Just read this first:
Men like women who resemble dear old mom, and women like men who look like dear old dad, a computer analysis now shows.
Scientists in Hungary investigated 52 university students and their parents. They also looked at the significant others of the volunteers and the parents of these significant others, for 312 faces total.
The computer analysis of the volunteers’ faces revealed that women often resembled their male partner’s mother, a finding echoing psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s legendary “Oedipus complex.” This proved especially true when it came to aspects of the lower face, such as lips and jaws.
Alright, I have completely had it with studies. 312!?!? Holy crap! That’s a study!
Look, there may be something to this, probably not. Couldn’t it be that in Hungary most people look fairly similar and that any resemblance would be shared with large swaths of the population? And 312 is hardly enough to make a really good study.
I look at the people I know who are married and their wives or their husbands do not look like their mother or their father. This is just crazy talk from a shrink (Freud) and a lazy study from some academics in Hungary.
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I haven’t been following all the mud slinging against this woman. Needless to say, I think most of it is probably ridiculous. After the soap opera rumor about her pretending to have a child to cover up for her daughter having a kid out of wedlock I stopped paying attention. Mostly.
One thing I have noticed is that she is being attacked for being corrupt. Really? Are you guys serious? Mr. Obama has Rezko and Mr. Biden’s son suddenly got a $1+ million hedge fund job. To try to set these scurrilous rumors straight I found this piece from an Alaskan, a liberal Alaskan I believe.
From an Alaskan who is a very serious cynic about all things political, here is my take on Sarah.
I met and spoke with Sarah Palin about two years ago at our downtown park strip. It is a place for walking, carnivals, political outdoor things and such. She was cooking hotdogs at a fund raiser and introducing herself to the public as a Governor hopeful.
She came by and said the usual “Hi, I’m Sarah Palin and I am running for Governor”…and I expected her to keep on to the next person but she asked me who I was and what I did in Alaska and we ended up talking for 15 minutes about me, Air America (she was all agog!) and my career in the Army and AAM. She is a pilot (Super Cub) I’m told, although all she told me about that was that she loved flying.
As I watched her successful run for governor over the next six months, I was really impressed. In fact I already was impressed greatly even before that, after she resigned a good position (Alaska Gas and Oil Regulatory Commission) because a fellow Commission member (Chair of the Alaska Republican Party) misused his office and position. He was using the fax, computers, printing room and all to promote the Republican endeavors while in a state job. That is a huge no-no in any government employment position.
Obviously there was more to this but you should go and read it at the original site. Included amongst her Teddy Roosevelt-esque corruption busting is her defeating the incumbent (republican) governor and telling the even more corrupt state legislator this: “All of you here need some Adult Supervision!”
Actually I think that Teddy Roosevelt is a fairly apt comparison. Mrs. Palin has gone after oil companies, worked to ferret out corruption in her own party, loves the wilderness, and is a very young VP candidate. This woman is a reformer and after the leftist (not Mr. Obama, he’s been good on this - probably because he knows that other libs will go after her) just can’t stand it. They want to completely destroy her. Eventually it is going to backfire and that backfiring is coming soon.
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If convicted they can get two years in jail. But, please, don’t overreact. We are dealing with a different culture and we need to respect it. That’s how they do it in Dubai and I don’t think any of us have the moral authority to judge.
A British couple on trial for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach asked the judge on Tuesday to be allowed to leave the country.
Michelle Palmer and Vince Acors, speaking in low voices, asked the judge for a “quick ruling” that would let them return to Britain. But judge Hamad Abdul Jawad disregarded the request and scheduled another hearing for Sept. 9 to hear testimony from the policeman who arrested the couple.
Palmer, 36, and Acors, 34, were arrested in the early hours July 5 on a Dubai beach after they had been at a hotel party. They were later charged with having sex outside of marriage, public indecency and public drunkenness.
Horse crap! Of course we can and we should judge other cultures. Sure, it is lewd to have sex on a beach. But two years!?!? Now, if the judge sends them to jail for their horribly awful teeth….
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