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		By: Sharon W		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Very good, Art...you made me laugh just now.  I&#039;m usually doing these posts on the fly, so I appreciate the proofreading!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good, Art&#8230;you made me laugh just now.  I&#8217;m usually doing these posts on the fly, so I appreciate the proofreading!</p>
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		By: Mrs Whatsit		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mrs Whatsit]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mosquitoes love me dearly, perhaps (I now learn) because of my blood type.  Worse, I react to their bites with big, red, itchy, swollen welts much worse than people around me seem to get -- so I have been known to get a bit whiny on lovely outdoor summer evenings near still bodies of water.  

Therefore, I was delighted to learn recently that mosquito bites can be &quot;cured&quot; with a blow-dryer!  There&#039;s info on this all over Google, but basically, you can remove the itch from a mosquito bite by blasting it (the bite, not the bug, though blasting the bug is also an interesting idea) with a blowdryer, set on the highest heat you can stand, for as long as you can bear without actually burning yourself.  I do it in a few short bursts until I can feel that the itch has stopped.  Once it&#039;s gone, it&#039;s gone forever.  The bite remains, still visible, red and ugly -- perhaps more so, depending on your heat tolerance -- but the itch is as gone as if there were no bite, and it does not come back.  

I have no idea why this works.  I read speculation somewhere on the Internet, from someone purporting to be a doctor, that the substance that causes itching is a protein that could be getting cooked into inactivity by the dryer heat.  Maybe so, I dunno -- I&#039;m just happy to have discovered a means of staying outside on summer evenings AND avoiding itchy torture later on.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mosquitoes love me dearly, perhaps (I now learn) because of my blood type.  Worse, I react to their bites with big, red, itchy, swollen welts much worse than people around me seem to get &#8212; so I have been known to get a bit whiny on lovely outdoor summer evenings near still bodies of water.  </p>
<p>Therefore, I was delighted to learn recently that mosquito bites can be &#8220;cured&#8221; with a blow-dryer!  There&#8217;s info on this all over Google, but basically, you can remove the itch from a mosquito bite by blasting it (the bite, not the bug, though blasting the bug is also an interesting idea) with a blowdryer, set on the highest heat you can stand, for as long as you can bear without actually burning yourself.  I do it in a few short bursts until I can feel that the itch has stopped.  Once it&#8217;s gone, it&#8217;s gone forever.  The bite remains, still visible, red and ugly &#8212; perhaps more so, depending on your heat tolerance &#8212; but the itch is as gone as if there were no bite, and it does not come back.  </p>
<p>I have no idea why this works.  I read speculation somewhere on the Internet, from someone purporting to be a doctor, that the substance that causes itching is a protein that could be getting cooked into inactivity by the dryer heat.  Maybe so, I dunno &#8212; I&#8217;m just happy to have discovered a means of staying outside on summer evenings AND avoiding itchy torture later on.</p>
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		By: Artfldgr		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The kind of experiments used to develop and refine bio weapons isn’t allowed, since Imperial Japan and the Nazis did them.

you mean in the US... but in china, russia, and north korea, they DO still do such experiments using prisoners, and they still have illegal weapons of such, and more than one defector, including a man running one of them who i keep linking to (alibek), has informed us

Biopreparat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreparat

Human experimentation in North Korea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea

Human experimentation was described by several North Korean defectors, including former prisoner Lee Soon Ok, former prison guards Kwon Hyok and Ahn Myung Chul, and others. This testimony was corroborated by documents brought from Camp 22 in North Korea. In Lee&#039;s testimony to the US Senate and in her prison memoir Eyes of the Tailless Animals (published in 1999) she recounted witnessing two instances of lethal human experimentation. An episode of the BBC television programme This World detailed some of the allegations The claims have been described as &quot;plausible&quot; by a senior US official

&lt;i&gt;Lee described an experiment in which 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves. All of the women were required to eat the cabbage, despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 died after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat the cabbage would allegedly have meant reprisals against them and their families.&lt;/i&gt;

I also detaled kamera
Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services
Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, alternatively known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12, and Kamera which means &quot;The Chamber&quot; in Russian, was a covert research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies
&lt;b&gt;Currently: Several laboratories of the SVR, (headquartered in Yasenevo near Moscow), are responsible for the &quot;creation of biological and toxin weapons for clandestine operations in the West&quot;&lt;/b&gt;

The first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia. &lt;b&gt;According to former Deputy Director of Biopreparat Ken Alibek, this laboratory was possibly involved in the design of an undetectable chemical or biological agent to assassinate Gamsakhurdia&lt;/b&gt;. BBC News reported that some Gamsakhurdia friends believed he committed suicide, &quot;although his widow insists that he was murdered.&quot;


China has been known to do similar, but we do not have any defectors and so dont know exactly what. but from other reports, they have tested things like GM crops on children first. 

