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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b5 9-9a01-09266fad43ed The last paragraph is very interesting with regard to figuring out Hollywood.

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I clicked on that, and this is what came up:
Sorry, this url contains an invalid document id. Please check your url or click Back and try again.
Why, oh, WHY, did I ever cancel my subscription to the Ottawa Citizen?

ADS.

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[nq:1]I clicked on that, and this is what came up: Sorry, this url contains an invalid document id. Please check your url or click Back and try again. Why, oh, WHY, did I ever cancel my subscription to the Ottawa Citizen? ADS.[/nq]
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b9- 9a01-09266fad43ed
Works now.

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[nq:2]I clicked on that, and this is what came up: ... I ever cancel my subscription to the Ottawa Citizen? ADS.[/nq]
This one worked just now -
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b5 9-9a01-09266fad43ed

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[nq:1]This one worked just now - http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b5 9-9a01-09266fad43ed[/nq]
Link keeps messing up and wrapping -
Friday » September 29 » 2006
Dream world a strange, scary place for liberals
Meanwhile, conservatives dream of mundane events and monogamous ***, writes Chris Lackner.
Chris Lackner
The Ottawa Citizen
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
If you've recently dreamed about *** with a stranger, flying or the dead coming back to life, chances are you're probably a liberal instead of a conservative.
A dream researcher from John F. Kennedy University in California has discovered fundamental differences between the dream worlds of people on the ideological left and the ideological right.

Among his findings, Kelly Bulkeley discovered that liberals are more restless sleepers and have a higher number of bizarre, surreal dreams including fantasy settings and a wide variety of sexual encounters. Conservatives' dreams were, on average, far more mundane and focused on realistic people, situations and settings.
"Conservatives seem to have more of a focus on the here and now and the material world whereas liberals, in contrast, seem to have a much wider sphere of imaginative activity," he said.
"They don't just dream about what is, but what could be or what they wish could be," Mr. Bulkeley said.
His research is being published in an upcoming issue of Dreams, a journal published by the American Psychological Association.

Out of the 134 liberals who participated in the study, 91 per cent said they recently dreamed about ***; only 76 per cent of 100 conservative subjects admitted the same.
But Mr. Bulkeley said the two political stripes showed very different tastes in dream partners.
Liberals were far more likely to have sexual dreams about strangers and a variety of partners, while liberal women showed a greater tendency towards same-*** fantasies than their conservative counterparts (24 versus four per cent).
"Especially for liberal women, there was a far greater variety in sexual partners and incidents of homosexuality," Mr. Bulkeley said. "Liberals tended to show a greater willingness to experiment with different things."
Conservatives, by comparison, were far more likely to report having sexual dreams about their spouse or current partner.

While left-wingers might be more adventurous in the subconscious bedroom, they're also more likely to wake up in a cold sweat.

Liberals showed slightly higher levels of nightmares than conservatives a statistic at odds with a similar dream study Mr. Bulkeley conducted in the late 1990s.
He said the ideology of the United States' governing party may affect the dream patterns of Republicans and Democrats.
While conservatives deplored former president Bill Clinton's reign in the 1990s, liberals are currently both furious and fearful of the Bush administration, he said.
"With the change from the Clinton to the Bush administrations, there are waking world reasons for liberals to be more concerned and stressed, and conservatives to be less concerned," Mr. Bulkeley said.

"Dreams are like political cartoons of the mind mental op-ed columns. Sometimes dreams reflect internal commentaries on the state of things."
The study includes some of the dreams recounted by liberals, such as the following nightmare: "I was at a presidential rally where George W. Bush was speaking. There was so much red, white and blue. Bush speaks: 'There are those who say that we are giving up our civil liberties. But I say, we should be proud to sacrifice our freedoms for America!' The crowd went wild, clapping, cheering and waving flags. I awoke in a cold sweat."
Not surprisingly, Republicans had much more benign dreams about their commander-in-chief: "I was friends with George W. Bush and we were working together on his ranch. I was happy to be there."

Mr. Bulkeley said that the most surprising result in his study is that conservatives showed a higher tendency for lucid dreaming being aware they were asleep. Conservatives largely reported using their "dream awareness" to wake themselves up from uncomfortable situations and nightmares, he said.
Overall, conservative males appear to sleep the most soundly and remember the fewest dreams, while liberal women are the most restless sleepers and fantastical dreamers.
"While some of my colleagues think my research reinforces the stereotype of repressed, uptight conservatives, it also shows that many liberals may he hanging on the edge of mental well-being," Mr. Bulkeley said. "There may be a lot of hidden distress and unpleasantness in the liberal mind."

