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Military concerned for detainees' sanity

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:34:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comments from brig personnel indicate fears for uncharged detainees' sanity; ignored by higher-ups. No charges were ever filed. The second has been five years in solitary confinement. Please don't say "They deserved it;" they have no more been charged with any crime than have you or I. Bush has no right to ruin their lives.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Military concerned for detainees' sanity, records show

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newly released documents show that military personnel watching over at least two American citizens held in U.S. Navy brigs feared that the isolation and austere conditions were threatening detainees' sanity.

Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request quote an unnamed brig official writing about detainee Yaser Hamdi in June 2002.

"I will continue to do what I can to help this individual maintain his sanity, but in my opinion, we're working with borrowed time," he wrote.

"I fear the rubber band is nearing its breaking point here and not totally confident I can keep his head in the game much longer."

Hamdi was never charged with breaking any laws

was allowed to return to Saudi Arabia, and he relinquished his U.S. citizenship

"His mental state has been deteriorating," Hafetz said. "You're alone with no idea when confinement will end."

"Five years is too long."

More than 1,800 days in isolation.

Tags: detainees

Sex + Murder = Art, Baby!

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:53:00 GMT

clipped by: CarnivalBorn

Clip Source: www.fearnet.com

Acey Slade, former Murderdolls guitarist and Wednesday 13’s touring axe-man, has announced two new music projects in the works fusing horror-themed metal to electronic beats, with a glammed-up twist.

First off, a limited-run EP – dubbed Sex, Murder, Art Baby! – is made up of remixes done in collaboration with several horror-rock heavyweights – including Rob Zombie’s bassist Piggy D, Kaiser von Loopy from industrial-metal maniacs Hanzel Und Gretyl, Deathstars’ Jonas “Skinny Disco” Kangur, and the oh-so-psycho DJ Speedranch.

For double the destruction, Slade is also near completion of a full-length electro-metal album tentatively titled Dark Party, co-produced by Slade (who handles guitars and vocals) and acclaimed drum ‘n’ bass producer Shaun “Stakka” Morris (mixing and programming).

The remix EP is coming soon, and the album is scheduled for early next year. Start fearing for your sanity now!

make meetings more effective

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:22:02 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.techrepublic.com.com

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When you find yourself walking out of a meeting feeling energized by the ideas that emerged and the issues that were resolved, you should realize that someone took the time to define a purpose for the meeting and to manage the process effectively. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives explains how to plan, organize, and conduct successful meetings.

Read the original article that this episode was based on:

10 ways to make meetings more effective

How to organize your home

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:46 GMT

clipped by: boomz
clipper's remarks: LifeOrganizers.com's how to organize your home channel is a library of organizing articles for your kitchen, closets, dining room and living room. Quick organizing tips for your mail, coupons in addition to how to stop procrastinating.

Clip Source: www.lifeorganizers.com

Everything in your home needs a home. The clothes in your closet, the recipes in your kitchen, the toys and clothes in your kids’ bedrooms, and even stuff in your garage. Without a home, things aren’t just “homeless.” They’re clutter. They create chaos and sap sanity. They get lost, and lead to hours wasted hunting for them. Even the mere thought of organizing things can lead to procrastination.

How to Organize Your Home?

Stop putting off organizing your home and get to work. Designate a time to do it and a place for your stuff. Then, make it a rule that when things are removed, they’re returned to their home when you’re done with them. To paraphrase comedian George Carlin, a home is a place to put your stuff. Make a place for your stuff. Start with LifeOrganizers.com.

Organize your kitchen, closet, office, garage with a label maker!

The Organized Comforts

The Organized Kitchen

The Organized Meal

The Organized Color

The Organized Bathroom

The Organized Home Office

The Organized Organizer

Tags: how to organize your home, how to get organized, kitchen organizing, closet organizing, dining room organizing, living room organizing

THE SHIT PEDDLERS

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:43:30 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: All the myths that are floated as truth, is nauseating beyond the puke bucket. The right-winged, learned ones who perhaps didn't sleep through all of their college courses, whip out the dialogue of mendacity every time they are threatened to be overthrown by THE OTHER PARTY. Oh they keep their fairytale myths alive all through their years of control but election time is when they really roll up their sleeves and get the SHIT shovels lined up to cover us all in blankets of Repulsive Untruths against our common senses and THE OTHER PARTY.
I picked up a newspaper belonging to a red bible belt area where many of the followers or better word SHEEP live and who desperately want to believe the crap their Right-winged commanders spew forth, even if it doesn't quite make sense to them. MORE BELOW or follow this link... http://www.thethinkingblue.com/shitpeddlers.html

Clip Source: www.americanpolitics.com

The Real Reagan Legacy
Debunking Myths About Reagan
by Mike Hersh

March 19, 2002 (Political Sanity/APJP) -- Let's begin our examination of the real Reagan Legacy by taking a look at myth number one: Democrats dominated Congress all through Reagan's terms, and called all his budgets Dead On Arrival.

