Number one if you look at all of the polls they had Obama winning by 9 to 10 points. If you average the all of the data, Obama was only going to capture 36% of the votes, which he did. You might say the polls got it right, because in the end Obama captured 36% of the votes, while Hillary received 39%. Most of the pollster stops polling 24hrs before the New Hampshire primary and as a result we didn’t get a accurate snap shot of Hillary’s late surge.

Another reason and this seems more plausible, that New Hampshire is an open primary, which means whatever party you belong to you aren’t locked in to only cast your vote for that party. John McCain, the “maverick” won a decisive victory on the republican contest and was the real come back kid. Why did McCaine win overwhelmingly because he captured most of the independents votes. New Hampshire historical votes for independent presidential candidates like Buchanan in 94′ and McCain before in 00′.

In the Iowa caucuses, Obama won because of all of the independents that had voted for him. McCain’s dominate victory spelled doom for the Obama campaign, because McCain captured most of independent votes. Hillary’s emotional outburst and the Republican machine were just too much to overcome by the Obama camp. If the republican race was a little tighter and if Romney would have won on the republican side maybe the tables would have turned for an Obama victory?

It seems to me that the fix was on during the New Hampshire primary and Hillary benefited because of it. The republicans wouldn’t admit it, but they would much rather have Hillary to be the democratic nominee than Obama. Hillary’s “35 years of change” experience would give the republicans plenty of ammunition to cripple her presidential bid. However, Obama would cause a formidable challenge for whoever the republicans nominate as there presidential candidate.

An open New Hampshire primary was the perfect storm to slow down the Obama campaign and allow Hillary to beat him. A perfect plan was that the only republican’s that tried to win New Hampshire was Romney and McCain. None of the rest of the republican field conceded a victory to McCain because most of the polls predicted his comeback surge. This tactic worked perfectly because none of the republican candidates wanted Romney to win and neither did the New Hampshire independent voters.

Most of the independents backed McCain overwhelmingly to defeat Romney. McCain’s surge of independent votes catapulted Hillary over Obama and the republicans killed two birds with one stone. Hillary should thank John McCain and the independents for her narrow victory. Even if my theory is right Obama still leading in the delegate count and is threatening to widen his lead his margin with the next few states up for grabs. Give credit where credit is due, thanks to McCain, “the maverick”, strikes again.

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How often do you change your kitchen sponge – once, twice a week? Imagine that being repeated millions of times each week around the world. It’s a lot of waste, especially given that so many sponges are made from plastics, making them yet another item in our home that’s derived from oil.

While changing your sponge regularly is good hygienic practice, try to purchase ones that are made from only from cellulose fiber – and the cellulose is sourced from plantation forests or recycled.

There’s an added danger with many synthetic sponges these days; often they are impregnated with chemicals such as Triclosan. Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent and is registered with the Environmental Protection Agency as being a pesticide. It’s also used in many antibacterial soaps, deodorants, toothpastes and cosmetics.

Aside from increasing evidence linking triclosan to health problems, it is also believed to destroy fragile aquatic ecosystems; especially algaes that other animals may depend on – either directly or indirectly.

As sewerage and waste water treatment plants cannot remove triclosan and the compound remains stable for long periods of time; it’s posing an increasing problem in our waterways – it’s now one of the most common man-made chemicals found in U.S. streams.

Any sponge pack that states is anti-bacterial or destroys odors is probably best left on the supermarket shelf as it’s likely to contain triclosan or something equally damaging to the environment.

To help keep your “green” cellulose sponge free of nasty bacteria, try to keep it as dry as possible between uses. You can sterilize them by soaking for a few minutes in boiled water, or try a dilute bleach/hydrogen peroxide solution.

Just on bacteria – we seemed to have developed quite a paranoia about these critters. Not only are there good bacteria, but in order to develop resistance to some of the less desirable ones, we do need some exposure to them. While good basic hygiene practices should never be forsaken, all we’re doing with disinfecting everything we touch is weakening our immune system and producing more robust bacteria.

Michael Bloch is the author and owner of Green Living Tips.com, an online resource powered by renewable energy offering a wide variety of earth friendly tips, green guides, advice and environment related news to help consumers and business reduce costs, consumption and environmental impact on the planet.

