Busybody defends himself from my allegation that he is...

[busybody..]

I got Sean on iggy for his unreasonable personal attacks on my brother.

you gonna put me on IGGY when the NFL season starts and the excuses fly from Edwards and Im gonna REMIND you

I TOLD YOU SO!

 

[Peregrinator]

Love me TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeez. I defend you all the time.

 

[Peregrinator]

I have to admit, that is the least scary Cthulhu ever

http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/images/cthulhumedium.jpg

 

[busybody..]

Local govt or local private? Who sets the standards and enforces them?

give the parents a CHOICE

public or private

whichever educates better

Interesting how the LIBS want CHOICE when it comes to KILLING BABIES

but dont want CHOICE when it comes to EDUCATING BABIES

NO?

 

[busybody..]

Jeez. I defend you all the time.

but do you LOVE me

THAT is the question,

do you LOVE me???????????????????????

 

[busybody..]

give the parents a CHOICE

public or private

whichever educates better

Interesting how the LIBS want CHOICE when it comes to KILLING BABIES

but dont want CHOICE when it comes to EDUCATING BABIES

NO?

I gotta pat myself on the back, THIS was a real good one

Im so damn smart, Im scarin myself!

 

[Sean]

Jeez. I defend you all the time.

So do I for some reason that I have yet to work out

 

[Peregrinator]

give the parents a CHOICE

public or private

whichever educates better

Interesting how the LIBS want CHOICE when it comes to KILLING BABIES

but dont want CHOICE when it comes to EDUCATING BABIES

NO?

And who sets/enforces the stds?

 

[busybody..]

So do I for some reason that I have yet to work out

need I remind you AGAIN

we are LOVERS

I know, cause I read it on LIT!

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

busybody, I take football as seriously as I take the WWF, WWE, er, uh, whatever!



But he is a person of character. I like him. Maybe he ain't the best brain on the block. Neither is Bill Cowher...

 

[Peregrinator]

So do I for some reason that I have yet to work out

Odd, isn't it?

 

[Sean]

http://www.toyvault.com/cthulhu/images/cthulhumedium.jpg

The question then occurs, what kind of twisted individual would buy a toy of The Ancient One for their kid???

 

[busybody..]

And who sets/enforces the stds?

market place

Let schools advertise their standards, the graduation rate, the gpa's the qualifications of the teachers

THE MARKETPLACE

The school teachers we have now are USELESS

if the kids cant keep up, dont coddle em and pass em

TOUGH!

 

[Peregrinator]

busybody, I take football as seriously as I take the WWF, WWE, er, uh, whatever!



But he is a person of character. I like him. Maybe he ain't the best brain on the block. Neither is Bill Cowher...

I suppose it's the character that does it.

Ask him a question; seriously, you're good at the hotbutton issues. We're trying to determine if he's far right or not.

 

[Peregrinator]

The question then occurs, what kind of twisted individual would buy a toy of The Ancient One for their kid???

I've given two of them as gifts to new kids of friends. The have Nyarlathotep, too.

 

[busybody..]

busybody, I take football as seriously as I take the WWF, WWE, er, uh, whatever!



But he is a person of character. I like him. Maybe he ain't the best brain on the block. Neither is Bill Cowher...

I actually DONT believe he is a man of character, I believe that is the perception

I think he throws OTHERS under the bus in a way that ABSOLVES him of blame

I dont like him,

A PHONEY

But plays well on TV and the media

a MEDIA brown noser

 

[Peregrinator]

market place

Let schools advertise their standards, the graduation rate, the gpa's the qualifications of the teachers

THE MARKETPLACE

The school teachers we have now are USELESS

if the kids cant keep up, dont coddle em and pass em

TOUGH!

Thank you.

Do you think the government should regulate for safety in the workplace?

 

[busybody..]

I actually DONT believe he is a man of character, I believe that is the perception

I think he throws OTHERS under the bus in a way that ABSOLVES him of blame

I dont like him,

A PHONEY

But plays well on TV and the media

a MEDIA brown noser

ever notice he has a BROWN nose?


You'll see, first sign of trouble the bus will be runnin over MANY and he will look oh so high and mighty

and wait till you have a 2 minute drill, he'll compress it into 7 minutes

When you need 8 yds, GUARANTEE a 5 yd pass!

 

[busybody..]

Thank you.

Do you think the government should regulate for safety in the workplace?

yes

if not, companies would KILL its employees

 

[Cap’n AMatrixca]

Sorry, bb, but cryin' Dick Vermeil BELIEVES in him, and so do I.

