The difference between Conservatives and Liberals
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wkmac
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So in other words Moreluck, your hysteria is a result of someone telling you to be hysterical.
Colleen Hufford was killed immediately after Nolan was terminated. Nolan left the company offices and went straight to where Hufford worked and killed her by means of decapitation. Would it be different had he choked her to death or used a gun? Nolan was also on parole and the loss of his job may well have affected his parole status. Thus is begs asking, had Nolan not been fired or even called to the boss's office, did Nolan pose a risk to Hufford? No evidence exists to support such a conclusion that he would.
In the case of Yusef Ibrahim, he cut the hands and heads off the 2 victims as he buried the bodies in one location in NJ and buried the hands and heads near Philadelphia. Surely we've never heard of anything like this before. The motive according to police was not in accordance with some obscure passage in the Quran as the link you posted asserted but was to hide evidence in case the bodies were discovered. Without hands and heads, identity becomes difficult. The cause of death was not beheading but rather from gunshots. The beheading and removal of hands occurred after the victims were dead. Where in the Quran is the passage on death by firearm?
On the wikipedia page "List of American Beheadings" Jeffrey Dahmer beheaded his victims so why don't we scream muslim on him? Since 1952' there have been 17 cases of beheadings in America. 2 are muslim connected (Nolan case not listed yet), the case in 2009' was when a muslim husband beheaded his estranged wife. Had the man blew her brains out with a shotgun, would his religious faith be an issue? Killing someone is just that, killing someone. The means seems to me is secondary at best.
As for the other 14 beheadings, 9 were a result of some form of car/motorcycle crash. 2 were a result of helicopter, 1 from a jet crash and 1 from a serial killer.
Word of advice, if you see the name Pamela Gellar in a link (as in the one you posted), you'd be wise to dig deep into the details before believing as she has a very specific agenda.
I see nothing that leads me to worry about being a victim of a muslim beheading but automotive racing statistically does prove itself far more worrisome but then I don't car race.
Colleen Hufford was killed immediately after Nolan was terminated. Nolan left the company offices and went straight to where Hufford worked and killed her by means of decapitation. Would it be different had he choked her to death or used a gun? Nolan was also on parole and the loss of his job may well have affected his parole status. Thus is begs asking, had Nolan not been fired or even called to the boss's office, did Nolan pose a risk to Hufford? No evidence exists to support such a conclusion that he would.
In the case of Yusef Ibrahim, he cut the hands and heads off the 2 victims as he buried the bodies in one location in NJ and buried the hands and heads near Philadelphia. Surely we've never heard of anything like this before. The motive according to police was not in accordance with some obscure passage in the Quran as the link you posted asserted but was to hide evidence in case the bodies were discovered. Without hands and heads, identity becomes difficult. The cause of death was not beheading but rather from gunshots. The beheading and removal of hands occurred after the victims were dead. Where in the Quran is the passage on death by firearm?
On the wikipedia page "List of American Beheadings" Jeffrey Dahmer beheaded his victims so why don't we scream muslim on him? Since 1952' there have been 17 cases of beheadings in America. 2 are muslim connected (Nolan case not listed yet), the case in 2009' was when a muslim husband beheaded his estranged wife. Had the man blew her brains out with a shotgun, would his religious faith be an issue? Killing someone is just that, killing someone. The means seems to me is secondary at best.
As for the other 14 beheadings, 9 were a result of some form of car/motorcycle crash. 2 were a result of helicopter, 1 from a jet crash and 1 from a serial killer.
Word of advice, if you see the name Pamela Gellar in a link (as in the one you posted), you'd be wise to dig deep into the details before believing as she has a very specific agenda.
I see nothing that leads me to worry about being a victim of a muslim beheading but automotive racing statistically does prove itself far more worrisome but then I don't car race.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Do yourself a favor----stay out of the deep end of the pool known as Current Events. Your acumen relegates you to the Kiddie Pool of posting innocuous Jokes, Quotes and One Liners.
Annoyed Dave.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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You will notice that I rarely dip my toes in to the deep end of the pool. There is a reason for that.
realbrown1
Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
This is why nobody likes you.
wkmac
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moreluck
golden ticket member
Do yourself a favor and M.Y.O.B.
moreluck
golden ticket member
You'll drown ?
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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Unlike you, I know when I don't have what it takes to participate in an intelligent manner in the discussion taking place and rather than look foolish I opt to post elsewhere. Something you might want to do.
ImWaitingForTheDay
Annoy a conservative....Think for yourself
OMG i almost wet my pants!
Look out free world.. Now a CHRISTIAN beheads a teenager..
http://kfor.com/2014/10/30/police-i...ing-murder-of-stillwater-teen-one-in-custody/
I guess we now have to place all Christians on the terror watch list..
TOS..
http://kfor.com/2014/10/30/police-i...ing-murder-of-stillwater-teen-one-in-custody/
I guess we now have to place all Christians on the terror watch list..
TOS..
