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December 29, 2010

Conservatives' Brains Big On Fear, Low On Courage, Study Says
— Ace

I didn't even see this one when I posted the other one. So here's more science.

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions. At the same time, conservatives' brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate -- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.
If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals. And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario, while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.

Note how that last bit is put -- conservatives plan responsibly for the future, whereas liberals live for the moment and wind up living on others -- the ant and the grasshopper-- but rather than put it that way, they say that conservatives fear "worst-case scenarios" and liberals, eternal optimists, "tend towards rosier outlooks."

Oh, that stuff about "courage"? Um, yeah. Ask the troops.

Oh but I'm sure they are defining "courage" differently -- by "courage," they mean, in all likelihood, a willingness to sample other cultures. Not physical courage, of course.

Because, seriously? Yeah.

I Called It: This isn't 100% proof, but when I said they were probably using the word "courage" in the non-definitional manner of meaning "openness to new ideas"?

Yeah, based on this, I'm thinking that's the meaning of "courage" to a liberal.

The results, which will be published next year, back up a study that showed that some people were born with a "Liberal Gene" that makes people more likely to seek out less conventional political views.
The gene, a neurotransmitter in the brain called DRD4, could even be stimulated by the novelty value of radical opinions, claimed the researchers at the University of California.

If you're keeping track, socialism is now a 160 year old novelty of an idea.

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1 Bursting graphene condoms since 2010.

Posted by: Will Folks at December 29, 2010 12:46 PM (ayOSk)

2 If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals

Why I still remember when the Klan was burning black churches in Arkansas - and that's why you should vote the Republicans out of office.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 29, 2010 12:46 PM (7BU4a)

Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other "primitive" emotions.

Don't they mean "Primary" emotions?

Posted by: garrett at December 29, 2010 12:47 PM (ayOSk)

4 If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals

And these Republicans are like hostage takers. But since they were about to kill the victims I had to negotiate with them.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 29, 2010 12:47 PM (7BU4a)

5 If the study is confirmed, it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals

And make no mistake Tim McVeigh was listening to the same message Rush Limbaugh was putting out, and so we need to stop the hate.

Posted by: The State Media at December 29, 2010 12:48 PM (7BU4a)

6
We're like hairless chimps, really.

Hairless chimps with religion.

Hairless chimps and enough dexterity to use weapons.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:48 PM (uFokq)

7
I'm pretty sure we belong in a zoo.

Right, leftists? Right?

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:48 PM (uFokq)

8 "Primitive emotions," eh? That has to mean we're better at doing the Horizontal Mambo than the "rosier outlook" libs.

We're better at keeping those bigger Amygdalas in our damn pants in public, too

Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 29, 2010 12:49 PM (Ulu3i)

9 I find it quiet hilarious that a group that vilifies religious so (liberals) they have this almost religious devotion to science. Now I'm not saying science is a bad thing, but it is run by humans, and, like religion, has all of our human flaws spun into it. So, perhaps all the 'self-serving' religious figures that they so despise don't have too little in common with the unabashedly biased researchers who publish studies like this.

Posted by: BoozeGurl at December 29, 2010 12:49 PM (ghlLd)

10 Phrenology is back in style? Who knew!

Posted by: mongo78 at December 29, 2010 12:50 PM (2b46R)

11 Oh but I'm sure they are defining "courage" differently -- by "courage," they mean, in all likelihood, a willingness to sample other cultures. Not physical courage, of course.

BUSH IS HITLER MAN!

What am I going to do about it? I'm holding this sign man! What would I do if I was in Germany in 1938? I'd grab and AK-47 man and go off the dude. What? No I told you I'm holding this sign man. Oh yeah, and I'm gonna hold this paper mache head later.

BUSH IS HITLER MAN!

Posted by: Some Liberal at December 29, 2010 12:50 PM (7BU4a)

12 Oh, that stuff about "courage"? Um, yeah. Ask the troops.

Hey, the bravest man in the Army is PFC Manning! Thank Gaia we got rid of DADT so great men like him can serve openly.

Posted by: Some Liberal at December 29, 2010 12:51 PM (7BU4a)

13 Hairless chimps and enough dexterity to use weapons.

And make fire!

Posted by: The Bic Corporation at December 29, 2010 12:52 PM (yQWNf)

14 A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives' brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals.

Wasn't German science in the 30s obsessed with Jewish brains and how they were different?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2010 12:52 PM (7BU4a)

15
ah, the old "reptilian brain" nincompoopery

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:53 PM (uFokq)

16 Hey, if the troops were really brave they wouldn't have weapons. So there.

Posted by: Social Scientists Inc. at December 29, 2010 12:53 PM (1fB+3)

17 Liberals are just planning for a 'rosie outcome' where they won't have to fight....

Posted by: BoozeGurl at December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (ghlLd)

18
well, courage is announcing to the world you're gay, right?

and putting on a mask and throwing rocks at office buildings?

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (uFokq)

19 Why Ace, you seem downright suspicious of these scientific studies having certain biases. That cannot be true. The coming of Teh Won means that science has been restored to its proper place in the US.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (h0RtZ)

20
Courage is being a single-mom.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (uFokq)

21 Liberals are just planning for a 'rosie outcome' where they won't have to fight....

Posted by: BoozeGurl at December 29, 2010 04:54 PM (ghlLd)

Hey, I'm a mean tickler. Come here, oh, never mind.

Posted by: Eric Massa at December 29, 2010 12:54 PM (7BU4a)

22 Rosier outlook = Global Warming? Overpopulation? Food shortages? Heterosexual AIDS? Urban sprawl? Nuclear energy? DDT?

Conservatives want to fight terrorists and the liberals are afraid to. And the liberals in this country are afraid of the Tea Party!?

Hey "scientists", FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Dang at December 29, 2010 12:55 PM (TXKVh)

23 Courage is being a single-mom.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 04:54 PM (uFokq)

And making one dude. I totally thought she's call my 'rents man and get me thrown out of the basement.

Posted by: Some Brave Liberal at December 29, 2010 12:56 PM (7BU4a)

24 Courage is driving a Volt, to save the planet.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 29, 2010 12:56 PM (1fB+3)

25
Like I said, you're born a progressive just like you're born a homosexual.

Science.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:56 PM (uFokq)

26 Courage = Piss Christ

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (AlfIl)

Profiles in Courage :

Not speaking at your wife's funeral.

Posted by: John Edwards at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (ayOSk)

28 Conservatives want to fight terrorists and the liberals are afraid to. And the liberals in this country are afraid of the Tea Party!?

Hey "scientists", FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Dang at December 29, 2010 04:55 PM (TXKVh)

Hey it takes courage to endure a terrorist strike, especially if it happens real far away from me. A special kind of courage.

Posted by: Brave Liberal at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (z1N6a)

29
Yes, courage = open-mindedness.
The Progressives are all about "challenging the social constructs [of Western society].

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (uFokq)

30 Courage is getting that 3rd abortion.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (1fB+3)

31 Another bunch of pin-head "intellectuals" throwing a hissy fit since their side (liberals) are losing. All. Around, The. Fucking. Planet.

Posted by: Dang at December 29, 2010 12:57 PM (TXKVh)

32 Courage is being different man - but only in exactly the same way the people you watch on TV and hang out with are different.

Because like, not getting it, means you are a loser n'stuff.

Posted by: Some Brave Liberal at December 29, 2010 12:58 PM (7BU4a)

33 Courage is driving a Smart Car.I mean,seriously,have you seen that thing?

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 12:58 PM (AlfIl)

34 I find it quiet hilarious that a group that vilifies religious so (liberals) they have this almost religious devotion to science. Now I'm not saying science is a bad thing, but it is run by humans, and, like religion, has all of our human flaws spun into it. So, perhaps all the 'self-serving' religious figures that they so despise don't have too little in common with the unabashedly biased researchers who publish studies like this.

