Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Magic...
The human body's endocannabinoid system (ECS) is still in many ways a mystery to modern science. Only recently discovered in the 1990s, we know the ECS is a complex cell-signaling system that plays a major regulatory role. From sleep and appetite to mood and memory, the ECS helps ensure everything is running smoothly.
More detailed level, the ECS is made up of endocannabinoids, or molecules produced naturally by the body, and receptors for those molecules.
It doesn't matter if you've never touched a joint in your life, everyone's body is filled with ECS receptors that endocannabinoids can bind to and activate if called upon. For example, endocannabinoids may bind to receptors within the spine in order to help relieve pain.
THC, the cannabinoid found in marijuana responsible for the plant's trademark "high," also binds to ECS receptors.
Monday, November 29, 2021
See...
While all desire for huge spending, actions against the Keystone Pipe line, and eliminate drilling in federal land didn't pan out. Now they are back to release some oil from the strategic reserve knowing that it is not working. It doesn't matter. They desire the sound bite. But the media started to discover the fakeness with it. Just a thought.
Sink...
Inflation is rapidly becoming a problem for the Democratic party and President Joe Biden. They need to get a grip on it before it imperils their wider agenda and sinks their chances of keeping control of Congress in the midterm elections next year.
As they think about how to address it, one thing is certain: what they’ve been doing so far isn’t working. A recent poll found that two-thirds of Americans disapprove of how Biden is handling inflation, and the same number consider the issue “very important” in their evaluations of his presidency.
Among those Americans concerned about the state of the economy, nearly nine in 10 ranked inflation as a reason why. Clearly something has to change.
Deaf...
When President Biden announced the federal government would be releasing 50 million barrels of crude from the strategic petroleum reserve, expected prices to go down significantly and stay down. Instead, prices rose, and OPEC+ gave a heavy hint it might cut supply.
Energy analysts warned that the SPR crude is sour, and refiners don't like it because it needs additional processing to reduce the sulfur content—a process that requires natural gas, which is also expensive currently. These explanations fell on deaf but determined ears. Now, analysts are warning about $100 Brent.
"It's not going to work simply because the strategic petroleum reserve — any country's strategic petroleum reserve is not there to try to manipulate price," said Stephen Schork, editor of the Schork Report, speaking to CNBC earlier this week. "There's a considerable amount of bets out there that we will see $100 a barrel oil," he added.
If it is not going to achieve lower prices, why do it?
It is for local consumption, sound bites, the President is doing all what he can to etc. etc. ...... . Just to convince some that we are doing something, not worth it but something.
Just a thought.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
May be...
Although the World Health Organization continues to classify Mu as a 'variant of interest' globally, the CDC lists Mu simply as a 'variant being monitored. ' The CDC counts 10 variants in the variant being monitored group.
The lambda variant, has been spreading rapidly in South America, particularly in Peru where the earliest documented samples of the virus date from August 2020.
Infectivity can occur 1-3 days before the onset of symptoms. Infected persons can spread the disease even if they are pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic. Most commonly, the peak viral load in upper respiratory tract samples occurs close to the time of symptom onset and declines after the first week after symptoms begin.
COVID-19 reinfections are rare, but they do happen. Reinfections might become more common with time and as new COVID-19 variants arise.
The new Omicron variant may be just much ado about nothing. Just a thought.
Devilshly...
But inflation, a complicated product of economics and mass psychology, is also devilishly difficult to understand, and even more difficult to control.
Presidents have few tools to tame it, and the ones they do have can backfire. The inflation of the 1970s crippled Gerald Ford’s presidency and was doing the same to Jimmy Carter until he opted for an extreme cure – installing a chair of the Federal Reserve who dramatically raised interest rates, stopping inflation but also plunging the economy into a deep recession. That handed the White House to Ronald Reagan.
These experiences left inflation with a reputation as a presidency-killer, with either the disease itself or the medicine taken to combat it ultimately killing the patient.
Despite this, Democratic party elites have been slow to take the latest round of inflation as seriously as they should. American policymakers have not had to deal with levels of inflation as high as this for 30 years, and it shows. Many latched on to the message that inflation was “transitory”, a temporary consequence of the economy revving back into high gear as the country emerged from the coronavirus pandemic.
Some liberals have even lashed out at those warning about rising prices, characterizing their concerns as an attempt to undermine support for Democrats’ plans to spend more to advance social welfare and combat climate change.
It is transitory until it isn't. Just a "permeant" thought.
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