Rise From the Dead: Doctor Claims to Be Able to Revive the Dead Hours After Death

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Imagine dying of a heart attack, if you will. You feel a sharp and sudden pain in your chest. You try to breathe, but all you can do is gasp for breath. You reach out to balance yourself on a nearby table and miss badly, falling to the floor, knocking a lamp to the ground in the process. You hear your spouse screaming, but it sounds like it's coming from a long distance away. Everything fades to white.

You're shocked back to life by an ambulance technician, catching a glimpse of the inside of an ambulance for a moment before everything starts to fade to white again. The last thing you hear as you slip away is, "Damn it, we're losing the patient again.">

: All of a sudden you find yourself enveloped in darkness. There's a light in the distance, so you walk towards it. Your grandfather stands at the end of the tunnel, his arm outstretched, palm facing up. He beckons for you to come closer. He takes your hand as you enter the light. Gentle warmth bathes your body.

As your eyes grow accustomed to the light, you see a number of relatives and a friend or two who died too young. "We have some catching up to do," they tell you. Surprisingly, you aren't uncomfortable or scared. Everything feels right. You begin casually chatting with your friends and relatives. An hour or two passes and you're just coming to grips with the fact that you've passed into the nether.

All of a sudden, your body jerks. The people in the room look confused. You jerk again, hard. The room starts to spin and you jerk a final time. A bright flash of light accompanies the last jerk and you close your eyes hard, feeling scared. You open your eyes to find you're in the hospital; a doctor is standing above you. You've been shocked back to life, hours after dying by a well-meaning doctor who cooled your body, pumped it full of oxygen and then went to work repairing your badly damaged heart.

You've got months of recovery ahead of you. Your chest had to be split open to gain access to your heart and the surgery performed was a major one. You're nowhere near out of the woods yet, but you're alive.

Sounds like something straight out of a science fiction movie, right?

Well, at least one doctor in New York claims to be able to do exactly that. Dr. Sam Parnia, from Stony Brook University Hospital, claims to be able to revive a dead person that has been dead as long as a couple hours. That's a shocking revelation, since most modern hospitals can't revive patients after they've been dead for minutes, let alone hours.

The doctor claims it's a common misconception that the brain starts to die and suffers irreversible damage at the three to five minute mark.

At first glance, this sounds too good to be true, but there may actually be some truth to it. The hospital Dr. Parnia works at has roughly double the resuscitation rate for patient who die of cardiac arrest than the rest of the United States. If I have a heart attack, here's hoping it's while I'm in close proximity to Stony Brook Hospital. If not, put me on ice and rush me there.

 

 

 

 

What Are Our Kids Reading At School? At Least One Common Core Book Is Full of Smut

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Would you want your high school kids reading 50 Shades of Grey as part of a standards-based reading program? What about a book packed with lust and sex, with a little incest and rape thrown in for good measure?

While 50 Shades of Grey isn't part of the Common Core reading standard—and probably never will be—there is at least one book on the list that's packed full of smut. The Bluest Eye, by author Toni Morrison, is about a Depression era girl who wishes she wasn't black. Let's take a quick look at a passage from the book:

"Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her vagina."

Yes, that passage and many more just like it are awaiting your high school students if they choose this book from their common core reading list. There are even worse passages that delve in depth into molestation and pedophilia, but I couldn't bring myself to type them out and include them here. I don't usually agree with parents calling for certain books to be banned from school reading lists. I think bans on books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Of Mice and Men and The Lord of the Flies are ridiculous. These are literary classics containing valuable life lessons. Yes, the books contain profanity and, in some cases, racial slurs. What they don't contain is graphic and disgusting depictions of incest, rape and pedophilia.

I can tolerate profanity and the occasional racial slur in a book high school students are allowed to read. Profanity is part of life and I've been known to utter the occasional string of swear words at home when I stub my toe or my favorite football team loses. As far as racial slurs go, I don't like them one bit, but think the use of them in books gives an accurate depiction of life in the era in which the books were written and good teachers and parents will use them as a jumping off point for discussions on racial equality and how things weren't always the way they are now.

If you're interested in seeing more passages from the book, they can be found here. Be prepared to blush—and to get angry if your student attends school in a district that has adopted the Common Core reading standards. I don't, but I'll be one of the first in line to complain if and when Common Core makes it to my local high schools. 

 

 

Department of Homeland Security Employee Calls For Mass Murder of Whites

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The Department of Homeland Security is supposed to be tasked with protecting this great nation from those looking to do harm to its residents. You might feel a little less secure after reading this article, because there's at least one employee at the DHS who's very vocal about being anti-gay and is allegedly preparing for what he sees as an impending race war between blacks and whites.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Ayo Kimathi, known as the Irritated Genie on his website "War on the Horizon," calls for the mass murder of white people and is packed with anti-white, anti-gay and black supremacy vitriol. A quick glance at his website reveals titles such as "PanAfrikans Beware: The Faggits are Coming" and "Fags in the Movement: They're Like Roaches in My Cereal." As if that weren't bad enough, the front page contains the following statement:

"War on the Horizon (WOH) is a Haitianist organization created for the purpose of preparing Black people worldwide for an unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race.  whites around the world are absolutely determined to exterminate Afrikan people in all corners of the Earth.

As a result of this reality, WOH has dedicated our time and expertise to properly educating Black people to prepare for Racial Warfare.  This includes intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and physical preparation for a global clash that will mean the end of white rule on this planet or the end of the Black Race as we know it.

