tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post1478592371015240722..comments2024-03-28T14:07:18.682-07:00Comments on CONTRARY BRIN: What's real? What's fake? Technology challenges our perception of reality.David Brinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-67381087394818589862018-03-12T14:32:06.723-07:002018-03-12T14:32:06.723-07:00I'd guess he's saying that native American...<i>I'd guess he's saying that native Americans are getting tired of the abuses of illegal immigrants from Europe.</i><br /><br />They have been tired of it for years. That's one driver for the Idle No More movement in Canada, and similar ones in the US.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTqV1pnQoosAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-89831877050751436522018-03-10T16:31:01.816-08:002018-03-10T16:31:01.816-08:00onward
onwardonward<br /><br />onwardDavid Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26955590983656050182018-03-10T16:27:09.172-08:002018-03-10T16:27:09.172-08:00TCB:
Incidentally, I would not vote Trump in a bi...TCB:<br /><i><br />Incidentally, I would not vote Trump in a billion years, nor any other Republican... but I find I would consider voting for Mueller if he somehow ran. <br /></i><br /><br />Uhhhh, you know Mueller is a Republican, right? As are Comey and Rod Rosenstein.<br /><br />I might have to ammend my hashtag a little.<br /><br />#ThereAreNoGoodRepublicansAllExceptionsDulyNoted<br /><br />:)<br />LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-27398425416287931332018-03-10T16:25:36.600-08:002018-03-10T16:25:36.600-08:00California should probably declare that assisting ...California should probably declare that assisting ICE in deportations, especially of Dreamers, is against its <i>religious principles</i>. That would leave no doubt that it is exempt from federal law.<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/opinion/trump-california-sanctuary-movement.html<br /><br /><i><br />...<br />It is fair to ask whether states should have the power to abstain from federal law enforcement programs that they view as immoral or adverse to their local interests. It is not, however, a new question.<br /><br />In fact, the question was decisively answered by the Supreme Court in 1997 in a case called Printz v. United States. That case involved a challenge to the federal Brady Act, which required local sheriffs to conduct background checks for gun purchasers. Some sheriffs resisted because they objected to the federal regulation of firearms. The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice Antonin Scalia, made clear that the sheriffs, and states generally, have a right to abstain from federal law enforcement schemes with which they disagreed.<br /><br />It is this principle that distinguishes California’s decision to opt out of deportation efforts from Arizona’s decision to opt in.<br />...<br />Attorney General Sessions’s attempt to spin his attack on sanctuary laws as a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision is a transparent attempt to sidestep the clear rule established in Printz.<br />...<br /></i>LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-28468946091317863322018-03-10T15:44:00.543-08:002018-03-10T15:44:00.543-08:00@Russell Osterlund, that 'perfect storm' o...@Russell Osterlund, that 'perfect storm' of constraints which kept the Obama administration from acting was, as we now know just from public knowledge, engineered by nameable and culpable people, including Mitch McConnell (refusing to go public) and the Erik Prince/Rudy Guiliani/FBI/NYPD axis of conspirators (forcing Comey's hand in October). We now also know that Erik Prince was involved in the Seychelles backchannel to (very likely) Putin Himself, who may well have offered strategic advice to these traitors.<br /><br />I've lately been telling people that the Russia affair is no longer as complex as a Le Carre novel, but on a par with ALL the Le Carre novels put together. Lucky for us we still have a Smiley.<br /><br />Incidentally, I would not vote Trump in a billion years, nor any other Republican... but I find I would consider voting for Mueller if he somehow ran. We might disagree about a hundred things, but it's clear to me he'd at minimum be fucking honest.TCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08153506222271955110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-42748678601633284252018-03-10T15:34:22.828-08:002018-03-10T15:34:22.828-08:00Hang Rupert Murdoch? Preposterous notion. INSANITY...Hang Rupert Murdoch? Preposterous notion. INSANITY.<br /><br />What has he done to deserve hanging?<br /><br />He should get the brazen bull.TCBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08153506222271955110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-20215915126965243242018-03-10T06:06:07.707-08:002018-03-10T06:06:07.707-08:00Dr. Brin:
