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To: Wayners who wrote (67771)	11/5/2013 10:15:12 PM
From: greatplains_guy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wayners Respond to of 71588

Lobbyists get paid huge sums of money. Idiot voters give away their power based on watching a TV commercial and getting NOTHING for their valuable vote. The Lobbyists meanwhile just get one vote apiece. Technically voters do get something for their vote. They get the shaft and then they get the bill for the reckless policies of socialist wackos they elected.

To: Wayners who wrote (67771)	11/19/2013 11:14:19 PM
From: greatplains_guy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Wayners Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Study of 11,000 Children Shows No Correlation Between Video Games and Bad Behavior November 19, 2013 Any time a high-profile act of violence happens, some media pundits are quick to blame video games for influencing the perpetrators' actions. But results of a UK study says that such a link may not exist. Recent research from the University of Glasgow —aiming to chart just how consumption of video games and television changes the behaviors of young children—has found that a steady diet of video games doesn't result in significantly altered behavior. The University of Glasgow paper pulled data from Great Britain's massive, ten-year Millennium Cohort Study and looked at how "conduct problems, emotional symptoms, peer relationship problems, hyperactivity/inattention and prosocial behaviour" were changed with regard to how much television or video games a child engaged with. Found at: reason.com Source: Kotaku. Read full article. (http://kotaku.com/new-study-finds-that-video-games-arent-all-that-bad-f-1466961987)