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[nq:1]http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b59-9a01-09266fad43ed The last paragraph is very interesting with regard to figuring out Hollywood.[/nq]
Fine, Skip. Hollywood is supposedly full of leftist liberals.

Yet, many Brokeback Mountain fans cite the failure of that film to win a best picture Oscar as evidence that Hollywood is full of conservative homophobes.
Reconcile, please.

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[nq:2]http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=558b85e1-b62c-4b59-9a 01-09266fad43ed The last paragraph is very interesting with regard to figuring out Hollywood.[/nq]
[nq:1]Fine, Skip. Hollywood is supposedly full of leftist liberals. Yet, many Brokeback Mountain fans cite the failure of that film to win a best picture Oscar as evidence that Hollywood is full of conservative homophobes. Reconcile, please.[/nq]
Not really conservative homophobes - people just thought it was distasteful. went to see it with a female producer who is ultra-liberal (yes, a friend) because she said "No one else will see it with me."
Many here do one thing behind the scenes and with trusted friends, and present a very different "politically correct" picture to the public.

That's why Mel Brooks said this is a town that can nice you to death.

Obviously he wasn't talking about me.
Besides, my old friend Paul Haggis made a much better movie (although I think he's still a $cientologist and won't talk to me because I hate the cult and his wife hates me).

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[nq:2]Not really conservative homophobes - people just thought it was ... present a very different "politically correct" picture to the public.[/nq]
[nq:1]Dang it, Skip. I thought that I pasted this in my reply to you, but I obviously didn't. As far ... There is plenty of false presentation going on. And people actually think these imbeciles can determine the price of gas.[/nq]
Yep. Foley's one of the "hang him by his privates" folks in my philosophy. Anyone who thinks **** doesn't happen on both sides of the aisle is dreaming. Check this out -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political scandals of the United States#*** Scandals
James Buchanan was purportedly gay.
Try the Warren G. Harding link - one woman claimed he knocked her up and she had a baby with him.
The main problem I had with Clinton was not his *** life - it was doing it in the Oval Office with an intern. No respect for the office - it's not that hard to get a hotel and arrange things. A friend of mine was in Marilyn Monroe's house in the living room one night talking to Marilyn and she looked up and JFK jumped the hedge - he'd given the Secret Service the slip. Marilyn ushered her two women friends out.

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[nq:1]The main problem I had with Clinton was not his *** life - it was doing it in the Oval ... and JFK jumped the hedge - he'd given the Secret Service the slip. Marilyn ushered her two women friends out.[/nq]
Excellent story.
In a great many countries there's head-scratching incomprehension over the furore that erupted over the Clinton BJ and similar situations powerful men in government are pretty much expected to have mistresses. And that's been the case in the USA historically Thomas Jefferson & Sally (?) Hemings, Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, JFK and innumerable women...
The major shift isn't, I think, that morality has changed much in either direction, but that until fairly recently these things simply weren't reported. The press knew but they turned a blind eye.

Work is love made visible.
? Kahlil Gibran

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[nq:2]The main problem I had with Clinton was not his ... Service the slip. Marilyn ushered her two women friends out.[/nq]
[nq:1]Excellent story. In a great many countries there's head-scratching incomprehension over the furore that erupted over the Clinton BJ and ... direction, but that until fairly recently these things simply weren't reported. The press knew but they turned a blind eye.[/nq]
That's correct. LBJ bragged that he had more women than JFK (which would be quite a feat). People forget that JFK's wife had a miscarriage shortly after he took office. He had Marlene Dietrich in the White House while Jackie was away and as he walked her to the elevator he asked if he was better in bed than his father (or so she said). His sexual behavior was terrible, but at least he didn't do anyone in the Oval Office, and he picked women who weren't just out of high school.

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[nq:2]That's correct. LBJ bragged that he had more women than ... he picked women who weren't just out of high school.[/nq]
[nq:1]Skip. sometimes I find your logic so convoluted I'm struck with vertigo trying to follow it. So what you're saying ... strike, the desk in the Oval Office works just fine. Caroline Personally, I'd think a sofa would be more comfortable.[/nq]
Caroline, I think the post above shows you're crazy as a mad hatter. Check the mercury thermometers around your house - they may have leaked into your soup.
I didn't say anything about the Pope.
I expect politicians to ***** around.
There are appropriate places for such activities.
I hold certain things in high esteeem, and the Oval Office is one such place. Ronald Reagan had such respect for the office he wouldn't take his coat off when he was in it.
Contrast that to BJ Clinton.
Now go passion-ate yourself.

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