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Spin Zone / "This is how freedom dies"
« on: August 06, 2016, 09:23:03 PM »
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/08/journalists_clap_and_cheer_for_clinton_during_press_conference.html

Excerpt:

'Journalists' clap and cheer for Clinton during 'press conference

Following her speech, Clinton participated in a Q&A with five pre-selected journalists.

The event's organizers and Clinton's campaign team maintain that the Q&A portion of the candidate's appearance at the journalism convention constituted a "press conference."

That means, then, that the Democratic presidential candidate held a "press conference" in a room filled with people who just moments earlier were cheering and applauding her vision for the White House.

NABJ President Sarah Glover said Friday that Clinton's appearance marked the "largest press conference with any presidential candidate before a room filled with journalists of color."

From the rest of the political press – silence.  That this travesty of journalism could go unnoticed and unremarked upon by other reporters covering the event defies belief.

This is how freedom dies – with thunderous applause.

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Spin Zone / Re: Democratic National Convention
« on: August 06, 2016, 06:46:49 PM »
"America haters" - you guys are funny.

" only the elite like themselves can prosper. "   I suppose in your mind Trump doesn't fall into that category.

Hmm.  I'm a fairly egalitarian type, and a moderate, and I do observe that the Obamas, and Ms. Clinton, and other leading Democrats, seem to hate America.

The words, actions and policies of the aforementioned people seem consistently designed to divide America's citizenry against one another and remove constraints from government so that it may place greater constraints on the people.  Thus, they hate individual freedom, which is the core of America's identity and the foundation of its success.  The left presses constantly for limitation of individual freedoms (gun rights, choosing medical providers, freedom to live by one's religious lights, etc. ad infinitum).  That, I believe, is why Anthony called them haters of America.

Now for leftist elites and Trump.

Democrats and the media create the "victim" or "oppressor" du jour (gays, transsexuals, florists, police, criminals, Muslims, and etc., ad infinitum) so that, with the media's consistent help, Democrats can paint everyone else (but especially Republicans) in a negative light; specifically, as haters or racists, when in fact they are not.  The media also assists the left in its constant effort to cover up the controversial, unappetizing, unconstitutional, or downright dishonest behavior by its own.   "Your ignorance is their power," and so they will suppress and deceive.

Conservatives and moderates do not have this great, slavering media beast with which to get and keep power through deception and manipulation.  Most on the left dismiss any media source not devoted to and thus controlled by the left.  (Interestingly, this is a good reason to vote Republican.  Not one move will be unnoticed by the bloodthirsty media.  Americans will be informed down to the tiniest detail of every Republication action.)

The left and the media have the power.  Such a situation creates leftist elites, who operate under the facade of compassion when in fact their actions and policies create more poor, ever larger government expenditures on unsustainable levels, and divide rather than unite.  These are the "elites" that I believe Anthony refers to.  The people who see this want the power to reside with the people.  The people see Trump as rising in the system we call capitalism.  It works better than socialism, and we see that Ms. Clinton, in order to garner Sanders voters, has slid farther and farther left. 

When you slide left, you slide toward socialism.  Socialism creates elites who control through deception and limited freedoms. Socialism serves its elites, not the people.  Trump is not seen as such an elite. 


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Spin Zone / Re: strategies to deal with a corrupt doormat presidency?
« on: August 02, 2016, 03:51:36 PM »
We could follow the Canadian strategy:


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Spin Zone / Re: So, What Have we Learned here on PS?
« on: July 28, 2016, 08:40:55 AM »
This is true and it really bothers me. I don't mind paying for it, I think it's worthwhile, but what bothers me is it has become solely a left wing biased organization. I believe that because it is in part publicly funded, equal air time should be granted to those with a right wing bias. Originally it was supposed to be unbiased and just fact based, but as we all know, unbiased reporting and opinions are impossible.

Since unbiased programing is impossible, I would suggest programming from both biases. It would be a challenge to organize and many of the supporters now would leave, but many new supporters would arrive. I have always thought how nice it would be to have a right wing informative radio program styled like NPR, but all we get is angry loud mouths and ridiculous call in shows.

People are angry because the sources of unbiased information have been slowly and insidiously removed from our access.  Everything is spun.  We know this, and it makes us feel helpless and thus angry.

How would you feel if you knew that all your cockpit instruments were slightly if not very inaccurate?  You would be forced to fly differently, but all your decisions and actions would be guesses, and the only truth you'd have would be what you could actually see.  Same with our media and politics.  People look around, see what they see, and it doesn't square with what the media is feeding us.

Recipe for anger.


