BREAKING: U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan Under Attack
Not again...
"The United States consulate in Afghanistan is reportedly under attack, with multiple reports saying a car bomb was detonated outside the consulate in the city of Herat. According to the Associated Press, the governor of Herat province said militants were responsible for detonating the car bomb, which has so far injured seven civilians."
A gunbattle between militants and security forces in the area was still going on Friday morning.
Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, the governor of Herat province, says it’s unclear if any of the militants managed to get inside the compound.
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I have a civilian friend in Afghanistan. He says their base gets attacked several times every day.
Althouse had mention how Kerry sticks out his tongue when speaking.
In this short clip of the NY Times coverage of todays press conference between Kerry and the Russian Foreign Minister I counted Kerry stuck out his tongue over 20 times.
YouTube videos of the press conference are of a lower resolution. I cant quite make out Kerry's tongue action from those.
The NYT doesn't share most it videos for embedding. Meaning, I cant quite make the post I want out of this.
Oh shit. Did somebody post a new youtube video?
The Florida pastor didn't get to set the fire he wanted... so that couldn't have been it.
Here's the PBS NewsHour video of the press conference; it's higher resolution.
The story doesn't rate as big as the Boardwalk fire in New Jersey on CNN.
Looking up what it could mean when people stick out their tongue when speaking, I found it has something to do with the brain processing mechanisms.
From Reddit
Much of your brain is devoted to your tongue. It is a huge muscle, constantly moving, that has to keep out of the way of your teeth, help you swallow and avoid choking you. It’s covered with densely packed touch receptors that constantly update the mental map of the shape of your mouth. And your tongue is connected to the brain’s language centres so it often moves to partly form word shapes as you think. All this sends a huge stream of data to your brain. Sticking your tongue out or biting it, reduces its movement and cuts down on this torrent, which leaves more brain-power available to concentrate.
In this instance, Kerry's efforts at concentrating probably demand greater acuity, given the nature of the material he is being relied upon to present.
That material, what Kerry is being asked to say/sell/with feeling, goes contrary to everything we have ever known about him.
It's like Kerry's tongue/brain is being overtaxed.
I'm not saying he is lying. btw.
I'm saying that given who his boss is and how his boss got the job that in turn made it possible for him to become Secretary of State.
This is not supposed to be happening!.. to him.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahaha aaaaaah oh man. I couldn't recall the name. It took a few tries. [obama spokeswoman speech tongue mouth]
[anita dunn speech tongue mouth] and the first result is
ANITA IGUANA-TONGUE DUNN SPEAKS OF MAO WITH ...
Now I remember! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Simultaneous to her physical presence, which was as horrible as the words she tortured (and they were wretchedly tortured words expressing wretchedly denigrated perspectives), Dunn’s presentation was, indeed, awful.
Never have I seen a more reptilian individual as I see in Anita Dunn’s mannerisms and I use that term, “reptilian,” in a figurative sense, her abnormal mannerisms are serpentine, reptilian — in other words, quite disturbing, “not-human-like” in excess and abnormality. Dunn did not merely lick her lips on one or two occasions, she literally forced, insistently and continually, her tongue upon anyone in ear and eye-range.
Because any human using such body language (as Dunn was as recorded on this tape) is literally expressing lack of respect, low regard, for whoever it is they’re addressing. Dunn’s unruly tongue, then, is actually Dunn telling anyone and everyone (likely, the human race) that she doesn’t “like” them, that she has low regard or disdain for whoever it is to whom she’s aiming her words — regardless of what she (or anyone making such displays) says.
Jesus Christ, pour it on already whydontchya. No, do not hold back, come on, break it down further for us into little bitty bits.
I too am big on watching peoples' mouths. You know that whole signing thing really is mostly that. It's sort of the reverse of what the training is for, or rather, you train to attain the reverse. First letters, then words to eliminate spelling, but word based on letters, and then acting out to replace words, but acting based on the words, and then the specific spoken English word instead of the acting or pantomiming that contains words and contains letters, but mostly the focus is mouth with the rest occurring in periphery. So mouth it is. And it is not rude to stare straight at the mouth. It means you are paying attention. You know, back and forth between eyes and mouth. A lot of conversation goes, "okay, what was that you spelled again?" And then look directly at the hand and not at the mouth to pick up the key word, then back to the mouth. So I notice teeth and lips and tongue and facial muscles and expressions matching words, and spittle. But who doesn't?
