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Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 2nd, 2012
Good morning!
Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism
Are racists dumb? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent than liberals? A provocative new study from Brock University in Ontario suggests the answer to both questions may be a qualified yes.
The study, published in Psychological Science, showed that people who score low on I.Q. tests in childhood are more likely to develop prejudiced beliefs and socially conservative politics in adulthood.
I.Q., or intelligence quotient, is a score determined by standardized tests, but whether the tests truly reveal intelligence remains a topic of hot debate among psychologists.
Dr. Gordon Hodson, a professor of psychology at the university and the study’s lead author, said the finding represented evidence of a vicious cycle: People of low intelligence gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, which stress resistance to change and, in turn, prejudice, he told LiveScience.
Why might less intelligent people be drawn to conservative ideologies? Because such ideologies feature “structure and order” that make it easier to comprehend a complicated world, Dodson said. “Unfortunately, many of these features can also contribute to prejudice,” he added.
Dr. Brian Nosek, a University of Virginia psychologist, echoed those sentiments.
“Reality is complicated and messy,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. “Ideologies get rid of the messiness and impose a simpler solution. So, it may not be surprising that people with less cognitive capacity will be attracted to simplifying ideologies.”
But Nosek said less intelligent types might be attracted to liberal “simplifying ideologies” as well as conservative ones.
In any case, the study has taken the Internet by storm, with some outspoken liberals saying that it validates their suspicions about conservatives and conservatives arguing thatthe research has been misinterpreted.
What do you think? Do conservatives tend to be less intelligent? Or is this just political opinion masquerading as science?
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February 2nd, 2012 at 9:27 am
FOODS FOR A BRIGHT WHITE SMILE
Here’s an ironic little fact — while you may joke about how embarrassing it is to give someone a big smile and then learn that you have a bit of spinach stuck in your teeth, it turns out that spinach is actually a food that helps whiten your teeth!
I learned this while doing research on whether certain foods could help keep teeth sparkly bright — especially after they’ve been whitened.
Even the strongest whitening treatment usually begins to fade after six months, and professional whitening is expensive, so I contacted holistic dentist Mark Breiner, DDS, to ask him: For the longest-lasting results after whitening, which foods should we avoid, and which, if any, should we make a point of eating?
I was very pleased when Dr. Breiner, who practices in Fairfield, Connecticut, and is author of a new book called Whole-Body Dentistry: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Impact of Dentistry on Total Health, told me about some totally safe, food-based natural remedies that keep teeth whiter.
FOODS TO AVOID OR LIMIT
When you get your teeth whitened, be watchful of what you eat during the first 48 hours after the whitening procedure, Dr. Breiner said.
That’s because the treatment temporarily makes the enamel of your teeth more porous and thus more vulnerable to foods and drinks that tend to darken teeth.
Dr. Breiner gave me an easy way to judge — limit anything that you imagine would easily stain a white T-shirt, including…
Dark drinks, such as coffee, tea, cola and red wine, and dark juices, such as grape juice and cranberry juice. If you can’t live without some of these, sip them through a straw so the liquid doesn’t directly hit your teeth.
Certain brightly or deeply colored foods — these include blueberries, blackberries, cherries, pomegranates, popsicles and hard candies, soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, tomato sauce, beets and curry. “These foods contain chromagens, which are pigmented molecules that latch onto the enamel and result in staining,” said Dr. Breiner.
You may be thinking, what if I brush my teeth immediately after eating one of these types of food? Actually, it is best not to do that, as I will explain.
For long-lasting whiteness, it’s also best to limit (since it’s tough to avoid) eating or drinking things that are acidic because acidity temporarily softens the enamel, thereby allowing chromagens to attach to the enamel, making discoloration more likely.
I’m afraid that the “acidic” category is a large category that includes — but is not limited to — sports and energy drinks, all artificial sweeteners, citrus, pasta, peanuts, beef, pork, shellfish, milk and beer.
If you can’t cut out acidic foods or drinks, brush your teeth about a half-hour after consuming them (the half-hour leaves time for your enamel to reharden).
FOODS TO EAT
But not all foods will darken your teeth — in fact, quite a few will actually help maintain that pearly white color, Dr. Breiner said. He suggested regularly eating the following (especially in the two days after whitening)…
Apples, pears, celery, carrots, cauliflower and cucumbers. These fruits and vegetables have enough fiber to act as natural scrubbing agents.
Lettuce, spinach and broccoli.
These vegetables contain a compound that produces a light film that helps protect your teeth from stains… yet another reason to start dinner with a salad!
