In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! – I hope I’ll be safe at home!

“The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14″ – PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT – XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID – 14″ LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.”

Sure looks like it.

The Picture Post Commentary preserved for your reading pleasure: “I wouldn’t get withing 100ft of this chick without a fully functioning Hazmat Suit…Burn It With Fire! If It Bleeds We Can Kill It!”
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In conclusion, my research indicates that we’ve a long way to go before we enjoy a fully-functioning Semantic Web.

The next day he arrived for his nap, with a different note pinned to hiscollar:’He lives in a home with 6 children, 2 under the age of 3 / he’s trying tocatch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?’

Enjoy. I can just see people driving out of the city and smuggling in sugared drinks now.

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From: MOMMY <>
Date: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:23 AM
Subject: Help!!!
To:

This had to come in a hurry and it has left me in a devastating state. I’m in some terrible situation and I’m really going to need your urgent help. Some days ago,unannounced,I came to visit a resort center in Cardiff, South Glamorgan England, UK..but I got mugged by some hoodlums and lost all my cash,credit cards, I’m financially stranded right now and my return flight leaves in few hours time but I need some money to clear some bills, I didn’t bring my cell phone along since I didn’t get to roam them before coming over. So all I can do now is pay cash and get out of here quickly.I do not want to make a scene of this which is why I did not call my house,this is embarrassing enough.I was wondering if you could loan me some cash, I’ll refund it to you as soon as I arrive home just need to clear my Hotel bills and get the next plane home, As soon as I  get home I’ll refund it immediately. Write me so I can let you know how to send it.

Mommy Momma…

Now we have a real industry changer: apparently the salary cap is being lifted in the NFL. What does that mean? The team with the most money can afford to buy the “best” players, thus possibly making even more money, and repeating the vicious cycle. So poor teams will continue to be that way. This is a problem in other sports that have no cap. The same wealthy teams stay on top, year after year.

Likewise you will also see absolutely ridiculous salaries now being handed out for players who are arguably not as game changing as in other sports. Football teams are HUGE whereas other sports teams are rather small, like the NBA. In the NBA an expensive player can have a HUGE impact, such as Michael Jordan, as it is only he and 4 other players on the court at a time, whereas a football team has 11 players on the field at once, and they are constantly swapped out.

Yes, occasionally you will find a clutch player worth spending a stupid amount of money on, like Peyton Manning, and moving forward he will go to the highest bidder, every time, and that bidder will be the team with the most money. Period.

Congrats guys, you managed to completely trash the game. At least you will make even more money! Maybe this is why so many people love college football.

I grew up in that area. RIP

Something to consider: It is an odd thing with humans that if a large amount of people die somewhere far away we say things like “Wow.. that sucks..” but if one person dies close to where we live we are mortified.

None of this is good news.

The bartender says, “You ain’t from around here, are ya?”

The guy says, “No, I’m from Ontario, Canada.”

The bartender says, “What do you do in Ontario,Canada?”

The guy says, “I’m a taxidermist.”

The bartender says, “A taxidermist? What in tarnation is a taxidermist? Do you drive a taxi?”

“No, a taxidermist doesn’t drive a taxi. I mount animals.”

The bartender grins and hollers, “It’s okay boys. He’s one of us.”

“Watching a curvaceous woman can feel like a reward in the brain of men, much as drinking alcohol or taking drugs might, research now reveals.”

Ummm… DUH. All you really had to do was ask any man on the planet this and he would have told you – did you really need to dedicate research funds towards that? What a waste of money.

Why not just say “THIS JUST IN! Men Like Women! Well some do.”

The article goes on further to state:

“To explore the roots of this behavior, researchers had 14 men, average age 25, rate how attractive they found pictures of the naked derrieres of seven women before and after cosmetic surgery that gave them more shapely hips. These operations did not reduce weight but just redistributed it, by implanting fat harvested from the waists into the buttocks.” LOL!

Congrats.

Just wanted to share this awful thing with the world I hope you enjoy it.

Needless to say I am a fan.

Football

“Jackson goes deep to Weatherspoon.. Weatherspoon has the ball! HE COULD GO ALL THE WAY! And look at his ass while he runs – man that is a nice ass!” Just doesn’t work does it?

