I found this link over at Michelle Malkin's site.
BWAHAHAHAHA!

I wonder if the terrorists subscribe to the winnie the pooh doctrine...... thats what I think too, more like the Tazmanian Devil doctrine, cause as much pain as is possible in as short amount of time as you can.

wonder who'd win the fight between Pooh and the tazmainan devil.. Thats some smart shit the dims are bringing to the table. that should impress joe six pack in november.

Good lord!! We are screwed!!!

Pooh was "a bear of very little brain"

Denny,
You're forgetting that the liberals have so fucked up the public education system that they have to use books that highschool seniors over the past couple of years might actually have the competence to read by the time they graduate.

I never liked Winnie the Pooh because Eeyore really bummed me out. And what was up with Tigger? The two of them made for a bad manic depressive archetype that I found confusing enough in my own family. And what was up with Pooh? Why did he always have to hit his head when he needed to think think think? Christopher Robin was whacked as well, you can't jump off a roof with an umbrella, but he floated around on one in the swamp? This crap story pissed me off as a 4 year old, and now this NSA guy is WTF?
I'm a fan of Peter Pan, Ali Baba, and Narnia is an interesting place to visit too- in ones imagination! Not as a basis for National Security!? Please call the guys with the white jackets that tie in the back on this guy-STAT!
Way to go Obambi! I'll be awaiting for your daily media statement of apology. Fuggin hell-this guy makes McPain look like Churchill!

Just wish to repeat what Voltaire said:

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one..."O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." ...And God granted it!"

Here is a vid of jugears and his foreign policy

http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/02/27/obama-plans-to-disarm-america

I would not mind the pooh policy they just got to get a good job for Eeyore, he is cool!

The main problem with this policy is that most people know, in the real world, that anything worth having requires sacrifice, hard work and sometimes a little pain. The main thing worth having in this world is our freedom, not only from terrorist scum, but also from interference from other countries and ideologies. It is amazing how the dimocrats seem to be going in the opposite direction and pulling as hard as they can on the country to go with them. Because it seems easier? wtf

Claudia - The trouble is that the American electorate has become so stupid that they buy into this bullshit. It is so sad to see what my country is becoming. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison are spinning in their graves. If you asked the typcal Anerican voter if they knew who Jefferson and Madison were they would be unable to tell you that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and James Madison was instrumental in crafting the Constitution. But they could tell you who won American Idol.

I would shudder to hear their response if you asked them who Voltaire was. They would prolly think he invented electricity and that's where we got volt from.

We're doomed.

Denny: Having worked with a few high school and college kids, I am happy to report they are not all uneducated ninnies. I would say some of the ones I've met are more informed and involved than I was at their age. So the outlook for the next generation is not entirely dismal. Many of that age group are voluntarily and actively serving in the military. It may well be that their generation is more practical than ours, and that they will turn the ship around - if we don't torpedo it first.

Denny - Of course, it's hard to know exactly how old a blogger is. But when children are mentioned, I get a fairly good idea. Plenty of 30 and 40 years old quite smart on the American side, with the right ideas about what their country should do, and raising their kids, the right way. Something had been missing for a while. I don't know why. But it seems that young middle-class couples are far more politically conscious, and in search of basic values. I don't think they'll swallow this type of bullshit easily. It might not be a majority yet, but it's growing. They know how to click on the internet. Voltaire is easy to find.

It's the over 55 who would need a kick in the butt.Their minds have been retired a long time.In my country too...

Claudia - Good points. It's the baby boomers who are messed up. We had parents who lived through the depression and had decided that their children would not have it as bad. As a result they were indulged and spoiled rotten. That didn't happen to my sister and me because we were poor and my mom and my father (when he was sober) taught us that actions had consequences. For example, when I flunked out of college my parents told me to find a job because I was now gonna have to pay room and board.

During the Viet Nam War it was the baby boomers who threw all of the tantrums and who caused us to lose the war. Many of these same people are now runing the Dimocrat Party.

I hope you are correct but I am not optimistic. Sean Hannity does a man on the street thing where he asks people simple questions like "Who is the vice-president?" "Who is the secretary of state?" "Who is running for president?". The ignorance is appalling.

