A Movement to End Police Violence in Albuquerque
Sitting Can Increase Your Risk of Cancer By Up to 66% | TIME
Sitting is dying. Keep moving.
Sitting Can Increase Your Risk of Cancer By Up to 66% | TIME
It’s not enough to just be active—it’s also important to sit less.
Sitting Can Increase Your Risk of Cancer By Up to 66% | TIME
“There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” — Saint Ronnie Raygun
Of course, Raygun was inarticulately referring to black people, not white people.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: NRA retreats after rare attack of lucidity – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
A few days ago, the NRA inadvertently said something reasonable.
This, in response to a series of protests in Texas. It seems advocates of the right to openly carry firearms have taken to showing up en masse at public places — coffee shops, museums, restaurants etc. — toting shotguns and assault rifles. So say you’re snapping photos at Dealey Plaza, and up sidles some guy with an AK slung over his shoulder.
That sudden dryness of mouth and tightness of sphincter you feel is not reassurance.
“This is terrifying,” a visitor from Washington state told the Dallas Morning News. “We have guns in our house, but we don’t walk around with them. . . . This is shocking.”
The NRA seemed to agree. In an unsigned online editorial, it stated the obvious, calling the practice of bringing long guns into public places “dubious,” “scary” and “downright weird.”
Days later, having come, well . . . under fire, from Texas gun groups, the NRA was in retreat, apologizing and blaming this rare lapse of lucidity on a staff member who apparently failed to drink his full allotment of Kool-Aid. The organization assured its followers that it still supports the right of all people to bring all guns into all places. …
[W]hile the modern gun rights movement is usually regarded as a conservative construction, Winkler writes that it was actually born of liberal extremism. It seems that in 1967, a heavily armed group of Black Panthers showed up and walked brazenly into the California statehouse — there were no metal detectors — as a group of children were readying for a picnic with the new governor, Ronald Reagan.
The Panthers saw this as an exercise of their constitutional rights. Reagan and other conservative Republicans saw it as a threat and crafted laws to stop it from happening again. The future president said, “There’s no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.”
The point being that what conservatives seem to regard as a mission of restoration isn’t. This idea that everyone in Chipotle’s should be armed is neither some holdover from the Old West nor some time-honored value inextricable from conservatism. No, it is wholly new. And wholly mad.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: NRA retreats after rare attack of lucidity – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com
What is the answer to gun violence?
I trust that Barbara Waggoner is a real person, not a fabrication of an NRA PR campaign. I’ll also assume no one in her family makes money in the Gun Industry. Like most gun advocates, Ms Waggoner tells us what doesn’t work and what won’t work. She is unusual in suggesting something we can do: focus on mental health. I appreciate her suggestion but wonder if there isn’t something more direct and specific to be done regarding guns. If so, it will have to come form the Gun Community itself, because they will not tolerate any suggestion from outside.
So, what can we do? To save time, here are the current suggestions from Gun Advocates:
- There is no problem.
- If there is a problem, it’s not guns or people with guns, it’s [fill in the blank].
- Current laws don’t work.
- Any law you can conceive of won’t work.
- Nothing needs to be done and/or nothing can be done.
- Let’s outlaw baseball bats and cars because they kill more people.
No need to repeat any of those. Not one of them is worth the electrons they’re printed with. So, use your mind for something other than paranoia and defensive rhetoric: What can be done to reduce deaths from firearms?
More rules are not the answer to more gun violence | Albuquerque Journal News
By Barbara Waggoner / Las Cruces resident
PUBLISHED: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:05 amLaw-abiding gun owners do not have a fanatical belief in an extremist interpretation of the Second Amendment.
More rules are not the answer to more gun violence | Albuquerque Journal News
I’ll be interested in the attack Gun Advocates will mount on Ms Waggoner. After all, she implies that anyone who does have an extremist interpretation of the Second Amendment is NOT a law-abiding gun owner. Moreover, she dares to suggest there is such a thing as an extremist interpretation of the God Given Sacred Unquestionable Second Amendment. How dare she!
Democrats can’t lose, but they will
Too many turned-off voters will keep Martinez in office.
King and the rough road ahead | Albuquerque Journal News
New Mexico is a blue state, with Democrats accounting for 47 percent of all registered voters. Republicans are at 31 percent and independents at 19 percent. Of course, New Mexico has a fair share of Democrats, especially in more conservative parts of the state, who are willing to cross party lines.
9 Famous Geniuses Who Were Also Huge Coffee Addicts
Reading this with my second cuppa coffee in hand before 7am, I question the genius of anyone who puts sugar in every cup.
9 Famous Geniuses Who Were Also Huge Coffee Addicts – HuffPo
Health Benefits of Coffee – WebMD
“There is certainly much more good news than bad news, in terms of coffee and health,” says Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, nutrition and epidemiology professor at the Harvard School of Public Health.
3 Ways Excess Sugar Ravages Your Body | Fooducate
Read it and heed it: Sugar is poison.
3 Ways Excess Sugar Ravages Your Body | Fooducate
Is sugar the root cause of all our health problems? If you ask Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, the answer is yes. The dose determines the poison, and Americans are consuming 2 to 3 times the daily sugar dosage they should be. The result is our current diabesity health crisis.
According to Lustig, who was interviewed earlier this week by Vox Magazine, excess sugar consumption has 3 negative biological effects on our body
1. Each sugar molecule is made of fructose and glucose. Fructose is metabolized in the liver. Too much of it overloads the liver and creates liver fat which in turn creates insulin resistance, paving the way for diabetes.
2. Sugar accelerates cellular aging. Basically all the cells in the body age faster.
3. Sugar is addictive, in much the same way as alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs are. Since it is available abundantly and not regulated like the other substances, we consume increasing amounts, leading to problems 1 and 2.
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