Made me smile with that one, Kate!

How can you possibly understand all that rather esoteric science without a string of university degrees? Or was Heinlein right when he said:
"University degrees do not require intelligence- They merely require scholarship."
You're smart, savvy, literate, and a grassroots scientist to boot. Well done!

;)

The natural end result of "animal rights activists": Human grave robbing.

Ghouls and necromancers; foul, evil monsters from the Underground.

Animal activists jailed for terror
Herald Sun ^ | 12 May 2006

Posted on 05/11/2006 5:13:47 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

THREE animal rights activists were jailed for 12 years each and a fourth imprisoned for four years for a terror campaign against an English guinea pig farm that culminated in a grave robbing.

John Ablewhite, Kerry Whitburn and John Smith were today each handed 12-year prison terms at Nottingham Crown Court in central England after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiring to blackmail the farm owners.

Josephine Mayo was jailed for four years after admitting a lesser part in the six-year campaign against the Hall family who own a farm in Staffordshire, central England, which bred the rodents for medical research purposes.

What began as a peaceful protest outside the gates of Darley Oaks Farm in the hamlet of Newchurch in 1999 escalated into threats, intimidation and even violence against the owners and any person or business linked to it.

That included a pedophile smear campaign, death threats, hate mail, malicious phone calls, hoax bombs and arson attacks against the owners, the pub in which they drank, their golf club and even their cleaners.

In October 2004, animal rights extremists stole the remains of the 82-year-old mother-in-law of one of the owners from a churchyard in the nearby village of Yoxall.

Her body was only recovered earlier this month after Smith revealed its location in a nearby beauty spot in Cannock Chase to police.

Smith raised a defiant fist to the court room as he was taken down to the cells with his three co-defendants.

Judge Michael Peat told the four that they could have resorted to lawful means to change a law they did not like because they lived in a democratic society.

"You thought to enforce your view not by reasoned debate or lawful protest but by subjecting wholly innocent citizens to a campaign of terror," the judge said.

He said that the Hall family had run a lawful business and said he had read 38 statements taken from victims targeted in the campaign. ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630795/posts

Well, that scientific stuff pretty much went over my head. I tried to read it, but I just sat here drooling with mouth agape...

Wonder if the doggies can blast stuff with laser beams from the eyes? Are they some kind of super canines? Perhaps they'll fly over Iran and drop little brown bombs on Ahmadinejad's head till he gets so frustrated he'll forget about international jihad...

I wonder if the Liberals might claim to have the same visual deficiency when it comes to keeping track of where the money went?

I doubt it.

Kate wrote: Back in July of '04, I mentioned that I'm probably the "first professionally trained commercial artist to have a peer reviewed paper on opthalmology on her resume".

That's what she wrote. What she meant was "In case you missed my ego masturbation of July 2004, here's some more. And don't forget to note that my blog was a 2005 Weblog Award winner and that I'm a member of Mensa. Click on the image links if you don't believe me."

"Mitochondria from affected dogs were reduced in number and size and were unusually electron dense"
I said the very same thing at a party last weekend and everybody laughed at me. But now we know!
Seriously, good stuff, Kate, and another indication of your talent and hard work.

Does this mean it's maternally inherited? Or something in the nuclear DNA affecting development of mitochondria? Or some combination?

Long time since my cell biology classes.

Maybe there's also a genetic explanation why hard core lefties have eyes but don't see, have ears but don't listen and have mouths but don't speak anything true or meaningful...

Perhaps the answer ties in with the old saying about idiocy being empirically defined as doing the same failed thing over and over again and still expecting a different result. :-)

No, Laura - the mutation isn't in the mtDNA, it's causing some sort of disruption in it.

Also - something that isn't getting enough attention by those folks who do "paleogenetics" (tracing lineage through mtDNA to millenia past to declare where sub-species branch off, etc.) - it's recently been discovered that one can inherit mitochondrial dna from one's father.

