ALSO CONSIDER: “Projecting through the Screen”, By Rich Lowry, 10/03/08
A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It’s one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O’Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can’t be learned; it’s either something you have or you don’t, and man, she’s got it.
SOURCE – http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDYzMGFiNjQ0MWRjNmI0ZTlkYjgwZTExMjA3MWNiZTk=

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If you invest in high priced mcd’s food for your children instead of a refrigerator (those fries are expensive for how little you get!), you DESERVE to be poor. Get it? If you don’t have electricity, stick the f’n milk in a cool wet sack and drink it within 3 days, **** for brains. The world has enough truly starving people without refrigerators OR milk in war zones, we don’t need people who lack those things for lack of brains, making babies and america even stupider.

In any case, what of all the lower class and middle class families that feed their kids mcd’s junk junk, AND have a refrigerator at home? Poo’ poo’ widdee bawbees ! Iz aw wichie wich’s fawt!

I hope that D doesn’t stand for doctor.

who said:
And there’s a fatalistic grin. A squaring of shoulders. A wisdom that you are there because those that sent you didn’t have the stones to come out and fight. So, oddly, you fight harder for them. It’s almost a perverted kind of love. You get your role, they get theirs, and more than most anything else (other than basic survival with most of your bits intact) you want to show them that they might be afraid, but you weren’t.
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Why aren’t you a poet or a moviemaker or a writer, Mikey. Maybe you are but if you’re focused just on politics you’re wasting a voice of psychological insight.
You’ve got a stronger take on the situation than the pro blogger what sent me here.

lcp said,
September 26, 2009 at 0:41 (kill)

The above amounts to “I’m a dick” and makes neither an argument germane to the point nor a policy prescription.

Glad you set ‘em straight on that.

The bottom line is this: The general rule is that if you work hard and refrain from sexual irresponsibility, you will have a much better chance of staying out of poverty.

Of course, there are exceptions. But an exception does not invalidate the rule. Unless you can prove that the exception is so large that it overwhelms the general rule. Which, in this case, it doesn’t. You could walk into any poor area in the country today and what you will find – IN GENERAL – is not hard-working, married families overwhelmed by health care costs (as implied in Padagon’s post). What you’ll find is underemployed, or unemployed, never-been-married single-moms and absent fathers. Oh, and rampant illiteracy, and a penchant for blaming everyone but themselves for their life’s problems.

Man, you need a hobby, like watching paint dry, or something!

Jeez, it’s just not that freakin hard. Um, to get, I mean. Oh hell.

Ok, in my war, THEY didn’t have much in the way of canon, but the concept applies.

Here’s the funny thing. When you are a throwaway, when you are “expendable”, when you are not just “canon fodder”, but you bloody well know what you are, there’s a kind of pride. Young men thrown into violent conflict understand the roles. They know, not why they’re there, but why THEY’RE there. I hope that made sense.

And there’s a fatalistic grin. A squaring of shoulders. A wisdom that you are there because those that sent you didn’t have the stones to come out and fight. So, oddly, you fight harder for them. It’s almost a perverted kind of love. You get your role, they get theirs, and more than most anything else (other than basic survival with most of your bits intact) you want to show them that they might be afraid, but you weren’t.

They did it at Agincourt. They did it at San Juan Hill. They did it at Bull Run. They did it at the Somme. They did it at Betio, at Normandy, at the Chosin, at the Fishhook, at Faluja. Young men. Not stupid. Not fooled by the pretty stories of country and glory. Not sold by ancient heroes. Not enticed by shiny jewelry. They knew. They always knew. And they went anyway. Over the top, to die hard, lying on the battlefield, knowing they would bleed out before sunset, but KNOWING.

They knew something the people that sent them could never know. Could never understand. They fought because it was their lot to fight. And they fought because the alternative was simply not acceptable.

The people who start wars will never understand the people who fight them. But the people who fight the wars know more than you’ll ever know…

mikey

D. Sidhe, you are also fierce & brilliant, so I will only add that in a just society Richie Rich would — for his crimes against honesty — be sentenced to living as he has condemned others for living. Drop him at the long-term hotel with no ID, no resumes, no high-tech appliances, and the same stipend as is granted to released convicts in Lowry’s home state. Let him find a job, a home, and a place in the world without all the artificial ease the fortunes of birth & money have granted him. I suspect within 2 weeks he’ll run into traffic, naked and gibbering, in a suicide attempt. (It’ll only take 2 weeks because he’ll spend the first 10 days in a fugue of denial and projection.)

But I think Mr. Lowry is actually fumbling his way towards a defense of the *very* traditional marriage — i.e., one where prosperous men of the correct political-social-religious class are permitted to buy extra wives on the open market. Since such secondary wives (concubines) will normally be very young, therefore undereducated, and probably of a lower social caste, they can be used to replace “illegal immigrants” as unpaid nannies, household servants, and landscapers. The extra dependant tax exemptions will provide a further incentive for prosperous men to buy concubines rather than hiring minimum-wage workers. In addition, siphoning the most desirable young women away from the lower economic castes will create a supply of angry, unmoored, young single males who (ask any anthropologist) will make excellent cannon fodder. It’s a win/win/win situation for everyone! — well, at least for everyone who Rich Lowry wants to know, and who in their (very) Right mind would care what the remaining 89% of the American public thought?

When I am King
You will be first against the wall
With your opinions
Which are of no consequence at all

I hope to God, or Allah or someone, that this stuff gets forwarded to the Richster, so he can read a comprehensive and funny analysis of what a complete moron shrill hack he is.

So that he knows at least some of us are on to his stupidity and almost statistically impossible wrongness.