<The update to the Heart Foundation’s 2003 consensus statement, ‘Psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease’, is being presented at a Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand conference held in Queensland on Friday.

But the review of 10-year data, also busted one popular myth: that chronic job stress sharply increases the likelihood of having a heart attack.

“Contrary to popular belief, the effect of job stress on heart disease is limited,” study lead author Nick Glozier said.

“This is good news – our jobs are not necessarily killing us. If anything, what we really need to focus on is what we can control; that is, standard heart disease risks such as higher blood pressure and smoking, tackled through better workplace programs.>

That's why I am still alive.

However, you rephrased it into something Glozier didn't say. What he DID say is <“Contrary to popular belief, the effect of job stress on heart disease is limited,”>

Limited effect, not "no" effect. Also, <our jobs are <<not necessarily>> killing us.>

<"The previous NHFA review found that there was neither strong nor consistent evidence of a causal association between work-related stressors and CHD."

"Furthermore, no studies have been conducted to show whether any intervention for work stress can reduce the development of CHD."

"Differing study methodology (in particular, the method used to assess work stress) has a strong effect on whether or not an association between work stress and CHD is found.">

Let's get right to it.

I give Trump a B.
I give Biden a B-.
I give the moderator a C+.

Why didn't I give Trump and A? Because he wandered away from the central points as he spoke, extemporaneously, in an almost stream of consciousness style of communication. He failed to make his points sharply and repeated himself unnecessarily. He could have stuck it to Biden much more effectively than he did.

The reason he gets a B is because he didn't avoid answering directly. That is, he didn't misdirect as almost every politician does when asked a tough question. Trump kept his composure and his tone remained cool. His demeanor came across, on radio, as unruffled.

I thought Trump scored good points on the oil and fracking issue. He also scored particularly well on the race issue, pointing out that Biden had 8 years as VP to do more for colored people. He pointed out that Joe is making promises to black America now about how he's going to fix a lot of things, but Trump asked why he didn't fix those things in the 8 long years he was in office with Obama.

Trump wins on Oil/Fracking, and the race issue.

Biden gets a B- because he didn't fall apart completely when the pressure was on. He spoke normally for the entire first half of the debate but started to almost slur his words in the last half of the debate. His tongue got a wee bit jumbled up.

Biden didn't get an A because while he seemed more prepared for some of the questions, there were others that seemed to catch him cold. Biden had no answer for his flip flop on fracking in PA. He clearly said on TV that he was against fracking and that it was going to end, but when Trump called him on it, all he did was deny it flat out. The problem is that everyone knows he's lying about that.

The people that are against fracking and oil will certainly remember Joe's strong solidarity with them on this issue. It's important to them and no doubt they clearly remember Joe's unwavering stance against fracking and oil. He made a point about and earned some brownie points with the far left - until he flip-flopped. He should have had a better, more nuanced answer prepared.

Another problem with Biden is he lied about Putin paying the Taliban bounties on US soldiers killed. That narrative was squashed by government officials, the Russians, and even the Taliban.

<In the Times' piece, the Taliban's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said the terrorist organization had no "such relations with any intelligence agency." He labeled the accusation as an attempt to "defame" the group.

“These kinds of deals with the Russian intelligence agency are baseless — our target killings and assassinations were ongoing in years before, and we did it on our own resources,” Mujahid explained. “That changed after our deal with the Americans, and their lives are secure and we don’t attack them.”>

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethb...

It's not the fact that Biden lied that loses him debate points, but rather it's the fact that most people who followed the story still remember that it fizzled out as an embarrassing example of Fake News. That means there are millions of people out there tonight who watched Biden lie about this and thought to themselves, "Biden, come on man! Lie a little, cheat a little, sure. It's politics! But choose your lies carefully, this one doesn't work"

Another area where Biden failed tonight was with his response to the emails discovered on his son Hunter's laptop. He blamed it on Russia and called it Russian disinformation, but that narrative has already been officially squashed.

However, it's not the fact that it's been squashed that loses Joe the point here. He loses because he comes across as desperate and flailing, scrambling for a way out, looking for an escape hatch, and the "Russia, Russia, Russia" excuse was a bit too much like the boy who cried wolf.

For these reasons, I think Trump edged out a close victory in the debate.

The moderator gets a C+.

Poll results:

1. The Blaze

Trump 96%
Biden 4%

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2. Las Vegas Review Journal

Trump 92%
Biden 8%

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3. Clay Travis (80,000+ votes)

Trump 91%
Biden 9%

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4. Sheryl Atkinson (21,000+ votes)

Trump 91%
Biden 6%
Tie 3%

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5. The Daily Wire

Trump 95%
Biden 4%
Tie 1%

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lols

That's SO corny.

Translation: they found weak, inconsistent association.

<"Furthermore, no studies have been conducted to show whether any intervention for work stress can reduce the development of CHD.">

Translation: We need more studies (and grant money). [Yes, I am a cynic.]

