Thanks, Liberty!!!

Brad

Hi Dr.:

In Robert Heinlein's "Future Series," he bred longevity by paying people who had long-living family to mate with other people of the same ("The Howard Foundation"). Hell, given the state of "science" today, we can't even pull that one off. LOL

The state of "research" in this country is little more than the sight of pigs slopping at the public trough, as your example eloquently demonstrates. Too bad...

Take Care,
Brad

OK, I see the two of you now. (big grin). VERY interesting website!! I will explore more later, but I enjoyed the piece Dale wrote on "The Most Powerful Idea in the World" and how he tied in the level of invention at the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution with intellectual property-rights protection through patents.Good work!

I see the two of you are in the Springs... Hell, that's only a few hours away (I'm in Cheyenne), and Barbie and I find ourselves in Ft. Collins quite a bit due to two of our daughters living there. Maybe we should hook up some time for a meet and dinner. If you two ever have an interest in that, just PM me and we'll go from there!!

Take Care,
Brad

So sorry. I guess all I can add is: Ain't it the
truth!

Goes back to the invention of 'allopathic' protocols; treating the symptom but not the cause.
There are protocols for getting some genes to be 'read' or not to be 'read' by the body. It's called epigenetics; Dr Dadamo of right4yourtype.com has established some supplements to do this but I am not sure it would help mental problems. More research needs to be done in this area.

It does seem that as a species, we seem to be losing the capability for rational thought. I cite just one instance where I find logic and rationality to have utterly escaped what passes for thought in the medical research community.

I am over 70 years old, and have not had so much as a case of the sniffles in over 30 years. I've taken some significant falls in my senior years, without any detectable damage. I appear about 15 years younger than my calendar age. My family history is completely devoid of any instance of cancer, heart disease, or dementia. I have tried to offer myself as an object of medical research, to see what there is about my genetic makeup that makes me so vital, and have failed to raise any interest.

As an engineer, I guess I think differently from medical researchers. If I'm building something, I look first to see what design has been proven successful, and seek to emulate that success. I have been told flatly by medical researchers, "We don't study healthy people." I was staggered by that premise.

With today's ability to dissect genetic structure, it would seem obvious to take apart my genes to find what's working right, and how that might be used to develop a preemptive strategy to make a healthier populace. What I've discovered is that medical researchers aren't willing to buck the tide set in motion by ignorant bureaucrats to give grants to reactive medicine. Money to study dysfunctional, sick bodies takes precedence over the concept of investigating what makes very healthy people that way.

oh, I see the confusion. by "we" I meant Db and I. We were not affiliated with the Gazette, just gentle readers. :) We do write for a new online magazine:http://www.thesavvystreet.com/ international group of writers of like thinking

Hi Allosaur:

Thanks for your service; and no, I won't call it a "sacrifice." I'll thank you, instead, for defending your values. I sure as Hell couldn't do that... (work in a prison, I mean)...

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Stormi:

Couldn't agree with you more on all counts. We are actually breeding our own demise, through tax-supported propaganda camps called "schools." They're child abuse, quite frankly, and they've destroyed our ability to recover from all of it. It does NOT look good, I'm afraid...

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Herb:

Thank you... And yes, you are right. I've experienced it before and it doesn't go away. The sharp edges file off a bit, and that's it. The gumshoes around here, unfortunately, literally "don't have a clue."

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Eye:

Agreed. Dwight kept a shotgun under the counter but obviously did not have a chance to grab it. He really needed to have had a locked gate as well as vidcams... Unfortunately, he had neither...

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Sam:

Thank you, and thank you. You are more than welcome.

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Olduglycarl:

Yeah, "goons" tend to be rather mindless by definition, don't they? (huge grin) And, ultimately, it is from the default of philosophy from whence they come...

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Warehousesteve:

Thanks man - appreciated more than you know.

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Rick:

Ha! We already ARE, actually - 'cause the current crop of fools in town sure don't qualify as "authentic." LOL

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Mike:

Thanks man. I just wish Dwight would have been a little more security-conscious; even a vidcam, while it wouldn't have prevented his murder, would have recorded the event. Shit, he didn't even have that. He ran the place like a small-town business, and that turned out to be a tragic mistake...

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Khalling:

Hey, THANKS!! If you ever get back into a newspaper somewhere, and you have some latitude with what you run, let me know; I'll be happy to turn in copy.

Take Care,
Brad

Hi NMA:

Thank you... Dwight's service will be tomorrow. It'll be a rough time. Still no leads on the killer - while the cops here in town are busy bragging about how they've corralled dozens of teenage drinkers during Frontier Days. Gumshoes.

Take Care,
Brad

Hi Abaco:

Agreed on all counts. We have, literally, as a culture, lost our minds. I don't know if we can prevent a collapse. I don't think so... And, the nature of The Crash will determine whether we can ever recover from it. "Sad," unfortunately, is not the word...

Take Care,
Brad

The power of ideas that come from our minds, not our brains is key...the connection is conscience.
Those goons had not that connection.

My sincere condolences on your loss. An awesome article and spot on. Thanks.

I am sorry for your loss.

Yet another reason people should exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.

So sorry for the loss you must endure. I know close-up and personal what it's like to lose someone close to you through senseless violence. You will feel anger and frustration, but folks will tell you it gets better with time. It doesn't. The abrasive edges may smooth out, but the anger and frustration are now a part of your life. Forever.

Brad, sorry for your and Cheyenne's loss. My dad used to run a full line music store in Cheyenne, it was a nice place to live.
A friend today commented on the crimes and drug use that just seem to get worse. Maybe, because the cause is never addressed. The mind and the personal responsibility factor never make the news. It's the flag's fault, it's the gun's fault, it's poverty, it's race.
Sorry, but no, it is the person's fault for not seeing they have a personal responsibility to think, to achieve, and to earn what they have. No one has ever questioned the real causes of the Columbine shootings, just the gun's fault. No, it was outcome based education, psychotropic drugs, and government tinkering online with those boys - all sending them far from reality, reason and thinking. It happens over and over, and the media seems brain dead to it all. As a retired journalist, it was frustrating trying to address reality with an editor into cronyism and quick judgements more than reality..

Sorry for your loss.
I spent 21 years wearing blue and looking such "goons" as you describe them in the eye.
That ended May, 2003.
I have no desire to so much as see that prison again.