HALECREST CHILI COOKOFF YESTERDAY
The event was scheduled from 1-4 p.m. We got there a little after 1 and there was already a sizable crowd of about 100 people. We took some photos which we'll review and may post here later on if we have time. Not much to see, really, just people milling about. We left after about half an hour.
The only pols we spotted while we were there were Foley, who was cooking chili in front of a wall of her election signs, and Ramos who took a seat on the edge of the grassy area.
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UNIONS AND LIBERALS GIVING LOTS OF MONEY TO FOLEY (click to see some of her donors)
Wonder why? Out of the goodness of their hearts?
Now, why would the Newport Beach Cop union give $ 5 Bigs to Foley? Newport Beach? Huh? Oh yeah, it's a union thing. See, if she gets elected in Costa Mesa, she'll screw taxpayers to give ever more money to union workers in Costa Mesa, and that will eventually help the union workers in Newport Beach. Comprende?
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THE WORLD...
RAMZPAUL ON RAND PAUL (NO RELATION) AND RAND PAUL'S PANDERING TO BLACKS WITH LIES
Video (4:35 min.)
Touches briefly on the importance of genes, which, of course are the blueprints, the formulas, the recipes that make each type of organism what it is.
Genes are to organisms what a recipe is to a cake and the environment is to an organism what an oven is to a cake.
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2ND EBOLA PATIENT IN TEXAS
As with all life, the Ebola virus struggles to find a way around everything that tries to kill it or keep it from expanding. So far, the Ebola virus is finding such ways.
Expect more U.S. cases. The Feds are simply not taking the danger seriously enough and people from Ebola hit nations in Africa are still streaming into the U.S.
What the Feds are doing is trying to keep a lid of secrecy on things and pumping out press releases that are so obviously attempts to quell panic that they're almost funny. For example, this second patient was a health care worker who attended to now dead patient # 1, and the authorities are saying that this patient # 2 can't remember any breaches in safety precautions that she might have made, yet the authorities are then saying there must have been a breach in such precautions.
You see, the authorities want people (especially health care workers) to believe that the gloves and masks, etc. that they're now using, along with the procedures they're also using, will stop people from being infected. Or to put it plainly, they're saying that patient # 2 must have screwed up somehow and that she's infected because of her human error (which no one has been able to identify).
Actually, as we've suggested before, those in contact with Ebola patients should probably be wearing the equivalent of space suits and should not be exposed to the air in the rooms occupied by Ebola patients. That may be the only way to stop the virus from jumping from one person to the next.
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WHAT IS LIFE?
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Article from 2002 about trying to come up with a universal definition of life.
The writing ping-pongs but is worth a read.
The definition that seems to be favored has three elements: Life reproduces; life uses energy; life does these two functions by following a set of instructions embedded within the organism.
We found this paragraph interesting simply because it might distract some from the reality of how life works: Not all living things are capable of reproduction, however. Mules are born sterile. Most honeybees do not reproduce: only the Queen bee has that honor. Many human beings live their entire lives without producing offspring, and no one would argue that such people were not therefore alive.
A couple of points about the above paragraph. Mules*--which are born sterile and thus can't reproduce are certainly alive. The confusion here is in confounding life in general with specific individuals. Not every individual can reproduce but the general "pure" form of life that it is from can. In the case of mules, the original DNA code has been unnaturally selected and the result is that Mules are marked for extinction. as being impure variations of the code. They have most life processes, but they lack the ability to make more like themselves. Honeybees--here again, it is not every individual of the species that must reproduce to indicate that individuals of the species are alive or not; the DNA code of this species is programmed in a certain way that some members reproduce and some don't. And, on this point, it is well to remember that we must focus on the DNA code of a species, not on individuals. It is the DNA code that is the seat of life and it is the DNA code that "wants" to survive and expand, and it does this in different species in different ways. Human beings--although I might argue that certain human beings who do not reproduce are barely alive, I would be doing so with tongue in cheek. Again, it is the DNA code of the species that rules.
* A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The reason a mule can't reproduce is because it has 63 chromosomes which is the combination of the donkey's 62 chromosomes and the horse's 64 chromosomes. Generally, you have to have an even number of chromosomes for reproduction to take place because both sides of the DNA spiral have to match up.
BTW, normal humans have 46 chromosomes. A human male contributes 23 of his chromosomes which contains around 10,000 of his genes to a new child and a human female contributes the other 23 chromosomes and 10,000 or so genes.
Naturally, this brings me to this video and song by Laibach: LIFE
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GROUP POLARIZATION AND THE FAD OF ETHNOMASOCHISM
One explanation of how some people come to hate their own race.
Video (8:38 min.)
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**VOTERS GUIDE FOR COSTA MESA**
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