Imagination

When you read and imagine the places/things described ,let's say for argument's sake a cave, would you you imagine a cave you've been to?

I make mental images in my head of what I read in a book and compare them to places I've been. I sometimes ignore the main description and just imagine the location I know. This can sometimes prove difficult because it will end up not making any sense.

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It just kind of happens.

ye imagining place you know causes chaos. trying to read the battle of helms deep was chaos

If I've been to a cave before, I use prior knowlage of what a cave looks like based off of that memory, if the story doesn't describe it in detail. But yeah, usually it's hard NOT to imagine what you already know.
Example: when i was younger, whenever a kitchen was the setting of the story, I would imagine my father's, because i was fimilar with it yet he and his house was still some what of an enigma to me then. Like the story and what was going to happen next was.

Places I've been too, not much.
Mostly places I've seen in video games or movies, unless its very different from anything I've seen befoer.

I doubt all of what you said is valid.

I've heard of Liberals who hate that we're still fighting a war in the oily East but little of Conservatives who do more than angst the fact.  Instead, they're rather angry the White House is trying to force/delude with an arbitrary pull-out date that they keep moving around.  Additionally, criticism of President Obama has been about his non-military international efforts and his domestic program, not his "overseas contingency" conduct; has Limbaugh called him a war criminal yet (has he?  I don't listen to the guy but I know if there's something radical to say he'd be the one to willingly say it whether or not other people believed it)?

As for the effort to now expand oil drilling, this is nothing new.  There has been some desire to push for expanding energy such as domestic oil drilling and nuclear construction for a number of years now, often little reported.  In fact, a lot of territory off the coast of California is already well-documented and mapped and Shell or ExxonMobil could get working on an unobtrusive method of oil extraction within a month were they allowed to tomorrow.  Those who push for the expansions now probably are using the war to try and tug heart strings - after-all, who wouldn't want to make it less likely we'd stay entangled there for the wrong reasons? - but is more a reaction to what is seen as an unrealistic Green national energy plan.

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Why?

One word: Immigration.

Since 1970, America's largest source of immigrants has been Latin America, especially Mexico. More than half of these Latino immigrants lack a high school diploma.

Compare the U.S. experience with Canada's. More than half of all immigrants to Canada possess a university degree. Half of all Canada's Ph.D.s are foreign-born.

Why does America choose poorly educated immigrants? The short answer: America does not choose them. They choose themselves.

In the last decade, half of all the immigrants to the United States arrived illegally. Even many of the legal arrivals gained entry courtesy of relatives who originally slipped into the country against the law, then somehow regularized themselves.

By contrast, Canada (a country of 1/10 the U.S. population that takes proportionately many more immigrants than the United States) allows almost no illegal immigration.

The result: While immigration has enhanced the average skill level of the Canadian population, it has detracted from the average skill level of the U.S. population.

Many Americans carry in their minds a family memory of upward mobility, from great-grandpa stepping off the boat at Ellis Island to a present generation of professionals and technology workers. This story no longer holds true for the largest single U.S. immigrant group, Mexican-Americans.

Stephen Trejo and Jeffrey Groger studied the intergenerational progress of Mexican-American immigrants in their scholarly work, "Falling Behind or Moving Up?"

They discovered that third-generation Mexican-Americans were no more likely to finish high school than second-generation Mexican-Americans. Fourth-generation Mexican-Americans did no better than third.

I completely imagine them according do the described detail.