And read the quality linkage that he has linked to below!
Several years ago I was kicking around writing a book called "Socialism, Inc" indicating that socialists fully knew what they were doing and were running a business with the exact same goal of capitalists - to make money. Of course the only difference is they would not provide anything in return.
Reminds me of the occasional story you'll hear about a kid dying or being taken away by the authorities when their eco-nazi-vegan parents refuse to provide the infant with nourishment. Again, they are more important than the cause they purport to support.
Yes, there are such things as stupid questions. Particularly those you have to ask because you failed to read the text or the book, who are typically stupid.
Putin vs Obama in a death match.
My question is "if you're a republican, why are you even bothering going to Berkeley?"
"I'm majoring in travel and hospitality." I worked at this degree mill called the "Minneapolis Business College." One of their majors was literally "travel and hospitality." I think to get accepted to the program your IQ must have been inversely related to your weight.
Make sure to enjoy your weekend by ensuring you enjoy the decline!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Recession Medicine
If you're in a foul mood and need to vent, I strongly suggest working out to this music;
It's from the anime "Samurai Champloo" which takes about 3 full watchings to fully appreciate. It is no Cowboy Bebop, but eh, will the Japanese ever acknowledge their screenwriting sucks and outsource?
Probably not.
It's from the anime "Samurai Champloo" which takes about 3 full watchings to fully appreciate. It is no Cowboy Bebop, but eh, will the Japanese ever acknowledge their screenwriting sucks and outsource?
Probably not.
Mitochondria and High Fat Diets
Lots of buzz over mitochondria of late. So I thought I'd share this find:
High-fat diets cause insulin resistance despite an increase in muscle mitochondria
High-fat diets cause insulin resistance despite an increase in muscle mitochondria
Read more »It has been hypothesized that insulin resistance is mediated by a deficiency of mitochondria in skeletal muscle. In keeping with this hypothesis, high-fat diets that cause insulin resistance have been reported to result in a decrease in muscle mitochondria. In contrast, we found that feeding rats high-fat diets that cause muscle insulin resistance results in a concomitant gradual increase in muscle mitochondria.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Death Bed Theory
Mercy almighty.
If there was one question I'd ask a modern day feminist it would be simply this;
"Is your life so pathetic, so vapid, so pointless, and so petty that you have nothing better to do?"
It again eludes to my "Death Bed Theory" of liberals, communists, socialists, leftists, professional activists and protesters, etc. That when the time comes, and they are on their death beds, they will actually rue and regret not doing anything real in their lives.
This isn't wishful thinking. I'm not saying this because I WANT it to be true. I'm being intellectually honest when I say I believe, deep down inside, they know their lives are nothing but a farce and their "crusades" or "political causes" they're championing are first and foremost to make themselves feel better, not anything as noble as the cause they purport to support.
But over time, and as they age, and as they witness other members of their generation produce REAL things and make REAL TANGIBLE contributions to society and in short make something REAL out of their lives, they MUST inevitably KNOW they're living a lie. This slow realization I can only see playing out one of two ways.
1. A powerful "rationalization hamster" in concert with an all-too-willing media makes them double down on "grrrrl power" or "going green" or "sticking it to the man" or "enter commie hobby void of calculus and real work here." In which case they live a progressively more lonely and lonely life, become progressively more conspiratorial (in that conspiracies are the only thing that is capable of refuting what they see empirically in their lives) and become progressively more extreme and angry (ever meet a happy old feminist with cats, or a genuinely happy male liberal in his 50's?) Sadly this path results in them on a death bed having to acknowledge they pissed away their one shot at life (and ironically forces them to "pray" their is an afterlife, which the majority of them poo pooed because religion is for "losers.")
or
2. They have an epiphany, usually brought about by a child, a marriage, near death experience, a check stub that shows how much money the government takes out, a job, a career...in short...an adult experience, they come back to the real world, join it, enjoy it and then go on to lead a truly productive and enjoyable life.
In short my entire theory is premised on them being willfully ignorant, which is a euphemism for evil. They know they're lying. They know they're doing it to economically benefit for themselves sans work. They know they're hypocrites. They know they're deathly afraid of real work, real math, and real effort. They fear real life and the real world and hide behind "victim" status to parasite off of others and make life easier for them.
But in the end, oh yes, the end. They must rue that decision to not try. They must regret not trying to work hard at a real job and truly support themselves. They must regret the years of youth wasted "protesting" this or "protesting" that. Getting petitions signed. Or chasing after members of the opposite sex for their "intelligence" or political beliefs instead of people they were viscerally physically nuclear hot for. They must wonder what it would have been like to drive a gas-guzzling sports car, or eat a juicy steak, or not care about faking to "care" about global warming, or to just dress up in a gorgeous dress or a sharp suit and be the center of attention at a party. Worst of all, I do truly believe they will regret not achieving their best. they will regret not trying. They will deep down inside know they had wasted the past 80 years of their lives avoiding the real world, never caring to participate in it, but rather parasite off of it and they, unfortunately, will never know what they could have done with that precious one shot at life
as they slowly drift away
and the tunnel vision sets in
alone in a government paid nursing home
where even their cats didn't come to visit them
and die
unknown
uncared for
and ultimately,
irrelevant.
Post-post. From a reader and I have to once again hang my head in shame. Apparently there was a book written about crusaderism LOOONG before I quoted the term. Sigh, I'll never have an original thought. Though it is heartening (and confirming, I might add) that I arrived at the same conclusions Eric Hoffer and Ayn Rand did without reading one word of their writings.
If there was one question I'd ask a modern day feminist it would be simply this;
"Is your life so pathetic, so vapid, so pointless, and so petty that you have nothing better to do?"
It again eludes to my "Death Bed Theory" of liberals, communists, socialists, leftists, professional activists and protesters, etc. That when the time comes, and they are on their death beds, they will actually rue and regret not doing anything real in their lives.
This isn't wishful thinking. I'm not saying this because I WANT it to be true. I'm being intellectually honest when I say I believe, deep down inside, they know their lives are nothing but a farce and their "crusades" or "political causes" they're championing are first and foremost to make themselves feel better, not anything as noble as the cause they purport to support.
But over time, and as they age, and as they witness other members of their generation produce REAL things and make REAL TANGIBLE contributions to society and in short make something REAL out of their lives, they MUST inevitably KNOW they're living a lie. This slow realization I can only see playing out one of two ways.
1. A powerful "rationalization hamster" in concert with an all-too-willing media makes them double down on "grrrrl power" or "going green" or "sticking it to the man" or "enter commie hobby void of calculus and real work here." In which case they live a progressively more lonely and lonely life, become progressively more conspiratorial (in that conspiracies are the only thing that is capable of refuting what they see empirically in their lives) and become progressively more extreme and angry (ever meet a happy old feminist with cats, or a genuinely happy male liberal in his 50's?) Sadly this path results in them on a death bed having to acknowledge they pissed away their one shot at life (and ironically forces them to "pray" their is an afterlife, which the majority of them poo pooed because religion is for "losers.")
or
2. They have an epiphany, usually brought about by a child, a marriage, near death experience, a check stub that shows how much money the government takes out, a job, a career...in short...an adult experience, they come back to the real world, join it, enjoy it and then go on to lead a truly productive and enjoyable life.
In short my entire theory is premised on them being willfully ignorant, which is a euphemism for evil. They know they're lying. They know they're doing it to economically benefit for themselves sans work. They know they're hypocrites. They know they're deathly afraid of real work, real math, and real effort. They fear real life and the real world and hide behind "victim" status to parasite off of others and make life easier for them.
But in the end, oh yes, the end. They must rue that decision to not try. They must regret not trying to work hard at a real job and truly support themselves. They must regret the years of youth wasted "protesting" this or "protesting" that. Getting petitions signed. Or chasing after members of the opposite sex for their "intelligence" or political beliefs instead of people they were viscerally physically nuclear hot for. They must wonder what it would have been like to drive a gas-guzzling sports car, or eat a juicy steak, or not care about faking to "care" about global warming, or to just dress up in a gorgeous dress or a sharp suit and be the center of attention at a party. Worst of all, I do truly believe they will regret not achieving their best. they will regret not trying. They will deep down inside know they had wasted the past 80 years of their lives avoiding the real world, never caring to participate in it, but rather parasite off of it and they, unfortunately, will never know what they could have done with that precious one shot at life
as they slowly drift away
and the tunnel vision sets in
alone in a government paid nursing home
where even their cats didn't come to visit them
and die
unknown
uncared for
and ultimately,
irrelevant.
Post-post. From a reader and I have to once again hang my head in shame. Apparently there was a book written about crusaderism LOOONG before I quoted the term. Sigh, I'll never have an original thought. Though it is heartening (and confirming, I might add) that I arrived at the same conclusions Eric Hoffer and Ayn Rand did without reading one word of their writings.
Stupid Fly Over Hicks
Not as cool as you west coasters, right?
And remember, oil is BAD. It's EEEVILLLL! With all the stupid jobs it brings and employment. No, much better to take out that second mortgage on your California home so you can go green.
And remember, oil is BAD. It's EEEVILLLL! With all the stupid jobs it brings and employment. No, much better to take out that second mortgage on your California home so you can go green.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Do You See What I See?
This is so painfully obvious why self-checkout lanes are being phased out in grocery stores vs places like Home Depot which plan on keeping them.
I'll give you another hint. Coupons? Who uses coupons?
Anybody want to field this one? Bueller? Bueller?
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Frank's E-mails
So it had been a while since I checked on the intellectual Aussie titan known as Frank (you all know Frank!)