to quote louise armstrong:
What a wonderful world...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The kind of experiments used to develop and refine bio weapons isn’t allowed, since Imperial Japan and the Nazis did them.</p>
<p>you mean in the US&#8230; but in china, russia, and north korea, they DO still do such experiments using prisoners, and they still have illegal weapons of such, and more than one defector, including a man running one of them who i keep linking to (alibek), has informed us</p>
<p>Biopreparat<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreparat" rel="nofollow ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopreparat</a></p>
<p>Human experimentation in North Korea<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea" rel="nofollow ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_North_Korea</a></p>
<p>Human experimentation was described by several North Korean defectors, including former prisoner Lee Soon Ok, former prison guards Kwon Hyok and Ahn Myung Chul, and others. This testimony was corroborated by documents brought from Camp 22 in North Korea. In Lee&#8217;s testimony to the US Senate and in her prison memoir Eyes of the Tailless Animals (published in 1999) she recounted witnessing two instances of lethal human experimentation. An episode of the BBC television programme This World detailed some of the allegations The claims have been described as &#8220;plausible&#8221; by a senior US official</p>
<p><i>Lee described an experiment in which 50 healthy women prisoners were selected and given poisoned cabbage leaves. All of the women were required to eat the cabbage, despite cries of distress from those who had already eaten. All 50 died after 20 minutes of vomiting blood and anal bleeding. Refusing to eat the cabbage would allegedly have meant reprisals against them and their families.</i></p>
<p>I also detaled kamera<br />
Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services" rel="nofollow ugc">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_laboratory_of_the_Soviet_secret_services</a><br />
Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, alternatively known as Laboratory 1, Laboratory 12, and Kamera which means &#8220;The Chamber&#8221; in Russian, was a covert research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies<br />
<b>Currently: Several laboratories of the SVR, (headquartered in Yasenevo near Moscow), are responsible for the &#8220;creation of biological and toxin weapons for clandestine operations in the West&#8221;</b></p>
<p>The first democratically elected President of the Republic of Georgia, Zviad Gamsakhurdia. <b>According to former Deputy Director of Biopreparat Ken Alibek, this laboratory was possibly involved in the design of an undetectable chemical or biological agent to assassinate Gamsakhurdia</b>. BBC News reported that some Gamsakhurdia friends believed he committed suicide, &#8220;although his widow insists that he was murdered.&#8221;</p>
<p>China has been known to do similar, but we do not have any defectors and so dont know exactly what. but from other reports, they have tested things like GM crops on children first. </p>
<p>to quote louise armstrong:<br />
What a wonderful world&#8230;</p>
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		By: Artfldgr		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[magnate - a person who has great wealth and power in a particular business or industry

magnet - A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.  2) &lt;b&gt;a person or thing that has a powerful attraction&lt;/b&gt;

i LOVE it when a honest mistake comes out as a more interesting concept...  :)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>magnate &#8211; a person who has great wealth and power in a particular business or industry</p>
<p>magnet &#8211; A magnet is a material or object that produces a magnetic field. This magnetic field is invisible but is responsible for the most notable property of a magnet: a force that pulls on other ferromagnetic materials, such as iron, and attracts or repels other magnets.  2) <b>a person or thing that has a powerful attraction</b></p>
<p>i LOVE it when a honest mistake comes out as a more interesting concept&#8230;  🙂</p>
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		By: vanderleun		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 05:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This all reminded me of something I saw whirr past on the infosuperhighway a few days ago so I searched for it and there it was.....


Turns out Senor Mosquito moves much faster than you do.... so hard to swat... and also thinks much faster than you can...


&quot;Why Are Mosquitoes So Difficult To Swat? Science Explains&quot;

&lt;blockquote&gt;Mosquitoes fly at about two kilometers per hour (1.2mph), which seems ridiculously slow, however, shrink yourself to their size and the speed becomes insanely fast. If you were to shrink down to the size of a mosquito and fly, that measly 2 kmph speed would be equivalent to over 200 kmph! Even the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, won’t be able to come anywhere close that speed!

At their scale, the mosquitoes are going blindingly fast for something that small. However, that is not the only reason they are able to give you a slip. To help these pesky insects, nature has accorded them with big, round, and multifaceted eyes, just like those found on flies. In summation, mosquitoes have a panoramic view and are capable of seeing even above and behind them.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;mosquitoes make decisions much faster than you.

When you decide to hit a fly, a signal goes from your brain to your spinal cord to your arm muscles to start the hand in motion. The time it takes is a few milliseconds. But once the mosquito sees motion, a signal from its brain goes to its nerve cord to its wing muscles, and the time ends up being a fraction of a nanosecond. Essentially, they think and act 100 times faster than you can.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

http://www.inquisitr.com/1523038/why-are-mosquitoes-so-difficult-to-swat-science-explains/

