The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Show Thread - Monday, February 13, 2012

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).

White House seeks to soothe concerns over contraception rule
By Peter Wallsten and Sandhya Somashekhar, Published: February 7, 2012

“There are conversations right now to arrange a meeting to talk with folks about how this policy can be nuanced,” said Joel C. Hunter, a Florida megachurch pastor who has grown personally close to Obama and advised his White House on religious issues. “This is so fixable, and we just want to get into the conversation.” ....

Hunter and several other outside Obama advisers reject the charge that the president is anti-religion, but they say the Health and Human Services rule was a policy mistake..

Noooo kidding.

"The left confuses their contortions with "nuance," but nuance is simply the left left brain's feeble attempt to keep reality at bay, which inevitably seeps in through the walls, ceilings, and floorboards."

Here:

"Unintelligent people are usually just plain wrong, so we don't have to worry much about them. On the other hand, in order to attain truly deep stupidity, one must generally be of above average intelligence. Therefore, in a certain very real sense, intelligence does not vary inversely with stupidity, but directly with it. Not for nothing has it been said that so much philosophy is simply "error on a grandiose scale."

A prime example of deep stupidity and grandiose error is Marxism and all of its many polluted streams, branches, creeks and crocks. That variants of this falsehood still proliferate on the left today means that, as always, intelligence alone is no unknowculation against evil, darkness, and error. Hardly.

For conservative "classical" liberals, we are generally faced with an odious choice between the stupid party and the evil party.

We generally align ourselves with the former, since the former is at least susceptible to our influence, whereas the latter is not.

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"...the fundamental truths are always accessible, but they could not be imposed on those who refuse to take them into consideration."

Among other responses, truth engenders a dynamic sense of veneration -- a sense of the sacred. And this is why you will have noticed that the left attempts to surround so many of its moldy lies with the penumbra of sanctity. But the sanctity is entirely bogus -- it readily slides into the sanctimony that is intrinsic to the left. In a perverse way, this sanctimoniousness answers the human need for the sacred, but in an alternatively crudely sentimental or authoritarian manner enforced by the many varieties political correctness. (You will notice that the left's confusion of sentimentality with moral/religious depth is just as evident as their totalitarian mind control; they are not opposites but complementary -- like Hitler's sentimental love of dogs.)

This is why the left doesn't really have ideas but icons -- including "iconic ideas." It is an insidious and sinister process, because there is great psychological pressure on all us of to bow down before these false gods, as if they were actually sacred (for example, the many fawning MSM tributes to "the Goreacle"). And there is absolutely no symmetry in this.

For example, if a conservative steps in one of the left's many sacred cowpies, there is a good chance that his career will be ruined. But if a leftist offends what is actually sacred, he will be praised as someone who "speaks truth to power."

It is inconceivable that the media would trot out some moral equivalent of Christopher Hitchens to blast Martin Luther King on the occasion of his death because of the latter's embrace of dangerous socialist ideas. For one thing, few conservatives are so tasteless, not to mention enraged.

The point is that nearly every one of the leftists's core beliefs is not a proper idea but an icon, whether it is manmade global warming, being "for the little guy," affirmative action, abortion, homosexual behavior, "peace," "progress," multiculturalism, diversity -- in fact, "progressive" is the quintessence of a meaningless icon, since it bears no relationship to progress and promotes economic and social policies that ensure not just a lack of progress, but regression. For example, the "peace movement" can only bring about more war, just as affirmative action can only bring about harm to blacks.

And this is why it is so easy to be a conservative, because you no longer have to contort yourself with so many lies in order to be thoroughly consistent, both internally and externally. The left confuses their contortions with "nuance," but nuance is simply the left left brain's feeble attempt to keep reality at bay, which inevitably seeps in through the walls, ceilings, and floorboards. ........."

Deep Stupidity and the Medicine for a Nightmare ~ Robert W. Godwin, Ph.D (forensic clinical psychologist)

“CPAC 2012 seemed to purge most of the liberal/RINO and pro-gay groups

I did not know that. One of the reasons I don’t go. Maybe next year I’ll go, I live in Bethesda so I can just hop on the metro. BTW Chris broadcasts his show from there on Thursday and Friday. You should listen to them, they were great shows too, they will be up for a few more days. He went there on Saturday too, you could have met him! Mrs Suhks is a huge fan/groupie and goes to a lot of his WMAL parties, me, not so much ;o)

Sorry for the delay in my reply to you, Clint N. Suhks. I had to do a little research to ensure that GOProud (the pro-gay group) was indeed NOT at CPAC 2012. They were not. I wandered through the vast exhibition hall (3-4 times bigger than when CPAC was at the Crystal Marriott in Arlington years ago) and didn't see a GOProud booth, but I found out for sure (by another source) that they were not at CPAC this year.

Part of the past problems with GOProud and the boycott of CPAC by Sarah Palin, Heritage Center, and others was the bad blood between these people/groups and ACU/CPAC head David Keene (whom I think enthusiastically embraced GOProud). Keene retired at the end of CPAC 2011 - Al Cardenas (a Cuban-American from Florida) now runs CPAC, and overall, he did a fine job this year.

Sarah Palin was the keynote (finally!), I think Heritage was back, Frank Gaffney, Media Research Center, others all made a return after years of absence in some cases. There wasn't any "controversy" this year, like last year and in some previous years. Nobody missed David Keene, although he was there as an attendee and introduced a couple of speakers.

Before you sign up for CPAC next year, you may want to check the cpac.org site (or call someone at the ACU/CPAC) to see if GOProud or other objectionable groups plan to return. My source told me that "GOProud hopes to return to CPAC 2013". Apparently GOProud held some event near the CPAC 2012 venue, but they definitely were not included this year. Hopefully "hope" is as far as they get next year. ;-)

I wish I could have met Chris Plante as well - it was difficult to leave our seats in the big ballroom last Saturday - we needed to keep those seats so we could be sure to have a seat for Sarah! They had several overflow rooms with Sarah on video, but heck, we wanted to sit as close to her as possible!

There are WMAL parties? What goes on there? Darn, I wish we lived closer to the DC area. Lots of fun stuff going on down there for us political junkies.... ;-)

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