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bamburgh castle england wallpaper. while the original site was occupied by a castle built in 420 that was destroyed by the vikings and rebuilt by the normans a few years later. those were the days, conquer and destroy. no need to bother with the messy give and take of democracy or diplomacy.

Digby finds that Family Security Matters whose directors include such fine conservative luminaries as Barbara Comstock, Monica Crowley, Frank Gaffney, Laura Ingraham and James Woolsey has a some problems with democracy. Hail Caesar - the following was written by one Philip Atkinson of the FSM the emphasis is mine,

The wisest course would have been for President Bush to use his nuclear weapons to slaughter Iraqis until they complied with his demands, or until they were all dead. Then there would be little risk or expense and no American army would be left exposed. But if he did this, his cowardly electorate would have instantly ended his term of office, if not his freedom or his life.

The simple truth that modern weapons now mean a nation must practice genocide or commit suicide. Israel provides the perfect example. If the Israelis do not raze Iran, the Iranians will fulfill their boast and wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Yet Israel is not popular, and so is denied permission to defend itself. In the same vein, President Bush cannot do what is necessary for the survival of Americans. He cannot use the nation’s powerful weapons. All he can do is try and discover a result that will be popular with Americans.

As there appears to be no sensible result of the invasion of Iraq that will be popular with his countrymen other than retreat, President Bush is reviled; he has become another victim of Democracy.

By elevating popular fancy over truth, Democracy is clearly an enemy of not just truth, but duty and justice, which makes it the worst form of government. President Bush must overcome not just the situation in Iraq, but democratic government.

[ ]…President Bush can fail in his duty to himself, his country, and his God, by becoming “ex-president” Bush or he can become “President-for-Life” Bush: the conqueror of Iraq, who brings sense to the Congress and sanity to the Supreme Court. Then who would be able to stop Bush from emulating Augustus Caesar and becoming ruler of the world? For only an America united under one ruler has the power to save humanity from the threat of a new Dark Age wrought by terrorists armed with nuclear weapons.

The obsession with authority and order is astounding. These are the same people that can’t get the word ” unamerican” out of their mouths fast enough to describe anyone who dares disagree with them. At least back in the good old days of Bamburgh they didn’t have nukes to play with.

How brain fills gaps

When in doubt about what we see, our brains fill in the gaps for us by first drawing the borders and then “coloring” in the surface area, new research has found. The research is the first to pinpoint the areas in the brain, and the timing of their activity, that are responsible for how we see borders and surfaces.

“When you look at objects, they can be defined as either the contour of the object or surface features, like color and brightness. There’s been a debate in neuroscience about how this occurs: Do you first see the contour and then fill it in like a coloring book, or do you see the surface and from there grow it out to build the contour?”

It seems that something like this phenomenon also happens at the rhetorical level. Many people see as issue on the surface and rather then wait for more information or admit that they can’t really decipher what it is they fill in the missing information with their insecurities and paranoia.