Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 10th, 2011
Good morning!
I woke up this morning feeling pretty sleepy, somewhat like this kitty. It’s Friday and I wanted to post something sweet to swing us into the weekend. I think this does just that. If you haven’t seen it, it will put a smile on your face, and warm up your heart. How could it not? Enjoy.
Doug: Thanks for the above video and for posting the info on the dolphins. This info is so distressing. I can ‘t even imagine how the dolphins must feel. To capture and kill all for the sake of entertainment is just too cruel. I HOPE this comes to an end. I signed too.
Zen Lill: Now why would anyone miss your post in 2009, when they have the pleasure of you wit here daily? :)
Anna Of Guam: Why is it even necessary to put that crap in drinks anyway? To make it cheap. It seems like it is getting to the point that only those who have lots of money will get pure food, if there is even such a thing anymore. Those who can’t afford it will be buying cheap processed foods and digesting dangerous chemicals. Once again the love of money is more important than the love for human lives. Hafa Adai.
Social Butterfly: Thanks for your comments, and additional info. I wish it wasn’t so, but it wouldn’t be surprising. It has been said here quite a few times that “cops are thugs with guns”, as Robert reminded us in his comments.
So let’s see, we have the Job description of a cop held to a “higher standard” than a citizen, and the police force themselves making it tempting for rapists, racists, thieves etc., to apply for a cop position because of the known ”code of silence”.
Like you said Robert, one can easily imagine what type of person would apply for this position. So why not apply? They have more of a chance as a cop than the average citizen when they basically get to live out their bad ways and a pretty good chance of getting away with it. It really is scary.
Uryte, Lori, Morri, Kreg: I just have to jump in and say something. As much as I am cringing over the pleasure that all of you had, I am also amused by your chronicles. It sounds like quite the feast, and nothing different from how we humans talk about a delightful dinner together.
However, Lori, your last comment took me by surprise. I went from enjoying the read to being quite intrigued by your story, your last comment. No doubt from your experiences as a young girl one would turn against the human male. Many girls who have written in here, lived through similar experiences, and with no doubt feel the same way.
When you met this alien, what did he ask you to do to help turn the tide for the arabs? It seems to me he was not happy with your response, hence, you are now a vampire. What magic did he do that day? Did you ever see him again after you awoke? I know…lots of questions, but your story, as well as those of Uryte, Morris, and Kreg seems to have left me with more questions to ask. If any of you feel like sharing more, I know I am not the only one who is interested.
Lea: I will try to look into it, but no promises that I will be able to comply with your request. Hafa Adai.
Prism Princess: Happy to hear that Roi is well. And you’re welcome.
Readers: Like I said, it’s Friday…
Peace Out.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
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michelle
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June 10th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Michelle:
You are not the only one interested in yesterday’s comments of Uuryte, Morris, Kreg and Lori.
I too, was fascinated by the reminiscence of these beings living amongst us.
The Beings of Ancient Mythologies all over the world really existed at one time and some still do.
HOWIE
June 10th, 2011 at 11:32 am
Michelle, I am truly embarrassed sometimes when I learn of the lengths some members of my race will stoop to to slander President Obama.
Some of my “friends” have informed me that they are members of a wing of the republican party that is paying them hundreds of thousands of dollars to set up web sites that are geared to respond when someone ask a question about islam. The scam is to give information about islam and tie islam into Obama by putting this in the blog title – Official Obama Websitewww.BarackObama.com
Join the campaign to re-elect President Obama. Are you in?
The object is to make people think that Obama is a muslim and that he is supported by muslims because he is not a true American.
They called me and offered me a job using my computer skills to “make a killing on that nigger.”
So If you google “When did the religion of Islam begin?” You will most likely get sent to one of the many bogus web sites that will provide that information with the claim that it is an “official Obama website.”
Is there any means these racists won’t attempt to taint President Obama?
Mark
June 10th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Mark, if you think that what they are doing to Obama is bad wait until Hilary attempts to become the first woman head of the World Bank.
The slander and dirt that will be heaped upon Hilary will be relentless. And white women will be panting at the mouth to join the men in downing her.
My sister is already signed up for the dirt search. She told me “We are way out in front on this one.”
Lenny
June 10th, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Hi Mischa, I was just kidding : ) I have no recollection of my days of wit here since they all meld nicely together and I reckon that’ll continue…
I posted kitties on a treadmill on my site yesterday : ) love cats and all animals in action, they’re as funny as us humans are to an alien, hmm…
I would tell you that cops (like my father) would also tell you that they deal ‘mostly’ with the ‘fringe of society’ everyday and if you did it for any ammount of years you’d weed out the ‘riff raff’ also, you know, let ‘riff’ (Biff) and kick ‘raff’ ass (OTW’s and white degenerates as defined by them). I’m not saying I agree just telling you what they tell themselves to justify some of their actions.