<"Differing study methodology (in particular, the method used to assess work stress) has a strong effect on whether or not an association between work stress and CHD is found.">

But I started to watch a video of it on youtube. Happens to be a Fox News video, and for some strange reason the first hour+ of the video is just people milling about before the debate.

I only got about 15 minutes into the actual debate before going to bed early, but I was impressed with how lucid Biden was. Now I am reading from <BP>'s post that his physical condition went downhill near the end, as he was slurring his words.

That does nothing to squelch rumors that Biden gets drugged up before the debates.

Also, the Hunter Biden laptop is CONFIRMED BY THE FBI to NOT be a Russian hoax. It's legit.

<The New Yorker writer and CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin didn’t just expose himself during a Zoom work meeting — he was allegedly caught masturbating in the call with some of the magazine’s biggest names, and has been suspended from the publication.>

Now, I am not a big fan of divorce, but in all honesty, this is why causal divorce should be legal.

Imagine the wife of "Hi I am Jeffrey and I am 'tubing' [or should we say, Toobin?] on zoom today!".

Poor woman. From a man's POV, I gamed this out in my mind, and I don't really see a better alternative for the wife of a "man" in the media spotlight.

The poor thing deserves a chance at a new life.

A very interesting perspective that I hadn't heard yet.

https://news.yahoo.com/86-of-air-fo...

Are you surprised that diversity, the liberal agenda, is still being energetically pursued in this Trump era military?

< Air Force leadership made it clear to me that improving diversity would be on the top of my to-do list.>

Well what can you say? That's Trump's military. It's his policy. Four years is enough to say this is his policy and not just the deep state. Trump is the president and that's that.

https://time.com/5901334/black-vete...

They didn't have headlines like that when I was a kid. I guess a solid generation of unfiltered commie brainwashing in the schools, universities and via media, has led to this.

<Black pet owner: “If I’m going to spend my dollars, why not have it go to someone who looks like me?”>

Read that last quote again.

I don't have a problem with that black pet owner wanting to give his business to someone that looks like him. I think it's human nature to have a natural affinity for people that <look like us>.

The problem is the double standard where it's okay for blacks to want to be pro black, but it's not okay for whites to be pro white.

If blacks want to hang out with blacks just because they're black, so be it. As long as they're behaving and not hurting anyone, what's the big deal? And if whites want to do business with whites then so be it.

The friction in society comes from <forced integration>. It's clear that left alone, the sames want to be with the sames and the differents want to be with the differents, but the libs, who turn everything they touch into crap, want to forces the sames to mix with the differents.

That's how problems happen.

Fundamentally, this is the problem: libs do not enact policies or agendas based on the <reality> of human nature, but instead base them on arbitrary notions of how things <ought> to be.

They just make it up.

They invent it.

Then they try to force all kinds of people to bend their nature to their thought experiment. It's like forcing pieces of a puzzle together because you can't actually find the right pieces. That doesn't work.

Are you surprised that diversity, the liberal agenda, is still being energetically pursued in this Trump era military?>

Since he just ended Critical Race Theory training, no.

<Well what can you say? That's Trump's military.>

Did you vote for Trump in 2016?

<Let this ugly tidbit server as a critical thinking exercise for the Elite Posters.>

They didn't have headlines like that when I was a kid. I guess a solid generation of unfiltered commie brainwashing in the schools, universities and via media, has led to this.>

So "commie brainwashing" steered blacks away from Veterinary Colleges?

<If blacks want to hang out with blacks just because they're black, so be it.>

<The friction in society comes from <forced integration>.>

Is that really what this is about?

<Black pet owner: “If I’m going to spend my dollars, why not have it go to someone who looks like me?”>

A very interesting perspective that I hadn't heard yet. >

I've lost count of the Trump rallies, which are heavily attended by enthusiastic, happy throngs and a few Antifa intelligence personnel, who film all the cars and their license plates, and photograph people.

I think Antifa is certainly planning something for after the election - I've seen 2 or 3 of their vans lately.

But Idaho's electoral votes are going to Trump.

So Black pet owner, why haven't you?
Is there a law blacks can't go to black vets?>

Black veterinarians - heh! They're even more uncommon than black hikers and campers.

Black people don't go camping, they don't become veterinarians, they rarely become doctors or dentists or engineers.

Translation: We need more studies (and grant money). [Yes, I am a cynic.]>

It's not cynical if it's true. Here's the context:

"Knowledge of an individual’s work stress levels does not appear to help clinicians in predicting future CHD events. Furthermore, no studies have been conducted to show whether any intervention for work stress can reduce the development of CHD. With the many factors involved and the uncommon occurrence of CHD events in working populations, the likelihood of workplace stress prevention programs demonstrating an effect on CHD events is remote."

<<"Differing study methodology (in particular, the method used to assess work stress) has a strong effect on whether or not an association between work stress and CHD is found.">

Translation: Science is hard, and our work is not repeatable if you use a method that differs from the methods we used.>