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Why do news media outlets think it is so important to throw up (pun intended) images for their news stories? Most of them are “from the archives” or “file” images and are meaningless space wasters. Like this terrible one I saw this morning.

That’s a terrible image. Cheesy, yes. But TERRIBLE. Do we really NEED to have such an image to depict this story?!

Sheesh! While they’re at it, why don’t they just have some blood stains, or blood dripping from the knife? Why not have a severed head for a REAL eye-popping effect, huh?

Note to news organizations: skip the cheesy images. We’re all adults here. And while you’re at it, please ditch the cheesy bad breath treatment ads for “morning breath” and the underarm deodorant ads with people sniffing their armpits. They’re kinda dumb, too.

THIS is NEWS?!?!

College Students Have Less Empathy Than Past Generations

College students today show less empathy toward others compared with college students in decades before, a study from the University of Michigan says.

Sara Konrath, a researcher at the university’s Institute for Social Research, looked at 72 studies that gauged empathy among 14,000 college students in the past 30 years. She found that empathy has been declining — especially since 2000.

The research finds that college students today show 40% less empathy vs. students in the 1980s and 1990s. The students are less likely to agree with statements such as “I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me” and “I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective.”

The study did not evaluate why students are less empathetic, but Konrath says one reason may be that people are having fewer face-to-face interactions, communicating instead through social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

“Empathy is best activated when you can see another person’s signal for help,” Konrath says.

All you have to do is go out for a drive. You don’t need a reporter to tell you this, bub. Holy cow, kids are NASTY today! “Empathy,” what a word, lol. They “lack” “empathy.”

Maybe if they weren’t so pampered and pandered, that might help? Maybe if they didn’t have everything handed to them on a silver platter? Maybe if they actually interacted with the sick, the weak, the infirm, a little more? So much for all that “self-esteem” crap in school. Kids don’t need “self-esteem.” They need to work their BUTTS off so they know that 1.) Kids are NOT the center of the universe, 2.) They develop a sense of accomplishment in a JOB WELL DONE and not a prideful attitude of the eternal importance of their existence amongst us mortals.

Kids should work hard at anything and everything– digging ditches, sat prep, whatever. But they MUST be forced to work hard. And they must stop being pampered!!!

Our society cannot righteously complain about the monster that society has created. It didn’t just magically happen. These monster have been created. Welcome to the school of hard knocks, you “empathy” “lackers.” It’s called REAL LIFE. As soon as you go out into the real world away from your ivory towers and coddling parents, and try to find jobs amongst your peers and try to make a living, you’ll find out that everyone ELSE is JUST as lacking in empathy as YOU!

This is kinda cute.

Background: Germany (and Europe) are in a slump– financially and spiritually, and therefore, emotionally. It’s gotta be tough, those baby boomers living high on the hog on the backs of their children and grandchildren… and then those young whippersnappers collapse from the dead, fat weight. Yeah.

Well, Germany is happy that they have a new, chipper, chirpy, cheerful star in their midst. She IS very cute. Gosh. But her neck is, what, 18 inches?? I know lots of people who pop best weight loss pills to get such an Ethiopian neck. But she has lovely, “chirpy” eyes.

BERLIN — With the eurozone in crisis, government coffers bare, the national football team in trouble and even the weather awful, victory in the Eurovision Song Contest gave Germany a rare reason for cheer Monday.

Lena Meyer-Landrut was on the front page of every German newspaper, even the normally staid business daily Handelsblatt and the somewhat stuffy Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, dubbing her “Fraeulein Wunder” (“Miss Wonder”).

The mass-circulation Bild devoted almost all of its front page and three “special pages” to the 19-year-old, declaring: “LENA, wir lieben dich!” (“LENA, we love you!”).

“Europe loves us — and finally we’re in a good mood,” the paper said. In 2008 when No Angels spectacularly failed to impress the judges, the paper wondered why no one in Europe liked Germany.

The chirpy brunette’s victory in the European song fest in the Norwegian capital Oslo on Saturday with the catchy “Satellite” was only the second time Germany has won in the contest’s 55-year-history.

The last time Germans were able to celebrate Eurovision success was in 1982, when the Berlin Wall was still up. In the case of Meyer-Landrut — born in 1991 — that was more than a lifetime ago.

More than 120 million viewers across 39 European countries, but also as far afield as Myanmar, Australia and New Zealand, watched Meyer-Landrut, who has only just finished her final school exams, take the honours.

Bild estimated that 40,000 cheering fans welcomed her back in her home town of Hanover on Sunday.

Politicians fell over themselves to congratulate the singer, with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying her “rousing performance” had “dazzled Germany and sang you into the heart of Europe.”

“Whether you wanted to be or not, you are an ambassador for our country who, in one night, charmingly disproved a few old stereotypes,” Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

I’ll say. Her last name is Meyer? Isn’t that Jewish? Germany has certainly come a long way. I give them a lot of credit… unlike the U.S., who has now become the very deformed, deranged, sadistic Nazi monster that we once conquered.

The irony.

Gee, this borders on sick or something. But it’s what governments do, I guess. Just that… they just don’t do it with gummy bears, if you get my drift.

