Sen. Clinton: “Thank you, no. I’ll stand.”
I thought it odd when Sen. Clinton did not sit during Sen. Obama’s speech while at the Unity celebration on Friday. I know it was a stool, a tall stool like the ones you would sit on at a bar but just the same……… well, I guess one could make associations.
It was seeing a picture of the two of them on the Drudge Report and the caption, “Yeah, right” that further my own feelings regarding the incident and the *post below. I think I also heard a commentator make reference to Ms. Clinton standing during Sen. Obama’s speech.
When people do not like you, they do all sorts of strange things to let you know just in case you did not get their message the first or second time around. They also want to re-enforce to their friends they neither like nor respect you.
Could a person harbor psychological concerns sitting down in the same seat after another person? Could the concerns be heightened if the seat changes from pretty to ugly with lingering smells of cologne, Black to white or rich to poor or any of the combinations?
I am mindful first of re-gentrification and homeownership. Most of the time, the whole house has to be guttered and re-designed with iron bars put on the windows. This may not be a big thing if you have the money but it just always peaked my attention since I lived in such a neighborhood in my youth.
Secondly, my Special Ed. Teacher friend would tell me of field trips she would take her class on along with her Teacher Aid and sometimes with the school Principal. When they would go into the bathrooms, the Teacher Aid would NEVER go into the stall after her no matter how long the trip but would wait until a white lady exited a stall. She would, “fiddle around” were my mental pictures of the incidences and I would amuse myself seeing her waiting and conversing with my teacher friend until another empty stall was available.
My friend would laugh when I would tell her there was talk about putting long latrines in the women’s bathrooms at Kennedy Center to eliminate the long lines at intermission. And finally, to be a little cynical and silly this morning, I suppose if one were a serious male foot-taper, it would not matter who was in the stall before you.
As always,
BB
P.S. Ms. Clinton could also have stood hoping Sen. Obama would be mindful of the fact and not make his speech too long and forget she was even there. (Smile)
*The neuroscience of false beliefs
by mindgeek
Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 11:02:52 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/27/135544/492/135/542945
Excerpt:
Your brain lies to you
By Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories — and mislead us along the way.
It was seeing a picture of the two of them on the Drudge Report and the caption, “Yeah, right” that further my own feelings regarding the incident and the *post below. I think I also heard a commentator make reference to Ms. Clinton standing during Sen. Obama’s speech.
When people do not like you, they do all sorts of strange things to let you know just in case you did not get their message the first or second time around. They also want to re-enforce to their friends they neither like nor respect you.
Could a person harbor psychological concerns sitting down in the same seat after another person? Could the concerns be heightened if the seat changes from pretty to ugly with lingering smells of cologne, Black to white or rich to poor or any of the combinations?
I am mindful first of re-gentrification and homeownership. Most of the time, the whole house has to be guttered and re-designed with iron bars put on the windows. This may not be a big thing if you have the money but it just always peaked my attention since I lived in such a neighborhood in my youth.
Secondly, my Special Ed. Teacher friend would tell me of field trips she would take her class on along with her Teacher Aid and sometimes with the school Principal. When they would go into the bathrooms, the Teacher Aid would NEVER go into the stall after her no matter how long the trip but would wait until a white lady exited a stall. She would, “fiddle around” were my mental pictures of the incidences and I would amuse myself seeing her waiting and conversing with my teacher friend until another empty stall was available.
My friend would laugh when I would tell her there was talk about putting long latrines in the women’s bathrooms at Kennedy Center to eliminate the long lines at intermission. And finally, to be a little cynical and silly this morning, I suppose if one were a serious male foot-taper, it would not matter who was in the stall before you.
As always,
BB
P.S. Ms. Clinton could also have stood hoping Sen. Obama would be mindful of the fact and not make his speech too long and forget she was even there. (Smile)
*The neuroscience of false beliefs
by mindgeek
Fri Jun 27, 2008 at 11:02:52 AM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/6/27/135544/492/135/542945
Excerpt:
Your brain lies to you
By Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt
False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories — and mislead us along the way.
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