Posted on 09/07/2011 12:02:51 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We're playing those mind games together
Pushing the barriers,
Planting seeds
Playing the mind guerrilla
Chanting the mantra, peace on earth
- John Lennon
It's a chilling moment when the light goes out in someone's eyes. A once-radiant child hardens from abuse. A woman's heart shrinks after her husband's abandonment.
The person looks the same, maybe acts the same. But something is gone, and what's lost is irretrievable. It's like when a person dies: in a heartbeat, the soul vanishes.
I see this phenomenon every day: a light dimming. The friendly shopkeeper snaps at me. My cheerful neighbor seems flattened.
And you hear it in the news: people acting strangely, going off the deep end. The most bizarre behavior becoming the new normal.
A thug bites off a finger. Sarah Palin's church is torched. Black Panthers intimidate voters.
An esteemed Columbia University black architecture professor punches a white female coworker in the eye for not doing more about white privilege. He has no history of violence. Why now?
Meanwhile, liberal leaders, such as Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden, incite attacks on political opponents by using incendiary language, such as "barbarians," "Nazis," "tea-baggers." Perhaps not coincidentally, flash mobs of blacks attack innocent whites all over the country; black youths injure or even kill non-whites in "knock 'em down" assaults.
In the past week or so, a senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus tells the Tea Party to go to hell, and the head of one of America's biggest unions incites union members to violence: "Let's take these son of a bitches out."
Why now?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Yours is an astute observation. It pays to be aware of the memes, the main recurrent themes that are being pushed out across our media, arts and our educational institutions.
The aim is to create emptiness and hopelessness. The question then becomes: what is to fill that emptiness and redeem that hopelessness? The answer is the stuff of nightmares.
Yours is an astute observation. It pays to be aware of the memes, the main recurrent themes that are being pushed out across our media, arts and our educational institutions.
The aim is to create emptiness and hopelessness. The question then becomes: what is to fill that emptiness and redeem that hopelessness? The answer is the stuff of nightmares.
I’ve seen the cube and it still boils down to freedom vs. slavery. We win, we are free. We lose and we become slaves. It’s that simple.
There are people all over the cube that still prefer freedom to slavery. Are we to exclude one of the corner dwellers because we don’t think they love freedom? If so, the war is already lost.
If that is the way they take it, so be it. I don’t believing in starting trouble, but, if trouble comes, I will not turn tail and run like a scared rabbit , either.
First time I heard of them, but I don’t get around very much. I just go to Free Republic and to town and back home. I do not strt trouble and will try to avoid it, but,if it comes, I will not run or turn the other cheek to get slapped.
Calm down archy. Don’t be so heavy handed on the poor keyboard.
I would just rather see more fun programing and movies.
I just don’t want to see people being injured in crashes. Don’t need to see the inside of a jail. “Shark Week” does not turn me on. Nor does “Hillbilly Handfishin’”
There are so many ‘reality’ shows where someone is always pissed at somebody else. Not my type of entertainment.
Also, did you know that when cable first came out, it was advertised as “commercial free T.V.”.
Most of us, and our kids, spend many hours in front of the tube. If only the hours actually taught us something, while making it fun. Those are the ones I try to watch.
I do spend a lot of time searching...and sometimes I have to just shut the damn thing off.
Not much left to the “cult of Obama” now. Even his fans wonder if he really has what it takes to be President. He’s looking more and more lost. If there’s a fanatical spirit now, it’s more a result of fear rather than hope or faith.
B T T T
Yep : )
Thanks for the ping.
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