The Office

“Janet I need you to get these reports done by 4 pm, also that skirt makes your ass look like two puppies fighting under a blanket. I mean I would tear in that ass like a bag of Lays Potato Chips. See you at 4.” Yeah – lawsuit so fast your head would spin, but on television? Naw – its cool.

Olympics

“The USA Women’s Curling team is doing very well this year, which is surprising considering how hot they all are. Did you know that they came out with a Women of Curling calendar with nudes?!?! I always did love Curling!” Really?

Another nice topic you may not know about is that of the Commercial Real Estate Industry being on the brink of total ruin. What does that mean? The bank problems of last year are like losing 5 dollars on your Disneyland trip to the horror that a crash of the Commercial Real Estate Industry will bring – MANY banks will DIE. If the USA government, or many others, try to step in and save those banks with bailout cash as they did last time then they too will falter.

And what of the USA government? Several TRILLION in debt. How much exactly? Some economists have it as high as 17 Trillion. There is a magical number that we are approaching regarding debt to income ratio, and we are almost at the no going back stage.

Prepare yourselves for an economic apocalypse, which is most likely what the Mayans were really talking about – many economists put the end of the Earth economic crash, oddly enough, in 2012 – same year the Mayans predicted Armageddon. Irony is an evil bitch.

Big brother you say? NO, that is UN POSSIBLE! Fascism? NEVER! Oh wait.

AND

[The embattled ex-head of the research center at the heart of the Climate-gate scandal dropped a bombshell over the weekend, admitting in an interview with the BBC that there has been no global warming over the past 15 years.
Phil Jones, former head of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, made a number of eye-popping statements to the BBC's climate reporter on Sunday. Data from CRU, where Jones was the chief scientist, is key evidence behind the claim that the growth of cities (which are warmer than countryside) isn't a factor in global warming and was cited by the U.N.'s climate science body to bolster statements about rapid global warming in recent decades.

"To say when you're the record keeper for the globe's temperature that you're not a good record keeper, well, that's going to come back to haunt you for a long, long time," Pat Michaels.of the Cato Institute, a public-policy think tank, told Fox News.]

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In summation, we are doomed but in a very Dramatic Comedy kind of way. Even single-celled lifeforms in distant galaxies make fun of our cumulative stupidity. It is a relevant, solid point that warming is taking place. Insignificant aberrations (e.g.; extraction of indicators pointing to heat increases from growing cities and/or a lack of implicit warming since 1995) do little to undermine the primary fact defining that global temperatures are trending on a solid statistical basis.

It matters not if man unleashes the cited ever-quickening tempo with the carbon cycle… what only matters is gaining a consensus that this cycle is: 1) for real and is taking place, and 2) is increasing in tempo as a traceable factor within a temporal scale (obviously beyond the average human’s ability to cognitively understand).

Let us now stop tongue-wagging about the “who is to blame” and focus on mediation strategies for when it trips a point of no return — where the cascading effects of temperature augmentation caused via lowering albedo triggered by a permanent thaw which also increases the release of methane, carbon dioxide and a host of other gases further increasing the tempo of the cascading effects. This scenario is what causes a run-away situation where there can be no solution offered.

On a final note: I believe the leaders of the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia should be prosecuted as criminals and hanged publically. Through they’re own admitted ignorance, they’ve endangered the lives of my offspring and my offspring’s offspring.

If you feel compelled… the email address is listed below.

to: mitch.holmes@house.ks.gov
date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:21 AM
subject: Mountain Lions in Kansas

Honorable State Senator Holmes -
Although your current effort to legalize the hunting of the scant numbers of Mountain Lions in Kansas is understood as a reaction to constituent requests, it still remains bewildering how an educated man, such as yourself, wouldn’t attempt to discuss options with your voter base first. The ecosystem has been out of balance since ranchers and farmers killed off natural predators in the late 19th century through pure ignorance triggered by unsubstantiated fear. Now as nature regains a degree of equilibrium, you bend to knee-jerk reactions without any supporting evidence presented – other than pure ignorance triggered by unsubstantiated fear. Why should the state endure another round of illogical extermination? Why should nature endure another two centuries of imbalance?

