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Does Gonzales have Alzheimers, and should we have an AG whose brain can’t retain information?

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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Don P asked:


During the Senate hearings, AG Gonzales claimed over 200 times that he “couldn’t recall” incidents that we know took place (including meetings he himself had called!) and statements we know he made.

If your boss asked you questions about your job and you kept replying “I don’t recall,” how long would you stay in your job? Not long, I suspect.

We should cut him some slack if he has Alzheimers or brain damage that prevents him from remembering prominent and critical events & facts, even if it is only those that might be harmful to his job or reputation (or that of the President). But if that’s the case, should he remain as AG anyway?

Should America’s top law enforcement executive be a person who admittedly “can’t recall” his most important decisions and actions? Wouldn’t it be more honorable if he admitted his mental deficiencies and resigned, rather than embarrass himself and the President even more than he has already?
PUSHERHOMBRE: You asked if I am pining for the days of Janet Reno… Tou mean those days of human rights, budget surpluses and global respect for America? When the worst thing the President lied about was blow jobs in the oval office? When those 3,300+ brave young Americans were still alive and had bright futures ahead of them? You BET I miss those days.

RMAGEDON: It’s so easy to throw numbers out there. Care to back them up with unbiased references?

CLARIFICATION: Gonzales used the “I don’t recall” excuse 64 times during the hearing. Counting the number of times his chief of staff used it, that’s 122 times. My reference to “over 200 times” included his many “I don’t know” type answers (claiming to know about critical actions and information in his own office, AND his own actions).
Of course I meant to say Gonzales claimed NOT to know about things in his own office, and even his own actions.

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alzheimers dad removes clothing at family events?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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hello asked:


i have no idea how to prevent this but I dont want to leave him out because he is important part of our family and needs us… should we just let him roam naked and say to hell with it?

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What, if anything, should prevent a person from obtaining a gun and how should that control be enforced?

Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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oohhbother asked:


mental instability, pre-alzheimers dementia, age?
zaza - I had to take TWO guns away from my alzheimers-addled mother when distant relatives misunderstood her agitation. She died of alzheimers when her brain lost it’s ability to move food through her digestive system…long after she forgot how to talk.

How is it respect to put a gun in her hand?

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Remember they told us to take an aspirin every day (or any pain killer) would reduce risk of Alzheimers?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
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frank s asked:


NOT ANY MORE! Now they’re telling us it only delays the disease. It does not prevent it.Should we believe ANYTHING they tell us anymore?

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Family told by NHS: Alzheimer’s is not a ‘health condition’ WHAT?

Saturday, February 20th, 2010
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Englishman in Kentucky asked:


Ye Gads, this is so chillingly close to Ezekiel Emanuel’s writings it’s not funny.

NHS Worcestershire ruled that Judith Roe, 74, did not qualify for NHS funding because her condition was a “social” rather than “health” problem, even though she was so ill she could not make a cup of tea and regularly left the stove on.

Recap - Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future generations,
ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations - are to be socially guaranteed as basic.

Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Page 13 of his book - http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Where_Civic_Republicanism_and_Deliberative_Democracy_Meet.pdf

What is this, a selective Health Care?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6049942/Family-told-by-NHS-Alzheimers-is-not-a-health-condition.html
Keir - Is this a lie? A family has won £130,000 from an NHS trust after it refused to pay for their mother’s care fees, claiming her Alzheimer’s was not a health issue.
People are missing the point here, Ezekiel Emanuel has a selective health agenda.
Steve, I read the article and read your post, the Robinson’s are unfortunate. Obama needs to regulate the Insurance companies more stringently rather than try to take them over.

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Alzheimer’s Disease - a Surprising Way to Prevent & Provide Relief to Sufferers

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
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Sacha Tarkovsky asked:


There is a natural compound that is cheap, common and could provide significant heath benefits for a number of diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and a number of other diseases of the brain. So what is this compound?

Surprisingly it’s nicotine. Although Nicotine has suffered from an image problem due to its association with smoking, the fact is nicotine in its pure form is safe and non toxic and is part of the natural food chain.

Nicotine is in fact found in many common foods such as chili peppers, cauliflower tomatoes and potatoes, as well as many teas.

Nicotine has a bad reputation due to its link with cigarette smoking, but the fact is it is some of the other 4,000 chemicals that are consumed in smoking that are the killers not nicotine.

Today, many companies are conducting research into nicotine and its affect on the brain. It has been known for a long time that it improves concentration, attention and has a beneficial affect on mood.

