Title: For You Know-It-All College Students Source:
Neal Boortz URL Source:http://N/A Published:Apr 22, 2011 Author:Neal Boortz Post Date:2011-04-22 23:05:57 by CZ82 Keywords:None Views:14321 Comments:22
For You Know-It-All College Students
By Neal Boortz
This is for the college students who are in that magical time of life where they have all of the answers to all of our political woes in the world. Many students in this video believe that it is moral to confiscate money from hard-working Americans and entrepreneurs and give it to those who didn't earn it, yet don't support the same philosophy when it is applied to their GPA scores. Take some time to watch this video --- see our college students in action! I know that you will be anxiously waiting for the chance to hire them as soon as they graduate?
Many students in this video believe that it is moral to confiscate money from hard-working Americans and entrepreneurs and give it to those who didn't earn it, yet don't support the same philosophy when it is applied to their GPA scores.
Under the current PG&E CEO's watch a gas pipeline blew up killing eight people and destroying 38 homes. The company later said it had misidentified the pipeline's characteristics and, as a result, proper inspections weren't conducted (although rate payers paid for them twice). The company can't find all of the other records it was ordered to produce and says we should just accept assumptions about the type and condition of the lines presented by the company.
PG&E spent $42 million on a ballot proposition designed to limit competition. Spent millions more installing a metering system that have provided incorrect readings costing taxpayers untold thousands of dollars in overcharges and that PG&E’s records outlined “risks” and “issues” including an ongoing ability to recover real-time data because of faulty hardware from PG&E vendors.
In short PG&E's CEO Peter Darbee appears to have been felled by inattention to the bread-and-butter basics of the utility business: providing safe and reliable service to customers.
Darbee is now retiring with a package worth between $34-39 million as a reward for his success and hard work. A third of that money does not come out of hard working investor pockets, but rate payer's.
I'm sure that stunts such as these appeal to the uni-dimensional among us.
I would no more expect to have a GPA re-distributed than I would space in my house. But I am sure that feeding people who are hungry by using some of my tax dollars benefits me as does using my tax dollars for roads and bridges that I may never use.
BTW, I also note the irony that the biggest political crybaby [figuratively speaking] for having my tax dollars re-distributed to him was Bobby Jindal. Why should my tax dollars help his shrimpers?
I have no problem giving money to those who need to need it. But frankly, those getting public assistance don't seem to be going hungry at all. Most of them have guts and asses bigger than Michelle Obama.
I have no problem giving money to those who need to need it. But frankly, those getting public assistance don't seem to be going hungry at all. Most of them have guts and asses bigger than Michelle Obama.
What an oafish thing to write. Not only is it judgmental but it is also ignorant.
“Our study shows that specific components of the epigenetic state at birth predict later childhood adiposity. … The current study implicates the human prenatal environment with epigenetic changes in nonimprinted genes and is the first to link epigenetic status at birth with clinically relevant later phenotypic variation.”
Translation: Mom doesn’t eat enough during early months of pregnancy … key genes involved in metabolic control in her baby become more heavily methylated … and 9 years later, her child is more likely to be overweight.
So, what does all this have to do with chemicals not normally present in our bodies? My colleague’s earlier post started us down that path. Chemicals to which women are exposed before or during pregnancy can become part of the “environment” not only for them but for their fetuses. Certain of these chemicals are known to be “obesogens:” When pregnant mice are exposed to them, they disrupt normal biological activity in their fetuses in such a way that later “promotes fat accumulation and obesity” in their pups.
BPA, or bisphenol-A, an industrial chemical used to make plastics, has been found to adversely affect the receptors that regulate metabolism, obesity, and brain signals.