Cheese. All cheeses (especially cheddar) contain fats and proteins that counter the acids contained in many foods. Cheese stimulates saliva production and also contains calcium and phosphorous, both of which help to protect teeth by remineralizing enamel.
EASY (AND CHEAP!) HOME REMEDIES FOR WHITENING
Dr. Breiner also told me that you don’t have to eat some foods — you can simply rub them onto your teeth for a whitening boost. Here are two whitening tricks that you can use as often as you like…
Rub orange peel on your teeth. The white inside of an orange peel — called the pith — contains chemicals that help whiten your teeth. Rub it onto your teeth for a few minutes and then brush a half-hour later.
Apply a paste of strawberries and baking soda. Strawberries contain a compound that acts as a natural bleaching agent, which is especially effective when mixed with baking soda.
Mash a just-ripe strawberry, and mix it with some baking soda until it has the consistency of paste. (The strawberries are acidic, but the baking soda neutralizes the acid.)
Apply it to your teeth, leave it on for 20 minutes and then rinse. Wait a half-hour and then brush your teeth well to rid your mouth of the natural sugar that strawberries contain.
It’s refreshing to know that there are cheap and easy ways to keep your smile bright.
Source:
Mark A. Breiner, DDS, has a private practice in Fairfield, Connecticut, and is author of Whole-Body Dentistry: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Impact of Dentistry on Total Health(Quantum).
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:44 am
This took a study?
February 2nd, 2012 at 9:58 am
Social Butterfly:
Thank you for your article on the movie Red Tail. If you are not a sister, you are mine, girl.
I love you even when I disagree with you or you with me because I know that it is genuine. You are a woman’s woman. Way smarter than any man will ever give you credit for and any woman will acknowledge.
Love
Alycedale
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:06 am
This white man is sick of the attention the media gives Trump. Who really cares what that man thinks.
He was media made and the media continues to thrust that perennial bankrupt filer forward as a person whose opinion should have some value to the rest of us.
Clark
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:15 am
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Wrong!
The country described is Iran — America’s sworn enemy, the nation that will lead radical Islam to a “new caliphate” and world domination, as its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claims. But this book proves the reality of Iran is utterly different. Iran, as you’ll discover in How Civilizations Die, is in fact following in the footsteps of Western European countries — by committing “cultural suicide.”
Far from creating a new caliphate, Iran can barely make new babies. Iran’s fertility rate stands at a dismal 1.7 children per woman. Last year, Ahmadinejad demanded girls marry and produce more children. The women of Iran are not obeying. Iran’s young are protesting the regime by refusing to bring children into the world.
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February 2nd, 2012 at 10:47 am
Michelle, the only thing that study shows is that liberals believe that people who don’t agree with them are stupid.
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:54 am
Money had to be spent to prove the obvious? Fit’s right in with Faux Nooz viewers being the least informed.
When you have an organization (rubepublican party) based on superstitions and repeatedly failed ideas that has no respect for facts and reason what other conclusion could be drawn?
Yes that’s right you can’t fix $tupid! Hand out the Nobel prize for discovering what most already knew!
February 2nd, 2012 at 10:58 am
Michelle, I have no doubt about this being true. I was teaching a class a few years ago and one student in particular was a big fan of Glenn Beck.
When the class did their first case study, the student handed in the most ridiculous mess I ever saw. I tried grading it and eventually just threw it away.
Then I took him aside and explained what the problems were and made him redo it. The next one was not as bad, but nothing to write Harvard about.
One thing I noticed was that he compensated for his lack of intelligence with overconfidence. If you can’t make a good point shout your bad point louder.
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:03 am
Clark, I am a white man who is totally perplexed at the attention the media is giving Trump’s presidential endorsement.
CNN and MSNBC, FOX, etc are jamming the air waves with the wait for Trump’s endorsement as if it will have world shaking announcements.
It is valueless to the multitude.
Jimmy
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:05 am
The 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy
364
No. 364 of 365
Give your small children toy guns,
and tell your liberal friend, “Yeah, I think this is the best way to break them in so they can handle the real thing when they’re six or seven.”
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:15 am
Anti-abortion groups’ campaigns to force Komen to cut its funding for Planned Parenthood has been going on for several years, but this is the first time Komen has caved on the issue.
To help put it into perspective…those grants have paid for 170,000 clinical breast examinations and 6,400 mammogram referrals since the groups began their partnership in 2005.
