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I am going to share a discovery with you that explains everything the left says and does. First, let me introduce you to Irving Lester Janis (26 May 1918 - 15 November 1990). He was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his theory of “groupthink” which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions. So what Eddie? Groupthink is a tired slur that gets tossed around, make this quick or I’m outta here. Wait! Groupthink is much more than a word. REF:...

I saw a school picture of Anthony Weiner last night. He somehow seemed oddly familiar.

(Another Freeper suggested I Post this...) Folks keep looking for “truth” in the words and statements coming from the progressive MSM, where quite frankly none is expected. It’s damned aggravating. Here is how they operate. It’s quite simple and explains everything they say and do. It hangs on their office walls. Irving Janis was a Psych professor at Yale (ring a bell). He researched groupthink and developed eight groupthink behaviors. I recast them a little below as commandments of the progressive left. I Thou shalt create an illusion of invulnerability shared by most members to foster excessive optimism and encourage...

NOTE The following text is a quote: Top FARC Commander Sentenced To 27 Years In Prison For Conspiring To Import Tons Of Cocaine Into The United States JUL 22 -- (Manhattan, NY) - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New York Field Division ("DEA") and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and, announced that GERARDO AGUILAR RAMIREZ, a/k/a "Cesar," a former front commander in the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or "FARC"), was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for conspiring to...

Eddie, why am I reading your vanity? Because I am going to share a discovery with you that explains everything the left says and does. First, let me introduce you to Irving Lester Janis (26 May 1918 - 15 November 1990). He was a research psychologist at Yale University and a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is most famous for his theory of "groupthink" which described the systematic errors made by groups when taking collective decisions.So what Eddie? Groupthink is a tired slur that gets tossed around, make this quick or I’m outta here. Wait! Groupthink...

Janis Joplin - The Queen of rock in 69 - sings her guts out on "Ball And Chain" live in Germany 69

Singer Janis Joplin dies from a heroin overdose at the Landmark Hotel in Hollywood. Joplin's unrestrained personality and passionate, raspy voice made her a symbol of the intensity and rebellious spirit of the late 1960s. Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, in 1943. A moody, withdrawn teenager, she expressed herself through music, poetry, and art. At age 17, she ran away and began singing in nightclubs in Houston and Texas. In the 1960s, she moved to San Francisco, where eventually she joined a band called Big Brother and the Holding Company. The band released an album and was a...

As I’ve said somewhere in the past, the best humor always has an element of truth to it. The more it’s stepped in truth, the better it usually is. Well, I found the following piece on Michael Brown’s website, SpiritDaily.com. When I read it, I nearly fell off my chair LMAO! Noah in America In the year 2005, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States, and said, "Once again the earth has become wicked and overpopulated, and I see the end of all flesh before me. Build another Ark and save 2 of...

After their tiny plane crashed deep in the jungles of southern Colombia, three American civilians on a mission to search for cocaine labs, drug planes and, occasionally, guerrilla units were taken hostage by Marxist rebels. A year later, the men's families say the captives have been all but forgotten. Some say that is the way American officials and the men's employers want it to be. The three Americans — Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes — worked cloaked in secrecy for two subsidiaries of Northrop Grumman, the huge military contractor, in an arrangement used increasingly by the United States...