Thanks for the mention. I think it is always a good idea to make the enemy to waste resources. I look at newt sending me his email spiel as serving two good purposes. (1) I get to see what bulls**t he is exporting and (2) he it cost him money to do it.

Here is some of the bulls**t from my first email from Newt.

First as always he continues to try to make Reagan a idol of worship. Here he is trying to put the inane crooked Reagan with a Pope. His line – “And before there was a victory for freedom, 20 years ago this week, there were unflinching advocates for freedom in Eastern Europe like Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.”

“These are the heroes we honor today.” So now that they have paired ronnie with a Pope, it is easy to call him a hero. Presto ronnie is a “hero.” These republicans are without peer when it comes to using propaganda to influence the ignorant.

And if one should click on the reagan link the bull to make reagan wonderful is without peer when it comes to slick presentation of lies and manipulated facts. These guys are good. I almost wanted to send in my recommendation to the Pope for his canonization.

Newt, like the republican party loves exploiting our support of our troops with nasty remarks about Obama’s “regime.”

Washington Seems More at Home with International Dictators Than America and Its Heroes
“Hero” is not a word we use a lot these days. We have a media dedicated to destroying, not showcasing, greatness. We have popular culture determined to celebrate victimhood rather than heroism. And we have a regime in Washington that seems more at home with international autocrats and dictators than America and its heroes.

But the inescapable fact of America is this: Ours is a country founded and defended, not by conciliation and sophisticated diplomatic gestures, but by honor, bravery and sacrifice.

Our heroes are not incidental to our nationhood but an essential part of it. Why? Because America is not, contrary to what our President believes, merely a nation among nations. We are, on our best days, closer to what Ronald Reagan believed: A shining city on a hill.
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Notice the subtle reference to “dictator.”

Mike

If we apply our science to their potential, we can make a new species of being. One that will have the emotional aptitude to feel a kinship with the task of bring order to the Universe.

Even on a primitive stage humans can produce an internal regeneration of their genes. Their science will discover this on an general medical level soon. This will enable humans to regulate the stress in their lives and thereby reduce the diseases that could attack their bodies by 67%.

That would increase their life span by 38 years. But I doubt it will be explored because it will not produce a profit for the medical industry.

Most of the industry will be geared up to deny its efficacy so they can continue to make huge profits on drugs.

I continue to be amazed at what is available in the human brain for expansion. Of course those brains can easily be distracted by the hormone that takes over logical reasoning when a human male is lustfully chasing a female. Witness the incredible waste of intellect by Lexie(AH) as he is consumed with repeated intersections with Bita’s body.

Adam

Trying to solve a thorny problem? Try taking a few steps backward. That’s what a study with 38 students at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands suggests. The researchers set up a study to test the effect on mental functioning of “approach” movements, such as walking toward something, and “avoidance” movements, such as backing away. The study, published in the May 2009 issue of the journal Psychological Science, found evidence that suggests stepping backward may boost your capacity to deal with difficult situations.

WALK THIS WAY

The students took a test in which color words, like red, were sometimes printed in matching ink (like the word red written in red ink) and sometimes in another color (the word red written in blue ink). The test was to quickly name the ink color, suppressing the natural tendency to read the word, immediately after walking four steps forward, backward or sideways. Each participant walked in each direction twice. When the color names and inks matched, reaction times for correct answers were similar no matter which way the students walked. But when color names didn’t correspond to inks, reaction times for correct answers were fastest after walking backward. Backward locomotion appears to be a very powerful trigger to mobilize cognitive resources, say the researchers.

STEP BACK FOR FORWARD-THINKING

Stepping backward isn’t an inborn trigger for increased mental control, but a learned one, notes social psychologist and study coauthor Severine Koch, PhD. “Over a lifetime, the movement is habitually performed in situations that require increased control, such as when people encounter a dangerous or difficult situation,” she explains. “Because of this associative link between backward movement and a vigilant state of mind, stepping backward seems to enhance cognitive functioning even in the absence of actual danger.”

Okay, so in modern life we’re not typically retreating from a lion and it’s not so realistic to be walking backward — but we certainly face other challenges that require intense concentration and enhanced mental capacity. Will stepping backward open the mind to new solutions? Dr. Koch said that the practical applications of this study require further research, but she speculates that people in jobs requiring constant alertness could benefit from avoidance movements. Meanwhile, you may want to take a step backward the next time you’re plagued by a problem.

Source(s):

Severine Koch, PhD, department of social and cultural psychology, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

I attend the University of Jyväskylä in Findland. I will graduate this year. I am looking forward to the opportunities my degree will present to me. But I am becoming increasingly anxious about the state of the world.

Man is becoming increasingly more out of touch with humanity’s responsibility to the planet.

We are killing each other at an alarming rate most of the time because of religious beliefs. The concept of god was meant to make us live better with each other by being more tolerant with each other.

It seems priests, preachers, and authorities on the various words of god from the different books purported to be written by those who claim to be speaking for or about god have hijacked the concept of tolerance to preach murder.

So now the world is full of people willing to kill others who do not believe as they do.

I hope I will have the opportunity to contribute a different attitude to a better world. Your blog has opened my eyes to the opportunities to influence those on this planet to re-examine their way of thinking.

Thank you, many women in Finland love you.

Ingrid

I sent an email. It came out as if it was number 11 on your blog, but when I checked back it had disappeared. I will try again.

I forgot my intro but here is the gist of the comment. I entered a news item about Sgt. Munley, the woman who dropped that crazy Major Hasan, even though she had been shot three times by him.
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Sgt. Munley was nearby getting her car tuned-up when the 911 call came in. Without waiting for backup, she was the first law enforcement official to arrive on the scene at Fort Hood.

“She Fired Until He Dropped. The Killing Ended.”
Much has been written about Sgt. Munley’s heroism, but few have described her behavior in the heat of a confrontation with the Fort Hood shooter better than the editorial writers at the Las Vegas Review-Sun.

“Could Sgt. Munley, hit in the wrist and both thighs, really be blamed if she’d ducked for cover? She didn’t. From all reports, she stood her ground under fire, calmly reacquiring her sight picture, putting four rounds right where she wanted, in the advancing murderer’s center of mass. She fired until he dropped. The killing ended.”
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Women never quit.

Evelyn