Gordon Duff "idiocracy"

[Large Sarge]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/16/gordon-duff-idiocracy-just-because-bush-is-gone-doesnt-mean-you-still-arent-stupid/

[keehah]

Good article.

“The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world that he did not exist.”
— Charles Baudelaire

I've been watching some clips on youtube, and I'm just going to have to break my amazon/chapters fast and get a copy.
And then I can explain to my friends what it is like for many of us putting up with things these days. :)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DueSvcjn810

[JohnQPublic]

"America’s real enemy has always been homegrown. Lincoln and FDR warned about it, Kennedy’s were killed over it. Our biggest enemy is ignorance, fed by fear, race hatred, class envy, regionalism but with a new twist."

"Expect openly Satanic figures to emerge on the scene.

Satan now believes he has only to prove he does exist.
It has already begun."

[horseshoe3]

I read until he quoted Lincoln and FDR as if they ever had anything useful to say. Then I stopped reading.

[keehah]

I read until he quoted Lincoln and FDR as if they ever had anything useful to say. Then I stopped reading.
Good one.

Clip from intro of SNL Saturday Night Live S35E20 April 24 2010 show featuring intro with Barack Obama addressing the nation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_d6TtpQXQ
For some reason, climatologists have been running around in an agitated state, waving their little arms and squawking about "global warming."
theonion.com/video/nations-climatologists-exhibiting-strange-behavior,21009/ (http://www.theonion.com/video/nations-climatologists-exhibiting-strange-behavior,21009/)
theonion.com/video/social-security-reform-bill-encourages-americans-t,21006/ (http://www.theonion.com/video/social-security-reform-bill-encourages-americans-t,21006/)

[keehah]

I laughed and I cried. Then I got scared.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkD2tnKtZbE

P.S.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/249412/us-economy-grinds-to-near-stall
US economy grinds to near-stall

The [Commerce] Department's annual revisions also gave a grim assessment of the economy's performance during the financial crisis, which peaked in 2008-2009, triggering the worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression.

It said during 2007-2010, the economy contracted an average 0.3 percent annually, instead of growing 0.1 percent each year as previously estimated.

[midnight rambler]

I laughed and I cried. Then I got scared.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkD2tnKtZbE

P.S.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/249412/us-economy-grinds-to-near-stall

I cannot believe the number of otherwise reasonably intelligent people who get sucked in by high level occultist and big time adherent and proponent of that Lucifer worshiping religion Theosophy originated by Helena Blavatsky, i.e. that lying sack of human waste who calls himself Maxwell Jordan.

[keehah]

I cannot believe the number of otherwise reasonably intelligent people who get sucked in by high level occultist and big time adherent and proponent of that Lucifer worshiping religion Theosophy originated by Helena Blavatsky, i.e. that lying sack of human waste who calls himself Maxwell Jordan.

Stop watching the video after "give a stiff sentence" at 5:48 when the Jordan mojo starts.

[keehah]

With links for all the camps in the OP:

The Snark Knight
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheSnarkKnight

Helen: It's just that sometimes you judge people's behavior by a pretty rigid set of standards. Not everyone can live up to them.
Daria: That's what's wrong with the world.
Helen: Not even you live up to them all the time.
— Daria, "Monster"

This character has a world-weary disdain for everyone, herself included. She, or in rarer cases, he typically suffers from a healthy dose of Intelligence Equals Isolation, and is the type to stand aside at parties and quietly drink beer while making cold-hearted quips about the idiocy that surrounds them.

To the "herd followers" she deprecates, this makes her a Jerk Ass. The sympathetic see her antisocial behaviour as a sort of personal crusade against idiocy. The Libby and Jerk Jock are her mortal enemies. If she has any positive interaction with the Big Man on Campus then she is a Cool Loser, teaching him not to be a self-satisfied twit while he teaches her to be less haughty and smile a little.

One key element that differentiates the Snark Knight from a Deadpan Snarker is that the Snark Knight holds herself to her own impossibly high standards. Sometimes the Snark Knight ends up as a Sidekick or one third of a Power Trio with the main protagonist, providing the role of the cynical commentator and Meta Guy. Expect less personal Angst and more Plucky Comic Relief in these cases.

This is a subtrope of Deadpan Snarker (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadpanSnarker). It's also related to Knight in Sour Armor (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KnightInSourArmor) and Cool Loser. Contrast Loners Are Freaks. Often the opposite of the Stepford Smiler; if her sarcasm is revealed to be a similar mask, she's a Stepford Snarker.

[keehah]

The International Space Station may have to be evacuated this Fall (http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-08_29_2011_ISS.html)

Published on August 29, 2011 2:05 pm PT
- By richard McMillan - Writer
- Article Editor and Approved - Warren Miller

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(TheWeatherSpace.com) -- The crew at the International Space Station (ISS) may have to evacuate this Fall.

Russia has announced they are delaying future flights to resupply the space station due to last week's Progress vehicle crash shortly after launch.

Russia is the only choice right now due to the U.S. retiring the space shuttle fleet last July. We have no other alternative.

The next scheduled launch would be in November, stated the Russian space agency responsible for liftoffs. If they fail to send up the next crew, the ISS may have to be evacuated.

Conspiracy theorists are in a frenzy due to the coming of Comet Elenin. They are tying the ends that the astronauts are leaving due to Elenin's arrival.

Elenin arrives in September, two months before the crew decides to leave.

[keehah]

New York Times: A Failure Is Absorbed With Disgust and Fear, but Little Surprise (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/us/politics/disgust-but-no-surprise-at-supercommittee-failure.html?_r=1)

November 21, 2011
Does the American political system even work anymore?

Variations on that question kept coming up on Monday as Americans — at least those paying attention — absorbed the news that the Congressional committee charged with reducing the deficit had failed to even meet very often, let alone come up with a plan to get the country back in the black. From shoppers in Los Angeles to tourists in Atlanta to traders taking cigarette breaks outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the eye-rolling that often accompanies doings in Washington gave way to something bordering on dismay.

“My reaction when I heard they failed was more emotional than anything,” said Elizabeth Weinraub, a 25-year-old retail manager, as she got her morning fix at a Los Angeles Starbucks. “I’m not even sure what that means in the grand scheme. But it was a bum-out.”

The failure of the committee — which had been dubbed, with typical inside-the-Beltway grandiosity, the “supercommittee” — led to predictable, if bitter, kryptonite jokes. But it also prompted wrenching questions about whether Congress can be trusted to do its job: the committee, after all, was supposed to do the hard work that lawmakers had put off in August when they eventually agreed to avert default by raising the nation’s debt limit, waiting so long to do so that Standard & Poor’s lowered the United States’s credit rating.

The idea of the committee was, in part, to save Congress from itself: let a dozen members forge a compromise to cut the deficit, and then put it to the whole Congress for an up-or-down vote. It was Congress lashing itself to the mast, like Odysseus, to resist the siren calls of lobbyists and special interest groups. But in the end, the ship went nowhere.

People were not just annoyed: they were worried. Neil Elkins, 52, who works on boats on the Seattle waterfront, said that the failure was “endangering my confidence in our system of checks and balances.” Khalfani Lawson, a 23-year-old student at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, said that the lack of progress was breeding apathy among the young. “If it was a constructive process, people would be more inclined to be involved.” And Ernest Wong, a 44-year-old from Los Angeles who works in marketing, put it bluntly: “This makes me scared.”