For logic-minded Americans still genuinely puzzled as to how it could be that our presidents and secretaries of state and generals and pundits keep hammering home the big lie that Islam has nothing to do with jihad, that the religion of conquest is a “religion of peace,” I have a special warning. Such widespread, politics- and mass-media-driven brainwashing is nothing new.
Just as today’s opinion-makers seek to divorce Islam from its impact — for example, brutal conquest, forced conversion, religiously sanctioned sex slavery, beheadings — past opinion-makers worked equally hard to divorce communism from its impact — for example, brutal conquest, forced collectivization, concentration camps (Gulags), mass murder.
It worked. Unlike Nazism, communism has never been judged guilty or even held responsible for the carnage and suffering it has caused. On the contrary, it remains a source of “liberal” statist ideas such as Obamacare. My book “American Betrayal” delves deeply into this dangerous double standard. In short, it not only enables collectivist policies to strangle our remnant republic, but also explains why American students can find a drink called Leninade, emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, for sale on a college campus. It is also why silkscreens of Warhol’s Chairman Mao, history’s top mass murderer, are sought-after items for the homes of the wealthy.
There are no such trendy portraits of Hitler, and who would want them? Who would want to swig a bottle of Hitlerpop, decorated with a swastika? So, why Leninade? Not only does the stench of death not follow the Communist murder-cult, the brand lives.
Barring a groundswell of common sense, I predict that Islam, the brand, will most likely remain separate in the public mind from the violence and repression it causes and has caused for more than a millennium. That’s certainly the direction leaders from both political parties have been relentlessly herding us in for over a decade, insisting against all reason — against all sacred Islamic texts — that “Islam is peace.”
This means that not only must we contend with this cycle of expansionist jihad — a recurrence that should be familiar from Islamic history were it, too, not subject to whitewash — we must simultaneously withstand a campaign of lies designed to subvert our understanding of how Islam, in fact, has everything to do with beheadings and other violence both in the Islamic world and in the West.
And yes, such whitewashing has happened before. Stalin’s Red Army occupied half of Europe at the end of World War II, but Americans were told they had won the war and that “Uncle Joe” was a great guy. Then there is the whitewash of the transformation the Cold War wrought at home, where agents, agents of influence, fellow travelers, and dupes worked to advance Moscow’s will just as Soviet tanks (and agents, too) imposed it abroad. The conventional wisdom, however, set forth by academics, historians, think tank analysts, journalists, filmmakers (whether “liberal” or “conservative”), remains suspended in the amber of the “Red Scare,” the 1950s period during which anti-Communist “witch-hunters” searched for “Reds under the bed,” allegedly in vain. Never mind that many hundreds of American traitors had infiltrated the federal government in previous decades. The important thing, says the conventional wisdom, is not to connect the dots and examine whether these proxies for Stalin influenced the “American Century.”
That, of course, is exactly what “American Betrayal” does, thus enraging all keepers of conventional wisdom. No matter. The more I learn about the extensive penetration by Stalin’s secret agents into the federal government over the two decades that FDR and then Harry Truman held the Oval Office, the clearer it is that the American ship of state had too many hands loyal to the USSR pushing at the rudder, influencing, to varying degrees, the direction of U.S. policy and strategy, even if not especially during World War II.
Such is the once-hidden history that comes into closer focus since the U.S. and Russian governments released some subset of their vast secret archives — intelligence documents, FBI files and the like. Reigning “court historians” keep looking the other way, hoping Americans never notice the big picture: that FDR presided over the biggest national security disaster in U.S. history, the massive infiltration of the U.S. government by agents of a foreign power.
Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary, “The Roosevelts,” typifies this blackout. For example, take the series’ treatment of the Yalta Conference, the final meeting of the so-called Big Three wartime leaders. Old news footage shows the conference table, from Stalin to FDR to Churchill. The camera also shows a man who sure looks like Soviet military intelligence agent and U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss. Next to him is top White House aide and, according to some experts, Soviet agent or asset Harry Hopkins. Both men are seated behind the dupe-ish secretary of state Edward Stettinius.
Does Burns inform viewers of the identities of these notorious figures seemingly “boring from within” before the viewer’s eyes? Does he note the existence of scholarship confirming covert agent Hiss’ outspoken role at the conference, and evidence that he may have exerted influence over deliberations on China policy, war reparations including German slave labor, and other vital issues in the USSR’s favor? Is there any mention of the troubling questions about Hopkins’ single-mindedly pro-Soviet stance that caused George C. Marshall to describe “Hopkins’ job with the president” as being “to represent the Russian interests”?
