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I am not sure anyone will employ him after what everyone will learn about him BEFORE the election. What do you think?

Georgia attack is 'Russia's 9/11' Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has described Georgia's assault on South Ossetia as Russia's 9/11. He said the world had learnt lessons from the attacks in the US on 11 September 2001 and hoped the same would happen after events in the Caucasus. Reports say Russian troops are showing signs of preparing to pull back from inside Georgia. This is in line with a ceasefire deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday. However, a Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman cast doubt on the preparations, saying: "There has been no sign of a withdrawal." 'Changed world'...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MavlrKO1n-c Also, in the comments section, another guy posted a link to his myspace page on which he posted a recording of his mother: http://www.myspace.com/insanepsychomom

Yesterday I posted this quote from Elizabeth from the Will Steger Foundation global warming expedition to the artic.............. It felt so good to be back on trail. The weather was relatively warm for this time of year, there was little wind and the sun was shining. The mountains plunge dramatically to the ice on all sides. The U-shape of the head of the fiord ahead of us gave us a clue to the glaciations that sculpted this land, grinding away the granite to leave sheer walls of bare rock. I felt like I was inside an I-Max movie. I couldn't...

A Mystery Man Who Keeps the FBI Up at Night Officials hunting virtually full time for a Florida computer technician see him as the ultimate 'sleeper agent' in the post-9/11 world. By Josh Meyer Times Staff Writer September 3, 2006 CHARLIEVILLE, Trinidad and Tobago — Five years ago, as 19 Al Qaeda operatives in the United States put the finishing touches on what would become the Sept. 11 attacks, a frail, asthmatic computer engineer from South Florida paid a visit to this tiny Muslim enclave where he'd lived as a boy. Adnan Gulshair Muhammad el Shukrijumah, then 25, kept a...

Women more likely to be perpetrators of abuse as well as victims Filed under Research, Education, Family, Law, Gender on Thursday, July 13, 2006. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners, according to a University of Florida study that finds college women have a new view of the dating scene. “We’re seeing women in relationships acting differently nowadays than we have in the past,” said Angela Gover, a UF criminologist who led the research. “The nature of criminality has been changing for females, and this change is reflected in intimate...

You don't realize it, but you are constantly enjoying the benefits of science. For example, when you turn on the radio, you take it for granted that music will come out. But do you ever stop to think that this miracle would not be possible without the work of scientists? That's right: There are tiny scientists inside that radio, playing instruments! A similar principle is used in automatic bank-teller machines, which is why they frequently say, ''Sorry, out of service.'' They're too embarrassed to say, ``Sorry, tiny scientist going to the bathroom.'' Yes, science plays a vital role in your...

CHICAGO - Soaring numbers of American children are being prescribed anti-psychotic drugs — in many cases, for attention deficit disorder or other behavioral problems for which these medications have not been proven to work, a study found. The annual number of children prescribed anti-psychotic drugs jumped fivefold between 1995 and 2002, to an estimated 2.5 million, the study said. That is an increase from 8.6 out of every 1,000 children in the mid-1990s to nearly 40 out of 1,000. But more than half of the prescriptions were for attention deficit and other non-psychotic conditions, the researchers said.

There's no helping you. This site is now just a diversion -- like a train wreck. This site is inherently for and about raving egomaniacs, and Jim's site policies -- which amount to excluding reality and actual dialogue in favor of political/militaristic pornography -- is conducive to cognitive dissonance, which at the times your worldview is threatened leads you into psychotic breaks (on the political cognitive plane, that is, and just maybe in other realms too). Not to mention that your baseline politics is based in mythology about American demographics, science, economics, ethics etc. You spoonfeed each other in the...

Reviewing Mary Mapes' new book, Truth and Duty, in the November 2 National Review, Byron York opens with a description of the 60 Minutes II story that got her fired from CBS last year. That story said CBS had new documents shedding light on an old story--that George W. Bush had spent the Vietnam War years in a playboy unit of the National Guard and skipped out when he got bored. "CBS aired the documents in a 60 Minutes II report on September 8, 2004, and all hell broke loose," York writes in his review. "Within hours, the papers were...

Oct.12, 2005 (Washington) -- Children growing up in same-sex parental households do not necessarily have differences in self-esteem, gender identity, or emotional problems from children growing up in heterosexual parent homes."There are a lot of children with at least one gay or lesbian parent," says Ellen C. Perrin, MD, professor of pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. She revealed the findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics Conference and Exhibition.Between 1 million and 6 million children in the U.S. are being reared by committed lesbian or gay couples, she says. Children being raised by same-sex parents were...

WASHINGTON, DC --- After a recent shocking revelation that a terrorist in Guantanamo Bay prison was forced to wear a bra and act like a dog, Senator Dick Durbin called for banning all fraternities on college campuses. "Gitmo is run just like the Gulags, like Nazi death camps, like Pol Pot's killing fields," said Durbin. "And these recent antics demonstrate that the tactics of these monsters are similar to those used in hazing incidents at fraternities. We owe it to ourselves to end the use of tactics that would make Hitler blush at our own university system. Some day the...

