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Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don’t try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Originally posted 2007-02-16 22:21:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

1. Its No. 1 product would be known as “Microsoft Winders.”
2. Instead of an hourglass icon you’d get an empty beer bottle.
3. Occasionally, you’d bring up a window that was covered with a Hefty bag and some duct tape.
4. Instead of “Yes,” “no,” or “Cancel,” dialog boxes would give you the choice of “Ahight, Naw, or Git.”
5. Instead of “Ta-Da!” its opening sound would be “Dueling Banjos.”
6. The “Recycle Bin” in Winders 95 would be an outhouse.
7. Whenever you pulled up the Sound Player, you’d hear “Freebird.”
8. Instead of “Start Me Up,” the Winders 95 theme song would be “Boot Scootin’ Boogie.”
9. Powerpoint would be called, “ParPawnt”
10. Instead of “VP,” Microsoft big shots would be called “Cuz.”
11. Hardware could be repaired using parts from an old Trans Am.
12. Four words would be en vogue: Daisy Duke Screen Saver.
13. Its sign on would blurt, “Well, the first thing you know old Bill’s a billionaire…”
14. Flight Simulator would be replaced with Tractor-Pull Simulator.
15. Microsoft’s CEO would be “Billy-Bob (a.k.a.”Bubba”) Gates.
16. “ParPawnt” would have a “Pond Scum” and “Junk Yard” scheme.
17. One wrong turn while surfing the web would send you face to face with a .12 gauge.
18. Its company screensaver would read, “This computer protected by “Smith and Wesson”.
19. Directions to Corporate Headquarters, “Down the road about a hoot n a hollar or so.”
20. Microsoft Word includes a phonetic spell checker “Hookt on fonics werkt 4 me.”

**Read in an email this morning

Originally posted 2007-06-29 07:09:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

It’s official but almost 5 years too late.

“President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his ‘freedom agenda’ and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11. ‘Nothing,’ Bush defiantly answered. Watch it.”Bush says that no one in his administration has ever suggested that Iraq was involved with 9/11! What about this?

Dips hat to Pip Wilson

Categories: bush, iraq, 9/11

Originally posted 2006-08-22 03:22:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Apathy is a lack or suppression of emotions such as concern, excitement, motivation and passion. The word is derived from Greek a- (without) + pathos (emotion). Other words often pass as synonyms, or are considered at least similar, such as: detachment, disinterest, disregard, doldrums, impassiveness, indifference, insensibility, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, nonchalance, torpor, and others.

Apathy has been felt after witnessing horrific circumstances, such as wartime conditions. It is also known to be associated with many medical conditions such as: Alzheimer’s disease, Chagas’ disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, dementia, excessive vitamin D, general fatigue, Huntington’s disease, Pick’s disease, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and schizophrenia. Medications and other substances may promote apathy as a side effect.

During the First World War the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy and shell shock among millions of soldiers. Upon dealing with shell shock and other traumatic experiences, those who became apathetic often had no emotion or thought process about murder and death in general. In present day in Iran this term is often blamed as an aftermath of the Iran-Iraq War.

Originally posted 2008-07-18 17:16:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.”
*Leonard Bernstein

Originally posted 2007-04-04 21:46:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The Center for Constitutional Rights has holiday cheer already this year. It has a special gift in mind for President Bush. While it may not be fashionable, it is in fashion here in the United States. It is a personal Christmas gift. It is one that every US citizen has been given but Bush doesn’t know about it. It’s a one of a kind. It’s a gift more than fitting for a U.S. President who has everything yet knows nothing. It is a gift that keeps on giving for those who recognize and honor it.

“The Center for Constitutional Rights plans to “flood the Oval Office with copies of the Constitution this holiday season as a seasonal reminder that the Constitution needs to be upheld; not destroyed.”

Those interested can also sign an accompanying letter addressed to President Bush, which poses a multitude of questions reminding the president “that he swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States.”

Originally posted 2007-11-21 10:24:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

A number of organizations are actively concerned with monitoring the ways in which various governments have attempted to limit or restrict access to the Internet, and the OpenNet Initiative is one such group. Drawing on a collaborative partnership with four academic institutions (including the University of Toronto and Harvard Law School), the group’s aim is “to excavate, expose and analyze filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion.” On its homepage, visitors will have access to a number of their research publications, case studies, their blog, and a selection of external links of note. Some of their more recent research papers include their investigation into the extent to which the Republic of Yemen controls the information environment of their citizens as well as similar efforts in Myanmar. Overall, this site will be of great interest to those with an interest in cyberlaw and related fields.

Originally posted 2006-06-09 14:36:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Forty-one years after the American surveillance ship USS Liberty was napalmed, torpedoed and strafed by Israeli naval and air forces during the Six-Day War, another “Liberty” will be setting out from a Cyprus port in August to try to break through the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.”
Read on [Military.com]

Originally posted 2008-07-31 15:29:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

[...]was tagged this morning by Her Royal Highness Kim the Mystical of Withering Glance who in turn had been tagged by Empress Ev

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Originally posted 2007-08-20 05:42:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter