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My God today I saw even FOX NEWS doing full coverage of Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service! Well I am fed up of this constant coverage! Does anyone realize North Korea is making nukes and shooting missiles over the Pacific? ENOUGH OF MICHAEL JACKSON – GOD DAMN IT!
As one person said, why don’t we cover the funerals of great men like Jonas Salk who invented the Polio vaccine and saved not only countless lives but also spared people from becoming invalids as my poor recently departed cousin. She was one of the last people to be crippled by polio.
Yes I realize Michael Jackson made a great contribution to music and as Carl Jung said all people have a “Shadow”. Michael Jackson showed us you can be rich and successful but still haunted by trouble! I am not writing this post against him but rather the overdone coverage of his death. My God this nation is going to pay it’s “Karma” for our obsession with celebrities as we will be subject to every whim and detail of the coming lawsuits concerning his estate! No I don’t want to hear anymore! Especially the extensive coverage!
One exception I will take with his critics is from Rush Limbaugh.
You know the head of the Republican Party! Well the leader of the Republican Party “prescribed” (oops bad word) a solution to the over coverage of Michael Jackson’s funeral. He said why don’t we cover the fallen heroes of the Iraq War?
Well maybe if Rush Limbaugh were to pay attention he would realize that former President Bush ordered that there was to be no such coverage of the arrival of the remains of fallen Iraqi Veterans!
Cannot we just get back to solving the world’s problems and turn the dial away from Michael Jackson? Really I am a European style Social Democrat not a Conservative. But I have had it with being “politically correct”! I have had ENOUGH of the constant coverage of Michael Jackson!
I am a proud liberal and a “Social Democrat”. I have no problem with the phrase “European Socialism”. Well the only problem I have with it is that we don’t have enough of it here in the United States. With that said let me state that I am glad that the Supreme Court has ruled against Judge Sotomoyer and has ended the reverse discrimination against the White and Latino fire fighters.
One of those fire fighters is dyslectic and he even hired someone to read to him so he could score high on the test. I have no problem with fining and jailing those who practice racial discrimination. But I do not believe the answer is to discriminate against innocent Whites. Yes I am a liberal! The time has come for my fellow liberals to act from positive compassion not from a masochistic “GUILT TRIP”!
Thank God the Supreme Court has ruled this way else the Republicans would have one more weapon to add to their arsenal of fear! It is bad enough that the Republicans are smearing President Obama by saying he is not tough enough on Iran! These are the same people who said that our differences end at the shore line and that we should “support our President and stand as one people in the area of foreign affairs”. I guess that only applies when we have a Republican as President.
None the less we liberals must learn not to play “masochist”. By practicing “reverse discrimination” we would not only undermine our party’s future but the first African – American President’s re-election prospects! Over the last few years I have noticed more and more of my fellow liberal Democrats not falling for the old Republican tricks.
Our nation needs to follow a new agenda:
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Repeal of the Bush and hopefully even Reagan Tax Cuts that favored the wealthy.
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Universal Health Care.
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Fighing the influence of K-Street in our Government.
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The “Greening of America” with less emphasis on fossil fuels and less dependance on oil.
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Forcing the CORPORATE COLLECTIVES (corporations) to humanize in this 21st Century.
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Extend annual vacations, as in Germany, to 11 weeks per year!
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Ending the nonsense that someone is entitled to earn millions per year while the middle class must scrape for an existence!
To achieve these ends we must not fall into the masochistic traps that liberals have been baited into before by Republicans. The stakes are just to high!
Well before we all start laughing at Joe Biden and his comments about swine flue, does anyone remember the TB scare we had two years ago! Remember the scare about being in the same plane with someone who had TB? In the current crises concerning the swine flu virus we have been told that airplanes have special “air filters” that can screen out bacteria and viruses! Well a virus is extremely small in comparison to a TB bacteria. Yet there were concerns about people flying in a plane where the issue was not the tiny virus but the much larger bacteria! This does not add up. Below is a clip from the Rachel Maddow Show concerning the then crisis about the passenger on the plane who had TB.