In most cases people choose to go to places where they already like the entertainment in which case it’s easy to create a synergy with the people but if the performer doesn’t provide enough independent and representational value (they suck), they people will somehow let them know (booing or no more ticket sales).

When the comedian, rockstar, band, or dj is on the stage, they are taking relational authority over that social environment. They are behaving as the stimulus to which other people will respond to.

Whatever kind of programming they are getting across, the default relationship with the people is that of stimulus-response.

What does this have to do with being successful with women and dating?

Most likely, much more than you have EVER realized in the past.

You see, by placing or having one person at the top of the social hierarchy as the stimulus, everyone else is generally below that person in power by default if they play the social game.

Well, many of today’s women are perceived exactly as the stimulus because they have found ways to look like magazine cover models or soft porn clones.

Because of this social leverage, men will continue to fall into the trap of responding to this social power. This means that their relationship with a woman who they don’t even know has already been formed because they have allowed it to be.

They chose the wrong type of relationship with her in which she is the stimulus and he is the response. Because he edifies women in Maxim magazine and develops all of this added value as a ‘response’ to her exploited sexuality, he unknowingly attributes the same behavioral response to regular women who harness this social power as well.

The irony of all of this is that these women who on the inside really DESPERATELY want to find real men, have to live up to the tremendous social pressure and demands it places on them.

Why? Because the social ‘power’ and influence is strong. To millions of people it’s everything. Little do most of these unsuspecting people know, but they are only socio-cultural byproducts who have adapted to their environment – that’s it.

How do I know this (and how do millions of people outside of Western influence know this to be true)? 2 words; cultural differentiation.

In fact, you can look at causal influence in any environment. It stems beyond the person’s biological inheritance and starts influencing them from an early age onward.

You learn your language, beliefs, ideals and get access to certain opportunities, systems and influences as a result of your immediate socio-cultural environment.

Most people just aren’t aware of it though because they’re so used to it. It’s like an invisible veil that has got it’s grip around countless millions of men and women who are just playing the game that is controlled and driven by the Architects at the top of it.

So, practically speaking when it comes to success with the most beautiful and desired women; we know it’s a power game. She is looking for a man at least her equal or greater.

Your way in is through relational equality by simply not giving up your power in relationship to her or any other person on earth. It’s surprisingly simple actually and it’s how powerful people connect and network; heck, it’s the only way they’ll even open up to a further relationship with someone
new anyways.

But in order to be ‘equal’ and ‘as powerful’ as these beautiful, sexy women you desire you have to be TRULY GROUNDED in your relationship to them. And that’s where everything begins; when they can ‘trust you’ to be yourself and powerful around them.

And how does a guy like you or any other guy for that matter actually BE equal in power to the tremendous social leverage of a beautiful woman?

I’m talking about BEING 100% comfortable and congruent in your own skin before, during and after your communication with any beautiful woman on earth.

How do you get there?

Alpha Relational Dynamics…it’s way beyond your ‘inner game’…they’ve been focusing on the ~wrong subject all along.

And in A.R.D. I teach you how to differentiate and understand the truth of your relationship to your 3 root behavioral character traits, a woman’s 3 and your relationship with the causal social matrix of influence itself.

Any and all women that you want and could have in real life, are real people.

They want you to treat them as real and when you can understand that what you’ve given so much added value to is really just a social adaptive behavior on her part to her unique social culture, you’ll relieve countless compounded years of repression off of your own ‘inner game’ and you’ll be a much more powerful man.

Isn’t it time for real change?!

Rion Williams is one of the foremost experts in dating advice, personal power and relational dynamics. He is well-known within the seduction community itself.

Go to an event, concert, comedy club, nightclub and you will see people adapting to their social environment. Beyond basic social courtesies and customs I’m talking about the types of relationships that now exist that weren’t necessarily there before.

It changes people’s behavior because they adapt to certain environmental stimuli. Women are well known to change their behavior patterns drastically based on different environments and different stimuli.

Men are often just pretty much confused.

What else do those venues have in common besides being places where people can be together? And do you think it would help create new relationships or actually kind of prevent them from happening? (I’ll talk about that another time).

In those types of environments (where it isn’t ‘open interdependence’ as I call it), there is always a social hierarchy as well as a relationship to the mass majority of people.

