Monthly Archives: May 2009

The HATE just never stops from these people

Palin Haters Livid at Juneau
Tourism, Outraged Over
Little Piper’s Lemonade Stand

NewsBusters, by Warner Todd Huston

Tourism has recently been up a little in Juneau, Alaska. More folks than ever have been interested in taking bus tours through Alaska’s capital city with a major attraction being the Alaska State House.(Snip)The bus tours are so popular that adorable little Piper has even set up a lemonade stand to sell tourists a glass of lemony goodness to quench their thirst.(Snip)What sort of a sick man would attack a little girl’s lemonade stand?

Not funny: Barack Obama laughs at Wanda Sykes "joke" about wanting Rush Limbaugh dead

More hate speech from the Obama Administration.

This is what she said: “Rush Limbaugh said he hopes this
administration fails, so you’re saying, ‘I hope America fails’, you’re, like, ‘I
dont care about people losing their homes, their jobs, our soldiers in Iraq’. He
just wants the country to fail. To me, that’s treason.”He’s not saying anything differently than what Osama bin Laden is saying. You know, you might
want to look into this, sir, because I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th
hijacker. But he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.”

She then concluded: “Rush Limbaugh, I hope the country fails, I
hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a good waterboarding, that’s
what he needs.” Obama seemed to think this bit was pretty hilarious, grinning
and chuckling and turning to share the “joke” with the person sitting on
his right.


That Dinner is for good natured poking fun at people, not pure unadulterated ‘Hate’. Will the Obamites be criticized by the Corespondents?

The hater looks on ‘approvingly.

The Visual Subtext of the Statue of Liberty Fly-by Photo

How long will it take! How long will it take for the people who put this guy in power, to see what is happening but more importantly, how all this has happen to take place:

Central Route and Peripheral Route to Persuasion

People may be persuaded in
different ways. Petty and Cacioppo (1981) suggested that there are two
different ways or routes to persuasion: the central route and the
peripheral route.

The Central Route to Persuasion

The central route to persuasion involves being persuaded by the arguments or the content of the message. For example, after hearing a political debate you may decide to vote for a candidate because you found the candidates views and arguments very convincing.

The Peripheral Route to Persuasion

The peripheral route to persuasion involves being persuaded in a manner that is not
based on the arguments or the message content. For example, after reading
a political debate you may decide to vote for a candidate because you like the
sound of the person’s voice, or person went to the same university as you
did. The peripheral route can involve using superficial cues
such as the attractiveness of the speaker.

ReferencesPetty, R. E., & Cacioppo, J. T.
(1981). Attitudes and persuasion: Classic and contemporary approaches. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers.

Do most of these people believe in where this guy is taking us. They cannot see beyond the facade. This dream world they want to be in. They have put all their hopes and dreams in this guys hands and they cannot, yet, tell themselves that they were wrong.

This is the only thing that makes any sense; because what is happening, doesn’t.

More in depth

An American businessman’s letter to Obama

Mr. Obama,

Given the uproar about the simple question asked you by Joe the plumber, and the persecution that has been heaped on him because he dared to question you, I find myself motivated to say a few things to you myself. While Joe aspires to start a business someday, I already have started not one, but 4 businesses. But first, let me introduce myself. You can call me “Cory the well driller”. I am a 54 year old high school graduate. I didn’t go to college like you, I was too ready to go “conquer the world” when I finished high school. 25 years ago at age 29, I started my own water well drilling business at a time when the economy here in East Texas was in a tailspin from the crash of the early 80’s oil boom. I didn’t get any help from the government, nor did I look for any. I borrowed what I could from my sister, my uncle, and even the pawn shop and managed to scrape together a homemade drill rig and a few tools to do my first job. My businesses did not start as a result of privilege. They are the result of my personal drive, personal ambition, self discipline, self reliance, and a determination to treat my customers fairly. From the very start my business provided one other (than myself) East Texan a full time job. I couldn’t afford a backhoe the first few years (something every well drilling business had), so I and my helper had to dig the mud pits that are necessary for each and every job with hand shovels. I had to use my 10 year old, 1/2 ton pickup truck for my water tank truck (normally a job for at least a 2 ton truck).

