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Do not allow yourself to be deceived.

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Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Communism, Democratic Party, Fascism, Guest Post, Liberal Fascism, Progressives, Socialism, Tranzis at May 22nd, 2013 - 8:00 pm

Gust Blogger: Doriangrey

 

Obvious exit question: Whether Attkisson was monitored or not, it can’t be just the AP and Rosen whom the feds have snooped on in four years. How many other reporters?

Those in the “Professional Blogging Class” can be so amusing at times. Helloieeeee, NEWS FLASH… It isn’t just reporters, it’s anyone who makes the mistake of disagreeing with the Obamanation Administration in anything even remotely resembling a public forum.

Yes, yes, it’s now that time in the program where the audience gets to participate. Yes, I’m obviously a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.

If you have ever read this blog before than you now that it is anything but being a Obamanation Administration friendly blog. This blogs highest single concentration of readers by some strange coincidence just happens to be individuals residing in Mordor on the Potomac, ( a little fact I happen to be aware of courtesy of Alexa )

Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy’s been going on with my computers since early 2011

Yea, well, you’re not the only one sweetheart. For about the last year or so my computer has periodically suffered from sudden and inexplicable bouts of inability to connect to the internet. No, there is nothing wrong with my computer, or my internet connection. It just periodically refuses to connect. Getting it to do so again requires jumping through all sorts of flaming hoops and what not. But it comes down to this, periodically my network card suddenly decides that it will not permit network traffic, then it decides that it will turn itself off.

Ya, your right, my tin foil hat is screwed on way to tight. Just because Alexa once reported that someone from the DOJ was reading my blog and then my computer started misbehaving doesn’t actually mean that there is any connection between the two events. Ya, you’re right, I probably just screwed something up on my computer that explains this strange behavior of my computer. No reason to suspect that it’s anything else, right?

It’s not like the DOJ has actually taped into the computers of individuals who refused to worship the Obamessiah… I mean, right? Ya, I know, I know, after all, I am about as small and insignificant as it’s possible to be in the grand scheme of things. No rational or logical reason to think that the DOJ or any other federal bureaucracy would bother wasting their time on anyone as insignificant as me especially while their are genuinely threatening targets out there like Attkisson or Rosen, right?

Try keeping this thought fixed firmly in your mind while considering just how paranoid and foolish this all sounds. Before the Berlin Wall came down the East German Secret Police (the Stasi) kept files on every single East German, and 1 in every 6 East Germans were informants of the Stasi.

Yes, make no mistake about it, what these various Obamanation Administration faceless bureaucrats and bureaucracies are doing is exactly what the KGB and the Stasi used to do, no, they haven’t gotten to the stage that everyone associates with the KGB or the Stasi yet, but even the KGB and the Stasi didn’t start out the way they ended.

HotAir’s Ed Morrissey threw me off HotAir for making a comment there that I had made hundreds of times over a course of two or three years. It was a act of hypocritical cowardice on Ed’s part. All things considered though, looks like Ed might have been encouraged. Is the new statistic going to be, 1 in 6 Professional Bloggers is an informant for the Obamanation Administrations Cyber Secret Police?

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Chemical weapons used in Syria.

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Filed under Al Qaeda, Blogmocracy, Guest Post, Islamists, Syria at May 6th, 2013 - 7:00 pm

Blogmocracy in Action

Guest Blogger: Doriangrey

 

Assad Bashar’s Syrian Government is known to have a very large stockpile of Chemical Weapons. This is neither breaking news, nor is it surprising. That chemical weapons are suspected to have been used in the Syrian Civil War likewise is neither breaking news nor surprising. Before we get into exactly who, if anyone used those chemical weapons, we must first take an honest and hard look at who is involved in the Syrian Civil War.

Let’s start with…

Bashar Assad.

Bashar Hafez al-Assad (Arabic: بشار حافظ الأسد‎ Baššār Ḥāfiẓ al-ʾAsad, Levantine pronunciation: [baʃˈʃaːr ˈħaːfezˤ elˈʔasad]; born 11 September 1965) is the President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Syrian-led branch of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party. He has served as President since 2000, when he succeeded his father, Hafez al-Assad, who had ruled Syria for 30 years prior to his death.

Al-Assad graduated from the medical school of the University of Damascus in 1988, and started to work as a physician in the army. Four years later, he attended postgraduate studies at the Western Eye Hospital, in London, specializing in ophthalmology. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel, the heir apparent to their father, was killed in a car crash, Bashar was hastily recalled to Syria to take over Bassel’s role. He entered the military academy, and took charge of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon in 1998. In December 2000, Assad married Asma Assad, née Akhras. Al-Assad was elected as President of Syria in 2000 and 2007, unopposed each time.[1][2]

Initially seen by the domestic and international community as a potential reformer, this expectation ceased when he ordered a mass crackdown and military sieges on protesters during the Arab Spring, which gave way to the events of the Syrian civil war.[3] The domestic Syrian opposition and large parts of the wider international community have subsequently called for al-Assad’s resignation from power.[4]

The long and short of Bashar Assad is this. Bashar Assad is a dynastic Arab ruler. Though he rules under the nominal title as Syria’s President, that title is more fiction that reality. In reality he is more closely related to a Constitutional Monarch where the Monarch still retains majority ruling authority. By western standards Bashar Assad is a tyrannical dictator. However, one must never ever forget, Syria is not a Western Nation. It is an Arab Nation, with the word “Nation” placed very carefully in parenthetical brackets.

Arabic Culture is one that can only really be described as Tribal/Clanish with a highly significant nomadic element to it. Socially it is structured as a Aristocratic Caste System. The individuals place in society is dictated by which Tribe or Clan they are blood related to, and where their tribe or clan falls within the authoritarian hierarchy of the land that they live on. The major tribes or clans are genetic lines that have thousands of years of history. Consequently modern national borders are not genuinely reflective of the tribe or clans loyalties.

Within the context of the Arab World, Bashar Assad’s greatest crimes are not that he is a tyrannical dictator. Since one of the most significant aspects of Arab political ideology is not an actual political ideology at all, but a mentality often referred to as the “Strong Horse” mentality.

Since Arab loyalties are dictated primarily not by political ideology, but by genetic blood lines, nearly all Arab political loyalties that are not direct genetic blood ties are loyalties of convenience. Hence the “Strong Horse” concept, wherein an individual or tribe supports whichever individual or tribe is in the strongest position but only as long as they are in that position of strength.

Which brings us to Bashar Assad’s greatest crime in the Arab World, his grip on power appears to be diminishing. The more his grip on power diminishes, the more of his supporters switch allegiances to whomever seems to be the new ascending power. It really is as simple as understanding that in the Arab world the single greatest sin that a man can commit is to be one the losing side.

Now let’s look at the Syrian Rebels.