This relationship is that of stimulus-response.

You see, anytime that there is a stimulus, people will generally respond and submit to the authority of that lead figure. They will adapt their own behavior to be ‘led’ by that stimulus.

Hand-clapping is the most common one. Other ‘commands’ are, ‘get up’, ’stand up’, ‘you can sit down’, ‘wave your hands from side to side’, ‘can i getta’, ‘just throw your hands in the air like this’, ‘hug someone’, ‘meet some people’, ‘wave’, ‘applause’, ‘all rise’ etc.

On a side note; the level of congruency and independent strength that authority figure has often determines the level of the crowd’s receptivity and response.

The stimulus has the power of social status and the leverage of social proof. As long as they are adding value and pleasing the people (synergy) in some form, the people will grant that person continued authority.

Yet without knowing it they are being ever so subtly controlled and even conditioned by these authority figures. Since the stimuli has leveraged social power, he or she has a great power of influence.

The reason why concerts and seminars are almost ALWAYS successful is because of the stimulus-response type relationship that exists between the authority stimuli and the crowd response.

The ‘people’ just aren’t aware of any other reality because they only see what is being programmed and sent down to them. In a S-R relationship (like talk radio) there is no room for a person
to think independently.

This hidden type of power has been used by politicians, entertainers and speakers for centuries. Media is powerful and influential because of the stimulus-response type relationship.

And when in the midst of other people who are also in the response end of the relationship, people will usually slip into a ‘don’t rock the boat’ mentality.

‘If everyone else is doing it, I don’t want to be the one to stand out’.

So people will find themselves clapping to things they don’t truly believe in. I never do and I don’t care if everyone else is clapping around me. I keep my power for myself because I know what is really going on.

The power the stimulus has over you is almost invisible in that type of relationship because you do only see and hear what is directly being brought down.

It’s an independent ‘channel’ of communication that your brain is focusing on and finds it very difficult to tune out. And because this is all you can see and know, you will often just believe it to be true even though it may not be.

This further influences people to adapt their behavior to their environment.

Look at cult leaders and how they win over the people. They’ll submit to someone’s authority and adapt their behavior in that social environment until they end up (hopefully) realizing how far away they’ve come from being the person they used to be.

I encourage you to be cognitive of the TRUE relational dynamics that exist.

Don’t let someone’s social status throw you off. The answer is to retain interdependent, win/win or equal exchange of value relationships at ALL times.

It takes strength to be the one to stand apart from the crowd but if you don’t believe in something, don’t feel like you have to ‘fit in’ just to not rock the boat because maybe the boat could use some rocking and the speaker is just misleading everyone else.

Learn to see through it. When you can retain your independence in relation to other sources of power and all people, you should be able to understand the truth of social dynamics and how it influences
people to adapt to their environment and change your behavior.

Social adaptive behavior is why women are not natural anymore.

Their environment is that of the social matrix of influence. It’s power is in the stimulus-response relationship of authority and unknowingly submission or conditioning effect upon the masses who have adapted to the consciously derived system.

If you want the most success with women you have to see them for who they really are. You will fail going up against the leverage of social power they wield and it’s what society wants you to do so that they keep making more money off of your repression but it’s not what women really want despite the great irony of it.

To be continued…

Rion Williams is one of the foremost experts in dating advice, personal power and relational dynamics. He is well-known within the seduction community itself.

Sealed lead batteries came around and approximately 1975 for the purpose of having a power source that was maintenance-free and also ate economical for the manufacture and consumer. Amongst the features beyond the selling of the lead in the light from spillage was the formation of special release the mouse to lower dangerous gas buildup to release safely. These sealed lead batteries were designed to be rechargeable, which is most of the common uses today.

Two basic types of lead acid batteries were created to survive the economic and consumer demands. These are the VRLA and SLA batteries. VRLA stands for valve regulated lead acid. SLA stands for sealed lead acid. Both types are quite synonymous over all with little differences between them.

One of the best features of these two still batteries when they are rechargeable includes the excess faulty safety mechanism which disallows abettors explosive gas from becoming too great in quantity.

Lot of effort has gone into this aspect of rechargeable batteries. Not only do the batteries become dangerous when they are overcharged, but on a more economic note they lose their overall charge to time via buildup of crystals or corrosion which limit the amount of electrolyte storage ability.

