• Pragerisms

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    Dennis Prager Wisdom.

    • "The left is far more interested in gaining power than in creating wealth."
    • "Without wisdom, goodness is worthless."
    • "I prefer clarity to agreement."
    • "First tell the truth, then state your opinion."
    • "Being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."
    • "If you don't fight evil, you fight gobal warming."
    • "There are things that are so dumb, you have to learn them."
  • Liberalism’s Seven Deadly Sins

    • Sexism
    • Intolerance
    • Xenophobia
    • Racism
    • Islamophobia
    • Bigotry
    • Homophobia

    A liberal need only accuse you of one of the above in order to end all discussion and excuse himself from further elucidation of his position.

  • Glenn’s Reading List for Die-Hard Pragerites

    • Bolton, John - Surrender is not an Option
    • Bruce, Tammy - The Thought Police; The New American Revolution; The Death of Right and Wrong
    • Charen, Mona - DoGooders:How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help
    • Coulter, Ann - If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans; Slander
    • Dalrymple, Theodore - In Praise of Prejudice; Our Culture, What's Left of It
    • Doyle, William - Inside the Oval Office
    • Elder, Larry - Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card--and Lose
    • Frankl, Victor - Man's Search for Meaning
    • Flynn, Daniel - Intellectual Morons
    • Fund, John - Stealing Elections
    • Friedman, George - America's Secret War
    • Goldberg, Bernard - Bias; Arrogance
    • Goldberg, Jonah - Liberal Fascism
    • Herson, James - Tales from the Left Coast
    • Horowitz, David - Left Illusions; The Professors
    • Klein, Edward - The Truth about Hillary
    • Mnookin, Seth - Hard News: Twenty-one Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
    • Morris, Dick - Because He Could; Rewriting History
    • O'Beirne, Kate - Women Who Make the World Worse
    • Olson, Barbara - The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House
    • O'Neill, John - Unfit For Command
    • Piereson, James - Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
    • Prager, Dennis - Think A Second Time
    • Sharansky, Natan - The Case for Democracy
    • Stein, Ben - Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It
    • Steyn, Mark - America Alone
    • Stephanopolous, George - All Too Human
    • Thomas, Clarence - My Grandfather's Son
    • Timmerman, Kenneth - Shadow Warriors
    • Williams, Juan - Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It
    • Wright, Lawrence - The Looming Tower

DFLers Vote Absentee Ballots for Severely Mentally Handicapped in Crow Wing County!

And the County hireling  looks on accepting it all.  You vote once….DFL county workers can vote multiples of times for their left wing candidates.  

Click on to this video……and  discover why Minnesota is such a blue state.

http://www.looktruenorth.com/home/363-voter-fraud/14434-voter-fraud-reported-in-crow-wing-county.html

Pay particular attention to the bureaucrat who has memorized a description  of her duty, but does not understand what her duty is.   Such a person was relied on in the good old USSR, and I am certain in Nazi Germany, to assist the wrongs of the system  be enforced.  They would lose their jobs and maybe even  their lives if decisions regarding classic moral conflict occurred before March, 1953 when Stalin died, or a few years earlier when the Nazis were defeated.  Government servants  became quite content to memorize their piece and regurgitate it when needed.

What is an American’s excuse for avoiding moral duties?

How many  retardeds have thus voted via  DFL surrogates over the past years…..or in 2008 to help fraudulently elect Al Franken?

If this woman has any responsibility for handling the absentee ballots for the county, she should be fired for not reporting the fraud that was perpetrated KNOWINGLYunder her watch.

Video of Voter Fraud in Crow Wing County!!! from Minnesota Majority

If you have ever wondered why we launched the Election Integrity Watch program, check-out this video of apparent voter fraud that occurred last week in Crow Wing County in central Minnesota:
Please be diligent in watching the polls on November 2.
Visit www.ElectionIntegrityWatch.com to learn what to watch for.
OUR MOTTO: “WATCH, RECORD, REPORT, DON’T CONFRONT”
Note:  Pay particular attention to the apparathchik who has memorized her duty, but .

 does not understand it.

 

 

 

Bushes, Dad and Son, Go to a Baseball Game…..

…….and remind us what honorable Americans they are…..especially in contrast to the man of all tales, now emanating noise from the White House.

