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Sunday, June 7, 2009
And the moral is
MK, never argue philoshophy and life with the Muddy Cup crew.
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With apologies to Louis Armstrong, it is not a wonderful world any longer. Today, it's a strange and dangerous world where reason and humanity have largely been replaced by fanaticism and treachery.
Leading the league in villainy are the Iranian mullahs and their chief enabler, the Russian tyrant Putin. While America, Britain, and France are desperately trying to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Russia has announced it does not want to threaten the mullahs with economic sanctions.
According to the Associated Press, Putin says that talking about sanctions could scare the Iranians and be counterproductive to negotiations. Of course, negotiations with Iran have been going on since Hammurabi was running around, so this sounds a bit insincere.
Putin also says we should "compromise" with Iran. Let's see, how would that work? Perhaps the Iranians could promise to destroy only half of Israel. Maybe the mullahs could only finance and train Hezbollah and let Hamas go elsewhere.
This Putin is some piece of work. For years he's been arming Iran, and even sends them components for missiles. He does this because he knows Iran causes the USA and Israel much grief and he likes that. President Bush's response was to take Putin to his ranch for some barbecue. President Obama's response has been to remove some defensive missiles from Eastern Europe that Putin doesn't like.
There shall be a firm and universal peace between His Britannic Majesty and the United States, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people, of every degree, without exception of places or persons. All hostilities, both by sea and land, shall cease as soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both parties, as hereinafter mentioned. All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves or other private property. And all archives, records, deeds, and papers, either of a public nature or belonging to private persons, which, in the course of the war, may have fallen into the hands of the officers of either party, shall be, as far as may be practicable, forthwith restored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to whom they respectively belong. Such of the islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy as are claimed by both parties, shall remain in the possession of the party in whose occupation they may be at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, until the decision respecting the title to the said islands shall have been made in conformity with the fourth article of this treaty. No disposition made by this treaty as to such possession of the islands and territories claimed by both parties shall, in any manner whatever, be construed to affect the right of either.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
This study reveals how a therapist can use dreams in a therapeutic environment to confront a patient's unconscious feelings, and how the therapist should engage the patient in discussion to reveal the relevance of those feelings to the patient's present, waking life. It also discusses the meaning of repetitious dreams, how medication affects the content of a dream, and if therapists actually "guide" their clients in what to say. This "guidance" might be the therapist "suggesting" to their clients that they had suffered some type of early childhood trauma, when, in fact, no such trauma occurred. The origin of psychiatry is not--as many of those in the field would have others believe--medicine, therapy, or any other remotely scientific endeavor. Its original purpose was not even to cure mental affliction.
Working hard behind the scenes is the psychiatrist, dispensing everything from his pernicious "insanity defense" in the courts--thereby helping dangerous criminals escape justice--to his mind-numbing drugs within the prisons. Of course, with high rates of inmate illiteracy and drug abuse, it is reasonable to assume that educational psychiatry was on the scene years before the inmate committed any crimes, busily "helping" the child with an earlier promise to improve education with, of all things, addictive, mind-numbing drugs.
This study also examines the effects of sertraline (Zoloft ) on the dream content of a young woman with generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks. The study uses the major categories of Hall and Van de Castle's (1966) system of content analysis to compare dream reports before and after drug treatment. Prior to diagnosis and treatment, the dreamer had high levels of aggression and low levels of friendliness in her dreams. The post-medication dreams more closely approximate female norms. This pilot study suggests a new direction for research on the effects of medication on dream content.
Dreams reflect people's thoughts; therefore, if the psychiatrist tells a client that he or she experienced a "horrible trauma" in his or her early childhood, the client will think about it, reflect on it, and, in turn, dream about it--whether or not the trauma actually occured. This study also makes recommendations about therapeutic approaches and future studies involving dreams and subconcious feelings.
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With apologies to Louis Armstrong, it is not a wonderful world any longer. Today, it's a strange and dangerous world where reason and humanity have largely been replaced by fanaticism and treachery.