I am a Liberal Democrat but not an PC Orthodox one. I wonder if Rachel Maddow (a fellow liberal) has as much zeal now to attack the CBC now that we have a Democratic Administration. You will note her strong advocacy for defending America from allowing diseases to cross our open borders! In the above case it was a returning American from Italy. I wonder why that isn’t Anti-Italian? Oh dear I am not being politically correct! Yes dear viewer I am a rabid anti-corporate leftie liberal but I am also for the pursuit of TRUTH no matter where that takes me. Just view some of my posts with my raging attacks against the corporations and the stupidity of George Bush. But I also have posts (hold your breath now) in support of Star Wars at least for the possible defense of the United States.
While the consensus is that the TB scare may have been overblown that would be based on the assumption that corporate America has the American Middle Class best interests at heart! Yeah Right sure! So let’s not go overboard on criticizing Vice President Biden as depected in the humorous, I admit, video below).
Well to end this on a humorous note I know why we have the “swine flu”. This is the judgement of a rightous God against a decadent neo-Socialist America!
Doen’t any one see the connection with God’s punishment of America due to our election of Barrack Obama?
“Pork Barrel Spending” and Democrats “Bringing home the bacon” THEN we get SWINE FLU! Yes indeed the judgment of a “Righteous God”!
The last line actually must be from Sarah Palin’s inner thoughts!
Well this liberal Euro style Social Democrat does not believe in the orthodoxy of corporate greed nor the masochistic “I hate America” political orthodoxy of the politically correct. Just think of the dilemma of some of my liberal friends when the issue turns to Afghanistan! Now for the advantage of getting re-elected the Afghan President has pushed a law that sets back the rights of woman in his country. True the law only effects the Shiite section not the larger Sunni section of Afghanistan.
My anti-Bush credentials are impeccable. Just read this blog and you can see that for yourself. But I do enjoy showing my fellow liberals their tendency to create a new orthodoxy.
Just what is a politically correct liberal to do in the case of this set back in Afghanistan? On the one hand they do love to blame America for all the world’s troubles. Well then not everything is the fault of America there is also that nasty nasty religion, you know “Christianity!” Ah yes they actually advocate “having dominion over the earth”, as stated in the Book of Genesis! After all Islam is a religion of “peeeeeeece” which is the mantra of the politically correct.
I know, I know, I know the Muslims did not generate the disparaging of woman they LEARNED IT FROM US CHRISTIANS! Yes that’s it! – Wrong!
Now we have been told that we are not going to get involved in “nation building”. So we will hold our noses and fight in Afghanistan and fight for our national interests like we did in Vietnam. George Bush, I am afraid to say, actually learned the lessons of Vietnam and tried to insure that if we fought in the third world we would not back some one like General Ky whom we backed in Vietnam. But that also has it’s problems as we have learned.
Yes I am for pulling out of Iraq and was only for removing Saddam Hussein not the nation building that followed. George Bush slowly realized he could not do it and our model of democracy in Iraq slowly was lowered.
But my point is this! What are we to do in Afghanistan? Should we blame this new law on Bush? No we really cannot since he is out of office. Maybe we should adapt the liberal idea of CULTURAL RELATIVISM in relation to the Muslim treatment of woman! You know the idea that right is not right and is only due to our stupid American ethno-centricism! “Bad, Bad Bad American”!
As I said I am a liberal Euro style Social Democrat. So don’t try to rationalize your cognitive dissonance between liberal ideals on the one hand and the masochistic blame America philosophy of the politically correct for everything on the other. Sometimes the Republicans do have it right. There are people out there in this world who do not care what type of “karma” they generate. North Korea and Iran’s leaders are among them!
We are fighting EVIL in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Not to mention Iran and North Korea! China and Russia are not that cool either. We could see one of our cities go up into a mushroom cloud because we did not take Decisive action! Oh dear but that would be like “having dominion” and we liberals would love so much better to live and wallow in guilt being “reactors” rather than proactive in world affairs!
Yes there is an axis of evil! No I do not believe in Satan but I do believe in fighting what is evil! I am proud that our nation has, as yes Donald Rumsfield said, “Shock and awe military technology”. I am not ashamed that my nation has it and I don’t want others to have it.
