Gosh, that never occurred to me…thank goodness for science…

Everything they learned in kindergarten was that smart kids make them mad, and they ain’t gonna take it any more. Smack the hippies.

Intelligence can be a tricky subject, but prejudice and insensitivity can be a developmental issue, as seen in IQ tests and SATs. It could be signified by a lack of development of the anterior cingulate cortex of the brain, where empathy resides and logical corrilation is achieved. My suspicion is there are two types. An adult from a poor family that did not have the time to teach empathy and adults from rich families that were too selfish to bother. That would explain the country club Republicans going along with the religious right. Add childhood axiety, there will be an over development of the amygdala, giving that emotional push to be a hardcore conservative. The bigoted rich kid would still do well on tests, because of early stimulations of other types, while poor kids will stay bigoted and silly, from poor childhood mental stimulation and poor nutrician.

These idiots folks would embrace Roger B. Taney’s logic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney

“Roger Brooke Taney ( /ˈtɔːni/ taw-nee; March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864) was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. He was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also the eleventh United States Attorney General. He is most remembered for delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), that ruled, among other things, that African Americans, having been considered inferior at the time the Constitution was drafted, were not part of the original community of citizens and could not be considered citizens of the United States.”

“The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision was widely condemned at the time by opponents of slavery as an illegitimate use of judicial power. Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party accused the Taney Court of carrying out the orders of the “slave power” and of conspiring with President James Buchanan to undo the Kansas-Nebraska Act.”

So what “interests” does the Citizens United protect? The average American? Hell no.

“…but prejudice and insensitivity can be a developmental issue,…” Prejudice and insensitivity are learned behaviors, when put together with development issues gives the world the like of:__________________.
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Good morning all.

Transference as usual. The reich wing has taken over universities, so indoctrination is proceeding full speed.

Two more important reasons for not going.

1. You can’t get a job anyway.

2. You come out a debt slave.

Someone pointed out that Sanctorum might have been an alter boy during the worst of the R.C. sex abuse problems. That could explain a lot.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Krugman today. In “Hope, but Not Much Change” Bobo says President Obama seems sure of himself, but where’s the big agenda? It wasn’t in the State of the Union address. Bobo thinks the Cat Food Commission was just grand… Prof. Krugman, in “Jobs, Jobs and Cars,” says Gov. Mitch Daniels got so much wrong in his reply to the president’s State of the Union address. To really create jobs, it takes a cluster, not just heroes.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got waffles with warm maple syrup for breakfast. I watched the beginning of last night’s debate and I’m sure that I lost about 20 IQ points. And I only lasted about half an hour. Heaven help anyone who actually made it through the whole thing… Have a great day.

Servitude is the state of being completely submissive to and controlled by someone more powerful.

Energy Corps?
Banks?
Health Insurance?
Government?

Looking forward to a 30% increase in the price of oil per IMF. $147.50 oil killed USA. $130.00 + oil will do the same. Servitude

The 1%ers have done a marvelous job at infiltrating every institution and making U.S.ians powerless. I really admire them for their efforts, accomplishing all that without anyone hardly noticing until it was too late.

In Europe it’s more like a full frontal assault, but putting people in euro prison has given them a powerful weapon.

Good morning all,

I think some people just Love to hate.

They couldn’t have done it without Rush. That’s why he get’s the big bucks, his relentless stupidity has worn off on the country.

Talk radio in general sped up their cause mightily.

Thanks, Marion. The agenda Bobo wants to see is where Obama starts with the depression era programs so the wingnuts can scream Socialist Nazi Kenyan highway robbery on the Job Creators!

There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.

the koch suckers are funding a study to find the opposite, it will be researched by the same team that catagorically proves there is no global warming

book mark this page, there will be a study promoted by the fake news station that says liberals are morons, I guarantee it

we can blame clinton for that, he had the chance to re-institute the fairness doctrine and refused

Fascinating that infiltrating is their own concept. The great Red Scare of the 50′s up close and personal.

Give up on Clinton already. He was deliberately advancing the problem. Had no intentions to fix it.

In retrospect, Red Scare was also transference.

it wasn’t rush himself it was the situation;

rush lost money for years but the people funding him made him a nation wide syndication and they even put him on multiple stations in the same market so the ONLY thing you could listen to was rush

if they had ANYONE in that situation they would come out with MORE influence then rush.

was he the first obama?

It was best to get only the FDL commentary…such wit and wisdom. Still enjoying….

Jimmy Carter, according to Zinn.

He was a RWM who was part of the D’s southern strategy.

He started deregulation. (Granted, most of the stuff he deregulated was badly out of date, like interest rate ceilings on savings deposits. But enter frog boil cliche.)

Carter doctrine is that U.S. will use its military to ‘defend’ U.S. oil in the ME, inconveniently though it’s not located in U.S. territory.

Shorter Frothy:
“Well the world needs (Christian) ditch diggers too….”

Slaveholders worked hard to protect the institution of slavery. They obstructed and manipulated congress passing laws protecting a business model. A business model predicated on racism and leveraged servitude, enable under the color of law.

