My contacts in Alaska tell me that Sarah Palin will announce her candidature as Republican nominee for the next US Presidential Election.
As yet, I am unable to give a date, but will keep ASF updated on developments.
At last some hope of an end to this ridiculous profligate presidency and a return to good governance and a sane foreign policy.
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New Study Shows that Americans Lose Fractional IQ Points Each Time Sarah Palin Tweets
A new study published this week in the Journal of American Health and Wellness (JAHM) finds that Americans’ average IQ is adversely affected by each Sarah Palin tweet. While this is the first study to test the relationship between Sarah Palin tweets and IQ, its findings support the anecdotal evidence of a declining national IQ since Ms. Palin was thrust onto the national stage in August 2008.
According to Dr. Joseph Farney, the author of the peer-reviewed article Palin Tweets Manifest in Brain Scarring, “The use of Twitter, both for ‘tweeting’ and reading, has been assumed to be an intellectually inert exercise with a statistically insignificant IQ impact, not dissimilar to the myriad of monotonous daily activities like mowing the lawn or cleaning the house. However, we wanted to test that popularly held belief by exploring the Twitter phenomena from a strictly scientific perspective to determine whether even short-term exposure to any Twitter stimuli, not just Ms. Palin’s tweets, could have an impact on IQ.
“We know that not every activity is IQ neutral. It has been widely documented that reading classical literature, for example, has a positive impact on brain activity and, when read frequently and in high quantities, will measurably increase IQ. This is most true on the younger brains ”” whereas activities in adulthood that impact IQ are much more rare.
“We went into this study with the hypothesis that a subject’s interaction with Twitter will have no effect on IQ . Said another way, at the beginning of the study, it was our belief that only the three well-documented and universally accepted non-genetic or temporal IQ-retarding activities were (1) brain injury generally resulting from trauma; (2) the abuse of certain categories of drugs and (3) watching or listening to Glenn Beck.”
The Daily Goat met Dr. Farney at his testing facility, located at a Yale extension campus just outside New Haven, Connecticut, where he demonstrated the test protocol.
http://www.dailygoat.com/2010/07/ne...-lose-iq-points-each-time-sarah-palin-tweets/