May 11, 2010
— Ace A much more scholarly and detailed examination of the creation of the first new major religion of the twentieth century. Definitely a good read.
Early in the article, he discusses the Magic Negro movie (which he calls the "black angel" movie) as laying the necessary groundwork for Obama's messianic campaign.
The first signs of the spiritual zeal that would eventually play a significant part in Obama’s election came not from Washington or Chicago but from Hollywood. Our moviemakers are adept at measuring the zeitgeist of the nation—of its liberal half, anyway—and are a powerful force in shaping it. And for more than a decade, they’ve been churning out what critics call “black-angel” movies. These films feature a white protagonist guided to enlightenment by a black character, usually of divine or supernatural origin or, at the very least, in touch with spiritual experiences that the main character lacks. With the black angel’s help, the white hero finds salvation.The genre includes, to name just a few, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), in which Will Smith—playing a caddie who is really, the film hints, God—restores Matt Damon’s golf game and love life; Bruce Almighty (2003), in which Morgan Freeman, as God, bestows his powers on a manic Jim Carrey; and the awful What Dreams May Come (199
, in which Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a wise soul guiding Robin Williams through the afterlife. These movies have been numerous enough, David Sterritt points out in the Christian Science Monitor, to confuse TV’s buffoonish Homer Simpson: in one episode, “Homer mistook a black man in a white suit for an angelic visitor, all because (according to his embarrassed wife) he’d been seeing too many movies lately.”
Far and away the best of the black-angel films is Frank Darabont’s The Green Mile (1999), based on a novel by Stephen King, whose knack for setting his finger on the cultural pulse has made him a multimillionaire. The basso profundo Michael Clarke Duncan plays John Coffey (note the initials), a gigantic black man wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of two little girls in Depression-era Louisiana and sentenced to death; Tom Hanks plays Paul Edgecomb, a prison guard who discovers that Coffey is not only innocent but also a Christlike miracle worker. Coffey’s laying-on of hands restores a dead mouse to life, cures Edgecomb of a bladder infection, and heals the warden’s wife’s brain cancer. Shortly before he is executed—the jeering of the girls’ anguished parents and the weeping of the prison guards who know the truth recall the account of the Crucifixion in Luke—Coffey has this exchange with a tortured Edgecomb:
Edgecomb. Tell me what you want me to do. You want me to take you out of here? Just let you run away? See how far you could get?
Coffey. Why would you do such a foolish thing?
Edgecomb. On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I—did I kill one of His true miracles—what am I going to say? That it was my job? . . .
Coffey. You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. . . . I want it to be over and done with. I do. . . . IÂ’m tired of people being ugly to each other. IÂ’m tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day.
The writer or director of a black-angel film recognizes the unspeakable injustices once perpetrated by his country on black people; he wants to be forgiven the sins of his fathers. If he is simply a comedian, he makes Bruce Almighty, casting a black man as God in a sort of lighthearted flattery. If his waters run deeper, he understands that no plum role can atone for the crimes that weigh on him. Instinctively, he realizes what thinkers from Aristotle to Marcel Mauss have known: that whenever a gift is given, the prestige of the giver increases and that of the recipient declines. So he tells a story in which a black man gives the greatest gift of all, suffering—like Jesus in Christian theology—for others’ sins, in fact demanding to suffer, and by demanding, forgiving. White America is pardoned its wrongs, while black America, by pardoning, is elevated to godhood.
Are these movies ultimately condescending to blacks? After all, the white protagonist, the person who will be saved or damned according to his decisions, is invariably more interesting than the serene black angel hovering nearby. Indeed, the condescension, if such it is, is a cinematic version of affirmative action—a denial to blacks of Everyman’s struggle for salvation; a magnanimous extension to them of paradise.
None of that was Obama's doing, of course, but he did tap into that sentiment with the ooga-booga mysticism he dressed up as politics.
The article discusses (obliquely) what I think is an important driver in all this, that great masses of Americans have rejected and repudiated, they think, the non-rational desire for religious meaning in their lives.
But what they've actually done is only reject and repudiate conventional religion's offerings in this area. Having rejected the usual method of finding transcendence in everyday life, and yet still possessing a strong desire to discover such transcendence, they simply begin attaching religious significance to traditionally non-religious ideas and actions, such as buying local organic produce and fluorescent bulbs.
They haven't purged themselves, as they believe, of that prehistoric longing to be closer to God; they've only forbidden themselves from going about this in the historically-normal way. So when a 21st-century Charismatic like Obama appears, they are ready to Believe, capital B intended.
A related article at City-Journal seems to discuss this (I say seemed because I've only begun skimming it): How Science Fiction Discovered Religion.
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Posted by: Darth Rove at May 11, 2010 11:48 AM (t2WJv)
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 11:49 AM (LB6/t)
Fisrt after 8 years of Bush bashing and hatred it was already an uphill battle for any Republican. Second, with the aid of the press and BS Republican primary rules the worst Republican candidate in a century was nominated. Then the press then turned on the Clintons and anointed the "Won" as the time for a black communist president.
The sheeple dutifully followed what the MFM told them to do.
Posted by: Vic at May 11, 2010 11:50 AM (6taRI)
That said, I believe all who voted for Obama voted based on how they want the world to be, not on how it really is.
When you base your vote on a fantasy, you invite a nightmare.
Posted by: Jones at May 11, 2010 11:50 AM (JL3qV)
Posted by: logprof at May 11, 2010 11:51 AM (Mmw0q)
Er, what calendar are using in which we are in the twentieth century?
Ewoks do not believe the eighth century ever happened.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 11, 2010 11:52 AM (B+qrE)
Posted by: McLovin at May 11, 2010 11:52 AM (RwvN1)
Get your New Age spirtuality here. Just $19.95, comes with an embarrassment of a president.
Posted by: The Secret at May 11, 2010 11:52 AM (SVZM2)
The left wants (has always wanted) government to replace God. Your provider. Your protector. Your spiritual guide. The source of truth and meaning in your life. The object of your faith.
The object of your worship.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 11, 2010 11:52 AM (SCcgT)
Also see: television black police Lt/Cpt, manager, authority figure.
No name a a successful country under Blakc control.
Posted by: jukin at May 11, 2010 11:52 AM (vkkNZ)
Posted by: Puff the magic snapdragon at May 11, 2010 11:53 AM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: t-bird at May 11, 2010 11:54 AM (FcR7P)
The Christian view of this is that we are all made in the Image of God, with an innate need for him to atone for our sins.
Misplaced it leads many(such as liberals) to worship the State or the Green/Gaia agenda, etc., in search for atonement.
It also applies to Libertarian minded Individualist, who seek atonement within themselves in some manifestation rather than Big Govt....everybody worships something as their highest value.
Posted by: jp at May 11, 2010 11:55 AM (DFDtC)
Posted by: crapdragon at May 11, 2010 11:56 AM (VDgKF)
Posted by: LFMayor at May 11, 2010 11:56 AM (qL20/)
The left wants (has always wanted) government to replace God. Your provider. Your protector. Your spiritual guide. The source of truth and meaning in your life. The object of your faith.
The object of your worship.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at May 11, 2010 03:52 PM (SCcgT)
--Now would be a good time to clip those posts from the biblical posts we had a couple of threads ago. . . .
Posted by: logprof at May 11, 2010 11:56 AM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: jp at May 11, 2010 11:56 AM (DFDtC)
Ace, Get ready to be painted with the racist brush. Good insite, I never put the John Coffey character together with JC and a Messianic message. Apparently, white guilt knows no limitation with liberals. Equality is not enough for a liberal. Now we have reparations to be paid for grivances visited upon people generations ago. Retribution is accepted as an excuse for mob violence, see Rodney King. Responsibility is for the other guys as show in New Orleans and most Dem city strongholds. Disaster provides a chaotic opportunity for profit by thievery, which pales in comparison to the government money that pours in.
Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 11, 2010 11:57 AM (rurh0)
A much more scholarly and detailed examination of the creation of the first new major religion of the twentieth twenty-first century.
None of that was Obama's doing, of course, but he did tap into that sentiment with the ooga-booga mysticism he dressed up as politics.
And on that note....a great old tune.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 11, 2010 11:57 AM (ujg0T)
Posted by: joncelli at May 11, 2010 11:57 AM (RD7QR)
It's a good thing that Obama says stupid petty shit from time to time because it would be impossible to reveal the true dunce in the suit.