A year and a half after I started the business, I scraped together a 20% down payment to get a modest bank loan and bought a (28 year) old, worn out, slightly bigger drilling rig to allow me to drill the deeper water wells in my area. I spent the next few years drilling wells with the rig while simultaneously rebuilding it between jobs. Through these years I never knew from one month to the next if I would have any work or be able to pay the bills. I got behind on my income taxes one year, and spent the next two years paying that back (with penalty and interest) while keeping up with ongoing taxes. I got behind on my water well supply bill 2 different years (way behind the second time… $80,000.00), and spent over a year paying it back (each time) while continuing to pay for ongoing supplies C.O.D.. Of course, the personal stress endured through these experiences and years is hard to measure. I do have a stent in my heart now to memorialize it all.
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Paul Lake’s astonishing Cry Wolf

Fables of Fragility
James Matthew Wilson – 05/08/09

By the time George Orwell’s Animal Farm appeared in August of 1945, its readers were well prepared to sift the animals that constitute its cast of characters for their real-life analogues. The atrocities of Joseph Stalin’s totalitarian regime had come sufficiently to light that even leftist sympathizers and card-carrying Communists like Orwell could no longer ignore them. Orwell’s fairy story, as he subtitled it, depicts the revolution of the animal “class” on Manor Farm. They seize the state by sending their master, Jones, into permanent exile and in their jubilation erect a communistic state founded on egalitarianism. The intellectual architects behind this largely spontaneous revolution—the pigs on the farm—naturally take positions of leadership afterwards. And here, of course, begins the decline of a wonderful unrealized socialist utopia into a corrupt tyranny worse even than the days of Jones. Napoleon, the most politically astute pig, rules with an ever more ferrous fist and, as importantly, manipulates the axioms and rather fuzzy collective memory of the animals to transform an egalitarian society into a terrorized fiefdom. The chilling closing scene shows the animals looking in the kitchen window of the farm house to see Napoleon playing poker with neighboring—human—farmers: it has become impossible to tell the difference between pig and man.

Orwell’s delightful, brief narrative acts as a fable: its animal characters allow us to see afresh well-worn and conventional truths. The fable warns us of what we already know, but must learn again and again if we are not to be fooled into historical optimism. Furthermore, a fable’s warning comes primarily through the brief, easily recounted actions of personified animals, so that we see the consequences of foolishness, vanity, and greed in a manner that convinces us as the most well-reasoned and systematic eloquence may not.

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Time to Play “Who is the Rube?”

Some interesting logic

So, why aren’t leftists upset at Obama for holding the same beliefs on gay marriage as Carrie Prejean? [h/t Instapundit]

Easy, they assume that he is lying. They think his Christianity based justification for opposing actual marriage for gays is simply a lie to fool the rubes on a hot-button issue. They know he might have lost critical support from left-of-center religious conservatives if he had really stated his true beliefs on the matter, so he just lied about his real beliefs to bamboozle the rubes.

Their comfort with this assumption that Obama is lying reveals a lot about contemporary leftists’ mores and their systematic contempt for their fellow citizens. They’re so full of themselves that they believe that the important thing is for them to have power, and that it really doesn’t matter how they get it. If Obama has to lie about his real beliefs about gay marriage then that’s acceptable in the cause of the greater good.

The only question for the rest of us is whether the leftists know the real Obama better than we do. In other words, who are the rubes? Are they the people who believe that Obama was stamped by a gay-leery African-American Christian community in Chicago, or are they the people who believe he was stamped by the far-left Northside intellectual subculture that supported his rise to national office?

Time will tell, I suppose.