The Day After the Day of
GUESS WHAT?



Honi soit qui mal y pense!

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED ????
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1. If one has sex with a prostitute against her will, is it considered rape or shoplifting?

2. Can you cry under water?

3. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

4. Why do you have to 'put your two cents in'... but it's only a 'penny for your thoughts'? Where's that extra penny going to?

5. Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?

6. What disease did cured ham actually have?

7. How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?

8. Why is it that people say they 'slept like a baby' when babies wake up like every two hours?

9. If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
 
10. Why do doctors leave the room while you change?
They're going to see you naked anyway...

11. Why is 'bra' singular and 'panties' plural?

12. If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him?

13. If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio out of a coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat? 

14. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

15. If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Why do they call it an asteroid when it's outside the hemisphere, but call it a hemorrhoid when it's in your butt?

16. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Why, Why, Why?

17. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?

18. Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection? 

19. Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard?

20. Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

21. Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

22. Whose idea was it to put an 'S' in the word 'lisp'?

23. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?

24. Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?

25. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

26. Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

27. How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?

28. Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

29. How come you never hear father-in-law jokes?

And FINALLY

30. The statistics on sanity say that one out of every four persons are suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends –– if they're okay, then you must be crazy.

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Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed

Fred Reed

The New Soviet Asylum

"You will take this pill, comrade."

by Fred Reed 

January 5, 2013

Today I’m going to explain why gun-control is not only entirely reasonable but also certain to be effective. Only the ignorant can deny this.

First, some orientation.  Cement-headed NRA types need to recognize, and state manfully, that the illegalization of guns is in fact perfectly practical. History has shown this repeatedly. When the government outlaws something that huge numbers of people very much want, the outlawed items immediately disappear from society. This has been shown countless times.

When Washington outlawed alcohol, booze vanished overnight and everyone stopped drinking. Can anyone deny this? When Washington banned the use of cannabis, all of those of us made insane by Reefer Madness quit smoking dope, and today there is probably not a town in America in which one might buy a joint. Similarly, Washington made illegal the downloading of copyrighted music—which also stopped immediately. No one now has illegal music. Ask your adolescent daughter.

So with guns.  They are small, easily smuggled, of high value to criminals and will be of higher value when only criminals have them, so it is virtually certain that they will vanish when the government says so.

Mexico, where I live, has stringent laws against guns, which have proved at least a partial success. Criminals have AKs, RPGs, and grenades, while nobody else has anything. That’s a partial success, isn’t it?

While I am in favor of illegalizing guns and thus ending crime, I think the principle should be democratically applied. Let us begin by disarming the Pentagon. If this seems unreasonable, ask yourself: who kills more children in a month, Ritalin-addled little boys in America, or the US Air Force in every Moslem country it has heard of? All I ask is an honest body count. I will accept your numbers.

But let’s ask the question which, being critical, ain’t asked. I suppose it makes no sense to confuse ourselves with the essentials of things. Anyway, why have American school boys, who in my rural Virginia high-school of 1964 were armed to the eyeballs with deer guns and varmint rifles, and never shot anybody intentionally or accidentally, or had the idea pass through their whirring libido-crazed minds, if any—suddenly start shooting their friends in school? Why now?

We who wended our strange ways through the Sixties know that lengthy use of psychoactive stimulants produces…wild ideas and worse behavior. For example, Ritalin, the first drug I ever tried, in Istanbul—or dex, or…lots of others…produces crashes as we called them, ferocious depressions accompanied by inability to sleep, anger, and irrationality. We’re talking serious psychosis in a bottle. I’ve known speed freaks consistently to ignore stop lights, not bothering to look to either side. And what do they give little boys bored with schools run by intellectual termites?

But let’s look at the question from a different angle. This column is a repository of perfect understanding of everything, and occasionally likes to let a bit of wisdom dribble forth. Herewith a dribble:

The problem is that we don’t have anything worthwhile to do.

Used to be, almost everybody worked on farms, because they wanted to eat. Being males, the males killed each other, neighboring tribes, and all reachable nationalities, but they generally did not murder their own children—though anyone who has been a parent can understand the temptation. People were too busy making stuff that mattered—food, clothes, roofs.

Then farming got automated, so people started making other things that were sensible. Refrigerators. Penicillin. Actual glass for windows. Electricity.

As time went by, nearly everything people really had any use for got made, mostly by automation. This meant two things. First, consumerism became essential to keep the economy going. Nobody much needed designer water, or Farrumcoochie boots, or SUVs, or McMansions with enough space for a large colony of Barbary apes. Which typically they contained. These things were kinda fun, like Corvettes and iPads and whoopee cushions, but hardly vital. Mostly nobody would have thought of buying them if not beaten about the head and shoulders with advertising campaigns subtle as a sock full of hog kidneys.