Alien Jeff wrote: "What she meant was "In case you missed my ego masturbation of July 2004, here's some more. And don't forget to note that my blog was a 2005 Weblog Award winner and that I'm a member of Mensa. Click on the image links if you don't believe me."

What he meant was: "there's a good chance this gun-loving, racist, fascist rednecKKK might just be measurably more intelligent than I am, so I'm going to ridicule her achievements in an attempt to make myself feel better about it."

Well since Kate responded...

Jeff's confusing it with the activity he performs with one hand, while his other hand is cradling a photo of Che'.

"Also - something that isn't getting enough attention by those folks who do "paleogenetics" (tracing lineage through mtDNA to millenia past to declare where sub-species branch off, etc.) - it's recently been discovered that one can inherit mitochondrial dna from one's father."

Interesting.... do you have a journal reference for that?

Thanks.

Dearest Kate:

I believe you missed the point. Your achievements were not the target of ridicule. The target was your flaunting them.

It's too bad Alien Jeff thought automatically that Kate is necessarily showing off. What I got from the post is that she was talking about one of her professions, mini schnauzer breeding, on her blog, just in case other fellow canine breeders are interested, or geneticists.

Though I'm limited to the basics I learned from high school genetics, I can appreciate the extensive research Kate must've put into learning about genetics as it applies to dog breeding. It reminds me of all the learning and trial and error I've put in (but haven't been into for a while) for my, ah, sometime obsession with bodybuilding. From age 12, I absorbed every bit of scientific info on everything I could from all available sources as I used to plan on following in Arnold's footsteps and all that... don't know what happened to that. I think it was the university thing and the subsequent frustration over the years in not getting my planned career in business jump-started... thanks to a crappy economy and policies like bilingualism and preferential/profiling hiring practices thanks to leftist governments.

Oh, well... sorry for dumping that on y'all, but I just wanted to say how I can appreciate Kate's knowledge of genetic science as it definitely helps with the dog breeding.

Been following the art and breeding for over a year now, Kate. You do excellent work and deserve to take pride in it.

Speaking of work, gotta get back to it... I was just taking a much needed break from a really crazy day in which all sorts of things have gone wrong in my company this week...

Alien J should also remember that this is Kate's blog. She pays for it and makes it the superb entity it has been for so long now. When it comes to Small Dead Animals, Alien Kos-clone doesn't have to love it, but he sure can leave it.

So Kate, keep on staring down the PC-Poofters.

Paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2716

"...retinal dysplasia affected dogs are lacking normal mitochondria DNA"

Gadzooks! Reminds me of when I'm in Quebec with my bathroom french. While basically understanding part of the conversation I end up feverishly substituting other words in my head to make sense of what was just said...

...sniff sniff...thought I smell something funny in here...

...ooooh a real live troll, no doubt from another planet.

Alien J,surely you could of thought of something more productive to do with your day.Jealousy is such an ugly trait...

Dave W. - There's a post from October 04 on the topic of paternally inherited mtDNA

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/000843.html

Jeff - if you do a few searches on SDA, you'll discover one of the original categories is "genetics", and there are a number of posts on that topic. Since the research mentioned in this post happens to be based on my own dogs, it shouldn't surprise you that I might actually write about it.

Idiot.

I read Kate's post, didn't get any of it, and felt dumb.

Then Alien Jeff came along, and now I don't feel so dumb.

Good post Kate. Informative.

Your writing about such research doesn't surprise me, Kate.

What does surprise me is that you continually either miss, avoid or ignore the point of my original comment; even after an explanation.

And by closing your most recent with a curt "Idiot" displays your true colors.

Poor poor jeff, while you whine away, I'll give thought to a fallen hero on this day, Capt. Nichola Goddard was killed in Afghanistan.

My condolences for her family and loved ones and those in her unit.

- No mood for codified babies tantrums today.
So go find something important to bitch about ok?

Excellent work, Kate. And you don't need a university degree to be scientifically astute and innovative; in fact, in quite a few instances, the university mindset traps you; it locks you into a 'majority mode of thought' which can be quite hostile to innovation and new ideas.