As fractured upon occasion in language that he was, George W. he has been a  Prince of a human being compared to Barack Hussein Obama, the political snipe who attended Jeremiah “Goddamn America” Wrights church in Chicago where he must have learned his American History and Culture.

Here in this video found at HotAir are the Bushes, father and son, together going to a baseball game.

Click on here.   http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/10/31/former_president_bush_throws_out_first_pitch_at_game_4_of_world_series.html

They honored the presidency with their presence.   They honored America.

Maureen Dowd Writes about Obamapride and Arrogance

Extremist  Maureen Dowd  of the New York Times, wrote  on Halloween Eve.   The spirits of the coming day’s night  must have interfered with her mental vapors, for much of what she writes about Obama here seems……..hang on….I am trying to think of another word, but cannot…..quite “true”.   So, the Medusa can value thinking over ranting after all.  That hasn’t occurred much since 44 hs been president.

Mr. Obama is still an ice cold fish, totally empty of a sense of humor or a touch of curiosity about what and why others think differently from him and frigidly focused on his mission from his outside America, black, muslim, and pampered background.

Nevertheless, here is Ms. Dowd’s article: 

“Barack Obama became president by brilliantly telling his own story. To stay president, he will need to show he can understand our story.

At first it was exciting that Obama was the sort of brainy, cultivated Democrat who would be at home in a “West Wing” episode.

But now he acts like he really thinks he’s on “West Wing,” gliding through an imaginary, amber-lit set where his righteous self-regard is bound to be rewarded by the end of the hour.

Hey, dude, you’re a politician. Act like one.

As the head of the Democratic Party, the president should have supported the Democratic candidate for governor in Rhode Island, the one the Democratic Governors Association had already lavished more than $1 million in TV ads on. If Obama was going to refuse to endorse Frank Caprio out of respect for Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican who endorsed him for president and is now running as an independent, the president should have at least stayed out of Providence.

Reductio ad absurdum: After two years of taking his base for granted, the former Pied Piper of America’s youth had to spar with Jon Stewart to try to get the attention of young people who once idolized him.

Obama still has the killer smile, but he’s more often sniffy than funny. When Stewart called White House legislation “timid,” Obama got defensive and offered a less-than-thrilling new mantra: “Yes, we can but …”

“We have done things that people don’t even know about,” said Obama, who left his Great Communicator mantle back in Grant Park on election night.

In 2008, the message was him. The promise was him. And that’s why 2010 is a referendum on him.

With his coalition and governing majority shattering around him, President Obama will have to summon political skills — starting Wednesday — that he has not yet shown he has.

His arrogance led him to assume: If I build it, they will understand. He can’t get the gratitude he feels he deserves for his achievements if no one knows what he achieved and why those achievements are so vital.

Once it seemed impressive that he was so comfortable in his own skin. Now that comfort comes across as an unwillingness to be wrong.

We want the best people to govern us, but many voters are so turned off by Obama’s superior air that they’re rushing into the arms of disturbingly inferior pols.

Obama admitted to The Times’s Peter Baker: “There is probably a perverse pride in my administration — and I take responsibility for this; this was blowing from the top — that we were going to do the right thing, even if short term it was unpopular.”

But who defines what’s “right”?

With the exception of Obama, most Americans seemed to agree that the “right” thing to do until the economy recovered was to focus on jobs instead of getting the Congress mired for months in making over health insurance and energy policy. And the “right” thing to do was to come down harder on the big banks for spending on bonuses instead of lending to small businesses that don’t get bailouts.

Many of us thought the “right” thing to do was to ratify the civil rights of gay Americans in marriage and the military. (A new Pentagon study shows that most U.S. troops and their families don’t care if gays are allowed to serve openly.)

In an interview with progressive bloggers, the president was asked why he was lagging behind Republicans like Ted Olson on gay marriage.

Noting that he has a lot of friends and staffers in committed gay relationships, Obama conceded only that his attitude was evolving. “I think it’s pretty clear where the trend lines are going,” the president said.

Trend lines? Really inspiring, dude.

One top aide told me that the president — who perversely tried to marginalize a once-captivated press corps — was beginning to realize that he had not used his charm as effectively as he could have.

His inner circle believed too much in the power of the Aura and in protecting the Brand. They didn’t think they needed to sell anything or fight back when the crazies started sliming them. They didn’t care that the average citizen needed an M.B.A. to understand the financial plan and a Ph.D. to fathom what the health care plan would mean.

