Mr. Milgrams Children

The following "hystorical analysis" of the war in Iraq is exceeded only by the level of astounding ignorance about the previous wars America found itself in. Fighting the ignorance of such men will reduce the stubbornly high numbers of such followers. But I dare anyone to explain the logic or rationale in saying that somehow a fight in one country keeps fights and attacks from happening in America. Please explain the cause and effect behind the strategy this man keeps telling others is one that's grounded in sanity. Of course, explaining why people believe it is the basis of Milgram's "Obedience To Authority" study that showed a frightening tendency for otherwise sane people to separate their own mind from their morals simply by learning an authority figure gave the order to act otherwise. Mycos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All the President is Saying is "Give War" a Chance John Peter Muhlenberg distinguished himself in the Revolutionary War rising to the rank of Major General. After the United States won their independence from Great Britain, Muhlenberg continued to serve his country first as a congressman and then as a senator from his home state of Pennsylvania. John's brother, Frederick Muhlenberg, also a minister, chastised his brother for going to war and urging others to follow his lead. However, when the British occupied New York, Frederick joined realized war was the only path to peace and he joined his brother in the Colonial army, distinguishing himself in several battles and ultimately becoming the first Speaker of the House of the U.S. Congress. Like the Muhlenberg brothers, President Bush knows there is now only one way to achieve peace and stability in Iraq. The determined enemy we face must be defeated and held at bay long enough for the newly formed Iraqi Government to reach a political solution to the sectarian violence that is threatening to tear the new nation apart.

Sheeple

Defend Freedom said... "What saddens me is liberal blogs like this one that would rather support the terrorists when they should be supporting our troops. Do I need to remind you we're at war? Well Mr. Freedom Defender, you might remember how Kent State became an example to all of what happens when folks with little education use flags and crosses to replace the missing knowledge; wisdom from which come empathy and reason as factors for basing their decisions about the lives of people who happened to be born in a different country/culture than you. Somewhere among your new enemies is a guy who behaves in a manner so like you that should you meet under different terms, the sister would squeal in shocked delight at the similarity! Just as you regard your leader, so does he wave his flag, proud of country....opinion made of the enemy as described by your respective leaders...a match on everything, right down to penis size !(small obviously). To actually think that fighting a countries wars is your "duty", yet whose piece of the economic pie even smaller than your dick. Yet just because you were raised to think that because some rich-kid-turned-politician had the money and connections to get people like you to start calling him "president", you'll really should chase down and kill total strangers. Dogs on a fox-hunt might do that for their Lord and Master. Yet so would you without first checking anything out for yourself before making such a monstrous decision; to kill that twin of yours from Syria. Just whistle and your good to go kill on command.... without ever using your own mind to make your own decision about who is right or wrong in fact, not "patriotic duty" taught by rulers to there serfs for millennia, precisely for this very occasion only. It's an abrogation of your humanity when you act on orders like a bug acts on instinct. We have the unique ability to think for ourselves; to behave outside the drive or instinct behind such 'pack' behaviors. As such, I find it hard to feel pity for your fate in war when you enter it as a pack-mule rather than a man of wisdom exercising self-awareness. So think again Cracker. This war exists only because the lies PNAC told were believed by you and your ilk. But for your children's sake at least you should distance yourself from having said such things. The embarrassment it'll cause in the future to those who backed the war-criminals and PNAC chicken-hawks who lied for profits and glory, or some like Cheney solely to avoid losing his 'interests' to a peace dividend, one that a nation with a balanced economy and no real threat could surely afford finally. The hundreds of thousands of megatons of nuclear missiles (real WMD's...not 'maybe have/might get one[1]) were gone with the threat of extinction and the Doomsday Clock... now mere planes as 'firebombs' have somehow been stretched out of 9/11 into a delusion of impending death at the hands of religious kooks. How?

