Yes, the craziness I get to experience. How fun.

The below letter is what I received as a response to the second letter I wrote that I posted yesterday (or whenever that was). And yes. I am going to leave his name and email address up. And leave this public. The guy is nuts.

-----Original Message-----
>From: scott goodell <virgosmg@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Sep 8, 2006 7:28 AM
>To: Christina Luise Taft <mamagaea@earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: fine
>
>Christina,
> Millions lost from the bitch in my industry. Attempts on my life. My girlfriend lies dying in the hospital over that jealous bitch, other girlfriends stole money from me and slandered me who were that bitch's friends.
> Whether Mama Goddess is that bitch, a friend or just an internet predator and stalker, you will be ordered to testify in court if she is on your friend's list and if she keeps manipulating others fo fuck with me.
> This is now a police case, opened by the detective that bitch hired to bust me after she lied to him.
> My lawyers are ready to pull the trigger, but I won't give the word, as it is my duty to respect her, and I even like you in a masochistic way.
> If I am wrong, get help and good luck to you as well in your life.
> Maybe not lying to me about being honored to meet me and being a big comic art fan would be the way to go with the next person. Talking like a cheap whore to entrap me was predictaby insane on your part as well.

See. This is why I wrote what I did. You make no sense whatsoever and sound like you are a bi-polar patient off his meds. I was glad to meet you for you do have talent and I hope you do have success in your career. However, I will not be party to your imbalanced mind. You can live in your delusions all you like. Have a nice life.

STOP ABC from spreading Lies!

from moveon:

In a little over 48 hours, ABC will air a five-hour "docudrama" on the 9/11 attacks. The movie was written and produced by a right-wing activist who fabricated key scenes to blame Democrats and defend Republicans.1 It's so partisan that even Rush Limbaugh was surprised ABC decided to air it. And an FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."

Public outrage is mounting across the country, and Variety reports that ABC is now "mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether." But we only have a little time to act. We'll start delivering this petition to ABC headquarters tomorrow at noon and continue as more signatures come in. So we're looking for 200,000 signatures TODAY.

Can you sign? Click here:
http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc?id=8706-722724-jygS7Q1rw0C47ZfJaxw39w&t=4

Then please pass on this message to folks you know who can help.

The Path to 9/11 appears to be part of a coordinated push—including speeches by President Bush and millions of dollars in advertising—to exploit the five-year anniversary of 9/11 for political gain. That's not acceptable from anyone—especially not a news organization like ABC.

It's not just that ABC's movie is slanted. Big parts of it are simply untrue. The producer himself even admitted to simply improvising a key scene which depicts the Clinton administration letting bin Laden go when they had him in their sights—a complete fabrication. Last night, the movie's star, Harvey Keitel, said "It turned out not all the facts were correct."

It's really pretty simple: ABC shouldn't have any role in the political exploitation of 9/11. But this docudrama is designed to do just that—spreading a false message to millions of viewers across the country.

Sign the petition to tell ABC not to air partisan propaganda on 9/11. Click here:
http://pol.moveon.org/abcdoc?id=8706-722724-jygS7Q1rw0C47ZfJaxw39w&t=5

Thank you for all you do.
–Nita, Eli, Carrie, Joan, Jennifer and the MoveOn.org Political Action Team
Friday, September 8th, 2006

Read and Learn.

Study: Why Teens Don't Care

By Sara Goudarzi
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 07 September 2006
05:33 pm ET

If you ever sense teenagers are not taking your feelings into account, it's probably because they're just incapable of doing so.

The area of the brain associated with higher-level thinking, empathy, and guilt is underused by teenagers, reports a new study. When considering an action, the teenage medial prefrontal cortex, located in front of the brain, doesn't get as much action as adults.

"Thinking strategies change with age," said Sarah-Jayne Blakemore of the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. "As you get older you use more or less the same brain network to make decisions about your actions as you did when you were a teenager, but the crucial difference is that the distribution of that brain activity shifts from the back of the brain (when you are a teenager) to the front (when you are an adult)."

Teen thinking

In the study, teens and adults were asked how they would react to certain situations. As they responded, researchers imaged their brains.

Although both adults and teens responded similarly to the questions, their brain activity differed. The medial prefrontal cortex was much more active in the adults than in the teens. However, the teenagers had much more activity in the superior temporal sulcus, the brain area involved in predicting future actions based on previous ones.

Adults were also much faster at figuring out how their actions would affect themselves and other people.

"We think that a teenager's judgment of what they would do in a given situation is driven by the simple question: 'What would I do?'" Blakemore said. "Adults, on the other hand, ask: 'What would I do, given how I would feel and given how the people around me would feel as a result of my actions?'"

Developing sensitivity

Children start taking into account other people's feelings around the age of five. But the ability develops well beyond this age, the new research suggests.

And while some of this sensitivity could be the result of undeveloped regions in the brain, the experience that adults acquire from social interactions also plays an important role.

"Whatever the reasons, it is clear that teenagers are dealing with, not only massive hormonal shifts, but also substantial neural changes," Blakemore said. "These changes do not happen gradually and steadily between the ages of 0–18. They come on in great spurts and puberty is one of the most dramatic developmental stages."

The results of the study were presented today at the BA Festival of Science in the UK

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