Question: Increasing My Reading Speed

I was browsing Amazon.com looking for some good new books when I came across Double Your Reading Speed In 10 Minutes.  Why yes, I would love to double my reading speed.  10 minutes to improvement would be stellar.  However, I noticed it is an audio book.  Is it possible to increase your reading speed by listening to an audio book?

links for 2008-11-29

• Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
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Some Might Say This Video Proves Kids Shouldn’t Be Involved In Martial Arts

However, I say this kid just learned a valuable life lesson.

Yep … life lesson alright.  Keep your hands up.

If You Could, Who Would You Kill?

This is purely for fun, and is in no way intended as a venue for legitimate threats.

Since we have a new president getting ready to take office, I started thinking about the old myth that the president gets a certain number of free kills as a perk to the job.  It is, of course, not true.  However, it got me to thinking about who I’d off if I were to be president, and such a benefit was included.

So who would you kill if you were allowed to get away with a couple murders?  It can be anyone you like.

links for 2008-11-24

• IBDeditorials.com: Michael Ramirez Editorial and Political Cartoons
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• Socialism We Can Believe In
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• 2008-09-22-Vader.png (PNG Image, 760×304 pixels)
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• Oops! Sex Positions Booklet Accidentally Handed Out to Kids – Strollerderby
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Let It Be Known: Bush, Not Obama, Secured Iraq Withdrawal

I just want this to be crystal clear, because number 2’s will try to give credit to Obama for this. The deal has been in the works for nearly a year now, since Iraq asked the US to stay indefinitely in their country.

clipped from www.cnn.com The security agreement, reached after months of negotiations between Iraqi and U.S. representatives, sets June 30, 2009, as the deadline for U.S. combat troops to withdraw from all Iraqi cities and towns. The date for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq would be December 31, 2011. It would replace a U.N. resolution expiring at year’s end that sets out the role of U.S. and allied troops in Iraq. The Iraqi government approved the pact Sunday, and now the measure is under debate in parliament, where there has been overheated discussion between proponents and opponents. A vote is expected next week.

The Obama Voters Are Idiots Video

Everyone under the sun is posting this video, and it is good for a laugh.  Normally, I’d say it’s only a handful of people interviewed.  However, their answers are the same that I got when I’d ask Obama supporters (number 2’s) why they were supporting Obama.

Zogby is being attacked for the poll results that coincide with this video, but Zogby is a self-professed “flaming liberal” who used to be a Democrat politician. Zogby is most famous for spinning polls to fit his ideology … not for helping conservatives. Maybe he is a Hillary supporter who is still pissed.

Now you know Zogby is no right-winger (quite the contrary), let’s see what his poll says.

clipped from www.howobamagotelected.com

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).

Some would say at this point that most voters are relatively uninformed. I would tend to agree with that. After all, most voted for Obama. However, it isn’t that they didn’t know the answers to these questions … it’s where they got their information from, and that they did know the answers to other questions.

clipped from www.howobamagotelected.com

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter

And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of them correct. (And we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

To know nothing about Ayers, but to know how much was spent on Palin’s wardrobe is ridiculous at best.

Reid Ignores His Own History, Calls For Cooperation

It’s not news to discover Reid is a hypocrite with no memory, but it is somewhat humorous.

clipped from www.lvrj.com

Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada said Monday that he is willing to let bygones be bygones in hopes of achieving cooperation with Republicans in the new Congress that starts in January.

“I want everyone within the sound of my voice to know, we don’t know what our majority is going to be, but whatever it is … I make a commitment to everyone that the only way we can succeed is working together,” Reid said.

Yeah … I’ll bet. Cooperation from Reid is the same as Stalin’s definition of freedom. Reid doesn’t seek cooperation at all with Republicans … he seeks servitude. Cooperation is something Reid can’t define, so allow me to help.

clipped from dictionary.reference.com

co⋅op⋅er⋅a⋅tion

<a href=”http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/C08/C0822300″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/speaker.gif” border=”0″ /></a> /koʊˌɒpəˈreɪʃən/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [koh-op-uh–rey-shuhn] Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit; joint action.

2.	more or less active assistance from a person, organization, etc.: We sought the cooperation of various civic leaders.

3.	willingness to cooperate: to indicate cooperation.

4.	Economics. the combination of persons for purposes of production, purchase, or distribution for their joint benefit: producers’ cooperation; consumers’ cooperation.

5.	Sociology. activity shared for mutual benefit.

6.	Ecology. mutually beneficial interaction among organisms living in a limited area.

I guarantee you Reid isn’t interested in working with Republicans for a mutual benefit. He wants a Democrat benefit, and he seeks to halt any Republican benefits.

It is ironic Reid is calling for cooperation now, because he blatantly refused cooperation with Republicans on any issue since he has become Majority Leader of the Senate. Remember when he created the “war room” after talking about cooperation with Republicans in 2004?

But wait … Reid doesn’t want you to remember that.

clipped from www.lvrj.com

“For me personally this is also a time not to look back,” Reid said, referring to the past two years when Democrats controlled only a small majority, leading to gridlock on many major issues.

“There is no need to look back,” Reid said. “There are reasons for everyone doing what they did, and we can let the historians write about what took place in the past.

“I would hope we all would look forward to a coming year as one of hope and necessity to change things because we obviously have a big hole, and we have to dig our way out of it,” Reid said. “The best thing is we have a hundred people digging in the same way.”

Told you Reid wasn’t interested in cooperation.  He just made it clear that everyone must be working in the same way.  His way no doubt.

links for 2008-11-18

• WordPress Blogs Support Being Censored By The Government
  A recent poll shows that WordPress bloggers favor government policy to censor their blogs.
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Sign The Petition To Thank Sarah Palin For All She’s Done

There has been a petition created to gather signatures in support of Sarah Palin. If you’d like to sign the petition … go here.