Letter to Gingrich and Lott on Iraq

Letter to Gingrich and Lott on Iraq: "o President Clinton expressing our concern that the U.S. policy of 'containment' of Saddam Hussein was failing"

Not an expert: Presidential psychopath? Here's a test

Not an expert: Presidential psychopath? Here's a test: "Sunday, December 31, 2006 Presidential psychopath? Here's a test Many in the blogosphere and a few in the mainstream media have noted that, based on his public statements and actions, there seems to be something slightly peculiar about President Bush's behavior. Some have even speculated that President Bush may have psychopathic tendencies. One way to judge for yourself is to use the below standard evaluation form used by psychiatrists and see how your insight into the President's public behavior squares with the 'psychopath' hypothesis. (You might have to wait a couple of seconds for the form to load.) Note that you must check off all items before the evaluation can be made. "

The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

BUSTED - The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters Including insights into the sadistic right-wing mind and how it will likely react to works. Plus Thankfully sociologists are increasingly identifying as an illness or disorder now gone species-wide. AS fantastic as such a disorder might seem, when one stops to consider that man is an animal born with genetically motivated predispositions evolved in an environment that has changed so radically as to barely exist, all in the last few thousand years. When one considers how the genetic codes evolved in genes that predispose our social behaviours to work within the environment we spent a few, relatively static, million years socializing with. Because all socially dependant animals have evolved "ethics"; behavioural codes that balance the individual survival impulses of ones own genetic pool with competing drives like the need to benefit the overall health and welfare of ones social group. Keeping the "clan" healthy enough to maximize the hunt, or vital enough to stay alert to predators are also behaviours known as 'ethical' or even "selfless". But today, reciprocal-altruism (a more apt term) is seen as somehow being of a higher standard than what is generally deemed necessary for survival. That such behaviours, although merely an expression of a genetic predisposition common to all socially dependant animals, are now seen as being "a cut above" the normal, is surely due to it's stark contrast against that of another gene expression. This other is the result of our artificially created environment where natures restricting influences no longer interact with the genetic predispositions evolved over millions of years to deal with an environment that restricted some of the excesses we think are natural behaviours today. This "runaway" genetic drive will unfortunately lead to continued wars and misery, if not our eventual extinction. Environmental limitations that made hoarding anti-social and impractical once had balance with "group" genetic adaptions. They had reached a comfortable equilibrium. Now, a reliance on strangers, our division into roles or "jobs" as an actual identity, the hoarding by class/caste cultures, ALL have been unleashed on a species not at all ready mentally to have the wisdom to adapt to the new requirements of surplus food and technologies of power over matter and mankind. The altruism necessary to subvert hoarding behaviours will require conscious manipulation of the genome. Now social disparities exists with wealth and power distinctions so massive as to be classified as insane. Privileges are allotted without any bearing on those individuals usefulness to mans overall health, mental well-being or species longevity. Somehow, mercantilism is a skill judged as among, if not THE, highest state of being man can hope to attain. Such a perverse view of man is similar to other states of mind we have passed through. Cannibalism and paedophilia both saw their turn as a cultural acceptable behaviour, just as we now accept the "right-wing" as cultural norm, it to shall hopefully pass into the garbage-bin of historical role-playing. But as it stands now, many believe it to simply be a natural development; an opinion along the spectrum of ideological behaviours and views. It is not. What we have come to call the "right-wing" can now can be seen in it's entirety. The Internet "porthole" into lives usually unseen due to our habit of seeking like-minded individuals, has now shown us what would have taken hundreds of studies, decades of rebuttals, with a counter-push from the right when evidence begins to show their presence among us as a manifestation of a culturally induced genetic "disorder" or severe maladaption syndrome. Their penchant to use mere opinion in place of fact, emotionalism as reason, and still the use of mythology in place of science...sometimes merely to sidestep embarrassment if it should present itself, all these are apparently perfectly rational justification for the insertion of lies and false realities, apparently for the simple reason that it is more comfortable to believe than certain truths about our existence as a species here on Earth. And so it behooves us to admit to ourselves the hard fact that vast numbers of our fellows are pathological to any society. More importantly, they are a disease to the species...and to our very existence a cancer; the body of mankind is compelled by life itself to proceed with an excision, either through gene "therapy" or our social manipulations, ones that lead to a wilful self-termination. As violence-prone as they are, this last possibility isn't as hard to accomplish as one might think on first glance. Indeed, nature already seems to be working out ways to reduce the abundance of the self-only genetic profile by using their own lack of empathy to lead them into wars. Wars are of course the very place where the battlefield maxim "Know Your Enemy" is a talent of necessity, yet such a task is so alien to them that they are sure to have massive casualties in all the wars they all seem determined to fight, wars they insist on continuing to lose due the lack of any desire to "know ones enemy". Ironic in the extreme......