Pathology in the Hundred Acre Wood: a neurodevelopmental perspective on A.A. Milne

Somewhere at the top of the Hundred Acre Wood a little boy and his bear play. On the surface it is an innocent world, but on closer examination by our group of experts we find a forest where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated.

On the surface it is an innocent world: Christopher Robin, living in a beautiful forest surrounded by his loyal animal friends. Generations of readers of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories have enjoyed these seemingly benign tales.1,2 However, perspectives change with time, and it is clear to our group of modern neurodevelopmentalists that these are in fact stories of Seriously Troubled Individuals, many of whom meet DSM-IV3 criteria for significant disorders (Table 1). We have done an exhaustive review of the works of A.A. Milne and offer our conclusions about the inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood in hopes that our observations will help the medical community understand that there is a Dark Underside to this world.

We begin with Pooh. This unfortunate bear embodies the concept of comorbidity. Most striking is his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), inattentive subtype. As clinicians, we had some debate about whether Pooh might also demonstrate significant impulsivity, as witnessed, for example, by his poorly thought out attempt to get honey by disguising himself as a rain cloud. We concluded, however, that this reflected more on his comorbid cognitive impairment, further aggravated by an obsessive fixation on honey. The latter, of course, has also contributed to his significant obesity. Pooh's perseveration on food and his repetitive counting behaviours raise the diagnostic possibility of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Given his coexisting ADHD and OCD, we question whether Pooh may over time present with Tourette's syndrome. Pooh is also clearly described as having Very Little Brain. We could not confidently diagnose microcephaly, however, as we do not know whether standards exist for the head circumference of the brown bear. The cause of Pooh's poor brain growth may be found in the stories themselves. Early on we see Pooh being dragged downstairs bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. Could his later cognitive struggles be the result of a type of Shaken Bear Syndrome?

Pooh needs intervention. We feel drugs are in order. We cannot but wonder how much richer Pooh's life might be were he to have a trial of low-dose stimulant medication. With the right supports, including methylphenidate, Pooh might be fitter and more functional and perhaps produce (and remember) more poems.

I take a PILL-tiddley pom It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom, It keeps me STILL-tiddley pom Not fiddling.

And what of little Piglet? Poor, anxious, blushing, flustered little Piglet. He clearly suffers from a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Had he been appropriately assessed and his condition diagnosed when he was young, he might have been placed on an antipanic agent, such as paroxetine, and been saved from the emotional trauma he experienced while attempting to trap heffalumps.

Pooh and Piglet are at risk for additional self-esteem injury because of the chronic dysthymia of their neighbour, Eeyore. What a sad life that donkey lives. We do not have sufficient history to diagnose this as an inherited, endogenous depression or to know whether some early trauma contributed to his chronic negativism, low energy and anhe(haw)donia. Eeyore would benefit greatly from an antidepressant, perhaps combined with individual therapy. Maybe with a little fluoxetine, Eeyore might see the humour in the whole tail-losing episode. Even if a patch of St. John's wort grew near his thistles, the forest could ring with a braying laugh.

Our neurodevelopmental group agrees about poor Owl: obviously bright, but dyslexic. His poignant attempts to cover up for his phonological deficits are similar to what we see day in and day out in others so afflicted. If only his condition had been identified early and he received more intensive support!

We especially worry about baby Roo. It is not his impulsivity or hyperactivity that concerns us, as we feel that those are probably age appropriate. We worry about the environment in which he is developing. Roo is growing up in a single-parent household, which puts him at high risk for Poorer Outcome. We predict we will someday see a delinquent, jaded, adolescent Roo hanging out late at night at the top of the forest, the ground littered with broken bottles of extract of malt and the butts of smoked thistles. We think that this will be Roo's reality, in part because of a second issue. Roo's closest friend is Tigger, who is not a good Role Model. Peer influences strongly affect outcome.

We acknowledge that Tigger is gregarious and affectionate, but he has a recurrent pattern of risk-taking behaviours. Look, for example, at his impulsive sampling of unknown substances when he first comes to the Hundred Acre Wood. With the mildest of provocation he tries honey, haycorns and even thistles. Tigger has no knowledge of the potential outcome of his experimentation. Later we find him climbing tall trees and acting in a way that can only be described as socially intrusive. He leads Roo into danger. Our clinical group has had its own debate about what the best medication might be for Tigger. Some of us have argued that his behaviours, occurring in a context of obvious hyperactivity and impulsivity, would suggest the need for a stimulant medication. Others have wondered whether clonidine might be helpful, or perhaps a combination of the two. Unfortunately we could not answer the question as scientifically as we would have liked because we could find only human studies in the literature.

