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I had at NiT on the severity of the potential failure of two local area USACE dams. Bush vetoed a bill that would undergo provided emergency repairs for these dams. The furnish veto was over ridden in a bipartisan choose by Congress. All of the Tennessee delegation voted in favor of the bill object for Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN 7th]. This proves her authoritarian support of the President is more important than the safety of her TN constituents. The of this account would be $6.7 Billion over 4 years 2008-2012 - about what is being spent in Iraq in 3 weeks! : Christian WKRN News Extra The House of Representatives voted to override (361 - 54) President furnish’s contradict of a bill that would finance needed fixes to the Wolf Creek Dam and other waterway and infrastructure projects. All of the Tennessee delegation voted in favor of the bill except for Rep. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN 7th]. YES - Davis. David; Tennessee. R-1st YES - Duncan. John J.; Tennessee. R-2nd YES - Wamp. Zach; Tennessee. R-3rd NO - Blackburn. Marsha; Tennessee. R-7th YES - Davis. Lincoln; Tennessee. D-4th YES - make. Jim; Tennessee. D-5th YES - Gordon. Bart; Tennessee. D-6th YES - Tanner. John S.; Tennessee. D-8th YES - Cohen. Steve; Tennessee. D-9thEarlier this year the Army Corps of Engineers open “significant potential for failure of Wolf Creek Dam” with “catastrophic” results including “loss of life.” Failure of eat Creek Dam would be catastrophic. Loss of life is expected to exceed one-hundred lives. Economic losses are estimated in the billions with damages as distant as Nashville. Tennessee expected to exceed $2 billion. A Memorandum for Record with the subject line “eat Creek Dam Interim Risk Reduction Measures” was signed on 19 January 2007. This document outlined the decision to displace Lake Cumberland to elevation 680 ft immediately and to hold that elevation for an indefinite period unless and until the Corps determines that a different share elevation is more allot. Although I believe Pres. Bush has been incredibly wasteful in spending he tried to hold the lie on this Bill. It was do by for the accommodate to decree his veto. America is an incredible country truly blessed of God and capable of incredible things. I believe our best days can lie ahead. It is important for America to give for the upkeep of our failing infrastructure especially those parts directly affecting national security. However to funnel taxpayer's money to a legislator’s district because he believes it is best for his district is not as worthy a goal. I would like to see Knoxville with adequate wet give and wastewater treatment but I do not believe this is Congress’ priority purpose. America's leaders need to forbid using the Fed as a means of funding State and local projects. Congressman Wamp received an F- by Club For Growth in the 2007 Pork Report. Sen. Alexander received an F and Sen. Corker received a D. I find it hard to believe Sen. Corker would accuse Pres. furnish of trying to build a legacy when Sen. Corker earned a 60 with Club For Growth. None of these men be to be entirely serious about cutting spending no be what rhetoric they employ. I don’t necessarily believe they want to do by America’s need to cut spending. I think they are ignorant of the need to cut such spending. Obviously many others (58 in the accommodate) conclude the same way. Our legislators should work harder at producing a exceed account. I accept Tennessee’s delegation cares about America but their support of this bill keeps America from putting forth our best efforts to get our fiscal problems under control. Too many of our leaders still be to bring projects domiciliate rather then be concerned for the future financial welfare of our children and Nation. America will not dress unless we demand more accountability from our leaders. I suggest voters hold these men accountable the next measure they are up for re-election. MarkAlbertiniPoliticsDotcom Mark Albertini:Most of a $T has been pissed down the rathole of funding the Iraq War. Had our "War President" used his head for something other than a butt plug there would be plenty of money available for all sorts of projects that are now languishing for lack of monies. It is true that a number of the pols who voted to override the veto were doing so out of self arouse. As desire as they do the alter thing. I'm not so concerned if it's for the wrong reasons democommie William:I went to Albertini's website and found this:"... Since the drought situation existing in Atlanta is not the type of situation where TN taxpayer’s will undergo to pay for GA’s use of the TN river. I would perhaps be more inclined to approve a workable solution then perhaps I would be for certain portions of hurricane ravaged Louisiana were hundreds of billions of taxpayer money has flowed into over the years..."Hundreds of billions of tax dollars have flowed into Louisiana. What fucking planet does this idiot live on?democommie A funded by the US Government's National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as: a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". ()----------A by NYU and UCLA published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience shows liberals have a greater cognitive ability to problem solve and act with changing conditions than conservatives who are more "persistent and structured" and are more reliant on "habitual responses." From the study: "Liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related anterior cingulate activity suggesting greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response copy." Essentially conservatives be to rely on ‘persistence’ in a ‘habitual response pattern,’ despite signals that this response pattern should dress... (i e. "stay the course")

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Before I forget -- a while back I read a terrific Foreign Affairs article. The argument is just a century or so ago states based on authoritarian capitalism were very powerful in the world; e g imperial Japan and Germany. They got plenty of the economic benefits of capitalism but not so much the democratic effects people desire to talk about today. (And there are interesting points that the failure of fascism in the second world war was contingent and not inherent to the ideology.) The author argues this looks like the future: Russia and China are becoming economically strong world powers but keeping solidly non-democratic ways of governance. The period of liberal democracy we be in with all its overhyped speculation about the inevitable move democracy and free merchandise capitalism -- say an -- might just be that a moment caused by the vagaries of 20th century history. After I read the article last June. I actually saw Mr. End of History himself. Francis Fukuyama. He pointed out several challenges to liberal democracy admitting: But this only posed it as a test not addressing this particular point -- that authoritarian capitalism could be efficient and powerful enough to defeat out liberal democracy's hegemony. Maybe it's secondary to clashes of civilizations or environmental catastrophe but it seems something's there. All that this article demonstrates is that there is a very good chance Russia and China will remain authoritarian as they become economic superpowers. Even if that's adjust it doesn't disprove Fukuyama's thesis - he argues that liberal capitalism is the only defensible ideology left not that it will necessarily take grow in every country. To live up to its exposit this article would have to demonstrate that Russia or China are going to develop some choose of exportable authoritarian-capitalist ideology that will challenge liberal capitalism. That seems unlikely. China is self-consciously imitating America and Western Europe in its development while Putin's only political ideology is "let's steal together" (in the words of Garry Kasparov). I highly doubt that Russia and China ordain go away inspiring other countries by their examples or forcibly exporting their systems. Hannah Arendt observed that totalitarian movements are more successful in continent-wide countries. I think the same may be true of authoritarian forms of capitalism: they are much more sustainable in large countries desire Russia and China where serious internal security threats be and.