Then it dawned on me, he isn't on the blogroll.
Regardless, we usually address dire economic and social topics here, if you ever need more recession medicine than I deliver here, it's always advisable to check in on Frank.
Besides, he's in Australia where they've actually kept their fiscal noses clean.
Then it dawned on me, he isn't on the blogroll.
Regardless, we usually address dire economic and social topics here, if you ever need more recession medicine than I deliver here, it's always advisable to check in on Frank.
Besides, he's in Australia where they've actually kept their fiscal noses clean.
The Captain's Great Fish Fossil Hunting Adventure
Over the past 10 years the Captain has amassed himself quite the impressive fossil collection. I have trilobites, oredonts, brontotheres, ammonites, brachiopods, cephlopods, dinosaurs, you name it. However, two have evaded me because I lived too far away from the corresponding fossil beds - fish and turtles.
Of course I USED to live too far away, but now that I no longer live in the Cold Detroit, I can easily make it to Kemmerer, WY, the capitol of fish fossils in a day's drive! And so the Captain set forth! See what it's like to live a day in the life of the Captain! -
Unless you are in the mountains, this is what Wyoming looks like.
This is in Shoshone National Forest.
This is the "Red Canyon" I believe. South of Lander.
This is me with the fossil cliffs behind me. The car could go no further. Time to foot it in.
Here's where I had a celebratory drink. It was a Saturday night and I don't believe there is much of a night life in Kemmerer.
Here's my hotel. The Fossil Butte Motel! Nothing but the finest for your Captain!
I prepared in case the Fossil Butte Motel didn't have working cable or TV. This was what was showing on "Cappy Cap Theatre."
And finally the fossils! You have to zoom in on them, but they are actually some pretty good pieces!
Remember kids, if you work too hard, only the people who parasite off of you benefit. Make sure you go out and play in dirt and work as little as possible as you enjoy the decline!
Of course I USED to live too far away, but now that I no longer live in the Cold Detroit, I can easily make it to Kemmerer, WY, the capitol of fish fossils in a day's drive! And so the Captain set forth! See what it's like to live a day in the life of the Captain! -
Unless you are in the mountains, this is what Wyoming looks like.
This is in Shoshone National Forest.
This is the "Red Canyon" I believe. South of Lander.
This is me with the fossil cliffs behind me. The car could go no further. Time to foot it in.
Here's where I had a celebratory drink. It was a Saturday night and I don't believe there is much of a night life in Kemmerer.
Here's my hotel. The Fossil Butte Motel! Nothing but the finest for your Captain!
I prepared in case the Fossil Butte Motel didn't have working cable or TV. This was what was showing on "Cappy Cap Theatre."
And finally the fossils! You have to zoom in on them, but they are actually some pretty good pieces!
Remember kids, if you work too hard, only the people who parasite off of you benefit. Make sure you go out and play in dirt and work as little as possible as you enjoy the decline!
Wheat Belly on Acid
I used to read Dr. Davis' blog back in the days participating on Jimmy's forum, it was cited rather frequently. His writing back then seemed well grounded. Then about a year or so ago, the posts started getting sensationalistic. Ahh ... he got a book deal for Wheat Belly. I blogged previously on one of the more bizarre amongst them: Bacon, Eggs & Battery Acid. On his anti-oat campaign, Davis wrote:
Sulfuric acid is among the most powerful and potentially harmful acids known. Get even a dilute quantity in your eyes and you will suffer serious burns and possibly loss of eyesight. Ingest it and you can sustain fatal injury to the mouth and esophagus. Sulfuric acid's potent tendency to react with other compounds is one of the reasons that it is used in industrial processes like petroleum refining. Sulfuric acid is also a component of the harsh atmosphere of Venus.
This folks really is over-the-top rhetoric, and if Davis has a shred of credibility it is totally undermined by nonsense like this. I'm just surprised he didn't mention Drano! Leaving aside, for the moment, whether the sulfuric acid content of foods is something to be concerned about, trying to equate minute amounts in foods with even dilute sulfuric acid solutions is worse that comparing apples and oranges. The atmosphere on Venus? Ingesting sodium metal will probably kill you (sodium is highly reactive), as will inhaling chlorine gas, but sodium chloride not so much. Let's check out the MSDS (material safety data sheet) for hydrochloric acid at right. {click to enlarge} Pretty dangerous stuff! Well, this turns out to be the acid in your stomach, produced by your body. Gastric acid is pH 1 to 2. I've never taken a piece of litmus paper to a bowl of plain oatmeal, but I'm thinking it's not going to be too acidic. Do you think adding oatmeal to your stomach contents is going to make you acidic? Eat out your intestines? Un huh.Adipose Tissue & Adipokines
Normally these days I'd put this in the library, since I'm not really going to blog on this, but I thought this paper a good one to share.
Adipose tissue and adipokines: for better or worse
Adipose tissue and adipokines: for better or worse
Read more »In recent years, it has been recognized that adipose tissue (WAT) secretes a number of bioactive peptides and proteins, collectively termed “adipokines”. These WAT-derived factors play a central role in whole body homeostasis by influencing a variety of biological and physiological processes, including food intake, regulation of energy balance, insulin action, lipid and glucose metabolism, angiogenesis and vascular remodeling, regulation of blood pressure and coagulation. The present review is focused on a restricted number of adipokines, which have been implicated in vascular (angiotensinogen, PAI-1) and energy and glucose homeostasis (ASP, TNFα, IL-6, resistin, leptin, adiponectin).
Monday, September 26, 2011
Escape Minnesota
And I like this (longer piece). Ed goes out of his way to show cities without professional sports teams somehow (GASP!) magically grow anyway!
And if I recall correctly, isn't it the major cities of the country with multiple professional sports teams that have the highest unemployment rates? If I recall places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming don't have double digit unemployment rates.
And if I recall correctly, isn't it the major cities of the country with multiple professional sports teams that have the highest unemployment rates? If I recall places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming don't have double digit unemployment rates.
You Mean a Degree is NOT Experience???
I swear, the stupidity that is out there.
Since when was majoring in "education" some kind of hard discipline?
How about this:
You hire former IBM algorithm programmers to teach math.
You hire former cops, judges, and authors to teach history.
You hire authors and journalists to teach English.
You hire engineers and scientists to teach science?
You hire accountants to teach accounting
You hire economists to teach economics
You hire accountants to teach accounting
You hire economists to teach economics
You DON'T hire a 23 year old child to babysit your children and then wonder why we're ranked below Turkey and Mexico in terms of PISA scores.
The Dietary Source of Body Fat
Over on Stephan Guyenet's blog, in the comment section of his post on Humans on a Cafeteria Diet, a little discussion was started by one disgruntled reader (or I suppose ex-reader since this post apparently pushed him over the edge to unsubscribe) regarding where the fatty acids in our body fat came from. Stephan wrote:
When a diet of mixed macronutrient composition is eaten to excess, the carbohydrate is preferentially burned off, while the fat is mostly shunted into fat tissue. This makes sense, because why would the body go through the inefficient process of converting carbohydrate to fat for storage when it can just shunt dietary fat directly into fat tissue?
Said reader commented: "This post has good info, but suggesting the fat is stored as fat is absolutely wrong and is bad science." A discussion, contributed to by yours truly, ensued. I think this is illustrative of just how damaging towards ultimate progress in the realm of understanding, preventing and treating obesity Gary Taubes has been. On page 387 (according to Google books, my ebook page numbers are off) of GCBC, Taubes writes:
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Wheat Belly on Fox & Friends
Dr. "Wheat Belly" Davis was on Fox and Friends a bit ago. Video HERE. For starters, he looked nothing like the picture on his website. His presentation was weak overall. He started out discussing the gliadins in wheat and how they've been modified to make them addictive, but when Gretchen asked him about gluten-free products and he likened them to filtered cigarettes. This is when he did his BG schtick with the whole two slices of whole wheat bread will spike BG as much as 2 Tbs of sugar thing. He discussed his preventative cardiology practice - paraphrasing - 80% of my patients are either diabetic or prediabetic and the rest are what I call pre-prediabetic. Therefore making it out that we're all destined for diabetes if we spike our blood sugar.
Has anyone here read Wheat Belly? Are the references there for his assertion that wheat specifically causes visceral fat accumulation? I'm very interested in the referencing of that book.
Unless he did much better in his other appearances, I don't see how this book is making such a splash, he sure didn't sell it very well. I think many of us can certainly benefit by eliminating wheat because (a) some of us are clearly intolerant to it, and (b) it means eliminating (or dramatically cutting down) bread and other baked goods. Aside from sandwiches, bread is often added to a meal = extra calories. But the over-the-top rhetoric isn't going to square with most people.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Cherie Bowser, Meet Tom Leykis
Your beloved Captain, after climbing mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park last week, further availed himself of his childless status and drove kitty corner across Wyoming to the scenic town of Kemmerer, WY.
Kemmerer is famous for its fish fossils, diamond mines, and actually the FIRST JC Penny Store!
Pictures are forthcoming, BUT, of course to kill the time I downloaded some Tom Leykis.
Two broad casts of which are;
1. Completely necessary for ALL Cappy Cappites to listen to
2. Should be required listening for all people thinking about having children
3. All divorced people who thought it a wise idea to bring children into this world.
4. All people thinking about getting married.
I'm being serious here people, you WILL download these two MP3's and listen to them;
MP31
MP32
Something tells me Cherie and Tom would not get along.
Kemmerer is famous for its fish fossils, diamond mines, and actually the FIRST JC Penny Store!
