And Over The Cliff We Go?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 31st, 2012
Good morning!
I’ve been reading about this “dreaded” fiscal cliff but have avoided blogging about it. Why bother until progress was made. But when you’re talking about the republicans, the term “progress” is not in their vocabulary. And until now the only thing that has happened is the continual talks that have and are seeming to go nowhere. It is the same same republican obstructionism – repubs care more about them and theirs than the country.
I found this link on Maddow’s blog, and found it worth the read so I’m posting it for all of you.
December 10, 2012
Chart Book: The Bush Tax Cuts
To provide context for the debate about addressing expiring tax provisions and reducing long-term deficits, we’ve collected some of our charts related to the Bush tax cuts, which show that the tax cuts (1) are costly, (2) have worsened inequality, and (3) should be allowed to expire on schedule for incomes over $250,000.
1. The Bush Tax Cuts Are Costly
Policymakers enacted the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and extended them in 2010; they are set to expire at the end of 2012. As the first chart shows, the tax cuts have been a key driver of the federal deficit and will account for $4.5 trillion in deficits over the 2009-2019 period if extended.
Continuing the Bush tax cuts would add trillions more to deficits. As the second chart shows, the high-income tax cuts — those on incomes above $250,000 for a married couple filing jointly ($200,000 for singles) — are a big reason why. Allowing the high-income tax cuts to expire would reduce deficits by $950 billion (including the interest savings) over the next ten years.
These figures do not even include the estate tax cut, which benefits only the wealthiest 0.3 percent of estates and costs an additional $141 billion over ten years (including interest costs), according to the Office of Management and Budget.
2. The Bush Tax Cuts Have Worsened Inequality
As the third chart shows, the Bush tax cuts provide much larger benefits for high-income people than middle-income people.
The high-end tilt of the Bush tax cuts has contributed to the stunning increase in income inequality in recent decades, a trend shown in the fourth chart:
3. Policymakers Should Let the High-Income Tax Cuts Expire
High-income households can afford to contribute more to deficit reduction, and the tax code is the principal mechanism through which they can make that contribution.
Some claim that allowing the high-income Bush tax cuts to expire would slow economic growth and job creation. These arguments echo those made against President Clinton’s proposed 1993 tax increases, which set marginal rates at the levels to which they are set to return when the Bush rate cuts expire. As it turned out, however, job creation and economic growth proved significantly stronger following the 1993 tax increases than following the 2001 Bush tax cuts, as the fifth chart shows.
Further, small businesses created jobs at twice the rate during the Clinton years than they did under the Bush tax code, as the sixth chart shows.
Restoring the higher rates for high-income taxpayers would not inhibit economic growth. In fact, the economic evidence shows that if the alternative to raising taxes is larger deficits, modest tax increases on high-income households would likely be more beneficial for the economy over the long run.
Allowing the high-income Bush tax cuts to expire also makes economic sense in the short run.
Extending most expiring tax cuts other than the high-income tax cuts would boost gross domestic product (GDP) by a significant 1.3 percent next year, a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report finds. Extending the high-income tax cuts would do very little to support the recovery, boosting GDP by just 0.1 percent (see chart).
A key reason why the high-income tax cuts make poor stimulus is that the economy is suffering from excess unemployment and underutilized business capacity; the most effective way to support growth is to boost demand for goods and services. The high-income tax cuts do little of that. They benefit only about the top 2 percent of taxpayers, who (as the CBO report explains) likely spend less of each extra dollar of income they receive than low- and moderate-income taxpayers do.
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Readers: Interesting huh? Kind of says it all. Gee, do you suppose the republicans are looking at these charts? Do they really care about country? Evidently not. Well…the talks will continue, and I suppose like our government, we will continue to talk about it too, until a decision is made, and then we can talk/bitch/rant about it some more.
Blog me.
On another note…I enjoyed reading all of your responses to the day before’s topic. And…to all of you “just asking,” I addressed the question in my write, but evidently it wasn’t enough.