One can be Grandmaster Garry Kasparov o...Dr. Brin:<br /><br />One can be Grandmaster Garry Kasparov on the chessboard and also Kasparov, the politician in checkers or other arenas. A brilliant game's success in one (which can be studied and admired) will not necessarily follow into another endeavor, like poker or Hearts or geopolitics. <br /><br />Obama's hands were constrained (not meant as criticism of him, btw) by a "perfect storm" of conditions and events in the 2016 campaign. The sad point about this article is that we knew about and saw our nose bloodied; nevertheless, Putin got away with it. And, given the current state of things, we will not be able to "return the favor" in the near future.Russell Osterlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856820456499521004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-54470372269363742072018-03-10T00:39:21.395-08:002018-03-10T00:39:21.395-08:00Three brave and exemplary women were massacred by ...Three brave and exemplary women were massacred by a gunman in Yountville, California. This of the shootings already seems an epidemic.<br /><br /><br />Winter7Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-88257287565914765442018-03-09T22:04:18.548-08:002018-03-09T22:04:18.548-08:00Russell Osterlund, we are screwed… but primarily b...Russell Osterlund, we are screwed… but primarily because we are so easily misled into stylish gloom. Uh, let’s see who’s the great “chessmaster”? A fellow who nibbled back a small piece of territory? Or the same fellow who earlier lost the biggest chunk of his empire’s sphere of influence since the Cold War?David Brinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465315130418506525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-17199340942872989512018-03-09T19:14:45.666-08:002018-03-09T19:14:45.666-08:00winter7 | Thank you for the research, but my liber...winter7 | Thank you for the research, but my libertarian attitude rules here too. If I can leave something be and it takes care of itself, I prefer that. Ditching the sugar and carbs that makes so many of my fellow Americans obese is the right thing to do. Carbs are still a huge challenge for me, but I know how to do it at least. My former excesses with sugar I can deal with now.<br /><br />As long as I'm not broken (yet), I've got a body 'designed' by hundreds of millions of years for dealing with sugars properly. I'll rely upon it first and foremost because there aren't many other features within me that are that ancient. [Maybe the management of iron? That's working okay too now that my immune system isn't attacking me.] 8)Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-63586504293900949892018-03-09T17:22:35.696-08:002018-03-09T17:22:35.696-08:00Alfred Differ; LarryHart:
The leaves of cow paw (B...Alfred Differ; LarryHart:<br />The leaves of cow paw (Bauhinia forficata) lower the level of sugar in the blood. Also, it is not toxic. The tree is a giant legume. The seeds are edible and in some countries the tender leaves are eaten.<br />Just in case, here is a study on the toxicity of the cow's foot:<br />Evaluation of toxicity after one-months treatment with Bauhinia forficata decoction in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats<br />• Maria Teresa PepatoEmail author,<br />• Amanda Martins Baviera,<br />• Regina Célia Vendramini and<br />• Iguatemy Lourenço Brunetti<br />BMC Complementary and Alternative MedicineThe official journal of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR)20044:7<br />https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-4-7<br />© Pepato et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2004<br />Received: 10 December 2003<br />Accepted: 08 June 2004<br />Abstract<br />Background<br />Previous experiments have shown that a decoction of Bauhinia forficata leaves reduces the changes in carbohydrate and protein metabolism that occur in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. In the present investigation, the serum activities of enzymes known to be reliable toxicity markers were monitored in normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats to discover whether the use of B. forficata decoction has toxic effects on liver, muscle or pancreas tissue or on renal microcirculation.<br />Methods<br />An experimental group of normal and streptozotocin-diabetic rats received an aqueous decoction of fresh B. forficata leaves (150 g/L) by mouth for 33 days while a control group of normal and diabetic rats received water for the same length of time. The serum activity of the toxicity markers lactate dehydrogenase, creatine kinase, amylase, angiotensin-converting enzyme and bilirubin were assayed before receiving B. forficatadecoction and on day 19 and 33 of treatment.