But I think sometimes too it is other things. Dunn freaked me out. Medicine can do that. Exhaustion can do that. I've experienced seizures where something similar occurred with speech preceded, it's almost like being drunk because so much processing is involved with forming the sounds exhaustion does not allow nuance required to shape them in the mouth so just shut down and go to sleep.
Dunn was different, that looked like drugs to me, and I didn't see Kerry, he annoys me to much to do that. His pontificating is better in French, a full octave higher.
Gosh. On that same page of results: Why does Kerry flick his tongue like a snake? Man, people are as sensitive to odd mouths as I am. Huh. Go figure. People react to snake-tongue flickage.
Lip outlining is almost as bad. My advice to women is don't do that. That makes a cartoon of your lips. That's what cartoons are, color fields with outlining. All the Egyptian art that I've sold, the paintings, are cartoons, and the carvings start out as cartoons. Do not make your lips a cartoon.
Lem said...
Althouse had mention how Kerry sticks out his tongue when speaking.
Notice how the rest of his facial muscles and features are nearly immobile? Seems to me he's had some plastic surgery and serious Botox injections. It can impede pronunciation, and licking lips can be an attempt to compensate. In Kerry's case, his false vanity has caused him to look like a lizard when speaking.
I'm not saying he is lying. btw.
I AM saying Kerry is a liar, born and bred, just like his boss. They are a perfect match. Kerry's amount of rhetorical effusiveness is always the inverse of his knowledge and actual experience...the fact that he knows it makes him a liar.
BTW: the re-statement of Kerry' s infamous "Winter Soldier" remark was hardly first by Laurence or Rand. Every veteran of the Vietnam war thought it immediately if they heard Kerry's speech. The "last man" question was a real question once it became obvious, in late 1969, that we were withdrawing from Vietnam...Kerry co-opted it a couple years later as if he invented it.
Afghaniland US Consulate under attack? Pshaw, at this point, what difference does it make!?
It's not like facilities in Afghanistan aren't' attacked almost daily. Remember Camp Bastion last September? Taliban literally just walked on in and tore up the place, killing a couple US Marines in the process.
Say hey, we lost more materiel in that incident than in any since Vietnam. Shit, it is only money, right? An' a couple dead guys. Yassah! That there "surge" is workin'... them Talibanners iz "devasted."
Pay no attention to the explosions you hear ....
[kerry winter soldier]
Wikepedia [last man] xxxx
[kerry winter soldier last man]
oooooOOOOoooooo
Man, you guys are like historians.
Chip Ahoy said...
Man, you guys are like historians.
No one consults Wiki who was part of the action, Chip. Don't need to ... we really did discuss daily, from late 1969 forward, who would be the last man to die. If you weren't there you'd not know that and might need Wiki. BTW...Kerry was in RVN in early 1969 and no doubt heard it said by others back then.
The tongue sticking out and lip licking are all tells of a person who is lying and sometimes who may dislike the words that he/she is saying. The words American People probably leave a bad taste in Kerry's mouth since he hates the American People.
How to spot a liar.
As a part of my "sales training" (For a retail giant that I worked for, not in the investment business then) way back in the 1970's we were coached on what NOT to do when talking to prospects and to be acutely aware of what we were doing with our hands and facial tics. We were even filmed during various hypothetical 'sales' types of encounters and then critiqued our selves. It was amazing that even though you KNEW you shouldn't do certain things, you still were doing them. We repeated this process over and over until we had some better awareness and control.
It wasn't so that we could lie to prospects, it was so that we wouldn't inadvertently through being nervous or unprepared. This whole course was invaluable as a person who deals with other people, not just in managing myself but in being able to spot and be aware of what other people are non verbally communication.
Obama is a liar and a dick. So is Kerry.
Thanks for the link, DBQ. *sticks hands in pockets*
Another twist of the knife.
What have we done to make them so mad?!?!
The answer, I've got it! Submit. We must all submit post haste.
DBQ - I am watching an epi of Judge Judy right now and there is a defendant who is displaying many of the tells that your link listed - licking his lips, sucking his lips into his mouth, holding his hands right in front of himself, blinking excessively - text book liar.
Throw the book at him, Judy - you da judge!
Just saw a tease for an upcoming episode - Judy says to the lying defendant "Certain people, when they lie, their chest turns bright red".
The woman with the low cut dress then put her hand over her baboon-display.
Judy is the human lie detector.
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