So here it goes…”No, I am not having sex with my ex and no I am not thinking about having sex with my ex. One of the benefits of being with me is that you get to be with me, and all the other benefits that come along with being with this fine ass. Once the relationship is over, the benefits are gone, and all you get to do is look…and dream about it. :) Of course, one can try again to win my heart, but until then, these fine legs are closed. And yes Daniel, still ‘strutting my stuff’, and will continue to do so.” :)
I HOPE that satisfies everyone’s curiosity.
Oh…I almost forgot…
Have a Happy New Year!!
Be safe tonight!
It’s the eve of the new year here but new years day in Guam – Anna, Peter, Lea, et al: Happy New Year! Hafa Adai! And to the rest of the world: Happy New Year to my International readers too!
PS: Excuse me for being out of it this morning/afternoon. I am so wrapped up in politics and this fiscal cliff, the new year wishes have been pushed to second place.
Peace out.
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December 31st, 2012 at 10:40 am
You came into my life, like a genie in a bottle
I opened it, and you spun me into a love sick addict
Although, You are still my sweet intoxicating angel
I am trying, Oh, trying, so hard to kick the habit
I’m crazily happy when you are near
but I ache from body to mind when you’re gone
If only you’d call more often to bring enchantment to my ear
My deliciously sweet, beautiful bonbon.
December 31st, 2012 at 10:43 am
Supplements That Help Prevent Gum Disease
If you’re over age 30, there’s about a 50-50 chance that you have gum disease, according to new data from the CDC. And if you’re over age 65, those odds jump to 64%. Yikes.
Even people who brush and floss and avoid sugar can get gum disease, because some risk factors (such as aging and having certain genes) are unavoidable. And as you know, oral health is connected with overall health—gum disease raises your risk for systemic health issues, such as stroke, diabetes and cancer.
The news I’m bringing you today is that there are two natural strategies that can prevent and/or treat gum disease, as I learned recently from Mark A. Breiner, DDS, a holistic dentist in Fairfield, Connecticut. I bet your own dentist hasn’t told you about these…
KEEP YOUR GUMS IN THE PINK
Here are Dr. Breiner’s natural ways to prevent and/or treat gum disease.
1. Rinse with an herbal mouthwash. Herbs such as echinacea, eucalyptus, lavender and thyme are good at killing harmful bacteria, so they help prevent gum disease and help heal gum tissue if gum disease has already developed.
So look for a mouthwash that lists at least one of those herbs on the label (ideally all of them). While you’re checking the ingredient list, make sure that the mouthwash is alcohol-free, because some studies have found an association between alcohol-based mouthwash and oral cancer.
For example, you could try a brand called PerioWash ($9 for 16 ounces at Drugstore.com) after brushing and flossing each morning and night—it contains all four herbs mentioned above and no alcohol.
2. Take certain supplements.
Vitamin C. Whether you have gum disease or not, ask your doctor about taking 500 milligrams (mg) daily of vitamin C because the nutrient builds collagen, a connective protein that is the foundation of gum tissue.
Coenzyme Q10. This supplement is good for those who already have gum disease because it provides cellular energy that helps repair gum tissue. Ask your doctor what the best amount for you is—standard daily dosages range from 30 mg to 200 mg daily.
Magnesium. Grinding your teeth can worsen existing gum disease (and cause all sorts of other dental problems, such as tooth decay, even if you don’t have gum disease).
So ask your dentist whether you should also take 50 mg to 100 mg of magnesium one hour before bedtime to relax your muscles—this helps lots of his patients who are grinders, said Dr. Breiner.
One final tip from Dr. Breiner:
It sounds obvious, but make sure that you see your dentist at least twice a year, whether you have gum disease or not. Plaque that isn’t removed by brushing and flossing can harden and form tartar…tartar build up can lead to gum disease (or worsen it)…and only a professional cleaning can get rid of tartar.
If you already have gum disease, you may need more frequent dental visits or you may need to see a specialist, such as a periodontist, in addition to your general dentist.
Source: Mark A. Breiner, DDS, an authority on holistic dentistry with a practice in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dr. Breiner is the author of Whole-Body Dentistry: A Complete Guide to Understanding the Impact of Dentistry on Total Health (Quantum Health). http://www.wholebodydentistry.com.