Jabhat al-Nusra

The Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام‎ Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ash-Shām, “Support Front for the People of Greater Syria”), is an Al Qaida affiliate operating in Syria. The group announced its creation on 23 January 2012 during the Syrian civil war.[7] It is described as “the most aggressive and successful arm of the rebel force”.[3] The group was designated by the United States as a terrorist organisation in December 2012.[8] In April 2013, the leader of the Islamic state of Iraq released an audio statement announcing that Jabhat al-Nusra is its branch in Syria.[6] The leader of Al Nusra, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, said that the group will not merge with the Islamic state of Iraq, but still maintain allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri.[9]

Al Qaeda in Iraq.

al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), also known as al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, is the Iraqi division of the international Salafi jihadi militant organization al-Qaeda. It is part of the Iraqi insurgency.

The group was founded in 2003 as a reaction to the American-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, and first led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who declared allegiance to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network in October 2004. It first operated under the name Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Arabic: جماعة التوحيد والجهاد‎, “Group of Monotheism and Jihad”); since 2004 its official name has been Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (“Organization of Jihad’s Base in Mesopotamia”).[6] Foreign fighters from outside Iraq are widely thought to play a key role in its network.[7]

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri,[2] (Arabic: أيمن محمد ربيع الظواهري‎ ʾAyman Muḥammad Rabīʿ aẓ-Ẓawāhirī, born 19 June 1951) is an Egyptian physician,[3] Islamic theologian and current leader of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda.[4] Ayman al-Zawahiri is a former member of Islamist organizations which have both orchestrated and carried out multiple attacks on the continents of North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The U.S. State Department has offered a US$25 million dollar reward for information leading to al-Zawahiri’s apprehension since the 9/11 attacks and remains in effect.[5] He is under worldwide sanctions by the United Nations Security Council 1267 Committee as a member or affiliate of al-Qaeda.[6]


Syria’s al-Nusra Front swears allegiance to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri

The US-based SITE Monitoring Service reported Wednesday that the leader of Syria’s al-Nusra Front has pledged allegiance to al-Qaida leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in an audio message, whilst distancing the group from claims they had merged with al-Qaida in Iraq.

“The sons of al-Nusra Front pledge allegiance to Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri,” Abu Mohammed Jawlani said in the message.

He also said “we were not consulted” on an announcement made by al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on Tuesday that the groups had merged. “We inform you that neither the al-Nusra command nor its consultative council, nor its general manager were aware of this announcement. It reached them via the media and if the speech is authentic, we were not consulted,” Jawlani added.

He stated the group would maintain its flag and not change its behavior.

“Al-Nusra Front will not change its flag, though we will continue to be proud of the flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, of those who carry it and those who sacrifice themselves and shed their blood for it,” said Jawlani, who fought in Iraq alongside al-Qaida’s Iraqi arm. “We reassure our brothers in Syria that al-Nusra Front’s behavior will remain faithful to the image you have come to know, and that our allegiance to al-Qaida will not affect our politics in any way.”

And there you have it, Al-Nusra Front, is an Al Qaeda affiliate. Receiving support and strategic tactical guidance from none other than Osama bin Laden’s successor Ayman Al-Zawahiri.

Now to the Chemical Weapons.

Where Did Syria’s Chemical Weapons Come From?

As the news stories mount regarding Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s decision to move his chemical weapons stockpile from storage to areas closer to rebel locations, there is one thing the mainstream media is not commenting on: How Syria acquired what is reported to be one of the world’s largest arsenals of bio-chemical WMD? More to the point, what they are not reporting is this: From where did the Assad regime acquire their bio-chemical WMD?

In 2006, former Iraqi general, Georges Sada, who served under Saddam Hussein before he defected, wrote a comprehensive book detailing how the Iraqi Revolutionary Guard moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria, before the US-led action to eliminate Saddam Hussein’s WMD threat, by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

As reported in the New York Sun on January 26, 2006:

“‘There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands,’ Mr. Sada said. ‘I am confident they were taken over.’”

“Mr. Sada’s comments come just more than a month after Israel’s top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Moshe Yaalon, told the Sun that Saddam ‘transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria.’

“Democrats have made the absence of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a theme in their criticism of the Bush administration’s decision to go to war in 2003…

“The discovery of the weapons in Syria could alter the American political debate on the Iraq war. And even the accusations that they are there could step up international pressure on the government in Damascus. That government, led by Bashar Assad, is already facing a UN investigation over its alleged role in the assassination of a former prime minister of Lebanon. The Bush administration has criticized Syria for its support of terrorism and its failure to cooperate with the UN investigation.”

Anyone whose head has not been firmly up their own ass for the last 12 years has figured out by now that Al Qaeda does not adhere to the Geneva Conventions, nor give a rats ass about western morals or ethics. They do all of their strategic and tactical planning in accordance with the Qur’an. In other words, they fight to win using any and every tactic. They do not consider killing innocent civilians unacceptable, nor do they consider perfidy unacceptable. There are no out of bounds places to fight, wherever they find advantage, that is where they fight.

U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator

(Reuters) – U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday.

The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has not yet seen evidence of government forces having used chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, said commission member Carla Del Ponte.

“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.

“This was use on the part of the opposition, the rebels, not by the government authorities,” she added, speaking in Italian.

Normally I would automatically discount anything said by the UN, since the UN is by and large an utterly corrupt and useless organization run by incompetent imbeciles who couldn’t find their own assholes in a doctors office surrounded by a dozen proctologists. However this looks like a classic “Stopped Clock” case. There is absolutely no possibility what-so-ever that Al Qaeda would not use Chemical or Biological weapons should they somehow obtain them.

The evidence is absolutely incontrovertible that the Syrian Rebel Forces are Al Qaeda.

No one is ever going to claim that by western standards Bashar Assad is the good guy. Bashar Assad is nothing more or less than the average typical Arab Strongman leader. By Arabs standards, Assad was a good President, but he committed the one sin that Arab Muslims are incapable of forgiving. He appears to have lost his grip on power.

The Syrian Civil War is between a predominately secular Arab government (Bashar Assad) and the religious fanatical terrorists Al Qaeda. The question of what to do comes down to whether the west should get involved or not. In other words, it’s a choice between two evils. Support the Rebels who are unquestionable the greater evil in the utterly insane hope that they will be less repressive than the Assad Government, or support the lessor of two evils because he is, the lessor of two evils.

It is at this point that I shall quote a line from the Hollywood Marxist progressive psychobabble propaganda movie “War Games”.

“Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?”

(Hat Tip: The Wilderness of Mirrors)

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Guest Post: Have you been indoctrinated?

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Filed under Blogmocracy, Blogwars, Conservatism, Guest Post, Republican Party, The Political Right at April 10th, 2013 - 6:00 pm

Gust Blogger: Doriangrey

Indoctrination and Propaganda, they are words. Words just about everyone has heard. But almost no one actually understands what they really mean or how they really work. They are like Einsteins famous E=MC2 equation. Everyone has heard of it, nearly everyone accepts that it is 100 percent real and has genuine real world implications. But ask the average person to explain the mathematics that underlie that famous equation ad you will receive little more than blank and confused stares.

