149 - More healthcare humor

148 - God fight!

Hears a link to an on going God fight from a letter to the editor comment in JG-TC Online.

Link - God fight!

147 - Alabama's watching you

Here's an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the efficiency of Alabama's homeland security department.

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The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a website it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.

The website identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents.

The director of the department, Jim Walker, said his agency received a number of calls and e-mails from people who said they felt the site unfairly targeted certain people just because of their beliefs. He said he plans to put the website back on the Internet but will no longer identify specific groups.
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At least they're equal opportunity snoopers, they're watching everybody. Isn't this how Hitler got started? Now all they have to do is add voters to their list of terrorists and they'll have everybody covered.

Link - Alabama terrorists

146 - Right but wrong

Dear Jimmy, I know you were (and still are) right but you don't need to put yourself in the limelight for saying bad things about Bush. Just do the expresident thing and go around doing good deeds. Leave the Bush bashing to the people that have the most to gain from it. I.e. the rest of the American people.

Link - Mike Peters

145 - Health care reality

Link - nonsequitur

144 - We have to xxxx because of xxxx

Another business has announced - "Were cutting back to concentrate on our core business". Next year it will be - "We have to expand to keep up with competition". Then back to the core. Then expand away. Pretty soon they'll be concentrating on their core expansion. GM will have to core expand from make cars to making TV's. Sony will core expand from TV's to health foods. And on and on. Business bullshit. Here's a new business term for them. Core Concentration Expansion Factor. I can hear the buzz in all the board rooms. Whats our CCEF?!!! Is it up, down or sideways?! We've got to improve our CCEF or we'll go out of business! Start spinning our CCEF in a different direction so it looks like were doing something!!!!

143 - Farewell Falwell

Link - Mike Peters editorials

142 - Speaks for itself

Link - Duplex

141 - Who's MY candidate?

Well I took the test...quiz... ... I filled out the form mentioned on the previous post. I got a 70% match on Dennis Kucinich. I had planned on sending a hundred bucks to the candidate that matched me best. But the best match was only 70%. So I thought, I'll send Dennis 70 bucks and wait to find out who matches my remaining 30%. But I finally figured out the program wasn't going to tell me my remainder match so I took the $30 and bought beer instead.

140 - Who's your candidate?

Go to this site. Click on "2008 Presidential VoteMatch quiz" (right under the pictures). Answer the questions and find out which candidate has values closest to yours.

Link - ontheissues.org

139 - Cartoons that speak for themselves

138 - Quote

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
Mark Twain

137 - Quote

"Any government is certain to be evil to some extent."
Albert Einstein

136 - Mind-altering media

From a NewScientist article.

One thing researchers agree on is that any technology we use will change the brain. There's nothing surprising or sinister about this, says Martin Westwell at the University of Oxford's Institute for the Future of the Mind. "You are who you are largely because of the way the brain cells wire up in response to the environment and the things you do," he says. "If you change the wiring you will change how we think."
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Experiments in the lab have addressed the causal question, by dishing out particular viewing or gaming experiences followed by behavioural tests or questionnaires. This kind of study has shown that after watching just half an hour of violence, children have more devious and aggressive thoughts, are more likely to inflict punishments, and are less likely to cooperate.

Brain imaging and other physiological measures also reveal changes in emotional responses to violent images as a result of viewing violence or playing violent games. Bruce Bartholow of the University of Missouri, Columbia, has found that people with a history of game playing have a reduced brain response to shocking pictures, suggesting that people begin to see such imagery as more normal. Another study found that frontal lobe activity was reduced in youngsters who played a violent video game for 30 minutes, compared with those playing an equally exciting but non-violent game. This brain region is important for concentration and impulse control, among other things. A region called the amygdala, important for emotional control, was more aroused in those who experienced the violent game.

Other studies show that children store memories of violent media acts in brain regions reserved for long-term storage of significant events. These memories can pop back into the mind very rapidly, even when not wanted, as flashbacks.


Link - Mind-altering media

This link won't get you the whole article. If you want access to all of the magazine it's worth the price. But there is still a lot of good free access to most articles.
The "more normal" bold is my accent. I thought it made the paragraph perfect for my site.

135 - More jihad stuff

Don't rock the boat, it could get you killed. Wait! ....... Uh... killed sooner!

134 - and still counting

I've got a way to go before I catch up with the unibomber. He wrote 232 posts.

Link - unibomber manifesto