December 31st, 2012 at 11:56 am
Ym,
I am so proud of you and excited for you. I know how hard you have been working at this, as I have felt the distance between us lately, which has caused me great loneliness.
You know with you it has never been about the money. But I know it is important for you to be able to take care of me in the manner that I am accustomed to. I love you because you love me like no other. It is your care that you have shown me, your love that you give me without question, that has always kept me yours. Divorce is always on my mind.
And yes, my patience has run thin but you certainly know how to make it up to me, and I am looking forward to it. So now that you have the time to give me that good loving don’t make me wait another day. Your endearing poems bring a smile to these sweet lips of mine, thank you, but they ache to be wrapped around that sweet dick of yours. Let us both ache no more. Call me.
I love you,
Yw
December 31st, 2012 at 2:55 pm
It seems that Obama may just end up with the title of “Conceder in Chief or so says Paul Krugman.
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Conceder In Chief?
OK, I’ve had my own sorta-kinda briefing on the apparent fiscal cliff deal, and I’m pretty much with Noam Scheiber. Viewed on its own, it’s a bad and upsetting deal but not as terrible as initial rumors had it. But the strategic consequences are likely to be very bad indeed, and in very short order too.
As background, it’s important to understand what Obama clearly could have gotten just by going over the cliff. Basically, he could have gotten the whole of the Bush high-end tax cuts reversed, which would mean close to $800 billion in revenue over the next decade. What he couldn’t get, or at least couldn’t count on getting, were various spending items. This included the extension of unemployment benefits and various “refundables” on things like the Earned Income Tax Credit, that is, pieces of tax legislation that end up having the government cut checks to families instead of the other way around.
So what Obama appears to have done is trade away part of the revenue from high-income taxpayers in return for some of the spending items he wanted. Extended unemployment benefits for a year, and the refundables either extended in perpetuity or for 5 years.
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I find it hard to believe Obama is going along with anything that does not take the debt limit off the table. He understands the implications of letting that fester better than anyone.
December 31st, 2012 at 2:57 pm
The Constitution requires specifically that the federal government must pay all of its bills. It would be a very simple out for Pres. Obama.
He wouldn’t even need any fancy legal footwork from the DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel. I mean, if OLC could come up with a justification for torture, as it did for Dick Cheneye – I mean Pres. Bush – then it certainly can point to the original text.
December 31st, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I went to a bank to get a loan. They advertised their quick turnaround on loan apps, saying they guaranteed they’d get you an answer in just one hour. Well, one hour stretched to two and then three, before they finally declined my loan. I said, what about my guarantee. “Oh, that? That’s just something we say. We don’t give you anything if we don’t meet our guarantee.”
It’s a shame Obama never had to deal with things like this when he was a young man, the way I did. He’s been advertised for many years now as playing the long game – 49 dimensional chess or whatever. His actual vision seems not to extend beyond about 60 days, and really about 5 days.
December 31st, 2012 at 2:58 pm
If Republicans don’t raise the debt ceiling Obama should simply ignore it and have his lawyers come up with some legal technicality for why it can be ignored. We need to put a stop to the Republican party’s deliberate destruction of this country.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:00 pm
My greatest concern about the deal is that, again, we postponed the crucial discussion about why earned benefits such as Social Security should be funded by taxing all of a person’s income.
We have postponed discussing why a tiny sliver of the nation don’t have to pay their fair share of keeping the lights turned on. And we have postponed an adult conversation about what kind of nation we have – and will have going into the future.
Instead, we are going to lurch from one fiscal crisis to another thanks to a Republican Party void of adults and a White House that seems to prefer a mediocre deal over no deal.
Meanwhile, I am so tired of Hillites yowling about estate taxes. There is a simple way for anyone with a potential problem to pay it with pennies on the dollar: Life insurance.
It works for individuals such as wealthy farmers, it works for small business people who struck it rich before dying, it works for corporate entities. And procedes from the policy pass tax free to heirs who have to pay the tax. What is the big deal?