However, with the bad, as opposed to lithium ion and other types of batteries, the damage and memory loss is next to nothing. There is approximately 35 to 40% reduction in life per year on rechargeable batteries. This causes us to have to replace the batteries eventually in almost everything that uses them.

Sealed lead batteries are used in many many devices in today’s world. He uses range from toy is such a flying helicopters and children’s stories to more sophisticated applications such as power supplies for the computer. Almost any electronic device is run by batteries, and if it is not in it plugs directly in to the state power grid now enhanced your applet in your home.

Sealed lead batteries were relatively cheap to purchase and manufacture. Although the different brands are competing for in their market share, there remains the fact that they are simply a battery and is a battery and is a battery.

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At one time or another each one of us has thought about what is awaiting around the corner or a few years down the road, and how it will affect us. But if we’re going to live joyfully in the present moment, we must recognize that the future is not yet created; it is an illusion beyond our grasp. In the process of worrying anxiously over anticipated outcomes, we actually lose the opportunities of this present moment.

In reality, there is no need to be concerned about what is waiting for us around the corner or a few years down the road because we are sustained by the Presence of the Divine right now. The choices we make now are indeed the only choices that matter, for in the realm of Spirit there exists only the Eternal Now. And so the very sustenance of this moment is available to us every present moment, throughout Eternity.

Advanced spiritual teachers have always taught the folly of worrying over the future. Christ said, “Do not be anxious about what you will eat or what you will drink… but seek the kingdom of God, and all of these things shall be added to you.”

To find freedom from fear, it is of critical importance to realize that we are not victims of time and space. The Course in Miracles teaches that we are limitless spiritual beings, subject only to that which we hold in mind. In other words, whatever we believe in, becomes our destiny! The very belief in the outcome we hold in mind, sets up a powerful attractor field. This field draws resonating outcomes and brings about the creation of what is held in mind, whether we focused on it out of fear or out of faith.

As we let go of the belief that the future is fraught with danger, that the end of the world is looming, or that we are powerless over the destiny of our souls, the manifestation of these outcomes are also averted. Instead, we can choose to embrace the belief that we live in a perfect, harmonious, loving world!

Perception becomes reality. That means we can live in a perfect world by releasing all beliefs or perceptions to the contrary. As we let go of the limiting beliefs about our world, we can move into the higher spiritual awareness that embraces all with peace, abundance, harmony, and right action.

Around the planet, a large segment of the population is already moving into this higher frequency and living there. Their collective act of holding in mind a world unfolding from perfection to perfection, is slowly transforming the dense energies of the physical world to align with that higher spiritual vision.

Spiritual consciousness teaches us that it is God’s will for us to live in perfect peace with overflowing joy and happiness. If we truly believe this, it then follows that all things good, true, and beautiful have already been given to us – including the answer to every question and the supply for every need we could possibly ever have. When we live in this consciousness of having everything we need in this present moment, we are able to also see everyone else in this world as having the fullness of Divine provision now.

In the third-dimensional density of life on earth, individuals often get divided or split into the illusion of duality: our language clearly provides this clue in the term in-divid-dual. However, the true basis of our origin is Spirit and not the physical ego. The nature of Spirit is indivisible, always One, always connected to All That Is. I am a part of you, you are part of me, and we are eternally part of the One.

This is why we should never see each other as poor, sick, unfulfilled, fearful, or burdened with guilt. As I see and behold you, I see myself as well. When I see you through the worldly eyes of ego as someone less than perfect, I call forth into manifestation that which is not desired for either of us individually.

Yet when I look at you through the eyes of spirit or love, I see you as perfection continuously unfolding, moment by moment. And by seeing the perfection underlying all, I bring that into reality. This is how miracles happen: when someone focuses on the perfection beneath the illusion of disease, that eternal truth dispels all illusion and becomes their observable reality.

Our reality is God, and we are spiritual beings who exist as aspects of that Divinity. Divine abundance created us rich; divine perfection created us in an eternal state of well-being; divine love created us loved and loving; divine power created us as totally triumphant in every activity of life.