Leading the league in villainy are the Iranian mullahs and their chief enabler, the Russian tyrant Putin. While America, Britain, and France are desperately trying to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Russia has announced it does not want to threaten the mullahs with economic sanctions.
According to the Associated Press, Putin says that talking about sanctions could scare the Iranians and be counterproductive to negotiations. Of course, negotiations with Iran have been going on since Hammurabi was running around, so this sounds a bit insincere.
Putin also says we should "compromise" with Iran. Let's see, how would that work? Perhaps the Iranians could promise to destroy only half of Israel. Maybe the mullahs could only finance and train Hezbollah and let Hamas go elsewhere.
This Putin is some piece of work. For years he's been arming Iran, and even sends them components for missiles. He does this because he knows Iran causes the USA and Israel much grief and he likes that. President Bush's response was to take Putin to his ranch for some barbecue. President Obama's response has been to remove some defensive missiles from Eastern Europe that Putin doesn't like.
Looks like old Vlad has our number.
Article I
There shall be a firm and universal peace between His Britannic Majesty and the United States, and between their respective countries, territories, cities, towns, and people, of every degree, without exception of places or persons. All hostilities, both by sea and land, shall cease as soon as this treaty shall have been ratified by both parties, as hereinafter mentioned. All territory, places, and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay, and without causing any destruction or carrying away any of the artillery or other public property originally captured in the said forts or places, and which shall remain therein upon the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, or any slaves or other private property. And all archives, records, deeds, and papers, either of a public nature or belonging to private persons, which, in the course of the war, may have fallen into the hands of the officers of either party, shall be, as far as may be practicable, forthwith restored and delivered to the proper authorities and persons to whom they respectively belong. Such of the islands in the Bay of Passamaquoddy as are claimed by both parties, shall remain in the possession of the party in whose occupation they may be at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of this treaty, until the decision respecting the title to the said islands shall have been made in conformity with the fourth article of this treaty. No disposition made by this treaty as to such possession of the islands and territories claimed by both parties shall, in any manner whatever, be construed to affect the right of either.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
This study reveals how a therapist can use dreams in a therapeutic environment to confront a patient's unconscious feelings, and how the therapist should engage the patient in discussion to reveal the relevance of those feelings to the patient's present, waking life. It also discusses the meaning of repetitious dreams, how medication affects the content of a dream, and if therapists actually "guide" their clients in what to say. This "guidance" might be the therapist "suggesting" to their clients that they had suffered some type of early childhood trauma, when, in fact, no such trauma occurred. The origin of psychiatry is not--as many of those in the field would have others believe--medicine, therapy, or any other remotely scientific endeavor. Its original purpose was not even to cure mental affliction.
Working hard behind the scenes is the psychiatrist, dispensing everything from his pernicious "insanity defense" in the courts--thereby helping dangerous criminals escape justice--to his mind-numbing drugs within the prisons. Of course, with high rates of inmate illiteracy and drug abuse, it is reasonable to assume that educational psychiatry was on the scene years before the inmate committed any crimes, busily "helping" the child with an earlier promise to improve education with, of all things, addictive, mind-numbing drugs.
This study also examines the effects of sertraline (Zoloft ) on the dream content of a young woman with generalized anxiety disorder and panic attacks. The study uses the major categories of Hall and Van de Castle's (1966) system of content analysis to compare dream reports before and after drug treatment. Prior to diagnosis and treatment, the dreamer had high levels of aggression and low levels of friendliness in her dreams. The post-medication dreams more closely approximate female norms. This pilot study suggests a new direction for research on the effects of medication on dream content.
Dreams reflect people's thoughts; therefore, if the psychiatrist tells a client that he or she experienced a "horrible trauma" in his or her early childhood, the client will think about it, reflect on it, and, in turn, dream about it--whether or not the trauma actually occured. This study also makes recommendations about therapeutic approaches and future studies involving dreams and subconcious feelings.
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