Silence. Or rather, Burnsian chatter about the big secret of Yalta being FDR’s grave health — something obvious to anyone who looked at him. The series’ ultimate mission is accomplished, however. A re-gilded FDR is burnished to a starry sheen, blinding a worshipful audience. Is that what history is for?
@ the phoenix:
Very close to reality. My leg is strapped good. Coming home she is quite docile as I let her run off leash and she is quite obedient. We have a group of neighbors who bring their dogs to the park in back of my house each night around 10pm. Picture 5-7 dogs running and playing full out for 3/4 of an hour or more and we sit and kibbitz. Tonightwas fun lots of joking and one of them helped me back home with the dog. Swelling down a lot almost normal but really painful as the rest of my body. After I awoke this morning every part of my body was aching which happens after falls Like I had.
It all will pass in time. They just installed an omega in the park. Built a platform and you grab hold of the handhold and slide down fifty ft unit abruptly it hits tire stopper. Sea sand bed blow to cushion falls Kids love day and night 🙁 (Lots of noise). When you come I’ll show you. Beer in the cooler.
@ yamit82:
Don’t let her pull you!
If there is no other option….
http://youtu.be/j2UlSQDOaqE
you DO know, I’m kidding… 😉
@ yamit82:
You should know.
Off-point (& off the wall as well).
The only time it’s necessary on a blogsite to show that one’s ‘contentions’ are true & verifiable is if the contentions entail an accusaion of somebody’s behavior — as you & cohort have done numerous imes in re CuriousAmerican’s ‘antisemitism’
— and you have never come up w/ anything more than the flimsiest circumstantial ‘evidence’ for that.
Aside from that sort of thing, the notion that someone should have to ‘prove’ that an insight is true is the height of absurdity and a clear inversion of the burden of proof.
You never been able to refute a word of my ‘contentions.’
The reality is that you just don’t like the nature of the insights, and that (like your cohorts), you know you haven’t the brains or the balls to refute them. If my remarks consisted of observations you liked or agreed with, you’d have no problem with them, and certainly wouldn’t be demanding ‘evidence’ for their veracity.
Horseshit.
This is nonsense and projection. If anybody here is into ‘if it feels good it must be right,” it’s YOU.
What’s more, I NEVER OFFER ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE AS ‘PROOF’ OF ANYTHING. I’ve said numerous times that the only value of anecdotal evidence is to illustrate, not ‘prove.’ And that’s why I offered the story of the dogs. If you honestly didn’t get that, then you haven’t the sense of a boxa rox.
If what I say doesn’t make your ‘cut, then don’t read it. I’m comfortable with it.
The ONLY place where I’m a ‘known fabricator’ is in your perfervid imagination — where one could expect to find such distortions of reality.
I WILL BE BACK, SOMEHOW I HAVE TO TAKE THE DOG OUT BEFORE SHE PEES ALL OVER THE PLACE… tHIS IS GOING TO BE A CHALLANGE. 🙁
@ the phoenix:
Afraid you will have a long wait she’s long gone.
HB is a suitable substitute when she isn’t jealous.
honeybee Said:
Milton? The poem states by the end the eventuating feelings:
The positive emotions are present because passions-strong and turbulent intrnal forces or afflictions- are spent, that means that having been well imitated they are brought to a just measure with a kind of delight.
Am I reading correctly?
@ honeybee:
Dear hb,
Someone that possesses such rare two qualities, (as wit and conciseness), methinks should be welcomed with open arms…
(I’m waiting…. 🙂 )
the phoenix Said:
Droooooooooooooooooooooooool !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ yamit82:
I had to go up to my desktop, and I am glad I did… 🙂
Can’t you bring her back to the forum??
😉
yamit82 Said:
Sounds beautiful soaring with eagles Bald and Golden butttttttttt:
http://bartleby.com/101/324.html
@ bernard ross:
And I appreciate that. I recall times when you jumped to my defense before I understood his MO.
@ the phoenix:
hit the link or use your vivid imagination and besides
I don’t want to upset HB.
yamit82 Said:
the truth hurts, especially when there is no escape from its disclosure. He has constructed a system of obfuscation and tangents to cover faulty arguments. Knowing this I try to disallow his escape exits by keeping issue simple. I do not believe he should be allowed to engage in smearing peoples characters behind a pretext of quack psychology. I dont believe in censoring him but I do believe that if he engages in such despicable practices he should not be protected from being exposed and ridiculed.
yamit82 Said:
there should be some compensation from having to deal with his BS……a good laugh eases the pain. 😛
@ yamit82:
where is the avatar??????
