I heard about these morons. Crazy, like the bible needs a modern political slant. But, it’s no surprise when the bad seed of Phyllis Schafly is involved. I hope I spelled her name incorrectly. I’m sure she’s in the Pa(l)in camp.

Yup, the golden rule will finally be, “He who has the gold, makes the rules” or for some/many republican congressmen, “The rule is… the only showers I take are golden.”

Popular charlatans like that Alaskan, feed the desire to venture even more to the “extreme,” like if millions of poor is not extreme. You know what I mean. It’s All about the dolla bill, y’all.

Yeah, that’s funny, they even have to correct their deities, so they fall in line with their power plays. Guess god is broke(n).

“the late jc…” i thought jose canseco died. Bash on!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_re/us_rel_conservative_bible

turns out all that “do unto others” bullshit is nothing but a buncha propaganda shoved into the good book by liberal biblical scholars. wonder if the new version will include a scriptural passage where jesus bumps off the money lenders, takes over their corner and hikes up interest fees on all the poor suckers as an example of the righteousness of unfettered capitalism…..

pretty fucking sad when even their own god is too “liberal” for ‘em anymore…..

If I may borrow from the artist known as Bono (funny, no?) who said, “I don’t feel I need to explain my lyrics…” Nonetheless, let me make some random observations.

1. Palin is one of the MOST transparent demagogues in the modern media era. She’s up there with Sharpton and Gingrich, no? Let’s call her what she is: a politician. A parasite, a leech. The worse type of snake-oil saleswoman, with plenty of racial pandering, jingoistic calls to arms and hollow righteous indignation.

2. The problem is we see through her crap. She is full of it. She is pathological and scatalogical. This play for “american values” has always been stupid but when coming from such a retard, it comes off worse than David Duke, another brainiac.
But, wait, is my vitriol springing from an ideological difference? Blah Blah Blah. I’m not that shallow. I have no ideology and look, I’m still alive. What about Obama? I could give a fuck, but, again, he can speak, quite well. Imagine, we are debating the merits of excellent oratorical skills in the national public forum. What hath god wrought. god? speaking of parasites…

3. Ideology. I challenge her to spell the word. “e-y-e… hmmm… dia?” Why such venom? Venom for poison, I’m doing fine, homeopathically speaking. Remember there is no etiquette or decorum when dealing with ignorant, divisive demagogues. Get that straight. She is a plague on this land. The fact that THAT needs to be clarified is frightening.

4. I once mocked Bush and a friend said, “at least respect the position.” I almost hit the ground. And I was lying down. This same person is in hysterics with the obama situation. She now can’t remember making her statement but believes the end is NOW near: not when the president was attacking 2 countries, commiting gross negligence with a national disaster in Louisiana, etc. Guy should be in jail just for those 3 crimes. This is where Dopey, of a mother with exquisite studies in nomenclature, hits it on the noggin. It’s just willful ignorance, on some part, in most arenas, from the barrio school to national politics to silly book signings. My blast on RHS was to make that point. I know we from the barrio, but fuck, try motherfuckers, try! Some hear me.
My appreciation for not projecting something I didn’t mean. There is a context here. Really. I often talk to young ones and tell them, “listen fuckface, you got the street shit down, congrats. now get some other shit down. are you proud to be raza? (that usually shakes em up and makes them reply in an angry affirmative) You think your ancestors read at 2nd grade level when they were 17? Look at me, you little shit! Am I on the floor? Then look at me…” Pleasantries in that vein.

5. I’m even charged with playing the race card here. WTF? I don’t play cards. She is in fact The race card. If she wasn’t so pale, where would she be? Mother of 5, one unwed teen knocked up, slayer of common laws of grammar, mocker of community activists (wasn’t jesus christ one?), etc. I wonder where she would be in the national political circus, if she was other than “pale”? She is as impure and simple as the driven sludge from Lincoln Park. OR that I’m fighting in some culture war. Huh? It’s a war, always has been. Am I overgeneralizing? I don’t overextend or overstate, understand. Over and out.

6. BTW “some of my best friends are…” from the Midwest.

7. Her supporters are hilarious, in this video. Was it made to make Palin look like a fool? She needs no help. I don’t know many of her supporters. Are they stupid, well, that would be harsh, but damn, if someone you support / claim as an ally is dumber than a flat tether ball… what is one to conclude?

8. I was in my friend’s Queretaro music store and these 2 old timers came in and began discussing some jazz saxophonists. Now, I don’t really know jazz music nor am I a rabid fan of the sax. But the dialogue went thusly: “I feel Ben Webster’s ‘Soulville’ is one of the greatest portrayals…” “I think Gerry Mulligan’s work in the 60’s was his best…” I pitch in with, “I thought Coleman Hawkins was such a warm player…” and with 2 inviting, ancient smiles, I’m in such an intense, playful conversation about jazz that then veered into the writings of Carlos Monsivais and the local book fair. All with no pretense or the demonic phrase/posture, “What? You never heard of that…” I learned so much. That was 3 weeks ago.

9. Is her popularity just the cult of personality? Well, the cult is there, but where is the personality? Oh now, I’m just being mean. I remember when Patch Adams called Bush “a celebration of stupidity.” I laughed my my ass off. Did I ever have an ass? Well, with this celebration of willful ignorance, I can only sigh.

10. Her War on Eloquence is unwelcome in these parts. Why isn’t everyone up in arms… literally. You would think that she’d be laughed off the stage. You would think… and therein lies the problem.

Really? Obviously there was a lot of editing done in this video. It was used to make Sarah Palin look like a fool.

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Sure. She’s actually a genius. It’s just the way they’re editing these videos that make her seem dumb.

Again, in case you missed it, and this is a direct quote of Palin’s:

“But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy.”

Did they edit that to make her look stupid, too? Or did it just fly right out of her mouth when she was asked a direct question about the bail out?

My point was that intellectual growth and development doesn’t necessarily entail elitism or snobbery, despite the reactionary equation that is often made between the two. Intellectual stagnation, on the other hand, often paradoxically DOES entail a kind of reactionary anti-intellectualism that is actually a reverse-elitist snobbery.

The trick is finding a balance, as always.

The difficult issue that comes up can be seen in the kind of clever, deceptively “non-intellectual” rhetoric that CT uses to convey and bring up some very complex ideas and questions that are obviously informed by a great deal of reading and understanding and intellectual development and engagement. If we want to participate with those folks he invokes in Mexico or Cuba, for example, what kind of language and vocabulary do we use? Some of us don’t even want to participate with them, that’s part of my point (and his, I think)–there is the perception of snobbery and intellectual elitism because they talk about “intellectual” things in an “intellectual” way and so we get all stoically cholo and refuse to play. Others want to, but envision a different way of communicating, maybe? or, are unsure of how to communicate at all about these things even, because there is all this difficulty and (Catholic) guilt (?) around engaging in intellectual discourse. And others who do try to engage in intellectual discourse end up feeling alienated and excluded by reactionary anti-intellectualism that pounces on their “$5 words” as signs of snobbery.

It’s a complicated question, somethign I’ve been thinking about for a while now, so just thought I’d throw it out there b/c CT brought it up in this context. Mainly my point has to do with the social element involved in the whole thing, how we regulate each other, how we define together and for each other what is “intellectual,” what is allowed, and what is not. I’m just curious how others approach this problem.

- there fixed it for ya! Nice little slant there (with your choice of words).

You are spot on regarding the reading,being informed, languages etc…that’s pretty universal and transcends racial,social,gender lines. Even though one uses $5 words, they are ultimately just words conveying A message. Siempre mantenle ojo!