The charade would go on; the handlers and the media complicit in the ruse. But Obama reveals his humanity quite often. The bloom is off the rose.
The People have gotten several glimpses at the real Obama: a petty liar who is nothing more than a punk-ass college professor and rabble rousin' race pimp who never accomplished a damn thing in his life. All he does tell others how to do things.
People are asking themseleves, "Who is this guy?" and "What makes him the expert on health care and the banking system and energy production?"
Posted by: Touché Turtle at May 11, 2010 11:58 AM (uFokq)
Of course, the Church of The Fonz would have worked better for the US, since The Fonz was not a Commie Crypto Muslim who hates America.
Posted by: shibumi at May 11, 2010 11:58 AM (OKZrE)
Posted by: logprof at May 11, 2010 11:59 AM (Mmw0q)
i have to admit, their using the whole , halo- messiah thing is what really creeped me out, made my hair stand up and gave me a heads up in the beginning in how willing people were willing to be drug anywhere. with chants of yes we can, and he is the one. shudder. just like other countries thast went crazy with their man-god leaders of hope.
worse is following elections used same tactic of hope and change , Japan: odingo, all creepy . yick, shiver
Posted by: willow at May 11, 2010 11:59 AM (7FgWm)
Barry damages whatever he touches.
Posted by: damian at May 11, 2010 12:00 PM (4WbTI)
Posted by: Uncle Jed at May 11, 2010 12:00 PM (eKgqT)
It's our own damn fault for not pushing Colin Powell, liberal as he is, when we had a chance. The lesser of two evils, indeed.
I blame Bush.
Posted by: s'moron at May 11, 2010 12:01 PM (UaxA0)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at May 11, 2010 12:01 PM (RkRxq)
Of course, the Church of The Fonz would have worked better for the US, since The Fonz was not a Commie Crypto Muslim who hates America.
In real life Henry Winkler is a lefty weenie, but I guess that's not all that surprising in Commiewood. It's surprising when a film or TV star isn't.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 11, 2010 12:02 PM (ujg0T)
"You'd think they'd be saying thank you. That's what you'd think."
That is the quote that will define Obama's failed presidency. It will be in the history books.
Posted by: Touché Turtle at May 11, 2010 12:02 PM (uFokq)
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd." - Flannery O'Connor'
I have to give that author credit. He knew where California was heading before it even started on its downward spiral.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 11, 2010 12:03 PM (ujg0T)
Will save and read the article.
*turns into angelic black man
"Well done Ace, your sins are forgiven.
Posted by: Uniball at May 11, 2010 12:04 PM (27iEn)
Of course, the Church of The Fonz would have worked better for the US, since The Fonz was not a Commie Crypto Muslim who hates America.
Posted by: shibumi at May 11, 2010 03:58 PM (OKZrE)
Oh yeah? You think that's bad?
What about the time Mohammed gave me a salmon helmet while I was wearing a toga?
Posted by: Peter Griffin at May 11, 2010 12:06 PM (Mmw0q)
O/T more news from the religeon of peace:
Muhammad cartoonist 'head-butted' during lecture Published: 5/11/10, 3:46 PM EDTBy MALIN RISING
STOCKHOLM (AP) - A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was assaulted Tuesday as furious protesters interrupted his university lecture about the limits of artistic freedom.
Lars Vilks told The Associated Press a man leaped from the front row and head-butted him as he was delivering his speech, breaking Vilks' glasses but leaving him uninjured. Two people were arrested but it wasn't immediately clear whether the attacker was among them.
Posted by: dananjcon at May 11, 2010 12:06 PM (pr+up)
Uh, I mean... STEEEEERRRNNNNN!!!!!
Posted by: Hanover Fiste at May 11, 2010 12:06 PM (mtVp8)
I have to give that author credit. He knew where California was heading before it even started on its downward spiral.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 11, 2010 04:03 PM (ujg0T)
I was a chick actually, but yeah . . .
Posted by: Flannery O'Connor at May 11, 2010 12:07 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 12:07 PM (LB6/t)
Young unmarried people should not be allowed to vote.
Posted by: the peanut gallery at May 11, 2010 12:08 PM (NurK6)
"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything." -
-- GK Chesterton
Posted by: Garbonzo the Garrulous at May 11, 2010 12:08 PM (zgd5N)
Posted by: fartbubble at May 11, 2010 12:09 PM (gAmQ1)
Posted by: Stuff Benjamin Franklin Said, Vol. III at May 11, 2010 12:09 PM (Mmw0q)
Posted by: Jean at May 11, 2010 12:09 PM (mXHTU)
Two people were arrested but it wasn't immediately clear whether the attacker was among them.
Misunderstood Asian Yoots.
Posted by: garrett at May 11, 2010 12:09 PM (HBEWJ)
Women form the main audience for hunky vampires, ghost whisperers, mediums, and other schmaltzy, sentimental, debased gnostic heresy stuff. Examples would be DaVinci Code (secret "royal family" of Christ), Twilight (hunky, kinda gay vampires and werewolves fight over some chick) and the god-awful Medium/Ghost Whisperer stuff.
White guys have a different attitude towards Blacks, formed mostly from sports. Most White guys believe (it may or may not be true) that Black guys are superior athletes, but inferior leaders. Talented, with better ability to run faster, jump higher, and improvise, but no willingness to subordinate egos, study film, accept coaching, and show self-less leadership. Guys look around and see no NFL team, and certainly no Superbowl victor, with an all-White WR and Corner corps. They also see none with Black coaches (who are dull and unimaginative) or QBs (who are ego-driven and overly emotional). You'd find few takers to replace Drew Brees or Peyton Manning with Donovan McNabb or Michael Vick. You'd probably find a bunch willing to replace White WR (on the Colts) Austin Collie out of BYU with say, TO.
Now, bear in mind that if a QB appeared like Peyton, with a willingness to study film and practice, practice, practice, and produce wins in College, who was Black, fans only care about winning. They'd be happy with a QB that caliber on their team. But most reasonably discount that -- among WHITE QBs a Peyton is rare -- it requires physical gifts just to play, (see Roethlisberger) and emotional and mental discipline to rise above that to greatness (also see Roethlisberger who lacks them).
Women don't like sports because it "exposes" things (to use a favorite NFL commentator term). Weakness in any area is exploited by opponents. A team with mediocre athletes but great players can beat the reverse (and often does). Leadership and discipline count. So does innovation. Quickness and smarts can beat brute strength. "Feelings" have to be suppressed, not embraced, until the Victory.
So when you're talking about the Magical Black Guy movies, it is mostly White Women who are the audience, since White guys care about "wins" a ton more than feelings. This is why Die Hard has McClain killing bad guys and not "getting in touch with his feelings" and Mamma Mia! is about singing, dancing, and which aging pretty-boy fathered some old ladies's kid.
Posted by: whiskey at May 11, 2010 12:09 PM (L03mw)
Posted by: Jean at May 11, 2010 12:10 PM (tJF9l)
Posted by: fartbubble at May 11, 2010 12:10 PM (gAmQ1)
And then there is that who no-no about insulting the prophet Molarryandcurly. We left that out of our equation.
Back to the damned drawing board.
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at May 11, 2010 12:11 PM (RkRxq)
-- GK Chesterton
Global warming anyone?
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 12:13 PM (xxgag)
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:14 PM (OlN4e)
What's funny is I've always thought Obama was like Aaron Burr. Hamilton thought Burr was so dangerous because he had absolutely no principles, voted "present" on important issues, and only cared about furthering his own political career, which sounds kinda familiar.
Posted by: JP at May 11, 2010 12:14 PM (oe0sG)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 12:15 PM (xxgag)
1) It's all about them, meaning, all about assuaging their feelings of inadequacy and failure on the subject of race, and
2) They dehumanize black people by deifying them to assuage that guilt, and, in the real world, we get lionization of dysfunctional black culture as more 'authentic,' the silencing of meaningful critique as 'racist,' and the propagation of the Leftist Racism of Low Expectations making any resolution truly impossible.
Posted by: nickless at May 11, 2010 12:15 PM (MMC8r)
Everything about us now screams MEDIOCRE to the world:
It's as if we left in a rush and we aren't coming back.