Well, indoctrination and propaganda are in the same league as Einstein’s equation in that regard. Ask the average person to explain the process of indoctrination or what the purpose and procedures behind propaganda are and you will receive those same blank and confused stares. Most people now little more about indoctrination and propaganda other than they hear those words being used as bludgeons against one group or another. They now little more than that the Fifth Column Treasonous Media mocks and ridicules the very concept that either indoctrination and propaganda exist as a significant issue in America.

But what exactly are the concepts of indoctrination and propaganda?

Merriam-Websters defines indoctrinate as

in·doc·tri·nate
transitive verb \in-ˈdäk-trə-ˌnāt\
in·doc·tri·nat·edin·doc·tri·nat·ing
Definition of INDOCTRINATE
1
: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments : teach
2
: to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle
— in·doc·tri·na·tion noun
— in·doc·tri·na·tor noun
Examples of INDOCTRINATE

The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.

and propaganda as

pro·pa·gan·da
noun \ˌprä-pə-ˈgan-də, ˌprō-\
Definition of PROPAGANDA
1
capitalized : a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions
2
: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
3
: ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect
— pro·pa·gan·dist noun or adjective
— pro·pa·gan·dis·tic adjective
— pro·pa·gan·dis·ti·cal·ly adverb
See propaganda defined for English-language learners »
See propaganda defined for kids »
Examples of PROPAGANDA

He was accused of spreading propaganda.
The report was nothing but lies and propaganda.
She didn’t buy into the propaganda of her day that women had to be soft and submissive. —Maria Shriver, Time, 26 Oct. 2009

But what does this really tell us about indoctrination and propaganda? In reality, not a whole lot. Let’s start with the process of indoctrinating someone.

The process of indoctrination always begins with the identification of which idea’s and concepts the subject hold which are contrary to those the indoctrinator desires the subject to hold. Let’s take for example the United States Constitution’s 2nd Amendment. And let’s say that the the indoctrinator desires the subject to hold a negative opinion of the 2nd Amendment.

First the indoctrinator must identify the subjects opinions on the 2d Amendment. Having identified the subjects positive opinion of the 2d Amendment the indoctrinator must begin to erode that positive opinion. To do that, he must introduce new and contrary information. He must cast doubt in the mind of the subject on the validity of the positive opinion. At the same time that he is casting that doubt, he must also engage in a ruthless propaganda campaign to demonize the 2d Amendment as something that threatens the safety, well-being and happiness of the subject.

Contrary to what the majority may think, the most powerful tactics of indoctrination are not the direct attacks. They are not the propaganda lies, distortions, and haft-truths. The most powerful tactics of indoctrination are the fine tiny little mental splinters of agreement. A frontal assault is just that, a frontal assault, and 99 percent of the time it is nothing less than a tactical diversion. Frontal assaults are impossible to miss, hence the unlikely probability of their success as a indoctrination tactic.

Instead, the tactic is, frontal assault, frontal assault, frontal assault, until the subject feels besieged and becomes angry, defensive and combative. At which point the indoctrinator switches up and begins to agree with the subject. Offering incredibly small but seemingly reasonable, rational, and logical compromises. In this manner an absolute position is transformed into a relative position.

Example: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

This is an absolute position, it leaves no wiggle room what-so-ever in it’s interpretation. The phrases, “the right of the people” “keep and bear” and “shall not be infringed” all have incontrovertible and indisputably defined legal meanings.

The first step in breaking the absolute nature of the preceding absolute position is to transform it into a relative position. This as I said above is done by introducing small reasonable, seemingly rational and logical compromises into the absolute position.

In this case, the regulation of certain undesirable elements to exercise that constitutional protected right. Obviously we don’t want criminals to own or posses firearms, they might use them to commit violent crimes. Well, how do we keep firearms out of the hands of criminals if the 2nd amendment forbids the state or federal government from restricting the rights of free citizens from keeping or bearing arms?

We do so by employing the reasonable argument that criminals are individuals who have proven that they have no respect for the rule of law and that because they have no respect for the rule of law present a life threatening danger to those who do abide by the rule of law, therefore in the interests of public safety they must be striped of certain of those inalienable natural rights as codified in the United States Constitutions Bill of Rights.

This is how Free American citizens ended up surrendering their natural constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms for a government grant of privilege to own and sometimes under certain circumstances bear those arms.

Unlike a natural constitutionally protected right, in order to exercise a government granted privilege one must first meet the criteria for and then obtain the permission of the body granting that privilege. You must pass a background test and receive authorization to purchase any firearm in the United States of America in direct violation to the 2nd Amendment to the United States Constitutions Bill of Rights.

The constant hammering certain concepts is part of the process of indoctrination. Like small cracks in a large boulder that fill with water, the water freezes forcing the small cracks a little at a time to become large cracks. The small reasonable compromises slowly become the reversal of the original absolute position.

In stripping small undesirable classes of citizens of their constitutionally protected rights the flood doors were opened to striping all citizens of their constitutionally protected rights. Background Checks became Universal Background Checks in direct violation of the Due Process Clause. Universal Background Checks become Universal Firearms Registration.

To achieve this end, the process was to engage the subjects of indoctrination in an endless barrage of controversy, beating n them day in and day out until the subject feels besieged and becomes angry, defensive and combative and finally becomes fed up with arguing what seems to be an endless argument, then comes the fine tiny little mental splinters of agreement. Well, a Universal Background Check isn’t as bad as a full on ban of firearms. After-all, it really only serves to ensure that those of the specially designated undesirable classes are prevented from owning firearms, right?

The whole point of designating criminals as ineligible to own a firearm is that they don’t obey the rule of law, right? They are the ones most likely to use a firearm in the commission of a crime or to murder someone right? So banning criminals from exercising their 2nd Amendment Constitutionally protected right is a reasonable and rational thing to do, right? Except, that it has transformed an absolute inalienable right into a relative right, or more properly, a grant of privilege.

As the old joke goes, “Would you sleep with me for a million dollars? Yes. How about a hundred dollars? No, what do you think I am a prostitute? My dear, we have already established that you are a prostitute, now we are just haggling over the price.”

Al across the so called Conservative Blogsphere there are so called “Professional Conservative Bloggers” who have been engaging in just such propaganda and indoctrination, under the guise of keeping their readers and commentator informed of the news of the day or hour. Beating them relentlessly with carefully written articles whose sole purpose is to open that door for those little tiny splinters of the mind.

