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I encourage you to go read the entire article...he makes some excellent points that can be applied in many places.

I've got my red nose on...where's yours??

1 posted on 09/26/2010 12:59:32 PM PDT by Bean Counter
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...long on rhetoric, short on facts.

"It is possible, that with highly polarized issues like finance, energy depletion, and environmental damage, that some leading clowns may act as decoys on the way to (positive?) change."

..."change?" Whatever. He posed a windy argument in favor of a policy that he refuses to name (more spending?), and his argument is based on a generalizing ad hominem steeped in rhetoric.


2 posted on 09/26/2010 1:15:41 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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His chosen topic at the Oil Drum was "Sociology/Psychology," BTW. It appears that the clown nose fits him.


3 posted on 09/26/2010 1:16:55 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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This complex cyber landscape exists concurrently with accelerating real crises in energy, the economy, and the environment.

What crisis, other than perhaps an Obama generated economic one.

My first thought based on the one comment, is: Nate, where you been hanging out?

You rub noses with clowns, you begin to look like them.


4 posted on 09/26/2010 1:17:40 PM PDT by wita
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I just glanced at that this but he seems to be dealing with “group think”

I have found it strange, but almost all the group think I have seen has occurred in groups


5 posted on 09/26/2010 1:23:42 PM PDT by woofie
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Clarabell? Is that you?
6 posted on 09/26/2010 1:33:32 PM PDT by JPG (Sarah Palin says: "Buck-up or get out of the truck.")
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I love the reply from one of the doomers:

“Good to see Nate is as petulant as ever. Yet another long winded and pointless post, entirely devoid of otherwise useful information, which seems to serve no other purpose than to obsequiously trumpet how much smarter he thinks he is than everyone else.”

If I had a gold eagle for every doomer investment, dystopia, survival book I’ve bought over the past 30 years, I’d be wealthy.

*I am, but that’s because I don’t pay attention to the doomers.


7 posted on 09/26/2010 1:42:31 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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We are just over a month from one of the most important elections in our time and he wonders why people are a bit harsh in their political rhetoric?? lol
8 posted on 09/26/2010 1:49:28 PM PDT by Dem Guard (Obama's 57 States = The Organization of The Islamic Conference (OIC).)
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I have termed it ideological anarchy, and it is a result of a nation increasingly forsaking the authority which it once largely looked to as its supreme ideological authority, the Bible, understood in the light of the New Testament and preached by churches. At one time the evangelical faith was a form of “civil religion,” and the McGuffey’s reader with its Biblical morality and allusions helped raise of children in the way that should go. Having entered into benefits of such labor, State-sanctioned secular liberal ideology now functionally serves as a religion, raising up generations in a way that seems right to them, but in the end thereof are the ways of death.
http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html
http://www.astorehouseofknowledge.info/Education_in_the_United_States


9 posted on 09/26/2010 2:01:50 PM PDT by daniel1212 ( ("Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out," Acts 3:19))
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For the last time, articles from this source belong in Bloggers.
10 posted on 09/26/2010 2:11:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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