Sipsey Street Irregulars: Interesting background to Akin's political stupidity.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Interesting background to Akin's political stupidity.

Akin appears to have picked up conclusions from 1972 article now hotly disputed.

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Anonymous said...: When a GOP candidate for Congress cites to repudiated science, he is rightly labeled an ignorant crackpot. But when a global warming alarmist cites repudiated science as justificaiton for further govermental intrusion into individual liberty, it is "consensus."; August 21, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Anonymous said...: The following exchange is from the movie "Religulous":

Bill Maher -- See, this is my problem, I'm trying - I mean, you're - you're a Senator. You are one of the very few people who are really running this country. It worries me that people are running my country who think - who believe in a talking snake. Um...

Mark Pryor: [Arkansas' Democratic Senator] -- You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate, though. [chuckles]

That pretty much ties our problem up in a nice bow, doesn't it?; August 21, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Dedicated_Dad said...: My comment which I cannot post at TFA as I do not facebook...

"So...

A "regular guy" congressman received some bad information some years ago, on a topic well outside his expertise, that can be currently refuted by some hand-picked "Experts" who study little else and just happen to share his opponents' political leanings.

This somehow serves as indisputable proof that he and all other members or associates of his political party are Nazis and thus fit only for extermination or internment in "reeducation camps."

Gotcha.

Anybody here actually listen to the whole thing, in context?

Overall, I agree with his point - regardless of how it was conceived, only the Left could think the solution to a pregnancy resulting from rape is to rip the limbs and head off the innocent baby as it struggles to get away.

That'll teach 'em!

Meanwhile, where's all the outrage about the Minnesota Congressman just caught having rest-stop sex with a young boy?

Oops - I forgot - he's a democrat-party member, and we don't talk about the bad stuff THEY do, if they ever did any, which they don't...

Soooooo...

Where were we?

Oh, yeah - CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT EVIL NAZI REPUBLITARD?!; August 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM
Anonymous said...: This whole issue smacks of the typical Chicago Political Machine type of actions like Obummer getting his Republican opponent for US Senate to drop out of the race because of some of his divorce info leaking out. Any Repub can be made to look like a fool & buffoon but a Dem can say anything and the media will make them look like the savior. Akin, tried-convicted-executed by the liberal media.; August 21, 2012 at 11:49 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Interesting background to Akin's political stupidity.

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