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Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at May 11, 2010 12:15 PM (RkRxq)
Posted by: whiskey at May 11, 2010 04:09 PM (L03mw)
--Probably a lot of NFL teams would love to replace their coach with Tony Dungy or Mike Tomlin. Hell, I'd rather have Dungy as our president than 0bama.
Posted by: logprof at May 11, 2010 12:15 PM (Mmw0q)
I remember from a much earlier thread that magic retahds have lots of mojo, too. And from that same thread, there was mention of the Magic Retarded Negri from "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle".
Following this through, all we need to counter the religion of Obama is our own melanin-challenged window licking retahd. Like an Insance Clown Posse convert, or anyone who can recite Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail.
Posted by: LFMayor at May 11, 2010 12:15 PM (qL20/)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 11, 2010 12:16 PM (QMtmy)
What's funny is I've always thought Obama was like Aaron Burr. Hamilton thought Burr was so dangerous because he had absolutely no principles, voted "present" on important issues, and only cared about furthering his own political career, which sounds kinda familiar.
Probably not as good a shot.
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 12:16 PM (LB6/t)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 11, 2010 12:18 PM (QMtmy)
Hamilton thought Burr was so dangerous because he had absolutely no principles, voted "present" on important issues, and only cared about furthering his own political career, which sounds kinda familiar.
Are you sure it wasn't Burr's marksmanship Hamilton was afraid of? Those two had a feud going for years, with each one talking shit about the other one to other people.
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:19 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: the peanut gallery at May 11, 2010 04:15 PM (NurK6)
--All these years I had no idea Welch was her married name.
Posted by: logprof at May 11, 2010 12:19 PM (Mmw0q)
I say seemed because I've only begun skimming it
Ace! - Have you learned nothing from your studies of the 'Cult of the Magic Negro'?
"A lack of knowledge does not preclude a rush to judgement." - 'O'pherisms 13:4
Posted by: garrett at May 11, 2010 12:19 PM (HBEWJ)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 12:20 PM (xxgag)
Posted by: Slublog at May 11, 2010 12:22 PM (qjKko)
To reiterate:
Thinnest resume of a U.S. President. Ever.
Let me add:
Thinnest skin of a U.S. President. Ever.
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:22 PM (CfmlF)
I don't believe in God, I know He exists: I see Him every day in the actions of those who believe, and those who don't.
--Fritz
Posted by: Fritz at May 11, 2010 12:22 PM (GwPRU)
Are you sure it wasn't Burr's marksmanship Hamilton was afraid of? Those two had a feud going for years, with each one talking shit about the other one to other people.
Burr had murderous intent and his actions speak to it.
Hamilton had only 'honor' in mind that day. He was unconvinced that Burr meant to kill him. He was, sadly, mistaken.
Posted by: garrett at May 11, 2010 12:23 PM (HBEWJ)
I thought Aaron Burr was that guy from "Ironsides."
_________________________________
That was Brian Dennehy..
No, Brian Dennehy played Perry Mason.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 11, 2010 12:23 PM (B+qrE)
Ace! - Have you learned nothing from your studies of the 'Cult of the Magic Negro'?
Legend has it that Magic Negros have a calvacade of magic corpsemen at their disposal.
Posted by: runningrn sitting around a campfire with flashlight directed up at face at May 11, 2010 12:23 PM (CfmlF)
Whites voted for the Indonesian Imbecile in order to be attacked and punished. They wanted to kill America, to atone for their imagined sins.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 12:24 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: shibumi at May 11, 2010 03:58 PM (OKZrE)
The Church of the Fonz would be awesome, because once he jumped over the shark, it was football time.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:24 PM (mHQ7T)
He was epantsipating them from their selfish existence.
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 12:24 PM (LB6/t)
The Obama Presidency is the product of a "perfect storm" of events, largely orchestrated by the MFM.
No, the pivotal turn of events was largely orchestrated by Goldman-Sachs [probably with a little help from the likes of Soros, lurking in the background].
Don't kid yourself about this.
Posted by: Lindsey Grahamnesty licking Rahm Emanuel's sweet, hairy balls at May 11, 2010 12:25 PM (J+UTa)
Burr had murderous intent and his actions speak to it.
It's hardly murder when you are standing face to face with another armed man.
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:25 PM (OlN4e)
I've managed to combine the last two religions (environmentalism + black messiah).
I now worship the Black Locust tree.
Posted by: Hamilton Burger at May 11, 2010 12:25 PM (NJ/IH)
The People have gotten several glimpses at the real Obama: a petty liar who is nothing more than a punk-ass college professor
Not even a professor. That was another lie. He was a guest lecturer. Seems fitting becasue that's all the guy does is talk. Blah blah blah ...
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 12:25 PM (VMPZa)
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 12:26 PM (xxgag)
There's a reason fantasy is lumped in with sci-fi.
In fact, for most of us, science is taken on faith. We tend to treat science in the same way we treat religion. It goes together with Clarke's observation that any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic.
"Scientists" say something and we believe it has the rigor of metaphysical truth. Only an uneducated rube would contradict what science says. Until science contradicts itself, of course. This is what AGW has revealed to me.
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 12:26 PM (T0NGe)
Raquel Welch says sex culture in America has gone too far
Is that why over 31K women signed up for ashleymadison.com yesterday?
Sigh.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 11, 2010 12:27 PM (pLTLS)
The creepiest aspect of the campaign for me was the way crowds chanted his name, all in the same cadence. "O-BA-MA! O-BA-MA!" The scariest thing about those chants was not even the adoring crowd. It's how the One basked in their adulation, and seemed to agree that yes, he was quite awesome, thank you for noticing.
Ah yes. And don't forget the fainting--all those people fainting at his appearance. He was basically like the Holy Trinity of John, Ringo, and Paul--3 in one.
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:27 PM (CfmlF)
Whites voted for the Indonesian Imbecile in order to be attacked and punished. They wanted to kill America, to atone for their imagined sins.
I have been singing about this for years!
It's why GWAR came to this planet. That and Crack.
Posted by: Oderus Urungus at May 11, 2010 12:27 PM (HBEWJ)
Two thougts on this:
(1) There is a reason why liberals and acolytes have called him, variously, "The One", a "Lightworker", the "Messiah", etc.
(2) On a slightly different tangent, leftists always have treated liberalism as their religion. I think it's a big part of the reason they are so vested in their cause and get so angry when challenged. This also ties in with the easy, emotional appeal of liberalism to many people.
Posted by: RM at May 11, 2010 12:27 PM (1kwr2)
He wasn't even an official professor?
So is that why they say Obama was a Constitutional scholar?
Posted by: Touché Turtle at May 11, 2010 12:27 PM (uFokq)
Posted by: Haywood at May 11, 2010 12:28 PM (eoYse)
Hamilton had only 'honor' in mind that day. He was unconvinced that Burr meant to kill him. He was, sadly, mistaken.
Never pull a gun unless you are prepared to shoot someone.
Stuff Alexander Hamilton should have known, volume I
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 12:28 PM (LB6/t)
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:28 PM (CfmlF)
It's hardly murder when you are standing face to face with another armed man.
When you practice intently for days with the Dueling Weapon, and inform your second and friends that this is your motivation, it is.
Posted by: Oderus Urungus at May 11, 2010 12:29 PM (HBEWJ)
Posted by: Oderus Urungus at May 11, 2010 12:30 PM (HBEWJ)
Oh, so you missed that episode of Joanie Loves Chachi.
Anyways, I always thought that casting a black guy as God served the same purpose as casting a woman as God (or referring to God as "she") - that it really, really pisses off the evil racist bigot Christanist kkkonservative strawman that lives in the writer/producer/director's head.
Posted by: Brendan at May 11, 2010 12:30 PM (saRwI)
I thought Aaron Burr was that guy from "Ironsides."
_________________________________
That was Brian Dennehy..
No, Brian Dennehy played Perry Mason.
And Perry Mason's nemesis was a guy named Hamilton, so it all works out in the end.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 11, 2010 12:30 PM (QMtmy)
Basically, liberals -- indeed, anyone who gushed about the "historic election" -- are stone-cold racists. It's racism, pure and simple. It's just that they're guilty about it.
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 12:30 PM (T0NGe)
I Samuel 8:18
And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.
Posted by: comatus at May 11, 2010 12:30 PM (/VEEI)
Speaking of Magic Negros, check out this teacher in Houston going full gangsta on one of her students.