It is the denial of this truth that ensnares us into the trap of lack and worthlessness. There is no need for us to sink into the quagmire of lack and fear! Knowledge of our sacred Self eliminates the illusion of need, for the perfection of Self is the very principle of fulfillment.

Whatever we focus on within, we become. Remember that joy and sadness cannot exist simultaneously. When we choose one, the other cannot be. When we choose joy, we leave sadness behind.

As you choose your reality in each moment, may you choose: happiness with no strings attached; peace of mind that can’t be compromised; relationships without resentments or fear; an unshakable sense of security; confidence to accept any challenge life brings; and a love that leaves no-one out of its embrace.

Ada Porat is a holistic health practitioner and life balance coach with extensive international teaching and clinical experience. She uses body/mind/spirit techniques to help clients master succesful living in the present moment. For more information, visit http://www.AdaPorat.com or call (602) 283-4628 MST.

The Left does not seem capable of coming to grips with the benefits of tax cuts, including reducing the cost of capital to business. One former president, however, understood perfectly.

The individual income tax cuts proposed by JFK took place, after his assassination. While JFK lived, however, and against the advice of many economic advisers, he enacted measures to lower the cost of capital, including an Investment Tax Credit for business, an easing of depreciation costs and an eventual lowering of corporate tax rates, from 52 to 48%.

JFK’S Tax Cuts For Individuals were, and “should be” as he said in a 1962 speech to the New York Economic Club, “across the board, top to bottom.” In other words, no class warfare, even though the “reduction in payments” were far more advantageous to the rich under JFK, than those of President Bush.

Between 1952 and 1959, prior to JFK’S cuts, government revenue increased 1.2 percent a year.

From 1962 to 1969, after the cuts, government revenues increased 6.4 percent a year. The deficit fell from a high of $7.1 billion to $1.4 billion.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan inherited one of the worst economies the country has ever seen; an economy that might have been on the verge of collapse.

Reagan’s Tax cuts, gave us the longest peacetime expansion in history up to that time.
Like JFK’S cuts, there were no great secrets to President Reagan’s cuts. A 25 percent across the board tax cut, for individuals, measures to reduce the cost of capital for business and under Paul Volcker’s strong and steady hand at the Federal Reserve, the money supply was kept in check, bringing runaway inflation under control

During Reagan’s presidency, real growth averaged 3.2%, a very strong eight year figure, when factoring in a serious recession of the early 80’s. Real median family income increased by $4000.

Census Bureau data reveals Blacks and Hispanics made huge strides, the former moving 1/3 of families into the middle class.

IRS tax returns show that of those taxpayers, that started out in the lowest 20% at the beginning of the Reagan era, over half were in the top 20% at the end.
The percentage of income taxes paid by the top 1% was 17.58% in President Reagan’s first full year in office. In his last full year in office, the top 1% paid 27.58%. So lower tax rates worked to “soak the rich.”

Still these gains did not thwart the leftist class warfare media and leftist agenda from creative accounting to turn the Reagan-Era positives into negatives. During the Reagan years, it was common to see shopping center businesses with signs everywhere that read Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary, Immediate Benefits and yet the media then and some still, use the moronic statement, that Ronald Reagan “nearly destroyed the middle class.”

Now under George Bush, revenues have broken records for two successive years, 7 million new jobs have been created, unemployment is lower than the average of the last 30 years, the deficit has been cut in half, despite 9-11, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.

Wages, even though they lagged temporarily, have had solid gains for the last two years. Incidentally a lag in wage gains is the norm. The average wage increase for non-supervisory employees in the last year is 2.8%. Adjusted for inflation that is almost $1200 per typical household and follows a 1.2% increase of the previous year.

Once again the lower rates are “soaking the rich.”
Latest IRS data shows that in 2002, before the final tax cuts, the share of the total income tax burden paid by the top 1 % was 33.71%. In 2004 the top 1% paid 36.89%.

Unfortunately, the benefits of tax cuts are always overwhelmed by excessive spending.

If you want your earnings to be much higher than they are for doing exactly what you are now doing, lower taxes and less government spending will get you there.