Ed Morrissey of HotAir is just one such propaganda and indoctrination merchant. Carefully attempting to cultivate the air of reasonable creditable objective conservative blogger. Yes, if you understand ow the process of indoctrination and propaganda work the indisputable evidence is all right there splashed across the front page of HotAir every single day. Same Sex Marriage is inevitable, Amnesty is inevitable, the abolishment of the 2nd Amendment is inevitable. Slowly beating down the resistance of his audience softening them up, preparing them for those little tiny splinters of the mind that will eventually transform absolute position into relative positions.

Before jumping head first into the shallow end of the pool of denial, think long and hard. Would you recognize the process of indoctrination if you saw it in action? Would you recognize the application of propaganda in the indoctrination process? When was the last time you were indoctrinated?

(Cross Posted @ The Wilderness of Mirrors)

Rodan Note: I have been telling the readers here at Blogmocracy that Hot Air is a propaganda blog. People here may not always agree with my opinions, but I am not a propagandist.

Here are two examples of Hot Air propaganda.

Hot Air blatantly lies to its readers regarding Syria

Hot Air makes common cause with Tranzi Progressive NGO Human Rights Watch

How can we ever defeat Progressives if we are being lied to by our own side?

Update: Doriangrey has more to say about the Propaganda outlet known as Hot Air.

The Conservative “Professional Blogging Class” are perfect examples of the Israeli Army at the time of David and Goliath, to chicken shit scared to take on Goliath themselves, perfectly willing to hide behind the skirts of women and let untrained inexperienced teenagers do their fighting for them. (Yes, pointing directly at you Ed Morrissey) Oh, if David win’s you can bet your last dollar they will be right there to celebrate, but if Goliath wins, they will pretend that they never knew David.

Moreover, the majority of individuals who read or comment on the so called conservative blogs are just like David’s so called friends. When the underdog win, oh yea, they will be there to celebrate, but when he loses… Yea, they won’t be anywhere to be found.

Today Goliath turned me into a bloody spot on the ground, Goliath in this case is none other than HotAir’s Ed Morrissey. A chicken shit coward who is frightened to death that he might speak the truth and offend the even bigger Goliath of the Fifth Column Treasonous Media.

Michelle Malkin, an individual reputed to be a Conservative Blogger created HotAir under the pretext of creating a Conservative Bog and news site. Which at the apex of the sites popularity she sold to the supposedly Conservative Christian Broadcasting Company “Salem Communications”. No harm no foul, eh? I mean, she built the site from the ground up, so if she wanted to sell it and make a nice little profit, where’s the harm there, right?

Well, other than failing to inform her faithful regular readers that she was selling it to a bunch of Marxist controlled stooges. I guess there really isn’t any harm. Funny thing though, right after Ed Morrissey banned me from HotAir, Michelle Malkin follow suit and banned me from her Blog as well. I guess the truth has finally come out, like Ann Coulter, who writes all of her books and articles, not out of her won personal convictions, but purely for the money to people unaware of what her real personal ideologies are, it seems that Michelle Malkin is no different.

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France and the problem of anti-Semitism

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Filed under Anti-semitism, Guest Post, Islamic Invasion, Leftist-Islamic Alliance at March 28th, 2013 - 11:30 am

Blogmocracy in Action!

Guest post by: Richard Mather!

France and the problem of anti-Semitism

France has a big problem. I am not talking about the dire economic conditions of the eurozone or the number of French troops fighting Islamists in Mali. I am talking about a resurgence of anti-Semitism that has seen French Jews flee their native country for the safety of the UK.

A new report by the Service de Protection de la Communaute Juive (SPCJ) contains some shocking figures. Physical and verbal attacks increased by 82 per cent in the past year, from 171 cases in 2011 to 315 in 2012. A quarter of these incidents involved the use of a weapon.

What’s particuarly upsetting is that in the days following the awful Toulouse shooting in March 2010, there was an average of nine anti-Semitic incidents every 24 hours. And after the October bombing of a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles, there were a further 28 incidents in the subsequent week.

The report makes clear that the number of anti-Semitic attacks far outweighs the number of other racist attacks. In fact, the increase in anti-Semitic acts in France in 2012 is more than 8 times higher than the increase of the other racist and xenophobic acts. This clearly shows that France has a problem with anti-Semitism, rather than racism in general (which is bad enough).

Alarmed by the state of affairs in France, many French Jews have come to Britain, with St John’s Wood and South Kensington being the most favored places of refuge.

In fact, St John’s Wood Synagogue in London has set up a separate French minyan, attended by 120 people every Shabbat. Rabbi Mordechai Fhima, who is from Paris, leads the growing congregation. “Every Shabbat there are new faces,” he says. “My congregants tell me that here they can practise as a Jew more openly.”

French Jews speak of a climate of fear in France, with many afraid to read Hebrew-language books on the trains or wear a star of David. Most of the attacks take place on the street and on public transport. Paris, it seems, is the worst place to live if you are Jewish. Indeed, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the capital vastly outstrips Judeophobic incidents in Marseille, Lyon and Strasbourg.

But even places like Marseille, where anti-Semitic incidents are fewer, the nature of the attacks are disturbing and are reminiscent of the 1930s and 1940s. The following is an excerpt from the SPCJ report:

A Jewish young man and his friend is yelled at by a group of individuals: “We are for Palestine; we don’t like Jews; we’re gonna kill you. We’re gonna exterminate you all.” The two men keep walking when about 10 individuals storm onto them. The victim is hit on the head, which makes him fall. He is then kicked all over the body while on the ground. They steal his gold Star of David. He suffers from a sprain neck, an internal hemorrhage and needs stitches near the eye.

Britain’s chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has spoken out against the climate of hostility in Europe, saying that “the position of Jews in Europe today is very difficult,” before adding: “There are threats at this moment to brit mila and shechita, and Jews in Europe have begun to ask, is there a place for us here?”

The sad truth is that Europe does not cherish its Jewish communities. Between 2001 and 2005, around 12,000 Jews left France and went to Israel. Many of those who made Aliyah cited Muslim anti-Semitism as the reason for leaving.

France’s political elite – and the EU leadership as a whole – must do more to tackle anti-Semitism. And they must face the fact that many of the incidents are perpetrated by Muslims. This is not a racist observation. It is statement of fact. Physical attacks, cemetery desecrations, firebombing, graffiti and the bullying of Jewish children by their Muslim peers are frequent events in countries across Europe.

To be fair, the French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, is trying to do something about the issue of anti-Semitism. A few days he ago, he and his ministers convened for the first time since 2009 to discuss how to combat racism and anti-Semitism.

It remains to be seen what the committee actually achieves in practical terms. But let’s hope committee actually does something rather than just talk about it. The right to live a Jewish life in France must be protected and fought for by policymakers. As Simon Wiesenthal once, “freedom is not a gift from heaven: you must fight for it every day.”

