Hey Women, Taking Vitamins Might Kill You that Much Faster

Well, there is a 2.4% increased risk of dying anyway.

The new study linked a number of individual vitamins and minerals to the slight mortality risk, including multivitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper.

For example, of the 12,769 women in the study who took a daily multivitamin, 40.8 percent had died by the end of 2008, whereas 39.8 percent of the 10,161 women who hadn't taken a daily multivitamin had died.

Mursu said that the design of the study did not allow the researchers to determine if there was a specific cause for the increased mortality.

That doesn't make sense. Wouldn't the study authors be able to look over the data and determine that this vitamin or that vitamin has a higher chance of mortality then the others? Also I would like to know if there is a trend in how the women are dying. So for instance if they all died of some horrible cancer or something then it would be nice for the authors to point that out. In any case I think there might be a lot less pill popping going on going forward.

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Sarah Palin Will Not Run: Thank God!

At least she bowed out early so we can get to the actual people running against Obama and get away from Palin bashing by the press.

Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided that I will not be seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for President of the United States. As always, my family comes first and obviously Todd and I put great consideration into family life before making this decision. When we serve, we devote ourselves to God, family and country. My decision maintains this order.

She would suck the air out the room and become an easy win for Obama going forward. I think her reputation is just too damaged by the press to be anything except for a television pundit. I mean even though it was Tiny Fey that made that "I can see Russia from my house" remark it has still stuck with Palin even now. If she ran for president she would be defeated by 20 points I think.

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Default Social Networker Found

This is a pretty interesting report by Nielsen Research on the default visitor to a social networking site.

Our most active social networker/reader of blogs is a woman between the ages of 18 and 34 and likely to be Asian or Pacific Islander. She lives in New England, holds at least a bachelor's degree and earns less than $50,000 a year. 

I was kind of surprised that this person is Asian and from New England though. Maybe the poll was skewed that way due to how these people were sampled. In any case marketers need to target this person in order to generate a larger percentage of sales via social networking.  

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France Declares War Against Al-Quida

The thought of the French surrendering and having Al-Quida march down the Champs De Elysees with those black scarves over their faces while holding AK-47s just wouldn't be right. However, these are some pretty robust words from the French.

The declaration and attack marked a shift in strategy for France, usually discrete about its behind-the-scenes battle against terrorism.

"We are at war with al-Qaida," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau.

The humanitarian worker had been abducted April 20 or 22 in Niger by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and was later taken to Mali, officials said.

Well, at least France is finally understanding the true face of these al-Quida scumbags. Yeah they will execute some 78 year old aid-worker in a minute if they get the chance. Let's hope they channel the spirit of Napoleon in this war and not the spirit of Petain.

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Sherrod Back Under the Bus

Now this is some crazy movement. She went from obscurity, to media darling, to media pariah all in the stretch of a week.

Earlier this week a handful of people in the blogosphere began to speculate Sherrod would pull off a �full Ginsburg,� or become only the thirteenth person to appear on all major Sunday talk-shows on the same day since the feat was first accomplished by William H. Ginsburg in 1998. However, this was before a clip of Sherrod suggesting Andrew Breitbart wants blacks �stuck back in the times of slavery� went viral. Sherrod also drew extensive criticism late in the week for blasting Fox News as racist.

Considering the Shirley Sherrod interview barrage that took place last Thursday, to not see Sherrod on television Sunday morning sends a clear signal the mainstream media no longer feels allowing the public to get to know the real Shirley Sherrod advances their agenda.

I think they were afraid she would do more damage to their narrative with more extemporaneous charges of racism toward conservative boogy-men. She was the aggrieved party right up until she started to slander Breitbart with a charge that you could safely say that no one has had in 60+ years.

At least she could have said he wanted to bring back Jim Crow or something. I mean who other then some 100 year old white planter in the 1950s really wanted to actually bring back slavery? Now the media just wants her to disappear before she says something else outrageous.

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ObamaCare Just Keeps on Giving: Insruance Companies are Not Selling New Plans to Children

I think this is the kind of bill that will keep cropping up every few months with a new abomination until it is repealed.

Some major health insurance companies have stopped issuing certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said in his state UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said a couple of local insurers in her state have done likewise.

Now the Obama guilt trip followed with some Chicago style demonization will be directed at UnitedHealh and Blue Cross Blue Shield to make them toe the line. Of course they won't and more threats will be issued etc.

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JournoList Went After Palin En Masse

Now we know where that the whole "the Palin pick for VP was sexist" idea came from.