WASHINGTON - Whether it's smoked, snorted, swallowed or injected, methamphetamine is more addictive and more damaging to the brain than cocaine, heroin and most other illegal drugs. It's also unusually efficient at ruining lives, ensnaring entire families and turning parents and children into addicts fixated only on their next euphoric high. "If the adults use it, the kids are going to be around it and get roped in," said Dr. William Haning, director of the Addiction Psychiatry Residency Program for the University of Hawaii's medical school. "As crazy as this sounds, the parent won't necessarily see this as a bad...

<p>FREEDOM rEVOLUTION MOVEMENT IS A GROUP DEDICATED TO FREEDOM. no creed, color, race, sex, its all 1 race. we need eachother. there are no sides, we are all in this together!!!!</p> <p>FREEDOM. ITS TIME TO END THE WAY OUR WORLD IS RUN BY GOVERNMENTS DICTATING WHAT OUR POLICIES ARE. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL. ITS TIME TO STAND UP AND PUT AN END TO THE CORRUPTION AND GREED THE POWERS TO BE HAVE INSTILLED. WORLD REVOLUTION.ITS TIME TO TAKE BACK OUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS AND STOP THE WARS, RACISM, HATRED THAT HAS TAKEN OVER.NOTN IN OUR NAMES WILL GOVTS WAGE WAR, KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE OVER GREED, OIL, POWER. THE TIME IS NOW. STAND UP FOR YOUR PERSONAL FREEDOMS. NO MORE PERSONAL AGENDAS. NO MORE OPPRESSION. 1 EARTH, 1 HUMAN RACE. TAKE THE POWER BACK. POWER TO THE PEACEFUL! THE rEVOLUTION OF COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS STARTS NOW. EVOLUTION OR EXTINCTION! A NEW WORLD IS POSSIBLE AND WE PLEDGE TO MAKE IT REAL!</p>

Mental Health Charity Calls for Cannabis Probe Sat Jan 29,10:37 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A British health charity called on Saturday for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness. Rethink, which campaigns on behalf of schizophrenia sufferers, said the mental health risks of using cannabis were not widely understood. "There is strong evidence from a wide range of sources that long term and short-term use of cannabis can 'trigger' a psychotic episode of schizophrenia in people who are at high risk of developing schizophrenia --- for instance, people who...

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

George W. Bush is ill. He has a psycho-spiritual disease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It's an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it's an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose. Bush's malady is quite different from schizophrenia, for example, in which all the different parts of the personality are fragmented and not connected to each other,...

Nationally syndicated radio show host Michael Savage is smiling - thanks to Clear Channel. The mega-sized radio company has signed Savage to a mulit-million dollar, multi-year contract to continue as the afternoon drive time host at its San Francisco Bay area station KNEW (910 AM). Savage is already the #1 most listened-to host during the 3 to 6 p.m. drive time slot. The announcement of Savage's deal will be made in the next few days, but it is already causing ripples in the hot San Francisco market. The terms of the deal won't be disclosed, but will make Savage among...

If anyone's needs reminding about the intent and character of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) towards the United States, one only take a look at this photo, taken at a North Korean pre-school in the capital city of Pyongyang, just yesterday.

John F. Kerry returns to the U.S. Senate. But what about his die-hard supporters - or the voters who chose Kerry but would have settled for anyone but Bush?They stray between anger and outrage, frustration and despair. What's happened to their country, they wonder? How could George W. Bush - a man they consider remarkably unreflective, an intellectual lightweight and someone they believe deliberately misled the country into war - have won? Ralph Wahlstrom, a Buffalo State College English professor, said he still has trouble accepting Bush's re-election a week and a half later. "I've never felt like this before,...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANYBODY BUT BUSH OR KERRY Neither is fit to serve & I have never seen 2 more mediocre & sorry choices for prez than these two bozos/shysters Dont be duped or fooled by those 2 con artists again as the Who song says. Wouldnt buy a used car from either one. Its not what they SAY only what they do & on that basis neither is fit to serve. except a jail term Go 3rd party or bust. ANYBODY BUT GB OR JK.DOWN WITH BOTH. GO WITH THE CONSTTITUTION OR LIBERTARIAN PARTY OR STAY HOME & DO US ALL...

(Excerpt) Despite everything, Love believes her predicament is the result of a coordinated financial, legal and personal smear campaign. In a recent interview with London's Sunday Telegraph, she was asked if she bears any responsibility for her current problems. "The last thing I want to say is, 'I'm a victim', but I am. I believe it's a trickledown from Bush... I should have done an audit. I should have done face-time with people. That is true. But did I bring it on myself? I don't think so."