Pictures are forthcoming, BUT, of course to kill the time I downloaded some Tom Leykis.
Two broad casts of which are;
1. Completely necessary for ALL Cappy Cappites to listen to
2. Should be required listening for all people thinking about having children
3. All divorced people who thought it a wise idea to bring children into this world.
4. All people thinking about getting married.
I'm being serious here people, you WILL download these two MP3's and listen to them;
MP31
MP32
Something tells me Cherie and Tom would not get along.
Fat Tissue Regulation ~ Part III: C3KO Meets Obi No Leptinobi
In the previous post in this series, we met the C3KO mouse, a mouse that is ASP deficient. In this post, I'm going to discuss what happens when you take a leptin-deficient ob/ob mouse and also make it a C3KO. Humor me my fun with Star Wars characters ;-)
It turns out I had discovered this study and blogged on it over a year ago: Acylation-stimulating Protein (ASP) Deficiency Induces Obesity Resistance and Increased Energy Expenditure in ob/ob Mice (Xia, Sniderman & Cianflone).
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Fat Tissue Regulation ~ Part II: Meet C3KO
I've shortened the title of this series from The Full Physiological Regulation of Fat Tissue to allow for some descriptions of each installment without generating 30 word blog post titles. Yes, I did consider TFPRFT {cheeky grin} but thought the wiser of that one!
Allow me to introduce you to C3KO
(note my high tech graphics skills! LOL)
No, C3KO is not a character in Star Wars Episode MMXI*: Battle for the Adiposity Galaxy. Rather, there is a protein known as Complement 3, C3 for short. The complement system is an important one in the functioning of our immune systems and has long been recognized for mediating inflammation. In studying the role of this protein in physiology, researchers created a C3 knockout mouse -- one that does not produce C3. This mouse is sometimes called C3KO**
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Buying Motorcycles from Betas
Both motorcycles I have owned I have purchased, quite cheaply because of one simple thing;
The former owner's girl/wife told him to get rid of it.
Usually because a kid was on the way, but that is irrelevant.
The larger point is the woman told him to get rid of it. He obeyed.
Now if I had limitless funds I would conduct a study to see how successful marriages were where the guy willingly obeyed his wife and got rid of the motorcycle vs. those where the guy looked at her with one eyebrow raise and simply chuckled, patted her on the head, and continued on to removing the carbs and tightening the chain.
I predict the men (who are kind enough to be beta and give up their motorcycles on the cheap so the rest of us can enjoy them) are more likely to get divorced or have marital strife. The men who simply told the little lady, "Ah, no, I will be keeping the bike and by the way, put on your leather jacket, high heels and helmet, we're going for a ride" would be less likely to get divorced and suffer marital strife. The theory being of course that women like strong, independent men, no matter what they say and no matter how much they test them.
Regardless, I do genuinely want to thank those men out there who give up their bikes so willingly. If it weren't for you, us bachelors and alphas would have to pay (I estimate in my little economist head) at least 40% more for motorcycles.
Regardless, I do genuinely want to thank those men out there who give up their bikes so willingly. If it weren't for you, us bachelors and alphas would have to pay (I estimate in my little economist head) at least 40% more for motorcycles.
ht to The Private Man for the post that prompted this thought in my head.
The Arrogance of Divorcees
I have, and will continue to contend until evidence proves me otherwise, that most people in America today who have children have children first and foremost for themselves, and somewhere after matching drapes, fancy SUV's and new shoes, comes the children themselves.
In other words, they never ask the question, "would I be able to provide a good environment for my child? Will I be a good parent for my child?"
No, the question is simply, "Do I want children?"
ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!
Now I have caught mucho guff for heralding the benefits of being single and having no children. I got a vasectomy a long time ago and and it was one of the best decisions I made. But what particularly irks me is when people then accuse me of hating children, because it is the ultimate in hypocrisy.
I have actually THOUGHT about having a child.
I have actually considered the RAMIFICATIONS of having a child.
I have actually asked the tough questions of "WOULD I BE A GOOD FATHER?"
While most of my child-ridden critics have not.
And the fact I decided I should NOT have children because I would be a bad or inadequate father means I (ironically) would actually probably BE a better father than those with baby rabies in that I actually thought about the kid first.
So you can imagine me seeing red when I saw this article.
What I can only surmise to be a spoiled American Princess (anybody want to look her up to confirm if I'm right?) who has never given any consideration to anybody but herself, actually writes an article that so completely misses the point, it should raise the ire of any responsible adult and parent. The title alone is so contradictory and exposes her for the failure of a mother she is;
"Maintaining happy, healthy children during a separation and divorce"
Eh, hmmmm....let me see here. Could you maybe maintain "happy and healthy children" by...oh I don't know....
NOT PICKING A FREAKING MORON TO MARRY AND HAVE BLEEPING CHILDREN WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE???!!!!
But it gets better. A couple quotes from the article;
"Divorce is never easy the first time around, but learning from your mistakes can make the second divorce a lot less stressful when making decisions for you and your children"
Did she just say what i thought she did? Did I hear that right? She is preparing, EXPECTING a second divorce????? Forget he kids coming in around 4th or 5th place in her life. I think the kids are now ranking lower than the house plants.
Another gem;
"help our child have an emotionally safe, happy life as she will now have two families."
Yes, of course, that makes things simple! Two families!
Look, you morons out there, let me explain something to you. My old man has been married three times. You know what pissed me off as a child? Having to figure out how many gifts I had to buy progressively less and less important step-family members for Christmas. Do I send my mom and my new "Step-mom" a mother's day card? What about my step-dad? What about my new uncles I just married into? The budget of a 10 year old child is not limitless.
And of course, yes, TWO families makes it just that much more fun!
Another pearl.
"By communicating with your child frankly, but lovingly, you will be helping your child to accept the new changes in their life that are occurring. This will help them become more adaptable to any future changes in their life."
Oh you think there might be some 'changes' in their lives too? THanks Ma, you got divorced twice. YOu've now doubled the kids chances of drug use, alcoholism, oh...and what else...ummm....OH YEAH! DIVORCE! But apparently divorce is a-OK in this woman's book. Perhaps you can celebrate when your children get divorced and try to explain to them why it's not only a good thing, but why they should be preparing for the second divorce that is sure to come.
BUt this takes the case;
"Separation and divorce causes stress on all parties involved--parents and children alike. In this second divorce, I've learned that regardless of how difficult it is and who is to blame, my children come first."
You disgusting, lying hypocrite.
In other words, they never ask the question, "would I be able to provide a good environment for my child? Will I be a good parent for my child?"
No, the question is simply, "Do I want children?"
ME ME ME ME ME ME!!!!
Now I have caught mucho guff for heralding the benefits of being single and having no children. I got a vasectomy a long time ago and and it was one of the best decisions I made. But what particularly irks me is when people then accuse me of hating children, because it is the ultimate in hypocrisy.
I have actually THOUGHT about having a child.
I have actually considered the RAMIFICATIONS of having a child.
I have actually asked the tough questions of "WOULD I BE A GOOD FATHER?"
While most of my child-ridden critics have not.
And the fact I decided I should NOT have children because I would be a bad or inadequate father means I (ironically) would actually probably BE a better father than those with baby rabies in that I actually thought about the kid first.
So you can imagine me seeing red when I saw this article.
What I can only surmise to be a spoiled American Princess (anybody want to look her up to confirm if I'm right?) who has never given any consideration to anybody but herself, actually writes an article that so completely misses the point, it should raise the ire of any responsible adult and parent. The title alone is so contradictory and exposes her for the failure of a mother she is;
"Maintaining happy, healthy children during a separation and divorce"
Eh, hmmmm....let me see here. Could you maybe maintain "happy and healthy children" by...oh I don't know....
NOT PICKING A FREAKING MORON TO MARRY AND HAVE BLEEPING CHILDREN WITH IN THE FIRST PLACE???!!!!
But it gets better. A couple quotes from the article;
"Divorce is never easy the first time around, but learning from your mistakes can make the second divorce a lot less stressful when making decisions for you and your children"
Did she just say what i thought she did? Did I hear that right? She is preparing, EXPECTING a second divorce????? Forget he kids coming in around 4th or 5th place in her life. I think the kids are now ranking lower than the house plants.
Another gem;
"help our child have an emotionally safe, happy life as she will now have two families."
Yes, of course, that makes things simple! Two families!
Look, you morons out there, let me explain something to you. My old man has been married three times. You know what pissed me off as a child? Having to figure out how many gifts I had to buy progressively less and less important step-family members for Christmas. Do I send my mom and my new "Step-mom" a mother's day card? What about my step-dad? What about my new uncles I just married into? The budget of a 10 year old child is not limitless.
And of course, yes, TWO families makes it just that much more fun!
Another pearl.
"By communicating with your child frankly, but lovingly, you will be helping your child to accept the new changes in their life that are occurring. This will help them become more adaptable to any future changes in their life."
Oh you think there might be some 'changes' in their lives too? THanks Ma, you got divorced twice. YOu've now doubled the kids chances of drug use, alcoholism, oh...and what else...ummm....OH YEAH! DIVORCE! But apparently divorce is a-OK in this woman's book. Perhaps you can celebrate when your children get divorced and try to explain to them why it's not only a good thing, but why they should be preparing for the second divorce that is sure to come.
BUt this takes the case;
"Separation and divorce causes stress on all parties involved--parents and children alike. In this second divorce, I've learned that regardless of how difficult it is and who is to blame, my children come first."
You disgusting, lying hypocrite.
