Jean Fraud sKerry MIA, again… /Open Post

MIA=”Milling in (the) air”… sKerry, who has yet to make good on any of his promises to actually release the records he has serially “promised” to release, is playinhg weathervane again. The Junior Whiner from Taxachussetts has, with his recent demand that the U.S. issue an ultimatum to the Iraqi government with a timetable for U.S. pullout, directly reversed his former statements that asserted such a timetable would be a “disgraceful betrayal of principle” and a “disaster”.

*yawn*

A non-news event for anyone familiar with this blowhard’s inability to hold to any principle save one (that beiing the principle that he can say anything and get away with it, because the electorate of Massachussetts is simply too gullible to be able to tell when he’s lying [hint: words are issuing from him] or too corrupt to care).

No news. Move right along folks. Nothing to see here. After all, there aren’t even any records to read, yet.

No More B.S.


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Rainy Days and Mondays

Right-thinking people are losing the war of the mind. I almost didn’t type those words, because “right-thinking” is a term despised by nearly everyone nowadays as elitist, judgmental or as having overtones of elitism that are to be avoided in persuasive speech. Determining what is right and wrong is simply wrong for anyone… except the media, academic or political elite. And even then, if one strays from the path of philosophical correctness, a pronouncement of (purely non-judgmental, dontcha know!) anathema is bound to fall on one’s head from those so-called liberal elites.

And because the media and academia seem to think with one hive mind, we all know the vocabulary we must use in public speech.

“Gay” no longer means “happy, carefree,” but “nuerotic, angry homosexuals.”

“Liberal” no longer means “seeking to increase or protect freedom and basic human rights” but, on the one hand, “tyrannical limitation of personal freedoms via micromanagement by a nanny state” and “encouragement of lawlessness and anarchy by irresponsible citizens (and foreign invaders)” on the other. The latter function of modern faux liberalism is, of course, planned to increase the legitimacy of the former. Let’s see now… what would be a shorter definition of modern faux liberalism? Oh, yes: a Soviet (or Chinese) style communism, complete with an elite copied directly from Animal Farm (where some animals are clearly more equal than others… ).

In media/academia speak, “Undocumented Workers” ir “Illegal aliens”=”Invaders, ‘Reconquistadores'” or just plain “criminals” if we translate the terminology into right (as in correct, corresponding to reality) thinking.

And of course, these are just the most obvious examples. And Mass Media Podpeople newsreaders Political Poltroons and Academia Nuts are really the least of the propagandizers.

Huh?

Right.

Make yourself watch an evening of MTV analytically. Or do the same with any network or cable TV channel. Heck, watch The History Channel analytically. In any and all of those examples, among the many, many media outlets I could cite from Hollyweird to Nashville and on, what we generally view as harmless entertainment is framing our references.

Think about it. The popular entertainment culture we are embedded in is defining the terms, building the box we think in. It doesn’t determine how we think, necessarily, but it does limit our vocabulary, the concepts we have to manipulate and express to others. From pop music to sitcoms to pop-historical pap (on the History Channel and elsewhere), we and everyone around us are daily fed a melange of concepts, much of which is garbage at best, and poison at worst.

Just try this for a week: watch or listen to mass media pop culture offerings critically, analytically, looking for lies, distortions, corruptions of sound thinking, ethics or morality. “Oh, but that sitcom’s so funny! Surely it’s harmless?” or “That song’s really [moving/ beautiful/ fun to dance to]; so what if the lyrics are [violent/ disrespectful of women/ promoting immoral-unethical behavior, etc.]?”

Right. And an army of ants eats the elephant, a tiny bite at a time.

And as we allow the concepts of a mass media pop culture to seep into our own hindbrains uncritically, without thinking about the contents, we participate in our own destruction.

Oh, well, Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get me Down.

heh

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Guard the Borders

From Heidi, of Euphoric Reality,

“This week’s Blogburst was written by Darnell McGavock at the Independent Conservative. He examines the advantages to businesses that exploit illegal labor and compares it to the economic system of slavery. It is a perspective we’ve never examined before at GTB. Thank you, Darnell, for a provocative post!”


by Darnell MaGavock at Indpendent Conservative

Let me start by saying I don’t endorse either slavery or illegal immigration. But looking at things from the economic standpoint of a company that hires illegals today versus the use of slave labor in the 18th and 19th centuries, illegal immigration offers companies a better deal than any slave owner ever had. The reason is the modern day welfare state that is known as America.

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Monday Open Post

This is an open post. Link to this post and track back. Snowed right now. I intend to expand this post later, and I WILL check for any TBs that may get stuck in moderation (blame it on SPAM TBs forcing meaner TB filters *sigh*).

BTW, just to demonstrate my complete lack of papaphobia, here’s a belated “Happy Birthday” to Pope Benedict XVI. He was 79 yestersay… on Easter Sunday.

(Aside: Lovely Daughter will be celebrating “Easter” again on the 19th, since her birth was on Easter Sunday… April 19th the year of her birth.)

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