Again, this email is being sent with full knowledge of why you’re proposing a bill to hunt the meager few Mountain Lions living in Kansas. However, might you be reacting in a similar manner to your constituency — the majority of which remain rather uneducated as to the true degree of danger posed from these rather reclusive animals?

The “thinking people” of Kansas, the Midwest, and the rest of the country have their eyes upon you, Senator.

Sincerely,
(Caravaggio)

This is true for many things. Hamburgers are a great example. Each and every day millions of Americans eat crap hamburgers at fast food joints all across our nation. They pound it down along with the tasteless greasy fries coated in pretend salt and are convinced that they are eating good food. However if you take a normal person and have them eat a real hamburger, say made from buffalo for instance like the one found at Ted’s Montana Grill, they quickly come to realize that they have been eating crap all along. Again, another category of food destroyed for that person.

This really applies to all things if you think about it. Sex? Great sex ruins normal sex. Cars. You could love your car, then sit in a top end Lexus or Mercedes and quickly look at your own car with disdain. Houses. Anything really. The old saying applies “There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.” or in this instance “There is such a thing as too good of anything.”

I will sit and enjoy by jerky while it lasts knowing full and well that jerky will be ruined for me yet again for at least a year. Le Sigh.

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When I first read these words, I felt this was a very stoic, extremely articulate manner in which to present practicalities applicable to our present-day circumstances. What floored me was in researching the author…

Jonathan Krohn is a columnist, author, speaker, and political analyst. He previously has been a weekly guest columnist for Human Events (www.HumanEvents.com).

Oh, what they left off was that Jonny is 14 years old.

http://www.jonathankrohn.org/index.php/authorsbio

http://www.definingconservatismbook.com/index.php

In a recent story, a reporter acquired thousands of internal emails from the State of Alaska showing email accounts shared by Sarah and her “first dude” Todd. Unfortunately, the reporter found the kind of behavior present within these messages that the very prim and proper, Mrs. Palin, has frowned upon when discussing the actions of other politicians. I’m not sure about you, but the superficial, piety-ridden, commoner-themed persona has to go! As they say were I’m from, “this one here is a bona fide’d Dee-vah Bee-atch, but she sho is prit-tah”.

One message held my attention: The governor coached her staff on how to disguise the amount of electrical work needed at the mansion to hook up her new tanning bed. Another illustrated Todd dishing up gossip to his, then Governor Wife, about an old family friend he grew up with which (could be traced) to this friend being unceremoniously kicked-off of the committee board seat that she previously held. And the funniest… Todd ignored the position of “First Gentlemen” and didn’t attend the overwhelming majority of civil functions usually accorded this position (regardless of “First Lady” or “First Gentleman” title). Instead, the only external function he decided to keep was a seat as a judge for Miss Alaska. Hilarious! Go Todd! Go Todd! Go! I raise my beer can hardhat to thee!

This brings me to a very decisive conclusion. When you wipe away the pretty red lipstick and the illustrative talk about patriotism and the like… what you are left with is the same ol’ politician crap as all the others… its just this one would do well in a blue-collar environment surrounded by pregnant unwed Teenagers, a behind-the-scenes “Spiritual Advisor”, and a male bimbo named, Todd, who when asked why he hunts bear cubs, responds curtly with, “…they were born, thats why!”

Oh, sidenote for my beloved Sarah… when someone says the phrase, “f’ing retarded” to something not related to anything even in the same universe as your offspring, it isn’t that smart to take public issue with that person. By the very existence of your issue are you declaring that your child is a “f’ing retard”? How cruel. Have you even looked that word up in the dictionary? No where did I see an utterance related to “f’ing down syndrome”… you just need to go back to more complex things like planning on how to sneak in a tanning bed into the State Capitol building.

GREAT IDEA. I can see now why the country is doing so well – we have chimps running it.

A prominent US climate scientist at the centre of the ”climategate” leaked email controversy has been virtually cleared of professional misconduct by an internal university enquiry.