Posted by: Dang Straights at May 11, 2010 12:31 PM (fx8sm)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 12:31 PM (0GFWk)
Posted by: Gerry at May 11, 2010 04:28 PM (O9L0b)
From your link:
The additional spending — if approved over the years by Congress — would bring the total estimated cost of the overhaul to about $1 trillion.
How convenient that the "non-partisan" CBO comes up with this new estimate after the bill has already been passed. I predict that tar and feather futures will be hitting the roof soon!
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:31 PM (CfmlF)
Given his poll numbers, Barack The Spectacular is a 2nd level magic negro at best.
Probably can't even cast a fireball
Posted by: Zimriel at May 11, 2010 12:31 PM (9Sbz+)
Posted by: nickless at May 11, 2010 12:31 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: AlphaBase1 at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (LxrFp)
The "buying" part might be new, but "people performing ritual actions thinking they can influence the weather and other events" is older than civilization.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (mR7mk)
Do you think any of these Obama worshiping retards in the press will ever feel embarrament about all the undeserving adulation they heaped upon this unaccomplished, two-bit, affirmative action clown?
If this fool has an IQ higher than 115, I'll eat my hat. It may even be as low as 105.
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (VMPZa)
When you practice intently for days with the Dueling Weapon, and inform your second and friends that this is your motivation, it is.
No, it means you aren't an idiot. If you don't intend to win, don't accept the invitation. Once you accept the invitation, there is no "honor" in getting shot because you aren't ready.
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: joeindc44 at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (QxSug)
Hamilton thought Burr was so dangerous because he had absolutely
no principles, voted "present" on important issues, and only cared about
furthering his own political career, which sounds kinda familiar.
Admit it. You've been watching Derek Waters' Drunk History.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V_DsL1x1uY
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:32 PM (mHQ7T)
If there's anything stranger than a man with such massive abandonment issues lecturing us on fatherhood, I don't know what it is. Not to mention his frequent dates and outings without his kids.
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 12:33 PM (T0NGe)
Posted by: nickless at May 11, 2010 04:31 PM (MMC8r)
The wise black grandmother in The Stand?
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 12:33 PM (xxgag)
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 04:26 PM (T0NGe)
Deviating from your point a little, science is based on the concept that the universe is a perfect, rational place - i.e. that it affords an accurate mathematical description of its workings. This is clearly a point of faith, as there is no reason to assume that the universe is a rational place (though we wouldn't have much to do if we reject that) and we have never observed anything in nature that is perfect (which is where mathematics and its applications split, as math can only discuss perfection and perfect objects).
So, we have never seen a closed system, but we assume that the universe is closed (though that is leaking, as parallel universe theories pop up - though closure is just extended in those cases). We have never seen anything physical that afforded a perfectly accurate mathematical description, but we assume that the universe, as a whole, is the one object that can admit of a perfect mathematical description.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 12:33 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 04:31 PM (0GFWk)
It depends on what you mean by "moron".
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 12:34 PM (T0NGe)
He joined the marines and along with some magic Caucasians , Latinos , and Asians helped save our country .
Obama joined the socialist workers party and didn't help save shit .
Posted by: awkward davies at May 11, 2010 12:35 PM (B4e7Q)
Posted by: Dang Straights at May 11, 2010 04:31 PM (fx8sm)
Holy crap, Dang! That is freaking unbelievable! And the article said there were other teachers there watching it happen. Wow! It's more of that black on black violence the MFM never reports. Can you imagine if this teacher was white?
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:35 PM (CfmlF)
OT: Today is primary day in Nebraska. I voted because it's a duty, of course, but also because I was promised kisses from the moronettes.
The line forms to the left, ladies!
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 12:35 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 12:36 PM (0GFWk)
Never pull a gun unless you are prepared to shoot someone.
Stuff Alexander Hamilton should have known, volume I
Posted by: huerfano at May 11, 2010 04:28 PM (LB6/t)
And never shoot a gun unless you are going to shoot twice.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 12:36 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: Joey "Sidekick" Plugs at May 11, 2010 12:36 PM (GwPRU)
Posted by: Great Whitey Shark at May 11, 2010 12:36 PM (VINPA)
If this fool has an IQ higher than 115, I'll eat my hat. It may even be as low as 105.
Upon further reflection Warden, I seriously think you're right. I always said he's nothing but a bullshit artist.
Posted by: Pocono Joe at May 11, 2010 12:37 PM (ue/Y7)
Which is more insulting -- that I'm expected to believe that Michelle Obama is beautiful or that President Wee Wee is intelligent?
Because all I see is a thin skinned, trash talking little pussy who lacks both manners and grace.
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 12:37 PM (VMPZa)
None of that was Obama's doing, of course, but he did tap into that sentiment with the ooga-booga mysticism he dressed up as politics.
I'm not so sure. I think Barry's ego feed into it and promoted it. Look at the campaign posters and his speeches. Barry was selling himself as a messiah. Barry is madly in love with himself and thinks himself better and smarter than everyone else. He wanted that unquestioning adulation.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 11, 2010 12:37 PM (1Jaio)
Do you think any of these Obama worshiping retards in the press will ever feel embarrament about all the undeserving adulation they heaped upon this unaccomplished, two-bit, affirmative action clown?
If this fool has an IQ higher than 115, I'll eat my hat. It may even be as low as 105.
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 04:32 PM (VMPZa)
I guarantee you that the Indonesian Imbecile's IQ is in the low 90s, at best. And he didn't crack 920 on his SATs.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 12:37 PM (Qp4DT)
Good book, but the Leftiness is strong in that one. I mean, Big Jim even has a bad heart... And the hero is a decorated Iraq War veteran who threw his medals in the Gulf of Mexico.
Posted by: Pyrocles at May 11, 2010 12:39 PM (xzSvW)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 12:39 PM (0GFWk)
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:39 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 11, 2010 12:40 PM (jndrk)
Gallup has Obama's approval back up at 51% today.
That's a lot of new converts.
Posted by: snapdragon at May 11, 2010 12:40 PM (5Etcj)
Deviating from your point a little, science is based on the concept that the universe is a perfect, rational place - i.e. that it affords an accurate mathematical description of its workings. This is clearly a point of faith
I think I'm talking about something different. Not the philosophy of science but the dissemination of results. We only know what we perceive. We never see the data, we never see the experiments, we never see the errors in methodology. We only are given pronouncements from the Oracle.
It doesn't matter what science is or what it isn't, it matters how it is given to us.
As to whether the order of the universe is a matter of faith, I'd say it is, but it doesn't matter that it is because we must operate on that assumption to survive.
As to your point about mathematics, yes, mathematics is usually a simplification -- a perfect model, if you will. But the problem is that science cannot detect the imperfections either. In order to describe an ordered universe, you need an ordered model.
But that's too deep for all this. My only point is that for the "laity," science only is what is communicated via the media and a few other means.
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (T0NGe)
Holy crap, Dang! That is freaking unbelievable!
Maybe they were learning proper rioting technique?
You know. Studying up on Community Activism.
Perhaps it was Rodney King Day?
Posted by: garrett at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (HBEWJ)
OT: Today is primary day in Nebraska. I voted because it's a duty, of course, but also because I was promised kisses from the moronettes.
The line forms to the left, ladies!
XXX!!11!!
Posted by: Epantsipated moronette with heaving bosom at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (CfmlF)
The MFM sold the American people a whole bill of goods.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: maddogg at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (OlN4e)
Posted by: snapdragon at May 11, 2010 04:40 PM (5Etcj)
Is this palin steele? It reeks of the same stupidity.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: joeindc44 at May 11, 2010 12:42 PM (QxSug)
Oooh HOW CLEVER!! it says JC, just like Jose Cuervo! Jiminy Crickett! Joshua Chamberlain! Jim CCarrey! Jackie Chan! Johnny Carson! Jimmah Cahtah! John Cleese!
Posted by: Gerbil Malodor at May 11, 2010 12:42 PM (dP6Ky)
A related article at City-Journal seems to discuss this (I say seemed because I've only begun skimming it): How Science Fiction Discovered Religion.
