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[Purplelady1040]

I did not know this ... 

I mean, I know that we have a lot of those little buggers in us, but I had no idea of the scale ...

It might come as a surprise that microbes, mainly bacteria, outnumber human cells in our body by 10 to 1. And scientists have identified 10,000 different species of bacteria that live inside each person.

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/08/mouth-bacteria-can-change-its-diet-supercomputers-reveal-0?et_cid=4113989&et_rid=54725525&location=top

Why am I not surprised? Lol

[Bo D]

I did not know this ... 

I mean, I know that we have a lot of those little buggers in us, but I had no idea of the scale ...

It might come as a surprise that microbes, mainly bacteria, outnumber human cells in our body by 10 to 1. And scientists have identified 10,000 different species of bacteria that live inside each person.

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2014/08/mouth-bacteria-can-change-its-diet-supercomputers-reveal-0?et_cid=4113989&et_rid=54725525&location=top

I've been thinking about this ever since I saw it this morning. It's difficult to put into words, but this makes me think about the larger implications of life itself. Is having all of these microbes within us part of what makes that which we call humans? Could we even exist without the interdependencies we have formed with them over millennia? And to think that all the cells that make me what I think I am are mostly bacteria!

[libby]

I've been thinking about this ever since I saw it this morning. It's difficult to put into words, but this makes me think about the larger implications of life itself. Is having all of these microbes within us part of what makes that which we call humans? Could we even exist without the interdependencies we have formed with them over millennia? And to think that all the cells that make me what I think I am are mostly bacteria!

I just read it and found it fascinating. Straight out of science fiction.

[Exterminator]

Excellent article.  This guy is obviously angry and pretty much hates everyone, a trait I can admire.  Hard to argue with much of what he has to say...

Ferguson - When Assholes Collide

[The Troll]

Excellent article.  This guy is obviously angry and pretty much hates everyone, a trait I can admire.  Hard to argue with much of what he has to say...

Ferguson - When Assholes Collide

  We have to face it all cops and SWAT members are Yellow to the core, cuffing small children and automatic assault rifles  pointed at their head and body.  The SWAT raids happen many times each day in America and so many are wrong and should be made illegal except in dire circumstances.  What is wrong with surrounding the offenders and ordering them out first.     SWAT teams are bully killers at their finest.   

[Exterminator]

That's really all you got from that article?

[Purplelady1040]

That's really all you got from that article?

The person doesn't realize that most of the time when SWAT teams are called out it is probably a last resort issue and that the person is not going to come out. If that was the case they would have come out.

[Exterminator]

The person doesn't realize that most of the time when SWAT teams are called out it is probably a last resort issue and that the person is not going to come out. If that was the case they would have come out.

Or that the element of surprise is often necessary in order to prevent the destruction of evidence.

[Purplelady1040]

Or that the element of surprise is often necessary in order to prevent the destruction of evidence.

Exactly, and many times those the SWAT teams are going after are exactly upstanding citizens who will open the door nicely and welcome them in but may have weapons, bombs and other things to kill the team!

[The Troll]

Exactly, and many times those the SWAT teams are going after are exactly upstanding citizens who will open the door nicely and welcome them in but may have weapons, bombs and other things to kill the team!

  Awwwww!  The poor babies.    They go out to get a weed seller, they sneak up to the door, throw a flash bang grenade and some tear gas in.     Then break down the door for a dynamic entrance, throw everyone down on the floor even children shoot someone trying to defend themselves with a kitchen knife and find out they got the wrong address.  But AWWWWWWWW they're just trying to protect themselves.  Poor innocent babies.   

[Locutus]

"A video released Wednesday by investigators in Arizona shows a firing-range instructor moments before the 9-year-old he's showing how to shoot a submachine gun fatally shoots him in the head.

Charles Vacca, 39, was shot at least once in the head Monday as he stood next to the girl at Bullets and Burgers at the Last Stop firing range in White Hills, Arizona.

Vacca was killed when the child fired the weapon and the recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, pointing the gun toward Vacca as the girl continued to fire.

Investigators said they do not plan to seek charges.

According to an Associated Press story, Sam Scarmardo, who operates the Last Stop, said the girl's parents were nearby videotaping the girl when the accident happened.

Investigators released 27 seconds of the footage showing the girl with Vacca, but the footage does not show the instructor being shot.

"I have regret we let this child shoot, and I have regret that Charlie was killed in the incident," Scarmardo said."

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/08/video_shows_instructor_moments.html

[Locutus]

Why in the fuck would anyone, let alone any parent, feel the need to have a 9-year old learn to fire an Uzi?



Caption:  He's going to be dead soon. 

[Purplelady1040]

Why in the fuck would anyone, let alone any parent, feel the need to have a 9-year old learn to fire an Uzi?



Caption:  He's going to be dead soon.

I wondered that myself. I believe in teaching kids firearms safety but this was stupidity all on a different level.

[Locutus]

I wondered that myself. I believe in teaching kids firearms safety but this was stupidity all on a different level.

And that's fine, especially if they're going to be in a household with multiple guns.  This to me appears to be over the top. 

[Purplelady1040]

And that's fine, especially if they're going to be in a household with multiple guns.  This to me appears to be over the top.

I thought the same thing. Our son takes firearms safety and archery because he enjoys those things and we have guns in the house and he wants to learn to bow hunt. Archery is even in his school that he goes too and it is starting to be a sport that is on the rise!