If there was a "terrorist" attack soon, do you think it would seal the deal so to speak for a police state or it would finally wake American up the fact that Bush has failed?

I hope it will never happen. But that is not the question. If it did, then I would hope for the latter.

Loaming? That's the stuff you put on your lawn .

I don't think that there is a looming attack right now.

I hope you're right> I think ALL of us hope you're right. But if you're not, Americans will wake up and smell the coffee , because American journalists will finally tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Bush and the PNAC... it would be better for all of us if they did that NOW

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Consumer Horticulture





What is Loam?
Released 01-06-00
by B. Rosie Lerner, Extension Consumer Horticulture Specialist

Gardeners are often advised that a loamy garden soil is best for just about all plants. But just what is a loamy soil?

Soil is composed of many particles of varying sizes. Soil scientists have classified soil particles into three major groups: sand, silt and clay. Sand particles are the largest and tend to hold little water but allow good aeration. Clay particles are very small in size and tend to pack down so that water does not drain well and little or no air can penetrate. Silt particles are medium sized and have properties in between those of sand and clay.

A loamy soil, then, is one that combines all three of these types of particles in relatively equal amounts. Loamy soil is ideal for most garden plants because it holds plenty of moisture but also drains well so that sufficient air can reach the roots.

Many gardeners complain of their garden soil being compacted and/or poorly drained. Heavy, compacted soil can be rescued by the enduring gardener. Add a good amount of organic matter, such as compost, animal manure, cover crops or organic mulch materials, each year as the soil is worked. It may take several years, but eventually the soil compaction will be improved. Although adding some sand along with the organic matter is acceptable, adding sand alone is not advised. The organic matter offers several advantages that sand does not, including increased water- and nutrient-holding capabilities, in addition to improved aeration.

Highly sandy soils can be a problem since they do not hold much water and few nutrients, as well. Adding organic materials to a sandy soil will improve its ability to hold water and nutrients. You'll need to add at least a two-inch layer of material to make a marked improvement. This translates to about 17 cubic feet of organic matter to cover a 100-square-foot area.

And remember that soil improvement is a program, not just a one-shot deal. You'll need to continue applications at least once a year for several years to really change the nature of the existing soil.

1-6-00

I do not think an attack is loaming ether. (The loaming is in reference to a spining wheel, not a lawn.) I am just asking, "IF" one did happen. It would be really convient for Bush if one happened again on America soil. Remember, these guys want to see this threw and we can all agree they will use any method they can think of, literelly, they dont evn weed out the bad ones, they do EVERY thing they think up I think.

I have been reading Al Frankin's new book The Truth. He has a chapter about the way Bush uses fear to gain support. He cites a study which showed that people thought more postively about Bush when they were told to think about their own death. Apparently, Karl Rove has quite an instinct for psychology. I have no doubt that another terrorist attack would cement Bush's stranglehold on power.

Loaming is not a word.
You might have been thinking of a Loom, though looming is not a propper verb.


And besides, I only posted the Loam stuff to have some fun.





Among the insecure and uninformed I would have to agree.
But the rest of us who have become informed and are not emotionally or intellectually insecure, NO.

Unfortunately, the uninformed outnumber the informed, but not by a lot!
The balance was well measured in the last election.


We MUST keep the REAL ISSUES up front in the publics awareness!
We MUST deflate KRoves false truths with reality!

At the very least, we must try!

As I stated before, there is a psychological part of this equation which has little to do with being informed.

Excerpt from Al Frankin's The Truth:

Terror Management Theory argues that much of human behavior and human culture can be understood as a response to the fear of death. Duh. Among other things, TMT predicts that death-related thoughts drive people to affirm their pre-existing cultural worldview (boo gay marriage!) and to support "charismatic/visionary" leaders (Bush) over "task-oriented" leaders (Kerry) or "relationship-oriented" leaders who emphasize the need for people to work together and accept mutual responsibility (Kerry). The predictions of TMT have been borne out by more than 175 published experiments. As compared to, say, the number of peer reviewed studies concluding that human beings have nothing to do with global warming, which is zero.

Of all the TMT studies I've read (two), my favorite is "The Effects of Mortality Salience and Reminders of 9/11 on Support for President George W. Bush," which appeared in the September 2004 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. In a series of experiments conducted on student volunteers from across the political spectrum, the authors found that reminders of death generally or 9/11 specifically caused subjects to view Bush more favorably.

The first experiment divided the students into two groups to test whether thinking about death affected their politics. The control group was asked to describe the experience of watching television. Members of the second group were asked to "describe the emotion that the thought of your own death arouses in you" and to "jot down, as specifically as you can, what you think will happen to you as you physically die and once you are physically dead."

Both groups were then asked to read and evaluate a short essay praising Bush and endorsing the war in Iraq. Most of the people in the television group disagreed with the essay. Most of the people in the death group agreed with it. Math nerds will be interested to know that the effect size was both large (n2=.55) and statistically significant (p<.001).

In the second experiment, the subjects were divided into three groups. In order to prime their subconscious thought patterns, one group was assigned to write about death, another about 9/11, and the third, the control group, about pain. (The scientists substituted "pain" for "watching television" to make sure that Bush's bump in the first experiment came from thinking about death specifically and not just from thinking about something unpleasant. If I were conducting the experiment, instead of pain, In would have made the unpleasant thing something very specific-like having to give Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell a foot rub.)

In this experiment, the subjects prompted to think about pain preferred Kerry by a more than two-to-one margin. Those thinking about death or 9/11 preferred Bush by a landslide. The effect of thinking of death or 9/11 worked on liberals, moderates, and conservatives alike.

The Terror Management Theorists who authored this study concluded:

The present findings support the views of many theorists who have noted that political allegiances are not always based on the balanced, rational forces of self-interest suggested by the Jeffersonian notion of democracy but also on the operation of nonrational forces of which we are not always aware.

Shoe,

I read that book last month, and I forgot about that chapter. Good find.