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Spin Zone / Re: So, What Have we Learned here on PS?
« on: July 28, 2016, 08:35:44 AM »
I think it's a few things: Demographic differences that make radio listening less likely on the left; the fact that radio outrage media is done best by the right, and is self-reinforcing ("don't listen to the liberal media, listen to us!"); many liberals listen to NPR for a broader selection of topics; etc.

I disagree; the left does outrage media far better than the right, because they obfuscate the truth, act as if the truth is already known and it is their version, and convolute or entirely ignore the truly controversial.

This is not a knee-jerk reaction from me; I am a moderate, and believe (as history has shown) that center-right governments fare better than either far left or far right.

My observations have been that NPR skews quite far to the left, in a matter-of-fact, faux-intelligent way that lulls listeners into just agreeing with them.  About three years ago I finally grew so frustrated with the slant that I stopped listening and stopped donating.  When I got calls and e-mails about why I was no longer donating, I offered examples of programs/hosts/guests that were slanted left, and stated that I preferred a balanced discussion.  I said that NPR used to at least try to be fair, but they had stopped even doing that.  AND EACH PERSON AT NPR WITH WHOM I SPOKE OR E-MAILED AGREED WITH ME.  It was bizarre.  They understood completely.

Similarly, when the RNC calls me and I say that I will support them when they do something worth supporting, THEY AGREE WITH ME.


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Spin Zone / Re: Donald Trump Wins GOP Nomination on First Ballot
« on: July 22, 2016, 03:54:39 PM »
Pretty darn good actually.  The "corrupt doormat" is no more corrupt than any other politician operating not eh national scale.  She is easily the most qualified candidate to be President I've seen in my life.  The funny thing is that Trump is easily the least qualified candidate.  Couldn't even have his old lady give a speech without incident.
So her level of corruption, which has been well documented, is okay with you, because to you it doesn't exceed the general level of political corruption. 

Here's an idea.  Why don't we dig up, expose and punish corruption, instead of just looking the other way and saying "Politicians will be politicians?"  They are supposed to serve us, not themselves.  It is probably anger at their general failure to do so that has led to this Trump thing. 

I disagree with you about Trump, in that I can think of many others less qualified.  It is looking like he is surrounding himself with level-headed people who actually care about America. 

Hillary doesn't seem to care about America, and that is probably what led to Sanders' surge; he is passionate at least.  And Trump is passionate and vigorous.  Hillary?  Meh.

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Unfortunately for the progressives mental cases to win, everything that anybody holds dear must be torn down and destroyed, to be replaced by conformity to the progressive mental illness, and faithfulness only to the state. These people relish destroying anything that makes anyone else happy, because progressives appear to be congenitally unhappy, and the most jealous people on earth, needing to attack and destroy any form of happiness, because it offends their selfish selves.
This is empirically true; the unhappiest people I meet, and friends I have known for years, are almost to a person far left leaning, and seem to have been born destined for unhappiness. 

Well, and why not?  In their world, nothing can be right or wrong, except that which they declare to be right or wrong, and they tend to declare "wrong" the things that lead to happiness.  You know, things like keeping sexual activity in marriage, keeping basically any natural impulse in context, raising children to be mentally healthy, independent adults, looking at the larger picture, thinking through cause and effect, understanding what freedom really means, on and on.  This latest attempt to skew laws (and restrooms, for heaven's sake) toward mere fractions of the population is just the latest thing ... now that they've redefined marriage FOR EVERYONE, they have to redefine TOILETS for EVERYONE, creating a bizarre chain of totally predictable results that throw the whole experience of going to the bathroom into chaos. 

Nuts.

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Spin Zone / Re: This seems familiar somehow...
« on: April 04, 2016, 11:39:55 AM »
There is nothing new under the sun.

We do not, as a collective species, seem to learn from our past mistakes.

Heading to transporter room.  ENERGIZE!

Wait ... is there a better planet?


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Spin Zone / Re: The problem with liberals.
« on: March 21, 2016, 10:43:24 AM »
Reality disagrees with your position. We have child poverty rates that rank much worse than many other wealthy nations. Being born into poverty is, by definition, unequal opportunity. Persistent childhood poverty is detrimental to the long-term health of a child -- as I mentioned earlier, there is evidence it causes biological changes. The longer they remain in poverty as a child, the more likely they are to fail to climb out of it in adulthood.

It is a worthwhile endeavor to figure out how to break the cycle of poverty. I think a better focus on the kids, like St. Benedict's Prep School I mentioned earlier, is somewhere we could do better.

