To GroupThink Or Not To GroupThink

When the gods finally come to scold the human race…I’ll be amused; if not astonished at how fast the tide will turn…

The effort that is being made to tell American’s that they shouldn’t believe what they see and that this fist pounding-totalitarian-me-first-administration is tragically undernourished on conventional wisdom and curiosity.

I was first reading this article in TPM and then went to this link at NewsMax.com. I haven’t laughed so hard in my life. I especially found the quote they gave to Al Gore in the article titled Al Gore’s Green Investments.

I then had to sit back and wonder if we really do stop and think about anything real?

I happen to like a good conspiracy theory; but I play to human nature a little more than I do to suspicions.

I watched Anatomy Of A Murder last night and Jimmy Stewart’s character said he believes that people aren’t all good or all bad but that they are a lot of things. This characterization I can live with. I have known sincere believers who were as capable as anyone to do the wrong thing. As well as I give little charity to myself when it comes to scruples; but…are we as a society so succumbed?

I beg the question.

And for Stansfield I’ll include the ACLU. I’ll get verification before I put words in his mouth. For me I’ll include FAIR, which includes Democracy Now. Nope Stansfield says it is NEA. I add these so I can use both sides of the coin.

What jumped out at me from the NewsMax folks was the poll they were taking and how in every single one of these polls is the question…4) Are you willing to give up, even partially, your civil liberties to help stop terrorism? I find that question astonishing because of the implications and that we are still asking this question.

Are you Brainwashed? Are you willing to give up, even partially, your brain to help stop conventional wisdom? Where’s my egg and frying pan…

Gravy…

The Facts Are…we used to start off saying. UGH.

So we want to stay in Iraq for the next one hundred years or so unless of course it will do the electorate some good by sending 20 or 40K home for a month long furlough in October.

We’re building a fence because we can’t keep the immigrants out. That’s right we can’t keep them out and they might even start bringing in bombs to help them terrorists out. Let us not worry about the people who hire illegal workers; why are you so against small business?

I hear this stuff and I think to myself; Ollie North is he still around? We forget how he turned a blind eye while Crack cocaine infiltrated the gangs of LA and we were protecting that drug lord. (my long standing conspiracy)

Ah the 80’s that Big Boon for the rehab industry and Dr. Tim LaHaye. I can’t wait until he is busted for child pornography.

Well that worked out for everybody…finally all that crack that America smoked is paying off.

That Flag Amendment is coming along…inflation is up…but it won’t last is what the story was in NewsMax. The Fed’s gonna lower rates next year; when all that debt starts going down because of those tax cuts. In the meantime it’s a field day for the credit card company’s and short term lenders. …fill ‘er up boys!!!

Yes, yes America, keep nodding on that you are doing well. Pay your 20% interest rates, interest only home loans…huge energy bills…etc. At least you don’t have to change your cell phone number or dial 1…grrrr. You don’t have a student loan do you???

Don’t worry about that minimum wage…why worry about a civil rights bill if we are losing our civil liberties on a daily basis? Funny thing how we want to give favors in a business friendly immigration bill…what is wrong with exceptions???

Draw conclusions! Finish thoughts to their natural end! Listen! Listen to how they say it! Compare and contrast what you might do in any given situation. Think about why and how we can improve situations.

What if: IT IS YOUR PROBLEM? and they are saying G-d really does hate you…and Wal-Mart is out of plastic sheeting and duct tape?

“don’t follow leaders, watch your parking meters”

…bully…