-Richard Mather

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Chicken Little Views the World or Politics of Science

by Mars ( 173 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Blogmocracy, Climate, Communism, Economy, Education, Environmentalism, Free Speech, Guest Post, Liberal Fascism, Marxism, Medicine, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Science, Socialism at March 22nd, 2013 - 3:00 pm

I’ve had some weird thoughts lately and have been wondering what is our next big crisis.  Of course that line of thought lead me to thinking about all of the past crises that get thrown at us every day.  Lead paint, bird flu, BPA, cell phone cancer, wireless signals scrambling brains, zombie apocalypse, etc.  We are inundated with this kind of crap almost every second of every day.  The worst part about all of these is when they inevitably trot out the scientists.  The parade of scientists proclaiming each and every crisis to be the next great world destroying tragedy is a never ending media circus.  We all know the biggest of these media/scientific circuses, AGW.  What we don’t often think about in the haze and blur of all this media static constantly buzzing through our brains is this simple matter.  There is a reason this is being done.  Who benefits from false science?  The media benefits by getting the newest and biggest story.  The liberal politicians benefit because they get to implement more freedom destroying laws and regulations helping usher in their grand socialist utopia.  The scientists are the ones that many don’t understand.  How do they benefit?  Well, science is all about getting published.  Once you’re published you get the bigger grants, the bigger college seats, the more recognition.  So, next time you hear that the science is in and there is a consensus, immediately become suspicious.  If they say that all the scientists agree, then you know damn well there is an agenda.  Science is not about agreement, it is about investigating over and over again until you finally either prove something definitively or you find the flaws.  And if it gets proven definitively, it will still be reexamined over and over for anything that might have been missed.

 

What got me thinking along these lines was the BPA scare of the last few years.  It just seemed a little odd that something we have had for years was suddenly and without warning a destructive evil.  From there of course I began to wonder about the lead paint thing.  It seemed odd to me that all the mental illnesses that they are trying to blame on lead paint are more evident now after the bans than they were when lead paint was in everything.  From what I’ve seen it’s mainly a case of more reporting on the mental problems than anything else, so at the worst things have remained the same.  So if that data was flawed and or falsified what else was?  Well, it turns out even though I can’t find any detailed information on the whole lead paint deal, there is a contrary opinion in the scientific community on BPA.

 

 

Anti BPA Crusade Discrediting Science And Environmental Health, Says Leading, Independent Expert

Trevor Butterworth, Contributor

Reason, Risk, and Regulation

Professor Richard Sharpe is a leading expert on male reproductive health, directing a research team at the UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The MRC, which is celebrating its centenary this year, is one of the world’s oldest medical research institutes, publicly funded and wholly independent of government. Among the discoveries by scientists working under its aegis are penicillin and the structure of DNA. Sharpe’s focus on reproductive problems has put him at the forefront of research into phthalates, a family of chemicals that make plastic flexible, and, more generally, endocrinology, endocrine disruption (how trace exposures to environmental chemicals may adversely effect hormonal function), and the impact of lifestyle effects (such as diet) and other health issues (such as obesity).

Given Sharpe’s key work on chemical risk, and the fact that he is not funded by industry, and that he does not dismiss concerns about the risks of environmental chemicals (“I am not a die-hard ‘chemicals are safe’ man by any means,” he wrote in the UK’s Independent newspaper), it came as a shock to many environmentalists when he denounced the crusade to highlight the risks of another chemical, bisphenol A (BPA), as violating the fundamental principles of scientific inquiry.

The broadside came in a 2009 article for Toxicological Sciences. The controversy over BPA lay, he argued, not in the in chemical posing a threat, but in the refusal of a small group of scientists to accept that their basic research, consisting of small studies with questionable methodologies and limited statistical power, could not be replicated by much larger studies using larger sample sizes and more sophisticated and careful methods. This small group (mostly funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and centered around the University of Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal) had insisted that an industry-funded conspiracy was the reason the larger studies couldn’t be trusted; and yet, as Sharpe pointed out, very careful research by the Environmental Protection Agency and similar, publicly funded, bodies in Europe and Japan couldn’t replicate their findings either. Scientific method obligated them to either design better studies or concede their original findings were wrong. They did neither. As Sharpe wrote:

If an earlier result cannot be reproduced in a huge study conducted in a scientifically rigorous manner, as exemplified by Ryan et al. (2009), then the original result fails one of the golden rules that govern scientific research. When this happens repeatedly, as is the case with bisphenol A, then there can be no logical, scientifically based reason for continuing to espouse that the original results are the only ones that are correct, rather the converse.

Professor Sharpe was a speaker at a symposium on BPA at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, where this interview took place (with later follow up by email).

So what has changed in the past three years since publication of your paper in Toxicological Sciences?

Sharpe: I think things have not moved on quite the way that I would have liked them to. There’s still the camp who is ignoring a lot of the evidence, and which remains the most vociferous. One of the issues is that in science nothing is ever absolutely black or white; but if you ignore a lot of the evidence – the bits that don’t fit – you can make something black and white. And I think’s that essentially what’s been happening with bisphenol A. There’s a certain group of people who are convinced that it’s responsible for all manner of ills and when evidence is published that does not fit with that, they find ways of dismissing it. If that doesn’t work, they then try to discredit the people who did it, which is not the way to go about things. I think that is just completely unacceptable.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/trevorbutterworth/2013/02/26/anti-bpa-crusade-discrediting-science-and-environmental-health-says-leading-independent-expert

 

Please read the rest of the article.  It is amazing.  So many of the things that happened to people who did not agree with the BPA findings are identical to the things that happen to any scientist who comes out against AGW.

 

Why is this happening?  Don’t let it fool you, this is about control.  The progressive marxists worldwide are creating crisis after crisis to whittle away at freedom to help promote increased taxation and attack capitalism.  Every thing they come up with helps to create a situation that winds up costing industry massive amounts of money to correct.  This comes with the addition of more regulations that drive costs up even more.    Little by little they nip away at the basis of capitalism and increase government influence into business.  So, every time you hear more of this crap, then be sure to take a second look and follow up with research.  You may find out that things are not what they seem.

 

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Age of Narcissism Evil and Insanity Edition

by Mars ( 114 Comments › )
Filed under Corruption, Crime, Democratic Party, Education, Entertainment, Fascism, Free Speech, government, Guest Post, Liberal Fascism, Patriotism, Politics, Progressives, Regulation, Second Amendment, Weapons at January 26th, 2013 - 12:00 pm

America: The Kardashian Years

ByClarice Feldman

Life in the Time of Low Information Voters

I used to love American popular culture. I found it rich, diverse and endlessly amusing. These days, I rarely go to the movies or plays and cannot bear to watch television. Even the radio with its repetitive, uninformative news snippets annoys. Our popular culture has moved from family favorites like Your Show of Shows, The Wonder Years, and I Love Lucy to the minute by minute coverage of celebrities not known for their wit, charm, or beauty, They are known for nothing other than the willingness to put their every part of bodies on narcissistic display and to promote the latest chichi leftwing cause.