Citizens United is the modern Dred Scott. As Jefferson feared the undue influence of money on the political process, protected by law, fucking the republic and tilting the pitch in the favor of corporations. I do not admire myopic selfish assholes, addicted to money like a crack addict is addicted to crack. Profit at life’s expense? Sick greedy bastards…..

Where does calling everyone and his brother a racist fit along the smart-dumb spectrum? Obama supporters seem to think it’s the most brilliant trick in the world.

Got any stats? Speaking the truth is not a “trick”.

Reading the atricle, it may not be that conservative political views = stupidity, but that extremist political views = stupidity. On both the right and the left.

Boxturtle (but there sure are a lot more extremists on the right, aren’t there?)

Know who picks peanuts? Carter harks back to the enlightened plantation ethic, be kind to the pickers. Not THAT kind, tho.

Yep. Sorta detracts from the credibility of Obama supporters for calling anybody who would dare criticize him or support someone else for President a “racist”. I don’t remember the PUMAs saying that a person was misogynist for refusing to support Hillary Clinton, though I’m sure some of that was going around.

I was one of the “smart kids”. I’ll vouch for that statement.

Boxturtle (learn to be nice to geeks, odds are you’ll end up working for one)

Straight from Faux News, get the same from other watchers, also.

If we wanna get into racism, I’ve been thinking about posting a diary on how WW II was partially predicated on racism/nationalism and that the individual events in it and the outcome should have discredited racism for anybody with two healthy brain cells. All of the combatants, (including the United States), suffered catastrophic failures for incorporating their racist opinions in their strategies.

Thanks….Plus, I think most of the prejudice against Hillary was merely that she was a Clinton. I have a longtime friend who still thinks the Cs killed folks in Ark….

Yup. All some folks need is an “authorative” voice to re-enforce their prejudices.

Boxturtle (but remember, the talkers can’t be held responsable for what the listeners do)

Goes along with our “exceptionalism”, doesn’t it?

Yes, that thought crossed my mind. A kind of Gone With the Wind portrayal of beneficence to your workers and in return, adoration of you from them.

Self-serving, much?

He’s right. But what we REALLY need is someone to pay them to dig ditches. Got plenty of things that need shoveled, but nobody wants to pay for it.

Entire area is on flood warning this morning. Don’t think we’ve done any active flood control since the 1913 flood. A few levees and some strategic dredging would work wonders here.

Boxturtle (But none of the impacted are 1%, so why bother?)

U.S. didn’t nuke Germany, it nuked the yellow bastards.

(Though to be fair, U.S./U.K. did their best to wreck Germany without nukes.)

She also was a highly regarded attorney, which is enough grounds for hate over at country club beach.

The very picture of Southern gentry. It assumes they are on top of the food chain, of course.

Sooo true. I have never understood that animosity…other than most are smart folks.

Misogyny is so passe (or is it quaint; hard to keep up with current talking points vocabulary, esp since I no longer watch Washington Journal).

And to be fair, if anybody deserved such destruction, it was the people who tolerated and even supported the Nazis’ racist policies. I don’t fault the US for that. Not one bit.

Divide, Conquer, then steal them blind. Oh yeah. The hate game works so well for Fascists. Mussolini knew that well.

The more things change, the more they stay the same
How Shock Jocks inspire hatred and anger
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/107326/former_news_radio_staffer_spills_the_beans_on_how_shock_jocks_inspire_hatred_and_anger/
The Father of Hate Radio : Charles Edward Coughlin
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2008/08/father-of-hate-radio-charles-edward.html

My father was in WWII and he told this story.

In Europe, after D-DAy, his unit picked up a balck soldier. Apparantly, there was a black unit somewhere in front that had got the hell beat out of them and scattered. Black units then tended to have White Officers who had pissed off other White Officers, so leadership was sometimes an issue.

Well, they fixed him up and fed him. And since he couldn’t rejoin his unit, he was temp attached to my fathers. And when they got rotated back for R&R, he went with them.

When he showered, the entire squad lined up at a peephole, none of them had never seen a black naked. There was shock that he looked so human, my father admitted until then he thought blacks had tails!

At the cafe, they were amazed to find that he ate (and liked!) the same things the rest of the squad did. Dad said the real shock was how much alike everybody else he was.

So we’ve made some progress, at least.

Boxturtle (When he returned to a black unit, dad was sorry to see him go)

No military purpose was served by deliberate bombing of civilians. Prolly it was counterproductive as destroying civilians usually makes them more patriotic.

Plus, it took resources away from military efforts that would have won the war sooner.

My impression is that the military purpose was there, to make the troops relocate back home and leave the occupied territories.

Tell that to Charlie Manson

He’s right. But what we REALLY need is someone to pay them to dig ditches. Got plenty of things that need shoveled, but nobody wants to pay for it.

that’s what the government is for, instead of giving our money to banksters it SHOULD be going to jobs, that’s the very thing wrong with this adminsitration, t

“…the outcome should have discredited racism for anybody with two healthy brain cells. All of the combatants, (including the United States), suffered catastrophic failures for incorporating their racist opinions in their strategies.”