Senators Tester and Baucus know this and should have kept their mouths shut. But they’ve been thorns in the side of the Obama White House forever, going back to when ACA was being debated.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:01 pm
This is absolutely true. This fight over tax hikes on the wealthiest in our nation is nothing compared to the debt ceiling standoff down the road. Congresses approval rating is at 12%. I believe that is about the amount of #Teabaggers we have in this country. We are being held hostage by 12
December 31st, 2012 at 3:01 pm
I believe that is about the amount of #Teabaggers we have in this country. We are being held hostage by 12% and the president needs to stand firm. Happy New Year.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:02 pm
The House will definitely be going over the fiscal cliff. They are truly BAPF.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Let’s wait for the analysis – nothing has been voted on yet.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Above all, Obama wants to be remembered as a president that “worked with the other side”, was post partisan, blah blah blah.
It’s his Achilles heel and the Republicans know it.
For the next 4 years.
1. These fiscal/debt negotiations will always end in a deal. Obama’s gotta have it.
2. That deal will come at the last possible moment if there is a deadline.
3. The deal will always be a kick-it-down-the-road deal built of temporary patches and extensions.
No need to follow them or discuss them until the deadline hits.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Republican intransigence was obvious by March 2009. However, it hasn’t done any good to comment to the White House by phone or email that they’re slow learners.
In connection with Obama’s playing 3-D chess, I’d be happier if he only played 2-D chess with a 2300 USCF rating, reflecting substantial mental competence. Someone I knew with that expertise played a dozen club players blindfolded simultaneously and beat them all.
I’m not seeing President Obama looking like a master of Democratic politics, making Republican politicians appear as they are to the public, slaves to a most uncivic-minded and in fact anti-American group of tycoons. That point could have easily been made already.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:12 pm
What we all should have known when he gave in on single-payer healthcare, Obama is a wimp. He is too much like a Senator and not enough like a President.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:12 pm
One suspects that, at the moment the deal is finally agreed upon everything is signed and the players are walking out of the room, Obama will call out “Wait, let me make one more concession before you go.”
December 31st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
If there ever was a time to hang tough, this was it. What a downer!
December 31st, 2012 at 3:13 pm
Yes, the distressing thing is that President Obama has this absolutely baffling tendency to swiftly go back on his own negotiating positions – and in public no less – with an adversary that has no credibility. Instead of making the Republicans come to him, he goes to where they are every.single.time.
This is looking to be a very long and frustrating two years in which the GOP will cleverly use their master manipulation of politics and the media to make their own very unpopular policies and positions the Democratic policies and positions – by just saying no.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:15 pm
Actually, I think Obama has played this pretty well as it’s not the worst deal he can get (if it goes through) but I suspect Obama knows the House Republicans will block it thus getting all the blame (deservedly so) and setting up the Dems in a much stronger place come early.
I mean the Speaker of the House couldn’t even get taxes rate increases (his plan B) for 1 million dollar earners passed.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:17 pm
I cannot stomach the idea of a $10M estate tax exemption. This sets up the nation to see massive generational wealth transfers that will help cement in to place the deeply stratified nation we’ve become.
It’s as if the wealthy have now decided that they owe nothing to the nation that has provided them with the infrastructure to build their wealth.
Not just the roads and schools, but the legal system, the massive bail-out of the finance sector, all of that is for nothing as far as their ability to hang on to all the loot, even in death.
Its disgusting. And shows how far from its working-person roots the Democrats have strayed.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:17 pm
The Chamberlain of our time!
December 31st, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Obama is the Chamberlain of our time!
December 31st, 2012 at 3:19 pm
I hear the Republicans only problem now is that they can’t decide whether to make Obama an honorary Republican before or after the inauguration.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:19 pm
Pathetic
December 31st, 2012 at 3:36 pm
OK see, you hysterics?
You all got yourselves exercised over NOTHING.
NO hand wringing progressives, O did not sell you out.
NO deranged right wingers, your slurs didn’t get any less lame, your lies don’t stick.
Thanks for playing.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:37 pm
The POTUS isn’t caving; it’s call negotiation.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:39 pm
If the deal as reported is the deal, this is a clear win for the President and his progressive supporters and a clear defeat for that rube Boehner and the teaparty.
The President has agreed to make permanant income and estate tax rates and thresholds that will not generate sufficient revenue to fund the current level of federal spending any time soon, if ever. Democrats and Republicans have told 99% of the American people that they are paying federal taxes at just about the right level.