That's numerically and historically false.

Reagan's people shoved his program through the Congress during the early Reagan years

Baker

Stockman

other Reaganites

ran roughshod over Tip O'Neill

won every critical vote

GOP majority in the Senate and the GOP-"Boll Weevil" (or "Dixiecrat") coalition in the House

Phil Gramm

House Democrat at the time,

sponsored the most important Reagan budgets

Only after the huge Reagan recession -- made worse by utterly failed Reagan "Voodoo Economics" - did Democrats regain some control in Congress.

halted some Reagan initiatives, but couldn't do much on their own. That was a time of gridlock.

Six years into Reagan's

Dem

retook

Senate

began to reverse

Reagan's horrendous policies

Tags: election, politics, political, economy, right-wing, conservative

How to Open Rigid Plastic Clamshell Packages Safely

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:59:38 GMT

clipped by: reeds
clipper's remarks: In 2004, over 6,000 Americans went to the emergency room with injuries resulting from opening difficult packaging![1] Here's a rundown on how to preserve your hands and sanity when confronting a blister pack that has no apparent means of entry.

Clip Source: www.wikihow.com

Can Opener Method^[2]

Get a manual rotary can opener.
Open the clamshell as if it were a can. The sharp wheels of the can opener will cut the plastic, without cutting your hands. It won't go around the corners, so cut open just one side. This will give you plenty of room to...
Insert a knife between the two layers of plastic and cut all the way around. Since the blade is inside the package and pointing towards the center, it's much safer than trying to stab through the plastic and wedge the tip in between. With a decent knife, the remainder of the plastic should be easy to cut.

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Tags: howto

Hope

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:58:59 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wisdomquotes.com

Allan K. Chalmers:

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Arundhati Roy:

Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Christopher Reeve:

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.

Dale Carnegie:

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Don Quixote:

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Dorothy Thompson:

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

LHC: Large Hadron Collider Has Black Hole Button

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:36:10 GMT

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Clip Source: gizmodo.com

Though the Large Hadron Collider didn't kill us when those crazy CERN scientists closed their eyes, said a prayer, recited a few theorems and switched it on for the first time, the secret is that it could have killed us. When they built the collider, the scientists installed a black-hole creation button. (The button is real, but it doesn't actually do anything.)

"There is a wry sense of humor that pervades the [LHC] scientists," said Steve Nahn, one of the MIT researchers on duty at the LHC. In addition to the sign that warns users of a black hole creation, there's another equally predictable sign on the side of the balcony overlooking the detector that reads "Please do not feed the Physicists."

"There's a fair amount of stress at times trying to make the detector go, so defusing it with humor is one way to maintain sanity," Nahn said.

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

Makeshift controls in the CMS cavern. Includes fake 'abort' for strangelets and black holes

Learning Brains Sleep

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:18:56 GMT

clipped by: weirdguy
clipper's remarks: This explains a lot...

Clip Source: weirdblog.wordpress.com

This explains why I like to sleep so much! Fascinating and fun information, books, DVD’s, online movies and more at Brain Rules.

Oh, and ever wonder why stress is literally killing people? No, I am not talking about “going postal,” although this gives some credence as to why some people fall of the sanity wagon. Find out why prolonged stress is harmful to you and those around you. This could save your life. Check it out today!

Tags: fun, innovation, learning, health, work, creativity

Bill Gate's syndrome

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:07:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: With Internet delusion, patients typically incorporate the Internet into paranoid thoughts, including a fear that the Web is somehow monitoring or controlling their lives, or being used to transmit photographs or other personal information.

The delusions are fueling a chicken-and-egg debate in psychiatry: Are these merely modern examples of classic paranoia fed by the current cultural landscape, or is there something about media like reality television and the Internet that can push people over the sanity line?

“There is the old saying that just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there’s not somebody after you,” said Dr. Jeffrey A. Lieberman.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

PSYCHOSIS in the 21st century looks something like this: You think your every move is being filmed for a reality television show starring you, and that everyone in your life is an actor.

Or you think you are under intense surveillance by an army of spies, whom you refer to as the “www people,” as in the World Wide Web, and they wiretap your furniture and appliances.

Or else you refuse to drink water because you fear that another cup drawn from your faucet will, once and for all, deplete the world’s water supply.

Those thoughts are from three case studies of what psychiatrists interested in the intersection of mental illness, culture and society are calling, respectively, Truman Show delusion, Internet delusion and climate change delusion; all of them a window, through madness, into the modern world.

If you have delusions of grandeur in this century, you are probably not Napoleon, but you may be Bill Gates.

Tags: science

Are We Safer Now?

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:42:28 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: I doubt if the public's safety was forefront in this misguided attempt to silence protest during the RNC. Partly because of hysterical paranoia of terrorists the powers that be have long used the pretense of protection to denigrate and undermine our most basic rights and freedoms. And do we stand up and raise our fists in anger over theses blatant stabs to our freedoms? Afraid not. It seems everyone just sits back in their easy chairs and watches as the powers that be wall off protesters to Orwellian "Protest Zones".

