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apogee
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Hoo-boy, that's two great quotes in one day:
"The first step in rationally examining politics, politicians and their actions is to ignore the rhetoric."
Mighty Hiker
"The economy exists to serve the members of our democracy, not the other way around."
I'm starting a collection. This is great sh*t!
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shut up and pull
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September 7, 2009
Why Van Jones Had to Go: Exposing the Left’s Family Secrets
If you want to avoid making headlines with your resignation-under-pressure, it would be hard to pick a better time than around midnight on a Saturday night during a holiday weekend. But then again, the controversy surrounding Van Jones hadn’t been making much in the way of news coverage anyway.
President Obama’s so-called “green czar” turns out to have been a 9/11 truther with near-communist ideological proclivities. He had called for a revolution against the U.S. government, and perhaps least troubling of all, had referred to Republicans as “as#@&%es.”
Hey, some are.
Even though the story was completely ignored by the New York Times, the major networks and most other members of the dying old-guard media, Jones’s radical affiliations generated enough buzz on Fox News and Internet-based media that the White House could feel the heat nonetheless.
The real reason Jones had to go was not his ideas per se. He thinks the way President Obama thinks. Jones had to go because his presence in the administration revealed so much about how the left operates – and these are supposed to be closely guarded family secrets.
Perhaps the most unintentionally hilarious statement about Jones came from the Washington Post in its wee-hours Sunday morning coverage of Jones’s resignation:
Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement, had worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality since March. He was a civil-rights activist in California before turning his focus to environmental and energy issues, and he won wide praise before joining the Obama administration for articulating a broad vision of a green economy Democrats could embrace.
This is hilarious because you’d think from reading it that Jones just happened to develop this new interest, environmental and energy issues, and changed careers. And he became so good at his new career that he got a job advising the president on it!
All Jones did was adjust the focus of the same “career” he’d always had – that of radical left-wing activist – to focus on pushing the latest fashionable excuse for all the same policies the left always wants.
The “revolution” Jones seeks would re-order the entire economy to take state control of private wealth and redistribute it to the hapless proletariat. This is the same agenda the Democratic Party has embraced for more than a generation, offering whatever excuse might sell the idea. They’ve been trying to sell poverty and health care as excuses to do this since at least the 1960s. Even the anti-war movement is, at least in part, about wanting to re-allocate the Pentagon budget for social do-gooder programs administered by the agencies and nonprofits that employ so many of these people.
Now the environment is the excuse to impose massive new taxes and regulations on industry.
It’s all to accomplish the same thing, and that’s why Jones the civil-rights activist became Jones the environmental activist. Every problem that has ever existed is solved by massive taxes and government regulation, and Jones – formidable radical activist that he is – knew how to pivot from issue to issue while really pursuing the same end goal.
That’s why he had to go. The career of Van Jones is a microcosm of the American left itself. It is always pursuing the same goal – redistribution of wealth through the favored vehicles of federal agencies, nonprofits and labor unions – and is always ready with a new excuse for why we need to do this.
Of course, in the past, a Democratic administration could have employed lots of people like Van Jones, because the establishment media would not report on his radicalism (nor did it do so on this occasion) and there was no non-traditional media to do the job in their stead. Who knows how many guys like this wandered the halls of the federal government during the Carter and Clinton administrations?
It’s a new age, though, and it’s hard for President Obama to pretend he is a mainstream thinker when one of his “czars” is all over YouTube calling for a revolution, and signing 9/11 truther petitions.
Then again, there are plenty of Obama’s own radical statements – about single-payer health care, disarmament and lots of other juicy items – floating around on the Internet as well. Maybe now that we know a little more about the kind of people he brings on board to work in his administration, people might start to consider that Obama, too, meant the radical things he said in the past. And still does.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Great job BHO!
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apogee
climber
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innocentbystanders.net? Gosh, I wonder what which way they lean, politically? I mean, that's an awful convincing chart you got there, TGT- it's got lines, and different colors, and, well, it's all just too confusing for me. I'll take your word for it- it's all Obama's fault!
Can I have some more kool-aid, now? I really like that GOP 'all-new cherry flavor'...