Michael Mann, of Penn State University, featured regularly in the more than 1000 emails that were hacked from the University of East Anglia in the UK last November. His emails and comments have since then featured in countless blogs and news articles. Some have claimed the emails reveal that mainstream climate scientists have massaged data in order to demonstrate that climate change is caused by human activities.

ref. New Scientist Magazine

What, Prey Tell, other than politics could drive the organizational body in charge of the misconduct inquiry to conclude there wasn’t any wrong-doing related to the “data stunt-work” being attempted by Dr. Mann?  Are we seriously concluding with, “Nothing to see here… walk along… nothing to see”?  Please!  Dr. Mann, in my opinion, should be credited to a broad degree with the melt-down (pun intended) of Hope-nhagen.  His amateur attempt at UNNEEDED number-fudging is a crime against the entire world – inclusive of future generations of hairless, bipedal apes!

We are literally toast given the obvious gross infiltration of politics into the science of climate change.  Toast, I say!

You, Human Reader.  Yes, you!  How does it feel to be at the precipice of self-annihilation whilst happily engorging yourself on your planet’s dwindling resources by utilizing greenhouse gas spewing technologies that unleashes an unnatural increase in the carbon cycle upon thee?  Especially whilst your “experts” arrange themselves in a perfect circle-jerk and play “dumb”.

Nope, nothing to see here… move along.

Disagree I do, forcefully.  This is a story that has been told for 400 years.  This is a story of Pocohontas. This is a story of Lewis and Clark.  This is a story of the Sand Creek Massacre. This is a story of General Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.  The Na’vi are the indigenous people of North America.  The humans are the westward bound expansionists.

Interesting story to the uninitiated but very old in premise.

However, the technology involved (we watched the RealD 3D version) kept me in my seat riveted to the screen.  The presentation was immersive in shape and form.  I felt drawn into the environment… wanting to explore Pandora.  All-in-all, it was a good movie that has set an awe-inspiring precedence in synthetic actor-based movies.

This leads us to why the USA has declared war on nebulous things since the fall of the USSR such as Drugs and Terror – things with no actual country of origin and thus endless spending opportunity. I could delve into the countless conspiracy theories existing today on the US government manufacturing threats etc, but that goes away from the point of this article. The Point here is that the world is not where the US left it during the Cold War. Threats don’t work any more. Sanctions are BS because  nobody upholds them. Basically nobody gives two shits about what the Imperialist US Government really thinks any more – and for us, Americans, to think otherwise is totally blind folly on our part. There is no war, on terror or anything else. There is just people around the world that want America out of their business, and our government hanging on to policy they created to spend money on defense to prop up a failing economy.

We were on top of the world once and it wasn’t because our military – it was because of the melting pot we had combined with amazing resources, most of which we have squandered, and a will to produce lighter, faster and cheaper. Now we are just then world’s largest consumer market packed with the fattest culture on the planet, and some argue in history, and we are grasping at straws to keep it.

What a sad thing we have become.

This morning’s headline on Newsweek is: Wall Street’s Fishbowl – How Banks Brought on the Scrutiny. I highly recommend reading the article as it says some pretty funny stuff. Example?

“But if the banks want us out of their business, they should get out of our business first. We’ve (barely) lived through a 40-year period in which investment banks, which had their origins in partnerships, have imposed themselves on us. They effectively moved into our house, raided our fridge, and set the joint on fire. Now they’re complaining that our renovation efforts are cramping their style.”

Amen brother. In an time where the American people bailed out big banks when they were supposedly going to crash, only to witness record profits for them as a result as well as record bonuses for big whig Executives one really must wonder: WTF?

The quote? “Tell them not to send it,” said Eric Porterfield, a spokesman for the American Red Cross. “I’m 100 percent sure we didn’t ask for that.”

I can’t begin to really say why giving someone else your breast milk is a bad idea as it is actually so obvious to me that I can’t put it into words other than the follow:

Yes, humans are that dumb.

I bring this up quite simply because this country is so far in debt that there is NO way out. We have seen time and time again over the course of history how a war has pulled the U.S. out of its economic disaster. We have had the “Crotch Bomber” fiasco, and if you believe the MSM on this, and Yemen being the “new front line incubator” for “The Toilet”, a.k.a. al qaeda in Arabic slang,  enjoy the bliss of ignorance. Israel is encroaching upon Lebanon more and more, and now saying that February is the deadline for Iran, if you will. BTW, when you fly a war plane over another country without permission, you have committed an act of war.

