Tuesday, January 25, 2011

A Liberal Arts Major

"This is one of those scenarios in American politics where the smartest, most intuitive citizens need to force legislation upon the people, even when it is not the popular choice...The logical concept is to separate everyone from their guns" [More]

Try that, you ignorant , unjustifiably self-impressed child, and you just might find yourself in a situation where you say "Wow, good thing I had my gun."

Oh, wait--you mean have OTHERS do your forcing for you...

Grandma was right, Sponge Bob. Lay off the weed.

Future "Authorized Journalist" material, this one...

[Via Kurt Hofmann who says the future looks dim]

11 comments:

Kent McManigal said...

I'd pit my smarts and intuition against those of this (or any other) anti-liberty taterhead any day. His dream is lacking in logic, regardless of what he believes.

MamaLiberty said...

I'm with Kurt... this punk can come any day and try to disarm me.

But, of course he won't. He wants to send in the tanks and helicopters. His sort would never peek out of their little safe zone to do anything themselves.

Whatever. Molon Labe

Anonymous said...

All I can say is; what a bag of douche.

Defender said...

He'll go far in the industry, what's left of it. Or maybe in public office.

The website of the media -- hey, let me coin a word: corpsoration, corpse + corporation -- I used to work is a pathetic, anemic thing. The staff directory -- the entire staff -- is smaller than one DEPARTMENT used to be.
Yet they continue to beat their majority-conservative readership over the head with cheerleading for liberal causes.

In the event that "corpsoration" hasn't appeared -- crap, it's the name of a band from Germany.

Defender said...

When I was a professional journalist, I would read a claim, then go to as many sources as I could to verify or disprove it. The temptation to cherry-pick resources to validate my own prejudices (in favor of freedom) was strong, but if I had to lie or practice what they called "strategic withholding" in journalism school (and regarded as a valid journalistic technique!), I was doing my readers a disservice. It would presume that they aren't smart enough to make decisions that are best for them.
85% of journalists identify themselves as liberal. Those are just the ones who acknowledge that there IS liberalism rather than "left-center superior intelligence."

I think there's a REASON I, aimless and mostly hopeless, wandered into journalism because of some facility with words and a love of photography, was born within sight of Patrick Henry's St. John's Church and the capital of the Confederacy (secession, not slavery) and spent my teens and 20s immersed in books of quaint and curious lore depicting man's historic inhumanity to man. My purpose was and is to try to rouse the clueless "security"-before-freedom propagandists before we burn ut the brakes on the handcart to Hell.

Defender said...

"Armenian Golgotha" is available to read online. About the Turkish Muslim genocide against ethnic Armenian Christian TURKISH CITIZENS. The URL is about a thousand characters long, so I suggest looking up "Armenian Golgotha" and "Yozgat."

I notice our progressive friends at Google have skewed their search resutls to bring up prog-slanted articles at the top of page 1.

Anonymous said...

THIS is why the voting age should be raised to 25.

Defender said...

Not being allowed to vote until age 25 "wouldn't violate anyone's constitutional rights, merely impose a reasonable restriction."
Did I get it right?

I'm beginning to favor a minimum IQ score of 85, but there are many people I've met who are well below average intelligence but are incredibly good-hearted and kind. I would never seriously recommend taking their rights.

Mack said...

I wonder if he was home-schooled?

Oh never mind.

Defender said...

Maybe home schooled, if this Michael Savage caller is his mother.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0pDPK56Ys

Laugh, cry, in whatever order you need to.

Don't like links? She says illegal immigration is no problem, we could support many more than the current 600 MILLION U.S. residents if SOME PEOPLE didn't have to make so much money. She's on welfare herself, and thinks OBAMA pays it personally, not the U.S. Treasury. Where does the treasury get the money for social programs? Why, from the illegal aliens working here and paying taxes.

Defender said...

Don’t Know Much Geography’
By Emily Puro

"It’s no secret that geography is a weak subject for many American students (and often for their parents, too!). A 2006 sampling of over 500 recent U.S. high school and **college graduates** between 18 and 24 years old found **half** unable to locate New York on a map of the United States. More than 60 percent couldn’t find Iraq on a map of the Middle East, and nearly three-quarters incorrectly named English as the most widely spoken native language in the world."

-- www.metro-parent.com

Obama says our educational system simply needs more money "invested" in it.
Most of the planet has a valid complaint. Not that Americans want to rule the world, but that if they do, they know practically nothing about it. Including their own little corner of it.
People accuse me of getting technical if I say "Go north five miles on Route 1," then turn east on..." Compasses baffle them.
"The sun rises in the east and..."
"No, stop, my brain hurts. Lalalala, can't hear you!"