Iran finds the cure for AIDS.

Yup, how can Iran be such a bad country now that they’ve found the cure for AIDS?  What a bunch of nice guys…

Iran to Publicize Medical Discovery in Feb.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- An Iranian health official said that his country will announce good news about success in developing a new medicine in the coming Ten Day Dawn – from February 1-11 (marking the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979).

Hessamoddin Madani, director of the health ministry’s team for the Iran-made anti-AIDS drug (IMOD), said that the ministry is conducting studies to develop 22 new drugs.

He further called on the government to render increased spiritual and material support to researchers.

After 7 long years of arduous work, Iranian scientists last February introduced a herbal medicine which cures Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

“The drug named ‘IMOD’ is completely effective and safe with no proved side effects,” Madani said.

The Iranian AIDS drug strengthens immunity system of the patients against HIV and provides a more qualitative life for the affected population.

“One IMOD injection produces effects for 21 months, meaning that the patient will not need any medication for 21 months,” Madani said.

“The herbal drug prolongs patient’s life by 5 years,” he added.

Filed under: Iran

Thoughts?

Filed under: Thoughts

Contender for the Darwin Awards.

GAUHATI, India  —  Two tigers killed a man who stuck his arm into their enclosure in northeastern India on Wednesday, ripping off his arm as his family and dozens of visitors looked on, zoo officials said.

What’s that Forrest said?  Stupid is as stupid does?

Filed under: Thoughts

Proof of Global Warming….. not!

Again, one of my pet peeves in the media and in the political three ring circus, is self-absorbed claim that man is the sole cause of the world’s current climate change.  How can we be so arrogant to lay such claims without a true inkling of the global climate dynamics?

Every night the talking heads only broadcast at most a 5 day weather forecast.  Why?  Because they cannot say for certain what will happen beyond that point, yet all these so called experts can claim that man-made carbon emissions are wreaking havoc on global temperatures and will cause the collapse of the world’s social systems within decades.

I found David Deming’s Washington Times commentary on Global Cooling today of note.  So let’s consider some facts he posts…

• In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.
• In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918.
• In Peru, 200 people died from the cold and thousands more became infected with respiratory diseases.
• Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007. Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years.
• On Dec. 7, St. Cloud, Minn., set a new record low of minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit. On the same date, record low temperatures were also recorded in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Does this discount global warming?  According to David, evidently not.

In 2005, a Canadian Greenpeace representative explained “global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter.”

Oye.  Read the whole article here.

Filed under: Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming/Climate Change, Politics, Science, Thoughts

Better off Fred…

I stumbled upon this from Barking MoonBat Early Warning System.  Boy, wish I’d actually watched this debate, would have loved to see the following exchange in real life.  From a transcript:

CAROLYN WASHBURN: I want to take on a new issue. I would like to see a show of hands. How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?

FRED THOMPSON: I’m not doing…

THOMPSON: I’m not doing hand-shows today.

WASHBURN: No hand-shows today?

THOMPSON: No hand-shows.

WASHBURN: And so, does that mean—is that yes or no for you? Do you believe that global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?

THOMPSON: Well, you want to give me a minute to answer that?

WASHBURN: No, I don’t.

THOMPSON: Well, then I’m not going to answer it.

The following video captures Fred’s comments, but only after a quick sequence of Reagan’s comments during a past debate.  Not sure I like the comparison between Thompson and Reagan, but it’s still worth a watch…

YouTube – Fred Thompson’s Defining Moment: “I’m Not Doing Hand Shows”

Filed under: Politics, Republicans

Ye Olde Christmas Game…

 

If you love trivia and Christmas, here’s a great post by Writer Chick Talks that combines the best of both worlds…

Shoeing the Wild Mare is a traditional Christmas game that goes back to at least the early 17th century.

Follow the link for a lot more fun information on Christmas Trivia, history and “ye olde  games”.  I have a preponderance of useless information occupying my grey matter, but learned some new stuff here.

Filed under: Christmas, Thoughts

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

After a long day installing pillars in the concrete to keep vehicles from parking next to the building, these workers are cleaning up to leave.  Does a certain saying come to mind about painting and corners?  Found at StrangeCosmos.com.

Filed under: Fun, Thoughts

Policy Brief: Iraq, Iran and Turkey

As I recuperate from oral surgery, I spent some of my time catching up at the Center for Defense Information.  Oh, for future reference, don’t have you wisdom teeth pulled after the age 40.  Not so fun…  This issue (101) of Weekly Security Review’s analysis by WSI Senior Fellow, John Newhouse.

One year since the release of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report, WSI Senior Fellow John Newhouse revisits the Study Group’s recommendations in his latest policy brief, “Iraq, Iran and Turkey: A Regional Approach.” Newhouse argues that the United States must keep a low profile in Iraq and push for a regional framework for resolving the crisis. But it must also realize that bigger issues now threaten the region, such as how to deal with Iran and Turkey’s powder-keg situation in northern Iraq.

Filed under: Global Threats, Iran, Iraq

Remember Pearl Harbor…

At 6:00 a.m. on 7 December, the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. Even as they winged south, some elements of U.S. forces on Oahu realized there was something different about this Sunday morning.

In the hours before dawn, U.S. Navy vessels spotted an unidentified submarine periscope near the entrance to Pearl Harbor. It was attacked and reported sunk by the destroyer USS Ward (DD-139) and a patrol plane. At 7:00 a.m., an alert operator of an Army radar station at Opana spotted the approaching first wave of the attack force. The officers to whom those reports were relayed did not consider them significant enough to take action. The report of the submarine sinking was handled routinely, and the radar sighting was passed off as an approaching group of American planes due to arrive that morning.

Filed under: Military, Thoughts

Founder’s Quote…

“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense.

Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.”

– Thomas Jefferson (letter to William Johnson, 1823)

Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Memorial Edition), Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., 15:450. PatriotPost.US

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A Big Sigh of Relief…

If you’ve stopped by my blog before, you know I’ve kept some tabs on Venezuela and it’s dictator-in-the-making.  It seems that he isn’t quite ready to don the mantle of supreme leader and his countrymen have said so…

Official: Chavez loses referendum vote via Hot Air. They have handed him a serious defeat in front of the whole world. But he has until 2013 to undo this election and get himself made president for life. He lost tonight, but I doubt that he’s finished. Can he recover? Hopefully, the answer to that question will be the same as the one that a majority of Venezuelans delivered this time: NO.

Even the boss himself admitted that he may have misjudged and taken everything too quickly.  Ya think???

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Humbled by his first electoral defeat, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.

“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reform by 51 percent to 49 percent.

What does that mean for us?  Well, perhaps our oil prices may drop, we can forget that “oil war” he promised us, and that the coalition of “axis-type” states he was cobbling together may fall apart.

I’m off to find out what his partner in crime (Ahmadinejad) has to be saying about the whole thing…

Filed under: Global Threats