Expression of the Day
All people are capable of making a “social smile”, which is an expression of emotion that isn’t genuinely rooted in true happy feelings, but is rather an expression of social pleasing. It’s a smile we put on for other people, when we don’t necessarily feel happy.
For example, someone may say to you “You look fabulous today” when you aren’t really feeling it. You know that smile you make at that point?
Yes, that is a social smile.
It’s actually very different from a smile you would make if I were tell you that you won the lottery and you believed me! Different facial muscles are activated in a genuine versus a social smile.
Some people have very balanced facial features and when they make a social smile, it can be very convincing that they are truly happy when, in fact, they are masking their true emotions.
Can you easily spot a social smile?
Is the girl above giving a genuine smile or a social smile?
E. Jean Carroll’s Accusations
E. Jean Carroll, in the video above, accuses our current president of the United States of rape in the mid-1990s.
I am not interested to open any political debate nor will I allow comments of any political nature on this subject. I will, however, disclose what I see when I watch Carroll talk.
Is she being truthful or lying when she accuses Donald Trump of rape?
I believe E. Jean Carroll is telling us the truth about what happened. Her story is credible, has several elements in it that support the truth and I do not see any hot spots that flag me.
Some people may find her presentation odd when she speaks. I suspect what people may pick up on without realizing it is Carroll’s face is somewhat frozen.
I suspect she may have had Botox. Not days ago, but a perhaps a week or more. There is some movement there, but much of her face is frozen.
Botox not only stops the muscles on our face from moving, but also mutes how we feel and display emotions. Did you know that? So you must consider this as a possibility.
Carroll is quite an eccentric personality, without a doubt. She really is one to push off difficult times and move past them. She isn’t one to give them a lot of thought and she refuses to play the victim. This is very clear in her interview.
This thought process fits with why the dress she wore was just ignored in her closet. I absolutely believe that is true.
Think about it? No.
Ignore it. Absolutely.
Let’s move forward seems to be her thinking!
Carroll doesn’t tell you what you want to hear — she throws out her feelings true as they are, and they are not conventional and she doesn’t care.
I believe E. Jean Carroll’s story without question.
“Best”, “Top” Doctor– Not So Fast!
Years ago articles online and in magazines started identify top doctors. Do you remember when it all started? It was a brilliant idea in concept. The premise was a logical one: a service interviewed doctors through surveys to find who among their peers they would send their family to in health situation, which doctors got top reviews by patients, and didn’t have malpractice issues, etc.
Who wouldn’t want to see that? Yes, of course, I was totally interested.
I quickly found out even back then when the lists came out that when I compared doctors in these “great” lists to patient reviews, they didn’t always jive, so I made sure to only pick those with top reviews on multiple sites from those lists. The first time I did that, I was rewarded with a top surgeon, hands down.
Fast forward a decade later, when I search for the best or top doctor, I am bombarded by not just one group doing this now, but many! Many websites claim they have identified the best doctor now.
How does that even make sense?
It absolutely doesn’t, and it’s a huge red flag something is up! You can’t have 10 different lists and have them all valid. And worse, it used to be five or ten doctors per health category. Now the lists are getting longer and longer. It’s raises my eyebrows high!
Logically you can guess these doctors draw in a lot of patients and a large revenue stream. Everyone will want to see them. So it would make sense these lists are lucrative. Very lucrative for doctors and the hospitals/healthcare systems they work for. It’s a gold mine!
So clearly there is a reason for this ideal premise to become corrupt, untrustworthy and flawed and when I dug, there is it! You can read about the homework others have done here and here. They explain it better than I could.
Furthermore, I have noticed two more jaw dropping elements in healthcare. These “top doctors” will take in patients, see them once and then push them off to other less popular, less liked colleagues to keep the revenue going.
I am just experiencing this firsthand right now. I saw a top doctor who billed me over $2.5K for a visit and blood tests (ridiculous!!!), only to suggest before our second visit, another doctor would be good to take over my care. And when I look at the other doctor, she has less experience, doesn’t even specialize in the area of care I am in need due to tests (which my current doctor does). It flat makes no sense except for the hospital to make more money and populate patients from their lucrative revenue stream to those who can’t drive it.
No thank you.
And last, hospitals and healthcare systems have wised up to the power of reviews. They are now controlling them on their own websites, which I have absolutely zero faith in. They can delete any negative review they get–it benefits them to do so!
So when I see reviews, if it comes from patients on a hospital website or a healthcare system, I refuse to even read them! I only trust third party reviews from patients on websites like healthgrades.com. And when you compare the hospital reviews to healthgrades, there are huge differences that should make you aware of what the truth is!
Tammy Lawrence-Daley
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Tammy Lawrence-Daley talks of a horrible ordeal of being attacked at a resort in the Dominican Republic earlier this year. When you see photos of her, you can have nothing but sympathy for her.
However, when I listen to her story, I have so many questions. More questions then I expect after seeing her photos. It makes me question, while she obviously was attacked, is the story she is telling us how it really happened?
The very first red flag for me is when Tammy smiles when she says she remembers that “grunt he made” when when she was attacked.
Why the happy thought here? It’s oddly out of place.
The reporter says that Tammy was pummeled, and she could feel the bones in her face crack and her teeth break, yet if you listen to her story she says she never saw his face.
This news report says he beat her for a TWO hours. That’s a long time to not see his face or have identifying information, don’t you think?
Did he beat her for two hours in an open area? Where did this take place that no one could see her or hear her? This is a resort. There are people everywhere in these places. Maybe not in a hallway for 10 minutes, but we are talking two hours!
After the beating and only then was she dragged into a “dank crawlspace”. I would assume no one ever goes into that crawlspace, but somehow her husband, not the hotel, found her?
What are the odds?
Also, notice there are no details of her husband’s search, how he felt, and how he found her? It’s all missing.
Worse, neither of the two have corroborating emotions to substantiate their story. Yes, she was beaten, but she shows no fear, sadness, terror — any negative emotion that would fit with a stranger beating like this. Instead, I see positive emotions when I least expect it.
Then she says, “All I could think of was my fath…my husband was going to find me dead.”
WHAT?
First why would you think of your father, unless your husband beat you?
And why would your husband find you dead if you were in a “dark” and “dank” crawlspace? Her father wasn’t even on this vacation from what they are reporting.
This doesn’t even fit with the story she is telling us!
The husband’s emotions don’t fit with this story, either.
And who is this maid?
If she was part of this, there is a chance she can’t speak out against the resort, so I will accept that is a possibility. But the nurse translated that she is safe??
Or does she mean she translated what the nurse said? If so, does Tammy speak Spanish? Otherwise that is bizarre, too!
Did the maid hear her whole story to know what happened to her to know she was safe?? Do you just tell random people they are safe when they are bloody. I wouldn’t.
I’m also very troubled with her “generic” statement, “It’s not safe for women to be alone.”
Wait a minute!!!!
If I was attacked at THIS resort and I knew there was an attacker on the lose THERE, I wouldn’t be telling women to be careful everywhere. I’d be specifically warning them THIS RESORT IS DANGEROUS until this man is found. But she ironically doesn’t do that.
That’s a lot of red flags for a very short story.