Alicia Colon examines the phenomenon of the low information voters such a dross culture produces

Right now they are clueless. Consequently they have allowed the Democrats to hijack and distort the GOP’s positions on virtually every issue. Republicans, therefore, don’t care about the middle class and only want to reduce the taxes of the rich. They are also racists who want to keep minorities down. These distortions are repeated often by anchors on MSNBC and the alphabet networks. CNN is always on in the social service offices and in airports and the formerly legitimate cable station is so far on the decline that it feels comfortable allowing disgusting antics by amoral hosts on its New Year’s Eve broadcast.

But it is folly to assume that all the low-info voters are poorly educated or on the dole. College students and graduates of liberal academia have been completely indoctrinated in leftist ideology and loathe all things conservative. Their bibles include the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times which routinely carry and affirm the Democrat lies.

Hollywood trots out alarming films on climate change, environmental doom and the racist doings of evil white men. Stars like Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel Jackson, Jamie Foxx, and Morgan Freeman use their talents to shill for the administration and the Democrats. The hypocrites that filmed that anti-gun ad calling for action following the Sandy Hook school massacre blithely ignore their participation in films glamorizing a violent gun culture. Democrats called for the ban on all assault weapons with some leftist reporter asking if we really needed such a weapon to kill an animal.

At one point even Saturday Night Live took note of the clueless citizens among us. Its target was the undecided voter, but a broader sweep was called for. How else to explain that voters elected a man with no executive experience in 2008 (and virtually no other relevant experience of any sort) and then re-elected him after he demonstrated beyond peradventure of doubt why his election to office was a stupid idea in the first place.

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Second Excerpt

Nominations to Die From: “The Muzzle is Off”

Jewish voters have been notoriously slow to notice that their former friends on the left side of the aisle have abandoned Israel. But — just perhaps — the nominations of Chuck Hagel, John Brennan, and John Kerry, the troika of nominees for Secretaries of State and Defense and head of the CIA most hostile to Israel in U.S. history, might get them to turn off Jon Stewart, pitch their copies of the New York Times, and start paying attention to real news.

Barry Rubin explains Obama’s “muzzle is off”:

–Their ideas and views are horrible. This is especially so on Middle Eastern issues but how good are they on anything else? True, they are all hostile to Israel but this isn’t the first time people who think that way held high office. Far worse is that they are pro-Islamist as well as being dim-witted about U.S. interests in a way no foreign policy team has been in the century since America walked onto the world stage.

Brennan is no less than the father of the pro-Islamist policy. [snip]

–They are all stupid people. Some friends said I shouldn’t write this because it is a subjective judgment and sounds mean-spirited. But honest, it’s true. [snip]Smart people can make bad judgments; regular people with common sense often make bad judgments less often. But stupid, arrogant people with terrible ideas are a disaster.
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Kerry, of course, was the most energetic backer of sponsoring Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad before the revolt began. Now he will be the most energetic backer of putting the Muslim Brotherhood into power in Syria. Here is a man who once generalized about American soldiers in Vietnam as being baby-killers and torturers. Such things certainly happened but Kerry made the blame collective, except for himself of course.

As for Hagel, suffice it to say that the embarrassing quotes and actions from him in the past — including his opposition to sanctions against Iran — fueled a response to his proposed nomination so strong that the administration had to back down for a while.

What would have happened if President Harry Truman turned over American defense, diplomacy, and intelligence in 1946 to those who said that Stalin wanted peace and that Communist rule in Central Europe was a good thing?

Obama has been president of the United States for four years. Yet in foreign policy, having some decent and competent people in high positions mitigated the damage. Well, the reins are now loosed; the muzzle is off

Shoot, the Gun Grab Threats are Toothless

Facts – they just don’t matter like they used to.

Neither does the Constitution, if you listen to Joe Biden, New York Governor Cuomo, and other politicians grabbing the microphones to take advantage of the low information voters’ short attention span by proposing a series of unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership (or Nancy Pelosi on the 14th Amendment).

Kimberly Strassel explains very clearly why any sweeping gun reforms being bruited about will be dead on arrival:

On the other side is the reality that any of these proposals must, in the normal course of things, pass Congress. A few quick facts about that body. 1) More than half of its members have an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association. 2) The few members today calling for gun control are the same few who have always called for gun control. 3) The House is run by Republicans.

Despite the press’s exuberant efforts to cast congressional gun supporters as having changed their minds, there has been no actual movement. Senate Democrat Joe Manchin caused a media sensation when he declared, immediately after Sandy Hook, that nobody needed “30 rounds in a clip.” Less reported was that it took the Democrat about the time necessary for your average West Virginian to drive to a ballot box to clarify that statement and to add that he’s “so proud of the NRA.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, even with the press’s best efforts to parse his remarks, has committed himself to nothing more than a “thoughtful debate.”

Montana’s Jon Tester and Max Baucus, Alaska’s Mark Begich, Arkansas’s Mark Pryor, South Dakota’s Tim Johnson, Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu — all are quiet on that red-state Democratic front. North Dakota’s brand new senator, Heidi Heitkamp, declared proposals mulled by the Biden task force as “way in the extreme” and “not gonna pass.” Unlike Mr. Obama, all of these members still face elections.

Over in the House, when asked recently what was more likely — passage of gun control or Speaker John Boehner becoming a pagan — a senior GOP leadership aide told Buzzfeed: “Probably the latter.”

A related piece.

Last Night, I Learned About Real Courage

 

Mollie Hemingway, Ed. · January 14, 2013 at 8:18am

Mark and I watched a bit of the Golden Globes last night. I learned about how very many “journeys” all of these actors and directors are on. And they have travel partners who make their journeys possible. And they go all the way, on these journeys, from being an actor who hadn’t yet performed that given role to being an actor who had. What a journey!

Neil Armstrong went on a journey. I am not entirely sure Django Unchained‘s Christopher Waltz did the same.

Anyway, the other thing actors and directors did was show bravery and courage. Mostly the evening was focused on hailing the anti-Sarah Palin movie Game Change. Yawn.

Director Jay Roach explained just how “brave” Julianne Moore was to mock Sarah Palin in her role. To which I’ll offer up two tweets in response:

@MoRocca: Yes, so brave of Hollywood actress Julianne Moore to make fun of Sarah Palin.

@AndyLevy: Haven’t been able to tweet since learning how brave it was for Julianne Moore to play Sarah Palin cuz I’m afraid she’ll never work again

Making a movie, starring known stage and screen talents, based off of one of the most popular musicals of all time shows courage, said star Hugh Jackman:

“Les Miserables is a project of passion; it took a lot of courage to make it,” declared the handsome actor before thanking his cast mates and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness in a passionate and heart-felt speech.