🙁
Shebrew Warrior says:
July 28, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Don’t die on us, goddammit! If you croak, it means more bandwidth for dweller. Unacceptable!
dove Said:
I usually avoid his comments unless he makes a direct or indirect lie or attack on mine or another’s personal character or using psychobabble to smear the posters name. Usually I attempt to point out the lie or MO in operation. My hope is that he recognizes his own MO and ceases to insult posters with false psychology. I see no reasonable justification for his repetitive attacks on posters characters using unsupported psychobabble.
As for lying,re marketing the truth, deception,etc., that habit appears to be embedded.
@ bernard ross:
I think dweller has taken an extreme dislike bodering on masked hatred for you. He holds you up to special disdain even brining up your person without naming you directly… Quite childish I think.
I refer him to his Holy Book:
“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.”
Can anyone imagine him as a child?? 🙂
@ dove:
We would show my pal Mr. D considerably more respect if you were aware of his formidable track record, which includes being the career counselor to McLean Stevenson and the dietary consultant to Karen Carpenter. In fact, it was Mr D who said to Mama Cass, “Who eats jello for dinner? C’mon…have the ham sandwich!”
yamit82 Said:
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dweller Said:
Lets look at the most recent psychobabble to find the MERITS,EVIDENCE OR EVEN REASONS that support the thus far unsupported psychobabble ASSERTIONS:
dweller Said:
as usual, no evidence for this false statement clothed in obfuscation, most likely an attempt at marketing. giving reasons to support his assertions and beliefs is simply asking him to explain the basis for the thousands of unsupported assertions of facts which he makes here.
In one post we see 9 assertions of unsupported psychobabble masquerading as fact. Can we argue the merits of these assertions? where are the “merits”, someone please show me one. There is no evidence or even any logical reason offered to support all of these apparent statements of fact. A potful of unsupported assertions in one single post. Not one fact here shown to be right, not one premise shown to have merit.
In the thousands of psychobbable posts, many often used as weapons of insult and obfuscation to cover for other inadequate unsupported arguments and assertions, he has been unable to prove a single fact, give a logical reason for a single assertion, shown how any single one of these psychobabble assertions have a single merit.
Therefore, I must once more repeat the single most relevant fact regarding these thousands of unsupported psychobabbling assertions, something that begs remembering every time he alleges his psychobabble against a poster here:
A simple undeniable fact that should guide ones assessment of his psychobabbling assertions. This is an incredibly poor record of failure, you would expect in thousands of posts that one merit, one reason, one shred of evidence would have been offered to support these psychobabbles. These assertions have no more support than the assertion that the “tooth fairy left me a dollar under my pillow” or that “tinkerbell is the source of Dwellers assertions and inspiration”.
dove Said:
Now there is an assertion of proven “MERIT” 😛
@ yamit82:
Yes I know…. that is why I hesitate. Would be better if we just exchanged emails and kept him totally out of some conversations as we have alot of work ahead of us.
Why don’t YOU stop responding to him? That certainly would be a big help!!
He is PROOF that Islam is not our only concern. 🙁
@ dove:
@ bernard ross:
You all realize that by responding to him even in the second person we are essentially feeding this sick crocodile? 🙂
@ honeybee:
View is great from here want to see it with me?
@ bernard ross:
In regards to your above post to yamit…..This is exactly why Is rarely make comments to Dweller anymore. He has proved to me that how you describe is Mo is accurate.
His cold hearted responses regarding the holocaust is proof enough for me that he doesn’t warrant my time….unless like you I feel a need to respond to an outburst of his.
If he is going to keep parading as a Jew to those who don’t know otherwise we have a duty and and responsibility to correct that.
yamit82 Said to Dweller:
anecdotal evidence may indeed be interesting and may even show merit when evaluating an arguments “merits”. However, when it comes to the unsolicited psychobabbling “conclusions” which Dweller employs in his “arguments” I am unable to find those examples of anecdotal evidence or even “reasons” which might support his “assertions”. One need not necessarily be limited to citing evidence or proving ones conclusion with rigorous science to demonstrate “merit” but certainly the bare minimum is to give reasons for arriving at conclusions regarding both facts and beliefs. IN Dwellers case his MO is particularly onerous because he makes his assertions as if they are facts rather than beliefs. He does not argue for his beliefs with reasons or evidence but rather states those beliefs as facts and uses them to insult and libel posters.
dweller Said:
HMMMMMMM?????
