Baby for Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes

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Many people wrote to me back in June, and were dying to know if Tom and Katie were genuinely affectionate for each other. Many of you were questioning if perhaps they were using each other for great movie advertising.

I posted about it here.

At that time, I said while their timing was perfect, I did believe they had genuine feelings (of perhaps lust?!) for each other. Their facial expressions were consistent with what they were saying and how they were acting.

If they were lying, there would have been physical clues and inconsistencies. I didn’t see any.

I did not believe they were putting on a fake show for advertising — though their timing, again, was perfect.

Now there is proof that these two did more than just mingle on the red carpet to sell their movies.

Did I score a point? 😉

You can vote here.

Are you game?

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As fall comes around the corner, and I am relegated inside again, I find myself asking myself what it is I would like to do — to keep me busy over the long winter months.

Do I want to go into coaching?

Do I want to continue to write my relationship book?

Should I focus on photography?

What do I want to do!

Over and over again, I find my fascination with lie detecting center and paramount on my mind.

Then I test myself again. I see a clip of someone on a show before they tell you the outcome. They say the person is suspected of murder — for 20 years — and within 20 seconds of seeing the accused talk about the situation with no exterior clues — I can tell my husband if they are honest with great accuracy.

And more surprising, and to my support, I am not consistently supporting the media’s call. Like in the last case, a guy was suspected of murdering his wife for 20 plus years. He was tried but not convicted. When I saw the guy talk in the first minute of the show (he talked for 10-20 seconds), I knew immediately the guy was innocent (without a DOUBT) — and that is what the story revealed. Thankfully, I missed the story lead for that story (my DVR cut it off) or I wouldn’t have been able to test myself! The true killer was revealed: BTK (48 Hours Saturday).

It’s been over a year now that I have tested myself. And I have hesitated to call only a handful of people during this year because I suspect they were pathological liars — the hardest to detect. They give me great pause — because either they lack normal emotional responses or they are just strangely honest. But 90% of the time, I hit them on the head. I call people long before anyone around me even has a clue.

It’s chilling at times.

My husband is always surprised — sometimes he freaks out a bit. He says he can’t see anything I see — and he is a bright man — a highly educated engineer. Even when I rewind and play things in slow motion – – if I don’t give him clues — he misses it. He only sees it when I give details explanations.

I have a unique gift, and I so want to bring it out and use it for the good. I just want to be able to do what I am the best at, to enjoy my life — and to help others. I always have fought against injustice. This would just be another way to do it.

Would you be interested to record video snippets of yourselves, upload them to the web — and test me for real?

If you would, I would write up some parameters that you would have to follow to make this a good test. I would make those public.

I’ll do anything right now to test myself without putting myself in a huge spotlight because a huge spotlight would get me all emotional, nervous — and then my lie-dar would fuzz over and freeze!

Are you game?

Lynndie England

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Dateline NBC had Lynndie England on last night. Did you see it?

As you may well know by now, she has been convicted of six counts of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. She is the infamous woman seen mocking naked men in photos.

While watching the interview, I was fascinated by Ms. England.

I personally don’t believe Lynndie when she says that she was forced or “asked by her boyfriend” to get into the pictures. I believe Lynndie invited the photos, even posed for them at will because she rather enjoyed her power and status in the prison — as sick as it was.

At one point during the interview with Stone Phillips, Ms. England squinted her eyes in disgust for a milli-second as she thought about Stone Phillips question. You could clearly see hatred in her eyes, yet she answered back to Stone Phillips in a soft, agreeable manner. I wish I could remember what the question was — I can’t. Her answer appeared to be a blatant lie — against her true feelings. Lynndie England was a staunch believer, if you want my opinion, in treating prisoners the way they were treated.

Lynndie England’s facial expressions were very inconsistent with her speech most of the time.

I did believe her however when she spoke about the higher ranking people within the military being well aware of the treatment. When she spoke about this, I believe she was telling the truth.

I concur that the low men on the totem pole took the fall for the higher-ups. In either case, however, Lynndie England knew her behavior was wrong — or at least should have

Lynndie England is an easy person to read. Did you find the lies easy to see?

Thomas Herrion

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While I am not into sports, and I had never heard of Thomas Herrion prior to his death, I do find his death interesting.

What I find interesting are the reports that are coming out about it. After an autopsy, the medical examiner is unable to find a cause of death. That would pretty much rule out an enlarged heart (stressed from being overweight), and a bunch of medical conditions — which can be gleaned from studying the physical body.

