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Maraya1969

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May 20, 2024

Do not know if this was posted from 2 weeks ago but the interview of President Biden by Howard Stern

was just wonderful. I learned so much about Biden's childhood and how his parents molded him into the great man he is. He talked about the stutter and what it was like and how he overcame it. He talked about his first wife and how he was able to go on after her death.

And Howard Stern was wonderful too. He was dressed in a suit! And he told Biden how nervous he was about the interview. He really loves President Biden.

So for anyone who missed it..........

May 19, 2024

So I have this strip surge protector that is plugged into the wall right next to my couch

where I play on the laptop and charge my phone. I also have lights plugged one of the outlets. Last night the red light on the surge protector wasn't turning on so I started moving plugs around trying to get it to work but nothing was helping. So because the laptop has a battery and so does the phone I decided to keep the lights on and use the other plug hole in the wall outlet to alternate between filling up the battery on the computer and then the phone. I was a little frantic and irritated because I knew I had to go out and get a new surge protector and I didn't want to let anything loose all its battery power.

So today I was getting ready to go to Home Depot for a new surge protector. I went to where I had left the cords and grabbed the old one that was broken to throw it out. I glanced at it and then realized that I found a new way of being an idiot. Note this:

April 21, 2024

Anyone know of this "Be Active Plus" for sciatica pain? I just saw it. It doesn't make

lick of sense that an acupressure thingy right below your knee would stop sciatica but I don't know everything.

"Introducing BeActive® Plus
The secret is the acupoint pressure pad that applies gentle targeted compression to the trigger point so the pain is turned off. Simply apply BeActive® Plus to the acupressure point on the calf just below your knee.

BeActive® Plus is the easy way to make sciatic nerve pain go away. In fact, it works so well, the FDA Cleared BeActive® Plus as a medical device."



https://www.buybeactiveplus.com/?mid=12040725

October 16, 2023

I really want some of the media and/or other Dems to ask these Republicans what they

(The Republican party) has done for the American people? Name on friggin thing that has benefited our citizens.

They've got nothing.

And have a backup plan, because we know how they will say that President Biden has done nothing.

Here are some examples but there are plenty more that this administration has accomplished.

"Rescued the Economy and Changed the Course of the Pandemic.

"Rebuilding our Infrastructure"
.
"Historic Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans."

"Nearly 11 million jobs have been created since President Biden took office – including 750,000 manufacturing jobs."

"New law to increase law enforcement accountability."

"New laws meant to increase job accountability for police and other members of the DOJ"

"Biden returned the United States to the Paris climate accord which Trump pulled out of, and set a goal of reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 50-52 percent by 2030 compared to 2005 levels."

"US MANUFACTURING, INDUSTRY
Biden and his fellow Democrats pushed through more than $2 trillion in federal spending, much of it aimed at restoring US manufacturing, in bills including the CHIPS, Inflation Reduction Act and an infrastructure bill.

Many of the companies who want a share of that federal spending must comply with a batch of requirements that force industries to make their products in the United States, a move welcomed by labor unions but opposed by trading allies such as the European Union and Mexico.

U.S. manufacturing jobs hit 12.98 million in each of the first three months of this year, the most since 2008, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."

"crack down on child labor laws"

Reunited 600 children the were kidnapped by the Trump administration, there are still about 1,000 but they continue to look for their families


"banned chokeholds and carotid restraints, unless deadly force is authorized, and limited the use of “no-knock” entries.

"Accreditation Standards: DOJ created first-of-their-kind accreditation standards "

"Guidelines for Emergency Responses to People with Behavioral Health or Other Disabilities: HHS and DOJ jointly developed guidance regarding emergency responses to calls and interactions with people in behavioral or mental health crisis or persons who have disabilities" (This is a great one since so many people who are having a mental health crisis are abused and even killed by cops)


May 13, 2021

I found this fascinating study that suggests chimerism is much more prevelent

than we thought and also can explain why some people are homosexual or transgendered.

First I do not know how well this is accepted; if it even accepted and it is from about 10 years ago. But I have read about people who have two different genomes in their bodies and we really have no idea how many people that happens to. There was one story of a woman whose children came out with different DNA than they "should have" as her children.

And please, this is just information. I am not trying to be insulting to anyone and I sincerely hope this information is not insulting. I identify as a bisexual woman and I have no idea how I came to be bisexual. It would be interesting to find out though.

Here is a definition of microchimerism - "Microchimerism is defined as the presence of two genetically distinct cell populations in the same individual. It can arise from several causes including the bidirectional transfer of cells between mother and fetus during pregnancy, twin-to-twin transfer in utero, from organ transplantation, and blood transfusion."

Chimera - "A genetic chimerism or chimera (/kaɪˈmɪərə/ ky-MEER-ə or /kɪˈmɪərə/ kə-MEER-ə, also spelled chimaera or chimæra) is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype. In animals, this means an individual derived from two or more zygotes, which can include possessing blood cells of different blood types, subtle variations in form (phenotype) and, if the zygotes were of differing sexes, then even the possession of both female and male sex organs[1] (this is just one of many different phenomena that may result in intersexuality). Animal chimeras are produced by the merger of multiple fertilized eggs."

DUAL-GENDER MACRO-CHIMERIC TISSUE DISCORDANCE IS PREDICTED TO BE A SIGNIFICANT CAUSE OF HUMAN HOMOSEXUALITY AND TRANSGENDERISM
Brian P Hanley

ABSTRACT

I present literature evidence that suggests that human chimerism may be quite common, occurring in between 5% and 15% of people. Chimerism has been believed to be rare because it usually presents without visible phenotype. In addition to the documented occurrence of dual gender macrochimeras with true hermaphrodite phenotype, there are reports of the occurrence of other natural human macrochimeras. The literature reviewed in this paper suggests that such macrochimerism is much more common than usually appreciated. Chimerism occurs in a patchy manner, with male cells outgrowing female in macrochimerism causing the majority to be phenotypically male. The literature also suggests that the sex of nervous system tissue is the primary determinant in higher animals of sexual attraction. From this, the existence of human macrochimeras in which large proportions of cells are male and female is predicted to have a correlation with homosexuality and transgender self-identification because in many such cases, the central nervous system, or crucial parts of it, will be of one sex and the gonads and body form will be of the opposite sex. I describe experiments to further clarify this hypothesis, which can also have potential benefit beyond this specific question.

http://www.hy-ls.org/index.php/hyls/article/view/57/0

December 10, 2017

This old man really knows what is going on

https://twitter.com/DanielSeidemann/status/939885411433893894


My ailing father - 93 years old, a victim & defeater of Nazism, a right-wing Orthodox Jew - was asked by the physician in the emergency room, seeking to ascertain his cognitive state:

"Who's the President?"

My dad: "You don't want to know".

Jeez, I love my dad.
December 8, 2017

LeeAnn Tweeden should be investigated for groping men on stage

https://twitter.com/bradley_thunder/status/938853135379988480

Now that Al Franken is resigning for groping @LeeannTweeden...

Can we also fire @LeeannTweeden for the numerous sexual assaults she's committed?

Sexual assault against men is still sexual assault.

Don't ignore male victims.

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