Interesting related reading: Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Fantasy and Science Fiction
And more Moron-related: Jewish Themes in Star Trek
Posted by: stuiec at May 11, 2010 12:43 PM (7AOgy)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 04:39 PM (0GFWk)
No. That was my assumption, based on the idea that anyone who says something so nonsensical as "profit and earnings ratios" obviously can't do mathematical word problems and someone who says "reduce your premiums by 3000%" doesn't know jack about fractions or the meaning of percentages. The Indonesian Imbecile has given many other indications that his math score was no better than 420. As to his verbal score, listening to him speak extemporaneously provides enough evidence to show that he didn't do well on that, either.
But, the 920 upper limit on his SATs is my best guess.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 12:43 PM (Qp4DT)
It’s one thing for a supposedly combative press to fawn over a presidential candidate—and now a president. Who wants to devote precious column inches to Barack Obama’s ties to radical bomber Bill Ayers when Sarah Palin’s wardrobe demands investigation? Why shoot ordinary photographs of the president when you can portray him as a haloed Byzantine saint?
And how sad, for those of us who love America, its language, and what She stands for, has become the latest sacrifice to the cult of Obama.
Posted by: sickinmass at May 11, 2010 12:43 PM (tamie)
That video was a nightmare. The teacher slammed him once when his head was at an angle against the wall and she's lucky she didn't break his neck.
That actually nauseated me to watch that.
Posted by: Who Knows at May 11, 2010 12:44 PM (7FgWm)
Posted by: George Orwell at May 11, 2010 12:45 PM (AZGON)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:45 PM (mHQ7T)
He's a lout.
That's the word I was looking for.
Has there ever been a more classless, uncouth presidency? Every day I have to hear this loutish buffoon run his stupid goddamned mouth. Eery time you turn on the TV or radio, there he is mouthing lies and lecturing America about how to live.
Clinton was an oily, forked tongued sleaze. This guy doesn't even have the talent to be likeable as he runs his con. It's right out there in the open, and everyone with a brain knows what the score is.
I can forgive people for being charmed by Clinton. This guy? You have to suspend all reason to believe that he's qualified enough to lead a Little League baseball team, much less the greatest nation on earth.
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 12:45 PM (VMPZa)
That's racialist, man.
Posted by: ms. docweasel at May 11, 2010 12:46 PM (BVmgA)
Yeah...the day he won that last primary was the day (paraphrased) the planet started to heal and the sick became well.
Big Pharma in evil cahoots with Big Psychiatry can fix that. I'm more worried that the people who believed that schtick still get to vote.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 11, 2010 12:47 PM (mR7mk)
Do we know his SATs?
Surely a 1600 when he took them in Sycacuse and wrote essays on epantsipation.
Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 11, 2010 12:48 PM (pLTLS)
He joined the marines and along with some magic Caucasians , Latinos , and Asians helped save our country .
You beat me to it. I was about to say, the most magic negro I ever knew just got back from Afghanistan. (Well, that and a black girl I dated briefly who, let's just say had some skills.)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at May 11, 2010 12:48 PM (z4es9)
Posted by: Fred at May 11, 2010 12:48 PM (xWGQr)
Frank Marshall Davis was sucking his dick while he was too short to go on the grown up rides. Literally. Hype is all Obama has known.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:48 PM (mHQ7T)
Why waste a dime of his own money when he can waste yours?
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 11, 2010 12:49 PM (mR7mk)
December 7, 1941, A Date That Will Live In Infamy
November 4, 2008, The Day America Momentarily Lost Its Way
Posted by: Pike Place Pete at May 11, 2010 12:50 PM (MzTRc)
Posted by: nevergiveup at May 11, 2010 12:50 PM (0GFWk)
Pretty much all of them?
Posted by: Gerbil Malodor at May 11, 2010 12:51 PM (dP6Ky)
Good insite, I never put the John Coffey character together with JC and a Messianic message.
From 'The Green Mile'?
Seriously?
It was like.... right there.
That was probably the most Magical Negro magical negro book I've ever read.
He healed people then they killed him. Hello?
But then you have that they basically killed him for being black (and also, as a result of his being so merciful and loving which put him there), and also, very weak.
And he healed people for much the same reason - he was black. His powers come from his love and empathy and his love and empathy come from his disadvantage and his simplicity. At least, he was an uneducated impoverished simpleton from the backwoods (most likely a circumstance of his skin in those times) and therefor, had super tardfaith. King had the magical negress aunt-jemimah character in the Stand explicity say (to the magical tard in the Stand who saves the world) that tards have a 'special relationship' with god because of their simplicity.
The book was basically Black Jesus redeems us for us racism.
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 12:51 PM (IsLT6)
Not if you go by The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Like Obi Wan, the teacher appears when the student is ready. Then once that person fixes eveerything, they conveniently get written out of the script.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:51 PM (mHQ7T)
We're so desperate to write a story about an Obama success we're just gonna make shit up!
Posted by: Newsweek at May 11, 2010 04:50 PM (uFokq)
Which has nothing to do with the fact that we're up on the block and circling the drain!
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:52 PM (CfmlF)
Posted by: joncelli at May 11, 2010 12:54 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: ziptie at May 11, 2010 12:54 PM (UdYT0)
The book was basically Black Jesus redeems us for us racism.
Kind of like the healing we've experienced across this embittered and racist land from the hand of our very own post-racial Chocolate Jesus.
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:54 PM (CfmlF)
Seriously, her illegal ass should be deported instead of collecting welfare. I'm pretty sure Michelle made a comment to this effect, as well, poor blacks are white people's problems.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:55 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:57 PM (CfmlF)
King had the magical negress aunt-jemimah character in the Stand explicity say (to the magical tard in the Stand who saves the world) that tards have a 'special relationship' with god because of their simplicity.
You can't attribute anything to what is written in the last 1/3 of ANY Stephen King work. He's in a panic long before this point. Seriously. He couldn't end a bowel movement successfully.
Posted by: garrett at May 11, 2010 12:57 PM (HBEWJ)
Break out the bubbly! Once again, barely half the country can stand him.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 12:57 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 12:57 PM (CfmlF)
The spiritual magical character when constructing these types of stories almost always is the person who is on the low end.
Which is the same exact thing.
The impetus that puts the black man in the role of the magical negro is the same sentiment. It's because they're disadvantaged (on the low end) that they get cast, to fulfill what is itself a Christian concept - weak is strong. Love they enemy. Turn the other cheek. Lead by the lamb. The meek shall inherit.
And people have been using (exploiting) the reconstructed mythical Noble Savage to launch social commentary on each other for.. forever. They demonstrate whatever they're pushing as in accordance with Occam's Razor, so to speak. Look at this simple concept that even these simpletons get that is so natural to life, that we've busilly distracted ourselves from.
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 12:58 PM (IsLT6)
Posted by: Warden at May 11, 2010 12:59 PM (VMPZa)
Posted by: Z Ryan at May 11, 2010 01:00 PM (cMo6P)
Posted by: ccruse456 at May 11, 2010 01:00 PM (3pv79)
>>>I think I'm talking about
something different. Not the philosophy of science but the
dissemination of results.
Yes. That's why I prefaced my little rant with "deviating from your point". Sorry, I just felt compelled to push my "mathematics is the language of perfection" idea a little.
>>>As to your point about mathematics, yes, mathematics is usually a simplification -- a perfect model, if you will. But the problem is that science cannot detect the imperfections either. In order to describe an ordered universe, you need an ordered model.
My point was that mathematics can only deal with perfection. You cannot faithfully model an imperfect object in mathematical language. But everything we see in reality is imperfect, so much as we are able to perceive it, and so the mathematical models for them cannot, I would say, be faithful.
As to ordering, I would just note that most foundations of mathematics are built on an unordered universe, with order just being magically inserted (usually by the sudden existence of cartesian products or hand-waived in for other foundations) and then propagating through the system.
>>>But that's too deep for all
this. My only point is that for the "laity," science only is what is
communicated via the media and a few other means.
Posted by: AmishDude at May 11, 2010 04:41 PM (T0NGe)
Yes. Sorry to take you on a tangent. But, the idea that mathematics is the language of perfection has deep ties to the idea of religion and why mathematics occupies such a special place in the world. ... I'm still on that tangent ...
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 01:01 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: ziptie at May 11, 2010 04:54 PM (UdYT0)
I said a while ago that Barry has the worldview of a Blaxplotation movie. Evil whitey is out to destroy the peace loving peoples of the world until Barry Shaft shows up.