Posted by: BoozeGurl at December 29, 2010 04:49 PM (ghlLd)

They aren't so devoted to it when it tells them something they'd rather not hear.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 12:59 PM (z1N6a)

Courage:

Doing the videographer and knocking her up while the old lady is dying from cancer.

Posted by: Silky Pony at December 29, 2010 12:59 PM (yQWNf)

36 The Progressives are all about "challenging the social constructs [of Western society].

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 04:57 PM (uFokq)

So, if I start calling for denying women drivers licenses, am I brave and open minded or a weak minded patriarchal pig?

Tough to keep this stuff straight nowadays.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2010 12:59 PM (7BU4a)

Courage is facing your friends father's death.

In Madrid.

With 50 of your closest friends.

At a Five-Star Resort.

On the Tax-Payer's dime.

Posted by: Michelle Obama at December 29, 2010 01:00 PM (ayOSk)

So, if I start calling for denying women drivers licenses, am I brave and open minded or a weak minded patriarchal pig?

Tough to keep this stuff straight nowadays.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2010 04:59 PM (7BU4a)

It depends if you are a threat to saw their heads off if they oppose you.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 01:00 PM (z1N6a)

39 Liberal "science" it becoming increasingly reminiscent of Nazi and Soviet "science," that treated dissent as either the product of inferior genes, or psychological problems. These people are unhinged and dangerous.

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 29, 2010 01:00 PM (tJjm/)

40 Courage = listening to World Music and eating bean curd.

Hey, librard. Why don't you turn that shit down and suck me off before you start gettin' all gassy.

Posted by: Dang at December 29, 2010 01:00 PM (TXKVh)

41
You guys remember the old cartoon Happiness Is...?

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:00 PM (uFokq)

42 Courage: Creating art that challenges oppressive religion.

No, not THAT religion, they'll kill me!

Posted by: NEA Grant Recipient at December 29, 2010 01:01 PM (Oz4Bj)

43 There's nothing to be afraid of. They were right. It's painless. It's good. Come. Sleep.

Posted by: Mobypods at December 29, 2010 01:01 PM (Z5be2)

44 Multiple Studies Confirm: Liberals More Susceptible to Self-flattery Disguised as Science than Conservatives.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:01 PM (HzhBE)

45 So a little time on Wiki and what do I learn? Amygdalas aren't in charge of fear in general. They are in charge of learned emotions esp. learned fear: Fear that you have because the last time you identified the particular sensory pattern you're currently experiencing bad things happened.

Which attributes to "worst case planning" If you plan for the worst and the best happens, no harm done. If you plan for the best and the worst happens, well you are likely to be afraid (cautious) of the possibility of worst case scenarios in the future.

In hick land we have a special name for learned caution/fear that pushes you toward less risky action; Common sense.

So the spin here is substantial. Being able to get burned several times by a stove before your noggin manages to broadcast some caution around hot things is not an attribute one would normally be proud of.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose© at December 29, 2010 01:01 PM (0q2P7)

46 I'm still relevant, dammit!

Posted by: Karl Marx at December 29, 2010 01:01 PM (S5YRY)

47 Courage: Creating art that challenges oppressive religion.

No, not THAT religion, they'll kill me!

Posted by: NEA Grant Recipient at December 29, 2010 05:01 PM (Oz4Bj)

'Oppressive Religion' = Christers. You know that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 01:02 PM (z1N6a)

Courage?

First guy to eat a raw Oyster.

Posted by: George Carlin at December 29, 2010 01:02 PM (ayOSk)

49
Courage is...being a whistleblower at the Pentagon.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:02 PM (uFokq)

50 Courage - telling her to put some ice on it. I mean hell, didn't you see Extremities?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 29, 2010 01:02 PM (7BU4a)

51 Well, I guess the science is settled...I'm a cowardly pussy. And I had such high hopes for myself.

Hard to imagine that Ted Kennedy was so much more courageous than me but hey, Science says so. Although I suppose I would never be brave enough to face the country on national TV the day after I left someone to die alone in a river, so I guess, in a way, Ted really was a courageous inspiration to all.

Posted by: 4thGenerationBuck at December 29, 2010 01:02 PM (AtjNL)

52 So the spin here is substantial. Being able to get burned several times by a stove before your noggin manages to broadcast some caution around hot things is not an attribute one would normally be proud of.

Posted by: MikeTheMooseÂ© at December 29, 2010 05:01 PM (0q2P7)

What if the burner has been oppressed by the patriarchy all its life? Then what?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (z1N6a)

53 Courage is not joining the military.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (1fB+3)

54 I thought a larger amygdala led to having a more active social life, and meant you were a liberal?

Damn. I just can't keep this stuff straight!

Posted by: Dianna at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (mKMj1)

55 Multiple Studies Confirm: Liberals More Susceptible to Self-flattery Disguised as Science than Conservatives.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 05:01 PM (HzhBE)

What the hell are you talking about? I have a wife for God's sake - isn't anything sacred anymore? Do I look blind to you?!?

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (7BU4a)

56 Courage is standing up and telling those filthy Jews to go back to Poland!

Posted by: Helen Thomas at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (ayOSk)

57 Courage = exposing government icompetence,but only when Republicans are in power.(see the pilot-TSA case etc.)

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (AlfIl)

Liberals are courageous enough to spend your money for you.

And tell you how to live.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:03 PM (HzhBE)

59

Courage is...paroling a recidivist in prison serving Three Life Sentences so he can rob a department store and kill a police officer the day after Christmas.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:04 PM (uFokq)

60 The gene, a neurotransmitter in the brain called DRD4, could even be stimulated by the novelty value of radical opinions....

In other words, the primary stimulus for the "liberal mind" is: Ooooh, shiny!

Posted by: MrScribbler© at December 29, 2010 01:04 PM (Ulu3i)

61
Courage is...

banning Happy Meals.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:04 PM (uFokq)

62 Courage.

Posted by: Dan Rather at December 29, 2010 01:04 PM (Z5be2)

63 CONSERVATIVES PLAY ON OUR FEARS !!!

Now, hand over more of your money or we're all gonna die!

Posted by: Algore, god of thunder at December 29, 2010 01:04 PM (vdfwz)

64 One wonders how long these people who do "studies" would last if they did not get paid by the government.

Posted by: Vic at December 29, 2010 01:05 PM (M9Ie6)

65 51 He dove in "multiple times" trying to free her before he left her to die.Courage.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:05 PM (AlfIl)

Taking peoples' money to give to other people. I love it. What do you call it?

Posted by: A Tiny-Amygdala Libtard Who's Totally Open To Novel Ideas at December 29, 2010 01:05 PM (QKKT0)

67
Courage is...banning students from wearing t-shirts with the American flag on it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:05 PM (uFokq)

68 Courage: Creating art that challenges oppressive religion.

No, not THAT religion, they'll kill me!

Posted by: NEA Grant Recipient at December 29, 2010 05:01 PM (Oz4Bj)

'Oppressive Religion' = Christers. You know that.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 05:02 PM (z1N6a)

Well, yeah, man. They, like, frown and stuff when I pay for my one-night-stand's second abortion... just like dad.

