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katee sackhoff tattoo “bona fiscalia” latin for public property. just a guess, but it might be a barb aimed at the idea that actors somehow become public property- Are stars’ lives public property?. she has two other tattoos a cross on her shoulder and a chinese symbol on the back of her neck.

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Did McCain’s foreign-policy advisor profit from the Iraq war?

As recently as last year, John McCain’s senior foreign-policy and national security advisor, a neoconservative who played a leading role in pushing for a U.S. invasion of Iraq, was trying to use his role in promoting the Iraq war to make money off Iraqi oil. In a confidential memo, a company called World Strategic Energy, for which top McCain aide Randy Scheunemann was an executive consultant, told prospective investors that Scheunemann could help World Strategic Energy win oil contracts in Iraq because he was well-connected in the Iraqi exile community and had been a “key player” in getting the U.S. involved in Iraq. The memo was first published by blogger and Salon contributor Lindsay Beyerstein, who wrote that the 44-page brochure-style “placement memorandum” was being circulated to potential investors as late as 2007.

It seems like much of the time Conservatives like Scheunemann are talking in code when they self righteously trumpet “free enterprise”. Here what it really means is the opportunity to enrich oneself over the dead bodies of America’s military.

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Obesity predisposition traced to the brain’s reward system

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and colleagues have demonstrated a link between a predisposition to obesity and defective dopamine signaling in the mesolimbic system in rats. Their report appears in the August 2008 issue of The FASEB Journal.

[  ]…”Baseline dopamine levels were 50 percent lower and stimulated dopamine release was significantly attenuated in the brain reward systems of obesity-prone rats, compared with obesity-resistant rats. Defects in brain dopamine synthesis and release were evident in rats immediately after birth,”

Runners high, alcohol abuse, smoking and extreme religious piety have all be linked to increases in dopamine levels.