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Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them." Ephesians 4:29
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Naughty words (Note: mucho foul language- of course)
What makes swear words so offensive? Its not their meaning or even their sound. Is language itself a red herring here?
"In 2012, The Sun newspaper reported that the British MP Andrew Mitchell, then a prominent member of the UK government, had called a group of police officers ****ing plebs. According to that story, the police thought about arresting him, but decided against it. In the wake of plebgate (as this incident has become known), several journalists pointed to a double standard: Mitchell managed to escape arrest, but among the rest of us, arrests for swearing at the police are far from unheard of. These arrests have happened under Section 5 of the Public Order Act. People arrested under Section 5 can be issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice, and convictions can result in a fine. Swearing, it seems, can be a big deal. But why?..
...swear words also share certain features in common, such as their focus on taboo topics like sex and defecation. They also, as we have noted, sound a certain way...
The quick and harsh sound of swear words plausibly adds drama to the gleeful thrill of taboo-breaking..."
https://aeon.co/essays/where-does-s...ail&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-834334372a-68895113
My mother asked my brother why he cursed. He said it made what he said "sound good"- like some kind of puncuation. :sheesh:
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Here's Why Your Social Security Benefits Didn't Go Up in 2016
And you thought low gas prices were a reason to celebrate.
"...The reason Social Security didn't get a cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2016 boils down to something known as the Consumer Price Index, or CPI, which measures price changes in consumer goods and services over time. Social Security benefits are supposed to keep up with inflation, so when the CPI indicates a rise in prices, a COLA is made to help beneficiaries maintain their purchasing power. On the other hand, when consumer prices stay flat, or actually go down, Social Security beneficiaries don't get a boost (although, on the bright side, benefits don't decrease).
But have prices really stayed constant (or dropped) for Social Security recipients? There's no question that your missing benefits boost may owe to unusually low fuel costs. Gas prices dropped nearly 30% in the 12-month period from which the most recent CPI data was obtained. The problem, however, is that fuel costs aren't your average retiree's greatest expense. For the most part, healthcare and housing costs trump any other expense during retirement, and without a benefits adjustment, many retirees are bound to have a difficult time keeping up.
To make matters worse, COLAs have already been falling short to begin with. A study by the Senior Citizens League concludes that seniors have lost about 31% of their purchasing power since 2000. And while living expenses for seniors have risen 84% over the past 15 years, COLAs have contributed to just a 41% rise in Social Security payments. The fact that 2016 saw no benefits increase only adds insult to injury.
How to compensate..."
http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...your-social-security-benefits-didnt-go-u.aspx
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Mystical Experiences Open a 'Door of Perception' in the Brain
"For Jordan Grafman, it was just a split-second vision.
"About 15 years ago, my mom died," Grafman told Live Science. "I was walking down the street to catch the bus at about 5 a.m., and I looked down the street and saw who I thought was my mom, although my mom had been dead for a week. I looked back, and whatever was there was gone."
That momentary flicker in perception intrigued Grafman, who is a cognitive neuroscientist and the director of brain injury research at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
"That, to me, was a mystical experience," Grafman said. "As a scientist who has seen something that, to me, seemed mystical, I'm interested in figuring out what happened to my brain."
Now, Grafman and his colleagues have pinpointed some of the brain processes that lead to such transcendent moments. It turns out, mystical experiences may stem from the brain letting go of inhibitions, opening a "door of perception," the researchers found..."
http://www.livescience.com/53652-brain-origins-of-mysticism-found.html
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Scientists just got some worrisome new information about the link between Zika and sex
"...Previously, experts assumed that cases of men infected with Zika passing the virus to healthy female partners via sex were very rare. A new investigation suggests this may be more common than previously assumed.
On Tuesday, the agency said they were investigating 14 possible cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus, several of which were in pregnant women. At least two women were confirmed as having the Zika infection after their only contact with the virus came from sexual contact with a male partner who had recently traveled to an area with Zika...
Although the virus is overwhelmingly transmitted by mosquitoes that pick up infected blood from one human and transfer the virus to another, cases of sexually transmitted Zika have been documented in the past...
The Zika virus is typically not dangerous to the average person: only about one in five people ever experience symptoms. However, its links to a birth defect called microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, make these reports of sexual transmission troubling for pregnant women.
For that reason, here are the CDC's guidelines on sexual transmission for pregnant women:
http://www.businessinsider.com/zika-and-sexual-transmission-link-is-getting-stronger-2016-2
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Brazilian claims title of world's oldest human at 131 years young
"The Ministry of Social Security in Brazil claims that the oldest man in the world lives in that country's remote state of Acre.
That title could soon officially belong to João Coelho de Souza who lives with a 62-year-old wife and a 16-year-old granddaughter in a village called Estirão do Alcantara, deep in the Amazon jungle near the border with Peru, a 30-minute boat ride from the nearest town of any size.
A government worker from Brazil's social security agency paid Coelho de Souza a visit and was shown a birth certificate saying that he was born on March 10, 1884 which would make him 131 years old in the city of Meruoca in Ceará, nearly 2,000 miles east of Acre and on the opposite end of the Amazon basin..."
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/li...ntcmp=ob_article_footer_text&intcmp=obnetwork
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I'm shocked!! NOT!! 