Gummy Bear Experimental Surgeries

The sites has heart transplants, limb transplants, Lipovox injections, and other really weird stuff… But this was kinda cute.

Gee, who knows, if New York State gets its way with forcing all New Yorkers to “donate” their organs (what a farce that is!), the Joseph Geobbels and mad scientists in Albany may have something like this in our capitol coffers!

I’d rather they keep their disgusting Frankenstein creations with the gummies… and leave us real people alone. Good God, what’s our nation coming to….

Oh gee. And I thought the resemblance was only behavioral. But now that I think about it…

Neanderthals mated with some modern humans after all and left their imprint in the human genome, a team of biologists has reported in the first detailed analysis of the Neanderthal genetic sequence.

The biologists, led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been slowly reconstructing the genome of Neanderthals, the stocky hunters that dominated Europe until 30,000 years ago, by extracting the fragments of DNA that still exist in their fossil bones. Just last year, when the biologists first announced that they had decoded the Neanderthal genome, they reported no significant evidence of interbreeding.

Scientists say they have recovered 60 percent of the genome so far and hope to complete it. By comparing that genome with those of various present day humans, the team concluded that about 1 percent to 4 percent of the genome of non-Africans today is derived from Neanderthals. But the Neanderthal DNA does not seem to have played a great role in human evolution, they said.

Yeah, bright guy. That’s because there WAS no evolution. It’s all a fairy tale. There’s no evidence for it. Period. The best thing they have is finch beaks, and there ain’t no new species popping out of those birds when the beaks get bigger or smaller during good times and bad– despite Steven Jay Gould’s ridiculous proposal of “spontaneous generation.” I found this great outline of what evolutionists believe:

According to the Darwinian religious beliefs, life began in this way:

(1) There was exactly the right atmosphere—and it was completely different from the one present today.

(2) The ground, water, or ocean where life began had exactly the right combination of chemicals—which are not present today.

(3) Using an unknown source of exactly the right amount of an unknown energy, rightward amino acids formed in sufficient quantities so that …

(4) … they could intelligently combine into enormous amounts of proteins and nucleotides (complex chemical compounds in exactly specific and highly intricate interdependent sequences).

(5) Then they intelligently reformed themselves into various tissues and organs inside a “simple” main organism.

(6) The organism found something to eat that didn’t kill it (this sounds silly, but this is important) and a way to intelligently transform those nutrients into sustainable and useful energy.

(7) The simple organism did some careful thinking and highly precise planning (as with all the other points, well beyond the collective intellectual abilities of even the finest human minds living or dead), and developed a nearly infinitely complex genetic code to cover hundreds of thousands of different factors.

(8) At this point, it found someone to marry, developed a perfectly functional reproductive system, and was ready to start reproducing offspring.

The last point reveals that all the previous points had to occur within the single lifetime of just one single celled organism. Since microbes and bacteria don’t live very long, this first living pioneer had to think and act lightning fast. So fast that, I’m afraid, the entire “theory” is just an impossible dream.

Nothing is said here about irreducible complexity, too, which is basically that ALL the systems of the evolved organism (digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, etc) had to suddenly spring into being and action together and concurrently, otherwise the organism could not live. Take away one of the systems (respiratory, for example) and you got no life there. The functioning organism (such as, YOU and ME) are so complex that we could not have possibly evolved from a one-celled organism into the extremely irreducibly complex being that we are. It’s IMPOSSIBLE. It’s IMPOSSIBLE mathematically, and logically. IMPOSSIBLE.

So back to Bill Maher and his crappy show broadcasting across tv stands…. he can act like a Neanderthal all he wants… devolve as just another lusty Huxley moose… but the fact is we were CREATED. You guys want to live in a fairy tale? Go right ahead. But don’t censor our speech and force US to believe that drivel.

For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.” — Aldous Huxley, “Confessions of a Professed Atheist,” Report: Perspective on the News, Vol. 3, June, 1966, p.19.

I am APOPLECTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is insane!!!!!

Seniors eating meals in the state of Georgia have been told that they cannot pray before they eat! What the heck?!?!?! WHy not?!

…the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.

LIELIELIELIELIELIE!!!

Will someone show some backbone and go kick those idiots in the butts? Please?! Do I have to EXPLAIN this all AGAIN?! Don’t these idiots EVER LISTEN?! Do I have to draw a diagram or show a slideshow to get these jerks to reason?! Their stupidity knows no bounds whatsoever.

1. There is NO separation of church in state in the Constitution!! The whole concept is ILLEGAL, STUPID, INSANE, and WICKED! It’s a way to keep the Godly people quiet so that the power-mongers can have their way!

2. The seniors can’t pray over FEDERALLY-PAID for food?!?!!?!?!??!? How stupid is that?

3. Who pays for the food, anyway? No, it’s not the Federal Government! It’s the SENIORS! Yes, the seniors and the other taxpayers of this country! The Feds have NO right to TAKE our money for food, and then turn around and tell people what they can and cannot say before they eat it!

You do realize that these power-mongering tyrants are laughing all the way to the bank. They think the American people are SO STUPID. And you know what– if nothing is done about such horrible, gross breaches of our liberties– then we really ARE stupid, and deserve everything we get!