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Searched and didn't see this posted. Rush mentioned it today.
1 posted on 02/23/2010 9:11:05 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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Gotta read the whole article - and then read the Wikipedia link describing Cargo Cults. I found it all quite interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult


2 posted on 02/23/2010 9:12:24 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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I though Rush did a very good job of explaining the overall social structure, philosophy and precepts…for those that are not sure about the topic, this should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult


3 posted on 02/23/2010 9:17:00 PM PST by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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I thought it interesting that Rush had never heard of the Cargo Cults until today.

It’s a famous side-note to WWII history, and has been mentioned in lots of WWII tv documentaries in the last couple of decades.


5 posted on 02/23/2010 9:21:10 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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John Frum doesn’t appear on the Obama team.


6 posted on 02/23/2010 9:21:36 PM PST by ninonitti
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Cargo Cult President.
8 posted on 02/23/2010 9:24:29 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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The fake runways and air traffic controllers made me think of the fake greek columns at INVESCO field. Not to mention the deity theme as well.


9 posted on 02/23/2010 9:25:15 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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10 posted on 02/23/2010 9:25:56 PM PST by HangnJudge
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Some of the best footage of cargo cults I’ve seen was in — of all things — the “Chariots of the Gods” documentary. Erich von Däniken had the idea that ancient myths of gods descending to Earth and temples built to worship them were an ancient version of cargo cults involving actual aliens from space, and drew a parallel with modern cargo cults. World War II-era GIs from America would seem to natives of remote Pacific islands about as stunningly super-advanced as aliens from Alpha Centauri would to us. Okay, you don’t have to buy von Däniken, but the people who made the documentary based on his book did come up with some pretty amazing footage of actual cargo cults in operation circa 1970, with things like replicas of airplanes made with sticks (in the hope of luring the real things back by sympathetic magic). In a way, because it was genuine, it was more astonishing than the speculative stuff about aliens.


11 posted on 02/23/2010 9:31:11 PM PST by Deklane
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Rush’s treatment of this today was masterful. He was spot on.


15 posted on 02/23/2010 9:59:46 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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The left’s entire movement is based on inverting cause and effect.

- They want to replace a system where people are free to achieve with one where everyone is forced to the same results.

- It doesn’t matter whom you trample, the end justifies the means.

- People don’t make the same poor decisions that led them to where they are; if we give them enough handouts they’ll be accomplished individuals!

- Since it’s a good thing when someone creates a better version of something or is able to offer it at a better price, the inverse must be true too! Artificially driving energy prices sky-high so that non-competitive failures are forced on people is therefore equivalent to real innovation.

- Having government put an artificial ceiling on an element necessary to nearly every energy source is a “free market” program since it has the word “trade” in it.


17 posted on 02/23/2010 10:27:17 PM PST by BobbyT
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