We need to take out Al Qaeda! I believe in the Bush Doctrine (OH MOTHER GODDESS FORGIVE ME!) but Bush misapplied his own doctrine by wasting Americas’s resources by “staying “ in Iraq. We need to:
- Use our superior technology to wipe out Al Qaeda.
- Allow COVERT CIA operations to take out the beloved leader in North Korea. (What you want them to have nukes and a second Korean War).
- Stop the Cut and Run Capitalists from selling our military technology to America’s enemies!
- Pressure Afghanistan to liberalize their laws.
The time to be decisive is now! America does not need the Republicans to be the torch holders of defending American Values! If we liberals do not then the Republicans will regain their prestige with the American people and our nation will never enjoy the fruits of a American stlye Euro economy!
Well finally it seems that some in our government are not going to play word games! Military Judge Susan Crawford prevented the prosecution of one terrorist because he was tortured. Also the new incoming Attorney General, Eric Holder has stated before Congress that “Water boarding is torture indeed”! Hey does anyone remember the self righteous Republicans ranting on Bill Clinton because he used word games to not take responsibility for his having sex with Monica Lewinsky? True Bill Clinton was wrong. But I have noticed something about Presidents who screw up. They either screw around with their marriages or they remain faithful to their wives but screw up their Constitutional Oath to the nation! Remember Richard Nixon!
This blog is by a Non-PC Liberal Populist Democrat! I enjoyed listening to Keith Olbermann and I watch him often. But let me now present you my reader with the antithesis and then create a synthesis of practical idealism.
Carl Jung had an interesting theory. He called it “The Shadow”. We like to pretend we live in a world of light or idealism! The “flying boy” is one such myth that Jungians frequently use to illustrate how we don’t always want to accept that sometimes idealism doesn’t always serve us fully. We also like to point out other’s shadows but not our own. In a society that prides itself on “convenience”,
- Where sex without the “ideal’ of immediate marriage is rationally tolerated,
- Where the “convenience of abortion” is rationally accepted over the burden of idealistic pro-life theology or the diminution of hedonistic pleasure by wearing a condom we have a dilemma! No I am not against abortion but only trying to bring it out of the Jungian Shadow and demonstrate we can live with “cognitive dissonance“! <Read further>
That dilema is the “Ticking Bomb” scenario as presented by Allan Dershowitz! How do we deal with the fact that terrorists may soon have the capability of inflicting a plague on our nation or a nuclear catastrophe? Liberal lawyer Allan Dershowitz has advocated the usage of “Torture Warrants” in such cases. However to do so would then bring out into the light of day the fact that every nation will use torture under some circumstance and we would prefer not to lower our ideals! The video below should be viewed to balance Keith Olbermann’s above. You can relax while watching it as it is only some college kids making a point. It is not a real beheading!
ISSUE: It is argued that using torture would subject our troops to the same practice!
ANSWER: The restricted usage would only be against terrorists who are about to cause massive civilian deaths not enemy troops engaged in combat. Besides just look at the beheadings that terrorists have done against innocent civilians! When faced with massive deaths shouldn’t we have the “CONVENIENCE” of extracting needed information even if it cannot be used to prosecute? In such a scenario it is lives that we value not conviction. Yes it will create “cognitive dissonance” between our behavior and our ideals but we value the “convenience” that abortion gives us! No I am not against abortion I am just trying to make us face our own cultural “Shadows”! Sure when it comes to torture, we can say “where will it end” but as a supporter of abortion I don’t seem to have a problem with “when will it end” now do I. Oh my God can you believe I said that!
ISSUE: Why not have such “Torture Warrants” issued by a “Committee For Public Safety” as the beheadings were sanctioned in the French Revolution?
ANSWER: This is a danger. Life is full of dangers. We had the “Reichstag Fire” and the resulting “Enabling Act” that justified Hitler’s rise to power. We live in an imperfect world! I like Allan Dershowitz’s answer! He wants it out in the public. That would “Jungian De-Shadowize” the issue. The Warrant would have to meet the ticking bomb criteria, made public and signed by the Chief Justice and the President!