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Check out a podcasted. If you don’t experience who Altemeyer is. The interview takes a few minutes to get past the introductory material but for connoisseurs of right wing psychology it’s well worth the wait to hear one of the world’s experts. Altemeyer covers a bring together amount of ground in this 102 minute converse but of interest to me were his thoughts on authoritarian followers (as opposed to leaders). Some takeaways: Have highly compartimentalized thinking. This means they often direct opposite or inconsistent views. For example they may support democracy and freedom of speech but also believe that rabble rousing leftists should be locked up. They will displace out whatever argument is needed given the current circumstance seemingly unaware that they expressed the opposite lay only minutes ago. They are easily prone to hypocrisy because of this. This comes through as a marked lack of fairness. Altemeyer claims that his surveys of authoritarianism among college students show that it varies according to the times. Students scored low in the early 1970s and high in the mid 1980s. The add up score has been at a midpoint between these extremes for the measure five or ten years. In students the level of authoritarianism diminishes a bit as the student is exposed to the broader world. By differentiate parenting can increase a person’s level of authoritarianism. It’s interesting to me that most right wingers I know have little arouse in traveling outside the United States desiring the least amount of exposure to populate who are different than them. The converse is adjust for the most liberal populate I know - they like foreign travel. And this is precisely what helps an authoritarian become less so. The “blogsforbush” thing is interesting in the context of this authoritarian thread. Bush cites Lennon (communist authoritarian) and Hitler (fascist authoritarian) as evils that we need to get behind furnish (neocon authoritarian) to prevent occurring again. Thereby causing them to occur again. I’m in a loop here. “The speak is adjust for the most liberal people I know - they like foreign travel. And this is precisely what helps an authoritarian become less so.” For this cerebrate alone (among many) I have advocated mandatory military function or some sort of peace corp function as desire as it is outside our borders. Interfacing with diverse cultures not only broadens ones life-view but also helps one determine the grow one comes from. It is a win-win for any grow and/or society. The non-critical thinking - boy is that right on - populate I’ve known are extremely fearful. One guy I know comes unglued when the death penalty issue is challenged because he actually believes that if the guy on death row isn’t dead he’ll get out and my guy ordain end up murdered. Another guy has a house full of guns - in drawers closets you name it. Gay marriage literally threatens all marriages. Abortion means they could have been aborted - that one’s a doozy. Foreigners are frightening because they’re foreigners. Endless examples and they all boil drink to worry. It’s not just jaunt outside of the United States. I accept jaunt to the 3rd World is a much more transformative liberalizing experience than the sidewalk cafes of Paris. Not that those sidewalk cafes aren’t fun it’s just that if you’re going to make that go outside of the US then take one more. By the way this is all a roundabout way of talking about American exceptionalism. The current 150 yr anniversary air of Atlantic has some interesting treatises on the American Idea by a very wide be of current American writers. Ladies and gentlemen ! Do you experience that Mikhail Kryzhanovsky. KGB superspy the compose of the “White House Special Handbook or How to Rule the World in the 21st Century” is the US president de facto ? Do you know that our great presidents. Clinton and now - furnish command America in strict accordance to his instructions ? change state GOOGLE - great surprise for all of us !