Who is the half black dickhead who's throws like a femme?
Barry!
Damn right!
Who is the man who will redistribute the wealth?
Barry!
Can you dig it?
They say this cat Barry is one dumb mother..
Shut your mouth.
I'm just talking about Barry
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 11, 2010 01:02 PM (1Jaio)
To reiterate:
Thinnest resume of a U.S. President. Ever.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 11, 2010 03:48 PM (B+qrE)
I think it was Rush Limbaugh who said that whenever Obama walks into a room, he's automatically the least qualified person in the room, and it doesn't make any difference what area of expertise you are referring to.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 11, 2010 01:02 PM (eVJ7T)
Posted by: Alfred Hitchcock at May 11, 2010 01:03 PM (LB6/t)
Posted by: t-bird at May 11, 2010 01:05 PM (FcR7P)
Not if you go by The Hero With a Thousand Faces. Like Obi Wan, the teacher appears when the student is ready. Then once that person fixes eveerything, they conveniently get written out of the script. - Sounds like Highlander (Connery)
Kind of opposite the magic negro, anyone notice all the home security commercials feature only white guys breaking into all the homes? Racism striaght up.
Posted by: Schwalbe at May 11, 2010 01:06 PM (UU0OF)
Fisrt after 8 years of Bush bashing and hatred it was already an uphill battle for any Republican. Second, with the aid of the press and BS Republican primary rules the worst Republican candidate in a century was nominated. Then the press then turned on the Clintons and anointed the "Won" as the time for a black communist president.
The sheeple dutifully followed what the MFM told them to do.
Posted by: Vic at May 11, 2010 03:50 PM (6taRI)
Amen. The people who have wormed their way into Media, Academia, and Government are the people responsible for making this idiot the person who is leading us to destruction. Obama would not have been possible if the Media was balanced 50-50 liberal/conservative. But because it is 95-5, it distorts everything the American Public is allowed to hear and see.
The Media is the enabler of Liberal Government, and as such they ought to be our number one enemy. They are in fact the enemy "Air-Force", and if we don't take them out they are going to keep strafing us.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 11, 2010 01:07 PM (eVJ7T)
Posted by: t-bird at May 11, 2010 05:05 PM (FcR7P)
It's a cargo cult. "Bring us free stuff!"
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 01:07 PM (xxgag)
In fact - the very act of making the disadvantaged into the spiritual leaders (besides being very Christian), is itself an expression of itself. Those lacking in real authority must be compensated, averaged out, in some other area where they are actually greater than us. Spiritual authority.
The one who lacks the education is full of the old folk wisdom or some such.
The Noble Savage is given an area in which he excels so that we'll see he has something to teach us (which is whatever the author is pushing).
It's the same thing as when you see sociologists do studies about how such-and-such impoverished peoples have no shoes but hey, they smile more then we do. They've got this life thing figgured out, they're happy dammit, and it's not about having shoes.
(Meanwhile such-and-such islanders are cradling their bloody, calloused stumps begging for a job doing anything at all so they can buy their children shoes).
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 01:07 PM (IsLT6)
91 Obama is not God. I know this because Obama will never settle for ten percent.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 04:26 PM (xxgag)
OUTSTANDING
Posted by: s'moron at May 11, 2010 01:08 PM (UaxA0)
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 11, 2010 01:09 PM (7VvJB)
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 01:09 PM (CfmlF)
Having rejected the usual method of finding transcendence in everyday life, and yet still possessing a strong desire to discover such transcendence, they simply begin attaching religious significance to traditionally non-religious ideas and actions, such as buying local organic produce and fluorescent bulbs.
Damn, dude. That was awesome.
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 11, 2010 01:09 PM (lF6tp)
Thinnest resume of a U.S. President. Ever.
Ultimately, what's thin about is its helping of wisdom. And it realty isn't getting any thicker...
Posted by: ParisParamus at May 11, 2010 01:10 PM (lf/rr)
Posted by: runningrn at May 11, 2010 01:10 PM (CfmlF)
Pretty much the textbook for all 60s and 70s sci fi. The City Journal link goes into more detail, but it's a simple idea, like the best stories and ads. KISS rule and all that. The messianic idea appeals to most humans, because it's like a miracle diet. Everything you eat makes you young and thin.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 01:12 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: The MFM at May 11, 2010 01:12 PM (V/EYZ)
(Meanwhile such-and-such islanders are cradling their bloody, calloused stumps begging for a job doing anything at all so they can buy their children shoes).
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 05:07 PM (IsLT6)
But, that's only because the evil white man showed them what shoes were, so now they are wanting. They were happier when they didn't know what shoes were.
In a nutshell, the credo of the left is "ignorance is bliss". That was what the Indonesian Imbecile was pushing at that insane commencement speech, idiotically framed in terms of PlayStations and XBoxes ... because he's just that stupid.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 01:12 PM (Qp4DT)
I was just wondering where Entropy had been for the last few months, and 2 minutes later he posted.
(Shannon) Entropy keeps you guessing.
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 01:12 PM (IsLT6)
Posted by: PJ at May 11, 2010 01:13 PM (Pzd/r)
It's the same thing as when you see sociologists do studies about how such-and-such impoverished peoples have no shoes but hey, they smile more then we do. They've got this life thing figgured out, they're happy dammit, and it's not about having shoes.
In my experience at the White House, a grimace can easily be mistaken for a smile.
Posted by: Michelle Obama's Official White House Photographer at May 11, 2010 01:13 PM (CfmlF)
When 'white people' veer off Christianity? What about when blacks or hispanics or Arabs veer off Christianity?
What in the world do you mean by 'blood heritage'? You think Whites are somehow more related to Jesus than others?
And how is Obama a noble savage? He's upper crust, always lived a life of privilege, and he's pretty damn white, too.
It's a shame our nation is full of imbeciles who think Obama's race is relevant or historic, and surely the Tiger Woods and humble wise black guy in movies is part of the motif surrounding his campaign. But let's not pretend Chrsitianity is especially for white people, or that Christ is part of Caucasian heritage (did Christ even have kids?)
Christ died on the cross for Osama Bin Laden and OJ Simpson just as much as he did for you.
Posted by: Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia at May 11, 2010 01:14 PM (dUOK+)
A certain subset of his followers, yes. They want the prosperity they see other people have without understanding what other people had to do to get it.
There's another subset that's more...Puritan? They see other people enjoying non-sexual pleasures they personally disapprove of--our homes, our cars, our smokes, our cheeseburgers--and have to stop us "for our own good."
(Not sure if Puritan is the right religious metaphor. Islamic hardliner would work, too....)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 11, 2010 01:14 PM (mR7mk)
Posted by: Jollyroger at May 11, 2010 01:15 PM (8kgSa)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 11, 2010 01:16 PM (I1/U/)
Posted by: LFMayor at May 11, 2010 01:17 PM (qL20/)
I don't particularly agree, but as far as generalities go, there is the point that people who become unbelievers in God aren't necessarily going to disbelieve in other nonsense. Consider the reverence towards eastern faiths (including Islam), crystal power, indigo children, wicca, etc.
Posted by: fb at May 11, 2010 01:17 PM (G60Nl)
Posted by: PJ at May 11, 2010 05:13 PM (Pzd/r)
Marx was exactly wrong. It's socialism that is the opiate of the masses.
Posted by: WalrusRex at May 11, 2010 01:17 PM (xxgag)
Someone mentioned the political incorrectness of Madtv.
I remember one sketch on that show where they had Michael McDonald playing a retard at a Special Olympics type thing. He was standing there insulting all these "celebrity" people that showed up at the event. Holy shit, one of the funniest things I've ever seen. I nearly pissed myself laughing. I'd give anything to see that sketch again.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 01:18 PM (P33XN)
Posted by: ziptie at May 11, 2010 01:18 PM (UdYT0)
Posted by: T at May 11, 2010 01:19 PM (z9Awt)
While there is something to be said for humility, the common thread through all biblical trials is faith. Your faith sustains you. But modern black culture strikes me as rather cynical, having aligned themselves with the political left. So, these Magic Negro movies strike me as a bunch of donkey horse shit. It's insulting to blacks, too, as Spike Lee pointed out.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 01:19 PM (mHQ7T)
The left wants (has always wanted) government to replace God. Your provider. Your protector. Your spiritual guide. The source of truth and meaning in your life. The object of your faith.
