ITK Blocker a Cure For AIDS?

Well no actually, but it is a catchy title.

According to the BBC, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (A pdf can be found here) reported that it has been found that blocking the ITK protein causes a decrease in HIV replication. Here is a better page from MedPage Today.

In really simple terms what they have found is that blocking ITK can slow down the progression of the virus in quite a few ways:

1. Impedes infection
   
2. Slows down replication

Clearly it doesn't stop HIV from being transmitted but it sure screws things up for the virus.

If you want a Numb3rs-type analogy I would say think of your own but make sure that it has zombies in it.

Apparently the effect that it has on us is just a slowed immune response, but we are not completely harmless.

But it does show a change in the way we are thinking of combating HIV. Instead of trying to kill the virus itself, which mutates quickly and is slowly becoming immune to the drugs, we are looking for ways to make our own bodies a rather hard place for it to survive. Such a drug that could block ITK production in T cells would mean that instead of developing drugs to combat viral infections we develop drugs that make it harder for viruses to infect you in the first place.

Think of the benefits, although we do need more testing to see how adverse the side effects could be.

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After the graph craziness of the last few days (263 visits on April 26) things have quietened down now, so I'm pleased to announce a return to your regular programming.

German Talis, The Face Of 9/11 CTs

It's all over the blogosphere.

Well maybe it isn't.

It sort of is.

Anyway. Some guy from We Are Change called German Talis, (why?) is now sort of the new face of the 9/11 "truth" movement.

He decided to beat a girl, Maureen Lovetro who has cerebral palsy who was in a wheelchair.

And if you don't like the New York Post, then why not take a look at this smaller article from (sigh) Fox.

By the sounds of it the reason the girl was beaten up was because Talis was told to shut up by the parents, and probably also because the girl was a fan of the First Lady.

I'm going to be blunt here. This guy is a prick.

Honestly.

I mean he was already a git to begin with because he is stupid enough to believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy but beating up a girl? And in a wheelchair of all things?

The "truthers" have decided to stand behind this cowardly person. Especially since Talis doesn't seem to have the balls to pick on someone that could actually beat him, like say, the father of the girl.

Even Alex Jones is asking for lawyers to help this guy.

So this is what the "truth" movement has come to now? Attacking helpless girls and heckling people? But I thank you "truth" movement. Now there is even more evidence why people shouldn't join you. You guys are idiots and protect people who bash helpless girls.

Congratulations.

As long as this doesn't happen. I'm sure everything will be fine.

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The one comment from my last post from an anonymous "truther":

"Bla bLa blA then you mUsT beLIEVE bUilDing commITTed Suicide."

When a "Truther" Posts a Wall of Text...

This is what I read:

Don't you know blah blah blah Popular Mechanics blah blah blah shills?

Blah blah blah Chertoff blah blah blah cousins blah blah blah government infiltration blah blah blah Popular Mechanics blah blah blah paid by government blah blah blah Jews blah blah blah phone calls blah blah blah no planes blah blah blah (quote from guy at Ground Zero using a simile) blah blah blah that's proof blah blah blah neo-cons blah blah blah you're wrong blah blah blah (more c&p stuff) blah blah blah watch Zeitgeist blah blah blah watch Loose Change blah blah blah watch this youtube video blah blah blah Operation Northwoods blah blah blah Pearl Harbor was a false flag blah blah blah Mossad blah blah blah Zionists blah blah blah No Jews at towers blah blah blah no evidence blah blah blah Arabs with boxcutters blah blah blah hijack planes blah blah blah three towers fell on 9/11 blah blah blah WTC 7 blah blah blah never happened before blah blah blah must have been controlled demolition blah blah blah fires never destroyed a building before blah blah blah steel building blah blah blah the Twin Towers blah blah blah obligatory bold text blah blah blah Obligatory underlined text blah blah blah OBLIGATORY CAPS blah blah blah OBLIGATORY BOLDED CAPS blah blah blah pyroclastic flow blah blah blah no plane at Shanksville blah blah blah missile hit pentagon blah blah blah Silverstein blah blah blah JEW blah blah blah $6 billion dollars blah blah blah "pull it" blah blah blah more bold text blah blah blah ask questions blah blah blah do research blah blah blah mainstream media in on it blah blah blah NYPD in on it blah blah blah FDNY in on it blah blah blah two lines blah blah blah isolated fires blah blah blah hijackers in strip clubs blah blah blah space beams blah blah blah nanothermite blah blah blah thermate blah blah blah therm*te blah blah blah micronukes blah blah blah bombs blah blah blah A) blah blah blah B) blah blah blah C) Bombs blah blah blah nothing else blah blah blah you are paid by the government blah blah blah more toss blah blah blah (quote mine) more proof blah blah blah (mangled quote from debunker) (snide comment) blah blah blah five phenomena that I have "explained" fully blah blah blah obligatory red text blah blah blah obligatory blue text blah blah blah obligatory magenta text blah blah blah OBLIGATORY GIANT BOLDED CAPS TEXT blah blah blah (picture of WTC 2 dust) blah blah blah concrete core blah blah blah C4 coated rebar blah blah blah concrete is a better storage medium for RDX then mylar blah blah blah about 10 years means it will last for 40 blah blah blah cognitive distorition blah blah blah you support secret murder.

It also has a giant font sized version, but that would take up too much space. And you could always extent it to an ALL CAPS VERSION AS WELL, or maybe have some searing colours as well.

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Why is it that after working properly for such a long time, the greasemonkey scripts that I have for trackbacks have now decided to screw up and obscure my post writing field?

Some Excellent News Regarding Expelled.

There is some excellent news regarding the propaganda piece Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.


Rotten Tomatoes has the film at 9%, and even the "fresh" reviews have complaints about the use of holocaust imagery.

Add that to all the bad reviews that Expelled Exposed has and you can see one of those films that virtually all the critics hate.

Unfortunately from what I understand about films is that usually when a critic says "this film sucks" you can probably find 100 normal people who really liked it.

The plus side is that I don't see this film breaking box office records any time soon, especially if they go to the international market, where virtually nobody would want to see this film.

That's assuming that they don't lose everything since they didn't get permission from Yoko Ono to use John Lennon's song "Imagine".