<br />Results<br />The toxicity markers in normal and diabetic rats were not altered by the diabetes itself nor by treatment with decoction. Whether or not they received B. forficata decoction the normal rats showed a significant increase in serum amylase activity during the experimental period while there was a tendency for the diabetic rats, both treated and untreated with decoction, to have lower serum amylase activities than the normal rats.<br />Conclusions<br />Administration of an aqueous decoction of B. forficata is a potential treatment for diabetes and does not produce toxic effects measurable with the enzyme markers used in our study.<br /><br />Winter7Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-44943632089234613742018-03-09T17:14:12.004-08:002018-03-09T17:14:12.004-08:00The problem is that the Dems will continue to play...The problem is that the Dems will continue to play by the rules!<br /><br />So Obama was not willing to expose the Donald during the presidential campaign<br /><br />The same as the Dems did not put Nixon, Reagan, Bush 2 and hordes of other Republicans in jail after they committed crimes <br />And in Nixon and Reagan's case those crimes were treating with an enemy - as in shooting enemy - of the USA for their own personal benefit and to the detriment of US military personnel<br /><br />The Dems have got to learn and put these criminals away - the ones that have died should be tried in absentia duncan cairncrosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14153725128216947145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-11397162222543726942018-03-09T16:05:13.863-08:002018-03-09T16:05:13.863-08:00This article paints the picture that Putin was pla...This article paints the picture that Putin was playing 3-D chess while Obama was playing checkers with one hand tied behind his back during the 2016 campaign season:<br /><br />https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stand-down-how-the-obama-team-blew-the-response-to-russian-meddling_us_5aa29a97e4b086698a9d1112<br /><br />We were so screwed.Russell Osterlundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856820456499521004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-13625446686227379732018-03-09T16:03:28.655-08:002018-03-09T16:03:28.655-08:00Alfred Differ:
There are different kinds of ‘swee...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />There are different kinds of ‘sweet’, but we overload our sense of taste so much that it’s hard to detect the subtleties. Lactose isn’t sucrose which isn’t fructose and so on.<br /></i><br /><br />You're in danger of sounding like Hawkeye did that episode where he stopped drinking and then had to keep talking about everything he notices now that he's off the sauce.<br /><br />:)<br /><br /><i><br />Now if I drink fully sugared sodas, I get a little dizzy. I know what high blood sugar does to one’s ability to think (one co-worker is diabetic and lost control for a while), so I recognize the signs.<br /></i><br /><br />I'm borderline diabetic myself, although it's well under control with a low dosage of oral medicine. No insulin shots for me. As a result, the only symptoms I've ever felt have been those of <b>low</b> blood sugar, when I eat too little after taking a dose of medicine.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-55824379246299598532018-03-09T14:38:25.752-08:002018-03-09T14:38:25.752-08:00Hi, Brin. When you were talking about videos and p...Hi, Brin. When you were talking about videos and photographs becoming unusable as evidence; I believe that the credibility in false videos is proportional to the degree of education that the population of a country has. For example, in Latin America, a fake video circulating on Twitter and Facebook could be taken very seriously. Even judges in Latin America would take the false videos as irrefutable evidence and make judgments based on it, although I do not rule out that after someone who was defamed, they could use experts to analyze the fake video and prove their innocence. But most people in Latin America can not afford the fees of an expert. Even worse. Possibly the victim will think that the video is real, but that it is a person similar to him.<br />And recently, I saw an article that talked about an application for YouTubers that allows the creator of videos to use the cell phone and pretend that it is on a battlefield or at a convention of some political party, because expensive software is no longer necessary and a green background to perform the chroma key trick. Now, you just select (I think you can use a background video) and when you videotape yourself, the youtuber seems to be anywhere: the moon; Mars, etc.