Spot On http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/? http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s16.cfm?

Seems alleged “inferior” Americans did just as well or better than their alleged “superior” fellow service members?

The “purpose” that was alleged was the bombing targeted military production. We all know that even today’s ‘smart’ bombs can’t get their targets and in WWII, furgetaboutit. But the record shows that Old Towns were targeted deliberately bc they were made out of wood, buildings were close together, fire bombs were used and firestorms happened. Nothing to do with anything military.

U.K. bombers flew at night when they were less visible. Still ‘lost’ about 1/4 every ______ (year? I forget the stats). U.S., to maintain the charade, flew during the day, but had more pilots to sacrifice and had geared up aircraft production to feed into the maw.

In addition to the inherent inaccuracies of bombing, weather over Europe is often cloudy, so bombs were dropped at random so planes could make it back to base.

Repeated failure and irrelevance hasn’t made teh U.S.A.F. give up on the myth that wars can be won by bombing.

But he’s a DFH! I’d rather tell it to Rush, but he’s an MOTU.

Boxturtle (Law isn’t applied the same to those two groups)

Maybe Dresden and Hiroshima were just a cost /benefit study test case of the conventional vs. the new and improved Atomic weapons.

I bet there’s a study somewhere, 1 plane vs.1000 planes, moving all those bombs vs. moving one bomb, ect

‘targeted military production’, that needed to be protected. A lot of German army was dug in with our protected friends, so couldn’t be bombed, which meant we needed to get the troops to go home. (Many military folks in this area talked in our living rooms. Some of it made up, of course.)

Your comment reminded me of something and I’ve been searching for a link.

I recall Obama discussing a TVA style public works program with his insiders and it was said that Geithner told him no. Does anyone else remember that news tid-bit?

Just caught this on twitter feed, but no confirmation yet:

JShahryarJosh Shahryar

Taliban in a text msg claiming they have shot down a US drone in Ghazni province and saying they have the drone with them. via @sharifsahak

34 minutes ago

You’d be right. That study is online somewhere, I found it off a wiki link IIR. Basically, early on nukes were thoughts of simply as equivalent bomb tonnage. Hiroshima was described in terms of how many conventional raids it would have taken to achieve equivalent damage.

There was no consideration of fallout, radiation, or other effects. Of course, during that time those things were kept utter top secret.

Boxturtle (Offically, nuke victims died by either shock wave or instant vaporization)

Every time I see MOTU my mind reports MFOTU, a brain twitch so to speak.

Officially that sounds about the best way to describe their deaths ,so humane and empathetic .

That was a secondary issue. Actually didn’t need a lot of troops to man the antiaircraft guns, which the Germans got pretty good at producing & shooting.

There was no shortage of German troops in Normandy, and only at the very end did the Germans go short on troops at Battle of Bulge.

Soviets actually won the war. It was the attack from the east that siphoned off huge numbers of German troops, not homeland defense.

More people will killed in firebombing of Tokyo (make out of wood & paper, not unlike Old Towns in Germany) than in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Yes the latter two were wet tests of the technology.

Study right afterward (1946?), partly authored by Galbraith, concluded that neither was necessary to cause Japan to surrender.

They couldn’t have done it without Rush. That’s why he get’s the big bucks, his relentless stupidity has worn off on the country.

Respectfully, I disagree with you. Rush Limbaugh is actually very very smart. I assume he’s probably a sociopath. People tell me (I really wouldn’t know) that Limbaugh is actually very “good” at what he does, and that he does have a “skill/expertise” in how he handles himself on air (I think that’s probably true).

The deal is this: Limbaugh figured out quite some time ago that there’s quite a lot of money to be made fomenting HATE. He perfected the “art” of it, and he is highly compensated by the 1% for doing the dirty work.

No, Limbaugh is disgustingly despicable, but I don’t for a minute think he’s “stupid.”

My rightwing family members are highly educated, well traveled and pretty sophisticated. Sadly, they tend to be pretty racist. They certainly were not raised that way by my parents, who were remarkably “enlightened” for their generation.

In my family’s case, I blame the incessante brainwashing of rightwing HATE radio, mainly, but also the ongoing racism pumped out somewhat more subtly in a lot of “churches” these days.

My parents did not raise my sibs & I to be racist, but out of all of us, I would say – leftie that I am – I am the ONLY ONE who is not a racist.

A LOT rightwing fear racist propoganda has done the job. It’s not just about “stupid” people, frankly, albeit lack of education, lower IQ can also play a role.

Just saying….

Someone pointed out that Sanctorum might have been an alter boy during the worst of the R.C. sex abuse problems. That could explain a lot.

I’ve wondered about that, myself. Certainly would explain a lot… we may never know.

Gotta stand with you on this one. I think you are exactly right. Evil, not stupid.

Let me hasten to make clear that that R.C. is not this rc.

No one “picks” peanuts. Peanuts grow in the ground in the ground like potatoes.

The Military’s purpose in any war is to hold the stalemate until the enemy’s economy collapses.

There is no “winning a war.”

I went to a Military University. This was a part of the coursework.