So a Canadian company came up missing two (2) tons of explosives recently. Then they said they found it, no worries all is well. It seems the investigation is showing that their accounting of explosives materials really doesn’t add up. I’m sure it’s nothing.

Back to the title of this post, and the desperation to somehow, someway whip the American people up into a patriotic frenzy like we saw in late 2001, that will provide support for whatever war, where ever it may. What false flag event will be staged? Will it be at the Olympics (yes, Canadian hosted, and gee golly gosh darn isn’t that where the company is that somehow lost track of 2 tons of explosives …) or possibly the Super Bowl? Somewhere else perhaps?

At this point I think a false flag event would have to be very big, and very devastating for it to even have a chance at successfully selling the American people on sending more of our families off to die. I’d say it’s a possibility, more than 60%, but take PDD-51 and Obama’s own recent signing statements, and they can pretty much enact Martial Law any time they want to. I still  bet against a big enough event to do the job.

As this particular subject relates to a recent thread (or moreso to a reply of mine within said thread, ref. AMNH), I thought I’d share the latest on the research. This article is in this month’s Wired.

I’ve watched this research come into focus over the past two years. The flight tests alone are awe-inspiring as one stands in witness of something that hasn’t taken place in millions of years. At the very least, it is an excellent way to comprehend just how small we all are in comparison to the “bigger picture”.

Enjoy.

1) Brett Favre got hit more times than Ali in the Thrilla From Manilla.

2) Minnesota Vikings almost won the game in spite of having something like 8 turnovers.

3) New Orleans Saints, possessing one of the best offenses in the history of the NFL, decided it best not to actually use it. Seriously, compare the output of the two teams.

If not for Minnesota being hell bent on giving the ball to the Saints every two minutes they would have crushed the Saints.

I felt terrible for Favre for two reasons:

1) Most likey the final pass of his career is the interception he threw that most likely cost them the game.

2) His receivers seemed to be trying to catch the ball AND fumble it.

Prior to the NFC game I didn’t think that Indie would stand a chance against either the Saints or the Vikings. Now I am fairly sure if the Saints don’t dislodge their heads from their keisters they will get owned in the Superbowl.

Thanks for the years of fun Favre – you will be missed, by some.

Cocaine-induced alterations in gene expression cause changes in neuronal morphology and behavior that may underlie cocaine addiction. In mice, we identified an essential role for histone 3 lysine 9 (H3K9) dimethylation and the lysine dimethyltransferase G9a in cocaine-induced structural and behavioral plasticity. Repeated cocaine administration reduced global levels of H3K9 dimethylation in the nucleus accumbens. This reduction in histone methylation was mediated through the repression of G9a in this brain region, which was regulated by the cocaine-induced transcription factor FosB. Using conditional mutagenesis and viral-mediated gene transfer, we found that G9a down-regulation increased the dendritic spine plasticity of nucleus accumbens neurons and enhanced the preference for cocaine, thereby establishing a crucial role for histone methylation in the long-term actions of cocaine.

…even if it is a simple neuronal “infinite loop”. Funny how our brain implements strategies that it, itself, finds pleasing even without conscious observation or what we express as a typical measure of comprehension on our part. It is the Matrix, indeed.

Ref. da paper on da subjekt

Apparently La Toya wants to take Simon’s position on American Idol, a show I detest more than athlete’s foot. Simon is apparently all fed up doing the show  - even though it made him more money than god has, he owns it, and frankly he is the show. In all seriousness without that guy’s true, albeit snarky, comments about the “singers” that suck the show is basically just one long karaoke session. I want La Toya to get the job. Her lack luster experience with music (the irony should not escape you given the music dynasty she is related to) will be an added boon to the show. Besides with her on that show we will be reminded weekly of what Michael Jackson looked like before he died.

Good Lord. I had to re-read this piece several times. Interesting. Shocking. And, OK, somewhat humorous. I agree with the premise here, but where the hell was the mind of the author when he was writing this?

Freud once offered, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”… but I don’t believe this metaphorical adage can be appropriately applied to this particular researcher. However, he probably does require therapy.