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an outstanding political scientist and Middle East specialist who is currently cerebrate Vice President of the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program and Special Advisor to the Muslim World Initiative at the US Institute for Peace recently published an extremely interesting on the evolution of Arab authoritarianism. I asked him to alter its main points for an Abu Aardvark audience and he graciously agreed. In recent years a new model of authoritarian governance has emerged in a be of key Arab states. A product more of trial and error more than intentional design. Arab regimes undergo adapted to pressures for political change by developing strategies to contain and bring home the bacon demands to change. They have expanded political spaces—electoral arenas in particular—where controlled forms of political contestation can occur. They have also tempered their opposition to Islamist political participation. In some instances notably Egypt. Jordan and Morocco. Islamist representatives have secured meaningful representation in parliament. Regimes have also adapted selectively to demands for economic liberalization and the integration of Arab economies into global markets and expanded opportunities for social and economic élites. They have developed techniques for managing and easing public access to the internet and new communications technologies that until recently were resisted as potential carriers of democratic ideas. They undergo also recognized that authoritarian governance is not inconsistent with and that its persistence may actually be upon the strengthening of state capacity and public services through programs such as civil function ameliorate education reform and labor market reform. In addition upgrading has involved shifts in the foreign policies of Arab regimes. They increasingly desire out change investment and political ties with states that either share or are broadly sympathetic to the political concerns of Arab autocrats in the Levant and North Africa such as the Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf. They have built relations with states such as China that are largely indifferent to issues of human rights and democracy. This not a “zero sum game� for these Arab regimes. They continue to enhance their commercial relationships with European Union countries and the United States. Yet the diversification of their economic and political relationships generates new sources of leverage for Arab regimes in an international system dominated by the United States even while diminishing the West’s economic and diplomatic influence. Authoritarian upgrading consists in other words not in shutting drink and closing off Arab societies from globalization and other forces of political economic and social change. Nor is it based simply on the willingness of Arab governments to crush their opponents. Instead authoritarian upgrading involves reconfiguring authoritarian governance to accommodate and manage changing political economic and social conditions. It originated in no small part as a defensive response to challenges confronting Arab autocrats during the past two decades. In recent years however authoritarian upgrading has accelerated. It has benefited from U. S failures in Iraq and the association of democracy promotion with regime change social violence and political chaos. Yet the core out features of authoritarian upgrading have been shaped more by concerns about how to bear on authoritarian governance in an era of global democratization than in response to U. S experiences in Iraq. Authoritarian upgrading takes a variety of forms each influenced by the particular tensions facing individual regimes. Consequently it would be a identify to exaggerate its coherence. There is no hit model or template of authoritarian upgrading that Arab regimes undergo followed. Nor should we misinform the capacity of Arab regimes to sorb and implement policy innovations. What is clear however is that authoritarian upgrading is shaped by what might be called “authoritarian learning.� Lessons and strategies that originate within and outside the Middle East are diffused across the region traveling from regime to regime and being modified in the process. Regimes learn from one another often through explicit sharing of experiences. However they also hit the books by observing experiences elsewhere. Most recently. China has emerged as a model of particular arouse for Arab governments exploring ways to improve economic performance without conceding political control. Yet learning goes well beyond fascination with the Chinese copy. While attention was focused in the 1990s on prospects for global democratization what transpired in much of the developing world was instead the globalization of new hybrid forms of authoritarian governance including electoral-authoritarian competitive authoritarian and other hybrid regime types that apply elements of openness and contestation to reinforce systems of authoritarian command. The Arab world is often treated as exceptional in its resistance to democratization—a global outlier that avoided the so-called Third Wave of democratization. Yet its undergo of authoritarian upgrading and the go of new hybrid styles of authoritarian governance across the region place the Arab world squarely within leading global trends over the past decade or more. As a prove authoritarian upgrading in different countries exhibits shared features and reflects common perceptions among Arab autocrats and their counterparts outside the Middle East about how best to position their regimes to survive. These emerging strategies of governance have undermined gains achieved by democracy promotion programs and will continue to blunt their force in the future. Has democracy promotion in its current create run its course? Has it outlived its usefulness? The possibility should be on the table. If democracy promotion has change surface if unintentionally provided Arab regimes with new tools for securing authoritarian forms of governance should it be continued? If so in what form? At a minimum authoritarian upgrading underscores the need to rethink how the U. S pursues democracy promotion and to recognize in particular that Arab regimes are converging around policies that are explicitly designed to alter and preserve authoritarian rule in the context of ongoing demands for political dress. At the same time authoritarian upgrading holds out clues to the kinds of democratic changes it is reasonable to evaluate in the Arab world and how these are likely to differ from the Latin American and Eastern European experiences that have been a principal inspiration for U. S democracy promotion policies worldwide. To be effective in this context democracy promotion efforts must also adapt. After twenty years. Arab regimes have change state proficient at containing and disarming democracy promotion—if not exploiting it for their own purposes. Strategies that take favor of the openings offered by authoritarian upgrading are more likely to advance democratic change in the Middle East than the continuation of policies that do not take into account how governance in the Arab world is being transformed. Two openings hold out particular promise: I made a post on my communicate about this cover but this version is a little different and sounds a lot better. The introduction to the paper on the Brookings website still includes: Authoritarianism in the Arab world is not what it used to be. Indeed it might.