Have a great weekend, Luv, Zen Lill
June 10th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
Zen Lill, my father was a cop too. He is now retired. They used to tell us all those hero stories about what they had to do to keep the streets safe. We would sit around and feel so proud to be a part of the good guys.
Well, my father has been retired for 7 years now. He is extraordinarily rich with undeclared moneys. I sometimes hear his ex partners and associates discussing how they really “cleaned” up those streets.
Mostly they busted the drug dealers who weren’t paying them for the ones who were. I occasionally hear laughter about how they taught a member of this race or that race how to respect a white man.
I love my father but, Michelle this blog has taught me to think for myself. He was a “thug with a badge.” I pity any OTW that caught him on one of his bad days.
Beverly
June 10th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
Put me down for that “thug with a badge” label. My brother is a cop and he is a thug with a badge. To him and his fellow cops any body not a cop is the “fringe.”
Let them tell it, they are the only ones with morals. Yet, I have witnessed them compromising those morals on many a time.
They abuse women and get away with it. My girl friends refuse to come around because they risk getting pawed by my brother’s fellow cop pals.
He doesn’t do it but he looks the other way when they do. I asked him what he would do if one copped a feel from me. He smiled and said, if it wasn’t my partner, I’d clock him.
They are mostly guys who could never earn the kind of salary a police job pays with their high school diplomas. I see them sucking up every free item they can con or scare the public into giving them.
They are parasites only a little less that the “fringe” element they decry so often. The difference is that with the fringe, you can call a cop.
Kelli
June 10th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Morris, I remember you. You served in the 101st Air born in Vietnam. I was a NLF regular in the South Vietnamese Army. I killed so many Americans that my chest was flowing with badges. Actually I killed as many vietnamese. It was so exciting. The smell of gun power, the screams, the license to slaughter was very very nice!
You were the soldier who blew my head off with a shotgun. I remember thinking, “Isn’t that an illegal weapon for an American.?”
When I snuck into your camp to get my revenge, you were smoking weed from the barrel of that shotgun. You offered me a toot and you said, “that hurt, huh?”
20 years later I was a russian killing arabs in Afghanistan. That war we lost because the russians were worst to their men than the enemy was. We were often sent to the front in the dead of winter with summer boots or winter boots without socks. Seldom were our rations edible. And we were poorly armed. One would think the the country that invented the best field assault rifle ever, the AK-47 would be able to keep their army well armed.
Our commanders were so brutal that I am certain I killed more of them than the Afghans did. Russian officer blood was always so good because it had an distinct taste of vodka.
Vdor
June 10th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Vdor, at least you lived to tell about it. Nine of my comrades who thought they were immune to the human discovered otherwise in Europe during WWII.
We had ambushed an american tank company and disabled or destroyed every tank they had. Our Panthers were unstoppable. We got out to feast on the ones still alive when we were fired upon by a support group of American and British forces.
We set upon them with a hunger for fresh meat. They retreated into a small town. That was just the excuse we needed to kill a bunch of civilians. So we went at it with gusto!!! What was left of the buildings our big guns didn’t knock down we crush under the treads of our tanks along with the screaming horde.
Oh, the sweet blood and the tender limbs that were so tasty. This would have made for memories to last a hundred years if not much much more. But for the Apache warriors in uniform that set upon us like animals.
Somehow they figured out that we could not be killed by bullets. They hunted us in the night with a kind of stealth that we never quite solved. The result was nine untimely deaths of my mates.
How they knew that our life force resided in the spleens of the human form we occupied, I have never learned.
If any know, I would still like to know. I lost every member of my party and the Apache lost only two. The one I killed and the one Markus killed before they got him.
Frank
June 10th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Protect Your Sense of Smell
Alan Hirsch, MD
Up to 15 million Americans suffer from a severe-to-total loss of sense of smell. By age 65, up to half of adults have a reduced sense of smell. What to do…
CAUSES
It’s estimated that the average adult can detect between 10,000 and 30,000 distinct odors.
The nasal membranes are lined with cellular receptors that match the shape of different scent molecules. These molecules bind to cell walls at the top of the nose, where they trigger the release of neurochemicals.
These, in turn, generate nerve signals that stimulate the parts of the brain that identify different scents.
Cigarette smokers are far more likely to experience a loss of smell than nonsmokers. Damage to the sense of smell also can be caused by brain injury, nasal polyps, a brain tumor or nervous system diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
Other causes: Diabetes, a deficiency of some B vitamins and sometimes the use of cholesterol-lowering statins or antihypertensive drugs.
