Using electroencephalographs, which measure neuronal impulses, the researchers examined activity in a part of the brain — the anterior cingulate cortex — that is strongly linked with the self-regulatory process of conflict monitoring.The match-up was unmistakable: respondents who had described themselves as liberals showed “significantly greater conflict-related neural activity” when the hypothetical situation called for an unscheduled break in routine.

Conservatives, however, were less flexible, refusing to deviate from old habits “despite signals that this … should be changed.”

Yep.

Bank Runs, you gotta be kidding!

From the UK Guardian

Britain’s house price growth will be halved next year as the global financial crisis exacerbates the impact of rising mortgage rates, according to Nationwide, the biggest mortgage lender.

After the dramatic bail-out of high street bank Northern Rock underlined the impact of the American ‘sub-prime’ mortgage crisis on Britain’s financial sector, Fionnuala Earley, Nationwide’s group economist, said she expected house price inflation to slow to around 3 per cent next year.

Thousands of anxious customers queued outside Northern Rock branches for a second day yesterday, ignoring calls for calm from the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, and the bank’s management, and sparking fears of a full-blown ‘run’ on the bank.

Well, I guess Andrew Mellon’s famous quote is in order when he said “In a depression, wealth goes back to its’ natural owners…”

I was extremely surprised to run across this recently. I mean, I read the papers, watch CNN a little in the morning while getting dressed, and voraciously read lefty political blogs. Yet I didn’t know that Don Siegelman, a candidate for governor of Alabama, was apparently railroaded into jail. The New York Times:

Questions About a Governor’s Fall

Published: June 30, 2007

It is extremely disturbing that Don Siegelman, the former governor of Alabama, was hauled off to jail this week. There is reason to believe his prosecution may have been a political hit, intended to take out the state’s most prominent Democrat, a serious charge that has not been adequately investigated. The appeals court that hears his case should demand answers, as should Congress.

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Once again, if most of the money is taken out of politics by requiring free television spots, the same as weather is required by the FCC, this sort of thing would diminish, don’t you think?

Hillary Fundraiser Curses Out GOP
When Florida’s Republican Party attacked Hillary Clinton for enlisting a fundraiser once accused of racketeering, the fundraiser responded with a profanity-laced tirade — and later apologized.

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Once upon a time there were two entrepreneurs, Huey and Mongo. They began a business appropriately called Humongous Brothers Inc.

Since there was demand for large rocks that needed to be hauled out of quarries and plopped into landscaping projects, the brothers began driving to quarries, picking up, and delivering rocks. This was soon followed by the developing of connections to get humongous boulders from all over the world, for delivery to people who had the cash and wanted that big, pretty rock in their front yard, or mall entrance.

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It is a constant campaign to falsely define anyone or anything. How could they turn a word which means free thinker and generous, liberal, into something bad.

Bart says: Because the pink tutu liberals just stood there and TOOK it until the word became a negative. When you allow the Fascist bastards to define you, you look bad. 

My hat is off to Hill, in the Dem Debate, when asked if she was a liberal, she replied she was a progressive. She dealt them a severe beating. All that hard work by the Repubs to vilify that word went down the drain.It’ll take another dozen years to destroy the meaning of progressive.

Rudedog

Hey, just wanted to know if you’d heard about the latest campaign contribution scandal?? Are you a betting man?? I’d be willing to bet that Mr. Hsu is a Chinese government agent.? I’d bet anything on it? You’d think she’d be smarter than to use Chinese government agents as bag men AGAIN to fund her campaign.? You sure this woman can run the country?? She doesn’t seem too bright.

Bart says: She’s getting money from thousands of sources.
Meanwhile campaign aides for Rudy, McCain and Romney are busy selling cocaine and trying to blow 2 cops, (Florida, Minnesota) but let’s concentrate on the money because two GOP bastards trying to blow two cop isn’t news, right?

I was reading their “25 year” special and they were so proud to recommend Clinton be impeached for “not putting the country first,” as tho his sex life was OUR business.

Why does WHORE USA Today think a BJ is worse than 4,000 dead soldiers?
Because they are Republican whores, that’s why.
They see their job as protecting Bush and attacking Democrats.

Link

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Bush will be called to account for the U.S.-led invasion.

“A day will come that the current U.S. president and officials will be tried in an international supreme court for the catastrophes they caused in Iraq,” he said.

“Americans will have to answer for why they don’t end occupation of Iraq and why
waves of terrorism and insurgency have overwhelmed the country,” he added.
“It will not be like this forever and some day they will be stopped as happened
to Hitler, Saddam and certain other European leaders.”

Bart says: “Waves of terrorism” is what Bush needs to steal that oil. If Iraq was at peace, reporters could drive to the oil fields and ask where all those millions of barrels disappear to every day – and why there are no meters on the pumps.