Getting Hot In Here

February 20, 2015 – 12:11 am

I understand President Obama said some things today about ‘extremism’. I haven’t read what he said, so I won’t comment for now. I’m sure I’m going to love it.

I did, however, get not one, but two nice little notes from Mr. Obama’s ministry of propaganda today, telling me that it was time to “beat back” “climate change” “deniers”.

One of the emails boasted of Senator Kelly Ayotte’s having recanted her heresy by joining in a Senate vote last month intended to measure the chamber’s ideological purity. It seems, though, that despite her walk to Canossa, OFA still finds her lack of faith disturbing:

It’s not a solution, but she’s no longer denying the science of climate change, and so we’re taking her off our list — but not off our radar.

Their ‘list’? That doesn’t sound good. Better watch what you say, Senator.

I suppose they’ll be training their sensors on the great Freeman Dyson, too. He’s a bad’un, and no mistake.

They certainly seem to have a sense of urgency about this, I have to say. So many voices to silence; so little time!

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4 Comments

  1. Whitewall says

    It’s funny who and what “our president” and his Supreme Soviet hold out as enemies. I think these hustlers are more interested in “subject change” than they are “climate change”. Their “list” is just modern day McCarthyism.

    Posted February 20, 2015 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
  2. TheBigHenry says

    Whenever Special and/or General Relativity is questioned, I always take Big Al and give the points. Whenever somebody like Freeman Dyson is questioned, I generally side with Dyson, et al.

    I know it’s not PC to favor intellect and reason over ignorance and zealotry. But …

    [img]http://i.imgur.com/YUs0c.png[/img]

    Posted February 20, 2015 at 12:50 pm | Permalink
  3. Malcolm says

    The source of a mass movement’s unity and vigor, is a sacrifice, an act of atonement, and clearly no atonement is called for unless there is a poignant sense of sin. Here, as elsewhere, the technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

    – Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951

    Posted February 21, 2015 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
  4. TheBigHenry says

    “Hoffer further noted that the reason why working-class Americans did not, by and large, join protest movements and subcultures was that they had entry into meaningful labor as an effective rite of passage out of adolescence, while both the very poor who lived on welfare and the affluent were, in his words, “prevented from having a share in the world’s work, and of proving their manhood by doing a man’s work and getting a man’s pay,” and thus remained in a state of extended adolescence, lacking in necessary self-esteem, and prone to joining mass movements as a form of compensation.”

    Wikipedia

    I think the infantilization of America, whether deliberate or not, has been responsible for many of our current societal ills.

    Posted February 22, 2015 at 1:39 pm | Permalink

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