Nobullthinker

Is it completely beyond the realm of possibility for either of you to understand that government is the problem and not the answer? You were almost right when you said that government has not solved the problem. You would have been entirely correct if you'd said they caused the problem.

The point, as I see it, is that if no one makes an issue of people's differences most people would not notice the differences. Here in the U.S. (for example) we are never allowed to forget our racial, gender, religious, etc, differences. And we're taught by a hundred examples a day to be offended by the acts and comments of those "other than us". It's sick. And it's equally stupid to think that favoring one group with affirmative action will heal a wound more than it aggravates it.

They may be suffering from global cooling.

Excellent comment. Alien master is just another name for God when you get right down to it. Either way we are the captains of our own fate.

I'm glad I didn't see this before I wrote "What Would Rod Serling Do?" If I had I couldn't have written it at all.

It might be a useful exercise if you and I and anyone else who cared to participate would make a list of the 20 most important issues on our social agendas and then rank them on a point value average. Worth the effort?

While what you said is true simplemindedness is not a particularilly American trait. The same is true in Europe and Japan. And if social conditions were similar in other nations on earth you'd find the media pandering to their lowest intellectual levels as well.
What I find more interesting is the way politicians manipulate the perspectives of those People who are trying to pay attention and the way the media chooses sides and promotes the agenda of one party over another.
Both Obama and Clinton are sending the messages that:
1. The war in Iraq is an unjust debacle.
2. The economy has gone to hell.
3. Every American has a right to "free" medical care.
4. The world is overheating and rights need to be surrendered in order to reverse the damage we're doing to the planet.
It ought to be perfectly clear, even to those who believe all of the above points, that the media is in complete support of these Dem issues.
So even those who are doing their best to measure their political choices are having their informational sources shaped to conform to the agendas of an elite media.

On "operation chaos":
Chaos certainly has overtaken the dem party but I'm not sure of how much credit for that goes to Rush's "operation". If you've read "Looney Tunes" that I posted at Blogster you know that this chaos was predicted before Rush began to inflame it. But it has been fun and it has demonstrated that that the People clearly do still have effective power.

You say that the divisions in this country are Satan's fault. Someday you and I should discuss the history of Satan so you can be better informed about his origins. I Know you'd find it interesting. My point, however, is that Satan has nothing to do with our present moral decline and social divisions. You can look to the Dems for that, along with "higher" education as you've correctly pointed out. "Higher" educators are responsible for turning out the lowbrows that populate media and politics these days. All responsibility for our decline can be traced to the liberalization of education.
Good job.

I'm pressed for time and will get back to this post and study it further. I just had to comment on your opening paragraph about journalism.
Real journalists do not allow their personal beliefs to shade their reporting - they are supposed to report the facts. Your desire was to to be a social commentator - not a journalist. That's why we have so few good journalists today. They're all interested in changing the world - not in reporting.

The one good thing that is coming out of the Obama/Clinton wars is that people are wising up to who is dividing our population into self-interested factions. Women are becoming bigoted sexists, gays are becoming bigoted homophiles, blacks and Hispanics are becoming racists, and wherever the dems can carve off another island of victims they happily do so, ala the educational elite, the youth vote and on and on it goes.
I hate that the dems have sliced my country into whiney groups of pathetic government beggars. The first thing that has to happen if we're going to fix it is to show up these psycho-dems for who they really are and for what they are making us into. The great thing about the recent revelations is that these slime bags are exposing themselves.
The truth is that on the Right sex and skin color mean almost nothing. Any of us would vote for a good woman or a good black person. It is only on the Left that the fortunes of birth can sway one's vote.

I watched an extraordinary documentary on Darfur last night. It was beyond horrible to see the butchery and brutality of what goes on in so much of the 3rd world. As I watched it all I could think of was how the Leftist/Liberals have the U.S. so hamstrung with their idiocy that it's impossible to go to the aid of victims like those in Darfur. On the one hand they scream about our insensitivity in not intervening in places like Darfur, Rwanda, etc. On the other hand they scream just as loudly when we do come to the aid of the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, etc. There's no winning with them and you're only dreaming if you think we're going to give Tibet any real help.
A lot of support might be generated by the Left itself to go to the aid of Tibet but if it were actually to happen the same Leftists would scream bloody murder against a U.S. "invasion" within the first month.

Stay tuned. The debates might actually get interesting when it comes down to McCain v Obama(?). The pro might just eat the skinny kid alive.

BTW you asked me if I'm a Republican. Not really. I'll vote for whoever I think can do the best job for my country. I'm unhappy with all three candidates but I can hardly contemplate the horror of having either of the dem offerings as our President.

Simple misstatements like the ones you describe are of little interest to anyone but the media who are desperate to dig up anything to perk up their slow news days. What Barack said, on the other hand, was no small slip of the lip. To begin with he insulted the people of the heartland. Secondarily he tossed out that tired old victim card that the dems always play - "You're hurtin' cause the gubmint ain't doin' enough. We need more gubmint."

If there is anything "neo" about conservatism it is that it has become less conservative; not more.