With all these false so called terror alerts ,

[blues90]

We read about smells and dead birds and a box of sprinkler parts which really showed their test for plastic explosives are useless .

All this on tv news flowing out as swill .

What we need to do is worry if there is a real attack then deal with it as best we can because they have nothing secured in this country , nothing . So we can't predict either a real attack or another so called 9/11 pearl harbor not after the bull we were fed on that one .

Someday soon we might find we are attacked after all we have done and I can't say I would blame who ever did attack us . Bush brought this on us and so did anyone who voted this freak in and who ever voted for this damn attack on Iraq .

In a way the US needs to learn a lesson one day .

[Rick Myers]

1. Just warming up the gullible for Wednesday's speechification! n/t

[unpossibles]

5. yup. they are priming the pump with fear and rational thinking is the only answer

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20061222-000001.xml


To test the theory, Jost prompted people to thin about either pain—by looking at things like a ambulance, a dentist's chair, and a bee sting—o death, by looking at things like a funeral hearse the grim reaper, and a dead-end sign. Across th political spectrum, people who had been prime to think about death were more conservative o issues like immigration, affirmative action, an same-sex marriage than those who had merel thought about pain, although the effect size wa relatively small. The implication is clear: Fo liberals, conservatives, and independents alike thinking about death actually makes people mor conservative—at least temporarily

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"At least some of the President's support is the result of constant and relentless reminders of death, some of which is just what's happening in the world, but much of which is carefully cultivated and calculated as an electoral strategy," says Solomon. "In politics these days, there's a dose of reason, and there's a dose of irrationality driven by psychological terror that may very well be swinging elections."

Solomon demonstrated that thinking about 9/11 made people go from preferring Kerry to preferring Bush. "Very subtle manipulations of psychological conditions profoundly affect political preferences," Solomon concludes. "In difficult moments, people don't want complex, nuanced, John Kerry-like waffling or sophisticated cogitation. They want somebody charismatic to step up and say, 'I know where our problem is and God has given me the clout to kick those people's asses.'"
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To test this, Solomon and his colleagues prompted two groups to think about death and then give opinions about a pro-American author and an anti-American one. As expected, the group that thought about death was more pro-American than the other. But the second time, one group was asked to make gut-level decisions about the two authors, while the other group was asked to consider carefully and be as rational as possible. The results were astonishing. In the rational group, the effects of mortality salience were entirely eliminated. Asking people to be rational was enough to neutralize the effects of reminders of death. Preliminary research shows that reminding people that as human beings, the things we have in common eclipse our differences—what psychologists call a "common humanity prime"—has the same effect.

[butterfly77]

2. Maybe the gov were testing something...

to see how or if it would effect humans but, for the moment it just killed birds...

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. The funny things is, the terrorists don't even have to attack us any more.

So there is no need for security - no attack is going to happen. Because they won - the terrorists accomplished their goal: the destruction of the United States. And all it took 'em was 19 guys, some help from Shrubbie, and four airplanes.

All they have to do now is sit back and wait another couple years until we've spent ourselves into bankrupt oblivion because of our fear. Then they can pick up our properties and the rest of our stuff for free, or close to nothing.

We bought their fear card, and we bought it hook, line, and sinker.

[HockeyMom]

4. From a New Yorker (30 miles from Ground Zero)

They lost me a long time ago. It was said best by a little 6 year old girl in the 1st grade class I worked in. "If we put plastic and duct tape around all our classroom windows to keep the air out, how are we going to breathe?" "We will all DIE."

Out of the mouth of Babes.