January 14 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Day: January 14, 2014
IRS Audits Palin Dad
Sarah Palin’s brother on Jan. 11 posted on Facebook that their father became the subject of government harassment shortly after Palin was tapped as a vice president candidate in 2008.
Chuck Heath Jr. wrote:
Coincidence? You decide.
My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and honestly paid his taxes for fifty years, had never heard a word from the IRS. In 2008, his daughter was tapped to run for vice president of the United States.
Since that time, he has been, in his words “horribly harassed” six times by the agency. They’ve tried to dig up something on him but he’s always operated above board.Government and politics are ugly. Kudos to the few that are trying to clean it up.
Chuck Heath Sr. is a retired school teacher who has a reputation of being Mr. Chips. So where is the outrage in his defense from the old media watchdogs? Stupid question. There are no old media watchdogs. All that’s left in the old media are gutless corporate hacks and happy purveyors of propaganda looking to go along to get along.
Hat tip Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com
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TV Changes Young Brains
A Japanese study has found that TV changes young brains and for the worse, reports the U.K.’s Daily Mail. 
The study looked at 276 children between five and 18. Brain scans showed that the ones who spent the most time before the tube had more gray matter around the frontopolar cortex. This gray matter needs to be pruned during childhood and the authors of the study say this was not happening.
This part of the brain is associated with intellectual abilities.
“TV view is directly or indirectly associated with the neurocognitive development of children . . . at least some of the observed associations are not beneficial and guardians of children should consider those effects when children view TV for long periods of time,” the authors said.
The study was almost evenly divided between boys and girls. The subjects watched between zero and four hours a day.
The effect TV had on the structural development of the brain had never been investigated according to the authors.