Someone told me several years ago, when CBC changed their look and format - that they'd had help from the same people who did CNNs. But I don't have a source other than "my friend told me." so it may or may not be the case.
TRUMP - Some people think......... How do you feel?
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Lol. No kidding eh?
Looks like he is on his way to the popular vote and electoral in 2020.
Personally id vote #gowdy2020
#toomanyfalsenarrativesmediaexposed
P.s. WB jae....ain't the same without ya.
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Hi,
Orwell noted the editing of history as an indication of totalitarian rule. A significant problem magnified by the move from oral to textual. Easy to take direction from a book. Easier still when the move from book to machine is consummated. You and I remember our histories as well as the histories of our peoples. Not likely with the generation now being born.
Portable violence well serves to keep our populations cautious relevant to appearing in the public square. Our lives are being narrowed to the structures of security. Liberty is increasingly experienced as the source of anxiety. Which is of course good for the technological and pharmaceutical profiteers. Why walk out your front door when you can walk about virtually anywhere worth visiting?
This stuff was in full play in first century Palestine. Jesus was a subversive who exposed the corruption of Church and State in collusion. The exploited and oppressed population saw hope in his alternative imagination. Not so with the priests and politicians well served by status quo. They began to take notes which led to the development of a strategy. Truth loose in the streets was considered wholly unacceptable.
Looking at this pattern I wonder why the United Church has not noticed its opportunity to make manifest the alternative of Grace working through Faith. To set aside State boundaries and take a clear stand with the abused and broken persons in our neighbourhoods, as in all neighbourhoods of the known world. Saying this I am mindful of those within the United Church who stand in solidarity with those longing for justice. Thereby putting job security at risk.
To practice non-violence in a world trending to violence is to realize that violence stands at the heart of our economic circumstance. As such it has a strong influence on what we consider to be necessary for a good life. This till we need locks on our doors and computer monitors in all public spaces. Guarding our treasure - which is where our heart is.
The darkness is deepening and we do well in letting our little light shine with integrity.
George
Orwell noted the editing of history as an indication of totalitarian rule. A significant problem magnified by the move from oral to textual. Easy to take direction from a book. Easier still when the move from book to machine is consummated. You and I remember our histories as well as the histories of our peoples. Not likely with the generation now being born.
Portable violence well serves to keep our populations cautious relevant to appearing in the public square. Our lives are being narrowed to the structures of security. Liberty is increasingly experienced as the source of anxiety. Which is of course good for the technological and pharmaceutical profiteers. Why walk out your front door when you can walk about virtually anywhere worth visiting?
This stuff was in full play in first century Palestine. Jesus was a subversive who exposed the corruption of Church and State in collusion. The exploited and oppressed population saw hope in his alternative imagination. Not so with the priests and politicians well served by status quo. They began to take notes which led to the development of a strategy. Truth loose in the streets was considered wholly unacceptable.
Looking at this pattern I wonder why the United Church has not noticed its opportunity to make manifest the alternative of Grace working through Faith. To set aside State boundaries and take a clear stand with the abused and broken persons in our neighbourhoods, as in all neighbourhoods of the known world. Saying this I am mindful of those within the United Church who stand in solidarity with those longing for justice. Thereby putting job security at risk.
To practice non-violence in a world trending to violence is to realize that violence stands at the heart of our economic circumstance. As such it has a strong influence on what we consider to be necessary for a good life. This till we need locks on our doors and computer monitors in all public spaces. Guarding our treasure - which is where our heart is.
The darkness is deepening and we do well in letting our little light shine with integrity.
George
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Well yes and no.
If it is about Trump's fitness there is no requirement for an actual diagnosis, so it becomes political. Of course in the fray of working that process we would expect Trump's crack physical team to produce a letter stipulating that he is of the greatest and soundest mind for whatever it would be worth.
revsdd said:
There is a political process. Comments about Trump's mental health speak more to partisan politics.
Particularly the armchair diagnoses.
It is about finding a new way to demonize a political target who, bizarrely has managed to weather some scandalous comments that would have ended a run of the mill politician.
The voting public which cast a vote for Trump believed him to be antidote to professional politician. And that idea still holds in some areas though I think that there is a dawning recognition that his professional buffoonery is not the best immunizing agent against professional politics. Republicans will be content to leave him in the Oval Office until it looks like he has become to great an albatross to return sufficient Republicans to Washington in the mid-terms.
Most comments about Trump's mental well-being have nothing to do with Trump's actual mental health, they are part of the strategy to get rid of him. It doesn't return the White House to the Democrats it delivers a blistering defeat to the knob who should have been eliminated in the primaries but for the fact the whole Republican slate of nominees resembled a sceptic system's holding tank in desperate need of evacuating.
They served up anger and Trump was able to capitalize on it by going over the top.
Most of the mental health claims are cheap shots at the expense of mental health.
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I'm inclined to agree that the "concern" for his mental health is more political than factual. There is no doubt he is a different sort of person. The fact that he has accomplished what he has would be an argument against a mental health diagnosis.
I guess time will tell.
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Depends on 'what' personality disorder diagnosis. There's not a narcissist in the world looking to a psychiatrist for a diagnosis of narcissism...
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The late and great Mohammad Ali
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Related to the racism map
Heres actual research: "
The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults"
The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
So all of this Charlottesville kerfuffle:
We are such that we dont see the world as it is but see it as we wish it to be and use confirmation bias to ignore data that doesnt fit into our worldview. When we are presented with facts 2 thr contrary it has been shown that our worldview can get even more strong (and this can happen with the most trivial things).
Some of our beliefs are genetic. Conservatives see a different world than Liberals. They have different values among the values that humanity shares.