Services vs Industry as a Percent of GDP
Because it's more important for a country to produce sociology majors and Green Peace activists and social workers than it is for a country to produce something people want like IPod's and gasoline and food.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Rocky Mountain National Park
It's cold and windy up there. The audio is incomprehensible, but you get the idea. Cold and snowy!
Berkeley Graduates, Outsourcing Fathers, and Lies, Damn Lies!
"Thank god we got rid of those stupid fathers! Who needs them! With all their "rules" and "discipline!" Me and my kids are best friends!"
LIES! ALL LIES! Don't listen to them! You can be happy like us! YOU DON'T NEED A HUSBAND, NOR DO YOU WANT ONE! Join us in our "50 Year Olds With Cats Club!"
In getting what they want, they defeat themselves.
Some humor from Haley. I wish I could find the Youtube Video of the Wings of Honneamise where the pilot goes to his girlfriend's house, finds her there outside her now-bulldozed home and he says. "What the heck happened!?" "They bulldozed our house. I thought that if we prayed it wouldn't happen." "YOU CAN'T #%*&ing PRAY TO PREVENT A BULLDOZER!"
"that illustrated how few things make liberals as angry as the idea of people who really matter just get to vote with their feet against them, thus depriving them of other people's money their policies depend on."
Snarks has been covering the "green industry" scam in that she lives all of 3 miles from Solyndra. Here, here and here.
When liberals make charts, you can ALWAYS expect them to lie about it.
An obscure post, but I was wondering where i was getting all the hits from. You'll want to pour yourself a drink before tackling this one.
And ask yourself the question. What if all young, educated males decided to give up the rat race and just get by on enough money to support themselves and only themselves? You'd soon come to the conclusion that when guys like this go Galt, your country is in for a world of hurt. Sadly (and I'll say it again for the cheap seat) unfortunately men DO exist and they are a VITAL part of this or any other society because they are essentially the engine that drives it. But don't worry, you don't need an engine, you need government social workers and education and free health care. Not hard working men! Pha! That's so 1950s!
What Does Insulin Regulate Anyway?
Sorry about the acronyms. A glitch in my new system. I'll edit in later if I get a chance.
I hate semantics, and at the same time I can be a stickler for the notion that "words count" at times. When I hear the word regulate, as in A regulates B, I substitute the word control. So A controls B. And this ultimately means that A determines what B is.
Part of TWICHOO is that insulin *fundamentally regulates* fat accumulation. What Taubes is saying is that insulin regulates fat tissue mass. Insulin controls fat tissue mass, and ultimately that means that insulin levels determine how fat you are.
To state his case, Taubes zeros in on the TAG/FA cycle that occurs continually in the fat cell, and the known fact that insulin regulates this cycle (to large extent). This is not in dispute, although the relative weight of insulin's actions on the outcome may be somewhat argued in these circles. The full TAG/FA cycle is pictured at right (from Reshef et.al. 2003) -- the version Taubes discusses in GCBC. We see that triglycerides and free fatty acids are constantly cycling in the fat cells, and between the fat tissue and the liver and muscle tissues. Some is taken back up again. The Evil HR Lady
As you all know, I don't hate HR.
I loathe HR.
Aside from an oppressive and growing socialist government, HR is a closely ranked second in terms of what is holding America back from it's halcyon days of 4%+ average RGDP growth. It certainly is the #1 non-public sector problem, and it embodies pretty much everything I hate about the anti-American forces - feminism, overregulation, anti-capitalism, legal/law/lawyers, socialism, affirmative action, etc.
But then I saw via Snarks "The Evil HR Lady."
Apparently, this lady DOES get it. Not only does she acknowledge most people view HR for the evil it is, she makes valid posts about labor and labor force relations. Most notably is her position that firms are failing to realize that facebook, myspace, blogs and other social media is the main means by which the latest generation communicates and that ultimately it's none of their damn business what is said on these sites. ie-if firms will discriminate against against social media users and go Gestapo on them, they will soon have no labor pool to chose from. One could make a very good argument it is age discrimination.
Naturally I don't think one sane HR lady is going to make a lick of difference. For every genuinely concerned and intellectually honest HR professional like her, there's 10 genuinely evil and power hungry HR ladies with no real intent to help her employer. So "The Evil HR Lady" will have to forgive me when I still stand by my pledge that when I am king, I will ban all HR departments.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Katie Kieffer
This is not a hit piece.
This is a sincere and legitimate piece that is very important and (frankly) is a piece I should not have to write.
Katie Kieffer is hot. I'm sure she's very nice and I'm am certainly happy to have her on the conservative side of the force, but...
that's about all she is.
However, because she is a "conservative," she is now exalted to an undeserved level of celebrityship because she has that seemingly mutually exclusive combination of traits;
Hot and conservative.
And that combination makes the typical conservative/libertarian males' IQ drop by about 50 points.
Now, the reason I am compelled to write about this (and unfortunately give her due linkage and press) is because I have had more than one middle aged male, salivating over her, asking me if I've read her or not.
And what is particularly irritating about this, is these are presumably men who should know better, but lower the standards for genuine intelligent writing and philosophy because of a cute little piece of conservative T&A.
This is a weakness, but more importantly, it is a hypocrisy I find among conservative men. So desperate are they for a good looking conservative female, they lower their standards in a very affirmative action way and qualify what is literally mindless 20 something ditz blather as genuine and serious political commentary just because she's "a hottie."
Now, look, if you want to open yourselves up to genuine (and well-deserved) criticism from the left for thinking in your pants, go ahead. It will only undermine our larger goal and make us look to be the fools that we really aren't. But if you can permit yourself the intellectual honesty to identify Mr. Kieffer for what she is, and give her no more credit than that, then we do ourselves a favor calling a spade a spade, and focusing our efforts on more important issues, not to mention showing ourselves to be serious people that abide by intellectual honesty and giving credit where credit is due.
Now if Ms. Kieffer wants to put together a calendar along with some of the Fox News Babes in kind of a cheer-leading sort of effort for liberty and freedom, fine. But she, and equally lacking intellectual "conservative hotties" are not the ones on the football field. That would be the likes of Matt Drudge, Joe Soucheray, Peter Schiff, Zero Hedge, myself, Dalrock and the thousands of others out there who actually do the heavy lifting, the pulling of data, the serious commentary, etc. But honest to god, to exalt her to a similar level just because she's good looking, really does give credence to what some of the most evil and reviled feminists out there claim.
We are better than that. More importantly, our morals, standards and ideology should reflect that. We judge people by their skill, merit, worth, character and intelligence.
Not by their creed.
Not by the color of their skin.
And certainly not how hot they look.
POST-POST - Guess what her major is!? I told you, crusaders can be right or left.
This is a sincere and legitimate piece that is very important and (frankly) is a piece I should not have to write.
Katie Kieffer is hot. I'm sure she's very nice and I'm am certainly happy to have her on the conservative side of the force, but...
that's about all she is.
However, because she is a "conservative," she is now exalted to an undeserved level of celebrityship because she has that seemingly mutually exclusive combination of traits;
Hot and conservative.
And that combination makes the typical conservative/libertarian males' IQ drop by about 50 points.
Now, the reason I am compelled to write about this (and unfortunately give her due linkage and press) is because I have had more than one middle aged male, salivating over her, asking me if I've read her or not.
And what is particularly irritating about this, is these are presumably men who should know better, but lower the standards for genuine intelligent writing and philosophy because of a cute little piece of conservative T&A.
This is a weakness, but more importantly, it is a hypocrisy I find among conservative men. So desperate are they for a good looking conservative female, they lower their standards in a very affirmative action way and qualify what is literally mindless 20 something ditz blather as genuine and serious political commentary just because she's "a hottie."
Now, look, if you want to open yourselves up to genuine (and well-deserved) criticism from the left for thinking in your pants, go ahead. It will only undermine our larger goal and make us look to be the fools that we really aren't. But if you can permit yourself the intellectual honesty to identify Mr. Kieffer for what she is, and give her no more credit than that, then we do ourselves a favor calling a spade a spade, and focusing our efforts on more important issues, not to mention showing ourselves to be serious people that abide by intellectual honesty and giving credit where credit is due.
Now if Ms. Kieffer wants to put together a calendar along with some of the Fox News Babes in kind of a cheer-leading sort of effort for liberty and freedom, fine. But she, and equally lacking intellectual "conservative hotties" are not the ones on the football field. That would be the likes of Matt Drudge, Joe Soucheray, Peter Schiff, Zero Hedge, myself, Dalrock and the thousands of others out there who actually do the heavy lifting, the pulling of data, the serious commentary, etc. But honest to god, to exalt her to a similar level just because she's good looking, really does give credence to what some of the most evil and reviled feminists out there claim.
We are better than that. More importantly, our morals, standards and ideology should reflect that. We judge people by their skill, merit, worth, character and intelligence.
Not by their creed.
Not by the color of their skin.
And certainly not how hot they look.
POST-POST - Guess what her major is!? I told you, crusaders can be right or left.
Financial Services as a Percentage of GDP
If you hate bankers and politicians you aren't alone. But you may find it interesting that (aside from these two groups of people being notorious for corruption and greed), you may hate them for another reason - they really don't produce anything.
Now of course, your Captain works in banking and you would be asking him the question, "why are you ripping on yourself?" But in maintaining intellectual honesty I have to admit, the banking industry doesn't produce anything. We provide a service. And that service is risk assessment and capital. Sounds boring, but it's vital to any economy. Why, could you imagine if banks did their job during the build up to the housing bubble that we would not be in this problem we're in now? But that aside, in the end, banks ultimately provide a service that should support the rest of the economy. They should not really become the economy themselves because "banking" is not really a consumable item. It's a supporting service.