St. Benedict's is inspiring!  The Catholics are really good at this sort of thing.  And they never require that you become Catholic to access their programs.  A true adherence to Catholic principles requires that we value life and love our neighbor.  Falling short of that, or adjusting it to our convenience, is a failing we must continually resist.  (No, I'm not Catholic, but strangely enough, I have in the last few months been inexplicably drawn to studying it.) 

The issue of poverty is a good example of how spiritual principles can help corporeal life.  If one lays down the "liberal" and "conservative" labels (as one MUST do, because they approach these issues so differently; one from the feeling only side, and one from the more pragmatic side), it is clear that a middle course of caring enough to create changes in society, and to work TOGETHER to achieve it (in other words, have a common goal outside our differences) is critical.  Spiritual principles play a large role in this, but they are often abandoned in favor of self-gratification.

I firmly stand on the position that children are innocent when subjected to suffering caused by their parents' bad choices.  The issue of poverty has been tugging at me for a while now, and I'm starting to become aware of areas locally where I might be able to apply some time and talent to the problem. 

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Spin Zone / Re: The problem with liberals.
« on: March 19, 2016, 04:36:42 PM »
Gary, Politifact is often biased.  Here is another look at TANF:

http://www.politifactbias.com/2012/09/politifact-and-gutting-of-welfare-reform.html

"Romney's claim is entirely accurate. Partisans can argue about whether or not it's misleading, or if it's a reasonable summation of Obama's policy. But Romney's statement that a person could still receive a welfare check without working or training is unarguably based on fact. Attempts to claim otherwise are pure editorial spin.

This is how the non-non-partisans at PolitiFact have always operated, though in the past they did better at keeping their campaign chaff out of their research wheat. They must be getting antsy, or perhaps they're getting cocky. Either way, their unabashed defense of liberal policies is less and less camouflaged as the election nears."

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Spin Zone / Re: Question for the Trumpkins?
« on: March 11, 2016, 09:29:42 PM »
It's cancelled. The protesters won. WTF is going on?

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/leftist-mob-forces-cancellation-of-trump-rally.php

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/for-once-i-am-on-trumps-side.php

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MSNBC applauded the borderline violent demonstration that shut down Trump’s Chicago event, and Chris Matthews and his guests suggested that Trump had it coming. Even Ted Cruz laid blame at Trump’s feet for the fact that scuffles have broken out at his rallies.

Blaming Trump for inflammatory rhetoric would make sense if his followers were roaming the streets attacking passers-by, or infiltrating Clinton and Sanders rallies and attacking Democrats. But they aren’t. Not a single such instance has occurred. On the contrary, every violent or disruptive event has involved people associated with the Democratic Party trying to prevent Trump from being heard. Whose inflammatory rhetoric has inspired them? Certainly not Trump’s. The brownshirts are all on the left, as usual.

Leftists are the instigators here, and they deserve unqualified condemnation. There is no excuse for trying to shut down a speech by a politician with whom you disagree. None. And it is shameful that many liberals, and even a few conservatives, have seized the opportunity to blame anti-Trump excesses on Trump.

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I don't think it would look all that different.  Most of the manufacturing here is heavily automated.  The jobs the immigrants are doing are the jobs Americans won't.  The guys who painted my house were all immigrants, as were the dudes who put on my roof.  I asked both foremen why, they said they couldn't get Americans who would show up for work sober.  I've heard the same thing from every auto mechanic shop owner I've ever met.
Four guys are outside right now giving our lawn its yearly aerating and de-thatching.  All are white.  And we live in a county with a 50% Hispanic population.

The other day we had an electrical company come out.  The principal was Hispanic, the assistant white.

Our HVAC guy is white.  My mom's housecleaner is white.  The two guys who painted our house last summer are white.  We didn't all select for white, it just turned out that way.  So I have a little trouble accepting that whites don't want work.


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Spin Zone / Re: I'm turning over a new leaf
« on: March 06, 2016, 11:33:26 AM »
:)
I wonder if Bryan with a "Y" and Aunt Peggy are singing it together... :) :) :)
In concept, it's a nice philosophy.  In reality, it's "You be you, and I'll be me, but if you're not like me, you're defective and must be labeled and squashed."

Conservatives are way better at letting everyone be who they are, I suspect because we see that world can be an unforgiving place (see Nature) and we must learn to deflect life's arrows, determine cause and effect, and endure hardship for greater gain.  Liberals, not so much. 

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Spin Zone / Re: Romney, the real reason.
« on: March 05, 2016, 03:44:34 PM »
It's completely possible to want the RNC same-same sandwiches to stop, but not want Trump for president.

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