Comments on: A posteriori

By: Beaglescout

Beaglescout — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:38:12 +0000

David Horowitz wrote a whole book on why the voters believe it. It’s called The Art of Political War and it doesn’t seem that any Republicans in power ever read it.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:41:26 +0000

The russian jokes are funny but they’re not reeally jokes –they’re parables, and there’s a reason they’re popping into people’s heads these days. There’s only a few human archetypes after all.

By: Gaffe Prices

Gaffe Prices — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:48:14 +0000

I think a posteriori has quite a different meaning in the O regime, and remember: messiahs of this type all promise and deliver Deliverance, if ya’know wud uh mean

By: wretchard

wretchard — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:35:15 +0000

How about this Russian joke. Three men were trapped in a mine cave in, a Briton, an American and a Russian. As they resigned themselves to slow death they made themselves comfortable in the dark, when suddenly the American sat on metal object. It turned to be an ancient oil lamp. As he accidentally rubbed it, an awesome genie appeared and stood, shining, before the astounded trio. The genie boomed, “I normally grant my rescuer three wishes, but in this case, I will grant you three one wish each.”

The Briton found his voice first. “Transport me to London with 500 million pounds in my bank account!”

“Done!” the genie boomed. There was a flash and the Briton was teleported to London.

The American followed suit. “A billion dollars and take me to LA!”

“Granted!” said the genie. The American vanished in a flash.

The Russian was more considered. He thought for a long time before what really wanted finally hit him.

“Genie, give me three bottles of vodka and my friends back!”

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:32:29 +0000

Rurik/45–or a similar one I was told by a Russian friend: The peasant’s cow died and The Voice granted him one wish.

“Let my neighbor’s cow die, too”, he said. My friend presented this as an insight into Russian psychology, sort of like the crabs pulling each other back into the bucket.

By: Rurik

Rurik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:47:33 +0000

40. whiskey:
that reminds me of the parable about the Russian peasant who was offered by the genie a single wish, but was also told “whatever I give you, I will give twice as much to each of your neighbors. So the peasant asked the genie … “Make me blind in one eye.”

By: Rurik

Rurik — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:12 +0000

8. E. Nigma:
From each according to his gullability, to each according to his greed.

By: Enscout

Enscout — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:18:35 +0000

Contrast Obama’s lies with the plight of G H W Bush’s vow of ‘no new taxes’. (Although I still believe Bush 41 would have been re-elected had it not been for Perot splitting the Party – Clinton never had a majority of popular votes)
Circumstance is everything and, if you have a well oiled propaganda machine like the leftist MSM; stealth, identity politics works.
If the now nationalized Chicago machine can be derailed, and I think they are already entrenched, it will be only through a combination of splitting the leftist’s vote with a 3rd-party candidate and another populist candidate like Reagan running for the GOP.

By: DeadButMorallySuperior

DeadButMorallySuperior — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:58:08 +0000

That Gibbsy soundbite is a wonderful contrast to the touchy feely vibe of this video.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:39:05 +0000

Lest anyone think I’m exaggerating, check out Emily Bazelon and her associates, writing in Salon, about the Ricci decision and how “racist” it was to “enable White privilege” by having merit based tests for firefighters. Her associates, all educated, Yale grad women, pile on with more of the same.

Collapse of marriage inevitably led to this sort of behavior. Look at Sweden, where boys in kindergarten are required to wear dresses one day a week. And according to Sandra Tsing Loh, “enlightened Swedish women prefer macho Muslim Men to marry.” [from her piece in the Atlantic.]

Obama is simply the messenger of demographics. That’s all. Everyone knew who he was the moment he walked on stage.