UnderPaidSlave412
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The following is a public press release distributed by Virginia Tech on October 29, 2014
Brain responses to disgusting images help reveal political leanings
On verge of Election Day, Virginia Tech scientists find that biology influences political ideology
Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative.
In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Current Biology, an international team of scientists led by Virginia Tech reports that the strength of a person's reaction to repulsive images can forecast their political ideology.
"Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses don't correspond with an individual's conscious reaction to the images," said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. "Remarkably, we found that the brain's response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual's political ideology."
In a brain scanner, participants were shown disgusting images, such as dirty toilets or mutilated carcasses, mixed with neutral and pleasant images, such as landscapes and babies.
Afterward, the subjects took a standard political ideology inventory, answering questions about how often they discuss politics and whether they agreed or disagreed with hot-button topics such as school prayer and gay marriage.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute – in collaboration with researchers from University College London, Rice University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Yale University – recorded brain activity of the subjects responding to the images.
Responses to disgusting images could predict, with 95 percent to 98 percent accuracy, how a person would answer questions on the political survey.
The results suggest political ideologies are mapped onto established neural responses that may have served to protect our ancestors against environmental threats, Montague said. Those neural responses could be passed down family lines — it's likely that disgust reactions are inherited.
"We pursued this research because previous work in a twin registry showed that political ideology — literally the degree to which someone is liberal or conservative — was highly heritable, almost as heritable as height," said Montague, who directs the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
Conservatives tend to have more magnified responses to disgusting images, but scientists don't know exactly why, Montague said.
The responses could be a callback to the deep, adverse reactions primitive ancestors needed to avoid contamination and disease. To prevent unsavory consequences, they had to learn to separate the canteen from the latrine.
Montague points out that we're not necessarily hardwired to respond on instinct alone. He uses height as an analogy.
"Genetics predetermines height – but not fully," Montague said. "Nutrition, sleep, and starvation can all change someone's ultimate height. But tall people's children tend to be tall, and that's a kind of starting point. If we can begin to understand that some automatic reactions to political issues may be simply that – reactions – then we might take the temperature down a bit in the current boiler of political discourse."
People are unique among animals in their degree of cognitive control. Montague calls it a behavioral superpower.
"People can deny their biological instincts for an idea – think of hunger strikes for political reasons," Montague said. "That requires a high degree of cognitive control, and that's the point."
The takeaway message for Election Day?
"Think, don't just react," Montague said. "But no one needs neuroscience to know that's a good idea."
Brain responses to disgusting images help reveal political leanings
On verge of Election Day, Virginia Tech scientists find that biology influences political ideology
Maggot infestations, rotting carcasses, unidentifiable gunk in the kitchen sink – how much your brain responds to disgusting images could predict whether you are liberal or conservative.
In a study to be published in an upcoming issue of Current Biology, an international team of scientists led by Virginia Tech reports that the strength of a person's reaction to repulsive images can forecast their political ideology.
"Disgusting images generate neural responses that are highly predictive of political orientation even when those neural responses don't correspond with an individual's conscious reaction to the images," said Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute professor who led the study. "Remarkably, we found that the brain's response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual's political ideology."
In a brain scanner, participants were shown disgusting images, such as dirty toilets or mutilated carcasses, mixed with neutral and pleasant images, such as landscapes and babies.
Afterward, the subjects took a standard political ideology inventory, answering questions about how often they discuss politics and whether they agreed or disagreed with hot-button topics such as school prayer and gay marriage.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute – in collaboration with researchers from University College London, Rice University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Yale University – recorded brain activity of the subjects responding to the images.
Responses to disgusting images could predict, with 95 percent to 98 percent accuracy, how a person would answer questions on the political survey.
The results suggest political ideologies are mapped onto established neural responses that may have served to protect our ancestors against environmental threats, Montague said. Those neural responses could be passed down family lines — it's likely that disgust reactions are inherited.
"We pursued this research because previous work in a twin registry showed that political ideology — literally the degree to which someone is liberal or conservative — was highly heritable, almost as heritable as height," said Montague, who directs the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute.
Conservatives tend to have more magnified responses to disgusting images, but scientists don't know exactly why, Montague said.
The responses could be a callback to the deep, adverse reactions primitive ancestors needed to avoid contamination and disease. To prevent unsavory consequences, they had to learn to separate the canteen from the latrine.
Montague points out that we're not necessarily hardwired to respond on instinct alone. He uses height as an analogy.
"Genetics predetermines height – but not fully," Montague said. "Nutrition, sleep, and starvation can all change someone's ultimate height. But tall people's children tend to be tall, and that's a kind of starting point. If we can begin to understand that some automatic reactions to political issues may be simply that – reactions – then we might take the temperature down a bit in the current boiler of political discourse."
People are unique among animals in their degree of cognitive control. Montague calls it a behavioral superpower.
"People can deny their biological instincts for an idea – think of hunger strikes for political reasons," Montague said. "That requires a high degree of cognitive control, and that's the point."
The takeaway message for Election Day?
"Think, don't just react," Montague said. "But no one needs neuroscience to know that's a good idea."
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