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General Discussion, Saturday, September 23, 2017
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Sooooo pretty! Good morning, Lucille. Happy Saturday! 😊
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Mornin’ and afternoon, Sand!
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Amazing pic, Stella. I saw that view one time. Then the doc smacked my butt.
😀
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The question too ask is; did water or volcanic activity caused this?
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I’m going with water, Col. Ken. 😊
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Or a WPA project where they were told ‘dig a hole’.
Water, been there, it’s sandstone.
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Wooly!!!! 😉
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LMAOROFL…Wooly…..you are a true “visionary”….
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Time to recheck
Wooly’s eyesight… 😉
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Background music;
while seeking. 😉
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I never heard the Vestal Versions…..
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They’re an iPad creation.
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The one on the left is not only Irish, she lives in Alaska!
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😉
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One warm spring day at Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis, I saw a young woman riding a bike around the lake in a bikini. Black hair, dark eyes, red lips, and skin like porcelain – perfectly smooth, white, and flawless; a literal Snow White. That was nearly 50 years ago, and I’ve seen no one like her since.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, bro.
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Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 (Jack Daniels – Single Barrel )
Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 🍸 (earthquake)
Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (white wine and perrier)
Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 (Tom Collins)
Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 (Black & Tan)
Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 (Boilermaker)
Mornin’ czarina33! (aka czarina) 🙂 🍸 (Lynchburg Lemonade)
Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 (Wild Turkey Rare Breed)
Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 (Irish Car Bomb)
Mornin’ Patriot1783-ctdar! (aka “ctdar”) 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 (Godfather)
Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 (Mortlach)
Mornin’ Wooly Covfefe! (aka “Wooly Phlox” aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 (Roy Rogers)
Mornin’ Howie! (aka “doodahdaze”) 🙂 (Classic Daiquiri)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Gin & Tonic)
Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 (Blackberry wine)
Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (Gentleman Jack Whiskey Sling)
Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 (Backdraft)
Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸 (Jack & Coke)
Mornin’ Pam! 🙂 (Not even water)
Mornin’ Ms.Tee! 🙂 🍸 (Mojito)
Mornin’ koolkosherkitchen! 🙂 🍸 🍸 (Cuba Libre)
Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 (Flaming Dr. Pepper)
Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 (Stinger)
Mornin’ Les! 🙂 (Rusty Nail)
Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 (Jack Daniels)
Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 (Whiskey Smash)
Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 (B52)
Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 (Rum & Coke)
Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Kamikaze)
Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 (Night Train Express)
Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸 (1970 ducru beaucaillou)
Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸 (1961 Château Montrose)
Mornin’ amwick! 🙂 🍸 (Blue motorcycle)
Mornin’ hocuspocus13! 🙂 🍸 (1970 Chateau Latour)
Mornin’ Sloth1963! 🙂 🍸 (1971 Moulin Touchais)
Mornin’ MTeresa! (Ex-lurker) 🙂 (Albanian Raki Moskat)
Mornin’ Rhea Salacia Volans! 🙂 (Hot Buttered Rum)
Mornin’ joshua! 🙂 (Mudslide)
Mornin’ John Denney! 🙂 (RumChata)
Mornin’ litenmaus! 🙂 (Stolichnaya elit, no ice)
Mornin’ kinthenorthwest! 🙂 🍸 (A Lonely Island Lost in the Middle of a Foggy Sea)
Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 (Smoking Bishop)
Mornin’ patternpuzzler! 🙂 🍸 (Old Lady)
Mornin’ Senatssekretär FREISTAAT DANZIG! 🙂 (Red Russian)
Mornin’ G-d&Country! 🙂 🍸 (Blind Russian)
Mornin’ Gary! 🙂 (Yuengling)
Mornin’ valeriecurren! 🙂 🍸 (Flaming Sambuca)
Mornin’ Lucille! 🙂 🍸 (Peach Schnapps)
Mornin’ Lburg! 🙂 🍸 (Lburg lemonade)
Mornin’ davidhuntpe! 🙂 (Baileys Irish Cream on the rocks)
Mornin’ skipper1961! 🙂 (Brompton’s Cocktail – No cherry, no umbrella, no plastic monkey)
Mornin’ mightyconservative! 🙂 (Benjamin Franklin’s clarified milk punch)
Mornin’ whiners and complainers! 😛 (No drink for you!)
Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕
Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra, F.D.R. in Hell and sundance!
Breakfast!
NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!
Lemon Scones with Vanilla Lemon Glaze
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Bacon!!!! Yes! And crunchy hash browns, just like that, are one of my favorite things to eat. Morning Nyet and thanks!
Whew…. it was a long week and I’m thankful that Saturday finally arrived. Have a restful weekend everyone!
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‘Morning S&S!
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Morning Lburg!
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Good Morning Nyet and thanks for breakfast. Good morning fellow morning travelers!
“…. then she started singing all glam rock, a glove up to her face holding an imaginary mic as she rocked out an a cappella power ballad.
Oh, I deep fried for you
But now I weep ‘n’ cry for you
Oh, babe, this meal was made for two
And these hash browns mean nothing, oh these hash browns mean nothing, yeah these HASH BROWNS MEAN NOTHIN’ without you.”
~ John Green, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
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my age forces me to not understand anything about this John Green deal…heck…fried food is a Holy Experience….not something anyone gives another unless it is your Momma hitting on a hot stove in the kitchen making dinner. IMHO and Lack of Sophistication…..
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Morning Joshua!
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happy happy joy joy S & S….may your day just be marvy!!!!
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Good morning Nyet 🙂 .
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Morning lovely!
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Good afternoon Sand&Sea 🙂 .
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Nye!!!!! Morning Everyone!!!!!!! Mid morning snack!!!!! Thank you thank you…..
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Where.Are.My.Doughnuts?
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Hahahaha! I bribed hm for scones!!!
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I work hard all week, herding children, and I NEED my doughnuts. Cinnamon sugar especially, but I am not too picky.
I’m certain there are images including both scones (which I also like very much) and doughnuts. Yes–like this one (citrus muffin, blue corn blueberry scone, and sticky oat and pecan doughnut):
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Seriously Mary, put that THING on your plate beside my lovely lemon scones. That’s just yuk, even if it does purportedly have blueberries in it. As my four year old grandson frequently proclaims about food, “It’s stinky!”
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It’s the best picture I could find at short notice. It was an EXAMPLE, just an example.
There must be a great picture somewhere of delicious [i.e., edible] doughnuts and scones jostling one another on the same plate.
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Mary, Mary, Mary………….
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You can have the blueberry one, Col !
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I would change churches to any church that used donuts for the communion service….hmm
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How about at coffee hour? We have them at coffee hour frequently.
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I made a starter of 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, a sprinkle of yeast, and for interest a big spoonful of malt syrup last night.
This morning I’m using it as the base for a from-scratch Krispy Kreme donut knock-off recipe.
It’s been 4 hours, mixing, kneading, first rise, shaping, and now they’re still rising. . .
They’re gonna taste so good when they’re finally done . . . some time this afternoon.
I cut this recipe in half; used butter instead of shortening, and will use cream instead of water for the glaze. Used 2/3 whole wheat flour, too. And added a dash of cinnamon and ginger to the dough because it helps make the yeast happy and productive. Ok, so I’m making a knock-off of a knock-off.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/crispy-and-creamy-doughnuts/detail.aspx
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Well, here I am breakfasting at 2 in the afternoon on my finally finished Krispy Kreme knockoff knockoffs.
So far I’ve knocked off two, and they just whetted my appetite.
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😉
They were deeeeeelicious!
Okay, okay, here are some replacements…
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Fresher than fresh backup… 😉
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Box THEM up, too. All cinnamon sugar doughnuts welcome here.
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Okay–box ’em up and send ’em over.
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Everything looks deliciously edible, Nyet! Thanks!
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Back when stars had talent and comedians were funny….. Mornin’ kids!
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Morning Ms.WeeWeed!!!!!!!! 2 greats!!!!!!!
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Mornin’ Colonel Sir!
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Cagney was a hoofer before he was an actor. I always thought his swagger was his way of getting some of that prior life into his acting.
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Mornin’ Z!