Ergo why Henry Ford (I believe it was) said something to the extent of "if banks and finance companies become too big relative to the rest of the economy, you have problems."
So, in my biennial perusal of the NIPA accounts, I decided to calculate the financial services industry as a percent of GDP.
Now, normally at this point in time I would continue on about the ramifications of this, and how this is more proof the entire economy is a debt inflated bubble, but I think we have all been reading Cappy Cap enough now that the economics lesson is self-evident.
Besides, why waste time reading something you already know when you really should be enjoying the decline!
Didn't They Get $50 Billion?
I'm amazed how these banks are being downgraded. I mean, didn't we give them billions of dollars in TARP?
What makes it better is it's Wells Fargo. The bank that took billions in bailout funds, and then never refinances anybody. I also had the displeasure of working for them as an "analyst." Where there was no such thing as "analysis" going on as much as it was data entry. This was also the bank where when I was a 21 year intern I was writing the sovereign risk reports in their economics department but the senior international economist would be her name on my reports. Doing the work of the senior international economist and getting paid $10 an hour to do it.
Ahhhh, those were the good ole days.
What makes it better is it's Wells Fargo. The bank that took billions in bailout funds, and then never refinances anybody. I also had the displeasure of working for them as an "analyst." Where there was no such thing as "analysis" going on as much as it was data entry. This was also the bank where when I was a 21 year intern I was writing the sovereign risk reports in their economics department but the senior international economist would be her name on my reports. Doing the work of the senior international economist and getting paid $10 an hour to do it.
Ahhhh, those were the good ole days.
24hr Profiles: Insulin Secretion & Clearance in Normal and Obese
In this post I want to discuss two companion studies from the late 80's looking at twenty-four hour profiles of insulin secretion, uptake by the liver, glucose levels, etc. The studies are available at the links below:
(I) Quantitative Study of Insulin Secretion and Clearance in Normal and Obese Subjects
(II) Twenty-Four-Hour Profiles and Pulsatile Patterns of Insulin Secretion in Normal and Obese Subjects
Participants: All non-diabetic with no family history of diabetes. Age, weight, BMI are group averages.
(I) Quantitative Study of Insulin Secretion and Clearance in Normal and Obese Subjects
(II) Twenty-Four-Hour Profiles and Pulsatile Patterns of Insulin Secretion in Normal and Obese Subjects
Participants: All non-diabetic with no family history of diabetes. Age, weight, BMI are group averages.
14 normal weight: 7M/7F, age 38.5 yrs, weight 70.1 kg, BMI 23.0Read more »
15 obese: 5M/10F, age 35.8, weight 105.7 kg, BMI 37.0
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Ode to Rumpleminze
In my superawesome financial classes that I teach, I had a student actually ask about Rumpleminze. My response I realized was an ode to Rumpleminze, so allow me to post it here;
Ah, "cordial" is actually a euphemism. "Super Uber Schnapps" is more like it.
When the economy was booming back in 1998, the problem I faced was not just doing finance seminars, but dance classes as well. My voice started to go because I was speaking/teaching about 3 hours a day and the human vocal chords are just not made for that much use.
Thankfully God created "Rumpleminze" (or at least some alcoholic German did).
And the world was good.
Actually, Rumpleminze is a Canadian schnapps that is VERY thick, is ALWAYS chilled, STRONGLY minty and 50% alcohol.
So when heading back from a dance class or finance seminar in some far flung Minnesota town I would stop in at the local VFW or American Legion (I prefer to give my money to the vets) and 100% guarantee they would have Rumpleminze.
Have a shot of that and you could feel the 27 degree liquid not just coat, but completely revitalize your vocal chords.
Additionally since I started drinking that regularly, I haven't gotten sick in terms of flu, cold, infection, etc. The only thing I've gotten sick from has been food poisoning in the past 8 years. Could be my constitution, but I really do believe it's the Rumpie.
Ah, "cordial" is actually a euphemism. "Super Uber Schnapps" is more like it.
When the economy was booming back in 1998, the problem I faced was not just doing finance seminars, but dance classes as well. My voice started to go because I was speaking/teaching about 3 hours a day and the human vocal chords are just not made for that much use.
Thankfully God created "Rumpleminze" (or at least some alcoholic German did).
And the world was good.
Actually, Rumpleminze is a Canadian schnapps that is VERY thick, is ALWAYS chilled, STRONGLY minty and 50% alcohol.
So when heading back from a dance class or finance seminar in some far flung Minnesota town I would stop in at the local VFW or American Legion (I prefer to give my money to the vets) and 100% guarantee they would have Rumpleminze.
Have a shot of that and you could feel the 27 degree liquid not just coat, but completely revitalize your vocal chords.
Additionally since I started drinking that regularly, I haven't gotten sick in terms of flu, cold, infection, etc. The only thing I've gotten sick from has been food poisoning in the past 8 years. Could be my constitution, but I really do believe it's the Rumpie.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Because X-Box 360's Can't Sprout Legs
It was 1994.
I was a freshman and invited to a party being hosted by my boss at the U of MN Police Departments "Campus Cops" program.
I showed up and sure enough everybody was drinking and my corporal, after drinking for several hours challenged me to a race from his house to Como avenue. He would wear his boots and I could wear my regular shoes.
He was about 6'1" and I was much shorter. I knew he had me. I knew he would beat me and was doing it just to prove he could.
Of course I took the challenge in the outside hopes of proving him wrong in front of everybody and winning some street cred (which didn't exist in 1994).
Sure enough,
On your marks,
Get set,
GO!
I booked.
I mean, I just booked. Waiting for him to pass me I could have sworn he was just toying with me.
But when I stopped hearing his boots hitting the pavement I permitted myself the luxury to look back and see he had not only given up, but was puking on the street.
Lesson to be learned?
Don't assume people are always chasing you. Especially when you girls play "hard to get." Because we may have been chasing in our teens and 20's, but stopped chasing long ago.
The question is whether you have the wisdom in your 30's and 40's to look back.
Oh, and hey, enjoy that decline!
The question is whether you have the wisdom in your 30's and 40's to look back.
Oh, and hey, enjoy that decline!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Captain Conquers Hallet Peak
In my effort to enjoy the decline before either I die or the country declines so much I must don my Mad Max gear and set forth, I made the 6 hour trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. I didn't get there until the afternoon on Saturday so I drove around the entire park, and entered into Denver from the west on I-70 wherein I found a sushi joint, a cigar bar and a salsa club all within 1 mile of each other.
To quote Eddie Izzard, "Fantastico!"
I was particularly impressed with the salsa ladies of Denver because 70% of them said yes to a dance. In Minnesota you can expect a success rate of only 30% because, well, it's Minnesota and the women always presume you're trying to get with them instead of you just simply and honestly asking them for a dance. It's a foreign concept to them, "hey, I just want to dance, I don't want to get with you." But then again, if I grew up on a regiment on 90210, The Mall of America, billions of dollar's worth of daddy's money, and Sex in the City, I might be a bit presumptuous too. Regardless, the ladies of Denver, I salute you for using that horrible word, "yes."
Regardless, the next day was to conquer a real mountain, Hallet Peak, a short 5 mile hike up to the peak, all of which could be done in an afternoon. I took pictures and I am happy I brought my windbreaker because not only was there wind, there was a ton of snow.
I will brag now and mention that this hike took me a total of 4 hours and 15 minutes. That included looking around, taking in the view and hiking behind piles of rocks at the peak to shield me against the wind and maintain a normal body temperature. Enjoy the pictures!
This is Hallet's peak form across the valley you hike up.
This is the sign that tells you you made it to Flattop Peak. Hallet's peak is in the background. It's actually no more than 1/2 a mile away, but the lack of oxygen gets to you and that little jaunt took at least 30 minutes.
I got lonely and made myself a friend.
Hallet's Peak about 1/2 the way up the climb.
These are mountains to the East of Halley's peak, I have not yet consulted the map to find out which peaks they are.
There was this young 25 year old punk kid that actually passed me near Flattop. I thought I was doing a pretty good clip and this young guy with all of his youth and everything SLOWLY passes me (he too was suffering from a lack of oxygen). Anyway, we inevitably hit the peak at the same time so he was kind enough to take the picture. He (ahem ahem!) did not decide to move onto Hallet's peak, once again cementing my status of "30 something guy with 25 year old body Awesomeness."
If you jump juuuuuust right, you might land in Emerald lake.
I will post videos later that will explain why the icicles form horizontally at the top of the mountain once I compile them into one youtube video.
To quote Eddie Izzard, "Fantastico!"
I was particularly impressed with the salsa ladies of Denver because 70% of them said yes to a dance. In Minnesota you can expect a success rate of only 30% because, well, it's Minnesota and the women always presume you're trying to get with them instead of you just simply and honestly asking them for a dance. It's a foreign concept to them, "hey, I just want to dance, I don't want to get with you." But then again, if I grew up on a regiment on 90210, The Mall of America, billions of dollar's worth of daddy's money, and Sex in the City, I might be a bit presumptuous too. Regardless, the ladies of Denver, I salute you for using that horrible word, "yes."
Regardless, the next day was to conquer a real mountain, Hallet Peak, a short 5 mile hike up to the peak, all of which could be done in an afternoon. I took pictures and I am happy I brought my windbreaker because not only was there wind, there was a ton of snow.
I will brag now and mention that this hike took me a total of 4 hours and 15 minutes. That included looking around, taking in the view and hiking behind piles of rocks at the peak to shield me against the wind and maintain a normal body temperature. Enjoy the pictures!