Please review the information on our site to understand the threat our people are facing so that you may make the right decisions in preparation for this reality."

Kimathi works for ICE, which is an acronym for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and is required to get permission to post to websites. He apparently lied about what his website was about, telling his bosses it was to sell videos and lectures.

This led former Alaskan governor and previous Vice Presidential candidate to take to Facebook and post the following:

"So, the Federal Government, er, We The People, are employing someone at the Department of Homeland Security whose side job is running a hate website advocating ethnic cleansing and other despicable acts?! This official is promoting a race war. His fellow employees say they're "astounded" he is employed by the taxpayers. His side "job" running the "War On the Horizon" website was reportedly approved by supervisors. Really, Fed? Really?

Friends, let your government know we deserve better; we demand better. We're paying the tab.

Unflippingbelievable."

I don't agree with everything that comes from her mouth, but Palin is spot on with this statement.

As of press time, it is unclear whether Kimathi will be reprimanded or whether he'll be allowed to keep his job. The War on the Horizon website has been taken down for the time being. Visitors to the site receive the message "Site Temporarily Unavailable." The War on the Horizon Facebook page is still live.

Arkansas Senate Bill Bans Scarification and Dermal Implants

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In a broad overstepping of her duties to protect the good citizens of Arkansas from themselves, Senator Missy Irvin is pushing a bill through the Arkansas Senate that effectively bans scarification and dermal implants.
 
For those not in the know when it comes to tattoo parlor lingo, scarification involves scratching, burning, branding or otherwise marking the body permanently using a variety of methods. It's an extremely painful procedure, as the cuts or burns have to be deep enough to cause scarring. The scars themselves are what form the body art when they heal. If you're interested in seeing scarification pictures, there are a bunch of them available here:

http://www.oddee.com/item_97230.aspx

Be forewarned, this procedure isn't for those with weak stomachs and some of the pictures are pretty intense.

Dermal implants are a body modification procedure in which anchors are implanted beneath the skin into which studs and jewelry can be attached. This allows people to get pierced pretty much anywhere they'd like. The ability to implant objects under the skin has led to quite a bit of artistic freedom and some interesting dermal implants, like this guy, who got dermal implants that allow him to wear his iPod Nano on his wrist.

What gives this woman the right to restrict the right of others to express themselves via body art? Yes, there are dangers associated with these procedures, but shouldn't it be up to the individual to decide whether they want to take those risks?

So, what does the tattoo community think of the ban? According to an Arkansas Times article, tattoo artist Misty Forsberg had this to say about the impending ban on scarification and dermal implants:

" It will be left to untrained individuals underground…a ban on it will only increase the danger of having untrained individuals perform it on the public and leaving that public with no safe way to pursue this art."

That just about sums it up. Instead of getting the procedures done by licensed professionals in tattoo parlors, those looking for scarification or dermal implants will turn to those willing to do it in basements and garages, where conditions are less sanitary and artists are more likely to reuse instruments. This bill won't put an end to these practices, it'll just send them underground, forcing those looking to get the procedures done to hunt down unlicensed artists willing to break the law.

Tattoos and other forms of body art aren't for everyone and Senator Missy Irvin has the right to be disgusted by these procedures. What she doesn't have the right to do is to tell others what artwork they can and can't put on their bodies. That's a huge overstep of her duties as a Senator.

As If Smoking Wasn't Bad Enough For You: 90% of U.S. Tobacco Is GMO

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Tobacco smoke contains more than 4,000 chemicals. It's a chemical cocktail of carcinogenic substances that shouldn't be anywhere near a person's body, let alone being inhaled into one's lungs. Yet millions of Americans smoke tobacco every day of their lives, many smoking a pack or more of cigarettes a day.

It usually starts off innocently enough. Teenagers try a drag or two off a friend's cigarette and they like the initial rush they get. What they don't realize is that initial rush is short-lived—and they may be setting themselves up for a lifetime of misery.

According to an article published by Health.com, the tobacco in cigarettes is crawling with germs. The hundreds of types of bacteria could lead to respiratory ailments, infections, inflammation and may set the stage for cancer later on in life. And that's not including all the other stuff you're inhaling. While it isn't clear how many of these bacteria make it into the lungs when cigarette smoke is inhaled, any extra bacteria are too much. This finding could be one of the reasons why smokers, on average, are in worse health than those who don't smoke.

As if that weren't bad enough, NaturalNews.com reports 90 percent of tobacco sold in the United States is genetically modified. What this means to smokers is not only are they filling their lungs with chemicals from the tobacco; they're also getting an extra dose of pesticides and herbicides. GMO crops are often genetically modified to allow farmers to use as much as 10 times the pesticides and herbicides they'd normally use on non-GMO crops. This benefits the farmers by keeping weeds and bugs at bay while the crops are growing, but means larger amounts of chemicals make it through to the final product.

Most people wouldn't walk into their backyard and grab a handful of grass to which they'd just applied pesticide and put it in a pipe and smoke it, but that's essentially what smokers are doing each and every time they light up. There are at least 3 pesticides known to reside in cigarette smoke, two of which are suspected carcinogens. That's on top of the other 4,000 or so chemicals also known to exist in tobacco smoke.

If that isn't enough to get smokers to quit the habit, I don't know what will.