Not Even Possible

Trump to TIME    "In a short period of time I understood everything there was to know about health care"

See the Symptoms

Mania. Causes. Obsession.  

More thinking about Fewer things.  

Donald Trump After Hours

Some Good News

Can Cannabis Combat Age-Related Cognitive Decline?

The long-term administration of low-doses of the cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, ameliorates age-related learning and memory deficits in mice, researchers have observed.
On the basis of this observation, the investigators plan to conduct a clinical trial to determine whether the finding applies to elderly individuals with and those without cognitive impairment, Andras Bilkei-Gorzo, PhD, of the Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, the University of Bonn, Germany, told Medscape Medical News.
Dr Bilkei-Gorzo and colleagues examined the effects of long-term, low-dose THC administration in young (2 months old), mature (12 months old), and old (18 months old) mice.
They found that THC treatment was associated with impaired behavioral performance on learning and memory tasks in young mice, but was associated with improved learning and memory in mature and old mice.
"THC treatment has practically the opposite effect in young and old animals," Dr Bilkei-Gorzo told Medscape Medical News.
"The same treatment rejuvenated old brains, whereas it made the young brains old. The reason of this phenomenon is that the activity of cannabinoid system declines in aging. In old animals, THC treatment restored the failing cannabinoid system activity, whereas it overactivated the normally functioning cannabinoid system in young animals," the researchers write.

Sounds like my kind of research...

Mission Accomplished Moment

"'Oh, shut up, silly woman,' said the reptile with a grin. 'You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in.'"

"Recursive Irony" Update

THIS IS WHY

Because suicide isn't unpredictable-  Mania and Righteousness are symptoms that come before Despair and Death.

Bearing Arms editor Bob Owens dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound

Bob Owens, editor of the popular pro-gun blog BearingArms.com, died Monday in an apparent suicide, authorities say.
Owens was found around 11 a.m. near a stop sign outside his subdivision in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., a town southwest of Raleigh. A gun was located nearby, according to the Fuquay-Varina Police Department.
An autopsy to determine the cause of death is still pending, but police said the gunshot wound was “possibly … self-inflicted.”
Shortly before Owens’s death, he apparently wrote a chilling message on Facebook: “In the end, it turns out that I’m not strong. I’m a coward, and selfish son of a b‑‑‑‑. I’m sorry.”

For the Record

I would be willing to let men write ALL the laws-

If the Supreme Court was ONLY women.

Devil's Advocate

Maybe the people who don't believe in Evolution should be the ones denied health care.

I mean really, if you don't believe in the basic facts of biological science, why do you use the products and services?

Revenge of the Microbes

There are diseases hidden in ice, and they are waking up

Long-dormant bacteria and viruses, trapped in ice and permafrost for centuries, are reviving as Earth's climate warms

Buckle Up, Gen X

It's going to get real advantageous for companies to start laying off people over fifty.
You know, the ones who have all those documented medical conditions.

Fascinating

Erectile Dysfunction is not considered a pre-existing condition, although it is clearly caused by long-term progressive pathology from an unhealthy lifestyle....like drinking alcohol (or fructose) and sitting on your ass a lot...

Dear Elderly People

Congratulations.  You are halfway to destroying what's left of my decimated generation.
And everyone younger than us too.

Please, do enjoy your Medicare and Social Security and Righteous Certainty.  While you can.

(While you still receive your benefits, do consider that the AHCA strips out the Medicaid funding that pays for in-home nursing care or a nursing home.  If it passes the Senate, I hope you have alternate plans for someone to feed your face and wipe your ass.  Don't count on us to still be around.)

This will haunt Her

Martha McSally stood up in GOP conference meeting and said "Let's get this fucking thing done". Yes, direct quote — per members and aides.

This is my Representative. She's unwavering in her desire to kill sick people in Tucson.


There is no CBO score. These people are hypocritical lying cheaters. Period.

Vicious Circles

All his teeth are fake.
And he drinks Coca-Cola all day long.

As Cruel As It Gets

Ladies and Gentlemen- Republican Squad Goals:

Under the GOP's health plan, Sexual Assault and Domestic Abuse could be considered preexisting conditions.

And not just for Obamacare.   Private and Employer insurance too.

Sheer Unmitigated Evil.    Codified by Congress.

JUST IN: ObamaCare repeal bill contains exemption for members of Congress and their staffs

State of the Insanity

@StephenKing

That this guy has his finger on the nuclear trigger is worse than any horror story I ever wrote.

Say It Ain't So

Testosterone Makes Men Less Likely to Question Their Impulses

Nobody could ever have predicted.

Pre-Existing Conditions

EVERYONE is either born with some kind of genetic anomaly or is infected with a pervasive chronic illness shortly after birth.   Everyone.  Period.
They may not manifest debilitating symptoms for years or decades, but they are there. 

Donald Trump has presented with Adenoid Hypertrophy and Adenoid Facies since he was a small child.
He's got a 70 year old bacterial colony up his nose.
And it adversely affects his brain every single day.

Of Course

Antibiotics counteract the beneficial effect of whole grain

There It Is

The tipping point.
The downward slide. 
You know the feeling.

The AP Interview

Yeah, he's not sleeping.
He's getting sicker.
His memory is failing more often.
His speech is much more rambling, repetitive and slurred.
He's disintegrating.   Spiraling.  And very dangerous.

Now will someone please admit that Veruca's job is to babysit him and keep him from nuking Mexico or Hawaii...

Let them eat Cake

It's probably the safest choice.

Undercooled meat. Dangerous fish. Health inspectors zing Trump’s Mar-a-Lago kitchen

Scary Symptoms

Trump remembers what he ate (chocolate cake) - but not where he sent missiles (Syria, not Iraq as he says until corrected)

Paging Robert Koch

Seemingly innocuous virus can trigger celiac disease

The current study, a collaboration with Terence Dermody, MD, chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and physician-in-chief and scientific director at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, shows that intestinal viruses can induce the immune system to overreact to gluten and trigger the development of celiac disease. Using two different reovirus strains, the researchers showed how genetic differences between viruses can change how they interact with the immune system. Both reovirus strains induced protective immunity and did not cause overt disease. However, when given to mice, one common human reovirus triggered an inflammatory immune response and the loss of oral tolerance to gluten, while another closely related but genetically different strain did not.

Vintage Zombie Shopping

I think I need one of these.

The Isolator

ht @pourmecoffee

As I was Saying

In a landmark study, researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University have found that providing clinical (low) doses of penicillin to pregnant mice and their offspring results in long-term behavioral changes.