IMHO VBG: December 16, 2006

Diabetes breakthrough: Toronto scientists cure disease in mice

(and it doesn’t involve stem cells, embryonic or adult)

Friday, December 15, 2006

In a discovery that has stunned even those behind it, scientists at a Toronto hospital say they have proof the body's nervous system helps trigger diabetes, opening the door to a potential near-cure of the disease that affects millions of Canadians.

Diabetic mice became healthy virtually overnight after researchers injected a substance to counteract the effect of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas...

...Suspecting a link between the nerves and diabetes, he and Dr. Salter used an old experimental trick -- injecting capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot chili peppers, to kill the pancreatic sensory nerves in mice that had an equivalent of Type 1 diabetes.

"Then we had the biggest shock of our lives," Dr. Dosch said. Almost immediately, the islets began producing insulin normally "It was a shock ? really out of left field, because nothing in the literature was saying anything about this."

...So next they injected the neuropeptide "substance P" in the pancreases of diabetic mice, a demanding task given the tiny size of the rodent organs. The results were dramatic.

The islet inflammation cleared up and the diabetes was gone. Some have remained in that state for as long as four months, with just one injection...

more at

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=a042812e-492c-4f07-8245-8a598ab5d1bf&k=63970&p=1

and at

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061214/Dosch_diabetes_061214/20061215?hub=TopStories&s_name

'Ray gun' cancer cure nears speed of light

Read at: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1837532006

direct from the Nanny State:

Warning Labels On Plus-Sized Clothing?

December 15, 2006 - A leading professor in the U.K. said that obese people should be warned about the health risks of their weight when buying clothes, according to The Daily Mail.

Naveed Sattar, professor of metabolic medicine at the University of Glasgow, said that oversized clothing should have obesity help line numbers sewn on them to try to reduce Britain's obesity crisis.

The professor made the recommendations in this week's issue of the British Medical Journal...

...Sir George Albert, the U.K.'s national director for emergency care, joined other health professionals in their recommendations. He wants the government to take a more proactive response to obesity... (socialized medicine can’t cope and they think this’ll help?)

http://www.theindychannel.com/health/10546326/detail.html

Christmas With The ACLU: Eliminating Freedom, To Protect Liberty

By Alan Sears Wednesday, December 13, 2006

This Christmas, while most Americans are looking for presents under the tree, the American Civil Liberties Union will be following their own hallowed holiday tradition: looking for scapegoats, under the guise of preserving liberty.

…Among the activities giving the ACLU the willies:

The Praying Parents, a group that meets once a month in the school cafeteria before school to pray for students, staff, and faculty…

… Of course, the ACLU is on record as defending adults who want to have sex with children, or put child pornography on the Internet. So, preying on kids is okay, but praying for them is dangerous stuff? More at:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AlanSears/2006/12/13/christmas_with_the_aclu_eliminating_freedom,_to_protect_liberty

ACLU: The Abolishing Christian Legacy Union

By Chuck Norris December 11, 2006

...The ACLU has been true to form this December in opposing any and all Christian practices and symbols in public arenas and elsewhere.

So far this season it has already muscled the city council in Berkley, Mich. to move a Christmas nativity off public property.

The ACLU also sued the Wilson County School System outside of Nashville, Tenn., because its Christmas program included ''Christian themes and songs'' – what the ACLU calls ''unconstitutional and illegal'' acts through which its plaintiffs have ''suffered irreparable damage.''

Alongside its crusade to suppress Christmas, the ACLU of Tennessee also found time to write Cumberland County Mayor Brock Hill to assure the removal from the courthouse sidewalk of a wooden carved statue depicting Moses holding the Ten Commandments...

...The ACLU is not anti-religion, just anti-Christian. By definition, it's the American Civil Liberties Union. By action, it has become the Abolishing Christian Legacy Union.

The ACLU will assure Muslim clerics and imams the right to pray on planes, fight for an atheist's rights to remove a cross, stand beside pro-abortionists, help illegal aliens cross our borders, and establish rights for the sexual deviant by forming the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project, but what is it doing for Christians and Christmas censorship?

more at:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53317

(Successes as the) War on Christmas Continues:

...here are just a few examples:

In Fayetteville , Ark. , McNair Middle School removed a teacher’s Nativity scene and Star of David from a larger display that also included secular holiday decorations. After Liberty Counsel sent a legal memorandum showing that the display was constitutional, school officials reversed the ban.

In Ohio , a public school teacher was told not to say “Merry Christmas” in class. Again, Liberty Counsel sent a legal memo to the district superintendent and an administrator has now advised teachers that they may say “Merry Christmas.”

In Wisconsin , a public school employee was told by the principal that a musical program scheduled to take place in a church was going to be moved to a different location. Liberty Counsel sent a legal memo about Christmas to the school. After receiving the memo, the principal decided to keep the event at the church.

In Orlando , Fla. , seniors in a retirement home received a directive to strip the common areas of any religious symbols or words in Christmas displays. At the management’s direction, an employee actually cut the wings off the angel on the Christmas tree. Liberty Counsel is at work in this case.

Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law, said, “There is a war on Christmas in this country. Every victory goes a long way toward winning the battle, but we must not take Christmas or our religious freedom for granted. Celebrating Christmas is the classic example of religious accommodation mandated by the First Amendment. If Christmas is silenced or censored, we all lose a piece of our religious freedom.”

No War on Christmas? You’d have to be “the Grinch” himself not to see it. There is indeed such a war and Christians are in the crosshairs. We must continue to stand up for our rights, my friends. If we don’t, it is readily apparent that they will be quickly eradicated... full article at:

http://www.moralmajority.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38

It's official: global warming is guff

http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1834432006

Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece

Did CAIR founder say Islam to rule America?

Muslims confront Omar Ahmad as newspaper insists report of controversial remarks accurate

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53303

Hamas confirms meeting with group of Democrats

Leader claims U.S. party willing to hold dialogue with terrorists

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53312

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