Friday, June 4, 2010

The Art of Spelling And Telling Time, Lost! When Is ‘Enuf is enuf’

Remember when MTV came out and the first video they played was ‘Video Killed The Radio Star’, by The Buggles? 

Since the creation of MTV amongst other things so much has been lost.  How much further can America and  the world be dumb ed down.  I know speaking from growing up in the MTV generation and seeing for myself the dumbing down  take place.  What happened to being able to read a clock with hands is gone to the ‘digital’, along with many other things and the article below is just one more nail in the coffin of intelligence.  shera~

'Protesters in bee suits outside Spelling Bee want to make English simpler'

Texting is bad for your brain: University of Calgary study

People who write and receive a lot of text messages are hurting their ability to learn new words and communicate, a University of Calgary study has found.

Researchers studied the effect text messages had on student’s linguistic abilities, and found those who often use their thumbs and a keypad to send short messages had a tougher time “accepting” new words, compared to those who don’t.

So if you ever want to confuse someone addicted text messaging, should you send them an email with big, complicated words? You bet.

Heavy texters were more likely to reject unfamiliar words, instead of accepting that the word might actually exist. Instead of thinking of a related-sounding or meaning word, they’d likely draw a blank. 

Some might argue that texting encourages people to be creative, and make up words that can be squeezed into tiny 140-character messages to get a point across. Turns out they’re just making it harder on themselves.

As researcher Joan Lee found, people who read more books, magazines and newspapers were more open to the same unfamiliar words.

“In contrast, texting is associated with rigid linguistic constraints which caused students to reject many of the words in the study,” Lee said in a release about the study.

“This was surprising because there are many unusual spellings or “textisms” such as “LOL” in text messaging language.”

Do you agree with the results of the study? Is text messaging making us dumb? 

- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e54f91645288340168e7bda3cf970c

Laurelville, Ohio Mother Accused of Shooting up Kids with Heroin.

A Hocking County woman was arrested last night after she was accused of injecting her 14- and 16-year-old children with heroin before sending them to school.  Parker also has an 18-year-old, birth records show.

Shantel A. Parker, 35, of Laurelville

Shantel A. Parker, 35, of Laurelville was charged with two counts each of felonious assault, corrupting another with drugs and endangering children, county Sheriff Lanny E. North said in a news release yesterday.

The children have been placed in the custody of the county children’s services agency.

A warrant was issued for Parker, and she was arrested about 5:30 p.m. at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University by campus police.  It was not explained why Parker was at the hospital, though one person said she had admitted herself because she was suicidal.

Detective Caleb Moritz of the Hocking County sheriff’s office said last night that Parker’s children said she had injected them with heroin 50 to 80 times in the past few months. more

What Is Wrong With Ppl? Father

Arrested  For Shooting Up Heroin

Into His 9-Year-Old Kids’s Neck!

“The father of a 9-year-old Chimayó boy is accused of injecting heroin into his son’s neck, leaving track marks the rest of his family discovered later. The boy, Luke Velasquez, told State Police his father, Jose Paul Velasquez Jr., injected him with heroin about 10 times, according to a criminal complaint filed June 22 in Rio Arriba County Magistrate Court. The boy tested positive for illegal drugs at Española Hospital, according to a State Police affidavit. Jose Velasquez, 30, of Chimayó, faces felony counts of child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He could face up to 4.5 years in prison on these charges under state law. [...] Luke Velasquez, who lives with his father, was with his mother Violet Coriz and sister Gabriella Velasquez. Coriz said she took her son to the hospital because his sister said Luke Velasquez had been given heroin and had track marks on his neck.” – RioGrand   WSHH

Christian Clubs Told to ‘Stop Whining,’ Meet in Homes Like in Communist China

Wait a minute, arrests have taken place in the United States too already for trying to hold services at someones home, and not that long ago either.  Here is a few for now.

1.  A southern California couple has been fined $300 dollars for holding Christian Bible study sessions in their home, and could face another $500 for each additional gathering.  City officials in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. say Chuck and Stephanie Fromm are in violation of municipal code 9-3.301, which prohibits “religious, fraternal or non-profit” organizations in residential neighborhoods without a permit. Stephanie hosts a Wednesday Bible study that draws about 20 attendees, and Chuck holds a Sunday service that gets about 50.

2.  Last Thursday, a swarm of police officers descended on Michael Salman‘s northwest Phoenix home. Armed officers herded Salman, his wife Suzanne, their five young daughters, and their visiting friends into the living room — and kept them under watch for 90 minutes while other city officials searched the grounds.   And here’s the crazy part: The officials weren’t looking for drugs, weapons, or stolen property.  They were looking for evidence that Michael and Suzanne Salman are holding church services in their backyard.more

NASHVILLE – An Americans United for the Separation of Church and State official told Vanderbilt University Christians to “stop whining” about the institution’s all-comers policy and hold their meetings in private homes like Christians in communist China.

