Westboro Baptist Church Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine

The group best know for its ‘God Hates Fags’ slogan...

 

 

now

has some LGBT love in its backyard.

Westboro Baptist Church Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: “[Westboro spokesperson] Shirley Phelps-Roper walked by and was taking some pictures yesterday,” he says. “She mentioned she really like the colors. Then she laughed and went back in the church. It seemed like she had a sense of humor about the whole thing. I’m sure in her eyes she just thinks we’re all going to hell.”

Planting Peace director of operations Davis Hammet spoke to TakePart from inside Equality House. He tells us the idea for the project originated months ago, after Planting Peace members heard about the protest of Josef Miles—a 10-year-old who took it upon himself to hold a sign in front of Westboro that read “God Hates No One.”

WHAT TO WEAR? WHAT TO WEAR? OH MY! WHAT TO WEAR?!

The evening of Halloween,

a neighbor seemed to insinuate that I've should have attended the October picnic;

that I've may have missed something...

interesting?

 

I informed him that was the same weekend

as

GAY PRIDE.

 

To be honest,

I attended none of those events as well. 

 

But...

had I felt like attending anything that weekend,

I'm fairly certain it would have been something associated

with

GAY PRIDE.

 

 

 

 

He volunteered no other information;

and

I didn't ask.

 

Will  be sure not to miss this neighborhood's picnic...

 again!

 

 

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Dirty Jim

There was one little Jim,

'Tis reported of him,

And must be to his lasting disgrace,

That he never was seen

With hands at all clean,

Nor yet ever clean was his face....

 

His friends were much hurt

To see so much dirt,

And often they made him quiet clean;

But all was in vain,

He got dirty again,

And not at all fit to be seen.

 

It gave him no pain

To hear them complain,

Nor his own dirty clothes to survey:

His indolent mind

No pleasure could find

In tidy and wholesome array.

 

The idle and bad,

Like this little lad,

May love dirty ways, to be sure;

But good boys are seen

To be decent and clean,

Although they are ever so poor.

 

Jane Taylor

 

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Found this RSVP reply taped above doorbell following evening.

 

 

 

Ella Fitzgerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Google celebrates Ella Fitzgerald with doodle on 96th birthday

Ella Fitzgerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella", was an American jazz vocalist[1] with a vocal range spanning three octaves (D♭3 to D♭6).[2] She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.

Fitzgerald was a notable interpreter of the Great American Songbook. Over the course of her 59-year recording career, she sold 40 million copies of her 70-plus albums, won 13 Grammy Awards and was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.

A few days after Fitzgerald's death, New York Times columnist Frank Rich wrote that in the Songbook series Fitzgerald "performed a cultural transaction as extraordinary as Elvis's contemporaneous integration of white and African-American soul. Here was a black woman popularizing urban songs often written by immigrant Jews to a national audience of predominantly white Christians."

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"Little Yellow Basket

of

Mine."

 

Prisoner's Dilemma: Game theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

"Have you ever been in jail?"

~(DeKalb Crisis Center)~

 

"Yes I have."

~(Simply Jim)~

 

"Which jail was this?"

~(DeKalb Crisis Center)~

 

"Pale Blue Dot."

~(Simply Jim)~

 

"Huh?"

~(DeKalb Crisis Center)~

 

"Yeah...

Pale Blue Dot.

Once on...

one can never get off."

~(Simply Jim)~

 

"How do you spell that?"

~(DeKalb Crisis Center)~

 

 

If it's true,

 that for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction...(?)

 

Then it can equally be reasoned,

 that all humans are nothing more than on trajectories...(?)

 

Therefore I must then conclude,

that I exist only to change all them...(!)

 

~(6!9)~

 

Simply Jim:

One Pearl,

Total Pig,

Anti-Christ.

 

 

Game theory is a study of strategic decision making. More formally, it is "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers." An alternative term suggested "as a more descriptive name for the discipline" is interactive decision theory. Game theory is mainly used in economics, political science, and psychology, as well as logic and biology. The subject first addressed zero-sum games, such that one person's gains exactly equal net losses of the other participant(s). Today, however, game theory applies to a wide range of class relations, and has developed into an umbrella term for the logical side of science, to include both human and non-humans, like computers. Classic uses include a sense of balance in numerous games, where each person has found or developed a tactic that cannot successfully better his results, given the other approach.

