Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday over the Department of Justice’s loose asylum rules.
Author: Papa Giorgio
Marijuana | Doing Some Connective Reading In An Airport
(Long layover at Nashville, doing some reading)
Two thoughts connected…. one from a book about marijuana use and its deleterious FX on the brain (keeping in mind the brain continues to grow/mature till the age of almost 30). The other from an apologetic minded book (Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies). Here is the 1st quote:
- …Brain researchers documented in 2008 how chronic marijuana use starting in adolescence significantly decreases the size of two brain areas thick in cannabinoid receptors—the amygdala by 7 percent and the hippocampus by 12 percent. One result was that young chronic marijuana users performed much worse than nonusers on verbal learning tests. Heavy marijuana use “exerts harmful effects on brain tissue and mental health,” the authors concluded in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 2008… (Kevin A. Sabet, Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana [New York, NY: Beaufort Books, 2013])
Now the 2nd quote. And this better explains what the Amygdala does and how some people I know have had some family loss too soon and are struggling deeply with it. I wonder if they have distorted what would have been more of a healing process into more of an emotional wound. Forever lingering, never scabbing over.
This is an important note as well for the Apologist to know your audience and what may hinder them. This is regarding witnessing and how some may respond to reason and sound argument:
2. Compels People to Act Without Thinking Through the Issues
Emotions are great responders, but horrible leaders. Unfortunately, when a person has an emotional reaction to a statement, it becomes difficult to think about it rationally. This is actually the brain’s psychological response to emotion. Turning on the amygdala (the site of emotional processing) turns off the prefrontal cortex (the site of rational thought) …
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…. The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) have long been known to play a central role in various behavioral and cognitive functions. More recently, electrophysiological and functional imaging studies have begun to examine how interactions between the two structures contribute to behavior during various tasks. At the same time, it has become clear that hippocampal-prefrontal interactions are disrupted in psychiatric disease and may contribute to their pathophysiology. These impairments have most frequently been observed in schizophrenia, a disease that has long been associated with hippocampal and prefrontal dysfunction. Studies in animal models of the illness have also begun to relate disruptions in hippocampal-prefrontal interactions to the various risk factors and pathophysiological mechanisms of the illness…. (Hippocampal-Prefrontal Interactions in Cognition, Behavior and Psychiatric Disease)
[…..]
The hippocampal formation (HPC) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) have well-established roles in memory encoding and retrieval. However, the mechanisms underlying interactions between the HPC and mPFC in achieving these functions is not fully understood. Considerable research supports the idea that a direct pathway from the HPC and subiculum to the mPFC is critically involved in cognitive and emotional regulation of mnemonic processes. More recently, evidence has emerged that an indirect pathway from the HPC to the mPFC via midline thalamic nucleus reuniens (RE) may plays a role in spatial and emotional memory processing. Here we will consider how bidirectional interactions between the HPC and mPFC are involved in working memory, episodic memory and emotional memory in animals and humans. We will also consider how dysfunction in bidirectional HPC-mPFC pathways contributes to psychiatric disorders. (Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions in Memory and Emotion)
[Returning to book quote]
… A person doesn’t choose for this to happen, it just happens. Research has shown that when when the amygdala and prefrontal cortex compete, initially the amygdala (emotional center) wins. People can be talked down from this state, but they must first realize that the switch from rational to emotional thinking occurred in the first place!
Hillary Morgan Ferrer, Gen. Ed., Mama Bear Apologetics: Empowering Your Kids to Challenge Cultural Lies (Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 2019), pp. 65-66
That is a great connector that shows as brain damage is caused by what many consider harmless interactions with “grass”more are in fact, very consequential. And, how these people may interact with thinking through an argument or even a life crisis is distorted, at best.
MORE:
By constantly experimenting with breeding practices and cultivation techniques over several decades, producers and growers steadily made progress in greatly elevating the levels of THC (the psychoactive ingredient) found in the oily resin of the marijuana plant’s leaves and flowers.
At the University of Mississippi, a potency-monitoring project has been under way for the past few decades, measuring the concentration of THC in thousands of marijuana samples randomly selected from law-enforcement seizures. Since 1983, when THC concentrations averaged below 4 percent, potency has intensified until it now exceeds an average of 10 percent. Many marijuana samples are in the 10-20 percent range. Some marijuana samples show THC concentrations exceeding 30 percent. If we were talking about alcohol, this increase in intoxication potential would be like going from drinking a “lite” beer a day to consuming a dozen shots of vodka.
Kevin A. Sabet, Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana (New York, NY: Beaufort Books, 2013), 34
Woody Harrelson Breaks the Narrative On SNL
Woody Harrelson describes a script he threw away on SNL. The entire opener is HERE, here is the short:
SHEEP!
Here is Joe Rogan commenting on it:
“By the way, youdoxagoodifthesanensinlenotions”
It’s another day of Biden VS Teleprompter.
Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi has been brought to tears as she struggled to contain her laughter in assessing some of US President Joe Biden’s most notable and cringeworthy gaffes.
Ms Panahi discussed the recent routine physical checkup undertaken by President Biden and the fact he was deemed to be “fit for duty,” according to presidential physician Dr Kevin O’Connor.
The Biden Admin Slowly Admitting COVID Originated In a Lab
Joe Rogan on the Biden Admin slowly admitting covid originated in a lab.
- “It’s really weird that the truth slowly but surely comes out about all this stuff”
Thomas Sowell Short Clip of the Real History of Slavery
Facts about slavery never mentioned in school | Thomas Sowell (the longer, two hour and 20-minute chapter is HERE)
New York Pandemic Response Criminal! (Epicenter Revelations)
Elmhurst Hospital has always been the fly in the ointment. Until now that is. Although, Erin Marie Olszewski’s work has been shown before — I think the presentation in the below is memorable due to time.