I have searched through thousands of his pschobabbling ludicrous assertions and have been unable to find a single “MERIT”. As there as we have NEVER been shown a single proven FACT in any of his psychobabbling assertions and as we are never given any reasons supporting that any of his assertions are factual and as he never hmself can show us a single merit in any of his psychobabble assertions I assume that there are no merits in them. Perhaps he can point out one of the merits of his psychobabbling conclusions, of which thousands exist?
He has indeed made thousands of psychobabbling assertions none of which have ever been shown to be factual. Obviously those assertions are his beleifs for which he NEVER offers any supporting evidence or reasons as to why his beleifs have any merit. Yet he employs his belief system as if they were indeed factual and uses them as weapons of insult and libel against other posters usually when his “arguments” fall fat on their ludicrous face. Sometimes he just offers his unsolicited beliefs and fairy tales as statements of fact without providing even a shred of reason as to why his assertions deserve any consideration whatsoever.
He asks us to “argue” his unsupported psychobabble assertions when he NEVER provides reasons nor cites evidence demonstrating that there is even a possibility that he is “right” and that his unsupported assertions have any merit. Apparently in the thousands of psychobabbling statements he makes libeling posters he has NEVER shown us a single merit in his assertions. His psychobabbling statements imply that his beliefs are facts and yet he offers absolutely nothing to support those beliefs masquerading as facts. NO one is asking him to make a formal scientific proof of his assertions and insults but merely to provide a single logical reason as to why any of his psychobabbling assertions and insults have a single merit. Can he point out any “MERITS” in his unsupported assertions that might be argued by us?
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yamit82 Said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3htOCjafTc
honeybee Said:
memory is beginning to fade want to do it again?
yamit82 Said:
Someone has to pay for the Cheerleaders outfits. Big wash today, touch back later.
@ honeybee:
Caught half of the last quarter. No suspense Giants def. looked good for a change. I managed to shower and crash till morning. Saw the overtime win by Dallas after the Giants game finished they were fortunate. I’m not a fan of Romo. Dallas cheerleaders look as great as ever. Win or lose worth watching Dallas. Since my sister lives there I have a reason to root for them except when against the Giants. I have been a loyal fan forever. Don’t know about you but so many TV commercials have slowed the game down to being episodic.
yamit82 Said:
But I left you smiling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RSPr493hg
honeybee Said:
Giants, Cowboys and Broncos won great day for football.
@ yamit82:
Ya….. when I sent that post it was right underneath a response you had given the Dork…..in the meantime there were a couple of other comments also being sent so it got out of sync…….sorry about that. 🙂
honeybee Said:
about time!
@ dove:
I was wonderin because it was addressed to me?
Notice how one word can bring forth a 1000 in return from the dork. Now 2 or 3 well intended words can bring forth thousands of words. Just think how much effort and time he must devote to typing all those words taken from his limited time he claims to have on the public computer and bandwidth.
I have long stopped paying much attention to what he says I like to keep him busy typing. Keeps him out of trouble at home with “Harvey” his make believe wife.
dweller Said:
you called !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yamit I was referring to Dweller…..he had said in a previous post that I feel threatened by his choice of celibacy. Threatened? Why would I feel threatened? Benard is right…..he always gets it wrong. Dweller is the DORK. Have you forgotten already??
dove Said:
Dork? :)??? Maybe but where did this come from?
Jealous? Of what? or of Whom?
Threatened? Who have I threatened? Not you I think.
I never claimed to be someone to idolize or follow or to be an example. Yet I do believe there are much worse and not many better.
Almost every year and sleep in it to if it’s not too cold or raining. This year I’ll pass I can hardly stand no less build it. Next year G-d willing I will build another.
Nobody is perfect. G-d does not expect perfection from us. The path is what is important.
Judaism is a practical religion for individual people.
I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE HAPPY DOVE!!!! REALLY!!!!
@ yamit82:
Yamit, the dork is just jealous. He thinks I feel threatened by his lifestyle. Threatened? i am definitely bot concerned that too many men will follow suit.
Do you build a sukkot in your yard?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Q-GLuydiMe4
honeybee Said:
I was unconscious and I did have such a dream. 😉
Write this down
honeybee Said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y
@ dweller:
True or false dweller?