Posted by: NEA Grant Recipient at December 29, 2010 01:05 PM (Oz4Bj)

69 One wonders how long these people who do "studies" would last if they did not get paid by the government.

Posted by: Vic at December 29, 2010 05:05 PM (M9Ie6)

Nine out of ten dentists surveyed chose sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 01:06 PM (z1N6a)

70 The military gets all the recruits it needs from the blue states.

Posted by: MarkD at December 29, 2010 01:06 PM (0Jy1K)

71 Courage isn't hiding behind a missile launcher, it's hijacking a plane and flying it into the WTC.

Posted by: argument Bill Maher actually made at December 29, 2010 01:06 PM (Z5be2)

72 Courage is standing up to those Christian would-be theocrats because you know they won't cut off your head.

Posted by: Cicero at December 29, 2010 01:06 PM (QKKT0)

Study: Liberals Courageous Enough to Profess Superior Charitable Impulses While Never Actually Giving to Charity

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:07 PM (HzhBE)

74
Courage is...

throwing a pie at Ann Coulter...and missing.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 01:07 PM (uFokq)

75 Courage is encouraging diversity.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:07 PM (AlfIl)

76 Courage is not bathing and living in a tree for Gaia.

Posted by: The Hippies at December 29, 2010 01:07 PM (1fB+3)

77 Courage is taking it from poz guys bareback.

Posted by: RAWMUSCLEGLUTES at December 29, 2010 01:08 PM (Z5be2)

78 How about that Courageous Restraint Award to the soldier who held his fire because he was more concerned with the safety of civilians than killing the enemy.

Of course he's got the courage of knowing that he's not the one who has to write the letters to the families of the members in his unit killed due to his courage not to shoot

Posted by: Lefty Who is Braver than You at December 29, 2010 01:08 PM (vdfwz)

79 Courage: Making retard jokes about Sarah Palin's baby.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:08 PM (HzhBE)

80 Courage: Aborting inconvenient fetus-things.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:08 PM (HzhBE)

81 Courage is encouraging diversity.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 05:07 PM (AlfIl)

Only the right kind of diversity. A conservative on TV is still out of the question.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2010 01:08 PM (z1N6a)

Courage: Wearing a Che shirt while blogging from Starbucks.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:10 PM (HzhBE)

83 I am the most courageous person in the blogosphere! Suck on that, moonbats!

Posted by: Carels Junzin at December 29, 2010 01:10 PM (zgZzy)

84 Courage is disarming yourself while your enemies arm themselves.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:10 PM (AlfIl)

85 Courage is... overrated.

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 29, 2010 01:10 PM (Z5be2)

86 Now we know where Jeanine Gaskankalo gets her shitty science material.

All this proves is what we already knew:

A liberal will stick it's dick in anything, anywhere.

Posted by: sifty at December 29, 2010 01:10 PM (kAyNL)

Now I know how homo erectus felt when the first homo sapiens showed at the cave. And it doesn't feel good.

Posted by: Cicero at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (QKKT0)

88 Courage: Voting for a Marxist affirmative action dipshit with no track record of accomplishment to prove that you're cool with black people.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (HzhBE)

89 Phrenology: now in double-helix!

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (TpXEI)

90 Courage is not offending Muslims.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (1fB+3)

91 Courage is praising an NFL felon quarterback weeks after he started playing well.

Posted by: Some Mediocre U.S. President at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (zgZzy)

92 Courage is keying every car I see with a conservative bumper sticker.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (kAyNL)

93 Courage is taking guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens and leaving all the firepower to criminals.

Posted by: nohammernosickl at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (Z/zYN)

94
Courage is...putting a Save Darfur sticker on your Mac notebook lid so everyone can see you 'care' when you use your computer in public.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:11 PM (uFokq)

95 as far as the
anterior cingulate
I see nothing in the Wiki write up to suggest that it has anything to do with "courage" which I define as the ability to act despite fear of consequences. At best it may be described as a major regulator of "self confidence". Liberals full of "I think me can do anything"? That might be news somewhere.

But after all, if the headline says.

Conservatives more likely to be cautious when experience dictates situational risks.

Liberals more likely to believe they can accomplish anything regardless of situation or actual qualification.

Just doesn't sell the narrative.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose© at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (0q2P7)

96 Courage is spitting on the troops.

Posted by: Cindy She-hag at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (zgZzy)

97 I'm a brave liberal. I'm not afraid of zen mediating...but I am afraid of Global Warming.

I'm not afraid to read Marx...IN PUBLIC!...but I am afraid of Glenn Beck - I mean that dude looks mean!

I'm not afraid to listen to rap music...but I am afraid that somewhere, someone might be reading a web page that is WRONG.

I'm not afraid of making fun of any religion!...well except the one that people stereotype...WRONGLY...as violent.

I'm not afraid of eating sushimi or cous cous - but I am afraid of a Big Mac...did you hear those things won't even rot?!?

I'm not afraid of dying...not at all. Join the military? Live in the inner city? Smoke? ARE YOU F'ING CRAZY?

That's right I'm a brave liberal. And I'm not to humble to say you wingnuts could learn a think or two from me if you opened your minds. Don't you people even watch John Stewart?

Posted by: Some Brave Liberal at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (7BU4a)

98 Courage: Flying a Free Tibet bumper sticker on your Prius.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (HzhBE)

99 Courage: Being concerned.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (HzhBE)

100

If you're keeping track, socialism is now a 160 year old novelty of an idea.

With only a few days left in 2010 that there might be the line of the year at Ace of Spades HQ.

Posted by: Booyah at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (yFU0t)

101 94 Hey we did that!!!!

Posted by: The UK at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (AlfIl)

102 Courage is buying only fair trade coffee at Starbucks.

Posted by: Cicero at December 29, 2010 01:12 PM (QKKT0)

103 Courage is lying about Cuba's health system.

Posted by: Some Fat Director at December 29, 2010 01:13 PM (zgZzy)

104 Courage is not caring how I smell.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:13 PM (kAyNL)

105 Courage is encouraging diversity.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 05:07 PM

As long as "They" don't live in my neighborhood or frequent the Starbucks I spend money at.

Posted by: University Social Science Professor at December 29, 2010 01:13 PM (yQWNf)

106

Now I know how homo erectus felt when the first homo sapiens showed at the cave.

Posted by: Cicero at December 29, 2010 05:11 PM (QKKT0)

Aroused?

Posted by: Some Andeman Island Native 30,000 years ago at December 29, 2010 01:13 PM (7BU4a)

107 Courage: Making your 8 year old student cry by scolding her for having a daddy who serves his country overseas.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (HzhBE)

108 Courage is one crazy night with Pat Caddell. And there will be "sex by surprise".

Posted by: Pat Caddell at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (1fB+3)

109 Courage is ripping America . . . from France.

Posted by: Some "Actress" Named Gwynneth at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (zgZzy)

110 The courage to admit that a rat or an ape is the same as a boy.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (AlfIl)

111

Courage: Threatening to move overseas if George Bush is reelected. Then not.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (HzhBE)

112
and, of course, the big one:

Courage is..being born a minority.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:14 PM (uFokq)

113 Courage is supporting a convicted cop-killer.

Posted by: Ed Asner at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (zgZzy)

114 Courage: Biting off someone's finger over a political dispute.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (HzhBE)

115 Courage: Flying a Free Tibet bumper sticker on your Prius.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 05:12 PM (HzhBE)

While calling for stricter environmental laws that push jobs to China.

Posted by: Duh at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (7BU4a)

116 Courage is F-bombing your young girl over the phone.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (zgZzy)

117 Courage is backing whatever enemy America is at war with.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (kAyNL)

118 Courage: Touting Cuba's health care system as superior to America's, but never daring to actually visit their hospitals when you're ill.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (HzhBE)

119 Courage is fighting on the Northern Front during the Vietnam War...in Canada.

Posted by: robtr at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (hVDig)

120
She's black.

Howwwwwww courageous she must be!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:15 PM (uFokq)

121 Courage is admitting that humanity is a scourge upon the earth.

Posted by: steevy at December 29, 2010 01:16 PM (AlfIl)

122 Courage is cheating to win elections!

Posted by: Every Union In America at December 29, 2010 01:16 PM (zgZzy)

123 Courage: Deeming words you disagree with as "hate speech" so you dare not be forced to defend your arguments.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:16 PM (HzhBE)

124

I got a bigger amygdalas?

Bonus.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 29, 2010 01:16 PM (WvXvd)

125

Courage is glad-handing the GZM developers . . . behind the scenes.

