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April, 2007


REPUBLICANISM EXPLAINED

BRAIN DAMAGE AFFECTS ABILITY TO MAKE MORAL JUDGMENTS

Scientists at the General Delivery University announced today that a link has been discovered between brain injury and the ability to make moral judgments.

"We have found there is a little place in the brain right behind the forehead that controls a human's ability to make morally based decisions," said Andrew Wheel, head of the GDU Metaphysical School of Medicine.

"If that tiny part of the brain, called the "ventral media area", is put out of commission," Wheel explained, "folks have a significant inability to tell right from wrong."

Initially studies focused on people who had experienced severe head injury.

"However, when we started noticing some members of the control group in our study also exhibited serious problems with telling the truth and differentiating between right and wrong, we figured maybe it didn't take a severe injury to disable a person's moral judgment capacity," Wheel added.

The study was expanded and a strong correlation emerged between subjects with mo mral decision-making capacity and being Republicans.

"Initially, we were quite shocked to discover that virtually every Republican we studied had a non-functioning ventral media area in their brain. Initially we could find no correlation with brain injury," Wheel said.

Deeper inquiries into the history of the subjects who had damaged ventral media areas disclosed that all of them had been hit in the head at some point in their lives.

"We discovered that these people had been hit by baseballs, basketballs, golf balls, had been in minor car accidents, had walked into things and slammed their heads....every one of them had been head-banged," Wheel explained.

The link between this injury and the inability to make moral judgments further linking to the propensity to become Republicans confounded the researchers.

"Putting aside our personal biases about such things, we just could not ignore that every Republican we studied had this deficit in their ventral media area," Wheel said.

"This is apparently why they believe in George Bush, don't give a damn about the poor, and support the war in Iraq," Wheel explained.

One of the conclusions the study reached was that "Republicans are made, not born."


ATTORNEY GENERAL DEPORTED

GONZALES FOUND IN MEXICO

WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vanished on his way home from his DC office and reportedly is now in Juarez, Mexico.

Gonzales, under increasing fire for firing 8 US Attorneys, reportedly was picked up by the Border Patrol.

Gonzales, who did not have in his possession documentation to prove he was a US citizen, was immediately flown to El Paso and escorted to the US-Mexican border.

"He had all these credentials saying he was the Attorney General, but those kinds of documents are insufficient to prove citizenship," said Randal Wrake, head of the Virginia/Maryland Sector of the Border Patrol.

"He looked like a Mexican and even admitted his name was Alberto Gonzales, and that was sufficient for getting deported," said Wrake.

No hearings were held prior to the deportation of the Attorney General.

"The first five or six times we catch a UDA (undocumented alien) we just punt them back to Mexico because it is cheaper," said Wrake. "If we held hearings for every one of these people we catch, our whole system would collapse under the weight of all those lawyers and judges."

Gonzales, for his part, reportedly was furious he was kicked out of the country without even being given a chance to call an attorney.

"Maybe he'd be interesting in letting all those people he ordered held in custody a right to counsel," quipped a spokesperson for Senator Hillary Clinton.

Immigration and Naturalization officials in El Paso report that re-entry into the United States has been refused to Gonzales.

"Besides not being able to prove he is a US citizen, the President has suggested it might be in the national interest if Gonzales stayed in Mexico," said Wrake.


MONKEY BUSINESS ON FOX

CLINTON ANCESTORS ONCE LIVED IN TREES

The FOX News Network reported that there is conclusive evidence that Hillary Clinton's ancestors once lived in trees.

"She has monkeys in her ancestry," said Bill Swill, political pundit for FOX.

That possibly all presidential candidates have ape ancestors did not dissuade FOX from running the "Hillary had a monkey uncle" story.

"It is clear that our preferred candidates did not evolve from apes," said Swill. "Since Democrats believe in evolution, they can suffer the consequences."

 


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HOW TO FIND YOUR LOST CAR

People over 50 increasingly encounter the same problem....our cars get lost.

At first, we think we are coming down with Alzheimer's. But one day I was standing in front of a Home Depot trying to remember where I had parked my truck, and noticed two other people of the same age staring bewilderedly into the parking lot. We exchanged glances. "You too?" one asked. "Yep." So we organized...the first person to find their car would carry the other two people around in a search of the parking lot until we had all found our cars and trucks. It was obviously not the dreaded disease of old age. It was the more common malady of post-50 called CRS (Can't Remember Shit).

After several years of losing cars in shopping mall parking lots, airport parking lots, and concert hall lots, it became obvious one needs a strategy to deal with this problem.

An anecdotal study of members of my generation produced numerous helpful hints to avoiding the lost car problem.

PARK IN THE SAME PLACE: One solution, insofar as possible, is to always park in the same place at each store. In order to insure a parking spot, this usually means parking far away from the store, but the walking is good for you.

TIE SOMETHING COLORFUL TO THE CAR: One friend carries a red ribbon around, and ties it to her door handle. Another puts a balloon on her antenna. This works, as long as someone doesn't steal the ribbon (or the car).

BUY A UNIQUE CAR: A serious problem faces those with generic cars and trucks, such as Camrys, Accords, and Ford Explorers....there will be 70 cars or trucks of the same make and color in the parking lot. Purple cars are easy to find (but get you stopped by the Border Patrol frequently).

USE YOUR REMOTE: Another friend just points his remote to the parking lot, and whichever car lights up, that's his. This doesn't help when three cars of the same make and color open up, which happens sometimes. Then again, you might get a better car out of the deal.

WRITE DOWN THE LOCATION: While this might seem an obvious solution, the problem is remembering where you put your note, especially if you've left you car at an airport and been gone for a week. One friend writes the location on the inside of his shoe, another has a post-it note tacked to his driver's license.


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