Mick McNesby is a former tax advisor, consultant and negotiator. He was a frequent guest on political talk shows in Atlantic City, N.J., discussing the benefits of the lower cost of government. He can be visited at http://conservative-politics-infofind.com

Still, there’s Saddam Hussein’s execution, weighing on my mind. I suppose it should be since so many of my tax dollars have gone to see it through; since so many of my fellow Americans have died to enact this justice. For what it has cost us all directly or indirectly Saddam’s execution calls us all to reflection.

The dictator’s eerie resemblance to my own father aside, I have misgivings about our heavy hand in this sad chapter of world history. We selected and invaded a country. With one hand we put its ruler on trial, and with another we attempted to rebuild what was broken. Such an idea is beyond the fiction any wild-eyed writer could ever hope to dream. Yet this is our reality, and it should be considered carefully.

There’s no arguing that Saddam was not a tyrant. But there are a lot of tyrant dictators holding sway over countries; some, obviously, much more dangerous than Hussein. Why did we chose him and not another leader?

Asking hard questions is one thing, but the answers are far more disconcerting. Saddam was selected because he was a deemed a threat to our country because of his stockpile of WMDs and his ties with terrorism. Thus, the man had to be destroyed and things like liberation and democratic reform would naturally follow.

Unfortunately, it didn’t. And our initial reasons for toppling Saddam proved to be entirely inaccurate: he had no weapons of mass destruction, the ones we had sold him he had already used. He was no threat to America. He also had no loyalty to terrorists. He may have been an evil man, hardly exceptional, but he was also quite innocuous. It is not that he did not deserve justice, it is just the manner in which we extracted it and the delusion that we have accomplished something positive.

There can be little satisfaction in breaking into a man’s home and lynching him in the street, even after our wild-ideas have proven false, while the rest of the neighborhood watches horrified. In that story which agent commits the greater evil? In World War Two we fought two empires at the same time. Today we destroy crippled countries, preemptively, and put their insane leaders on trial. And for what? Was Saddam, the puppet, not the product of a dangerous world which we augment with our own recklessness? And was this the embodiment of civilized justice or a blistering repayment?

As the rope was put around his neck Saddam was mocked by his executioners. I see vengeance, not justice. Did Saddam’s thoughts turn to his neighbor, Iran, busy acquiring a nuclear weapon, un-encumbered? Did his thoughts turn to North Korea? Did he lament that he had not forged a so-called civilized state where notions of international democratic reform foster in the minds of lazy intellectuals to be borne on the backs of the common man?

What started as a spectacle in shock and awe ends in the spectacle of execution. When the execution video hit YouTube it was an explosion in sadistic voyeurism. And why not? This whole endeavor, of course, has been to satisfy our blood-lust. The public wanted a crucifixion and it got one. Now that we have extracted repayment for 9/11 will we leave Iraq?

Perhaps Bush will emerge from his war meetings with a plan to bring the troops home. We will see where the priorities lie now, but with Saddam dead I feel our idealism for Iraq much deflated. This thing, for all intents and purposes, is over. Saddam’s blood is on my hands, but the mess is left for someone else to clean up.

Fred Krone is a software developer and freelance writer. You can read and subscribe to his blog at http://www.thoughtalarm.blogspot.com

While watching the news reports of the execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging it made me think about the death penalty in the United States. The death penalty is meant as punishment and more importantly as a means of deterring others from committing serious crimes.

Based on the ever rising murder rates throughout our country it is my position that the death penalty is not a factor in reducing crime. I firmly believe that the death penalty could act a deterrent if we changed the system that we use to execute condemned inmates.

In the United States, 38 states execute prisoners while the remaining states choose to incarcerate their most violent criminals which costs a ridiculous amount of money. Nebraska is the only state out of the 38 that uses electrocution as the primary means of execution.

The remaining states use lethal injection as their means of execution with a handful of states being able to also use hanging, firing squads, lethal gas. I believe that in those states that allow alternate methods of execution the condemned must petition for death by the alternate method.

What I am getting at here is that lethal injection is the primary method of execution throughout our country. Lethal injection is not a deterrent because there is no “FEAR FACTOR” associated with it. When a death row inmate is executed by lethal injection it is not a big deal because we know that the condemned is strapped to a hospital bed and put to sleep almost the same way we put down our sick or injured pets.

It is done behind prison walls with only a handful of witnesses that report back to the rest of us that the condemned was given the cocktail via injection and he/she closed their eyes and passed away.

