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From General McLane to the White House Climate advisor Ali Zaidi to speak at Global Summit by Liz Allen Contributed Photo Ali Zaidi, a 2004 graduate of General McLane High School, emigrated from Pakistan with his parents in first grade, settling in Edinboro. Since then, hes earned a role as Deputy National Climate Advisor to President Joe Biden u2014 and a speaking engagement during the Jefferson Educational Societys al...

I think we do this with all jobs. 60% of ceos of fortune 500 companies are white men 60" and taller. whats the likelihood of what a ceo looks like. they just -- one of the things they point out is the power of stereotypes to deceive people in those judgments. whats depressing about this in some ways is you point out this is how the human mind works. they have find it is predictable we will be irrational and irrational in predictable ways. what does that mean for those of us who believe in ration...

>> as it stands right now, yes. there are things that come into play, we talked about the defense budget. >> what would having more money, what difference would that have made for the defense? >> wed be able to bring in experts to show that when you are in a life and death fight or flight situation, what the mind goes through, what somebody may go through, and we get it. from day one we understood it was going to sound irrational that he left the scene, didnt call 911, let me finish, until someo...

To is is this plausible, is what shes telling us plausible and can any of it be documented? when shes willing to share diary entries, when shes willing to turn over the documents that she turned over, i didnt get past the basic -- the plausibility -- the plausibility test there. and then like you say, the other thing that occurred to me, one thing that occurred to me is im reasonably well convinced that this is a woman who absolutely believes this is what happened. now, it does leave open the po...

The diary and it really seems like a woman who adamantly believes that this happened. i dont know how the human mind works. if theres a way you can conjure something out of thin air that didnt happen, convince yourself of it, write it down. i mean, theres the possibility of that, i guess. like you say, theres a possibility that maybe the communications got all crossed here or something. but the other thing that occurred to me in putting this together too is if this is a democratic mayor whos jus...

Point, i dont care what its founded on. i didnt care what his problems were, i didnt want to listen to him. i guess it was a public service to broadcast it, but i found it -- >> mark, were you surprised he was allowed to talk as long as he did in that courtroom? >> no. could i just weigh in here from my perspective? im not an addiction specialist and im not going to quote "the great gatsby." from my stand point, this was a spectacle. ive represented people who are as delusional or didnt have any...

Self-obsession, self-pitying, narcissim. a line from the great gatsby. conduct may be founded on the hard rock or wet marshes but at a certain point i dont care where it was found. i didnt care about his problems. i didnt want to listen to him. i guess it was a public service to broadcast it but i found it unpleasant in the extreme -- >> mark, were you surprised he was allowed to talk as long as he did in that courtroom? >> could i just weigh in here for my prospective -- >> sure. >> im not an a...

Founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point, i dont care what its founded on. i didnt care what his problems were, i didnt want to listen to him. i guess it was a public service to broadcast it, but i found it -- >> mark, were you surprised he was allowed to talk as long as he did in that courtroom? >> no. could i just weigh in here from my perspective? im not an addiction specialist and im not going to quote "the great gasbi." from my stand point, this was a spectacle...

Lectern or lecture hall. thats why it works. >> our teachers, they ask us to ask them questions, so we square them up, keep asking questions. >> its not a bad idea to drawing some pictures of what your fields of view look like. >> we all understand what were doing as a group. i like that. >> you see kids walking through with guitars and other kids just kiting in the cubbyholes. its really different. we just got done with the psychology unit, they were showing us how we were going to start examin...

Things are connected. its important to connect them. we call that integration. how the human mind works. when you teach our kids not to integrate, not to think, not to generalize and not to see connections, you are destroying a human beings capacity to think. and you are telling people, dont think. reality doesnt exist. everything is subjective. that is what leads to american public who cant think and therefore elects this wicked people to congress. they create the mess we are in today. >> glenn...