Psychology 101

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result ... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...... with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team". Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana. Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been! This, my friends, is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time: ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

Now she is a teacher...

In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. 'Ms. Cothren, where are our desks?' She replied, 'You can't have a desk until you tell me how you earn the right to sit at a desk.' They thought, 'Well, maybe it's our grades.' 'No,' she said. 'Maybe it's our behavior.' She told them, 'No, it's not even your behavior.' And so, they came and went, the first period, second period, third period. Still no desks in the classroom. Kids called their parents to tell them what was happening and by early afternoon television news crews had started gathering at the school to report about this crazy teacher who had taken all the desks out of her room. The final period of the day came and as the puzzled students found seats on the floor of the desk-less classroom. Martha Cothren said, 'Throughout the day no one has been able to tell me just what he or she has done to earn the right to sit at the desks that are ordinarily found in this classroom. Now I am going to tell you.' At this point, Martha Cothren went over to the door of her classroom and opened it. Twenty-seven (27) U.S. Veterans, all in uniform, walked into that classroom, each one carrying a school desk. The Vets began placing the school desks in rows, and then they would walk over and stand alongside the wall. By the time the last soldier had set the final desk in place those kids started to understand, perhaps for the first time in their lives, just how the right to sit at those desks had been earned. Martha said, 'You didn't earn the right to sit at these desks. These heroes did it for you. They placed the desks here for you. They went halfway around the world, giving up their education and interrupting their careers and families so you could have the freedom you have. Now, it's up to you to sit in them. It is your responsibility to learn, to be good students, to be good citizens. They paid the price so that you could have the freedom to get an education. Don't ever forget it.' By the way, this is a true story. And this teacher was awarded Veterans of Foreign Wars Teacher of the Year for the State of Arkansas in 2006. She is the daughter of a WWII POW. *Do you think this email is worth passing along so others won't forget either, that the freedoms we have in this great country were earned by our U.S. Veterans? ................... I did. Let us always remember the men and women of our military and the rights they have won... (Verified by Snopes.com)

Sometimes true life is better than fiction...you gotta love a good thug story...Semper Fi

AN ACTUAL CRAIG'S LIST PERSONALS AD To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2010-09-27, 1:43 am. E.S.T. I was the guy wearing the black Burberry jacket that you demanded that I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend, threatening our lives. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I can only hope that you somehow come across this rather important message. First, I'd like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn't expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket.. The evening was not that cold, and I was wearing the jacket for a reason.. my girlfriend was happy that I just returned safely from my 2nd tour as a Combat Marine in Afghanistan .. She had just bought me that Kimber Custom Model 1911 ..45 ACP pistol for my birthday, and we had picked up a shoulder holster for it that very evening. Obviously you agree that it is a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head ... isn't it?! I know it probably wasn't fun walking back to wherever you'd come from with crap in your pants. I'm sure it was even worse walking bare-footed since I made you leave your shoes, cell phone, and wallet with me. [That prevented you from calling or running to your buddies to come help mug us again]. After I called your mother or "Momma" as you had her listed in your cell, I explained the entire episode of what you'd done. Then I went and filled up my gas tank as well as those of four other people in the gas station, -- on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 153 gallons and was extremely grateful! I gave your shoes to a homeless guy outside Vinnie Van Go Go's, along with all the cash in your wallet. [That made his day!] I then threw your wallet into the big pink "pimp mobile" that was parked at the curb ..... after I broke the windshield and side window and keyed the entire driver's side of the car. Earlier, I managed to get in two threatening phone calls to the DA's office and one to the FBI, while mentioning President Obama as my possible target. The FBI guy seemed really intense and we had a nice long chat (I guess while he traced your number etc.) In a way, perhaps I should apologize for not killing you ... but I feel this type of retribution is a far more appropriate punishment for your threatened crime. I wish you well as you try to sort through some of these rather immediate pressing issues, and can only hope that you have the opportunity to reflect upon, and perhaps reconsider, the career path you've chosen to pursue in life.. Remember, next time you might not be so lucky.. Have a good day! Thoughtfully yours, Semper Fi,

COMMUNISM IS CREEPING

Short Quiz


COMMUNISM IS CREEPING IN ONE STEP AT A TIME, EXACTLY AS PLANNED.

Six trivia questions to see how much history you know. Be honest, it's kinda fun and revealing.
If you don't know the answer make your best guess.

Answer all the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers.
Who said it?

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few......
And to replace it with shared responsibility ,,,,,for shared prosperity."
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We) ......can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Josef Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ...
in order to create this common ground."
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above





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Answers:
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005



Wanna know something scary? She may be the next socialist president if you don't forward this to everyone that you know.

Geniuses or idiots?

By Junius P. Long

Food For Thought

If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing
without a license, but not for being in the
country illegally,you might live in a country
founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If you have to get your parents’ permission to go
on a field trip or take an aspirin in school,
but not to get an abortion, you might live in
a country founded by geniuses but run by
idiots.

If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here
is evolution,but the government stops a $15-million construction
project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction, you might
live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If you have to show identification to board an
airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out
a library book, but not to vote who runs the
government, you might live in a country
founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If the government wants to ban stable, law-abiding
citizens from owning gun magazines with more
than ten rounds, but gives 20 F-16 fighter jets
to the crazy new leaders in Egypt, you might
live in a country founded by geniuses but run by
idiots.

