Aquaphobia

Journalists periodically sound the alarm about water contamination.  The largest system listed as a "serious violator" requiring priority compliance in New York State is Scotia Village Water Works in Schenectady, which serves 12,800 people. Within a one-mile radius live about 1,933 children, including 452 children ages 5 and younger. Samples taken between January and June last year detected lead at a concentration of 0.0052 mg/L. Although this figure remains below the federal action level (0.015 mg/L), experts warn that even small amounts can be harmful for infants and young children.

This Expert's Analysis: The Federal EPA-allowed level is extremely low, and no harm at all has ever been proven. The maximum lead concentration found is a third of the regulated level; yet the media periodically brings up this issue, causing fear in the public. Fear sells; it has since been proven. 

Fear of water is called hydrophobia, which is a symptom of rabies, while aquaphobia is a psychological anxiety disorder involving an irrational fear of water. It can be treated with two forms of psychotherapy: exposure therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Exposure therapy is the preferred treatment. During this type of therapy, the patient will be exposed to the source of the phobia — in this case, water.  With cognitive behavioral therapy, the patient learns to challenge his thoughts and beliefs about water. By learning, the patient will develop strategies to cope with those thought patterns and beliefs.

Sterilizing God's Army

 
A few minutes ago, a magnitude 4.1 tremor was felt in Lebanon following the explosion of the Hezbollah underground base deep in the Ali Tahr Ridge.

Thus Spoke Nietzsche and He Was Right!

This German philosopher wrote - despectively - that the bourgeois life-goal is to sleep well. Well, yes, when my sleeping pills were exhausted, I did not look to replenish my precious hoard, but weaned myself off the sedatives. Ten days later, I am sleeping like a fat German bourgeois, and my blood pressure has stabilized in the desired range. It was easy! Do I dream? Yes. I am reliving, in detail and technicolour, every one of the girls who left an impression on me in my eighty years of existence. And lamenting the many, the too many opportunities that I missed. Once, we were seated in the first row in the Ramat Gan aficionados theatre, "Cats"; a young actress - a fat-assed girl - was dancing on the floor so near me that I breathed her heavy, inebriating perspiration. I am reliving that hypnotic odour and my feeling. Summary of a life: I have lived.

Zionist growing pains

 Navitas, an Israeli oil company, struck oil in the Falkland Islands. Argentina, with its permanent PTSD from losing the war against Britain, has declared it illegal, together with its shareholders: Harel, Migdal, Phoenix, and Meitav Insurance companies. It is astonishing how far Zionist interests have expanded. Argentina has resurrected Frondizi's refrain: "El Petróleo es Argentino," and is talking about fighting the Brits. But they have no means to act; if the British Navy is in poor shape, Argentina is even worse. The South Atlantic is unfit for human habitation, with nonstop freezing winds from the Antarctic and desolation to an excess. Sheep are the main economic activity; tourism for masochists could be developed. 

Summer Down

My Givat Ada gas station was rejected - I misunderstood the instructions. Also, the Petach Tikva project was rejected due to an incorrect pipe slope.  I almost had no income from work in August. Depressing. I am starting to make mistakes; at my age, it is only natural. 

A mi! La Legion!

 Spain is going crazy! They are asking for a war with Morocco. 

To understand Spanish overexcitement, we have to refer to the  Green March (Arabic: المسيرة الخضراء, romanized: al-masīrat ul-khaḍrāʾ), a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and the military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco. The native inhabitants, the Sahrawi people, aspired to form an independent state. The demonstration of 350,000 Moroccans advancing into Spanish territory forced Spain to give up the colony. 

Apparently, Spain perceived the Ceuta spontaneous migration as an organized aggression to liberate the enclave. The current situation of the former Sahara Occidental is disputed; the UN decolonization commission paradoxically takes the Colonizer's side.    

Spain Excited

For more than two weeks, Spain has been excited by the "Moroccan invasion". It has organized daily mass demonstrations and declarations to affirm that Ceuta was, is, and will be forever Spanish territory in Africa. It's too excessive, since there are no signs that Morocco intends to take Ceuta. It is role-playing old wars and conflicts. Europe is very perturbed by Muslim immigration and cannot mentally deal with the situation. 

BTW, the pic contains spelling errors. 

P.S.: All over Spain, masses are demonstrating against "the Moroccan invasion". The publicity shows soldiers and past military glories. Maps show lost Spanish territories in the Rif and the Sahara. Could it be that Spain is heating up the population for an African adventure? 

Morocco is a friend of Israel. What shall we do if Spain attacks?