“that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation,….”
True or false dweller?
“For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and in much assurance…”
😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛
@ dweller:
All this dweller to justify and defend yourself; an empty suit with no substance. Manipulation of words is not proof nor justification or proof of anything!!!! Failure to show evidence that you contentions are true and verifiable are your staple MO.
I really do endorse the scientific method even on subjects that don’t lend themselves as well as others.
Anything that deviates from If it feels good it must be good dwellerisms. Anecdotal evidence you supply to justify your psychobabble may feel right for you and maybe sufficient for you but you have never faced the reality that It’s not about YOU!!! And to proffer generalization with out evidence of their correctness other than personal insight and intuition just don’t make the cut, especially when coming from a known Fabricator, and an obvious Loon,who shows pretentious intellectual abilities but when seen up close is usually the same warmed over pablum expressed in different word configurations; but in the end it’s still all warmed over pablum.
We don’t have to show you in err you have to demonstrate the truth of your claims and contentions otherwise they are no more than your own opinion which you try to palm off as truth with facts only intuition and feelings. I’ll bet you believe in diving rods too. Try Voodoo at least they have a track record to compare with.
Hasn’t anyone ever told you that anecdotal evidence may be interesting but never to be confused with fact nor truth.
@ yamit82:
Actually, what everyone here is, IN FACT, already aware of is that not only have my observations YET to be ‘refuted’ (or even denied) in so much as one solitary DETAIL, but also, and more significantly
— that tiresome nut-jobs with axes to grind — like the one who repeats the above, insufferably stale & empty drivel at every turn (while hoping-against-hope that it will catch on) — do so only because they have neither the personal conviction nor the requisite inquisitiveness & insight to argue the actual assertions on the MERITS.
So, lacking any substance of their own on which to hold forth, these shrunken souls are reduced to falling back on hollow, cowardly demands for manifestations that others have been there already
— whereby they display their kinship with nobody in this world quite so much as Bart Simpson: “I didn’t do it, you didn’t see me do it, you can’t prove anything…”
Most compliments, large or small — like other emotional supports — amount to flattery (and with it, the quiet imposition of a species of implicit bondage).
That is, most compliments are calculated, consciously or otherwise, to ingratiate the complimenter with the person complimented — and thereby create, in turn, a subtle sense of obligation (or confirm an existing one) by way of response.
It’s very hard for most people to NOT “absorb” flattery (inwardly anyway) when it comes in over the transom. They don’t know HOW not to absorb it without appearing snobby — even when such praise & support arrives utterly unbidden.
And because they DO absorb it, they effectively assent to the implicit transaction whereby an inescapable indebtedness is quietly incurred & assumed.
As in geopolitical relations, so in personal ones — he who pays the piper calls the tune.
— It’s HARD to accept the ‘gift’ of a compliment w/o becoming a slave. It’s not impossible, but those who can do it successfully are rare as hen’s teeth.
after reading this I can see the logic behind the suffering and chaos of the arab spring and particularly all the death in Syria. What they did to their Jews is returning to them. Perhaps arab spring is a punishment for the evil that the arabs visited upon their Jews the past century and earlier.
yamit82 Said:
yamit82 Said:
Missed the Giants game ??????? Now I am worried.!!!!!!!!!!!! XXXXXXXXXXOOOOOOOOOO
Thanks for your concern. Tomorrow should be betterhoneybee Said:
I’ll live, nothing broken, lot of pain and I didn’t sleep all night and most of the morning. I just woke up from an on and off probably aponea?
Feel like …. Rosanne Barr looks. Even missed most of the Giants game.
I’ll catch the end and maybe come back on the site later..
Thanks for your concern. Tomorrow should be better
@ yamit82:
Are you OK, or did you break you’re leg. Worried, let me know.
Perhaps Soros can just pre-program in the the results of elections. He appears to be very involved in manipulating election results throughout the globe.
yamit82 Said:
as everyone here already is aware:
but such a track record of failure does not prevent more unsolicited fairy tales, myths, old men stories and psychobabble ad infinitum:
dweller Said:
😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛 😛
unsolicited psychobabble????
Yamit, just a little “unsolicited conscious support” in your struggle against the tedium of a perennial barrage of unsolicited mediocrity falling across your path. 😛
yamit82 Said:
Amen to the above statement, my Master.
yamit82 Said:
yamit82 Said:
Tears on my pillow !!!!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqUG6YBgLAw