This is Hallet's peak form across the valley you hike up.
This is the sign that tells you you made it to Flattop Peak. Hallet's peak is in the background. It's actually no more than 1/2 a mile away, but the lack of oxygen gets to you and that little jaunt took at least 30 minutes.
I got lonely and made myself a friend.
Hallet's Peak about 1/2 the way up the climb.
These are mountains to the East of Halley's peak, I have not yet consulted the map to find out which peaks they are.
There was this young 25 year old punk kid that actually passed me near Flattop. I thought I was doing a pretty good clip and this young guy with all of his youth and everything SLOWLY passes me (he too was suffering from a lack of oxygen). Anyway, we inevitably hit the peak at the same time so he was kind enough to take the picture. He (ahem ahem!) did not decide to move onto Hallet's peak, once again cementing my status of "30 something guy with 25 year old body Awesomeness."
If you jump juuuuuust right, you might land in Emerald lake.
I will post videos later that will explain why the icicles form horizontally at the top of the mountain once I compile them into one youtube video.
Those Annoying Acronyms
Hey gang!
Just to let you know, I've given some thought to those acronyms some find so annoying. I get it, really. It's just that when I'm writing it would be totally untenable to write things out every time. Even if I could, writing out "non-esterified fatty acids" rather than NEFA every time would unnecessarily lengthen my posts. Most are long enough already! Also, the acronym is ultimately easier for readability and speed. However you sound it out in your head, NEFA is a heckuvalot shorter than non-esterified fatty acids.
So ... I've been working on a solution today, using an auto-type utility and a little HTML magic. I think I have it! Check out the sentence below. You can mouse over NEFA and see what the acronym means. It shows as a link. (Don't click though ... I'm going to have to make a "go back" link but for now it takes you to the Asylum home.)
Elevated levels of NEFA can be deleterious.It will take me time to put the acronyms in the auto-typing utility, but I think this should help. Feedback greatly appreciated!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Pay Pal Problems
If you love the Captain, you know the way to his heart!
Rumpleminze!
That's why the Captain has put a handy dandy link to the right there with a big ole bottle of Rumpleminze.
However, as some of you have e-mailed me recently, the paypal link does not work.
The reason is because Paypal and Firefox do not get along well together.
If you still wish to make a donation I suggest using Explorer.
I do apologize for this inconvenience (NO, REALLY, I DO! I LIKE MONEY!), but it's easiest to just opening it up in Explorer and it should work.
If it doesn't please let me know!
El Capitan
Rumpleminze!
That's why the Captain has put a handy dandy link to the right there with a big ole bottle of Rumpleminze.
However, as some of you have e-mailed me recently, the paypal link does not work.
The reason is because Paypal and Firefox do not get along well together.
If you still wish to make a donation I suggest using Explorer.
I do apologize for this inconvenience (NO, REALLY, I DO! I LIKE MONEY!), but it's easiest to just opening it up in Explorer and it should work.
If it doesn't please let me know!
El Capitan
Why Low Carb will always be a Fad
I really can't tell you how elated I was initially to find Jimmy's forum and what seemed to be what I was looking for in 2009: (1) Some answers to why weight loss had stopped for a long time despite having weight left to lose, and (2) Support that the science backed the long term safety of following such a diet. My mindset about 2-1/2 years ago was that I was generally pretty happy with where I was at. If I didn't lose more weight I was still happy with how I looked and others looked at me. I felt great and younger than I did when I was a decade younger. There was the nag ... though I had not experienced the health issues of a previous stint this time, I still worried over their return. But there was also this other nag compounded by the fact that my husband is not a low carber. If LC was not producing further progress, was such an extreme necessary even if it was healthy.
Insulin & Metabolic Rate ~ Am I Missing Anything?
As my regular readers are well aware, I've read a ton of peer review research on insulin and its action. I also have a pretty freakish memory for certain things, so if I'd come across even an aside from a reputable source, I would have remembered it.
So, I have yet to come across any information that insulin directly alters metabolism. By that I mean the basal metabolic rate to keep you live and not-so-kickin -- BMR/RMR/REE. As close as it comes is that insulin stimulates glycolysis (oxidation of glucose for energy), but it also suppresses fatty acid metabolism so that would seem to be a wash to me -- substrate switch but no impact on total rate of fuel burning. I'm also not talking about minor differences in the TEF for carbs vs. other macros as this does not appear to be related to hormones per se.
I'm talking whether insulin has any known action like that of leptin that specifically increases or decreases metabolic rate. Have I missed anything?
Thanks in advance!
The Full Physiological Regulation of Fat Tissue ~ Part I of ?
Look it's late 2011 we have a disorder of excess fat accumulation, and low carb shills are saying that the physiological regulation of fat tissue by hormones secreted by the fat itself is irrelevant.
~CarbSane channeling her favorite science fiction journalist/author
~CarbSane channeling her favorite science fiction journalist/author
In this series of who-knows-how-many posts, I'm going discuss the full physiological regulation of fat tissue. This was prompted by the response of the original LC Internet Kindergarten Cop to CICO vs. Regulation of Fat Tissue ~ Questions for Gary Taubes. In that post I posed the following question:
How can any hypothesis on the regulation of
fat accumulation not include ASP and leptin?
Indeed Taubes himself acknowledges the plethora of hormones in WWGF. Note: It's very easy to imagine how they can be so disturbed so that too much fat gets in and not enough gets out. {click to enlarge}
Indeed Taubes himself acknowledges the plethora of hormones in WWGF. Note: It's very easy to imagine how they can be so disturbed so that too much fat gets in and not enough gets out. {click to enlarge} Friday, September 16, 2011
No, We WON'T Invest in the Children
I read this on OneStdv via Dalrock, and thought the comment had enough merit it was worthy of its own post. it is in reference to men "not growing up" or "manning up;"
Also, jobs are far less stable, which makes guys less stable. The days of working for the same company for 30 years are over. Finally, there are fewer prospects for advancement these days. The Boomers have all of the senior jobs, and don't want to leave them, which means that young guys can't move up as easily.
Also, and this is harder to explain but I am sure there is something to it, I think there is an intangible component to all of this. Back in the day, the institutions of our society actually reached out to young guys. Big companies had "executive training programs," the unions had apprenticeship programs, etc. The institutions of our society were actually reaching out to young men, saying "come work with us," and "we need you."
That stuff really doesn't exist today. Instead of going into an "executive training program" for IBM or GM, most people who finish college do temp office work for a few years until they eventually find something permanent, and then they change jobs every couple of years because they have to.
I am 40, but this is basically what it has been like for me. When I started out doing temp work, it wasn't because I was a slacker who wasn't "interested" in a real job with real responsibilities. I desperately wanted a permanent job. but there just wasn't one to be had. Similarly, no one wants to still be clubbing at 30 or 35. Most guys are a little leery of the responsibility of having kids, but they still want to get married.
It's almost hilarious to think at one point in time there were recruiters approaching college campuses and looking to incorporate young people into the workforce. I, like the commenter, am more or less the same age and now with enough distance between graduating from college and now, I'm actually a little appalled at the blatant indifference of employers and industry had towards employing youth.
Admittedly Gen X was not known for its reliability, but the amount of scrutiny, let alone political and outright corrupt BS I, and I assume others, in my generation had to tolerate was just not justified. Tell me if you haven't had to deal with this type of behavior in your 20's?
1. Misleading job descriptions and titles. "Analysts" "Interns" "researchers." And all you did was file and fax and do meaningless data entry.
2. Psychotic bosses. One 42 year old woman would keep me hostage in her office complaining about work. A conman and a liar who damn well knew what he was doing just to make commission. And an outright megalomaniac who specialized in getting naive Asian investors to invest in his "dotcom" company, as he just took the proceeds and bought cars and flights with it. This one runs the gambit I'm sure, but a disproportionate percent of my bosses had genuine psychological problems or just completely lacked a moral compass.
3. Lack of training. "Must hit the ground running" means "we're too damn lazy to train you and we'll blame your guaranteed future mishaps not on the lack of training, but you." Did ANYBODY out there EVER had ANYONE train them in adequately? I'm not talking an abundance of hand holding, I'm just talking showing people the ropes to the point they're functional on their own.
4. Suffering the inanity of HR. I could go on for pages, but you know precisely what I'm talking about.
5. The BS of "if you work hard and put your time in, you will be rewarded." No, they'll just give you more work, and that's if you're lucky enough to have an employer that is managed well enough to be around and not file for bankruptcy.
Of course at the time, I thought I was a failure. I couldn't find a job, I couldn't find a job that would use my skills, heck, most of the time I couldn't get past the 23 year old girl asking me stupid questions. But then I had an epiphany much like when I was 23 about dating 20 something women. It wasn't me, it was the system.
When I was about 30 I noticed the sheer corruption infecting the banking industry, and how incompetent corporate America had become. I was able to step back and maybe grant myself some credit, and noticed how poorly managed corporate American was by its stewards. I realized just what a psychotic, sick and twisted game our elders were playing on us. There was never any intention of "helping out" the next generation get their feet wet and incorporate us into the working world. There was never any "grooming" or "preparation" for us to inevitably get the experience needed to take the helm as they retired off into the night. And there was never any desire on their part to mentor or train. It was just "forget long term planning and forget long term consequences. Just use them and get rid of them if they aren't a "self-starter." Or they can't handle the "steep learning curve." And, just like men in the manosphere started waking up to the systematic problems in American courtship, people are waking up to this systematic problem too.
