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The Swiss help to save Obamacare

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New bootlegged picture of the day

see: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/18/there-was-shrinkage/ for details

Floating around the Internet

"> 25.  HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A CIVIL WAR?" -- from forwarded e-mail


A good question for all of the people who have a civility fetish.

Once again it is not true but it is true news story

"Shooting Suspect Had Been Known to Use Potent, and Legal, Hallucinogen

By A. G. SULZBERGER and JENNIFER MEDINA

Published: January 17, 2011

TUCSON — No one has suggested that his use of a hallucinogenic herb or any other drugs contributed to Jared L. Loughner’s apparent mental unraveling that culminated with his being charged in a devastating outburst of violence here.

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Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times

Salvia divinorum, a perennial in the mint family, is a legal drug.

This one was from the NT Times  at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/us/18salvia.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

Yet it is striking how closely the typical effects of smoking the herb, Salvia divinorum — which federal drug officials warn can closely mimic psychosis — matched Mr. Loughner’s own comments about how he saw the world, like his often-repeated assertion that he spent most of his waking hours in a dream world that he had learned to control."

Steady Eddie's new Steady

Steady Eddie (see comment on previous post) is a closet woodturner so he needs a steady like the one above. Woodturners  use a steady to work with  poles on their lathes without the pole wobbling around rather than use their hands to keep the pole steady. 


Source of picture: http://www.pennstateind.com/store/LSR3.html

Up to Dulute to see doctor today

but he went home sick right before we got there. Another life enriching experience.

The wonders of technology

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Snowy Saturday

Multinational wine stopper

Indian wood with a Formosan metal part crafted by country bumpkin labor up north.

Patience pays off -- the media is starting to get it -- a TWW no-think piece

Part one: "Non-Political Killers

The insights of this study are interesting to review in light of the Arizona shooting, though obviously we still don't know that much about Loughner himself. Perhaps the most interesting finding is that according to Fein and Vossekuil, assassinations of political figures were almost never for political reasons."

This is from an NPR story about assassinations or attempts done by the Secret Service.  The now famous sheriff in AZ must not have seen the study. 

The study says "And one thing Borum and Fein say about choosing a political figure — as opposed to choosing a show business celebrity — is that you are able to associate yourself with a broader political movement or goal. That allows the would-be assassin to see himself as not such a bad person. In this way, Borum says, assassins are basically murderers in search of a cause."

So the assassins get famous but do not see themselves as bad people and Sheriffs who jump to conclusions and smear their political enemies get to become famous (slanderers in search of a cause?) but not see themselves as bad persons?? 

Or could these assassins listen to talk radio as they search of a cause or was it the music they hear or the Arizona Zeitgeist movement or video games?  The jury is still out on AZ except for the people who want to use it to smear their political enemies. 

see the story or listen at:  http://www.npr.org/2011/01/14/132909487/fame-through-assassination-a-secret-service-study

Part 2: After thoughts


Part one stirred something in TWW's brain and out came the terms: projection of personal poop and delusions of danger as a way to describe the reaction of political liberals to the recent tragedy in AZ. These concepts can also describe the conservatives but that will be for a later no-think piece.

The psycho-babblers describe projection as when people see aspects in themselves (deep inside like poop) in other people rather than acknowledge it in themselves.  TWW thinks many people with hardcore liberal beliefs must have lots of anger and hostility deep inside themselves so love to project that onto the Tea Party people or conservatives and find them violent even if most of the Tea people aren't.

And then there are delusions of danger. A delusion is where you see something in the real world and then interpret to have a meaning that is deluded.

Combine these two in people and then when a violent tragedy comes along the hardcore liberals are not able to see reality and run amok blaming things like talk radio and the politcal climate.  They need to see their world filled violent people who happen to have different values out there to meet their own needs.

Your assignment is to study how these concepts apply to the hardcore conservatives.  If this assignment upsets you then the concepts must be true about liberals and you are one of them (which you are free to be.) 

Nice sunrise; bad driveway

Inside information: The Zeitgeist movement -- be patient the media will eventually get it

From the evil Fox network: 


(A friend of Lougher named Osler said)  " Loughner wasn't shooting at people, "he was shooting at the world."


Osler said he instead suspects that Loughner was motivated by a documentary called, "Zeitgeist: The Movie," which slams currency-based economics."




Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/12/report-alleged-arizona-gunman-did-watch-news-television/#ixzz1Ar6JaT3q

While it snows up here on our devalued house

The President feels our pain  too:   "And while the president is physically protected in an emergency, whisked to a bunker at an undisclosed location, the actual White House is not: The value of1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has dropped by $80 million, or nearly 25 percent since the peak of the housing boom. It’s current value is $251.6 million, according to Zillow, down from $331.5 million." see http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019790

Finally the truth about global warming?

It has to be talk radio

Some people think the song below (see link) had some influence on the tragedy in AZ. They are wrong. Only the uneducated would think it wasn't talk radio.

Monday - nothing much has changed - the media

"Journalists urged caution after Ft. Hood, now race to blame Palin after Arizona shootings
By: Byron York 01/09/11 8:58 AM

Chief Political Correspondent

On November 5, 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan opened fire at a troop readiness center in Ft. Hood, Texas, killing 13 people. Within hours of the killings, the world knew that Hasan reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before he began shooting, visited websites associated with Islamist violence, wrote Internet postings justifying Muslim suicide bombings, considered U.S. forces his enemy, opposed American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as wars on Islam, and told a neighbor shortly before the shootings that he was going "to do good work for God." There was ample evidence, in other words, that the Ft. Hood attack was an act of Islamist violence.

...............Indeed, there is no "overt" or any other sort of connection between Loughner and Palin. If such evidence came to light, it would certainly be news. But without that evidence, and after a brief caveat, the CNN group went back to discussing the theory that Loughner acted out of rage inspired by Palin and other Republicans. Conclusions were jumped to all around.

And it wasn't just CNN. Other media outlets were also filled with speculation about the attack and pronouncements on the state of American political rhetoric. What a markedly different situation from 15 months earlier when, in the face of actual evidence that Maj. Hasan was inspired by Islamist convictions, many media commentators sought to be voices of caution. Where was that caution after the shootings in Arizona?"

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/journalists-urged-caution-after-ft-hood-now-race-blame-palin-afte#ixzz1AdWxfizD

TWW comment: "with all the news coverage doesn't it seem funny the parents are not talked about or have not made any comments yet?"


And "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. (in 2008)

Sunday walkabout - nothing much has changed

Life enrichment after enlightenment quest

There is a Zen saying, "Before Enlightenment chop wood carry water, after Enlightenment,chop wood carry water."  Up north on Garbin Moraine the enlightened ones say "use a log splitter, pull the wood in an ice sled and get your enlightenment from Leinies".