Nice Couple, the Obamas

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Nice Couple, the Obamas
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Sat, 11-29-2008 - 4:19pm
Barack and Michelle:

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Registered: 11-14-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 12:44pm

I looked Leo Donofrio up and it appears that he used to be an attorney, but let his license lapse.

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Registered: 11-08-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 12:44pm
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Registered: 11-14-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 12:49pm

Why are you posting stuff from October 22?

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 12:52pm

That sounds loony tunes to me. While one can and should be sympathetic to someone's mental health problems, one doesn't need to have to put up with that sort of stuff (particularly if it's a new relationship - not family or long term spouse etc...) in their own lives. If this person is messed up to the point where they can barely function, then they probably aren't in the right state to be counseling others.

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Registered: 04-04-2003
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 1:02pm

Well speaking of "Physician Heal thyself"....Last week I watched a fascinating show about neuroplasticity http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/natureofthings/2008/brainchangesitself/

....and learned about this woman.

I looked her up to find out more.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/thelens/2008/fixingmybrain/

Fixing My Brain

Tuesday December 30, 2008 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
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Fixing My Brain

Fixing My Brain tells the dramatic story of Barbara Arrowsmith, a woman who fixed her own brain, and the journey of three learning-disabled boys who spent a year at her "brain bootcamp" in an effort to change the brain they were born with. The film examines the question: Are we stuck with the brains that we're born with, or is the brain a highly intelligent muscle, able to change itself through specific exercises?

Barbara Arrowsmith was born with a "broken brain". Although her brilliant memory had propelled her through a graduate degree, she still couldn't read a clock, tell right from left, or understand conversations in real time. Exhausted by the stress of hiding her weaknesses, she contemplated suicide. But she was ferociously determined to discover why her brain was "broken".

With extraordinary diligence, Barbara Arrowsmith fused several different strands of brain science and by using herself as a guinea pig - she fixed her own brain. Putting herself through a "brain boot camp" for twelve hours a day over many months, she used her self-created exercises to stimulate the weak areas of her brain and achieved extraordinary results. Finally, she was able to tell time, understand logic and understand conversations in real time. When Barbara tried to share her success with educators they branded her a charlatan - because at that time, (the late 1970s) people believed that the brain was hard-wired and the brain's abilities could not be changed. So Barbara opened her own school, Arrowsmith School, to help students with learning dysfunctions. Fixing My Brain also follows the courageous journey of three learning-disabled boys as they face the challenges of re-wiring their brains.

"Fixing My Brain challenges our preconceptions of who we are, how we learn and how we teach our children. It examines the exhilarating possibility that we truly can change our destiny by learning how to change the pathways of our brain," says award-winning writer and director Christina Pochmursky.

Barbara Arrowsmith's training system is still the only one of its kind in the world and her role as a visionary leader in education is only now being acknowledged.

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Thu, 12-04-2008 - 1:08pm
Alan KeyesAlan Keyes



The end of the constitutional republic?


Posted: December 04, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

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Registered: 11-20-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 1:14pm
At least we agree.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-05-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 1:46pm

"Statements like that are what make the 57 million of us wonder why the Obamamaniacs are so weird.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-03-2008
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 1:59pm

Are you sure he wasn't disbarred? You know lawyers can be disbarred.

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Registered: 03-30-2007
Thu, 12-04-2008 - 2:13pm

Maybe those groups will use all there money on law suits and we will never hear from them again.

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