During the 2012 National Religious Broadcasters Convention’s public policy debate on Tuesday, AU Executive Director Barry W. Lynn defended Vanderbilt’s right as a private institution to impose a campus-wide nondiscrimination policy that could potentially drive religious student organizations off campus.

“I would suggest that people in this position – to use a phrase on a button in my dentist office that he always wears when he works, it says, ‘stop whining.’ I’d say stop whining here. Why not do what evangelicals do: go out into the world, out into the community [and] have your meetings, if you have to, off campus. Show your faith [and] meet with students not in a club room somewhere in the university, but in those home churches that kept Christianity alive during the darkest days of communist China.”

China, though it allows Chinese Christians to worshipin two state-approved churches, does not give its people the right of religious freedom. Last year, many Chinese Christians were arrested and detained for conducting religious services in unregistered home churches, according to ChinaAid, a support group for China’s persecuted Christians.  more

post has been editited @ 1:05pm Feb. 25, 2012 shera~ 

Short URL: http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=96762

Pennsylvania Judge: Muslims Allowed To Attack People For Insulting Muhammad, The Mediocre Carpenter Turned Prophet

Jonathon Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, reports on a disturbing case in which a state judge in Pennsylvania threw out an assault case involving a Muslim attacking an atheist for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Judge Mark Martin, an Iraq war veteran and a convert to Islam, threw the case out in what appears to be an invocation of Sharia law.

The incident occurred at the Mechanicsburg, Pa., Halloween parade where Ernie Perce, an atheist activist, marched as a zombie Muhammad. Talaag Elbayomy, a Muslim, attacked Perce, and he was arrested by police.

Judge Martin threw the case out on the grounds that Elbayomy was obligated to attack Perce because of his culture and religion. Judge Martin stated that the First Amendment of the Constitution does not permit people to provoke other people. He also called Perce, the plaintiff in the case, a “doofus.” In effect, Perce was the perpetrator of the assault, in Judge Martin’s view, and Elbayomy the innocent. The Sharia law that the Muslim attacker followed trumped the First Amendment.

Words almost fail.

The Washington Post recently reported on an appeals court decision to maintain an injunction to stop the implementation of an amendment to the Oklahoma state constitution that bans the use of Sharia law in state courts. The excuse the court gave was that there was no documented case of Sharia law being invoked in an American court. Judge Martin would seem to have provided that example, which should provide fodder for the argument as the case goes through the federal courts.

The text of the First Amendment could not be clearer. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof-” It does not say “unless somebody, especially a Muslim, is angered.” Indeed Judge Martin specifically decided to respect the establishment of a religion, in this case Islam.

That Judge Martin should be removed from the bench and severely sanctioned goes almost without saying. He clearly had no business hearing the case in the first place, since he seems to carry an emotional bias. He also needs to retake a constitutional law course. Otherwise, a real can of worms has been opened up, permitting violence against people exercising free speech.

It should be noted that another atheist, dressed as a Zombie Pope, was marching beside the Zombie Muhammad. No outraged Catholics attacked him.    SOURCE

Short URL: http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=96821

'Oil Price Controls Imposed Washington' 1973 03 07

I'm including this entire edition of  'The Daily Register' from 1973.  Please check out the entire paper, funny how we seem to be dealing with a lot of the same issues in 2012.


1973.03.07 Oil Price Controls Imposed  Washington (AP) 'The Daily Register'


516-1855-1-PB  THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF ENERGY REGULATION Richard J. Pierce, Jr

3 Shades of Black

Dolly Parton will make millions for writing and singing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in 1973, while Whitney seems to always get credit for it. Take that one to the bank!

As the world mourns Whitney Houston, her music has set the charts alight again.
And the record companies along with the writers of her songs are set to profit from her tragic death last Saturday – among them country singer Dolly Parton.

Dolly on Hee Haw 1975 'I will always love you.'

The iconic country singer wrote I Will Always Love You back in 1973, before Houston recorded it for The Bodyguard nearly two decades later.  As Dolly, 66, owns the song, she stands to earn a significant amount of money as the No1 hit is expected to top the iTunes singles chart.

During an interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper last month, the Steel Magnolias actress revealed: ‘When Whitney did it, I got all the money for the publishing and for the writing, and I bought a lot of cheap wigs.’

The legendary song, which shot to No1 across the globe, was sung by Jennifer Hudson as a tribute during the 54th Grammy Awards on Sunday.more at source

Short URL: http://www.newsnet14.com/?p=96333