Because Obama stayed above it all on health care and delegated to Max Baucus, he missed the moment in August of 2009 when Sarah Palin and the Tea Party got oxygen with their loopy rants on death panels. It never occurred to the Icon that such wildness and gullibility would trump lofty rationality.

As the president tries to ride the Tea Party tiger, let’s hope for this change: that he puts some audacity in his audacity.”

Comment:  Do you believe that Obama “stayed above it all on health care” at any time, August of 2009 included?  Do you believe that for us old folks there won’t be death panesl?  What do you think rationing health for oldsters is?

Obama indeed is filled with aura….for he his loaded with self love.  His carriage, his speech, his topics, the brained filled with the polish of first person singular forever in the perfect…..

Is he truly unaware he is the person incapable of sharing compromise?  Yes.  When you are perfect, there can be no room for compromise.

CBS in Anchorage Cooking up a Last Minute Scandal to Defeat Joe Miller?

Read the story and listen carefully to the cell phone pick up of the conversations which stir the imaginations of CBS affiliates in Anchorage…..

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/31/ktva-yeah-that-was-us-but-its-not-what-you-think/

Listen again.  How can it be anything other than what a listener thinks?   What murky poison were these CBS “reporters” plotting?

But…CBS…it IS too what we think!  Hey CBS, we remember your Dan Rather cooking up a scandal made out of thin air.

This story was found at HotAir.

About Jon Stewart’s Crowd: “As Vacuous As Obama and Much Less Fresh!”

……..is the headline of  Paul Mirengoff’s article on yesterday’s Jon Stewart crowd.

“This evening on C-SPAN, I caught Jon Stewart’s closing, “serious” remarks from today’s rally. They appear to have been lifted from Barack Obama’s speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, with a few throw-away jokes tossed in.

In place of the Red State guy who has gay friends was a Mormon Jay-Z-fan. In place of the Red State guy who coaches little league was an atheist obstetrician.

Stewart’s speech was as vacuous as Obama’s and, obviously, much less fresh.

UPDATE: Stewart called on the nation to move forward “concession by concession,” the way cars yield to one another when they merge from two lanes into one. I don’t watch Stewart’s show, so I don’t know whether he applied this model when President Obama was ramming legislation like health care reform through Congress without making any real concessions to Republicans (not even Olympia Snowe). I do know that Stewart is now criticizing Obama not for insufficient willingness to compromise, but for failing to be even more transformative than he has been.

Stewart also pressed his theory that the 24 hour pundit cycle is making it harder to solve “our problems.” He offered no analysis to support the implausible notion that cable news and talk shows — of mostly poor quality to be sure, but also lightly watched for the most part — are having such an effect.

Stewart seems to be obsessed with punditry. But I believe it washes over the body politic as a whole either unconsumed or taken (as Stewart’s performances are) mostly for its entertainment value. The causes, and the most interesting symptoms, of our polarization (if that’s what Stewart is complaining about) lie elsewhere.

JOHN adds: “Polarization” consists of us conservatives and other non-liberals–80 percent of the population–resisting Obama’s and Stewart’s left-wing agenda.”

Comment:  I don’t think I am going to spend any time defending Jon Stewart.  He did the best he could at punditry.   I thought he was the best of the lost lot.  

Don’t misunderstand, Americans have a right to be lost.   I just don’t want to be forced to pay  for their emptiness.

George Will: What’s At Stake Tuesday

……writes the following in an article at the Washington Post:

“During the Tuesday evening deluge, pay particular attention to these stories;

South Carolina Rep. John Spratt, second-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, is seeking a 15th term. Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, chairman of Armed Services, is seeking an 18th term. Texas Rep. Chet Edwards, 13th-ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, is seeking an 11th term. Minnesota Rep. James Oberstar, chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is seeking a 19th term. In 2008, they won by 25, 32, 7 and 36 percentage points, respectively. In 2010, all are vulnerable, so voters in four districts could subtract 118 years of seniority.

-For 55 years, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), 84, has occupied the seat his father held for 22 years before him. The son received 71 percent in 2008. His district includes Ann Arbor, which requires conservatives to leave town at sundown. (Just kidding. Sort of.) He beat his 2008 Republican opponent by 46 points. Dingell probably will win while setting the 2010 record for the largest shrinkage of a 2008 majority.

-Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.), who got 75 percent in 2008, voted against Obamacare and is the only Democrat who has signed the discharge petition that would allow the House to vote on repealing the law. He lost his house to Hurricane Katrina and may lose his quest for a 12th term.

-Rep. John Salazar (D-Colo.), whose younger brother was a Colorado senator before becoming interior secretary, won in 2008 by 22 points. In Congress, Salazar has opposed cap-and-trade and TARP and supports a one-year extension of all the Bush tax cuts. The National Rifle Association has endorsed him. Nevertheless, he may lose.

-At age 10, in 1975, Van Tran escaped from South Vietnam the week before Saigon fell. Now he is running against Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), who seems to think immigration has gone too far: “The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take away this seat.” Polling is difficult in this district, where many speak scant English, but the fact that Sanchez, who received 70 percent in 2008, has played the ethnicity card suggests a highly competitive contest.”

Comment:  I am not used to deluges on behalf of my conservative candidate favorites.   In this blue Minnesota, the state is paralyzed by the auras emanating from the dead bodies of Hubert Humphrey and Paul Wellstone, and the live bones of Al Franken and Jesse Ventura.  

Democrats run most of the nation’s counties.   Black Democrats run elections in the inner cities.   Write in ballots and ballots from overseas troops frequently disappear.   Democrat districts often have more voters voting Democrat than live in the precincts.    College students vote Democrat in their college towns and drive home to vote at home as well.  

In my state Democrats prefer a democracy where anyone can vote, fair or foul.

David Zurawic, Baltimore Sun: Steward-Colbert Rally Signified “Nothing!”

 

“Stewart-Colbert rally: Skits, songs, empty messagexxxxBy the time Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert got to the portion of their rally that featured the giant paper mache puppet of Colbert Saturday, I was thinking that somewhere in a poor mountain village in a former Eastern bloc Soviet country, there were two aged actors unemployed since the fall of Communism who were putting on a play for peasant children of pre-school age because that was the only audience they could find and hold. And they were being a lot more engaging and entertaining than this duo on the National Mall.

That is all I am going to say about the wit and so-called keen social commentary of the comedic moments brought to us Saturday at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear by these two cable TV comedians who have been endlessly compared to every satirist from Swift to Twain this week by some of my adoring and critically-challenged colleagues.

As for the other non-musical guest talent, consider the “performance” by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, of the Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters,” who spent 10 minutes asking the crowd to do various versions of The Wave. Wasn’t that transcendent?

The music was another matter. Mavis Staples’ closing the show with “I’ll Take You There” was so perfect it was almost worth suffering through Stewart’s pompous, empty, politician-phony closing speech to get to it — almost.

I say almost because Comedy Central, Stewart’s employer and partner in this production on the mall, didn’t let me hear all of the closing number. They had to cut away to tell me that today’s rally was brought to me by Volkswagen, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and LG (electronics).

And that’s one of the things that I think is most fascinating about the whole Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear: the way Comedy Central essentially commodified all those folks who showed up in the mall — using their presence to create a TV production that could be sold to advertisers for consumption by viewers like me in front of our screens. Weren’t the good intentions and hopes of the tens of thousands who came to the mall being exploited for profit? Sure, there was no commercial messaging on the mall. It isn’t allowed. Instead it was on the TV version of what was happening on the mall.

Say what you will about Glenn Beck and his rally in August: He and Fox News, his employer, didn’t sell the folks who supported him on the mall to advertisers that way. There were no peanut butter cups being advertised on my screen as I watched. There was no commercialization of any kind that I discerned on my TV screen. Not only didn’t Fox News televise the rally, the channel barely covered it. But not so Stewart, Colbert and their employers.

As understated as the commercialization of the rally might have been, it was commercialized. I was just getting into Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow performing a new song from Kid Rock when the image and the message flashed on the bottom of the screen that the rally was brought to me by the manufacturer of a peanut butter cup. The musical moment was not enhanced by this reminder for Halloween candy.

Stewart and Colbert have both designated “non-profit partners” as recipients of merchandise sales and any donations fans might want to make. Stewart designated the Trust for the National Mall, which is commendable. But I have found nothing saying Comedy Central and corporate parent Viacom are giving all that advertising money away to charity — and that was some desirable demographic they were selling. And those are the folks who pay the mortgage for Stewart and Colbert.

But forget about whether or not you liked or hated the music and comedy and commercial messages, the question that remains is what it was all about. After a week of endless stories and hype, what did it amount to?