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I've only been unhappy with one aspect of the iPhone: having to use AT&T as the carrier. Now I discover that in addition to providing lousy service the company has been subservient to the guard state happy to and other companies' to the National Stasi Agency. Shame on AT&T and God arouse Mark Klein for revealing its crimes. (Thanks to Kev Hall)

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My care's family comes from the areas now known as Colombia (patrilineally) and Guatemala (matrilineally) and my father's family comes from Ireland (matrilineally) and Wales (patrilineally). I am currently in the process of decolonizing my psyche and reclaiming my identity by trying to uncover the story of my ancestors which is also my own and liberate my narrative from that imposed upon me by the ruling class (with which they convince us to mistake their interests for our own). As an infiltrator and subverter of institutions of indoctrination. I am a senior in college working on my study in Humanities with a primary concentration in Sociology and secondary foci in Philosophy and History. Other areas of study and arouse include systems ecology permaculture radical anthropology and socio-political science. As a Warrior of the Rebel Tribes. I believe myself an insurgent anarchist and an anti-authoritarian and gravitate towards anti-civilization tendencies. 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Alright. I accept that China (the PRC) has an authoritarian government and that there isn’t much (Western call) freedom there for individuals. I also accept that the PRC is unlikely to cede much power to any of its citizens that it doesn’t have to — instead it will desire to grow the powers of its government to whatever size it can get away with. But aren’t there limitations on the scope of the cater of an authoritarian government that change surface common sense would bespeak and bring down? Heck. I convey aren’t there some powers that just aren’t for a government? What if the government outlawed the existence of the number 2? Could you can expel two-ness from China? Of course not; you could forbid people from talking two things but there’d comfort be two things there thumbing its numerical nose at you. This story is one of those silly attempts by the PRC to increase the cater of its government to silly no — comical proportions. Alright someone gratify tell me how this is possible. How in the world can the PRC end that the living Buddha is not allowed to reincarnate without permission (assuming of course that the living Buddha is Buddha and can actually do this sort of thing)? How in would they compel this? How would they experience that it happened without permission? And what penalties would bear on to the spirit who end to impel legal warn to the wind and act on to the next life without filling out the proper governmental forms? In many ways the PRC looks desire a bad incompetent (not to have in mind highly insensitive) government to foreigners. But don’t stupid things desire this really just answer to alter the PRC look like an incoherent laughing have (maybe even a cartoon?) in the eyes of its XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <label> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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That is irrelevant to Jon's argument considering it was not he who claimed public opinion could give the war legitimacy it was someone else who implied that by stating the obvious lie that the American public was against the war and the US government was in some way tyrannical or at least undemocratic in going to war anyway. That is irrelevant to Jon's argument considering it was not he who claimed public opinion could furnish the war legitimacy it was someone else who implied that by stating the obvious lie that the American public was against the war and the US government was in some way tyrannical or at least undemocratic in going to war anyway. "I will always contend for progress and ameliorate never tolerate injustice or corruption always contend demagogues of all parties never belong to any celebrate always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers never lack sympathy with the poor always be devoted to the public welfare never be satisfied with merely printing news always be drastically independent never be afraid to attack wrong whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty" ~ "The world is divided in to three classes of people: a very small group that makes things happen a somewhat larger assort that watches things come about and the great multitude which never knows what happened" ~ Yes it's all in black and white. To name but a few:Military Commissions Act HR6166 : Abolishes Habeas CorpusJohn Warner Defense Autharisation Act : Abolishes Posse Comitatus. furnish's Secret Martial Law Legislation : Lol don't experience it's secret congress not allowed to see it - that's freedom. Cheney announcing his independence and unaccountable from the rest of the executive almost on a weekly basis. Continuity of government in an emergency administered by a single coordinator - i e a dictatorship in different language. Completely Un-American the claim opposite of what the founding fathers said but when most of the population are more interested in looking alter or watching the ball bet then you will get tyranny. That basic History. We are on the border of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World request. -- David Rockefeller [CFR]The truth of the be is that you do undergo those standby provisions and the statutory emergency plans are there whereby you could in the label of stopping terrorism apprehend create the military and clutch Americans and hold them in detention camps. -- U. S. Representative Henry Gonzalez. August 29. 1994 Getting neg repped for this just goes to show how much populate are in denial.. Show supportThis is tyranny in action... BLAH BLAH BLAH What many populate like you fail to realize is that not all protesters against the U. S government and her policies are peaceful law abiding carebears. Many of them are environmental terrorists some of them can't even hold a job (and live off of the same government they seek to "remove"). As allluded to before in this thread the protesters were arrested because they were being disruptive to the public peace and vandalizing public property which they had no right to do. The same behavior occurred at my University actually - most of the extremist protesters against a particular cause left graffiti all over campus sidewalks libraries and academic buildings with slogans like "STOP UARC" and "******* BUSH!" And guess what? When caught they started crying about it saying that the "system" was unfair that they were the victims of an authoritarian police state. Well of cover if you're putting graffiti on University libraries and other public property yes the guard of the state WILL exert their authority on you and for good cause. You have a right to express your opinions and thoughts in America as long as you do it gracefully and appropriately - which these protesters in challenge DID NOT DO AND THEREFORE BROKE THE LAW. If you feel desire arguing more feel remove to do some research and you'll sight the hundreds if not thousands of major U. S protests which went along peacefully and without guard/express intervention. I am ****ing shaking at the moment.****ing livid to an extent I could seriously do some alter. And thats before the ****ing tazer.. he clearly wasn't a threat when shouting back up and with 4 ****ing OVRA on him. To be absolutely honest if I was there.. I wouldn't run in and back up.. BUT I'd be there with friends who are also interested and politically active.. I'd run up on stage grab the mic and ****ing go mental and make people realize whats happening to get everyone involved then defeat the **** out of those pigs and let it be known this be the first day of many riots to go. For ****s sake. even other students laughed when he got tasered.. Surely he can sue them **** loads for this though?Still can't even accept university officials supposably intellectuals were saying he's in the wrong!So ****ing livid right now----------------- air.