I will now make my donations directly to Planned Parenthood because Susan G Komen will NEVER get another penny from me.
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:31 am
YOUR SKIN COULD BE HURTING YOUR HEART HEALTH
Past studies have shown that people with psoriasis — a chronic skin disease — have a higher risk for heart attack and stroke. And that seemed curious.
But now researchers have figured out a potential connection, and the answer could help people with psoriasis live healthier, longer lives.
For more information, I called lead researcher Nehal N. Mehta, MD, director of the inflammatory risk clinic in the preventive cardiology program at University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.
He and his colleagues reported their findings at the November 15, 2011 annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida.
THE CHOLESTEROL CONNECTION
It turns out that abnormal cholesterol levels, composition and function may be what links psoriasis, heart attack and stroke. But before we see why, it’s important to review some basics about how cholesterol works.
There are three major components of your total cholesterol level: LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides (blood fats). You need all three of these components to be at appropriate levels for good health.
But high LDL cholesterol can cause heart disease, and people with high triglycerides tend to have high LDL, so they are both referred to as “bad” — while HDL cholesterol helps clear the arteries of LDL cholesterol, so it is referred to as “good.”
So why does this matter? Well, Dr. Mehta told me that previous research has suggested, anecdotally, that HDL “good” cholesterol, specifically, may be lower in people who have psoriasis.
He and his colleagues wanted to confirm this scientifically — but they also wanted to dig deeper into the topic. They wanted to see whether cholesterol composition was different among those with psoriasis. And they also wanted to see if HDL cholesterol actually functions differently in people with psoriasis.
In studying 78 adults with psoriasis and a control group of 84 people without the disease, Dr. Mehta and his team found that…
People with psoriasis did, in fact, have lower HDL levels.Their LDL levels and even their total cholesterol levels were actually considered lower and healthier than the control group’s, and the triglyceride levels in both groups were in healthy ranges.
But, as suspected, their HDL measure, in particular, fell into an unhealthy range. They scored a 47, which was significantly lower than the control group’s 55.
Cholesterol composition was different among those with psoriasis. The particles were smaller and denser among people with the skin disease, compared with the control group, which puts them at increased risk for cardiovascular problems.
HDL function was significantly lower in people with psoriasis. In people with psoriasis, HDL was 25% less effective in removing LDL cholesterol from artery walls compared with HDL in the control group.
What’s intriguing about this finding if you have psoriasis is that it shows that knowing your total cholesterol level and even the breakdown of your HDL, LDL and triglycerides doesn’t come close to giving you the full picture of your heart health.
The way your cholesterol is composed and works within your body can also be a factor — possibly even more important than simply knowing your HDL level — when it comes to your cardiovascular risk.
But the tests for composition and function are newer — the latter, for example, is used only in research labs and is difficult to perform — so unfortunately it’s not possible to ask your doctor for all of these measurements.
So why would psoriasis affect the level, composition and function of HDL cholesterol?
Dr. Mehta suspects that the inflammation generated by psoriasis — specifically, inflammation in the liver — may negatively affect all of those things. He added that further studies are needed to validate these findings and confirm cause and effect.
USE THIS FOR YOUR OWN HEART
Dr. Mehta isn’t sure whether treating psoriasis would help improve the level, composition and function of HDL — more research needs to be done to answer that question, he said.
But he did tell me that past studies have shown that consuming omega-3 fatty acids (from fish and/or supplements, for example), losing weight and exercising more all can improve your level of HDL, its composition and its function. Good advice for everyone… and even more crucial for those with psoriasis.
Source:
Nehal N. Mehta, MD, director, inflammatory risk clinic, preventive cardiology, instructor of cardiovascular medicine, adjunct scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:37 am
These studies crack me up, ala Doug the main dude’s comment. It’s right up there with all the ‘studies’ on nutrition and exercise and smoking, seriously, you’d have to be living under a rock to not know these things by now, no? – ZL
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:46 am
Michelle, did not know this but am not surprised. I should not have been based on past attempts to have a meaningful conversation but could never get past the closed mind or blank stare when I passed on a new view of the world.
What I have found is that conservatives are very insecure. If they feel personally nervous about something they want someone to institute a new rule outlowing whatever it is they are insecure about. That seems to make them feel more comfortable.
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:52 am
If you need any more proof of the stupidity of males, consider the murder of fans of team of the opposing team at a football game in Egypt.
A country ruled by men who claim a woman’s dress must be controlled to prevent her from tempting men can’t remain hospitable to the fans of a visiting football team.