Yet oddly, Fox news and other news organizations are still saying that they wonder if Herrion’s weight played a part in his death. I find this to be deceptive and misleading. The medical examiner is waiting for toxicology reports (i.e. to see if drugs played a part in his death).

When you look at Thomas Herrion’s photos, he has the classical look of someone who used steroids. I have no clue whether the guy did or not, but I can guarantee you, if he did — you certainly won’t hear of it. I certainly have my suspicions.

Let me put it this way, the NFL doesn’t openly talk about steroids in situations like this. Just six months ago, Reggie White died very similarly, and they told everyone the cause of death wouldn’t be determined for oddly “four to six weeks” just as they are saying with Thomas Herrion.

Reggie White died eight months ago now, and we never heard the cause of his death, and we won’t hear the cause of death of Herrion either. I can pretty much bet on that one…

Just curious, if anyone finds the factual determined cause of death about Reggie White, and it seems plausible with toxicology reports, please let me know. I’d be shocked. In my search this morning, no news reports came up in late January or early February 2005 — four to six weeks after Reggie’s death. There were lots of speculative reports days after his death around Christmas time — but nothing after the medical examiner got his toxicology reports.

Hmmm……

Skin cancer: Getting the facts

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For the past ten to fifteen years, people in the medical field have been touting the seriousness of the sun, and skin cancers. Wear SPF, put on that sunscreen, they say. It could save your life.

Perhaps they are right, but I am still out in the jury room.

I don’t use sunscreen.

I refuse to douse myself in chemicals — dangerous chemicals we know little about. To me it is like borrowing money from Peter to pay Paul. Somewhere in that mess, I am going to pay. So instead of borrowing time, I choose to do what I know works — avoid the sun when I feel I am getting too much. Old wisdom.

I try to be cautious not to get too much sun for me. If I am out during the full sun of the day and I feel like I might be burning, I either seek the shade of a tree, or a don a hat or blouse. It’s that simple and no company makes a buck off of that logic! Plus, it’s totally safe.

Oddly enough, scientists just uncovered new data that even after all these years of sunscreen use, skin cancer is on the rise!

Go figure, we are nation that has become obsessed with sunscreen. I watch everyone slather it on. They do it in front of me, they talk about it — they even tell me about in their blogs. They are diligent people following medical guidelines.

You know it and I know it.

The study reveals:

A team of researchers led by Leslie J. Christenson of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., analyzed medical records of patients under the age of 40 in the state’s Olmsted County between 1976 and 2003. Specifically, they tracked the number of people afflicted with so-called nonmelanoma skin cancers, which include quamous cell carcinoma (SCC), as well as basal cell carcinoma (BCC), the most common form of skin cancer in the U.S. Over the study period, 485 patients were diagnosed with skin cancer. When the researchers controlled rates for age and sex, they found that between 1976 and 1979, the rate for BCC in women was 13.4 in 100,000. By 2000 to 2003, however, the occurrence had increased to 31.6. The rise for men was less dramatic, increasing from 22.9 in the 1970s to 26.7 after 2000.

Isn’t that interesting?

What has changed over the years?

Is it that women are nowing using sunscreen more than ever before in history?

That sounds logical to me.

The article instead deduces that perhaps young people are NOT heeding the message. Quite speculative that science is…wouldn’t you agree?

Among those young people — mostly women aren’t heeding the message.

Hello, women!

Look at your husband. Is he as obessive as you are when it comes to putting on sunscreen? Does he make sure the children are coated along with you? Or, is it you who worries??

Men haven’t been sold the bill of goods that SPF will reduce wrinkles because obviously they could care less about them. But as women we care — though most of us don’t know that our SPF doesn’t effectively block out the wrinkle-causing UVA rays. The best chemical agent responsible for that is banned in the U.S.

The marketing media targeted women and I’ll bet their message got across to women. Wouldn’t you? Heck, I’ve even bought the organic kind and stuffed it in my drawers just in case. That’s how strong the marketing message to buy was. It even inflicted a non-user like me!

Men, are you as obsessive as the woman in your life? Come on, be honest…this is science we are talking about!

I think not. I am confident you are not. I don’t even need to hear the answer, but honor me anyway. Please. Speak your mind for the benefit of others and myself…

So, what conclusion does this leave you? Are you getting the message that perhaps you aren’t heeding the warning — or perhaps the all-so-good-for-you potion might not be so good afterall?