Yes, bad people want to do us harm. But a modicum of sanity should accompany our plans to provide a reasonable level of protection from these people. As it is now, this smacks more of politics than of legitimate protection.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention

ST. PAUL, Minn. — On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town.

On Friday night the Ramsey County sheriff's department, accompanied by the St. Paul police, detained people inside a building here that was being used as a headquarters to plan protests.

“They handcuffed all of us,” said Sonia Silbert, 28, from Washington. “They searched everyone.”

Ms. Coffey said that the officers, citing fire violations as the reason for their visit, “detained over 50 people in an attempt to pre-empt planned protests.”

The sheriff's department continued the sweeps on Saturday morning, executing warrants for three houses in Minneapolis and two in St. Paul, detaining more than 50 people and arresting 4.

Tags: politics, convention, republican

Silly for Sanity

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:22:19 GMT

clipped by: Keyaroscuro

Clip Source: www.kxmb.com

Town officials decided it was time their longtime mascot had a mate. A local pastor admits it was a "silly event," but says "sometimes you've got to act a little silly to keep your sanity in life."

Weird Chocolate Wrapper Text

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:50:55 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Wacky stuff!

Clip Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

SELECTIONS FROM
H.P. LOVECRAFT'S
BRIEF TENURE AS A
WHITMAN'S SAMPLER
COPYWRITER.

What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle's complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.

This eerie candy will test the sanity of all but those who possess the strongest of constitutions. Strange congeries of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios dance hypnotically within, promising to reveal their eldritch secrets to anyone foolish enough to take a bite of these ancient nut clusters!

Dark! All-encompassing, eternal darkness! Human eyes cannot penetrate the stygian blackness of this unholy confection!

Few men dare ask the question "What is toffee, exactly?" All those who have investigated this substance are now either dead or insane.

Tags: hp lovecraft, old ones, dark gawds, chocolate, internet, interesting

Report From a Forgotten War: Second in a Series

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:48:43 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Taliban leaders also provided a haven for Usama bin Laden's Al Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attack. In November 2001, when they were deposed by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance, many of the Taliban fled south to Pakistan and east into Iran. This spring, they came back, intent on overthrowing the democratically elected government of President Hamid Karzi. That's when the Marines of TF 2/7 arrived "in country" to train and mentor Afghan Army and police forces.

It's been a challenging assignment for the 1300 Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen of TF 2/7. The unit's Area of Operations (A/O) is more than 28,000 square kilometers — roughly the size of Vermont. There is only one paved highway. Overland transport to some of the fifteen forward bases and combat outposts where TF 2/7 operates often takes more than 24 hours of continuous day and night movement. Until this week — when four CH-53 transport helos and four Cobra gunships arrived, the task force had to rely on NATO aircraft...

Clip Source: greatafghanistanadventure.blogspot.com

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan — This British-built fortress, perched on a plateau in southwestern Afghanistan, is well named. Surrounded by miles of open desert, the citadel has its own concrete runway, water supply, sewage, electricity, Level 3 Trauma Hospital, even fire mains — all constructed in the last 30 months.

The heavily-armed camp is home to British, Danish, Estonian and Czech troops of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). It's also home to Task Force 2/7 (T/F 2/7), built around the legendary 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment out of Marine Corps Base 29 Palms, California — a good place to prepare for this austere terrain and oppressive heat. Camp Bastion is an outpost of sanity in an otherwise insane part of the world.

Helmand Province is the heartland of the Taliban — the Islamic radicals who won a bloody civil war to rule Afghanistan in 1996. Once in power, the Taliban imposed strict Sharia law

Tags: camp bastion, helmand province, afghanistan, british, danish, estonian and czech troops, 2nd battalion, 7th marine regiment, nato aircraft

Theistic Sanity

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:05:02 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: It's not often that I agree with religious leaders but when I do it deserves to be pointed out. The point that Benedict makes of refuting the claim that evolution promotes atheism is of course correct. Although many, particularly in the States, believe otherwise. Unfortunately, the persons that fall into this category are also people that are the least informed on the subject.

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Subsidized atheism

I marvel at writers who refer to "evolutionists and their precious little theory." After 150 years, the Theory of Evolution is one of the most broadly accepted theories in all of science. How can any so-called educated person characterize the teaching of biological evolution as taxpayer-subsidized atheism?

Read below what an ultraconservative Christian spiritual leader has to say about this so-called controversy.

Pope Benedict XVI, 24 July 2007

This antithesis is absurd because, on the one hand, there are so many scientific proofs in favour of evolution which appears to be a reality we can see and which enriches our knowledge of life and being as such.

Now consider the lack of credibility of anyone who calls evolution atheistic. I doubt any sane person of whatever religious persuasion would call the pope an atheist. Does accepting the scientific theory (fact) that the earth travels around the sun and not the other way around make a person an atheist?

Tags: creationism, evolution, religion, atheism