Dear Barak

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As a member of the Democratic Committee I would like to express some thoughts.
You have assembled some of the most intelligent people in the country. The problem is you listen to them. First for get the Republicans. They are living in an alternative universe. People do not care what are saying. They don't see them doing anything to give them jobs and you might point that out in your next press conference.
It's time to get your head out of your asses down there. People don't care about politics right now. They want to see action.
The health care reform issue is important. Every minute that the Senate spends playing pass the beach ball someone who is ub=insured is dying. We need a public option just to keep the insurance companies honest, because even if they can not deny coverage to people because of a pre-existing condition, they will walk through the biggest loop hole they can find. One of those loop holes is calling every thing experimental. They already use this excuse. You have one shot to get this right and passing just anything is not an option, because real people are counting on you.
Issue number 2 is Afghanistan. Troops are dying there. If you are not going to pull out then you better kick the Taliban's ass. I say this, because people are tired of the death toll on the news.
Pulling out is an option. If you pulled out let the Taliban in and then went in in force and took them out you could avoid a lot of heartache.
If you are going to put more troops in then don't announce it for gods sake. Did we announce Normandy. The post Vietnam era is full of vacillation, because we are afraid to lose and afraid to win. The bottom line is that people would support a large offensive if it produced long term results and the Afghans gained the ability to protect their country. We created the Taliban. We trained them and it's time we took them out. Afghanistan in the hands of Alquaida and the Taliban we completely destabilize the middle east and result in huge increases in the price of oil. The insurgents are attacking Iran now. If they spread militant Islam ism across the middle east we will be in a hell of a position. Doing nothing is not an option. Drop the 40,000 into Afghanistan in a massive surprise offensive and tell the press after. It is time we stop telling the enemy what we are doing.
Jobs are issue number three. No one is buying the happy talk about the improving economy. The days of spending money we don't have are over, so we know that consumers are not going to drive this economy.
If you want to cut the budget deficit in half and put people to work, start changing the countries problem with oil dependency by following T Bone Pickens energy plan. This will cut people energy bills in half. The result of cutting people's energy bills in half will be an increase in spending by the consumers of things that factories produce, rather than pouring their money down the black hole that the oil companies have become. This would also result in jobs in the private sector, increased revenue for the US government, and a huge reduction in the deficit, which is what you are all worried about down there.
These three solutions would also push your pole numbers up to where they were in November of 2008.
The problem in the White House is to much talking and hand wringing over poll numbers. For Christ sake, Roossevelt didn't spend all his time watching news bites that said he was inept. He went out and kicked tail and took names. Worrying is what happens while your life falls apart. Doing something is better than failing bcause you did nothing.

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Growing Up Psychic

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Now that the movie, "Staring At Goats" is coming out, the truth about psychic abilities will come out. It is based on the true story of the U.S. Military's program to use psychic powers as a weapon.
Psychic abilities are not main stream, so most of us don't publicize it. I grew up psychic and so did other members of my family. Real psychics have different levels of ability, so don't start writing me about your grandmother's lost treasure. It doesn't work that way.
I come from a very Orthodox Catholic family, so we never spoke with each other about our abilities. As a matter of fact, it was never mentioned by any of us when we were growing up. To us it was natural to suddenly know something was going to happen and it wasn't like it was an every day occurence. I didn't know psychic from a hole in the wall until I was 20. That's when I started to put two and two together and began to experiment with it.
The subject here is growing up psychic, so I will stick to it. It wasn't much different from any body Else's childhood, except, I had times when things would come to me. I never spoke about it, but I found that I could avoid pitfalls that I knew were coming for me. Did I change my future? From what I can tell, everything in my life that was supposed to happen did. It's no different from looking both ways before you cross the street. If you see a car coming you're not going to cross. That's the way I see my ability. I simply saw the cars sometimes.
I know there are a lot of fake psychics out there. I have even met one. The truth is that psychics, for the most part, are very private people, who sometimes don't want to know the things they see. In my case I have learned to block out the majority of what I could see. It isn't a peasant thing to know the things that barged their way into my mind.
I think that psychic ability is hereditary in many cases. It runs in families to some degree, just like blue eyes and red hair or freckles. It is far from welcome for some of us, because I have seen things that have cripplled me. I would gladly give it away. I know the question on your mind. If your psychic why don't you pick the lottery winners or go to vegas? The answer is that it is more like being sensitive to the ebb and flow of other people`s energy. Machines don't have thoughts. I have used it in Black Jack and with all deference to the gambling industry, I believe they cheat, though I have no proof that I can show you. My experience with the casino industry has lead me to avoid betting.
Growing up with psychic abilities was about the same as someone who was good at Math. You just don't understand that every one else can't do it. I think the same goes for good musicians, it comes naturally and it is easy to take it for granted.
Please don't write and ask for messages from dead relatives or lost pets. That's not my bag.