The top 1%, idividuals and families with AGIs over $400K and $450K respectively, have had their top marginal rate increased from 35% to 39.6% (permanantly), $4,600 per $100,000 of income over the applicable threshold.
This is a terrible deal for Republicans, a clear capitulation to progressives and a surrender of low tax and small government principles. Do you think Grover Norquist is laughing or crying over this “sell out.”
The debate has shifted from being about revenue increases and spending cuts to being just about spending cuts, unless of course you think there are enough votes in Congress to revist the just made permanant tax rates. Congratulations too you, Mr. President.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:41 pm
I wish that Obama would just let the “cliff” happen, and then start to work from there. I’d oppose very little of what will happen if they let that happen, and then start to work out a piece at a time that makes sense.
There should be tax increases of everyone who makes over $100,000; those people are not in any kind of financial bind. If they are, it is of their own making.
And we need to fix the unemployment. Those two issues are the only ones that really need attention. The rest is just political rhetoric, nothing more.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:45 pm
I hate to state the obvious; but you won the election. People had some faith in you.
If you really are having trouble finding your backbone (or your short term memory) please get in contact with Sec. Clinton. She will probably be happy to let you borrow hers and bring you up-to-date with past events.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Whens a man speaks out of both sides of his mouth, you cant trust what he says. The one thing this President has little knowledge of is the famous word..”resolve” He must have smelled the fact that the Bush tax cuts previously told to us, were just for the rich, now is going to be understood, as something that kept the taxes on the middle class, down!
P.S anyone hear about the raise he just gave all government workers? A billion more on the backs of the middle class? As they threaten to cut more money from the elderly lower middle class
December 31st, 2012 at 3:54 pm
A bit premature, Jonathan? A feeling of trepidation is always there when the President negotiates – he’s done okay this time, but in negotiating, there is a give and take, and sometimes you lose some.
I’m okay with the $400,000 limit – and the Democrats seems to have scotched the social security bit, but according to the Times, they are wrangling with medicare cuts. Bottom line – we need to stop this last-minute-drama stuff in D.C. And the negotiations should include the debt ceiling deal which is imminent. Let’s move on.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:54 pm
It’s hard to tell if it’s hyperventilating. Obama does seem to be offering unnecessary concessions despite having the better hand.
On the other hand, given the media’s fixation on compromise and on pox-on-both-houses moralizing, it may just be that Obama is playing the conciliator by offering deals he knows the Republicans are too dysfunctional to take–and that once the Bush tax cuts expire things will look different.
It’s just that Obama’s negotiating track record doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
December 31st, 2012 at 3:57 pm
I think a lot of people are overreacting. Obama campaigned on raising about $800 million in revenues (by letting the bush tax cuts expire for those making 250,000 or more).
He is apparently now accepting about $600 million in revenues ($400,000 instead) in exchange for items like extended unemployment insurance, a short term stimulus package, etc. That’s not a huge concession.
And remember, a lot of blue state democrats like the higher number as a lot of Democratic voters are in that 250K-400K range in states like MA, NY, CT and CA.
December 31st, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Goose, “Anyone hear about the raise he just gave all government workers?”
You are sadly misinformed. The “pay freeze” imposed in 2010 was a freeze of “nominal wages”, not of real wages! This means that, although inflation has been low, we have still suffered a 5-6% reduction in real pay.
The increase announced is just half a per cent, which is still below inflation, and is thus still a cut in real terms.
So get off Obama’s back. He is doing the best he can with what the voters left him a House owned by the republicans.
If you people want to see a more adamant Obama, give him something to work with. Get out and vote those assholes out.
December 31st, 2012 at 5:11 pm
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December 31st, 2012 at 5:46 pm
If there was any doubt about the crazy white boy psyche. This should clear it up. Assault rifles are selling out all over the US.
The hottest seller, of course, the one that was used to kill 20 5 to 7 year olds. That’s our deeply religious white america.
December 31st, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Keep Calm and Clench On
It’s frustrating to choke under pressure—especially when you thought that you were totally prepared to, say, perform a piano piece beautifully for your family or play a good golf or tennis game against friends.
