The Goat Pen

"Whatever it takes to get elected."

LMAO!

hopey changey...

10ac wrote: hopey changey...

Not exactly sure what that means.

Mitt's core is ambition. That's what drives him. That which takes him to his goal is what he believes in.

Still, he ain't beating Obama. Nobody will. Take all that campaign money and spend it on Americas homeless instead of a wasted effort. Oh wait I forgot, Repubs would rather burn $ on a wasted cause instead of help their own.

Their own homeless republicans?

In the first three nominating contests, there was a direct relationship between support for the former Massachusetts governor and income level. In South Carolina, for instance, Romney cleaned up among Republicans who make over $200,000 a year, crushing Newt Gingrich by 15 points. But Gingrich won by 20 points among those making between $30,000 and $50,000 and 16 points with those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 — margins that accounted for his 13-poiunt statewide victory.

But the income divide in the GOP race isn’t about policy. It’s about identity. No matter how much he earnestly pitches himself as a middle-class crusader, everything about Romney — his income, his tax status, his lifetstyle, his upbringing, his education, his manner — reeks of privilege and refinement. This, and not his agenda, is what seems to be rubbing blue-collar Republicans the wrong way. Conversely, Santorum may technically be part of the 1 percent (as the tax returns he released Wednesday night confirmed), but his roots and his style are fundamentally middle-class.

So there’s a paradox at work. Republican voters are generally hostile to class-based policy agendas; any attempt to draw attention to income inequality is typically dismissed as “class warfare.” But class identity is a major factor in how they’re voting this primary season.

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/16/the_gop ... sychology/

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The world’s first test-tube hamburger, created in a Dutch laboratory by growing muscle fibres from bovine stem cells, will be ready to grill in October, scientists believe.

“I am planning to ask Heston Blumenthal [the celebrity chef] to cook it,” Mark Post, leader of the artificial meat project at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, told the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver.

Researchers believe that meat grown in factories, rather than on farms, will be a more sustainable and less environmentally harmful source of food. Live cattle and pigs are only 15 per cent efficient at converting vegetable proteins to meat from the grass and cereals they eat.

“If we can raise the efficiency from 15 to 50 per cent by growing meat in the lab, that would be a tremendous leap forward,” Professor Post said.

Starting with bovine stem cells, the Dutch researchers have grown muscle fibres up to 3cm long and 0.5mm thick. The fibres are tethered and exercised as they grow, like real muscles, by bending and stretching in the culture dishes. They feed on a broth of vegetable proteins and other nutrients, equivalent to the grass or grain diet of cattle.

At present the fibres are a pallid yellowish-pink colour, rather than the red of raw ground beef, because they do not contain blood, but Prof Post plans to improve their appearance.

Patrick Brown, biochemistry professor at Stanford University in California, told the AAAS that global meat consumption was expected to double by 2050, yet livestock farming already accounted for 18 per cent of man-made greenhouse gas emissions and threatened biodiversity worldwide.

To provide fat, an essential element in real burgers, bovine fat cells are also being grown in the lab. They will be minced in with the muscle fibres.

“We started this project about six years ago, and I expect it will be another 10 to 20 years before we can mass-produce our meat,” Prof Post said.

This scares me for the same reasons bio-engineered veggies & their RNA/DNA issues scare me.

At first glance, though, it seems far more humane than our current meat-producing practices...

But it looks fun and I did just enjoy a slab of Ribs for lunch today with my youngest. (The oldest had 6 teeth ripped out of her mouth on Friday so she can't chew anything yet but jello).

Hmmmmmmm, pork!

We're thatmuchcloser to having one of those food-creator-thingies that they had on Star Trek.

In the year 2525...

Can you beem me to Jennifer Anistons hot tub?

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heh

I don't do cartoons. Anyone else?

Chumlee: "Why is the lion the king of the Jungle?"

Rick: "Because the bear isn't in the jungle."

Maybe tomorrow.

10ac wrote:Chumlee: "Why is the lion the king of the Jungle?"

Rick: "Because the bear isn't in the jungle."

Yeah it is busy shitting itself up in a tree because Garfield is at the bottom.

I know I'm biased and I didn't watch the whole debate, but from clips this morning, Ron Paul slaughtered Santorum last night. The guy was wishing he'd never showed up after Romney and Paul double teamed him all night.