If, in the largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce
sodas, but not a 24-ounce soda because 24 ounces of a sugary
drink might make you fat, you might live in a country founded by
geniuses but run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but
a woman in a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head
searched, you might live in a country founded by geniuses but
run by idiots.

If your government believes that the best way to
eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more, you
might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his
teacher’s "cute," but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class
in grade school is perfectly acceptable, you might live in a country
founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If children are forcibly removed from parents who
discipline them with spankings while children of
addicts are left in filth and drug-infested “homes” you might live in a
country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met with higher taxes
and more government intrusion, while not working
is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks,
Medicaid, subsidized housing and free cell phones, you might live
in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.
If the government's plan for getting people back to work is to
incentivize NOT working with 99 weeks of unemployment checks
and no requirement to prove they applied but can’t find work, you
might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If being stripped of the ability to defend yourself
makes you more "safe" according to the government, you might live
in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

If you are offended by this article, I'll bet you
voted for the idiots who are running, and
ruining our great country.

ZERO TOLERANCE AWAITS MUSLIM CRUELTY!

"EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ"

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

"I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz ... We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

These are the people we burned.

And under the pretence of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.

It is now more than sixty years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated.' Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth', it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States? If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran, Iraq, or some other Muslim country.

If you delete this instead of sending it on to every one in your address book, then you may just be so complacent that the MUSLIMS takeover our nation. Is that what you want? Let us all say,

ZERO TOLERANCE AWAITS MUSLIM CRUELTY!"

For those who remember...

For all of us to remember.
Blessings
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall,
including those added in 2010.
The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us
by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to
believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.
The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth
, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed
on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son,
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on
Sept. 7, 1965.
There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ..
1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam ..
31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I
wonder why so many from one school.
8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.
244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War;
153 of them are on the Wall.
Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation.
There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school
football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of
Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring
beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado
Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the
patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine
graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps.
Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales
were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in
Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a
few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field.
And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967,
all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the
fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less
than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting
the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~
245 deaths.
The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415
casualties were incurred.
For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that
the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to
the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain
that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted
with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands,
wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.

Pass on that pill..

The weak link in the gun control/confiscation chain that this outlaw administration is proposing, is considering who's going to actually do the confiscation. With Sheriffs from counties across the nation chiming in on the side of the 2nd vowing to support our right to protect ourselves against this very type of tyranny, it's going to be a tough row to hoe for those trying.

There are millions of veteran military, as well as former/active LEO who will invariably side with these Sheriffs.

Will agents employed by the federal government for this task be willing to engage fellow officers in a gunfight to remove the guns? There is a very big difference between buying a bazzilion bullets for DHS and finding enough agents with moxy enough to fire on fellow Americans.

We've heard the stories about foreign/UN troops being brought in, but that's not a realistic scenario either when you consider how many millions of private owners their are, who at present are sitting quietly waiting to see "which way the political winds will blow". They haven't been goaded into responding yet, but let troops enter into flyover America and you'll see the resolve of our culture.
 

Consider this as well, will the executive branch even be able to function if they piss off enough home grown legislators who then defund them?
 

Personally, I think our narcissistic leader is running a big ass bluff and trying to scare us into voluntarily giving up our guns. As I recently wrote in another social post.."Voluntarily giving up our guns is like hanging ourselves and waiting for someone from the government to come cut the rope before we strangle to death".
 

Hearing PrezBo talk yesterday about 2nd supporters garnering fear for the sake of sales and sound bites implies that our fears about the slippery slope gun control amounts to are unfounded and that we should trust him with our future safety.

 

Sorry folks, not to mix political metaphors, but if Obama's history with abortion, drones, selling guns to criminals, giving guns to terrorists and leaving good men to die while he watched, is the example of trust he expects us to swallow, I'll have to pass on that pill.

I encourage family & friends to join me in a peaceful protest of those infringements on our society that are levied by a government seemingly bent on destroying us. We can do this by boycotting All spending on Inauguration Day. This is a movement I started at precisely 11:59 on 11/06/12...I have posted it hundreds of times on twitter.com @kinsman59 #BreakTheFed. With over 4,000 followers, it had been re-posted across this country. Should enough people keep their wallets in their pockets and spend No money on that one day, the ripple in commerce would be sufficient to be noticed. There are only two plausible ways of halting the slide we are on into the destruction of America as a world leader. We can either launch an armed revolution and storm the capitals, or we can launch a fiscal revolution and really hurt government where it counts...we can starve the bastards into submission. This little boycott I'm declaring isn't likely to do much...but it just might be that last great act of defiance that makes We The People noticeable in our ability to control our own destiny. It will cost you nothing, just buy your particulars before, or after 1/21/13, and spend absolutely no money on that day. If you have had enough of the fiscal and general policy failures of this administration, you can, at the very least, say you didn't support it for a day. If you question what this might actually do, do some research on supply & demand, and the history of disruptions in the supply chains of various corporations....or, just eat a bunch of cheese for a couple of days, you'll get the idea....