassium (or 3% of your daily allowance). Don't be afraid to take more than one or two, and honestly coconut water and bananas have a high count of potassium so stock the fuck up.

Last, eat healthier. Broccoli, cabbage (or brussel sprouts) and garlic are great for fatty livers. Cut out sugar from your diet if possible. Instead of a soda, order unsweetened tea (black tea is just about as healthy as green tea!).

Well oot o' the East there came a hard man
Oh-ho, a' the way frae Brigton?
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Well he went intae a pub and he come oot paralytic
Oh, VP and cider |VP is rum or sherry, I think
Ah-ha, what a hell of a mixture
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Sex rears its ugly head...)
Does this bus go tae the Dennistoun Palais?
Oh-ho, I'm lookin' fur a lumber |looking for a woman [1]
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Eyes up the talent, and lo and behold...)
In the dancin' he met Hairy Mary,
Oh, the flooer o' the Gorbals |flower
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Chats he up...)
Aw noo Mary, are ye dancin'?
"Oh no, it's just the way I'm staunin'" |standing
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Rebuffed!)
Well then, Mary, yer one in a million,
"Oh-ho, so's yer chances!"
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Rebuffed again!)
Well then Mary, can I run ye hame?
Oh-ho, I've got a pair of sandshoes,
"A ha-ha, ye're hell of a funny!"
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

(spoken: Never say die. Sways aboot nonchalantly,
picking his nails with a bayonet. An' he knocks her off...)
Well, doon through the back-close, an' intae the dunny, |[2]
Oh-ho, it wasnae fur the first time, |wasn't
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Then oot came her mammy - she was goin' tae the cludgie, |[3]
Oh-ho, I buggered off sharpish,
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Noo Hairy Mary's lookin' for her hard man,
Oh-ho, he's jined the Foreign Legion |joined
Ah-ha, Sahara unner ra camels, |under the camels
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

Then Hairy Mary's had a little baby
Oh-ho, its faither's in the army
Ah-ha, glory hallelujah
Cod liver oil and the orange juice

>> ^artician:

Either this video is flipped for copyright protection, or this man has no idea where the human liver resides in the human body.


Even with a flip, a liver should not extend to the bottom of his torso unless he has severe hepatitis. This is some beau-sheet movie making.

>> ^artician:

Either this video is flipped for copyright protection, or this man has no idea where the human liver resides in the human body.

A flipped video would also mean he's left-handed.