Many patients with a diminished sense of smell also suffer from chronic depression or anxiety disorders. It’s possible that the air contains yet-to-be-identified molecules with druglike, antianxiety effects — benefits that don’t occur in those with smelling disorders.
SMELL TEST
To test for a diminished sense of smell, most doctors take an alcohol pad and hold it beneath the patient’s chin. (You can do this at home with an alcohol pad from a first-aid kit.)
If you can smell alcohol at that distance, your sense of smell is fine. If you can smell the alcohol only when the pad is raised closer to your nose, you have a problem.
Self-test: Put vanilla ice cream in one bowl and chocolate ice cream in another. Close your eyes, and move the bowls around so that you don’t know which is which.
Take a taste from each bowl. Because taste is largely determined by smell, an inability to tell them apart indicates that there’s a problem somewhere in your olfactory system.
WHAT TO DO
Often, when the underlying problem is corrected, the sense of smell returns. People who quit smoking usually regain all or most of their sense of smell, but this can take years. Also…
The nutrients thiamine (100 milligrams daily) and phosphatidylcholine (9 grams daily) can elevate levels of neurotransmitters that improve the sense of smell.
In one study, about 40% of patients improved significantly after taking phosphatidylcholine for three months. The success rate with thiamine is somewhat lower.
Sniff therapy. People who expose themselves to the same scent 20 to 50 times a day for several weeks will have an increase in scent receptors and will sometimes regain their ability to smell that particular scent.
Personal interviewed Alan Hirsch, MD, founder and neurological director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.
He is a neurologist and psychiatrist, and author of Life’s a Smelling Success (Authors of Unity) and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Sinusitis (Grand Central). http://www.smellandtaste.org.
June 10th, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Michelle:
You asked about sharing more about Uryte, Morris, Kreg and Lori. She commented #11 and #15 yesterday.
This is the Story of Lori:
Lori was put to sleep April 2, 1360. She awoke May 17, 1900.
She was a human who discovered her immortality accidentally in 1297 when she and her brother were separated from a group heading from Cagliari to Alghero in the kingdom of Sardinia. She was 11 and her brother was 13. He died from exposure 218 days into their trek. She wandered around until she was 15 before she met human contact again. At first she was afraid to wander far from her brother’s corpse. Once when she returned she was set upon by wild cats who were foraging for food. She escaped to a perch and watched them nibble on her brothers fingers.
After they left she ate what was left of his flesh and drank from a pool of his blood. It made her sick. So she cracked open his skull and drank the cranial fluid. It was during that occurrence that she discovered her fondness for the human brain. She survived barefooted and being practically naked for more than four years. Things made her sick but she could not die. She had her fingers and toes and nose bitten off from time to time but they always grew back. She assumed all humans were that way or at least the women, since her brother had passed away from exposure to the elements and infected bug bites.
She was rescued by a Christian Monk and sold to a Spanish ship. The crew raped her repeatedly and forced her to perform at the ports they docked at until they sold her to Berbers 4 years later.
They took her to the Morocco where she morphed into a male and slew the family she was sold to. She stayed on at their place providing shelter for the Bedouins that frequented the area. On occasion she would slaughter a party of 3 or less and dine on their corpses for weeks. She aged very slowly compared to those in her surroundings and she became progressively stronger the more flesh and fresh blood she drank.
She met an Alien and apparently got on his bad side by saying “I had had enough. I would henceforth take my blood from the throats of those beasts. The alien said that henceforth I would roam the nights because I had allowed the vision of the day to cloud my senses.
She now does exactly that and loves every minute of it.
HOWIE
June 10th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
The next time you need help, don’t call a cop, asshole and see what happens to your sorry ass.
Ron
June 10th, 2011 at 3:49 pm
I know I shouldn’t ask this but is that true what Howie wrote, Lori?
You were mean?
I wish you were in my country and took care of the sick arab men here.
Adina
June 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Howie, when did she start eating human flesh? Why didn’t her relatives search for her? And where is this place on the map?
Steve
June 10th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Howie:
Even today Lori is partial to cranial fluid. And she is still a nibbler. It takes her days to finish her kills.
June 10th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Cops telling you to violate your humanity for clerical red tape is nothing short of obscene. Obviously, you are conditioned to follow senseless rules to the exclusion of all else, including human life; there is something terribly wrong with carrying training so far that a man can order you to watch a troubled someone die, regardless of the uniform you wear.
June 10th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
In this case, officiousness trumped humanity. That is not something to defend or be proud of. If you are a former first responder, I’m thankful you are no longer out there because you’d be willing to follow such orders.