It is this affect on the brain that has led scientists to look at Nicotine’s potential in diseases including Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease Prevention

Alzheimer’s disease occurs when the degeneration of various structures in the brain occurs, with the development of amyloid plaques and neuro-fibrillary tangles then deficiencies of acetylcholine and other neurotransmitters also can occur.

New research indicates that nornicotine, produced when nicotine is absorbed into the body, prevents the formation of protein lumps, or plaques, in the brain area that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease alleviating the symptoms

Scientists are also looking at nicotine to treat Alzheimer’s disease when it has already occurred. Tests have already been carried out to repair damaged memory ability in rats.

Nicotine is thought to help alleviate the effects of Alzheimer’s by attaching to receptors of the brain acetylcholine, a chemical important in learning and memory, of which a loss of is common in Alzheimer’s disease.

While medical research is still inconclusive in many areas, it does appear that Nicotine has potential to help with a number of diseases that include brain function.

In addition to Alzheimer’s disease, medical research is being undertaken into Nicotine’s affect on suffers of:

Depression, Parkinson’s disease, attention disorders and Schizophrenia.

Many drug companies are researching the possibility of treatments that include nicotine to combat the above diseases and alleviate the symptoms.

Nicotine needs to be delivered in its pure form and companies have already looked at and launched nicotine in water which is a safe delivery method and other products look set to follow.

After being treated with suspicion for many years due to its association with smoking nicotine is being seen in a different light.

In its natural form it is safe and non toxic and not only does not cause disease, it may actually have huge potential as a medical treatment.

As research intensifies expect to here more news on nicotine in relation to a number of diseases including Alzheimer’s. It maybe that in the near future nicotine could be seen in a completely different light and not simply associated with smoking.



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Can they remove a president from office if he has severe Alzheimers disease?

Monday, February 15th, 2010
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вσв яσѕѕ asked:


I’ve been thinking about it all day

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Anti-Aging Therapies: Can Coffee Protect Against Alzheimer’s?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010
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Ruth Butters asked:


Every coffeehound knows how important that beautiful brew can be. It wakes us up in the morning, it’s the midafternoon pause that refreshes, and it’s the ideal accompaniment to after-dinner everything, from dessert to discussions. We know it makes us feel better … but can it actually help our brains function better?

It looks like the answer is yes. A University of North Carolina study on the effects of drinking coffee concluded that caffeine is a safe and reliable drug that could potentially play a role in the therapies against neurological disorders. It is even believed that drinking coffee could help prevent Alzheimer’s disease, one of the most wide-spread and devastating of all age-related disorders.

How coffee protects the brain

Coffee’s protective powers center on what medical experts call the “blood brain barrier”, a natural filter that guards the central nervous system against potentially dangerous chemicals that may be carried through the rest of the bloodstream. It is believed that high cholesterol levels in the blood have an adverse effect of this filter, weakening the barrier against these chemicals and leaving the brain vulnerable to damage.

The University of North Dakota study showed that after three months of a high-cholesterol diet, the blood brain barrier in rabbits that had ingested the equivalent of just one cup of coffee per day was far more intact than the barrier in those that had been given no caffeine.

Research on Alzheimer’s disease indicates that a weak or “leaky” blood brain barrier that makes cholesterol damage to the brain possible is among the factors that can trigger or contribute to the disease.

Caffeine shown to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms

A recent University of Florida study even suggests that caffeine could actually reverse some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. The study used mice bred to develop symptoms of the disease, which were tested to confirm that they were exhibiting the same kind of memory impairment that human Alzheimer’s sufferers experience.

Half the mice were then put on a daily regimen that included the caffeine equivalent of five cups coffee added to their drinking water, while half the mice had no caffeine added to their water.

After two months both groups of mice were retested, and it was found that the mice that had been drinking the caffeine-added water performed significantly better on memory and thinking skills, actually testing as well as mice that had not been bred to develop dementia. The mice that had been drinking non-caffeinated water showed no improvement in the tests.

Even more encouragingly, it was found that the brains of the mice given caffeine showed as much as 50% reduction in levels of beta amyloid protein, which is the basis of the destructive plaque that builds up in the brains of dementia patients. The research suggested that caffeine had this effect because it suppresses brain inflammation that leads to over-production of the protein.

Experts warn that while these results are extremely positive, more research is needed to determine whether caffeine has the same effects on people.