The second part of the bog of consumerism was that all of this deplorable nonsense was rolling off automated assembly lines. Consequently, people didn’t have anything to do that needed doing or that wouldn’t have been better not done. Yet they still wanted to eat. Two solutions offered: The Democratic, which was to give everybody everything he wanted as an entitlement, and the Republican, which was to have people work their lives away in meaningless jobs that allowed them to buy the unnecessary things advertising told them they wanted. This required the creation of huge numbers of meaningless jobs. Of course, it was politically wiser not to describe them just this way.

An obvious and expandable source of unwork was the government. Conservatives always say that they don’t like big government, but their choice is to pay federal drones to occupy offices pointlessly or else to fire them and put them on obvious welfare. Being decayed Calvinists, conservatives choose the former.

Consider this seriously. The United States has no military enemies, or only those of its own manufacture. Suppose it simply fired the entire force. Whole towns would die overnight with the bases that they support, the troops would go on unemployment, and the vast discreet industries that make unnecessary weapons would unemploy uncounted families.

For that matter, do you really believe that the Department of Education, Commerce, HUD, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs do anything worth doing? But we can’t just fire them because there is nothing for them to do other than the nothing that they are already doing.

But even government couldn’t supply the demand for JAI (Job-Appearing Indolence). However, the inexhaustible fertility of the American uneconomy welled up to fill the gap. Nail parlors popped appeared. Bureaucracies in public schools grew to outnumber the students. Enormous school systems in places like DC and Detroit hired educrats like the sands of the sea who taught nothing to anyone, reasonably enough since they didn’t know anything.

Universities decided that all children needed to go to college, though a maximum of fifteen percent had the intelligence or the desire. This produced a mother lode of Job-Appearing Indolence as professors of low grade churned out grammatically frightening attempts at research whose chief virtue was that no one read it.

So, panting, we come to murder as economic flywheel.

 Suburbia contains a lot of unpleasantly nice people, in particular effeminate men and bored housewives with a Mussolini complex, who want power, money, and something to fill the empty hours. Enter psychotherapy. This is quietly a very big industry. Anybody who is mildly unhappy—and who wouldn’t be, working in a pointless unjob?—is urged to Seek Professional Help. The Helpess—they are usually but not always female—will establish a vaguely sadomasochist relationship with  you  in which you, or your teenage daughter, will be forced to reveal the most intimate and embarrassing details of her inner head. The Helpess will then prescribe at least one and perhaps several forms of suburban soma—Prozac, Depakote, Welbutrin, Ritalin—which frequently have unpredictable but document ably awful effects on brain chemistry. These drugs are heavily—heavily—promoted by Big Pharma, which is the supply arm of the business of compulsory doping of American children,  just as Lockheed-Martin is the supply arm of the Pentagon’s burning of Asian children. There’s money in this, boys and girls. Lots of it. Especially in ADD, anorexia, and bulimia, which didn’t exist until the Helpesses needed them to be in the DSM-IV so insurance companies would pay for treating them. (Stray thought: Why were at least half of the childless women in their—tick-tick-tick—thirties I dated in Washington taking some happy-pill or other?)

But enough. I´ve got a bright idea. (I told you we do bright ideas here.) In a country in which everyone has access to machetes, ice picks, guns, and straight razors, let’s keep putting little boys on half-understood psychotropics, Ritalin,what have you, and expose all of them to crystal. Big Pharma is too important to die. Kids don’t seem to be

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DR. CARSON HITS A GRAND SLAM

By: John Hayward  

2/7/2013 

Dr. Benjamin Carson is a leading pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins, where he is a renowned authority on separating Siamese twins.  He was raised in the Detroit inner city by a single mom who worked multiple jobs to get him through school.  He is a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, and plastic surgery as well as pediatrics… and he holds over 50 honorary degrees on top of that.  He’s been the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins since he was just 33 years old.  In 2008, he received America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from George W. Bush.  He and his wife Candy run the Carson Scholars Fund, which hopes to “name a Carson Scholar in every school within the United States.”

He spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast today, ahead of President Obama’s address.  Carson’s 26-minute speech, played in part this afternoon by radio host Rush Limbaugh, is setting the world on fire.  If you haven’t seen or heard Dr. Carson before, and his biography makes him seem intimidating, rest assured he is anything but.  Video is the only way to properly appreciate this speech, both because the good Doctor is a very animated speaker, and because he’s standing right next to Barack Obama when he delivers it.

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/07/dr-carson-hits-a-grand-slam/

To Ms Shaw Kenawe on the Sad Occasion 

of Her Recent Illness

It grieves me that Thou must take to Thy Bed

With any but a Lover fair and true.

The Wine of Life poured next or ‘neath the Spread ––

Made rancid, bitter, toxic by the Flu ––

Thus spoilt is put to waste, while precious Time

Ebbs –– diminishes –– recedes from View ––

Drifting farther from the sought Sublime ––

Denying Thee Contentment, perhaps, due.

