Gitmo Rendition Camp.

The prisoners know from day one the proposed torture ain’t going to work. How so? Listen, say, Randolph will tell you why:

What is this? They put a blindfold on me, ball gag in my mouth, wrap duct tape around my head, put a hood over my head and put large head phones over my ears. I can’t see, I can’t smell, I can’t hear, I can’t talk. I feel vibrations so I’m going somewhere. No matter. I can, though, think. Let me see, if they were going to kill me…hmmm. They wouldn’t bother with all that shit, would they? Nope. That means they don’t want me to know where I’m going. Which, thank the Heavens, means they won’t kill me. They may torture me, but they won’t kill me because I’m coming back alive. Hoo-waaa! Isn’t that grand? Isn’t life grand? Now, what kind of secrets can I make up that will spin these mother-muckers around? Ah, here’s something that will knock their shoes off. WMD — Whopper from McDonald’s. Yeah, I’ll tell them about WMD’s. Yeah!

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Losing your temper may
be due to lack of glucose.

Losing your willpower may be more than just a loss of discipline.

Have you ever had just too much of someone’s attitude and then finally ‘bit their head off’ after losing ‘your cool’? Or you ‘were’ on a diet until the cheesecake was just screaming your name too loud? Well, there may be more to controlling your urges than just loss of self-control. In an article in Scientific American Mind, July 2007, willpower was put to the test by researchers studying the physiology behind what makes us lose control. What they found out is people don’t necessarily lose willpower, they just run out of it.

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It’s funny how isolated we are from the horrors of war. American citizens have never really had to get their hands dirty, especially in more recent wars where sacrifice and the raw horrors of war hasn’t touched us, but there are those who have soldiers coming home for which those horrors are coming home with them. What’s different now is the soldiers are not only coming home with mental scars permanently etched into their psyches, but oftentimes they come home with photos and videos that can be played right in the living room. If you are easily upset, you may no want to continue reading this because included in this article are graphic details of the ugly side of war that no one wants to talk about.

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In doing my research for What the White House Doesn’t Want You to Know, I came across a former Neoconservative, Francis Fukuyama, who has turned his back on his Neocon colleagues and is now speaking out about where they went wrong. In his latest book called, America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, Fukuyama outlines his thinking. It is a fascinating look into what has happened to the Republican party that has turned so many people against them, even their own members including me.

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Have you ever heard of the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954? Well, if you have not, you are about to find out how human beings can create a collective clusterf*#k of idiocy. Introduce fear into some unknown phenomenon, and you will get people out of rational thinking and into irrational dementia. Here is the story.

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