"BRITISH actress Vanessa Redgrave, who campaigns for prisoners at the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, today denounced alleged torture at the jail and demanded the repatriation of the inmates. Ms. Redgrave was speaking in the town of Venissieux, France, home to two of the prisoners held at the centre. "The health and detention conditions at the Guantanamo base are a genuine reason for urgency," she said in French after meeting relatives of the detainees, Mourad Benchelalli and Nizar Sassi..."

Dr. Dittohead I thought my therapist was brilliant -- until I discovered her love for Rush Limbaugh. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Margot Mifflin April 8, 2004 I was sitting in therapy describing an in-law I like, and quickly heading for a "but." "He's a loving, caring, selfless man -- but his politics are all about hatred," I said. "He's not educated, and more significant, he's ignorant -- he actually listens to Rush Limbaugh." I waited for a "Whoo boy!" or a sympathetic smile, but my shrink just stared at me, expressionless....

A Christmas Carol for Any Psychosis! Schizophrenia - Do You Hear What I Hear? Multiple Personality - We Three Queens Disoriented Are. Dementia - I Think I'll Be Home For Christmas. Narcissistic - Hark The Herald Angels Sing (About Me) Mania - Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stores and Office and Town ... Paranoia - Santa Claus is Coming To Town (To Get Me). Personality Disorder - You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gonna Pout, then MAYBE I'll tell you why. Depression - Silent anhedonia, Holy anhedonia. All is calm, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...

AMMAN, 22 October 2003 — It matters little whether the mastermind behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza last week was a Palestinian group or Israeli intelligence. What’s of relevance, however, is that the Palestinian people will wholly bear the brunt of the incident. Censuring the weakest party is a habit that has infected the ongoing Middle East conflict for decades. To illustrate: Palestinian parents are still being customarily accused of recruiting their own children for “martyrdom” for the sake of some funneled dollars provided by Arab governments or for the sake of merely blemishing Israel’s image. With the...

Six Dead in Miss. Plant Shooting Rampage The Associated Press Jul 8 2003 8:15PM MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - A factory worker known as a racist ``hothead'' who talked about killing people opened fire with a shotgun at a Lockheed Martin plant Tuesday, leaving five fellow employees dead before committing suicide. Dozens of employees at the aircraft parts plant frantically ran for cover after assembly worker Doug Williams, dressed in a black T-shirt and camouflage pants, started firing during a morning break. As many as eight people were wounded in the nation's deadliest workplace shooting in 2 1/2 years. ``At first...

London - The increasing use of cannabis by adolescents is threatening the mental health of a generation because of the drug's capacity to trigger psychosis, a leading psychiatrist has warned. Robin Murray, a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, said growing evidence linking cannabis with mental disorder had failed to curb use of the drug. One study suggested cannabis users were at seven times higher risk of developing mental problems. "In the past 18 months, a number of studies have confirmed that cannabis consumption increases later risk of schizophrenia," he told the Royal College of Psychiatrists annual conference in Edinburgh....

(Japanese) Cultists Fearing Microwave Attack Whitewash RoadsideGIFU, Japan -- Some 40 members of a bizarre cult have taken over a 200-meter stretch of road in Gifu Prefecture, covering up crash barriers and roadside trees with huge white cloths, it was learned Tuesday. Members of the 'Panawave' cult confront local residents in Gifu Prefecture. Officials of Hachiman and Yamato, the two central Japan towns that manage the Omami road, have urged members of the Fukui-based cult, the "Panawave Laboratory," to move out but they have refused to comply. "One of us fell ill while we were heading to Yamanashi Prefecture...

In the darkness at dawn the other day, I nearly broke every bone in my body when I tripped over something on the sidewalk. It was a dog as small as your foot. No wonder I didn't notice him. "Sorry," a man said, holding the small dog on a leash. ...... Pepe cannot let his pit bull go unchained. Which is just what he had around the dog's neck, a big thick tire chain from a gas station. ...... Here he came lunging and Pepe held onto the chain for all in his arms and the front of the dog,...

A LONDON-BASED human rights organisation will file a complaint this week with the International Olympic Committee against Saddam Hussein’s elder son Uday, saying he has punished some of Iraq’s top sportsmen with beatings, harassment and electric shock torture. It claims he once made a group of athletes crawl on newly poured asphalt while they were hit with a cable. Among the allegations is a charge that in the basement of Iraq’s lavish Olympic committee headquarters in Baghdad, Uday ran a 30-cell prison for sportsmen and others who had offended him. He allegedly used its warehouses for smuggling in contravention of...

<p>If Kurt Cobain had looked less like a rent boy on the Lido and more like, say, Howdy Doody, would he be alive and well today? On the other hand, if Cobain hadn't found an outlet and an audience for his hostility by performing in the band Nirvana, would he have turned the shotgun he used to kill himself in 1994 on the rest of us instead?</p>

<p>Sekou Mims's son was 16 when he experienced a sudden psychotic breakdown. Over three months, the black teenager had a series of delusions - that white police were following him, that white strangers on a train were staring at him menacingly. He'd hyperventilate walking down the street. All his delusions revolved around racism.</p>