[TAKIMAG] The author wasn’t just having an off day such as we all have whenever we try to think. Here is what she wrote in the same journal just before Christmas last year:
There has been a lot of talk lately, at a national, local and personal level, about the importance of putting mental health front and centre. Therefore, as the Christmas season approaches, during this time of gift-giving, we have an opportunity to focus on what we can gift to ourselves, in order to impact in a positive way on our mental health.
And what is the gift we can give ourselves? “Living life authentically, getting in tune with our true sense of how we wish to be in this world.” And what if what we really, truly, and authentically wish to be is Caligula? Well, “research” (before which we must all bow down and worship) shows that “when we are authentic…even if it sets up to be different from others, it still correlates with increased levels of joy and wellbeing.” Oh, happy, happy Caligula!
When reading this kind of saccharine psychological bilge, I feel rather (though not exactly) as I do after having eaten too many chocolate truffles at a sitting. Alternatively, one might call the thoughts of the author of the articles psychological kitsch. Kitsch is hard to define but easy to recognize: It is a kind of sentimental garishness approximating or imitating, but not attaining, art. These articles are conspicuously sentimental, written with something approximating or imitating, but not attaining, thought.
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solipsism cubed
Posted by: Bov Flimbers ||
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Feeding your inner Caligula? Psycho-babble for kids? Most kids are egocentric without assistance.
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Free social justice advert for Zuma and the ANC (funded by the American taxpayer). Doubt it will do much to solve the farm murder and urban crime epidemic however.
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These kids ought to have their heads examined--they are a danger to themselves. However, I somehow doubt that this anything more than talk. It is much like all the Hollywood celebrities leaving the country if Trump got elected--none have so far.
[Daily Caller] Speaking at the Boeing factory in North Charleston, South Carolina on Friday, President Donald Trump promised to level the playing field for American workers.
Trump noted that his administration will "continue to work on reducing regulations, cutting taxes -- including for the middle class, including for everyone and including for business -- and creating a level playing field for our workers."
"When there is a level playing field, and I’ve been saying this for a long time, American workers will always, always, always win," POTUS continued. "But we don’t have a level playing field."
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Got to agree with that. Jobs, jobs, jobs and a strong middle class. Shift from a centralized government economy deciding everything to a strong free-market economy.
[Breitbart] Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, appeared on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 this weekend to discuss President Donald Trump’s upcoming Saturday evening rally in Melbourne, Florida, and the vehement and vitriolic hatred that the fake news- perpetrating establishment media has for the president.
Spicer said on the show:
"I think the president, after almost a month in office has, done so many things to help move the country forward--create jobs, secure the nation--and I think so many times the filter of the mainstream media loses sight of both what he’s done, accomplished, and intended to do. And I think he wants to make sure that the people who are out there who supported him, that are fighting for him and that are praying for him, know that he can talk directly to them and he can get out there and have an unfiltered conversation with them. And this is going to be a great opportunity here in Melbourne, Florida, at 5 o’clock to have that conversation with the American people so he can talk to them about all of the things he’s already done in 30 days to move the country forward."
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i hope this isn't a sign of frustration or desperation, because it worked in the election campaign to build momentum does not mean it will work now to move the stumbling blocks laid by obama
we know our Trump is doing the best he can
maybe it is just too late to be able to fix this system and maybe we are not able to get where we need to be
he is my hero regardless of whether he succeeds i know he is trying and if he can't do it, nobody can
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Gosh, he goes out and meets the people he represents and he is immediately coined a failed president. I hope he does this monthly. I hope he comes to Phoenix. Its about time we have elected a president that does not forget about us. A president that does not think he is king and never leaves his castle...
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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1 - see Fire Side Chats, FDR(tm)
With the MSM making this literally an all out assault, he goes around them to the people. Basically, you will not corrupt my message and connection to the people.
2 - 10 Donk Senate seats up for the next round of 'consent of the governed' in states Trump carried.
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#1 i hope this isn't a sign of frustration or desperation...
I seriously doubt it; Trump enjoys his rallies and connecting with the people, and rather than feeling frustration with the media I think he has utter contempt for them and relishes any opportunity to drive them crazy. For the crazier they get, the more difficult it's going to be for Democrats to win elections in 2008.
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The press is seething. The president is calling out the fake news again. They all say he has gone too far and that the press are a constitutionally protected entity. This is entirely true. I believe it. However when the one of our protected entities go off the rails with anger, hate, and try to drive their agendas to the into the public conscience someone has to call them out. If our congress will not call them then who? It falls on the president. They fawned over Obama, attacked anyone who opposed him, or even just questioned him- just ask Joe the plumber. Now they are on the attack. The press has an integrity problem. The president is calling them on it. I see no problem with it.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
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#7 The press is seething. The president is calling out the fake news again. They all say he has gone too far and that the press are a constitutionally protected entity.
They're constitutionally protected from censorship or punishment by the government; but they're not protected, constitutionally or otherwise, from criticism by the President or anyone else. Donald Trump has just as much right to call them a bunch of lying assholes as you or I do.
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/19/2017 12:40 Comments ||
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The First Amendment was ratified when there was no social institution known as the 'Press'. They were referring to the technology of information dissemination. Today that function and protection falls on the internet (why do you think they so desperately want to control that).