GOVERNMENT CRIMES: They paid doctors and nurses to murder innocent patients. They faked Covid cases and deaths to instill fear in the population. They denied safe early treatments murdering millions of innocent people. They forced ineffective toxic Covid vaccines on the world.
They Censored anyone sharing life saving early treatment information and anyone who warned about the dangers of the Covid vaccines. The Governments willfully committed crimes against humanity.
SOURCE: Truth Justice @SpartaJustice
Experts, the CDC, Lockdowns, and Depression (+Moral Mockery)
Experts now say the COVID lockdowns and school shutdowns went too far. A new report from the CDC claims 1 in 3 teen girls are suicidal. Could these issues be related? It’s no surprise to Dennis. After all, he always said, “the lockdowns are the greatest mistake in human history.” Experts at the CDC have advice for how to treat this mental health crisis, but should we listen to them or have they lost credibility?
Also, “Experts”:
Science Needs To Stop Using Terms Like Male, Female, Mother And Father
Alternatives to terms like “male” and “female” and “mother” and “father” should be sought in science because they assume that sex is binary and heterosexuality is the norm, a group of researchers from the US and Canada suggests.
Male and female should instead be referred to as “sperm-producing” and “egg-producing,” the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) Language Project said, according to the Times of London.
Meanwhile, father and mother should be labeled “parent,” “egg donor” and “sperm donor” in the scientific field.
The group has called on the scientific field to use words that are more “inclusive and precise,” according to a press release from the University of British Columbia, which has three researchers in the initiative.
“Much of Western science is rooted in colonialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, and these power structures continue to permeate our scientific culture,” some project members wrote in the Trends in Ecology and Evolution journal….
(SMH)
Not a fan of Dawkins, but…. “Dawkins Vows to Continue Using ‘Prohibited Words’ Like ‘Male’ and ‘Female’“
…The offending words include terms as basic as “male” and “female”, which the EBB Language Project wants to replace with supposedly more inclusive terms like “sperm-producing”, “egg producing”, and “XY/XX individual”.
“The only possible response is contemptuous ridicule,” the notorious atheist — or “anti-theist” — told The Telegraph
“I shall continue to use every one of the prohibited words. I am a professional user of the English language. It is my native language,” he vowed.
“I am not going to be told by some teenage version of Mrs Grundy which words of my native language I may or may not use,” he added, referring to a stock character in British discourse dating from the late 1700s, characterised by a tendency to censorious priggishness…..
TO WIT:
Bad ideas are everywhere, spreading like viruses. Ironically, the antidote is readily available. We just have to have the courage to use it. Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, provides the prescription.
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Yeonmi Park: My Terrifying Escape from North Korea (#Merica)
- I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea and that I escaped from North Korea. Both of these events shaped me, and I would not trade them for an ordinary and peaceful life. — Yeonmi Park
UPDATED VIDEO INTERVIEW: exactly one year from original posting
Yeonmi Park, North Korea defector and author on her defection from North Korea and how Columbia University has echoes of her past on ‘Kudlow.’
- Kudlow: “…somehow God was looking after you”
- Park: “Yes”
- Kudlow: “Really.”
- Park: “He did.”
- Kudlow: And, it’s a great story” [….] “It’s a blessing you made it through.”
Amen. (Concordia has a good posting on Yeonmi)
One commenter on the Fox Business’ YT channel says it all:
- I feel so embarrassed for our country when a foreign warrior comes here for freedom and still can’t escape the war.
Her accent is hard to follow, but you get a rhythm going as you listen to understand here | “GOD and North korea – Why the North Korean Christians Face the Most Extreme Persecution” (YouTube). She mentions the “real God” in the video speaking of the Judeo-Christian faith.
ORIGINAL POSTING
Born in North Korea, Yeonmi Park shares her harrowing journey to escape the hunger, thought control, and violence she experienced living under authoritarian regimes. Grateful to have found acceptance and justice in the United States, she cautions Americans to see the early warning signs—here in America—of the communist nightmares she fled in North Korea and China.
Mike Pompeo Discusses the Chinese Spy Balloon (Chris Stigall)
UPDATED PICS AFTER AUDIO!
This is an excerpt of former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussing China with Chris Stigall on Chris’ podcast (found here on SALEM), but the entire shows topics include:
- Ukraine, the Chinese spy balloon, classified documents, who’s running the Biden White House, the State of the Union, and more.
Chris Stigall’s site is HERE — and there is a wonderful archive section as well.
THESE ARE REAL
The Department of Defense has released of a photo of the Chinese spy balloon that was shot down earlier this month off the coast of South Carolina after it had traversed the country.
The photo, obtained by Fox News Digital, was taken Feb. 3 by one of the U-2 pilots. It shows a U.S. Air Force pilot looking down at the suspect Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over the central continental U.S. …
(FOX | DAILY MAIL)
A Whistleblower Reveals What’s Going On Inside Gender Transition Clinics
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, a whistleblower from inside the child gender transition industry has finally come forward and what she reveals is horrifying. I’ll walk you through the whole story today. Also, a congressional Democrat learns that the old “yelling fire in a crowded theater” trope is not actually a valid argument against free speech. I have one more clip that you haven’t seen yet from that now infamous committee hearing in Tennessee. Plus, reports suggest that Project Veritas is trying to push James O’Keefe out, even though James O’Keefe is Project Veritas. In our Daily Cancellation, Vice holds a panel discussion on race. One guy with common sense made it onto the panel, and proceeded to offend and terrify the rest of them.
Matt Walsh Leaves Elected Officials Speechless
Matt Walsh gets grilled by the Tennessee House Committee. Their attempts to corner him don’t go so well.