But then, ‘tis often said, “Into each life 

Some Rain must fall.” Alas! ‘Tis all too true.

I know of none who have escaped the Strife

That comes with Illness. E’en the Chosen Few

Must bear their share of Care. ‘Tis only fair. 

To disagree, methinks, Thou wouldst not dare. 

~ FreeThinke - February 7, 2013

If this doesn't lift your
spirits, Ma'am, we may
begin to mourn.
 Please get well soon!

Language May Shape 

Human Thought

August 19, 2004

by Celeste Biever

http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=Celeste+Biever

Thanks to BB-Idaho for supplying the reference to today’s article

Language may shape human thought - suggests a counting study in a Brazilian tribe whose language does not define numbers above two.

Hunter-gatherers from the Pirahã tribe, whose language only contains words for the numbers one and two, were unable to reliably tell the difference between four objects placed in a row and five in the same configuration, revealed the study.

Experts agree that the startling result provides the strongest support yet for the controversial hypothesis that the language available to humans defines our thoughts. So-called "linguistic determinism" was first proposed in 1950 but has been hotly debated ever since.

"It is a very surprising and very important result," says Lisa Feigenson, a developmental psychologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, who has tested babies' abilities to distinguish between different numerical quantities. "Whether language actually allows you to have new thoughts is a very controversial issue."

Peter Gordon, the psychologist at Columbia University in New York City who carried out the experiment, does not claim that his finding holds for all kinds of thought. "There are certainly things that we can think about that we cannot talk about. But for numbers I have shown that a limitation in language affects cognition," he says.

"One, Two, Many"

The language, Pirahã, is known as a "one, two, many" language because it only contains words for "one" and "two"-for all other numbers, a single word for "many" is used. "There are not really occasions in their daily lives where the Pirahã need to count," explains Gordon.

In order to test if this prevented members of the tribe from perceiving higher numbers, Gordon set seven Pirahã a variety of tasks. In the simplest, he sat opposite an individual and laid out a random number of familiar objects, including batteries, sticks and nuts, in a row. The Pirahã were supposed to respond by laying out the same number of objects from their own pile.

For one, two and three objects, members of the tribe consistently matched Gordon's pile correctly. But for four and five and up to ten, they could only match it approximately, deviating more from the correct number as the row got longer.

The Pirahã also failed to remember whether a box they had been shown seconds ago had four or five fish drawn on the top. When Gordon's colleagues tapped on the floor three times, the Pirahã were able to imitate this precisely, but failed to mimic strings of four or five taps.

Babies and animals

Gordon says this is the first convincing evidence that a language lacking words for certain concepts could actually prevent speakers of the language from understanding those concepts.

Previous experiments show that while babies and intelligent animals, such as rats, pigeons and monkeys, are capable of precisely counting small quantities, they can only approximately distinguish between clusters consisting of larger numbers. However, in these studies it was unclear whether an inability to articulate numbers was the reason for this.

The Pirahã results provide a much stronger case for linguistic determinism, says Gordon, because, aside from their language, they are otherwise similar to other adult humans, whereas there are many more factors that separate babies and animals from adult humans.

However, scientists are far from a consensus. Feigenson points out that there could be other reasons, aside from pure language, why the Pirahã could not distinguish accurately for higher numbers including not being used to dealing with large numbers or set such tasks.

"The question remains highly controversial," says psychologist Randy Gallistel of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. "But this work will spark a great deal of discussion."

Journal reference: Science Express (19 August 2004/ Page 1/ 10.1126/science.1094492)

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What inferences, opinions, or possible conclusions might this –– I think provocative –– article suggest to you?

OBITUARY 

The United States of America

July 4, 1776 ~ November 5, 2012
 

In 1887 Alexander Tyler (1847-1813), a Scottish professor of history at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: 

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, which is inevitably followed by dictatorship." 

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations invariably have  progressed through the following cycle: 

From bondage to spiritual faith;

From spiritual faith to great courage;

From great courage to liberty;

From liberty to abundance;

From abundance to complacency;

From complacency to apathy;

From apathy to dependence; 

From dependence back into bondage."

 ~ § ~

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some telling facts about the last Presidential election:

Number of States won 

Obama: 19

McCain: 29 

Square miles of land won 

Obama: 580,000

McCain: 2,427,000

Population of counties won 

Obama: 127 million

McCain: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won

Obama: 13.2

McCain: 2.1

PROFESSOR OLSON ADDS

"In aggregate, the territory won by McCain was populated mostly by landowners, and other gainfully-employed taxpaying citizens.

