The Crohnsicle » Miscellaneous http://crohns.bennernet.com News, Views and Info about Crohn's Disease Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:14:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fecal Transplants?!? http://crohns.bennernet.com/2011/02/06/fecal-transplants/ http://crohns.bennernet.com/2011/02/06/fecal-transplants/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:14:33 +0000 benner http://crohns.bennernet.com/?p=82 I never thought I could be repulsed, intrigued and hopeful all at the same time like this… I stumbled across this article on Slate the other day in which they are treating some intestinal infections with fecal transplants. Yes, you read it correctly. Here is the article… gross and yet intriguing.

http://www.slate.com/id/2282768/

]]> http://crohns.bennernet.com/2011/02/06/fecal-transplants/feed/ 1 Cockroach Found in a Woman’s Colonoscopy http://crohns.bennernet.com/2011/01/07/cockroach-found-in-a-womans-colonoscopy/ http://crohns.bennernet.com/2011/01/07/cockroach-found-in-a-womans-colonoscopy/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:54:04 +0000 benner http://crohns.bennernet.com/?p=80 I am so completely grossed out by this, but have to pass it on…

http://gizmodo.com/5727160/cockroach-found-in-a-womans-colonoscopy

-Benner

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/30/14161/066

Take a look… there is also video of one of his modified cars – a ‘65 Chevy Impala converted into a biodiesel that generates 800 horsepower (from 250) and it gets double the gas mileage (25 mpg) of the original. MTV put on a drag race and it smokes a Lamborghini that is pitted against it.

And the big car makers say this stuff is impossible with todays technologies…. yeah right. They just make too much money off of the oil and fuel and spare parts and don’t want to give up those profits.

]]> http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/31/guy-converts-h3-into-hybrid-and-gets-60-mpg/feed/ 0 Couple make burglar clean up at gunpoint http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/19/couple-make-burglar-clean-up-at-gunpoint/ http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/19/couple-make-burglar-clean-up-at-gunpoint/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:56:24 +0000 benner http://crohns.bennernet.com/?p=5 This made me laugh out loud when I saw it… 
A slightly nicer spin on that saying ”an eye for an eye.” 

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_ODD_Burglar_Cleanup.html?source=rss

Here is the text so you don’t have to go to the page…

Last updated October 18, 2007 6:03 p.m. PT
Couple make burglar clean up at gunpoint

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears.

“Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home,” she said.

Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight into him, Tiffany McKinnon told the Montgomery Advertiser in a story Thursday.

“My husband Adrian caught the thief red-handed in our home,” she said. “And what is even crazier, the man even had my husband’s hat sitting right on his head.”

Adrian McKinnon held the suspect, 33-year-old Tajuan Bullock, at gunpoint and told him to sit on the floor until he decided what to do.

“We made this man clean up all the mess he made, piles of stuff, he had thrown out of my drawers and cabinets onto the floor,” Tiffany McKinnon said.

When police arrived, Bullock complained about being forced to clean the home at gunpoint.

“This man had the nerve to raise sand about us making him clean up the mess he made in my house,” she said. “The police officer laughed at him when he complained and said anybody else would have shot him dead.”

Capt. Huey Thornton, a police spokesman, said police arrested Bullock at 2 p.m. Tuesday on burglary and theft charges. He was being held in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $30,000 bond.

“The victims were lucky in this case to be able to catch the suspect in the act and hold him until police arrived,” Thornton said.

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Information from: Montgomery Advertiser, http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com

]]> http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/19/couple-make-burglar-clean-up-at-gunpoint/feed/ 0 If you could read peoples minds would you hear other languages? http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/18/if-you-could-read-peoples-minds-would-you-hear-other-languages/ http://crohns.bennernet.com/2007/10/18/if-you-could-read-peoples-minds-would-you-hear-other-languages/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:12:30 +0000 benner http://crohns.bennernet.com/?p=4 After watching “Heroes” last night I was struck with a thought because of some of the characters on the show… One of the characters can read minds. Two of the other characters on the show are Spanish. They have not yet come across each other, but my thought was… when he tries to read their minds will he be able to understand? Will their thoughts be in Spanish? Or are thoughts simply concepts without words associated to them. I think we use words when we think… at least I believe I do.

What do you think?

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