There will be a consequence. Heck, there already is. A stale and increasingly ineffective managerial and executive class that can't get this country out of a recession. Additionally a managerial and executive class, that as far as I can tell, can only increase the bottom line through rent seeking, lobbying and graft. None of which will lead to genuine economic growth or a boost in standards of living. They are what the Japanese referred to as "dinosaurs," and is yet another parallel between the US economy today and that of Japan in the 1990's-2000's. Economic decay will be one thing, generational resentment and indifference will be another.
But still, I'd like to think that back in the day, there was a time where such outreach programs did exist to help bring aboard the best talent. I'd like to think back in the day companies wanted you to join their team and would deal with you honestly and directly. Of course, I know those days are gone. To quote a friend of mine whose brother recently graduated with a Harvard MBA;
"So, did he learn anything that common sense wouldn't have told him?"
"Oh, no, of course not. But he didn't go there for that. He went there for the connections. He's got a digital Rolodex of all the children of east coast billionaires who went to school with him."
Surely there is no consequence to cronyism.
Also, jobs are far less stable, which makes guys less stable. The days of working for the same company for 30 years are over. Finally, there are fewer prospects for advancement these days. The Boomers have all of the senior jobs, and don't want to leave them, which means that young guys can't move up as easily.
Also, and this is harder to explain but I am sure there is something to it, I think there is an intangible component to all of this. Back in the day, the institutions of our society actually reached out to young guys. Big companies had "executive training programs," the unions had apprenticeship programs, etc. The institutions of our society were actually reaching out to young men, saying "come work with us," and "we need you."
That stuff really doesn't exist today. Instead of going into an "executive training program" for IBM or GM, most people who finish college do temp office work for a few years until they eventually find something permanent, and then they change jobs every couple of years because they have to.
I am 40, but this is basically what it has been like for me. When I started out doing temp work, it wasn't because I was a slacker who wasn't "interested" in a real job with real responsibilities. I desperately wanted a permanent job. but there just wasn't one to be had. Similarly, no one wants to still be clubbing at 30 or 35. Most guys are a little leery of the responsibility of having kids, but they still want to get married.
It's almost hilarious to think at one point in time there were recruiters approaching college campuses and looking to incorporate young people into the workforce. I, like the commenter, am more or less the same age and now with enough distance between graduating from college and now, I'm actually a little appalled at the blatant indifference of employers and industry had towards employing youth.
Admittedly Gen X was not known for its reliability, but the amount of scrutiny, let alone political and outright corrupt BS I, and I assume others, in my generation had to tolerate was just not justified. Tell me if you haven't had to deal with this type of behavior in your 20's?
1. Misleading job descriptions and titles. "Analysts" "Interns" "researchers." And all you did was file and fax and do meaningless data entry.
2. Psychotic bosses. One 42 year old woman would keep me hostage in her office complaining about work. A conman and a liar who damn well knew what he was doing just to make commission. And an outright megalomaniac who specialized in getting naive Asian investors to invest in his "dotcom" company, as he just took the proceeds and bought cars and flights with it. This one runs the gambit I'm sure, but a disproportionate percent of my bosses had genuine psychological problems or just completely lacked a moral compass.
3. Lack of training. "Must hit the ground running" means "we're too damn lazy to train you and we'll blame your guaranteed future mishaps not on the lack of training, but you." Did ANYBODY out there EVER had ANYONE train them in adequately? I'm not talking an abundance of hand holding, I'm just talking showing people the ropes to the point they're functional on their own.
4. Suffering the inanity of HR. I could go on for pages, but you know precisely what I'm talking about.
5. The BS of "if you work hard and put your time in, you will be rewarded." No, they'll just give you more work, and that's if you're lucky enough to have an employer that is managed well enough to be around and not file for bankruptcy.
Of course at the time, I thought I was a failure. I couldn't find a job, I couldn't find a job that would use my skills, heck, most of the time I couldn't get past the 23 year old girl asking me stupid questions. But then I had an epiphany much like when I was 23 about dating 20 something women. It wasn't me, it was the system.
When I was about 30 I noticed the sheer corruption infecting the banking industry, and how incompetent corporate America had become. I was able to step back and maybe grant myself some credit, and noticed how poorly managed corporate American was by its stewards. I realized just what a psychotic, sick and twisted game our elders were playing on us. There was never any intention of "helping out" the next generation get their feet wet and incorporate us into the working world. There was never any "grooming" or "preparation" for us to inevitably get the experience needed to take the helm as they retired off into the night. And there was never any desire on their part to mentor or train. It was just "forget long term planning and forget long term consequences. Just use them and get rid of them if they aren't a "self-starter." Or they can't handle the "steep learning curve." And, just like men in the manosphere started waking up to the systematic problems in American courtship, people are waking up to this systematic problem too.
There will be a consequence. Heck, there already is. A stale and increasingly ineffective managerial and executive class that can't get this country out of a recession. Additionally a managerial and executive class, that as far as I can tell, can only increase the bottom line through rent seeking, lobbying and graft. None of which will lead to genuine economic growth or a boost in standards of living. They are what the Japanese referred to as "dinosaurs," and is yet another parallel between the US economy today and that of Japan in the 1990's-2000's. Economic decay will be one thing, generational resentment and indifference will be another.
But still, I'd like to think that back in the day, there was a time where such outreach programs did exist to help bring aboard the best talent. I'd like to think back in the day companies wanted you to join their team and would deal with you honestly and directly. Of course, I know those days are gone. To quote a friend of mine whose brother recently graduated with a Harvard MBA;
"So, did he learn anything that common sense wouldn't have told him?"
"Oh, no, of course not. But he didn't go there for that. He went there for the connections. He's got a digital Rolodex of all the children of east coast billionaires who went to school with him."
Surely there is no consequence to cronyism.
Future Unemployed Losers of America
Honest to god. And you idiot leftists claim we don't spend enough on education.
Of Microscopes and Myopic Hypotheses
Surely somewhere somehow in your life you've used a microscope. If this was in grade school, perhaps the teacher set it up for you, but most do not escape high school or college, even as non-science types, without using one at some point. Here is your basic microscope you might encounter in a biology or forensic chemistry lab or such.
The light shines up from the bottom, through your sample, up through the objective lens that magnifies the image and through the eye tube to your eye. The eyepiece usually adds additional magnification (10X). A choice of three objective lenses that can be "dialed in" is quite common. Note the different lengths of these. The shortest lens is the lowest magnification lens and is often called the low power objective. As lens length increases so does the magnifying power of the lens. The technique for using the microscope is pretty universal and begins with something that sounds rather silly: Finding your sample when you look through your microscope! If there's dust on the lens or the stage, etc., depending on what you're looking for, you might find yourself looking at something other than your sample. Dumb as that sounds, it's far more common than you might think, especially if what you're looking at is a hair or a fiber to begin with! The focus knobs work to adjust the vertical height between the sample and the objective lens -- this is called the working distance -- within the range of heights you see your sample, outside that range you basically see nothing. The working distance is the longest for the low power objective and can be very small indeed for the higher power objective (which, incidentally, tends to be the most expensive and delicate of the objectives)Thursday, September 15, 2011
How to Tell When to Short a Currency
When they elect a hyphenated-named leftist to their premiership.
Who also happens to be young and good looking (gee, where have I heard this before?)
What's the Danish currency? Would provide for a nice diversification since the Swiss central bank decided to get interventiony with their Francs.
regardless, time to pull the ole OECD stats and files on Victor Borge's home country.
Who also happens to be young and good looking (gee, where have I heard this before?)
What's the Danish currency? Would provide for a nice diversification since the Swiss central bank decided to get interventiony with their Francs.
regardless, time to pull the ole OECD stats and files on Victor Borge's home country.
But You Don't "Need" Those Freedoms
I had a conversation with a middle aged female friend of mine. I can't exactly explain why she's my friend, aside from I believe her to be a good person deep down in side. But she is a raving typical middle aged American female liberal and thusly has never really had to ponder or think about where she is and is NOT allowed in terms of other people's business.
It started with the smoking ban and no matter how much I tried to convey to her the concept of private property, private owners doing what they want on THEIR land, she still lacked the intellect to admit other people have the right to do what they want on their property.
After discussing abortion, smoking, gun ownership underage drinking, etc. etc., she still failed to grasp the "15 year old could understand it" concept of "live and let live."
No, she thought it her place (albeit unconsciously) it was her place to dictate to other people what they should and should not do.
Ultimately she said (and again, unconsciously no doubt), "but you don't need those freedoms."
It is ignorance and idiocy like that, that makes me no longer care about the difference between;
1. conscious evil, KNOWINGLY trying to get you to forfeit your freedoms to take advantage of you (ala Obama).
2. Unconscious evil (aka ignorance, Peggy Joseph, my friend), blindly going with emotion to unknowingly vote us into a state of tyranny.
So (to quote your lover President Zero)
LET ME BE CLEAR and link to something that may convey the concept of freedom to you ignoramuses out there. Freedom is the right of a person to make a decision for themslves. Good or bad, right or wrong, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's none of your god damned business. And if you can't get that concept down and respect that, you are simply tyrannical, conscious or not, and your "voting freedom" should be stripped, by force if necessary.
I guess what makes me so angry about this is how so many adults (and by "adults" I mean people who I view to be older than me and would have been adults when I was a kid) are still so damn stupid. As if age and experience has taught them nothing.
It started with the smoking ban and no matter how much I tried to convey to her the concept of private property, private owners doing what they want on THEIR land, she still lacked the intellect to admit other people have the right to do what they want on their property.
After discussing abortion, smoking, gun ownership underage drinking, etc. etc., she still failed to grasp the "15 year old could understand it" concept of "live and let live."
