Snipped from the Popaganda.com.

This notable is just for your viewing pleasure. I have known about this guy for quite a while, but I ran across more of his work and though I would share it with you. Assuming, of course, that you may not know of him yet. The Propaganda artist is known as Ron English, and he does some fantastic work. Everything from billboards to comics to weird 3D art.

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Snipped from the Blog.SCIAM.com.

This article was really interesting to me for many reasons. One, I think any new discovery about the brain is REALLY cool. I don’t think that needs much explanation. Second, I have noticed a very strange way that I process information in comparison to that of “normal” people. Not that I am a genius or anything, ha ha, but I do tend to “think” outside my “consciousness”. My problem solving is more like a reaction than a act of “thinking”. If that confuses you even further, let me give you a story that led me to this strange conclusion.

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Snipped from the huffingtonpost.com.

In reviewing the news on the Huffington Post, I came across an article by Bill Maher that while it made me laugh, it probably makes more sense than all the politics in Washington put together. Bush and Co. belabor their premise that we need to fight terrorists in Iraq so that it won’t become a base for terrorism. Well, has anyone checked to see how much of the fight in Iraq is with al-Qaeda? It amazes me that it is never brought up in the news media or that no one will challenge this premise. Well, Maher brings it up and makes a great point about how the hell we can fight al-Qaeda and get out of Iraq at the same time.

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The really do care, right?

We must be in an alternative universe because it was reported over the weekend that big business is actively seeking more government regulation. When did big business suddenly get a conscience? Do you think it is possible for corporate interests to give a flip about consumer safety? Well, think again, because they’re recent pleas for more safety regulation is not all that it’s cracked up to be. What is really behind their recent change of heart, is that they suddenly realized that product recalls and potential legal backlashes from unsafe products just may not be good for the bottom line … to hell with the consumer. Now they have jumped on the regulation bandwagon. So, what are they really up to?

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Snipped from WashingtonPost.com.

Ever wondered how and why our politicians get away with repeating lie after lie … after lie after lie? Well, it seems that you weren’t the only one with such curiosities, and the University of Michigan wanted to know the truth behind the “persistent lie”. Social psychologist Norbert Schwarz, and his team, set out to prove if persistent lies can override true, yet underused and understated, facts. What they found out is exactly my worst nightmare. People really are that easily controlled.

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Do humans and dolphins share
the echolocation ability?

This is absolutely amazing! Well, can humans utilize a system of seeing with sound waves like dolphins, bats and the like? Amazingly enough, YES! What is echolocation exactly? Here is what Wikipedia says about it:

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We all love trivia. Some of us are better than others when involved with trivia games. Whenever I watch any of the game shows or watch someone fill out a crossword puzzle effortlessly, I am amazed. I don’t know how people do it.

I came across a list of trivia questions the other day that were particularly humorous. So, I thought I would share them with my favorite people–Blog4Brains’ readers. So, enjoy. Maybe they will even make you smile. By the way, the answers are at the bottom of the list.

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I don’t know if you are a fan of Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown, but he usually hits the nail right on the head. I really like his hard hitting, unabashed assessments of Bush and his war. Recently he did a piece on the way that Bush keeps spinning the war to make us believe that he is “on board” and is sympathetic to the American publics’ cry for troop reductions. With the latest spin cycle aggressively promoting his alleged surge success, Bush is relentless in his “bully pulpit” side shows calling for “more time” and with hints of “some” troop reductions. But underneath his empty promises lies a man bent on keeping us in Iraq indefinitely. What this all boils down to is more of the same and more time, no matter what. If you aren’t sure about this, then would having Bush state that he wants a permanent presence in Iraq in his own words convince you? Well, that’s exactly what Bush has said and it’s in print.

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Snipped from EditorAndPublisher.com.

What is really going on in Iraq? We may never know. Why? Because the mainstream media is a puppet of the conglomerate corporate world in which they paint reality as they want it to be painted, not as it is. If anyone ever thought that war was not a profitable enterprise for big business, then you better think again. War is good for business. And, those that profit, even indirectly, will do anything to keep it going. Sound unreal? No, it isn’t. There is one man who is tired of all the whitewash and who sought out the truth by digging for it on the internet. What he found was made into a docu-drama about what is really gong on in Iraq.

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I don’t know if you have been paying attention to the skyrocketing executive compensation packages that have been in the news lately. What really got my attention was the fact that the top 20 equity and hedge fund managers raked in an average of $657.5 million. Or to put it in terms we can understand, that’s 22,255 times the pay of the average worker. If you look at the top executives in the Fortune 500 companies, they averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, which is 365 times the pay of the average American worker. Now, to further put that into perspective, workers at the lowest rung of the economic ladder just got their first federal minimum wage hike in a decade which amounts to only a paltry $2.10 per hour. Where is America headed and how does it hurt the fabric of society?

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