Just as the same a-holes conflate legal immigration with illegal immigration and natural/historical climate change with man made global warming, they also conflate their self identity with the technology.
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Inquisitors? Gone. And confessors.
And pity poor part-time professors.
The schwerpunkt: Some bumpkin
With bad hair debunking
Our near-defunct adjunct suppressors.
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Excelling at quelling the wellborn,
"Trump's Peasants Rebelling at Melbourne!"
Yell newshounds, like Luther,
"Uncouth, and a truther,"
Their chivalrous warnings so well-worn.
[Hot Air] Bolton was a candidate for Secretary of State during the transition period, then a candidate to be a key undersecretary at the Department under Rex Tillerson, and then more recently ... nada. His name hadn’t been mentioned in connection lately with any major staffing positions, which is odd given that Trump reportedly came to admire him from his appearances on Fox News. (Also a key qualification for KT McFarland in landing her job as deputy NSA, apparently.) Bolton had two big problems in landing a job at State. One: Rex Tillerson allegedly had "misgivings" about him, whether because of Bolton’s ostentatious hawkishness or because a newbie diplomat at the head of the Department might fear being outmaneuvered by an ambitious, experienced old hand beneath him. And two, more importantly: Deputy positions at cabinet agencies require Senate confirmation, and Bolton has always been viewed as tough to confirm. The left despises him and might well be able to scare centrist Dems into voting lockstep against him; Rand Paul also despises Bolton for his hawkishness and has vowed to oppose him. That leaves a paper-thin majority of 51 votes to confirm him assuming zero other defections among the Senate GOP. And plenty of other Republicans, starting with Bob Corker, are said to have "misgivings" about Bolton. He might be unconfirmable.
But that’s the virtue of the NSA idea. The national security advisor isn’t subject to Senate confirmation. Because he’s merely an advisor, he can be on the job tomorrow if Trump merely says the word. And lo and behold:
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Ambassador Bolton, to this day, maintains invading Iraq and sending Saddam to hell was morally just and strategically wise. President Trump, on the other hand, has repeatedly said the decision was "stupid" and even suggested Dubya "lied" about Iraqi WMD. Perhaps, a better fit for John in a DJT administration would be Rex's henchman over at Foggy Bottom.
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W "acted on the intelligence given him" and Bolton supported that objective but also knows full well the problems at Foggy Bottom and the UN. Who was responsible for that faulty intel, including the Five Eyes? I think Bolton would be an excellent advisor with a broad scope of vision. Anyone the vitriolic Left opposes, has automatic creds in my view.
[DAWN] IN a prescient statement to the UN Security Council on Feb 13, Pakistain’s permanent representative, after describing the actions taken to restrain terrorism in Pakistain, asserted: "What Pakistain continues to face today are externally supported terrorists." As if on cue, successive terrorist attacks occurred in Lahore, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. and Sehwan over the next three days.
Immediately after the atrocity at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, the ISPR front man said: "Recent terrorist acts are being executed on directions from hostile powers and from sanctuaries in Afghanistan. We shall defend and respond." The army chief himself declared: "Each drop of the nation’s blood shall be Dire Revenged ... immediately. No more restraint for anyone."
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"Each drop of the nation’s blood shall be Dire Revenged ... immediately. No more restraint for anyone." Hah, no more Mr. Nice Guys?
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When the Paki-Wakis start talking like this about India I think about nuclear weapons and am concerned.
I love pop-corn but not when it glows in the dark. If it could be kept within certain confines maybe it's okay but I think about "War Games" and how every scenario led to mass destruction.
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[TAKIMAG] The author wasn’t just having an off day such as we all have whenever we try to think. Here is what she wrote in the same journal just before Christmas last year:
[Hot Air] Bolton was a candidate for Secretary of State during the transition period, then a candidate to be a key undersecretary at the Department under Rex Tillerson, and then more recently ... nada. His name hadn’t been mentioned in connection lately with any major staffing positions, which is odd given that Trump reportedly came to admire him from his appearances on Fox News. (Also a key qualification for KT McFarland in landing her job as deputy NSA, apparently.) Bolton had two big problems in landing a job at State. One: Rex Tillerson allegedly had "misgivings" about him, whether because of Bolton’s ostentatious hawkishness or because a newbie diplomat at the head of the Department might fear being outmaneuvered by an ambitious, experienced old hand beneath him. And two, more importantly: Deputy positions at cabinet agencies require Senate confirmation, and Bolton has always been viewed as tough to confirm. The left despises him and might well be able to scare centrist Dems into voting lockstep against him; Rand Paul also despises Bolton for his hawkishness and has vowed to oppose him. That leaves a paper-thin majority of 51 votes to confirm him assuming zero other defections among the Senate GOP. And plenty of other Republicans, starting with Bob Corker, are said to have "misgivings" about Bolton. He might be unconfirmable.
[DAWN] IN a prescient statement to the UN Security Council on Feb 13, Pakistain’s permanent representative, after describing the actions taken to restrain terrorism in Pakistain, asserted: "What Pakistain continues to face today are externally supported terrorists." As if on cue, successive terrorist attacks occurred in Lahore, 