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And a grand Cagney day to you all
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My parents had the album…… knew some, if not all of the tunes, before I had seen the movie…….
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Good afternoon WeeWeed 🙂 .
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Evenin’ Lovely!
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Has anyone seen the movie, “Hidden Figures”? I haven’t yet, but plan to.
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Yes, saw it, either on Redbox or Netflix – wouldn’t pay movie prices.
It’s a good historical piece but just seems to me to be over-preachy, it’s heavily centered on the racism aspect wrapped up in the space launch. To me it was one of the endless stream of ‘look how terrible all you white folks were and still largely are’ movies that have flowed out of Hollywood for the last decade or so.
Considering their greater percentage of the minority population I’m surprised that the Latinos haven’t received an equal potrion of the LHTAYWFWASLA movie genre…maybe the Hollywood prog moguls don’t want to upset their pool boys, nannys and assorted house staff.
Yeah, I saw it.
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I saw it and enjoyed it.
Personal excellence wins over prejudice.
So, which does media promote more diligently:
1) Achieving personal excellence
2) The idea that white people are evil racists keeping people of color down
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Obviously, #2.
socialists always accuse others of their, as in socialists, actions. 😉
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China says N. Korean quake ‘suspected explosion’; S. Korea says likely natural
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-says-n-korean-quake-suspected-explosion-s-korea-says-likely-natural/ar-AAsncjT?OCID=ansmsnnews11
BEIJING/SEOUL — China’s earthquake administration said on Saturday it had detected a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in North Korea that was a “suspected explosion,” raising fears the isolated state had conducted another nuclear bomb test weeks after its last one.
An official at South Korea’s meteorological agency said they were analyzing the tremor, which they put at magnitude 3.0, but the initial view was that it was a natural quake.
“We use several methods to tell whether earthquakes are natural or manmade,” said the official, who asked for anonymity. “A key method is to look at the seismic waves or seismic acoustic waves and the latter can be detected in the case of a manmade earthquake. In this case we saw none. So as of now we are categorizing this as a natural earthquake.”
The earthquake was detected in Kilju county in North Hamgyong Province, where North Korea’s known Punggyeri nuclear site is located, the official said.
The Chinese administration said in a statement on its website that the quake, which occurred around 0830 GMT, was recorded a depth of zero kilometers. All of North Korea’s previous six nuclear tests registered as earthquakes of magnitude 4.3 or above. …
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Boom Boom Boom….Hey, Hey, !!!!!!!!!
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😉
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Sing it soul man!!!!!!
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I’m betting there are so many satellites zeroed in on NK now that the space-space overhead looks like the I-10 on the Friday afternoon of a three day holiday. We’ve got ours, China and Russia, possibly Israel and the commercial soacenphotog services all have theirs…all looking.
You gotta dig a big hole to underground test and that leaves a huge telltale trail readily spotted from space. Plus the prep process would not be hidden by the NK, it would be part of the ‘finger in the eye’ process of the test itself. They’d advertise it.
NK’s been saying its next test will be a Pacific test with a fusion weapon and if they do pop obe I don’t think they’ll do it underground, as momentous as the shot would be they’d want it out in the open so that the fusion aspect could be proven, West couldn’t say it was just a really big fission shot.
The NK might not risk a Pacific shot as that would probably be the last straw for China, China might invade on its own (number of good reasons for China to do that) to prevent the West from doing a regime change and the West might just go along with it. At this point I’m voting ‘earthquake’.
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czar….absolutely agree…would not be surprised if Trump already discussed with China that should the only solution to the NK threat, rather than the USA destroying the entire country, that we would not interfere and would support China directly invading and taking over the entire NK nation and deposing and executing the military leaders and Kimmie….cheapest solution….China gets to prevent refugees surging into their country, SK and the US families and military there are protected, and the problems of sanctions against trade are over.
Trump has likely already posed this solution should the NK issue get hotter soon.
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Don’t forget Japan. Rocket Man has already said they are a prime target for him.
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The Chinese and Koreans don’t take many long, warm showers together, there’s no love lost. The main reason China attacked in the Korean War was the US was getting too close to the Chinese border and they feared an invasion or, at least, a US puppet state right on their border.