Writing about your experiences to the acclaim of all elites shows courage:

9:30 p.m. Modern Family nominee Julie Bowen commends comedy actress winner Lena Dunham’s courage and tells THR she lives HBO’s Girls. “I wish I had her courage,” she says. “I’m so glad that generation has someone to tell their stories.”

Michael J. Fox’s son Sam Michael made his debut as Mr. Golden Globe, thereby showing … courage:

Sam has never had any showbiz aspirations, so this was kind of out of the blue,” his famous dad told Access Hollywood Sunday night. “I love that he’s got the courage and the curiosity and the sense of adventure to do it.”

Even the Hollywood Foreign Press Association showed courage, according to the San Francisco Chronicle:

the Hollywood Foreign Press even demonstrated a bit of courage in passing over some TV stalwarts in favor of it-woman Lena Dunham and her brilliant HBO series “Girls.”

It’s humbling to be around so much courage. Maybe I can take a journey like theirs someday, where I will also learn about bravery.

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Last-Night-I-Learned-About-Real-Courage

The whole article is worth reading.  It is amazing the level of deluded narcissism Hollywood is capable of.

I called this section Evil and Insanity.  The reason for the first is because I remember once hearing that the opposition is not evil, just wrong.  Watching what is going on in this country now I can no longer agree.  Our opposition is evil, actually.  The commit evil, support evil and actively worship evil now.  I don’t mean this in a religious way either, I mean this in a solid, there is good and evil, no shades of gray way.

Secondly I said Insanity.  What we are seeing is insanity in action.  Ensuring a future where the children of this country are endangered even more in order to advance an agenda is both evil and insane.  The gun grabbers plans would leave the most defenseless as human sacrifices on the altar of liberalism.  If they were serious we would follow the lead of several schools around the nation and allow off duty Deputies and Police Officers armed with purchased  AR-15′s to protect our children.
But in the word of the token lib on Hannity’s radio show today.  “We can’t have armed security, because they could potentially be a danger.”

 

Evil and Insanity people.  Coming soon to your schools, homes, workplace, grocery store, and everywhere else.

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The School Shooting You Haven’t Heard About

by Mars ( 70 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Crime, Guest Post, Media, Progressives, Second Amendment, Weapons at January 23rd, 2013 - 11:00 am

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From my former home state of Wyoming.

 

The School Shooting You Haven’t Heard About

C.J. Box · January 12, 2013 at 10:50am

Very few people heard about the school shooting in gun-filled Wyoming that left three people dead late last year. Stick around, and you’ll find out why.

Here’s what happened:

Chris Krumm, a troubled 25-year-old, traveled from Connecticut to Casper, Wyoming, to settle a score with his father, Jim Krumm, a popular junior college instructor. The motivation for his actions are unclear, but Chris Krumm appeared to be suffering from a mental illness.

On a Friday morning, November 30, Chris Krumm murdered his father’s female companion Heidi Arnold– also an instructor at the college — and left her body in the street. He then drove to Casper College where his father Jim taught computer science in Room 325. Chris Krumm entered the room and —  in front of students — shot his father in the head. Jim Krumm heroically wrestled his son to the floor before he died so the students could escape. Chris Krumm, like most of these cowards, committed suicide before police arrived.

It was a horrific incident, and it shook my hometown of Casper and the rest of our sparsely populated state to its core. Although Wyoming has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the U.S., it also has one of the lowest murder rates. The incident was unusual and shocking and heavily covered locally but not nationally. Where were Michael Bloomberg and Bob Costas and Piers Morgan and Barack Obama?

So why, in the tragic shadow of Sandy Hook, haven’t you heard of this school shooting?

Because Chris Krumm killed Heidi Arnold with a knife. He shot his father through the head with a compound bow and arrow at a range of four feet. And he used a knife to end his own miserable existence.

Now you know why you haven’t heard about it.

It’s far past time for the press to shut the hell up about not having an agenda.

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Bozell: The Media’s Favorite Fake Republicans

by Mars ( 103 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Conservatism, Corruption, Free Speech, government, Guest Post, Media, Patriotism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Republican Party, The Political Right, Theocratic Progressives, Tranzis at January 22nd, 2013 - 6:00 pm

I was just going to post this link on another thread, but this is way too good and important for a quick hit and run.  This is how the press works.  They like to parade a line of “Republicans” to the public to attack and discredit the rest of the party.  This is why change is so hard to do from within.  We have these enemies within the party.  The elites.  The people who basically agree with everything the Democrats want, they just have a different timetable.  The clowns who are willing to destroy the party for their own gain, so they can keep attending all the press parties and socialite gatherings.  Then we get hit from the other side from Republicans who decide that for some reason, their personal opinion on moral and religious issues should be spoken as if they are going to come down on anyone who violates these issues.   If they aren’t false flag plants in the party, then they are sure as hell missing their calling.

 

This article deals with the first kind of Republican traitor.  The Republican concern troll.  You can always identify them by this phrase “I am a Republican but…”.

 

Bozell: The Media’s Favorite Fake Republicans

 

The Republican Party is desperately in need of some good advice. It needs to return to Ronald Reagan conservatism and give America a two-party system, not a tinny echo of Obama. But our liberal media keep desperately inviting fake Republicans to offer advice to the GOP.

They want to create a new Republican Party, one that rejects the principles of the man who championed freedom.

Exhibit A: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Jan. 14 Washington Post insisted on the front page: “Bloomberg wants change in the GOP.” Post reporter Jason Horowitz noted, “America’s most prominent and deep pocketed advocate for gun control would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them.”

What? Republicans are criminals in need of rehabilitation? The analogies get worse. Supporting the Bill of Rights is like supporting … segregation and slavery. Democrats don’t like Bloomberg trying to reform Republicans instead of defeat them, reported Horowitz. But “Bloomberg counters that just as Democrats were once the party of slavery and segregation, the pro-gun GOP is now ripe for moderation.”

The new Republican Party is always “ripe for moderation” — overripe to the point of turning moldy and smelly, like a forgotten fruit in the back of your refrigerator.

In the same story, Horowitz quotes Bloomberg as saying, “You have to change the people in the House,” and reports Bloomberg wants to use his new super PAC to run ads against Second Amendment defenders: “This guy or woman is in favor of leaving guns in the hands of crazy people who can kill your kids.”

Please remember this is the same “moderate” Bloomberg who journalists hailed for a “No Labels” campaign for civility in government.

Exhibit B: Colin Powell, who voted for Obama twice, but still insists he’s a Reagan Republican. Indeed, since becoming a Republican, all he’s done is criticize the GOP. NBC brought him on “Meet the Press” to declare, “If it’s just going to represent the far right-wing of the political spectrum, I think the Party is in difficulty. I’m a moderate but I’m still a Republican.”