<br />Now, we need a software that automatically analyzes a video or photo and tells us if it is false, showing the areas of pixel splicing, and the contradictions in the quality of image definition in different areas of a video and photo. Or we are finished.<br />Who the hell creates software capable of messing up millions of innocent people? Should I suppose that the creators of the software for trick videos had good intentions?<br /><br />The software that I think you were referring to, seems to be the one described in the following link:<br /><br />https://phys.org/news/2018-03-ai-fake-porn-revenge-complicated.html <br /><br />Winter7Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-3843205256664663672018-03-09T14:33:58.486-08:002018-03-09T14:33:58.486-08:00@locumranch | de novo Religion of Equalism
It is...@locumranch | <i>de novo Religion of Equalism </i><br /><br />It isn't 1am, so I'm not going to stoop to your level right now. Maybe tonight.<br /><br />I don't mind if you find cultural differences uncomfortable. I won't push you into accepting them all into your home. I will object, however, if you act to prevent me accepting them into my home.<br /><br />I'll defend you from progressives trying to push you too hard.<br />I'll fight you if you push against me and my family from doing what comes natural to us.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-3858955200501358522018-03-09T14:27:35.781-08:002018-03-09T14:27:35.781-08:00@LarryHart | Withdrawal for me involved the sugar....@LarryHart | Withdrawal for me involved the sugar. I noticed the caffeine reduction with the usual headaches, but that is easy enough to understand. When your capillaries dial back out and your body demands the water it needs (caffeine is a diuretic), headaches are just one of the symptoms. They don’t last long if you know what the signals mean and deal with them.<br /><br />My sugar intake reduction was harder to address, but well worth the effort. In the thick of my diet that followed I could taste the sugar in all sorts of other things. Milk is sweet. Cheese is too. Bread… well… carb reduction was part of my diet, so bread practically gave me a high. Bread with extra sugar in it, though, made me feel like my head wanted to explode. 8)<br /><br />There are different kinds of ‘sweet’, but we overload our sense of taste so much that it’s hard to detect the subtleties. Lactose isn’t sucrose which isn’t fructose and so on. I’m now of the opinion that if I can’t tell the difference when I taste something sweet, I’m taking in way too much sugar of some type… probably corn syrup from some food type to which I’m not paying enough attention. <br /><br />Now if I drink fully sugared sodas, I get a little dizzy. I know what high blood sugar does to one’s ability to think (one co-worker is diabetic and lost control for a while), so I recognize the signs. Also, part of my path to recovery in early 2014 involved high doses of prednisone. I got a direct glimpse of what it is like to live as a diabetic. No more. I’d like to live a while longer without having to manually control my insulin level.Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-26690935209651740192018-03-09T13:03:45.788-08:002018-03-09T13:03:45.788-08:00Alfred Differ:
I used to drink sodas by the bucke...Alfred Differ:<br /><i><br />I used to drink sodas by the bucket. ... I used to do that and wonder why I couldn’t lose any weight. Duh. I began a switch to iced tea and suffered what felt like withdrawal symptoms. <br /></i><br /><br />From the sugar or from the caffeine? Caffeinated iced tea could help with the latter problem. But then I like mine sugared, so whatever.<br /><br /><i><br />I waffled for a while and even tried diet sodas, but the sweet taste of sugar wanna-bees just made me miss the sugar more. <br /></i><br /><br />I've always been hesitant to put artificial sweeteners in my body, and from what I've heard, they don't satisfy the taste for sugar anyway. What you say sounds correct. When I drink sugar, I don't just want the taste--I want the energy boost. Sugar that tastes like something else would make more sense than something else that tastes like sugar.<br /><br /><i><br />When I spent time in Charlotte I got to know sweet-tea, but California isn’t into that much. Finding it here usually means purchasing it in a bottle and that is expensive <br /></i><br /><br />McDonalds serves sweet tea now. And it is <b>really effing</b> sweet. I never thought I would ever say something was too sweet for me to handle, but they sure showed me a thing or two.<br /><br /><i><br />Enough years have passed now that I’m not suffering the sugar withdrawals anymore and I get to drink tea that actually tastes like it wasn’t swept up off the floor.