One of my favorite books is Lincoln on Leadership, and it gives a real insight into how rough US politics has always been.
On Aug 25, 8:00 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 Aug, 13:56, Molly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > She seems to have taken the place of Anna Nichole Smith in the > > "painful to watch" media celebrity department. > > Good-ol' Car-Crash Politics. It used to happen prior to media, as > well. But we didn't all get the chance to see it. > > > > > On Aug 24, 8:23 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 14 Aug, 14:28, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > The catty critics of Sarah Palin are/were more disturbing to me than > > > > anything she did or said. > > > > {snicker} She'll only really be disturbing if she gets elected. > > > Otherwise, she's absolutely great entertainment value for money, as I > > > laugh every time and have yet to pay anything. > > > > > On Aug 13, 8:15 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 13 Aug, 14:00, rigsy03 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Our dreams may be nothing more than a garbage disposal of excess > > > > > > thoughts to freshen the mind for the next day. On the other hand, > > > > > > daydreams and musings may lead to inventions (See: "Einstien's > > > > > > Dreams" > > > > > > by Alan sombebody or other who taught creative writing at M.I.T.) > > > > > > and > > > > > > creativity or problem solving. Our imagination has been diminished > > > > > > by > > > > > > media overload, unfortunately. > > > > > > If I REALLY believe...will Sarah Palin disappear?? Assuming > > > > > Tinkerbell logic, of course. > > > > > > Apologies, your comment of 'media overload' immediately brough her to > > > > > mind. ;-) > > > > > > > On Aug 13, 7:14 am, Pat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 9 Aug, 14:54, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > no.. i dont know wat dreams are made of..but i was > > > > > > > > wondering.. why > > > > > > > > is it that we are able to 'remember' our dreams.. like a real > > > > > > > > memory..like something happening in real life..i mean the only > > > > > > > > way we > > > > > > > > know it was a dream is the fact that we remember waking up > > > > > > > > too...now i > > > > > > > > know i can read a lot of books and wat not on the topic..but > > > > > > > > since i > > > > > > > > am already burdened with the social science literature in my > > > > > > > > curriculum i was hoping one of you guys might give me a lucid > > > > > > > > explanation... > > > > > > > > I tend to generally agree with Molly. We remember dreams because > > > > > > > we > > > > > > > experience them. We live 'through' them like we live 'through' > > > > > > > waking > > > > > > > life. As far as how we perceive a flow to events AS memory, > > > > > > > science > > > > > > > has no answer. I do, though. It boils down to having a 2-D > > > > > > > consciousness that allows us to integrate the 4-D slices of space > > > > > > > time > > > > > > > as we exist on the bow-wave of the expansion OF space-time and > > > > > > > move > > > > > > > past those 4-D slices.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