That's the definition of fan[atic!]...

 

[busybody..]

ever notice he has a BROWN nose?


You'll see, first sign of trouble the bus will be runnin over MANY and he will look oh so high and mighty

and wait till you have a 2 minute drill, he'll compress it into 7 minutes

When you need 8 yds, GUARANTEE a 5 yd pass!

he is the only coach that needed a TIME MANAGEMENT COACH and needed 7 TIME OUTS

cause he cant figure out how to run a game

Switch teams

JUST WIN, BAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYBY!

 

[Sean]

I've given two of them as gifts to new kids of friends. The have Nyarlathotep, too.

LOL! That answers that question then!

 

[busybody..]

Sorry, bb, but cryin' Dick Vermeil BELIEVES in him, and so do I.

That's the definition of fan[atic!]...

the real definition is this


Contact: Beverly Cox Clark
beverly.clark@emory.edu
404-712-8780
Emory University Health Sciences Center

Emory study lights up the political brain
When it comes to forming opinions and making judgments on hot political issues, partisans of both parties don't let facts get in the way of their decision-making, according to a new Emory University study. The research sheds light on why staunch Democrats and Republicans can hear the same information, but walk away with opposite conclusions.
The investigators used functional neuroimaging (fMRI) to study a sample of committed Democrats and Republicans during the three months prior to the U.S. Presidential election of 2004. The Democrats and Republicans were given a reasoning task in which they had to evaluate threatening information about their own candidate. During the task, the subjects underwent fMRI to see what parts of their brain were active. What the researchers found was striking.

"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," says Drew Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory who led the study. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts." Westen and his colleagues will present their findings at the Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Jan. 28.

Once partisans had come to completely biased conclusions -- essentially finding ways to ignore information that could not be rationally discounted -- not only did circuits that mediate negative emotions like sadness and disgust turn off, but subjects got a blast of activation in circuits involved in reward -- similar to what addicts receive when they get their fix, Westen explains.

"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," says Westen. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."

During the study, the partisans were given 18 sets of stimuli, six each regarding President George W. Bush, his challenger, Senator John Kerry, and politically neutral male control figures such as actor Tom Hanks. For each set of stimuli, partisans first read a statement from the target (Bush or Kerry). The first statement was followed by a second statement that documented a clear contradiction between the target's words and deeds, generally suggesting that the candidate was dishonest or pandering.

Next, partisans were asked to consider the discrepancy, and then to rate the extent to which the person's words and deeds were contradictory. Finally, they were presented with an exculpatory statement that might explain away the apparent contradiction, and asked to reconsider and again rate the extent to which the target's words and deeds were contradictory.

Behavioral data showed a pattern of emotionally biased reasoning: partisans denied obvious contradictions for their own candidate that they had no difficulty detecting in the opposing candidate. Importantly, in both their behavioral and neural responses, Republicans and Democrats did not differ in the way they responded to contradictions for the neutral control targets, such as Hanks, but Democrats responded to Kerry as Republicans responded to Bush.

While reasoning about apparent contradictions for their own candidate, partisans showed activations throughout the orbital frontal cortex, indicating emotional processing and presumably emotion regulation strategies. There also were activations in areas of the brain associated with the experience of unpleasant emotions, the processing of emotion and conflict, and judgments of forgiveness and moral accountability.

Notably absent were any increases in activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain most associated with reasoning (as well as conscious efforts to suppress emotion). The finding suggests that the emotion-driven processes that lead to biased judgments likely occur outside of awareness, and are distinct from normal reasoning processes when emotion is not so heavily engaged, says Westen.

The investigators hypothesize that emotionally biased reasoning leads to the "stamping in" or reinforcement of a defensive belief, associating the participant's "revisionist" account of the data with positive emotion or relief and elimination of distress. "The result is that partisan beliefs are calcified, and the person can learn very little from new data," Westen says.

The study has potentially wide implications, from politics to business, and demonstrates that emotional bias can play a strong role in decision-making, Westen says. "Everyone from executives and judges to scientists and politicians may reason to emotionally biased judgments when they have a vested interest in how to interpret 'the facts,' " Westen says.

Coauthors of the study include Pavel Blagov and Stephan Hamann of the Emory Department of Psychology, and Keith Harenski and Clint Kilts of the Emory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

 

[busybody..]

what?

No more reasonable questions?

your questions about free speech, trials etc were UNREASONABLE intended to stumble me

But I out SMARTED you all


AGAIN!

 

[Sean]

Should people of retirement age receive a stipend from the state?