Powell thinks he’s a Republican, and the GOP has an “identity problem.” But the “identity problem” is Powell’s — voting for Obama is neither Republican nor “moderate.” Today’s Republican establishment isn’t to the right of Reagan. It is to the left of the man who won one of the largest landslides in history with an unequivocal conservative agenda.

NBC host David Gregory at least suggested to Powell he wasn’t very Republican before cuing up his endless 600-plus-word answer. But he offered no challenge as Powell attacked the “dark vein of intolerance” coming from Sarah Palin and other conservatives. Powell lashed into Palin for saying Obama was “shucking and jiving” on Benghazi, but he said nothing about Biden insisting Republicans want blacks “back in chains.” Powell voted for Biden, twice, too.

In the next segment, Gregory turned Powell’s indictment on former RNC chairman Haley Barbour: “He talks about a deep vein of intolerance within the Party. How did that sit with you?” Barbour not only failed to defend today’s GOP on racism, he repeated that Powell the Obama Voter fits in the Republican “mainstream.” Worse yet, Gregory asked Republican consultant Mike Murphy: “You’ve had a lot of these similar critiques. Your thoughts about Colin Powell this morning?”

Murphy said he was happy to hear Powell’s “still a Republican,” and “I’d invite him to come back home and help us modernize and strengthen the party. We could use him.”

Mike Murphy and his friends in the media are on the very same page: To “modernize” the Republican Party is to put conservatism through a shredder. On NBC back in November, Murphy warned if “we don’t modernize conservatism, we can go extinct … We’ve got to get kind of a party view of America that’s not right out of Rush Limbaugh’s dream journal.”

By the by, how does one “modernize” principles?

Limbaugh’s dream is Reagan’s dream. You can’t be against Rush and for Reagan.

In 2004, these same TV “news” people denounced Sen. Zell Miller for ripping his former party at the GOP convention. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell denounced him for “a red meat speech, in fact a raw meat speech, which in fact misstates a lot of Kerry’s record.” On ABC, George Stephanopoulos whined, “Zell Miller was on a tirade. I mean, he was red faced, red meat for the red states.” On MSNBC, both Chris Matthews and David Gergen compared Miller to “axe wielding segregationist” Democrat Lester Maddox.

Our transparently partisan media elite believes only one party should be embarrassed for its alleged extremism. Only one party must moderate or die. The Republicans must always move left. The liberal media is always holding up a plastic cup of “compromise” Kool-Aid and demanding the GOP drink up. Republicans should listen to this advice, knowing the correct response is always to do the opposite.

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L. Brent Bozell III is the president of the Media Research Center.

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2nd Amendment Rally AZ State Capitol Jan 19th

by Guest Post ( 64 Comments › )
Filed under Blogmocracy, Guest Post, Politics, Second Amendment at January 22nd, 2013 - 11:00 am


Blogmocracy in action!



Guest post by: The Osprey!

2nd Amendment Rally AZ State Capitol Jan 19th

Yesterday, as part of Gun Appreciation Day I attended the Support the 2nd Amendment Rally at the Arizona State Capitol complex.
It was a spirited if somewhat disorganized event, as whoever had put it together had not applied for a permit for audio amplification, thus the first group of speakers was unable to be heard throughout the crowd of roughly 2000 folks on hand until someone had the bright idea to ask the AZ DPS officers on hand if we could use the bullhorn. They said it was fine as long as there were no complaints so the later speakers all got a chance to be heard throughout the crowd. Quite a few AZ state legislators spoke…there’s a bill afoot in the AZ State Legislature to make any new Federal firearms restrictions null and void in Arizona. Below is a selection of the best pics and signs from the rally. We’re going to do it again in February.

And yes, most of the people in the crowd, even the State Reps, were packing.

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Gun Control is a package deal

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Crime control, not gun control

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No “raaaaacism” here!

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The lovely little auburn haired lady in red with her back to the camera addressing the crowd is AZ State Rep Kelly Townsend.

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The “Anonymous” family. Normally I find those Guy Fawkes masks from “V” somewhat sinister, but on the kids they cracked me up.

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The Modern Musket

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Random crowd shots

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-The Osprey

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The Age of Narcissism

by Mars ( 98 Comments › )
Filed under Academia, Blogmocracy, Education, Entertainment, Free Speech, Guest Post, Health Care, Media, Political Correctness at January 13th, 2013 - 7:44 pm

We have entered a new era in this country.  One I am not proud to be part of nor do I wish for it’s survival into our future.  We are now in the age of narcissism.  Much was made of the “me” generation several years back, but they had nothing on this current generation of egomaniacs.  Things have gotten so bad that even the Psychology/Psychiatric industry have taken notice.  A few years ago (during O’s run up to the presidency) they began the process of removing Narcissistic Personality Disorder from the upcoming release of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition.

What has brought this on?  How about a school system that rewards mediocrity?  How about sporting events that no longer even keep score in the fear of alienating someone?  How about a culture that embraces relativism at any cost?  Also much damage has been done by an internet culture that convinces every teen out there that his/her opinion is not only equal but actually superior to all others.  Twitter, Facebook, and many others have convinced teens that they are wise beyond their years, they consider their follower counts as proof of their abilities and importance.  Now we have a President in this country that represents what they have always believed about themselves, that the “cool factor” is all that matters.  It doesn’t matter one whit that he has accomplished nothing of substance, it doesn’t matter that he continues to destroy any chance of a future that any of these kids could ever have.  All that matters is that he is cool.  He’s not a boring, old, white man with too much money and not enough coolness.

 

The Age of Narcissism is upon us, may it die soon.

 

 

 

We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists

By

Published January 08, 2013

FoxNews.com

 

A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.

Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years.
This data is not unexpected.  I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.

On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.” They can delete unflattering comments. They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem. They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”

Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame.

 

A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored

By CHARLES ZANOR
Published: November 29, 2010

 

Narcissists, much to the surprise of many experts, are in the process of becoming an endangered species.

Not that they face imminent extinction — it’s a fate much worse than that. They will still be around, but they will be ignored.

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (due out in 2013, and known as DSM-5) has eliminated five of the 10 personality disorders that are listed in the current edition.

Narcissistic personality disorder is the most well-known of the five, and its absence has caused the most stir in professional circles.

Most nonprofessionals have a pretty good sense of what narcissism means, but the formal definition is more precise than the dictionary meaning of the term.

Our everyday picture of a narcissist is that of someone who is very self-involved — the conversation is always about them. While this characterization does apply to people with narcissistic personality disorder, it is too broad. There are many people who are completely self-absorbed who would not qualify for a diagnosis of N.P.D.

The central requirement for N.P.D. is a special kind of self-absorption: a grandiose sense of self, a serious miscalculation of one’s abilities and potential that is often accompanied by fantasies of greatness. It is the difference between two high school baseball players of moderate ability: one is absolutely convinced he’ll be a major-league player, the other is hoping for a college scholarship.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/health/views/30mind.html?_r=0

 

 

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