Note that early on the Chinese stated they would not accept a ‘regime change’ in NK. People thought that meant they objected to Kim going bye bye when the Chinese just don’t want the South to take over the North, putting that threat of a US puppet state right on their border again. As long as the NK government stays pro-China and anti-South/US they’re good.
As for Japan the Chinese and Koreans have an almost genetic hatred of the country and people. I’m still waiting for China and NK to add a ‘nuke free’ Japan point to any deal they might make over a denuke agreement. A nuclear Japan is a Chibese nightmare.
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Think how the US would react were Mexico to have gone nuke and their presidente threatened to nuke China. Would we let China waltz in and knock the country back to the 17th century, not that you’d notice it, or would we prevent a Chinese intervention and occupation by invading it ourself?
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Build the Wall.
Take a nap.
Ignore events
on the other side.
There are plenty
of Mexicans on
this side to use
as replacements;
thus keeping the
native DNA alive
and reproductive. 😉
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Yeah, Mexico has been, is and will continue to be an albatross atound our nationsl beck for the foreseeable future. We don’t need a wall, we need a mine field.
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Interesting.
Korean-American Professor Couple Identify Major Cause of Autism
http://www.koreadailyus.com/korean-american-professor-couple-identify-major-cause-autism/
The couple found that certain bacteria in the mother’s digestive tract can lead to having an autistic child. Furthermore, they found the exact brain location linked to autistic behaviors, which can be used to find a cure for autism.
Science journal ‘Nature’ published the couple’s two research studies on the 14th. The couple are Harvard Medical School’s professor Huh Jun-ryeol, and MIT’s professor Gloria Choi.
The studies vividly explain the detailed process of a pregnant mouse, which is infected by a virus, having offspring that shows autistic behaviors.
The researchers found out that certain bacteria in the mother’s digestive tract can develop immune cells that directly influence the baby’s brain cells development. When the researchers removed the bacteria with antibiotics, the mouse had a normal baby mouse…
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Article in “Nature”:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23909.html
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Wow, that is REALLY interesting. Considering the vital role of gut bacteria in proper digestion and the creation/utilization of B-vitamins how do you selectively knock out the bad ones…or do you nuke ’em all?
Interesting as Koreans live on fermented foods, have generally longer lives and a diet seen as healthier than the Western ones. Those fermented goods help maintain the proper bacterial load, unlike a diet high in processed foods, so even if you do nuke the bad uns how fo you keep them from infiltrating back into the gut?
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That’s a really good article, however, I have a nephew who suffers autism in the worst way. His twin sister is totally normal. They are both very healthy, although it’s a daily struggle dealing with the little guy.
If it was a pre-birth bacterial infection, wouldn’t it effect both children?
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Not necessarily, and as I said in my other comment on ADHD, I believe there are several causes for similar but not identical conditions, all lumped under autism. That’s why they refer to it as “autism spectrum disorder”.
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There may also be a genetic component. In the case of your niece and nephew, one is male and one is female. Might that not make a difference?
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Good point! It’s really such a mystery! My SIL says he was absolutely fine (talking, crawling, trying to walk) when she took them for their MMR vaccination. Within a week, he was a totally different child. Autism does seem to be prevalent in males, doesn’t it?
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I have heard it said that the timing of autism symptoms and MMR vaccination may be coincidence, since the MMR is usually given at a particular age. So far no genuine link between autism and vaccination has been proven.
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For fraternal twins;
not identical twins.
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Addendum:
Identical twins
share the same
genetics.
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In this particular case, it doesn’t apply, does it?
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Since one child is a boy and one is a girl, they are obviously fraternal twins.
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“There may also be a genetic component.”
and
“Since one child is a boy and one is a girl, they are obviously fraternal twins.”
Think about what you typed.
Cannot have it both ways at the same time.
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Your comment makes absolutely no sense. The children are fraternal twins, with different DNA. There most certainly can be a genetic component.
The boy is autistic and his twin sister is not.
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http://www.diffen.com/difference/Fraternal_Twins_vs_Identical_Twins
Identical twins are always the same sex. The twin nephew and niece of Jacqueline are fraternal twins.