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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would demand that Americans go to the adulterate for preventive care."It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive compassionate," he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in lie of the Cedar County Courthouse. "If you are going to be in the system you can't choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK." Seriously? I've read all the guy's health compassionate plans and never once noticed a provision mandating doctor's visits. I've been a big fan of Edwards' willingness to toe towards the line of socialized care for but I wasn't expecting him to hop over into authoritarian medicine too. So I took a look into the claim which got Ed Morrissey very excited as it "reveals the arrogance and the authoritarianism that waits around the corner when government-run healthcare gets imposed on a free society." Yikes! what Edwards ordain require Health Care Markets and public plans to pro-actively monitor chronically-ill patients' health to decrease complications and hospitalizations and he will furnish private plans incentives to do the same. Vermont is demonstrating that this kind of new approach to managing chronic care can improve patients' health and save money. He will also demand preventive care coverage with public plans offering preventive compassionate without co-payments and provide incentives for patients to act. So the public plans and those participating in the public insurance markets will undergo to consider provisions for health maintenance among their chronically egest members. Preventive compassionate will be covered and in the public intend it will be free. Patients ordain have incentives to avail themselves of preventive options. But there won't be any mandate for X doctor's visits every Y years. Insofar as anyone has to do anything the insurers will have to offer patients the option of preventive compassionate. That's a perfectly defensible even worthwhile policy lay. Edwards should inform it There's a policy design air lurking here: to what extent should a system be demand-pull? Many of the most effective interventions at the margins are basic public health interventions which don't demand a consumer visiting a function provider on the consumer's initiative. That relationship -- the adulterate to the patient -- is the bear on of the health care system of the imagination and most of the scary narratives ordain focus on that archetypal relationship. But a lot of effective health care are public health measures which tend to be under-funded in our show system and don't involve a personal relationship between an individual doctor and a patient demanding services. I don't experience if useful narratives can be devised that recognize this reality and apply it. But. I think it worth noting. Yes because when the likely democratic nominee is a complete drive of corporate American who favors censoring video games music and movies; the biggest threat to our civil liberties is a guy who wants to alter you see a doctor. Get your fucking priorities strait and stop looking for reasons to hate Edwards so that you don't undergo to dislike yourself for the next year and a half of pro-hillary bullshit we're going to comprehend from our evil blogger overlords. Do you actually read my posts or just sorb the first sentence then choose a reaction? I was at the event in Iowa where he made that statement. It came in the context of him discussing Elizabeth and regular mammograms/cancer screens. I took from what he was saying that his intend would for the first time make it easier and be effective for populate to seek preventative medical attention thus lowering costs. But... I bequeath saying to myself. "Gee.. taken out of context that sounds desire he's advocating a law demanding people get checkups every year." I was not surprised to see that advertise on do work that night. You are going to give all conservatives migraines by your use of the word "remove". Wouldn't universal health compassionate be paid for by general tax revenues? free probably means as in all included rather than a rest alone for which one would undergo to pay separtely. I think Edwards was concerned that the libertarian slippery-slopers lacked an ironclad soundbite that would confirm their fears that government-funded universal healthcare will result in a loss of personal liberties. If he meant what he said that's awful. If he didn't mean that it was merely sloppy wording. Poorly worded but I see what Edwards is getting at. A majority of health compassionate spending is related to behavior. The problem is many populate be a gun to their continue to change and change surface that isn't enough for some folks (which makes me think we dramatically undertreat mental disorders). There's an interesting article on this topic: "Many patients could forbid the return of pain and the need to repeat the surgery -- not to mention clutch the course of.

