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I note that police refused to identify the suspect. Wonder why? Who was it? Could it be a member of a sleeper cell? Why not tell us? Why is there so much secrecy surrounding such things that sound very much like they could be terror-related, and in this case it appears as if it could be a test…
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Oh, and, Leftists (yes, you, D.B. and “SL” ;)), please note that I didn’t do a post right away when the thing hit the news. I didn’t say automatically, “Hey, it’s terrorism”. So you can’t credibly mock me; you must admit that the whole thing does look fishy. Really, do you always trust the authorities, all the time? You really believe they’d never mislead us, hold back information, in the name of preventing public panic? Do you really want to play three monkeys and pretend that there’s no danger whatsoever from Islamic revolutionary terrorists? Fine; be delusional if you wish. Just shut up and let realistic adults who care about and understand the real world discuss reality. You can babble about Shakespeare and make fun of and demonize conservatives all you want; it’s irrelevant to us. Cheers!
Ah, no CS, I trust neither the government or “the authorities“, and the bunker is happy to see you at least walking in the general direction of suspicion and distrust of them as well; and just as soon as that distrust and suspicion blossoms to include a few more items there’ll probably be a seat on the reality train for ya buddy.
Remember a Conservative is really just an anarchist who hasn’t admitted to being mugged by their party yet…. until that happens for you the mockery will continue because, at this point you still deserve it.
You know, Stage, I really wasn’t going to do this. I was going to try to be mature this week. But heck, since you’ve started the ball rolling…let’s just laugh at Scenty a bit more. Guilty pleasures, and so on.
One of Scenty’s most distinctive features as a blogger is a kind of dishonest, selective gullibility. If a source echoes his own peculiar world view, he’ll echo it uncritically, framed, of course, with one of his patented, hysterical Red-guard style rants. It doesn’t matter if its absurd, unsubstantiated, or simply nuts: if it sounds like it was written by a mildly brain-damaged eleven year old neocon, Scenty will swallow and regurgitate it.
There seem to be an awful lot of really stupid conservative books out there these days, and with unnerring accuracy, Scenty has discovered and is promoting one so idiotic it has so far escaped notice by anyone whose reading has progressed beyond “The House At Pooh Corner”. (That’s POOH with an “H”, Scenty…don’t get excited, big guy.)
The book is called “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness”, by Dr. Lyle Rossiter Jr., and it explains that “liberalism” is actually a form of mental disorder. It was actually published two years ago, a fact that seems to have escaped Scenty, who describes it as a “credible new book”.
I’m guessing that Scenty hasn’t actually READ this book, since he doesn’t like to “read long things”. His post is limited to excerpts from a review in one of his favourite source, WorldNetDaily (a hilarious publication that has previously reported that Noah’s Ark sparked global warming, and announced the finding of a colony of Bigfeet (Bigfoots?) in Malaysia.)
Dr. Rossiter, it seems, is about as credible a source as WorldNet Daily (or Scenty). Although characterized in the review as a “top”, “acclaimed” and “veteran” psychiatrist, Dr. Rossiter’s resume lists a grand total of total of three (3) publications, one in 1966 and two in 1991, for the DuPage County Bar Association. That’s it.
From his resume, he appears to be, essentially, an “expert witness” for hire, whose website advertises his availability to plaintiffs, defendants who need to buy testimony about fitness to stand trial, mitigating factors, and suchlike.
Now on the to the Good Doctor’s Thesis itself, which he conveniently summarizes for our perusal as follows:
What an interesting assertion. So in the view of witness-for-hire Rossiter, these four characteristics are distinctly “liberal”.
Of immediate note is the mixture of political drivel with “psychological” jargon - “victimization”, “infantile claims to entitlement”, “primitive feelings of envy”, and so forth. You can almost see the Doc in the witness box, dazzling the folks in St. Charles, Illinois.
But let’s for a moment pretend to take these points seriously, as though they actually had meaning. If these are characteristically “Liberal” traits, then of course one wouldn’t expect to find them on “conservative sites. Let’s pick the first point and go hunting, shall we? Let’s see…can we find any examples of “creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization” among conservative bloggers?
Gosh how about this:
Or this:
Or this:
Or this:
Holy cow. Talk about ‘creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization’! And what a shock - our own Scenty, a closet liberal…as diagnosed by a Really Important and Famous Psychiatrist!
Who’d a thunk it?