Posted by: Mike Bloomberg at December 29, 2010 01:16 PM (zgZzy)

126 Courage: Boycotting Dancing with the Stars because of that goddamned fatassed Palin slut!!!!!!!

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:17 PM (HzhBE)

127 The courage to admit that a rat or an ape is the same as a boy.

I like the cut of your jib.

Posted by: Peter Singer, balls deep in a cow at December 29, 2010 01:17 PM (Z5be2)

128 Courage is blaming Whitey for all of your problems.

Posted by: Al Sharpton at December 29, 2010 01:17 PM (zgZzy)

129 Courage is buying kids in exotic countries and letting kids in Appalachia starve. Because white kids are not as fun to collect.

Posted by: Hollywood Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:17 PM (kAyNL)

130
Courage is...

bringing your own re-usable bag to the supermarket.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:17 PM (uFokq)

131 Courage : Dissent, unless a Dem is in office.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 29, 2010 01:18 PM (1fB+3)

132

Courage? Trying out deviant sexual practices.

Not courage? Charging San Juan hill.

Posted by: Frearless lefty at December 29, 2010 01:18 PM (1Rgee)

133 Y'know, I just watched "Ariel," and as I recall, the amygdala was the part of River Tam's brain that the Alliance screwed with, specifically by removing it.

Not really on topic, but hey, Firefly tie-in!

Posted by: shillelagh at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (Oz4Bj)

134 Courage is going upstairs to bed.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (ayOSk)

135 Treason is the highest form of patriotism. Because I said so.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (kAyNL)

136 Courage is whining about your salary.

Posted by: Public school teacher in the middle of a 14-day break at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (Z5be2)

137 Courage is rallying against guns, then hiding behind your well-armed bodyguard.

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (zgZzy)

138 The results, which will be published next year, back up a study that showed that some people were born with a "Liberal Gene" that makes people more likely to seek out less conventional rational political views.

FTFY

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (7BU4a)

139 Courage is not releasing your College Transcripts or Long-Form Birth Certificate.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 29, 2010 01:19 PM (ayOSk)

140 Courage is never, ever trimming your bush.

Posted by: Joy Behar at December 29, 2010 01:20 PM (zgZzy)

141 Courage: Using a stranger's prostate as a punching bag at a rest stop.

Cowardice: Going to church.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:20 PM (kAyNL)

142 Courage is never, ever trimming your bush.

Posted by: Joy Behar at December 29, 2010 05:20 PM (zgZzy)

Stay out da bushes!

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at December 29, 2010 01:20 PM (7BU4a)

143 Courage is golfing 24/7.

Posted by: The Prez at December 29, 2010 01:20 PM (1fB+3)

144 Courage is scrawling "FED" across your chest and trying to frame teabaggers for your suicide.

Posted by: Bill Sparkman at December 29, 2010 01:20 PM (Z5be2)

145 Dumb
Retarded
Douchebag
4

I like it.

Posted by: Sponge © at December 29, 2010 01:21 PM (UK9cE)

146 Courage : Opening the Closet.

Posted by: John Carradine at December 29, 2010 01:21 PM (ayOSk)

147 Courage is destroying a country with a fountain pen.

Posted by: Preznit Betabama at December 29, 2010 01:21 PM (kAyNL)

148

It is the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the Soldier, not the poet
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us freedom to protest.

It is the Soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the Soldier, not the politician
Who has given us the right to vote.

It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:22 PM (uFokq)

149 Courage : Building a Victory Mosque at Ground Zero

Posted by: Imam Rauf Feisal at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (ayOSk)

150 Courage is changing ideologies when the Democrats take office.

Posted by: Charles Johnson at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (zgZzy)

151

Courage: Giving Hollywood awards to convicted rapists of teenage girls.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (HzhBE)

152 Courage is rocking a Hitler 'stache.

Posted by: Michael Jordan at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (Z5be2)

153 Courage is changing ideologies to stay in office.

Posted by: Arlenh Specter at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (zgZzy)

154 Courage: Manipulating global warming data to make it fit your conclusions.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:23 PM (HzhBE)

155 Posted by: MikeTheMooseÂ© at December 29, 2010 05:01 PM (0q2P7)

So what you're saying is that they're defining "courage" as "stupid enough to touch the hot iron a second (and third, and fourth) time?"

Consider me a coward.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:24 PM (8y9MW)

156 Courage is scrawling "FED" across your chest and trying to frame teabaggers for your suicide.

Posted by: Bill Sparkman at December 29, 2010 05:20 PM (Z5be2)

I still believe man!

And fire can't melt steel!!!

Posted by: Your Average Liberal at December 29, 2010 01:24 PM (7BU4a)

157 Courage is throwing red paint on little old ladies.

Posted by: PETA at December 29, 2010 01:24 PM (S5YRY)

158

Courage: Giving Hollywood awards to convicted rapists of teenage girls.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 05:23 PM (HzhBE)

Sniff...when do I get me award? And my 13 year old?

Posted by: Scott Ritter at December 29, 2010 01:24 PM (7BU4a)

159 Courage is getting that 3rd abortion.

Nah, courage is the first one. The rest is just old hat.

Posted by: Sponge © at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (UK9cE)

160 Courage : Saying,"You're wearing me!", to a chick who just awoke to find you raping her.

Posted by: Julian Assage at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (ayOSk)

161 Yep, Stalin had his political opponents declared mentally unfit for his society, too...

Posted by: davidr at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (oMahn)

162 Courage is throwing rocks at the cops and breaking windows while hiding your face with a black bandana. Then having daddy's lawyer get you out of jail.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (kAyNL)

163 Courage is helping the Nazis round up your neighbors.

Posted by: George Soros at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (Z5be2)

164 "The gene, a neurotransmitter in the brain called DRD4, could even be stimulated by the novelty value of radical opinions, claimed the researchers at the University of California."

This makes no sense. They could not possibly have "stimulated a gene" via opinions. Unless the opinion was inserted via protein carrier. Either poor reporting or invalid science in play. Or, more likely, both.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 29, 2010 01:25 PM (swuwV)

165 Courage is not ordering snow removal . . . except for your block.

Posted by: Mikey Bloomberg at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (zgZzy)

166 Courage is supporting policies that have proven to be failures everywhere they have been tried. Courage is engaging in systematic voter fraud because it's the only way your policies can be enacted.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (TMB3S)

167 Courage is not meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. Unless they are Israel.

Posted by: Barack Obama at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (ayOSk)

168
Courage is...working at the State Department and refusing to take an assignment in Iraq.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (uFokq)

169 Courage is getting that 3rd abortion.

Nah, courage is the first one. The rest is just old hat.

Courage is doing it on Twitter. Scoreboard, bitches.

Posted by: Angie Jackson at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (Z5be2)

170 Courage is lying to an entire planet in order to make myself a billionaire.

Posted by: Algore the Chakra Queen at December 29, 2010 01:26 PM (kAyNL)

171 Courage is screwing your loyal conservative listeners by dumping Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck in favor of moderate douchebags like Michael Smerconish.

Posted by: 1210AM, Philadelphia - As Of January 3rd at December 29, 2010 01:27 PM (zgZzy)

172 Courage is swimming for help after an unfortunate accident and wondering first and foremost how it would effect your up and coming career in politics.

Posted by: Zombie Fat Teddy at December 29, 2010 01:27 PM (yQWNf)

173

So, if there is indeed a "liberal gene" as well as a "gay gene" I suppose nobody will mind if/when it becomes possible to eliminate them through genetic modification, right? Better living through science.

Posted by: Purity Of Essence at December 29, 2010 01:27 PM (P1vpT)

174

Hmm, sounds like these assholes are trying to justify calling all conservatives Nazi racists.

I have met a lot of liberals, being a musician, so I am really not shy to say that most of them have been emotional basketcases and greedy assholes to boot, and actually quite conservative and scared of radical ideas, such as liberty and freedom...