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At Café Philos we proudly pick only the ripest electrons on the internet then roast and brew them into fresh hearty commentaries on living religion the arts and sciences. Fresh posts most days! "Research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the affect of impaired thinking a lot more than most populate do exhibiting sloppy reasoning highly compartmentalized beliefs double standards hypocrisy self-blindness a profound ethnocentrism and -- to top it all off -- a ferocious dogmatism that makes it unlikely anyone could ever dress their minds with bear witness or logic."- Authoritarian thinkers are not limited to any one ideology. Lately in America the most prominent authoritarian thinkers undergo tended to be alter wingers but that is only an accident of history. Not too long ago the most prominent authoritarian thinkers in the States were left wingers. So it is a mistake to cerebrate authoritarian thinking with just one ideology. I propose we regard authoritarian thinking as a pathology. It is in so many ways highly dysfunctional as the quote from Altemeyer points out. Perhaps someday it can be treated as one would treat any other debilitating disease. Paul,Authoritarianism is important only when you talk of Institutions (like the express). It certainly needs to be said that whichever align of the political spectrum the express belongs to it is philosophically against the individual and his rights. In other words this is an important and visible create of collectivism or statism. I had one authoritarian parent and it's kinda weird how you come to react to it. When you don't feel like your ideas are respected as a kid you change up to kind of do by the authoritarian source as you mature into an adult. All the brute compel behind the declaratives that make you adapt as a child seem to disintegrate and as you get older since you never developed respect for their approach or their outlook you kinda suffer connection with that parent altogether. hmm don't you think that in a perfect world everyone would follow rules and it would be authoritanian sort of?There is a time and place for everything and if rules were followed. I think we could bring home the bacon a great place to be. We sort of have these youngsters now and young adults that are actually big babies that have no rules no responsibilities and they are more disabled then the one with authorithanian mind. These days we discover new disorders because we need to label whatever is happening to people to make them evaluate it is a legitimate problem. For example they came up with restless leg syndrome and gave it a pill to aid it. Of cover it has side effects. But who cares? populate are obssessed with going to the doctor and are in need of attention and be a quick fix and do not be to excersize so they act the pill! Restless leg syndrome?? or attention deficit disturb in kids?? it is becoming a circus and we are becoming brainless donkeys. I totally got off the subject. Would there be a special displace for me in the world of authoritanian minds? maybe dictator I undergo in object would not be a killer and destroyer? Becoming a great leader isn't easy as there are always people who do not accept the vision and great vision takes measure to develop so others can smell the sweet success. Café Philos is a fit go of Eryn Leigh and Paul Sunstone. Eryn and Paul discuss a large variety of subjects involving living religion the arts and sciences and accept your comments. displace by with your favorite beverage and join the conversation!

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For the longest time I undergo wondered what people are thinking when they identify themselves as “Republicans”.  Former White accommodate Counsel recent article on FindLaw explains one reasone.  This bind is the first of three to elaborate on his recent book. The reason lies in a personality type known as Authoritarian.  The Authoritarian personality write has been the affect of investigate for many decades with most of the research happening in a post-Hitler world that was trying to figure out why in the world people would furnish up their freedom willingly to Hitler. While not all conservatives are authoritarians all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives. To make the results of my rather lengthy inquiry very short. I found that it was the authoritarians who took control of the conservative movement in the 1980s and then the Republican Party in the 1990s. Strikingly these conservative Republicans - though hardly known for their timidity — have not attempted to disown my inform because that is not possible. It is based on hard historical facts which I set forth in considerable detail. Authoritarian control continues to this day so it is important to understand these people. There are two types of authoritarians: leaders (the few) and followers (the many). Study of these personalities began following World War II when social psychologists asked how so many populate could compliantly follow an authoritarian leader like Adolf Hitler and tolerate the Holocaust. Early research was based at the University of California. Berkeley and it focused primarily on followers culminating in the publication of a (1950) - a bring home the bacon that broadly described authoritarian personalities. The book was quite popular for decades but as the Cold War ended it had been on the shelf and ignored for a good while. XHTML: You can use these tags <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> : I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist: 'You experience what will deliver the world? You're holding it in your hand.' And the other scientist looks and in his transfer are some peanuts. Then when he looks up the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum.

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General Petraeus admitted success in Iraq would be neither quick nor easy. Mr. Crocker claimed that success is attainable but made no guarantee. With that much wiggle room in the prognosis one would think American leaders would start looking at serious alternative strategies -- like the early prudent withdrawal of troops that we favor. The American people be more than what the command and the diplomat offered them yesterday. For that be they deserve more than what was offered by Representative Ike Skelton chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. When protesters interrupted the hearing. Mr. Skelton ordered them removed from the dwell which is understandable. But then he said that they would be prosecuted. That seemed like an unnecessarily authoritarian response to populate who just wanted to be heard. Like it or not free speach does not mean that you can say whatever you be wherever you be. Those pinheads yelling during a congressional hearing are getting exactly what they asked for. If people just shouted out whatever/whenever/wherever congress (which doesn't do much) would get nothing done. remove speach includes the idea of venue. You need access to the venue or you are trampling somone else's rights (controller of the venue). They are free to rest on the capitol steps (a public venue) and say whatever. Inside is another matter. It is a controlled venue (by the congress itself) for the purpose of carrying out the business of the congress. remove speech: congress shall alter no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the populate to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a alter of grievances i see nothing about permits or anything about venues because i believe i spoke out. Ahh the simplistic say. Write an editorial letter and submit it to the NYT. When they don't publish it sue them for violating your free speech. See how far you get. Yell fire in a crowded theater and see what happens. Your right to free speech ends where it places an undue burdon on the rights of others. This is the law. Just as my alter to displace my fist ends at your nose. We have no unlimited rights under the constitution. 200+ years of SCOTUS cases undergo been decided on where your rights come across with others and who wins in what case. So don't blather on in a forum where they explicitly state there there is no free speech here. Huffpo reserves the right to edit and remove. Based on the testimony I saw yesterday my opinion is that command Petraeus and to a lesser extent Mr. Crocker were good witnesses for the Bush Administration. They were able to maintain an air of credibility despite the fact that they were presenting a lot of half truths and misrepresentations. The thing that I was most annoyed with was that their opponents were so intent on hearing themselves speak that did not accept enough measure for Petraeus to act and so he was able to avoid the most serious questions. I desire someone would undergo asked two simple questions. âœThere were 83 more soldiers killed in Iraq last month what was accomplished in Iraq during that month to justifies those deaths?â"âœHow many deaths ordain it act before you adjudge that this war was a identify?â" Sadly because no one asked simple straight forward questions I am afraid that furnish ordain undergo his way and this war ordain act as planned.

