“Obama is employing with art and skill a complex hidden system applying a multitude of the most advanced techniques in subconscious manipulation known to psychology.”
Read the entire 67 delicious pages: AN EXAMINATION OF OBAMA’S USE OF HIDDEN HYPNOSIS TECHNIQUES IN HIS SPEECHES
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Janie and I took a short road trip yesterday since the weather was so beautiful. It was a sunny, 60 degree fall day and we decided to head up to Snoqualmie Falls, about 45 minutes outside of Seattle, just as you start a climb into the mountains. I’d not been in many years and it was strange to see how much development has taken place in that time.
About a mile form the Falls is the older portion of the town of Snoqualmie, offering an outdoor train museum of …

Apparently today is Blog Action Day and the blogging community is supposed to write about poverty. I’m always the last to know these things! I haven’t had time to prepare a properly researched piece on poverty, but here are some things you might find interesting.
Back when I was studying to be a Chemical Dependency Professional, one of the first things we learned was Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Within this hierarchy is the idea that the basic needs of any human being are physiological ones – sleep, shelter, water, …

Many years ago, when I was working at a Blockbuster Music store and denying that I was gay, I developed my first and only real celebrity crush.
As part of the store’s marketing program, we’d play a loop of several videos to promote a recently released album. When I first started, we were promoting an album called “Just the Same” by Terri Clark. I had never been into country music save for that one song by Reba McEntire, so I’d never heard of this singer before. The videos …