Posted on 01/21/2007 12:17:53 AM PST by neverdem
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Very true....... and the past forty or so years of liberalism will soon be the cause of many of our deaths in a number of ways.
There are multiple ways that we are weaker now and are susceptible to dangers. And it did not have to happen.
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By the way, why is "forty" spelled forty when "four" is spelled four??? Bugs me....
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The hypocrisy of the Liberal Left finds common ground with the Islamofascist.
Unable to export anything more than crude oil pumped by Westerners, and figs, the two-faced culture uses satellite phones, guns, bombs, electronics, communications, all created by the Western modern world, to fight for a primitive and backward society.
great article.........
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain
[Caring about the catastrophic failure of mankind in large parts of the planet means going to rock concerts.]
Let's not forget "Save the Whales" bumper stickers.
These are dangerous people. They would sooner kill a christian than jail a bomb throwing terrorist.
The Iraq war is a perfect example of liberal moral perversity.
It is a culture which champions evil.
I read this in the bible somewhere... nothing new.
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..."Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the press, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -Mark Twain"...
Mark Twain said that, huh? Brilliant! I guess there is "nothing new under the sun." Thanks for the quote..I shall keep it..
He was not only one very funny man but he was one of the smartest fellows who ever graced the earth.
This is God's truth. We have been held hostage since the New Deal and Great Society to this culture of victimization. It must stop. A start has been made through Talk Radio and the internet.
Anybody notice the first thing the new Democrat congress is going after? They want to restore the Fairness Doctrine.
They can't win the argument so they want to shut us up.
Except when it came to investments. He was terrible. He kept squandering his fortune on ridiculous inventions such as the infant bed clamp.
Why shouldn't these liberals hate themselves? I'd hate myself if I were one of them.
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...being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time. -The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant. - Open Letter to Commodore Vanderbilt, 1869
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Hmph.
The left is made up of narcissistic high chair kings/queens who want to make people do what they want them to(for their own good)
They believe that their motives are the highest and those who disagree have the basest.
They are not given to rational discussion, examination of facts or understanding unintended consequences of their beliefs put into action.
They want to be story book radicals in a free country where they can say what they want without consequence. They are fantasists who imagine(whatta theme song) the world, at its worst so they can imagine a world at its best delivered by them.
They are authoritarian, rely on judges to fast track anything they want, and secretly hate their countrymen because they actually can be persuaded to vote for republicans, or conservatives. They are not oppressed so they make criminals victims and victims criminals.
They have the bully pulpit, (the arts, the entertainment the media, the academy) and they use it to bully.
They believe that it is conservatives who are fearful and they give us global warming. (Where ya gonna be when the ice caps melt, bro?)
They have a deep screeching howling(nods to Alan Ginsburg)
hole in their soul, that can't be sublimated, because they fear the sublime. Therefore life at either end becomes valuless since their own lacks any higher purpose. This is not so much self loathing as deep primal fear, that always looks outward for the evil that they have within.
Which is why they cannot see their own country as a continuously self correcting hopeful place, but rather the ultimate expression of all the sins of mankind.
They believe that the epithet, " go eff yerself" is not an anatomical impossibility but rather an impossibility imposed by American consumerism, selfishness, imperialism, rightwing theocratic laws, bigoil, halliburton, cheyny, bush and Christians, which can be performed successfully when they get a judge to declare that it can.
So I wish them well with that. Prolly the only part of the liberal canon I can get on board with.
Sigh.....the preceeding is a meta conclusion derived from years of observation and interface with liberals.
It has always seemed preferable to me to create and see, hold in my hands and place into the world those things which better the human "condition" than to simply stand on the sidelines and comment or stand in the way of those who do the actual "creating".
Ditto.......
Actually, they'd prefer to "eff" us all, so long as they get to enjoy it and we remain ignorant of who is, in fact, doing the "effing".
The psychology of middle class self-hate of is complex and multi-layered. It is, in part a mindset of frozen adolescence whereby people never entirely move beyond the inchoate parent-anger of their youth. Even sophisticated professionals can still carry their adolescent baggage, now displaced into a vague resentment against their own middle class roots or against America as the parent figure of the Western world. In part it is Rousseau and D. H. Lawrence: the cerebral intellectual's Romantic infatuation with the primitive. And in part it is perhaps a stray fragment of the shattered star of Christianity - the first shall be last etc. This fragment, detached now from its overall religious context, floats meaninglessly in the post-Christian philosophical ether.
The consequences of this confused and self-indulgent philosophy are full of paradox.
First: when do you ever hear any credit given to the wicked American enterprise culture for the microchip, the personal computer, the Internet, Google, and all the rest of the apparatus that every lefty-liberal anti-globalisation warrior or anti-Western terrorist now blithely uses in pursuit of her agenda? In a staggering act of biting the hand that feeds, the liberal intelligentsia sneers at the kind of souls without whom there would have been no Western civilisation in the first place. Meanwhile South East Asia is turning out science graduates in the millions.
Second: the spread of attention-seeking, wilful victimhood in our culture - the whingeing, blaming and litigating -has tragically been assisted by the very scruples of self reliant, non-drama-queen type people preferring to just keep their own counsel and say nothing.
Third: Whilst we may not exactly have 1984, we do have plenty of Orwellian Doublethink. Being a ‘radical' means thinking just like everyone else in your peer group. Caring about the catastrophic failure of mankind in large parts of the planet means going to rock concerts.
In challenging this malaise, it is not enough to attack the crazy social policies and the political correctness it has spawned. It is also necessary to challenge the century long myth that a left-wing type of ‘social conscience' is good-hearted even if it is naïve. This is one huge fallacy. The truth is that it is more usually self-centred, self-deceiving and ultimately self-serving.
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Well said.
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