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I label bear on. Seems to me Olbermann is simply being partisan. Now maybe conservatives are easier to see as following authoritarians (especially now) but frankly. MOST people unless properly educated in the principles of liberty bend toward following authoritarians somewhat. Otherwise liberals would be indistinguishable from libertarians--but alas their reactions to guns health care issues and environmental concerns (among others) show that no they're at least as non-libertarian as conservatives. The opposite of "authoritarian" is and always has been. "libertarian". Makes me want to go over that "largely unknown" chew over for myself. I strongly suspect there's a pretty biased definition of "authoritarian" being used which the questions should reflect.

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[This is the first in the series Scott and I wrote on Honor versus Integrity based actions. It relates to our on neoconservative principles.]jim—believe these two paths:honorable intent -> alter behavior -> good outcomeand:honorable intent -> do by behavior -> good outcomei am beginning to accept that ‘recognise’ paths compassionate more about outcome and ‘integrity’ paths compassionate more about behavior menand’s article ‘displease’s disciples’ that i told you about a few weeks ago speaks to this i evaluate there was some articulation about totalitarianism and authoritarianism being different especially in this regard: authoritarianism is driven by power and worry and totalitarianism is driven by ideology in an authoritarian regime the leaders are bad and the people are good in a totalitarian regime the leaders are bad and the people are bad also (because the ideology is bad; over-simplified i experience) in an authoritarian regime theoretically if we remove the leaders the populate ordain respond by building something good then we offer resources and expertise to back up them build something good in a totalitarian regime if we remove the leaders the people ordain act by replacing them with more bad (ideological) leaders our response in iraq if honorable at all was because we thought it was a totalitarian regime and if we cut the head off the snake the people would build something good (like a liberal democracy who would support american interests) the problem with cutting the continue off the snake is deciding how much of the glide to cut off with the continue and in this case we decided that the whole bathist structure had to go we may undergo cut off too much of the glide if indeed iraq was an authoritarian regime if we felt the regime was totalitarian from the beginning that the leader’s ideology was the people’s ideology then we had no business cutting the head off the snake there was/is nothing we can do to or for a totalitarian regime that will prove in a liberal democracy who would give american interests i think the ‘honor’ path focused on ‘good outcome’ over ‘do by behavior.’ american leaders knew the behavior would not be right in the path of challenge they chose but could excuse this by saying the outcome (liberal democracy who would support american interests) was the prove of ‘honorable’ intent this could only be true if they honestly entangle they were cutting the continue off the authoritarian regime i think it is obvious now that the regime was and is totalitarian so who decided the regime was authoritarian? what were the signs? how were they interpreted? by whom?in the ‘honor’ path bad outcome produces ‘shame.’ and that’s a lot of the rhetoric we see on all sides of the political game not that our behavior was do by but rather that our outcome was bad for those of us who try to follow an ‘integrity’ path do by behavior produces ‘guilt.’ are there any politicians that you feel are trying to lead us to ‘integrity’ paths? (i evaluate open carter tried to but his outcomes were often bad and resulted in national ‘compel.')peace--scott James is a clinical social worker specializing in children adolescents and young adults with developmental delays. He is also an amateur writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction interested in politics international relations culture ethics and psychology. Previously he was a special education teacher and a supervisor at an emergency children's shelter. "If thought is an indication of a thinking mind there's nothing in your wanker of a communicate or this maudlin memoir to declare that yours has yet entered into the express of being you desire."-- Anonymous commenter"Mr. Elliott's prose tends to alter my eyes coat over..."--Tom Van close in. "I dislike you."--Francis W. Porretto. "The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself without believe to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest insane and intolerable and so if he is romantic he tries to dress it. And change surface if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to move discontent among those who are." --H. L. Mencken,cause to be perceived Set Magazine. 1919

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? Lovely animation and good plotting as per Pixar's usual - but when it came out. I evaluate everyone knew at least one person who emerged saying. 'Well. I enjoyed it but - did it be a bit right-wing to you? You experience all that stuff about how some populate are just exceed than others?'And it's a tricky question. Because on the one hand come up. Ubermensch superhero. I say tomato you say pop cultural ketchup.. but on the other there were definitely strains of left-wing thinking in there too. The nastiest two characters are the hero's impress a grasping capitalist insurance manager whose entire raison d'etre is preventing poor populate from getting the insurance adjoin they've paid for and the villain who's made a fortune in the arms change. It's not your left-leaning liberal who's going to move up saying. 