BRAIN STRAIN

Arianna Huffington would say it is clear that they are operating with their limbic system overriding their frontal cortex. That is that they react blindly to the clouds of fear thrown up by Bush with the knee jerk, fright, flight or fight response without using reason. http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/20168/

It may be so but we question how it could be. Certainly no one~Rs body could sustain for long the massive assault of adrenalin produced hour after hour in response to the continuous stress induced by an eminent attack by Al Qaeda.

It would affect even those who might trust Bush to protect them. The constant news items of terrorist activities coupled with the raising and lowering of the threat level would extract a toll on their bodies.

Remember that this stress would be on top of the constant threat from the political left that the rychus have been enduring so long. Think about what they have been up against even before terrorist activity.

For starters, women's equality rights in the workplace, abortion rights, and women's right to protection against marital rape. In addition, they have had to endure women leaders. Also, before Bush, they moaned and groaned about an over protected environment.

It must be rough for those on the right to be wrong so often. How do they wail against abortion yet support capital punishment and reject gun control legislation? How do they reconcile the cruel deaths of bombed Iraqi women, men and children with their contention that "all life is precious"?

Do they not suffer pangs when they support programs that take aid from the poor, the elderly and the ill? Surely they must know from their bible studies that Jesus would support the very programs they denigrate.

Do they ever think what Jesus would do if he entered Abu Ghraib while the prisoners were being tortured under orders of the Commander in Chief, Bush? Or are they down with all of that because the prisoners were Islamic?

Ah! Is that what is affecting their collective brains -- the biblical foretelling of the war between Islam and Christianity? Do they really look forward to the prophecy of the rapture, and yearn to be lifted into heaven while the rest of us die horrible agonizing deaths?

Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official for the first President Bush said, "This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?pagewanted=1&oref=login

Just who is Bush leading to Armageddon besides the religious fundamentalists? Apparently the Vatican is on board as it intensifies its attempts to excommunicate Senator Kerry and warn Catholics against voting for him.

Count the Salvation Army in also as it lines up behind messianic Bush to quell the voices calling for stem cell research. Israeli leaders are firmly in the Bush vanguard and President Putin of Russia is in his political corner.

Despite all this, most Americans no matter their religion, gender, sexual preference or whatever, used their forebrains following 9/11. They quickly got the correlation between bad news for Bush and his announcing a possible terrorist attack. They think for themselves instead of blindly following a false god and will vote after checking all the facts. Women should be in this group, but all thinking voters should be aware of the continued encroachment of anti-science, "faith based" governmental agencies.

A quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy.

Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361521,00.html

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