"People Who Watch Only Fox News
Know Less Than People Who Watch No News"
Dear K,
Thanks for your Easter greeting!
Yesterday, I was talking with Janet about my recent visit to Charlotte and the pleasure of T's company.
Best wishes to you and your visitors on this special spring day reminding us of new light and new life in our world.
Concerning R's "Obama: It Was You" email...
If our educational system were working, all Americans would understand it is our civic duty to be profoundly suspicious of any inflammatory assertion unsupported by documentation. https://www.
Unfortunately, the particular passel of lies embedded in "Obama: You're The One!" reminds us that:
Here is a telling comment from the blog "Before It's News": "This essay --- https://www.truthorfiction.com/mike-gallaghers-president-obama-it-was-you-essay/#.VR_n-uE-tZI --- was read by Mike Gallagher on his radio talk show yesterday. It was effective. He had so many e-mail requests about where to find it that he posted it on his Face Book fan page. Since I do not have a FB account, I asked a friend to access it and send it to me. Mike said that a listener had sent it to him, so he could not vouch for all of the listings included in the essay. Even if there may be one or two that could be amiss, the list is still very long! It is incredible how many destructive actions he has taken since becoming President." http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2015/01/obama-it-was-you-2469736.html
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
Contrast Wikipedia's summary of Valerie Jarrett's "Personal Life" (below) with the point blank lie in "Obama: It Was You" that Jarrett is "an Iranian."
This appalling lack of intellectual rigor -- indeed, the near absence of "intellectual formation" among American conservatives -- has come to typify American "conservatism."
Not only have conservatives sunk into the bottomless swamp of attitudinal slop and conspiratorial thinking, they bask in bilge like pigs lounging in mire.
And who, pray tell, are these people who foment such devious falsehood?
Do they really believe - as it seems - that political victory depends on sodomist submission to The Prince of Darkness?
Is their belief in the ability of "Truth to set you free" so atrophied that they resort to "satanic" alliance as the only remaining hope for strengthening their moribund political position?
This appalling lack of intellectual rigor -- indeed, the near absence of "intellectual formation" among American conservatives -- has come to typify American "conservatism."
Not only have conservatives sunk into the bottomless swamp of attitudinal slop and conspiratorial thinking, they bask in bilge like pigs lounging in mire.
And who, pray tell, are these people who foment such devious falsehood?
Do they really believe - as it seems - that political victory depends on sodomist submission to The Prince of Darkness?
Is their belief in the ability of "Truth to set you free" so atrophied that they resort to "satanic" alliance as the only remaining hope for strengthening their moribund political position?
"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"
"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
Valerie Jarrett's Personal life
Jarrett was born in Shiraz, Iran, to American parents James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman. One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was an architect who is sometimes cited[by whom?] as the first accredited African American architect.[citation needed]
Her father, a pathologist and geneticist, ran a hospital for children in Shiraz in 1956 as part of a program where American physicians and agricultural experts sought to help developing countries' health and farming efforts. When she was five years old, the family moved to London for a year, later moving to Chicago in 1963.[4] Her parents were both African-American; on the television series Finding Your Roots, genealogical research and DNA testing indicated that Jarrett also has French, Scottish, and Native American ancestry.[5] One of her great-grandfathers was Jewish.[6] As a child, Jarrett spoke Persian and French.[7]
Jarrett graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon in 1974. She earned a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978 and a juris doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981.[9]
In 1983 Jarrett married William Robert Jarrett, son of Chicago Sun-Times reporter Vernon Jarrett. She attributes her switch from a private to a public career to their daughter Laura's birth and her own desire to do something that would make their daughter proud.[10]
Of all people, it was Barry Goldwater who prophesied the pending collapse of American conservatism:
Alan: It is a mark of American "conservatism's" benightedness
that they fail to see the damage they do themselves and their cause.
Christians Are Their Own Worst Enemy: Wrecking The Brand
http://paxonbothhouses.
The Bible Belt Is Christianity's Worst Enemy
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Republicans For Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism
Christians Are Their Own Worst Enemy: Wrecking The Brand
http://paxonbothhouses.
The Bible Belt Is Christianity's Worst Enemy
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Republicans For Revolution," A Study In Anarchic Apocalypticism
"Are Republicans Insane?" Best Pax Posts
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On "Too Pure Principles" And The Collapse Of Conservatism
Compendium Of Best Pax Posts:
What's Wrong With American Conservatism?
http://paxonbothhouses.
"There Are Two Ways Of Lying..." Denis De Rougemont And Donald Trump
"There Are Two Ways Of Lying..." Denis De Rougemont And Donald Trump
Lastly, I will mention the utter absurdity of Obama "sitting around The Oval Office" saying: "You know... We really must hang that Mao Tse Tung ornament on the White House Christmas tree!"
No wonder American conservatives hold Science in contempt: they could not be the liars they are if challenged by factuality.
"The Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives..."
Gandhi, Truth And The Irrepressible Power Of Satyagraha
Mahatma Gandhi: The Irrepressible Power Of Truth
Pax vobiscum
Alan
PS You might enjoy "Obama's 50 Lies," which - in addition to "setting the record straight" - illustrates how "intellectual rigor" approaches Life's many shades of gray. My friend Byron likes to point out that it is "in the nature" of The Scientific Method to prove hypotheses wrong. It is "in the nature" of modern American "conservatism" to locate exceptions to rules -- sometimes vanishingly rate exceptions to rules -- and then establish these exceptions as New Rules.
Obama's 50 Lies
"The Danger Of Science Denial"
TED Talk by Michael Specter
Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of Voter Fraud And Voter Suppression Posts
(Alan: This post illustrates the use of vanishingly rare exceptions-to-rules being put to diabolical use "in the name of truth." As my right-wing friend Georgie confided after years of my correcting the rife errors in his forwarded propaganda: "I like to be partially right.")
"Shark Attacks Rise Worldwide: Risk Assessment and Aquinas' Criteria For Sin"
"Thomas Aquinas On American Conservatives' Continual Commission Of Sin"
http://paxonbothhouses.
http://paxonbothhouses.
"Faulty Risk Assessment And The Epidemic Spread Of Self-Terrorization
Jenny McCarthy: Poster Girl For Self-Terrorization
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 9:06 AM, KA wrote:
Alan: Happy Easter. Looking forward to visit next week.
Here's another anti Obama hate message; representative of so many
Have a nice day, K
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