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz at December 29, 2010 01:28 PM (tcSZb)

175
Courage is...shooting your television with a shotgun because Bristol Palin was winning Dancing With the Stars.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:28 PM (uFokq)

176 Courage is destroying the family unit.

Posted by: Welfare at December 29, 2010 01:28 PM (kAyNL)

177 Courage is sending pics of my junk to a woman, harassing her through texts, and getting away with it.

Posted by: Brett Favre at December 29, 2010 01:28 PM (zgZzy)

178
Courage is...holding hostages at the Discovery Channel at gunpoint until they broadcast the shows you want.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:29 PM (uFokq)

179 Courage is giving Brett Favre a slap on the wrist for sexual harassment.

Posted by: The NFL at December 29, 2010 01:29 PM (zgZzy)

180 Courage is just another word for arugula.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 01:30 PM (TMB3S)

181 Courage is telling your audience that a Republican congressman had advance warning of the OKC bombing even if he didn't.

Posted by: Rachel Maddow at December 29, 2010 01:30 PM (Z5be2)

182
Courage is...the politics of personal destruction.

Vetting Joe the Plumber, destroying George Allen, and ruining the name of a sitting president.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:30 PM (uFokq)

183 Courage is letting everyone within a mile of you know that you are vegan, when not one person gives a shit.

And then being first in line for pulled pork at Sifty's on Sunday.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:31 PM (kAyNL)

184 Courage is raising your bastard Grandchild.

Posted by: Madelyn Dunham at December 29, 2010 01:31 PM (stXoE)

185 Courage is attacking Christianity because Christians don't fight back.

Posted by: Every Liberal Artist at December 29, 2010 01:31 PM (zgZzy)

186 @187 - No, I gotta say- that one can be admirable. Depends on the circumstances.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:32 PM (8y9MW)

187

What the hell is the Jim Bohannon radio show?

Per Wiki this guy 'leans towards moderate and/or slightly conservative' but is a registered Dem. Okey dokey.....

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 29, 2010 01:32 PM (pLTLS)

188 Courage is Dennis Kucinich.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 01:32 PM (TMB3S)

189 Courage is attacking Chris Christie for trying to fix your mismanaged state.

Posted by: New Jersey School Teachers at December 29, 2010 01:32 PM (zgZzy)

190 Courage is taunting kids with Down Syndrome.

Posted by: Seth MacFartlane at December 29, 2010 01:32 PM (kAyNL)

191 Courage is seeing a UFO.

Posted by: Dennis Kucinich at December 29, 2010 01:33 PM (zgZzy)

192

- No, I gotta say- that one can be admirable. Depends on the circumstances.

...even if you are a 'typical white racist'?

Posted by: Madelyn Dunham at December 29, 2010 01:33 PM (stXoE)

193 This study was done in London.

Do they even have conservatives in England?

Posted by: Y-not at December 29, 2010 01:33 PM (IDL9N)

194 let's see if this link wants to work.....

Posted by: laceyunderalls at December 29, 2010 01:34 PM (pLTLS)

195 Courage is "peace with honor"

Posted by: neville chamberlain at December 29, 2010 01:34 PM (W3XUk)

196 Courage is killing innocent civilians.

Posted by: Radical Islamists at December 29, 2010 01:34 PM (zgZzy)

197 Courage is saving a whale in the morning and then aborting a baby in the afternoon.

Posted by: Liberal Feminist Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:34 PM (kAyNL)

198 Courage is Admirable Restraint

Posted by: Obama Administration at December 29, 2010 01:35 PM (stXoE)

199 164 Yep, Stalin had his political opponents declared mentally unfit for his society, too... Posted by: davidr

No, he didn't. They usually were called upon to humiliate themselves a few times, then shot.

Posted by: Dianna at December 29, 2010 01:35 PM (mKMj1)

200 Courage is dodging the draft.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:35 PM (kAyNL)

201 Courage is not touching yourself.

Posted by: Christine O'Donnel at December 29, 2010 01:36 PM (stXoE)

202 I fear that this study is full of shit.

Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at December 29, 2010 01:36 PM (epBek)

203 Courage is lobbying for fairness in radio after your stations go bankrupt.

Posted by: Al Franken at December 29, 2010 01:36 PM (zgZzy)

204 Courage is using forgeries to make a difference.

Posted by: dan rather at December 29, 2010 01:37 PM (S5YRY)

205 Courage is strapping a suicide vest to yourself, putting on a Burka and blowing yourself up at a border crossing.

Posted by: Hamas at December 29, 2010 01:38 PM (stXoE)

206

Courage is telling off your boss . . . and keeping your job.

Posted by: Queef Olberdouche at December 29, 2010 01:38 PM (zgZzy)

207 Courage is drinking from the Red River.

Posted by: Mohammed at December 29, 2010 01:38 PM (stXoE)

208
Courage is...

releasing the Lockerbee bomber because he told you he had terminal cancer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:39 PM (uFokq)

209 everyone has done a great job explaining what courage is, but what is cowardice?

Posted by: twig at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (w9N0m)

210 Courage is sodomizing a 13 year old girl, after giving her drugs and alcohol.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (TXKVh)

211 So, these abnormal structures in the liberal brain. Are those a congenital defect or something environmental?

Posted by: Heorot at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (guw8f)

212 Courage is fucking your dad. While on drugs. Repeatedly.

Posted by: Mackenzie Phillips at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (TXKVh)

213 Courage is setting up Sarah Palin with stupid questions.

Posted by: Katie Couric at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (zgZzy)

214 Courage is fucking your daughter. While on drugs. Repeatedly.

Posted by: John (The Mamas and the Papas) Phillips at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (TXKVh)

215 So, Liberals lack the proper brain structures to learn well from experience. We know, we count on it.

Posted by: Stalin, Mao, Castro, the whole gang at December 29, 2010 01:40 PM (ZTPeW)

216 Courage is having your hippie followers kill innocent people so you can start a race war.

Posted by: Charles Manson at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (TXKVh)

217 cowardice: paying your mortgage with money you earned by working at a job.

Posted by: twig at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (w9N0m)

218 Courage is knowing the difference between rape, and rape-rape

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (lV4Fs)

219 Cowardice is protecting your children after they are attacked by the Left.

Posted by: Sarah Palin at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (zgZzy)

220 12/21/2010

"The report finds that senior officials under former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown quietly and repeatedly pressured Scottish authorities to release Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing.

They did so in order to protect British business interests in Libya, including a $900 million BP oil deal that the Libyans had threatened to cut off, as well as a $165 million arms sale with a British defense firm that was signed the same month al-Megrahi was freed from prison, the report states. "

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (uFokq)

221 Courage is having sex with a Wookie...at least twice.

Posted by: Bozo Ozero at December 29, 2010 01:41 PM (YmPwQ)

222 Nine out of ten dentists surveyed chose sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum.

No question what that tenth dentist chose...

"Hey, eat all the sugar you want! I need to pay for that new sports car..."

Posted by: Drumwaster at December 29, 2010 01:42 PM (dWFSK)

223 Posted by: Madelyn Dunham at December 29, 2010 05:33 PM (stXoE)

Well, maybe not in your case... I was just referring to the general statement.

Posted by: Hamas at December 29, 2010 05:38 PM (stXoE)

No, Courage is forcing someone else to strap on a suicide vest, put on a burka, and blow themselves up at a border crossing.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:42 PM (8y9MW)

224 Cowardice is doing the best job you can, despite being called a moron every hour of every day.

Posted by: George W. Bush at December 29, 2010 01:42 PM (zgZzy)

225

The gene, a neurotransmitter in the brain called DRD4

looks like they found the gay gene

Posted by: Thomas Dolby at December 29, 2010 01:42 PM (V6CZ8)

226 Courage is...

Spending the wealth of future generations without restraint in order to buy the votes of today.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:42 PM (c0A3e)

227 Heinlein wrote a semi-autobiographical story about fear and courage. It involved a pulmonary TB treatment in use at the time that called for inflating the peritoneum. A new doctor was asked to perform this procedure on a group of military patients in a communal room.