Stewart tried to address that in a speech after the paper-mache moment. But it was mainly him trying to paper over the pointlessness of the event with a falsely high-sounding message.

“So what exactly is this?” he began.

He was trying to pre-empt criticism and negative reviews by making a distinction for the audience members between what they experienced on the mall and what some members of the press might say they experienced in their reviews, reports and pundit commentary 

It is a kind of inoculation technique against bad reviews that Stewart has mastered: He tells his audience that he and they are sharing something profound, but that the stupid and debased press might say otherwise — because the press is too ignorant to get it. So, he warns them, don’t believe what the press says. It also scares some of the press into saying how terrific and funny what he did was for fear of looking like they are too stupid to get his genius.

It is the same technique that conservative politicians like Sarah Palin use when they talk about the “lamestream media.” He does it from the left, she from the right. But it is essentially the same trick — with the press as the enemy.

And then, Stewart opened his speech with a barrage of Barack Obama rhetoric.

“We live in hard times, but these are not end times,” he said. “We can have animus, but not be enemies.” My favorite, “If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.”

If not for the “dude” insult Stewart arrogantly laid on the president Wednesday night during an interview on his show, I might have thought Obama loaned Stewart one of his writers for this speech.

After telling the audience members their “presence” is all he “wanted” out of the day, Stewart then extended the circle of goodness and light from the mall to all the good Americans out there “who work together everyday to get things done.”  That is the real and good America that he said he was celebrating.

Commercials for half-ton trucks in a similar way celebrate men who work together and use half ton trucks to get things done — that’s how simplistic and phony this pitch by Stewart is.

But then, he zeroed on the real enemy: which he termed the “24-hour conflictanator,” his favorite target, the 24/7 cable news channels that amplify the loudest and ugliest voices in the culture from the farthest ends of the political spectrum. Easy target, and an old one. A high school student with one course in media literacy can shred a cable news channel critically. But this is Stewart’s favorite role to play: media critic. He and Obama and Palin — they can’t stop playing media critic. And now all kinds of politicians are doing it, too. It is actually a very old propaganda technique used by those political leaders who don’t have the power to actually shut down the press in favor of a part-controlled house organ.

And Stewart extended his enemies list in his closing speech to pretty much the entire press — and the Congress. He pointed to Capitol Hill behind him Saturday as he leveled his indictment.

His ultimate message: It’s the press and Congress that won’t “work together to get things done” like good Americans do. That’s the enemy. That’s what’s wrong with the country.

First of all, he is wrong in his sweeping indictment of the entire press. Just ask the journalists who are risking their lives to bring us information about wars throughout the world while he’s standing on a stage in Washington acting silly for half the show and then spewing high-sounding campaign-trail rhetoric at the end to convince his audience that something important happened during the rally. Maybe Colbert should have given one of those journalists who have given their lives to bring U.S. citizens information about a war one of their mock fear awards. Because it takes such bravery to be a latenight comedian. In his grand finale of press critique, Stewart was trafficking in the same kind of superficial and easy scapegoating that politicians rely on.

As I listened to that speech and looked at the crowd that Adam Savage, of “The Mythbusters,” had repeatedly announced as being 150,000 strong, I couldn’t help but feel sad about what a lost nation we have become in these troubled times.

Hundreds of thousands of us will work longer hours than ever to keep jobs that are harder to hold than at any time since the Great Depression — and then show up on a Saturday in Washington hoping to hear someone or something that will offer us hope and a way out of the darkness.

Instead, what we get is Beck, Colbert, Stewart, Volkswagen and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

POSTSCRIPT: You want some media criticism? Try this: Think how much better informed we would be as a nation about the monumental election in two days if members of the press had spent half the time reporting and writing about the issues and candidates in recent weeks instead of Stewart, Colbert and their exercise in egotism on the mall — their effort to prove they can draw as big an audience as Beck.”

Comment:  Indeed the Rally for the Sane was profoundly empty, empty of message, of values, of wisdom, of appreciation for the freedom to be able to express their profound emptiness.

These “EMPTIES” have been a rapidly growing segment of the American population since the collapse of the nation’s Christian community and rise of the Bill Mahers, the ACLU, and the rest of the Barack Obama Marxist Democrats.  The new American Church is at university where the Women Studies, Black Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, and Marxist Studies priests and priestesses preach their messages of hate.

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