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Tread Lightly Dan Brown

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Dan Brown spins webs of mystery. It sells a lot of books, but what it also does, is to create the desire of his readers to know the truth. The truth about government secrets is complex.
The government keeps secrets about other countries that could potentially damage their reputation, like those of the Iran contra affair. It made the fact that Israel was part of the deal secret after the fact, but the reason for that was that there is probably more to that debacle than what the news organizations Knew. By making it top secret it prevented the press from pursuing it or printing all that they knew. The press knows a lot about government secrets, but they have gag orders on them, so they can not release it. There are many things that the government won't declassify simply for that reason, so the notion of a free and open press is fiction.
Another thing that the government keeps secret is political scandals. Yes some get out, but by and large they are kept quiet. The reason for this is that the powerful people who are involved simply don't want people to know. These people are not just politicians, but lobbyists, corporations and very wealthy and politically powerful people.
I know that these two examples are boring, but there are deeper secrets and this is where Dan Brown leads us. What are the deep secrets about power, weapons, and very secret government agencies?
First you must understand that the military monitors technology and also drives it. They look for the potential for a military use of everything. The government has spent decades trying to develop the potential for military use of the mind. It goes back to the days before LSD was used to determine if it was useful as a means of breaking people and getting at the truth. The bottom line is that government doesn't want people to know the true power of the mind and the release disinformation to keep it that way. The government does not just higher experts to get to the bottom of mysteries or to develop uses for things. They also hire experts to put out lies that prevent people from learning the truth about many things that they can not keep out of the public eye. Two examples of this are UFOs and psychic ability's. Most people have had experiences with both, but they either explain it away to themselves or the government helps explain it away.
Here I will talk about the secrets of the mind. Peoples brains are electrical. Actually anything that the brain controls is connected to electrical impulses. This is a fact that you probably learned in high school science class. An EEG measures the electrical impulses in the brain. Scientist have discovered that irregular brain wave patterns are symptomatic of some diseases and sometimes brain tumors.
The fact is that electricity can travel. If you need proof rub your feet on a wool carpet and ground yourself by touching metal or another person. The result will be a shock. In fact enough static electricity can actually kill a person. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. Electricity can be created by two polar opposite magnetic fields with wire wrapped around it and spun rapidly. That is what a generator is. When electricity passes through objects that are good conductors of electricity, like the human body or power lines it creates a magnetic field. Electric fields are measured with an EMF detector.
Now here's where it gets a bit less believable. Every living person has their own electric field. For every person this field is different. That is why some people are more sensitive to the size of electric fields that power lines generate. If another magnetic field interrupts your magnetic field there can be a reaction.
We all know that electricity is a form of energy and that energy can be transferred. Tha is how a telephone works and that is how a cell phone works. Bet you didn't know that. Well it is thought that psychics pick up other peoples energy and can then turn that into visions of a past event. How? Everything that has energy leaves residual amounts of energy. Some materials such as quartz store that energy. Well you say what about reading minds and seeing the future. Well talk to Einstein folks, because he reasoned that time was not fixed in a line. I know this is hard to comprehend, but time has to do with energy. The earth spins and revolves around the sun. What does that? Gravity and gravity is linked to energy. Time here is not the same at it is on the moon. So what some scientist believe is that some people can tap into the energy that the future emits. Others believe that they pick up the energy that the earth stores up before an event, such as a disaster.
The government has been studying these phenomenon for decades and it is not far fetched to think that with the help of some of the sensitive people and the greatest minds on earth, that it has learned how to manipulate it. After all energy is always being stored and released. The bottom line is that it is probable that the government has learned to manipulate people's thoughts directly by using energy. Can it control what you think? I don't know, but once you understand the nature of how the mind works you can see that it is possible now or will be in the future.
Now if a agency such as the CIA or the Pentagon had that power what do you think they would use it for, Given that the government tries to find a military or alternate use for every scientific discovery that could possibly be utilized by them.
So, Dan Brown is not far from the truth when he considers the potential use of the mind as a weapon or a weakness that could be subject to a weapon.

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