The first two patients died right there in the room because it was done incorrectly. So a third patient hopped up on the table and said "I'm next." The reluctant doctor proceeded after much prodding, and the third patient died too.

Autopsies showed that, indeed, the first two patients died from embolisms but for the third patient they could find nothing wrong. Heinlein contended that the third patient died of fright.

Fear, and courage.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 29, 2010 01:43 PM (h0RtZ)

228 but what is cowardice?

Code Pink bitches would point to the United States Marine Corps...with no hesitation whatsoever.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 29, 2010 01:43 PM (gDbxE)

229 Courage is releasing govt funded "studies" based on liberal opinion.

Posted by: dagny at December 29, 2010 01:43 PM (DS1Ec)

230 Cowardice is lipping off to Joe Biden and having him call you a "smart-ass".

Posted by: Bozo Ozero at December 29, 2010 01:43 PM (YmPwQ)

231 So basically Liberals are the grasshopper and Conservatives are the ant? I can live with that.

Posted by: Jarrod at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (OzXHr)

232 Courage is going to a foreign land and speaking out against their racist lo's even if they aren't racist lo's.

Posted by: Felipe Calderon at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (Z5be2)

233 Courage: Spending 8 days drinking sweet mint tea, then writing an editorial in the New York Times saying George Bush lied about WMDs.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (HzhBE)

234 Courage is taking that big promotion.

Posted by: taliban #3 at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (S5YRY)

235 Cowardice is serving your country - even the people who call you a murderer.

Posted by: The Troops at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (zgZzy)

236 Courage is Kay In Maine. spit

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (TMB3S)

237 Courage is...

hiding the decline because it doesn't fit "global warming" dogma.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (c0A3e)

238 Cowardice is putting on your combat boots and BDUs every day in 110+ degree heat to save a nation full of ingrates from the inconvenience of having howling barbarians blow them up.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:44 PM (8y9MW)

239 Cowardice is coming to America legally, getting a job, working hard, and rejecting federal handouts.

Posted by: American immigrants at December 29, 2010 01:45 PM (zgZzy)

240 Courage: Stocking a "town hall" meeting with actors who ask predetermined questions.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:46 PM (HzhBE)

241 Cowardace: Putting an anti-Obama sticker on your car in any big city.

Posted by: Damn Sockpuppet at December 29, 2010 01:46 PM (YmPwQ)

242 Cowardice is asking for a black President's college transcripts.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:46 PM (c0A3e)

243 Cowardice is educating your kids about the Founding Fathers.

Posted by: sifty at December 29, 2010 01:46 PM (kAyNL)

244 There is a GIANT conspiracy against conservatism. So big that even Glenn Beck has failed to be able to conceptualize it. Courage is saying that you believe EVERY word of the Holy Bible is the true Word of God

Posted by: archie bunker at December 29, 2010 01:46 PM (0YS61)

245

>> Courage is Kay In Maine.

ahahahaha... that bitch is crazy.

...

it took courage to say that.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (WvXvd)

246 Cowardice is losing more battles than you win, finally beating the greatest army on Earth and leading a new country with honor - only to be called a racist scumbag by future generations.

Posted by: George Washington at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (zgZzy)

247 courage: basing your entire political salvation on a new logo.

Posted by: twig at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (w9N0m)

248 Cowardice (and racism) is resisting creeping Islamo-fascism.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (c0A3e)

249 Courage is setting in gramma's basement trolling AoSHQ.

Posted by: sifty at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (kAyNL)

250 Courage is working for the CIA, doing a photo spread and interview in Vanity Fair, then having Dick Cheney report your name to some flunky.

Posted by: Valerie Plame at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (YmPwQ)

251 Cowardice is pulling yourself up by your boot straps, and refusing government hand-outs.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:47 PM (8y9MW)

252

Posted by: archie bunker at December 29, 2010 05:46 PM (0YS61)

Courage: Dropping brainless non-sequiturs on conservative blogs and running away.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:48 PM (HzhBE)

253 Courage is bowing to Saudi Kings and Japanese Emperors.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (c0A3e)

254 Posted by: archie bunker at December 29, 2010 05:46 PM (0YS61)

Nope, you missed the meme-wagon. That would be cowardice today.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (8y9MW)

255 Courage is coming to a conservative blog to anonymously post cut and paste arguments you don't even understand.

Posted by: toby928™ at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (S5YRY)

256 We're like hairless chimps, really.

Hairless chimps with religion.

Hairless chimps and enough dexterity to use weapons.

Posted by: Soothsayer Fonzarelli at December 29, 2010 04:48 PM (uFokq)

Yes, you are...

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (AdK6a)

257 Courage is not showing your birf cert or college transcripts to nobody nohow!

Posted by: *Cynical* torabora at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (QEmqs)

258 Courage is going out for ice cream when the people of Iran need your help overthrowing a hated dictatorship and enemy of the USA.

Posted by: eman at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (ZTPeW)

259 Cowardice is falling in love, getting married, and having little baby humans.

Posted by: sifty at December 29, 2010 01:49 PM (kAyNL)

260 Courage is voting for a war before voting against it!

Posted by: JFK II at December 29, 2010 01:50 PM (Z5be2)

261 Courage is accepting a Purple Heart because you tossed a grenade into a field and got rice grains stuck in your ass.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:50 PM (c0A3e)

262 Idiocy is Archie Bunker.

Posted by: Valerie Plame at December 29, 2010 01:50 PM (YmPwQ)

263 Cowardice is leading some of the greatest soldiers this country has ever seen then being castigated by liberal tools like Michael Moore.

Posted by: Major Dick Winters at December 29, 2010 01:50 PM (zgZzy)

264 Courage: Getting your political opponents DQ-ed by having a friendly judge and newspaper out their divorce records.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:51 PM (HzhBE)

265 Courage is accusing all your buddies of war crimes and then throwing someone else's medals over a fence.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:51 PM (kAyNL)

266 Courage: Voting "present."

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:51 PM (HzhBE)

267 Courage is letting a woman drown in your car and then becoming a Senator for 40 years.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:52 PM (c0A3e)

268 Courage is Alvin Greene. Nooooooo! Goooooooooo!

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 01:52 PM (TMB3S)

269 Courage: Swimming away while your female companion dies alone in your car.

Posted by: Warden at December 29, 2010 01:52 PM (HzhBE)

270 Some other study just showed a larger amygdala is correlated with a larger social network. So big city liberals from small families with few close, tight familial ties would have smaller amygdalas than conservatives from large families or small towns where people know each other much better.

In general the larger a city you live in the larger, but shallower is your circle of friends and acquaintances.

Personally I bet this is a neural resource issue. You can know and care about some people a lot, or know and care about a lot of people only somewhat. This is politicians are often described as semi-sociopaths by close acquaintances. You try keeping track of thousands of key political players whose support you need and see how much time and mental energy you have left to bond with friends and family and learn details of their life.

The human brain has some serious limitations. And we all have to make choices on how to spend our limited resources.

Posted by: bobbo at December 29, 2010 01:52 PM (BXqkH)

271 Courage is inwhiting awl your fwiends over and doing sex to them bwarebwack.

Posted by: Bwaney Fwank at December 29, 2010 01:52 PM (QEmqs)

272 Curage is ignoring Shifty Powers' obituary to cover Michael Jackson's death.

Posted by: Every News Outlet In America at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (zgZzy)

273 Courage is going to a second-hand store and buying a 2.5k dress on taxpayer dough.

Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (c0A3e)

274 Courage is continuing to anonymously shit on other people's blogs and then screaming about "free speech" when they ask you to leave.

Posted by: Valerie Plame at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (YmPwQ)

275

Courage is the ability to uncontrollably sob after I furiously masturbate while watching Meltdown with Queen Olbermann.

It takes a real man you know.