1) There are good, moral people involuntarily caught-up in this crisis (stated in opposition to a few thought-leaders in this country).
2) When a child, whose limb is caught under a collapsed wall, stops crying or talking, and who now takes on an eerie, non-emotive expression. This child has realized the cruel nature of fate.
3) Doing good by its sheer definition is defined by a positive end result. Attempting to help people by sending in Thai UN Troops who don’t speak the language, who are frightened for their own lives, and who are operating under general guidelines that are proving ill-advised for this mission is NOT DOING ANY GOOD.
4) Related to #3 – People who throw U.N. survival biscuits on the ground because they mis-read the “made” date as the “expiration” date… these particular people ARE NOT STARVING. Go somewhere else where people are actually hungry. People who are truly starving will literally eat the eyeballs out of a week-old donkey carcass.
5) Related to #3 – U.N. operations should ALWAYS be undertaken as a military operation. Therefore, who is responsible for bringing in Medical Personnel without Security Personnel? And who is responsible for then reflexively removing said Medical Personnel while involved in triage and surgeries due to hearsay on riots?
6) Related to #4 – There are no dogs and cats evident in any of the video feeds due to a very blunt reason.
7) This week there has been physical pain and hunger. Next week is when infectious disease hits. Without a magnitude increase of influx of needed assistance, things are going to get worse before it gets better.

And lastly, be very thankful for your family and for your country. We tend to have it good here due to a combination of really hard work and a bit of luck.

This is not one of those times.

I have a dear friend who has the same name as a notorious criminal in Texas. The feds call him all the time and question him about his doings – funny part being my friend is retired military special forces – you’d think they might know that.

Massive fail government.

Alas, I’ve been the target of a few verbal barbs coming from some self-assured climate change sceptics. To which I’ve managed a half-hearted smile attempting to avoid my native impulse to expand their knowledge of statistics while utilizing prose impregnated with four-letter “encouragement”. All-in-all they seemed to have begun to occupy this particular patch of weather misfortune with joy…. as if they were children hearing the recorded bell of an ice cream van off in the distance during a heatwave.

I offer to them, as I offer to you now, that there is an opposite way of considering the current weather.

The immediate cause is the Arctic Oscillation (AO). This has been a very swift change in the atmospheric pressure distribution of the northern hemisphere between the middle and polar latitudes.

Per a London-based weblog ponitificator via my favorite rag: “When the AO is positive, the combination of high pressure in the mid-latitudes and low pressure further north blocks the outflow of extremely cold air from the arctic. A more “negative” AO allows the cold to slip further south.”

From my readings I’ve discovered that this December’s oscillation over the Atlantic was the most negative for more than 100 years. This negative pressure has allowed Arctic air to flow into normally temperate regions of our Hemisphere. Hence the 3 feet of residual snow on the lower realm of my mini-kingdom.

However… the sheer intensity of the cold we’ve experienced has proven moderated by man-made global warming. If this identical distribution had taken place 60 years ago (or earlier), before carbon dioxide had exceeded “written history” thresholds (whether released by hairless apes or not), the current freeze would have been a complete degree colder.

And a single degree colder is just as serious as a single degree warmer. Lucky for us, the AO is returning to normal as I type this.

Example: “Gosh, I have had such a bad day…..”

This person expects you to respond with something like:

“Oh I am sorry. What happened?”

GOTCHA! You are now on the hook to listen to their entire mindless diatribe. In fact, you asked them to tell you their entire day’s story. They are doing you a favor! Hell, you owe them one!

This is why I have opted to answer leader statements with one word, and it always shuts down the conversation.

“Ok.”

Let us look at our previous scenario:

“Gosh, I have had such a bad day…..”

“Ok.”

What can the leader statement maker do? Go on? Certainly not, you just killed the conversation. The other thing you can do is reply with something completely off handed as it will totally derail their thinking, however this can be dangerous.

“Gosh, I have had such a bad day…..”

“Agreed.” or “I like.” or “Man, I can’t believe my friends, sometimes.”

Try these tactics and I swear you will no longer be forced to listen to Monica the annoying co-worker tell you about her bad day at the spa again.