Suzanne Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch, added a novel take: �I think it is and can be spun as a profoundly sexist pick. Women should feel umbrage at the idea that their votes can be attracted just by putting a woman, any woman, on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views.�

Mother Jones�s Stein loved the idea. �That�s excellent! If enough people � people on this list? � write that the pick is sexist, you�ll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the SINGLE thing Palin brings to the ticket,� he wrote. . . .

This article also pointed out how journalists all went after CNBC people at the same time as well. I remember Jim Cramer and Rick Santelli were blasted in the press seeming out of the clear blue sky. Suddenly they were causing the financial crisis etc. I also remember that Jon Stewart went after Cramer with special gusto as well. I am wondering if he or one of his minions was on this list as well?

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Cap-and-Trade Dead: Killed by Recession

Well, at least we can get rid of the idea of a light switch tax hopefully once and for all.

Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned plans to pass an energy bill that caps emissions of carbon dioxide, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a development he called "terribly disappointing."

There were no Republicans willing to lose their jobs over a tax that will be levied on all Americans as the utilities pass it on to consumers. This one bill would have raised the prices on everything in the US since almost all of them need electricity in order for them to be produced. I am convinced that it would have made us spiral into a double dip recession. With Cap and Tax dead the idea that you should never raise taxes (especially on everything produced using electricity in the US) will still hold true.

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Is the JournoList the Death of the Mainstream Media?

I have to agree with this article wholeheartedly.

For independents who don�t follow politics closely, the JournoList scandal provides a simple, blatantly obvious narrative about fraud and propaganda. A sizable segment of the �journalist� population stands revealed as sputtering extremists, who talk about killing stories and destroying people�s lives to protect their favored political candidate. Yes, these people are self-professed liberals � they�re not pretending to be �objective� reporters or news anchors � but the cross-pollination between �liberal� and �objective� journalists is a blindingly obvious matter of public knowledge, and the things they�re talking about doing are vile, underhanded, and conspiratorial.

I think the idea of the "objective" journalist will die because of this so-called Newsgate. I mean some of them had fantasies of watching Rush Limbaugh die as they stood there and laughed.

As reported in the Daily Caller, Sarah Spitz, producer* of the KCRW public radio program �Left, Right and Center,� which is heard on a number of NPR stations across the country, wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would �laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.�

I can't wait to tune into the "objective" reporting of KCRW public radio "Left, Right, and Center" (maybe they should change the name to Left, Far Left, and Communist) when their producer wants to laugh in the face of a dying Conservative. That is a woman I can trust to report the news "fair and square" without any bias when she is not fantasizing about watching people die. I don't like Rachel Maddow but I never had visions of me laughing in her face as she expired right in front of me. This kind of grotesque liberal sickness has finally been brought out into the light.

This is just like the ClimateGate emails in many ways. This finally shows Americans how they are being duped by the people they used to trust. ClimateGate shows that scientists "cook the books" and try to destroy reputations rather then present an unbiased view of their science. It got people to think about what hidden motives these scientists actually harbor. Are they slanting the science for money or prestige or just to run the show when it comes to world economies?

Newsgate shows that the media tells only certain stories and buries what goes against their ideological narrative. These reporters are seen duping the American people into, for instance, voting for an unready candidate just because he was the media darling. It will have Americans asking what other sorts of stories do the media like to bury? Who else do they want to see die as they laugh in their face? How deep does this conspiracy go? Should I keep paying for the Washington Post if they are simply printing propaganda that is filtered through their far left lens?

In many ways this might be the gravestone of the modern media establishment. Already newspapers can barely stay solvent and magazines are closing their doors. Now we have the revelation that many of their contributors and confidants are bunch of vile underhanded hacks that fantasize about watching you die if you are middle of the road or conservative.

Any readers that they have that are not far leftists probably don't want to read propaganda day in and day out. Americans don't like to be tricked or have someone tell them what news is safe for them to read. Now we have bald-faced proof that a large portion of the media cannot be trusted to be objective anymore.Conservatives knew this for years but now everyone else will.

I think the Dems should write the "Leftist Media Bailout Bill" or maybe consider nationalizing them because their slow march to oblivion might have just turned into a headlong rush.

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Conspiracy Theory Time: ObamaCare to Track Gold Purchases

This isn't some theory based on shaky facts. This was put into the Health Care Bill at the 11th hour.

Section 9006 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will amend the Internal Revenue Code to expand the scope of Form 1099. Currently, 1099 forms are used to track and report the miscellaneous income associated with services rendered by independent contractors or self-employed individuals.

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change.

So that means if you own your own business and are socking some money away in gold just in case things go bad the government wants to make sure they tax you. The conspiracy theory idea comes from the idea that $600 is so low which means just about every gold transaction would be flagged. So they could add a little dossier about "survivalist types" that are squirreling away gold and do something nefarious. They can sell that knowledge to shady international bankers for whatever schemes they have.