Even if we were able to help Tigger, we would still have the problem of Roo's growing up with a single parent. Kanga is noted to be somewhat overprotective. Could her possessiveness of Roo relate to a previous run-in with social services? And where will Kanga be in the future? It is highly likely that she will end up older, blowsier, struggling to look after several joeys conceived in casual relationships with different fathers, stuck at a dead end with inadequate financial resources. But perhaps we are being too gloomy. Kanga may prove to be one of those exceptional single mothers who show a natural resilience — an ability, if we may say so, to bounce back. Maybe Kanga will pass her high school equivalency test, earn a university degree and maybe even get an MBA. Perhaps some day Kanga will buy the Hundred Acre Wood and develop it into a gated community of $500 000 homes. But that is not likely to happen, particularly in a social context that does not appear to value education and provides no strong female leadership.

What leadership there is in the Hundred Acre Wood is simply that offered by one small boy, Christopher Robin. Our group believes that Christopher Robin has not exhibited any diagnosable condition as yet, but we are concerned about several issues. There is the obvious problem of a complete absence of parental supervision, not to mention the fact that this child is spending his time talking to animals. We also noted in the stories early signs of difficulty with academics and felt that E.H. Shepard's illustrations suggest possible future gender identity issues for this child. The more psychoanalytical member in our group indicated that there could be some Freudian meaning to his peculiar naming of his bear as Winnie-the-Pooh.

Finally, we turn to Rabbit. We note his tendency to be extraordinarily self-important and his odd belief system that he has a great many relations (many of other species!) and friends. He seems to have an overriding need to organize others, often against their will, into new groupings, with himself always at the top of the reporting structure. We believe that he has missed his calling, as he clearly belongs in senior-level hospital administration.

Somewhere at the top of the forest a little boy and his bear play. Sadly, the forest is not, in fact, a place of enchantment, but rather one of disenchantment, where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated.

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/163/12/1557

Holy crap, Catalynn!!! That's quite an analysis!

Denny - Yes, I've seen that show. It is appalling. I find Hannity a bit selective of the people he hits.Probably true that most people on the street are ignorant. Easier to be smart when clicking the internet. At least, in my case!

I understand now why that age-group is different. You got it right. The majority of the congress is part of it. I'm amazed at the poor quality of those politicians. In my country too.

The older active seniors (70+) that I meet are also pitiful. They're interested in bingo and Casino Rama. You can't have a political common sense conversation with them. Most of them don't see that the result of USA election will affect our country. They're not stupid. They only lack proper informations. They don't know how to use the internet. Lessons are free at the Library. The computer is available one hour a day. That's how I got into it. I was mesmerized. It was like taking a refresher course on everything I had ever learned.I cannot convince those older people that it's important to be politically knowledgeable. I don't know if you have that problem in USA with your elderly.

I see something so different in your younger couples. Awareness, lucidity, a strong desire to raise their children in a sane, no bullshit country. That's what I read in their blogs. Let's hope...

Let's face it - the dumb ones are more entertaining. Yes, appalling, but entertaining. That's why they do these bits. If everyone had the correct answer, nobody would watch.

PeggyU - I can't watch that program very long. Not that I have all the right answers...That's the problem. Sometimes, I'm relieved that I haven't been caught on the street. I'm convinced that many of the watchers are as dumb as the poor people who were put to the test. A bit like monkeys laughing at monkeys...

Denny sad to say...My kid was telling me that they were discussing Jefferson's illegitimate kid from a slave in a High School class...That is what he remembered the most...however the History class was more favorable to Jefferson...But damage done to the more gullible kids minds in the school... for some teachers I wish that they would stay with Winnie der pooh!!!!!!

I'm thinking that we start a petition for John McPain to give the nod to Glenn Danzig in protest to Oblabby! Glenn Danzig for National Security Musical Advisor!! Danzigs or The Misfits music could easily replace waterboarding! Oh I LOVE it!