The object of your worship.
That's a diagnosis of a mental illness. Probably more than one of them.
It's what happens to people who've stopped listening to their conscience and started listening to their thoughts instead.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at May 11, 2010 01:20 PM (i3AsK)
Kind of opposite the magic negro, anyone notice all the home security commercials feature only white guys breaking into all the homes? Racism striaght up.
I've also noticed all of the "victims" are women.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 01:20 PM (P33XN)
Never read Robin Hood, but is that Azeem character actually in the book?
Anyway, Azeem is an action figure.
http://is.gd/c4Mze
Posted by: wtfci at May 11, 2010 01:21 PM (+zo63)
Posted by: Jollyroger at May 11, 2010 01:22 PM (8kgSa)
Posted by: New White Panther at May 11, 2010 01:22 PM (bhIAR)
Who spends the money in your household?
I know who spends it in mine. Wasn't AoSHQ talking about vagging up the book sales as of late?
The womens haz the money now.
Posted by: wtfci at May 11, 2010 01:23 PM (+zo63)
Pretty much the textbook for all 60s and 70s sci fi.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 05:12 PM (mHQ7T)
As long as it's not Zardoz. I don't want to see Barry wandering around in that red diaper that Connery wore.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 11, 2010 01:23 PM (1Jaio)
Even Christ had to be born of Mary.
Posted by: nickless at May 11, 2010 01:24 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 11, 2010 01:24 PM (lF6tp)
Posted by: Jollyroger at May 11, 2010 01:24 PM (8kgSa)
Posted by: nerdygirl at May 11, 2010 01:25 PM (iyyNK)
The left wants (has always wanted) government to replace God. Your provider. Your protector. Your spiritual guide. The source of truth and meaning in your life. The object of your faith.
Yes. We'd do a much better job. Free will = chaos, strife, and disparity.
Posted by: The Grand Inquisitor at May 11, 2010 01:26 PM (uFokq)
LOL Poor Sean Connery got stuck making some awful movies. But if ever there was a red diaper baby, it's Obama.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 01:27 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: Bugler at May 11, 2010 01:27 PM (VXBR1)
It's a cargo cult. "Bring us free stuff!"
Yeah. I've often thought these lefties are in a cargo cult in a more meaningful sense than just that the end goal is the acquisition of cargo (free stuff), but in that they confuse the method with the means. They, not knowing how the cargo is produced, ritualize the superficial aspects they can see of those who produce it, believing it will be produced.
Look at the survey of liberal's economic views. Will price controls cause shortages? Well those rethuglicans control prices and I don't see any shortages because of it...
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 01:27 PM (IsLT6)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at May 11, 2010 01:29 PM (i3AsK)
Who's the most magic of all?
Sho 'Nuff!
Then again there's President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
I prefer "Easy Reader" myself.
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Posted by: nerdygirl at May 11, 2010 01:30 PM (iyyNK)
In the good ol' days, this was commonly known as paganism.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 11, 2010 01:30 PM (554T5)
Posted by: Jollyroger at May 11, 2010 01:31 PM (8kgSa)
Never read Robin Hood, but is that Azeem character actually in the book?
No, there is no book... not any 1 original... Robin Hood is a tall tale, a myth. Began orally before literacy was common (or perhaps inspired by a real person).
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 01:31 PM (IsLT6)
Posted by: ziptie at May 11, 2010 01:32 PM (UdYT0)
A new leader. The people really knew about Reagan for a while. It just took President Carter to make a B actor from Dixon look like a genius.
Posted by: wtfci at May 11, 2010 01:33 PM (+zo63)
Posted by: t-bird at May 11, 2010 01:34 PM (FcR7P)
Yeah, me too. I just got back from the grocery store. I'm no snob, by any means, but "the great unwashed" are conquering the planet, it would seem.
Posted by: Soap MacTavish at May 11, 2010 01:34 PM (554T5)
That birth certificate has Kashyyyk written all over it.
Posted by: wtfci at May 11, 2010 01:34 PM (+zo63)
I can make you a perfect human being. Your God wants to keep humans imperfect.
There's got to be some sort of metaphysical law that prevents the imposition of perfection in an imperfect dimension by any agent other than God.
This could explain why everything The Vapid One© touches turns to shit.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at May 11, 2010 01:35 PM (i3AsK)
Agreed. Connery was the best Bond of all time. Even if he was wearing a rug. But Entrapment, The Anderson Files... I could go on.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 01:36 PM (mHQ7T)
Unfortunately, it may take twenty years (or never, in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran) to undo the damage that the well-intentioned, yet mentally diminished, make upon society when elevated to heights legions beyond their pay grade.
Posted by: Upscale Community Organizing Thought Criminal at May 11, 2010
04:36 PM (IhHdM)
It is much worse than you assert. We are STILL living with the consequences of bad Democrat Presidents. I Just read today how Iran will have atomic rockets in two years. Anyway, a quick (and not inclusive list)
Andrew Jackson. Stole Indian land, and made it available for whites to grow plantations and practice Slavery.
Death Toll? Thousands.
Woodrow Wilson. Got us into World War II, (Among other things) Then pussied out when Britain and France wanted to impose excessive damages on Germany, thereby setting the stage for World War II. Initiated the League of Nations (which turned into the United Nations.) and a whole host of horrible decisions.
Death Toll? Millions.
Franklin Roosevelt. Initiated policies in the country's finances and legal systems which are still killing us today. (Social Security, Medicare, Liberal Judges, etc.)
Death Toll? Millions.
Harry Truman. Refused to lend American Transport aircraft to Chang Ki Sheck for the purpose of moving troops to wipe out Mao Tse Tung during his long march. Imagine NO KOREA, NO VIETNAM, and NO COMMUNIST CHINA!
Death Toll? Millions.
John F. Kennedy. CAUSED the Bay of Pigs disaster. Nearly caused the deaths of 60 million Americans as a result of the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs. (Castro Demanded the Soviets install the missiles as a result of the invasion.) Sent the first American troops to Vietnam.
Death Toll? Thousands. Could have been Millions.
Lyndon Johnson. Started the "Great Society" program, (adding billions of more to the National Debt, and making it possible for millions of unwanted impoverished children to be created and born because the government made fathers unnecessary.) Fucked up Vietnam.
Death Toll? Millions.
Jimmy Carter. Fucked up everything he touched. Is responsible for the Deaths of Millions of Iranians and Iraqis, American Servicemen, and who knows how many more people will die in the future as a result of him having been President.
Death Toll? Millions.
We aren't done with the suffering caused by having Democrat Presidents in our Past.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 11, 2010 01:36 PM (eVJ7T)
Morgan Freeman is the definition of the Magic Negro. Not that he isn't talented, but almost every role he's played fits the description perfectly.
Posted by: the peanut gallery at May 11, 2010 01:38 PM (NurK6)
The "buying" part might be new, but "people performing ritual actions thinking they can influence the weather and other events" is older than civilization.
The buying part in that combo isn't exactly unheard of.
Posted by: Entropy at May 11, 2010 01:38 PM (IsLT6)
Showering makes the baby Gaia cry.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 11, 2010 01:38 PM (mR7mk)
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Posted by: Dr. Spank at May 11, 2010 01:40 PM (I1/U/)
Posted by: bergerbilder at May 11, 2010 01:41 PM (S1Ttj)
He pretty much plays a Magic Negro in "Along Came a Spider" and every movie he's done with Ashley "Magic Liberal" Judd.
Posted by: wtfci at May 11, 2010 01:43 PM (+zo63)
I thought you meant the guy from the Doobie Brothers, but I just watched it on YouTube. That was pretty funny.
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 01:46 PM (mHQ7T)
Nothing but empty plaitudes then. Nothing but incompetence now.
The Empty Platitude President.
Ask someone to recite a single line from Barry's Speshul Speech on Race, you know, the speech the MFM assured us was one of the most eloquent utterances ever made in human history. Hell, ask someone to recite anything this assclown has said in the last two or three years. They can't do it.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 01:46 PM (P33XN)
Lemme guess: the anguished parents of the murdered little girls are portrayed as grotesque and ignorant white crackers as were the parents of the murdered teen in "Dead Man Walking".
