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How do you feel about the "just say NO to drugs" campaign?
The way I look at it,
If I'm talking to my drugs
then it probably means I already said,
YES!!!
and now...,
for a totally unrelated cat video.
Just because...
How else can you be expected to reach Nirvana?
Not only are Buddhists on drugs, they are lazy.
All they want to do is sit around all day,
with their bed sheets wrapped around them,
doing nothing,
except maybe listening to some Floyd.
Buddhists are bad for the economy.
This lifestyle also promotes obesity,
since they just sit around all day
not doing any exercise.
When a Buddhist tells you that he is meditating
he is actually medicating.
Non-violence cannot tackle terrorism: Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama, a lifelong champion of non-violence candidly stated that terrorism cannot be tackled by applying the principle of ahimsa because the minds of terrorists are closed.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nonviolence-cannot-tackle-terrorism-dalai-l.../411980/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahimsa
PROTECT YOU?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCLiij0CBA
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City demands ALL keys to properties belonging to Cedar Falls residents.
http://healthfreedoms.org/2011/06/13/city-ordinance-demands-keys-from-citizens-for-lock-boxes/
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/do-conservatives-have-better-gaydar
Overall, in the study as in the real world, there was indeed a moderate correlation between more "feminine" male faces and being gay. That doesn't mean this relationship holds up in all individuals, but it's true as a statistical average across large numbers of people.
Conservatives had better gaydar when it came to categorizing these stereotypical individuals. However, liberals did better on categorizing non-stereotypical subjects, where conservatives' gut classification approach broke down and they actually fared worse. Neither group was more accurate overall, however.
At this point you're probably wondering: What clues were the liberals going on in the study, if not facial stereotypes?
As it turns out, when the researchers ran the study again with one key modification, they were able to come up with an intriguing answer to this question. This time around, roughly half of the test subjects were required to remember a bit of gibberish—"7T4$RF%"—and type it in after every five faces that they saw. Obviously, this exercise is highly distracting—and that's precisely the point. It took up thinking bandwidth—and when thus distracted, liberals behaved just as the conservatives had in the first study. Now, they too relied on gender stereotypes to decide whether individuals were gay or straight.
In other words, it appears that liberals and conservatives alike snap to initial, stereotypical judgments about a person's sexual persuasion based on facial features
A palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, e.g., "madam" or "nurses run."
So I was really pissed off that the word "palindrome" is NOT a palindrome when read backwards. When read backwards, the word "palindrome" is "emordnilap."
Since I hate being pissed off (nothing pisses me off more than being pissed off) I decided to look for the silver lining.
It turns out that the word, "emordnilap" is a word that, when spelled backwards, produces anothe word. For example:
desserts -> stressed
drawer -> reward
laced -> decal
and therefore, the phrase "emordnilap palindrome" is an emordnilap palindrome. And that made me happy again.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/vawa-heritage-freedomworks-unfair-men.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
In a blog post, FreedomWorks criticized the cost of the legislation — $660 million — and pointed out that domestic violence is “already illegal in all 50 states.” It added: “Supporters of the VAWA portray women as helpless victims - this is the kind of attitude that is setting women back.”
Claiming that the reauthorization would expand the definition of domestic violence to include “emotional distress,” Heritage declared that the “expansive and vague language will increase fraud and false allegations, for which there is no legal recourse.”
“Under VAWA, men effectively lose their constitutional rights to due process, presumption of innocence, equal treatment under the law, the right to a fair trial and to confront one’s accusers, the right to bear arms, and all custody/visitation rights,” the group wrote. “It is unprecedented, unnecessary and dangerous.”
FreedomWorks also worried that the legislation would be unfair to men.
“The newest version of the VAWA, S.47, contains very vague and broad definitions of domestic violence,” the organization wrote. “A man that raises his voice at his partner, calls her an offensive name, stalks her, causes her any emotional distress, or simply just annoys her can potentially be prosecuted under the VAWA. Calling your spouse a mean name is not advised or polite, but it isn’t the same thing as violence towards her.”