Posted by: archie bunker at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (pLTLS)

276 I'm beginning to think that most of these studies start out with a result in mind and they work their way toward that result.

(Yeah, I'm not keeping up with the meme. I hereby ban myself)

Posted by: Dave C at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (y4s9a)

277

.......Is the willful suspension of disbelief

Posted by: Cankles Clinton at December 29, 2010 01:53 PM (yQWNf)

278 Courage means never having to admit you are full of shit.

Posted by: AGW science Warrior at December 29, 2010 01:54 PM (kAyNL)

279 Courage is dropping trou and demanding that your chackras get released by your massuse!

Posted by: Manbear-pig at December 29, 2010 01:54 PM (QEmqs)

280 Cowardice is pointing out that sometimes bad decisions lead to bad consequences.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:54 PM (8y9MW)

281 It takes a lot of courage to be a liberal, knowing that this progressive philosophy has failed every time its been tried.

Posted by: MarkD at December 29, 2010 01:55 PM (0Jy1K)

282 Courage is using the White House draperies as formal gown wear.

Posted by: Lt Worf Obama at December 29, 2010 01:55 PM (c0A3e)

283 Courage is printing money until the presses catch fire.

Posted by: Ben Bernanke at December 29, 2010 01:55 PM (S5YRY)

284 Courage is going Godwin each and every single night.

Courage is also using your father's terminal illness as an excuse to play hooky and go to baseball games.

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at December 29, 2010 01:55 PM (Z5be2)

285 Courage is promising that, if elected, all bills coming to my desk will get five days to be read in....and then not ever doing that. Bwahahaaa.

Posted by: B+rry Ob+owmao at December 29, 2010 01:56 PM (QEmqs)

286 You are a coward if you refuse to let us grab your junk.

Posted by: TSA groper at December 29, 2010 01:56 PM (c0A3e)

287 Liberals have no physical courage. None. Who are the ones who live in fear thinking they are going to be bombed by Muslims over a cartoon, and who are the ones who take the fight to the same splopeydopes? All liberals all cowards. Period. Q.E.D.

Posted by: Fresh Air at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (xgX6/)

288 Okay, so let me see if I understand this. Liberals are the natural ruling elite because their brains generate more midi-chlorians. Is that it?

Posted by: CoolCzech at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (tJjm/)

289 So what you're saying is that they're defining "courage" as "stupid enough to touch the hot iron a second (and third, and fourth) time?"

Consider me a coward.

Well the issue is two pronged. What they refer to as "fear" that conservatives have is really "learned fear" that exists due to experience of a similar situation.

What they refer to as "Courage" has nothing to do with the fortitude to continue a course of action despite knowledge of likely negative consequence, and is really the just belief that one can succeed, or self confidence.

Lets go with an example.
Take it in a gun fight. Say I have quick draw champion and who finds himself in a real gun battle with a duffer. Now if that champion knows that he can put 3 shots into the head of Mr. Duffer before Duffer can clear leather, is Champion brave or courageous in doing so? Hardly. Self confidence is different than bravery or courage.

Now lets say that Duffer is ultra-pelosi grade liberal. He is just teaming with self confidence and believes he can win. Is he being brave by taking on Champion? No. No courage is required if one believes they can succeed. And the rational person would say the failure to identify when one is unlikely to win, especially when dire consequences are involved, is stupidity not bravery.

On the other hand if Duffer is conservative. He is more likely to believe that he will lose and will get shot and is likely to be very afraid of it. If he is still standing there, what can we conclude? First his reason for being there must be very serious, second, he is one brave SOB.

So here we can see where the weapons grade stupid "I'm on track to keep my speakership" comes from. Along with the sincere belief that Obama care would help them in the polls not hurt. It's not bravery. It's a lack of the better sense to be scared.

The reality of negative consequence that the real world lives in, just does not exist for them. Either in the before hand when the rational can deduce low probability of success, nor in the afterhand, when experience should remind them of negative consequences. It is no wonder they try to remove consequence from real life with their myriad of "programs" meant to "help". In their world consequence for action just does not exist, leaving the only factor in determination of life being random events or "luck" and we don't want people to do with less because of bad "luck" do we?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose© at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (0q2P7)

290 Courage is hiding 90K of bribed cash in your freezer

Posted by: William Jefferson at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (61BD9)

291 Courage is stiffing bond holders and pension funds to make sure the UAW gets their grease.

Posted by: barack hussein obama at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (S5YRY)

292 Courage is adding thousand page amendments to legislation at the 11th hour.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (8y9MW)

293 Only a real courageous man cheats on his cancer-stricken wife.

Posted by: John "The Shark" Edwards at December 29, 2010 01:57 PM (c0A3e)

294 Courage is getting a knob job off an intern when Hillary is on the other side of the wall. Haw haw.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 29, 2010 01:58 PM (QEmqs)

295

Courage is grieving over Vince Foster's "suicide."

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 29, 2010 01:58 PM (zgZzy)

296 Courage is refusing to prosecute minorities when they commit crimes against Whitey.. 'Cause those crackas got it comin'.

Posted by: Eric Holder at December 29, 2010 01:58 PM (YmPwQ)

297 Cowardice is speaking to your countrymen in a time of war, while the country's population centers were being bombed, giving them the belief that what they do is right and that the free world was in awe of their fortitude

Posted by: winston churchil at December 29, 2010 01:59 PM (W3XUk)

298 Courage is naming your dog Splash

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy, 666th circle of Hell at December 29, 2010 02:00 PM (61BD9)

299 Posted by: TSA groper at December 29, 2010 05:56 PM (c0A3e)

Correction:

Courage is timidly submitting to an ever-overreaching state thug who refuses to allow even a little common sense enter into their thought processes.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 02:00 PM (8y9MW)

300

Cowardice is fighting the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at December 29, 2010 02:00 PM (zgZzy)

301 Courage is having the most powerful job in the world but blaming everything bad in the world on your predecessor. And golf, noting says courage like endless rounds of golf.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2010 02:01 PM (TMB3S)

302 Courage is hiding behind women and children while killing as many innocents as you can.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at December 29, 2010 02:01 PM (8y9MW)

303 Courage is letting 15 million illegal aliens invade and dramatically lower the standard of living in the hopes they will eventually vote Democrat.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 02:02 PM (kAyNL)

304

Courage is naming your dog Splash

Posted by: Teddy Kennedy, 666th circle of Hell at December 29, 2010 06:00 PM

Thread winner!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 29, 2010 02:02 PM (yQWNf)

305 306

Cowardice is fighting the Soviet Union.

Posted by: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at December 29, 2010 06:00 PM (zgZzy)

Then I'm one of the biggest cowards there ever was.......

Posted by: Pope John Paul the Second at December 29, 2010 02:02 PM (61BD9)

306 Courage is consistently voting against the wishes of your electorate.

Posted by: The Maine Sisters at December 29, 2010 02:03 PM (zgZzy)

307 some people were born with a "Liberal Gene" that makes people more likely to seek out less conventional political views. The gene, a neurotransmitter in the brain called DRD4, could even be stimulated by the novelty value of radical opinions

So it's kind of a Pavlov thing, not as a result of superior sensitivity, or intelligence, or empathy, or all-around superness? Just responding to the neurotransmitters.

That's some subtle fucking nuance right there.

Posted by: FUBAR at December 29, 2010 02:03 PM (McG46)

308 Courage is hijacking a couple of planes and crashing them into the twin towers and pentagon symbols of American greed and imperialism. Cowardace is trying to prevent one said attack, armed only with a beverage cart, and almost taking one of those planes back.

Posted by: Bill Maher at December 29, 2010 02:04 PM (YmPwQ)

309 Courage is using blue cat people to stick it to imperialists.

Posted by: James Cameron at December 29, 2010 02:11 PM (Z5be2)

310

@7: "I'm pretty sure we belong in a zoo.