Obama’s territory was heavily populated with citizens living in low-income housing and supported by various forms of public assistance ..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Alexander Tyler's description of democracy. Some forty percent of the nation has already reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty, and awards citizenship to twenty-million illegal aliens –– and gives them the vote –– we may then say farewell to the United States, as we have known it, probably in less than five years.

Much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to the preservation of our identity as a people, please become active in defense of Liberty, Freedom of Choice and Maximum Opportunity for the individual to Own Property, achieve Financial Independence and otherwise use his talents and ambition to advance his own cause to the fullest extent possible. ~ FT

"A Stitch in Time Saves Nine"

Nine what?

If anyone knows, 

or thinks he has a tenable theory, 

please share it here today.

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Comments unrelated to the material presented 

in each daily post will be summarily deleted, 

UNLESS I, myself, find them of potential value 

to others and particular interest to me, personally.


~ FreeThinke

Saudi Arabia: Islamic Cleric 

Rapes, Tortures, Kills 

Five-Year-Old Daughter, 

Pays $50,000.00 Fine

Lama al Ghamdi 5-year-old victim of rape, torture and murder

February 3, 2013

by Michael Stone

http://www.examiner.com/article/saudi-arabia-islamic-cleric-rapes-tortures-kills-daughter-pays-fine

In Saudi Arabia an Islamic cleric who admits to raping, torturing and killing his daughter received a fine but no jail time for his heinous crime. Saudi media reports that the father paid 200,000 riyals ($50,000 US) in “blood money” for his crime, but will not be required to serve any time in prison.

In response to the heinous crime, and lack of justice for five-year old victim Lama al-Ghamdi, the women's rights activist Manal al-Sharif and others issued a press release on Feb 2, and launched a Twitter campaign using the hashtags #AnaLama (Arabic for "I am Lama") and #IamLama, demanding legislation criminalizing violence against women and children.

Fayhan al-Ghamdi, the victims father and a popular Islamic preacher who has made numerous television appearances promoting Islam, confessed to the heinous crime. Ghamdi told Saudi officials he used cables and a cane on his five-year-old daughter, leaving her with multiple injuries, including a crushed skull, broken ribs and left arm, extensive bruising and burns. In addition, one of Lama’s fingernails had been torn off. Hospital staff reports the child’s rectum had been torn open and the abuser had attempted to burn it closed.

Reports indicate the father had doubted his five-year-old daughter's virginity.

Lama al-Ghamdi died last October. The amount her father was fined for the brutal rape, torture and murder, would have been doubled if Lama had been male. In Saudi Arabia, Islamic law is interpreted to be that a father cannot be executed for murdering his children, nor can husbands be executed for murdering their wives.

Human rights activists point out that judicial leniency towards male abusers and murderers reflects the highly problematic nature of the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia. Currently all women in Saudi Arabia are considered minors, and all are automatically assigned to the care and judgment of their most immediate male relative. This system of male guardianship gives the male relatives the power to sell girls legally into child marriages and to ban adult women from work, travel and obtaining medical operations.

[NOTE: This atrocity was reported by Al Jazeera and other news sources. It's authenticity is unquestionable.]

WHO and WHAT is GOD?

Michelangelo's portrait of the Almighty

God is Truth

Those devoted to spreading lies –– and those who've been persuaded to follow them –– are doomed to fail.

God is Charity

The uncharitable are also doomed to fail.

God is Mind

Those who are thoughtless, feckless, incurious and revel in ignorance are sure to lead stunted, miserable lives.

God is Principle

Those who resort to expediency to make short terms gains will suffer long term losses.

God is Spirit

Those devoted primarily to materialistic pursuits are fated to live shallow, unrewarding lives dominated by confusion and  ever-growing appetites destined to remain unsatisfied.

God is Soul

Those who treat life as a game in which one must be either an exploiter or one of the exploited will never know joy or fulfillment.

God is Life

Those who choose violence and destruction as a way of life –– and especially those who seek vengeance on evildoers –– will suffer the tortures of the damned.

May we forever be moved to lift our eyes above the fray and beyond the mountaintops to look for inspiration from nothing less than the Highest Good, which is God, Himself.

“The disappearing fruitage of the church's inherent, God-given dynamic to affect the spiritual climate of our nation and effect a harvest of the ‘fruit of righteousness’ in a country formerly seen as sufficiently ‘Christian’”

True. Very very terribly true, but I see that as The Church's failure to understand, define, teach and convey the true nature of God's Identity to a people hungry for leadership, but who haven't the wisdom to follow any but the loudest voices with the flashiest images.

Too many of those who see themselves as faithful take refuge in mere WORDS while failing to note the SIGNIFICANCE of those words and how they apply toward making life more rewarding fulfilling.

I see the LEGALISTIC approach to faith as essentially PHARISAIC –– the exact OPPOSITE of what Jesus came to teach through His Example and supreme Sacrifice.

~ FreeThinke