Pursuing Holiness

I won’t try to summarize because I doubt I’d do it justice, but it’s a very interesting and thoughtful take:

Don’t miss the comments. Cobb writes,

The black endgame appears murky, but I think that’s because the hustlers who have the MSM’s attention on lock are still considered legit, and Progressives don’t want to concede to Cosby.

I think obviously that plenty of whitefolks want the black endgame to begin with Obama. Now they’re not so sure. Or are they?

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In Mexico, in spite of women constitutionally having the right to vote, their ballots are being torn up in one village and they are not considered citizens.

And in Australia, there was very nearly a riot at a hospital, resulting in the capitulation of the hospital staff and police to the Muslim mob.

Funny how that multi-culti tolerance only seems to go in one direction.

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Here’s an embeddable playlist of Ezra Levant’s defense of himself and incidentally western civilization to the “Human Rights” Commision. I recently asked where Howard Roark is. Maybe he’s in Edmonton. This is amazing, compelling video, and illustrates just how frighteningly far we’ve drifted from the freedoms we used to take for granted.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1C0BA528800C4AE5

Update: For some reason, the embeddable playlist is breaking the sidebars. Your mileage may vary.

Updatetd again:

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Evidently NPR is now part of the Reichwing Media - a couple of comments at Dkos are real jaw-droppers:

NPR (4+ / 0-)

just gets worse every day.

“If impeachment is off the table, so is democracy.” -teacherken

by offgrid on Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 06:42:23 PM PDT

and a bit further downthread -

What do you expect…. (1+ / 0-)

NPR just gets worse every day.

from National Propaganda Radio?

Let’s Grow Our Own Candidates!

by moosely2006 on Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 07:54:42 PM PDT

Honestly, how can we even engage people in debate who think that NPR is rightwing propaganda? (And no, the comments don’t specify that they think it’s rightwing - I’m inferring that. But I’m correct.)

And yet, even further downthread, these two comments illustrate the problem more clearly than anything else I could ever write:

Ever feel like you’re talking to a brick wall? nt (3+ / 0-)

08.04.07 It took the Titanic longer to sink than for the 110th Congress to surrender to Bush.

by ImpeachKingBushII on Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 06:39:16 PM PDT

 

No. (1+ / 0-)

I feel like I am talking to a wall of titanium sixty feet thick and a hundred feet high with a big picture on it of a face with it’s eyes closed tight and it’s hands covering it’s ears going “Na na na na na na…”

It’s like going through a sewer in a glass bottom boat. We’re in this sh*t but clearly above it!

by Kalakzak on Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 06:42:19 PM PDT

Finally, an area where I can agree with some folks on the left. I don’t think there’s much hope for this generation; how can we ever communicate? We each have our own facts, and they are so diametrically opposed that I just don’t see any way we can come together again. Back when we all had the same facts, but different opinions about the facts, we managed. But no longer. We simply talk louder - and more shrilly - pretending that volume can substitute for reason. I certainly hope the next generation does better than we have.

[* - edited for profanity, edited formatting after publishing for clarity; the blockquotes were all messed up.]

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Valley Girl-speak was all the rage when I was in high school, and as far as I can recall, that’s when “go” replaced the verb “to say” and when “like” leaped out of the simile corral and roamed free, becoming the most popular filler word evar! I don’t really have a problem with teens speaking a certain way - every generation has its slang - but it does seem to me that about that time people starting losing the ability to think. Too many people speak in interrogatives, as though they’re seeking approval at the end of every sentence. This poem illustrates the phenomenon perfectly. Here’s a sample, but you should go listen to the entire thing on the NPR website.
‘Totally Like Whatever’ by Taylor Mali

Declarative sentences — so-called
because they used to, like, DECLARE things to be true
as opposed to other things which were, like, not -
have been infected by a totally hip
and tragically cool interrogative tone? You know?
Like, don’t think I’m uncool just because I’ve noticed this;
this is just like the word on the street, you know?
It’s like what I’ve heard?
I have nothing personally invested in my own opinions, okay?
I’m just inviting you to join me in my uncertainty?

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I recently posted on the verbal abuse and put-downs that men are subjected to on a regular basis. However, it doesn’t just stop with insults and eye-rolling. A recent study commented on by Dr. Helen

showed that nearly twice as many women as men said they perpetrated domestic violence in the past year, including kicking, biting or punching a partner, threatening to hit or throw something at a partner, and pushing, grabbing or shoving a partner, said Herrenkohl.

What’s really amusing is the commenter who defends the practice. This is progress? Kind of makes you want to do this kind of thing, just as payback for the stupidity of it all.

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