So who do they blame for this temptation. Where is Madaline when we need her to wipe the earth with the evil bastards.
Fatima
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Clark and Jimmy, the preoccupation of the white controlled media with donald trump is just another example of the unapologetic narcissism of the american white boy.
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Ditto, Zen Lill
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:35 pm
Fatima, I agree with you about the Cairo incident. This shows that religion, islam for them is nothing but a sham. If one can kill and maim for a sporting event, then what is sacred to these hypocrite.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:25 pm
The Congressional Budget Office released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook this week. Last year’s was a tragedy, but the new one is a horror story.
The crushing burden of government debt and persistent unemployment — which, contrary to the carefully massaged statistics released for public consumption, has really been in double digits for years, when the collapsing work force is taken into account — will conspire with skyrocketing taxes after the expiration of the Bush tax rates, and leave us with only 1.1 percent projected GDP growth next year.
The government is still spending nearly a quarter of the total U.S. economy every year, and trillion dollar deficits have become the new normal. In fact, during only one year in the CBO’s 10-year projection do we get below a $1 trillion deficit, and it’s not by much.
The government will be spending over $6 trillion a year by 2022. And none of that accounts for the ticking time bomb of unfunded entitlement liabilities, due to Social Security and Medicare, which Washington deals with by officially ignoring them.
Macro-economics and the discussion of public debt often involve numbers so huge that it makes our eyes water. Here are some simple numbers to ponder: the health of the private sector calls for growth of about three percent, to drive job creation commensurate with population increase.
Financing our government without massive deficits would take more like five percent, and actually resolving the debt crisis would demand seven percent growth or more, sustained over many years. Our government-controlled economy is completely incapable of reaching any of those growth levels. There is no way to make this equation work without making the government dramatically smaller.
America should carefully ponder those difficult growth targets before entertaining the notion of another four years under the people who got us to the “new normal” of one percent growth. They’re talking about buying a shiny new saddle and spurs for a work horse that’s about to drop dead in its tracks.
—John Hayward
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:32 pm
What does Donald Trump bring to the Romney campain to endorse him? Ridicule? Jokes? Stupidity? Who is Donald Trump? I can’t wait to hear what Mitt says about this….
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:33 pm
In an interview with CNN last April, Trump dismissed Romney as a ‘small business guy’ and suggested Bain Capital, the venture capital firm where Romney made his millions, had bankrupted companies and destroyed jobs.
‘He’d buy companies, he’d close companies, he’d get rid of jobs,’ Trump said of Romney.”
Today Trump endorsed Romney. Trump is consistent in his inconsistency.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:34 pm
What’s wrong with the american media? As I understand it, they have spent most of the day talking about a real estate dealer’s choice for president.
Why is this more important than anything else happening in the world? Why is a primary battle so important that the media spends the majority of its time on it?
This is junk. Americans are truly a stupid people to put up with such meaningless pap. It’s not even entertaining.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:35 pm
What’s stunning is that Trump started off his little speech by releasing, yet to be officially released a CBO report on unemployment..
Trump claims he spoke directly to the head of the CBO today and he told him unemployment will be announced at 9.2% tomorrow.. Interesting..
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:36 pm
Alycedale, thanks, I’m feeling the love! Back at ya.
/SB
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Today, I found out that President Obama appointed Michael Taylor, a former VP and lobbyist for Monsanto, the widely criticized genetically modified (GM) food multinational, as senior advisor to the commissioner at the FDA. Taylor is the same person who as a high-ranking official at the FDA in the 1990s promoted allowing genetically modified organisms into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty.
Taylor was in charge of policy for Monsanto’s now-discredited GM bovine growth hormone (rBGH), which is opposed by many medical and hospital organizations. It was Michael Taylor who pursued a policy that milk from rBGH-treated cows should not be labeled with disclosures. Michael Taylor and Monsanto do not belong in our government.
FDA scientists once regarded genetic modification of the food supply as the single most radical and potentially dangerous threat to public health in history. As early as the 1991, a body of scientific research began to form which now includes articles in over 600 journals. As a whole, these offer scientific evidence that GM foods, hormones, and related pesticides are the root cause for the increase of many serious diseases in the U.S. Since GM foods were introduced, diagnosis of multiple chronic illnesses in the U.S. has skyrocketed. These illnesses include changes in major organs and in hormonal, immune, digestive, and reproductive systems. These modifications to foods and food production may also be contributors to colon, breast, lymphatic, and prostate cancers.
