12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings - NYTimes.com

"Malik Nadal Hassan"
nothing about right or wrong etc etc etc... not a thing.
but no doubt at all: muslims are dangerous.
now, consider israel making nice with the palestinians.
dangerous.

The Young and the Neuro

We already knew this. This is why you teach your kids. And your dogs.

"But a study by Saaid A. Mendoza and David M. Amodio of New York University showed that if you give people a strategy, such as reminding them to be racially fair, it is possible to counteract those perceptions. People feel disgust toward dehumanized groups, but a study by Claire Hoogendoorn, Elizabeth Phelps and others at N.Y.U. suggests it is possible to lower disgust and the accompanying insula activity through cognitive behavioral therapy.

In other words, consciousness is too slow to see what happens inside, but it is possible to change the lenses through which we unconsciously construe the world."

health care: not in my backyard!

A Conservative views a fellow American leaving for another country because, maybe,
the water is better?
there is less crime
there is better government
there is health care
there is better education...
the water and air is better
there is protection for the worker
the food industry is kinder to animals

Truth is, no American would do that. You can leave for a better job, you can leave for more freedom, but that's about it. Even then, you should have fought!
No American would give up his freedom for less.
No American would trade his ability for ultimate success, to make it on his own, here in America.
No, anyone that would leave the states for something as simple as health is no American. Well, maybe a liberal, but isn't that just the same thing? But no honest conservative god fearing American.
And anyone that would soften the United States by currying to such weakness: that's no American either.

Benford's Law

Benford's Law

Health care around the globe - USATODAY.com

Health care around the globe - USATODAY.com

Bill Maher: New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health

Bill Maher: New Rule: You Can't Complain About Health Care Reform If You're Not Willing to Reform Your Own Health

Aunt of Jaycee Dugard says "not bad..."

the aunt has some nice things to say... everybody seems ok...
there is an ethical dilemma... much the same as treating slaves nicely:
If you do something bad but it turns out to be nice, then what?

Presidential Papers, Doc#1051 Personal To Robert J. Biggs, 10 February 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower

Presidential Papers, Doc#1051 Personal To Robert J. Biggs, 10 February 1959. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
this eisenhower fellow: quite a man!
presidential papers are worth a read.. .wonder about johnson and bush and reagan and carter and all...
“It is difficult indeed to maintain a reasoned and accurately informed understanding of our defense situation on the part of our citizenry when many prominent officials, possessing no standing or expertness as they themselves claim it, attempt to further their own ideas or interests by resorting to statements more distinguished by stridency than by accuracy.”

Roosevelt - The Great Divider - NYTimes.com

Why the gop loved bush....

Letters: rrheard - Salon

as of today, rrheard has posted 1562 letters to the washington post...
i don't know that that is by any means a record, excessive, etc...
it is, however, imho, a big number...

Kidnapped at 11, Woman Emerges After 18 Years - NYTimes.com

lost in america... utterly lost in plain view...
who is your neighbor?

Blair denies Libyan claims of Lockerbie deal - CNN.com

Blair is a liar.
By his own words, he never opposed the issue. Indeed, he merely said "I don't have the power" which could serve to merely get him off the hook... he cannot deny influence, or refuse to use it, then or ever. In addition, he encouraged the action by suggesting that there were proper channels.
Blair is a liar. But his war crimes far exceed this latest offense.
It's about money.