 

Game theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Biology

Maynard Smith, in the preface to Evolution and the Theory of Games, writes, "paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behaviour for which it was originally designed". Evolutionary game theory has been used to explain many seemingly incongruous phenomena in nature.

One such phenomenon is known as biological altruism. This is a situation in which an organism appears to act in a way that benefits other organisms and is detrimental to itself. This is distinct from traditional notions of altruism because such actions are not conscious, but appear to be evolutionary adaptations to increase overall fitness. Examples can be found in species ranging from vampire bats that regurgitate blood they have obtained from a night's hunting and give it to group members who have failed to feed, to worker bees that care for the queen bee for their entire lives and never mate, to Vervet monkeys that warn group members of a predator's approach, even when it endangers that individual's chance of survival. All of these actions increase the overall fitness of a group, but occur at a cost to the individual.

Evolutionary game theory explains this altruism with the idea of kin selection. Altruists discriminate between the individuals they help and favor relatives. Hamilton's rule explains the evolutionary reasoning behind this selection with the equation  c
Political science

The application of game theory to political science is focused in the overlapping areas of fair division, political economy, public choice, war bargaining, positive political theory, and social choice theory. In each of these areas, researchers have developed game-theoretic models in which the players are often voters, states, special interest groups, and politicians.

For early examples of game theory applied to political science, see the work of Anthony Downs. In his book An Economic Theory of Democracy he applies the Hotelling firm location model to the political process. In the Downsian model, political candidates commit to ideologies on a one-dimensional policy space. Downs first shows how the political candidates will converge to the ideology preferred by the median voter if voters are fully informed, but then argues that voters choose to remain rationally ignorant which allows for candidate divergence.

A game-theoretic explanation for democratic peace is that public and open debate in democracies send clear and reliable information regarding their intentions to other states. In contrast, it is difficult to know the intentions of nondemocratic leaders, what effect concessions will have, and if promises will be kept. Thus there will be mistrust and unwillingness to make concessions if at least one of the parties in a dispute is a non-democracy.

Philosophy

Game theory has also challenged philosophers to think in terms of interactive epistemology: what it means for a collective to have common beliefs or knowledge, and what are the consequences of this knowledge for the social outcomes resulting from agents' interactions.

Some assumptions used in some parts of game theory have been challenged in philosophy; for example, psychological egoism states that rationality reduces to self-interest—a claim debated among philosophers.

A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HE SAW THE

WORLD IN A WAY

NO ONE COULD HAVE

IMAGINED.

 

 

Nash's theories have influenced

global trade negotiations, national labor relations,

and

even breakthroughs in evolutionary biology.

A Beautiful Mind (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The film stars Russell Crowe, along with Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles.  The story begins in the early years of a young prodigy named John Nash. Early in the film, Nash begins developing paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on his wife and friends.

It was well received by critics, but the narrative of the film differs considerably from the actual events of Nash's life. The film has been criticized for this, but the filmmakers had consistently said that the film was not meant to be a literal representation.

One difficulty was in portraying stress and mental illness within one person's mind. Sylvia Nasar stated that the filmmakers "invented a narrative that, while far from a literal telling, is true to the spirit of Nash's story". The film made his hallucinations visual and auditory when, in fact, they were exclusively auditory.

The pen ceremony tradition at Princeton shown in the film is completely fictitious. The film has Nash saying around the time of his Nobel prize in 1994: "I take the newer medications", when in fact Nash did not take any medication from 1970 onwards, something Nash's biography highlights. Howard later stated that they added the line of dialogue because it was felt as though the film was encouraging the notion that all schizophrenics can overcome their illness without medication.

Nash also never gave an acceptance speech for his Nobel prize because laureates do not do that as portrayed in the film; the award ceremony is conducted without any such speeches. While a laureate would commonly present a lecture at a Swedish university, this also did not happen in Nash's case due to fears the organisers had regarding his mental instability.

 

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JIMMY FRANKLIN WOLFE

 

 

Uncle Jimmy, second from left wearing white shirt, was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia shortly after burning down the home of a local family;

him claiming:

"the radio man told me to."

 

That same night he burns down a home as instructed by auditory hallucinations he refers  to

as

"the radio man"

was

the same night I was born...

January 14, 1962.

 

 

My mother, bottom row wearing wearing white dress, claims Uncle Jimmy was one of two brothers she named me after.

 

Why...(?)

because they never had children of their own.