jonolan on Asian Beauty: “That's good. More of us – and, by that, I mean all of us – need to do so. I…” Mar 28, 13:04
on Asian Beauty: “I am glad to do my part. Let us thrust ever onward towards freedom for the women of China!” Mar 28, 11:11 on Asian Beauty: “Hehe. I actually view this particular variety of orthocegenation as a means of combating said Chinese overlords. If we take…” Mar 17, 09:37Yep. I can’t see where there’s any chance that she’s not going to get chosen for a “special security check” aka a strip search. 😉
TSA strip search in 3…2…1…
But hey! As we all know, those curves are dangerous and smuggling peas is still smuggling…Besides, at $29,422 per annum those TSA agents need a few perks of the job.
The Obama Regime has demanded that America open its doors to- and pay for 10,000 Syrian “refugees” despie warnings from its own Department of Homeland Security that US intelligence community and federal law enforcement agencies do not have the intelligence needed to vet individuals from the conflict zone.
Skilled Syrian Refugees
Not to be outdone by Obama’s love for Muslims, some Democrats want to expand that number of Syrian “refugees” to 100,000 – ten times the number of potentially “skilled” Syrian Muslims that Obama wants to import.
And do please remember that these unvetted or insufficiently vetted “refugees” would be be placed in refugee camps inside America. No, they will be “resettled” in apartments and houses in communities, both large and small, all across the US by 11 national Voluntary Agencies (VOLAGS) which the federal governments contracts to do so.
America’s domestic enemies, the Liberals and Progressives, really want to teach the US about Islam and Muslims.
Liberals Teaching Islam To US
In their dhimmitude – born of their chronic and deep-seated oikophobia – they want to ensure that Americans are “properly” educated about Islam and Muslims and don’t mistake its symbols and trappings for something dangerous to our nation and culture.
Some things pull at one’s heartstrings and evoke thoughts and feeling that, at first pass, seem quite good for the state of the society one lives in. Sadly, some of those things are wrong and/or manipulative and go against the underpinnings of reality. Worse, far too often those things which are wrong and/or manipulative become entrenched in the collective psyches of whole demographics of the population.
Supposedly You Don’t Need A Reason To Help People
A case in point is “You Don’t Need A Reason To Help People.” It’s nothing but a call for totally unreasoning largess and it has no basis in fact or human thought and logic processes. People reason and, hence, need reason for any and all actions, though it’s true that many of those reasons are internalized and/or subconscious in nature. Even the insane have and need reasons for doing whatever they do. They’re just not reasons that most of the rest of us have the data to understand.
Some of the various real reason for people helping other specific people or specific groups or classes of people are:
Also, in all reasoning cases, the person needs to believe or to convince themselves that the largess they give has some meaning and will have some quantifiable and qualifiable benefit. It’s somewhat rare for normal people to just render aid, assistance, and charity when they know it will do no good – unless there’s a unrelated or tangentially related benefit to themselves for doing so.
The myth of “You Don’t Need A Reason To Help People” is sadly entrenched in the collective psyches of the Liberals and Progressives. It, mostly at an unconscious level, forms one of the underpinning of their dogma and colors and informs a great deal of their agenda.
Liberals and Progressives actively reject the fact that there is always a need for reason for largess. Even more, they reject and quite stridently disdain and denounce the idea that the person needs to believe or to convince themselves that the largess they give has some meaning and will have some quantifiable and qualifiable benefit. They believe that such things are discrimination.
This is a large part of why the Liberals and Progressives so strongly demand that voluntary charity be replaced by largess by fiat. As they believe that there should be no reason for charity or qualifier to how, to whom, or how much largess is granted, any reason applied to such is seen by them, instead, to be reason to withhold such largess.
The greatest irony in this is that these same Liberals and Progressives have no qualms about applying social pressure – approval or disapproval – to goad people into granting such largess, and are the ones who foster feelings of guilt in those of the societies they live within who have achieved wealth or material success.
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Sadly, this isn’t really correctable. It can only be ameliorated through educating people in reality. This is the sad effect of something that sounds so good but which is false.
Remember how Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…for being a Black in 2009, just 11 days after being installed in office as POTUS? It’s OK if you don’t. This bit of foolishness passed out of news cycle years ago and, like all Nobel Prizes, is largely meaningless except to secure funding or get more money on the lecture circuit, neither of which Obama needs.
Obama’s Peace Prize – His 2nd Greatest Handout From Whites
Well, it seems that Geir Lundestad, the non-voting Director of the Nobel Institute until 2014, has admitted in his new memoir titled Secretary of Peace: 25 years with the Nobel Prize that the Institute granted Obama the Peace Prize in order to encourage him and a helping hand. Lundestad also admitted that the handout’s effects failed to live up to the Nobel panel’s expectations when they gave it to Obama.
In retrospect, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct.
— Geir Lundestad
So, for attempting to lend legitimacy to- and affect the future behavior of a newly installed head of state the Prize of Hubris goes to the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
