Masked Ball at the Overlook Hotel

[don]

Kennedy’s Credentials Are Debated in Senate Bid

She has not held a full-time job in years, has not run for even the lowliest office, and has promoted such noncontroversial causes as patriotism, poetry and public service. Yet Caroline Kennedy’s decision to ask Gov. David A. Paterson to appoint her to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat suggests that she believes she is as well prepared as anyone to serve as the next senator from New York — and is ready to throw her famously publicity-averse self into the challenge of winning back-to-back elections in 2010 and 2012.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/ny...s.html?_r=1&hp

The elite are pulling out all the stops to drown us in Liberal Glitterati, much as they galvanized us with the stick figure "neo-cons". :eek:

[politicalfootballfan]

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[Munger]

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Liberal Glitterati..... a mandate to usher-in the left-agenda, lead by Climate Change, which is being sold as national security matter, but is designed to install new institutions that will have even greater control over our lives.

Idiotic. And such idiocy is not confined to left-bashing:

Rightwing authoritarianism (RWA) is one of two attitudinal constructs (along with social dominance orientation--SDO) that combine to account for a majority of group prejudice, which in turn is a major aspect of group identity politics. Both also correlate significantly with political conservatism. RWA is defined as the convergence of three attitudinal clusters:

• Authoritarian submission: A high degree of submission to the authorities who are perceived to be established and legitimate in the society in which one lives.
• Authoritarian aggression: A general aggressiveness, directed against various persons, that is perceived to be sanctioned by established authorities.
• Conventionalism: A high degree of adherence to the social conventions that are perceived to be endorsed by society and its established authorities.

As might be guessed, RWA is associated with a high degree of hostility toward outgroups, a key characteristic that correlates with findings discussed in the previous post in this series, indicating that hard core conservatism correlates with a strong resistance to power-sharing with various outgroups--blacks, Jews, Catholics, unions and women.

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Table 1: Hostility & Fear Toward Outgroups
RWA's are more likely to:

• Weaken constitutional guarantees of liberty, such as the Bill of Rights.
• Punish severely `common' criminals in a role-playing situation.
• Admit they get personal pleasure from punishing such people.
• But go easy on authorities who commit crimes and people who attack minorities.
• Be prejudiced against many racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and linguistic minorities.
• Be hostile toward homosexuals.
• Support `gay-bashing.'
• Be hostile toward feminists.
• Volunteer to help the government persecute almost anyone.
• Be mean-spirited toward those who have made mistakes and suffered.
• Be fearful of a dangerous world.

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Table 2: Not-So-Healthy Ingroup Cohesion RWA's are more likely to:

• Strongly believe in group cohesiveness and `loyalty.'
• Insist on traditional sex roles.
• Use religion to erase guilt over their acts and to maintain their self-righteousness.
• Be `fundamentalists' and the most prejudiced members of whatever religion they belong to.
• Accept unfair and illegal abuses of power by government authorities.
• Trust leaders (such as Richard Nixon) who are untrustworthy.

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Table 3: Faulty reasoning RWA's are more likely to:

• Make many incorrect inferences from evidence.
• Hold contradictory ideas leading them to `speak out of both sides of their mouths.'
• Uncritically accept that many problems are `our most serious problem.'
• Uncritically accept insufficient evidence that supports their beliefs.
• Uncritically trust people who tell them what they want to hear.
• Use many double standards in their thinking and judgements.

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http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/3/1/10446/24377

[don]

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My Roman history is a bit rusty. Was the Caesar-era rump Senate divided into "Liberals" and "Conservatives" as well :rolleyes:

Were they as successful with the Empire's polity?

:cool:

[phirang]

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"All rise for King Dick!"

[don]

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"All rise for King Dick!"

I assume that was hilarious but I'm coming up short on who Dick is?

Not THE Dick?

Where's Mega when I need him ;)

[D-Mack]

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I assume that was hilarious but I'm coming up short on who Dick is?

Not THE Dick?

Where's Mega when I need him ;)

I don't know, probably not this one

Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed
Vice President Reflects on Time in Office, Assesses Obama's Team
By JONATHAN KARL
Dec. 16, 2008

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a reflective Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's national security team and admitted he's changed during his time in office.
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http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6467512&page=1

[politicalfootballfan]

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