You had done these things so well while practicing and were so focused on excellence! What happened?
Well, odds are that all of that thinking that you did (“rumination” in scientific terms) is what got in your way, according to a new study. In other words, the thinking part of your brain trumped the doing part of your brain.
But there’s an easy way to fix all this—in fact, the latest research also suggests that if you do a certain simple movement immediately before (and perhaps even during) a high-pressure situation, it will help you perform a skill as well as you practiced it.
EVEN PROS CHOKE—HERE’S WHY
“Rumination can interfere with the performance of motor tasks,” I was told by lead study author Jürgen Beckmann, PhD. “Athletes, for example, usually perform better when they trust their bodies rather than thinking too much about their own actions or what their coaches told them during practice.”
Dr. Beckmann knew from previous research that when golfers missed putts under pressure, the left hemispheres of their brains showed an increase in brain wave activation—perhaps because this is the part of the brain that is associated with rumination, while the right hemisphere is linked with performing automatic movements (such as swinging that golf club).
Since our brains control our upper extremities contralaterally (meaning each side of the brain controls the opposite side of our body), Dr. Beckmann theorized that sending the brain a signal from the left side of our bodies could stimulate that right hemisphere and perhaps outweigh the impact of the overthinking left side of the brain.
Dr. Beckmann and his team conducted experiments on experienced, right-handed soccer players, tae kwon do experts and badminton players.
Researchers set up two sessions for participants—a “practice session” to replicate a low-pressure situation and a “game session” in front of either a large audience or video cameras to replicate a high-pressure situation.
Immediately before the game sessions, at random, some participants were asked to clench a soft rubber ball (about the size of a tennis ball) lightly for 30 consecutive seconds in their left hands, and some were asked to do the same with their right hands.
Results:
The athletes who clenched the balls with their right hands performed worse in the games than they did at practices (e.g., they “choked” under pressure)…but those who clenched the balls with their left hands performed as well in the games as they did during practices.
In other words, Dr. Beckmann’s theory was supported by the data!
How can you make use of this intriguing finding? You could literally keep a small rubber ball with you when you are going to be in a high-pressure situation and then squeeze it lightly in your left hand for 30 consecutive seconds just before you have to perform.
But Dr. Bekmann told me that the size and material of the ball doesn’t matter—only the light clenching movement does. So if you don’t have a ball (or don’t want to carry one around), he said that simply clenching your fist—or the grip of a tennis racket or other object—would likely accomplish the same thing.
He’s not sure yet whether 30 seconds is the optimal amount of time, but that’s the amount of time that helped study participants.
It’s unknown exactly how long the effects of the clenching will last, but Dr. Beckmann suspects that if clenching just once before a high-pressure situation stops you from overthinking, then there’s no need to repeat the action. But if you find yourself overthinking later, you may want to try it again.
GIVE YOURSELF A HAND
Dr. Beckmann isn’t sure that this clenching exercise would work in every high-pressure situation—it probably wouldn’t work before, say, giving an important PowerPoint presentation at the office.
“So far, we believe that this would apply only to automated physical activities, such as performing a sport, playing a musical instrument or climbing into the bathtub (if you’re an elderly person who struggles with balance and fears falling, for example),” he noted.
Dr. Beckmann encouraged people to experiment with the technique. But you should expect success only under three conditions. One: You are right-handed.
“The distribution of functional areas in the brain is not as clear-cut in left-handers, so they don’t have the same chance of success,” Dr. Beckmann explained. (Sorry, lefties!)
Two:
You’re experiencing pressure.
And three:
You’re already pretty good at what you’re about to do—or, at least, you’re performing an activity that you’ve practiced enough to do without too much thinking.
Now go squeeze!
Source: Jürgen Beckmann, PhD, chairman of the department and professor of sport psychology at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. His study was published in Journal of Experimental Psychology.
December 31st, 2012 at 6:04 pm
Looks like the Senate has a deal. But so what the cliff is still going to happen if the House doesn’t vote yes.
Reid, McConnel and the White House has a deal.
January 1st, 2013 at 10:14 am
HAPPY NEW YEAR BABY.
That pussy was SOOOOOOOOOO good last night.