I understand that government (or public service) should be different, but they do that in business. Arguably, also in families.
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lol, trumpf preaching to west point is alot like Stormy preaching to nuns…
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Genetic issue is a stretch, sorry. I believe the rich get the diagnoses they can afford. The genome is not as well understood as you’d like to think. Speaking as a science editor.
The wildly indulged kid gets to the terrible twos, the parents don’t like them anymore, and a well trained white man can tell them it’s not their fault.
This is not to say that autism does not exist. But we haven’t found the genetic instigator for cancer yet, and there’s been a little more research done in that area.
These are the same parents that went after affirmative action, specifically against universities, because they had someone to blame for their darling child’s rejection for being thick as shit.
Half our modern political problems are the precious and self serving delusions of the wealthy, disproportionately represented in our national conversation.
No wonder the Christian Right is taking over.
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Gift link should work.
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One of the best—and most maddening—things about being a Democrat is the knowledge that the party has a broad range of political viewpoints and doesn’t march in lockstep to one particular drumbeat the way the fascist Republican party does.
It’s the attitudinal variety and stability that makes Democrats better at governing and worse at united messaging.
I, too, would love a much more progressive party in the abstract—but I have been at this for so long that I realized quite a while ago that a pragmatic approach that embraces center-left, left, and way left policies and ideas is healthier for the party, easier to deal with legislatively, and far more electable than a straight-up progressive party would be.
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And Bernie Sanders teaming up with AOC is an even better example.
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Your statement was just untrue.
As an example, Hakeem Jeffries is not in any way a younger version of Nancy Pelosi.
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Environmental issues may have an effect. Some parents say “neither of us has autism, nor anyone in our families. It must be more than genetics.”
And they may be right. It has been studied for more than two decades and it seems that exposure to some air pollutants (living near a highway, for example) may affect autism.
Autism Speaks - Autism Environmental Factors
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This is part of my point. Change is necessary and natural. What I observe here and in the US is wealthy old politicians who hang on to power because they have become accustomed to power and being in the centre of activity and decision making. Personally, I don’t see the Dems as a left leaning party. To remain relevant I think they need to move in that direction of AOC and Sanders.
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Thank you! Clearly said for all who will listen.
I have early memory of the panic around polio in the mid 1950’s. My sister got it and passed to to me in 1954 when I was 5 yrs old. The next year Dr Jonas Salk had a vaccine he was testing. He came to my primary school and passed it out among us. I had no idea who he was until later on. I remember empty playgrounds and missing students in school. The vaccine saved millions of people from death paralysis or skeletal deformity (in growing kids). In my case my spine was curved above my pelvis.
Autism is not caused by a vaccine no matter what drivel RFKjr spouts.
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That’s rich from [RFK, Jr.] who already, without any proof, claimed earlier this year that rising rates of autism are caused by “environmental toxins” in food and medicine.
Also, and, he’s the mouthpiece for an administration that’s made it very clear that it has absolutely no intention of passing laws to minimize any kind of environmental toxin.
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Nope.
Scientists have found rare gene changes, or mutations, as well as small common genetic variations in people with autism, implying a genetic component . Some factors that indicate genetic influences on the development and diagnosis with autism include: A twin or sibling with autism. Older parents.
Research since 1977 tells us that autism tends to run in families, and a meta-analysis of 7 twin studies claim that 60 to 90% of the risk of autism comes from your genome . If you have a child with autism, you are more likely to have another autistic child. Your other family members are also more likely to have a child with ASD.
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The old guard needs to mentor young up-and-coming legislators. Although she probably should have done it sooner, Pelosi modelled the appropriate behavior by stepping aside from the Speakership while still in office to be able to guide the next generation. Where she erred is in waiting too long, and now, staying too long. JMO
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I wish both political parties had a better balance of left, right and center within each of them. I’m not a fan of the notion that one party is one side and the other party is the other side.
That seems to me too much like in-breeding. Differences within each party narrow, leaving room for ignorance and bias.
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Parent who say such things are not being smart.
Neither my sister nor her first husband had cystic fibrosis, but because both of them carried the gene marker for CF, my late niece had a pretty severe case of that genetic disorder, which requires that both parents have the marker, and then have a one in four chance of having a child with CF.
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And in academic departments. It’s an understandable inclination, but it can be queried and even resisted. In the deliberations over the last hiring decision I was part of before I retired, as we were coming to a consensus about our first choice, one of us had us pause to ask ourselves: Are we drawn to this person more than the others because she is most like us (in personal and academic background, scholarly bent…)? The question prompted individual and group soul-searching.
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