you get far higher percentage of stupid people. Since stupid people are unable to create a self identity, they assume a stereotype that their culture offers them. We off them really bad stereotypes. Once a stupid person is in their stereotype role they no longer have to think or put out any effort whatsoever since it has already been done for them.

Then they can point at other stupid people in stupid stereotypes and exclaim, "OH MY! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE?", or the more popular, "LET'S GO AFTER THEM!!!"

Once you let your educational system fail, recovery is doubtful. Stupid people teaching kids is how we got into this mess and now where can you find anyone intelligent and willing to do the odious task of training kids rather than educating them?

The first thing I thought of was Chris Rock's

"Black people vs. Niggers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpUSElgJcyI

The fundamental difference between Rock and Instapunk and his ilk is that Rock finds attitudes within his own community repugnant and would like to see those attitudes change. Instapunk and his ilk appear to believe that elimination of those that hold those attitudes are the only way to save America because those that hold such attitudes are out to destroy not just America but to "kill us in our beds."

One more visual cue as to another car's position and motion is screwed up.

It's designed to catch the eye and that's what it does. But in doing so it makes it harder to judge the position and velocity of the car it is on.

Tim Russert is a warmongering corporate lapdog and a racist.

An exhalation of breath from Harry Belafonte has more worth and substance than the sum of Tim Russert's career as a shill for evil, war and stupidity.

Orbitboy, I'll have you know that I've Googled way too much in my life. But that's beside the point.

(http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2008/03/john-mccain-rod-parsley-spiritual-guide.html)

In the link you provided to the Mother Jones article (reproduced above), writer David Corn does use the headline "McCain's Spiritual Guide: Destroy Islam." But in the text, we learn that at a political rally, "McCain...called the evangelical minister a 'spiritual guide.'"

"A spiritual guide" v. "HIS spiritual guide": What's the difference? A lot.

I'm willing to acknowledge that Rev. Wright, Pat Robertson, or for that matter Jim Jones and L. Ron Hubbard are spiritual guides. But they're not MY spiritual guides.

David Corn and Glenn Greenwald are deliberately falsifying McCain's words, in order to imply some equivalence between McCain & Obama. But there's no comparison. Obama has a 20-year mentoring relationship with a hatred-ridden anti-American freak, and that's a moral and political problem. McCain trots out these guys for a few minutes to get an endorsement, which is arguably cynical, but is also, I'm afraid, pretty standard fare.

It's the conservatives who are the "sleeper cells" bent on doing harm to the rest of us. Only they aren't quite what you'd call asleep. they're wide awake and screwing things up left and right. Too bad most of the press is asleep, or maybe more Americans--the ones who don't follow the news this carefully or read a lot of blogs--might know more about it.

This phrase struck me because I consider my self to be BOTH empathic and individualistic.

Perhaps I'm not thinking of the term correctly but if you take individualism to its extreme, then you have accorded EVERYONE the same degree of rights and autonomy that you grant yourself.

This is in contrast to those whose collectivist impulses extend a certain distance and then no further. Shrink your us-vs-them border down to the level of one individual and ironically you've simultaneously expanded it to encompass ALL of humanity.

Funny that......

Only we liberals really care about ironing out the differences between races; we're the ones who see actual listening solutions to problems like immigration. Even having this conversation may mean the Republicans beat us to death in the general by not addressing the war on terra, etc.

I'm not saying it's right, just that I'm certainly not ready to bet the farm on McCain + followers being willing to join us in this dialogue.

I see Greenwald has hit a nerve. In an update Reynolds rebukes him for not noting that the “Easter Post” and the racist post (cited by Greenwald) were written by two different people. That’s true, but the two posts are on the same racist website, right next to each other.

And here are some lovely sentiments that Reynolds did link to:

He doesn't understand at all -- and neither does USA Today's eager young reporter -- that African-Americans have been on a deadly collision course with feminists since the mid-seventies. These two apparent and frequently avowed allies have been competing for the same finite pool of extra privileges all along, and because there are more women and more of the women are white, it is the feminists who have done more to slow the de-racialization of America than any other force. The feminists' anti-male propaganda has inevitably done far more damage to African-American males and their role in families than it has done to white men. The feminists' gradual achievement of female hegemony over child ownership, child-rearing, and abortion decisions has done more to destroy the black family and promote the epidemic of children born out of wedlock than any conspiracy Jeremiah Wright could ever dream up. …

Even though Obama is not and never was an African-American, he has always been black enough to benefit from the superannuated slave culture that forgives every corruption and hypocrisy in those who have any claim on being black.

Methinks the Insta-cracker protests too much.

http://www.instapunk.com/archives/InstaPunkArchiveV2.php3?a=1298

I'm willing to acknowledge that Rev. Wright, Pat Robertson, or for that matter Jim Jones and L. Ron Hubbard are spiritual guides. But they're not MY spiritual guides.

-- Kryon777

Say that while you're standing on stage with any one of those while you are enthusiastically accepting their endorsement for president of the United States and see if it is taken as blithely as you are expecting it to be taken.