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The bacteria may be part of the cause of autism in the boy who has a different genetic code than the girl thus their genes responded differently to the bacteria. So they are not mutually exclusive statements. Perhaps something about boys’s genes in general make them more susceptible to the genetic root(s) of autism.
Nuerons in different bodies will do different things even if the genes are identical.
In the case of fraternal twins they do not share any more genetics than siblings who were not in the womb with them at the same time.
Interesting study;
TWINS STUDY FINDS LARGE GENETIC INFLUENCE IN AUTISM
https://iancommunity.org/autism-twins-study
Many studies analyze whether a set of twins both have an autism diagnosis or not. Dr. Frazier’s team did too. If one identical twin has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the other twin has a 76 percent chance of also being diagnosed with it. The numbers are lower for fraternal twins. The percentage of fraternal twins who each share an ASD diagnosis is 34 percent for same-sex twins and 18 percent for boy-girl pairs, Dr. Frazier said. (Girls are less likely to be diagnosed with autism than boys). Those statistics are similar to other twin studies, including the California one.2, 3
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Perhaps a portion of the root cause of autism comes down to alleles, our genes with high markers and low markers, since genes are affected by nature and nurture one twin may perceive the world one way while a twin with identical genes perceives stimuli another way. That twist in perception may have an affect on the alleles.
All sorts of folks are trying to figure out why a gene swings one way for one person and another way for a different person.
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Although it doesn’t sound like the study has gone beyond mice it still seems like a very reasonable theory to me. It would help to explain families with multiple children with autism. The mother can be a host of a bacteria that does her no harm whatsoever but does harm her child.
Just searched on Bing and found some interesting information.
Brain Scans Show Early Signs of Autism Spectrum Disorder
And
Brain Imaging Research: Structural MRI
https://autism-center.ucsd.edu/what-causes-autism/Pages/brain-research.aspx
Mapping Brain Abnormalities in Boys with Autism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790012/
Interesting stuff.
Hopefully Valerie will see this thread and offer her wisdom.
Thank you Stella for posting the study.
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Worked for several years in a residential institution for people with developmental disabilities (formerly called mental retardation) with twin men who had autism & schizophrenia. One was mildly cognitively disabled, with a fascination & great knowledge re the American Civil War, the other profoundly mentally disabled; the smarter one had some behavioral outbursts, the other was violent & given to biting others’ faces. They had older sisters who were both physicians. Such tragedy & promise in the same family, but all shared some genes. Hope the study’s findings lead to good things.
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I wonder if the sisters went into the medical field because of their brother’s disabilities?
I hope researchers continue to make discoveries and can use these discoveries to help people with all these various disorders.
BTW Czar told us about your helping the blind and deaf girl who had been institutionalized, you are a hero.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/02/27/genetics-may-explain-why-autism-is-more-common-in-boys/#.WcacO7T3ahA
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My nephew and his family have had to deal with a lot for a long time. It’s still a big fat mystery! I hope it gets figured out soon, in the meantime, we just love him.
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I would not be surprised at a male/female difference.
I recall a description of a stage in male development in the womb where testosterone washes over his brain and dissolves many of the pathways between left and right hemispheres.
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Sent this to my son, thank you!
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‘Fraud’: Mainstream polls use 29% more Democrats than Republicans
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fraud-mainstream-polls-use-29-more-democrats-than-republicans/article/2635271
Most of the top political polls that got the 2016 presidential race dead wrong are continuing to use a flawed methodology in rating President Trump’s approval ratings that favors Democrats, women and younger voters, according to a new analysis.
The report shows that the mainstream polls oversample an average of 29 percent more Democrats than Republicans and the results skew anti-Trump. The result is that it robs Trump of about 8 points in his approval ratings, from 46 percent to 38 percent, it said.
And, said the report from Bombthrowers.com, one outfit, the Economist, used 58 percent more Democrats than Republicans in a recent poll on Trump’s approval ratings.
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I’ve noticed this for a while! The MSN news has an article almost every day about “Trumps poll numbers are going even further down”, “Polls show most Americans disagree with Trump…” etc. I don’t ever bother to read because I know it’s bull feathers!