The Video

The making

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

The Patriots Lost! The Patriots Lost!

LOLLAPALOOZA! God I hate them.

There has been interesting research out of MIT on the link between resting state activity – the performance of the brain when it’s simply “lying still”, doing nothing but daydreaming, and general intelligence. It seems that cultivating an “active idle” mind, or teaching one how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connectivity that underpins intelligence. At a minimum, I won’t reprimand my kids when they stare blankly out the window, because this healthy mind wandering isn’t a waste of time at all.

For the first time, functional measures of the idle/active brain are providing interesting insights into network properties of the brain that are significantly associated with IQ scores. In essence, the findings suggest that in smart people, distant areas of the brain communicate with each other more robustly than in less-than smart people. Moreover, the strength of connectivity among distant areas within the biological neural network was greater in people with superior than average IQ scores. Additional research positively correlated with this initial finding, that the strongest relations between resting connectivity and IQ were observed in the frontal and parietal brain regions – the area’s most associated with performance on IQ tests.

Source: Scientific American, Jan. 2010

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Overview:
Increased population makes things worse. There are various ways to influence population growth: tax incentives and government policies. More people mean more congestion and demands upon arable land.

Discussion of energy, solar power, desalinization. Aesthetics and standard of living. Ecology, wilderness. Carrying capacity versus cultural carrying capacity and quality of life tradeoff.

Garrett closes with: “If I’ve upset you… fine!”

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Regardless of market creed or geo-political boundary, what we, as a Human Race, have been unable to see. What we have failed to grasp is that resources are very limited – definitively finite. And that our reproduction rates and lifestyles have surpassed the carrying capacity for this planet. Our current resource “burn rate” is guaranteeing an unstable future for our children. When I see the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags on homes and cars, I can empathize with their beliefs. When I hear neighbors declare that it is their “God-given” right to drive a Hummer and have steak every night of the week, I understand. The next sentence is hard for me, as a veteran, entrepreneur, and inventor, who remains completely active within and dependent upon our market system to state.

Free will within a free market has effectively enabled us with the toolset required to kill ourselves. Evolution of our biological hardware was not undertaken to comprehend amalgamative danger. We understand low-level, easily comprehendible threats via fundamental screening algorithms. IF tiger growls and begins to run at you THEN trigger fight-or-flight behaviors.

The late Garrett Hardin’s observations and theories have captured and held my attention. Ecologist Hardin’s “tragedy of the commons” has proven as a vital concept for comprehending how we have come to the brink of cascading environmental catastrophes. The primary emphasis of his theory is illuminated by his offering that humans face a treacherous situation caused not by malevolent external forces but rather by the seemingly benign, appropriate, and innocent behaviors of many individuals acting alone. Hardin’s parable involves a pasture that remains “open to all.” He asks us to imagine the grazing of animals on this pasture or common ground. The individuals who own animals here are motivated to add to their flocks to increase their personal wealth. However, every animal added to the total degrades the commons by a small amount. Although the degradation for each added animal is minuscule relative to the gain in wealth for the owner, if all flock owners follow this behavioral pattern — the commons will ultimately be destroyed. Nonetheless, with humans behaving as rational actors, each owner continues to add numbers to their flock in the effort to improve their stead. Therein lay the tragedy. Each owner is locked into a perpetually reinforcing construct that compels her to increase her animal stock without limit – in a world that is, indeed, limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons (Hardin, 1968).

Without instilling an expedited systemic maturation of the Human-leveraged knowledgebase sans emphasis on religion, politics, economics, or geography, our cumulative future appears to be on a path that will be experienced as rather uncomfortable. Fret is what I feel when looking at my children and considering their lives 40 years from now. Admittedly, I type this as I sit enjoying an imported bubble tea while in a climate-controlled house (78 degrees versus 32 outside) with a television blaring and an assortment of lights burning away. Yes, we are doomed.

Sing with me – GOD BLESS AMERICA… MY HOOOOOME… SWEEEEEET…. HOOOOOOOME!

Play ball.

Two Words:  Cheese Skirt.

Side Note: notice how I put this in our health category. HELL YEAH.

(Link to song music, and lyrics I have been using.)