We have the newspapers who are built on a business model that doesnt work and are flailing aboot searching how to keep an audience; they are losing good reporting and resorting to short and instant stories. Witness the insanity around Charlottesville. Truly a tower of Babel.
We have human beings who now can have their own personal idea, no matter how insane or false to facts be heard by an audience and taken up b6 a media outlet.
We have a news cycle that is always on.
Just like the internet and social.media; ideas have a close to 0 lag time to spread. Whereas before ideas were limited by geography and gatekeepers.
Universities have been infected by Identity Politics, a form of Postmodernism or Neomarxism that isnt based on Truth but rather based on Power. BLM and Antifa are of this Belief System.
We have people who still believe in Free Speech who are being shamed and attacked by BLM and SJWs and Antifa for believing in Free Speech.
We also have endless iterations of other people who havent been defined yet by "the media"
We have various groups who identify somewhat with Nasis. Who without being reacted against so violently wouldn't have much of an audience.
We have White Supremacists who seem to feel persecuted.
Our civilization is based on Judaeo-Christian myths. One of which is that there is such a thing as objective truth (the logos). Another is Free Will.
That has been under attack for quite a while now and g_d is dead. So we have a vacuum that is trying to be filled.
I'm sure there is more.
Tower of Bable, table for 500 million, please?
Heres actual research: "
The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults"
The prevalence of discrimination across racial groups in contemporary America: Results from a nationally representative sample of adults
So all of this Charlottesville kerfuffle:
We are such that we dont see the world as it is but see it as we wish it to be and use confirmation bias to ignore data that doesnt fit into our worldview. When we are presented with facts 2 thr contrary it has been shown that our worldview can get even more strong (and this can happen with the most trivial things).
Some of our beliefs are genetic. Conservatives see a different world than Liberals. They have different values among the values that humanity shares.
We have the newspapers who are built on a business model that doesnt work and are flailing aboot searching how to keep an audience; they are losing good reporting and resorting to short and instant stories. Witness the insanity around Charlottesville. Truly a tower of Babel.
We have human beings who now can have their own personal idea, no matter how insane or false to facts be heard by an audience and taken up b6 a media outlet.
We have a news cycle that is always on.
Just like the internet and social.media; ideas have a close to 0 lag time to spread. Whereas before ideas were limited by geography and gatekeepers.
Universities have been infected by Identity Politics, a form of Postmodernism or Neomarxism that isnt based on Truth but rather based on Power. BLM and Antifa are of this Belief System.
We have people who still believe in Free Speech who are being shamed and attacked by BLM and SJWs and Antifa for believing in Free Speech.
We also have endless iterations of other people who havent been defined yet by "the media"
We have various groups who identify somewhat with Nasis. Who without being reacted against so violently wouldn't have much of an audience.
We have White Supremacists who seem to feel persecuted.
Our civilization is based on Judaeo-Christian myths. One of which is that there is such a thing as objective truth (the logos). Another is Free Will.
That has been under attack for quite a while now and g_d is dead. So we have a vacuum that is trying to be filled.
I'm sure there is more.
Tower of Bable, table for 500 million, please?
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Some more context on American culture (another perspectacle)
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An example of the chaos
The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free Speech
Some 30,000 people protesting something that wasn't there.
There have been other instances of this as well.
A moral panic.
An amazing number of people with little senses of humour...willing to attack police and damage property...even be physically violent...
Moral panics
Worldviews that are based on Power and not Truth.
And still it isnt as terrifying as what is happening in Europe or other parts of the world.
Even Britain where there are rape gangs and acid attacks.
Madness.
*tosses salt over shoulder.*
*wracking coughing from Satan*
Go soak your head in the Sun, Liar. We dont need u.
The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free Speech
Some 30,000 people protesting something that wasn't there.
There have been other instances of this as well.
A moral panic.
An amazing number of people with little senses of humour...willing to attack police and damage property...even be physically violent...
Moral panics
Worldviews that are based on Power and not Truth.
And still it isnt as terrifying as what is happening in Europe or other parts of the world.
Even Britain where there are rape gangs and acid attacks.
Madness.
*tosses salt over shoulder.*
*wracking coughing from Satan*
Go soak your head in the Sun, Liar. We dont need u.
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Goodonya GOP
Republican National Committee Condemns White Supremacy - The Atlantic
(waiting for the Dems now to condemn Marxism)
Republican National Committee Condemns White Supremacy - The Atlantic
(waiting for the Dems now to condemn Marxism)
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The Dems spent the entire cold war condemning Marxism, as did the GOP. I really don't see any need for them to do it now. Save for Bernie and his mob, they have never espoused anything like it, and he was handily rejected last year.
By contrast, the GOP have been courting dicey elements on the right (eg. Trump's appointment of Steve Bannen to his administration team) and need to clear the air on just where they stand.
Interesting interview w/ former white supremacist:
'This ideology on violent far right is just as toxic as ISIS,' says former white supremacist
As the article mentions, he's the board chair of this organization:
Life After Hate: HOME
'This ideology on violent far right is just as toxic as ISIS,' says former white supremacist
As the article mentions, he's the board chair of this organization:
Life After Hate: HOME
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Pretty chaotic, ennit?
The Dems should do like the GOP did but distancing them from such things as diversity centres, white privilege concept, the practice of treating people as various victim groups vying for power, looking to change title 9 so it can't be used as a weapon, affirmative action, diversity quotas (hiring people based on race etc instead of competency etc), safe spaces, instead concentrating on human beings and not so much racism and sexism and condemn the groups that violently promote it.
Who knows?
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Huzzah Poland
They've survived both Plagues
They've survived both Plagues
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