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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That chart that TGT posted actually showed the secret plan of the evil clumsy California-dominated federal government to reintroduce wolves into Idaho. Just substitute the word "wolf" for "unemployment" and you'll see what I mean. Doesn't look like it's going so well, does it?
A flagrant abuse of noble, virtuous states' rights, which brought us the glories of segregation and other great stuff. If it weren't for that darn constitution and that darn interfering federal government... Next thing you know they'll be subsidizing red states.
ps I confess to owning a suit. A grey one. A wedding/funeral/other formal occasion suit. Doesn't everyone have one? Although it is made of wool, I'm not pretending to be in sheep's clothing when I wear it.
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Rokjox -throughout history its been shown that one man can make a difference.
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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FROM AN EMAIL,
$50.00 For the Homeless
I recently asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be president some day.
Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were president what would be the first thing you would do?"
She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
Her parents beamed.
"Wow... what a worthy goal." I told her, "But you don't have to wait until you're president to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where homeless guys hang out, and you can give them the $50, you earned, to use toward food and a new house."
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
Her parents still aren't speaking to me.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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A "joke" that appears on numerous websites. Try google.
A good alternate finish:
I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."
She said, "Why haven't you offered that man a job?"
I'm still spluttering.
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WBraun
climber
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Hey Rocky
Your rant in that fire thread was awesome. When you get really pissed you dig pretty deep and pull out some great work.
You're the wolf that eats these pathetic sheep ......
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Czar Unemployment rate rising. News flash. Gasp!
Are the 30 plus other Czars now filling out the 63 question
White House vetting form the President had promised would be used
for all in the Executive branch back in December 2008?
Better late then never guys!
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WBraun
climber
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Somebody said this:
The military, arms industry and national security agencies constitute the most advanced form of socialized government in all countries.
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Gobee
Trad climber
Los Angeles
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Hey I give what I can!
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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September is the centenary of Robert Peary's public claim that he reached the North Pole in April 1909, and of Frederick Cook's claim that he reached it in April 1908. Cook's claim was never much believed - it's doubtful he got much out of sight of Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands, although he had an amazing journey. Peary's claim was initially accepted by many, although not scrutinized very closely. It has gradually been discredited, and on thorough examination of all the evidence, using modern techniques, few now believe he got closer than 100 or 200 km from the Pole.
This is interesting in that illustrates the ability of people to believe things that they want to be true, regardless of the facts. This phenomena is examined in some articles in the paper, and underlying studies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08tier.html?ref=science
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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The Liberal mindset has done enormous harm to individuals and groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that,
as Liberals, he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be & do-and those who differ from them are not merely mistaken
but wicked or mad & need restraining or suppressing. It is a terrible and dangerous arrogance to believe that you alone are right, have a magical eye which sees the truth and that others cannot be right if they disagree.
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Curt
Boulder climber
Gilbert, AZ
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"...You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists..."
Hmm, now what famous "liberal" said that?
Curt
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WandaFuca
Gym climber
A survey where 68% preferred this Fuca over others
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CChopper said,
The Liberal mindset has done enormous harm to individuals and groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that,
as Liberals, he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth: especially about how to live, what to be & do-and those who differ from them are not merely mistaken
but wicked or mad & need restraining or suppressing. It is a terrible and dangerous arrogance to believe that you alone are right, have a magical eye which sees the truth and that others cannot be right if they disagree.
If by truth, you mean a less blinded by biases, more rational and reasoned way of looking at the evidence that the world presents, and then an ability to take that evidence and honestly weigh its probability, then yeah, I'd say Liberals have kind've got the market cornered on that sort of thing.
If our pride in our rigor and ability to reason (of course reason would seem like a "magical eye" to one unable to think clearly and honestly), seems like terrible and dangerous arrogance you can take comfort in the fact that most of us "know with certitude" much less than you do.
We are only certain of one thing--that our way of thinking brings us closer to truth--we have serious doubts about the probability of you guys' idea that "just knowing" something can get you close to truth.
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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interesting Wanda. Doubts exist on both sides- they have not thought the problem through..etc.
In many cases its the results and the way Liberals want to get them that are so objectionable.
Your efforts at remolding society
have that Brave New World feel.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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WF, CChopper has no idea what he means since there is no relevance to his post; it is just random fragments of plagiarized essays strung together.
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