God rest ye merry, congressmen

Let no Page go unplayed

Remember, the Proles your saviour

Are born everyday

To save you all from Bank Failures

and stocks gone astray

O tidings of silver and gold

Silver and Gold

O tidings of silver and gold.

In back rooms, in Secret,

This Cash Cow was born

And laid the Yoke of debt

Upon even your unborn

To which the Founding Fathers

Would decry in scorn

O tidings of silver and gold

Silver and Gold

O tidings of silver and gold.

He added: “We’re very confident that there will be plenty of vaccine for everyone who wants to be vaccinated. It won’t be available when everyone wants to be vaccinated.”

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Caravaggio Note:  Does this adequately cover the spectrum of concerns represented by readers/participants of this blog?  I was surprised that he summarily quantified the concerns as he did.

At a time when humanity is now both empowered by a blizzard of information and stunned by its effect, we seem to have come to an inflection point. Our genetic composition allows us to learn from experience in an orderly manner.

See fire. Touch fire. Fire hurt. No touch fire. No hurt.

And when there is no precedence for current experiences, we trigger a fail-safe model by which to frame reality… question everything (for survival).

See fire. Fire shine brighter than usual. Think fire sent by Communists. Run from fire. Now eat cold dinner.

The cumulative effect of multiple, concurrent, high impact memes (deep recession, housing crisis, banking collapse, two simultaneous wars, global war on terrorism, global warming, impending epidemics, shifting demographic majorities, rising tensions between two primary religious systems, degraded education system, nuclear proliferation, bioterrorism, rising socialism, rising fascism, the rise of China, etc.) basically creates a systemic brown-out across the social networks with which we pledge of allegance and from which we borrow elements with which to construct our own self-identity.

I found this article to be a nice primer if you will, to understanding what the U.S. Constitution is and is not.

At 0:27, Obama flashes a micro-expression that offers an honest glimpse into how he feels about being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The President (like any other human) offers small, yet detectable leakages in the social veil that we all establish when communicating to our fellow beings. His brow resets from a peaked-arch indicating sarcasm to that of a tightening of the procerus muscles displaying a frown. From that point forward, he continues this expressive cue throughout the extent of his speech. Match this facial transition with the content of his message and it is (somewhat) easy to comprehend that he feels burdened by this unexpected award.

Regardless of where you sit on the political spectrum, I believe this remains of solid interest to anyone who’d like to comprehend the true feelings of this fellow caught in a very unexpected event.

For comparison, Al Gore’s acceptance speech was much different. His zygomaticus major (the grinning muscle) remained semi-flexed throughout his speech – expressing what could be defined as the old adage of “the cat that ate the canary”. He only offered a relaxation of the zygomaticus when he was first introduced, when he defined CO2, and then again when reciting scripture. Otherwise, Sir Gore remained quite pleased with himself, indeed.

Gore Speech

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The Spammer calls herself “Download The Lovely Bones” and this is what she wrote, which I can’t argue against:

“Redskins haven’t looked this bad since Steve Spurrier was the coach. Another well thought out hire by Daniel Snyder.”

The irony here is that she accomplished two things – getting the attention of the administrators of this site (a bad thing to do) and stating a fact that was meant to cloak her true intent which was get her link back posted. I will talk a bit about the fact, and then just maybe I am going to throw her a bone.

The Redskins Suck. How bad? They are the sixth worst team. This may not seem all that bad however one must also understand that The Washington Redskins are the second most expensive franchise in the NFL. Right – they are now behind only the Dallas Cowboys, oddly enough their biggest rival. The only thing I can think of that redeems them was the image I have added to this article that came up when I search for their logo on google. Enjoy the image – let’s both pretend that she is the one that posted the spam on our site to begin with.

Oh – I almost forgot – for you “lady spammer”, if you really are a lady and not some kid sitting in a cybercafe in Southern Korea, this link back is for you! I find it amusing that the linkback is for a movie called The Lovely Bones and I posted a picture of a Maxim woman to go with it. I love me some times. Oh and to the Blinkinblogs reader – please make sure to send our Spammer some lovely email – I am sure she will want to hear from you. AmandaNeufeld9319@yahoo.com. We love you Amanda!