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Alzheimer’s Disease Part X - What to Avoid

Friday, February 5th, 2010
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Kyle J. Norton asked:


As we mentioned in previous articles Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named after German physician Alois Alzheimer. Alzheimer’s destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect language communication, memory, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. In this article, we will discuss what to avoid so you can cut the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

1. Limit intake of processed sugar

Study shows that intake of high amounts of processed sugar over a long period causes worse learning and memory retention and in the brain and increasing amyloid plaque deposits. Sugar beverage causes the increasing blood levels of beta-amyloid, a sticky protein substance that builds up in the brain resulting in Alzheimer’s disease.

2. Limit intake of salt

Sodium is crucial for maintaining the health of every cell in the human system. Excessive salt consumption contributes to the development of high blood pressure heart disease and stroke causing depletion of oxygen in the bloodstream resulting in plague and tangle building up in certain regions of the brain.

3. Limit the use of aluminum cook ware

Overheating aluminum cookware will cause a chemical reaction and aluminum leaking into your food resulting in heavy mental accumulated in certain regions in your brain increasing the risk of Alzheimer’ s disease.

4. Replace farm fish with wild fish

Farm fish grows in crown areas, contain high amounts of mercury and lead that are not only harmful to your body but also causes the accumulation of such chemicals in your brain resulting in a increased the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

5. Use purifier in your tab water

In order to avoid the intake of heavy metal through water drinking, the best solution is to purify your tab water before drinking or drinking only boiled water.

6. Avoid foods that are stripped of vital nutrition

Food that contains caffeine, artificial additive and trans fat will strip away the vital nutritions resulting in nutritional deficiency causing many health problems including malnutrition of brain cells.

7. Limit intake of alcohol

Alcohol damage of the cerebral cortex and hippocampus region of the brain results in loss of memory and communication difficulty.

8. Stop smoking

Smoking depletes the oxygen level in our bloodstream and also causes the hardening, thickening of arteries and promoting calcium sticking to the arterial wall resulting in less nutrition to nourish our brain cells as well as causing rupture of the brain vessels.

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please critique my essay about religion if you have the time?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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Andy asked:


This is an essay for my catholic school if you’ve read my last 2 post you would understand why

Thanks if you read it and gave me feedback!

One by one

One by one, kid by kid, religion is creeping up on us. The effects of religions like Christianity, Catholicism and the other 36,000+ Christian denominations are bringing us down as a society. Whether its indoctrination , crusades, inquisition or just the moral values religions have introduce to the world is devastating. These are only the few examples religion have provided for society that has been left in ruins.

Religions such as the catholic religions, puts a halt to the studies of science and health care. They hold back stem cell research which could be vital in the fight against diseases like cancer, parkinsons, alzheimers, spinal cord injuries and muscle damage. Catholicism also prevents abortion and the use of contraceptives which has resulted in millions becoming infected with HIV/AIDS as well as millions of unwanted pregnancies which creates pressure on impoverished societies.

Indoctrination is a tactic used to brainwash children at younger ages. Rational Thinking is skewed and damaged by superstitious notions which cannot be backed up by evidence. For centuries, even before people learned to read and write, religion has continuously rejected the findings of objective Science. In 1632, when Galileo published his book, Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems, he was summoned by Pope Urban VIII a year later to appear before the Inquisition in Rome. Just for asserting the his ideas that the Earth was not the center of the universe or that the earth is not flat, Galileo was then sentenced to life imprisonment in a Roman dungeon for most of his life. This stops education and could put us back in the Dark Ages.

There is a connection that parents who are theists have children with lower IQ’s. These children will be less intrested in science. Religious people, who will live in that adulthood, will become less intelligent compared the to people around them. Research has already proven this. Paul Bell in Mensa Magazine, 2002, reviewed all studies taken of religion and IQ. He concluded:”Of 43 studies carried out since 1927 on the relationship between religious belief and one’s intelligence and/or educational level, all but four found an inverse connection. That is, the higher one’s intelligence or education level, the less one is likely to be religious or hold “beliefs” of any kind.”

Religions since the beginning of time has been to control the masses, but it is the 21st Century now, and we shouldn’t let religion blind us anymore. The time to put a end to religion has come. Being an indoctrinated theist since I was born has put a toll on my life, but now that I further the study on my religion and world religion, I can proudly call myself an atheist and fight what I believe in, and I hope you can to.

credits goes to CASE also im sorry i took that paragraph i tried to rephrase it but it sucked =x
to gene b i wasnt trying to disprove god and reading that book you call a bible have you read the OT yet? im sure the OT preached all good right?

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