The death penalty should strike fear in the hearts of men across the country. The way we bring back the fear associated with the death penalty is to execute the condemned by the old school methods such as hanging, firing squad, & electrocution. When you think of a condemned inmate being waked to the gallows where he ascends a flight of stairs to the platform that will soon drop him to his death with a rope around his neck, that makes you never want to be in that situation. The same goes for the condemned inmate staring down range where the firing squad will fire from or the inmate being strapped to the wooden electric chair.

Last year I visited Saint Augustine Florida which is Florida’s oldest town. There they have the state of Florida’s oldest jail which has been turned into a museum that you can tour. On the walls of the jail they have many black and white photographs of condemned inmates about to be hung from the gallows. What struck me odd was that in every picture there was a crowd of people standing around the gallows waiting to watch the execution.

What a deterrent it must have been for those people watching the condemned being led to the gallows and then dropped to his death. After you tour the jail you must exit through the back door and you can face to face with the original gallows that was used to execute the condemned in the pictures. The wooden structure was much larger and taller than I would have imagined. It was erie standing under the gallows while imagining what it must have been like for the condemned to be standing on the platform waiting for the trap door to release.

There was an interesting old article in the jail museum with pictures about the U.S. Government sending experts to the jail to study execution by hanging. The experts worked with a condemned inmate who was to be hung from the gallows at the Saint Augustine jail. The experts taught the condemned some form of sign language that he would use to signal to the government experts once he was dropped from the platform.

Apparently the experts wanted to do research on the length of time a condemned person is alive once he/she is dropped from the platform. According to the article the condemned was able to make a few hand signs before his death.

I know this has been debated in the past but I believe that televised executions would benefit our society because it would be a huge crime deterrent. would a live or delayed broadcast of an execution be any worse than the death and violence that is available through the media in the form of TV shows, movies, newspapers, magazines, etc?

Those that will argue that we cannot risk allowing children to see an execution our mistaken because they see far worse things in movies and elsewhere. Think of all the dead bodies that have been shown from the Iraq war in the newspapers, magazines, TV, and Internet. We read about death all the time and see it frequently in the media so what is the difference in showing an execution?

To stop the increasing violence in our country we need the criminals to fear the punishment that our legal system will dispense on them if they commit violent felony crimes such as murder & rape.

The Chief (www.monsterswatmonkey.com)

The author has nearly 20 years Law Enforcement experience and is the webmaster at http://www.monsterswatmonkey.com which is a Police Officer community site.

Those who have studied Attention Deficit Disorder are unclear as to its origin but are in agreement that it is most likely a neurological condition; the effects of which are manifested in inattentiveness, hyperactivity, or in some cases, a combination of both. Because of the prevalence of research being conducted, Attention Deficit Disorder has been brought to light in the last decade resulting in more and more diagnoses. Along with behavioral therapy, and in most cases, medical treatment, patients often find support through an Attention Deficit Disorder Support Group to be an integral part of their treatment.

For many, an Attention Deficit Disorder Support Group means the chance to be with people who understand. For young people especially – who are at the age when fitting in is of paramount concern – it can be a tremendous relief to be in a room where they are just like everyone else.

For adults – many of whom suffered through childhood before Attention Deficit Disorder was discovered – the opportunity to interact with those who face similar challenges can be a rewarding experience. Many of these adults are left with feelings of insecurity, having been misdiagnosed, misunderstood, and untreated for most of their lives. An Attention Deficit Disorder Support Group allows them the chance to unleash these feelings of inadequacy in a safe and supportive environment.

Attention Deficit Disorder can affect every area of a sufferer’s life, including their social interaction. Because of certain behaviors and challenges associated with the disorder many who suffer from it choose to isolate themselves rather than face social rejection. The Attention Deficit Disorder Support Group can mean a whole new world for Attention Deficit Disorder patients.

For information regarding Attention Deficit Disorder Support Groups the Internet can be an unrivaled resource. Look for support groups online; many will also have information about groups that meet in your local area. Additionally, any medical professional who treats Attention Deficit Disorder will commonly have information about Attention Deficit Disorder Support Groups.

Through medical treatment, emotional health, and a thriving Attention Deficit Disorder Support Group, sufferers of this disorder need no longer suffer alone.

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