One reason why Republicans and Conservatives get away with all the things they do is that Liberals frequently “surrender” the issue of patriotism and national security to Conservatives and Republicans! In the prior election however this was not the case we finally cleaned up our act. We separated the issue of the current war from the issue of national security! None the less you can count on my fellow liberals who love to go on masochistic binges by defending stupid behavior! But then again if more guys purchased a Trojan and “suffered” the inconvenience (oops bad word “inconvenience”) of some diminution of sexual pleasure then there would be less children born out of wedlock and/or less abortions! If more woman insisted on this then there would be less need of the “convenience” of an abortion! But let’s not deal with “our Jungian Shadows as liberals, but point with self righteous indignation instead at the Republicans!
OH MY GOD THIS LIBERAL IS SOUNDING LIKE ANN COULTER!
<Momentarily stopping my blog writting>
Taking slow breathes!
It’s Ok look at the body of this blog I am basically a flaming leftie!
I will be ok!
I will be home to watch the inauguration and every thing will be just fine!
There now I feel better!
My fellow Liberal Democrats I want more inaugurations of future Liberal Democrats as President and as members of Congress. We must push for corporations to have “Social Responsibility”! Let’s insure that by not letting Conservatives “steal” the issues of patriotism and defending America else we will lose future elections! Oh yes - “God Bless America”!
I am a liberal and if you read this blog you might even label me as a “Social Democrat” rather than a mere Democrat. I really enjoy watching Keith Olbermann but I wish he would demonstrate some of that notorious “liberal toleration” for Christianity! Make no mistake about it religion can some times go on a “masochistic binge”. But I will leave writing on that to my other website www.AquarianFreeThinker.com which I have left unattended for too long.
Keith Olbermann and many PC Liberals seem to automatically attribute hatred and bigotry to Christianity while turning their backs on the death camps of Stalin, Hitler and Mao. Please you don’t have to tell me that the above are not representative of all atheists. I know that. My point is why not give Christians the same respect. The date that Christmas was in the summer is not news to me. When I was just a young boy we attended the NYC Planetarium and they said the same thing about a conjunction of planets occurring in the late spring or early summer. December 25th was latter chosen to compete with the local pagan celebrations. Indeed some Christians (our own pilgrims) refuse to reconize Christmas. My point is that this astronomer’s statement is old hat.
Recently Keith Olbermann had a skit on that made fun of Jesus. I enjoy seeing clerics being made fun of but I resent when the figure is Jesus Christ.
I wonder if he would place a similar comedy skit on concerning Mohammad? Yet fundamentalist Islam is far more condemning of Gays today than even Baptists! I believe the masochism that is displayed in Christianity sometimes is not inherently Christianity but something I have termed in my other website as “Original Masochism”. This is inherent in humanity.
When it surfaces in religion you have the doctrine of “Original Sin” or what I like to call “Apple Theodicy”! When Original Masochism occurs in politics it is called:
POLITICALLY CORRECT LIBERALISM!
When Hal Lindsey was writing his books about the end of the world due to the second coming and some Christians where in literal orgasmic ecstasy at the projected troubles of humanity due to wars, economics and pestilence, PC Liberals where “celebrating” the end of humanity do the wicked wicked American and European bourgeoisie middle class consumption of the earth’s resources. But looked what happened! Their prediction of that oil production would be sliced in half by 1980 and the earth would face massive population decreases just did not occur. I remeber durning the first Earth Day we read “The Population Bomb” as if it were the new “Scripture” predicting the doom of a decadent bourgeoisie middle class world!
Politically correct liberalism, like fundamentalist Christianity is one MASSIVE GUILT TRIP! But instead of guilt from being the descendants of Adam and Eve with the apple it is “guilt by being a middle class American. OH MOTHER GODDESS CAN YOU BELIEVE I SAID THAT! Both sides would rather relish in masochistic powerlessness rather than deal realistically with the world’s problems.
Thank God Obama kept the Democrats’s masochistic tendencies in check else we would have lost the elections as the Republicans always seize on that! So Keith Olberman you are a cool dude and I watch your program a lot. But chill out with your hatred of Christianity. Why not poke jokes at Mohammad or is it because you know most Christians have now evolved past the stoning and witch fires! Christians would not issue a “fatwa” against you.
I wonder what would happen if Keith Olbermann had taken such liberties with the founder of Islam in the skits he showed on his show.
