tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55864952011-10-20T03:56:53.832-06:00EXPOSING THE POLITICS OF SHAME Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02173718480440043754noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5586495.post-89703787566803512042011-08-06T13:47:00.001-06:002011-08-06T13:49:47.407-06:00

The Senate Majority Leader Nancy "I command a legion of Winged Monkeys!" Pelosi has issued an ominous warning to Conservative Talk Radio listeners. She claimed they were "like fundamentalist terrorists who have become emotionally invested in shrill rhetoric" thereby dramatically increasing the threats of violence to Democrats. Five years ago, then Senate Majority Leader Tom "I Smell my Fingers

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I have seen the face of terror - and it's gorgeous.Back in January of this year, John Stewart was interviewing Charlize Theron on the Daily Show. Theron was promoting the film Monster - in which she portrayed serial killer Aileen Wuornos. Theron later won a Golden Globe award for her "gutsy" performance. ("Gutsy" in Hollywood terms means gaining weight for a role and having sex on camera as a

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The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis -- because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as

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I received an e-mail from a reader today, taking issue with a quote from yesterday's entry:`Guilty Liberals call those who oppose them racists, homophobes, religious fanatics, demagogues, Right Wing conspirators, or just plain evil in an shallow attempt to dismiss viewpoints and beliefs they refuse to tolerate. 'The writer explained that statement didn't apply to her and her Liberal friends, She

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While I was writing my Shame Game post (below) here's what was happening on Fox News.I find Fox to be as disreputable as any of the other Late-Breaking-Enter-Info-Tain-Mercial News firehoses, but what better venue for the weasel-like equivocation to begin..."NEAL GABLER: Well, I have tremendous respect for John Burns and I have no doubt that some reporters traded their objectivity for access.

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Guilty Liberals have mastered the art of eliminating shame. Their own shame, that is. They simply press it onto others.While living in a comfortable world built on the so-called injustices they decry, Guilty Liberals call those who oppose them racists, homophobes, religious fanatics, demagogues, Right Wing conspirators, or just plain evil in an shallow attempt to dismiss viewpoints and beliefs

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I'm looking to title a book I've been working on since last year. I'm a fairly quick writer but, nearly everything I commit to paper makes me re-examine what I know and why I know it. The scenario keeps evolving, and so do the working titles.But after phone calls with two old friends, I was so saddened by their responses that I believe I've decided what the subtitle will be: Losing Liberal

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Liberal Guilt is an advanced form of 6th grade classroom clique politics, where manipulation, rumor-mongering, and covert alliances allow a few otherwise unremarkable kids to hold sway over the entire class. Full-blown Liberal Guilt is unique in that it is both a debilitating psychological malady and powerful political manipulation tool.Those who SUFFER from Liberal Guilt are unable to enjoy

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I freely admit that I was, in my post `Nam years, a heavy drinker and occasional bar brawler. Along with the scars, I learned more about battle in these melees than I did with II Field Force, RVN. It was a “hot zone” environment where you either learned quick or took a brutal beating.First let me assert that we are most assuredly in a bar brawl with terrorists - no rules, no time limit, hit

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The inability to accept that we have decades of war ahead of us seems to be the disease du jour in American social circles.Degenerative Neurasthenic Cognition, or DNCThis Alzheimer's-like syndrome reduces one's linear history and cause/effect analysis to buzzword shards, forcing its sufferers to assemble haphazard rationales to explain the world - a world that no longer makes sense to them.So, as

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It has been a long while since I posted part one of The Gelding of America. During that time, I looked closer at the current impact of this systematic campaign to eradicate manliness (see below) and now see that, rather than being the unfortunate result of the "Feminist versus Inequality" campaign, it has been an unrelenting an attack on the atomic structure of the nuclear family: the basic

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A decade ago, I read a piece by Thomas L. Friedman, Old Warriors Now Face Task Of Building Upon Foundation about Clinton's orchestration of the Big Handshake. (excerpts unchanged, capitalization for emphasis - mine) "And President Clinton, who GRACEFULLY SHEPHERDED Mr. Arafat and Mr. Rabin through their awkward moment of public reconciliation, hailed them both for their 'brave gamble that the

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My Online Voting site, Recallballot.com, has been be up for less than four weeks and currently we getting over 500 voters per day and tracking them by their IP addresses. So far we have a total of 16,800 votes - more than 80% of them with California IP's. To keep voters from double voting we have a proprietary address "lock-out" applet that accepts only 1 vote from each computer. A voter

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Here in Marin County, residents of the Dixie School District are not ready to fight the Civil War again, but some of them are up in arms about the school district's name. Some politically correct, Guilty Liberals want to change it. The folowing excert is from a Marin Independent Journal report by Nancy Isles Nation entitled: Effort to Change Dixie School District's Name Re-Kindled. "District

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I've read several articles about "Queer Eye" being an example of "Relationship Reality TV" (as opposed to Crime, Disaster, Contest or Deception reality) a proof that audiences are fascinated by social interaction rituals when depicted under duress or in extremis. (Someone should send the Loud family and Alan Raymond a 30th anniversary card) A few years ago, I developed interactive products and

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