No, she thought it her place (albeit unconsciously) it was her place to dictate to other people what they should and should not do.
Ultimately she said (and again, unconsciously no doubt), "but you don't need those freedoms."
It is ignorance and idiocy like that, that makes me no longer care about the difference between;
1. conscious evil, KNOWINGLY trying to get you to forfeit your freedoms to take advantage of you (ala Obama).
2. Unconscious evil (aka ignorance, Peggy Joseph, my friend), blindly going with emotion to unknowingly vote us into a state of tyranny.
So (to quote your lover President Zero)
LET ME BE CLEAR and link to something that may convey the concept of freedom to you ignoramuses out there. Freedom is the right of a person to make a decision for themslves. Good or bad, right or wrong, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else, it's none of your god damned business. And if you can't get that concept down and respect that, you are simply tyrannical, conscious or not, and your "voting freedom" should be stripped, by force if necessary.
I guess what makes me so angry about this is how so many adults (and by "adults" I mean people who I view to be older than me and would have been adults when I was a kid) are still so damn stupid. As if age and experience has taught them nothing.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
I Guess I'm Shorting Rupees
Well, now all we need is China to go that route and we'll all tank together as one big global family. There will be NO economic growth ANYWHERE!
Again people, GLEOC is the wrong paradigm (ooo! Look! I used a fancy liberal word!)
Again people, GLEOC is the wrong paradigm (ooo! Look! I used a fancy liberal word!)
Diazoxide, Insulin & Obesity
In his recent post on insulin and obesity, Fat Tissue Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity , Stephan brings up one of those *nagging* studies that have been touted by TWICHOO advocates for quite some time.
Back in May 2008, Peter/Hyperlipid posted Weight loss when it's hard 2. Diazoxide. This discusses the following study: Beneficial Effect of Diazoxide in Obese Hyperinsulinemic Adults.
What is diazoxide? It is a drug that reduces insulin secretion. As Peter writes:
You can simply reduce insulin secretion using diazoxide. Find enough obese people willing to put up with the hunger generating regime supplied by Slimfast and semi starve them for 8 weeks. Half can have a placebo, half get diazoxide in addition to Slimfast starvation. Figure 1 in the results is where you want to look. The idle porkers starving on Slimfast plus diazoxide lost significantly more weight in 8 weeks than the idle porkers starving on Slimfast alone.Read more »
I'd Rather Have President Camacho
Idiocracy is a great movie that you need to watch. If for any other reason it is already a reality. Regardless, I cannot help but realize how I really would rather have President Camacho for president than President Zero. So some lighter fare for you folk.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Liberals Don't Know the Difference Between a Million, a Billion and a Trillion
Was reading this great article about capital flight. But then I see in the comments something that has confirmed my fears about the youth in this country;
They don't bleeping know the bleeping difference between a billion, a million and a trillion.
Of course this makes sense because I really believe most people who vote for Barack Obama, let alone still support him today, probably don't know the severity or the weight of annual and perpetual trillion dollar plus deficits.
This Encuero idiot ACTUALLY BELIEVES taking "half a billion" and spreading it across the 455 million Americans (did we all just start making with the hanky panky here to magically boost our population by a full third in the past year????) will result in an additional 455 million MILLIONAIRES.
he's so stupid he doesn't realize the real math would be that you would have simply given 455 million people a whopping....
$1 each.
In other words ladies and gentlemen, how on god's great earth can you fight this ignorance?
one of the biggest problems I face when teaching finance and economic seminars, or even having political discussions or debates, is the herculean task of;
1. Convincing people they are wrong
2. Deconstructing their erroneous beliefs and showing them why they were wrong
3. Teaching them how things work in the real world.
But when you've been believing something for 45 years and never bothered to figure out how it works or to confirm it whether to be true (let alone be so effing stupid you don't know the difference between a million and a billion), it becomes pointless. It becomes sheer futility.
So just stop trying to convince people. They'll find out soon enough what the difference between a billion and a trillion is when we have to use truckloads of dollars to buy a loaf of bread.
They don't bleeping know the bleeping difference between a billion, a million and a trillion.
Of course this makes sense because I really believe most people who vote for Barack Obama, let alone still support him today, probably don't know the severity or the weight of annual and perpetual trillion dollar plus deficits.
This Encuero idiot ACTUALLY BELIEVES taking "half a billion" and spreading it across the 455 million Americans (did we all just start making with the hanky panky here to magically boost our population by a full third in the past year????) will result in an additional 455 million MILLIONAIRES.
he's so stupid he doesn't realize the real math would be that you would have simply given 455 million people a whopping....
$1 each.
In other words ladies and gentlemen, how on god's great earth can you fight this ignorance?
one of the biggest problems I face when teaching finance and economic seminars, or even having political discussions or debates, is the herculean task of;
1. Convincing people they are wrong
2. Deconstructing their erroneous beliefs and showing them why they were wrong
3. Teaching them how things work in the real world.
But when you've been believing something for 45 years and never bothered to figure out how it works or to confirm it whether to be true (let alone be so effing stupid you don't know the difference between a million and a billion), it becomes pointless. It becomes sheer futility.
So just stop trying to convince people. They'll find out soon enough what the difference between a billion and a trillion is when we have to use truckloads of dollars to buy a loaf of bread.
Let's take a trip in the way back machine, shall we?
It's been exactly one year since this Gary Taubes interview with Jimmy Moore aired. In one of Gary's emails to me he stated that this was taped on June 14, 2010, two weeks after your's truly published "Da Bomb": Glyceroneogenesis v. Taubes. I'm not aware of what other bloggers were talking about this specific issue at the time. I'm going to ask you to give me about 10 minutes of your time to listen to what Gary was saying then about errors in GCBC. It is important, I think, to listen to his "voicey language" as I call it. The hesitation, high pitch at some points, throat clearing, etc. Because there can be no doubt that the question was set up between Jimmy & Gary to give him a platform to set the record straight. He was prepared for this ... he was not put on the hot seat in any way, and Jimmy would certainly not be trying to trip the guy up.
FF to about the 38:30 mark
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Monday, September 12, 2011
HCG Please say no!
For one reason or another I've been getting a ton of traffic from HCG sites. PLEASE. Do not fall for this shit. It is quackery to the n'th.
Poetic Justice Hits Minnesota
I have managed to "temporarily" escape my "captors" and will soon be held hostage again.
However, I was sent this piece that mandated I break free and write about it.
Ahhhh, Minnesota. Ignorance and naivete gets hit upside with reality.
If only, IF ONLY there was some guy, who maybe graduated from the U of MN, a home boy hero that could have (literally) singlehandedly saved the state economy.
But no, no such man existed. Besides, you all wanted to invest you money with the Tom Petters and Denny Heckers of Minnesota. You know those up and coming "businessmen" who frequently made the front pages as hometown heroes.
On a related side note, it just keeps getting better and better. We don't have a professional sports team in South Dakota.
Hey, you Minnesotans and Dayton voters, you crazy kids enjoy that decline!
However, I was sent this piece that mandated I break free and write about it.
Ahhhh, Minnesota. Ignorance and naivete gets hit upside with reality.
If only, IF ONLY there was some guy, who maybe graduated from the U of MN, a home boy hero that could have (literally) singlehandedly saved the state economy.
But no, no such man existed. Besides, you all wanted to invest you money with the Tom Petters and Denny Heckers of Minnesota. You know those up and coming "businessmen" who frequently made the front pages as hometown heroes.
On a related side note, it just keeps getting better and better. We don't have a professional sports team in South Dakota.
Hey, you Minnesotans and Dayton voters, you crazy kids enjoy that decline!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Insulin Wars w/ Todd Becker Chat
Newer readers may not remember this exchange from earlier this year, but Todd Becker of Getting Stronger and I had a nice back and forth going on insulin. Around that time this blog started to get wicked busy, a health issue with a family member was taking a lot of my time and mental energy, etc. Long story short, despite promises made, I never got around to posting any installments from Todd's last response. I owe Todd a huge apology for letting this slide this long. I've got a number of other things going with this blog and related projects so really don't have the time to devote to further installments of the Insulin Wars format, so I thought I'd catch everyone up with the discussion thusfar, and share Todd's last email in full via Google docs and let things go from here!
So, here's the series thusfar:
Insulin Wars IV: Todd Becker of Getting Stronger Blog
Insulin Wars IV.1: Todd Becker of Getting Stronger blog responds
More Todd Becker (Getting Stronger blog) on Insulin
Insulin Wars IV.2a: The Discussion with Todd Becker/Getting Stronger continues
Saturday, September 10, 2011
CICO vs. Regulation of Fat Tissue ~ Questions for Gary Taubes
In an interview with Andreas Eenfeldt (some time in 2010, uploaded by Eenfeldt 3/15/11), Gary Taubes makes the following statement (~3 minute mark is a good place to start):
Look it's 2010 we have a disorder of excess fat accumulation, and people are saying that the actual physiological regulation of fat tissue is irrelevant.
One point Stephan made in his retracted response to Gary's recent blog post needs to be addressed. So I'll do so here. Folks have been letting Taubes get away with this for a very long time, and that is his indiscriminate use of the word "regulation". The core principal of TWICHOO (Taubes Wrong Insulin-Carbohydrate Hypotheses of Obesity) is that insulin is the primary regulator of fat tissue metabolism, and thus fat mass. He's actually ratcheted that up a notch so that in his view insulin acts as virtually the sole regulator.
I'm going to use a computerized multi-fuel furnace with a fuel tank system depicted below to make my analogies.
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