| | myLot Discussions| NCAA championships!!! | | How many of you followed or even knew about the NCAA championship last year? it was so amazing for GMU to make it to the final four! I was so excited since I actually attend GMU and I was at that game in Indiana. What if anything do you think of the championship this year? Unfortunatley Mason isnt doing as hott as they did last year. | |
| | Where are you with personal and economic Freedom | | Many people think that in the US we all enjoy the same degree of freedom. There is an interesting study out that looks at Personal and Economic Freedoms state by state. The study was published through George Mason University.http://mercatus.org/uploadedFiles/Mercatus/Publications/Freedom%20in%20the%2050%20States.pdfIt looks at several different freedom factors and comes up with an overall freedom number. Most of the restrictions on freedoms are a result of government regulation and laws. I was surprised to see my state Wisconsin ranked so low, but when you consider a limit on your freedom as taxes I can see why. how does your state rank and how do you feel about it? | |
| | Is Socialism Evil? | | I got something in my email today, and it was about socialism. This is a hypothetical situation, but what do you think of it. Do you think the writer has merit? The passage written in quotations was written by George Mason University economics professor Walter E. Williams. Do you agree or disagree with him, and why?
> "Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate."[b]this is the part that made me take notice:[/b] "Let's think about socialism. Imagine there's an elderly widow down the street from you. She has neither the strength to mow her lawn nor enough money to hire someone to do it. Here's my question to you that I'm almost afraid for the answer: Would you support a government mandate that forces one of your neighbors to mow the lady's lawn each week? If he failed to follow the government orders, would you approve of some kind of punishment ranging from house arrest and fines to imprisonment? I'm hoping that the average American would condemn such a government mandate because it would be a form of slavery, the forcible use of one... | |
| | gtting older, help | | By Elizabeth Cohen
CNN Medical Correspondent(CNN) -- Blanche Danick may be 86 years old, but she's pretty hip. She keeps up with all the latest health news, and a while back, she called her daughter wanting to know whether she should start taking the herb ginkgo biloba. She'd heard it might stave off Alzheimer's disease.1 of 2 "I told her not to bother, that it wouldn't make much of a difference," says her daughter, Edythe London, a professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles. "On the basis of what I've read, I don't think it staves off dementia."London's advice makes a lot of sense, according to a study out this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ginkgo is a top-selling herb and has been hailed by some as a memory-booster, but the new University of Pittsburgh study found it didn't help prevent Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia in more than 3,000 elderly study subjects.Ginkgo manufacturers say this isn't the first -- or the last -- word on the herb. "There is a significant body of scientific and clinical evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of ginkgo extract for both cognitive function... | |
| | College? | | I'm going to college in the fall, and I cant wait. I'm going to George Mason University and I cant wait to enter. I really like the atmosphere and the people. Plus the campus is really nice. What college are you going to/went to and why? And how do you plan on paying/paid for it? | |
| | Well. Are You Ready To Give Up Meat?.. | |
..."consider: an estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production."A sea change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store - something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.It’s meat.The two commodities share a great deal: Like oil, meat is subsidized by the federal government. Like oil, meat is subject to accelerating demand as nations become wealthier, and this, in turn, sends prices higher. Finally - like oil - meat is something people are encouraged to consume less of, as the toll exacted by industrial production increases, and becomes increasingly visible.Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world’s tropical rain... | |
| | Some say schools giving Muslims special treatment | |
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-25-muslim-special-treatment-from-schools_N.htmBy Oren Dorell, USA TODAYSome public schools and universities are granting Muslim requests for prayer times, prayer rooms and ritual foot baths, prompting a debate on whether Islam is being given preferential treatment over other religions.The University of Michigan at Dearborn is planning to build foot baths for Muslim students who wash their feet before prayer. An elementary school in San Diego created an extra recess period for Muslim pupils to pray.At George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Muslim students using a "meditation space" laid out Muslim prayer rugs and separated men and women in accordance with their Islamic beliefs.Critics see a double standard and an organized attempt to push public conformance with Islamic law."What (school officials) are doing...is to give Muslim students religious benefits that they do not give any other religion right now," says Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Law Center, an advocacy group for Christians. Advocates say the accommodations are legal."The whole issue is to provide for a... | |
| | Consumer Alert, Flying Is Worse Than You Think | | By WILLIAM MARRA
JULY 5, 2007
Kate Hanni never spent nine hours sitting in a plane on the tarmac at Austin Bergstrom International Airport.
At least that's true according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, or BTS, which tracks flight delays for the Department of Transportation.
After Hanni's Dec. 29, 2006 flight was diverted to Austin, Texas, because of bad weather, the plane did in fact sit on the tarmac for nearly nine hours while its passengers waited, without food or an explanation as to why they could not disembark.
But because the plane was diverted from Dallas, BTS statistics simply classified it as "diverted" and did not register those waiting hours anywhere in its publicly released tabulation of delayed arrival times."There was no information on our time on the tarmac," Hanni said. "Nothing."In response for their ordeal, Hanni and some of her fellow passengers have started the Coalition for an Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights, which has lobbied Congress to require airline carriers and the BTS to include those fights that wait on the tarmac and are canceled before departing in its tabulation of airline delays.
Hanni's experience highlights a series of... | |
| | Methadone | | Methadone is an opiate that was first introduced after World War II as an alternative to morphine. Methadone was originally thought to be less addictive because of its extremely long half life. Today, methadone is used as an analgesic for pain management and more popularly as replacement therapy for heroin and other opiate addictions. According to Wikipedia 2006, “methadone is chemically unlike morphine or heroin, methadone also acts on the opioid receptors and thus produces many of the same effects…methadone has a slow metabolism and very high lipid solubility, making it longer lasting than morphine-based drugs.” Methadone is also one of the cheapest of the opiates landing it as a preferred drug for insurance companies consequently making doctors more apt to prescribe it to patients.
Methadone is fat soluble and is primarily stored in the liver and secondarily in other body tissues such as lungs, kidney, and spleen. Methadone is difficult to detect in blood because it’s mainly stored in these organs and the transfer between body organs and blood is slower according to Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (2003). The elimination half-life of methadone ranges from... | |
| | What is an American? | | What Is An American?
A primer.By Peter Ferrara, an associate professor of law at the George Mason University School of Law.
September 25, 2001 9:20 a.m.You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper there an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.So I just thought I would write to let them know what an American is, so they would know when they found one.An American is English…or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani, or Afghan.An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them choose.An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.An American is from the most prosperous land in the | |
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