<br /></i><br /><br />My sister-in-law is from India, so I've known the difference between Darjeeling and English Breakfast tea for a long time now. Separately and coincidentally, my wife has stomach trouble with coffee, so she drinks a lot of tea, and she isn't satisfied with just plain Lipton. Even though I do drink coffee (but only in the mornings), the women in my life have introduced me to quite a bit of tea.LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-40448511850718675682018-03-09T12:50:07.755-08:002018-03-09T12:50:07.755-08:00@Paul SB | …no doubt piss off at least 20% of the ...@Paul SB | <i>…no doubt piss off at least 20% of the country</i><br /><br />No doubt. I will admit to enjoying that fact to some degree. I have a nephew and a niece both serving our nation right now (Navy Reserves and Air Force active duty if I recall correctly) who could also be at home among their relatives south of the border. My brother married across one of those cultural borders on which fools would erect a barrier and now his children serve. My position on immigration, therefore, is understandably biased by evidence within my own extended family. So [ahem] I admit to an inclination toward righteous indignation when they want to harm us.<br /><br />Regarding iced tea, it is sugar free. I used to drink sodas by the bucket. When large cups from the days when I was a kid are called small today, I refer to the new large ones as buckets. I used to do that and wonder why I couldn’t lose any weight. Duh. I began a switch to iced tea and suffered what felt like withdrawal symptoms. (Yup. Understanding the brain better now helps explain all that.) I waffled for a while and even tried diet sodas, but the sweet taste of sugar wanna-bees just made me miss the sugar more. When I spent time in Charlotte I got to know sweet-tea, but California isn’t into that much. Finding it here usually means purchasing it in a bottle and that is expensive and leaves me drinking the lame teas Americans tolerate. Enough years have passed now that I’m not suffering the sugar withdrawals anymore and I get to drink tea that actually tastes like it wasn’t swept up off the floor. If I’m not making my own, I pay attention to the brew’s pedigree. I’m much happier (and probably more caffeinated) as a result.<br /><br />Drinking black tea is like drinking red wine. Which kind is it? 8)Alfred Differhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01170159981105973192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-8651018160570125252018-03-09T11:59:54.387-08:002018-03-09T11:59:54.387-08:00@LarryHart said, "People have asked what make...@LarryHart said, "People have asked what makes our country so much more violent than others."<br /><br />Is the United States actually more violent than other countries, or are we simply more lethal? <br /><br />The biggest difference that I remember seeing about most such studies, is that American crime is MUCH more likely to involve a gun and therefore MUCH MUCH more likely to result in death or severe injury. When it comes to our crime and mass shootings it really is mostly the availability of guns that makes us exceptional.Berialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-68679689695019343062018-03-09T10:47:17.398-08:002018-03-09T10:47:17.398-08:00https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mendi...<br />https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall<br /><br />"Good fences make good neighbours," said Robert Frost in his 'Mending Wall' in order to communicate that the recognition of individual (and/or interpersonal) boundaries denotes mutual respect.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the modern progressive who despises interpersonal boundaries & attempts to erase them in the pursuit of their global de novo Religion of Equalism also despises & actively disrespects the individual insomuch as mutual respect cannot exist without the mutual recognition of boundaries.<br /><br />"Psychological limits define personal dignity (and) boundaries are conscious and healthy ways to protect ourselves from emotional harm". Thus, walls & fences connote mutual respect, whereas the deliberate destruction of barriers & boundaries causes irreparable emotional damage to many individuals, increasing the likelihood of responsively violent self-protective outbursts, as in the case of 9/11 & every school shooting.<br /><br />By erasing cultural boundaries with instantaneous satellite communications & hypersexualised Hollywood propaganda, the West actually precipitated 9/11 by actively attacking the Middle East by disrespecting Muslim cultural barriers, just as similar attacks on interpersonal masculine boundaries (perpetuated by West's progressive educational curriculum) tend to generate a violent response from certain emotionally-stunted males.<br /><br /><b>Your meddling anti-boundary progressive ideologies are the direct cause school shootings everywhere.