Posted on 12/05/2006 10:20:22 PM PST by null and void
CATS can suffer from a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, Edinburgh scientists revealed today.
A study into ageing cats identified a key protein which can build up in the nerve cells in their brains and cause mental deterioration, similar to that in humans.
The research was carried out by scientists at the University of Edinburgh, as well as universities at St Andrews, Bristol and California.
Dr Danielle Gunn-Moore, of Edinburgh University, said: "We've known for a long time that cats develop dementia, but this study tells us that the cat's neural system is being compromised."
Me: "More likely, though, we'll just see you externalize your own uncertainties in the form of attacks on those who are saying unsettling things."
You: "What a nutjob."
Amazing how I can telegraph my punches, and you still walk right in and prove me right.
What a nutjob. G'bye!
"$50K to re-landscape our backyard.."
YOU BEAST!!!
You ought to sell your backyard and send the $ to those on this thread who know what's best (in a morally relativistic, situational ethics sort of way)
At least grind up your pets and use them for mulch in your new backyard and send the money you saved on fertilizer ok?
Do it for the children!
You Satanic beast. LOL!!
That person's post history on this thread alone give new dimension to "tangentially" spectacular.
Answers a problem??? No problem....just misdirect:)
Take Care
Of course, it would be a morally unjustified to spend money on that anyway ... ;-)
In other news, the $39 genuine Rolex I just picked up from some guy on the street looks pretty good and increases my assets. Plus it leaves enough bucks to finally buy that $49,960 Mercedes. And I'm guilt free - under the $50,000 moral judgement imposed by God limit, so long as I buy physical assests and don't waste it on large-individual-expenditure animal welfare!! Life is good!
Now just waiting for the line-by-line absurd parsing and bending by dsc.
Only if it's Ex-Lax.
Well, OK maybe, so long as you don't enjoy it!!
Hopefully he's gone.....taking his pets for their teeth cleaning and grooming/primping session before heading off to the pet psychologist therapy session. I've had enough dialog with the guy. Besides I don't want to cause him to have to rifle his dictionary further for more eloquent words to babble away with :)
"Hopefully he's gone"
I've been here for eight years, which is time enough to see a lot of people like you come and go.
"I've had enough dialog with the guy."
Dialog? You've done nothing but spit bile, and even that was prompted only by your own failure to understand the arguments advanced. Your contribution to the interplay of ideas has been exactly zero.
"Besides I don't want to cause him to have to rifle his dictionary further for more eloquent words to babble away with"
You say a lot about yourself when you presume that a person needs a dictionary to use everyday vocabulary.
"Now just waiting for the line-by-line absurd parsing and bending by dsc."
Truly, no good deed goes unpunished. However, lurkers have had plenty of time to look over my arguments and your abuse, and I have no further wish to try and help you understand, so I'm probably through defending my position from your errors on this particular thread.
I said g'bye!
You have been here 7.999 years too long.
Bye....as others have said
When you talk about a person in an open forum, he has standing to respond.
I would be quite content to get you out of my hair, but while you continue to lie, I reserve the right to rebut.
"Sorry, bad analogy. The intent is different. Whether spending $500 or $50,000, the intent is the same, only the amount varies."
No, it's a good analogy, because the difference in what can be accomplished with a given sum can give rise to a difference in kind.
"Reason tells me that for a person of a net worth of $100,000, and with $10 million, an expenditure of $50,000 is the same percentage of personal wealth."
And reason tells me that the percentage of wealth is not the decisive factor. The money has absolute value in terms of purchasing power, and that is the decisive factor.
"I see nothing inherently wrong with spending your money the way you wish."
It's not a question of an inherent wrong in spending your money the way you wish. It is a question of a wrong arising as a result of spending a given sum in a given way.
Get on back to DU.
I pity those who have to deal with you on a daily basis.
"I pity those who have to deal with you on a daily basis."
You should pity only the dishonest jerks who have to deal with me. Honest, rational people have no problems.
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