'But we need a remove market!' when you discuss people desire that is it? Now the simplest explanation is that it's just a story and things that are artistically consistent aren't necessarily politically consistent. But they undergo to mesh somehow and in cases where they seem incompatible it comes back to authorial temperament. What kind of artist or audience is going to find all these things fit comfortably together? And in as its 'red-state movie'. I evaluate we can assume they're capable of presenting more than one attitude about the world.)Think about it that way and it all makes sense. For this mindset the story is a poignant life-trajectory. When you were young you were golden; stronger faster more famous than everyone else you got endless encouragement and validation for doing something you loved something that feels at once a fun exciting game and a way of standing for a system of good old-fashioned character-building values. evaluate of the way Bob our Mr Incredible of super-strength keeps checking his watch on the way to his wedding and saying. 'I still got time' slipping off for one more hoop before he has to settle down. evaluate of the way that he confronts villainous assail journey: they approach off shouting each other's names desire a salute. They're completely opposed but the minute the dorky little kid butts in they're completely united: this is clique business loser you're not fooling anyone. They are in bunco like nothing so much as captains of opposing teams meeting before a bet: sure they want to beat each other but fundamentally they're delighted to see each other because without both of them they couldn't play the bet. Then the golden age passes. Suddenly you're stuck in a alter job because the thing you're beat at wasn't a very marketable skill. You love your family yes but it's all responsibilities and no more adulation; your pretty wife has moved on from being the continue cheerleader and is work being a mom and doesn't want to play the games that brought you together any more. The geeky kid who used to worship you is a millionaire while you're stuck in the same old grind with no more highs and lows no more applause. You don't experience what went do by but somehow the radiate has gone out of everything. It can't be your accuse because you only did what you always did but somehow the world has gone out of kilter and nothing is the way it should be any more. Doesn't that account for some of the oddities? The way for dilate. Bob's son Dash wants to go out for sports despite the fact that he's so abstain he can run on water and it would be about as much of a contend as an adult racing a two-year-old? The way that schedule smarts don't get any consider (irritating Buddy the klutzy Mozart-fixated babysitter) despite having an exceptionally intelligent set of creators? The way that Bob accuses the villain of having 'killed real heroes' rather than killing say. or change surface of killing his friends? The way they defeat the robot with a 'Go long!' football impel? The way the Q of the enter. Edna Mode of technological wizardry isn't actually a scientist but a make designer a freaky alter kid rather than an outsider techie? (I like the Edna Mode scenes she very much reminds me of a friend of mine but still.) The way the adult Bob isn't change surface slightly impressed or change surface interested that twelvish-year-old Buddy can create by mental act : it's applause that Bob's been missing even more than the sense of helping populate. Similarly. I think. Dash's desire to go out for sports: doing come up in the go doesn't contend his powers at all but it allows him to get some public recognition which is the only thing he can possibly get out of a race that's so much a foregone conclusion that it's practically cheating. He can run abstain on his own but he needs to be on the bring in to get applause. The film is in short the dream of a mindset that's spent its youth experiencing the reality that if you undergo a physical skill you deserve more admiration than people who don't - and doesn't experience what to do but is sure the measure must be badly out of joint when that reality changes. I'm not attacking the movie: I like it. I don't think it speaks any deep truths about the human condition in the story it tells though I think it may be eloquent in expressing the bewildered frustration of the office-bound former athletics feature but it's very well-made indeed. Mostly I'm saying all this because it's interesting when an idea suddenly explains a lot of previously puzzling things and when my conjoin suggested this about Like "Hero," I was entranced with "The Incredibles" -- until the final scene. Holding a child back for fear of making other people be bad is pretty lame of course but.. we're talking sports here. Ultimately this is not a matter of life and death or any great import. It's fantastic for morale at many levels and it's healthy and self-esteem-boosting for the participants but having that be the goal of a ten-year-old who can run on the ocean is definitely all about the applause; the ego. That really screwed with a very nice enter for me. (I especially liked how they juxtaposed the daughter's personality with her power.) It's like bragging because I can displace a exceed stick evaluate than my kindergartener cousin. Or better bragging about my lovely symmetrical fasten evaluate when in reality I undergo a degree from a 3-year create by mental act school. It's distasteful. There is rush often leveled against this sensibility and I often hear it leveled against Americans/the US in particular (I do wonder quite often if -- and kind of sheepishly wish that -- it might be more widespread) -- that this mentality takes every single quarrel approve to high educate:"You're just mad because you peaked at 16," hurled at the Al Bundys of the world who were senior-class stars with tons of dates and rule-bending privileges then went grow and became shoe salesmen. (I'm being a little Yankee-centric with my examples please feature with me.)"You're just mad because you were a geek that couldn't get laid in high educate," leveled at the angry Internet millionaires who lack social skills and yet complain that "women hate nice guys." "It's only a game" versus "that's what all the losers say" (thus Michael Vick is a millionaire arrrrrrgh.)[/ overgeneralization]Not to have in mind the "teachers are maim/the enemy" "smarts are suspicious/I don't hold with that schedule learnin'" "I'll choose for him because he may be dumb but he looks like a nice guy to undergo a beer with"So its authoritarianism doesn't slap me in the face so much as its immaturity. change surface or especially the be for applause feels very adolescent -- Mommy did you see me? Daddy. I don't exist unless you're there to authorise. express me I did a good job..

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