June 10th, 2011 at 6:37 pm
This is just one more story about Muslim Arab blind hatred and mistreatment of Women to the point of death. It is written by Israeli Dr. Arieh Eldad.
I, Doctor Arieh Eldad, was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the Chairman of plastic surgery. This is how I was asked to supply skin for an Arab woman from Gaza, who was hospitalized in Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, after her family burned her. Usually, such atrocities happen among Arab families when the women are suspected of having an affair.
We supplied all the needed Homografts for her treatment. She was successfully treated by my friend and colleague, Prof. Lior Rosenberg and discharged to return to Gaza . She was invited for regular follow-up visits to the outpatient clinic in Beersheva.
One day she was caught at a border crossing wearing a suicide belt. She meant to explode herself in the outpatient clinic of the hospital where they saved her life. It seems that her family promised her that if she did that, they would forgive her. This is only one example of the war between Jews and Muslims in the Land of Israel. It is not a territorial conflict. This is a war between civilization & barbarism.
I have never written before asking to please forward onwards, so that as many as possible can understand radical Islam and what awaits the world if it is not stopped.
Humanitarian
June 11th, 2011 at 8:32 am
Humanitarian 17
I wish I could have responded earlier. I wish to say you are more trueful than you know. Most arab women would leave this life if we had the opportunity. We are a little more than the herded sheep hear.
Please, if it will help I apologize for the terrorized woman. I hope she made it easy for the border patrol to discover her bombs.
I thank Allah and your God for everybody’s safety.
Bagram
June 11th, 2011 at 10:00 am
BRAIN RETRAINING EASES TINNITUS
Anyone who has experienced tinnitus — an uncontrolled ringing or roaring noise in the ears — knows how maddening it can be.
All the more so because there really is no treatment to stop it. Doctors typically offer patients an array of remedies that may or may not help, including tranquilizers, antidepressants and mechanical devices that attempt to mask the plaguing noises.
But thus far there is nothing that has worked well and consistently. I was thrilled, then, to learn that a recent study reported in the January 12, 2011, online journal Nature offers something completely different — a new way to train the brain to ignore the nerve signals that simulate ringing.
The research, conducted by scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas, examined a way to reprogram the brain so that it no longer “hears” the tones that have become so intensely disturbing.
Using a form of treatment called vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), already in use to help patients with treatment-resistant epilepsy or depression, the scientists first induced tinnitus in rats (how they did this is way too complicated to go into here, but believe me, they did it
– and confirmed it by the rats’ failure to respond to a gap in the background noise) and then set out to see if they could correct it.
They delivered painless electrical pulses to the vagus nerve, which leads to the auditory cortex in the brain. The rats were exposed to tones with frequencies just above and below the range of the tinnitus sounds.
Results: The rats now responded appropriately to the gap in the background noise (they recognized the silence) — and scans of their brains three weeks after the therapy showed what the researchers expected to see, that tinnitus had been stopped in all of them.
HOW GREAT IS THIS?
To get an expert perspective on this research, I called Steven Lamm, MD, a member of the clinical faculty at NYU School of Medicine, who told me that tinnitus is “probably one of the most annoying, irritating and exasperating complaints that a patient can have.
It’s like an alarm clock that can’t be turned off.” According to Dr. Lamm this research demonstrates that the nerve activity of the brain is capable of modification.
“Tinnitus involves an abnormality of the brain circuitry,” he said. “If you reshuffle the circuitry, you may be able to eliminate the unwanted noise.”
ON THE HORIZON
VNS treatment could be an improvement over current tinnitus therapies because it may offer a possible end to the condition without any significant side effects — unlike antidepressants and tranquilizers — say the study’s authors.
Research on this therapy in humans is due to begin this year. People with tinnitus will participate in clinical trials much like those that worked with the rats.
They will have electrodes attached to their vagus nerves in an outpatient procedure and then, every day over a period of three weeks, they will visit the clinic to listen to a range of tones and receive electrical impulses to the vagus nerve.
The hope is that researchers will for the first time be able to “reset” the brain’s circuitry to actually eliminate tinnitus for these people.
We don’t know whether the treatment will result in any collateral problems — such as, perhaps, the inability to hear certain actual tones.
But given the fact that about 10% of adults are plagued by tinnitus, this treatment could be nothing less than a godsend… an end to the ringing alarm clock in your head that refuses to turn off. I’ll keep a very close eye on this research!
Source(s):
Steven Lamm, MD, practicing internist, clinical faculty, NYU School of Medicine, New York City.
He is a panel physician for the New York State Athletic Commission and is coauthor of The Hardness Factor: How to Achieve Your Best Health and Sexual Fitness at Any Age (Harper Paperback).