Fit to be Fried

File under “ha-bloody-fucking-ha!”:

To all the bastards who have tried over the years to ban smoking in public places and have driven the price of tobacco up with their whiney little lawsuits (gosh, your honor, no one ever told me that cigarette smoking was bad for you… how could I know that sucking hot smoke in my lungs would hurt me…) and threatened for years to try and put “Big Tobacco” out of business, I offer this little nugget:

The BBC reported today that Tobacco is now being studied in the US as a possible treatment for cancer.

Lemme give all you non-smokers out there a chance to process that, and all you smokers out there a chance to catch your breath.

Is everybody ready?

A lymphoma results when damage to DNA occurs to lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell) that basically prevents those cells from dying when they should, causing them to lump together in the lymph nodes as tumors, as well as spread to other areas of the lymphatic system, like bone marrow. Follicular (center cell) non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is a b-cell cancer, b-cells being a type of lymphocytes that ordinarily defend against illness. Follicular non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma accounts for 30% of all non-Hodgkin’s Lymphomas, which, combined with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, comprise about 5% of all reported cases of cancer, and is most common among 60-to-65-year-old’s¹. It’s this type of cancer that the new tobacco testing has been focused on (I know, not as poetic as it would’ve been if it had been lung cancer, but the research is still in it’s early stages).

Tobacco ‘could help treat cancer’

The ironic new role for tobacco is the work of researchers from Stanford University in California.

They are using the plants as factories for an antibody chemical specific to the cells which cause follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

These antibodies are put into a patient newly-diagnosed with the disease, to “prime” the body’s immune system to attack any cell carrying them.

If successful, this would mean the body would then recognise and destroy the lymphoma cells.

However, every patient’s antibodies are different, and would need to be produced quickly once the diagnosis was made.

The idea is not a new one - attempts have already been made to grow these antibodies inside animal cells, with mixed success.

However, a plant-grown vaccine would be much cheaper and in theory could carry less risk to the patient, as animal cells might hold unknown viruses.

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The plants are then “infected” with the virus, and as it spreads through the cells, the added gene starts the process of producing large quantities of the antibody.

After just a few days a few leaves are taken, ground up, and the antibody extracted from them.

Only a few plants are needed to make enough vaccine for a patient.

semperfried76 is the last hope for humanity.
Too bad he hates you all.

Professor Charles Arntzen, from Arizona State University, said that the sheer speed of the production process could convince patients to wait for their own tailored vaccine rather than undergoing other treatment.

The science people say that there are still experiments to run, research to be done, yadda-yadda-yadda, so don’t get excited… blah-blah-blah…

The point is this- tobacco=good, preachy “truth.com” kids=sophomoric ass-clowns.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed this week with an inoperable brain tumor, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. I know, nobody wants to say it, in this age of political correctness. How dare we make this kind of judgment call on the man when the Grim Reaper is knocking on his door. To these folks, I cite Hunter S. Thompson’s obituary for former president Richard Nixon as published in his book, Better than Sex; Confessions of a Political Junkie as precedent, and must ask you to kindly shut the fuck up.

Edward Kennedy has been a dagger in the back of the American body politic since even before he ever took office. While in his sophomore year in Harvard¹, he was failing Spanish² and was expelled for paying a friend to take his final exam. After being kicked out of school, Kennedy joined the army, but neglected to read his enlistment papers. His parents were horrified at the notion that their son had signed up for four years instead of two, prompting his father, Joe, to pull strings to get his enlistment reduced and have him stationed in Europe³. Kennedy was allowed to return to Harvard after his enlistment ended, and graduated in 1953. He became a Senator 9 years later when he turned 30, filling Jack Kennedy’s old seat⁴

No matter what anyone tries to say to the contrary, Kennedy got away with the murder of Mary Jo Kopechne in 1969. He was, at the time, driving drunk, had an expired license, and a history of reckless driving; in short, he had no business getting behind the wheel of a car, and as a sitting Senator, he damn well knew it. He was acquitted thanks to a team of lawyers paid for through the family fortune, and spent the rest of his life riding on the political legacy of his two smarter, better-looking brothers.

That’s to say nothing of the man’s actual politics. Besides doing everything possible to undermine this country in his tenure as a United States Senator, and actually admitted in 1995 that he was a socialist.

Economist Milton Friedman was testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of a national constitutional amendment for a balanced budget. Kennedy argued that a requirement for a balanced budget would restrict the federal government’s power and its ability to spend – thus, he said, Washington’s role in more fairly and equitably distributing wealth, goods and services.

“Senator, socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history,” explained Friedman. “Why won’t you give up on it?”

Kennedy rose to his feet, according to Nuttle, who attended the hearing, and replied: “It hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.”⁵

As a Senator, Kennedy has supported Affirmative Action, Amnesty for illegal aliens, partial birth abortion, date-rape⁶, and the former Soviet Union (while it was still the Soviet Union). Kennedy is an America-hater of the worst kind, and blames his country for all the world’s ills, despite having had an active part in the running of said country for over half a century. He is also a collaborator , a sexual deviant and a coward, a man whose life is generally not even worth the cost of a bullet similar to the two that killed his brothers Jack and Bobby.

I, for one, sincerely hope the man never gets better, that the cancer takes it’s time eating his empty brain, that it eats it’s way down to his testicles and that he rots in Hell for all eternity.