Comments on: Making a difference in a crazy world http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/ She drinks, you know. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6945 rmp Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:21:01 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6945 Still pix from same party: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25048582@N05/ Still pix from same party:
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]]> By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6944 rmp Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:19:00 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6944 Pictures from the party: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25048582@N05/show/ Pictures from the party:

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]]> By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6941 rmp Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:51:27 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6941 Great point about health. Also when I am out walking, jogging, running by myself without distractions, I do some of my best thinking about myself and what is concerning me politically. Great point about health. Also when I am out walking, jogging, running by myself without distractions, I do some of my best thinking about myself and what is concerning me politically.

]]> By: Skeptic http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6940 Skeptic Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:39:11 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6940 I should have added that better physical health also leads to better mental health, too. I should have added that better physical health also leads to better mental health, too.

]]> By: Skeptic http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6939 Skeptic Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:38:31 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6939 Great post, rmp! Speaking from personal experience, I can say that making one's self as healthy as possible (especially given the current health care system) is both morale-boosting and encouraging. It's hard to stay in touch with your self-esteem when your vitality is at an ebb. It is possible to keep your morale up even when your health is sub-par, but it is not easy to do so, and you don't have as much energy for other things, in the end. While you're mentoring people, of any age... it's good to remember, and maybe remind them, too, of how many things we can do for ourselves to improve our health. Just cutting out the smoking, sodas, high-fructose corn syrup, and trans fats can make a huge difference, and still leave a person enough room (and a few dollars) to enjoy some better quality junk food. And... more importantly, you are also making a political statement that you won't allow the corn lobby (King Corn) or the tobacco lobby to run your life. Great post, rmp!

Speaking from personal experience, I can say that making one’s self as healthy as possible (especially given the current health care system) is both morale-boosting and encouraging. It’s hard to stay in touch with your self-esteem when your vitality is at an ebb.

It is possible to keep your morale up even when your health is sub-par, but it is not easy to do so, and you don’t have as much energy for other things, in the end.

While you’re mentoring people, of any age… it’s good to remember, and maybe remind them, too, of how many things we can do for ourselves to improve our health.

Just cutting out the smoking, sodas, high-fructose corn syrup, and trans fats can make a huge difference, and still leave a person enough room (and a few dollars) to enjoy some better quality junk food. And… more importantly, you are also making a political statement that you won’t allow the corn lobby (King Corn) or the tobacco lobby to run your life.

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6936 dirigo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:00:45 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6936 Dana is "not a scientist," as she says; but she is a blonde, albeit not a Danish blonde. It still concerns me that she has no idea what the Bay of Pigs was about, or about how many pigs were there. Has she addressed that anomaly? Can she spell Kyoto? Does she, therefore, know what happened the day before yesterday? Dana is “not a scientist,” as she says; but she is a blonde, albeit not a Danish blonde.

It still concerns me that she has no idea what the Bay of Pigs was about, or about how many pigs were there.

Has she addressed that anomaly? Can she spell Kyoto?

Does she, therefore, know what happened the day before yesterday?

]]> By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6935 rmp Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:48:21 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6935 This just in. Dana Perino is giving the Bush Administration full credit for the Copenhagen Summit. So typical of the Right Wing denial/blame psychology. Never take responsibility for any mistakes and look for the slimmest reason to take credit and blame others for doing the wrong thing and not being nearly as smart as you are. <b>Perino credits Bush for Copenhagen climate talks</b> http://rawstory.com/2009/12/perino-credits-bush-for-copenhagen/ This just in. Dana Perino is giving the Bush Administration full credit for the Copenhagen Summit. So typical of the Right Wing denial/blame psychology. Never take responsibility for any mistakes and look for the slimmest reason to take credit and blame others for doing the wrong thing and not being nearly as smart as you are.

Perino credits Bush for Copenhagen climate talks
http://rawstory.com/2009/12/perino-credits-bush-for-copenhagen/

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6934 dirigo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:46:52 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6934 Not sure that I'm concentrating on it, though I'm mentioning it here. I'm fed up with bogus debate tactics is about all I'm saying. A debate hall should be for debate, not psychoanalysis. I read today that Noam Chomsky gave a speech at Columbia, got an award, and laced American leaders (as he's done before) for their split personalities. That's old news to me. I heard Noam say that at MIT thirty years ago. Not sure that I’m concentrating on it, though I’m mentioning it here.

I’m fed up with bogus debate tactics is about all I’m saying.

A debate hall should be for debate, not psychoanalysis.

I read today that Noam Chomsky gave a speech at Columbia, got an award, and laced American leaders (as he’s done before) for their split personalities.

That’s old news to me. I heard Noam say that at MIT thirty years ago.

]]> By: rmp http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6933 rmp Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:32:57 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6933 What strikes me the most about Levine's article is not what is already well known about the crazy right and their authoritarian minds which have been well explained by experts like Altemeyer, but how weak the abuse and large number of vital issues has made the left. That's the most important tragedy and raising morale or keeping a positive attitude is essential to turn that around. When someone as knowledgeable as you Dirigo keeps concentrating on the right's craziness that takes focus away from solutions and from all the left groups working together on fixing broken systems instead of discussing the psychological illness of leaders. What strikes me the most about Levine’s article is not what is already well known about the crazy right and their authoritarian minds which have been well explained by experts like Altemeyer, but how weak the abuse and large number of vital issues has made the left. That’s the most important tragedy and raising morale or keeping a positive attitude is essential to turn that around.

When someone as knowledgeable as you Dirigo keeps concentrating on the right’s craziness that takes focus away from solutions and from all the left groups working together on fixing broken systems instead of discussing the psychological illness of leaders.

]]> By: dirigo http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/unhinged/making-a-difference-in-a-crazy-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6932 dirigo Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:14:21 +0000 http://www.cocktailhag.com/blog/?p=3092#comment-6932 Right. Psychobabble, or psychological bullshit dressed up as debate (or maybe just righteous indignation as a filibustering technique), aimed at shutting down any real give and take. I've experienced it too and have no more patience with it, and think they are the mental cases. The exceptional, American mental cases. Right. Psychobabble, or psychological bullshit dressed up as debate (or maybe just righteous indignation as a filibustering technique), aimed at shutting down any real give and take.

I’ve experienced it too and have no more patience with it, and think they are the mental cases.

The exceptional, American mental cases.

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