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Friday, December 1, 2006 |
Lot49: "Lohse, a social work master's student at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush.
Lohse says his study is no joke. The thesis draws on a survey of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse's study, backed by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person's psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush."
Birds of a feather flock together.
11:39:42 AM 
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NukeStrat: "China and the United States are in a nuclear arms race. Not an arms race of the intensity and proportions of the U.S.-Soviet arms race during the Cold War, but an arms race nonetheless. The U.S.-Chinese adversarial nuclear relationship goes back to the Korean War, but the scope and sophistication of the race appears to be increasing.
In parallel with a modernization of military forces in general, both countries are upgrading their nuclear forces with an eye to what the other is doing. The political establishments on both sides of the Pacific - and some media and private institutes - are busy highlighting the other country as a threat."
Thank you very much, Mr Bush, bastard-in-chief. You started by antagonizing practically every nation on the earth and you see them as enemies of American hegemony, with the result that now those nations want to protect themselves from your aggression. You are insane, Mr Bush!
11:35:34 AM
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IOL: "British security forces colluded in acts of international terrorism in the 1970s, a Dáil committee said in a hard-hitting report today.
'The spectre of collusion' was present in the attacks investigated by the probe into a series of bomb and gun attacks carried out on both sides of the border by loyalist paramilitaries."
11:28:02 AM
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Nature: "Simple pest control techniques may have given rise to the greatest violins ever made. Biochemists say the key to the instrument's sweet sounds come not only from their construction but also from chemicals used to treat wood.
For hundreds of years people have tried to duplicate the tone of Italian violins such as a Stradivari and a Guarneri. Now scientists say at least part of the secret is to boil the wood in minerals."
We already knew that the kind of wood used for instruments like guitars determines the tone and also that guitars need 'breaking in', i.e. aging improves the tone. So now the instrument makers know everything they need to make new Stradivari-quality instruments. Get cracking, boys.
11:12:51 AM
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