"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
If I had a Hammer I'd watever watever.....Hey its Kindler/Gentler Frank again.
ReplyDeleteoops, looks like its up to the token American, I mean Progressive Conservative to point out an incon-veeeeeen-ient truth...
I don't think John Stewart reads youb blog, unless you've got an e-mail or written correspondence from him to that effect.
Like the e-mail I have from Joan Walsh asking me NEVER(her caps, not mine)to post on "Salon" again.
My Shrink friends have a term for that, it's called "Magical Thinking".
Frank
You are describing what I like to call "Practiced Credulity"
ReplyDeleteI see that lots from my scizocristic fascist in-laws.
In reply to some maundering drivel, I'll catch them off-guard with a related fact; a shocked expression follows. Then, as truth starts to dawn, it's "lalalala I can't hear you cause Jesus is talkin."
As when I told one of them, that eight guys had come forward to conform that Larry Craig - his Senator from Idaho – was into gay sex, and had actually pleaded guilty to a charge of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
He stared at me and said, “He pled guilty?” Then it was “Naw Naw Naw, it can’t be – he’s a good CHRISTIAN MAN.”
EugeneInSanDiego
Geez, boys. IT WAS A FRICKIN' JOKE!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteMaybe not, I sent him a link!
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