LFMayor: True, but fortunately Alan Rickman stole that "Robin Hood" from everyone else fool enough to have gotten involved in it.
Whiskey: "Blackula" nothwishstanding, hunky vampires are seldom, if ever, black. You just mail the child support check, or what IS your problem?
And thanks again to all who offered the usual gratuitous insults to those of us who don't believe in your god. (Not the first time I've read something stupid by someone named Chesterton, but that's a whole other story.) And no I am not "searching" for a "substitute for religion". Philosophy is not a "substitute" for religion or anything else. Philosophy is what religion became when it grew up many centuries ago. But Neverland has always had a greater emotional appeal.
You might find it easier to simply expunge all us "unbelievers" from this war (let's see, that would include Wilders, Fawstin, Hirsi Ali, Sultan and other marginal players), but then again keep in mind that we may come in handy some day as human shields when you're fighting those other god-believers with the dish towels and fan belts on their heads.
Posted by: revereridesagain at May 11, 2010 01:47 PM (OpAOU)
I thought you meant the guy from the Doobie Brothers, but I just watched it on YouTube. That was pretty funny.
Yeah, I found the video on youtube!
Video quality isn't the best.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 01:51 PM (P33XN)
The Empty Platitude President.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 11, 2010 05:46 PM (P33XN)He's a Jug-Eared Platitudepus ... zoologically. But this one is venomous and nasty.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 11, 2010 01:56 PM (Qp4DT)
Posted by: t-bird at May 11, 2010 05:05 PM (FcR7P)
--Actually, the lead character in The Gods Must be Crazy has a lot more common sense than many American voters. And they did not worship the Coke bottle, but they did think it was a gift, then a curse, sent by the gods.
Posted by: snapkagan at May 11, 2010 01:57 PM (Mmw0q)
It's a cargo cult. "Bring us free
stuff!"
Yeah. I've often thought these lefties are in a cargo cult in a more meaningful sense than just that the end goal is the acquisition of cargo (free stuff), but in that they confuse the method with the means. They, not knowing how the cargo is produced, ritualize the superficial aspects they can see of those who produce it, believing it will be produced.
Posted by: fb at May 11, 2010 01:58 PM (G60Nl)
Posted by: eaglewingz08 at May 11, 2010 02:31 PM (dv8zz)
#276 Good thinking. Clinton gave us Mogadishu and the crappy foreign policy that resulted from it. CNN fell in love with the bodies of US servicemen being dragged through the streets. You know CNN? The Communist News Network?
Posted by: Hous Bin Pharteen at May 11, 2010 02:39 PM (pU4D7)
The Hero is a white kid named Jack Sawyer, whose mom is a B-movie queen past her prime, slowly dying of lung cancer.
Jack runs into a black maintenance man at the local amusement park, empty when not in tourist season. Then the magical journey begins for him to save his mother, guided by the wise and kind literally Magic Negro, who is described as looking about 60 years old, curly white hair, deep voice, and the typical black dialect we've heard so much about. My mind's eye always cast Morgan Freeman. He had a magical bottle of ripple (I'm not kidding) that would slip the kid into a parallel world to this one, where strange things are afoot.
There is also a white haired white man in a white suit who is a televangelist type that runs a home for wayward boys. He is very creepy and abusive, repressed homosexual, naturally.
As I think back on it, there was a section of the book where young Jack is traveling by thumb, and is employed at a dive bar in a economically depressed mill town in upstate NY. There were allusions to Reaganomics having caused all these blue collar roughneck types being out of work. The book is copyrighted 1984. The recession had ended, and weren't we in the middle of the "greed is good" era by then? Liberals never let facts get in the way of the narrative, like the economic boom that was taking place all around them.
Posted by: Brian72 at May 11, 2010 02:50 PM (GNBk5)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 03:03 PM (mHQ7T)
Obama would not have been possible if the Media was balanced 50-50 liberal/conservative. But because it is 95-5, it distorts everything the American Public is allowed to hear and see.
Amen. The MFM is a Domestic Enemy and an existential threat to this Republic. The future of thsi country is based on a reasonably educated people making informed decisions based on the information that the media provides them. We've already lost the reasonably educated part due to the progressive takeover of our schools. And the distortion, propaganda and leftist cheerleading that masquerades as news makes the information we get worse than worthless.
We are under enemy occupation.
Posted by: LGoPs at May 11, 2010 03:03 PM (lHn6+)
No, the heads seem disproportionately large, and it's obviously a bootleg. But good stuff
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at May 11, 2010 03:08 PM (mHQ7T)
Posted by: nickless at May 11, 2010 03:09 PM (MMC8r)
The other world is feudal, and full of fantasy magic stuff. There are a race of werewolves who just farm and are all happy and friendly, except for the nights of a full moon, when they go out a-wolfing. The rest of the time they are more like happy friendly dog-men. Kind of a simpleton, pure, loyal to a fault, big and really strong. One of these wolf-men befriends Jack and winds up going with him to our side of the divide, and the smells of this world are revolting and painful to the dog-wolf-guy's sensitive nose, so we get the "people are raping the earth with their technology" message. They end up together at the wayward boy's home, and give the televangelist pervert some righteous justice after a while. My minds eye always had the pervert in the white suit looking like Ken the Snake Stabler. No offense to Raiders fans.
But anyway, yeah, Stephen King and the Magic Negro go way back. It is one of his favorite themes over the years.
Posted by: Brian72 at May 11, 2010 03:18 PM (GNBk5)
Yeah, but what has left me is faith in the REPORTAGE of Science. Every scientific discovery or insight is now (or maybe always has been) distorted through the prism of politics, invariably of the left.
Posted by: ms. docweasel at May 11, 2010 03:25 PM (BVmgA)
I found God & All That in Sonoma County, but I'm not saying specifically where--because I don't want a lotta Morons fouling the air and chasing hobos through the trees
I've said too much already........
Posted by: SantaRosaStan, rising while inert at May 11, 2010 03:32 PM (JrRME)
First, they're the descendants of Puritans. What are the most lefty regions of the country? New England, Pacific Northwest -- all places settled by Puritans and their descendants.
But somewhere along the way the descendants of Puritans lost their faith in God. It wasn't hip, churches were full of all kinds of lower-class people, and there was always that pesky feeling that being self-satisfied might not impress the Big Guy Upstairs.
So they ditched religion, but they couldn't ditch their Puritan habits of thought. They may well be genetic. So they still believe that Man is damned from birth, corrupt and sinful, a blight on the Earth. But without God, there's no redeemer. No divine being died for the love of the humblest of mankind.
That leaves them free to despise EVERYONE.
Posted by: Trimegistus at May 11, 2010 04:06 PM (jndrk)
Posted by: Comrade Comrade at May 11, 2010 05:28 PM (fXXYf)
Posted by: Cari at May 11, 2010 06:22 PM (g4goP)
The story of the progressives is the same story as the Tower of Babel, or of the Fall of Satan. Progressivism is an attempt to fashion the world around one's own image, and following this path has several requirements. The first is hubris, or pride, which you must have believe your perscriptions and desires ought to be imposed on the world. The second is enormous power of will; this must be able to overcome reason and fairness, for these can be tremendous obstacles. The third, and most absolute requirement, is a thorough hatred of God and the fear inspired by Nature's cycles. Think: the terror of capitalism and free markets, crying out for mastery to the progressive mind. These are the enemies, things to be obliterated and overcome.
The modern progressive is thus, very prideful, overconfident of his intellect, and quite disdainful of those he does not deem to be an intellectual peer in pusuit of the sanctified policies. The One and his historic Team of Rivals vs. the Palin chick. The modern progressive is also impervious to reason, using it only for tactical advantage and discarding it when it becomes incovenient. This is why you cannot debate with them, for their are no real debates in their minds, but only fights, only will to power. And lastly, the relationship with God/Nature explains the macabre relationship the modern progressive has established between Man and "The Environment". What's good about Nature has become subsumed to become within and contingent upon Man. The path toward Goodness in Nature is linked to control of Man. The path of the world's salvation, literally, runs through Man. Every aspect of this view is 180 degrees antithetical to traditionally Christian points of view, as well as every other major religion.
Do things fall out with religious trappings? Yes, of course, symbols and rituals have been syncretically accumulated from religions. And a theology of sorts is implied. However, quite seriously, this theology is more akin to the Anti-Christ's more than anything else.
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