Please tell President Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto:
http://signon.org/sign/tell-obama-to-cease-fda.fb1?source=s.fb&r_by=2091875
I signed. I hope you will too.
/SB
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:41 pm
Unlike most, I believe that Romney knew what he was doing by aligning himself with an attack dog. He can sit back and allow Trump to do his dirty work.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:48 pm
I agree with the Donald..its time to get rid of the boy, and lets get a Man in the white house that can handle the problems of this country., do not respond if you accuse this post as being racist .
I know some of you will pull the race card any chance you get because you haven’t got anything solid., but This country is in bad shape, that is a fact.,
Romney is a businessman and a successful one., With him at the helm we will turn this country around and make it a prosperous nation again. ROMNEY 2012
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:54 pm
TB, I’m a white girl who is not going to play the “race card”. I’m going to play the tiny penis phobia card. Hence the use of the term “boy” in reference to President Obama as a desperate hope a white “man” would conjure up images of superior.
Too bad, calling yourself a “man” in reference to your labeling him as a “boy.” Doesn’t conjure up images of a penis adequate male. Tiny penis wonder find a better attack monicker.
Angie
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I’m behind you 100% /SB.
February 2nd, 2012 at 1:56 pm
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M-yopic
P-ompous
February 2nd, 2012 at 4:40 pm
ARE YOUR TEETH COLLAPSING?
If you feel as though your teeth — particularly those on the bottom — might have become more crowded over the last few years, a new study shows that you are probably right.
Our teeth tend to naturally move forward and turn inward toward the tongue as we age, leading to more crowding and potential dental problems.
The study, conducted at Malmo University in Sweden and published in European Journal of Orthodontics on October 19, 2011, was undertaken after researchers there noticed a growing demand in Europe and other parts of the world for orthodontic attention from older patients.
Starting with results from a previous study that took tooth casts of 35 men and women when the subjects were initially in their 20s, the researchers were able to contact 18 of them and get them to agree to have their teeth recast 40 years later.
The result: When the researchers remeasured the distance around the inside of the teeth from molar to molar on both the top and bottom, they noticed that the people had lost anywhere from 1.1 millimeter to 1.4 millimeters of length, on average.
WHAT’S GOING ON IN YOUR MOUTH
To get some context for this finding, I contacted Lee W. Graber, DDS, MS, MS, PhD, immediate past president of the American Association of Orthodontists, who told me that this study is important because it looked at 40 years of change and because it quantifies what a lot of orthodontists have known anecdotally — people’s teeth tend to crowd as they age.
Dr. Graber explained that researchers and doctors don’t entirely understand why this happens. But, as a result, the teeth may rotate or overlap each other — so your teeth may end up looking haphazardly placed.
Surprisingly, the presence or absence of wisdom teeth seems to play a minimal role in whether this shifting occurs.
WILL THIS HAPPEN TO YOU?
Maybe you’ve already observed tooth movement in your own mouth — and maybe you haven’t — but odds are that both your upper and lower teeth will eventually push into one another, said Dr. Graber.
The changes tend to occur so gradually that your first clue might not be visual. Instead, you might notice that bits of food regularly become stuck in places that they never did before…
or you may sense with your tongue a difference in the slant of the top of your teeth — they’ll feel tilted, not flat. There are three main reasons why this tooth shifting can be problematic…
You’re at higher risk for diseases. Since food is more likely to get stuck between teeth that are pushing into one another (and since it’s harder for toothbrush bristles and floss to get into tighter crevices), it becomes harder to keep teeth clean.
So you’re at increased risk of harboring unhealthy bacterial plaque.
You’re at greater risk of being in pain.
Misalignment may cause your teeth to wear unevenly because they don’t fit together well when you bite and chew. This problem can lead to tooth and jaw discomfort or teeth grinding.
You may not like the way you look. “As we get older, our ‘smile line’ naturally changes and the lower lip drops further down.
So more of your lower teeth will be shown while you smile and talk,” Dr. Graber noted. If those teeth are crooked, this may bother you.
As with any age-related change, some people experience tooth-shifting more acutely than others (it may be hereditary). But the good news is that you can prevent it or stop it once it starts.
Talk to your family dentist first, and if he or she can’t help you, you may want a referral to an orthodontist. Some treatments that may help…
A bite guard. This doesn’t straighten the teeth, but it’s helpful for people who grind their teeth. It’s worn at night to both protect the surfaces of your teeth and keep some teeth from shifting further.
Either a dentist or an orthodontist can give you one for either periodic or daily wear.