The really bad part is that suddenly small businesses have another added layer of reporting that they have to do for pretty much no reason. So the payment to your accountant or your attorney, the new laptop you bought for the intern, or that new postage meter will suddenly have to be tracked by the IRS. All this extra reporting won't be free. Some 1099s would read like phone books depending on what sort of business you own and how many $600+ purchases you need to do in order to get your business to run profitably.

Also why does the IRS need to know this stuff in the first place? It seems they just want to make an extra $17 billion in income taxes over 10 years. This comes at the cost of $10s of billions more in wasted time and extra man-hours that it would take to comply with this asinine new 1099. The sooner the Supreme Court strikes this monstrosity down the better life will be.

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Leftist Media Actual Conspired to Kill Stories and Smear Conservatives

Even though many people suspected it all along it turns out to be true.

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama�s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama�s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, �Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares � and call them racists.�

In other words the leftist media pretty much buried the story that might have damaged their golden boy and just wanted to throw the racist tag at any Conservative writer they could get in their sights. If the media wasn't dying already the idea that they all hide the news from you should be the final nail in their coffin.

There is no such thing as journalistic integrity in a business that literally conspires to keep you from learning the truth. I guess you can now call it the Pravda Era of American Journalism and simply ignore vast swaths of the main stream media as news hiders and not news reporters.

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Cast the Movie Now: Daring Escape from Auschwitz Brought on By Love

This movie would make a pile of money and maybe Oscar nods depending on who plays the hero.

The day was July 21, 1944. Bielecki was walking in broad daylight down a pathway at Auschwitz, wearing a stolen SS uniform with his Jewish sweetheart Cyla Cybulska by his side.

His knees buckling with fear, he tried to keep a stern bearing on the long stretch of gravel to the sentry post.

The German guard frowned at his forged pass and eyed the two for a period that seemed like an eternity � then uttered the miraculous words: "Ja, danke" � yes, thank you � and let Jerzy and Cyla out of the death camp and into freedom.

I would go with Johnny Depp to play Bielecki and maybe Kate Winslett with dyed hair to play Cyla. It would be like the Notebook with SS guards. Maybe like Letters to Juliet meets the Great Escape.

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A Primer on the Cultural Elite

A very interesting article on how the cultural elite are currently in charge of America.

It is a sloppy term that might include the academic class in the university that educates our children in college. The upper echelons that run government departments constitute part of this cultural elite. So does an entertainment cadre that oversees television and Hollywood. Corporate managers are elites as well.

There is no racial, regional, religious, or tribal commonality. One shared allegiance perhaps is to higher education that certifies the cultural elite by diplomas of all sorts from a �good school,� as well as a respectable salary and a nice home with appurtenances. The good life of the elite is defined by both the absence of worry about necessities, and a certain status that accrues from properly recognized advanced education and sensitivity.

I think them being divorced from actual labor and running a business is part of why we can't get the unemployment under 10%. They think that all people need is more grant money or more contacts on a foundation and jobs should be flowing like crazy. They haven't had to run a business in order to make money so the business can continue. That is why they have such an aversion to profit since they have never had to make it or their company goes out of business. I mean no one is going to close Cal Berkley even if it lost money for 20 years strait.

What is so odd to me is that they can be okay with Leo DiCaprio making $20 million a picture but can't stand when a CEO makes $1 million or more a year. They both do a job that the vast majority of Americans cannot do. Only a handful of people could open a $60 million movie or run multi-billion dollar company. So they are both paid what they are worth. However, the left hates the CEO for whatever reason and treats DiCaprio with reverence and awe.

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More Evidence of the Stimulus Bill Failure: How we paid $500,000 to generate each job

Now this would be really funny if it wasn't such an indictment of government wasting money.

The purpose of the trip is to highlight the �success� of the President�s $862 billion economic stimulus package which the White House claimed yesterday has already �saved or created� 3 million jobs. Specifically, this factory is being subsidized by $151 million of stimulus funds from an even larger $2 billion honey pot of stimulus money set aside for electric car battery investments. This one plant is expected to employ 300 workers. That works out to more than $500,000 per job created. $500,000 per job. This plant, in a nutshell, explains why the President�s stimulus plan has been an objective failure.

The government is the master in taking billions of dollars and figuratively flushing them down the toilet. They might have been better off if they didn't just give the money to people so that they could pay the bills or start businesses or something.

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BP Caps the Well on the 85th Day

Well at least the White House can take their boot off their necks for a little while. Maybe they can put their boot on the neck of unemployment next.

A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory � long awaited by weary residents along the coast � is the most significant milestone yet in BP's effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.

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