Intelligence has nothing to do with a university degree. I've seen so many PHDs who are the dumbest of the dumb (in my view) - and I have one of those degrees. That includes not only those in the humanities and the social sciences, which are the haven of the irrational and illogical postmodernists, but also, those in the sciences. In science, you'll find so many who fall into a particular perspective and remain locked in it for their entire life.

So- well done, and my congrats. And announcing one's accomplishments is not akin to boasting, alien. But, denigrating someone else's accomplishments IS an act of pure jealousy. So?

Interesting stuff as usual, even if I had to reread a bunch of stuff. It feels good to sometimes wake up old grey cells.

I am always amazed at how trolls jump in but never say anything of value, just a rant of insults.

No Jeff, you're the one missing or avoiding the more relevant comments-

"...so I'm going to ridicule her achievements in an attempt to make myself feel better about it."

"I read Kate's post, didn't get any of it, and felt dumb.
Then Alien Jeff came along, and now I don't feel so dumb."

"Alien J should also remember that this is Kate's blog. She pays for it and makes it the superb entity it has been for so long now. When it comes to Small Dead Animals, Alien Kos-clone doesn't have to love it, but he sure can leave it."

"Jealousy is such an ugly trait...", a trait Leftists seem particularly prone to.

Kate -- a fat lot of good your rat dogs are going to do in Saskatchewan, if it is anything like Alberta rat population wise' ;)
Illegal alien -- perhaps we can teledeport you back to your home planet.

Mad Mike: In your glowing recital of Kates qualities, you forgot something.
Shes HOT!!! man.
(forgive me Kate, couldnt resist, but its true)

Alien Jeff: It's Kate's dime that gives you a soapbox to stand on while you display your ignorance.

I don't know what's worse; the fact that i understood all of that or the fact that I found it interesting, or the fact that i seem to be in the minority here;

I need to get out more :)

Alien Jeff - Kate's alter ego

;-)

Also: Kate, don't even let yiurself get drawn into arguments with individuals like Alien Jeff. They are not worth your time or the aggravation.

P.S. - I'm actually going through my old metabolism textbooks now....this is just getting worse. :)

Jeff, Kate will just call you an idiot.

I'll defer to Macon on this one, personally.
Dearest Jeff: It is hard to believe how incredibly stupid you are. Stupid as a stone that the other stones make fun of. So stupid that you have traveled far beyond stupid as we know it and into a new dimension of stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid cubed. Trans-stupid stupid. Stupid collapsed to a singularity where even the stupons have collapsed into stuponium. Stupid so dense that no intelligence can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot summer day on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one minute than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. It cannot be possible that anything in our universe can really be this stupid. This is a primordial fragment from the original big stupid bang. A pure extract of stupid with absolute stupid purity. Stupid beyond the laws of nature. Including DNA lacking mitochondria.

Lee:

I have always believed that people should be complimented and encouraged in whatever good things they may do. Makes for a better social atmosphere generally. Also, sometimes it is better to turn a blind eye to peoples innocent failings.
As far as "HOT" goes, I don't know. I see a picture of an attractive lady on her website, but have never met Ms. McMillan. My wife and I have talked about dropping in at Delisle one day, but always seem to have too much on the go...

Hello Kate,

I am myself surprised to see how a 75% decrease in a major mitochondrial enzyme like NADHD in all cells causes only retinal dysplasia. I would have expected a complex syndrome, including myopathy and encephalopathy. Human diseases caused by a nuclear mutation affecting mitochondria include Leigh syndrome and Barth syndrome. I guess dogs are tougher than men.

I also liked this "test-breeding to define the mode of inheritance". You guys do stuff we are not allowed to do; I'm jealous.

Emmanuel Maicas, PhD, MD, a long time avid reader (via Bloglines)

The researchers are still scratching their heads about that - they can't believe the affected dogs are alive.

The other tidbit not mentioned in the abstract - the heterozygous carriers (which are normal eyed) have a mixture of normal and abnormal mtDNA in their cells.

...who?