A retainer.This would be for either periodic or daily wear, depending on the severity of the crookedness.
Braces. If your tooth crowding and bite-change problems are severe, you may want to consider braces.
Before you gasp, you’ll be pleased to learn that braces have become smaller, more comfortable, less obtrusive, faster-working and somewhat less expensive than the metal railroad tracks of our youth.
Most adult patients wear braces for one to three years, said Dr. Graber.
Source:
Lee W. Graber, DDS, MS, MS, PhD, immediate past president of the American Association of Orthodontists and a past president of the World Federation of Orthodontists.
He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. He is in private practice in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
February 2nd, 2012 at 6:02 pm
Howie, I am leaving Russia for Texas tomorrow to live with my brother. It will be my first time in America. He is a big fan of yours. He sent me your blog so I could read it and translate it for him.
He speaks english much better than I but I am an english document writer so my written english skills are superior. I love the blog. Michelle is so special the way she supports women and the right to liberty.
My brother says they saw a UFO in the Texas skies yesterday. I only know what you and others have written about on the blog. Can you tell me if I am risking being captured by aliens by going to Texas?
Oili
February 2nd, 2012 at 8:57 pm
Oili (#32):
You may have seen a UFO in Texas yesterday, but your chances of seeing them in Russia are just as good.
You have nothing to worry about. If they were interested in you or your friends they would have taken you but they have no reason to.
Enjoy your visit to the U.S. and Texas. I do not believe that anything will happen to you. Aliens have been on earth for thousands or more years and they have no reason to choose you to capture. Have fun, enjoy Texas.
HOWIE
February 2nd, 2012 at 11:24 pm
I was asked why not being with my Lady didn’t entice me to seek comfort elsewhere. The guys were sort of ribbing me. They know that my Lady has a significant other. They have never met her.
Then there are those who have met her but don’t know that she has a significant other. They can’t know because it would impugn her reputation. There questions usually follow the line of Zen Lill’s reference to ladies who want relationships only with taken men.
To the first i answer: Why be with another when I have the most satisfying woman on the planet in my bed. All of my senses are in heaven when in her presence but when they are in bed with her they are ecstatic!
Even coming can’t release them from their rapture. Rising from between her legs simply moves the euphoric reaction of one sense so that another one can focus on some other exquisite part of her body.
The smell of her pussy, the taste of the sweat on her body, the light that bounces off her teeth as she forms a word, or the cooperation of the muscles in her body as she rises, etc…….
So many delights to choose from. One is simply beside oneself with joy.
As I was saying, the guys just don’t let up. But neither can they understand the bliss arising from being content to being with the person that satisfies all your desires every time you are together.
Ym
I really don’t know.
February 3rd, 2012 at 7:14 am
SZ, I could not agree more, not even entertaining, just American ignorance and stupidity really. And I’m not pleased or amused by Obama’s choice re: FDA )SB’s comment) and I’ll agree RobertRt that having a pit bull like Trump do the dirty work is slick manuevering on Romney’s part but if thats all the GOP has got, well, it reeks of more ignorance that’s not even entertaining. I’ll wait till he eleventh hour on this presidential race, everything stated between now and end of Sept could be wiped out with one good American scandal…and it doesn’t take much to be scandalous in the US.
Ym, I understand why you would reference my article link. I think that people in a relationship with ‘taken’ men and ‘taken’ women happen for a variety of reasons, it isn’t any one factor that leads people to indulge in this behavior. I believe you know what you’re into with your current woman and I think you know that love has various outcomes, short and intense and long and lasting and everywhere in between, and that you’re just enjoying what you’ve got while you’ve got it.
Why your friends take issue with it is only back up to a double standard they’d like to uphold, much like Glenn that commented awhile ago that he likes to cheat on his wife but if she did it he’d divorce her (small minded man).
My article reference was about women (and men, mind you) that purposefully seek out taken people for the reasons stated in the article: proven that they can do relationships, ‘thrill of the chase’, not wanting or fearing commitment, etc..for the record, I don’t think of you this way. Though I could be wrong, I have been before : )
I don’t have any opinion on whether you or anyone else should have a secondary liaison, I just think it’d be a better option for anyone/everyone to be open about getting your needs met, and whether that’s monogamy or some other arrangement is up to the parties concerned. I think people lie about it bc they don’t want to risk being dumped over being honest about wanting sex with others. Again, I could be wrong…
Luv, Zen Lill – did you know that pre-internet LOL meant ‘lots of love’?