</b><br /><br />Likewise, my personal detachment (and the increasing detachment of my personal cohort) represents a healthy self-protective emotional response rather than a 'pathology' as David snidely suggests, even as he damns me as a deplorablely irresponsible evil white male who represents everything he hates.<br /><br />Emotional detachment, #NotMyProblem and ZFG are perhaps the healthiest emotional response to the relentless progressive attack on masculine ego integrity -- as opposed suicidal outbursts, random violence & nationalist posturing -- and both Progressivism & Climate Change amelioration are <b>doomed to fail</b> until they understand this basic facet of human psychology.<br /><br />https://www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/2284/jewish/Boundaries.htm<br /><br />To quote the Talmudic take on the importance of boundaries:<br /><br />"The Torah's concept of "peace" is not the indiscriminate fusion of the diverse components of G‑d's world, but a regulated integration <b>in which boundaries are respected and the individual qualities of the integrated entities are preserved</b>".<br /><br />Now, Bite My Shiny Metal Arse.<br /><br />Best<br />locumranchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-34973108432273705692018-03-09T07:29:15.523-08:002018-03-09T07:29:15.523-08:00Something I don't get about the Trump Lawyer/S...Something I don't get about the Trump Lawyer/Stormy Daniels issue:<br /><br />https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/09/opinion/stormy-daniels-trump-cohen.html<br /><br /><i><br />On Jan. 22, the nonpartisan government watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice claiming that the $130,000 payment to Daniels constituted an in-kind contribution to Trump’s presidential campaign, in violation of federal campaign law.<br /><br />In response, Cohen claimed that the payment was a private transaction that he was able to “facilitate” with his own personal funds. (It was made through a limited liability company Cohen created called Essential Consultants.) “Neither the Trump Organization nor the Trump campaign was a party to the transaction with Ms. Clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly,” Cohen said in a statement to The Times.<br /></i><br /><br />So that's a defense--that the lawyer ostensibly paid the porn star out of his own pocket and was not reimbursed by the Trump campaign.<br /><br />How does that argument prevent the contribution from being regarded as a campaign donation? Doesn't that prove it <b>was</b> one? OTOH, if the campaign <b>had</b> reimbursed him, he could claim it was simply a short-term loan.<br /><br />Never mind what you think about the issue itself, or whether the lawyer's defense is credible. I'm asking why what the lawyer claims leads to the conclusion everyone says it does rather than a different thing, in fact the opposite thing.<br />LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-73647090529875759522018-03-09T06:42:43.222-08:002018-03-09T06:42:43.222-08:00Paul SB:
Now let’s see what happens inside people...Paul SB:<br /><i><br />Now let’s see what happens inside people who are exposed to a constant bombardment of negativity: anything that appears threatening to people - especially things that threaten a person’s social status (sociopaths excepted) ...<br /></i><br /><br />That's a point. People have asked what makes our country so much more violent than others. Some blame violent video games and movies, but others counter that all of those things are available in other countries, and some have even more violent versions than ours. But do other countries have an equivalent of FOX News and large swaths of population for whom such outlets are their primary source of information?LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-84897790947992997072018-03-09T06:39:12.000-08:002018-03-09T06:39:12.000-08:00Paul SB:
BTW, I hope your iced tea was sugar free...Paul SB:<br /><i><br />BTW, I hope your iced tea was sugar free. <br /></i><br /><br />Sorry, but I like my iced tea to crunch when I bite into it.<br /><br />:)LarryHartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587336.post-78930445712873263572018-03-09T06:37:13.342-08:002018-03-09T06:37:13.342-08:00sociotard:
If Donald Trump
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I will vote for hi...sociotard:<br /><i><br />If Donald Trump<br />...<br />I will vote for him in 2020. <br /></i><br /><br />Heh. I understand the sense of relief that President Snow might--just might--not destroy the country and life as we know it. However, it seems to me that you're experiencing Stockholm Syndrome.<br /><br />I'd also be very careful not to reenact the final chapter of <i>1984</i>. Remember what happens after "He loved Big Brother."<br />LarryHartnoreply@blogger.com