And 


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-are-mosquitoes-so-hard-to-swat-9765648.html]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This all reminded me of something I saw whirr past on the infosuperhighway a few days ago so I searched for it and there it was&#8230;..</p>
<p>Turns out Senor Mosquito moves much faster than you do&#8230;. so hard to swat&#8230; and also thinks much faster than you can&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Why Are Mosquitoes So Difficult To Swat? Science Explains&#8221;</p>
<blockquote><p>Mosquitoes fly at about two kilometers per hour (1.2mph), which seems ridiculously slow, however, shrink yourself to their size and the speed becomes insanely fast. If you were to shrink down to the size of a mosquito and fly, that measly 2 kmph speed would be equivalent to over 200 kmph! Even the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, won’t be able to come anywhere close that speed!</p>
<p>At their scale, the mosquitoes are going blindingly fast for something that small. However, that is not the only reason they are able to give you a slip. To help these pesky insects, nature has accorded them with big, round, and multifaceted eyes, just like those found on flies. In summation, mosquitoes have a panoramic view and are capable of seeing even above and behind them.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>mosquitoes make decisions much faster than you.</p>
<p>When you decide to hit a fly, a signal goes from your brain to your spinal cord to your arm muscles to start the hand in motion. The time it takes is a few milliseconds. But once the mosquito sees motion, a signal from its brain goes to its nerve cord to its wing muscles, and the time ends up being a fraction of a nanosecond. Essentially, they think and act 100 times faster than you can.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/1523038/why-are-mosquitoes-so-difficult-to-swat-science-explains/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.inquisitr.com/1523038/why-are-mosquitoes-so-difficult-to-swat-science-explains/</a></p>
<p>And </p>
<p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-are-mosquitoes-so-hard-to-swat-9765648.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-are-mosquitoes-so-hard-to-swat-9765648.html</a></p>
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		By: n.n		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 03:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OldTexan:

I am but a grass-hopper.  You&#039;re welcome, mosquito-swatter.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OldTexan:</p>
<p>I am but a grass-hopper.  You&#8217;re welcome, mosquito-swatter.</p>
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		By: OldTexan		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Well, now I know why the skeeters liked me better this evening because yesterday was the first Sunday of the month and we had communion at our United Methodist Church.  My blood was flowing with a little extra spirit today and that&#039;s alright too.

At my age I am just happy to still be having a path  and if I need to feed a bug or two along the way I can live with sharing and I hope all they leave with me are a few welts and itches.

I think a little Scotch and water might be an antidote that will keep me from getting any Malaria or Swamp Fever so I am not too worried about that sort of stuff.

Anyway n.n. thanks for sharing your logic.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, now I know why the skeeters liked me better this evening because yesterday was the first Sunday of the month and we had communion at our United Methodist Church.  My blood was flowing with a little extra spirit today and that&#8217;s alright too.</p>
<p>At my age I am just happy to still be having a path  and if I need to feed a bug or two along the way I can live with sharing and I hope all they leave with me are a few welts and itches.</p>
<p>I think a little Scotch and water might be an antidote that will keep me from getting any Malaria or Swamp Fever so I am not too worried about that sort of stuff.</p>
<p>Anyway n.n. thanks for sharing your logic.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[OldTexan:

It&#039;s a test, part of a battery of tests which all people undergo.  Consider that each life is granted a spirit, a subset of God, which endows it with a degree of freewill.  Consider that not all spirits are created equally, and that God is carrying out a test in order to filter the bad spirits.  This explanation is equally informative when you replace spirit with energy.

I don&#039;t know this, but it does logically follow from God&#039;s moral philosophy.

Your succulent blood is a reflection of your spirit.  Your response to the mosquito, or rather the character changes it engenders, will be considered during your assessment.

Good luck!  Don&#039;t let the mosquito determine your path.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OldTexan:</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a test, part of a battery of tests which all people undergo.  Consider that each life is granted a spirit, a subset of God, which endows it with a degree of freewill.  Consider that not all spirits are created equally, and that God is carrying out a test in order to filter the bad spirits.  This explanation is equally informative when you replace spirit with energy.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know this, but it does logically follow from God&#8217;s moral philosophy.</p>
<p>Your succulent blood is a reflection of your spirit.  Your response to the mosquito, or rather the character changes it engenders, will be considered during your assessment.</p>
<p>Good luck!  Don&#8217;t let the mosquito determine your path.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Now I know about a hundred times more about mosquitos than I did this morning when I woke up. I also have O positive blood so that might be why they eat me up every time they have the chance.  

I wish I know why our Blessed Lord God almighty decided we needed mosquitos and designed them so well for their tasks.  Yep, mosquitos and Obama two big mysteries that I don&#039;t understand.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now I know about a hundred times more about mosquitos than I did this morning when I woke up. I also have O positive blood so that might be why they eat me up every time they have the chance.  </p>
<p>I wish I know why our Blessed Lord God almighty decided we needed mosquitos and designed them so well for their tasks.  Yep, mosquitos and Obama two big mysteries that I don&#8217;t understand.</p>
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		By: LAG		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[From semi-tropical South Carolina, I begin and end where you began: I &quot;hate the little buggers.&quot; Their love for me is not returned.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From semi-tropical South Carolina, I begin and end where you began: I &#8220;hate the little buggers.&#8221; Their love for me is not returned.</p>
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