ATTENTION: Both the DREAM ACT & the repeal of DADT need your attention. . .

wndycty

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Wed Dec-08-10 08:18 AM
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ATTENTION: Both the DREAM ACT & the repeal of DADT need your attention. . .

I know some want to spend the day calling Obama names but there are two issues that one time were very important to progressives, the repeal of DADT and the DREAM ACT, and the folks who still support this issues can use your help today and until this bills are called in the Senate.

I encourage everyone to call both of their Senators today and encourage them to 1) Vote on this measures and 2) to vote for this measures.

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Kali

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Wed Dec-08-10 08:41 AM
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1. maybe the grand compromising

on the tax extensions is because he got some promises here (yeah right)

still, you are correct - we need to try to keep up the pressure

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wndycty

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Wed Dec-08-10 09:34 AM
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2. Someone unrec'ed this?

Are you fucking kidding me?

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young but wise

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Wed Dec-08-10 09:37 AM
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3. People are really childish on this board.

Edited on Wed Dec-08-10 09:48 AM by young but wise

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vaberella

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Wed Dec-08-10 10:11 AM
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5. wndycty this is DU...what did you expect? n/t

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Clio the Leo

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Wed Dec-08-10 10:03 AM
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4. Would be very sad if some folks let anger cloud their vision of seeing...

.... two MAJOR, LANDMARK pieces of liberal legislation pass.

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wndycty

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Wed Dec-08-10 10:33 AM
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6. I know and if they pass the criticism over the process will drown out the accomplishment. . .

. . .of passing either bill.

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NashVegas

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Wed Dec-08-10 12:37 PM
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8. Anger Helps Us Cut Through Bullshit

So Wesley Moons, a psychologist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and his colleague Diane Mackie designed three experiments to determine how anger influences thinking � whether it makes people more analytical or careful about their decisions, or whether it leads people to make faster, rasher decisions.

....

In both studies, the researchers found that the angry subjects were better at discriminating between strong and weak arguments and were more convinced by the stronger arguments. Those who were not made to feel angry tended to be equally convinced by both arguments, indicating that they were not as analytical in their assessments.

The angry students were also better at weighing the arguments appropriately depending on which organization had made them.

The researchers repeated the experiment a third time using a different argument � one that supported the implementation of a university-wide requirement for graduating seniors to take comprehensive exams. This time, they tested only those subjects who were the least analytical, or in other words, those who were the least likely to make logical decisions. This way, the researchers would be able to see whether anger also makes typically non-analytical thinkers more analytical.

Once again, they found that the angry subjects were better able to discriminate between strong and weak arguments than the ones who were not angry � suggesting that anger can transform even those people who are, by disposition, not very analytical into more careful thinkers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19172819

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wndycty

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Wed Dec-08-10 11:13 AM
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7. Kick

:kick:

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