Right, leftists? Right?"

Zoo? Not exactly, no.

Posted by: Bill Ayres at December 29, 2010 02:16 PM (xy9wk)

311 Courage is telling people to Live Simply from the comfort of a 20,000sq ft. mansion on a hill.

Posted by: Liberal Warrior at December 29, 2010 02:18 PM (kAyNL)

312

@25: "Like I said, you're born a progressive just like you're born a homosexual.

Science."

You in that yet? Bitin' the pillow? You will. It's a liberal thing. One day you're saving the rain forest, the next, you're chuggin' cock. Am I wrong?

Posted by: The Man With The Plan in Denver at December 29, 2010 02:22 PM (xy9wk)

313 Courage is voting for Barry so he'll pay my mortgage.

Posted by: idiot at December 29, 2010 02:26 PM (tSxym)

314

Odd how the vast majority of cops and soldiers are conservatives. Now THERE are some cowards for you!

/sarcasm

Posted by: Huh at December 29, 2010 02:31 PM (Nx/ua)

315 Courage is making a film exposing Joe McCarthy for the bastard he really was. Do your worst, Hollywood establishment!

Posted by: Rosemary Clooney's nephew, blacklisted at December 29, 2010 02:41 PM (tSxym)

316 Courage is knowing the difference between RAPE *wink wink* and "RAPE-RAPE"

Posted by: TiO at December 29, 2010 02:49 PM (0OlaE)

317

Liberals are wonderful perfect beings- they compassionately want to control, regulate, run and ruin your life.... but with the best of intensions.

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at December 29, 2010 02:51 PM (0fzsA)

318 Courage is using a camera in a combat zone - so you can show everyone your psychopathic vision of the world.

Posted by: An Observation at December 29, 2010 03:03 PM (ylhEn)

319 Courage is making decisions for other people, codifying them into laws, and never asking what the consequences might be.

Posted by: dagny at December 29, 2010 03:06 PM (DS1Ec)

320 Courage is telling your supporters to keep quiet about the stuff you're trying to put into bills.

Posted by: Earl Blumenauer at December 29, 2010 03:18 PM (Z5be2)

321

Really what these study's are ultimately trying to say, and what the ultimate goal that will be reached is simple, serious, but very scary!

Here is the thinking:

"Conservatives can't help what they think, they are born with it, they have a defect, a genetic defect, and therefore they are just like the Dirty JOOS.......Get 'Em!"

Posted by: Jimi at December 29, 2010 03:22 PM (fqxV7)

322 one of the constant criticism the left throw against the right is that they're driven by fear and they cite terrorism as an example. Thats ridiculous. Everyone have fears, left or right. Conservatives fear islamists because they're are violent leftists. Leftist view them as allies. If Christians were going around killing leftists, leftists will show the exact fears that the right show

Posted by: 4rc at December 29, 2010 03:30 PM (dEjzG)

323 Courage is calling New York Hymietown.

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at December 29, 2010 03:39 PM (ZUF6f)

324 Courage is helping incite a riot in Harlem outside Freddies Fashion Mart that killed 8 people. (Including a black security guard who was called a "cracker lover" and a race traitor)

It took even more courage to call the Jewish owner of that store (Fred Harari) a "white interloper".

Posted by: Rev. Al at December 29, 2010 03:50 PM (ZUF6f)

325 I think "real courage" is hard to define, but you'd be pretty damned hard-pressed to come up with a version that supports wasting taxpayers funds every few years publishing so-called studies that twist words so they can vilify people you dislike because of their politics.

That's just dickish, cowardly assholery right there, and every one of those motherfuckers should be fired and banned from public employment.

Posted by: Merovign, Strong on His Mountain at December 29, 2010 03:54 PM (bxiXv)

326

"The results, which will be published next year, back up a study that showed that some people were born with a "Liberal Gene" that makes people more likely to fall for every con that comes down the pike no matter what the evidence shows."

FIFY

Posted by: Barbaras at December 29, 2010 05:26 PM (AgV9V)

327 Oh, well, at least it's the Brits on this one, for variety's sake. I'm sure the U Cal system was tired of carrying the "Conservatism Is A Mental Illness" interdisciplinary project all by their lonesome.

Posted by: hitnrun at December 29, 2010 05:35 PM (cpjGL)

328

Incoherence. If we suddenly have the "first scientific explanation" for why conservatives are more "receptive" to (i.e., afraid of) the threat of terrorism, please explain in what part of the brian resides the will to fight them? How many little lefties from Berkeley enlisted after 9/11? Oh, but I guess they were amygdala-advantaged enough not to be "receptive" to threats of terrorism, including not being receptive to Islamic proclivities to mutilate genitals of young women, behead journalists, blow up busloads of innocent people, hang homosexuals, use donkeys and dogs as mobile bombs and impose or try to impose vicious theocracy everywhere they cart their miserable carcasses. Must be nice having an amygdala that lets you not be "receptive" to anything that might call for some kind of moral or physical response.

The fuc*ing Left -- they never stop coming at you, and from every angle. Why would they? They own every angle. Science, art, media, academic, political. Owned and despoiled and exploited to advance their agenda. It never stops. As Horowitz says, it never stops because at least some slice of every new generation of young people is susceptible to their lies and conceits.

Posted by: rrpjr at December 29, 2010 05:41 PM (7X7yO)

329 About that courage and troops thing: It's not that we're more brave -- in fact, we do ridiculous things to avoid getting hurt. But when it comes down to it, we have a job to do. And that job has to get done, no matter who or what is shooting at you. Because if you don't do your job, your buddy is a dead man. It has very little to do with brave, and everything to do with the fact that your brother is downrange, and you've got to do everything you can to bring him back alive. Just my two cents, anyway.

Posted by: Mad Mike at December 29, 2010 07:14 PM (yp6rA)

330 sounds rather fascist to me. didn't they claim that the juices were inferior based upon "science"? sounds like the liberal fascists are heading down a similar path, and demonizing conservatives.

someone should look for the totalitarian gene. i think it would be easy guess which side of the political spectrum possesses that particular one.

Posted by: annak at December 29, 2010 07:15 PM (2/oBD)

331 Courage is a "President" giving a shout-out to his peeps before briefly addressing a terrorist attack against a US Army base.

Posted by: The Hammerhead in the White House at December 29, 2010 10:45 PM (KhGTO)

332 These UK guys sound like Nazi scientists describing the physiological inferiority of Jews in the 1930s.

Posted by: SGT Ted at December 30, 2010 05:29 AM (arV2e)

333 Conservatives' Brains Big On Fear, Low On Courage, Study Says

So then the Marine Corp is staffed with liberals. Who knew?

Posted by: chuck in st paul at December 30, 2010 06:26 AM (EhYdw)

334 The size of the amygdala is strongly linked to social connectiveness as well. People with a larger amygdala tend to have better relationships and larger social networks. Hmmmmm . . . Interesting how THAT got left out of this report.

Posted by: Jade Sea at December 30, 2010 07:04 AM (R3Ipx)

335

I'm not sure how they managed to find enough conservatives to do a study on since there aren't more than a handful of conservatives in Britain, even in the Conservative Party and no sane conservative would permit the University College in London anywhere near their brain.

Posted by: Snipe at December 30, 2010 07:52 AM (JHKev)

336

@ 350

Ted,

"These UK guys sound like Nazi scientists describing the physiological inferiority of Jews in the 1930s."

Make no mistake about it! The Hardcore Leftist Elites that are behind the scenes, pulling the strings have that exact agenda in mind. Any method that can use "Science" to control behavior and lead to Eugenics, so that they can have their 1000 Year Reich, they have pursued, and they aren't gonna stop until they get what they want. If you have spare time research the Psycology field in America's Universities, and learn about the black-balling that is going on...all based on fullfilling political agendas. Same thing is happending in the Climate Sciences as well.

"Agree with them....Or your Out!"......it's that simple!

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