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The article says that some pollsters don’t use voters and some even include illegals! When only likely voters are used, President Trump’s approval rating is significantly higher.
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Originating article:
https://www.bombthrowers.com/article/mainstream-political-polls-commit-fraud/
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Who is worse – John McCain or Rand Paul?
The Worst Republican Senator
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/09/the-worst-republican-senator-2.php
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I reckon McStain! He even looks evil!
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Songbird is the worst of the worst!!!!!!!
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Love this! Seen on Facebook.
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The fall campaign for 40 Days for Life (peaceful pro-life prayer vigils in at least 375 locations all over the world) begins next Wednesday, September 27th, and runs through November 5. List of locations are in the link below.
Please consider participating, even if you can only go a couple of times. Speaking from personal experience, it is extremely rewarding, and statistics show that it DOES make a difference. Thousands of babies are known to be alive because of these prayer vigils–and undoubtedly there are untold others alive who are not included in the statistics.
https://40daysforlife.com/
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It ain’t only oyr MSM: https://bnp.org.uk/msm-cowards-brand-entire-continent-people-gang-rapists-avoid-upsetting-muslims/
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I lived in South Yorkshire (Doncaster) when this was taking place in Rotherham. The police just turned a blind eye to the whole mess, to avoid charges of “racism”. We would never be able to go back there and live because the Moslims have taken over. It was bad then, (1995) but our friends and family say it’s much worse now! I don’t understand how the English people can just take it. Scotland wasn’t too bad at the time, but we hear it’s really creeped northward.
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Keeeeeeeep reloading…..oh wait, if you’re in England you can’t. Oh well, stiff upper lip.
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It’s about time… 😉
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Every.single.day he makes me more proud of him. Cut these suckers off at the knees.
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Oh that’s our house, yes indeed.
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That’s what makes a house a home.
The entire family eating at the family table. 😉
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Yeah, I particularly like it when one of the cats knocks something off a counter to the dogs..
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Time to Bake! 11 Healthier Kid-Friendly Doughnut Recipes
June 2, 2017 by KATHARINE STAHL
https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Baked-Doughnut-Recipes-Kids-31379927
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He Was Forced to Choose Between Losing His Job or Helping a Woman Get an Abortion
BY JEN TAGGART SEP 13, 2017 | 6:17PM OLYMPIA, WA
http://www.lifenews.com/2017/09/13/he-was-forced-to-choose-between-losing-his-job-or-helping-a-woman-get-an-abortion/
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Been really enjoying this series. Crabbe loves to cook, as do I, and he just wants to retire and run his restaurant, but he’s stuck in limbo on suspension for ridiculous corruption charges that threaten his pension because his boss values him so highly (without telling him). He’s trying to run his restaurant while suspended, but his boss keeps presenting him with new mysteries to solve . . .
Funny scene: Crabbe, who must weigh at least 350 pounds, chases down a bad guy of the same physique. Neither can work up the speed of a brisk walk.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106102/
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It is on my watch list on Acorn TV, but I haven’t watched it yet.
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Detective Crabbe is very sensitive in a good way, picking up subtle details, yet he never seems to take personal offense. That attitude, along with his graciousness in forgiving past transgressions, is a fine Christian example.
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Judge Roy Moore seems the better candidate.
Cannot understand Trumps position.
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He may be trying to appease the swamp dwellers or he is getting some big benefit from Strange.
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I think Moore is favored by the voters. A deal with McConnell?
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That’s probably it. It makes the most sense. If it would get McConnell to accomplish something positive towards President Trump’s agenda, then it might be okay. Still a bitter pill to swallow. Moore is my preference.
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https://twitter.com/sparklesoup45/status/911767686593445888
Sebastian Gorka’s take on President Trump endorsement of Strange.
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About his endorsement of Strange.
“I’ll be honest, I might have made a mistake… If his opponent wins, I’m going to be here campaigning like hell for him.” — President Trump on Friday night
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lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
And, Lord, we pray for all the people who have been affected by the earthquakes and hurricanes.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
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Amen.
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Amen
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