NEANDERTHALS AND DIABETES

 

Poor Neanderthals!

When will they be left in peace?

This and that accusation, discovery or conclusion is always being made about Neanderthals.

The latest allegation blames Neanderthal DNA for Type 2 Diabetes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2529822/How-NEANDERTHALS-blame-people-getting-diabetes.html

I'll bet I'm not the only person who has wondered where diabetes came from, but I would have never thought to blame Neanderthals.

You just never know about some things.

If Neanderthals were alive they would be in court all the time, suing the hair off of the Homo Sapiens who have made all of these accusations.

What causes Diabetes?

Not obesity.

Not sugar.

But Neanderthals!

Poor Neanderthals!

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND NEANDERTHALS!

SANTA CLAUS JESUS AND MEGYN KELLY

The Isle of Wight

 

Dedicated to Megyn Kelly and all things white.

 

CHRISTMAS IS WHITE

SANTA IS WHITE

SNOW IS WHITE

JESUS IS WHITE

LIGHT IS WHITE

(THE SKY IS BLUE)

PAPER IS WHITE

(UNLESS IT'S A DIFFERENT COLOR)

THE POPE IS WHITE

THE PRESIDENT IS WHITE

(AND BLACK)

DANDRUFF IS WHITE

UNDERWEAR IS WHITE

(UNLESS IT'S A DIFFERENT COLOR)

RON WHITE IS WHITE...

BUT WHAT COLOR IS THE ISLE OF WIGHT?

 

 

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND WHITE!

FATE

Destiny by John William Waterhouse


Today is December 18, 2013. 

I'm reading REFLECTIONS ON THE CIVIL WAR by Bruce Catton, and thought the following sentence from this book fit what I wrote below in a letter that I posted in 2007: 

"The human trajectory is eternally incalculable, beginning in deepest mystery and going blind to a fate no one can predict." 

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I had just left work and wanted to buy a vanilla ice-cream cone.

I could have done otherwise, but I didn't.

I turned right from Dyer Street onto Honda Pass.

I was only a few hundred yards from getting my ice-cream cone.

Then, suddenly, a white car started turning left without any signal.

I also swerved left and accelerated forward to get ahead of the car's path.

I thought that I had succeeded in avoiding a collision when...

CRASH!

Some unprintable swear words came out of me.

Then I looked in my rear view mirror to make sure that the white car's driver was not "running away".

He wasn't.

We both pulled into a parking lot.

I took a look at the damage from the collision.

The door on the passenger side was smashed in, but I could still open the door and close it.

I said to the other driver, "I tried like hell to miss you, but you just kept on coming."

The driver produced his driver's license, and I fished out my insurance card.

I said to the driver, "You’ll admit that this was your fault?”

He said, "Well, I don’t want to say that."

"But you will admit that you turned in front of me?”

"Yes, I was making a U-Turn."

I wrote down his name, address and phone number.

I left this scene and drove about one block to get my ice cream cone.

I wouldn’t be thwarted by Fate.

As I am driving I often ponder what ifs.

What if I went this way instead of another?

I believe there is something true about intuition and gut instincts.

For example, before I decided to get my ice-cream cone I again thought about the consequences.

Maybe something bad will happen.

Should I go this way?

Bingo!

Something bad did happen.

None of us can stop living or doing what we do based only on what ifs.

Maybe you don't think about what ifs as much as I do.

It's probably better for your health.

I remember a short story in which an all-powerful computer was "killed" when it was asked to define fate.

Maybe I should stop trying to escape or define my own fate.

Just let it flow.

S*** does happen.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

A SELFIE A HANDSHAKE AND GEORGE W. BUSH

 

 

 It is a difficult time to be President of the United States.

(I was going to write “President of the Free World”, but of course, a lot of the world is not so free.)

President Obama handed the radical right-wing loonies more ammunition to put into their muskets when he shook hands with Raul Castro.

The handshake occurred during Nelson Mandela's funeral.

The handshake might have made Nelson Mandela proud of Mr. Obama.

The “selfie” that President Obama snapped is a different story, but I'm more upset that liar-liar Bush-on-fire, was given a ride to Nelson Mandela's funeral aboard Air Force One with the President.

George W. Bush should have taken a domestic flight.

In fact, Mr. Bush should be in prison for what he did to Iraq and America.

Maybe a Cuban prison.

Instead, the smug and ignominious physiognomy of George W. Bush was seen, and he, proudly showed off his paintings.

I wonder if his stuff is any better than Hitler's?

I know, this is a distasteful low blow, but it came to mind.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES!

CABBAGES AND KINGS ON THE MOON

 

 



"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

From The Walrus and The Carpenter

by Lewis Carroll

Since I eat a lot of cabbage, and sprinkle basil on almost everything, it came as a sweet surprise that the moon will soon be seeded with both cabbage and basil, plus other flora, in an experiment to see whether fauna---namely the human sort---can live on the moon.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516538/One-giant-leek-mankind-Nasa-try-growing-vegetables-herbs-moon-humans-day-live-there.html

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I guess the moon will eventually have some cheese, too.

 

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Humans should already be living on the moon, cooking up a storm, taking Moon-lit---I mean, Earth-lit drives.

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I'm sick of looking at moon, knowing that Big Macs and DQ Blizzards should already be there.

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I don't believe that aliens have ever stopped us from returning to the Moon.

I believe it's just that we're too lazy and stingy to return.

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Men are also too busy trying to kill each other, instead of flying to the Moon and Mars.

Isn't that why women should be in power instead of men?

Then we might be headed for the stars instead of sowing so much death and destruction.

IT'S ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES ON THE MOON!